1 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:04,760 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,160 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:15,440 Now enjoy this message. I want to. 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:21,000 Finish up what we started on Sunday Amen Pastor actually 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,640 started this when he ministered on May to display and we as 6 00:00:27,330 --> 00:00:31,610 God's children are to be displaying right righteousness 7 00:00:31,610 --> 00:00:34,050 and if there's ever an hour that we're living. 8 00:00:34,250 --> 00:00:40,250 People need to see on display the righteousness of God. 9 00:00:40,530 --> 00:00:45,690 People need to see the proper image of who Christ is. 10 00:00:45,970 --> 00:00:50,850 And we talked about this Sunday that the world. 11 00:00:51,050 --> 00:00:55,990 I'm telling you, the world, even the world, gets mixed up about 12 00:00:55,990 --> 00:01:00,470 who Jesus really is because so many Christians have decided 13 00:01:00,470 --> 00:01:03,750 they're going to choose the image of Christ that they want. 14 00:01:05,349 --> 00:01:12,830 And we're not reflecting Christ completely in the image of him. 15 00:01:12,830 --> 00:01:18,110 If we begin to pick and choose what we decide we like about the 16 00:01:18,190 --> 00:01:21,510 image, right? And So what happens? 17 00:01:21,510 --> 00:01:26,790 People get a distorted view of who He is. 18 00:01:27,150 --> 00:01:34,990 People get a a reflection of who he is that is completely wrong. 19 00:01:35,310 --> 00:01:40,510 And so we as believers have a responsibility to reflect him 20 00:01:40,510 --> 00:01:44,790 properly. And righteousness, we know means 21 00:01:44,790 --> 00:01:50,380 right standing, right standing with the governing authority. 22 00:01:50,540 --> 00:01:54,860 We know that when we are talking about living in a righteous 23 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:59,540 life, then what are we doing? We are living right according to 24 00:01:59,540 --> 00:02:03,860 the word of God, because the word of God is the final 25 00:02:03,860 --> 00:02:06,420 authority in our life. Amen. 26 00:02:07,710 --> 00:02:13,750 We know and pastor said this that we are from Matthew 633, 27 00:02:13,750 --> 00:02:19,870 right to seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, 28 00:02:20,470 --> 00:02:27,390 seek first his Kingdom and seek His righteousness. 29 00:02:28,150 --> 00:02:31,630 And so the problem is, is there's a lot of people that 30 00:02:31,630 --> 00:02:37,530 will say, well, I'm already made righteous in Christ, and I agree 31 00:02:37,570 --> 00:02:40,130 you are. If you're truly born again, you 32 00:02:40,130 --> 00:02:45,010 have been what? Made righteous, made righteous. 33 00:02:45,410 --> 00:02:49,210 So then why does he tell us that we still need to seek 34 00:02:49,210 --> 00:02:51,330 righteousness? Because a lot of people are 35 00:02:51,330 --> 00:02:54,170 saying, well, I don't have to do anything else because I'm 36 00:02:54,170 --> 00:02:57,490 already made right. You're right. 37 00:02:57,490 --> 00:03:04,410 You're already made right in the position in Christ, and only 38 00:03:04,410 --> 00:03:10,090 Christ could make you right. Only Christ could do that. 39 00:03:10,570 --> 00:03:15,450 But then he goes on to say, but where to seek this 40 00:03:15,450 --> 00:03:19,130 righteousness? So that isn't just a one time 41 00:03:19,130 --> 00:03:22,170 event. When you get born again, you are 42 00:03:22,170 --> 00:03:25,650 put into a position of righteousness. 43 00:03:25,850 --> 00:03:28,250 But now he tells us where to seek it. 44 00:03:29,380 --> 00:03:32,940 We're to seek that out. How do we seek out our 45 00:03:32,940 --> 00:03:36,820 righteousness or right standing with God? 46 00:03:37,020 --> 00:03:41,540 How do we seek that out? We are to seek it out by living 47 00:03:41,540 --> 00:03:44,980 according to what the Word of God says. 48 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:52,420 So the word of God, we know can continually be being revealed to 49 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:58,100 us every day on how we are to live according to the word. 50 00:03:58,870 --> 00:04:03,350 How we're to live this righteousness out, how we are to 51 00:04:03,390 --> 00:04:09,510 walk this righteousness out. Because we were made to display 52 00:04:09,670 --> 00:04:14,310 His image and his image is not supposed to be distorted. 53 00:04:16,269 --> 00:04:18,390 It's not supposed to be distorted. 54 00:04:18,750 --> 00:04:21,310 It is supposed to be in the image. 55 00:04:21,950 --> 00:04:26,750 Complete carbon copy of the what he said out of Genesis chapter 56 00:04:26,750 --> 00:04:29,220 one and verse 26. Right. 57 00:04:29,940 --> 00:04:37,660 Let us make God in our and our likeness and that's exactly what 58 00:04:37,660 --> 00:04:42,740 he meant. And so we know then that we have 59 00:04:42,740 --> 00:04:47,420 an image that we are to be portraying in the earth as a 60 00:04:47,420 --> 00:04:49,340 newborn. Again believer. 61 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:53,540 And that's always going to be one that is going to line up to 62 00:04:53,540 --> 00:04:57,780 the scripture and what he says righteousness is. 63 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,240 Because I'm going to tell you, he wouldn't have told us that we 64 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:07,080 would have to seek righteousness if we didn't have anything else 65 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,160 to do because he made us righteous. 66 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,560 And so therefore I'm right with God and there's nothing else 67 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,640 that I have to do. He wouldn't have said we had to 68 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,840 seek it. He wouldn't have said that there 69 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:24,160 are fruits of righteousness, right? 70 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,400 He said there's fruits of righteousness, which means then 71 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:33,960 that there's something we must produce, come on and bring out 72 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:39,560 of this righteousness that's been put within us when we were 73 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,520 made righteous. Now we are to produce some 74 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,600 fruits of righteousness, all right? 75 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:53,030 And so it's important that we understand that, yes, we've been 76 00:05:53,030 --> 00:05:56,070 made righteous, but we still have to produce that 77 00:05:56,070 --> 00:05:59,870 righteousness in the earth, you know? 78 00:05:59,870 --> 00:06:04,350 And we started this journey out of Ephesians chapter 5, right, 79 00:06:04,790 --> 00:06:09,350 Ephesians chapter 5, verses one through 21. 80 00:06:10,150 --> 00:06:16,590 And if you go on reading, pass Ephesians chapter 5 into just 81 00:06:16,590 --> 00:06:22,840 this is a little side note. Ephesians chapter 6, verses 10. 82 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:28,040 He starts talking about the full armor of God, which is another 83 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,720 key to what I'm trying to talk about with righteousness. 84 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,840 Because many people believe I've been made righteous and there's 85 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:36,960 nothing else I have to do. There's nothing else that you 86 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,000 know I have to prove, so to speak. 87 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,800 All of these comments which is falling up underneath those 88 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:51,810 grace topics you know. And so here in Ephesians chapter 89 00:06:51,810 --> 00:06:57,850 6, just continuing to read through in the whole context, he 90 00:06:57,850 --> 00:07:01,290 then tells us to put on the full armor of God. 91 00:07:02,970 --> 00:07:11,850 And he also tells us that we are to put on the breastplate of why 92 00:07:11,850 --> 00:07:16,050 would he tell us we had to put it on if there was nothing else 93 00:07:16,050 --> 00:07:18,730 we had to do? Because we are made righteous in 94 00:07:18,730 --> 00:07:23,620 Christ and it doesn't matter what I do left in the earth, I'm 95 00:07:23,620 --> 00:07:25,740 right with God. I'm righteous. 