THE WORD OF GODNew Recording (draft)

Him allowing us to be here. Amen. Let us go

before the Lord. Amen. Amen. The question today is, how

many of us are still walking in the plan of salvation?

Let's see. I want to visit these scriptures in the

book of Colossians. Amen. Amen. In the third chapter of Colossians,

and Colossians, and we're going to see where we still

stand in his presence. I know some of us say,

I've been saved for a long time. Okay, well, let's

see how you're still walking. Amen. Let's see how we're

still walking since we've been saved a long time. Because

God placed upon my heart this morning that because of

the events that are happening on a daily basis, within

seconds of each other, our focus could be turned away.

Because there's so much going on in the world today,

all over the world, that it's drawing our attention to

the east, to the west, to the north, to the south,

and some have lost focus on the middle, which is

Jesus Christ. They have lost focus on the rock in

which we are supposed to stand. Amen? So let us pray. Father,

we come right now in the name of Jesus, thanking

and praising your holy name. We're here for no shape, form,

or fashion, but only to give glory unto your son

Jesus Christ's name and to give you glory, God, from

the lives that we live. Pray that our lives will

give you the glory, Lord, and that you continue to

help us to walk on the straight and narrow, that

your spirit continue to rise up in us, that spirit

of truth, that Holy Spirit continue to rise up in

us when we get weak and when we get angry, God,

that we'll continue in the form of righteousness and God,

continually the salvational walk that you have put upon us, God,

and has given us freely by the blood of Jesus

and that we have chosen to do, God. We made

the choice, Father, to follow Jesus and let him be

our leader because we were being led by our own

selves and we were leading ourselves to a devil's hell.

But thank you, God, for turning us around by the

blood of Jesus who died and delivered us from a

sin nature to a righteous nature, God, that's pleasing in

thy sight. Now, Lord, as we go forth in your word,

let your word go forth and do what you have

it to do, God, according to your will. Let it

be done in this house and all over for those

that are listening on the airways. It is my prayer

that it will touch that one that is a sinner

and will Break up that stony heart and cause him

to come running to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,

that he too may be saved or she may be

saved in the name of Jesus. Bring back the backslider.

Let a word touch the backslider and bring him back

to his first love. Turn him around, Lord, and let

him come back to you and lay in your bosom, Father,

as he once did. Continue to strengthen those that are

continually holding on Because truly, it is a fight in

these last and evil times. And this is my prayer

to you, God, for your people and myself. In Jesus' name.

And the church said, thank God. Thank God. Amen. And amen.

Thank you, Jesus. In the book of Colossians and in

the third chapter of Colossians, starting about the first verse. Amen.

And the Lord says, if you then being raised with Christ,

if you've been raised with Christ, and we've been raised

with Christ when we give our life to Christ, amen?

So when we've been raised with Christ, it says, do this.

Seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on

the right hand of God. And set your affections on

things above, not on things on the earth. For you

are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall

you also appear with him in glory. So then, mortify

therefore your members which are up on the earth. Fornication, uncleanness, inordination, affections, evil,

conceptions and covetousness which is adultery for which things sake

the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience

in the which you also walk sometimes see you once

walked in this he's saying when you live in them

but now somebody say now you also put off all

these you done put them all off Anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,

filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another,

seeing that you have put off the old man with

his deeds. Lying was one of his deeds. And have

put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge.

You got new knowledge. After the image of him who

created him. So now you have the knowledge after him

who created him, which is the image of Jesus Christ.

Which is the image that we're after now. Where there

is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, sanctum, bond,

nor free. In other words, in Christ, there is no

distinction between But Christ is all and in all. So therefore,

put on therefore as the elect of God, as the

elect of God, we have to put on holy and

beloved vows of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another. If any man

have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you,

so also do you. And above all these things, put

on charity, which is love, which is the bond of perfection.

This is called the complete growth, love, And let the

peace of God rule in your heart to the which

also you are called in one body, which is the church.

And be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell

in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one

another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with

grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever you

do in word or deed, do all in the name

of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and

the Father by him. Amen? Amen. Give God a hand

clap of praise. Amen. Amen. You may be seated in

the house of the Lord. Thank you. Let me get

to it. Amen. There come times in our lives where

we have to at times be reminded so that our

minds can be refreshed of whose we are. Amen. Amen.

