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Finish up what we started on Sunday Amen Pastor actually
started this when he ministered on May to display and we as
God's children are to be displaying right righteousness
and if there's ever an hour that we're living.
People need to see on display the righteousness of God.
People need to see the proper image of who Christ is.
And we talked about this Sunday that the world.
I'm telling you, the world, even the world, gets mixed up about
who Jesus really is because so many Christians have decided
they're going to choose the image of Christ that they want.
And we're not reflecting Christ completely in the image of him.
If we begin to pick and choose what we decide we like about the
image, right? And So what happens?
People get a distorted view of who He is.
People get a a reflection of who he is that is completely wrong.
And so we as believers have a responsibility to reflect him
properly. And righteousness, we know means
right standing, right standing with the governing authority.
We know that when we are talking about living in a righteous
life, then what are we doing? We are living right according to
the word of God, because the word of God is the final
authority in our life. Amen.
We know and pastor said this that we are from Matthew 633,
right to seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
seek first his Kingdom and seek His righteousness.
And so the problem is, is there's a lot of people that
will say, well, I'm already made righteous in Christ, and I agree
you are. If you're truly born again, you
have been what? Made righteous, made righteous.
So then why does he tell us that we still need to seek
righteousness? Because a lot of people are
saying, well, I don't have to do anything else because I'm
already made right. You're right.
You're already made right in the position in Christ, and only
Christ could make you right. Only Christ could do that.
But then he goes on to say, but where to seek this
righteousness? So that isn't just a one time
event. When you get born again, you are
put into a position of righteousness.
But now he tells us where to seek it.
We're to seek that out. How do we seek out our
righteousness or right standing with God?
How do we seek that out? We are to seek it out by living
according to what the Word of God says.
So the word of God, we know can continually be being revealed to
us every day on how we are to live according to the word.
How we're to live this righteousness out, how we are to
walk this righteousness out. Because we were made to display
His image and his image is not supposed to be distorted.
It's not supposed to be distorted.
It is supposed to be in the image.
Complete carbon copy of the what he said out of Genesis chapter
one and verse 26. Right.
Let us make God in our and our likeness and that's exactly what
he meant. And so we know then that we have
an image that we are to be portraying in the earth as a
newborn. Again believer.
And that's always going to be one that is going to line up to
the scripture and what he says righteousness is.
Because I'm going to tell you, he wouldn't have told us that we
would have to seek righteousness if we didn't have anything else
to do because he made us righteous.
And so therefore I'm right with God and there's nothing else
that I have to do. He wouldn't have said we had to
seek it. He wouldn't have said that there
are fruits of righteousness, right?
He said there's fruits of righteousness, which means then
that there's something we must produce, come on and bring out
of this righteousness that's been put within us when we were
made righteous. Now we are to produce some
fruits of righteousness, all right?
And so it's important that we understand that, yes, we've been
made righteous, but we still have to produce that
righteousness in the earth, you know?
And we started this journey out of Ephesians chapter 5, right,
Ephesians chapter 5, verses one through 21.
And if you go on reading, pass Ephesians chapter 5 into just
this is a little side note. Ephesians chapter 6, verses 10.
He starts talking about the full armor of God, which is another
key to what I'm trying to talk about with righteousness.
Because many people believe I've been made righteous and there's
nothing else I have to do. There's nothing else that you
know I have to prove, so to speak.
All of these comments which is falling up underneath those
grace topics you know. And so here in Ephesians chapter
6, just continuing to read through in the whole context, he
then tells us to put on the full armor of God.
And he also tells us that we are to put on the breastplate of why
would he tell us we had to put it on if there was nothing else
we had to do? Because we are made righteous in
Christ and it doesn't matter what I do left in the earth, I'm
right with God. I'm righteous.
He made us righteous. There was nothing I could do.
Well why did he tell you to put it on?