96 00:07:25,740 --> 00:07:28,820 He made us righteous. There was nothing I could do. 97 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:31,660 Well why did he tell you to put it on? 98 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:40,660 See, he tells us we have a responsibility and this is the 99 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:43,180 thing. And what Pastor has ministered 100 00:07:43,180 --> 00:07:48,590 for years, there is a God side of what he has done, but there 101 00:07:48,590 --> 00:07:57,950 is a man's side and what we must do to inherit all the promises 102 00:07:57,950 --> 00:08:01,390 of God. He's already done everything 103 00:08:01,390 --> 00:08:07,870 he's going to do for man, but we now have to what? 104 00:08:08,190 --> 00:08:12,710 Acknowledge it, walk into it, and apply it to our life. 105 00:08:12,910 --> 00:08:17,380 And so therefore he tells us, putting on that full armor of 106 00:08:17,380 --> 00:08:20,420 God, that we must put on the breastplate of righteousness. 107 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:25,260 So that must mean that you could not have it on. 108 00:08:25,260 --> 00:08:36,539 That's true. You could not have it on, even 109 00:08:36,539 --> 00:08:41,659 though you've been made. Come on, think about it. 110 00:08:42,610 --> 00:08:46,890 So we must be people that are staying in a place that you know 111 00:08:46,890 --> 00:08:51,810 what we want to display rightly and correctly. 112 00:08:51,810 --> 00:08:56,770 The proper image and likeness that he said we were to display 113 00:08:56,770 --> 00:08:59,490 to the world. Amen. 114 00:08:59,890 --> 00:09:02,770 Hallelujah. And in Ephesians chapter one, 115 00:09:02,770 --> 00:09:06,610 let's start reading it because we're talking about being an 116 00:09:06,610 --> 00:09:10,130 imitator. You were made to imitate. 117 00:09:10,250 --> 00:09:13,680 You were made to display. Amen. 118 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:18,880 It says, Therefore be imitators of God as dear children, right? 119 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:24,920 And walk in love. Say walk in love as Christ also 120 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:29,600 has loved us and given himself for us, as an offering and a 121 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,480 sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma. 122 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:39,200 But fornication and all uncleanliness or covetousness, 123 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,580 let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for the 124 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:47,780 Saints, neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse 125 00:09:47,780 --> 00:09:53,140 gesturing, which are not fitting, but rather giving 126 00:09:53,140 --> 00:09:55,780 thanks. For this you know that no 127 00:09:55,780 --> 00:10:01,780 fornicator, unclean person, covetous man, idolater, has ever 128 00:10:02,060 --> 00:10:06,220 or has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. 129 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:09,540 Let no one deceive you with empty words. 130 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:12,660 I think it's really interesting how it just goes on to into 131 00:10:12,660 --> 00:10:16,940 that. Let no one deceive you to think 132 00:10:16,940 --> 00:10:20,900 that these types of people as believers will inherit the 133 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:23,860 Kingdom of God, that is empty words. 134 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:30,540 Come on. We are living in a day and an 135 00:10:30,540 --> 00:10:37,480 hour that we have to take off the veil of deception, of 136 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:42,760 doctrines of demons and seducing spirits that have been unleashed 137 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,720 in the church. Amen. 138 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:52,760 And so he said, Let no one deceive you with empty words, 139 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,920 For because of these things the wrath of God came upon the sons 140 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,600 of disobedience. You see that? 141 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,640 Therefore, do not be partakers with them. 142 00:11:05,590 --> 00:11:07,550 What? Be partakers with what? 143 00:11:07,750 --> 00:11:10,870 People that are course gesturing, people that are 144 00:11:10,870 --> 00:11:14,230 fornicators. People that are idolaters. 145 00:11:14,470 --> 00:11:16,870 People that are all of these things. 146 00:11:16,870 --> 00:11:23,230 Covetousness, filthiness, foolish talking all of these 147 00:11:23,230 --> 00:11:25,030 things. We're not supposed to be 148 00:11:25,030 --> 00:11:29,350 partakers with them. Amen. 149 00:11:32,170 --> 00:11:34,010 And we talked about that on Sunday. 150 00:11:34,370 --> 00:11:40,450 But anyway, and so the first thing we see in the verses one 151 00:11:40,450 --> 00:11:46,530 through 7 is that he tells us if we are going to imitate God as 152 00:11:46,530 --> 00:11:51,610 His children, if we are going to display the proper image or 153 00:11:51,610 --> 00:11:56,770 reflection of who He is, then we must be people that number one 154 00:11:56,770 --> 00:12:02,040 first and foremost walk in love, right? 155 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,480 And we talked about that. So I'm not going to go back over 156 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:11,040 all of those scriptures. Now verses 8 through 14, the 157 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:16,960 next thing we see, it says for you, once we're in darkness, but 158 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:23,160 now you are light in the Lord. So walk as children of light for 159 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,720 the fruit of the Spirit, one translation says, for the fruit 160 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,940 of light is all goodness. What is it? 161 00:12:30,220 --> 00:12:36,180 Righteousness and truth. So if we are rightly going to 162 00:12:36,180 --> 00:12:42,740 reflect the correct image and be an imitator of a child of God, 163 00:12:42,940 --> 00:12:48,420 then the only way we're going to find that is by the truth of 164 00:12:48,420 --> 00:12:54,020 God's word, by walking in his righteousness, by walking in his 165 00:12:54,020 --> 00:12:55,380 goodness. Amen. 166 00:12:55,870 --> 00:13:01,990 And in his light. So that was #2 that we are to 167 00:13:02,190 --> 00:13:07,310 walk according to the light, walk in the way of the light, 168 00:13:07,510 --> 00:13:11,430 walk in the light, display the light. 169 00:13:11,430 --> 00:13:17,110 We are #1 to display love, and then #2 to display the light so 170 00:13:17,110 --> 00:13:20,350 that when people see you, they should see the light and the 171 00:13:20,350 --> 00:13:23,910 glory of God upon your life. Amen. 172 00:13:24,790 --> 00:13:26,950 Hallelujah. And we talked about that. 173 00:13:27,310 --> 00:13:30,950 Now it says in verse 10, finding out what is acceptable to the 174 00:13:30,950 --> 00:13:33,750 Lord. So what do we know is acceptable 175 00:13:33,750 --> 00:13:36,590 to the Lord? Walking according to his truth, 176 00:13:36,830 --> 00:13:39,950 walking according to His righteousness and goodness. 177 00:13:40,150 --> 00:13:43,270 That is what is acceptable to the Lord. 178 00:13:43,470 --> 00:13:47,030 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, 179 00:13:47,030 --> 00:13:52,750 but rather expose them. Expose works of darkness. 180 00:13:53,830 --> 00:13:59,390 Everybody's afraid to expose the works of darkness today because 181 00:13:59,390 --> 00:14:05,230 it might offend somebody. I would rather expose works of 182 00:14:05,230 --> 00:14:10,270 darkness than let them weep and gnash in the complete darkness 183 00:14:10,270 --> 00:14:20,150 to the uttermost in hell if you don't expose it, right, if you 184 00:14:20,150 --> 00:14:23,780 don't expose it. But this is actually talking in 185 00:14:23,780 --> 00:14:27,020 context to the Ephesians church. To the believers it says. 186 00:14:27,020 --> 00:14:29,540 But rather expose them. Because I know plenty of 187 00:14:29,540 --> 00:14:35,140 believers that are still partaking in darkness and we 188 00:14:35,140 --> 00:14:38,180 have a responsibility to expose it. 189 00:14:39,140 --> 00:14:40,940 What for? To save them? 190 00:14:43,780 --> 00:14:49,180 To save. Them from a lot of things, from 191 00:14:49,180 --> 00:14:53,430 destruction first and foremost. So it says this in verse 12. 192 00:14:53,430 --> 00:14:57,150 It says, for it is shameful to even speak of those things which 193 00:14:57,150 --> 00:15:00,950 are done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed 194 00:15:00,950 --> 00:15:05,190 are made manifest by the light, and whatever makes manifest is 195 00:15:05,190 --> 00:15:07,750 light. Therefore he says awake you who 196 00:15:07,750 --> 00:15:13,550 sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you the light, 197 00:15:13,870 --> 00:15:19,070 right? And then we talked about the 198 00:15:19,070 --> 00:15:24,050 fact that we are to be in Matthew. 