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So if you have your Bibles turn to Ephesians chapter 2, we're
going to start in verse one. Ephesians chapter 2, we'll start
in verse one. And it says this, and you were
dead in your trespasses and sins.
In which you formerly walked according to the course of this
world, according to the Prince of the π, the air, the spirit
that's now working in the sons of this of disobedience.
Among them it says, we too all formerly lived in the lust of
our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind,
and we're by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
But God say. But God, being rich in mercy,
because of his great love with which he loved us even when we
were dead, and our transgression made us alive together with
Christ. By grace you have been saved,
verse 6, and raised us up with Him, and seated us with him in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he
might show the surpassing riches of His grace and kindness
towards us in the King Christ Jesus, So that in or bought for
by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of
yourself. It is the gift of God, not as a
result of work, so that no one may boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ for good
works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we would
walk in them. Now if you go back to the top of
this again, that says you were dead in your trespasses in sin,
verse one in which you formerly walked, you used to have a walk.
There was a former walk. And I like Paul, he said, now
listen, that walk is a former walk.
It's not a today walk. It's an old walk.
We're not supposed to walk that way anymore.
It's a former walk. Say former.
That means we don't. Walk that way.
That's not how we walk. So grace in your life does not
authorize you to keep a former walk.
The grace of God was never designed to keep you in your
former walk, but allows you to go to heaven.
Grace was never designed for that.
Grace was designed to give you a new walk.
I said give you a new walk. So we all had a former walk.
Well, what did that walk look like?
It was according to the course of this world.
Now that's not planet Earth. It's the way the world
functions. It's his ideas.
IT systems, it's behaviors. So again, I don't go to the news
source to determine how I respond.
I don't even go to the doctor to determine how I respond.
I don't go to the government to determine how I respond.
I don't go to the education system to determine how I
respond, live or whatever. I those those were former ways
that I used to do. I don't go according to the
course of this world. So if the world saying everybody
should go this course, you should question that then the
course of this world, he tells us its influence was according
to the Prince of the power of the air.
Now that's not Jesus. I said that's not Jesus, that
Satan who was the God of this world are systems.
Because again, God the Father never lost planet earth.
But how you function the systems, the the, the lifestyle
that was supposed to be on planet earth was given to man to
to run and he was to do it according to the same direction
that God did in heaven. Because in Genesis 126 he said
let it. Let's make man in our image
according to our lightness and let them have dominion.
Let them rule. They're ruling what?
The things of the earth over the earth, meaning over the system,
how the world functions. And man was to have dominion.
But man fell from dominion when he ate the fruit that God told
him not to eat. When he ate the fruit, he
abdicated his throne on earth and gave it to the devil.
The Devil in Luke, chapter 4, The Temptation of Christ says,
I'll give you all these kingdoms in a moment of time, He said.
I'll give you all these kingdoms where they've been handed over
to me and I can give them to whoever I wish.
So the devil received the kingdoms of the world by from
Adam when Adam ate the fruit that he was not supposed to eat
because when he ate the fruit that God said commanded him not
to eat sin enter the world are rebellion, disobedience, sin
which its wage is death cause sin is simply disobeying.
And when you disobey God, death is to follow.
Are you hearing me? And so we see here that we
walked according to the course of this word, according to the
Prince of the power, the air of the spirit that is now working
where? And the sons of disobedience.
So every human being on the planet.
Although God originally designed them to be children of God, not
all are children of God today. Many are the children of the
devil, and their father is the devil.
In fact, Jesus himself told the religious you are of your
father, the devil. He obviously wasn't talking
about his father. He's not saying we're all God's
loving people. What he said is you are in
rebellion, you're in disobedience.
Your nature is against God, against his way of doing,
against his Kingdom. And by all rights, your father
is the devil because he has sinned from the beginning.
He is, He has fallen cherub, He is being cast out of heaven's
realm. He is an enemy of God and can
never be redeemed. And so he says you're of those,
and that spirit works within the sons of Disobenius.
And then he allows us to know in verse three that we all formally
lived this way. So when we say walk, what we're
saying is how we live. So when you're saying how do you
walk, you're saying, well, how are you living?
So his implication is in which you formerly walked.
He's saying in which you formerly lived.
Because here we are in verse three.
Among them, we too all formerly lived.
This was how we lived and how do we live according to the lust of
our flesh. Whatever our flesh wanted, we
wanted to satisfy it. We wanted to indulge the desires
of the flesh and of the mind and we're by nature not children of
God, but children of wrath, even as a rest.
In essence, this verse three, it could be summed up and all have
sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
So Paul lets us know there was a way.
We used to live our way. We used to walk, it is a former
walk. Then he gets to verse four and
he says, but God Now God has to do something.
God has to do something because God has said something.
God comes back not because he didn't have to, He comes back
because he has to. Because when God said, Let us
make man in our image according to our likeness and let them
have dominion. Now God he we know that is He's
his word, says that he whatever word goes out of his mouth, it
will not return unto him, boy, but it shall accomplish that
which it was sent to do. His word always comes to pass.
So if God is going to have a man in dominion after Adam eats the
fruit, then God's obligated at his own word to bring a plan of
redemption because he created the condition that man would
rule like him in the earth. God rules in the heavens.
He would rule on the earth, it would be heaven on earth, and
God would come down in the cool of the day and talk with him.
They're named different, but their environments are the same.
Heaven and earth looked exactly alike.
No sin is perfect environments and God freely moved through
there no issues. And man freely had relationship
with him and was not afraid of God at all.
But when Adam ate the fruit, things changed and God had to
come down and he said, Adam, where are you now?
We know that. We said this before.
It's not because Adam was good at hide and go seek, covered
himself with leaves and hiding behind trees and the Lord's
like, wow, you're you're really good.
In fact, while my son and I and Pastor Marcy were up in New
York, or Chase went with us because he was our creative team
appointed to document. And he showed me a picture of
Luna. Luna had stayed over at a
friend's house and they were playing hide and go seek and she
was above the washing machine and dryer in the cabinets that
are up there, hidden. They couldn't find it.
Oh, she got in there. Well, I'm sure she had some
help. I don't think she literally gone
there by herself. She probably.
Coerced one of the parents to hide her there so that the
children could not find her. And it worked.
But this isn't God didn't have this problem.
Really. What that means is what position
are you in now? Because I placed you in dominion
and now you're not in Dominion. So that's why God says I'm going
to have to come now. But how?
