1 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,720 Second Peter chapter 1 verses 5 through 11. 2 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:25,440 This is where we started our journey a few weeks ago and it 3 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,040 said this for this very reason applying. 4 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,800 Well, actually I don't want to read out of the amplified. 5 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:38,400 I want to read it out of the new American standard. 6 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:43,560 So second Peter, and we'll start in verse one just to recap 7 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,000 because it's been a couple of weeks. 8 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ to those 9 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,360 who have received a faith of the same kind of ours by the 10 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,480 righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. 11 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:02,280 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and 12 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,760 Jesus our Lord. Seeing that His divine power has 13 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,480 been granted to us and everything that we need 14 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:16,320 pertaining to life and godliness, aren't you thankful? 15 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:24,600 Come on that He gave us faith, Hallelujah, and that now we have 16 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:30,400 been given everything that we need for life and godliness to 17 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:37,600 live here doing and growing and becoming everything that God has 18 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:43,280 in store for us to be and to do. Verse 2 says grace and peace be 19 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,440 multiplied to you and the knowledge of God our Lord Jesus 20 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,880 Christ. Seeing that this divine power. 21 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,840 Did I already read that? Sorry. 22 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:58,080 Yes, through the true knowledge of Him who has called us His own 23 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,040 glory and excellence, For by these He has granted to us His 24 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,480 precious and magnificent promises. 25 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:11,880 Aren't you thankful for His promises, so that by them you 26 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:17,280 may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped 27 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,320 the corruption that is in the world by lust. 28 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:27,560 Now, for this very reason also applying all diligence in your 29 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,040 faith. So we've been talking about 30 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:35,480 faith and we have said this, that faith is what the currency 31 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,720 of the Kingdom. So faith is the thing that we 32 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:45,760 need as a believer to be able to operate in the Kingdom of God 33 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,480 right now in the earth, right? And it is the very thing that we 34 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:56,160 need to make an exchange so that we can receive the promises that 35 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,760 God says we can have in His word. 36 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,200 And the whole Kingdom operates off faith and faith alone. 37 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,640 Come on. So our faith is very important. 38 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:14,480 And we know I'm not going to go back through every Scripture, 39 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,840 but we know that when we got born again, we saw right here 40 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,920 that He gave us faith. He gave us His divine nature, 41 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:29,520 and He gave us his divine power and everything that we need to 42 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,480 be able to live this life. Amen. 43 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:40,560 And we see here that we have some things that we must do with 44 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:45,200 our faith if we're going to obtain and walk in the promises 45 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:49,600 of God and the things that he wants us to have in the earth 46 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,960 while we're living here. And so we know the Scripture 47 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,880 says that every one of us has been given the measure of faith 48 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,480 or what The seed of faith. We can say it that way. 49 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,360 We've all been given the seed of faith the minute that we have 50 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,320 confessed Jesus Christ as our Lord. 51 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,680 Faith, come on. The seed of faith, the God kind 52 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,200 of faith got planted within us. Amen. 53 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,800 And now he expects us. We know Roman says the 54 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,360 righteous. What are to what? 55 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,200 Live by faith. We're to live by this faith. 56 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:33,240 Faith is not to be obscure or say I'm a Christian, I have 57 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,840 faith. No faith is to be actually lived 58 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:40,240 by. It is to be tangible in our 59 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:41,440 life. We're to what? 60 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,720 Walk it out every day. Amen. 61 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,080 He says it's impossible to please him. 62 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:55,880 What without faith? So if we're going to be pleasing 63 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,000 to him, we're going to have to live by faith. 64 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:02,760 We're going to have to learn how to operate in faith. 65 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,800 And we've we have been taught for years how faith comes. 66 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,960 We know faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of 67 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,120 God. We know we've been taught 68 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,720 hindrances to our faith. What hinders our faith from 69 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:23,440 working unbelief, doubt, not hearing the word or having 70 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,640 knowledge of the word. What else hinders our faith? 71 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,360 There's so many things, bitterness, unforgiveness, and 72 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,840 we've taught and learned so much about that. 73 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:38,040 We must what our faith worketh by love. 74 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:44,840 But I have not heard a lot of teaching out of this scriptures 75 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:50,040 verses one through 11 about there is some things about our 76 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:55,880 faith that need to be added to that need to be added to. 77 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:01,920 And here in second Peter it outlines 7 qualities that need 78 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,200 to be added to our faith. Not just us being able to 79 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:11,480 confess, you know, and call those things that be not as 80 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,640 though they are Amen. No, there are some things that 81 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:22,760 will bring a nourishment when he says here in verse 5, he says 82 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:30,320 this now for this very reason also applying all diligence in 83 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:36,040 your faith supply. So when you look up that in the 84 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,640 Greek, it literally means there are some things that we are to 85 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,800 add to our faith. We are to, it also means to 86 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:50,920 furnish our faith with. So these things, these qualities 87 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,600 are going to be a support to our faith. 