1 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,040 This is about the reigning church, and the reigning church 2 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,680 has a group of people because the church is people. 3 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,920 It's the body of Christ. They are people and we are a 4 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,200 society and I like we use these terms because the Bible is about 5 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,760 a king, his Kingdom, and his royal offspring. 6 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:37,160 We are a Society of people and in the society there is a way to 7 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:44,680 live a behavior that is good for the society because there are 8 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,600 behaviors that are not good for the society. 9 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,000 And if you want to be a reigning society or be a part of the 10 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,240 reigning church, then there are things outlined within Scripture 11 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,520 that we need to take the heart, renew our minds to and begin to 12 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,400 walk in all right. And the reason we need the mind 13 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,760 renewal is because what we what our mind doesn't understand is 14 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,240 we already have the capacity in the spirit. 15 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,720 We're only releasing something that already exists. 16 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:16,320 Already exists. OK. 17 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,600 And so last week we decided we would take some time with the 18 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,040 Apostle Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus because again, 19 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:28,840 his writing to the church is in the same age that we're in 20 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,840 today. Me a lot of times they call it 21 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,200 the church age. Some call it the age of grace. 22 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:42,640 The most most correct would be we are in the last days age, say 23 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,440 the last days, 'cause the next thing from here becomes a 24 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,880 millennial reign where Jesus Christ comes back to the planet, 25 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:56,040 Hallelujah. So you know, we're excited about 26 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,280 that particular age to come, but at this point we are in the last 27 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,880 days age and we are living in the last of the last days right 28 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,080 now. All right, So a lot of things 29 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,560 are going to start wrapping up and there are things that we 30 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,320 need to be aware of. All right, So that number one, 31 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,840 we can stay on course in the spirit so that we do not get off 32 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,200 with a different spirit. Praise the Lord. 33 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,920 All right, so in Ephesians chapter 1 and two last week, we 34 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:27,040 covered some things I'm not going to go back and review. 35 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,800 We are. You can go on our podcast to 36 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,800 hear this, OK? We did not release this on 37 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,320 YouTube. I wore a hat last week and you 38 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,360 can't see my eyes. And we decided that we are 39 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,760 actually not going to do YouTube on Wednesday nights anyway 40 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,080 anymore. We're going to kind of cut that 41 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,480 off for the summer and just do our YouTube on Sunday. 42 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,440 I actually only added Wednesday during the COVID years because, 43 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,600 you know, we wanted to be able to get some more content out 44 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,560 because so many people were not being able to assemble in 45 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,640 different states, although we assembled the whole time. 46 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,280 But you know, we're going to take the Wednesdays off. 47 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,840 You can get it on a podcast, OK? You can still get our messages. 48 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,720 They're all recorded. You just won't visually see 49 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,960 Wednesday night services. And when the when the fall kicks 50 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,400 back up, we'll decide whether we want to kick back into that or 51 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,800 if we just stay the way we are. Because you understand, it's 52 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:21,280 about me speaking to you. I'm not on YouTube to speak to 53 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,040 the world. I'm here to speak to you. 54 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:29,040 You are the ones that God has asked or authorized me to 55 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,320 oversee. So it's more important that I 56 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,680 speak to you than anyone else. Are you hearing me? 57 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,400 OK, so Ephesians chapter 4, verse one through 7, we 58 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,680 obviously record for those that are serving and we thank God for 59 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:41,960 everyone who serves in the church. 60 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,680 That way they do not miss what's happening in service. 61 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,720 So we're jumping over. We're going to be in three and 62 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,280 four today, although I'm not going to really, I'm going to 63 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:51,600 talk about 3 and not show it in Scripture. 64 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,680 But I want us to understand that I'm going to primarily stay in 65 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,720 chapter 4 today, that Paul's talking to the church here. 66 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,520 And when he get up to this point, again, he just comes out 67 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,800 of chapter 3 with this reminder that the eyes of their 68 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,720 understanding would be in light, that they would know the, the 69 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,640 breadth and length and height and depth of God's love. 70 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,600 That they would understand this love of God that surpasses all 71 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,360 understanding. Again, right at the closure of 72 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,320 the 3rd chapter, he is reminding them, listen, I'm praying that 73 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,400 you understand, understand who you are now that you are a 74 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,880 believer, OK? And I, we're going to get a 75 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,320 little more specific about some things here in this 4th chapter. 76 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:36,680 So chapter 4, verse 1 is coming off of this prayer that I'm 77 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,200 praying that you'll understand who you are now. 78 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,200 You need to know who you are now, not who you're going to be 79 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,560 who you are now, because Jesus Christ is your Lord. 80 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,600 So then he comes in here because again, we do chapters in verse, 81 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,000 but you know, it's just a continuation of his letter to 82 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,280 the church. He said, therefore, I the 83 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:02,520 prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk worthy of the calling 84 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:07,200 with which you have been called, with all humility and 85 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,760 gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in 86 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,720 love, being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond 87 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,680 of peace. There is one body, say 1 body, 1 88 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:25,160 Spirit, say 1 Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope 89 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,880 of your calling, 1 Lord, 1 faith, one baptism, one God and 90 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,640 Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 91 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,600 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure 92 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:41,760 of Christ's gift. So Paul here after he says, 93 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,320 listen once again, he prayed in Ephesians 1 for them that they 94 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,720 would get understanding of who they are now in Christ. 95 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:52,320 And when we say in Christ, we're saying in the king, who you are 96 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:57,400 now as a child of the king, OK, because Christ means the 97 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,640 anointing, right? We understand it's a it's a it's 98 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,640 a word for the, the anointed one in his anointing. 99 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,320 Well, the anointed 1 is the king. 100 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,240 That's what you did. You anointed them as kings. 