See, he tells us we have a responsibility and this is the
thing. And what Pastor has ministered
for years, there is a God side of what he has done, but there
is a man's side and what we must do to inherit all the promises
of God. He's already done everything
he's going to do for man, but we now have to what?
Acknowledge it, walk into it, and apply it to our life.
And so therefore he tells us, putting on that full armor of
God, that we must put on the breastplate of righteousness.
So that must mean that you could not have it on.
That's true. You could not have it on, even
though you've been made. Come on, think about it.
So we must be people that are staying in a place that you know
what we want to display rightly and correctly.
The proper image and likeness that he said we were to display
to the world. Amen.
Hallelujah. And in Ephesians chapter one,
let's start reading it because we're talking about being an
imitator. You were made to imitate.
You were made to display. Amen.
It says, Therefore be imitators of God as dear children, right?
And walk in love. Say walk in love as Christ also
has loved us and given himself for us, as an offering and a
sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma.
But fornication and all uncleanliness or covetousness,
let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for the
Saints, neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse
gesturing, which are not fitting, but rather giving
thanks. For this you know that no
fornicator, unclean person, covetous man, idolater, has ever
or has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Let no one deceive you with empty words.
I think it's really interesting how it just goes on to into
that. Let no one deceive you to think
that these types of people as believers will inherit the
Kingdom of God, that is empty words.
Come on. We are living in a day and an
hour that we have to take off the veil of deception, of
doctrines of demons and seducing spirits that have been unleashed
in the church. Amen.
And so he said, Let no one deceive you with empty words,
For because of these things the wrath of God came upon the sons
of disobedience. You see that?
Therefore, do not be partakers with them.
What? Be partakers with what?
People that are course gesturing, people that are
fornicators. People that are idolaters.
People that are all of these things.
Covetousness, filthiness, foolish talking all of these
things. We're not supposed to be
partakers with them. Amen.
And we talked about that on Sunday.
But anyway, and so the first thing we see in the verses one
through 7 is that he tells us if we are going to imitate God as
His children, if we are going to display the proper image or
reflection of who He is, then we must be people that number one
first and foremost walk in love, right?
And we talked about that. So I'm not going to go back over
all of those scriptures. Now verses 8 through 14, the
next thing we see, it says for you, once we're in darkness, but
now you are light in the Lord. So walk as children of light for
the fruit of the Spirit, one translation says, for the fruit
of light is all goodness. What is it?
Righteousness and truth. So if we are rightly going to
reflect the correct image and be an imitator of a child of God,
then the only way we're going to find that is by the truth of
God's word, by walking in his righteousness, by walking in his
goodness. Amen.
And in his light. So that was #2 that we are to
walk according to the light, walk in the way of the light,
walk in the light, display the light.
We are #1 to display love, and then #2 to display the light so
that when people see you, they should see the light and the
glory of God upon your life. Amen.
Hallelujah. And we talked about that.
Now it says in verse 10, finding out what is acceptable to the
Lord. So what do we know is acceptable
to the Lord? Walking according to his truth,
walking according to His righteousness and goodness.
That is what is acceptable to the Lord.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
but rather expose them. Expose works of darkness.
Everybody's afraid to expose the works of darkness today because
it might offend somebody. I would rather expose works of
darkness than let them weep and gnash in the complete darkness
to the uttermost in hell if you don't expose it, right, if you
don't expose it. But this is actually talking in
context to the Ephesians church. To the believers it says.
But rather expose them. Because I know plenty of
believers that are still partaking in darkness and we
have a responsibility to expose it.
What for? To save them?
To save. Them from a lot of things, from
destruction first and foremost. So it says this in verse 12.
It says, for it is shameful to even speak of those things which
are done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed
are made manifest by the light, and whatever makes manifest is
light. Therefore he says awake you who
sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you the light,
right? And then we talked about the
fact that we are to be in Matthew.
He said in Matthew 5 that you are the light of the world,
right? A city that is set on a hill
that cannot be hidden. And then in Matthew 16 he said
this. So let your light shine before
all men, that they may see your good works and glorify.
