THE WORD OF GOD

Let me move on before I skip over my message

for the day, because it's so much that could be

said about what we need to be doing, and I'm

going to speak about some of that even in the message. Amen,

in the Book of Matthews, chapter eighteen. When you get there, say, man,

it's the first book of the Gospel. In case anybody

hadn't been reading the Bible, I don't know where to go. Amen,

Father God, we come in the name of Jesus Christ. Love.

We thank you for this opportunity and privilege to be

here today. God, Truly, it is a blessing by thy

grace and thy mercy. Oh, you was gracious and mercy

for it. You woke us up this morning. But not

only that, God, you let us survive all the week.

You cover us with your wings of protection, and you

hit us in your bosom. Lord, And we thank you, Lord,

that you rebuke the enemy of death, which is our

last enemy. We thank you for that, God, in the

name of Jesus Christ. And we ask God to open

up our eyes and ears to hear that what you

have to say to us this morning through your servant.

Use me, Lord, use these lips of dust in this

tongue to speak to the people and even to my

own soul in the name of Jesus Christ. Let us

hear what your word speaks this morning, and let us

be obedient in Jesus Holy Name, thank God, Amen and Amen.

In the Book of Matthews, Chapter eighteen, starting in verse six,

we're talking here about the seriousness of offenses, the seriousness

of offenses, the seriousness of you offending somebody, are somebody

offending you, and the seriousness that will be upon them

for what they do. Amen, Because we're indivisually accountable for offenses,

and some are unified in offenses, like when they attacked

the capital on the sixth of I forgot the money

was of January. There was a corporate offense, hey man,

And the Bible says, but who so shall offend one

of these little ones which believe in me? This is

not talking about weak Christians, and some people may believe,

but this is talking about those who trust Christ and

the Cross exclusively, the little children. Is talking about the

young converts, those that offend young converts. I experienced that

in the ministry that I was in once before, when

somebody was very diligent and rough with an individual who

came to the ministry to hear a word from the

Lord and kept suggesting and insisting that they moved from

where they were sitting over to another area. And it

didn't go very well. They offended the individual. Individual got

up and left out of the church. I went out

when I saw it. I went out too to speak

to him while he was walking in the park a

lot and I said, where you're going? Man, I'm bloody.

I said, hold on, man, now, come on back in.

You know. I went out there to appeal to him.

He was very upset. He was so upset he said,

I need to go get He wanted to go get

a baseball bat and beat that joker that told him

he how to keep moving. See, it's not very well

to be offensive. You read what you soul. We are

not to be an offense. Even when we tell people

the truth and they offend it. We are not the offense.

It's the word that's the offense. As I was told

by an individual not many sundays ago that the message

that I preached was offensive to them. I offended them,

and I said to them, I didn't offend you. The

word offended you. Amen, you may be seated in the

house of the Lord so.

And then the scripture goes on to say.

In verse six, but who so shall offend one of

these little ones which believe in me? It were better

for him that a milestone were hanged about his neck,

and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

He's using symbolisms here, Jesus is by saying it was

better to have an ass stone around your neck. An

ass stone was a stone that the ass is pushed

around in the ground, grinded wheat, and it was heavy.

I don't even think if they once they hung around

your neck, I don't even know if they could be

able to push you in the water. But the civilization was.

If it was and they push you in the water,

you're through, You're drowning. So it's better that you would

do that than to offend one of my little ones.

You understand, woe unto the world because of offenses Jesus

here talking about he talking about offenses against the believers.

Woe is signifies death. A man so wo into the

world because of offenses, for it must need be that

offenses come. It's necessary for him. But woeing to the

one that brings them, but woe to that man by

whom the offenses cometh. In other words, as our ministered before,

all of those who offend the little ones, all of

those who offend the believers, they're merely offending Jesus. That's why, wo,

Because the offense that you offend a believer with is

really offending Jesus. Wherefore, if you wherefore, if your hand

are your foot offend, you cut them off and cast

them from you. It's just a symbol. Don't go cut

your hands off. It is better for you to enter

into life, halt amand rather than having two hands or

two feet to be cast into everlasting fire and man. Now,

offending a true believer will not save you, amen, but

it will definitely bring about the most serious degree of

punishment in eternity for you, ay man. Because again we

must spiritously desern and come to understand when we and

our right That means when we in Christ and we're

walking as Christ walked, and folks offend us, it's not

us that they are offending. It is Jesus. Paul said,

he lives in me that I may live. It is

not I that live, but He that live in me.

Let me say that again, because we ain't grasping this

church is not grasping this because.

When they get they so offended. They that's mean.