101 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:12,480 We see this with when when they rejected God is king in first 102 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,800 Samuel chapter 8. And he told the prophet Samuel, 103 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,640 God did, let's give them what they want. 104 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:20,480 They want to see a king, they want a man. 105 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,640 So you bring that person in. They've rejected me as their 106 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,760 king, but I'm going to try to help them. 107 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:29,120 And he anointed him, and all went on his head, which is the 108 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,760 type and shadow of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God. 109 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,240 Well, when Jesus came into the earth and he was baptized by 110 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,640 John in the Jordan River, when he comes up, the Holy Spirit 111 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,520 came upon him. Now he didn't get oil in 112 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:48,240 symbolism. He received the oil, the person, 113 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,360 the Holy Spirit and and the Holy Spirit came upon him without 114 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,840 measure. And when that anointing hit of 115 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:59,320 which Jesus testified of this anointing in Luke chapter 4, he 116 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:04,040 said, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me 117 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,280 right. Then the Father says, this is my 118 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:09,920 beloved Son. Well, if God the Father is King 119 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:17,800 in heaven and Jesus is his Son, his only begotten Son, well then 120 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:23,360 he's King and he's saying to the world, here's my anointed king 121 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:29,000 of the earth, Hallelujah. And this king went to battle 122 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:33,520 against the one who had taken dominion from Adam. 123 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,840 Glory to God, and he conquered him. 124 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,680 And he is the reigning king that has the reigning church, which 125 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:47,800 is the reigning society. So he says here in that vert 126 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,600 chapter 1, you need to understand who you are. 127 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,480 You're not who you, you're not who you see in the mirror 128 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,200 anymore. You're a whole new species of 129 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:00,880 being. You know, we know 2nd 130 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,760 Corinthians 5 tells us that we are a new creature in Christ. 131 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,560 There is no remodeling in the spirit. 132 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,160 It's a brand new spirit. Now there's some remodeling in 133 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,960 the mind, but there's no remodeling in the spirit. 134 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:19,200 That spirit, that spirit man that was inside your skin suit 135 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,920 this body prior to your confession of faith that Jesus 136 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,800 Christ as Lord, that He died on the cross, rose from the grave, 137 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,560 paid the price for your wrongdoing against the Kingdom 138 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,600 so that you could be forgiven and redeemed. 139 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:44,840 OK, that spirit man is evicted, says it passes away, but then 140 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:49,200 you become a new creature in Christ or in the king. 141 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,000 So you are the child of a king. So the Bible says Jesus is the 142 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,920 king of kings. Who are those kings? 143 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,360 Come on, who are those kings? You are those kings. 144 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,360 And when are you those kings? Right now. 145 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:11,240 Right now you function as a king in the earth, authorized by God 146 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:16,360 because you are a child of God and God is king. 147 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:22,120 All right, so at the 3rd chapter he's like praying again. 148 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,320 I'm praying. You get it because you're in 149 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,360 another Kingdom now. You're a different species of 150 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,360 being now, and so there's a different way to live. 151 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,600 Are you hearing me? So let me hit a couple verses, 152 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,560 then we'll pop back into these first 7 verses of of Ephesians 153 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:45,280 4. Remember Colossians 113 says for 154 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:50,760 he rescued us and has drawn us to himself from the dominion of 155 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:55,840 darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of his beloved son. 156 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,200 Now, when did that transfer happen? 157 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:03,520 The day you were born again. So this transfer is not leaving 158 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,800 planet Earth to go to heaven to be in His Kingdom. 159 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,760 You get moved into His Kingdom the minute you're born again and 160 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,400 you do not leave the planet. Hallelujah. 161 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,760 Because again, being born again is not about destination, where 162 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,480 you go when you die. Being born again is about 163 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,880 destiny or sonship and sonship or being a child of God is 164 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:32,000 something you can receive today. And your Father will not leave 165 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,960 you as an orphan. Glory to God, Amen. 166 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:42,240 So we see there was a domain of darkness or or Kingdom of 167 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,600 darkness. One translation says a power of 168 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,360 darkness, domain of darkness, a place where there was the 169 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,800 Passion says a tyrannical ruler was over you. 170 00:10:53,360 --> 00:11:03,000 You were in that nation, we could say, but Jesus delivered 171 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,800 you. He set you free through His 172 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,800 blood, and if you call Him Lord, that is your pathway to 173 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,040 citizenship in the Kingdom. Are you hearing me? 174 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,320 You cannot get into His Kingdom any other way. 175 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:24,080 You can't get smuggled in, you can't get, you cannot be prayed 176 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,880 in by someone else, and you have no participation. 177 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,160 You cannot be paid in by someone else. 178 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,280 It's only the blood of Jesus that paid the price. 179 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:39,040 You are in through lordship and lordship is not a religious 180 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:40,960 word. It means supreme in authority. 181 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:45,160 You're saying Jesus, I make you supreme in authority of my life. 182 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,280 And when you do that, which is at, you know, technically the 183 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,280 cross did this. In essence, when you recognize 184 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,040 his death, burial and resurrection, and you confess 185 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:59,440 Christ, then that old spirit is knocked out of you, evicted, and 186 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,720 a new spirit is in you. And that spirit is righteous, 187 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:09,480 holy, sanctified to the Lord. The spirit is. 188 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:14,400 But you're not just a spirit, I said. 189 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,160 You're not just a spirit. Now, we say this in teaching, 190 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:24,000 but I want us to understand even though there are three parts of 191 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,280 our being, we need to never think we are not all three parts 192 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:34,600 because we say in teaching we are spirit, we have a soul and 193 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,760 we live in a body. But you understand you'll always 194 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:41,440 have a body and you'll always have a soul. 195 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,040 So you're not just spirit. That's good. 196 00:12:53,310 --> 00:12:57,070 Are you hearing me? So when your spirit has changed, 197 00:12:57,190 --> 00:13:00,310 then we now are authorized to deal with our soul realm. 198 00:13:01,110 --> 00:13:08,310 Our mind will intellect. We now have power to control our 199 00:13:08,310 --> 00:13:09,950 thoughts. Wow. 200 00:13:11,110 --> 00:13:15,870 Then even though our body will not be glorified until we pass 201 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,520 or changed in the moment of the twinkling of an eye, OK, to be 202 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,520 in preparation for the new age. Now, when I say new Age, I'm not 203 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,800 talking New Age religion. I'm talking the age of the 204 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,960 millennial reign of Christ. OK, That age, the next one, all 205 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,600 right, we will have a glorified body. 206 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,120 Jesus glorified body was flesh and bone, but it could walk 207 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:40,120 through walls. I said it could walk through 208 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,880 walls. And when he was transfigured on 209 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,320 the Mount of Transfiguration, I mean, he was so white. 