Your Father who is in heaven. So when you actually are
displaying the light in proper lighting, you know lighting
cannot be right sometimes you know this is very important in
photography. It's what they call good
lighting and bad lighting, right?
You know the best time is like early in the morning, whatever
that's called, and then you know when.
Dusk and all, they've got terms for it.
I should know it, but I don't. Anyway, I don't remember right
now which is best lighting times for photographers, right?
Well, do you know we can cloud the light in our light?
We can cloud that light by participating in things that we
as believers shouldn't be participating in.
We can cloud the light. Amen.
And so therefore, they're not going to see the light shining
brightly. And the reason why we want the
light to shine brightly is so that they can see the glory of
God, so that they can see the works of God in your life, the
display of what God is doing in your life, so that that will
then what draw them into the Kingdom.
And we said this light bugs come to the light.
If you would just walk in a room and let your light shine and and
and you don't have any distortion or bad reflection, or
you don't have any shadows about your life, guess what they're
going to see? They're going to clearly see a
display of God's glory upon your life.
And he actually tells us too, that we are to be living
epistles, that we are literally alive.
Epistles for what? For all the world to read.
So when they see you, they should see the light and they
ought to be able to read the light of the word of God that is
displayed from your life. Amen.
And so it's very important that we again as believers don't
distort the image that is being portrayed.
Especially, you know, this is the worst type of thing you
could do is to come to church and be one way on Sundays and
Wednesdays and yet live a completely godless life in front
of your children. Because they're learning what
the Word says and how a mother and a father ought to be.
They're learning in the Word how you ought to live.
Don't you think these kids don't know the fruits of the Spirit?
And when Daddy's not in the spirit, oh, they know the fruit
of anger. They know these things that
they're seeing. And what is that doing?
It's bringing a bad reflection and actually a stumbling block
to a child. And he said woe, woe to those
who calls one of these little ones to stumble.
So it's very important about what type of image and
reflection that we are betraying, first and foremost to
our family and our marriage and different things like that.
But then to the people that we're around everyday in our
workplace, right? What are they seeing?
What kind of reflection are they seeing?
Are they seeing a distorted, twisted reflection, a freak of
nature? What?
Me and Pastor like to say they're acting like a freak in
nature right now because they say they're born again and they
have the nature of God, but they're looking like a freak and
all the freaks come out at night.
Had to say that. Anyway, that's why you don't
want anything to do with darkness.
Don't be out in the middle of the night.
There's nothing good going on at 2:00 AM and 3:00.
AMI can guarantee you that. Amen.
Because the freaks come out at night.
Come on, now. And you ought not be one of
those freaks. Hallelujah.
Anyway, you know, I'll tell you like it is for the saving of
your soul. Hallelujah.
So the third thing that we did not get to and where we want to
start tonight, verses 15 through 21, the next thing you see is he
tells us. See then that you walk
circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise we as believers. #1 are
to display love first and foremost, #2 are to display the
light and the glory of God upon our life, and #3 we are to
display a wisdom that does not come from this world.
Now, in all three of these points, we see the most
important the verbiage that he used is, he said.
We are to walk in love. We are to walk in the light.
We are to walk in wisdom, right? And what did we say?
To walk literally means this word here.
Walk means that we are to what? Regulate one's life by it.
That means we are to regulate our life by love.
We're to regulate our life by the light of God's word.
We are to regulate our life by His wisdom.
That means every decision I'd make is not based upon knowledge
from the world. I go to the Word of God, who is
wisdom, who is all wisdom, first and foremost.
First and foremost, that's where you go.
So to walk means to regulate one's life, to conduct one's
life, and to make one's progress.
That means there ought to be progress in your walk.
Meaning you ought to be able to walk more in love today than
you've ever walked before. You ought to be walking in the
light. If you're a believer and you've
been in the church for you know however many years, you ought to
be walking in the light of his word more than you ever have
before and regulating your life by it.
