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Take Heed Lest Ye Fall - Allen Bailey

Church of Christ - Bakersfield, Ca

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  1. Jesus on the board. Tonight, we would like to study

  2. with you, on, take heed, lest he fall.

  3. It was the Apostle Paul, who wrote, First Corinthian the 10th

  4. chapter and verse 12, where he said, wherefore Brethren, let

  5. him that thinketh. He standeth, take heed lest he

  6. fall. I do not believe for one moment

  7. that Paul the Apostle. Warned us about doing something.

  8. We could not possibly do. He did not warn us.

  9. Take heed lest you fall if you could not fall.

  10. One of the most popular Doctrine then they denominational world

  11. is you cannot fall what saved always saved yet.

  12. These verses in the Holy scriptures, they say the same

  13. thing. Take heed, lest he fall and our

  14. lesson today, we're going to divide it into two categories.

  15. The first category, we're going to hit it very briefly.

  16. And the second category, it will be for the balance of our time.

  17. It is simply the possibility of falling and I'm giving you half

  18. dozen versus to support that. There are many.

  19. Many more could be supplied The majority of our lesson would be

  20. spent on the prevention from falling.

  21. This is a very, very important part of our lesson and I'll

  22. explain to you why when we get to the point that we start our

  23. second division of the lesson, but let us take a look right now

  24. at the possibility of falling. The very first.

  25. First we have listed as First Corinthian the 10th chapter and

  26. verse 12, take heed lest As she fall, it is up to every new

  27. testament, Christian to stand firm and proud in a positive way

  28. and be faithful to the Lord. If you fall, then it's up to you

  29. to come back. Many will help you there.

  30. Gladly, help you, they want to help you, but you've got to have

  31. the heart, the mind, the determination to come back and

  32. do the things, you know, you ought to do.

  33. What concerns me is sometimes, when people fall, they stay away

  34. so long, that they lose their grip on really what they have

  35. believed in. They believe some of them know,

  36. some of them, but they don't remember everything.

  37. And and gradually, they a step further and further away.

  38. And then when they have a spiritual awakening somewhat,

  39. and their mind, and they decide, you know, I need to take care of

  40. myself, spiritually. Sometimes they've gotten so

  41. much, they'll go to the street on the corner there.

  42. Go to the biggest, the biggest church in town, and they were

  43. do, whatever that will satisfy their yearnings.

  44. We today need to understand that the Church of Christ, the maids

  45. right here on plans Road and Bakersville, California is a

  46. congregation devoted to serving God in spirit.

  47. And in truth, we're not going to have all the bells and the

  48. whistles. The denominational world has.

  49. But what we do have, we can tell you why we worship by looking in

  50. the scriptures. We can tell you what We Believe

  51. by showing you, but job, Converse, we can show you.

  52. How to be saved by giving you a scripture for that?

  53. This is so very important and you and our audience today, who

  54. may not be a member of the Lord's Church, the Church of

  55. Christ. Then you can take a good look at

  56. what you have here because what you have in this congregation

  57. his weekly convenient. Once you have in this current

  58. gation is singing acapella without any instruments and

  59. music whatsoever. What you have here is Sound

  60. Doctrine, been taught in Sunday morning, Sunday, evening, and

  61. Wednesday night. And during gospel meeting what

  62. you have here is men and women, determined to follow the Bible,

  63. for what it says, we're not here to please man.

  64. We're here to please God. And that's what's important.

  65. Because I'll tell you what there's a lot of people that

  66. don't want it, they don't want it.

  67. You know why? Because they want to be happy.

  68. They want to be tickled that. What you tickle their ears.

  69. We want today to stay true to God's word as men and women of

  70. old who were by faith and Hebrew 11 faithful to the Lord as the

  71. set of Abraham by faith. Abraham a few words later obeyed

  72. we want to be those who obey so in order to take you less to

  73. fall, just remember, you can but you don't have to and if you do

  74. fall, there is a way back. There is a way, huh?