210 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,480 They're like, man, there's no way you could get this much 211 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,480 white by cleaning. I mean, he was shining. 212 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,080 The glory was on him. I said the glory. 213 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:57,040 All right, so then in essence, these three aspects are going to 214 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:03,520 hit the spirit realm because God, who is a spirit still has a 215 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:11,400 body. All right, so we are transferred 216 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,080 into another Kingdom. Well, what does Philippians 320 217 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,840 says for our citizenship is in heaven. 218 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,160 Now that doesn't mean that's what we'll live forever. 219 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,440 That just means our name is registered in another Kingdom. 220 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:31,360 That is the Lamb's book of life. That is our birthright because 221 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,560 we are born again. Literally, that word means born 222 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,680 from above. Are you hearing me? 223 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,120 So we for our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also are 224 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,240 eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, because in 225 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,680 the end, there's going to be a new heaven, new earth, and it's 226 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:53,160 all going to look, it's all going to be godly without sin. 227 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,720 Praise God for that. But notice when you're 228 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,840 transferred from one domain or one Kingdom into another 229 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,320 Kingdom, you are transferring citizenship. 230 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:10,240 And citizenship in a society has to do with behavior of a nation, 231 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:16,080 a way you live. So in essence, when we read 232 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:21,440 Paul's letters to the church, what Paul is doing is he is 233 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:26,560 saying you are now a citizen of a different Kingdom. 234 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,360 And this is how those citizens function. 235 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,520 You understand, now in our nation, you can hold our in our 236 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,400 world, in the world, you can hold what they call dual 237 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,760 citizenship. Do you understand? 238 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:44,280 You hold that Some may hold, you know, 3 because you may have two 239 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,880 natural citizenships yourself. But if you're born from above, 240 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,560 then you have a 1/3. That is a superior citizenship, 241 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,520 you know, because the nations of this world are going to 242 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,640 disappear. Which means my citizenship with 243 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:05,800 the United States of America will be nothing because the 244 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:11,840 nation will cease to exist. But my citizenship with God and 245 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,320 His Kingdom will never. My citizenship in the Kingdom of 246 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:21,120 God is an eternal citizenship. Hallelujah. 247 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:26,480 So Paul's writing to the to his to the churches, specifically 248 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,600 here in Ephesians. Is he saying now listen, you're 249 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,080 a new citizen. Typically, if dual citizenship 250 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,440 is not offered, then if you let go of 1 nation's citizenship, 251 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:43,880 the the the reality is you are to denounce that citizenship and 252 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:48,760 become only the citizen of the new nation you are in. 253 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,920 So you are in essence making a pledge with all your heart to 254 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,480 defend this new nation by which you are citizen and you're going 255 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,560 to abide by its laws, its customs, it's procedures, it's 256 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,680 way of living, it's way of driving, right? 257 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:10,000 You don't come over from India and decide to be a citizen in 258 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,000 the United States, but choose to drive like you're back in India. 259 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,079 You will get stopped. What is this guy doing on the 260 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:24,680 wrong side of the road? Right now you can have a vehicle 261 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:30,720 with the steering wheel on the side that they have in India, 262 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,920 but you're not allowed to drive that way here. 263 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,640 I mean, that's going to be a problem and you cannot. 264 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,000 Every time the police officer stops you for being in the left 265 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,120 lane on a two way highway going the wrong way that you know. 266 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:53,680 But this is how I always drove. But you're not there. 267 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,160 Now we're going to see here in a moment that this is the problem 268 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:02,640 is that you're holding on to an old identification. 269 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,880 Oh, OK. There was a time in our nation 270 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:16,760 that when immigrants came over, they did not want to hold on to 271 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:22,360 their old nation's nationality. They only wanted to be known as 272 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:27,600 Americans. But somewhere along the line, we 273 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,240 started to pick up the nation we immigrated from. 274 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:34,520 Now you say, well, what's the problem with that? 275 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,080 Well, in the Kingdom, this is a problem. 276 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,120 In the Kingdom, this is a problem. 277 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:47,360 So in the beginning of this chapter he is saying in verse 278 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,760 one again, he's exhorting them after he's prayed that they 279 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:55,000 would get understanding of who they are and and learn to walk 280 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,360 in this love that's been shed abroad in their heart and be and 281 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:04,880 unify and and become one and and grow as citizens in the Kingdom. 282 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,400 He says he exhorts one translation says he admonishes, 283 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,160 he inspires them to walk. Now the word walk here means to 284 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:16,880 regulate one's life, to conduct oneself. 285 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,600 So he is saying, now listen, I'm praying and I'm asking that you 286 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:31,720 walk, you regulate your life worthy of the calling, not 287 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:36,080 worthy of your opinion, not worthy of your past life, not 288 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,960 worry, worthy based upon what you choose to be worthy or how 289 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,520 you feel, but worthy of the calling. 290 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:48,120 This word calling means this the divine invitation of the 291 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:51,440 salvation of God. So he's saying you're supposed 292 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:57,480 to regulate your life as a citizen in this new Kingdom that 293 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:03,480 is worthy or in a manner that is in keeping with the invitation 294 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:08,360 of the salvation that came to you by God to get you into this 295 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,440 new Kingdom that He transferred you to. 296 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:21,680 So the expectation of new birth is not just to have 297 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,440 understanding of where you're going to go when you die. 298 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:32,640 The expectation of new birth is to denounce a way that you 299 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:42,880 regulated your life and walk in a new regulated life now on the 300 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,720 earth. Are you hearing me? 301 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,200 And we are to do this with all humility. 302 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,960 Now, humility by literal definition means if you're going 303 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,560 to be humble, humble is not this. 304 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,480 I'm just a humble person. I mean, we act like it's an 305 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:06,200 expression. True humility is to yield to 306 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:11,160 God's way of doing and you understand you can be fully 307 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,080 humble yet expressing great confidence. 