A New Walk - Kingdom Living

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So if you have your Bibles turn to Ephesians chapter 2, we're

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going to start in verse one. Ephesians chapter 2, we'll start

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in verse one. And it says this, and you were

dead in your trespasses and sins.

In which you formerly walked according to the course of this

world, according to the Prince of the π, the air, the spirit

that's now working in the sons of this of disobedience.

Among them it says, we too all formerly lived in the lust of

our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind,

and we're by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

But God say. But God, being rich in mercy,

because of his great love with which he loved us even when we

were dead, and our transgression made us alive together with

Christ. By grace you have been saved,

verse 6, and raised us up with Him, and seated us with him in

heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he

might show the surpassing riches of His grace and kindness

towards us in the King Christ Jesus, So that in or bought for

by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of

yourself. It is the gift of God, not as a

result of work, so that no one may boast.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ for good

works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we would

walk in them. Now if you go back to the top of

this again, that says you were dead in your trespasses in sin,

verse one in which you formerly walked, you used to have a walk.

There was a former walk. And I like Paul, he said, now

listen, that walk is a former walk.

It's not a today walk. It's an old walk.

We're not supposed to walk that way anymore.

It's a former walk. Say former.

That means we don't. Walk that way.

That's not how we walk. So grace in your life does not

authorize you to keep a former walk.

The grace of God was never designed to keep you in your

former walk, but allows you to go to heaven.

Grace was never designed for that.

Grace was designed to give you a new walk.

I said give you a new walk. So we all had a former walk.

Well, what did that walk look like?

It was according to the course of this world.

Now that's not planet Earth. It's the way the world

functions. It's his ideas.

IT systems, it's behaviors. So again, I don't go to the news

source to determine how I respond.

I don't even go to the doctor to determine how I respond.

I don't go to the government to determine how I respond.

I don't go to the education system to determine how I

respond, live or whatever. I those those were former ways

that I used to do. I don't go according to the

course of this world. So if the world saying everybody

should go this course, you should question that then the

course of this world, he tells us its influence was according

to the Prince of the power of the air.

Now that's not Jesus. I said that's not Jesus, that

Satan who was the God of this world are systems.

Because again, God the Father never lost planet earth.

But how you function the systems, the the, the lifestyle

that was supposed to be on planet earth was given to man to

to run and he was to do it according to the same direction

that God did in heaven. Because in Genesis 126 he said

let it. Let's make man in our image

according to our lightness and let them have dominion.

Let them rule. They're ruling what?

The things of the earth over the earth, meaning over the system,

how the world functions. And man was to have dominion.

But man fell from dominion when he ate the fruit that God told

him not to eat. When he ate the fruit, he

abdicated his throne on earth and gave it to the devil.

The Devil in Luke, chapter 4, The Temptation of Christ says,

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I'll give you all these kingdoms in a moment of time, He said.

I'll give you all these kingdoms where they've been handed over

to me and I can give them to whoever I wish.

So the devil received the kingdoms of the world by from

Adam when Adam ate the fruit that he was not supposed to eat

because when he ate the fruit that God said commanded him not

to eat sin enter the world are rebellion, disobedience, sin

which its wage is death cause sin is simply disobeying.

And when you disobey God, death is to follow.

Are you hearing me? And so we see here that we

walked according to the course of this word, according to the

Prince of the power, the air of the spirit that is now working

where? And the sons of disobedience.

So every human being on the planet.

Although God originally designed them to be children of God, not

all are children of God today. Many are the children of the

devil, and their father is the devil.

In fact, Jesus himself told the religious you are of your

father, the devil. He obviously wasn't talking

about his father. He's not saying we're all God's

loving people. What he said is you are in

rebellion, you're in disobedience.

Your nature is against God, against his way of doing,

against his Kingdom. And by all rights, your father

is the devil because he has sinned from the beginning.

He is, He has fallen cherub, He is being cast out of heaven's

realm. He is an enemy of God and can

never be redeemed. And so he says you're of those,

and that spirit works within the sons of Disobenius.

And then he allows us to know in verse three that we all formally

lived this way. So when we say walk, what we're

saying is how we live. So when you're saying how do you

walk, you're saying, well, how are you living?

So his implication is in which you formerly walked.

He's saying in which you formerly lived.

Because here we are in verse three.

Among them, we too all formerly lived.

This was how we lived and how do we live according to the lust of

our flesh. Whatever our flesh wanted, we

wanted to satisfy it. We wanted to indulge the desires

of the flesh and of the mind and we're by nature not children of

God, but children of wrath, even as a rest.

In essence, this verse three, it could be summed up and all have

sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

So Paul lets us know there was a way.

We used to live our way. We used to walk, it is a former

walk. Then he gets to verse four and

he says, but God Now God has to do something.

God has to do something because God has said something.

God comes back not because he didn't have to, He comes back

because he has to. Because when God said, Let us

make man in our image according to our likeness and let them

have dominion. Now God he we know that is He's

his word, says that he whatever word goes out of his mouth, it

will not return unto him, boy, but it shall accomplish that

which it was sent to do. His word always comes to pass.

So if God is going to have a man in dominion after Adam eats the

fruit, then God's obligated at his own word to bring a plan of

redemption because he created the condition that man would

rule like him in the earth. God rules in the heavens.

He would rule on the earth, it would be heaven on earth, and

God would come down in the cool of the day and talk with him.

They're named different, but their environments are the same.

Heaven and earth looked exactly alike.

No sin is perfect environments and God freely moved through

there no issues. And man freely had relationship

with him and was not afraid of God at all.

But when Adam ate the fruit, things changed and God had to

come down and he said, Adam, where are you now?

We know that. We said this before.

It's not because Adam was good at hide and go seek, covered

himself with leaves and hiding behind trees and the Lord's

like, wow, you're you're really good.

In fact, while my son and I and Pastor Marcy were up in New

York, or Chase went with us because he was our creative team

appointed to document. And he showed me a picture of

Luna. Luna had stayed over at a

friend's house and they were playing hide and go seek and she

was above the washing machine and dryer in the cabinets that

are up there, hidden. They couldn't find it.

Oh, she got in there. Well, I'm sure she had some

help. I don't think she literally gone

there by herself. She probably.

Coerced one of the parents to hide her there so that the

children could not find her. And it worked.

But this isn't God didn't have this problem.

Really. What that means is what position

are you in now? Because I placed you in dominion

and now you're not in Dominion. So that's why God says I'm going

to have to come now. But how?