  75. Home and Galatians, five and four.

  76. Paul Roble decisions and he said he said, Christ has no effect

  77. unto you. If you're justified by the law,

  78. That's the Law Moses. Then you are.

  79. If you have justified by the law of Moses, you fallen from Grace

  80. say you can't go by the Mosaic law and the law of Christ the

  81. same time, if you just thought by the law of Moses, your fallen

  82. from Grace, you see Fallen from Grace.

  83. Yes there's a definite possibility but not only did the

  84. Corinthians said not only to that Galatians said but the

  85. Hebrew Brethren did in Hebrew 3 and 12 and Hebrews 6 4 through 6

  86. and Hebrew 10 and 26. We have three passages from the

  87. writer of the book of Hebrews. Who warns you about falling?

  88. He lets, you know, he does not want you to depart and Henry 312

  89. from the Living. God, a person departs one step

  90. at a time. People drift just slowly down

  91. the river. What further and further, and

  92. further away from the Lord, and away from the church.

  93. We yet he wrote here to the Hebrew Christians. the Hebrews

  94. and Christians lived in a very difficult time, just not the

  95. relation Christian did The Hebrew Christians were born

  96. under the Mosaic law. But they died under the

  97. Christian law. Now automatically that had to be

  98. a transition during their life. They were born on the Mosaic

  99. law. They they knew, and I have the

  100. back of their hand and then all of a sudden, it came along that

  101. the Old Law was taken out of the way.

  102. The new laws come into effect, they didn't want it, they did

  103. not want the knee law. They wanted to go back to the

  104. law. They knew so well, And Paul the

  105. Apostle and all through these chapters he'll ever be made

  106. known, you cannot go back to the Mosaic law, he even said in

  107. Hebrews. 10:26, if you go back to the Mosaic law, there is no

    Hebrews 10:26

  108. more sacrifice for your sin. You can sacrifice.

  109. You make all those weekly monthly yearly sacrifices for,

  110. that means nothing anymore. There's no more sacrifice for

  111. sin, and with that being the case, Asia Mega set up and tell

  112. you know because we've got to follow the word is stay true to

  113. God's word, the Hebrews, they wanted to abandon the law of

  114. Christ and unfortunately Fall From Grace.

  115. And embrace him has Erica law. However, the Galatians They kind

  116. of want to have one hand of the law of Moses.

  117. One hand of the law of Christ and try to ride it out, honored

  118. to have Paul safe. You can't do that.

  119. And then in June, the book, right before Revelation 1, only

  120. one chapter chapter 1 24. The Bible said that who keep you

  121. from falling, if you will yourself to his will, you'll be

  122. kept from falling. You've got to make the right

  123. decision. in the right choices and you got to be who you ought

  124. to be and if you are then you won't be falling away.

  125. Well I'm going to stay with you now.

  126. The thrust of the lesson prevention from falling our

  127. lesson, take heed, lest he fall, you know, For many years, I

  128. preached a lesson can a child of God.

  129. So saying, as to be lost And for years, I preach it and did not

  130. have a conscience about it in bother me.

  131. But then some reason, all of a sudden it got the bothering me.

  132. There are not believe what it I was preaching.

  133. No, no, I believe one of preaching.

  134. Did I feel like I wasn't making the point?

  135. Clear, well, I fell out. The outline was clear enough and

  136. I asked a few people that, you know, we're understanding in and

  137. our struggling, so I shall get it.

  138. And I didn't understand what is it.

  139. That is bothering me. So I just it was immolated back.

  140. I said I've got to lay it back because I can't preach it with

  141. definite conviction. Even though I did, I was

  142. convicted. But I had to figure out what it

  143. was. That bothered me before I could

  144. justifiably preacher, at least for own conscience, sake, and

  145. for my heart sake, Something's bothering me and then one day I

  146. was reading the book. I can remember very well, I was

  147. reading a book and all of a sudden, it hit me.