199 00:15:24,050 --> 00:15:27,930 He said in Matthew 5 that you are the light of the world, 200 00:15:28,010 --> 00:15:31,050 right? A city that is set on a hill 201 00:15:31,050 --> 00:15:34,690 that cannot be hidden. And then in Matthew 16 he said 202 00:15:34,690 --> 00:15:37,530 this. So let your light shine before 203 00:15:37,530 --> 00:15:42,490 all men, that they may see your good works and glorify. 204 00:15:42,850 --> 00:15:47,490 Your Father who is in heaven. So when you actually are 205 00:15:47,490 --> 00:15:53,370 displaying the light in proper lighting, you know lighting 206 00:15:53,370 --> 00:15:57,850 cannot be right sometimes you know this is very important in 207 00:15:57,850 --> 00:16:00,570 photography. It's what they call good 208 00:16:00,570 --> 00:16:03,130 lighting and bad lighting, right? 209 00:16:04,250 --> 00:16:07,930 You know the best time is like early in the morning, whatever 210 00:16:07,930 --> 00:16:11,090 that's called, and then you know when. 211 00:16:11,750 --> 00:16:14,870 Dusk and all, they've got terms for it. 212 00:16:14,990 --> 00:16:18,230 I should know it, but I don't. Anyway, I don't remember right 213 00:16:18,230 --> 00:16:24,230 now which is best lighting times for photographers, right? 214 00:16:25,550 --> 00:16:29,270 Well, do you know we can cloud the light in our light? 215 00:16:33,030 --> 00:16:38,390 We can cloud that light by participating in things that we 216 00:16:38,390 --> 00:16:40,990 as believers shouldn't be participating in. 217 00:16:41,750 --> 00:16:44,830 We can cloud the light. Amen. 218 00:16:45,070 --> 00:16:48,030 And so therefore, they're not going to see the light shining 219 00:16:48,030 --> 00:16:50,830 brightly. And the reason why we want the 220 00:16:50,830 --> 00:16:55,190 light to shine brightly is so that they can see the glory of 221 00:16:55,190 --> 00:17:00,280 God, so that they can see the works of God in your life, the 222 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,720 display of what God is doing in your life, so that that will 223 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,880 then what draw them into the Kingdom. 224 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,680 And we said this light bugs come to the light. 225 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,800 If you would just walk in a room and let your light shine and and 226 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,410 and you don't have any distortion or bad reflection, or 227 00:17:21,410 --> 00:17:25,650 you don't have any shadows about your life, guess what they're 228 00:17:25,650 --> 00:17:27,770 going to see? They're going to clearly see a 229 00:17:27,770 --> 00:17:30,450 display of God's glory upon your life. 230 00:17:32,210 --> 00:17:35,810 And he actually tells us too, that we are to be living 231 00:17:35,850 --> 00:17:40,610 epistles, that we are literally alive. 232 00:17:40,650 --> 00:17:45,570 Epistles for what? For all the world to read. 233 00:17:45,770 --> 00:17:48,970 So when they see you, they should see the light and they 234 00:17:48,970 --> 00:17:53,810 ought to be able to read the light of the word of God that is 235 00:17:53,810 --> 00:17:58,490 displayed from your life. Amen. 236 00:17:59,410 --> 00:18:04,330 And so it's very important that we again as believers don't 237 00:18:04,330 --> 00:18:07,530 distort the image that is being portrayed. 238 00:18:07,930 --> 00:18:11,610 Especially, you know, this is the worst type of thing you 239 00:18:11,610 --> 00:18:16,050 could do is to come to church and be one way on Sundays and 240 00:18:16,050 --> 00:18:22,330 Wednesdays and yet live a completely godless life in front 241 00:18:22,330 --> 00:18:27,870 of your children. Because they're learning what 242 00:18:27,870 --> 00:18:31,950 the Word says and how a mother and a father ought to be. 243 00:18:32,270 --> 00:18:35,830 They're learning in the Word how you ought to live. 244 00:18:35,990 --> 00:18:39,190 Don't you think these kids don't know the fruits of the Spirit? 245 00:18:39,190 --> 00:18:45,070 And when Daddy's not in the spirit, oh, they know the fruit 246 00:18:45,070 --> 00:18:49,540 of anger. They know these things that 247 00:18:49,540 --> 00:18:51,780 they're seeing. And what is that doing? 248 00:18:51,780 --> 00:18:55,940 It's bringing a bad reflection and actually a stumbling block 249 00:18:55,940 --> 00:19:02,260 to a child. And he said woe, woe to those 250 00:19:02,660 --> 00:19:05,580 who calls one of these little ones to stumble. 251 00:19:06,580 --> 00:19:11,060 So it's very important about what type of image and 252 00:19:11,060 --> 00:19:14,620 reflection that we are betraying, first and foremost to 253 00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:17,740 our family and our marriage and different things like that. 254 00:19:17,740 --> 00:19:20,740 But then to the people that we're around everyday in our 255 00:19:20,740 --> 00:19:24,460 workplace, right? What are they seeing? 256 00:19:24,460 --> 00:19:27,100 What kind of reflection are they seeing? 257 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:32,300 Are they seeing a distorted, twisted reflection, a freak of 258 00:19:32,300 --> 00:19:33,260 nature? What? 259 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,040 Me and Pastor like to say they're acting like a freak in 260 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,880 nature right now because they say they're born again and they 261 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:46,680 have the nature of God, but they're looking like a freak and 262 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,080 all the freaks come out at night. 263 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,760 Had to say that. Anyway, that's why you don't 264 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,720 want anything to do with darkness. 265 00:19:57,540 --> 00:19:59,380 Don't be out in the middle of the night. 266 00:19:59,380 --> 00:20:02,540 There's nothing good going on at 2:00 AM and 3:00. 267 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:07,100 AMI can guarantee you that. Amen. 268 00:20:08,580 --> 00:20:10,340 Because the freaks come out at night. 269 00:20:12,060 --> 00:20:14,300 Come on, now. And you ought not be one of 270 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:18,460 those freaks. Hallelujah. 271 00:20:18,820 --> 00:20:25,460 Anyway, you know, I'll tell you like it is for the saving of 272 00:20:25,460 --> 00:20:29,290 your soul. Hallelujah. 273 00:20:29,570 --> 00:20:33,610 So the third thing that we did not get to and where we want to 274 00:20:33,610 --> 00:20:40,690 start tonight, verses 15 through 21, the next thing you see is he 275 00:20:40,690 --> 00:20:44,330 tells us. See then that you walk 276 00:20:44,770 --> 00:20:54,420 circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise we as believers. #1 are 277 00:20:54,420 --> 00:20:59,500 to display love first and foremost, #2 are to display the 278 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:04,740 light and the glory of God upon our life, and #3 we are to 279 00:21:04,740 --> 00:21:08,300 display a wisdom that does not come from this world. 280 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:15,100 Now, in all three of these points, we see the most 281 00:21:15,100 --> 00:21:19,210 important the verbiage that he used is, he said. 282 00:21:19,370 --> 00:21:25,690 We are to walk in love. We are to walk in the light. 283 00:21:25,970 --> 00:21:31,690 We are to walk in wisdom, right? And what did we say? 284 00:21:31,690 --> 00:21:35,570 To walk literally means this word here. 285 00:21:35,970 --> 00:21:42,440 Walk means that we are to what? Regulate one's life by it. 286 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,040 That means we are to regulate our life by love. 287 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:51,000 We're to regulate our life by the light of God's word. 288 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:56,160 We are to regulate our life by His wisdom. 289 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:01,600 That means every decision I'd make is not based upon knowledge 290 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:06,320 from the world. I go to the Word of God, who is 291 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:11,570 wisdom, who is all wisdom, first and foremost. 292 00:22:12,370 --> 00:22:15,090 First and foremost, that's where you go. 293 00:22:15,410 --> 00:22:20,570 So to walk means to regulate one's life, to conduct one's 294 00:22:20,570 --> 00:22:24,290 life, and to make one's progress. 