88 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,640 It's going to furnish our faith, It's going to add to our faith. 89 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:04,600 And not only that, it is going to minister nourishment to our 90 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,080 faith. When you look it up in the 91 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,560 Greek, that's what that means. It's going to minister 92 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:16,920 nourishment to our faith. And so we see that these 93 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:21,680 qualities here that we list, these 7 qualities are things 94 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,520 that He's letting us know need to come right alongside our 95 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,720 faith to help our faith operate. Why is this so important? 96 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,720 It's so important because He expects us to live by faith. 97 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,640 He expects us to live. This is exciting news. 98 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:49,440 We're not here trying to be, you know, you know, just whatever. 99 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:55,320 No, this helps us actually be able to obtain the fullness and 100 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,920 the promises of God in our life. And that is something that's 101 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:02,880 awesome. Hey, man, don't you want to walk 102 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,120 in the fullness of God? Don't you want to see the 103 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,120 promises of God come to pass in your life? 104 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,000 Don't you want to see the fullness of Christ and all the 105 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,440 things in your life flourishing and growing? 106 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,920 Come on. We want to receive these things 107 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,080 that the Word says because it's good. 108 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:30,600 It's not meant to be bad or a hard thing. 109 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:37,480 No, it's meant to bring a refreshing to us and bring 110 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:42,240 faithfulness to us and bring goodness to us and bring all the 111 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:46,600 things that God says that we can have, which is the gospel, the 112 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,680 what? Good news. 113 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:56,040 So it's good news for us to walk into a faith that's going to be 114 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:00,240 full and a faith that is actually going to be tangible in 115 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:07,560 my life, not obscure, that I can actually see the faithfulness of 116 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:11,680 God, the plan of God, the purposes of God come to its 117 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:16,240 fullness in my life, which is if that's healing, then I can by 118 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,240 faith believe God that my body can be healed and whole. 119 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:25,560 Isn't that good? Yeah, Hallelujah. 120 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,680 If He says in His word that there is a full resource 121 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:35,160 financially, that He shall supply all of my needs according 122 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:40,600 to His riches and His glory, that I by faith, would be able 123 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:46,840 to walk into that and receive that promise and see it tangibly 124 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:52,720 work within my life to be a blessing to other people. 125 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,720 Amen. So this is a good thing. 126 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,640 This is not meant to be hard. This is not meant to be, you 127 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,880 know, like what in the world I got to do. 128 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,840 Yes, because it's good for you. It's good for you. 129 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,920 Amen. It's good, it's wonderful. 130 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:17,080 And so he says this, let's add some faith to add some things to 131 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,120 our faith. And those seven points were 132 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,760 what? Moral excellence, knowledge, 133 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:29,360 self-control or temperance, perseverance or endurance? 134 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,640 Come on, godliness. Godliness is a good thing. 135 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,160 Aren't you thankful you're godly and you're not strung out on 136 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:41,920 drugs on the side of the road? How many were and God delivered 137 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:43,320 you. Come on. 138 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:48,920 Hallelujah, godliness. These are good things that we 139 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,560 are to add to our life. Brotherly kindness. 140 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:57,920 Come on and love. So we see these 7 qualities here 141 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,880 in Second Peter that are going to be a support to our faith. 142 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,280 And do you know why this is so important? 143 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,360 Because you know there's so many people. 144 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,560 Well, I'm calling those things that be not as though they were 145 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:16,000 and I'm, you know, getting my faith built up because faith 146 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,800 comes from hearing and hearing from the word. 147 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,280 And I'm doing I'm making my confessions, but yet they're 148 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:25,520 still not seeing things come to pass in their life. 149 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:31,120 Well, it might be because of this seven list, seven things in 150 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,360 this list are not being nourished to your faith. 151 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:39,560 So it may not be any of these other principles of faith that 152 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:45,040 we've been taught except these that might still be lacking in 153 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:50,160 your life, these principles that still may be lacking in our 154 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,640 life. You know why this is important? 155 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,280 Because I found a Scripture, it says in First Thessalonians, 156 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,240 First Thessalonians chapter 3 and verse 10 out of the 157 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,320 amplified, this was Paul obviously talking. 158 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,560 He says we continue to pray day and night most earnestly, that 159 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:11,720 we would be able to come and see you face to face and may 160 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:17,800 complete whatever may be imperfect and lacking in your 161 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,320 faith. So there may be some things that 162 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,600 are still lacking in your faith. And Paul's letting them know, 163 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,880 man, I'm trying to get there so that I can help get you to a 164 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,200 place. Come on and impart in you the 165 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:37,640 Word so that your faith will not be lacking in some areas. 