As a man? Because I've given the earth to
man. Psalms 115 and verse 16.
The highest heavens are the Lord, but the earth He is given
to man, and when God does something, he does it.
And so now this authority has been given to his created man
that was in his image in his likeness, a carbon copy of him.
No sin could rule in this realm as God rules in his realm with
oversight of how he ruled down here.
And when man fell from demeaning, God says, well, since
man fell, a man's going to have to restore it.
And so that means I'm going to have to come, I'm have to send
my son in the form of man. That's why he said that this
woman is going to have a child, so she's going to be a virgin.
She's not going to get the help of man.
Because Man Seed only produces rebellion.
Because now Adam in his fallen state can only produce after his
own kind, and his own kind is not godly, so he produces after
his own kind. So God says I'm going to have to
bring a seed of a different kind.
So the Holy Spirit comes upon Mary and he plants his Son.
And we know this according to Isaiah.
Chapter 9 verse six says a child is born, a son is given, the Son
is not born because the Son always existed.
The Son's always been in the beginning was the Word, the Word
was with God and the Word was God and the Word became flesh.
And verse 14 of the first chapter, John says And that Son
his name is Jesus, right? The word became flesh and we
beheld his glory. That's Jesus Christ.
This only begotten of the Father, It's the Son of God.
So the sons always existed because the words always been
around. And so God clothed the word in
flesh so he could come and restore man, give them the
opportunity. By His grace he enacted an
amendment to His word and said, here's the pathway of escape.
And the pathway of escape requires us to still obey.
Now we could have never been right with God any other way.
No matter how good we live, we were not going to be living
called by nature. We're children of wrath.
But God being rich in His mercy since Jesus who became sin,
although he never sinned, He was a man who knew no sin.
He never said he was the perfect sacrifice so that we when we
call on his name can be born again or born from above,
meaning we get a new nature that now is of God now the last way.
So God being rich in his mercy because of his great love, then
he gets down and tells us, you know again, it's by grace
through face or grace don't work and let's face in operation and
it says not a result of works, meaning we couldn't have done it
without the finished work of Jesus.
But we have to call on the name. We have to believe in our heart,
confess with our mouth. Jesus Christ, Lord, we have to
believe that Jesus came, He died on the third day, was raised
from the dead. His blood was enough to forgive
us of all of our sin. We confess that we are sinners,
although we cannot confess all of our.
We know that we are. We know we're in rebellion and
we say Jesus, we make you Lord. And when we make him Lord, then
the Spirit that was in us dead gets evicted out of this skin
suit and a new one comes on the inside and it's in the likeness
of God. It's in Christ, which means it
doesn't sin because Jesus doesn't sin.
And then the Holy Spirit moves in.
Can I get it? Amen.
The third person of the God had moves in with us and speaks to
our spirit and now it's our responsibility to hear what the
spirit is saying to our spirit and change the way we think.
That's why Jesus said when he preached publicly repent, which
is not a religious word, it just means change.
Your thinking for the Kingdom of God is at hand so when we get
born again we can hear from heaven and now we have the
capacity to live godly in a lost and dying world.
Doesn't matter, right. And when I say lost and die, I'm
just saying a system that's here that will be evicted because the
earth is going to remain. I said the earth is going to
remain. It just be a new earth.
Got to clean it up. So by the time we get then to
Burt let me just get back up to verse a four.
By grace, you have been saved through faith and not of
yourself. Is a gift of God.
That means God did the work that opened an amendment of God as
the king. He has a word and now here's how
you get out of the condemnation or the sentence of death except
Jesus, because Jesus actually paid the price for the death.
Death doesn't escape. It's not like death didn't dealt
with. Jesus's blood deals with the
payment. So when God Forgives you, it's
not like he just forgave. He can forgive because the debts
been settled. God did the work to settle the
debt. It's not like because again, if
God just could say I forgive you, then why didn't he come
down after Adam 8 the fruit? He said.
Where are you? Well, you know, we heard you
coming and we hit ourselves because we were naked, you know,
we were afraid. So we hit ourselves because we
were naked, he said. Who told you were naked?
Did you eat the fruit? I told you not to eat.
And he could have said, Well, son, I'll forgive you.
And this is what how we treat love.
Well, I forgive you. No, no, no, no, no.
Some's got to be paid. Because if all we could just do
is say I forgive you, well, then God could have done that.
But God couldn't do that. Why?
Because. Death's here now.
We got to pay for that. Now God will forgive you because
he settled the debt. Now the debts been paid.
So why can we forgive people? Easy.
Because the debts there, I mean. I mean, the payment for the debt
is there. I mean, how am I going to hold
you an account when he's already settled the account?
And if you ask me to forgive you, well, I don't need a
payment from you. Christ is the payment.
Are you hearing me? But that didn't work with God.
God had to make payment and it took his blood from his own son.
So again, that's don't cheapen forgiveness.
Sometimes I might need to say, you know I can.
I'll forgive you because Jesus's blood paid the price.
For me to do this because a lot of times we'll we'll flippantly
just constantly make mistakes and they're like, well, you got
to forgive me. Well man, how many mistakes you
want to keep making so that the blood's being applied to your
situation? I mean, the blood works, don't
get me wrong, but let's just don't flippantly, you know,
treat the blood of no value like you know, we can just get away.
Because again, you're now walking formerly.
So for my grace you've been saved through faith.
It's not a work of yourself. It's a gift of God, not as a
result of works. So that no one may boast.
But look at this first ten. I'm going to send her in here
for we are his workmanship. OK.
Created in Christ for that's purpose.
So why were you created in Christ?
For us to go to heaven when we die?
Is that what it says? There does not say that.
So why are we selling Jesus this way?
Why are we selling Jesus? Will Jesus die so that when you
so that if you accept him when you die, you get to go to
heaven. God did not create you in Christ
to go to heaven. Now will you go to heaven when
you die? Sure to be absent from the body.
Be present with the Lord. Where is the Lord right now?
He's in heaven. But what if he was down here?
I mean, cuz he's coming back, but at the end of the day, we're
created in Christ or we're born again for good works.
So you're created to do works, but again, it's not work.
So that you get your right with God, or that God, you know, can
say, OK, you know you're right with me and you you earned it
now. No, it's I am now actually good.
My spirit was bad, and all it could do is produce bad fruit,
'cause a bad tree bears bad fruit.
But now I'm a good tree because I got a good spirit.
It's in Christ. And now I get to bear good
fruit. I'm not good just to be good.