In the run of a day, there's so much going on.

We still have to remember who we are. So there

come times like this time that for the purpose of

being here in collectively together assembling ourselves so that we

can be refreshed of the things that we already know. Amen.

So as we begin to revisit these scriptures, we find

that Paul is explaining true Christian behavior. Putting on the

new self by accepting Christ. and regarding the earthly nature

as dead. Because sometimes in the run of a day

somebody going to get next to us. We have to

remember the behavior that we have now put on as

a saved saint of God. So We change our moral

and ethical behavior by letting Christ like within us. Amen?

So that we can give ourselves to him willingly so

that he can shape us, amen, into what we should be.

We can't do it. We tried it. In verse 1,

let us know since we have been raised, express certainty.

Since we have been raised, you were once dead in

your sin, but now you have been raised from death

just as Christ had been raised from dead by the

power of God. Amen. By the power of God. By

the power of God. You have received a new life

from God through the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen?

Since Jesus Christ was died and buried and he was

raised from the dead by the power of God. It

was by the power of God. So we have received

a new life from God through the power of the

Holy Spirit. So now that we have received this new

life by God through the Holy Spirit and the death

and burial resurrection of Jesus Christ, you have to ask,

so what now? So what now? So what now? And

God has an answer for you. The word now is

a continuation in the word of God that you can

continue to grow and come perfect, or should I use mature,

in the things and the ways of the Lord. Amen?

That is the so what now. Once you have been saved,

there is a so what now. Now there's something to do,

more to do rather, than what we've done. What have

we done? We've gave our life to the Lord. So

what now? A lot of people claim to give their

life to the Lord but miss the so what now?

What is the so what now? I'll tell you what

the so what now is. We have a responsibility to Jesus.

That's the so what now. We have a responsibility to

Jesus to live right and to understand and to respect

Jesus' seat at the throne at the right hand of God.

That's the so what now. as well as his judge

and advocating of our lives. Amen? That's the sower now.

And therefore, since you've been raised, as the scripture says

in verse 1 of Colossians chapter 3, if you've then

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been raised with Christ... If you've then been raised. And

it used that conditional word in that verse, first verse

of chapter 3 of Colossians, that word, that little bitty

word that's so powerful, if. Meaning, if you've been raised

with Christ, then you should be seeking those things above.

But if you ain't, or if you haven't, y'all want

to correct English, then you're going to be seeking the

things on the earth. Houses and cars and husbands and wives.

and boyfriends and girlfriends and riches and wealth. But when

you've been raised with Christ, you're going to seek those

things above. Amen. And not only have you been free

from sin if you've been raised, you have also turned

a new life leaving behind. Did anybody hear that? See,

when you get this new life, there's some things that

you got to leave behind. You can't drag that baggage

with you because God said, what does light have to

do with darkness? You were once in the dark, but

when you gave your life to Christ, you walked into

a marvelous light and he illuminated within you and he

illuminated before you because he said in the word that

I'm a light inside a man. And I'm illuminating light

to his path. Amen? He said, I'm the light and

the man. So when you come out of darkness, you

got to leave. See, when you come out of darkness,

you can see those things. And then when you see

those evil things that you once used, you're going to

have to leave them behind now. You can't use them

no more. See, once you've been freed from sin, you

have to also turn to a new life. In other words,

that sinful nature... No more should exist. But the new

nature is the righteous nature of Jesus Christ. That's what

he came for. Again, I say, to change the nature

of man from sin to righteousness. Amen. And you got

to leave behind the old ways that you used to have.

The old habits and the values and the vices and

the interests, the interests, the interests. And sin. Amen. Amen.

And then you got to seek those things that are above,

like a deeper knowledge. Those are the things above. See,

once you get saved, the what noun is to seek

a deeper knowledge in him. You don't know him. You

got to get to know him. You just know of him.

And once you know of him and you know enough

of him that will cause you to come to want

to know him, then you'll get in his word and

begin to know him and not just know of him. Amen.

And when that happens, your nature will change and you'll

want a deeper knowledge of Christ. A closer fellowship with him.

A better experience of his resurrection. Of the resurrection of

his power. Amen. The victory over sin. And developing godly values.

And the fulfillment of domestic and social responsibilities. And also

an effective, effective prayer life. Amen. Because when you come

to really know him, you're going to want to pray.