You ought to be come on, walking, progressing, conducting
your life, regulating your life by this right and conducting
your life. And it also means.
And I love this. Be occupied with To walk means
you ought to be occupied by walking in love, walking in the
light, and walking in his wisdom.
That should be the number top three things that you should as
a believer, be so occupied with which is seeking first the
Kingdom and his righteousness. He tells us we ought to be
occupied with it. Amen.
So it's important that we recognize, listen, this is
something that should be so much a part of our life.
It's like breathing. It's like breathing.
I breathe. I live and breathe.
I have my being. I live and move and what have my
being. It is who I am.
It is the sole regulator of my life.
His love, His light, His wisdom, His Word.
It regulates me. It's so full within me, just
like the Scripture said. His word should richly dwell
within you, richly dwell within you.
You shouldn't be hoping and a wishing that His word would
work. You shouldn't be hoping that you
got that scripture right. Come on.
It should be so rich within you and your life is being regulated
by it every day that you're occupied with making sure that
I'm honoring God and living in a righteous way in every decision
that I'm making, everywhere I'm at.
Around everybody that is around me am I upholding and displaying
the proper image to him. And I'm only going to do that if
I'm actually walking the way that he tells us to walk.
Now when I said display wisdom, that was the Third Point.
In verse 15. It says see then that you walk
circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise verse 16 Redeeming the
time because the days are evil. What is walking circumspectly
now mean? It means you better be careful
how you're walking. You better be prudent and how
you're working, walking. You better be purposeful about
how you're walking. There needs to be a purpose.
Come on behind the way that you are walking, and you better know
that you're walking carefully. Have you heard the term?
You need to walk carefully before the Lord.
You need to walk circumspectly before the Lord.
Why? Because if you're not, you're
being a fool. And I'm going to tell you, in
the hour that we're living, we can.
We need to put away foolish things.
We can. We have.
We do not have time to be walking foolishly, and he lets
us know. Listen, we need to have wisdom.
We need to discern. We need to recognize that we
need to redeem some time. That means we need to quit
playing a game. We need our get our hearts
right. We need to quit being believers,
living one way on Sunday and then go in the rest of the week
living how we're living like the rest of the world to where you
can just lie to people straight up.
There is no conviction there. Come on, Come on.
I mean, don't be a fool, Don't be foolish.
We need to be wise and recognize the hour that we're living in.
Amen. So it says not as fools, but
wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil.
Therefore do not be unwise. What does he say?
But understand what the will of the Lord is.
Do not be drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the
fear of the Lord. All right, we're going to break
those down. So we said what it meant to live
circumspectly. But what does it mean to live
wise? To live wise and not as a?
It means to be skilled. To be skilled, we need to be
skilled. In the word of God, we need to
be skilled. Come on with how we are to
operate in this evil day that we're living as the day is
drawing more and more near. And I'm going to tell you
prophetically, and I said this Sunday, the things that are
going on in Israel is a sign, period, and we can't be foolish.
This thing is wrapping up, and I will still believe that he will
return. You know, there's people that
don't believe he's coming back. I'm going to choose to believe
what the word says, that he's coming back and he will return.
And the day is drawing nearer and nearer and it's more evident
and more evident. Amen.
And because you have wisdom, you can you can recognize man.
There's some things I need to get serious about.
I need to get serious about my life and walk with the Lord
because at any time the trumpet can blow.
Come on. And you don't want to be one
left behind because there will be many believers left behind.
That is, it is inaccurate that thinking all believers are going
to be called up, they're not all believers will not be called up.
So he goes on to say, be skilled, learned, cultivated,
even as teachers. We ought to be in a place that
we are growing in God, that you ought to be able to teach your
friend how to live for the Lord. Thank you, Jesus.
