Becoming Love Pt. 4 The Truth Can Kill | Pastor Dwain Wolfe

To our lives and to our time together. We thank

you for your word that teaches that your word is

your God breathed expression that teachers, trains, correct and rebukes.

We thank you for it. We welcome this interaction with

you today in Jesus name. Everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen. Well,

I want to talk to you a little bit more

about love. We've named this series Becoming Love. This is

going to be my little as far as I know,

this is going to be my last in this series

on becoming Love. And as I've told you every week, No.

Part four, the truth can kill. Oh look at that.

That's beautiful. So as I told you every week, Really,

what we're trying to do is come into alignment with

who we are. Is that all right? Because we already

we already have become love, Believe it or not. We've

already become love by becoming born of the spirit. So

when you were born of God, you became one with love,

and the testimony of love dwells in you. And so

a lot of what we're trying to do in church

and as a community together is we're trying to renew

our mind. We're trying to bring ourselves into understanding knowledge, understanding,

and then alignment and agreement with who He's made us

to be in Christ Jesus. Yes, so, and that's you know,

that's a lot of Ephesians Ephesians. The first three chapters

of Ephesians are telling us who we are. The first

three chapters are all about identity. You are now seated

in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. You've been raised up,

you've been blessed with every spiritual blessing, for instance. That's

chapter one. So we've got three chapters telling us a

lot about the new identity, the new reality, the transformative power,

and the things that have happened to us in Christ

and through the new birth. The last three chapters of

Ephesians is Paul speaking to them about their behavior, and

part of what he's speaking to them about is what

they already heard as they were told about the new creation.

He's reminding them so in chapter four is one of

the big ones. We're going to focus in on a

bunch of that today, on a bunch of chapter four.

But the idea is that we truly have become love,

and that the witness of love, the ministry of love,

the word of love, the compelling of love and the

grace of love already dwells in you that are born

of the spirit, and the love that dwells in you

and me who are born of the spirit. That love

is agape, and agape is sacrificial. A word that we

had last week that I thought was totally of the

Lord is that agape. Love is one way love. Everybody

say one way love, meaning I don't need you to

love me back for me to manifest this love. I

don't need you to love me back. And even if

you don't love me back, I will not stop in

loving you. So this is the spirit of God dwelling

in you. You've received a spirit of love, power and

soundness of mind, and the spirit of God dwelling in

you and me. Is this miniSTR and ministry of love.

And it's one way love. So is that cool? And

this love will compel us, This love, if we'll listen,

this love will compel us. This love will be speaking

to us and adjusting our heart. And the purpose of

this love that we are we are so connected with

you know what that is? What do you think that is?

That is one of our famous baptismal tanks. You should

have known immediately as soon as you saw that this

is the famous baptismal tank. The purpose of this love

is that as we are raised up out of the

baptismal tank, that we no longer live like we once lived,

that we no longer live in the darkness of our

heart and our minds. First John form, so that I

can convince you you want to be convinced we don't

have this one on the scripture. Somebody wants to be convinced.

That was enough. I just needed one. If anyone acknowledges

this is First John four fifteen. If anyone acknowledges that

Jesus is the son of God, God lives in them,

and they in God. And so we know and rely

upon the love God has for us. God is love.

Whoever lives in Love lives in God and God in them.

This is a gope. This is not falleo, this is

not aros. This is a gope. One way love, selfless love,

sacrificial love, initiating love, lay down my life love. And

this is how verse seventeen. And this is how love

is made complete among us, so that we will have

confidence in the day of judgment, For in this world

we are like Jesus that's the NIV. The NIV is

really soft. The King James says, as he is, so

are we in this world. This is John telling us

that this born again experience that we have embraced is

so powerful that it's transformed who we are, and that

we now are like him in this world, that we

are the manifestation of love. In this world. There is

no fear in love in a goape love, but perfect

love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment.