  148. Hilda practical book is one of those self improvement books,

  149. there was a how-to book. And you know what I learned, I

  150. learned what it was is bothering me.

  151. I did not like preaching, for 30, 45 minutes, You can follow.

  152. You can follow. You can follow this first

  153. diverse. This is a that is a this

  154. illustration that illustration, these people that fail.

  155. And those people fail it and all of that without Telling them how

  156. to keep from falling. Once I realize that I can dig it

  157. off the shelf and dusted off and get ready to preach it and I'm

  158. just simply added a segment. How to take heed, lest he fall?

  159. Can a child of God, so seem to be lost.

  160. Absolutely, but I want to show you how to prevent from falling.

  161. So in this lesson today, you could look at it as how to Keep

  162. from falling. How to prevent from falling?

  163. I don't want you to fall. You don't want me to fall.

  164. We want to walk in that straight and narrow pathway together and

  165. be successful. You're living a Christian Life.

  166. when I first began to preach, To some of you you were not alive.

  167. Forty-three years ago, I began to preach and I received a book

  168. from a friend of mine, honk sermons, and writings of Homer

  169. Elle King. I think that's the name of the

  170. book. The little blue sermon outline,

  171. but for brother home, rail King, and I started reading it, I love

  172. reading. And so, I started reading that

  173. book and I don't remember what sermon it was hand, but he made

  174. a statement. He said the Christian life is to

  175. be alive. If of successes non-locking

  176. failures. I was just 17 when it started

  177. for a child, probably not 10, 20 by 9 that stuck in this brain.

  178. I don't think I've ever forgot it.

  179. The Christian life is to be a life of success and not lots of

  180. failures and we need to help each other the brother home,

  181. real King Kong. Most of you know who in the

  182. church. You know that he was a dog

  183. King's father, he was an older preacher.

  184. He is an old preacher from now who is deceased and by my

  185. grandfather Rob Miller, he preached long, and hard, and

  186. four years all across this country.

  187. Well, brother King did to it, and I really enjoyed that book,

  188. but some way that phrase stuck in my mind among many other

  189. things I read in his book and then I was in a meeting in

  190. Manteca. Oh, I think it was a median, two

  191. times ago. And I told brother dies if you

  192. are, you can come back to the meeting.

  193. He said, yeah, planter does if you have any more of your dad's

  194. books, he the, yeah. I've got some dad's books as a

  195. break, Only 400 one for each of my kids and Don signed them Farm

  196. in addressing to Levi and Luke Logan and Olivia and they all

  197. got their own copy of one of brother homeric King bugs and I

  198. told them that story, as I want y'all to read that whenever you

  199. find opportunity and, you know, today, there's so much to be

  200. learned, you know, from reading the Bible and then reading men

  201. that you can have confidence in their understanding of their

  202. teaching about the Bible. Well, what we can learn.

  203. Day Revenge of the Fallen is beautiful here at condoms first

  204. year in the 1012, what we use to introduce our lesson, wherefore

  205. Brethren take heed, lest he fall, and then look at verse 13,

  206. the very next verse. There is no temptation taken

  207. you, but such as is common to man, but God is faithful who

  208. will not allow you to be tempted with more than what you can

  209. bear. But will with that Temptation

  210. also, make a way to escape Escape.

  211. I love this verse. This to me is one of my favorite

  212. passages of scripture. I love to share this verse with

  213. people who are coming back, he's been out in the world for a few

  214. months, few weeks, few years. And I love to share them that

  215. passage. This verse does me a lot of good

  216. when I read it. There is no temptation, taken

  217. you, but such as is common to man and Island, And you will

  218. never be faced with the temptation of the what a plain

  219. old ordinary generic temptation. You every one of you you will

  220. not be faced with temptation, but one of those generic ones,

  221. common Temptation. Oh, I know, I know I've heard it

  222. and I problem said it sometime or another, oh, I was hit with a

  223. big one. I mean it was that big it was

  224. huge. Everything Mark, stir everything

  225. Temptation, like nobody's ever been tended to with before and

  226. it got me wrong. God said through his word.