308 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:26,480 You can be the most humble person yet demonstrating great 309 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:34,920 confidence because the Bible tells us that we are to be 310 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:39,040 firmly persuaded in his word. It says this is the confidence 311 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,520 that we have that if we go before the throne of grace and 312 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,320 if we have a word from the king, then we do not back off from 313 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,760 that. When you've done all the stand, 314 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:53,880 you what stand meaning. This is what the word says, and 315 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,720 I'm confident it will be this way. 316 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:02,200 Abraham was firmly persuaded that it will be exactly as God 317 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,480 says, Paul, in the 27th chapter of ACT said. 318 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:10,080 I am convinced that what has been spoken to me tonight by an 319 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,680 Angel, a messenger from God, that it will turn out exactly. 320 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,760 Now that's confidence. And if someone says no, it's 321 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,320 going to be this way. In fact, when Paul told the 322 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,440 Centurion, unless these soldiers who were trying to get down in a 323 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,440 little boat and leave the ship, he said unless these men stay 324 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,160 with the ship, I cannot guarantee their lives. 325 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,760 They're like, wow, aren't you a little cocky guy? 326 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,160 Aren't you full of arrogance? No, he wasn't in no arrogance of 327 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,200 his own. He was confidently stating that 328 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,920 the Lord said that this ship is going to run aground on a 329 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:50,000 certain island, but that God had granted Paul the lives of all 330 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,400 the people. So if you leave the ship, I 331 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,480 cannot say that God's going to keep you protected. 332 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,160 I do know what he said if you stay with the ship. 333 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:05,160 So he humbled himself to hear God at His word and never came 334 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,960 off what he believed. So again, we've been religiously 335 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:15,800 taught some aspect of humility when the reality of true 336 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:20,760 humility is that whatever the Lord says, I do. 337 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:27,280 Now that presentation can be, you know, not outspoken. 338 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:28,880 You know what? Yes, Lord, I'm going to do that. 339 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,520 I'll do that. Lord, It can come out that way. 340 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,880 But man, when you're fighting a good fight of faith, that looks 341 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,920 a little different, but you're still humble. 342 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,960 Are you hearing me? Did Jesus lose his humility when 343 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,320 he looked at Peter and he said, get thee behind me, Satan? 344 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,440 No, what was he doing? He was humble by saying, I 345 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,920 cannot let a word come to me. That's contrary to what my 346 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:59,280 father has said about me. All right, So he's saying with 347 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,360 all humility, with gentleness, with patience. 348 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:04,400 Now, patience is really important here in the second 349 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,960 verse because. And then it says burying one 350 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,280 another with love. Why? 351 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,560 Because we are babes in Christ. When you become born again, 352 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,000 you're a babe in Christ and you have to grow up spiritually. 353 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,680 Now, that doesn't mean your spirit man is technically 354 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,720 growing up. It's got everything in it. 355 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,480 You're growing in your mind to release what it is that's on the 356 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,400 inside already, and you're having to change your thinking 357 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,640 so that what's naturally, when I say naturally, I'm talking 358 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,920 naturally supernatural. You understand I'm not 359 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,200 performing. I'm just releasing who I am. 360 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:44,280 I don't have to work to be holy. I am holy. 361 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,400 You all know any. I'm just releasing what I am, 362 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:51,520 right? Well, man, you sure are, you 363 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,680 know, trying to look. I'm not trying to look. 364 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,640 Nothing. I'm just this because that's who 365 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,280 Christ made me. So it will be odd for me not to 366 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:05,240 produce fruit. I'm not working to produce joy. 367 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,160 I'm not working. I'm just releasing what's in me. 368 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,520 Well, they just think they're better. 369 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,760 I'm not better. I'm just me. 370 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,520 And this is who Christ said I am. 371 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:28,560 So This is why I can, I actually have to work to not Amen. 372 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,440 I have to work to stay upset because the Holy Ghost is like, 373 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,680 don't be upset about this. Yeah, but you know, now I'm 374 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,600 working. I'm trying to get back over into 375 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:46,320 a behavior that supernatural naturally is saying, oh, we're 376 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:51,560 different. Hey man. 377 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,040 And but what do we what? What? 378 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,760 What have we accepted religiously? 379 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,400 Oh, you just think you're perfect? 380 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:03,960 Nope, Christ is perfect. I'm in him and I'm just 381 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,720 releasing who he said I am by faith. 382 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,760 Hallelujah. He says it's in there. 383 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,480 I'll let it go. So we have to then be patient 384 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,880 because guess what, you're working to release, meaning 385 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,880 you're yielding, you're growing, you're developing, you're 386 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,280 listening to the word. So we're patient with one 387 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,080 another. We're to be diligent. 388 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,560 Look what kind of society we are. 389 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:35,640 We are to be diligent to keep the unity of the spirit in the 390 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,960 bond of peace. That's that's something we have 391 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,200 to keep. If there seems to be, there's no 392 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,080 unity, then we should be. What do we need to do to unify? 393 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:50,040 That's our culture. That's what we do as citizens. 394 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,840 We're not here to divide. In fact, the Lord does not like 395 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,160 division at all. He does not like it. 396 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,760 In fact, he talks about 7 things he hates and then he gets over 397 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,240 and said that one thing's like an abomination and it's a 398 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,240 brother who comes to sow discord among the brethren. 399 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,000 Because again, that's not in my culture. 400 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000 That's not in my society that reigns. 401 00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:12,680 A society that reigns. Our reigning church is always 402 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,440 working to maintain the bond of peace and a spirit of unity. 403 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:22,000 Hallelujah. That's what a reigning church 404 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:29,360 will do Hallelujah. And it's easy to unify when you 405 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:35,640 throw down your opinion and say, let's respond the word way 406 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,160 because it's easy. Any situation we ever come 407 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:47,400 across, guess what we can do? We can assess what just happened 408 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,560 to how he wants us to respond. All right, we're going to see 409 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,360 this here in a minute because again, we are one body with one 410 00:27:55,360 --> 00:28:00,120 spirit and we all have been given a gift by Christ, which 411 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,400 means we all have a grace to walk this out. 412 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,800 Amen. So jump down to verse 17 because 413 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:11,480 I'm going to skip the middle. We've had a we've had a, a 414 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:16,160 detailed teaching concerning the next few verses. 