166 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:42,120 And that's exactly what we're doing tonight, trying to impart 167 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,160 within you that there may be some of these qualities that are 168 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:49,680 lacking still in your life, but they are here to help what 169 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:55,080 nourish your faith, build your faith up to be a support so that 170 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,120 you can see some things begin to move and start come to pass in 171 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,200 your life. Amen. 172 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:08,960 Because faith is the currency and this is this is a must for 173 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,000 us to be able to receive what God has for us. 174 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,960 And so our faith has to be strong. 175 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:22,040 Or you can say it like this when he says added to or nourished or 176 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,320 ministered to or furnished or supplied to. 177 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:31,320 You could also say faith. These qualities are a support to 178 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,440 they're there to support your faith or what uphold it. 179 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,800 And if one of these things is lacking, then what's going to 180 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:42,960 happen? Your faith is not, there's going 181 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,120 to be a what a crack in your faith, so to speak. 182 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,920 So it's not going to work and support you and do the things 183 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,120 that it should be doing in your life. 184 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,760 And then how many of you, you can also look at these 7 185 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:01,680 qualities, like how many of you remember when pastor ministered 186 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:08,120 on ingredients of faith and he had the stove up here and 187 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,720 cooking up things, you know, that were necessary for your 188 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,240 faith. You can also say that these 189 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:18,880 qualities that we list here, these seven things are also 190 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:24,840 ingredients to your faith. And you need all of these 191 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,400 things. Come on, working together, 192 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:34,520 bringing all this resource together so that our faith will 193 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,960 work. Hallelujah. 194 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,680 Because what good is it to say I have faith and I'm not seeing a 195 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:52,520 single thing work in my life or change or produce the fruit of 196 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,320 come on. And so this is very important 197 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:02,720 that we recognize this. And so all of these qualities he 198 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:07,360 lists here is and you continue to read through second Peter one 199 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:12,200 through 11 is so that we will grow and that we will increase. 200 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:17,520 It is also so that it will keep us from being fruitless and 201 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,280 idle. So as a believer, we should not 202 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,040 be idle. This is what I'm saying. 203 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,480 We should not be like that little boat in the pond idling 204 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:32,200 while you're fishing and just sitting there idling along. 205 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:38,240 No, we should be what? We have momentum moving forward. 206 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,080 We have momentum moving forward. We're not going to be idle. 207 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,880 We're not going to be fruitless. And if we do these qualities and 208 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,440 add them to us, what is it going to do? 209 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:55,600 It's going to keep us from falling and stumbling or messing 210 00:15:55,600 --> 00:16:00,480 up or what else was it stumbling, falling, making a 211 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:06,200 mistake, sinning, or to trip or also to offend? 212 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:15,000 Very interesting because your life matters, your life of faith 213 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,800 matters and the qualities that he's talking about that that 214 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,640 could be lacking in your life, could be causing someone else to 215 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:30,640 stumble, could be causing someone else to stumble. 216 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:36,280 And so again, because remember, this thing was not just about us 217 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,040 and what Jesus did for us. This was about the Kingdom of 218 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:46,080 God and the purpose and the plan of God that he had for your life 219 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,120 so that you could be an influence into other people's 220 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,080 lives. And So what we do matters and 221 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:57,200 what we don't do matters, Amen. What we do matters, and what we 222 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:03,120 don't do matters to God because it could trip someone else up 223 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:08,000 and hinder them, be a stumbling block to them. 224 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,079 And I know what he says about being a stumbling block. 225 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,400 What does he say? You might as well tie that 226 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,800 millstone around your neck and go throw yourself over into the 227 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:24,119 sea or lake or river or whatever, right? 228 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:28,200 So we don't want to be a stumbling block, but we can be 229 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,800 if we're not putting the right things in our faith to produce 230 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,880 the right things so that people see it in our lives. 231 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:42,200 Let me read that second Peter 1 and 10 out of the amplified 232 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:48,320 because when you read the whole context of this chapters one 233 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,480 through 11 and you read about all the things that he gave to 234 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:57,440 us through his power and his divine nature and he put within 235 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:01,520 us, He's letting us know. I put all of that in you so that 236 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:07,680 you can walk in these qualities, so that you can live these 237 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,400 things out and add them to your faith. 238 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:15,840 And so anyway, in second Peter chapter 1 and verse 10, let me 239 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:17,720 read this to you out of the amplified. 240 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:22,560 It says therefore, believers be all the more diligent to make 241 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:28,320 certain about your calling and and him choosing his choosing 242 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:34,000 you be sure that your behavior reflects and confirms your 243 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:41,800 relationship with God. Are you hearing me your 244 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:46,120 relationship with God? For by doing these things that 245 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:49,480 they just, He just listed those 7 qualities. 