I'm. I'm good to bear good fruit.
And fruit takes work. Now work is just simply
obedience. So we're created in Christ for
good works which got prepared hand before prepared beforehand
so that we would what? Walk in them.
Walk means to live. So in essence, he's saying,
listen, the reason you're born again is so you'll walk
differently. You got a new walk now.
A new life. We have a new life.
Well, a new life begets a new behavior, begets new thinking,
begets a new attitude, begets new reasoning.
But we have to walk in. And I love the word walk,
because at the end of the day, nobody can make you walk but
you, just like God himself cannot make you get born again,
although He's provided the way. It requires you to walk that
out. You to act on the word in
obedience by faith to pull salvation to your skin.
Suit so that you. Get born again.
Same thing to be baptized in the Spirit.
Same thing to be healed. Same thing to prosper.
Same thing to fulfill God's plan.
Because God is not pushing you alone.
He's not dragging you alone. He's saying come follow me, OK?
So there are four points. Then I want to talk about in
this new walk 'cause if you're gonna walk new, the Bible
actually tells us how to walk because he already gave us in
Ephesians our former walk. Now he wants to talk about the
new walk. And when we look at this new
walk, there's a former one that he mentions each time he said,
now this is our new walk. Here was your former.
This is your new Amen. So we want to walk in the new
one. That means we live this way.
This is how we live. It's like breathing.
This is just what we do. It shouldn't be surprising for
us to live this way. Are you hearing me?
Praise the Lord. It shouldn't be surprising for
us to do this. So look at this first one.
It's an Ephesians chapter 5 verse one.
It'd be one through 7 and #1. The first way to walk is to walk
in love. Because up to this point you
could not walk in love at all. Now that doesn't mean you were
walking in hate, because hate is not the opposite of love.
Lust is not hate because God who is love, hates some things.
Love or the love of God can hate some things.
So please do not confuse hate. As bad I'm.
Going to say that again, do not confuse hate as bad, because if
hate is tied to love, it's good. But if hate is tied to lust,
it's bad because lust is bad all the time.
All right. So if he's in chapter 5 verse
one, it says therefore be imitators of God.
Boy, that statement right there along should make you just go to
your knees. So now be imitators of God.
You know how many people. We're not God yet.
Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, says Be
imitators of him. Imitate him.
Have you ever been to a place where someone can imitate
another person's voice? It sounds like it's just like
them. In fact, my life and I went our
little anniversary cruise funny. The guy that was there actually
used to be a soap opera star and bold and the beautiful.
I can't tell you who he is because I never watched the soap
opera, but he was there and he was doing impersonations.
Now, any modern day impersonation, he did not do a
good job. That's why he's.
On the cruise ship, you understand?
All right, no problem. But anything that was older?
I mean, I'm talking like, you know, 30s, forties, 50s.
I'm not saying he was that old he was born, but he obviously
was around that as a kid. Those shows, man, he could not
those voices out really. Well, you're like, wow, he
sounds just, he was imitating their voice, OK, And here we are
to imitate the imitators of God as beloved children.
So God expects his kids to imitate him.
He doesn't expect his kids to be sorry, center saved by grace, to
act like the rest of the world. But at least they've asked him
into their heart and he's like, well, hold on.
Praise God, you're pathetic. Anyway, You're unworthy.
You're nondeserving. You know?
I mean, I just, you know, it's just a.
Good thing I saved you. That's not the attitude here at
all. That's religion.
That is a lack of responsibility.
That is, not knowing who you are in Christ.
That's walking a former life and trying to say God's got you
covered all right. Just because you couldn't do
anything to be right with God, the minute God did everything to
make you right with him has now empowered you to be an imitator
so you can't imitate. I said you can't imitate.
And they've ever been around. Those who don't want to imitate,
they get mad at those who are imitating and doing a real good
imitation. But then it was like, well, you
could do this too. Then they get all upset and then
they're trying to try to find a fault in your imitation.
Instead of saying you're doing a much better job at me than I am,
can you teach me? Alright, therefore be imitators
of God as beloved children and walk in love.
So the number one is walk in love.
Now again, you can't pick up the religious definition of love,
nor the world's definition of love.
Love is love. That is a world definition,
which many make sense. Love is love.
Well, what's that mean? What does that mean?
Love is love. What's that mean?
That doesn't make sense. Yet people pick it up.
Well, you know, we got a walk in love one.
What does that mean? Because the world and the the
religious church's definition of love is acceptance.
You know and God don't accept stuff.
Love does not accept everything. Love creates a condition so that
all can walk in love means they can walk out the word.
So he says walk in love. Just as Christ also loved you
and look what he did and gave himself up for us and offering
in a sacrifice to God as a frequent aroma.
So walk in love. How?
Just as. Cry.
Here's our imitation. Christ laid down how he wanted
to do it and only did it like the Father instructed.
Jesus said this so clearly in in multiple gospels of the four
gospel he said I do nothing on my own initiative.
Whatever I say or what I speak or what I do, I have first heard
from the Father. In essence, walking in love is
doing what God says. As I said to you before, Adam is
made in the image of God, correct?
Let us make man in our image according to our likeness and
let them have demean over the fish, the sea, yada yada yada,
right? Then he takes man at male and
female, puts them in the garden. They're like God, no sin.
Do they love God now? You would assume that they do
just because they're in his nature.
Yet they're the nature alone doesn't prove that they love
him. There's only one way to prove
that Adam loves God. He has to put an obedience
factor in. It's the only way.
Love cannot be determined any other way.
So he places a tree in the middle of the garden called the
Knowledge of Good and Evil. When he says, Adam, you can eat
from all the other trees, I mean, everything's yours, man,
in this amazing. But the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil you shall not eat, for the day you eat you will
surely die. And as long as he doesn't need
it, what does he prove? I love you.
Now how do we know this? Because Jesus himself said this.
Religion says, well, just love everybody.
But Jesus defines love. And John, he says if you love me
you will keep my word. It does not say if you love me,
you tell me. So let me do a little husband
and wife real quick. You ready?
If you love each other, at some point you're going to do what
each other says. Because it's proving it.
Because how many times have I been around a wife or a husband?
They say they love me, but they never do anything.
I asked. I asked if they could do this,
could do that, and they never do it.
Same thing with your children. Well, I know my kids love.
Do they obey you? Because Jesus did not qualify
love with just. You're born of the family.
OK? Jesus did not qualify.
Love is because you're of the family.