  227. There's no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man.

  228. Don't go blaming God when you're attempted.

  229. The Bible said, God cannot be tempted.

  230. Never will he tempt any man? But here's what it said, God is

  231. faithful, he will monitor, that's my word.

  232. English word. Today, he will monitor the

  233. Temptation and he'll always makes you an Escape Route.

  234. You never have to sin. You never have to sin.

  235. God will provide you a way to escape situations.

  236. He'll give you teaching in the scripture if you live by that.

  237. You can always have a way to escape.

  238. So, therefore, as we analyze further in 1913 every temptation

  239. is common, God is faithful to us.

  240. I wish I was faithful to God as God is to us.

  241. And I wish all of us was that way.

  242. God will monitor every Temptation.

  243. He make sure you're not tempted with more than you can bear.

  244. You can never say I couldn't do anything about it.

  245. Yes, you could. That's a cop-out when you said

  246. oh it was humongous. Don't know.

  247. You're copping out here. You're blaming other people.

  248. You're blaming God. You're blaming everybody.

  249. Except the one who's really do the wrong you and me, when I sin

  250. is my fault, I chose to sin and when you said, I want you to get

  251. ahold of this, it's your fault. You chose to sin.

  252. God said, I'm going to give you an Escape Route.

  253. I'm going to monitor your Temptation.

  254. I don't be faithful to you. Every Temptation me.

  255. The common generic plain old ordinary Temptation and if you

  256. neglect all over them you said is because you chose to sin.

  257. Ouch. That's the truth.

  258. All wrapped up in one verse that's why I love reading.

  259. Scripture 1 versus mm, you can think about it all day long,

  260. comprehend in think about it and pray about it.

  261. Where does sin come from anyway? All right, the brother, my lord

  262. said in James 1, 12 through 16. Here's what he said.

  263. Every man is drawn away of his own lust and you can look at it

  264. and verses 12 to 16. If you would like And then when

  265. lust has conceived, it bringeth forth Sin Sin when it is

  266. finished, bringeth forth death. So every man is drawn away of

  267. his own lust and he is enticed the word enticed me to entrap

  268. you too alluring. You That's why it works.

  269. This is the process James 1 verse 12 through 16 would run

    James 1:12–16

  270. away. Look here, don't you get a hold

  271. of this of his own lust? Wow.

  272. Yuneisia, I want to point of view, but it's me when I sin is

  273. my fault. I've grown web, my own lust and

  274. enticed. And when his conceived to bring

  275. forth sin and finally finished bringeth forth death.

  276. It's really important for us to realize furthering the 1013 and

  277. understand James 1:12 16. When we do, we understand how

    James 1:12

  278. Temptation Works, how God will monitor your Tation always

  279. provide a way to escape it. And then when we sin we sin

  280. because we chose to sin, we've drawn away of our own lust.

  281. I'm not knowing how things work. I may never understand how some

  282. things work, but spiritually I want understand how Temptation

  283. Works. Only said house in works.

  284. I want to understand how to keep from falling.

  285. And then we find a number three under our second or third

  286. division of our lesson day. This is detective, our second

  287. division. I first in is the possibility of

  288. falling. Our second division is

  289. prevention from falling. We need to watch out what we're

  290. doing. Matthew 26:41.

    Matthew 26:41

  291. Now you can give looters and gobs of verses here, but I'll

  292. give you one Matthew 26 and 41 the Bible said watch.

  293. And pray. That ye enter not into

  294. temptation the spirit. Indeed is willing but the flesh

  295. is weak. Watch out.

  296. How are you were doing? Watch out what neighborhood you

  297. move your family in to watch out what school district you put

  298. your kids into. One child, whose friends are you

  299. associated with? Are they going to help you or

  300. hurt you and you're living a Christian Life?

  301. Although going to be continuing to bum barbecue, and try to get

  302. you to the wrong thing? Watch out.