As a man? Because I've given the earth to

man. Psalms 115 and verse 16.

The highest heavens are the Lord, but the earth He is given

to man, and when God does something, he does it.

And so now this authority has been given to his created man

that was in his image in his likeness, a carbon copy of him.

No sin could rule in this realm as God rules in his realm with

oversight of how he ruled down here.

And when man fell from demeaning, God says, well, since

man fell, a man's going to have to restore it.

And so that means I'm going to have to come, I'm have to send

my son in the form of man. That's why he said that this

woman is going to have a child, so she's going to be a virgin.

She's not going to get the help of man.

Because Man Seed only produces rebellion.

Because now Adam in his fallen state can only produce after his

own kind, and his own kind is not godly, so he produces after

his own kind. So God says I'm going to have to

bring a seed of a different kind.

So the Holy Spirit comes upon Mary and he plants his Son.

And we know this according to Isaiah.

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Chapter 9 verse six says a child is born, a son is given, the Son

is not born because the Son always existed.

The Son's always been in the beginning was the Word, the Word

was with God and the Word was God and the Word became flesh.

And verse 14 of the first chapter, John says And that Son

his name is Jesus, right? The word became flesh and we

beheld his glory. That's Jesus Christ.

This only begotten of the Father, It's the Son of God.

So the sons always existed because the words always been

around. And so God clothed the word in

flesh so he could come and restore man, give them the

opportunity. By His grace he enacted an

amendment to His word and said, here's the pathway of escape.

And the pathway of escape requires us to still obey.

Now we could have never been right with God any other way.

No matter how good we live, we were not going to be living

called by nature. We're children of wrath.

But God being rich in His mercy since Jesus who became sin,

although he never sinned, He was a man who knew no sin.

He never said he was the perfect sacrifice so that we when we

call on his name can be born again or born from above,

meaning we get a new nature that now is of God now the last way.

So God being rich in his mercy because of his great love, then

he gets down and tells us, you know again, it's by grace

through face or grace don't work and let's face in operation and

it says not a result of works, meaning we couldn't have done it

without the finished work of Jesus.

But we have to call on the name. We have to believe in our heart,

confess with our mouth. Jesus Christ, Lord, we have to

believe that Jesus came, He died on the third day, was raised

from the dead. His blood was enough to forgive

us of all of our sin. We confess that we are sinners,

although we cannot confess all of our.

We know that we are. We know we're in rebellion and

we say Jesus, we make you Lord. And when we make him Lord, then

the Spirit that was in us dead gets evicted out of this skin

suit and a new one comes on the inside and it's in the likeness

of God. It's in Christ, which means it

doesn't sin because Jesus doesn't sin.

And then the Holy Spirit moves in.

Can I get it? Amen.

The third person of the God had moves in with us and speaks to

our spirit and now it's our responsibility to hear what the

spirit is saying to our spirit and change the way we think.

That's why Jesus said when he preached publicly repent, which

is not a religious word, it just means change.

Your thinking for the Kingdom of God is at hand so when we get

born again we can hear from heaven and now we have the

capacity to live godly in a lost and dying world.

Doesn't matter, right. And when I say lost and die, I'm

just saying a system that's here that will be evicted because the

earth is going to remain. I said the earth is going to

remain. It just be a new earth.

Got to clean it up. So by the time we get then to

Burt let me just get back up to verse a four.

By grace, you have been saved through faith and not of

yourself. Is a gift of God.

That means God did the work that opened an amendment of God as

the king. He has a word and now here's how

you get out of the condemnation or the sentence of death except

Jesus, because Jesus actually paid the price for the death.

Death doesn't escape. It's not like death didn't dealt

with. Jesus's blood deals with the

payment. So when God Forgives you, it's

not like he just forgave. He can forgive because the debts

been settled. God did the work to settle the

debt. It's not like because again, if

God just could say I forgive you, then why didn't he come

down after Adam 8 the fruit? He said.

Where are you? Well, you know, we heard you

coming and we hit ourselves because we were naked, you know,

we were afraid. So we hit ourselves because we

were naked, he said. Who told you were naked?

Did you eat the fruit? I told you not to eat.

And he could have said, Well, son, I'll forgive you.

And this is what how we treat love.

Well, I forgive you. No, no, no, no, no.

Some's got to be paid. Because if all we could just do

is say I forgive you, well, then God could have done that.

But God couldn't do that. Why?

Because. Death's here now.

We got to pay for that. Now God will forgive you because

he settled the debt. Now the debts been paid.

So why can we forgive people? Easy.

Because the debts there, I mean. I mean, the payment for the debt

is there. I mean, how am I going to hold

you an account when he's already settled the account?

And if you ask me to forgive you, well, I don't need a

payment from you. Christ is the payment.

Are you hearing me? But that didn't work with God.

God had to make payment and it took his blood from his own son.

So again, that's don't cheapen forgiveness.

Sometimes I might need to say, you know I can.

I'll forgive you because Jesus's blood paid the price.

For me to do this because a lot of times we'll we'll flippantly

just constantly make mistakes and they're like, well, you got

to forgive me. Well man, how many mistakes you

want to keep making so that the blood's being applied to your

situation? I mean, the blood works, don't

get me wrong, but let's just don't flippantly, you know,

treat the blood of no value like you know, we can just get away.

Because again, you're now walking formerly.

So for my grace you've been saved through faith.

It's not a work of yourself. It's a gift of God, not as a

result of works. So that no one may boast.

But look at this first ten. I'm going to send her in here

for we are his workmanship. OK.

Created in Christ for that's purpose.

So why were you created in Christ?

For us to go to heaven when we die?

Is that what it says? There does not say that.

So why are we selling Jesus this way?

Why are we selling Jesus? Will Jesus die so that when you

so that if you accept him when you die, you get to go to

heaven. God did not create you in Christ

to go to heaven. Now will you go to heaven when

you die? Sure to be absent from the body.

Be present with the Lord. Where is the Lord right now?

He's in heaven. But what if he was down here?

I mean, cuz he's coming back, but at the end of the day, we're

created in Christ or we're born again for good works.

So you're created to do works, but again, it's not work.

So that you get your right with God, or that God, you know, can

say, OK, you know you're right with me and you you earned it

now. No, it's I am now actually good.

My spirit was bad, and all it could do is produce bad fruit,

'cause a bad tree bears bad fruit.

But now I'm a good tree because I got a good spirit.

It's in Christ. And now I get to bear good

fruit. I'm not good just to be good.

