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but then there are people who will come back and say, well, if God created it, He created it for good use.

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And so we look at chapter five and verse one, you know, I want to read this, but I want to start off, you know, with a discussion around a question.

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So He says now, imitate God.

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So when you read that and He says imitate God, therefore in everything you do, because you are His dear children.

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So they're asking what you think, what does imitate mean to you?

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to cheer myself like he did, speak like he did, and act like he did. That's a good example.

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I think that's a perfect example.

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Brother Tupir, I want to come back to that. Do you want to say something Long Down?

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You got a mic? Okay, go ahead.

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So go online, you know, speak if you can't hear you. I think you've turned them all on.

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I'll say copying, being a copy and trying to do what someone else is doing and farting in their footsteps.

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Okay, and so if we look at that, and both of y'all are pretty much saying the same thing,

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You can't go wrong because he had minded us to live a life filled with love.

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This book is pretty plain.

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Then he goes into and kind of go back to something that was said in the previous chapter, start talking about how they were supposed to live.

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This letter is written to the church, not to the world.

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So it can't be immoral if certain things about it that can be immoral when it is performed under the wrong conditions and in Rome.

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So he said now, and the really had to do that again because you go back and read Corinthians, very Roman.

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Flesh don't agree with that because if flesh agreed with it, most of us would have been virgins when we got married.

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It can be talking about anything that can become so much a part of you that you get to the point where you almost worship that thing.

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So there are certain things that can become such a part of our lives that if it gets to the point where it becomes more important than God, then it becomes our God.

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Brother Hurte, you got a mic?

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And then it just comes to me in my thought, which is that he says soon after he's going to say such sin, such sin.

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But we know what sin brings, and sin brings death.

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So I'm just saying is that if you're doing a sinful act, if you practice a sinful act, you are actually letting in to a point of death.

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I mean, that's the way I kind of look at that in the sense that if you're doing sinful things that is not pleasing to God, that brings death.

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You know, the Bible said the consequences, you know, the wages of sin is death.

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Because if a sinful act produced immediate death, most of us wouldn't be here.

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I didn't say immediately death.

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I mean, it would bring death upon you.

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Adam's sin brought that death upon us.

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That's very true.

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Everybody's going to die.

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Everybody's going to die.

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That's just the natural order of things.

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What else am I talking about?

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This body is going to die.

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And the reason that consequence is what you're saying is what Paul said in Romans, the wages of sin is death.

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You can list anything you want.

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That's a broad category that I'm not going to try to go through and highlight every little thing that could be that.

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But you can use your own imagination.

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You know what it is.

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Just by being brought up in the natural, our parents tried to tell us, don't do this until you get married.

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Don't do that.

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Don't go out there and do that because you're going to mess around and get somebody to pray.

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Don't do that.

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They knew that there was consequence for doing things outside of the will of God.

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I'm going to ask you this question to the pastor.

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I know that you said that we would die.

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What does that mean then?

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When we say when Jesus was crucified and you believe upon him,

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and when he says, now death don't have no power on you, on us.

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He's talking spiritual death.

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I'm talking the physical part where God says you're going to return to the dust.

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This body is going to return to the dust unless you're living when he comes back and be caught up with him.

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But then the same thing here though, what I'm saying is that with sin, we're also talking about a spiritual death.

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That's what I meant about when you say that.

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Okay, well you didn't say that. I got you now.

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You still don't understand.

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We understand about the body because we're going to get a new body.

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When Jesus comes, that's a new body.

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But at the same time, it's that this simple thing that you do is a spiritual thing also to a point that death.

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We're agreeing on that.

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Ain't no disagreement on that at all.

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We don't necessarily die physically every time we do something wrong.

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But there's something that we lose in our spiritual relationship with God when we sin.

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I can tell a lie right now, and unless God's going to strike me dead like he did out of Niles and Sapphira,

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I'll probably still be standing right here.

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But something on the inside of me is going to lose that relationship because now I'm walking in sin.

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And he gave me a chance to repent when I error because he noted that it's possible, like Paul noted here,

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because this is a process he noted that there's a possibility that before you die, you're going to error.

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And so therefore, you have an opportunity to say,

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okay, if you ever confess that he's faithful and just to forgive you of all your sins and unrighteousness.

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But because we know he's going to forgive us, that is not permission for us to go out and practice something

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and believe that we can keep going back and asking God to forgive us for the same thing.

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Because there's a dip between error and something and practicing something.

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But then is he, is this, is this warning in the sense of practicing immorality?

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If you're practicing it?

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But this is where I see it when he says, don't do these things.

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That means to me, this is invisible, it's practicing that sinful walk.

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No agreement, this is a good possibility.

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The reason he had to write this to this church is because some of these things were being talked to him

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and they were continuing to do them even after they had came into a relationship with Christ.

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Because this is the church now, writing that he says now, and it's going to kind of clear itself up as we go down.

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He says now look, let no sexual immorality, impurity or greed be among you.

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Such sins have no place among God's people.

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So there are certain things that just don't match up with us when it comes to being Christian.

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There are certain things that we did before our relationship was established with Jesus Christ

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and we go through that rebirth and giving our life to Christ and the Spirit of God coming into us

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after we are coming into a relationship with him.

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There are certain things that no longer supposed to match up with us

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because last time we were talking about as you walking in the new man, the old man has to die.

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And so now today we get it here, he's talking about how important it is for us as the new man

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for us to walk in the light as opposed to walking in darkness.

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And we're going to see here in a minute that light and darkness cannot coexist.

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You're going to be either one or the other.

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They don't occupy the same space at the same time.

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And so that's a contrast he let us know that as Christians there are certain things

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because we are God's children that shouldn't be able to occupy the same space with his spirit.

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The spirit of God dwells in us.

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Get a mic because online we want to make sure they can hear what you're saying.

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When we sin, having the spirit of the Lord within us, whenever we sin, it's kind of like dormant.

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You get dormant. It's not communicating together.

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You cannot separate yourself from that spirit.

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And I agree with you in a sense with your saying that if we know the God's spirit is in us

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and we continue to do things that goes against what he represented in us.

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Last week I think you talked about we can grieve the Holy Spirit.

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The only reason he would be grieved in being in us is because we're doing something that makes him sorry.

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And so when we get to that point, then the Bible does talk about whether or not he will stay in an unclean temple.

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And so that's why it's important when we do error, we do make mistakes.

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We can't take that for granted. We got to go back and get things right with God.

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And he realized that we will error.

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But again, like Herb said, like we said before, is the difference between error and practices.

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When we practice something over and over and over, that is not error.

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So now look at it. He says now, so he gets a little deeper and he starts dealing with other things.

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He says now, let no greed be among you and all these things, no sin have no place among God's people.

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Verse four, he says now look, obscene stories, foolish talk and coarse jokes.

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These are not for you.

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Wow. Obscene stories.

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You know, you know when something is obscene, it normally got some type of overtone, then the most obscenity goes along with sexuality.