295 00:22:24,450 --> 00:22:28,130 That means there ought to be progress in your walk. 296 00:22:28,530 --> 00:22:32,490 Meaning you ought to be able to walk more in love today than 297 00:22:32,490 --> 00:22:36,700 you've ever walked before. You ought to be walking in the 298 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:38,500 light. If you're a believer and you've 299 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:41,980 been in the church for you know however many years, you ought to 300 00:22:41,980 --> 00:22:45,660 be walking in the light of his word more than you ever have 301 00:22:45,660 --> 00:22:49,140 before and regulating your life by it. 302 00:22:49,540 --> 00:22:54,780 You ought to be come on, walking, progressing, conducting 303 00:22:54,780 --> 00:22:59,220 your life, regulating your life by this right and conducting 304 00:22:59,220 --> 00:23:01,660 your life. And it also means. 305 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:08,770 And I love this. Be occupied with To walk means 306 00:23:08,770 --> 00:23:13,410 you ought to be occupied by walking in love, walking in the 307 00:23:13,410 --> 00:23:15,650 light, and walking in his wisdom. 308 00:23:15,770 --> 00:23:20,370 That should be the number top three things that you should as 309 00:23:20,370 --> 00:23:24,690 a believer, be so occupied with which is seeking first the 310 00:23:24,970 --> 00:23:29,050 Kingdom and his righteousness. He tells us we ought to be 311 00:23:29,050 --> 00:23:32,090 occupied with it. Amen. 312 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,080 So it's important that we recognize, listen, this is 313 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,920 something that should be so much a part of our life. 314 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,840 It's like breathing. It's like breathing. 315 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,840 I breathe. I live and breathe. 316 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,600 I have my being. I live and move and what have my 317 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,560 being. It is who I am. 318 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,960 It is the sole regulator of my life. 319 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:02,080 His love, His light, His wisdom, His Word. 320 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,120 It regulates me. It's so full within me, just 321 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:10,080 like the Scripture said. His word should richly dwell 322 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:14,120 within you, richly dwell within you. 323 00:24:14,650 --> 00:24:17,850 You shouldn't be hoping and a wishing that His word would 324 00:24:17,850 --> 00:24:20,090 work. You shouldn't be hoping that you 325 00:24:20,090 --> 00:24:25,410 got that scripture right. Come on. 326 00:24:26,330 --> 00:24:30,690 It should be so rich within you and your life is being regulated 327 00:24:30,690 --> 00:24:35,450 by it every day that you're occupied with making sure that 328 00:24:35,450 --> 00:24:40,250 I'm honoring God and living in a righteous way in every decision 329 00:24:40,250 --> 00:24:43,570 that I'm making, everywhere I'm at. 330 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:52,840 Around everybody that is around me am I upholding and displaying 331 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:57,000 the proper image to him. And I'm only going to do that if 332 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,360 I'm actually walking the way that he tells us to walk. 333 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,160 Now when I said display wisdom, that was the Third Point. 334 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,280 In verse 15. It says see then that you walk 335 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:16,270 circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise verse 16 Redeeming the 336 00:25:16,270 --> 00:25:22,550 time because the days are evil. What is walking circumspectly 337 00:25:22,550 --> 00:25:27,230 now mean? It means you better be careful 338 00:25:27,510 --> 00:25:33,390 how you're walking. You better be prudent and how 339 00:25:33,390 --> 00:25:39,950 you're working, walking. You better be purposeful about 340 00:25:39,950 --> 00:25:44,940 how you're walking. There needs to be a purpose. 341 00:25:45,580 --> 00:25:50,820 Come on behind the way that you are walking, and you better know 342 00:25:50,820 --> 00:25:53,300 that you're walking carefully. Have you heard the term? 343 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:55,540 You need to walk carefully before the Lord. 344 00:25:57,660 --> 00:26:00,660 You need to walk circumspectly before the Lord. 345 00:26:00,940 --> 00:26:03,820 Why? Because if you're not, you're 346 00:26:03,820 --> 00:26:08,850 being a fool. And I'm going to tell you, in 347 00:26:08,850 --> 00:26:11,130 the hour that we're living, we can. 348 00:26:11,130 --> 00:26:13,890 We need to put away foolish things. 349 00:26:14,090 --> 00:26:15,530 We can. We have. 350 00:26:15,650 --> 00:26:21,730 We do not have time to be walking foolishly, and he lets 351 00:26:21,730 --> 00:26:23,890 us know. Listen, we need to have wisdom. 352 00:26:24,090 --> 00:26:27,890 We need to discern. We need to recognize that we 353 00:26:27,890 --> 00:26:31,490 need to redeem some time. That means we need to quit 354 00:26:31,490 --> 00:26:35,890 playing a game. We need our get our hearts 355 00:26:35,930 --> 00:26:38,580 right. We need to quit being believers, 356 00:26:38,580 --> 00:26:43,100 living one way on Sunday and then go in the rest of the week 357 00:26:43,100 --> 00:26:47,780 living how we're living like the rest of the world to where you 358 00:26:47,780 --> 00:26:50,220 can just lie to people straight up. 359 00:26:51,260 --> 00:26:59,820 There is no conviction there. Come on, Come on. 360 00:27:00,140 --> 00:27:06,670 I mean, don't be a fool, Don't be foolish. 361 00:27:07,110 --> 00:27:11,510 We need to be wise and recognize the hour that we're living in. 362 00:27:12,710 --> 00:27:15,510 Amen. So it says not as fools, but 363 00:27:15,510 --> 00:27:20,190 wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. 364 00:27:20,350 --> 00:27:24,070 Therefore do not be unwise. What does he say? 365 00:27:24,070 --> 00:27:28,150 But understand what the will of the Lord is. 366 00:27:28,550 --> 00:27:37,850 Do not be drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit 367 00:27:38,610 --> 00:27:42,610 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, 368 00:27:42,610 --> 00:27:47,010 singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 369 00:27:47,650 --> 00:27:51,930 Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the 370 00:27:51,930 --> 00:27:56,090 name of the Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the 371 00:27:56,090 --> 00:28:00,770 fear of the Lord. All right, we're going to break 372 00:28:00,770 --> 00:28:04,800 those down. So we said what it meant to live 373 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,280 circumspectly. But what does it mean to live 374 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,440 wise? To live wise and not as a? 375 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:20,080 It means to be skilled. To be skilled, we need to be 376 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,960 skilled. In the word of God, we need to 377 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:27,190 be skilled. Come on with how we are to 378 00:28:27,190 --> 00:28:33,470 operate in this evil day that we're living as the day is 379 00:28:33,470 --> 00:28:37,230 drawing more and more near. And I'm going to tell you 380 00:28:37,550 --> 00:28:40,830 prophetically, and I said this Sunday, the things that are 381 00:28:40,830 --> 00:28:48,070 going on in Israel is a sign, period, and we can't be foolish. 382 00:28:48,630 --> 00:28:54,590 This thing is wrapping up, and I will still believe that he will 383 00:28:54,590 --> 00:28:57,060 return. You know, there's people that 384 00:28:57,060 --> 00:29:01,820 don't believe he's coming back. I'm going to choose to believe 385 00:29:01,820 --> 00:29:06,300 what the word says, that he's coming back and he will return. 386 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:10,660 And the day is drawing nearer and nearer and it's more evident 387 00:29:10,660 --> 00:29:14,060 and more evident. Amen. 388 00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:18,940 And because you have wisdom, you can you can recognize man. 389 00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:21,260 There's some things I need to get serious about. 390 00:29:22,190 --> 00:29:26,350 I need to get serious about my life and walk with the Lord 391 00:29:26,830 --> 00:29:29,390 because at any time the trumpet can blow. 392 00:29:30,470 --> 00:29:32,790 Come on. And you don't want to be one 393 00:29:32,790 --> 00:29:36,790 left behind because there will be many believers left behind. 