The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

I mean of you think people around you ought to

be made perfect, that you know that you actually are

a You actually are a weapon. You actually are a tool.

You actually are you're actually useful to the Lord to

bring others into perfection as you partner with him and

love others in a gape. Now, if you only love

in fileo, if we only love in fialleo love, then

we are being used fully of the Lord to bring

others into liberty and into freedom because we are partnering

with something else. We're partnering with something less than a cape,

and that means we're partnering with deception or falsehood or

punishment or something. We'll get into that, all right, Is

that all right? We love because He first loved us.

Why do we love? We love because He first love us.

So this is why, this is why we can operate

in one way love, why we can manifest one way

love and we can love fully and sacrificially and not

need love to back because that's the way He loves us. Now,

one of the things that we've been talking about is

how important it is that we get deliverance, that we

get freedom, because my feeling and my experience is that

many times we don't need more of God, we need

less of the devil. Now you're gonna hear you need

more of God. You're gonna be you're gonna be swooned

by that, and you're going to be drawn by that.

You're gonna feel like that's your problem. But even getting

more of God might actually happen as you get less

of the devil. What if your revival is not so

much related to getting more of God? What if your

revival is related to getting less of the devil. Did

you know that most sickness and disease the Christians are

afflicted with has nothing to do with God not wanting

to heal them. It has everything to do with oppression

from the demonic realm. That's why in almost every single

case where it says Jesus healed, or when philippent to

Samaria and it says that the people were healed, it's

always in conjunction with deliverance. So when it comes to healing,

even we're trying to talk God into healing us all

the time instead of trying to talk devils into leaving

our body. Well, I'll let you meditate on that in

a minute, but anyway, it's true, and I think the

same thing is true for us manifesting love better. For

us to manifest love better, you don't need a new

Holy Spirit. You don't need a double Holy Spirit. You

don't need a triple Holy Spirit. You don't need a

Holy Spirit with chocolate sauce on top. What you need

is to decide that you are no longer going to

partner with who you were, and you need to kick

who you were out of you. If all what I'm saying,

you'll follow better as I go. But today, as we

go through this, I want you to I want you

to part partner with some deliverance as we go through

this today, a little bit, recognizing that some of what

you've held onto that is antithical to love, untithical to

and opposed to a gape, is actually demonic. So let's

read a little bit about our calling to love. A

little bit more about our calling to love Romans, Chapter thirteen,

eight through ten. Let no debt remain outstanding except the

continuing debt to love one another. Let no debt remain

outstanding except the continuing debt to love one another. For

whoever loves others has fulfilled the law the commandments you

shall not commit an ultry, you shall not murder, you

shall not steal, you shall not of it, and whatever

other commandment there may be, And we know in the Torah,

in the first five books of the Bible, there are

six hundred and thirteen commandments. Whatever other commandment they might

there may be, are summed up in this one command.

Love your neighbor as yourself loves. Love does no harm

to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.

So this is like the supreme commandment that we are

called to interreact and inter relate to. And what we've

been understanding is that we are anointed with that enablement already.

So if we're anointed with that enablement already, the problem

is not a lack of ability. The problem is somewhere

between our head and our heart. Now, one of the

ways that we love each other is to tell each

other the truth. And this is my emphasis today, is

that truth. Truth is intricate to love, and love exists

within the boundaries of truth, and truth exists within the

boundaries of love. That the truth that the two are inseparable,

that they are woven together, that you can't have one

without the other. When we have a God of love,

we have a god of truth. When we have a

God of truth, we have a God of love. And

anything less than the fullness of truth is the absence

of love. And so Jesus was the embodiment of that.

We're told in the Word that he's the embodiment of

grace and truth. Instead of the embodiment of the law,

the law of Moses, he was the embodiment of grace

and truth, love and truth all combined into one being.

Truth is central to love, Truth is central to Jesus.