  303. Watch watch. Watch.

  304. The Bible says, watch and pray that you will not enter

  305. Temptation and Luke, 11 13 for the disciples.

  306. Come running to Jesus, and they saw him praying, so they waited

  307. patiently until he finishes the prayer.

  308. And then, when he finished his prayer, they said, Lord, would

  309. you teach us how to pray? And that sweet Lord.

  310. Would you teach us how to pray? And Jesus said, pray this way

  311. Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, thy

  312. kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.

  313. Give us this day, our daily bread, forgive us our sins.

  314. As we forgive those who sin against us leaders, not into

  315. temptation, but Deliver Us from Evil.

  316. For thine is the glory and the honor and the praise

  317. forevermore. Amen.

  318. Wow. Jesus taught his disciples.

  319. How to pray. Don't you wish?

  320. Today a little bit of you. Wish you could live without

  321. first century when Jesus lived here, they'll be very dangerous

  322. time because of the persecution but you can run up Jesus.

  323. A Jew teach us how to bring. Don't you believe your prayer?

  324. Dice would be more important and be used in more consideration of

  325. your Christian life than ever before until what he talked

  326. shit. Do that in Luke 11, 13 for your

  327. prayer life to be so wonderful. That praying is something nobody

  328. can take from you. You can pray with the eyes,

  329. open, with the eyes closed. You can pray when you're laying

  330. down the bed when you are up and running around.

  331. You can pray, nobody can stop you.

  332. I love what the part of my spiritual life that nobody can

  333. interfere with and prayers one. Apple.

  334. Oh, Jesus taught his disciples to pray and that, the disciples

  335. knew just how important it was, and they were learning how to

  336. take heed, lest they fall, and they learn the prayers part of

  337. that. I love preaching on prayer.

  338. And this whole meeting I'm going to get through that breaking a

  339. whole lesson or two or three or four or five on prayer.

  340. Prayers good valuable lesson. When you pray, you pray to God.

  341. The Father. He hears your prayer, he will

  342. answer your prayer according to his will every time you pray,

  343. you pray, according to his will Lord not my will but thy will be

  344. done. Y'all went, right?

  345. That's how Jesus prayed, even in the Garden of Gethsemane, not my

  346. will, but thine be done. I always pray with the right

  347. attitude. God is not what I want.

  348. It's what you all that matters. All right.

  349. Look at number five here. Submit to God.

  350. Resist the devil James 4. Verse 7, Samantha God.

  351. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

  352. Now I'm going to camp out right here for a minute so camp out

  353. with me, please. Take a look.

  354. You're down submit to God. Resist the devil and he will

  355. flee from you. That's like your was with Jesus

  356. down here, Matthew 4:1-11 when Jesus verse it, resists of the

    Matthew 4:1–11

  357. devil, the Bible said, the devil left him and the angels came and

  358. worshipped Jesus. But what we find here submit to

  359. God, resist the devil. He'll flee.

  360. When is the last time you said no to the devil?

  361. No, you know. Now, here's the way it works.

  362. Now, I'm get right down in your face.

  363. This is the way it works. You a lizard submit to God.

  364. Are you a submit that the devil, one of the two.

  365. That's why it works. You live this to resist.

  366. You will resist God, or you were resisted that you cannot drink.

  367. This ended a long time ago, in Matthew 16 and 24.

  368. He's not written on the board. Now, Matthew 16:24, he said you

    Matthew 16:24

  369. cannot serve two masters. You can love one and hate the

  370. other you and despise one and and clean together.

  371. You can't serve them both. You can't serve God on the

  372. devil. You're going to submit the one

  373. for this. The other, if I submit to the

  374. devil, I would automatically resist God.

  375. Now you got to make a choice. You've got to make a choice.

  376. Who would I submit to who'll? I resist.

  377. Because if you submit to the devil you automatically, that's

  378. God. If you resist the devil, you

  379. automatically submit the god. That's your choice.