394 00:29:36,790 --> 00:29:41,150 That is, it is inaccurate that thinking all believers are going 395 00:29:41,150 --> 00:29:45,590 to be called up, they're not all believers will not be called up. 396 00:29:47,910 --> 00:29:57,460 So he goes on to say, be skilled, learned, cultivated, 397 00:29:58,140 --> 00:30:03,580 even as teachers. We ought to be in a place that 398 00:30:03,580 --> 00:30:08,060 we are growing in God, that you ought to be able to teach your 399 00:30:08,060 --> 00:30:13,060 friend how to live for the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. 400 00:30:13,110 --> 00:30:17,190 Every believer has a responsibility to be able to 401 00:30:17,230 --> 00:30:22,350 teach others how to walk. Come on in the Kingdom of God, 402 00:30:22,350 --> 00:30:27,110 how to live in the Kingdom of God, how to live righteously in 403 00:30:27,110 --> 00:30:30,190 the Kingdom of God. Every one of us. 404 00:30:30,190 --> 00:30:32,430 It's not just our responsibility. 405 00:30:32,430 --> 00:30:40,140 Our responsibility is to equip the Saints for you to go and 406 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:45,300 teach others as well how you were able to live and overcome. 407 00:30:45,980 --> 00:30:48,980 But if you're not living and overcome, you're walking like a 408 00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:53,900 fool, right? You're being foolish, it says. 409 00:30:54,220 --> 00:30:59,140 Also, it means this. A person that's wise will know 410 00:30:59,140 --> 00:31:04,500 how to form the best plans and use it by the best means for the 411 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:07,660 execution of what they need for whatever purpose. 412 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,920 Again, when we are getting wisdom from God, we should be 413 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:18,560 able to have plans of execution for whatever it is that he is 414 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:23,960 asking and calling us to do and putting in our life to be able 415 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,600 to walk out. You can be in your job, you 416 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,720 could be in your business, and you should be tapping into the 417 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,520 wisdom on how to do this, how to do that. 418 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,440 And he can give you a plan of execution. 419 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,740 That's called the wisdom of God. Amen. 420 00:31:39,820 --> 00:31:42,780 When you don't know how you ought to do it, you go to the 421 00:31:42,780 --> 00:31:47,260 one who does. He is all wisdom, and we get to 422 00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:52,300 tap into that wisdom also this wisdom. 423 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:57,100 And walking right in this wisdom means that we ought to be 424 00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:01,860 governing our life by this wisdom as well, and disciplining 425 00:32:01,860 --> 00:32:06,060 our self with this wisdom. Amen. 426 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:08,460 That's what that means when you look it up. 427 00:32:10,310 --> 00:32:15,110 All right, so in other words, it enables us to exercise more 428 00:32:15,110 --> 00:32:20,630 control over the direction of our lives when we're allowing 429 00:32:20,630 --> 00:32:26,510 wisdom to govern us and to lead us and to guide us in proverbs. 430 00:32:26,510 --> 00:32:31,750 Talk about wisdom, right? Hallelujah. 431 00:32:32,670 --> 00:32:37,250 So. What did he say a person with 432 00:32:37,250 --> 00:32:41,970 wisdom would do? Let's look at 9 things he said 433 00:32:41,970 --> 00:32:46,770 right out of this scripture that he said A person with wisdom 434 00:32:47,170 --> 00:32:53,170 will redeem the time. He will redeem the time. 435 00:32:53,650 --> 00:32:58,130 That means if you think that you know you should be doing 436 00:32:58,130 --> 00:33:01,210 something and you're not doing it, and as long as there's 437 00:33:01,210 --> 00:33:02,970 breath for you to breathe, guess what? 438 00:33:02,970 --> 00:33:06,730 You can redeem the time. You can start walking in it 439 00:33:06,850 --> 00:33:09,690 right now. You can start walking it out 440 00:33:09,930 --> 00:33:13,730 right now and start redeeming the time. 441 00:33:14,170 --> 00:33:18,810 Come on that the enemy has been able to keep you from doing the 442 00:33:18,810 --> 00:33:21,410 things that you know that you should be doing. 443 00:33:21,730 --> 00:33:24,530 So a person of wisdom will redeem the time. 444 00:33:24,850 --> 00:33:30,130 It means this to make one wise and sacred use of every 445 00:33:30,130 --> 00:33:33,890 opportunity for doing good. So that zeal. 446 00:33:34,210 --> 00:33:38,730 Is what you You are in a place of zeal and, well doing. 447 00:33:39,370 --> 00:33:43,250 That's what that means, to redeem the time that you're 448 00:33:43,250 --> 00:33:49,530 going to be zealous right about doing well and making every 449 00:33:49,530 --> 00:33:55,250 opportunity that you have left on the earth come on to do good. 450 00:33:55,690 --> 00:33:57,850 That's called redeeming the time. 451 00:33:58,690 --> 00:34:03,600 It's called redeeming the time. As long as you still have breath 452 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,040 in the earth right now, you can make a decision. 453 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,040 I'm going to redeem the time because I know I've squandered 454 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:13,679 some things that I know I should have done. 455 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,920 Maybe you know that the Lord spoke to you about going to 456 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,360 Kingdom Institute and you still hadn't done it. 457 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:23,159 You better start redeeming some time, right? 458 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,880 Maybe the Lord has told you that you know you should have started 459 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,800 a business and you had roadblocks. 460 00:34:31,659 --> 00:34:33,940 But he's going to give you wisdom. 461 00:34:33,940 --> 00:34:38,980 Come on on how to do it, if that's what your assignment was. 462 00:34:40,460 --> 00:34:42,659 Come on. There's all kinds of things. 463 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:47,300 Maybe you feel like you've you've lost time in your 464 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:50,659 marriage because you were in the wrong assignment. 465 00:34:51,219 --> 00:34:54,219 Guess what? You can make a decision today. 466 00:34:54,219 --> 00:34:57,900 I'm going to get myself in the right assignment, and that's 467 00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:00,780 going to start redeeming some time the rest of. 468 00:35:01,270 --> 00:35:05,550 The time that I have on the earth, Colossians 4-5 says this 469 00:35:05,550 --> 00:35:12,550 walk in Wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time, 470 00:35:13,550 --> 00:35:22,750 redeeming the time you walking in wisdom, redeeming the time. 471 00:35:23,150 --> 00:35:26,860 Amen. Number two, he said this that we 472 00:35:26,860 --> 00:35:31,420 are to a person of wisdom will understand the will of God. 473 00:35:32,540 --> 00:35:35,900 You need to quit saying, well, I don't know what God wants. 474 00:35:36,740 --> 00:35:38,940 He tells you, you can understand it. 475 00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:43,500 You can understand what he wants. 476 00:35:44,540 --> 00:35:47,980 You can understand what his will is. 477 00:35:48,410 --> 00:35:53,050 You can have knowledge, all the knowledge in the world. 478 00:35:53,050 --> 00:35:55,810 It's up to you. You can know. 479 00:35:56,890 --> 00:36:01,770 Quit saying you don't know or you don't understand the will of 480 00:36:01,770 --> 00:36:06,210 God. Romans 12/2 Do not be conformed 481 00:36:06,210 --> 00:36:11,370 to this world, but what be transformed by the renewing of 482 00:36:11,370 --> 00:36:16,710 the mind so that you will prove. Prove. 483 00:36:16,710 --> 00:36:19,470 But you know what else that word means to know. 484 00:36:20,470 --> 00:36:23,470 Know the will of God. What? 485 00:36:23,470 --> 00:36:25,270 How are you going to know the will of God? 486 00:36:25,270 --> 00:36:28,310 By getting in knowledge? By getting in the word? 487 00:36:28,910 --> 00:36:34,810 By seeking him so that you can begin to understand the will of 488 00:36:34,810 --> 00:36:37,010 God. It by the renewing of your mind 489 00:36:37,010 --> 00:36:43,290 it means to prove, to know, to examine to us, discern what the 490 00:36:43,290 --> 00:36:48,210 will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. 491 00:36:49,410 --> 00:36:52,920 Amen. We can get in the word, renew 492 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:57,400 our mind so that we can begin to know what the will of God is. 493 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:03,160 We can begin to discern what the good, what the will of God is so 494 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:07,120 that we can begin to walk in it and approve. 