I'm. I'm good to bear good fruit.

And fruit takes work. Now work is just simply

obedience. So we're created in Christ for

good works which got prepared hand before prepared beforehand

so that we would what? Walk in them.

Walk means to live. So in essence, he's saying,

listen, the reason you're born again is so you'll walk

differently. You got a new walk now.

A new life. We have a new life.

Well, a new life begets a new behavior, begets new thinking,

begets a new attitude, begets new reasoning.

But we have to walk in. And I love the word walk,

because at the end of the day, nobody can make you walk but

you, just like God himself cannot make you get born again,

although He's provided the way. It requires you to walk that

out. You to act on the word in

obedience by faith to pull salvation to your skin.

Suit so that you. Get born again.

Same thing to be baptized in the Spirit.

Same thing to be healed. Same thing to prosper.

Same thing to fulfill God's plan.

Because God is not pushing you alone.

He's not dragging you alone. He's saying come follow me, OK?

So there are four points. Then I want to talk about in

this new walk 'cause if you're gonna walk new, the Bible

actually tells us how to walk because he already gave us in

Ephesians our former walk. Now he wants to talk about the

new walk. And when we look at this new

walk, there's a former one that he mentions each time he said,

now this is our new walk. Here was your former.

This is your new Amen. So we want to walk in the new

one. That means we live this way.

This is how we live. It's like breathing.

This is just what we do. It shouldn't be surprising for

us to live this way. Are you hearing me?

Praise the Lord. It shouldn't be surprising for

us to do this. So look at this first one.

It's an Ephesians chapter 5 verse one.

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It'd be one through 7 and #1. The first way to walk is to walk

in love. Because up to this point you

could not walk in love at all. Now that doesn't mean you were

walking in hate, because hate is not the opposite of love.

Lust is not hate because God who is love, hates some things.

Love or the love of God can hate some things.

So please do not confuse hate. As bad I'm.

Going to say that again, do not confuse hate as bad, because if

hate is tied to love, it's good. But if hate is tied to lust,

it's bad because lust is bad all the time.

All right. So if he's in chapter 5 verse

one, it says therefore be imitators of God.

Boy, that statement right there along should make you just go to

your knees. So now be imitators of God.

You know how many people. We're not God yet.

Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, says Be

imitators of him. Imitate him.

Have you ever been to a place where someone can imitate

another person's voice? It sounds like it's just like

them. In fact, my life and I went our

little anniversary cruise funny. The guy that was there actually

used to be a soap opera star and bold and the beautiful.

I can't tell you who he is because I never watched the soap

opera, but he was there and he was doing impersonations.

Now, any modern day impersonation, he did not do a

good job. That's why he's.

On the cruise ship, you understand?

All right, no problem. But anything that was older?

I mean, I'm talking like, you know, 30s, forties, 50s.

I'm not saying he was that old he was born, but he obviously

was around that as a kid. Those shows, man, he could not

those voices out really. Well, you're like, wow, he

sounds just, he was imitating their voice, OK, And here we are

to imitate the imitators of God as beloved children.

So God expects his kids to imitate him.

He doesn't expect his kids to be sorry, center saved by grace, to

act like the rest of the world. But at least they've asked him

into their heart and he's like, well, hold on.

Praise God, you're pathetic. Anyway, You're unworthy.

You're nondeserving. You know?

I mean, I just, you know, it's just a.

Good thing I saved you. That's not the attitude here at

all. That's religion.

That is a lack of responsibility.

That is, not knowing who you are in Christ.

That's walking a former life and trying to say God's got you

covered all right. Just because you couldn't do

anything to be right with God, the minute God did everything to

make you right with him has now empowered you to be an imitator

so you can't imitate. I said you can't imitate.

And they've ever been around. Those who don't want to imitate,

they get mad at those who are imitating and doing a real good

imitation. But then it was like, well, you

could do this too. Then they get all upset and then

they're trying to try to find a fault in your imitation.

Instead of saying you're doing a much better job at me than I am,

can you teach me? Alright, therefore be imitators

of God as beloved children and walk in love.

So the number one is walk in love.

Now again, you can't pick up the religious definition of love,

nor the world's definition of love.

Love is love. That is a world definition,

which many make sense. Love is love.

Well, what's that mean? What does that mean?

Love is love. What's that mean?

That doesn't make sense. Yet people pick it up.

Well, you know, we got a walk in love one.

What does that mean? Because the world and the the

religious church's definition of love is acceptance.

You know and God don't accept stuff.

Love does not accept everything. Love creates a condition so that

all can walk in love means they can walk out the word.

So he says walk in love. Just as Christ also loved you

and look what he did and gave himself up for us and offering

in a sacrifice to God as a frequent aroma.

So walk in love. How?

Just as. Cry.

Here's our imitation. Christ laid down how he wanted

to do it and only did it like the Father instructed.

Jesus said this so clearly in in multiple gospels of the four

gospel he said I do nothing on my own initiative.

Whatever I say or what I speak or what I do, I have first heard

from the Father. In essence, walking in love is

doing what God says. As I said to you before, Adam is

made in the image of God, correct?

Let us make man in our image according to our likeness and

let them have demean over the fish, the sea, yada yada yada,

right? Then he takes man at male and

female, puts them in the garden. They're like God, no sin.

Do they love God now? You would assume that they do

just because they're in his nature.

Yet they're the nature alone doesn't prove that they love

him. There's only one way to prove

that Adam loves God. He has to put an obedience

factor in. It's the only way.

Love cannot be determined any other way.

So he places a tree in the middle of the garden called the

Knowledge of Good and Evil. When he says, Adam, you can eat

from all the other trees, I mean, everything's yours, man,

in this amazing. But the tree of the knowledge of

good and evil you shall not eat, for the day you eat you will

surely die. And as long as he doesn't need

it, what does he prove? I love you.

Now how do we know this? Because Jesus himself said this.

Religion says, well, just love everybody.

But Jesus defines love. And John, he says if you love me

you will keep my word. It does not say if you love me,

you tell me. So let me do a little husband

and wife real quick. You ready?

If you love each other, at some point you're going to do what

each other says. Because it's proving it.

Because how many times have I been around a wife or a husband?

They say they love me, but they never do anything.

I asked. I asked if they could do this,

could do that, and they never do it.

Same thing with your children. Well, I know my kids love.

Do they obey you? Because Jesus did not qualify

love with just. You're born of the family.

OK? Jesus did not qualify.

Love is because you're of the family.