Why you ain't supposed to clock out when folks come

with the offense. It ain't you their offending. One of

my clients told me that they was offended by me.

I told my client, you wasn't offended by me. It

was offended by the word of God. You brought up

the subject. I said, but if you feel that way,

let me apologize to you. But the offense is to Jesus,

and I don't try to offend Jesus. Just like I

told the client, I said, I don't go around offending people.

I said, but I do know.

It was prophesied to me years ago, back in nineteen

ninety eight. I was prophesied too, and the prophet says

to me, the prophetic word that was given to me

by God was that. And I was standing in minding

my own business. Visual walked up to me and said,

many will be offended value. I said, what, I ain't

trying to offend folks. That ain't what I do.

They said, you don't understand.

He said, many will be offended by you because you

speak with a voice of authority. It is not you

that they really offended by. It's the gift that God

has given you that will offend them. He says, because

weak folks can take this. That's why the Bible says,

got to gird up your lowns, hey man, Verse aint. Wherefore,

if your hand I read that already in your feet

as a civilization, that if whatever is a stumbling block

to you, you're gonna have to get it out the

way Verse nine.

If you.

And if your eye will offend you, plug it out

and can from you. It is better for you to

enter into life with one eye rather than having two

eyes to be cast into hell fire. He's continually using

symbols of stumbling blocks. Take heed that you despise, not

one of these little ones, one who trust in Christ,

one who trust in the Cross.

Be careful not to offend them.

For I say unto you that in heaven their angels

do always behold the face of My Father, which is

in heaven. Every true believer, whether you realize it or not,

are signed an angel. I'm gonna get to it so

you will notice the truth of God, and then come

from me to come out this word, and those angels

report to the Father, Amen, all the things that pertain

into the believer. He goes back and reports to the Father.

I saw at work, I saw at least at work today, Lord,

and she was praying for this one lady. She needed prayer.

Lord Lord said, okay, thank you for that message. And

going back, keep it eye.

Keep it eye on her.

Although he ain't got to go to heaven to do it. That.

I'm just paraphrasing God, and hear it from right where

he is. Verse six, For the son of man has

come to say that which was lost? How do you

think if a man has a hundred sheep and one

of them be gone astray? Does he not leave the

ninety nine and nine and go into the mountains and

seek that which is gone astray? He takes an effort,

an explicit exit, an extended effort, rather to find that

one is laws. But with this verse proves is that

believers can go astray, hey man, And therefore it refutes

unscriptural doctrine of unconditional inner security. That you cannot because

you can quick walk around time.

I saved. Once you save, you always saved.

It's a lie. Ain't no truth in that because when

you run down the revelations, it says those that uh,

those that continue shall be saved. I'm paraphrasing that the

scriptures kind of tied up in my head. Those that

endure to the end shall be saved. Thank your Holy Ghost. Listen,

those that endure to the end, you ain't at your end,

shall be saved. You just walking in the plan, trying

to perfect salvation in your life by the help of

the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus Christ. Don't

the folk going around boasting I'm saveda sanctified and fill

it with the holy ghosts. Yeah, yeah, I proclaim that

by faith.

Amen. I haven't arrived though, but I proclaim nothing.

I'm working at with the help of the Lord and

the Holy Ghost, that you shall be told. Amen. Amen.

And if so be that.

He find it Verse thirteen, talking about the sheep be

not found, maybe not possible to be not found. Rather, verily,

I saying to you, he rejoices more over that sheep

than of the ninety nine, the ninety and nine which

went not astray. He's not given approval to the ninety nine, Amen,

But he is saying that he insists on finding that one.

Even so, it is not the will of your father,

which is in heaven. It is not the will of

your father, which is in heaven. Even so, it is

not the will of your father, which is in heaven,

that one of these little ones should perish. And this

proclaims that believers can cease to believe. Therefore, become an unbeliever.

You don't believe no more, you become an unbeliever. And

if you become an unbeliever again, you are lost. And

this lets us know how precious our soul is. The

most precious thing on this earth and in this whole world,

in the galaxy and universe, is the souls of people.

There's nothing You can combine all the stars and the

planets and everything in them, and you still can't come

up with enough to pay for the soul you cay.

Moreover, verse fifteen, if your brother.

Shall trespass against you, they don't sin against you, go

and tell them his fault between you and.

Him alone, alone alone. And if he shall.

Hear you, you have gained your brother.

You just settle that thing. But somebody say, but.

If he will not hear you, then take what you

one or two more that in the mouth of two

or three witnesses, every word may be established. So when

you take somebody with you that's impartial, that's impartial. Out

you're hearing me, that's impartial to witness what you're telling

your brother, And if he shall neglect to hear them,

tell it unto the church, the elders of the church.