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You know, sometimes when you're looking at a movie, it tells you that in the rating of that, you know, say there's going to be some obscenity in here, some nudity in here, something in there.

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It lets you know that when things are obscene, in man's eyes, it may be okay, but in God's eyes, it's not.

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So he says now obscene stories, then foolish talk, buffoonery, and then coarse jokes.

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That coarse joke, when you look that up, that come back to, you know, being vulgar.

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Because the context here, all these things he talked about, the things that we can do that can be sinful and God not be pleased because we are His children.

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But God got a problem with us telling vulgar jokes, or listening to people tell jokes that are vulgar.

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You got a problem.

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Now, I'm not trying to tell you to regulate what you do. You got to let the Holy Spirit do that.

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I do believe there's certain television programming that could be hazardous to your health, your spiritual health.

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You just can't watch everything and let it get into your spirit over and over and over again.

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Because what happens is as you watch that and get in your spirit, it will start coming out of you.

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It will start saying some of the things that you see and hear over and over again.

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Now, I don't, you know, I can't regulate what you watch, but that's what the Holy Spirit job is.

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What is something that you won't watch, maybe something that somebody else will watch,

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but I'm telling you, if you watch this stuff with too much nudity in it, you may be getting yourself in trouble.

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It's good.

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This is why the word tell us to die daily.

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You know, when you die in the slash, you come alive in the spirit.

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So when you have a relationship with God, your spirit that's in you, it'll guide you and it tells you, you know, not to do a certain thing

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and not to hear or say certain things because you're dying daily in the spirit of God.

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Paul did say that we have to crucify the flesh daily.

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Because again, it is understood that this war that go on between us with the spirit and the flesh is going to go on forever.

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And you got to win some battles every day because there's going to be opportunities for things to pop up in your life that could be sinful.

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The problem is now, and we're going to see later, is that there are people out there, we don't all classify everything that God classifies as sin.

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Sin.

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Something that God classifies as sin, man called it pleasure.

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As long as I ain't hurting nobody, I can do this, just me, it's for pleasure.

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But if it goes against God's word, then there got to be something in you that say, even when I'm by myself, this pleasure is unacceptable to God.

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Because whether I'm with you or by myself, I am still His job.

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That make it into the sin.

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He said now look, these are not for you.

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Instead, let there be thanksfulness to God.

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Another one says, hey look, instead of having all this go on amongst you in the church, look, we need to be spending time showing thanks to God.

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Thanking Him for what He has done and for what He's doing in our life.

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Giving Him thanks as much as possible for what He's done in our life.

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And give thanks to others and continue to build each other up and be thankful for one another instead of being caught up in sin with one another.

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So He said, let us be thankful. Now look at it, he's now looking, verse five, he's saying, look, you can be sure, you can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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Tie both of them together to show that one is there.

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He says now, you can be sure.

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Now obviously, you kind of got to, he used that word inherit.

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Inherit leads me to believe that there's something that is stored up for you, that you're supposed to inherit.

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And he's saying, you can be sure that if you're practicing immoral thing, impure thing, and you're a greedy person, no one in that category will inherit the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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Now he's going to tell us a little bit more why he didn't hear the man, but let me ask you this.

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Let's play this out in the natural. And most of us got kids, and if you're smart, you got a will.

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And in your will, outlines your inheritance, what you want your children to inherit.

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Now, all of us probably different, depending on what you got, how you got it, what it meant to you.

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Is there a line that when your children get to that line, you can say, hey, look here, I was going to leave you this.

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But because of the way you've been acting, because of what you've been doing, I'm going to make a decision to not leave that to you.

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Y'all don't think folks do that?

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Is it right or wrong?

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Some people say, are you going to reward a disobedient child who's been disobedient all of the time?

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And then all of a sudden, you got other kids who've been obedient doing everything right.

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You're going to give him just as much as you give that one. That's up to you. It's yours.

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That's why it's called an inheritance.

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But I'm saying, God is saying, regardless of what we say, he's going to look at his children and based upon how they've been acting, it's going to impact their inheritance.

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That's right.

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Well, let me just read this again, Brother Herb. I know you're agreeing with this.

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I can see the smile on your face.

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He says, let me just read it.

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Then you got a comment against it, then argue with the scripture.

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Look at this. You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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For a greedy person is an idolator worshipping the things of this world.

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So if you're worshipping the things of this world, that means the things of this world become your God.

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That's why he called them idolators.

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And why would God leave an inheritance for someone that worships?

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Go ahead, Brother Herb.

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It's different. The only thing that was just so many when Jesus was giving a parable about the product of Son.

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That's all.

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But what did the product of Son do?

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He went off and did his thing.

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But what did he do?

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When he came to his senses.

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But I'm just saying that he asked for his...

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When you said that, Pastor, you gave him the scripture.

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I'm just reading what the scripture says.

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I'm just saying that's the only reason why I gave because the boy asked for his inheritance.

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He came to his...

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But I'm just saying the boy asked for his inheritance.

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He repented.

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But he asked for his inheritance first.

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He didn't ask for nothing.

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He said, give me what...

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I ain't even worried about being a slave.

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Treat me like a slave.

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Before that, Pastor, before that.

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What did he ask?

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He said, give me my inheritance now.

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And he squandered it.

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So he asked for it.

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That's the only reason I smiled.

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And that's a whole completely different of a scenario.

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That came to my mind when he asked for his inheritance first.

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He went there, came to his senses.

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Yes, he repented.

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He rebelled.

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Came to his senses, got ruined.

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And the father came and back in.

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And I'm just...

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When you said, when we leave an inheritance on one...

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But I'm just saying, this son asked for it earlier.

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Different scenario to her is absolute oneness.

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When you leave an inheritance, you die.

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But he asked for his.

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Let me finish.

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When you leave an inheritance, you die.

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It was rude to go and ask for your inheritance

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before your father or your mother died.

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He did. He did.

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And the father, because of his goodness, gave it to him.

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He can do that.

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You can do that to your sons right now.

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Or your children right now.

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You can do that to my children.

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If I got an inheritance from them,

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and the one I'm saying, Dad, I want mine now.

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I know what the will say.

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I know you done broke this thing up in the thirds.

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Give me my third now.

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And if I feel like they can handle it,

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I may say, okay, I'm going to peel it off to you right now.

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But if you get out there and waste it,

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I ain't going to take from your other two sisters

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and give to you.

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Now, that's my choice.

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I could. I could be like the guy in the prep and say,

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hey, two sisters, look here.

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You know, baby sisters with out there and cut the food.

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Now, you know what you're going to hit right bottom?

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I'm going to take another third from y'all,

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put back on her.

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Now, they can have an issue with that,

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but I got a right to do that if that's what I choose to do.

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Just like God.

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He got a right to forgive somebody I don't even agree with.

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He got a right.

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But right here, he's saying that, hey,

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if you do these things, it's a possibility

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you couldn't miss out on your inheritance.