Because you're of the family, Man.

I just love you anyway, no matter what you do.

It's not what it says. So we're going to walk in love.

Then we're going to have to be people who are really good at

being obedient to God's word for our lives.

And Jesus did this. Then it says verse 3.

But immorality and impurity and greed must never even be named

among you, as is proper among Saints.

Now that's old walk. The verse 3 is not walk in love,

it's walk in lust. So verse three saying now you

used to walk in lust, but now you're supposed to walk in love

and there must be no filthiness or silly talk or coarse

gesturing, gesting, which is not fitting but rather giving of

thanks for this you know with certainty.

I said with certainty that no immoral or impure person or

covetous man who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the

Kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with

empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God

comes upon the sins of sons of disobedience.

Therefore, do not be partakers with them.

So what's he saying? He says listen, you can't live

your former life and say you're walking and loving God's love is

with you and sure, don't let somebody tell you that you can

do that and God's OK with it, he said That's deception.

In fact, he reminds us, he says listen, nobody that does these

things will inherit the Kingdom of God.

I don't care if they're walking around saying I have.

She's to come to my heart and save me.

I'm a child of God. I know I'm going to go to heaven

when I die, but they live an immoral, A lustful life.

They walk according to the lust. It's not going to.

Happen now again. What do people say?

Well now, brother, you're saying this is my works.

It is. It's a good work that Christ

gave you a new spirit and put His spirit on the inside of you.

So he expects you to walk it. You have no excuse not to put

away sexual immorality and put away course judge our dirty

talk, cussing, dirty jokes, he said.

You got to put that away. You can't be womanizing and

saying you getting in the Kingdom.

You can't be hustling around and think you right.

And don't let no preacher get up there and tell you you good.

In fact, I'm telling you what the Holy Ghost is doing.

Every time you do it, you feel condemned because the Holy Ghost

would be like, hey, what's up? What's up with you?

Jesus delivers you from this, bro.

Get it together. Don't tell me it's hard.

We can clean this mind up. You keep choosing this stuff.

I got power up on the inside of you.

We free you from all this stuff. Just walk in love.

How do you walk in love? You walk according to what God

says concerning that. That's walking in love.

If you love me, you'll keep my command.

So walking in love is keeping his, keeping his word.

Because Jesus did it. Just as Jesus laid down his life

and only do what the Father says, so how do we walk in love?

We just keep His word. Hallelujah.

Let me read a couple of these verses out of the Passion.

Translation from verse four or verse three, he says, and have

nothing to do with sexual immorality, lust or greed.

For you are His holy ones. He says guard your or he says

and let no one be able to accuse you.

Of of them in any form, he said. Guard your speech.

Forsake obscenities and worthless insults.

These are nonsensical words that bring disgrace and and are

unnecessary. Instead, let worship fill your

heart and spill out in your words.

He says for you. For it has been made clear to

you already that the Kingdom of God cannot be accessed by anyone

who is guilty of sexual sin or who is impure or greedy.

For greed is is the essence of idolatry.

So again, we say idolatry. Oh, I'm not worshipping an idol.

Well, if you're worshipping money, you are.

If you can go to work more than you can go to church, you are.

If you can go to work and and and do the ball games and all

this and can't read the Bible, you are.

He goes on and says this. He says how could they expect to

have an inheritance in Christ's Kingdom while doing those

things? He said don't be fooled by those

who speak with their empty words and deceptive teachings telling

you otherwise. This is what brings God's anger

upon the rebellious. Now I've told you before and

you've seen billboards that says God's not angry with you.

God is angry with the rebellious and if you are in the rebellious

category, raft is being stored up for them.

So it's a lie to say God's not angry with sin.

So again, how can you call yourself a Sinner saved by

grace? Because God's angry with sin.

And again what do we say? Well you know God hates the sin

but loves the Sinner. Well, how do you differentiate

between sin and the Sinner? And if you're calling them a

Sinner, then they must be in sin.

You don't want to hear this. God makes provision for the

human spirit to be delivered out of disobedience.

So make no mistake about it, Not only does he hate sin, but he

hates the one practicing it. And what really aggravates him

is that he knows they don't have to stay there.

Now God is ever present to welcome them in.

So when I say he's angry, it's not like he's mad to the point I

ain't going to do nothing for you.

He's like, gosh, I can't. Come on, give what they're

saying. I sent somebody by your path to

tell you how to be free. Come on, get this thing.

It's that kind of anger. It's this anger, this, this hope

that's like, seriously, get this thing, man.

I laid down my life. So you don't have to be there

anymore. Come on, man.

Get this thing. Because if you don't get it,

I'll have to judge you. I'll have to sit at you

eternally. Come on, get this.

God's not going, brother. I just love you anyway.

It's not right. That's not right.

So. Well, God loved me when I was in

you. Betty loved you.

He provided a way out. He sure did.

Loved you so much that he provided a way out.

He did not. Look at what you were doing and

saying, bro. They deserve it.

I ain't doing Jack for them. No, he said.

Lord, you said you were going to have a Dominion man, and I'll

put myself in the position so a man can come back into Dominion.

And even though they don't deserve for me to do this

because they fail, I'm going to do it according to your word.

Now it's up to them to want to get back.

And I know you want him to get back.

That's why you keep sending people by to talk to him about

how to get on the path, how to walk the narrow path, how to

come through the door. Are y'all hearing me Hallelujah.

So don't be fooled. Please do not be walking around

like the world and act like you good with God.

Now, I'm not saying that if you're doing all this and you

drop. Dead God's like, I can't let you

in. I'm saying if you're a

practicer, you may be at more risk.

And you think because nowhere in scripture doesn't say once

you're saved, you're always saved.

Doesn't say that at all, because if you could always be saved,

then how in the world could Adam had fallen out?

He was perfect without sin. It's because he let it go.

Amen. God's merciful.

Don't get me wrong. People can be on a very back

sledding course. I get it.

And God's merciful and pull them around.

And many of you had testimonies, man.

I knew God when I was young. And then I got off.

I was. But God kept pursuing me and

kept pursuing me. He wasn't accepting you.

He was pursuing you to get you off that walk.

And then you got on the right walk and you're testifying how

great this walk is. Not the old one.

Because the old one was so good. Why'd you ever come back?

Why did you feel like you had to #2 #2 is you need to walk in the

light. Ephesians chapter 5 verses 8

Ephesians 5:8–14

through 14. For you were formerly darkness,

but now you are light in the Lord walk as children of light.