495 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,320 This is this is the will of God. It choose for you to be able to 496 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:17,480 examine and say this is the will of God and this is not right. 497 00:37:18,660 --> 00:37:20,980 This is the will of God and this is not. 498 00:37:21,180 --> 00:37:25,780 You can know it by getting in the word of God and renewing 499 00:37:25,780 --> 00:37:29,140 your mind to it. Amen. #3 He tells us this. 500 00:37:29,140 --> 00:37:33,580 Don't get drunk. Say it again. 501 00:37:33,580 --> 00:37:37,820 Don't drink. I'm going to say it a third 502 00:37:37,980 --> 00:37:40,300 time. Go drink. 503 00:37:40,940 --> 00:37:42,940 Don't get drunk. Amen. 504 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,920 We don't drink in this church. Amen. 505 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:58,080 And I'm proud of it. I was just talking to an 506 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:03,440 individual today that has recently be coming to our 507 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,520 church. Recently her whole family got 508 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:14,400 born again and filled with the Holy Ghost and decided to go 509 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,630 back home. For a visit. 510 00:38:19,910 --> 00:38:27,910 And she said, I didn't realize. I did not realize how, See, when 511 00:38:27,910 --> 00:38:32,950 you start living the life of God and the light of God and in the 512 00:38:32,950 --> 00:38:36,550 word of God and the revelation of God, and you go back, she 513 00:38:36,550 --> 00:38:39,870 said. My whole family are nothing but 514 00:38:39,870 --> 00:38:42,110 Alcoholics. They're drunks. 515 00:38:43,410 --> 00:38:46,450 Sleep till noon and get up and say where's the next drink. 516 00:38:46,770 --> 00:38:49,770 Stay up all night. That's all they did the whole 517 00:38:49,770 --> 00:38:52,810 time. And I was trying to visit my 518 00:38:52,810 --> 00:38:59,410 brother and his new baby and I was so thankful, so thankful, 519 00:39:00,530 --> 00:39:02,370 she said. Because we we tried other 520 00:39:02,370 --> 00:39:06,010 churches but they, you know they don't care if you drink. 521 00:39:06,850 --> 00:39:10,730 So thankful that I found this church. 522 00:39:12,380 --> 00:39:17,020 And the word of God that's been coming for, because it was so 523 00:39:17,380 --> 00:39:23,700 different when I went back home and realized my whole family, my 524 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:29,900 whole entire family, I grew up in this, They're all Alcoholics. 525 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:33,380 They're all dysfunctional. They're all, you know, and just 526 00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:36,380 went on and on. And I'm thinking to myself and 527 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:43,090 Christians are OK with this. When it does nothing but destroy 528 00:39:43,090 --> 00:39:49,330 people's lives, brings nothing but death to people's lives. 529 00:39:51,170 --> 00:39:56,210 And she was so thankful that she found the one church whose staff 530 00:39:56,370 --> 00:40:05,410 doesn't drink. So he lets us know in Ephesians 531 00:40:05,410 --> 00:40:13,620 you're a fool if you do. You're not being wise, you're 532 00:40:13,620 --> 00:40:18,420 not being wise. So he says in Proverbs 20 and 533 00:40:18,420 --> 00:40:27,900 verse one, wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and 534 00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:35,260 whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise. 535 00:40:38,130 --> 00:40:42,890 I mean, I don't know how more clearer you can get with the 536 00:40:42,890 --> 00:40:49,770 word of God. How more clear can you get with 537 00:40:49,770 --> 00:40:52,330 the word of God? Amen. 538 00:40:52,690 --> 00:40:55,570 I think I'm thankful I live upon the word of God. 539 00:40:56,850 --> 00:40:59,610 Amen. And we're known as that church. 540 00:41:00,170 --> 00:41:05,090 Yeah, it's that church that's going to stand for holiness. 541 00:41:05,370 --> 00:41:08,570 It's going to stand for righteousness because I've seen 542 00:41:08,570 --> 00:41:14,410 nothing ever good come out of alcohol, ever, in my 53 years of 543 00:41:14,410 --> 00:41:17,370 living on the earth. Amen. 544 00:41:17,690 --> 00:41:20,290 Nothing ever good. Amen. 545 00:41:20,770 --> 00:41:26,050 So it destroys people's lives and it destroys children's 546 00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:31,450 lives. So proper image is what we're 547 00:41:31,450 --> 00:41:35,370 trying to display proper. Image right? 548 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:42,840 So the next one was what he told us To redeem the time. 549 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,080 A wise person is going to redeem the time, understand the will of 550 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:50,440 the God. #3 is not going to be a drinker, it's not going to get 551 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:54,840 drunk, and #4 is going to be filled with the Spirit. 552 00:41:54,880 --> 00:42:00,960 Yes, we're that church too that believes in being filled with 553 00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:04,640 the Spirit. Acts 2:00 and 4:00 and they were 554 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,060 all filled. With the Holy Spirit and began 555 00:42:08,060 --> 00:42:12,740 to speak with other tongues as the Spirit was giving them 556 00:42:13,060 --> 00:42:15,060 utterances. Hallelujah. 557 00:42:15,380 --> 00:42:20,540 Glory to God #5. We will sing songs from the 558 00:42:20,540 --> 00:42:23,980 Spirit. We'll sing songs from the 559 00:42:23,980 --> 00:42:27,100 Spirit. A wise person will do this. 560 00:42:27,820 --> 00:42:30,500 That's what he says. A person with wisdom. 561 00:42:31,510 --> 00:42:33,990 And Colossians 316, it says this. 562 00:42:34,190 --> 00:42:38,350 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all 563 00:42:38,350 --> 00:42:44,190 wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, 564 00:42:44,190 --> 00:42:49,190 and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your heart 565 00:42:49,430 --> 00:42:52,950 to God. It's a spiritual thing. 566 00:42:55,470 --> 00:42:58,470 Amen. It's a spiritual thing, and we 567 00:42:58,470 --> 00:43:02,870 ought to be so full of God's word and God's life and God's 568 00:43:02,870 --> 00:43:07,070 light and God's love and God's wisdom that it ought to just 569 00:43:07,070 --> 00:43:13,070 flow without, with, with, in and out of our lives every day. 570 00:43:13,910 --> 00:43:18,310 Amen. Thankfulness, singing songs of 571 00:43:18,310 --> 00:43:22,750 thankfulness, Amen. And the next thing we see is 572 00:43:22,750 --> 00:43:28,960 that they we will be people. A wise person will give thanks, 573 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,600 will give thanks. A person that is not thankful 574 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,480 for what Christ has done for them is ungrateful, is 575 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:41,320 ungrateful. And we don't ever want to be a 576 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,560 part of a person that is ungrateful for the life that we 577 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,560 have in Christ and the light that we see now. 578 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,960 And the fact that the veil of darkness was removed from our 579 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:56,280 eyes so that we could see the light of the glorious gospel. 580 00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:01,560 We need to be thankful. A thankful and grateful heart. 581 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,040 Amen. This is a person that will be 582 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,040 wise. Psalms 8612. 583 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,880 I will give thanks to you, Oh my God, with all of my heart. 584 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:16,240 And I will glorify your name forever. 585 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,360 Amen. The next thing we see as a wise 586 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,200 person, if we're going to display the proper image of 587 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:28,560 wisdom to the world, is that we need to submit to one another. 