Because you're of the family, Man.
I just love you anyway, no matter what you do.
It's not what it says. So we're going to walk in love.
Then we're going to have to be people who are really good at
being obedient to God's word for our lives.
And Jesus did this. Then it says verse 3.
But immorality and impurity and greed must never even be named
among you, as is proper among Saints.
Now that's old walk. The verse 3 is not walk in love,
it's walk in lust. So verse three saying now you
used to walk in lust, but now you're supposed to walk in love
and there must be no filthiness or silly talk or coarse
gesturing, gesting, which is not fitting but rather giving of
thanks for this you know with certainty.
I said with certainty that no immoral or impure person or
covetous man who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the
Kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with
empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God
comes upon the sins of sons of disobedience.
Therefore, do not be partakers with them.
So what's he saying? He says listen, you can't live
your former life and say you're walking and loving God's love is
with you and sure, don't let somebody tell you that you can
do that and God's OK with it, he said That's deception.
In fact, he reminds us, he says listen, nobody that does these
things will inherit the Kingdom of God.
I don't care if they're walking around saying I have.
She's to come to my heart and save me.
I'm a child of God. I know I'm going to go to heaven
when I die, but they live an immoral, A lustful life.
They walk according to the lust. It's not going to.
Happen now again. What do people say?
Well now, brother, you're saying this is my works.
It is. It's a good work that Christ
gave you a new spirit and put His spirit on the inside of you.
So he expects you to walk it. You have no excuse not to put
away sexual immorality and put away course judge our dirty
talk, cussing, dirty jokes, he said.
You got to put that away. You can't be womanizing and
saying you getting in the Kingdom.
You can't be hustling around and think you right.
And don't let no preacher get up there and tell you you good.
In fact, I'm telling you what the Holy Ghost is doing.
Every time you do it, you feel condemned because the Holy Ghost
would be like, hey, what's up? What's up with you?
Jesus delivers you from this, bro.
Get it together. Don't tell me it's hard.
We can clean this mind up. You keep choosing this stuff.
I got power up on the inside of you.
We free you from all this stuff. Just walk in love.
How do you walk in love? You walk according to what God
says concerning that. That's walking in love.
If you love me, you'll keep my command.
So walking in love is keeping his, keeping his word.
Because Jesus did it. Just as Jesus laid down his life
and only do what the Father says, so how do we walk in love?
We just keep His word. Hallelujah.
Let me read a couple of these verses out of the Passion.
Translation from verse four or verse three, he says, and have
nothing to do with sexual immorality, lust or greed.
For you are His holy ones. He says guard your or he says
and let no one be able to accuse you.
Of of them in any form, he said. Guard your speech.
Forsake obscenities and worthless insults.
These are nonsensical words that bring disgrace and and are
unnecessary. Instead, let worship fill your
heart and spill out in your words.
He says for you. For it has been made clear to
you already that the Kingdom of God cannot be accessed by anyone
who is guilty of sexual sin or who is impure or greedy.
For greed is is the essence of idolatry.
So again, we say idolatry. Oh, I'm not worshipping an idol.
Well, if you're worshipping money, you are.
If you can go to work more than you can go to church, you are.
If you can go to work and and and do the ball games and all
this and can't read the Bible, you are.
He goes on and says this. He says how could they expect to
have an inheritance in Christ's Kingdom while doing those
things? He said don't be fooled by those
who speak with their empty words and deceptive teachings telling
you otherwise. This is what brings God's anger
upon the rebellious. Now I've told you before and
you've seen billboards that says God's not angry with you.
God is angry with the rebellious and if you are in the rebellious
category, raft is being stored up for them.
So it's a lie to say God's not angry with sin.
So again, how can you call yourself a Sinner saved by
grace? Because God's angry with sin.
And again what do we say? Well you know God hates the sin
but loves the Sinner. Well, how do you differentiate
between sin and the Sinner? And if you're calling them a
Sinner, then they must be in sin.
You don't want to hear this. God makes provision for the
human spirit to be delivered out of disobedience.
So make no mistake about it, Not only does he hate sin, but he
hates the one practicing it. And what really aggravates him
is that he knows they don't have to stay there.
Now God is ever present to welcome them in.
So when I say he's angry, it's not like he's mad to the point I
ain't going to do nothing for you.
He's like, gosh, I can't. Come on, give what they're
saying. I sent somebody by your path to
tell you how to be free. Come on, get this thing.
It's that kind of anger. It's this anger, this, this hope
that's like, seriously, get this thing, man.
I laid down my life. So you don't have to be there
anymore. Come on, man.
Get this thing. Because if you don't get it,
I'll have to judge you. I'll have to sit at you
eternally. Come on, get this.
God's not going, brother. I just love you anyway.
It's not right. That's not right.
So. Well, God loved me when I was in
you. Betty loved you.
He provided a way out. He sure did.
Loved you so much that he provided a way out.
He did not. Look at what you were doing and
saying, bro. They deserve it.
I ain't doing Jack for them. No, he said.
Lord, you said you were going to have a Dominion man, and I'll
put myself in the position so a man can come back into Dominion.
And even though they don't deserve for me to do this
because they fail, I'm going to do it according to your word.
Now it's up to them to want to get back.
And I know you want him to get back.
That's why you keep sending people by to talk to him about
how to get on the path, how to walk the narrow path, how to
come through the door. Are y'all hearing me Hallelujah.
So don't be fooled. Please do not be walking around
like the world and act like you good with God.
Now, I'm not saying that if you're doing all this and you
drop. Dead God's like, I can't let you
in. I'm saying if you're a
practicer, you may be at more risk.
And you think because nowhere in scripture doesn't say once
you're saved, you're always saved.
Doesn't say that at all, because if you could always be saved,
then how in the world could Adam had fallen out?
He was perfect without sin. It's because he let it go.
Amen. God's merciful.
Don't get me wrong. People can be on a very back
sledding course. I get it.
And God's merciful and pull them around.
And many of you had testimonies, man.
I knew God when I was young. And then I got off.
I was. But God kept pursuing me and
kept pursuing me. He wasn't accepting you.
He was pursuing you to get you off that walk.
And then you got on the right walk and you're testifying how
great this walk is. Not the old one.
Because the old one was so good. Why'd you ever come back?
Why did you feel like you had to #2 #2 is you need to walk in the
light. Ephesians chapter 5 verses 8
through 14. For you were formerly darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord walk as children of light.