Truth is perfect theology. Jesus is perfect theology. Now Satan

is the opposite of that. So our former partnership in

life was a partnership with satanic methodology. And we have

to realize that before Christ came, this was common. Before

Christ came, and there came liberty to our hearts and

liberty from the demonic realm. We partnered with de seit,

That deception de sit was how we fulfilled our desires. Now,

whether those desires were unclean desires or clean desires that

we before Jesus we built. We climbed our ladder, our

corporate ladder, our government ladder, our family ladder, our sexual ladder,

our romantic ladder, our educational ladder, whatever ladder it was,

we climbed. We climbed it on the backs of de seat,

on the shoulders of deception, on exaggeration and falsehood and

impurity and uncleanness. So this is how we fulfilled our desires.

But when Christ came and we received forgiveness of sin

and liberty from that first atom's influence, and we came

into Christ, who is the second atom, the fountain head

of a new creation, we were liberated from the law

of sin and death, and we were liberated to love.

You've been liberated to love now. You can love now

because You don't need to climb your ladder on the

backs of deception, on the backs of harm, on the

backs of theft, on the backs of anything. I don't

need to harm you to have my desires fulfilled. Christ

is my source. I don't need a cheat from you.

I don't need to lie, I don't need to connib

I don't need to deceive. I don't need to use exaggeration.

I don't need to use sleight of hand. I don't

need to bear any falsehood with regard to my desires,

because I've been liberated from all of those methods through

the waters of baptism, and I've come up new in

Christ and in my resurrected life. Christ is my fullness.

He's my fulfillment. He's my overcomer. He's my victor. He

is my prosperity and my help. He's my defender and

my hope. He's my avenger and my redeemer. He's my restore.

He is the builder of my life. He is everything.

He's everything wherever we wherever we falter in understanding the

fullness of what has become for us. Wherever we falter,

then we lapse back into deception. You ever had a

temporary lapse. No, and we said no. But then they

said it was alive with a temporary lapse right there.

If you know the truth and you fail to tell

the truth or expose the truth, you're failing in love.

Because love liberates. I'm sorry, you're failing in love because

truth liberates. Truth heals, truth delivers, truth perseveres, Truth saves heartache.

Truth is a compass. Truth is God's heart, Truth is

God's word. The Holy Spirit is called the spirit of truth,

and there's no deception in God. Ephesians chapter four. We

jump into these three chapters in Ephesians. Chapter one, two,

and three tell us about our identity, who we've become.

Chapter four, five, and six tell us about the behavior

we're called to. Chapter four, I want to read this

to you Chapter four, verse seventeen. Are you still okay?

Verse seventeen. So I tell you this and insist on

it in the Lord, that you must no longer live

as the gentiles do in the futility of their thinking.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the

life of God because of the ignorance that is in them,

due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity.

They have given themselves over to sensuality so as to

indulge in every kind of impurity, and they're full of greed.