246 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:55,760 By doing these things actively and developing these virtues, 247 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,720 you will never stumble in your spiritual growth and you will 248 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:05,840 live a life that leads others away from sin. 249 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:13,800 Do we live a life that leads others away from sin or do we 250 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,480 participate with others in their sin? 251 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,840 Just a question. Because he's letting us know 252 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,720 right here. The reason for these qualities 253 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:31,480 to be added to our faith is so that we are people, that we are 254 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,000 not going to lead others into sin. 255 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:38,400 And that is not just, you know, the things you want to list as 256 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,960 sin. But how about sinning and 257 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:46,560 gossip? How about sinning And you know 258 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,280 what? Some of the other things that we 259 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,760 think are not important, but God says they are. 260 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,600 How about lying? How about not being a person of 261 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,280 integrity? How about talking about your 262 00:19:58,280 --> 00:19:59,680 boss? Come on. 263 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:05,800 Or your leaders. See, so these things matter and 264 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:11,160 they will affect our faith and it may be we're not seeing a 265 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,760 result of some things happening in our life is because we still 266 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,160 need to grow in some of these qualities. 267 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:23,760 Amen. So let's look at, you know, the 268 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:29,360 last time we talked, the last Wednesday night, we talked about 269 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:35,080 moral excellence and what was moral excellence or virtue? 270 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,400 It was just you. And this is the context when you 271 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:44,800 look moral excellence up, you aligning yourself with what is 272 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:49,240 right according to the word. That is moral excellence. 273 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:55,480 That is moral excellence. It also means right living or 274 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,920 righteousness. So again, we wonder why things 275 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,680 aren't happening. As a believer in our life, are 276 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,000 we aligned with the word of righteousness? 277 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:10,360 Are we living right? Are we living with integrity? 278 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:14,360 Are we are we abstaining from sin? 279 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:19,000 Or are we still dabbling and practicing and playing? 280 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,080 So he's saying, listen, your faith is not going to fully 281 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:24,880 work. If there's still some things 282 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,760 that are not morally excellent in your life, you're not doing 283 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,320 some right things. You're you're cheating people in 284 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,520 your business. Oh, what about that one? 285 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,880 You see what I'm saying? So there's a lot of things that 286 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,560 we have to ask ourselves. Are we living right? 287 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,240 Are we aligning ourselves with the right way of living 288 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,040 according to the word? Not what the world says is 289 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,720 right, not what the world says is love? 290 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,440 Come on. But are we living according to 291 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:02,760 what Agape has said in his word is love right and all of these 292 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,760 things. So it has to do with aligning 293 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:11,840 our thoughts, our feelings and actions with the righteousness 294 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:16,440 of God. All of that matters to God. 295 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,120 Remember, He cares about our whole being. 296 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:27,040 First Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 23 what that he wants 297 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:35,000 us to remain blameless, right? Both what spirit, soul and body 298 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:41,080 until the coming of the Lord. He wants all of us to be right, 299 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:47,200 all all aspects of us, our mind, our will, our emotions, 300 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,840 everything to be in alignment with righteousness. 301 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,960 And what does that mean? That I am choosing to do what he 302 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,520 says about every scenario, every situation, everything. 303 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,800 I'm not going to worry about how I feel about how this person 304 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,000 made me feel. I don't have a right to lash 305 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,320 out. I'm going to do what the word 306 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,640 says. He says, if you're, you know, 307 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,240 slapped in the face, then what are you to do? 308 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,000 Turn the other cheek? Do I have a right to punch them 309 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,280 out just cuz I feel like they deserve it? 310 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,720 Right? So this is what we're talking 311 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,480 about, right? Live it, doing things God's way, 312 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,600 moral excellence. And so we we looked at all these 313 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,880 things and we gave you a couple of scriptures concerning that. 314 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:42,480 OK, so then let's move forward. We also talked about what is 315 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,720 knowledge? Knowledge simply is his, His 316 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:52,240 word, His wisdom, that's His knowledge, Amen. 317 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:56,240 And us getting wisdom, getting understanding, getting the 318 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:02,120 knowledge of God and then putting it into application in 319 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,120 our life. And I can assure you this, that 320 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:09,960 if you are putting into application the word of God in 321 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:15,080 your life, you are going to look moral, period. 322 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:23,400 Clearly, if you are doing the Word, you will be living morally 323 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,560 excellent and righteous. But outside, if you don't know 324 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,880 what the Word says about a situation, right? 325 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,080 If you don't know that, the Word says, you know that you should 326 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:42,680 not be in a, you know, extramarital situation. 327 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,240 You're married and yet you're sleeping around with somebody. 328 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,800 If you don't know what the word says about that, well then 329 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,680 you're ignorant of the word. You don't have knowledge. 