Not everybody in the church. Everybody don't care, no way,

they just being nosy. Tell it to the elder. But

if he's neglect to hear the church, let him be

unto you as a heathen, a heathen man, a public

a publican, which means there can be no more fellowship.

Are you hearing what I'm saying. Let's break it down

a little more. Whoa until the world because of offenses?

You see, Jesus here is describing a terrible situation. And

that terrible situation is that it's very It's a terrible

thing for somebody to cause another de sinion. It's already

bad enough use in it, but it's terrible.

You know why it's so terrible?

Now, two souls are a state. Two of my stake now.

And I was speaking to.

Somebody on the other day, and they was talking about

how they didn't want to continue in what they were doing,

in the real relationship that they were in, but.

Wanted to be out of it and be somewhere else.

But you can't get out of this relationship, So now

you want to sin and call somebody else to sin.

That's a terrible thing. It's a terrible thing that you

had no idea that this in the visual had robbed

the stove, ran out and jumped in the car, but

you helped him get away. Now you are part of

his sin. The Bible said, don't be a partaker of

another man's sin. These verses are speaking to us to

avoid temptation to sin. Temptation is great in the earth now, greater.

Than it's ever been.

The anointing on the enemy is greater than it's ever been.

You can tell by the devastation and the demonic activity.

That's going on in the world today.

If you're paying attention causing people to sin. This guy

who they call the president has a whole cabinet of

people that's sinning because.

They don't want to disrupt him. They're sinning.

They know right from wrong, but they're doing his bidding.

The Democrats ain't no better. But I'm just saying a believer,

we are all ready constantly tempted by the world to

do evil constantly, but it does. But it don't give

us an excuse. Just because someone causes us to sin.

We don't get no excuse.

You can go to God and say, if he hadn't

did this, I would and did that. You can't say

I did that because of what he did to me.

I said that because I said it to him, because

he said it to me. You can't come with that excuse.

They don't have it either, But you really don't have

it because you're supposed to know better.

They mortally know better.

But you spiritually know better. Because the believer has a responsibility,

in a charge from God to lead people right. Hey man,

we have that responsibility to do was right before the

people the world. So we have no excuse to be

offending people just because they offend us. We must always

remember to keep from being tempted and to avoid sin,

to always understand that just because you show people mercy

does not mean they'll show it to you. Keep that

in mind. Just because you're nice to them, just because

you help them, does not mean that they're gonna do

the same for you. Just because you give them grace

doesn't mean they're gonna give you grace just because you

loan them money and never ask for it back, and

ten years later.

They finally remember that dollar.

Doesn't mean when you borrow a dollar from them, they

ain't gonna drive you every day until you give it

back to them. In your man, man, I never did

bother them about the money out there that I loan them,

and it rid me like a shelon coney. You're not

gonna get the same grace. Be reminded of that before

you do whatever you do, and that way you won't

you'll be able to avoid the temptation to sin. Hey man,

quit watching Baywatch if you got a problem with your

flesh huh qulit watching all them criminal karate movies. If

you got a problem with being disturbed in your mind

about violence, avoid temptation to sind yo Yon't be watching

bay and Watch. You got a list of problem. They

running around half necking on the beach, buns hanging out

the back of their They draws.

They wine.

They call them swimsuits, but they look like draws to

me and bras I'm trying to understand it. If you

y'all help me.

I'm just talking to the women.

Can't gotta help me with this? How come if somebody

walk in your room unexpected and you got a swimsuit on,

you ain't bothered. You got on the top two piece.

But if they walk in that room and you got

on the broad and panties, ah, can y'all help me

with that? I need some help.

Help me with that one.

The swim suit looks like bros and panties, not some

bros and panny. I've never been able to understand that one.

But if you have a problem.

You don't need to be looking at all that.

You got a problem with drinking, Quit walking by the

liquor store. Quit going over your associates house that drinks

all the time.

When you used to drink.

Don't get a job at the liquor store.

Some people do that. They ain't get a job at

the liquor store.

Before you know it. If you got a problem eating,

don't want work at McDonald's, you're gonna be blown up.

We know you're gonna be in the backs, nigga eating

them cheese brothers because they don't even give them to

them for free. Don't give place, avoid temptation to sin,

it's coming to you. And Jesus goes on to talk

about if there's a stumbling block, Jesus, if your hand

are feeling your feet in your eye, cut it off,

puck it out. He don't literally mean to cut it off,

cut your body part off, or pluck out your eye.