430
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,000
Brother Willie.

431
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:57,000
You know, that's a true statement because I got to admit

432
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:02,000
that I have done this myself to my son.

433
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:07,000
You know, I give, but then when you ask for something,

434
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,000
you give it, but then when you don't do right,

435
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,000
you come right back and you take it away from them.

436
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,000
And then you go out and do something else for another child.

437
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,000
And then people say you're showing favoritism,

438
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:27,000
but you're not showing favoritism because what Pastor's saying right now

439
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,000
is that if you inherit, you're trying to show them the right road to walking

440
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:38,000
so that they will be blessed for the rest of their lives.

441
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:43,000
But wouldn't that be considered greedy?

442
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:49,000
Well, I mean, greed, I see greed if you already got it and you want more.

443
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:54,000
When you're in the pickpain, eating slop, you ain't got it.

444
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
That ain't greed.

445
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Coming back to my sense, I know where my dad got at his house

446
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,000
and I'd rather go back and live at his house again than to stay in his hogpen

447
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:08,000
even if I got to be a servant in his house.

448
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:14,000
The thing was that the father was more loving than the older brother expected

449
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
because he could do that.

450
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,000
But I'm saying proud too.

451
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Proud too when he asks for his inheritance.

452
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,000
Proud too?

453
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000
You can look at that, you may be able to tie greed to that.

454
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:32,000
I can't say, I think what I would tie more to is disrespecting of his father.

455
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:37,000
It was kind of rude to say, hey, give me mine now and let me leave

456
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,000
because I don't like the way you're running things around the house.

457
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000
I don't like the stuff that's going on, so look, just give me mine.

458
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000
Because you could have gave it to him, he stayed there.

459
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000
Obviously, he wasn't happy at home.

460
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000
He felt like maybe the rules were too tight.

461
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000
He felt like the rules too tight.

462
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:59,000
And you tell him, okay, two grown men can't live in this house.

463
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:04,000
The rules too tight now, one of us got to go.

464
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:09,000
I mean, that's what you can do as the father.

465
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Now if he comes to his senses and comes back after he's been in the hogpen,

466
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,000
you can take him back in and your mom can love him just like you love the ones

467
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000
that didn't go to the hogpen.

468
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,000
But what we see here is that God is just trying to get us to see in this particular context

469
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,000
that the people who are practicing these things, he was trying to warn this church,

470
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,000
if you get into the practice of doing these things,

471
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:38,000
then there's a possibility you can jeopardize your inheritance.

472
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:43,000
So now look, because they were worshiping the things of this world,

473
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,000
that worshiping word that is important,

474
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000
because now when the things of this world become a part of your worship,

475
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,000
then they're going to keep you from worshiping God.

476
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,000
And anything that's going to go before God, you know the Bible is true.

477
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,000
It's say God is a jealous God.

478
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,000
I mean, he gave Jesus for us, but he still didn't give Jesus for us

479
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,000
to go out there and worship something, another God.

480
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,000
Amen.

481
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,000
So now look at this, he said now in verse 6, he says,

482
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:16,000
don't be fooled by those who try to make excuses for these sins.

483
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:21,000
Hey look, there going to be some folks that say, well you know, ain't that wrong with it?

484
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,000
Ain't that wrong if you want a little bit more and more and more of this

485
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,000
and don't care about other folks to get it?

486
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,000
Ain't that wrong with this?

487
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,000
Ain't that wrong with this?

488
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Ain't that wrong with this, you know, more living, you know, sex is pleasure.

489
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,000
God wants you to have pleasure, you want you to have leisure, you know.

490
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Just like you work, you got to have some pleasure.

491
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,000
And the culture that we live in glorify that.

492
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:48,000
See, we now, we talk from where we are now versus where we were.

493
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:55,000
Some of y'all glorify that too, before you got saved.

494
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:02,000
That's why you tell me, I ain't doing it no more than next week.

495
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,000
Next weekend.

496
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,000
Go ahead.

497
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:17,000
A lot of times, when you say why save, you say, I don't feel like that exactly is the truth.

498
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:27,000
You can baptize and doing God, living for God, and then you find yourself in a different situation doing things that you're not supposed to.

499
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:32,000
And God forbid died while you're doing these things.

500
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:38,000
Okay, you go to heaven while you're sending.

501
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,000
I got to make sure I'm understanding what your question is, what the point you're trying to make.

502
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:50,000
My question is, okay, let me say, when you're saved, when you're saved, you are saved for good.

503
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:55,000
That you can't lose your inheritance, like you said.

504
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,000
Well, now let me, let me stop right there.

505
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,000
Now, there's two camps on that thought.

506
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,000
That's why I say that.

507
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,000
One can't believe, one's saved, always saved, no matter what you do.

508
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:12,000
There's another camp to believe, you can turn your back on God and renounce Him and you can lose something.

509
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:21,000
Now, I don't know what camp you may fall in, but some say that a person that do that never really had the relationship with God, because if he did, he wouldn't fall away.

510
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,000
Okay, thanks.

511
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:31,000
But the Bible in Hebrew does say, if you don't taste his goodness and turn your way away from it, it's going to be hard to come back.

512
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,000
Yes.

513
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,000
Back to it.

514
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:38,000
So I won't get into that debate of once saved, always saved, or can you lose your salvation.

515
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Because this topic is not about them losing their salvation.

516
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:48,000
This is about trying to help them to live right and then determine whether or not that inheritance is going to be their form.

517
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:58,000
Because you can be saved, I do believe, and then still, when you get to heaven, not get the rewards that you think you're going to get.

518
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:08,000
Paul kind of talks about that when we talk to Timothy, you know, and if there's going to be crowns of blessing that's connected to us when we get to heaven, not just getting into heaven.

519
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:17,000
And Hebrews talk about when you go in, you want to go in a way with so much glory that you represent and praise when you're going to heaven versus just barely getting in.

520
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:28,000
So all the arguments that theologians go back and forth on for me personally, now that I know who Jesus is, I will say for myself, I'm saved forever.

521
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:33,000
Because I'm not going to do anything that's going to cost me to lose my salvation.

522
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:43,000
And the one thing that he said, because everything else is forgivable, but he said, if you blaspheme the Holy Spirit, you know, it's going to be hard for you.

523
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:50,000
So even when I was the biggest fool in the world, I didn't have enough sense to go out there and blaspheme the God Spirit.

524
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:57,000
So now that I know that, I won't do that. But I'm not saying that I won't ever sin again.

525
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:05,000
But I'm saying that if I do, then I know I got a way back to him. One sin is not going to keep me from entering into God's kingdom.

526
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:15,000
It's because I'm looking at verse four. It's not where we are.

527
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,000
No, we were down in verse six.

528
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,000
Yeah, but I'm just making a reference.

529
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,000
Okay.

530
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:35,000
You know, so this is known that homo-mongers are not unqueen person, not a religious man who is in idolatry, in every sense. That means they would lose.