For the fruit of the light consist in all goodness and
righteousness and truth, trying to learn what is pleasing to the
Lord do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness,
but instead even expose them. For it is disgraceful, say,
disgraceful. It is disgraceful even to speak
of the things which are done by them in secret.
But all things become visible when they are exposed by the
light. For everything that becomes
visible is light. For this reason it says awake,
Sleeper, and arise from the dead and Christ will shine on you.
So the number two thing in this new walk is we are to walk in
the light. We used to be in darkness.
And the thing about darkness is that is dark.
You don't know where you're going.
You're having to grope around and feel your way around.
You know what? And you're subject to getting
hurt all the time, because if you don't know where the
obstacles are at. Then you can run into all kind
of stuff. You can get tripped up in all
kinds of things, and that's what it's like being outside of the
will of God. That's why you're constantly
falling, falling, falling, getting hurt, getting hurt,
getting hurt. But when the light comes on, you
can see. Right.
And so he says now you're going to need to walk as children of
light. And I like verse 9 because it
says for the fruit of the lights consist in really what he's
saying, if you're children of light, then there should be a
perpetual display of the fruits of the spirit.
A perpetual display. Of the fruits of the spirit.
That means when a situation requires the fruit of love, you
can produce it. When the situation requires the
fruit of patience, you can produce it.
When the situation requires the fruit of self-control, you can
produce it. When the situation requires the
fruit of kindness, you can do it.
And you understand. Kindness doesn't always come
when the situation is kind. Kindness.
A lot of times that fruit will manifest when kindness is not
around and you're having to be the kind one, although the flesh
says respond differently. But we walk as children of life.
We're no longer retaliating. We have a totally different way
we can respond. We can live differently.
And again the whole Then he says verse 10, trying to learn what
is pleasing to the Lord. Well, what does that mean?
Well, you know, if you go connect the dot over into
Hebrews Chapter 11 without faith, it's impossible to please
him. So faith is what pleases God.
So verse 10 says we are supposed to learn how to live by faith.
So if you're walking in the light, really what you're doing
is you're walking and living by faith.
No longer do you have to see a natural which is can be masked
in darkness anyway. You can see the word, you can
see. What God says is very clear,
even though all the circumstances around it says it
can't happen. You see the light, and you stay
with the light, and you stay with the word, and you walk in
the light of that word, and you walk in the light of that Word.
And when they say it's not gonna work, it's not gonna happen, it
won't do this. You stay with the light of the
Word, and then you produce the fruit, Amen.
And that fruit then will expose those that are in darkness,
right? In fact, we shouldn't be talking
about how bad everybody's living.
Well, did you see how they respond today?
I sure did. I can't.
Why are you talking about it? Why don't you bring a different
fruit? Well, you know what?
Let's pray for them. It's obviously they were having
a bad day. What, You're going to be nice to
them after all that they said at the table today at work?
Yep. Because I walk in the light.
I said I walk in the light. I walk in the light.
So #2 we walk in the light, #3 we walk in wisdom, say wisdom.
What's so awesome about being born of God is that God educates
you quickly and he gives you an education that the world itself
cannot obtain. To cannot attain to this is
beyond mere knowledge. Ephesians chapter 5 verses 15 to
17 says, therefore be careful how you walk not as unwise men,
but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are
what evil. So then do not be foolish, but
understand what the will of the Lord is.
Now again he tells us to walk wise right we are to walk in
wisdom, so we're to walk as wise men, not unwise.
And I like this because it goes on.
It says making the most of your time.
What's he saying here in verse 16?
He's saying don't be slothful, don't be lazy.
Unwise people are lazy. They're trying to do the least
amount of work with the most amount of pay because they just
want to do what they want to do. They want to fulfill their
desires. They want to have their time.
Well, we see here in verse 17 that the foolish don't know what
the will of the Lord is. Not only do you need to know the
general will of the Lord, meaning how God's general will,
meaning every believer is to respond by the fruits of the
spirit. Every believer supposed to pray,
every believer supposed to read the word, Every believer
supposed should be praying in the spirit, although they don't.
Every believer is supposed to, you know, receive the benefits
that God has given to all of his children.
These are general. But then there's a specific will
for your life, the reason why you were born in the 1st place.
The book that he wrote about you before you even got into your
mother's womb and said, I destined you in the earth at
this time to do this work. So you're foolish when you don't
know the will of God. Well, how can you know the will
of God if you're not in his word?
So again, there's plenty of people that feel buildings
called church but don't even read the Bible and have no
concept of his will, and all they do is this.
Well, Lord, if it's your will. That was my Southern
impersonation. I've left New York, so I don't
know how they would have said that.
Right? Coffee.
But I can't. I don't know how to say that.
We will. Yeah, that's how you coffee.
You know you're saying it. Right.
Hallelujah. Got to pork the car.
OK, so you need to do the will of the Lord.
You cannot do that outside of being in the word and many
people saying Lord, whatever your will is.
And then it's like they're groping in darkness and if a
door is open, they assume it's God.
You know, devil's good at door opening.
He's really good at door. He's good at prosperity.
He's really good at prosperity. I mean, great at it.
I mean, that's what he was telling Jesus.
Look, I'll give you all the Kingdom this, all the prosperity
that come, all the power, all the domain, all the dominion you
get, all the wealth and riches here, people.
So what you get right. So devil's real good at that.
And if well, Lord official will you'll, you know, you'll give me
that job or not. We don't even see if there's a
church there. And then if you move because of
the church, you can get off and not continue to stay connected
with the church because you prosper so good in the place
that God calls you to prosper because you answered him to come
to the church. But now you're not doing nothing
with the church. Why are we here?
What's the will of the Lord? I mean, when we supposed to
retire from the thing called the church.
So when are you supposed to retire from serving well,
Pastor, I need a break. Well, Jesus need to break on the
road to the I mean on the road to Galgatha.
But if you're in the words, you'll be a perpetual rest
anyway. I mean, he does tell you some
marathon Hallelujah. So condition yourself and let me
tell you, we aren't going overwork you anyway because we
know when you get. You only show up when you serve.
We're like, hold on now. That's not why you are here.
Because now you're really not serving.
You're not serving because serving is an overflow of your
relationship and your worship with God, not just a planning
center schedule. If you're only here when
planning center scheduled you, you've turned God into a job and
you've made him an idol. You've made him religious.
Oh, you should like want to be here because you love him and
he's assigned you here and he produces fruit in your life
because of the will of God for your life.