For the fruit of the light consist in all goodness and

righteousness and truth, trying to learn what is pleasing to the

Lord do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness,

but instead even expose them. For it is disgraceful, say,

disgraceful. It is disgraceful even to speak

of the things which are done by them in secret.

But all things become visible when they are exposed by the

light. For everything that becomes

visible is light. For this reason it says awake,

Sleeper, and arise from the dead and Christ will shine on you.

So the number two thing in this new walk is we are to walk in

the light. We used to be in darkness.

And the thing about darkness is that is dark.

You don't know where you're going.

You're having to grope around and feel your way around.

You know what? And you're subject to getting

hurt all the time, because if you don't know where the

obstacles are at. Then you can run into all kind

of stuff. You can get tripped up in all

kinds of things, and that's what it's like being outside of the

will of God. That's why you're constantly

falling, falling, falling, getting hurt, getting hurt,

getting hurt. But when the light comes on, you

can see. Right.

And so he says now you're going to need to walk as children of

light. And I like verse 9 because it

says for the fruit of the lights consist in really what he's

saying, if you're children of light, then there should be a

perpetual display of the fruits of the spirit.

A perpetual display. Of the fruits of the spirit.

That means when a situation requires the fruit of love, you

can produce it. When the situation requires the

fruit of patience, you can produce it.

When the situation requires the fruit of self-control, you can

produce it. When the situation requires the

fruit of kindness, you can do it.

And you understand. Kindness doesn't always come

when the situation is kind. Kindness.

A lot of times that fruit will manifest when kindness is not

around and you're having to be the kind one, although the flesh

says respond differently. But we walk as children of life.

We're no longer retaliating. We have a totally different way

we can respond. We can live differently.

And again the whole Then he says verse 10, trying to learn what

is pleasing to the Lord. Well, what does that mean?

Well, you know, if you go connect the dot over into

Hebrews Chapter 11 without faith, it's impossible to please

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him. So faith is what pleases God.

So verse 10 says we are supposed to learn how to live by faith.

So if you're walking in the light, really what you're doing

is you're walking and living by faith.

No longer do you have to see a natural which is can be masked

in darkness anyway. You can see the word, you can

see. What God says is very clear,

even though all the circumstances around it says it

can't happen. You see the light, and you stay

with the light, and you stay with the word, and you walk in

the light of that word, and you walk in the light of that Word.

And when they say it's not gonna work, it's not gonna happen, it

won't do this. You stay with the light of the

Word, and then you produce the fruit, Amen.

And that fruit then will expose those that are in darkness,

right? In fact, we shouldn't be talking

about how bad everybody's living.

Well, did you see how they respond today?

I sure did. I can't.

Why are you talking about it? Why don't you bring a different

fruit? Well, you know what?

Let's pray for them. It's obviously they were having

a bad day. What, You're going to be nice to

them after all that they said at the table today at work?

Yep. Because I walk in the light.

I said I walk in the light. I walk in the light.

So #2 we walk in the light, #3 we walk in wisdom, say wisdom.

What's so awesome about being born of God is that God educates

you quickly and he gives you an education that the world itself

cannot obtain. To cannot attain to this is

beyond mere knowledge. Ephesians chapter 5 verses 15 to

Ephesians 5:15–17

17 says, therefore be careful how you walk not as unwise men,

but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are

what evil. So then do not be foolish, but

understand what the will of the Lord is.

Now again he tells us to walk wise right we are to walk in

wisdom, so we're to walk as wise men, not unwise.

And I like this because it goes on.

It says making the most of your time.

What's he saying here in verse 16?

He's saying don't be slothful, don't be lazy.

Unwise people are lazy. They're trying to do the least

amount of work with the most amount of pay because they just

want to do what they want to do. They want to fulfill their

desires. They want to have their time.

Well, we see here in verse 17 that the foolish don't know what

the will of the Lord is. Not only do you need to know the

general will of the Lord, meaning how God's general will,

meaning every believer is to respond by the fruits of the

spirit. Every believer supposed to pray,

every believer supposed to read the word, Every believer

supposed should be praying in the spirit, although they don't.

Every believer is supposed to, you know, receive the benefits

that God has given to all of his children.

These are general. But then there's a specific will

for your life, the reason why you were born in the 1st place.

The book that he wrote about you before you even got into your

mother's womb and said, I destined you in the earth at

this time to do this work. So you're foolish when you don't

know the will of God. Well, how can you know the will

of God if you're not in his word?

So again, there's plenty of people that feel buildings

called church but don't even read the Bible and have no

concept of his will, and all they do is this.

Well, Lord, if it's your will. That was my Southern

impersonation. I've left New York, so I don't

know how they would have said that.

Right? Coffee.

But I can't. I don't know how to say that.

We will. Yeah, that's how you coffee.

You know you're saying it. Right.

Hallelujah. Got to pork the car.

OK, so you need to do the will of the Lord.

You cannot do that outside of being in the word and many

people saying Lord, whatever your will is.

And then it's like they're groping in darkness and if a

door is open, they assume it's God.

You know, devil's good at door opening.

He's really good at door. He's good at prosperity.

He's really good at prosperity. I mean, great at it.

I mean, that's what he was telling Jesus.

Look, I'll give you all the Kingdom this, all the prosperity

that come, all the power, all the domain, all the dominion you

get, all the wealth and riches here, people.

So what you get right. So devil's real good at that.

And if well, Lord official will you'll, you know, you'll give me

that job or not. We don't even see if there's a

church there. And then if you move because of

the church, you can get off and not continue to stay connected

with the church because you prosper so good in the place

that God calls you to prosper because you answered him to come

to the church. But now you're not doing nothing

with the church. Why are we here?

What's the will of the Lord? I mean, when we supposed to

retire from the thing called the church.

So when are you supposed to retire from serving well,

Pastor, I need a break. Well, Jesus need to break on the

road to the I mean on the road to Galgatha.

But if you're in the words, you'll be a perpetual rest

anyway. I mean, he does tell you some

marathon Hallelujah. So condition yourself and let me

tell you, we aren't going overwork you anyway because we

know when you get. You only show up when you serve.

We're like, hold on now. That's not why you are here.

Because now you're really not serving.

You're not serving because serving is an overflow of your

relationship and your worship with God, not just a planning

center schedule. If you're only here when

planning center scheduled you, you've turned God into a job and

you've made him an idol. You've made him religious.

Oh, you should like want to be here because you love him and

he's assigned you here and he produces fruit in your life

because of the will of God for your life.