531
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:41,000
I don't think inheritance, in terms of talking about something that you get, I think it's something that you don't enter.

532
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:48,000
You don't get. So he says, he says now, don't be fooled. He says, look, a greedy person will not inherit the kingdom.

533
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:59,000
Because he, in this passage, you're right, he's equating that to saying that if you have, in essence, you've gotten to the point where God is no longer your God.

534
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,000
Because he is tying that to being an idolator.

535
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:13,000
To the point that you're saying, hey, I have renounced God, I'm going to turn my back on him. If you do that, then you're no longer saying that you're a child of God. You are renouncing God.

536
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:25,000
I don't think most people who are saved, even though they may be doing some crazy things, I don't think they wake up in the morning and say, I no longer want to be a child of God. I don't believe in God.

537
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:36,000
I just don't think they wake up. Now, if some people do that, I don't know. But here's what he said. He said, now look, once you get to this day, you're not just a casual person making a mistake.

538
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:45,000
He said, you become an idolator. Worship in. Well, you can't worship God in mamma. You can't worship God in the things in this world.

539
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:56,000
So if you start worshiping something else, then you have changed your allegiance from one God to another. Worship in.

540
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:09,000
That's a big step for even a person who may not be the most holy Christian, most people, even though they're in the church trying to live right, they don't go out and start worshiping something other than God.

541
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:25,000
Now, I say most, maybe not all, some people may, but I don't believe most people, when they come into their relationship with Jesus and they learn and they grow, that they will knowing they just go out and start worshiping.

542
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:33,000
That would be almost like to me all of a sudden, I wake up and say, man, I'm saved, but I really want to understand, you know, what this devil worships about.

543
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:40,000
I want to go over here and learn about the pentagram and I want to learn about this and what they do. I want to do some of these prayers and chants they're doing.

544
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:52,000
Well, I think God's going to have a problem with that. I don't win now and team up with his arch enemy. I don't think he's going to be pleased with that.

545
00:49:52,000 --> 00:50:06,000
But I don't think that most of us is crazy enough to go to that far to do something like, unless someone is cunning enough and crafty enough to pull us away from the truth to go and start worshiping the lie.

546
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:11,000
So, brother?

547
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:25,000
One thing I would say is that, you know, two things I would say that don't you think God would know your heart, what true repentance and believing on him?

548
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:31,000
Well, the Bible said that God know the heart. Who can know the heart of man, but God.

549
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:36,000
And so therefore, I can judge your heart. All I can look at is your action.

550
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,000
Correct.

551
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:46,000
And do you think a good heart that love God would take you over here and sit down and worship Satan?

552
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,000
I'm just asking.

553
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:56,000
I would think that God would know your heart when you true to repentance.

554
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:07,000
That's true. That's the difference. But I'm just saying now you're given if a good heart of her came over here and sit down and worship the devil.

555
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:16,000
Is that a good heart? Do you think God believe your heart could be where you are?

556
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:34,000
I don't think you, since he knows all things and he knows your heart, I truly don't believe that he will, that you will turn your heart, that your heart will be turned away.

557
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:35,000
You make him a point.

558
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,000
That's what I'm saying. I don't think.

559
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:48,000
If you are truly his child, like we go back to the beginning of this, then I don't believe no true child of yours would truly turn away from you.

560
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:57,000
It would take something really, really, really strong to pull a child away from there.

561
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:20,000
That's the point I'm trying to establish, because Jesus said, I can't accept you. If your father sent you to me, he won't sense someone that deceiving heart.

562
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:44,000
Amen. And that could be true in some cases, but apparently in this church, there were some people that may have been confused, because he tell them here, don't be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him.

563
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:51,000
So God can't get upset. What that looks like, how he carried that out, what may be the consequences, I don't want to find out.

564
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,000
But the Bible said God got to protect him. He couldn't get upset.

565
00:52:54,000 --> 00:53:01,000
Now, how long do you go before you spank Lil' Johnny?

566
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:09,000
I mean, you got a limit. Most of them in the old days, on the young days, in time and all this, they may not do spanking no more.

567
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:22,000
They may reason, they sit down and talk and communicate. But how long will you communicate with Lil' Johnny before you get your communication stronger and firmer, and you start, if you ain't gonna spank him, you start taking some stuff away from him?

568
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:36,000
So I'm saying, God must have a limit that he will go to before we cross that line, so now God is angry at us. He no longer, you know, just, okay, understanding. Now, I'm upset.

569
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:47,000
You know, some of the priests of sermon, a long years ago, back in the 17th and 1800s, you know, you don't want to fall into the hands of an angered God.

570
00:53:47,000 --> 00:54:07,000
So for the anger of God, will fall on whom will disobey him. Did he come back and tell us another don't?

571
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:21,000
Don't participate in these things, these things to be even listed up there. These people do. Most of the time we get caught up when we start doing things that we see other people do that may not be saved.

572
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:33,000
When we still allow people outside the body of Christ to influence us. But sometimes we can be influenced by people in the church who ain't living nothing.

573
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:42,000
Because he's talking about, you know, these were false beliefs of other people that were intertwined with them in the church.

574
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:54,000
So they say, don't be fooled by them, but at the same time, you know, you got to make sure that you don't participate in these things, in the things these people do.

575
00:54:54,000 --> 00:55:06,000
You know, have no share of it. So there are some time when other Christians may not be where you are, they may go out and do something that you feel like, hey, I ain't going to have no share in that.

576
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:18,000
Now for you, it may be wrong or sinful, but for them it may not. So like for me, I tell people all the time, you know, alcohol is just not me.

577
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:27,000
And I don't mind being around people who drink alcohol, so I don't have no fear going around them, but I will not participate with them.

578
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:35,000
I don't care what the occasion is. Why? Because for me, God didn't tell me I don't need to do that.

579
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:43,000
And so I know He them spoke to my heart about doing that, and for me to do it to me, it would be a sin, but it may not be a sin for Brother Hurd.

580
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:52,000
Because Brother Hurd may work on the principle, as long as I don't get drunk, Pastor, you ain't got nothing to say.

581
00:55:52,000 --> 00:56:04,000
Brother Hurd, be right. You're right, Brother Hurd. The sin is drunk in this. You're right, Brother Hurd. We just disagree. I just agree that I'm not going to drink. You're going to drink.

582
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:12,000
And if you don't cross that line, I ain't got nothing to say. But I may not want to be there with you and participate and be around you while you're doing it.

583
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,000
I got a choice to make.

584
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:24,000
So, Pastor, are you basically seeing a person need to establish a relationship with Christ for their sin?

585
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:34,000
Oh, yeah. Every individual. You know, it's an individual wall. We function as a body as a group, but our relationship with God is individual.

586
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:42,000
That's why we all grow at different rates. That's why we learn at different rates. That's why we respond with our spirit. Not the same.

587
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:51,000
Because everybody grows differently. That's like natural children. Natural children don't, even in the same families, don't grow the same way.