588 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:35,320 This is not talked about in the church, not talked about just 589 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:42,320 among you know people. You know, he talks a lot about 590 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,080 employers submitting to their employees in the scripture 591 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,440 because nobody wants to submit today to anything. 592 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:55,360 And the problem is, is that even this new generation coming up 593 00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:02,680 doesn't want to submit to ours. This is where we've gotten 594 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:10,980 because of non submission and rebellion and lawlessness, they 595 00:45:10,980 --> 00:45:12,860 don't want to submit to the time clock. 596 00:45:13,100 --> 00:45:18,260 They want to work from. They want to do their own thing 597 00:45:18,260 --> 00:45:21,940 and do their own hours. I'm telling you it's a problem. 598 00:45:22,980 --> 00:45:26,740 It's a real problem because they they don't want to submit to 599 00:45:26,980 --> 00:45:33,140 anybody else, anybody else, anybody else. 600 00:45:33,180 --> 00:45:35,340 And these are the people in their 20s. 601 00:45:36,980 --> 00:45:40,890 This is that new generation, you know, Did you hear they're 602 00:45:40,890 --> 00:45:44,450 trying to change the work week? And you know why? 603 00:45:44,450 --> 00:45:49,490 Because they can't get this new generation to work any other 604 00:45:49,490 --> 00:45:52,290 hours. They don't believe in a 40 hour 605 00:45:52,290 --> 00:45:54,850 work week. And that's easy. 606 00:45:57,610 --> 00:46:03,730 That's easy. Come on, I'm telling you, it's a 607 00:46:03,730 --> 00:46:06,990 real problem. But he says, listen, a wise 608 00:46:06,990 --> 00:46:09,950 person will know how to submit to one another. 609 00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:14,790 First and foremost, I know they're not submitted to God. 610 00:46:14,790 --> 00:46:18,670 If, especially if they're born again, believers and they can't 611 00:46:18,670 --> 00:46:22,550 submit to a church or they can't submit to the pastor or they 612 00:46:22,550 --> 00:46:26,310 can't submit to a brother and sister in Christ by by just 613 00:46:26,310 --> 00:46:31,190 saying, hey, what are you doing? You're not reflecting the proper 614 00:46:31,190 --> 00:46:32,950 image. I don't think we should be. 615 00:46:35,070 --> 00:46:36,790 Well, you can't tell me what to do. 616 00:46:39,030 --> 00:46:41,710 I mean, who do you think you are telling me what to do? 617 00:46:42,550 --> 00:46:45,070 Well, I'm actually not telling you what to do. 618 00:46:45,590 --> 00:46:50,390 I'm admonishing you that that's not really the proper reflection 619 00:46:50,390 --> 00:46:53,430 of what the word of God says for a believer's life. 620 00:46:53,430 --> 00:46:58,710 And I love you enough to say, hey, why don't you try this, but 621 00:46:58,710 --> 00:47:02,830 they don't want to submit. We've turned the word submission 622 00:47:02,830 --> 00:47:07,110 into a horrible word. And actually it means just to 623 00:47:07,110 --> 00:47:11,150 yield. Because a person that don't 624 00:47:11,150 --> 00:47:15,590 yield to correction or admonishment or the word, they 625 00:47:15,590 --> 00:47:20,390 won't yield to the word. But a person who won't do that, 626 00:47:20,510 --> 00:47:28,630 it's called pride. It's called pride that you're 627 00:47:28,630 --> 00:47:32,510 not willing to just yield. Oh, OK. 628 00:47:32,750 --> 00:47:35,870 You know, Yeah. I mean, it's no big deal. 629 00:47:35,870 --> 00:47:37,830 Yeah, I'll do. Yeah, if you think I should. 630 00:47:38,230 --> 00:47:39,190 OK. Why? 631 00:47:39,190 --> 00:47:43,230 Because you're just trying to help them, guide them, whatever 632 00:47:43,230 --> 00:47:44,990 the case may be. You're help. 633 00:47:45,030 --> 00:47:47,630 You're trying to help pull things without them. 634 00:47:47,630 --> 00:47:52,630 That is actually godliness as a brother and sister in Christ. 635 00:47:53,270 --> 00:47:57,870 You're you're trying to help pull godliness out of them and 636 00:47:57,870 --> 00:48:01,510 trying to help adjust so that they're not going to go down a 637 00:48:01,510 --> 00:48:04,230 wrong Rd. But if you don't ever, if you're 638 00:48:04,230 --> 00:48:07,590 not a person that who do you think you are telling me what to 639 00:48:07,590 --> 00:48:10,390 do? What kind of attitude is that 640 00:48:11,070 --> 00:48:14,790 That's not what the scripture says that we would submit to one 641 00:48:14,790 --> 00:48:15,670 another. OK. 642 00:48:15,670 --> 00:48:19,270 If you don't think, yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, I, you know, 643 00:48:19,270 --> 00:48:21,950 maybe maybe they didn't know any better. 644 00:48:22,190 --> 00:48:28,930 And if you never would have said anything, right, 'cause we're 645 00:48:28,930 --> 00:48:37,330 all here to help cultivate each other and support each other, 646 00:48:38,410 --> 00:48:42,090 right? So that word, literally submit. 647 00:48:42,090 --> 00:48:45,410 This word is from a Greek military term. 648 00:48:47,290 --> 00:48:51,570 Listen, I don't have one single bit of problem submitting 649 00:48:51,810 --> 00:48:53,930 because I knew what it was like rebelling. 650 00:49:00,230 --> 00:49:05,110 So comes from a military term meaning to arrange troop 651 00:49:05,110 --> 00:49:09,790 divisions in a military fashion under the command of a leader. 652 00:49:10,710 --> 00:49:17,550 In non military use it was a voluntarily A voluntary 653 00:49:18,510 --> 00:49:22,050 attitude. So it all goes back just to the 654 00:49:22,890 --> 00:49:27,810 attitude of your heart. Because if you just are a hard 655 00:49:27,810 --> 00:49:33,130 and difficult person and no one can ever give you correction, 656 00:49:33,130 --> 00:49:35,850 you know there's people that are self-employed because they don't 657 00:49:35,850 --> 00:49:40,930 want people telling them what to do, that might be a problem. 658 00:49:44,690 --> 00:49:47,330 Now I believe in people should be self-employed. 659 00:49:48,100 --> 00:49:51,140 But you also ought to have somebody that you're claiming 660 00:49:51,140 --> 00:49:56,140 from that can help guide you in the in whatever it is that 661 00:49:56,140 --> 00:50:01,540 you're doing right that you're yielded to that you you're you 662 00:50:01,540 --> 00:50:05,620 trust, you know that's going to lead you in the right direction 663 00:50:05,780 --> 00:50:09,220 that you're like going to be saying OK, yeah, whatever, you 664 00:50:09,220 --> 00:50:11,620 know I'll do it. If you're seeing that, then 665 00:50:11,620 --> 00:50:15,820 thank you for letting me know. I'll pray about it, but don't 666 00:50:15,820 --> 00:50:19,430 use that as a cop out. I pray about it but never do it. 667 00:50:20,830 --> 00:50:24,590 But that would be to your own demise and that would be making 668 00:50:24,590 --> 00:50:28,070 you a fool, is what the scripture said and not a wise 669 00:50:28,070 --> 00:50:30,670 person. That you can never take any 670 00:50:30,670 --> 00:50:35,750 correction, any admonishment, any adjustments because you are 671 00:50:35,750 --> 00:50:40,590 full of pride, because you don't want anybody telling you 672 00:50:40,590 --> 00:50:45,870 anything. You got to ask yourself, are you 673 00:50:45,870 --> 00:50:48,900 a person you know? We're dealing with this in 674 00:50:48,900 --> 00:50:53,500 secular schools. Teachers can't even say a word 675 00:50:53,500 --> 00:50:59,260 to students anymore. What is that breeding a non 676 00:50:59,260 --> 00:51:08,300 submissive world of? Of being able to teach children 677 00:51:08,300 --> 00:51:13,380 how to yield to a teacher that is trying to correct them. 678 00:51:14,580 --> 00:51:18,930 That's a problem. That's a problem, I'm telling 679 00:51:18,930 --> 00:51:21,330 you. So he even lets us know that 680 00:51:21,330 --> 00:51:24,490 we're to submit to one another. We're just to yield with a 681 00:51:24,490 --> 00:51:27,650 voluntary attitude. We're to give in. 682 00:51:27,850 --> 00:51:30,050 Cooperate. Are you a person that is 683 00:51:30,050 --> 00:51:33,970 difficult to even deal with because you're you never 684 00:51:33,970 --> 00:51:38,610 cooperate with anything. You don't. 685 00:51:38,610 --> 00:51:41,610 You always want to go against the flow. 686 00:51:42,370 --> 00:51:46,220 You won't cooperate. That means you're not submitted. 687 00:51:46,820 --> 00:51:51,780 You're not yielded. Are you easily a person? 688 00:51:52,380 --> 00:51:54,140 Yeah. OK, I'll cooperate. 689 00:51:54,140 --> 00:51:55,860 Yeah, Whatever you think we should do. 690 00:51:56,020 --> 00:52:00,780 Or do you always have to have the last word and and you only 691 00:52:00,780 --> 00:52:03,980 going to do it your way. And your goal is to get 692 00:52:03,980 --> 00:52:10,700 everybody to agree with your way and then you'll yield because 693 00:52:10,700 --> 00:52:14,520 you got everybody to cooperate with you. 694 00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:21,480 Come on, It's not a place of submitted attitude and heart, 695 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:26,880 right? So because he says this, that a 696 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:31,880 yielded, submitted voluntary attitude is a person that will 697 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:35,760 cooperate and assume responsibility. 