So wise people make the most of every opportunity, meaning they
purposeful. They don't say, well, let's
attain to this and then let's coast.
There is no real believer that says let's attain here and let's
retire and just lay back and enjoy.
I get very concerned because I get around pastors all the time
that they finally build the building and then they're done.
In essence, they preach on Sunday because most of them
don't even do midweek. In essence, they've moved into
retirement and they built the church to the size that allows
them to live that way. Think there's more territory to
take. Amen.
We can keep pressing, keep doing, keep moving.
Why? Because the days are evil.
Because evil's not resting. In fact, we have guaranteed by
the scripture that evil will work harder in the end.
How can we let evil out? Work us.
Be more purposeful. Let's just put it that way.
They're more purposeful because, you know, Christians hate the
word work. God has no problem with work.
Why do I know that? Jesus and my father's always not
resting. He's always working.
And you're supposed to imitate God.
Well, if your father's always working, then you always work in
your purpose and purpose. Doesn't happen just cause you're
in the walls. Hallelujah.
Just say Amen anyway. Praise the Lord.
I know why anchor faith churches like that.
It's cause we don't We don't skirt around stuff.
I mean, we're empowering you to be the greatest you you can be.
Now at the end of the day, you're the one who's responsible
for you. I'm responsible for me.
And I'm gonna do my part whether you're here or not.
But I'm going to be a wise person when I'm the world's
pastor want to do that. Why does he want to add that to
his plate? Why do you?
Why? Cause the days are evil, man.
And we got to be about the father's business.
And here I'm in my own nation and people at that pastor for 40
decades are telling me people are not hearing what you're
saying. Well, why am more saying it?
So if they're not, then I guess it's a pretty good good thing
we're out there saying it and that God's empowered us here to
be able to do it. Glory to God.
So I don't want to be foolish, right?
I want to be like the Ant that's moving.
We wouldn't. We moving.
Praise the Lord, I said. We're moving because, you know,
when the winter hits, we've stored up stuff.
We're not begging for somebody else who stored Hallelujah.
No, we are not. Like the wicked slave son.
I gave you a talent and you buried it.
You could have at least drawn interest and that was still just
taking it to a bank and letting them work it.
And you keep checking on it at minimum.
God always expects increase. So if you ever see yourself back
slid and this is problematic and let me tell you you do you know
whether you're back slate or not how passionate are you to be
here that let me know real quick because again you say wait a
minute how come you keep that like it Cause Jesus Christ is
the head of the and you by yourself is not the church.
You were just a finger you're just an elbow.
You're just a foot. You're just a toe.
You're just a rib. You're just one part.
You're not the body of Christ by yourself, so you cannot be
having this, like, personal, super awesome relationship with
God without having this passion to want to be around every other
believer. Because there was a time when
you first got saved that you know you love coming here.
And when it's not like I love it, then you're heading
backwards now again, loving it doesn't mean you have to feel it
cause you got to stir yourself up.
I mean, there's days I don't feel like coming, especially
when it's raining and it's cold and you're like.
This would be kind of nice to stay by the fire.
Just cozy a little bit. No, you stir yourself up.
Was at the end of the day, Jesus all about the church.
He loves it. He loves what we're doing.
Collectively and individually, individually, collectively, it's
an amazing thing. It's like, awesome.
So empowering. I mean, I was really, my heart
was 4. Pastor Jack man up in New York.
I was like, I mean, I can't speak to it because I'm not
called there. So I don't presume to know
because when you get called somewhere, you'll get anointing
on how to deal with the place you're in.
But when they was telling me, man, they work two or three
jobs, both households work, you know, it's very difficult for
them. I'm like, jeez, some ain't right
was at the end of the day, that's not an excuse not to be
in church. It's not an excuse.
There's a disconnect somewhere. You know, the hustle and bustle.
There's a disconnect somewhere. I'm not going to give you the
answer because I'm not up there. But if I was up there, I'd have
the answer and we would create a generation of packed out people
that love to be with God or we're Jeremiah and that's a
whole nother ball game. Amen.
All right. So then the last one, number
four that we're gonna talk about, we're talking.
About again jumping back over any Ephesians or any Ephesians
chapter 2. Remember it says you formerly
walked away. Now we walk in the things.
Prepared for us. Because we're created in Christ.
We have a new walk. We walk in love number one, we
walk in light #2, we walk in wisdom #3.
And the 4th one is we walk by the spirit, we walk by the
spirit. Now he feeds.
In chapter 5, verse 18 he mentions this a little, he one
statement concerning it. And then but we then we're going
to jump over to Galatians, closing Galatians.
He really pulls out this walk by the spirit when Ephesians 518.
Just so you know what's in the Ephesians 5 section.
He says do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation.
But be what? Filled with the spirit?
Okay. So we're not supposed to get
drunk with wine now? What do we mean by that?
You're not supposed to allow alcohol to intoxicate you,
because when you're intoxicated, it messes with your mind, I
said. It messes with your mind, It
messes with your mind. It hinders its ability to
function in clarity. Now it depends on the type of
person you are, how alcohol affects your mind.
Some people, when they get drunk that are timid sober, be become
extremely brave and violent. Is that not true?
I mean, it beat anybody up or get beat up while they're trying
to beat somebody up one or the other and they don't care at
all, right? Some When they get drunk, when
they're sober, they don't talk. But when they're drunk, they
talk a lot and they talk about everything and anything.
No filter. There are some that get drunk
and they actually get quiet and their quietness moves them into
depression and they get depressed.
Are you hearing me? But when sober, that's not
technically the case. Now, when they're sober, you
understand there's usually something happening in their
sober mind that makes them think that the intoxication is better
because it's trying to suppress or hurt, in essence, if I can.
And it is interesting that we call alcohol spirits still this
day. Wine and spirits.
Spirits. OK, well, because it's amazing
what you are. What can get in your mind when
you don't have control over it. Are you hearing me?
Now, this this goes without saying when it comes to drugs.
All right, now the question is, And it always comes up to me.
OK, well, Pastor, you're just not supposed to get drunk.
Well, define drunk. Let's let's define it because
some would define drunk as inebriated.
You can't wall falling all over the place.
Well, does that the Bible definition of drunk because that
that's really not the Bible definition of drunk.
The Bible definition of drunk is that you have something in you
that starts to affect the clarity of your thinking.
Now I can go back in my history and know the first time I drank,
especially when it came to beer. One beer messed with my mind.