Every believer has a responsibility to be able to
teach others how to walk. Come on in the Kingdom of God,
how to live in the Kingdom of God, how to live righteously in
the Kingdom of God. Every one of us.
It's not just our responsibility.
Our responsibility is to equip the Saints for you to go and
teach others as well how you were able to live and overcome.
But if you're not living and overcome, you're walking like a
fool, right? You're being foolish, it says.
Also, it means this. A person that's wise will know
how to form the best plans and use it by the best means for the
execution of what they need for whatever purpose.
Again, when we are getting wisdom from God, we should be
able to have plans of execution for whatever it is that he is
asking and calling us to do and putting in our life to be able
to walk out. You can be in your job, you
could be in your business, and you should be tapping into the
wisdom on how to do this, how to do that.
And he can give you a plan of execution.
That's called the wisdom of God. Amen.
When you don't know how you ought to do it, you go to the
one who does. He is all wisdom, and we get to
tap into that wisdom also this wisdom.
And walking right in this wisdom means that we ought to be
governing our life by this wisdom as well, and disciplining
our self with this wisdom. Amen.
That's what that means when you look it up.
All right, so in other words, it enables us to exercise more
control over the direction of our lives when we're allowing
wisdom to govern us and to lead us and to guide us in proverbs.
Talk about wisdom, right? Hallelujah.
So. What did he say a person with
wisdom would do? Let's look at 9 things he said
right out of this scripture that he said A person with wisdom
will redeem the time. He will redeem the time.
That means if you think that you know you should be doing
something and you're not doing it, and as long as there's
breath for you to breathe, guess what?
You can redeem the time. You can start walking in it
right now. You can start walking it out
right now and start redeeming the time.
Come on that the enemy has been able to keep you from doing the
things that you know that you should be doing.
So a person of wisdom will redeem the time.
It means this to make one wise and sacred use of every
opportunity for doing good. So that zeal.
Is what you You are in a place of zeal and, well doing.
That's what that means, to redeem the time that you're
going to be zealous right about doing well and making every
opportunity that you have left on the earth come on to do good.
That's called redeeming the time.
It's called redeeming the time. As long as you still have breath
in the earth right now, you can make a decision.
I'm going to redeem the time because I know I've squandered
some things that I know I should have done.
Maybe you know that the Lord spoke to you about going to
Kingdom Institute and you still hadn't done it.
You better start redeeming some time, right?
Maybe the Lord has told you that you know you should have started
a business and you had roadblocks.
But he's going to give you wisdom.
Come on on how to do it, if that's what your assignment was.
Come on. There's all kinds of things.
Maybe you feel like you've you've lost time in your
marriage because you were in the wrong assignment.
Guess what? You can make a decision today.
I'm going to get myself in the right assignment, and that's
going to start redeeming some time the rest of.
The time that I have on the earth, Colossians 4-5 says this
walk in Wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time,
redeeming the time you walking in wisdom, redeeming the time.
Amen. Number two, he said this that we
are to a person of wisdom will understand the will of God.
You need to quit saying, well, I don't know what God wants.
He tells you, you can understand it.
You can understand what he wants.
You can understand what his will is.
You can have knowledge, all the knowledge in the world.
It's up to you. You can know.
Quit saying you don't know or you don't understand the will of
God. Romans 12/2 Do not be conformed
to this world, but what be transformed by the renewing of
the mind so that you will prove. Prove.
But you know what else that word means to know.
Know the will of God. What?
How are you going to know the will of God?
By getting in knowledge? By getting in the word?
By seeking him so that you can begin to understand the will of
God. It by the renewing of your mind
it means to prove, to know, to examine to us, discern what the
will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Amen. We can get in the word, renew
our mind so that we can begin to know what the will of God is.
We can begin to discern what the good, what the will of God is so
that we can begin to walk in it and approve.
This is this is the will of God. It choose for you to be able to
examine and say this is the will of God and this is not right.
This is the will of God and this is not.