He meant that if you desire to follow him, you

must renounce any stumbling block that causes sin to come

in your life. And that means you must cut off

any relationships. That means you must cut off any relationships.

That means you must cut off any relationships.

Habits. That means you must cut off any relationships.

Habits, practices, activities, activities that leads to sin because they're

sneaky and they can lead to sin, and you can't

see it until you get that. See just cutting off

the limb that committed sin or an eye.

That looked lustfully still won't get rid of sin.

It won't get rid of it because you cut your

arm off, you got another arm of sind with It

won't get rid of sin because it must begin in

the heart and mind. That's how you get rid of it.

And you use the word of God to wash it out.

Just do something bleach can't handle. They be talking about

a spot, shout it out, bleach, cold water. Some of

them spots ain't coming out bloods.

Things are hard to get out.

Ketchup mustard the word of God, or get it out

so clear like I never was there.

You see.

God wants an attitude that renounces sin instead of one

that holds too sin. He want a mind that renounces sin,

not a mind that holds on the sin you like

some folks said. I was telling somebody the other day,

he said, all the Lord, really, Blacksmith, I went from

two packs of cigarettes to three cigarettes a day.

I said, that ain't God. That ain't God. That's you.

Because if you die smoking those two three cigarettes, you're doomed.

God gonna deliver you from them cigarettes. He's an all God.

He's an all God. That's why it starts up here.

And it's washed with this, not with your reality and

your opinion. You can't wash it out with your opinion.

It has to be washed out with the word of God.

The word of God cleanses, and God wants an attitude

that renounces sin instead of one that holds on the sin.

The eye, the.

Hand, and the foot are not the real source of temptation,

nor are they the real cause of offending others. Just

as temptation arises from within, so does offense others. So

does offending others. Rather begin on the inside of offending

one another. Amen, it raises up from the inside out.

Jesus says in verse ten that we take here that

you don't despise not one of these little ones. You

can't be looking down on people, looking down on people.

There's an offense, hey man. In the Book of Luke,

y'all walk with me.

In the Book of Luke, chapter.

Eighteen, and in verse nine.

Luke, chapter eighteen, verse nine, And a certain ruler, as

Ken sain, I'm sorry, Luke chapter eighteen, verse nine, I'm

reading verse nine says, and he spake these parable unto

a certain which trusted in themselves, a certain as that

word again, a certain which trusted in themselves. In other words,

had self righteousness, that they were righteous and despise others.

This is between curse of self selfishness self righteousness, my

self selfishness, but selfishness as well, but as self righteousness,

because you are selfish. Two men went up into the

temple to pray. This is one who thought himself to

be highly of the other and offended the individual. Amen.

Two men went up into the temple to pray, but

only one was going to be heard by God. We

know that right, who would probably be very opposite of

the one that most would have chosen. Most would have

chosen the man who was who thought he was righteous

because of the things that he proclaimed to die, Most

would have thought him to be the righteousness.

This would most people would have done.

Why because of opinion, not spiritual discernment of what was

really going on between the two, just opinion, because of

what the one was speaking. You're gonna understand it in

a minute. The one was a pharisee who claimed he

claimed to believe all the valuable now. And the other

was a publican. He was a tax collector. He was

a trader to the Israelite. Therefore the they considered him

to be a trader. Center the pharisee stood and prayed

us with himself. Listen to the scripture.

It said that he.

Stood and prayed thus with himself, meaning that his prayer

hit didn't get no further than his head, It didn't

get no further than it didn't get no further than himself.

That's why the script said, he said.

And he prayed unto himself, because the prayer didn't go

no further then to himself. Even though he was directing

it to God, it was not heard back down because

he was praying, and he was praying to himself, and

only himself heard his prayer. So it said the Pharisee

stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you

that I am not as other men looking at throwing

folks under the bus, not as other men are extortioneries

talking about that, he talking about the task collector. Unjust

adulterers are even as this man here standing coming to

your net.

Since republican.

See, he put himself on a much higher plane than

the republican. He put hisself on a on a pedestal.

He didn't even ask the Lord for nothing.

Amen. And guess what, that's exactly what.

He got nothing because he believed that he already had

everything and he had no need of nothing from the law. Amen.

We'll read out of revelation that help us with that

verse right there, Revelations.

Chapter three, in verse seventeen, Chapter three and verse seventeen.

The Bible says, because you say, I am rich and

increase with goods and have no need of nothing. So

what they did right here is what they do today

and the continue to do, is that they are equating

the increase of material goods with spiritual blessings.

Let me tell that again.