These are gentiles. He's talking about the non Jewish nace

of whom now the Church of Ephesies, and those coming

to the Lord in ephess were gentile people. So yes,

there were Jewish people being saved, even in Ephesis. They

were preaching at the synagogue, and Jewish people were coming

to know the Lord. But the majority of the people

coming to the Lord in Ephesus as they were sent out,

were gentile people who didn't know the Lord. And they

were darkened in their understanding, and they were foolish, and

they were blind, and they had hard hearts. And God

was fulfilling the prophetic word of Jeremiah. He was reaching

into that hard heart, pulling it out through Christ and

giving them soft hearts of flesh, new hearts. They've given

themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every

kind of impurity, and they're full of greed. That, however,

is not the way of life that you learned when

you heard about Christ and were taught in him, in

accordance to the truth that is in Jesus you were

taught with regard to your former way of life, that

old person who was put into the water of baptism,

to put off the old self, which is being corrupted

by its deceitful desires. So the old self was corrupted

by deceitful desires and fulfilled through deceitful desires. Put off

that old self, and everybody say, put off, and to

be made missus verse fienty three. And to be made

new in the attitude of your mind, or to renew

your mind, or to be made in the new in

the spirit of your mind, and to put on the

new self, created to be like God in true righteousness

and holiness. Therefore, so we put on the new self,

made like God in righteousness and holiness. Therefore, each of

you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor,

for we are all members of one body. Falsehood falsehood

in any measure, opens the door for injury. When we

withhold the truth, we bring injury to one another. Inasmuch

as we would never injure ourselves to love one another

as we love ourselves, then we put off falsehoods so

that we bring no injury to others around us. This

is our calling. This is our calling. And so and

this way you can see that truth and love that

they go together. You cannot separate truth from love. And

wherever we walk in any measure of falsehood, then to

that degree we are not loving our neighbor as ourselves.

And as we fail to love our neighbor as ourselves,

then we also fail to meet the calling, the anointing,

the enablement of the grace that dwells in us. We're

no longer partnering with that grace that dwells in us,

because deception is one of the characteristics of the old nature. Amen,

Astra Dwayne, that is so good. I'm absolutely floored by this.

Thank you, God, bless you. I appreciate that. Proverb six sixteen.

Listen to this one. You doing okay? There are six

things the Lord hates. Seven that are an abomination to

the Lord. Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed

innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that

make haste to run to evil, a false witness that

breathes out lies, and one whose swords says discord among brothers.

God hates these things, but because they're not of him.

These are of the enemy. Satan is the author of lies.

The truth is not in him. He is the fountain

head of hatred, disdain, animosity, warfare, enmity, jealousy, every unclean

faction that comes between people. Satan is the fountain head

of that. And we are called out of that life

completely and called into the liberty of love. I can

love you. It's called the perfect law of liberty. The

law of Christ is called the perfect law of liberty.

And I can love you perfectly because I am perfectly

love psal I'm fifteen one through five. Lord, who may

dwell in your sacred tent, who may live on your

holy mountain, The one whose walk is blameless, who does

what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart,

whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to

a neighbor, and cast no slur on another, This is

who can dwell in the habitation of the Lord. And

the end of that verse five, the end of that

I wish I would have kept it, but it didn't.

But the end of that it says that he who

does these things, they cannot slip like. They cannot slip,

they cannot falter. They cannot slip like your life. Your

life is built on a warranty better than Kia and

Hyundai ten years, undred thousand miles. I don't know, we

know whereever they got none. So truth must be married

to love. So truth must be married to love for

it to bear fruit. Truth must be married to love

for it to bear fruits. So we're called to love.

We're called the truth. But then the next thing I

want you to see is that the truth we're called to.

Everybody said the truth we're called to. The truth we're

called to must be married to love. And let's talk

about that a little bit. Because I have like a

doctorate degree in some of this other stuff, and you

didn't know that, but I have, like this one over here,

speaking the truth with harm. I don't know if you've

some of you others in the room might have a

doctorate degree. Mine was conferred upon me by the University

of Stupid, and so I have a doctorate degree in

this one over here. But I'm I've got like a

probably a bachelor's. I've earned a bachelor's maybe a master's

in this one here over here. Withholding truth? Anybody a

master's or withholding truth? You know what I mean, Like,

sometimes it's just inconvenient, Like sometimes you don't want to

take the time. Sometimes you don't want to bear up

under the situation, Like what if they don't like this? Right?

Do I really want to invest in them this way?

Do I really want to face the rejection that might come?

This is extremely inconvenient? Do I really like confrontation that much?

Over here? So what happens is is we withhold the truth.

Sometimes we withhold the truth. So the Bible is calling

to and you heard my scriptures already. This is not

the preaching of Duwayne. This is the preaching of the Bible.

The Bible is calling us to truth and in relationships.

The Bible is trying to show us that when we

withhold the truth, that we're walking in something less than

a gope love. We're walking in We're walking in a

degree of disdain, a degree of hatred, a degree of contempt.