  380. You've got to make that choice, and you can't blame everybody

  381. else. People love the blame game.

  382. This won't work. Here, you submit.

  383. Whoever you choose to you submit.

  384. We are free, moral agents, and I didn't deal with any of that

  385. kind of doctrinal, teaching during this lesson, are doing

  386. this whole meeting. But you today, You choose who

  387. you want to serve. You are free, moral agent, huge,

  388. make your own decision out of free.

  389. Will God gives you the ability to say yes or no and you decide

  390. what you're going to do? Yes, I will go to church.

  391. No, I want That's your decision. I want you today to concentrate

  392. on submitting to God and resisting the devil.

  393. Realizing the devil will flee from you and point number seven

  394. ties in with this when we follow the example of Christ.

  395. And Matthew 4:1-11, I'm not going to read this but I'll

    Matthew 4:1–11

  396. paraphrase it. The devil took Jesus up into a

  397. high mountain. And he's shown stones and Jesus

  398. had just came from the desert land for 40 days, that's nearly

  399. six weeks without anything to eat.

  400. I don't hardly ever go. Six hours without anything to

  401. eat. He was six weeks.

  402. About and the devil said, hey turn these stones to be made

  403. red, guess what? There was nothing wrong for

  404. turning stones to be made bread. But Jesus was not about to lay

  405. any form of an illustration for you that under certain

  406. circumstances. You can do what the devil said.

  407. No, Jesus said it is written. I like this.

  408. It is written man. Shall not live by bread alone,

  409. but It's Ford, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth

  410. of God. Wow.

  411. So therefore, whenever we're tempted of Satan, you say no.

  412. And you go to what is written, you reach out to God for help,

  413. then the devil, take the Jesus up into the high mountain.

  414. Showed him all the glories, the riches, the wealth of all the

  415. world, listen here, to the devil, all of this.

  416. What I Satan give you Jesus. If you fall down and worship me,

  417. understand the devil. Always have an ulterior motive

  418. if you fall down and worship me, I give it all to you.

  419. If you ever wonder who's in charge of the world, you can

  420. know right here. The devil does, the Bible says

  421. the devil is the God of this world.

  422. Don't go to the world, don't live in the world.

  423. You're living. Like Satan wants you to live.

  424. Don't do it. Don't do it.

  425. Jesus said it is written again. Thou shalt not tempt, the Lord,

  426. thy God verse 7. I love these verses.

  427. I mean, he's giving you it is written, and he goes to God for

  428. help when you sing, you say, but chapter verse.

  429. Go to God for help. That's how you've whipped Satan

  430. soundly. Well, this time, Satan take, if

  431. I say to you, I think right here.

  432. How to give it up, okay. I think I've been deceased out

  433. and go somewhere else, but no, no, the devil is not a coward.

  434. He comes bouncing back. He says some other Pinnacle of

  435. the temple. What do you have there?

  436. And he said, job the angel shall I give the charge concerning you

  437. less uShip, stuck a toe. That's your foot on a stone

  438. chop. When I was a kid, I used to

  439. think would be so cool if Jesus was drunk.

  440. I thought man he could have done it.

  441. Shut him up, he didn't do it. I really wish he did at that

  442. time. Especially, did you know what?

  443. Jesus did not want to show you sometime?

  444. You might want to do what the devil said?

  445. No, no. He said it is written again.

  446. Thou shalt not tempt, the Lord thy God verse 4 of Matthew 24,

    Matthew 24:47

  447. verse 47 and 10 are the words, recorded by Jesus.

  448. Three times. Geez, were tempted by the devil.

  449. Three time. He said it is written.

  450. And three times he went to God for help three times, he whipped

  451. Satan sin and evil and then the devil left and the angels came

  452. and ministered to him. This is you can breathe a sigh

  453. of relief for a little season. When you've with say, when you

  454. whip Satan and the devil, he will leave you.