They are equating material goods with spiritual blessings. Let that

sink in, Lord's truly bless me. My business is rising,

I'm making more money. I bought me a better car,

I bought me a nice house. They equating material goods

with spiritual blessings, which they were not. Because you say

I am rich and increase with goods and have need

of nothing. You're equating the increase in material goods with

spiritual blessings. And know it's not that you are wretched.

That's what we said, because you say, I am rich

and increase with goods and have new of nothing, and

know it's not that you already don't even know you're

wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

He's talking to the church. Did you talking to an individual?

He's talking to the church, church gloating, gloating of material wealth, wealth,

and unconcerned, unconscious of the spiritual poverty in their lives,

not concerned. They are unconscious of the spiritual poverty because

they're looking at the wealth, thinking that is the blessing.

Oh no, oh, no, it's not the blessing.

Talking to the church. Yeah, and you better look at

tdjs' bed, living an eight million dollar house, driving rose roses.

He's poor, he's in poverty.

All of these well renowned, known prosperity preachers, according to

this word, they're poor, spiritually deprived, and they are in

offense to the church. And God says, woe unto them

whoa unto them?

Amen, somebody whoa unto them?

Verse twelve. But I say unto you, I'm eight.

I'm gon the wrong pay it. Verse twelve says, let's

start with verse ten. For the son of Man is

come to say that which was lost, so he came

to pay a great price, and he paid a great

price for salvation. And because he paid a great price,

all who accept that salvation become the property of God

the Father. Amen, All that accept that salvation become the

property of God the Father. You might not be able

to say amen, right now, let me help you out.

One Corinthians, Chapter six, in verse twenty one Corinthians, Chapter

six and verse twenty.

For you are bought with a price.

Do I need to read anymore? I said that all

that except salvation belonged to him. You are God's property.

Do I need to read anymore? For you are bought

with a price. The price was the blood shed of

Christ at Cavary. That's the price that was used to pay.

The blood was used like money to pay for salvation. Therefore,

glorify God in your body the house of the spirit,

and in your spirit, which the spirit will use, the

house which is you, which are gods, because we are created,

because we are created by God and have been purchased.

At a great price.

Amen.

We say in the beginning.

That God said I created man in my image and

in my likeness. That was true for Adam at one point.

It wasn't true for us yet we had not manifested.

But it was only true for Adam and Eve at

that point, and even when we came about, and we

still go around telling everybody when we ain't even saved,

that God created us in his image and in our likeness.

That's not true. Crickets. Crickets. See once Adam's sind we

came out of his bow, so we were created in

his image. He was created in God's image. After he's saying,

we was created in Adam's image.

That's why the second atom.

Had to come so we could be created in his

image when we got saved. And the world is still

created in Adam's image until they get saved, and then

they'll be created in his image. You hear what I'm saying,

the truth of God's word. Got to know the truth.

We walking around with slogans like the blown to us.

He was walking around with all of us creating guys,

No we won't, No, we were not. Adam and Eve

was created in his image. And when he's singing, everybody

else came behind. It was created in Adam's image. Sinful

David said, I was shaped in indiquity, boring in saying

that sound like Jesus does a decon.

He said it best.

Paul said, when I will to do right, I do wrong,

and I will to do wrong and do right, sound

like Jesus. Jesus ain't confused. It wasn't ntil you got

saved that you were born into his image, because when

you got saved, you were born again. You were born again.

You hear what I'm saying. Hallylujah, take heed that not

one of these little ones, For I say unto you

that in heaven their angels do always behold the face

of My Father, which is in heaven. I went back

to that because I want you to understand that there

are angels always having access to God, and they are

ministring angels. And each and every one of us have

been appointed angels. Everyone I'm talking about the believers. I

ain't talking of them heathens. I'm talking about the believers.

And Scripture says we all have been appointed angels. In

the Book of Hebrews, Chapter one, in verse fourteen, are

they not all ministering spirits? This is the function of

an angel sent to minister for them who shall be

heirs of salvation? Are you an air of salvation? If

you are air of salvation, then you got an angel.

This is telling us that we have angel. And it's

also telling us this proclaims that they attend only.

And somebody say only to those who have been made

in Christ is savior.

Only to them who have made Jesus Christ your savior.