415 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,400 I'm I'm skipping here concerning being equipped. 416 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:24,560 In fact, you can purchase that book at guest relations where 417 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,360 you'll learn that the fivefold ministry is to equip the Saints 418 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:31,600 for the work of ministry. And, and again, Paul is saying 419 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,400 to the church now listen, you're not arriving at this without 420 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:43,480 training. So again, church is not 421 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:53,040 primarily fellowship. In essence, what he's doing when 422 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,680 he calls you to become a citizen, his number one priority 423 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:04,520 is to recruit you for training because he's like, I've, I have 424 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,800 to get an old citizen's mindset out. 425 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,520 Now I'm going to give you a quick little nugget. 426 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,120 You can be delivered and not be free. 427 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,600 Are you ready? And you already know this. 428 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:24,480 Israel was a nation in slavery in a nation called Egypt. 429 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,200 God sent a man named Moses, and with God's power through Moses 430 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:36,880 delivered that nation and it took all of the wealth of Egypt 431 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,680 through the Red Sea on dry ground to the other side. 432 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,080 And then the nation turned and watched their the nation that 433 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,400 they were slaves to, who treated them wrong. 434 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:57,560 Not only did they were brutal to them personally, but in one 435 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:03,080 session killed many of their children, slaughtered them. 436 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:13,440 Their males sons fill the Nile with them and they watch the 437 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,400 king of that nation and his army die. 438 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:23,800 They're on the other side delivered, but their mentality 439 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:30,440 is still in Egypt and they cannot see themselves as victors 440 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:35,800 in a promised land less than a month later, but only see 441 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,320 themselves as still slaves. They just call themselves 442 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,240 grasshoppers. So here is a delivered nation 443 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:48,440 full of wealth given a land by God that they will not possess. 444 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,800 For what purpose? They wanted their old mind 445 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,120 citizenship. They wanted to be known as an 446 00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:01,920 Egyptian Israel nation. I'm Egyptian, Iraqley, Israeli. 447 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:10,080 I got quiet. But that's OK because the 448 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:18,600 reality is as long as you vacillate between nations now in 449 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,520 the natural, I'm not so concerned about other than these 450 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,760 are points that the enemy can come in and bring division. 451 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,680 Because again, if he can get you to classify yourself something 452 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,240 external, whether that's national, you're not from the 453 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:46,520 same nation or color, or education or economics, then 454 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,400 that's called segregating the nation. 455 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:57,360 So that division can come. Hallelujah. 456 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,360 But the Lord don't want any part of that. 457 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,840 Amen. He wants us to be in Christ. 458 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,880 That's it. I'm just in Christ, I'm in the 459 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,200 Kingdom. So in Ephesians 417 it says 460 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,000 this, it says therefore this. I say and testify of the Lord 461 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,920 that you walk here it is again, regulate one's life no longer 462 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,440 just as the Gentiles also walked. 463 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,560 In essence, you came out of a nation, you're in a new nation. 464 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,480 You don't won't like the old one, you won't like the new one. 465 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,400 You do not regulate your life like the old life. 466 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,800 You regulate your life in a new life. 467 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:44,040 I should get a better Amen than that because if you are not 468 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,160 allowing the new life to be what regulates you, This is why 469 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:53,000 you're frustrated. And the reason why believers OK 470 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,200 struggle is because they become a true freak of nature. 471 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:58,840 And what do I mean by freak of nature? 472 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,160 Their spirit man is alive to God, but their soul and body 473 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:06,840 keeps living for the world. God never intended that day ever 474 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,960 happened. And grace does not empower that. 475 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,560 All right, so he's saying don't walk that way anymore. 476 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,040 You're going to walk a new way. Because the the old way is in 477 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,320 the futility of their mind being darkened in their mind, 478 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,400 alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is 479 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,520 in them, because of the hardness of their heart. 480 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,080 Who wants to be born again and have a hard heart? 481 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,480 Why would you want to be born again and then resist God the 482 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,160 rest of your life just so you can live in an old world? 483 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:49,360 God never intended this ever. So then verse 19 goes on and 484 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,080 says and they meaning the ones from the old nation are having 485 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,360 become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality 486 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,120 for the practice of every kind of impurity and greet with 487 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,800 greediness. He said, but you did not learn 488 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,240 Christ in this way. And what that literally means, 489 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:12,760 it means that the salvation in Christ allows you to live the 490 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,880 same existence as before. You didn't learn Christ this 491 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,040 way. That means you didn't learn 492 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,199 Christ in a way that you know you're saved, but you can live 493 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:26,320 the old way and it be OK. That's not what we taught you. 494 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,679 This is why to the Galatian church he says to them, he's 495 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:34,440 like, who so easily bewitched you? 496 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,639 You, you're, you, you receive Christ in a spirit, and now 497 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:46,199 you're going to go back to a old way of living that could no more 498 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:51,920 get you right with God than the man on the moon, One translator 499 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,679 said. Who put a veil over you when a 500 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:56,480 billboard was cast in front of you? 501 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,120 So clear of what Christ has done. 502 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,360 Amen. So then we go on. 503 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:07,160 It says verse 22 he or verse 21, if indeed you heard him, you 504 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,240 were taught in him, just as truth is in Jesus. 505 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:14,760 Jesus is the way, the truth and the now look at verse 22 here. 506 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,160 This is awesome. Verse 22 says this says to lay 507 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:19,920 aside. Say lay aside. 508 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,760 Come on, say lay aside to lay aside in reference to your 509 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,160 former conduct. The old man, say the old man, 510 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,160 right. And This is why I loved about 511 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,560 David Mackey. You know, you get around him. 512 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,520 He'll if if there's any conversation about something 513 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,160 that isn't how he lives today, he'll say now the old man 514 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:45,360 because he doesn't identify with him anymore. 