So sometimes we withhold the truth. And withholding the truth,

now I've got this line here because what I'm trying

to show you is I'm trying to show you that

this is this is a zero balance in the bank account.

This is a zero balance in the bank account. Here

and so, and all three of these methods right here,

these are demonic methods of communicating with one another. Back as,

somebody came up to me after the service this morning

and they said, oh, now I know what's going on

in my relationship. I said, what is it? Well, when

they leave the house, you know they've got conflict in

the relationship. And they said, when they leave the house,

they say they're going here, but they actually go over here.

But they tell me that they were going here. They

just don't tell me the whole thing about going over

here too. So they think that they're speaking the truth.

They're in a deception that they're giving me some truth,

but they're not giving me the whole truth. So therefore

they're partnering with the unclean realm. If we withhold truth

because of our own convenience or our own selfish motive,

or because of something unclean, if we withhold truth, then

we're partnering with the unclean realm, because we are going

back in our pre baptism state. We're going back in

our pre baptism state, and we are resurrecting first atom

sinful adom, and we are pursuing the fulfillment of evil

desires with deception. Okay, so then sometimes we speak falsely

and we have to be careful about that. Sometimes we

speak falsely. None we know that the truth is a

very powerful thing. The truth can be hard. The truth

can be offensive. The truth can be injurious. The truth

can also be flattering. The truth can build up. The

truth can strengthen. The truth can edify. The truth can

give grace. The truth can establish a thing. The truth

can be a compass. The truth has a lot of

wonderful attributes. But we also know that the truth can

be harmful. Right, so you try it out for the

singing team, and after you were done, we let you

know that you couldn't carry a tune in a bucket,

and so you were wounded by that. Maybe you were

wounded by that. But the truth sometimes we have an expression,

even in America, the truth hurts. Have you heard that expression?

We have that expression, the truth hurts. But the problem

is is that many times what happens is because we

the speaker, everybody's everybody say the speaker. Sometimes the speaker

doesn't want to cause harm with the truth, and so

they color the truth with a little bit of falsehood.

Oh I wish I could tell you an example of

something that just happened, but I can't tell you very

that's a very good story, though, I wish I could

tell you this story. Oh boy. But what happens is

if you don't tell the truths, you pass the buck.

Somebody down the line is going to have to tell

the truth because they walk away from you deceived. They

walk away thinking that they should be on American Idol.

But you told them, Yeah, that was just amazing what

you did. We'll call you, we'll get your scheduled, we'll

give you a buzz, and you never call them. You lied,

but you passed the buck. Dumble and somebody, somebody who's

honest and the Lord is going to have to tell

them the truth. Hellous somebody. So sometimes we have to

tell people your workfalls short, your meals are goulash. Please

don't fix any more meals. Your zipper is down, You're

spending way too much money. Your kids are out of control.

One time, at one time, one of the church members,

their kids were running across the tops of the chairs,

back and forth, and so I just gently said it

to the brother. I said, your kids are a little

out of control. Could you just kind of grab them

and bring it down just a notch. He got so offended. Listen, Church,

I spoke it with love. But you I want you

to know something. This is my ear. That's my ear.

And you see how big those ear lot loves are.

You see that. My wife made fun of me. I

didn't even tell her to make fun of me, but

we had a good laugh. We got the boat out

last weekend and we were zooming down the lake and

the boat fast and she said to the grandkids, look,

papa's ears are flapping. My ear loves are so big

that they flap in the wind. Okay, but listen, listen, listen, listen.

You are called to speak with love. We're going to

get to that in a minute. But you're also called

to listen with love. Now. If you have not been listen, listen, listen, listen,

If you have not been delivered a rejection and inferiority

and regret and self loathing and self blame and abandonment

and betrayal, then no matter how sweet they say it,

you hear it wrong. You're hearing it wrong, even though

they say it really sweet, You're hearing it out of

the framework of rejection or abandonment or offense, and so

you get offended when they didn't even mean to offend you.