588
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:58,000
Don't learn everything exactly the same time, the same way. And don't act the same way, even though they're in the same family.

589
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,000
Some children mature quicker than others.

590
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:08,000
And so it's the same way in our walk with Christ. There are some people, regarding, I don't think of age when I used to wear maturity, think of growth.

591
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:15,000
Some people will mature in their relationship with Christ, even though they may not have been saved for two years.

592
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,000
I have a course.

593
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:23,000
Versus somebody who may have been in a church for 10 years. But they ain't putting in the work. They ain't trying to grow.

594
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,000
They ain't doing the things that leads to growth.

595
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,000
So your question?

596
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:33,000
So, just hypothetically, saying a speaking.

597
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:34,000
Okay.

598
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:47,000
If I were to be at a restaurant somewhere eating, and you so happened to come into the environment and say a restaurant, and I was drinking some wine, would you see me the same?

599
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:55,000
You know, 20 years ago, I probably would.

600
00:57:55,000 --> 00:58:02,000
Because back then I was very dogmatic in my approach to say that anybody didn't do what I did.

601
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:04,000
You know, it had to be wrong.

602
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:09,000
Because I didn't drink nothing. And I had an issue with anybody who drunk anything.

603
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,000
Because I was just that hard on alcohol.

604
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:16,000
And so I'll never forget one day we were at the Olive Garden with some young people.

605
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,000
And this is a true story.

606
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:24,000
And while we were sitting there, you know, Olive Garden always asked you, would you like wine with your data?

607
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:32,000
Well, 80% of the people at the table looked right at me to see what I was going to say.

608
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:38,000
But there was one outlaw that hadn't been under me long.

609
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,000
They said, yeah, it's a wine.

610
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:46,000
And when he said that, everybody looked at him like, are you out your mind?

611
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,000
You don't order a glass of wine.

612
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:54,000
But at that time, you know, that was kind of where I was at.

613
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,000
But now I know that drunkenness is the sin.

614
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,000
So I really don't major on those things.

615
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:04,000
But if you cross that line, I ain't going to cut you no slack.

616
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:11,000
So are you saying that if we were to go out to dinner as a church group to Olive Garden,

617
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:15,000
and somebody got a drink of wine, you would have anything to tell about it?

618
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:16,000
I wouldn't have no problem with it.

619
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:21,000
If you sit down and drink the whole bottle, though, and then somebody got to assist you to your car,

620
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,000
then yeah, I'm going to have a problem with that.

621
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,000
I'm going to have a problem with that.

622
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:28,000
You know, another true story.

623
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,000
When we used to have our anniversary, we'd go out and have a big thing.

624
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:36,000
Some people who drank wine said, Pastor, we want wine on the table at anniversary.

625
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:37,000
Ain't no sin against that.

626
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,000
But I've always said no.

627
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:40,000
I'll probably still say no to that.

628
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:47,000
Because when I allowed a church to have an anniversary, and we put it on the table, look, I'm enabling you now.

629
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,000
And I don't want to look like I'm enabling you.

630
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:56,000
But if you're going to, you paying for your own meal, you want a glass of wine, you go and do your thing.

631
00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:02,000
So I understand, and you got to understand, when we're dealing with people, there are Christians who drink,

632
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:06,000
not just wine, but drink strong drink.

633
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,000
Amen.

634
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:15,000
So the sin, I wouldn't encourage that, and I would hope that everybody that hung around me wouldn't do that.

635
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:20,000
But if they did, and they get drunk, I couldn't hold out against them.

636
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:25,000
Because I understand where that line is, but I'm not afraid to call.

637
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,000
See, what happens is, the church get afraid to call sin.

638
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:33,000
You can call things sinful without calling out the person.

639
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:38,000
I can stand here and say, hey, drunkenness is a sin.

640
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:42,000
The Bible just said, fornication is a sin.

641
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,000
But I ain't calling out no name.

642
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:51,000
But if the fornicator is here to me, he getting tight right now.

643
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:52,000
He is, he could squirm it.

644
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:53,000
Well, why he got to go?

645
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,000
I ain't called your name.

646
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:59,000
I just called out the sin.

647
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:00,000
He trying to judge me.

648
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,000
Now I don't even know who you are.

649
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:09,000
I'm just saying God says, fornication is a sin.

650
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:11,000
That's it.

651
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:12,000
Let me read on that.

652
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:20,000
Yeah, we have a, he said, now look, he says, but now look, brother Herb just in you all, he said, now look, this is where we were.

653
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:24,000
He says, for once you were full of dog, because how many of you know we was all there?

654
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:30,000
Before you got saved, you didn't know it because we were doing stuff in the dog and we thought that was good.

655
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:39,000
The stuff that we did in the dog, we didn't think that was really evil or simple because we kept doing it until somebody told us, hey, that's a better life.

656
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:52,000
And so we had to be told because, hey man, I didn't see nothing wrong with going out and, you know, having to listen to sex at 16 and 17 because all my friends were doing it.

657
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:57,000
And no one challenged me on that, not even the older men now lie.

658
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:05,000
So therefore coming out, that wouldn't look that it's no crossing, you cursed, hey man, oh, go song.

659
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:15,000
And so when you come up with that misguided teaching and you run up on this in the Bible, then now you won't try to justify what we were doing that was wrong.

660
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:17,000
It says, hey man, we just ignorant.

661
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:22,000
We got to admit we was in darkness.

662
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:26,000
And we came out of darkness into the,

663
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:29,000
so he said, now look, this is all of us.

664
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:39,000
He says, but once you were full of darkness, but now, somebody said, but now, but now you have light from the Lord.

665
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:42,000
So now he says, live in the light.

666
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:45,000
So as people of light live in the light.

667
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:53,000
So therefore now that we're in Christ and His light is in us, we're supposed to live like people of light.

668
01:02:53,000 --> 01:03:01,000
And therefore as people of light, we're not supposed to flick on and flick off.

669
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:10,000
Meaning that even now when we go into the midst of darkness, the light is still supposed to stay on.

670
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:14,000
Now I just came back from a wedding celebration.

671
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:18,000
And in Champagne we're flowing like I don't know what, because it's natural.

672
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:23,000
There ain't got no problem with that. As long as none of the folks I knew got drunk, I ain't get drunk from it.

673
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,000
I ain't see it. There ain't no problem with that.

674
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:32,000
But while the champagne was flowing, I was just let watching them soak it up.

675
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:37,000
Because my light was still shining.

676
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:43,000
I could have said, man, I'm over here in a foreign country on Isle and there ain't nobody from Stroud-Madeefolk

677
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:51,000
that's supposed to have some kid to me and some know me. I could go ahead and just have me a little sip right now.

678
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:58,000
And so it wasn't nothing simple about it, but for me, my light said I can't do that.

679
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:01,000
You may feel like you can, but my light said I can't.

680
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:06,000
And so for me it would have been simple for me and God to have this relationship.