You're going to want to pray. And he's going to

allow things to come to cause you to pray. Because

the Bible specifically says that man should never cease praying.

What does that mean? Stay in direct communication with God

all the time. See, here's what people do. They don't pray.

Most folks don't pray they go to church. Most folks

don't pray that something devastating happened. Most folks don't pray

that something devastating happened to cause them on to pray.

And some folks don't even pray it ain't about devastation.

Sometimes it's about what I want. From God. Like God's

a genie. You can rub him and get three wishes.

Ain't going to happen, Calvin. The Bible says, a man

ought never cease to pray. Which means to stay in

constant conversation with God. What is prayer? I heard people

tell me, I don't know how to pray, preacher. I said,

you don't. And this is how I lead them. I

don't even say, I don't even try to teach them

how to pray. When they make their statement, I just

keep talking to them. I keep talking to them and

keep talking to them. Guess what they do? They keep

talking to me. I keep talking to them. They keep

talking to me. I keep talking to them. And then

after a while, I say, that's how you pray. They

be going, huh? I said, just like you've been talking

to me, that's how you talk to God. You just

keep talking. It ain't nothing specific. You ain't got to

pour a whole lot of water over you and oil

and bash yourself. Lay out on the ground, stretched out. See,

because there's no posture in prayer either. We've been taught

things the wrong way. There's no posture in prayer. You

don't have to get down on your knees to pray.

It's a good thing. It's a humbling position. You can

lay out. It's a humbling position. But you can walk

around in the grocery store. Lord, you see what I'm

in need of. I just don't have enough money. You

don't have to give me a break on this, Father God.

I'm just saying I need your help right now, Lord,

and You know, these groceries is high. Maybe there's some

kind of way you can touch the register when I

get up there and make something happen for me, God.

You know, you walk around in the snow, but you're

talking to God. Everybody think they got to get home

or get to church. Oh, I got to get to

church to pray. No, you can drive down the street

and pray. Everything I'm telling you, I do this every day.

I do it every day. I never cease praying. I

pray to God all day, every day. When I'm at work,

I say, look, I don't understand this. This ain't working right.

I didn't connect these wires right and it still ain't happening.

And God said, check the breaker. I checked the breaker.

I said, God, it still ain't happening. You ain't reset

it right. I'm talking to God. God talk to me.

to me. Believe it or not, when you stay in

constant communication with God, he ain't changed. He talked to

the patriots of old. He ain't no God of favoritism.

He'll talk to you. if you stay in constant communication

with him. But when you ain't in constant communication with

him and you praying to God after you ain't talked

to him in seven months, because in seven months everything

was just rolling on fire for you. And all of

a sudden, here come a big old bump in the road.

And now this Lord Jesus stretched out my hand to thee.

God's saying, who in the world is that? You pray

long enough, he'll Jesus said, you remember him, don't you, Father?

But when you're in constant communication with God, you can

just be rolling down the street. Lord, I just need

to be on time. Can you hold it? I got

out a little late, but can you hold the clock

back just a little bit? When you're in constant communication,

it just flows. It just flows. Just like this. And

things just happen. It just happens. And sometimes because you're

in such constant communication with him, you don't even have

to open your mouth. You can just think it in

your mind. You can be thinking in your mind, God,

I need about $ 40 to pay this. You think it.

I need about $ 40 to pay this bill. All of

a sudden, bam, somebody jump out there with a hundred.

He said, I'll bless you far greater than you can ask. See,

people think about the asking part. I'll bless you far

greater than you can ask. They forget about the other

part of that and think. He said, I'll bless you

far greater than you can ask or think. You can

think it because God knows your thoughts. Amen. But constant

communication allows all of this to happen for you. Amen. Amen. Amen.

So we should always have an effective prayer life and

be fruitfulness in witnessing. Some of y'all never witnessed to anybody.

Some of y'all right here sitting in this house right

now hardly ever to witness to anybody and a whole

lot of y'all listening over the airwaves never listen to anybody.

Never witnessed to anybody. Witness is what gets it. Do

you think the lawyers in the court cases win? No.