330 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,640 But when you do have the knowledge, he who knows the 331 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:01,000 right thing to do according to knowledge and chooses not to do 332 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,960 it. It is what he said is send to 333 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,920 you. So if you have the knowledge and 334 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:12,760 you're applying it to your life, you will live morally excellent. 335 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:18,320 You will be in a place of living in righteousness and the fruits 336 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:23,560 of that will you'll see it produced in your life, right. 337 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,800 So we must be in a position, and I'm going to tell you in the 338 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:32,320 changes of look at the denominations now in the 339 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:37,280 churches that have changed doctrine and belief. 340 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:44,120 And if you as a believer and as a follower of Christ do not have 341 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:50,680 your own knowledge of what the Word says, then you would what, 342 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,680 fall in line with whatever they're saying. 343 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,440 Well, it must be because we just want to be relevant to all 344 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,520 people. But I know what the scripture 345 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,320 says. I have knowledge of the Word. 346 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:09,640 I know what he says, that there is a man and there is a woman. 347 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:14,280 So no one can convince me otherwise. 348 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:21,280 You see what I'm saying? So it's imperative that we stay 349 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:26,800 in the word of God, rightly dividing the word of truth, and 350 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:32,400 that that is your truth and there is no other truth because 351 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:37,360 the world's truth changes. Now they're saying, you know, 352 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:41,400 that this person is not a male, when scientifically, for 353 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,680 billions of years we have said not billions. 354 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:49,160 You know what I mean? For all these years, scientists 355 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,840 have said these chromosomes are a male and these are a female. 356 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,320 But now what is happening? They're changing it. 357 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,160 But if we don't have the knowledge of the word as a 358 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:08,160 believer, we will be deceived. OK, So if we'll a lie, we have 359 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,600 to stay in truth because we've said this faith comes from what? 360 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,560 Hearing and hearing from the word of God. 361 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,320 And it doesn't come just from having heard. 362 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,400 We have to be in a place that we are continually hearing the Word 363 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,600 because I'm going to tell you, you can hear other things and it 364 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:35,240 sounds convincing. That's why I've got to go back 365 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,280 to the word. Wait a minute, what it, what's 366 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,680 the word say? I need faith. 367 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:47,520 I need to hear this word again. OK, So again, this is what we're 368 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,400 talking about, what true knowledge is concerning the 369 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,880 Word. And if we're going to have 370 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,480 reigning faith, we're going to have to be people of the Word 371 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,360 and continually in the Word. What else? 372 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:05,880 Renewing our mind to the Word. That's why Romans 12/1 and two 373 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,640 says that we are what? Therefore, to renew our minds 374 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:16,440 daily, daily we need to be renewing our minds to the Word 375 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,280 of God. I'm telling you, you can't take 376 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:25,120 a day off. The minute you try to take a day 377 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:27,360 off, boom, something's going to hit you. 378 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,960 Try to get you off. Come on. 379 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:36,000 No, we need to be daily renewing our mind to the word of God 380 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,520 daily, taking in the bread of life daily. 381 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:44,320 He tells us this is our bread and this is what we should be 382 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:52,800 eating every single day because it will keep our minds anchored. 383 00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:00,600 He is the anchor, right? The Word should be the anchor to 384 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:05,600 your soul so that when everything else is changing, it 385 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,840 doesn't matter about my emotions, my will, all these 386 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,440 things that are going on because I have an anchor to the Word of 387 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:18,120 God for my soul and it's not going to be moved. 388 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:23,840 An anchor holds right, and it holds true to truth. 389 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,040 All right. So again, it's so imperative 390 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,240 that we renew our mind to the Word of God and that we hold on 391 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,360 to it daily. You know, as I was talking with 392 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:42,320 Pastor about this as we were going home or whatever, and he 393 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,520 said, you know, it seems as if too, when you make this list, is 394 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:51,880 that these, these attributes or qualities or ingredients of 395 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:56,240 faith that are supposed to be a support are it seems as if it 396 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:01,080 can be progressive, right? Like it builds upon one another. 397 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:05,600 Because he gives us the faith. And the first thing he tells us 398 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:11,400 that we need to do is now start applying what the word, what 399 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,720 the, the moral excellence is to our faith, which is start living 400 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,000 right because because without faith you can't live right, 401 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,920 right. So moral excellence is the first 402 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,960 thing that he starts talking about that righteousness. 403 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,600 You can't do it out in your own self and in your own works. 404 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:37,200 You can't live a moral godly life without Christ. 405 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,680 I don't care how good or nice you think someone is. 406 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,000 They have the seed and the nature of sin in them. 407 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:53,560 Okay, So the moral excellence and then once you have that 408 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,920 faith put in you and you're growing in the righteousness of 409 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,240 God in that moral excellence, the only way you're going to 410 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,640 grow in that is through the knowledge of God's Word, right? 