681
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:13,000
When I say I have been delivered from alcohol, I have been delivered from alcohol for all occasions.

682
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:18,000
There is no occasion that caused me to want to have a drink.

683
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:22,000
But now for you, ain't that wrong with that? Because I can find a celebration in the Bible.

684
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:29,000
Jesus first miracle at a celebration.

685
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:33,000
So don't hate on me because my light is shining. You just keep on drinking.

686
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:38,000
But if you get drunk, I'm going to have something to say about it.

687
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:46,000
Because if I don't, then now it's looking like I'm endorsing your behavior.

688
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:54,000
Oh boy, that's what Paul was trying to give him to see here. He says, look, for you were once full of darkness,

689
01:04:54,000 --> 01:05:01,000
but now you have light from the Lord. So live, conduct yourself as people like.

690
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:09,000
And then in verse 9, for this light within you produce only what is good, right, and true.

691
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:14,000
When we get saved and the light come in us, it's supposed to produce good in us versus evil,

692
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:19,000
right versus wrong, and truth versus lie.

693
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:23,000
The good when you get saved is supposed to produce these things in us.

694
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:28,000
But if we don't allow the spirit to work in us, it won't produce those things.

695
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:35,000
So you'll be saved and still lie. You'll be saved and still living wrong.

696
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,000
You'll be saved and still doing evil.

697
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:44,000
Because you're practicing what you came to the Lord with, and you don't allow the Holy Spirit to move on your heart,

698
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:52,000
to change you and transform you from that darkness to light.

699
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:56,000
He's saying now look, so carefully, somebody say carefully.

700
01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:05,000
So this is each one of y'all. You gotta carefully determine for you what pleases the Lord.

701
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:12,000
I know for me drinking alcohol don't please Him. I've carefully determined that.

702
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:20,000
I know for me gambling don't please Him. I've carefully determined that.

703
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:26,000
Even though if I wanted to go back, I can justify to say, but it ain't sinful.

704
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:33,000
I pay my tithe. I pay my bills on tithe. It's recreation. It's relaxing.

705
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:36,000
The pool of thoughts. Ching-ching.

706
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:41,000
Ching-ching. I feel so good every time I scratch them off.

707
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,000
It's just a good feeling because I scratch with anticipation.

708
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:51,000
This next one just give me a rush. It could be the...

709
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:55,000
But for somebody else, that may be okay.

710
01:06:55,000 --> 01:07:00,000
But for me, that would be going back to darkness.

711
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:06,000
So I ain't got no problem if you got scratched off in your pocket right now.

712
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:10,000
I mean, is that what you want to do? Do you?

713
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:16,000
But if you ain't paying your rent and your card notes and taking care of your family

714
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:25,000
and you got a pocket full of scratch off, then I think God got a problem with you.

715
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:30,000
So now look... He said, now look, boy, I tell you, that's why I say this is easy.

716
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:36,000
This is practical. So you gotta carefully determine for you what pleases the Lord.

717
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:42,000
Then He says, verse 11, take no part in worthless deeds of evil and darkness.

718
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:47,000
Instead, ex... This is where Christians get afraid right now.

719
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:51,000
You don't have to go out and call Brother Herb this or that.

720
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:56,000
You just need to stand up in front of people and tell them what the words say.

721
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,000
I ain't gotta say, Brother Herb is a drunk.

722
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:01,000
This person is drunk? I don't know.

723
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:04,000
I just need to say the Bible. Say, Drunkin' it is a...

724
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:09,000
And the Holy Spirit gonna ex... Expose that.

725
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:16,000
And if they are child of God, it's gonna convict them.

726
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:23,000
Especially if they know if the Spirit say it is sin.

727
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:31,000
But a lot of times Christians, we go around other people and so to win their approval, we turn off the light.

728
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:36,000
When you're sitting in a conversation and somebody talking about something that you know is against the Word of God,

729
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:41,000
you gotta stand and say, hey, that ain't right.

730
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:46,000
Based on God's word, that is wrong.

731
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:53,000
And when you do that, then now you are not aiding them with your sorrow.

732
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:58,000
When people say things and do things in front of you that you know is wrong and you don't say nothing,

733
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:03,000
it's almost like you endorsing what they do.

734
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:06,000
I know it's hard sometimes because we don't want to be accused of judging folks.

735
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:09,000
You ain't judging them, you're just saying what the Bible say.

736
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:16,000
I can say right now, hey, Drunkin' it is a sin. That's a true statement.

737
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:19,000
And if you're not a drunk, that just went right over your head.

738
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:25,000
You ain't talking to me? But if you're a drunk, why you gotta be picking on me?

739
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:31,000
I ain't picking on you. I just said that's living in darkness.

740
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:36,000
And you supposed to be a child of life.

741
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:42,000
He said, now look, take no part in these worthless deeds of evil and darkness that are exposed to him.

742
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,000
He said, look, man, but he hit us hard right here.

743
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:52,000
It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.

744
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:57,000
You know we shouldn't be going and getting them tabloids.

745
01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:03,000
You know, out of Walmart, the grocery store, you can get them there and see who did this last week.

746
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:07,000
Oh, you just get into that. I just want to see who pushed the movement start and had sex outside of Mary.

747
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:10,000
Who fit in to get divorced?

748
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:16,000
He's saying, look, man, we shouldn't get no pleasure in reading stuff like that.

749
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:20,000
Let me start a final.

750
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:33,000
He used to wear a shaeful, a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by your conscious of something that you think is wrong or foolish.

751
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:39,000
You look at them, pick a read that man, you say, oh, man, my kind of man, that is so foolish.

752
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,000
Such and such finna get married for the seventh time.

753
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:50,000
That is so.

754
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:54,000
I ain't even buying that. I don't even want to read the story.

755
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:58,000
I just want to see what it's like. No, you're going to get trapped.

756
01:10:58,000 --> 01:11:05,000
Because you're going to get into the gossip and not read another folk's life. Leave it up.

757
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:12,000
I'm just for being. You got to determine what is shameful for you.

758
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:17,000
That's a bone time. I ain't trying to stop you from getting your tabloids on the way out of Walmart.

759
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:22,000
Wherever you shop them by your grocery. You may even get them in the mail.

760
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:25,000
You don't have to do that. Now you just go online and find them.

761
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,000
Just Google.

762
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:37,000
Serious, whoever. That's the only lady's gospel, folks.

763
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:42,000
Why are we Christians so interested in what ungodly folk do?

764
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,000
That's the question we got to ask ourselves.

765
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:47,000
Stuff that they do is secret.

766
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:56,000
It ain't like they're doing it out in the open. We're trying to find out what they're doing in...

767
01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:59,000
That's why I laugh when I got this far today.

768
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:11,000
But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them for the light makes everything visible.

769
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:14,000
That is why it is said. Now this is not a direct quote from a script.

770
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:16,000
There are several parts.

771
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:19,000
Awake, O sleeper, rise from the dead.