So wise people make the most of every opportunity, meaning they

purposeful. They don't say, well, let's

attain to this and then let's coast.

There is no real believer that says let's attain here and let's

retire and just lay back and enjoy.

I get very concerned because I get around pastors all the time

that they finally build the building and then they're done.

In essence, they preach on Sunday because most of them

don't even do midweek. In essence, they've moved into

retirement and they built the church to the size that allows

them to live that way. Think there's more territory to

take. Amen.

We can keep pressing, keep doing, keep moving.

Why? Because the days are evil.

Because evil's not resting. In fact, we have guaranteed by

the scripture that evil will work harder in the end.

How can we let evil out? Work us.

Be more purposeful. Let's just put it that way.

They're more purposeful because, you know, Christians hate the

word work. God has no problem with work.

Why do I know that? Jesus and my father's always not

resting. He's always working.

And you're supposed to imitate God.

Well, if your father's always working, then you always work in

your purpose and purpose. Doesn't happen just cause you're

in the walls. Hallelujah.

Just say Amen anyway. Praise the Lord.

I know why anchor faith churches like that.

It's cause we don't We don't skirt around stuff.

I mean, we're empowering you to be the greatest you you can be.

Now at the end of the day, you're the one who's responsible

for you. I'm responsible for me.

And I'm gonna do my part whether you're here or not.

But I'm going to be a wise person when I'm the world's

pastor want to do that. Why does he want to add that to

his plate? Why do you?

Why? Cause the days are evil, man.

And we got to be about the father's business.

And here I'm in my own nation and people at that pastor for 40

decades are telling me people are not hearing what you're

saying. Well, why am more saying it?

So if they're not, then I guess it's a pretty good good thing

we're out there saying it and that God's empowered us here to

be able to do it. Glory to God.

So I don't want to be foolish, right?

I want to be like the Ant that's moving.

We wouldn't. We moving.

Praise the Lord, I said. We're moving because, you know,

when the winter hits, we've stored up stuff.

We're not begging for somebody else who stored Hallelujah.

No, we are not. Like the wicked slave son.

I gave you a talent and you buried it.

You could have at least drawn interest and that was still just

taking it to a bank and letting them work it.

And you keep checking on it at minimum.

God always expects increase. So if you ever see yourself back

slid and this is problematic and let me tell you you do you know

whether you're back slate or not how passionate are you to be

here that let me know real quick because again you say wait a

minute how come you keep that like it Cause Jesus Christ is

the head of the and you by yourself is not the church.

You were just a finger you're just an elbow.

You're just a foot. You're just a toe.

You're just a rib. You're just one part.

You're not the body of Christ by yourself, so you cannot be

having this, like, personal, super awesome relationship with

God without having this passion to want to be around every other

believer. Because there was a time when

you first got saved that you know you love coming here.

And when it's not like I love it, then you're heading

backwards now again, loving it doesn't mean you have to feel it

cause you got to stir yourself up.

I mean, there's days I don't feel like coming, especially

when it's raining and it's cold and you're like.

This would be kind of nice to stay by the fire.

Just cozy a little bit. No, you stir yourself up.

Was at the end of the day, Jesus all about the church.

He loves it. He loves what we're doing.

Collectively and individually, individually, collectively, it's

an amazing thing. It's like, awesome.

So empowering. I mean, I was really, my heart

was 4. Pastor Jack man up in New York.

I was like, I mean, I can't speak to it because I'm not

called there. So I don't presume to know

because when you get called somewhere, you'll get anointing

on how to deal with the place you're in.

But when they was telling me, man, they work two or three

jobs, both households work, you know, it's very difficult for

them. I'm like, jeez, some ain't right

was at the end of the day, that's not an excuse not to be

in church. It's not an excuse.

There's a disconnect somewhere. You know, the hustle and bustle.

There's a disconnect somewhere. I'm not going to give you the

answer because I'm not up there. But if I was up there, I'd have

the answer and we would create a generation of packed out people

that love to be with God or we're Jeremiah and that's a

whole nother ball game. Amen.

All right. So then the last one, number

four that we're gonna talk about, we're talking.

About again jumping back over any Ephesians or any Ephesians

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chapter 2. Remember it says you formerly

walked away. Now we walk in the things.

Prepared for us. Because we're created in Christ.

We have a new walk. We walk in love number one, we

walk in light #2, we walk in wisdom #3.

And the 4th one is we walk by the spirit, we walk by the

spirit. Now he feeds.

In chapter 5, verse 18 he mentions this a little, he one

statement concerning it. And then but we then we're going

to jump over to Galatians, closing Galatians.

He really pulls out this walk by the spirit when Ephesians 518.

Just so you know what's in the Ephesians 5 section.

He says do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation.

But be what? Filled with the spirit?

Okay. So we're not supposed to get

drunk with wine now? What do we mean by that?

You're not supposed to allow alcohol to intoxicate you,

because when you're intoxicated, it messes with your mind, I

said. It messes with your mind, It

messes with your mind. It hinders its ability to

function in clarity. Now it depends on the type of

person you are, how alcohol affects your mind.

Some people, when they get drunk that are timid sober, be become

extremely brave and violent. Is that not true?

I mean, it beat anybody up or get beat up while they're trying

to beat somebody up one or the other and they don't care at

all, right? Some When they get drunk, when

they're sober, they don't talk. But when they're drunk, they

talk a lot and they talk about everything and anything.

No filter. There are some that get drunk

and they actually get quiet and their quietness moves them into

depression and they get depressed.

Are you hearing me? But when sober, that's not

technically the case. Now, when they're sober, you

understand there's usually something happening in their

sober mind that makes them think that the intoxication is better

because it's trying to suppress or hurt, in essence, if I can.

And it is interesting that we call alcohol spirits still this

day. Wine and spirits.

Spirits. OK, well, because it's amazing

what you are. What can get in your mind when

you don't have control over it. Are you hearing me?

Now, this this goes without saying when it comes to drugs.

All right, now the question is, And it always comes up to me.

OK, well, Pastor, you're just not supposed to get drunk.

Well, define drunk. Let's let's define it because

some would define drunk as inebriated.

You can't wall falling all over the place.

Well, does that the Bible definition of drunk because that

that's really not the Bible definition of drunk.

The Bible definition of drunk is that you have something in you

that starts to affect the clarity of your thinking.

Now I can go back in my history and know the first time I drank,

especially when it came to beer. One beer messed with my mind.