515 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,800 In essence, there was a former time I was in a different nation 516 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,040 and and regulated my life, but I'm in a new one. 517 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,440 Come on, say I'm in a new one. Because this is what a reigning 518 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,640 church looks like. Because it's society is reigning 519 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,840 in the Word. It is releasing who they are in 520 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,160 Christ. Amen. 521 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,920 This is in you to do. This is not you working to do. 522 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,080 It's releasing what God made you. 523 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:25,200 The only work you have is to believe you are already this. 524 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,200 That's the work of faith for you. 525 00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:33,120 Is that I am the things he said I am. 526 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:38,040 I am the nature he says I am. And so I refuse. 527 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:40,000 The old man. I what? 528 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:41,920 Lay it aside. I wish I'd have brought my 529 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,640 jacket in here. It lay aside like a garment. 530 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,480 You take it off and you lay it aside. 531 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,320 You're no longer clothed in it. You're no longer wearing it. 532 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,640 Because your old clothes were what? 533 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,480 Filthy rags? And do not think that when you 534 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:03,840 pick up that old way of living, that people who are living, who 535 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,600 are living the new way, cannot smell you coming. 536 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,280 You can smile all you want to. It reminds me of a time when I 537 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:18,400 was young, my dad was a painter, and so, you know, he painted 538 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,920 primarily houses, but every once in a while he'd pick up some 539 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,000 other projects, apartments or whatever. 540 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,240 There was a particular hotel in Gainesville that he had picked 541 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:28,800 up the paint. And so we were just finishing 542 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:34,360 out some minor trim work, OK 'cause the cleaning crew was 543 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,080 coming in and, you know, scraping the glass, cleaning it 544 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,440 and getting it ready. So we were closed. 545 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,240 Well, he had sent me into some of the rooms to clean. 546 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:48,760 Well, a particular cleaning person came in and man, they had 547 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:54,680 some really tough body odor. I mean, it was tough. 548 00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:02,160 I mean, kind of like. But what made it worse is they 549 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:09,320 put perfume on or a fragrance to try to cover it. 550 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,480 Yeah, right. See, when you live the old life, 551 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:21,000 you can smile, you can be nice, but you still stink. 552 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:27,440 All right. Hey, man. 553 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:32,840 OK, so verse 22, to lay aside in reference to your former 554 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,040 conduct, the old man which is being corrupted in accordance 555 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:41,760 with the lusts of deceit. So the old man or the former 556 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,000 life is corrupted. Why would you ever want to go 557 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,080 back? Why would you ever want to be 558 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:51,920 like an Israelite that wants to go back to slavery just so they 559 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,480 can make sure they have enough food to eat? 560 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,840 Because there's taskmasters are going to keep them just well 561 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,040 enough to keep being their slaves. 562 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,440 And they wanted that life back even though they came out of the 563 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,240 promised land with grapes that were the size of grapefruit. 564 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:17,520 Wow delivered but did not change their citizenship mind. 565 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,080 All right, so verse 23 though it says but be renewed in the 566 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,440 spirit of your what? So again, your spirit doesn't 567 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,440 have problem. It's your mind that needs to be 568 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,280 renewed. You have to declare I'm a child 569 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,040 of the king, which means I'm in a different Kingdom. 570 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,920 I'm a different citizen, I'm a different species of being, and 571 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,600 I am who I am not because of what I've done, but because of 572 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,720 what he did. Again, Paul said I am what I am 573 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:46,560 because by the grace of God you are what you are. 574 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,000 By the grace of God, through God's grace, by faith, you are 575 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,120 born of God, born again. You are a child of God. 576 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,360 You have been made holy, righteous, blameless in your 577 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,720 spirit that when you renew your mind, you release that person. 578 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:10,760 It is who you are. This is who you are. 579 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,320 Right. I mean, that's if you get a 580 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,280 sports car, right? With the turbo, it's got 600 581 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,120 horsepower and you drive up with this thing. 582 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,160 Well, if you take off, it's only doing what's on the inside 583 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,440 'cause it was created to have that kind of power. 584 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,840 I mean, you get next to a Prius and you're like, did I tell you 585 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:42,640 what happened the other day? I was driving in my car and two 586 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,080 young guys, they, they could have been out of high school or 587 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,960 they could have been in high school, not sure, but they had a 588 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,840 one of the new Ford Broncos, right? 589 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,760 Look good guys. This is so funny. 590 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,520 These two young guys got up there and we were out of light 591 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:05,880 and all of a sudden jumped and just took off like and you know, 592 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,760 they didn't go very far. Could we hit the next light? 593 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,160 And as I was driving up next to them, I was laughing. 594 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:16,400 I'm like, really, really. I mean, you want to race with 595 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,520 that now? I'm not going to race them 596 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,440 because I have self-control. But I laughed and the guy looked 597 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:22,840 at me and he goes, he's laughing at us. 598 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,800 I mean, I was like, are you even being serious right now? 599 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:35,680 You have nothing under the hood. You're a counterfeit right now, 600 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:38,840 right? I mean, I don't have to do 601 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,200 anything. I mean, all I have to do is turn 602 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,560 a knob and we're in a whole nother another level. 603 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:49,800 We're I mean, I have a couple, you know, that allows me to have 604 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:57,240 the the another anointing. We we call it a fresh touch. 605 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,280 You know, another dose of power and it takes you to another 606 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,960 level. Hallelujah. 607 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,720 All right, so we go on verse 24. Here we go. 608 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:15,640 Let's close this up verse 24 in that series of verses, verse 24, 609 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,760 it said be renewed the spirit of my and to put on the new man. 610 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,560 Now this is really interesting because you're already in the 611 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:28,640 spirit away, but in your mind you have to put it on. 612 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:35,960 So you understand, every day you have to put on in your mind what 613 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:40,560 you are already on the inside. It will not come by itself. 614 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:47,240 You have to put it on. You have to put on the reigning 615 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:50,480 society or reigning church mentality. 616 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:54,320 Every day I'm putting it on. I'm a new man and you put it on. 617 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,760 And when you get in situations in life, you're like, oh, OK, 618 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,240 I'm gonna put on right. I like today. 619 00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:03,200 I was coming in today and somebody from Georgia was on A1A 620 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,000 and passed commanders and they decided they wanted to eat 621 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,160 there. Apparently didn't know that, 622 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,640 didn't have their GPF pulled up to tell them they were there. 