411 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:10,880 And then what happens as you apply the knowledge of God's 412 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,160 word and you're walking out these moral excellencies and 413 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,320 living your life right, you're going to then have to have 414 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:25,720 self-control to do it right? And, and that was our next point 415 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:31,600 that it leads to is self-control or one translation says 416 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:37,000 temperance, right? Temperance and self-control is 417 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,840 so important. And things that you know, again 418 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,440 should be evident in a believer's life. 419 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:50,760 If you're a believer and you are out of control, you can tell 420 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,720 that there's not been some things added to your faith. 421 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,560 If you're out of control, like you are a practicer of being out 422 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,360 of control in in, in your work, you're out of control. 423 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,520 And in this situation that you just had with your family, 424 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,720 you're out of control. Come on, you have no 425 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,800 self-control. You have no temperance. 426 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,160 Then you can tell you've not allowed these moral excellencies 427 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,720 and these things to be added the word of God to your life. 428 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,400 OK. And of course we know that 429 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,840 self-control is what a fruit of the Spirit. 430 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:37,880 It's a fruit of the Spirit. Amen. self-control and 431 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,040 temperance is a full is a fruit of the spirit. 432 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:46,320 And so when he talks about self-control and temperance, 433 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:51,480 he's really talking about the virtue of one who knows how to 434 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:58,640 master his passions and desires and sensual appetites. 435 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:02,800 We're talking about reigning faith. 436 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,800 We're talking about a reigning church. 437 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,880 And what is reigning mean? That we know how to operate in 438 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,160 dominion. And Pastor said several years 439 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:14,000 ago that the first thing of dominion that we have to be 440 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:19,560 operating in is our own life. You're not going to operate in 441 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:24,640 dominion in other things if you can't even have self-control and 442 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,600 dominion over things going on in your life, your flesh, your 443 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:34,480 passions, your desires. And you can't have self-control 444 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,400 with anger or whatever the case may be, right? 445 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,480 And so he's letting us know that that's what he's actually 446 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,880 talking about with Temperance, is being able to master these 447 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,800 things. And He expects us to do this. 448 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,760 And when we learn how to have self-control and temperance, 449 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,120 then we're going to have strong faith. 450 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,000 You know why? Because there's going to be 451 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,840 times that you are standing and believing God in faith and the 452 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:08,679 enemy's going to come in and try to get you off and distracted 453 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:12,480 and get you aggravated because you're not seeing it come to 454 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:18,679 pass and going to want you to just abandoned your position. 455 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:24,880 And you have to have self-control and temperance to 456 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:32,760 be a person that when I've done all the stand, I am standing and 457 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,360 I will not be moved off my position. 458 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:42,040 But if you haven't practiced self-control in the passions and 459 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,120 all these other things in your life, then guess what? 460 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,280 He's going to be able to get you off. 461 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:51,719 It's going to be able to get you off because you're going to lose 462 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,760 control and you're going to abandon your faith. 463 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,880 You're going to abandon your position. 464 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,800 And I'm telling you, This is why this these things have to be 465 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,240 looked at and continually nurtured within our life as a 466 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:10,480 believer if we're going to walk in the fullness and the promises 467 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,200 of what God says that we should have in this life. 468 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,640 So y'all know Galatians chapter 5 where he talks about what the 469 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:24,040 fruit of the spirit it is. But I want to go up to Galatians 470 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,720 5 verse 16 and start there. Because remember, we're talking 471 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:32,080 about being able to have self-control and temperance over 472 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:36,880 the flesh, over the passions and the desires of the flesh, which 473 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:41,760 is what the pride of life, lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, 474 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:50,040 deceitfulness of riches. See, you can't have lust for 475 00:35:50,040 --> 00:36:00,480 money, come on, because that money is going to take you into 476 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:05,440 a place that you don't want to be so looky. 477 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,360 Here in Galatians chapter 5 and verse 16, he says, But I say to 478 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,640 you, walk habitually in the Spirit, seek Him and be 479 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:18,680 responsive to His guidance, and then you will certainly not 480 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:23,960 carry out the desires of the sinful nature which responds 481 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,720 here. It is impulsively without regard 482 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:32,160 to God and His precepts. For the sinful nature has its 483 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,640 desires which is opposed to the Spirit, and the desire of the 484 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,800 Spirit opposes the sinful nature. 485 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,680 For these two, the sinful nature and the Spirit are what? 486 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:48,080 In direct opposition to each other, continually in conflict. 487 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:52,760 So this is never going to go away until we get our glorified 488 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:59,080 bodies. So every day it is in conflict, 489 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,320 our flesh is going to want to respond. 