Do you have these ministring spirits? Look a look at

look at the book of Psalms, chapter ninety one. This

is one of them famous I want to say verses,

but Psalms ninety one, where even a devil called hisself

ministering the Psalms ninety one to Jesus Amen around eleven

and twelfth verse. But in the ninth verses it says

in Psalms ninety one to nine, because you have made

the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High,

your habitation. So this is the Holy Spirit here speaking

telling you that you have assured victory because you have

the Messiah in your life. Only those who have made

the Lord their refuse. Since Christ is our substitute. He's

our substitute. He went on the cross for us, so

he is our habitation. This is the Holy Spirit speaking

here in this verse. And there shall no evil verse

ten before you, neither shall any play come near your

dwelling the secret place of the Most High. It's impossible

for evil to befall you because you're in the secret

place of the Most High. For He shall give his

angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways.

That's where the devil misquoted the scripture to Jesus on

the mountain when he told him, yeah, man, come on, man,

jump off her jumping. If you do it, I said,

bow down to me, all these kings be yours, for

he shall give you his give angels charge over you,

to keep you in all your ways. But the devil

didn't say that. He said that he shall with the

dell say he said, for he shall give his angels

charge over you too, at any time, he said to

at any time. Scripture says in all your ways. He

misquoted the scripture. But nobody paid attention to that right

there when in the Gospels when he quoted that, he

misquoted the scripture. This is why I tell you all

the time, it's always something right there. When you got

your desermed hooked, that you can see that thing that

looks so perfect, that something you can always tell what

goes is gonna be something somewhat of an error somewhere

you're paying attention. And that's when you know is the devil.

Because he can make it look like the Angel of life,

because they say he was the Angel of life.

He can make it look right, but it's wrong.

If loving you is right, then I don't want to

If loving you is wrong, then I don't want to

be right.

Your loving him is wrong. He married babe, That loving

her is wrong. She married man?

What children? We all have ministering angels, messengers who report

back to God on our behalf. So in saying that

the offense that we may cause is going to be

reported to God by your angel. And he ain't no snitch,

he ain't getting no stitches. He's doing what God say do.

And God goes on in verse twelve of Matthew's he said,

how do you think if a man has a hundred

sheep and one of them be gone astray? Does he

not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains.

That's the extensive That is an extensive effort of God

to seek out that which is lost, because God is

concerned about every single believer and will actively go in

search of those who have gone astray, meaning they have

gotten out of the relationship with God.

When you go astray.

Some people have went astray and don't even realize that

they have gotten out of relationship with God. But you

have gone and gotten out of relationship with God when

you have gone astray and are headed towards false teaching.

People setting up on the false teaching you're gonna go

astray and come out of the relationship with God, heading

down a dangerous path of life and falling into sin. Amen,

that's what happens when you're not in relationship with God.

Don't nobody want to believe this. You are now in

relationship with the devil. They were two relationships to have. Amen.

It's either God or the devil. And if so be

that he find, really, I say it to you, he

rejoices more of that sheep, that of the ninety and

nine which went astray. Even so, it is not the

will of your father, which is in Heaven, that one

of these little ones should perish, not God's will. God

does not want any of his flock to wander away.

But God already knows, because he put it in his word.

There's gonna be a great falling away of the church.

It has been that in still being that. But it

is not God's will. It's the will of the individual.

It's not God's will. God actively seeks and rejoices when

the believers return to him.

But a sheet listen, now, listen, listen, a sheet.

That is not found. He is not one that he

is one that willingly refuses faith. It ain't that God

can't find him. It's that he does not want to

be found and that sheep will perish. That I've seen

people do it. I've seen people in the ministry.

I used to do.

They could speak the word of God upside downs, know

the scriptures inside out, annoyt it back gone. Seen them

years later and they're doing damnable things now lost trying

to convince me. I'm over their house working and I'm

listening to them, and I'm a poll I'm shocked. Do

you hear me, Sister James, to hear them say that

it's okay to be in another relationship while you're in

a relationship. That individual has a married couple from Ohio

every now and then come to Memphis and they all

sleep together, trying to tell me it's okay for you

to have another wife. You a liar. First of all,

I believe my wife would.

Find that gun.

Out a bunch of knife.

No no, no, that's not God's will. No no no.

But they have fallen. They are lost, and they've fallen

into sin because they are now believing the lie.

I was a pae.

Do you hear me? Since listen this person I looked

up to in the other ministry because I was like, wow, man,

they just spitting them scriptures out. I want to be

able to know where the scriptures are, to be able

to articulate the scriptures, and to be able to witness.

The people with the scriptures like that.

You know what I'm saying. When you got a love

for Jesus, this ain't for I wasn't want I didn't

want it for fame. I wanted to have that same

ability to know my God like that, and the fact

that they knew they God liked that they turned their

back on that God. Somehow sin crept in and they

were not able to avoid it. God wants every believer

to be a part of the rescue team of lost

sheep and new.

Converts, because it is everybody. I said it is. I

said it is every believer's job to care for.