Whoever got the best witness. That's who wins. You could

win a court case. That man guilty of sin, but

he got a good witness. And he guilty as H-E

double hockey stick. But yet he gonna get off because

he got a good witness. And some of us hardly

ever witness. And we have to maintain a Christian maturity

so to have been raised with Christ and the things

that I just admonished to you so I'm saying to you,

if you've been raised with Christ and you don't seek

these blessings, it's a contradictory to your rising. Amen? It's

a contradictory to your rising if you're not constantly in

prayer with him, if you're not being fruitful in witnessing,

if you're not fellowshipping with one another. Amen? Developing godly

virtues and having social and domestic relationships God-like abilities. Amen?

And when you've been raised with him, those things come

by the word of God. By you getting in the

word of God, and when you get in the word

of God, the word of God gets in you. And

I've explained this many times. The things that are in

you came from you from outside of the world. The

world taught you how to use profanity. Amen, somebody? Amen.

The world taught you how to drink. You ain't know

how to drink. The world taught you how to smoke.

You ain't know how to smoke. The world taught you

how to pop pills and use dope and how to fornicate.

The world taught you how to do those things. And

the Bible will teach you how not to do those things.

And the Bible will tell you how to do the

things of God. Because you got in the world and

the world taught you those things. But when you got saved,

you came alive. you came, you're not in the world,

you're not of the world anymore. See, when you was

of the world, you did the things that the world taught.

But now you're not of the world, you're just in

the world. Amen? So now that you're not of the

world anymore, you gotta be of something. You're of Jesus Christ.

But you're still in the world. He was in the world,

but he wasn't of the world. And there's a difference.

So it tells us to set our affection on things above.

The Greek word literally says this, set your mind on

things above. So as to say that we are not

to be copying the things on earth such as current philosophies.

Philosophy is going to get us in trouble. Amen. Legalistic,

legalism is what people preach today. They preach legalism. They

preach philosophy. And they practice these things. Amen? Yeah, people say,

I went to seminary school. Whoopee. You just telling me

you messed up. You just telling me your mind's jacked up.

Because I ain't heard of one apostle, one prophet, one evangelist,

one teacher, one preacher that went to seminary school. It's

a gift of God. Amen? I went to minister's school.

at Howard University and you still a heathen. So what

has it taught you? I tell you, nothing. The Bible

says that the Holy Ghost, what class is that? Will

teach all things to those that believe. The Holy Ghost,

as wise as God has caused me to be in

his word. I ain't been in nobody's class. Ain't no

teacher taught me this. Ain't no preacher taught me this.

I'm talking about me. I like Paul In a place

where God allowed me to be, taught me for three

years the word of God. Strictly from God. Amen. So

this legalism and philosophies and practices were not to even

dwell on things that are not wrong in themselves. Amen.

There are things that are not wrong in themselves, like

dwelling on a house. It's not wrong in itself. Amen. Amen.

dwelling on a job or a career or even ambitions. Amen?

They're not wrong in themselves because they can be wrong

should they become a priority over God. That's when it

becomes wrong. Amen? Anything you make a priority over God

becomes wrong. Amen? But those things in themselves are not wrong.

God wants you to have a house. He wants you

to have money. He wants you to have clothes. He

don't want you to run around here buck naked. He

wants you to have a job. Amen. He wants you

to have furniture in your house. The Bible said the

earth and the food of the earth belong to God.

And if he my father and then he proclaims that

I'm an heir to joint heir with Jesus Christ. Double whammy. Yeah.

God wants us to have these things because he said

in the book of Philippians, he says, I shall supply

all of your need according to my riches in glory

by Christ Jesus. Amen? So things are not a sin

or a curse, but they become one when you prioritize

them more than God. I got to stay home and

watch my house. Can't go to church today. I just

got this house. I got to wash my car. I

ain't going to be able to wash it tomorrow. I

got to be at work. I'm too tired to get

up and go to church today. Because I worked third

shift last night. I ain't get off until about 6

this morning. I need my rest. But then you prioritize

the job Monday morning. And then lay God aside Sunday morning.

When he commanded you, he didn't ask you. When he

commanded you to forsake not the assembly of your Lord

and Savior Jesus Christ. Forsake not the assembly of the saints.

That's not an asking. That's a commandment. I proved it

to you in the word a couple Sundays ago. If

y'all were listening, I'm sure you were listening. I made

sure you were listening because I said there it is.