698 00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:42,190 That's right there. It is responsibility which 699 00:52:42,190 --> 00:52:46,350 nobody wants to take today. Responsibility. 700 00:52:46,750 --> 00:52:49,950 All right. So it's to yield to one's 701 00:52:49,950 --> 00:52:56,990 admonishment or advice. That's what just submission is. 702 00:52:59,430 --> 00:53:03,990 People will see things and try to admonish you or give you 703 00:53:03,990 --> 00:53:06,670 advice. Have you ever, I mean, I yeah, I 704 00:53:06,670 --> 00:53:10,150 deal with this. You give people advice. 705 00:53:10,610 --> 00:53:14,250 You try to admonish them about a situation that, hey, this could 706 00:53:14,250 --> 00:53:17,250 really change if you would just do this. 707 00:53:18,170 --> 00:53:21,930 And this is what the word says that you should do. 708 00:53:22,250 --> 00:53:25,170 But they don't take your device and guess where they're at. 709 00:53:26,290 --> 00:53:29,650 They're in trouble, but they want you there to pick them up 710 00:53:29,650 --> 00:53:33,370 out of that trouble. They want you there to console 711 00:53:33,370 --> 00:53:36,250 them in that trouble. They want you there. 712 00:53:36,250 --> 00:53:39,290 And I'm thinking, well, why didn't you just listen to the ad 713 00:53:40,250 --> 00:53:47,890 advice and the admonishment and actually some correction even at 714 00:53:47,890 --> 00:53:51,850 points? But they want to do it their way 715 00:53:52,050 --> 00:53:54,010 and that is not a submitted person. 716 00:53:54,850 --> 00:53:59,610 It's not a submitted person. OK, first, Peter 55, I'm going 717 00:53:59,610 --> 00:54:02,290 to give you another scripture about this because there's 718 00:54:02,290 --> 00:54:05,810 multiple ones about submission, but I'm only giving you 2. 719 00:54:06,930 --> 00:54:09,850 Likewise you younger submit yourselves to. 720 00:54:10,420 --> 00:54:14,380 The elders, right. People that's been there, that 721 00:54:14,380 --> 00:54:20,260 has a godly reputation, submit yourself to them because what 722 00:54:20,260 --> 00:54:23,620 they're going to help give you advice that is only going to be 723 00:54:23,620 --> 00:54:27,900 godly and pull out godliness within your life, Right? 724 00:54:28,460 --> 00:54:32,500 So. And then he goes on to say, yay, 725 00:54:32,740 --> 00:54:35,620 all of you be subject 1 to another. 726 00:54:35,620 --> 00:54:38,980 Here's the second witness that he says, one to another. 727 00:54:39,500 --> 00:54:40,900 I don't have to submit to anybody. 728 00:54:40,900 --> 00:54:42,860 I don't need anybody telling me what to do. 729 00:54:43,700 --> 00:54:47,260 Well, that's unscriptural. It's unscriptural. 730 00:54:48,540 --> 00:54:52,380 It's unscriptural. Say Amen. 731 00:54:53,060 --> 00:54:57,980 Say it loud. It's unscriptural because 732 00:54:57,980 --> 00:55:00,860 there's three and four and five and six more that I didn't even 733 00:55:00,860 --> 00:55:04,380 put on here. Subject yourself to 1 to another 734 00:55:04,380 --> 00:55:08,340 and be clothed with humility which goes back to the heart. 735 00:55:09,220 --> 00:55:15,020 Right that that humble heart for God resisteth the proud. 736 00:55:16,220 --> 00:55:21,180 Again, If you are a person that will yield and submit, he's 737 00:55:21,180 --> 00:55:24,580 letting you know God will resist you because you're being 738 00:55:24,580 --> 00:55:26,980 prideful. You're being proud. 739 00:55:27,300 --> 00:55:30,740 You're not willing to submit or humble yourself and take any 740 00:55:30,740 --> 00:55:35,860 advice or anything from anybody. And God's going to resist you. 741 00:55:35,860 --> 00:55:38,620 Oh, God loves you. He's not mad at you and he's 742 00:55:38,620 --> 00:55:42,700 always fighting for you and and you can do whatever you want to 743 00:55:42,700 --> 00:55:47,060 do because you're under grace. No, he says he will resist the 744 00:55:47,060 --> 00:55:50,220 proud. He's not going to be for you. 745 00:55:51,620 --> 00:55:56,540 If you can't be a person that can yield to advice or submit it 746 00:55:56,820 --> 00:56:00,820 to anybody, he's going to resist you. 747 00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,360 And you want to know what? What? 748 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,480 Why? You have so many problems. 749 00:56:05,720 --> 00:56:07,800 You know about. You can't cooperate with 750 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,120 anybody. You can't work with anybody. 751 00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,280 Nobody can work with you. Come on. 752 00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:17,800 These are signs of non submission and pride. 753 00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:23,440 And God's going to resist it. God's going to resist it. 754 00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:27,840 And I don't want God resisting anything about my life. 755 00:56:30,310 --> 00:56:33,110 Amen. Even as a believer, you, God, 756 00:56:33,110 --> 00:56:36,830 can resist you. We got to get this thinking out 757 00:56:36,830 --> 00:56:39,990 of our mind that he's for everybody and da da da da da. 758 00:56:40,230 --> 00:56:44,590 He's for those that are submitted to his word and are 759 00:56:44,590 --> 00:56:49,070 submitted with a whole heart. And yielded. 760 00:56:49,830 --> 00:56:54,750 Come on, And he'll give grace to those that are. 761 00:56:55,430 --> 00:56:57,430 But there's not going to be grace for you. 762 00:56:58,580 --> 00:57:00,020 Oh, I thought everybody's under grace. 763 00:57:00,300 --> 00:57:04,300 Well, there won't be grace for the proud that resists being 764 00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:06,460 submitted individual in their life. 765 00:57:07,780 --> 00:57:11,620 It's what scripture says, right? It's what Scripture says. 766 00:57:12,460 --> 00:57:19,460 So the last point is, is that these people, a wise person that 767 00:57:19,460 --> 00:57:25,180 will display the wisdom of God, will fear the Lord, will fear 768 00:57:25,180 --> 00:57:31,910 God, will fear God. Hallelujah. 769 00:57:32,110 --> 00:57:37,350 And we know that word means to reverence, to guard with, to 770 00:57:37,350 --> 00:57:45,190 regard with great respect, right to treat with difference. 771 00:57:46,750 --> 00:57:55,300 Deferience, I guess, is what the word is DEFERENCE, deference. 772 00:57:55,300 --> 00:58:02,340 Thank you. Hallelujah and submission and 773 00:58:02,340 --> 00:58:08,540 reverential obedience. This is a person that will fear 774 00:58:08,860 --> 00:58:12,940 the Lord, that will fear God. Amen. 775 00:58:13,220 --> 00:58:15,540 And our last scripture. And then we'll close Y'all have 776 00:58:15,540 --> 00:58:20,180 been great listeners. First, Peter 217. 777 00:58:20,700 --> 00:58:24,860 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. 778 00:58:25,060 --> 00:58:28,300 Fear God. Honor the king. 779 00:58:28,860 --> 00:58:30,820 Amen. Hallelujah. 780 00:58:31,140 --> 00:58:36,140 So a person that was made to display the proper image will be 781 00:58:36,140 --> 00:58:42,300 one that will walk in love, walk in the light and walk in wisdom. 782 00:58:42,620 --> 00:58:46,300 And he let us know what wisdom looks like. 783 00:58:46,580 --> 00:58:51,660 Amen. He gave us nine ways that wisdom 784 00:58:51,820 --> 00:58:55,530 looks Amen. And we want to be these people 785 00:58:55,850 --> 00:59:00,850 that bring that reflection to the world when we come in 786 00:59:00,850 --> 00:59:04,170 contact with them. And not only that, we want to be 787 00:59:04,170 --> 00:59:09,090 people that love the brethren. Because we know I read that 788 00:59:09,090 --> 00:59:13,730 scripture on Sunday, that how is the world going to know we're 789 00:59:13,730 --> 00:59:18,450 truly His disciples? Because of the love that we have 790 00:59:18,450 --> 00:59:20,610 for the brethren. Amen. 791 00:59:28,290 --> 00:59:30,410 Thank you so much for listening to this message. 792 00:59:30,490 --> 00:59:33,850 If you want more, subscribe to our message podcast on iTunes, 793 00:59:33,970 --> 00:59:36,050 Google Play, Spotify, and SoundCloud. 794 00:59:36,210 --> 00:59:38,650 Rating and leaving a comment will go a long way with helping 795 00:59:38,650 --> 00:59:40,370 our messages get better circulation. 796 00:59:40,890 --> 00:59:43,130 If you'd enjoy watching our weekend messages, visit 797 00:59:43,130 --> 00:59:46,410 youtube.com/anchor Faith. We'd love it. 798 00:59:46,410 --> 00:59:48,530 If you'd subscribe, leave a comment or a like on the 799 00:59:48,530 --> 00:59:50,430 messages. 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