623 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:13,280 They passed by, they turned their blinker to go right and 624 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,840 only went 11 tire over the white lane. 625 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:22,000 Slams on brakes, car passing, and then does a left hand turn 626 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:26,160 into the other to go back to the restaurant while I lay down on 627 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:32,840 the brakes, while my wife was working on her eyes, right. 628 00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:37,600 And then I put on, as I washed them. 629 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,960 I did. I put on, you know, 'cause you 630 00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:47,280 know, the old man might have said you're #1 all kinds of 631 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,680 stuff could happen, you know, could have spoken another tongue 632 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,720 that the world knows about, right? 633 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:58,400 The old man could have done that, but the new man just put 634 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:03,560 on I, I watched them not because I like, I can't, I was like, I 635 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,040 need to see them successfully pull away from my vehicle. 636 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,120 And then you go on. Why you put it on. 637 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,440 So you put on the new man, which is in the likeness of come on. 638 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,200 So the the new man is what in the likeness of God? 639 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,840 And who is saying this? God is saying this, so you put 640 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,400 on the new man who's in the likeness of God, has been 641 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:32,880 created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. 642 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:37,120 This is who you are. Therefore, laying aside again, 643 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:42,920 falsehood, speak truth, each one of you with his neighbor, for we 644 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,160 are members of one another. Be angry and do not sin. 645 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:52,120 Do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the 646 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,520 devil an opportunity. He who stills must still no 647 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,480 longer, but rather he must labor, performing with his own 648 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,520 hands what is good, so that he will have something to share 649 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:06,400 with one who has need. Let no unwholesome word proceed 650 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,520 from your mouth. There is a language in the 651 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,160 Kingdom, not just other tongues, but a way to speak. 652 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:19,400 Words are not words. Some words are vulgar. 653 00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:29,040 And when ministers do it for shock and awe, that is old man. 654 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,480 I understand. They're like, well, you know, 655 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:33,680 we're not trying to be really well. 656 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,480 I don't have to go to the flesh to prove that I'm not religious. 657 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,360 So don't let any unwholesome coming out of your mouth, which 658 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,800 is more than just cussing. It has to do with how you 659 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,760 talking about people, how you address situations, but only 660 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:52,200 such a word as good for building up what is needed so that it 661 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,600 will give grace to those who hear you understand. 662 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,960 Even if you know one of your brothers or someone that a 663 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,440 coworker that's lost with God, you know they're out. 664 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,680 You can still speak favorably well, you know about. 665 00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,800 So you know what let's pray for them right now. 666 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:11,320 Now you're not, not an understanding that there's 667 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,840 complications, problems, issues, whatever, but you're not 668 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:19,440 speaking into it 'cause your new culture is to try to bring good 669 00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,760 and edification. Would you hear what happened to 670 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,720 so and so you know what, let's pray him for him right now. 671 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,680 Not what do you know? You know, I was thinking that 672 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:35,160 myself. I mean, this is what the Bible 673 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:39,480 says. It's very easy to see at the end 674 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:46,040 of the day, very easy to see how you are to respond in this 675 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:51,600 citizenship called the Kingdom of God and you have this in you 676 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,520 to do so. It's your flesh that wants to go 677 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,040 back into these areas. That's why I said you got to lay 678 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,000 that aside. That's why I said in 679 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,640 Corinthians, Paul and that to that church said you got to take 680 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,440 captive every thought. Now you line up against the word 681 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:06,760 and you got to put that down, man. 682 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,560 You know, I entertain flesh there and allow myself to talk 683 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,040 too much or listen too much or whatever. 684 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,680 You know what, Lord, forgive me. And then you go back and do it 685 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,760 the right way because I'm not from that Kingdom anymore. 686 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,000 I am no longer. And here's the problem. 687 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,720 We have done it in the nation, African American, Irish 688 00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:28,920 American, you know, Indian American, Asian American, We do 689 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,800 this all the time. You know, we're doing it in the 690 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,280 church. We say, well, I'm just a Sinner 691 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:38,200 saved by grace. You're identifying as a Sinner 692 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,480 saved by grace. I am not a Sinner. 693 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,680 I was a Sinner. I've been saved by grace through 694 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:45,680 faith. I am a believer. 695 00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:52,040 I have been made righteous. I could sin, but I don't sin 696 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:58,120 habitually. And you know the religious hates 697 00:47:58,120 --> 00:47:59,760 this statement but it's a true statement. 698 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,280 If you're really are a follower of God, you know you could live 699 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:08,600 multiple days, even months without actually sinning. 700 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:15,280 Cause sin is just simply just obeying God and when he made you 701 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,840 righteous, you actually can live a life where you obey him at his 702 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:25,280 word. If you do sin, guess what you 703 00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,960 can repent, you'll be forgiven, but that doesn't make you a 704 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:33,040 Sinner. No Sinner is going to heaven, 705 00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:42,040 only children of God. But if you maintain again sin 706 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:47,960 consciousness or that old life, I just you know we're just all 707 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:49,960 sinners man. We all blow, we all make mistake 708 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,080 who you're identifying with an old life. 709 00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:54,600 That's the problem. You're calling yourself a Sinner 710 00:48:54,600 --> 00:49:00,560 grace or a Sinner believer You're you're you're identifying 711 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:07,240 in two nations. Come on, we can't do it. 712 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,480 Verse 30 and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you 713 00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,560 were sealed for the day of redemption. 714 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,600 Hear it again. Our culture, our society that 715 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,680 reigns. Let all bitterness, anger, 716 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:27,960 wrath, shouting, slander be put away from you, along with all 717 00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:34,680 malice, which means bitterness, anger, wrath, shouting, slander 718 00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:39,640 can show up. You have to put it away. 719 00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,040 And guess who will put it away? Not God. 720 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:52,920 You guess who has to put on not God, you, because God already 721 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:57,400 placed in you that spirit made righteous that wants to hear God 722 00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,640 can't hear God, can't hear the Holy Spirit who bears witness 723 00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:04,240 with that, with your spirit that you're a child of God and will 724 00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:06,040 train you and speak to you and all that. 725 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,960 You have the power. God's not controlling it. 726 00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:18,840 You are in control of what you put on every day, but when you 727 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,520 identify as a citizens, I'm going to put on the Kingdom 728 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,760 because that's who I am. I'm a citizen of the Kingdom. 