772
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:24,000
When we were considered in the world living in darkness, we were considered sleep and spiritually dead.

773
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:32,000
So it said, now that we have been enlightened, that we are to awake, rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

774
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:41,000
When we come into the knowledge of who he is and what he has done for us and we understand God's word, that enlightenment, our mind get illuminated.

775
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:45,000
That's what enlightenment means. We get an understanding. We get a knowledge of God.

776
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:51,000
And as we get a knowledge of him in the light, it should cause us not to want to live in darkness.

777
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:57,000
When I know what I believe is truth based on God's word, I shouldn't want to go back and live the lie.

778
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:00,000
Now look at this.

779
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:09,000
Then he says in verse 15, he started talking about how important it is for us to live by the power of the Spirit.

780
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:11,000
He says, look, so be careful.

781
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:13,000
Somebody said be careful.

782
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:18,000
Man, he telling church folk, you got to be cautious and avoid missteps.

783
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:23,000
Because if you're not careful, you can have a misstep.

784
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:31,000
See if I had not been careful down there in St. Lucia, I could have had a misstep.

785
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:37,000
I mean, because there was leftover champagne, they wanted to go away.

786
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:44,000
I could have had a... I'm just trying to help them keep them pointed out.

787
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:50,000
I could have had a misstep.

788
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:54,000
Ain't nobody out here, Kisha ain't going to tell on me, Catties ain't going to tell on me.

789
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,000
Because they drinking something.

790
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:58,000
They ain't going to tell on me.

791
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:01,000
And they ain't going to tell if they ain't okay, it's okay.

792
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:06,000
Then all of a sudden now, somebody got nothing out of their Facebook page.

793
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:09,000
That's how I pressed her.

794
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:14,000
He done had a misstep.

795
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:18,000
He done went down there and had a...

796
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,000
Now for anybody else, that wouldn't be a misstep.

797
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,000
If you don't get drunk and you do that.

798
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,000
But for me, it is.

799
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:30,000
Because I'm not convinced that God told me not to do it anymore.

800
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:32,000
And he may not have told you that.

801
01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:35,000
So for me, I got to be careful because that would be a misstep.

802
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:38,000
It would be like someone who's been dealing with alcoholism.

803
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,000
They can't afford to have a...

804
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:42,000
A misstep.

805
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:44,000
A misstep.

806
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:51,000
Because that's what the devil want us to do, is to have a misstep.

807
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:54,000
He says now, so be careful how you live.

808
01:14:54,000 --> 01:15:00,000
Don't live like fools, but like those who are wise.

809
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:04,000
Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.

810
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:08,000
So in other words, they don't live like fools, but like those who are wise.

811
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,000
Because if we want wisdom, we can get it from above.

812
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:15,000
Then he says, now because we're in a light for the herd,

813
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:21,000
we're supposed to make the most of every opportunity that we get in these evil days.

814
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:23,000
I mean, you know, we're living in the evil days.

815
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:25,000
These days, they're back there with evil. They're still evil.

816
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:27,000
Ain't nothing changed.

817
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:29,000
He writing this letter to the church.

818
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:33,000
You know, sexual sins were back there all the way back in the beginning.

819
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:36,000
Sexual sins run all the way through the Bible.

820
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:38,000
All the way through the Bible.

821
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:42,000
And it runs all the way through 2023.

822
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:51,000
Not just in the world, but in the...

823
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:56,000
Man, sex ain't off the limit, Carl. You don't care if you're doing this, do you?

824
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:59,000
It's still in the...

825
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:06,000
So if you don't address it, then folk will think, hey, they don't care about certain things.

826
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,000
But the Bible, you got to read the Bible.

827
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,000
You could have skipped this chapter.

828
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:12,000
Let's go on to the one and jump on marriage.

829
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:15,000
Now, we just talked about the marriage folk. Let's just deal with this.

830
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:19,000
No, but before he got to the marriage folk, he had to deal with the whole church.

831
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:27,000
He said, now, if we are doing those things in darkness,

832
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:31,000
then we're going to miss some opportunities to witness to some people.

833
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:36,000
Because what it does is hinder our witness when you try to go and tell somebody about the Lord,

834
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:39,000
and then they're going to play your life, play you back to you.

835
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:41,000
Wait a minute.

836
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:46,000
I saw a few doing when he was over there, and you did go past the limit.

837
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:50,000
Somebody had to drive you home.

838
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:53,000
Now, you need to go home and repair.

839
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:59,000
You're not going to see the sin unto death, but it is a sin, and you can't just blow it off.

840
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:05,000
That's why if we say the Lord's prayer every day and sincerely mean it, he covers that.

841
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:09,000
Because he knows daily that the potential for us to do something sinful,

842
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:14,000
not just alcohol, could be anything that God considers sin.

843
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:17,000
So he says, now, I'm looking for 17. I'm going to stop at verse 20.

844
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:20,000
He says, don't act thoughtlessly.

845
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:28,000
In other words, don't be foolish, but understand what God, what the Lord wants you to do.

846
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:33,000
You got to understand for yourself what the Lord wants you to do.

847
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:36,000
And once you understand that, you got to do it.

848
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:42,000
And don't compare what the Lord wants you to do with what somebody else is doing.

849
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:47,000
Just like I said, I could have even compared myself to other people who gamble,

850
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:52,000
other people who drink alcohol and all that, because I can say, hey, it ain't a sin.

851
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:59,000
Jesus turned water into wine. They cash lots in the Bible to decide certain things.

852
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:02,000
Ain't that wrong with gambling? If you want to gamble, go out there and gamble.

853
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:05,000
It's not a sin. Go play bingo and try to win.

854
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:09,000
It's a game of chance.

855
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:12,000
Ain't that wrong with it? You don't pay to rent. You don't pay to tie.

856
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:16,000
You're too old to take care. This is your recreational money.

857
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:20,000
Pastor Bowden chooses to go see the New Orleans Pelican play with his $75.

858
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:25,000
You choose to go put it on some slot. Same $75.

859
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:30,000
I get you out of watching the game. You get you out of ching ching.

860
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:34,000
Just make you feel good. And the quarter still I fall in.

861
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:45,000
But if your house know they pay, or your children ain't got what they need, then you got a problem.

862
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:50,000
And that's the only thing that with certain things that is not necessarily sinful,

863
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:57,000
they can't become sin to us when we become addicted to it and it becomes our God.

864
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:03,000
Now, I can't pass by a gas station. I'm always feeling lucky.

865
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:07,000
Don't even need no gas. Let me just run here and see if I can get me a scratch off.

866
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:11,000
I'm 10 minutes late from my doctor's appointment, but there's a gas station over there.

867
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:16,000
You got a problem.

868
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:23,000
Your behavior now has become addictive and you're addicted to something that could become your God.

869
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,000
So now look here. Let me go and finish this up.

870
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:29,000
So we got to not act, don't act thoughtlessly.