  455. Though, for a little while. That here probably bounce back.

  456. Dear friends. I want you to be like, Jesus,

  457. live like him. Read the scriptures.

  458. Read? How he acted under adverse

  459. circumstances, read how he responded in days of Glory?

  460. You know, let can I illustrate something to have room on

  461. illustrate here? Earth.

  462. Earth. Heaven.

  463. The way we talk sometime, we leave the wrong impression.

  464. Sometime, we teach people to heaven the way.

  465. The heaven is like this from arms of this world.

  466. A straight course straight line straight to heaven.

  467. Now, really, that's not the way it works.

  468. For any, of us. The way to heaven, is generally

  469. like this. You can have your highs, you can

  470. have your load came out the stock market.

  471. You can have your peeps and your valleys, there'll be time to

  472. your life. You're a strong as your be

  473. there. Other times of your life that

  474. you don't want to meet the Lord. But at the end of your lives,

  475. you want to be right here on the straight and narrow path.

  476. Way you want to go to heaven even if you got to work your way

  477. back up to get there. I don't want to ever hear you,

  478. or anybody else. Complain wine, belly 8, make fun

  479. of 11th, Hour, confession or 11th, Hour baptism.

  480. What I want you to do is be thankful to your God, for

  481. allowing that person. A chance of the eleventh hour.

  482. They were obvious taken out in a sad, tragic automobile accident

  483. or something. I hear people make fun of people

  484. who are making their love with our baptism, our confession,

  485. shame on them, and shame on you, if you do it.

  486. People do what they were just afraid of going to die.

  487. So if you thought you was going to die and you're is not ready

  488. to meet your maker, what would you do?

  489. You'd make your life right with God.

  490. That's what you do. You don't want to go to hell,

  491. but don't you ever make fun of or talk down to or talk to

  492. others, about an individual who makes her life, right?

  493. With the Lord, I've baptized people who died 18 hours later

  494. because they want to get right with the Lord.

  495. I've taken people's confession who died just moments after we

  496. said, amen. I won't tell you this today.

  497. The thief on the cross was in the 11th Hour.

  498. He was about to die. You know what?

  499. Jesus said too late. Now you just afraid you're going

  500. to die and go to hell. Nope, he didn't do that.

  501. He said today you are going to be with me in Paradise.

  502. All right, so when you hear people thump around on people

  503. who make love the power of confession, I want you to stand

  504. up for them and say, the thief on the cross stated, we can do

  505. it and you would do it if you were in their shoes.

  506. I want us learn to stand out from people, rather than read of

  507. cheese and put people down. We're one happy family, we

  508. should be helping each other go to heaven and that's what's

  509. happening right here. We're learning how to take heed,

  510. lest you fall. We want to, we want to follow

  511. the example of Jesus Christ, and we will learn it.

  512. Our final point will last about five minutes and we'll be

  513. through Follow the Christian Graces.

  514. You know, I don't know who think that Christian Graces, it's not

  515. in the Bible. Tristan, Gracie got fruit of the

  516. spirit words of the flesh, Christian Gracie's but attrition

  517. Grace is not there. Okay, The Graces of there, but

  518. being called Christian, Grayson, I don't have a problem with it,

  519. don't get me wrong. I'm just saying it's not there.

  520. It's not named that in the scripture, I don't have a

  521. problem. Calling them, Christian Grayson,

  522. I like what second Peter one teacher?

  523. All of this is found. I'm in second Peter 1 5 through

  524. 7. And if you don't get anything

  525. else tonight, get this sent me to 15 through seven after your

  526. faith virtue and to Virtue knowledge to knowledge,

  527. Temperance to Temperance patience.

  528. Patience, godliness, godliness, brotherly kindness.

  529. And to brotherly kindness charity.

  530. If these things be in you and abound, they make you that

  531. You're not be bearing, you won't be unfruitful in the knowledge

  532. of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Barren or unfruitful, you will

  533. not be unproductive. If you've got these seven, Great

  534. sting, you, you can be productive for the Lord, for the

  535. church. For your spiritual life, you're

  536. going to succeed and live in your personal life, but If you

  537. like these things, you're blind and you cannot see afar off and

  538. you forgotten your personally own Sith.