Now I developed a tolerance for alcohol, which means then the

mental effect I had originally with the first one didn't occur

till it became later. Now again in this interesting

that any alcoholic today started with one.

And again, just about every alcoholic today typically says I

can stop anytime I want. Which is the first deception,

all right. Look, I don't have time to break

all this down for you because again, this is where everybody

goes. Yeah, but Jesus drank wine.

The Bible, literally in the Greek, does not show the

difference between the. Fruit of the vine and fermented

wine, Period. So the fruit of the vine would

be all by all rights, is called great juice.

Great juice would still be called.

It would not be called grape juice.

So what we've done, we allowed our Americanized thinking to

assume wine only has to do with alcohol when they would call

that wine as well. OK.

I mean, this shouldn't be hard for us because again, you can

buy a Heineken, you can buy a Guinness.

Only reason I know this because I've seen commercials.

I knew about o'doul's, but o'doul's really doesn't matter

because o'doul's is a different name.

Heineken is an alcoholic beverage, a beer, but you can

get it with 0 alcohol, which means they make the taste

without the alcoholic effect 0. Guinness now has 10 alcohol.

You know, you know how much drunk drivers we have right now?

You know how many people's gotten in trouble with drunk

driving? I mean if it was really serious

about us in the in our world and we can make non alcoholic beer,

then why don't we just get rid of the alcohol And let me just

throw this one out for all the ones that say well but didn't

Paul tell Timothy to drink wine? Why did he tell Timothy to drink

wine for? So are you drinking?

Is your stomach hurt all the time that every night you got to

drink out wine with your meal cause of your stomach?

Do you have a perpetual bowel issue?

So you see how people do just to try to justify.

Now at the end of the day, listen, I you drink a glass of

wine and die, that doesn't send you to hell.

I'm not saying that. I mean, I had alcoholic wine in

Haiti because they used it for communion.

In fact, the only time Pastor Marcus has ever drank alcohol

was around me. And because of me the first time

is because I did this skit one time when I was a youth pastor,

my brotherinlaw work for a company called Metal Container

and they made the lids for Anheuser Busch.

Just the lids. And so I had him send me the

lids that go on a Budweiser can, just the lids.

And I put them on ice in a cooler.

And so that night we had. I don't know what Hunter

something teenagers. There.

I said, look, I'm your youth pastor at the end of the day.

I know you're dealing with this right.

This right. Joshua.

I know you're dealing with this about tonight.

Listen, if you've got to pop a cold one you're going to do it

with your youth pastor tonight. Tonight we go pop a cold one

together. That's how I let that's how I

set it up. And my message was a Budweiser

than. Yeah, that was good, isn't it?

So the youth pastor went across the street next door to the

youth and bought a case of beer. Yeah, well, I had to have the

prop bought the case of beer. Walk back.

I'm glad people didn't have phones and film and stuff like

that, you know? Again, I took a risk.

I get it. And so I came back and Pastor

Marcus and I, we drilled the bottom of every beer can.

Now again it's been so long since I drank I didn't realize

they made it where it kind of curves up on the bottom.

Now it has like this little. I don't maybe it helps it pour

out. I don't know why they did that

was flat long time ago, but now it's got this little curve.

So we're we're dumping it out as best we can.

But you know there's still some around that little bottom rim.

So once then I rinsed. It did as much as I could.

Then I took and we poured. Apple juice in it because, you

know, you foam up apple juice. It looks like beer.

So we poured that in and then I plugged it with a little screw

that had a rubber Grumman on it and we plugged it and put it

back in the case. So then the skit was, you know,

here they are having a party. But you know, again, for them to

think Pastor Marcus had real beer, he could pop the top and

then he would pour it in a glass cup and you could see it and it

would foam up and then he would drink it.

Then you know the youth are watching all this, right?

Well, I had, you know, another cup that was, you know, one of

those stadium cups that we put Chunky Campbell's soup in chunk.

Some chunky soup in it. And so ultimately he's putting

them back, you know, putting them back.

Crushing the can, boom. Putting it back, crushing the

can, just tearing it up, right? Then he grabs this other cup and

he puts it in and then he throws up all over the place, right?

This is my skit because at the end of the day, don't think the

parties aren't going like this. People are still doing this.

My wife and I went out to Salt Life after Wednesday night

service when they came out and we're like, is that is that puke

out here in the parking lot? Sure enough, somebody was having

a good old time is what we call it.

That's I've never had a good old time throwing up.

I have never. Something's wrong with you.

I'm having. I'm having such a good old time

right now. Nobody does that.

Nobody does that in their right. My just say liar.

You're a liar right now. You're not having a good time

when your toenails are trying to come up through your throat.

No way. No way.

Hallelujah. Y'all doing all right.

I'm a violent thrower upper. My wife is super quiet.

You don't even know it's. The self-control she has.

You all right? Yeah.

I just threw up. You what She's like you don't

even know. Happens.

This even happened. It's crazy me.

Has it come? Just get it all out.

Plus my voice, right? Just lose it all.

Going to lose it all that's bad. Me and Brianna, we will believe

God that it will always go down another way.

If it starts to try to serve like Jesus you will If you got

to get out, you going out another way.

You are so going out another way and I don't care if it coming

out fast the other way because I'm like that's right in Jesus

name. You are not coming out of my

mouth when I put it in. It does not come back out.

It will not return that way. I hate it that much.

So it's not a good time. It's a lot.

Anyway, he tasted some, then, you know, he's like, I see, I'm

sorry. And then the next time we went

to Haiti, we ministered at Faith Christian University.

Actually, they had a campus there at the time, and so we

went to a church. They had communion.

And so I was up front helping to serve communion.

He was in the back about where the sound booth is right there.

And I was standing here and he was directly in front of me like

this. We're holding this and I'll

drink the cup. And I went.

I went, ah, that's not Welch's. And Pastor Marcus went look like

Barney Fife and I just went Hallelujah.

Praise the Lord so, he says. Look, don't let nothing mess

with your mind. Are you hearing me now?

Let nothing mess with your mind. I think if most people were

honest about their alcohol drinking anyway, they kind of do

it for sophistication. I mean, they were honest.

Why do you drink again at the end of the day?

I'm not here to condemn or go any other way.

You need to talk to the Lord about that.

I just know that there's a time when you first start, it affects

your mind right out the gate. And why do you build up a

tolerance for something that has destroyed so many people's lives

when there's so many other options?

That's all that you could, just not, period.