871
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:32,000
He said, now look, come back this wine again.

872
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:35,000
Back then wine was the drink of the day.

873
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:38,000
We can put crown in there now. We can put seagrown there.

874
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:43,000
We can put vassiae. We can put whatever type of wine you drink in the day.

875
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:49,000
For some folk now, we may have to put some pills there.

876
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:53,000
Anything that's going to cause your mind to get out of place.

877
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:58,000
Too much weed will mess with your head and it could be legal somewhere,

878
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:01,000
but it may not be legal for you.

879
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:03,000
You ain't got got a coma.

880
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:06,000
Ain't got nothing wrong with you. No doctor prescribed it for you.

881
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:12,000
Now if you just wanted for recreation, I got a feeling I may have a hard time

882
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:16,000
calling this sin if they don't make it legal.

883
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:20,000
If they don't make it legal, because alcohol used to be looked at as a sin,

884
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:23,000
but they made it.

885
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:30,000
But I do have a right to say, hey, your pupas don't got so big that you can't see nothing.

886
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:34,000
You don't have too much.

887
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,000
You don't cross the line.

888
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:42,000
Now you borderline, you may be stepping over into something that's sinful behavior now.

889
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:44,000
And the law's going to catch up.

890
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,000
The law just ain't caught up with it yet.

891
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:49,000
Trust me, they're out there trying to measure how much ever you can take

892
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:58,000
before they consider you legally intoxicated with it.

893
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:07,000
Get a mic real quick, let me finish this up. I got eight minutes.

894
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:10,000
You're a pharmacist too, right?

895
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:11,000
Technician.

896
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:17,000
Technician, okay. Well, you know enough about drugs to know which one can do something to you.

897
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:25,000
I was going to say that smoking as well is a setup for the government to pull you over,

898
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:32,000
even if you're not doing anything and decide that they smell something and then you need to check your car.

899
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:36,000
You don't necessarily have to be intoxicated.

900
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:41,000
Yeah, they'll ask to pull you over to a tail light just to check your car.

901
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:45,000
Yeah, so you see, it's dangerous anywhere you look at it.

902
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:48,000
Especially if you're Christian and it's illegal.

903
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:51,000
Now you in the state, I think in Florida it's still illegal.

904
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:55,000
Okay, one day it's probably going to be legal here in Florida. Right now it's illegal.

905
01:21:55,000 --> 01:22:01,000
So you're a Christian and you know it's illegal, you're not supposed to break the law.

906
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:07,000
Unless you got a doctor's prescription that tells you you can do that.

907
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:12,000
Even though it's recreational, it's illegal.

908
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:15,000
Amen? Can I get amen from everybody now?

909
01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:16,000
We agree.

910
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:21,000
In Florida weed is illegal, isn't it?

911
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:23,000
Huh?

912
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:26,000
Did they don't legalize weed in Florida?

913
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:29,000
Oh, okay, I didn't know that. Well, I stand corrected.

914
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:32,000
Oh, for medicine. Yeah, okay, I got that. Yeah, I figured that.

915
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:38,000
Yeah, not for recreation. You just can't go out there and you don't get you about four or five of them.

916
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:42,000
From the street corner drugs, you know what I mean?

917
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:46,000
You got on the car and now you can't do that. Okay, now look what he tells us we need to do.

918
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:52,000
He says now, since we can't be drunk with wine, because it will ruin your life.

919
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:56,000
Well, not only wine will ruin your life, a lot of stuff will ruin your life.

920
01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:04,000
Instead be filled, he contrast being drunk with wine with being filled with the Holy Spirit.

921
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:12,000
Because you can have a joy that will last much longer and won't have no hangover to go with it.

922
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:17,000
You can wake up in the morning with the Holy Spirit and you ain't got to be figured out where,

923
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:20,000
the room ain't going to be spinning around on you, you know,

924
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:23,000
and you trying to figure out how do I get to work there, because I feel sorry.

925
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:29,000
You can just be drunk in the Spirit and the Lord ain't got no problem with you being drunk in the Spirit.

926
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:33,000
You just come to church and get your drunk on every time you come in on Sunday.

927
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:43,000
Hey, I come to get drunk today, you know, I'm going to get lit right here.

928
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:45,000
So he encouraged you that, brother.

929
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:47,000
He encouraged you that?

930
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:51,000
He encouraged us to drink this Holy Spirit, 100 proof of Him, all of them.

931
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:53,000
Drink Him.

932
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:56,000
Be filled with Him.

933
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:59,000
And this fellow here has told my something that can happen to continue.

934
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:02,000
This is not talking about when we got baptized, got saved in the Holy Spirit.

935
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:08,000
This is talking about an experience that you can have over and over and over and over again.

936
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:12,000
And so he said, look, man, when you do that and come to church, you worship,

937
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:17,000
you ought to want to be filled with something when you come to church.

938
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:21,000
And when you get filled, you start singing the right thing.

939
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:28,000
You sing songs and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves,

940
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:33,000
making music to the Lord in your heart.

941
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:35,000
Songs come from the books of songs.

942
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:36,000
They used to sing those things.

943
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:40,000
Hymns came about later because after the song, people started writing hymns.

944
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:42,000
Hymns were designed to be devotional.

945
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:49,000
And normally people wrote about their experiences and turned them into hymns that can be used to glorify God.

946
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:54,000
Amazing grace is about an experience.

947
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:56,000
A guy who was a slave trader.

948
01:24:56,000 --> 01:25:01,000
All of a sudden one day found out who Jesus was, came into the light and said,

949
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:05,000
he thanked God for his amazing grace for saving a wretch like him.

950
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:07,000
He was just talking about how bad he was.

951
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:10,000
And a lot of these entertainers now, when you listen to their music,

952
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:14,000
they're just writing about their life, most of them.

953
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:19,000
They're telling their life story in music and song because people can't remember that.

954
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:23,000
And so he said, we should be doing the same thing in the church,

955
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:29,000
telling stories from God's Word in music and song so people can remember it.

956
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:35,000
Music can be used as an educational tool in the church.

957
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:38,000
He said, now make your music in your heart.

958
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:42,000
Your heart got to be in this thing, not just your lips.

959
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:47,000
When your heart is in it, then that's when that joy comes, when your heart is in it.

960
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:53,000
Then he says, when you're making this music, give thanks for everything to God,

961
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:56,000
the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

962
01:25:56,000 --> 01:26:03,000
So when you do that and we give thanks, then others are going to be blessed by that experience.

963
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:07,000
So he's telling them, hey, you can have all these things going,

964
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,000
but man at the end of the day, you've got to have the Holy Spirit.

965
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,000
You've got to get filled with the Spirit.

966
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,000
You've got to live and walk in a cause with the Spirit

967
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:19,000
because all the time you ain't going to have your Bible with you all the time,

968
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:23,000
but you ought to have the Spirit of God with you all the time.

969
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:49,000
All done, get in all the hand club of praise, hallelujah, hallelujah.