One another well being. I'm almost done. Moreover, if your

brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his

fault because you and between you and him alone. Don't

go tell everybody else. Go and tell him he offended you,

not everybody else. I tell people all the time, when

the time is right. If you got something bad to

say about somebody, go and tell them. If you got

some good to say, go tell others. We do that backwards.

But the Scripture is telling us this, to keep harmony

in the church body and to go always in love

to an individual when you.

Go to tell them about the offense.

Don't go to them clocking our clown in them. You

go in harmony. You go in love that there may

be harmony in the body. Amen. But if he will

not hear you, so you jump to stage two if

stage one don't work.

And you know this.

Second step was first mentioned in the Book of Deuteronomy.

Say I'll tell you all the time.

The Old Testament is a shadow of what to come

in the Book of Deuteronomy in chapter nineteen, the Lord

speaks here in verse fifteen, where he tells them in

verse fifteen, Chapter nineteen and verse fifteen, one witness shall

not rise up against a man for any iniquity or

for any sin, in any sin that he sins. It says,

at the mouth of two witnesses, at the mouth of

three witnesses, shall the matter be established. Because because if

you've ever been in seeing a court session on TV,

the eyewitness might not be enough. So they're gonna call

at least two or three witnesses. That's why the Bible says,

go to them yourself. But when you take a witness,

take two or three, because in the mouth of two

or three witnesses who are impartial, you may gain your brother.

You may now say you will say you may amen.

You may gain your brother with two or three witnesses.

And this is to keep harmony as well. But the

second step that the others join in, they're coming to

help in reconciliation at the second meeting, hoping to settle

the matter privately, and they serve as witnesses to the

second meeting, hoping that the two or three that you

bring might be able to bring the brother back on over,

because sometimes people don't want to hear you, but if

you bring others that witness to it, it may jo

jard him to come on around.

But if that don't work, Step three.

Jumps in and this is done if the person refuses

to listen and there is no reconciliation in step two.

This objective at this point still is not disciplinary.

It's not a disciplinary action, but.

Helping the center person to see here's a her own

false repent and be restored.

But if that don't work.

Either, the fourth step.

We don't even take.

These steps like this, We just jump on their neck

and ride them like a shelling pony.

But there's order in God word for us.

And if you ever wondered why it didn't work.

You got an order.

You got an order. You gotta go in order. You

can go to them yourself. They may tell you get

on out of my face. Now what it's time to do?

Two or three more witnesses. Then that don't work, What

time to do? Then take it to the church. See,

he ain't talking about no heathen. Now you don't try

that out there in the streets. You talking about somebody

says it ain't talking about the heathen. This gonna work,

folks that no God, not just no of God. Don't

try that in the streets. Now I'm helping y'all. See.

If it don't work, then you got the fourth and

final step. You know what The fourth and final step

is disassociate yourself with that person. And this this is

and disassociating yourself. This is to help the person to

see his or her sin and repent. That's what the

disassociation is for, so that they can see where they're wrong,

and when you disassociate yourself with them.

You're now giving them over to Satan.

That might help him. Let me help y'all. Let me

see why I'm gonna help y out. There's a looney.

I'm almost done, y'all, stay with me. You don't need

no quick fixes, no more. Second thing is alone. It's

a batal reader there. Most folks didn't know. It's two

second third alone. Chapter three, verse fourteen. And if any

man obeyed not our word, but this epistol note that man,

and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Mm hmm.

Yet count him not as an enemy, but ackmoonish him

as a brother. Second corinthis, I gotta give you more.

This is how I know people can't read the Bible

in a year. I mean and understand it. Let me

put that in there. You can read it in the

year if you read it like a like a novel.

Second corinthis chapter two, verse five. But if any how

cause grief, he is not grieve me. But in part

that I may not overcharge you all sufficient to such

a man is this punishment?

This means that you got to turn him over to Satan,

that he may wake up.

Let's go to First Corinthians, Chapter five. First Corinthians, Chapter five,

Chapter five, four and five. In the name of our

Lord Jesus Christ, when you are all together in my spirit,

with the power of the Lord Christ, and Yeah Christ,

to deliver such and one to deliver such and one

the one committing the sin of offense, to deliver such

a one. You'll look at verse five. Who are you

going to deliver them to?

Whoever? Y'all thought I made that up, didn't you? Ah,

you thought I made that up?

Deliver us such a want under Satan for the destruction

of the flesh. Y'all better work with me, Walk with me,

Walk with me. I'mnap prove it by scripture told you

a long time. I ain't gonna tell you nothing God

ain't said. But know this so that you will not

lose faith and falter and lose confidence. There will never

be a church on the side of There will never

be a church on this side of glory that would

be free of members who commit sin.