And then you would never be concerned about it, nor would

you be categorized, because how do they?

Know when you're sitting at the restaurant, that's your only

glass. And how many people say, well,

you know, my pastor drinks too. Wow.

And then they're bailing them out.

What happened? Well, drains a little too much,

pastor. Well, God loves you, man.

Drink responsibly. That's called an oxymoron.

The more you drink, the less responsible you are.

That's like gamble responsibly. That can't happen.

Galatians 5. Let's shut this down.

Amen. Somebody on the podcast needs to

hear this. If it's in this house, then let

it apply. Galatians 516 to 25 says this.

But I say, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the

desires of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire

against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for

these are in opposition to one another.

So that you may not do the things that you please.

The spirit is the check. The spirit is like, we don't

live that way. We don't walk that way anymore.

The spirit is like, that's a formal walk.

We don't do that now. That's a formal walk.

I know where you're going. That's a formal walk.

Spirit on a man. Get up in there and talk to your

soul. Now that's a formal walk.

Get them to arrest that thinking.

Get them to get them to take captain that thought.

Let's take Captain. That thought now.

Because that's former walking. That's former walking all right.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you're not under the

law. Now that just simply means you

trying to fulfill God's word without the help of God.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are, yeah, that's

so true, Lord. You know I've always, you know,

like you know when he this statement here like that's just

such a tough statement like how do we explain this property And

the Lord says I say it this way. Thank you.

So, he says. Listen again.

If you are led by the spirit, you're not under the law right

now. Does the law say that it's okay

to have immorality? Does the law say to have

impurity or sensuality or adultery or sorcery or enmities,

or strive for jealousies or outburst?

Does the law say that? Okay.

So if you're living by the spirit, you're not under the

law. Obviously, the law says to not

covet, to not murder. Well, we're still not supposed

to murder. We're still not supposed to

covet. We're still not supposed to

steal the law. None of the law was saying this

to do these things. So again, when it says under the

law, it says you're not under the law.

Meaning you're trying your very best to do it God's way, but you

can't because your nature separated.

You're not under that condition anymore.

You're actually now in the Spirit, and the Spirit can't

fulfill God's word. He will.

The Holy Spirit will do it, and he'll tell you how to do it, and

he'll empower you to be able to resist, so that the works of the

flesh then are evident, which are immorality and purity,

sensuality, adultery, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy,

outbursts of anger, it says, disputes, dissensions, factions

in being, drunkenness. So now we're.

Back over to Ephesians 5 again, Don't be drunk with wine.

But you know, basically, you know, you're supposed to be

filled with the spirit, carousing and things like these,

of which I forewarned you, just as I have forewarned you that

those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of

God. Thank you.

The Lord wanted me to let remind you, yes, being filled with the

Spirit can get you demonstrating an outward display that looks

like what a natural, intoxicated person looks like.

Peter on the day of Pentecost, said these men are not drunk as

you. So there was something about

their behavior when they got under the power that made them

look like they were staggering and stammering.

Because again, a person drunk, you know, will slur.

There's, you know, like, what? What?

So when they were speaking in an unknown tongue.

Because, again, if they were only Speaking of the language

which they were speaking languages, people understood.

But if they were only doing that, then there'd be no reason

to associate them with drunkenness.

So there was the Speaking of tongues that no one knew what

they were saying, so they thought it was stammering of

lips. They were drunk.

Listen to them. They're stammering their lips

all over the place. Okay.

And again you can get so full of the spirit that the weight of

his glory and power could put you on the ground.

Just like when you people are drunk, they stagger and fall.

That can take place. But notice this.

Not every occasion when you are under the influence of the

Spirit, are you going to be falling all over the place?

Because some people take that as then as a religious exercise,

and they're just stumbling all over the place, making it look

like they're drunk in the spirit when they're no more drunk in

the Spirit, they just want you to think they're drunk in the

spirit. Now how do I know?

Because their lifestyle isn't actually being walked out by the

Spirit. Because they're doing all these

things still. You're staggering around here,

but you're sleeping around. You're staggering around here,

but you're still, you know, Corral.

You're staggering around here, but you're envying.

You're staggering around here and you got jealousy.

Why? You staggering around and it

didn't do nothing for you. Again, if you fall, great, but

do something different once you get up.

So a Holy Ghost meeting is not just the stammering of lips.

Well, you will speak in it on untone.

I'm fine with that. But that doesn't mean you're

falling all over the place. Okay, let's go on.

He says verse 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is

love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

faithfulness, gentleness, selfcontrol.

Against such there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ

Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also what walk by the Spirit?

So the fourth thing is you're going to walk by the Spirit.

Now let me just say this. You cannot walk by the Spirit

outside the word of God. It cannot happen because if

you're just trying to be spiritual, you'll tap into the

wrong spirit because you don't have an anchor in the word to

know what a correct spirit is. Because the enemy is in the

spirit realm and the devil comes as an Angel of light.

So if you're walking by the spirit, you must also be in the

word to be a person who's truly living or walking by the Spirit.

Two things are going to be necessary in your life.

One is a consistent diet of reading and studying the word,

and the 2nd is a consistent diet of praying and praying in the

spirit you must have about. Jesus himself knew the word, He

was the word, but he prayed. If prayer alone made you

spiritual then Jesus never would have ever said it is written.

If prayer was not important and all you had to do was read, then

Jesus never would have went and prayed.

So a person who's truly walking by the Spirit, this new walk we

are, should have a habit of both reading the word and prayer.

Not just praying in the natural, but praying in the Spirit.

And there should be a balance. Which one you should do more.

It's which one's most necessary at the time.

Now, most of the time it's gonna kind of seem like a balance

between the two. But sometimes you don't need to

pray. You just need to get in the

word, and you need to wash yourself with the Word.

You need to spend some hours just reading the word.

Then there's other times that you need to get over and pray

for quite some time until you break through, so it's whichever

ones needed. So we don't want to emphasize

one more than the other because they're really inseparable

anyway. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

All right, what, Did you learn anything tonight?

Are you going to, you going to walk your new walk?

I said, are you going to walk your new walk?

We're going to walk in love. We're going to walk in the

light, we're going to walk in wisdom and we're going to walk

by the spirit. And when we do that, then the

world will say, who are you, where are you from and what can

I do to get what you have? Because you will no longer be

confused with the former walk, nor will anyone be able to

associate. They can lie and say you've done

something. Now you can't stop that because

they said Jesus walked away, He never walked.

But you are never to walk away. That they can rightly accuse you

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