You can know it by getting in the word of God and renewing
your mind to it. Amen. #3 He tells us this.
Don't get drunk. Say it again.
Don't drink. I'm going to say it a third
time. Go drink.
Don't get drunk. Amen.
We don't drink in this church. Amen.
And I'm proud of it. I was just talking to an
individual today that has recently be coming to our
church. Recently her whole family got
born again and filled with the Holy Ghost and decided to go
back home. For a visit.
And she said, I didn't realize. I did not realize how, See, when
you start living the life of God and the light of God and in the
word of God and the revelation of God, and you go back, she
said. My whole family are nothing but
Alcoholics. They're drunks.
Sleep till noon and get up and say where's the next drink.
Stay up all night. That's all they did the whole
time. And I was trying to visit my
brother and his new baby and I was so thankful, so thankful,
she said. Because we we tried other
churches but they, you know they don't care if you drink.
So thankful that I found this church.
And the word of God that's been coming for, because it was so
different when I went back home and realized my whole family, my
whole entire family, I grew up in this, They're all Alcoholics.
They're all dysfunctional. They're all, you know, and just
went on and on. And I'm thinking to myself and
Christians are OK with this. When it does nothing but destroy
people's lives, brings nothing but death to people's lives.
And she was so thankful that she found the one church whose staff
doesn't drink. So he lets us know in Ephesians
you're a fool if you do. You're not being wise, you're
not being wise. So he says in Proverbs 20 and
verse one, wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and
whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
I mean, I don't know how more clearer you can get with the
word of God. How more clear can you get with
the word of God? Amen.
I think I'm thankful I live upon the word of God.
Amen. And we're known as that church.
Yeah, it's that church that's going to stand for holiness.
It's going to stand for righteousness because I've seen
nothing ever good come out of alcohol, ever, in my 53 years of
living on the earth. Amen.
Nothing ever good. Amen.
So it destroys people's lives and it destroys children's
lives. So proper image is what we're
trying to display proper. Image right?
So the next one was what he told us To redeem the time.
A wise person is going to redeem the time, understand the will of
the God. #3 is not going to be a drinker, it's not going to get
drunk, and #4 is going to be filled with the Spirit.
Yes, we're that church too that believes in being filled with
the Spirit. Acts 2:00 and 4:00 and they were
all filled. With the Holy Spirit and began
to speak with other tongues as the Spirit was giving them
utterances. Hallelujah.
Glory to God #5. We will sing songs from the
Spirit. We'll sing songs from the
Spirit. A wise person will do this.
That's what he says. A person with wisdom.
And Colossians 316, it says this.
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all
wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns,
and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your heart
to God. It's a spiritual thing.
Amen. It's a spiritual thing, and we
ought to be so full of God's word and God's life and God's
light and God's love and God's wisdom that it ought to just
flow without, with, with, in and out of our lives every day.
Amen. Thankfulness, singing songs of
thankfulness, Amen. And the next thing we see is
that they we will be people. A wise person will give thanks,
will give thanks. A person that is not thankful
for what Christ has done for them is ungrateful, is
ungrateful. And we don't ever want to be a
part of a person that is ungrateful for the life that we
have in Christ and the light that we see now.
And the fact that the veil of darkness was removed from our
eyes so that we could see the light of the glorious gospel.
We need to be thankful. A thankful and grateful heart.
Amen. This is a person that will be
wise. Psalms 8612.
I will give thanks to you, Oh my God, with all of my heart.
And I will glorify your name forever.
Amen. The next thing we see as a wise
person, if we're going to display the proper image of
wisdom to the world, is that we need to submit to one another.
This is not talked about in the church, not talked about just
among you know people. You know, he talks a lot about
employers submitting to their employees in the scripture
because nobody wants to submit today to anything.
And the problem is, is that even this new generation coming up
doesn't want to submit to ours. This is where we've gotten
because of non submission and rebellion and lawlessness, they
don't want to submit to the time clock.