That ever happened anybody in the room, I'm not looking.

So we've got speaking falsely and that's just you know, coloring,

and these are all partnerships with the demonic realm. We

color our speech, We color our speech with exaggeration or flattery.

And then thirdly we have speaking the truth with harm.

Is you know, speaking the truth with harm is just

as bad as these others. Yeah, but I spoke the truth. Yeah,

but I spoke the truth. Yeah, but nobody can receive

the truth if it's not spoken in love. See, the

calling in Jesus is a calling of maturity, and the

maturity of love. Says, when I was a child, I

spoke as a child, But when I became a man,

when I grew up in God, I put away childish things.

It's talking about love first Corinthens thirteen. It's talking about love.

It's the same exact language as Ephesians chapter four. That

we grow up in maturity in Him, and the whole

body grows up as we speak the truth in love.

Because if I speak the truth to you, and this

is where I have a doctorate degree. Okay, don't worry,

I'm killing this guy. He's quite dead. But I've got

a doctorate degree. In Let's add a little judgment to

that truth. You know, let's add little rejection to that truth.

You know, if they don't shape up, I'm going to

reject them. You know. Let's add a little shame to

that truth. Just mix that in a little poo and

the brownie. Let's let's add a little condemnation to that.

Why don't we add a little condemnation, right, Okay, why

don't we add a little retaliation. I'm just gonna raise

my voice. I'm gonna get a tone. I'm gonna get

a tone. They're gonna know that they Why don't we

I'm telling you, this one works really good. I've this

one has worked so good. I think I'm gonna I'm

gonna work this one again. Why don't we ad a

little profanity to that truth? Now, I know none of

you have a doctorate degree like I do in this stuff,

you know, but maybe you working on an AA out

at the Community College of stupid. I don't know, it

could be, you know, you're working on something. But this

we have to realize that anything less than speaking the

truth in love is actually working in the demonic realm.

We still haven't come above bankruptcy. All of these, all

three of these methods work bankruptcy of the heart. This

is why when it says in Ephesians four, same chapter,

be angry and sin nod, why does it give you

permission to be angry? Because it gives you permission to

be angry in the context of sin nod. Anger is

a righteous emotion when there's been a violation of righteousness,

where there's been a violation of truth, a violation of justice,

and the violation of a right emotion. Are we dismissing

the kids. We're supposed to dismiss you to get your

children and bring your children back. I think so. Do

we have a keyboard coming? Okay, you got to shut

me down. Anger is a righteous emotion or an emotion

of righteousness where there's been a violation. It's meant to

move you toward resolution, to bring things back into soundness. Now,

if you don't have kids, you're not supposed to leave.

This is not your excuse to go to the bathroom.

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Oh, that was speaking the truth, right, there.

How'd they do? I don't know, a little bit of

shame throwing on there? So this is this is why

he says be angry and sin not now, what's what's up.

He's trying to say something that where there's been a

violation of righteousness or justice, you can be angry, but

don't hook something to it that's demonic. Speak the truth

in love. And if we will speak the truth and love,

then fruitfulness can come, profit will come, blessing will come,

increase will come. The person will receive it in a

beautiful way. Even if it hurts, they'll say, ouch, that helps.

Let's stand Ephesians Form fourteen. Then we will no longer

be infants tossed back and forth by the waves. We

will no longer be ins tossed back and forth by

the waves, and blown here and there by every wind

of teaching, and by the cunning craftiness of people in

their deceitful scheming. Instead speaking the truth and love, we

will grow to become in every respect the mature body

of Him who is the head. What does maturity look

like for us? Maturity looks like we leave all of

this in the baptismal tank, and we dismiss all of

those influences that partner with this realm. Maturity looks like

coming up to this realm where we frame the truth

with a sweetness of speech. That's where the power is,

That's where the grace is. That's where the transformation is.