729 00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,800 Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah. 730 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:34,800 So then verse 32 instead, instead say instead, this means 731 00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:36,880 the malice, all those things you can put off. 732 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,560 But instead, what are we to be? What is our culture? 733 00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,520 What is our society? What is the church? 734 00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:47,040 We are instead, we're kind to one another, tender hearted, 735 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,920 graciously forgiving each other. Wow, that's easy. 736 00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:52,960 It's not hard to forgive somebody. 737 00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:58,480 It's so easy, so easy. They just they just what are you 738 00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,160 doing? Forgive them so easy. 739 00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,120 Well, you know, you just don't. You don't know who you are. 740 00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,000 You have picked up the old man you've put on. 741 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,080 You should lay aside that, Lay aside that thought. 742 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,280 Yeah, but they did it. Lay aside the thought. 743 00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:20,600 Put on the new man. Just as God in Christ has 744 00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:30,160 graciously forgiven you. Romans 1314 says it this way. 745 00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:38,640 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, but put on, come on, the 746 00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:44,160 Lord Jesus Christ. But what put on the Lord Jesus 747 00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:45,840 Christ? Who's putting it on? 748 00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,480 Who's putting it on? Who has the power? 749 00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:55,320 You have the power, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ When you 750 00:51:55,320 --> 00:52:03,040 do that and make no provision for the flesh in regards to its 751 00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,040 lust. Man, it's just so tough out 752 00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,160 there, man, it's so tough. You know, I'm being so tempted. 753 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:15,040 You're making provision. I said you're making provision. 754 00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,000 Now I'm going to be honest with you, some you may have to get 755 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,040 radical. Radical. 756 00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,880 There's a scripture that Jesus says he said if your right eye 757 00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:30,080 offends you, pluck it out. I'm not advocating you to pull 758 00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,800 your eyeball out. But what I am saying because 759 00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,240 he's being radical though he's saying now listen, seriously, if 760 00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:42,240 that right eye you cannot dominate and have rule over, 761 00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:46,720 it'd be better for you to remove it from your body so that it 762 00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:50,120 will never ever 'cause you a problem again. 763 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,320 That way you'll be with me forever. 764 00:52:54,560 --> 00:53:03,720 OK, again, if, if, if access through your telephone, you need 765 00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:06,720 to get rid of it. So how can I live without 766 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,120 listen, people live without phones. 767 00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:13,120 It can happen or you can find a flip phone. 768 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,840 Go ahead and get one of those cricket phones with the big 769 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,000 they're like and it's just for an old person. 770 00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,080 If you're not in control, it's a for you, a person. 771 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,120 This is for you person. So you don't have access to the 772 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:30,880 end. What all you're doing is you are 773 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:34,160 putting yourself in a position so that you can grow, so that 774 00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,520 you can release. I'm not saying you can't never 775 00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,960 go back to the dumb phone which we call smart. 776 00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:44,040 You know, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is, until you 777 00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:49,480 can dominate from your spirit through putting on the new man 778 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:53,280 in your mind, it's time to cut some stuff off. 779 00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:58,240 Cut off cable, cut off Netflix, cut off going to the movie. 780 00:53:58,280 --> 00:53:59,560 How am I going to be entertained? 781 00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:04,160 Read a book, Use your imagination. 782 00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:08,600 Read the word. I mean, there's all kinds of 783 00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:10,560 things. Pick up pickleball. 784 00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:18,480 I hear it's popular. Hallelujah, Amen glory to God. 785 00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:22,080 Let me do a speed round of this Colossians just another church 786 00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,400 to show you about put on. I'm just going to read through. 787 00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,320 Obviously you should be able to get this and we'll close 788 00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,240 starting in chapter 3 verses 5 through 10. 789 00:54:30,240 --> 00:54:33,600 He says, therefore consider the members of your earthly body as 790 00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:38,720 dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire 791 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,480 and greed, which is idolatry. Now this is what you can do 792 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:47,440 because you're in Christ. On account of these things, the 793 00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,960 wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. 794 00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:57,960 So you cannot be doing this and claim sonship all right. 795 00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:03,800 And in them you also once walked when you were living in them, 796 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:07,560 but now say, but now you also. Here it is. 797 00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:11,640 Lay them. How many, how many of them? 798 00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:15,080 All of them? Lay aside. 799 00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:19,960 Lay all aside wrath, anger, malice, slander, and abusive 800 00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,440 speech from your mouth. Lay it aside. 801 00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:27,800 Do not lie to one another. Instead you put off the old man 802 00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:33,280 with its evil practices, and have put on, say, put on the new 803 00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:37,040 man who is being renewed to a full knowledge according to the 804 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,040 image of the one who created him. 805 00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:44,080 Man, isn't that good? Verse 12, Verse 12 says so as 806 00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:48,560 the elect of God, you are the elect, you are the elect of God. 807 00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:50,640 Come on, God says you're the elect. 808 00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,560 You are the elect of God, holy and beloved. 809 00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:58,880 Put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, 810 00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,320 patience, bearing with one another, and graciously. 811 00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:06,040 Here it is forgiving each other. Whoever has complained against 812 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,760 anyone just says the Lord graciously forgave you. 813 00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:16,480 So also should you above all say above all, Come on, say above 814 00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:23,760 all, above all these things, put on love, which is the perfect 815 00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,400 bond of unity. Hallelujah. 816 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,120 This is what the reigning church is. 817 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,840 This is the church without spot or wrinkle. 818 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,960 Can you make a mistake from your old nature? 819 00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:41,320 Yes. Can you be forgiven? 820 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:45,040 Yes. Should you habitually live that 821 00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,040 way and practice that way and just thank God for the grace 822 00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,080 that He saved you? No. 823 00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:54,640 You should habitually and practice holiness, 824 00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,680 righteousness, the fruits of the Spirit. 825 00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:05,480 It is who you actually are and it's not who you are by your 826 00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:09,120 works is who you are because he made you that way. 827 00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,720 You just have to believe it and release it.