They want to work from. They want to do their own thing
and do their own hours. I'm telling you it's a problem.
It's a real problem because they they don't want to submit to
anybody else, anybody else, anybody else.
And these are the people in their 20s.
This is that new generation, you know, Did you hear they're
trying to change the work week? And you know why?
Because they can't get this new generation to work any other
hours. They don't believe in a 40 hour
work week. And that's easy.
That's easy. Come on, I'm telling you, it's a
real problem. But he says, listen, a wise
person will know how to submit to one another.
First and foremost, I know they're not submitted to God.
If, especially if they're born again, believers and they can't
submit to a church or they can't submit to the pastor or they
can't submit to a brother and sister in Christ by by just
saying, hey, what are you doing? You're not reflecting the proper
image. I don't think we should be.
Well, you can't tell me what to do.
I mean, who do you think you are telling me what to do?
Well, I'm actually not telling you what to do.
I'm admonishing you that that's not really the proper reflection
of what the word of God says for a believer's life.
And I love you enough to say, hey, why don't you try this, but
they don't want to submit. We've turned the word submission
into a horrible word. And actually it means just to
yield. Because a person that don't
yield to correction or admonishment or the word, they
won't yield to the word. But a person who won't do that,
it's called pride. It's called pride that you're
not willing to just yield. Oh, OK.
You know, Yeah. I mean, it's no big deal.
Yeah, I'll do. Yeah, if you think I should.
OK. Why?
Because you're just trying to help them, guide them, whatever
the case may be. You're help.
You're trying to help pull things without them.
That is actually godliness as a brother and sister in Christ.
You're you're trying to help pull godliness out of them and
trying to help adjust so that they're not going to go down a
wrong Rd. But if you don't ever, if you're
not a person that who do you think you are telling me what to
do? What kind of attitude is that
That's not what the scripture says that we would submit to one
another. OK.
If you don't think, yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, I, you know,
maybe maybe they didn't know any better.
And if you never would have said anything, right, 'cause we're
all here to help cultivate each other and support each other,
right? So that word, literally submit.
This word is from a Greek military term.
Listen, I don't have one single bit of problem submitting
because I knew what it was like rebelling.
So comes from a military term meaning to arrange troop
divisions in a military fashion under the command of a leader.
In non military use it was a voluntarily A voluntary
attitude. So it all goes back just to the
attitude of your heart. Because if you just are a hard
and difficult person and no one can ever give you correction,
you know there's people that are self-employed because they don't
want people telling them what to do, that might be a problem.
Now I believe in people should be self-employed.
But you also ought to have somebody that you're claiming
from that can help guide you in the in whatever it is that
you're doing right that you're yielded to that you you're you
trust, you know that's going to lead you in the right direction
that you're like going to be saying OK, yeah, whatever, you
know I'll do it. If you're seeing that, then
thank you for letting me know. I'll pray about it, but don't
use that as a cop out. I pray about it but never do it.
But that would be to your own demise and that would be making
you a fool, is what the scripture said and not a wise
person. That you can never take any
correction, any admonishment, any adjustments because you are
full of pride, because you don't want anybody telling you
anything. You got to ask yourself, are you
a person you know? We're dealing with this in
secular schools. Teachers can't even say a word
to students anymore. What is that breeding a non
submissive world of? Of being able to teach children
how to yield to a teacher that is trying to correct them.
That's a problem. That's a problem, I'm telling
you. So he even lets us know that
we're to submit to one another. We're just to yield with a
voluntary attitude. We're to give in.
Cooperate. Are you a person that is
difficult to even deal with because you're you never
cooperate with anything. You don't.
You always want to go against the flow.
You won't cooperate. That means you're not submitted.
You're not yielded. Are you easily a person?
Yeah. OK, I'll cooperate.
Yeah, Whatever you think we should do.
Or do you always have to have the last word and and you only
going to do it your way. And your goal is to get
everybody to agree with your way and then you'll yield because
you got everybody to cooperate with you.