490 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:08,800 This is why we must be continually what in the Word, 491 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:13,440 adding, adding the knowledge of God's Word, renewing our mind to 492 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,240 what the word says, walking righteously, walking in the 493 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:23,240 moral excellencies of God, so that when it comes to the battle 494 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:27,000 that's going to happen every day, because my flesh is going 495 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:33,640 to want to respond still in a sinful nature, but because I've 496 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:42,320 learned how to what master it? Take dominion over it because I 497 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:48,600 don't let it dominate me, right? Then I'm going to be able to 498 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:55,640 walk in the faith that I need in the circumstances that I need to 499 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,520 have my faith working because I've learned how to not be 500 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:05,840 moved, how to not be moved, how to not let things dominate me, 501 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,480 how to not let things control my emotions, control how I feel. 502 00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:14,560 All these things that want to get you off of where you're at 503 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,600 with God. OK, so he tells us this. 504 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,640 And then what does he say here in verse? 505 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,720 Where were we at? Continually in conflict so that 506 00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:30,600 you as a believer do not always do whatever good things you want 507 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,760 to do. Verse 18 But if you are guided 508 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,120 and led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law. 509 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,560 Now the practices of the sinful nature are clearly evident. 510 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,560 And then he lists all the things, right? 511 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,760 But look what he says here. I love the way the Amplified 512 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,080 reads this. Total irresponsibility and lack 513 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:59,600 of self-control here as one of these works of the flesh. 514 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:03,400 And This is why we've got to be people that have learned how to 515 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:09,800 have temperance and put this body in subjection. 516 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:15,640 Come on and learn how to master its passions and its desires. 517 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:21,040 Verse 20 Idolatry, sorcery, hostility, strife, jealousy, 518 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,080 fits of anger. Come on, as a believer, are you 519 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:30,840 still having temper tantrums? Fits of I mean, it should not be 520 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,960 so. And this could be a reason why 521 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:39,240 your faith is just lacking and not working because you have not 522 00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:46,720 put under these things and mastered them and added them to 523 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,080 your faith. Add them. 524 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:57,080 Bring a supply to your faith by operating in self-control and 525 00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:03,000 temperance right disputes. Dissensions, factions that 526 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:08,880 promote heresies, envy, drunkenness, riotous behavior, 527 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,120 and all these other things. I warned you beforehand, just as 528 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,520 I did previously, that those who practice such things will not 529 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,200 inherit the Kingdom of God, but the fruit of the Spirit is what 530 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,680 the result of His presence within us is. 531 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:31,760 Lovejoy, inner peace. I love that inner joy is inner 532 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:41,080 peace. Joy is more than an emotion of 533 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:48,960 laughter. Joy is on the inside. 534 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,560 Come on. So it doesn't matter how you 535 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,680 feel, you should have joy on the inside. 536 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:03,240 That's why you should be joyous about the days ahead. 537 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,880 Come on about the days ahead. Because it doesn't matter my 538 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:13,360 circumstances, because I know that the joy of the Lord is a 539 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:17,000 fruit of the Spirit and it lives on the inside of me. 540 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:23,600 And I'm going to choose this day to operate in joy and inner what 541 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:34,000 peace and pull strength up from the inside of me to be able to 542 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,760 look forward at the days ahead and be able to laugh. 543 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:42,720 Because my God sits in the heavens and laughs. 544 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:48,160 He is not moved by one thing, by one thing. 545 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,320 He sits in the heavens and he laughs. 546 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:56,280 Patience, not the ability to wait, but how we act while we 547 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,560 are waiting. Oh, that's a good one. 548 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:04,800 How do you act when you are waiting in the line at Disney 549 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,720 World? How you waiting while you're in 550 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:13,480 the line at the grocery store? How are you waiting in the line? 551 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:21,280 Come on of traffic in Saint Augustine, right? 552 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:28,040 How are we waiting? Are we really patient or are we 553 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:34,000 agitated? I'm adding to my faith just like 554 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,680 everyone of you add to your faith. 555 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:42,640 Come on, when you're ready, when you want something to be done, 556 00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:48,800 are you being patient with God? God, this should already be 557 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:53,680 taken care of. But are we being patient? 558 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:58,600 Say, let my patience have, it's perfect work in you because it's 559 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:04,840 doing something in you. It's doing something in you. 560 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:10,120 It's doing something in me, right? 561 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,480 So inner peace, patience, not the ability to wait, but how we 562 00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,320 act while waiting, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 563 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,280 gentleness, and what self-control. 564 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:25,960 All of these have already been imparted within us in our spirit 565 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:30,400 by the Holy Spirit. And what are they to do? 566 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:35,320 They're to flourish and they are to be evident in a believer's 567 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,680 life. And the way they're going to be 568 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,640 evident in the believers life is that we're going to be in 569 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:45,440 situations that are going to pull, have to pull these fruits 570 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,400 out. Amen. 571 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,400 And if we never let these fruits come out, we're not adding to 572 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,520 our faith. Some things that God says need 573 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,480 to be added to our faith to be able to properly work so that we 574 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:04,400 see some results. OK, So what is verse 23 says? 575 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,560 Gentleness, self-control. Against these things there is no 576 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,560 law and those who belong to Christ Jesus. 