That's where the goodness of God is. That's where people

get their lives transformed. Instead, speaking the truth of in love,

we grow to become in every respect the mature body

of Him who is the head that is Christ, from

whom the whole body, joined and held together by every

supporting ligament, grows and builds itsself up in love. How

does the body build itself up in love? As we

speak the truth but not the truth alone, as we

speak the truth and love. Hello, somebody, we uh uh

we We had an administrator here at the church and like,

we can do this without love, and I just I'm

want to I'm going to read you a couple of

scriptures and we're going to close. But we had an

administrator at the church. His wife noticed that I had

really bad body odor. Now this this was years ago,

before I got rid of all that. Now I smell

like cinnamon. So that's a jokement you aren't very laughable

this morning. But she noticed I had a really bad

body odor, and so she was passive aggressive about this.

She ever been passive aggressive. Passive aggressive means you're withholding

the truth for a long period of time, And when

you withhold the truth for a long period of time,

you start avoiding a person and you start building tension

within you until the tension has to explode. So finally

she got so tired of my stake that she came

to me with a bunch of deodorant, and she said,

it passed her. You steak, and you have to get

this fixed, you know, And she was pretty nasty about it,

and then and then she loaded on me up is

of deodorant. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, we can

speak the truth, but we don't have to speak it

without love. A lot of you this morning have bad breath,

and I've been wanting to tell you about it. I

don't know if it's coffee or you haven't brushed, you're

not flossing, but I just I wanted to tell you

this morning, you've got nasty breath. It's foul. No, No,

that's one of the things I've had to endure all

sorts of church members telling me how my breath is,

and so I had to start brushing my teeth. Finally,

after years of growing moss, I finally had to start

brushing my teeth. Listen Proverbs fifteen to one. We'll close

with a couple verses. A gentle answer turns away wrath,

but a harsh words stirs up anger. I'm just talking

to you about the gentleness of the Holy Spirit. Listen

to listen to Galatians sixty one. Brothers and sisters, If

someone is caught in a sin, you, who live by

the spirit, should restore that person gently. Listen to Ephesian's

four noo. We'll skip that one. Listen to two Timothy

to twenty four. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome,

but kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents

must be gently instructed in the hope that God will

grant them repentance. You notice all the words of gentle

lots of gentle stuff here. Listen to Proverbs sixteen twenty one.

The wise in heart are called discerning and gracious words

promote instruction. Listen to it. In the New King James,

the wise in heart will be called prudent, and sweetness

of lips increases learning. All of this stuff right here

doesn't bring increase to people. It's partnering with the demonic realm.

It's only as we speak to truth and love. Sweetness

of speech increases learning people receive from us when we

receive have sweetness of speech. Listen to verse twenty four

Proberms sixteen twenty four. We'll close with this. I know

I'm going long. Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness

to the soul and health to the bones. Just pray

with me, which as we close this morning, and let's welcome.

We can get this board out of here because we're

going to close us in worship. But let's welcome right

now Holy Spirit to wash us with his word. Father,

we thank you right now for your word in our

midst and we welcome you to wash us. We leave

the old life behind. We agree this morning that falsehood

is not of us. We're not called to falsehood. We're

called the truth. And we agree this morning that we

abide in truth, we're enabled in truth, and we embrace

truth with our whole heart. Whither we agree this morning

that the framing of truth with unclean words or methods,

attitudes and perspectives is not profitable, and we dismiss those

influences right now. We renounce and dismiss those influences right

now that want to join themselves the truth. I heard

this this morning. I heard this this morning that if

the enemy can't keep us in falsehood, then his plan

is to sabotage the truth with these unclean attitudes. And

we're just going to say no to that right now. Father,

we thank you right now that we put to death

and no longer have to listen to those unclean attitudes

and allow them to be hooked to truth. We gave

you the praise for it. In Jesus' name. Everybody shouted