Y'all thought I was making that up when I said,

God said, for the sake of the assembly of the saints,

there was a commandment. I showed it to you in

the Word, and I showed you it was a commandment

of God. And even when I go out of town,

I find somewhere to go to assemble with the saints,

hoping and praying that they are the saints when I

go up in there. Because I'll be praying, Lord, lead

me in the right direction, because all these houses are

not yours. Amen, somebody. It's tight, but it's right. Amen. Amen.

Anything we make a priority over God becomes bad. Paul

is telling us to love heavenly things. He's telling us,

study them. I pause for the study them. That means

you got to pick up your words. See right there,

that's one of those psalms, see lies. He's telling us

to love heavenly things And to study them. Let our hearts,

your heart is not that in your chest that only

pumps blood. This is your heart. Your mind is your heart.

This is when God talks about your heart. This is

what God is talking about. This is what the doctor

is talking about. This is what God is talking about.

So let our hearts be fixed on them now. Now

let our hearts be fixed on them, those godly things above,

and study those things now that we are converted to God.

Be as much earnest for heavenly things and eternal things

as we were for earthly things that perish. See, we

got to be just as earnest and more for heavenly things.

That earthly thing. Girl, I got me a ticket to

the game. I got a ticket to the concert. We

glad about it. But it's time to go to church.

Where's your earnesty then? For God. Where's your excitement? You

sitting in the game about to blow a fuse when

it's over with. What's wrong with you? I was at

the game shouting, you know. But you can talk fine

when you leave church because you ain't shouted and praise

God like you did those guys on the baseball field,

basketball court, and football field. And the folks up on

the stand entertaining you. You lose it, but you can't

lose it here. Why not? I find him to be

way more exciting. I said I do. I'm excited about

the Lord. Anybody that know me that seen me in

them streets, this me here, this me in the streets.

I don't change. Do I change? You didn't see me

in the streets. I'm the same way. I talk the

same way and act the same way away from this building.

I said that for a reason because everybody don't do that.

They act one way in here and a whole another

way out there. And follow them home and you'll really

see how they live. Mm-hmm. I live the same way

at home as I live in here. My wife right there,

she can tell you. I don't change. I ain't no phony.

I ain't perfected it. She can tell you that too.

Still working on it. Am I working on it? Is

God helping me to work on it? My wife will

tell you. She know. I love this. I'm excited about this.

Sometimes I don't even know how loud I am. I

had to get up because somebody called me and asked

me about a scripture. She watching TV. And the moment

I see her, I hit that mute button. I hit

that pause button. I said, it's time to go. Because

she can't hear the TV no more. Because I get excited.

I go into my little room over to the side.

And I begin to expound on the word of God

that somebody called me about. Folk call me all the

time from all over the place. California, Detroit, Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi.

They call me from everywhere. Folk call me and ask

me things. Some call me to trick me. Some call

me because they want to know. But I ain't fooled

by none of them. Because it's impossible to fool the

very elect of God. Amen, somebody. That's who he really for.

So we have to be just as earnest and more

for the things of God than we do for the

things that we deal with, like our cars, our house,

a new dress, a new suit, new hairdo. We should

have greater, more great excitement for godly things than we

do those things. Not to say you can't get excited. Amen.

But I'm saying you shouldn't be overly excited. And even

if you're excited about those things, this is your first

excitement about a new dress, a new car, a new hairdo. Lord,

I thank you. Hallelujah. This is a bad suit. God,

you blessed me with this. God, look at God. Look

at God. Look at this car. You somebody, God, gave

me that car right. You somebody. See, that's your earnest

expression of the things that God has given you. That's

how you should do it. So you're thankful to God

for that thing. Amen. I be driving that street all

the time, my vehicle somewhere. You did it, boy. Boy,

you know I wanted this right here. And look what

you done did. Lord have mercy. So you understand. The

moment that you receive salvation, the moment that you receive salvation,

the moment that you received. See, the key word in

that sentence is received. And the moment you received salvation,

that moment you died to the evil of the flesh.

At that moment, the moment you received it, you died

to the evil of the flesh and the sin nature.

You died to that once you received that. Amen, somebody. Now,

there is a process of deliverance. I do agree. Amen.

But you got to get delivered. Can't stay in that state. Amen.

Let's see what Romans 6 and 3 through 8 says.