577 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:16,120 What has crucified this sinful nature together with its 578 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,760 passions and appetites? Remember, that's what we said 579 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:25,080 self-control and temperance is about being able to crucify 580 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:29,520 these passions and these appetites of the normal fleshly 581 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:34,880 responses because we're in this right body that has not been 582 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:39,880 glorified yet, right? Verse 25, If we claim to live by 583 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,480 the Spirit, we must what, also walk by the Spirit. 584 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:49,720 Look at, look at, Amplified says with personal integrity, godly 585 00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:56,200 character and moral courage. Our conduct should be empowered 586 00:44:56,200 --> 00:45:05,160 by the Holy Spirit. Moral integrity, godly 587 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:10,560 character, these are all things that should be a part of our 588 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,000 faith. And sometimes people's faith is 589 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,000 not work working properly because there are some things 590 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,240 that are not godly about their life. 591 00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:26,600 And I don't care how long you quote Mark 1123 and 24. 592 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:38,440 He's not going to work through your life with a life of non 593 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:42,720 integrity and character of God. Now he's going to give you time 594 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:46,040 to grow because he's a good God and he knows where everybody is 595 00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:49,320 and he's going to work through you where as you're growing and 596 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:53,560 do it. But when you know and you choose 597 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:59,320 not to change certain things and still allow and excuse certain 598 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:07,600 behaviors, then your faith is going to be hindered and lacking 599 00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,000 and you're not going to see the results. 600 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,480 And you're going to wonder why, Well, why is everybody else 601 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,880 prospering? Why is everybody else's marriage 602 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,720 been restored? Why is everybody else's kids, 603 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,560 you know, doing good and not rebelling? 604 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,320 Now, I know that your kids have their, they have a will, but I'm 605 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,080 going to tell you, you as parents can open the door to 606 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:34,280 some things for your kids if you hide and stuff in you. 607 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:38,720 But that's a whole nother subject. 608 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,200 That's a parenting conference that most parents don't want to 609 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,040 come to. But anyway, we'll move on. 610 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,200 Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8. 611 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,160 This will be our last scripture 'cause I know y'all are ready to 612 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,360 go. So Romans chapter 8, let's look 613 00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,240 what it says about self-control and temperance In Romans 81 and 614 00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:04,000 17 it says therefore now there's no condemnation for those who 615 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,240 are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit is 616 00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:12,120 life which is in Christ Jesus. And the law of our new being has 617 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,600 set us free from the law of sin and death. 618 00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:19,480 For what the law could not do, that is, overcome sin and remove 619 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:23,960 its penalty, its power being weakened, and by the flesh man's 620 00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,880 nature, without the Holy Spirit, God did. 621 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:32,240 He sent His Son in the likeness of a sinful man as an offering 622 00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:38,560 for sin, and he condemned sin in the flesh, subdued it, overcame 623 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:43,080 it in the person of His own Son, so that the righteous and the 624 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:47,160 just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in US who do 625 00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:52,200 not live our lives in the ways of the flesh, guided by 626 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:57,680 worldliness and our sinful nature, but we live our lives in 627 00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,360 the ways of the Spirit, guided by His power. 628 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:06,160 See, we do not have to be in a We don't have to have 629 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:12,920 self-control and temperance by willpower. 630 00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:22,560 Some of us are trying to do this in our own willpower instead of 631 00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:29,400 the power of the Holy Spirit. But you know, I know there's 632 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:33,200 many people that do have willpower and can be so 633 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:37,760 disciplined when it comes to working out and eating right and 634 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,360 all these other things. And I know people that have such 635 00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:46,360 willpower when it comes to a budget and finances and all 636 00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:51,480 these things, but yet they have no willpower to do the word. 637 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:02,160 Right. So again, God doesn't expect us 638 00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,880 to have willpower to do it in ourselves. 639 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:10,640 He has empowered us with everything we need for life and 640 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,960 godliness and has given us Dunamis power. 641 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,920 We said this from the very beginning, Dunamis power, 642 00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:22,720 dynamite power living on the inside of us so that we can walk 643 00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:27,120 and have self-control and do all the things that he is saying. 644 00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:31,640 These qualities are needed to be added to our faith so that we 645 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:36,520 can walk it out in this life. Amen. 646 00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:40,480 So that we do not have to be mastered by our flesh and our 647 00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:44,360 passions of the way we feel and all these things. 648 00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:49,040 But no, we have allowed the Holy Spirit on the inside of us to 649 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:54,040 dominate and to empower us with the grace of God to be able to 650 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,440 walk in self-control and temperance. 651 00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,160 Come on. And all the things that we need 652 00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,640 to be able to walk morally excellent.