Now I developed a tolerance for alcohol, which means then the
mental effect I had originally with the first one didn't occur
till it became later. Now again in this interesting
that any alcoholic today started with one.
And again, just about every alcoholic today typically says I
can stop anytime I want. Which is the first deception,
all right. Look, I don't have time to break
all this down for you because again, this is where everybody
goes. Yeah, but Jesus drank wine.
The Bible, literally in the Greek, does not show the
difference between the. Fruit of the vine and fermented
wine, Period. So the fruit of the vine would
be all by all rights, is called great juice.
Great juice would still be called.
It would not be called grape juice.
So what we've done, we allowed our Americanized thinking to
assume wine only has to do with alcohol when they would call
that wine as well. OK.
I mean, this shouldn't be hard for us because again, you can
buy a Heineken, you can buy a Guinness.
Only reason I know this because I've seen commercials.
I knew about o'doul's, but o'doul's really doesn't matter
because o'doul's is a different name.
Heineken is an alcoholic beverage, a beer, but you can
get it with 0 alcohol, which means they make the taste
without the alcoholic effect 0. Guinness now has 10 alcohol.
You know, you know how much drunk drivers we have right now?
You know how many people's gotten in trouble with drunk
driving? I mean if it was really serious
about us in the in our world and we can make non alcoholic beer,
then why don't we just get rid of the alcohol And let me just
throw this one out for all the ones that say well but didn't
Paul tell Timothy to drink wine? Why did he tell Timothy to drink
wine for? So are you drinking?
Is your stomach hurt all the time that every night you got to
drink out wine with your meal cause of your stomach?
Do you have a perpetual bowel issue?
So you see how people do just to try to justify.
Now at the end of the day, listen, I you drink a glass of
wine and die, that doesn't send you to hell.
I'm not saying that. I mean, I had alcoholic wine in
Haiti because they used it for communion.
In fact, the only time Pastor Marcus has ever drank alcohol
was around me. And because of me the first time
is because I did this skit one time when I was a youth pastor,
my brotherinlaw work for a company called Metal Container
and they made the lids for Anheuser Busch.
Just the lids. And so I had him send me the
lids that go on a Budweiser can, just the lids.
And I put them on ice in a cooler.
And so that night we had. I don't know what Hunter
something teenagers. There.
I said, look, I'm your youth pastor at the end of the day.
I know you're dealing with this right.
This right. Joshua.
I know you're dealing with this about tonight.
Listen, if you've got to pop a cold one you're going to do it
with your youth pastor tonight. Tonight we go pop a cold one
together. That's how I let that's how I
set it up. And my message was a Budweiser
than. Yeah, that was good, isn't it?
So the youth pastor went across the street next door to the
youth and bought a case of beer. Yeah, well, I had to have the
prop bought the case of beer. Walk back.
I'm glad people didn't have phones and film and stuff like
that, you know? Again, I took a risk.
I get it. And so I came back and Pastor
Marcus and I, we drilled the bottom of every beer can.
Now again it's been so long since I drank I didn't realize
they made it where it kind of curves up on the bottom.
Now it has like this little. I don't maybe it helps it pour
out. I don't know why they did that
was flat long time ago, but now it's got this little curve.
So we're we're dumping it out as best we can.
But you know there's still some around that little bottom rim.
So once then I rinsed. It did as much as I could.
Then I took and we poured. Apple juice in it because, you
know, you foam up apple juice. It looks like beer.
So we poured that in and then I plugged it with a little screw
that had a rubber Grumman on it and we plugged it and put it
back in the case. So then the skit was, you know,
here they are having a party. But you know, again, for them to
think Pastor Marcus had real beer, he could pop the top and
then he would pour it in a glass cup and you could see it and it
would foam up and then he would drink it.
Then you know the youth are watching all this, right?
Well, I had, you know, another cup that was, you know, one of
those stadium cups that we put Chunky Campbell's soup in chunk.
Some chunky soup in it. And so ultimately he's putting
them back, you know, putting them back.
Crushing the can, boom. Putting it back, crushing the
can, just tearing it up, right? Then he grabs this other cup and
he puts it in and then he throws up all over the place, right?
This is my skit because at the end of the day, don't think the
parties aren't going like this. People are still doing this.
My wife and I went out to Salt Life after Wednesday night
service when they came out and we're like, is that is that puke
out here in the parking lot? Sure enough, somebody was having
a good old time is what we call it.
That's I've never had a good old time throwing up.
I have never. Something's wrong with you.
I'm having. I'm having such a good old time
right now. Nobody does that.
Nobody does that in their right. My just say liar.
You're a liar right now. You're not having a good time
when your toenails are trying to come up through your throat.
No way. No way.
Hallelujah. Y'all doing all right.
I'm a violent thrower upper. My wife is super quiet.
You don't even know it's. The self-control she has.
You all right? Yeah.
I just threw up. You what She's like you don't
even know. Happens.
This even happened. It's crazy me.
Has it come? Just get it all out.
Plus my voice, right? Just lose it all.
Going to lose it all that's bad. Me and Brianna, we will believe
God that it will always go down another way.
If it starts to try to serve like Jesus you will If you got
to get out, you going out another way.
You are so going out another way and I don't care if it coming
out fast the other way because I'm like that's right in Jesus
name. You are not coming out of my
mouth when I put it in. It does not come back out.
It will not return that way. I hate it that much.
So it's not a good time. It's a lot.
Anyway, he tasted some, then, you know, he's like, I see, I'm
sorry. And then the next time we went
to Haiti, we ministered at Faith Christian University.
Actually, they had a campus there at the time, and so we
went to a church. They had communion.
And so I was up front helping to serve communion.
He was in the back about where the sound booth is right there.
And I was standing here and he was directly in front of me like
this. We're holding this and I'll
drink the cup. And I went.
I went, ah, that's not Welch's. And Pastor Marcus went look like
Barney Fife and I just went Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord so, he says. Look, don't let nothing mess
with your mind. Are you hearing me now?
Let nothing mess with your mind. I think if most people were
honest about their alcohol drinking anyway, they kind of do
it for sophistication. I mean, they were honest.
Why do you drink again at the end of the day?
I'm not here to condemn or go any other way.
You need to talk to the Lord about that.
I just know that there's a time when you first start, it affects
your mind right out the gate. And why do you build up a
tolerance for something that has destroyed so many people's lives
when there's so many other options?
That's all that you could, just not, period.
And then you would never be concerned about it, nor would
you be categorized, because how do they?