Romans chapter 6, verse 3. It says, know you not

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that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus

Christ are Say it again. The newness of life. For if,

there it is, we have been planted together in the

likeness of his death, we shall be also in the

likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man

is crucified with him, that the body of sin might

be destroyed, that henceforth We should not serve sin. We

should not serve sin. We should not serve sin. We

should not serve sin. For he who is dead is freed,

freed from sin. You've been set free from the bondage

of the sin nature. Now, if we be dead with Christ,

We believe that we shall also live with him. Can

the church say amen? Amen. There it is. And now

your life is hid in him. It is invisible and

safe in Jesus because he said in John 14 and 19,

yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more,

but ye see me. because I live, but ye see

me because I live, ye shall live also. But when

he appears at the rapture, we will appear with him

and we'll be glorified. Amen? We will appear with him

and be glorified as he spoke in Colossians chapter 1

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and verse 27. where he says, to whom God would

make known what is the riches of the glory of

his mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you,

the hope of glory. The hope of glory. Paul here

is saying if we are to live as examples of Christ,

If we are to live as examples of Christ, we

have to put to death the aspects of the sinful

earthly things lurking within us. Because that's what they do.

They creep back in at any given time. That's the

reason why God has given you this sermon this morning.

Because we have to be reminded of the things we

already know at times. Amen. So that we can replenish ourselves.

I know what water tastes like. But if I drink

it all up, I'm going to need some milk. Amen?

So Paul here is saying if we are to live

as examples of Christ, we have to put up to

death the aspect of the sinful earthly things lurking within us.

The sinful nature, that old self tries to rise up

on occasion, especially when you get angry, especially when you

feel hopelessness, and that old man going to try to

rise up. Amen? Even though we have died with Christ,

temptation and the evil sinful nature still tries. It still

tries us on a daily basis.

But we have to hold on to the God that

we serve. Hold on to the word of God for

our life. Hold on to the word of God for.

Our life because it's life-threatening. Amen? And listen. We don't listen.

We talk too much sometimes. We be out and about

talking to people and even talking to ourselves. We got

to listen to the Holy Spirit. Amen? Because if we don't,

God's judgment on those kinds of behavior will come upon us.

His nature will not allow. I'm talking about the nature

of God. The very God that we serve, he has

a nature and his nature is holy. His nature is righteous.

So his nature will not allow sin to go unpunished.

I don't care who you think you are, what your

name may mean to a whole lot of people. If

you sin, I don't care if you are the glorious

person that you may think that you are to people.

And people might think you are. I don't care who

you are. Your sin will not go unpunished because God's

nature will not allow him to let it go unpunished.

And some people try to get around it. But some

people try to get around it, but at the end

of the day, if you don't repent, hell is where

you lift up your eyes. Amen, somebody? And in which

you also walked in verse 7. See, in the Bible,

in verse 7 of chapter 3 of Colossians, this verse

lets us know that we don't need to be judged

for those things anymore. You don't need to be judged

for lying no more because you're not supposed to be

lying no more. You ain't supposed to steal no more

because you ain't supposed to replace stealing with honesty. Amen?

You're supposed to replace lying with truth. Amen? So this

is letting us know in this verse that we don't

need to be judged for those things anymore because we

have put off the old and put on the new.

And that also when we look at others, it should

remind us in our judgment that we too were once

like them. And when it reminds us when we look

at others that we were once like them, then we

shouldn't project a harsh judgment on them. Get off that dope, boy.

You crazy. What's wrong with you? See, you can't judge

them harshly. You on dope once. Quit all that lying.

You ain't nothing but a liar. You used to lie.

Judge them with love and compassion like God did us. Amen.

Remembering that we were once like them. We were once

like that. We once walked in the very sinful nature

they walking in. And it took the love of God

to get us out. And it's going to take the

love of God in you to help get them out. Amen.

And these behaviors have no place in any Christian or

in any church. These are part of your old life

before knowing Christ. Amen. Old life before knowing Christ. All

the people of God, all the saints of God must

put off those repulsive sins of anger and speech so

that we can put a cry. Christ's attitude and attribute

and actions in our lives. Amen. By the word of God. Amen.

And when it spoke to us in the 10th verse

and the 11th verse, it's putting on things. Amen. The

new man is the person one becomes after conversion. You're

not the old man anymore. You become a new man.