  539. If you don't have these Seven Christian Grace in your life,

  540. you can have our time living in Christian Life.

  541. And tell you something. think back to the last time, you

  542. committed a sin Think about what?

  543. That sin was a tease. A you just think about what it

  544. is. Why did you send?

  545. Here's why you said no, I wasn't there.

  546. No, I didn't say it. No, I didn't hear it.

  547. I'm telling you why you did it. Here's why you said.

  548. And when I said, here's why I said, we had a weakness, get

  549. over this. A weakness of one or more of

  550. virtue, which is, moral Excellence, or knowledge, or

  551. Temperance, or patience, godliness brotherly, kindness

  552. and charity. One of these Seven.

  553. Christian Graces or more of these seven Grace of right here.

  554. One or more of these seven, it may be five out of seven that

  555. Adams weekend, no wonder. He said But listen, the Bible

  556. said, if you have these things you can make your calling and

  557. your election sure. Now listen, I'm not giving you

  558. homework once a good time. And the last ten lessons Simon

  559. through Sunday. I'm giving homework tonight.

  560. I want you to learn these Seven, Christian Grayson's, Aunt, you

  561. learn, love them up in a Bible dictionary.

  562. Let them up in a translation, see what you can learn about

  563. these. Because the more, you know,

  564. about these seven, the less likely they will be your commit

  565. sin, unless you're stubborn and rebellious and you choose to

  566. sin. Why would I lie?

  567. Okay, let's look at it. Did I lock?

  568. Because I just simply immoral. And I just like, did I lie?

  569. because I Didn't have patience, which is temperance.

  570. I didn't have patience or hit Temperance and self-control.

  571. I just didn't have self-control and there's anything there to

  572. tell that cop. I didn't know what, you know

  573. what, just for the record, the best way to get a tickets, a lot

  574. of the cop. He's got you just like uh-huh.

  575. Admit guilt, when you're okay. Temperature, 7 joke, maybe it's

  576. like himself in trouble. Maybe the lack of patience are

  577. godliness. Brotherly kindness, charity.

  578. You see I live because of find the links to these one or more.

  579. I'm saying get out of this, every sin in the book from A to

  580. Z from I often on making every sin in the book is a weakness of

  581. one or more of these Seven Christian graces.

  582. Someone everyone, young people, older, people, whatever age

  583. group, you want to categorize your that van, I want you to

  584. learn these second, I want you to get ahold of it.

  585. I was, you know, and have it in your life, so you will not sin.

  586. The Bible said, make your calling and election.

  587. Sure in verse 10 of second. Peter one, that's how to do it

  588. if your add these things to your life.

  589. Every sin you come in run, don't walk run to Second Peter 1537

  590. and decide which a one or more of these and my weekend.

  591. It's just amazing. The Bible says, if you do these

  592. things you'll never fall. If you want to live a successful

  593. Christian Life, I'm going to leave these words with you.

  594. Learn to master These Seven, Christian Graces to you.

  595. Congregational teachers, this should be a great lesson, maybe

  596. our lesson on each one of these Seven lesson.

  597. I'm going to got the lesson for you now.

  598. Now, you just develop it. Virtue knowledge, Temperance,

  599. patience godliness, brotherly kindness charity, there they

  600. are. If you have them, God said you

  601. would never fall. If you don't have them, you're

  602. blind. You cannot see.

  603. Afar off. Dear friends.

  604. I want you to go to the sauna homework, your gave you and it's

  605. all for your benefit. I want you to master these

  606. Seven, Christian Graces second, Peter one is your new best

  607. friend? It's going to help you succeed.

  608. He is going to help you enter that grand.

  609. Abundance and eternal life in heaven.

  610. May God bless you tonight and the sermon is over.

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