Know when you're sitting at the restaurant, that's your only
glass. And how many people say, well,
you know, my pastor drinks too. Wow.
And then they're bailing them out.
What happened? Well, drains a little too much,
pastor. Well, God loves you, man.
Drink responsibly. That's called an oxymoron.
The more you drink, the less responsible you are.
That's like gamble responsibly. That can't happen.
Galatians 5. Let's shut this down.
Amen. Somebody on the podcast needs to
hear this. If it's in this house, then let
it apply. Galatians 516 to 25 says this.
But I say, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the
desires of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for
these are in opposition to one another.
So that you may not do the things that you please.
The spirit is the check. The spirit is like, we don't
live that way. We don't walk that way anymore.
The spirit is like, that's a formal walk.
We don't do that now. That's a formal walk.
I know where you're going. That's a formal walk.
Spirit on a man. Get up in there and talk to your
soul. Now that's a formal walk.
Get them to arrest that thinking.
Get them to get them to take captain that thought.
Let's take Captain. That thought now.
Because that's former walking. That's former walking all right.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you're not under the
law. Now that just simply means you
trying to fulfill God's word without the help of God.
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are, yeah, that's
so true, Lord. You know I've always, you know,
like you know when he this statement here like that's just
such a tough statement like how do we explain this property And
the Lord says I say it this way. Thank you.
So, he says. Listen again.
If you are led by the spirit, you're not under the law right
now. Does the law say that it's okay
to have immorality? Does the law say to have
impurity or sensuality or adultery or sorcery or enmities,
or strive for jealousies or outburst?
Does the law say that? Okay.
So if you're living by the spirit, you're not under the
law. Obviously, the law says to not
covet, to not murder. Well, we're still not supposed
to murder. We're still not supposed to
covet. We're still not supposed to
steal the law. None of the law was saying this
to do these things. So again, when it says under the
law, it says you're not under the law.
Meaning you're trying your very best to do it God's way, but you
can't because your nature separated.
You're not under that condition anymore.
You're actually now in the Spirit, and the Spirit can't
fulfill God's word. He will.
The Holy Spirit will do it, and he'll tell you how to do it, and
he'll empower you to be able to resist, so that the works of the
flesh then are evident, which are immorality and purity,
sensuality, adultery, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy,
outbursts of anger, it says, disputes, dissensions, factions
in being, drunkenness. So now we're.
Back over to Ephesians 5 again, Don't be drunk with wine.
But you know, basically, you know, you're supposed to be
filled with the spirit, carousing and things like these,
of which I forewarned you, just as I have forewarned you that
those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of
God. Thank you.
The Lord wanted me to let remind you, yes, being filled with the
Spirit can get you demonstrating an outward display that looks
like what a natural, intoxicated person looks like.
Peter on the day of Pentecost, said these men are not drunk as
you. So there was something about
their behavior when they got under the power that made them
look like they were staggering and stammering.
Because again, a person drunk, you know, will slur.
There's, you know, like, what? What?
So when they were speaking in an unknown tongue.
Because, again, if they were only Speaking of the language
which they were speaking languages, people understood.
But if they were only doing that, then there'd be no reason
to associate them with drunkenness.
So there was the Speaking of tongues that no one knew what
they were saying, so they thought it was stammering of
lips. They were drunk.
Listen to them. They're stammering their lips
all over the place. Okay.
And again you can get so full of the spirit that the weight of
his glory and power could put you on the ground.
Just like when you people are drunk, they stagger and fall.
That can take place. But notice this.
Not every occasion when you are under the influence of the
Spirit, are you going to be falling all over the place?
Because some people take that as then as a religious exercise,
and they're just stumbling all over the place, making it look
like they're drunk in the spirit when they're no more drunk in
the Spirit, they just want you to think they're drunk in the
spirit. Now how do I know?
Because their lifestyle isn't actually being walked out by the
Spirit. Because they're doing all these
things still. You're staggering around here,
but you're sleeping around. You're staggering around here,
but you're still, you know, Corral.
You're staggering around here, but you're envying.
You're staggering around here and you got jealousy.
Why? You staggering around and it
didn't do nothing for you. Again, if you fall, great, but
do something different once you get up.
So a Holy Ghost meeting is not just the stammering of lips.
Well, you will speak in it on untone.
I'm fine with that. But that doesn't mean you're
falling all over the place. Okay, let's go on.
He says verse 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, selfcontrol.
Against such there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ
Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also what walk by the Spirit?
So the fourth thing is you're going to walk by the Spirit.
Now let me just say this. You cannot walk by the Spirit
outside the word of God. It cannot happen because if
you're just trying to be spiritual, you'll tap into the
wrong spirit because you don't have an anchor in the word to
know what a correct spirit is. Because the enemy is in the
spirit realm and the devil comes as an Angel of light.
So if you're walking by the spirit, you must also be in the
word to be a person who's truly living or walking by the Spirit.
Two things are going to be necessary in your life.
One is a consistent diet of reading and studying the word,
and the 2nd is a consistent diet of praying and praying in the
spirit you must have about. Jesus himself knew the word, He
was the word, but he prayed. If prayer alone made you
spiritual then Jesus never would have ever said it is written.
If prayer was not important and all you had to do was read, then
Jesus never would have went and prayed.
So a person who's truly walking by the Spirit, this new walk we
are, should have a habit of both reading the word and prayer.
Not just praying in the natural, but praying in the Spirit.
And there should be a balance. Which one you should do more.
It's which one's most necessary at the time.
Now, most of the time it's gonna kind of seem like a balance
between the two. But sometimes you don't need to
pray. You just need to get in the
word, and you need to wash yourself with the Word.
You need to spend some hours just reading the word.
Then there's other times that you need to get over and pray
for quite some time until you break through, so it's whichever
ones needed. So we don't want to emphasize
one more than the other because they're really inseparable
anyway. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
All right, what, Did you learn anything tonight?
Are you going to, you going to walk your new walk?
I said, are you going to walk your new walk?
We're going to walk in love. We're going to walk in the
light, we're going to walk in wisdom and we're going to walk
by the spirit. And when we do that, then the
world will say, who are you, where are you from and what can
I do to get what you have? Because you will no longer be
confused with the former walk, nor will anyone be able to
associate. They can lie and say you've done
something. Now you can't stop that because
they said Jesus walked away, He never walked.
But you are never to walk away. That they can rightly accuse you
of a former. Walk Thank you so much for
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