Come on, It's not a place of submitted attitude and heart,
right? So because he says this, that a
yielded, submitted voluntary attitude is a person that will
cooperate and assume responsibility.
That's right there. It is responsibility which
nobody wants to take today. Responsibility.
All right. So it's to yield to one's
admonishment or advice. That's what just submission is.
People will see things and try to admonish you or give you
advice. Have you ever, I mean, I yeah, I
deal with this. You give people advice.
You try to admonish them about a situation that, hey, this could
really change if you would just do this.
And this is what the word says that you should do.
But they don't take your device and guess where they're at.
They're in trouble, but they want you there to pick them up
out of that trouble. They want you there to console
them in that trouble. They want you there.
And I'm thinking, well, why didn't you just listen to the ad
advice and the admonishment and actually some correction even at
points? But they want to do it their way
and that is not a submitted person.
It's not a submitted person. OK, first, Peter 55, I'm going
to give you another scripture about this because there's
multiple ones about submission, but I'm only giving you 2.
Likewise you younger submit yourselves to.
The elders, right. People that's been there, that
has a godly reputation, submit yourself to them because what
they're going to help give you advice that is only going to be
godly and pull out godliness within your life, Right?
So. And then he goes on to say, yay,
all of you be subject 1 to another.
Here's the second witness that he says, one to another.
I don't have to submit to anybody.
I don't need anybody telling me what to do.
Well, that's unscriptural. It's unscriptural.
Say Amen.
Say it loud. It's unscriptural because
there's three and four and five and six more that I didn't even
put on here. Subject yourself to 1 to another
and be clothed with humility which goes back to the heart.
Right that that humble heart for God resisteth the proud.
Again, If you are a person that will yield and submit, he's
letting you know God will resist you because you're being
prideful. You're being proud.
You're not willing to submit or humble yourself and take any
advice or anything from anybody. And God's going to resist you.
Oh, God loves you. He's not mad at you and he's
always fighting for you and and you can do whatever you want to
do because you're under grace. No, he says he will resist the
proud. He's not going to be for you.
If you can't be a person that can yield to advice or submit it
to anybody, he's going to resist you.
And you want to know what? What?
Why? You have so many problems.
You know about. You can't cooperate with
anybody. You can't work with anybody.
Nobody can work with you. Come on.
These are signs of non submission and pride.
And God's going to resist it. God's going to resist it.
And I don't want God resisting anything about my life.
Amen. Even as a believer, you, God,
can resist you. We got to get this thinking out
of our mind that he's for everybody and da da da da da.
He's for those that are submitted to his word and are
submitted with a whole heart. And yielded.
Come on, And he'll give grace to those that are.
But there's not going to be grace for you.
Oh, I thought everybody's under grace.
Well, there won't be grace for the proud that resists being
submitted individual in their life.
It's what scripture says, right? It's what Scripture says.
So the last point is, is that these people, a wise person that
will display the wisdom of God, will fear the Lord, will fear
God, will fear God. Hallelujah.
And we know that word means to reverence, to guard with, to
regard with great respect, right to treat with difference.
Deferience, I guess, is what the word is DEFERENCE, deference.
Thank you. Hallelujah and submission and
reverential obedience. This is a person that will fear
the Lord, that will fear God. Amen.
And our last scripture. And then we'll close Y'all have
been great listeners. First, Peter 217.
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood.
Fear God. Honor the king.
Amen. Hallelujah.
So a person that was made to display the proper image will be
one that will walk in love, walk in the light and walk in wisdom.
And he let us know what wisdom looks like.
Amen. He gave us nine ways that wisdom
looks Amen. And we want to be these people
that bring that reflection to the world when we come in
contact with them. And not only that, we want to be
people that love the brethren. Because we know I read that
scripture on Sunday, that how is the world going to know we're
truly His disciples? Because of the love that we have
for the brethren. Amen.
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