That's why it's called a conversion. And you possess a

new nature. Not the old nature anymore. You put on

new values, new aspirations, a new lifestyle. This new man

is constantly being renewed. And how does he do that?

By constantly reading and studying the word of God and

meditating the word of God. That's how you constantly be

renewed in your mind. And you begin to continue to develop.

The things of God you develop until you obtain a

mature knowledge. Amen? Of the God who recreated you, who

created you. You continue this until you become mature. Mature

and obtain a mature, holy attribute like Jesus Christ. You continue.

This is a daily thing. You can't stop this for

a week or a day. This is daily. You got

to realize when the Lord questioned Satan, he said, where

art thou? He knew where he was. Satan basically was saying,

I'm going to and forth in the earth seeking the

one who think he can take a break from you

and the one that don't know you. This is a

constant renewing, amen? And you become mature in the knowledge

of the God who created you. The more... a believer

knows and understands of God, the more he will be

like God. I didn't say you're going to be God.

I said the more you will be like God in

character and conduct. Amen. Not only is the new man

to put sin to death, he is also to put

away man-made barriers that divide people and that nourish the

vices of the old life. And among renewing humility, there

are no natural ceremonies, cultures, or society distinctions to the Redeemer,

Jesus Christ. Only the Bible. Jesus Christ is all that is.

Jesus Christ is all that it is. He is everything

and he is what matters most to every believer. And

Christ is is in all, that is, he dwells in

all believers. He don't dwell in no believer. He don't

dwell in no non-believer, I mean. He don't dwell in

a non-believer. He dwells in believers, amen? So let's conclude this.

Let's conclude this lesson, a sermon, our instructions of God.

In conclusion of this, because Jesus is the truth, As

John 14, 6 says, the way, the truth, and the life.

We ought to practice truth in all areas of our life.

We should not lie to each other because lying disrupts

unity and destroys relationships, destroys trust, destroys members of the

body of Christ. It tears down relationships and may lead

to serious conflict in the church as well. We should

not pass around rumors because the Bible says speak that

which you know and testify to that which you have seen.

We shouldn't gossip or say things to build up our

own image at others' expenses. You know you like to

make yourself bigger than everybody else. Amen. The Bible says

man I think so much of myself. Because we have

put off the old evil nature and wicked deeds and

have committed to telling the truth because The spirit of

truth dwells in us. And because we have put on

Christ and our goal, this as a believer, our goal

is to learn. Our goal is to learn. And our

goal is the learning of Christ likeness. The more we

know of Christ and his work, the more we can

be changed into his image and likeness. And this learning

is not momentarily. This is a long life process. And

we must never, somebody say never, stop learning and obeying

the teachings of this Bible. Because the Bible, God's holy

people are chosen by God for a specific purpose. Our

inner destiny. No one can claim to be chosen by

God because his or her heritage, our good work, our

mother and father, our grandmother and great grandmother are in

the church.

No, God freely chooses to save whomever he wills. the

doctrine of election teaches that it is God's sovereign choice

to save us.

By the goodness and the mercies of him and not

by our own merit and not by our own merit

And so we have to receive such wonderful grace that

God gives and mercy from God. And it ought to

be caused. See, all the saints ought to be glad

to lay aside their sinful desires in order to clothe

ourselves with the nature that pleases God. You see, when

we put on that nature, all we're saying is, God,

we want to please you, Lord. God, we want our

life to give you glory. God, we want our life

to speak to the loss of this world. God, we

want to illuminate when we come into dark places. God,

we want to shine so bright that the heathen, the sinner,

is going to walk what you have given us. Amen? So,

We ought to be glad to lay aside those sinful

desires in order to clothe ourselves with the nature that

pleases God. Amen. We want to be like Jesus. And

to be like Jesus, that should be your choice. Everybody,

you see, God created all of us. I heard a

person say God didn't call us all. Yes, he has. See,

when people say stuff like that, they don't know God. God,

they're looking at a wicked, evil person. God ain't called him. Yeah,

he has. God has called all of us into the

plan of salvation. He didn't call that little kid. He

didn't call that teenager right there because he's strictly just

cutting up sideways. God still called him. It's about us

receiving the call. It's about us accepting the call. Amen.

He's called us all. into the plan of salvation. Why?

If he had not called us, then the Bible's a lie.