I said, members, not church folks.

But this person described here in the scriptures has a

huge blind spot to sin. So this person refuses to

listen to those who God has sent to help them.

There are people in the church that have humongous blind spots,

and they refuse to listen to people in the church.

I ain't gonna say that, Lord, but they are Amen.

And they refuse to listen.

And they refuse to listen because they have a huge

blind spot. These persons described this individual's described here are

even describing those of today's church. Amen. And these persons

described here has a huge blind spot to sin. So

because they do, they refuse to listen to those who

God sent to help them. I said, God sent them.

Every time you've been sent by God. Don't mean folk

don't listen to you, But no, God sent you, and

know you did the will of God. Whatever the results are,

they're not about you, no way. The results are for God.

If they listen, then God has sold back. If they don't,

they going to hell. You ain't got nothing to do

with that. Only thing you got to do with it

is being sent and go. But if they refuse to

listen to you, then they lost. Because in the Body

of Christ, are you hearing me? We as members of

the Body of Christ, we're supposed to teach, challenge, encourage, amonish.

Help and most of all love one another.

But there can be no real true fellowship with believers

who commit sin. And you really ain't got no fellowship

with those ain't save you, hanging out with folks that

ain't saved You an error and God is not smiling

on you. You an error, and you in danger. But

there can be no real true fellowship with a believer

who commits sin and refuses, see, you got to put

the rest of it in there, not just sins, but

refuses the love guidance of his or her fellow brother

a sister. You refusing who God has sent to you

to speak God's word to you about your error, and

you refuse to even believe that you're even in Era

one Timothy. And this is my last scripture, chapter one

and verse twenty. Let's read verse nineteen, first verse Timothy,

Chapter one, Fir Timothy. Let's start at eighteen Timothy. This

listen to the word, this charge I commit unto you.

It's a charge, son, Timothy, according to the prophets which

went before on you, that you, by them might war

a good warfare holding faith, maintaining the faith in Jesus

Christ is what he tells me. And a good conscience

which means speak of, speak of the following words that

God has given you to give, which some.

Haveving put away.

You speak this, but some have put it away concerning faith,

may have concerning faith, have made a shipwreck. This is

a metaphor. Paul is using the metaphor pointing to those

who had abandoned Jesus Christ, who have abandoned the Cross.

Here's the scripture I'm getting to. He's speaking of a

particular people of whom harmaid. Who is that hominis in Alexandra.

He's presenting two examples of one not holding the faith,

whom I have delivered of the Satan.

That they may learn not to blaspheme.

So, who you departed from the faith which is in

Jesus Christ and the Cross and the crucifixion, It can

only conclude blaspheming. But He's delivered them over satan to

teach them a lesson, and some don't learn. Some don't

learn that lesson. So I'm here to tell you today Church.

We talked about prayer last Sunday. Prayer is going to

help you to avoid temptation to sin. Prayer is going

to help you avoid temptation to sin. Even Paul prayed it.

David prayed, the apostles praised. The patriot said, oh, prayed it.

I want to be right, Lord keep me. They try

to tell the Lord, I don't want a sin. I

want to avoid the temptation of sin. But I need

your help, so they pray. You can't avoid it without

talking to God asking for the help of the Holy Spirit.

If you could, then Jesus was murdered. He didn't give

up his life. It is because of the Cross that

we want to live a righteous life. Hey, man, I

got this in my spirit.

Dickon.

I'm trying to perfect a perfect life in Jesus Christ.

But every means necessary, well, I fall short sometimes, sure,

adjust man may fall.

Seven times, not saying that he will, but he might.

But if I fall, I'm gonna dust myself off because

I like to be clean. First of all. You just

say I'm gonna dust myself off. I'm gonna get this

off me?

How amnna get it off me?

Prayer to avoid it again, because the temptation is not

gonna stop. People, It's not gonna stop. You could be

driving down the streets, says listen, pull up to the

stop side. Here gonna roll away to them, girl, you're

so fine?

What your name is?

Can I get that dick? Can I get them digits?

That's the slick ones. They don't say number digits. You

over that cheese and smiling, grinned. He trying to build

you up. Get them digits. You got a man for

a moment you say, uh no, oh girl, pull over,

We need to talk and.

Then what you should do right here?

Amen? Amen. In other words, I'm just trying to tell

your church temptation is never gonna stop, and in this

dispensation of time, it's greater than it's ever been. The

people of God I being led astray away from the

very presence and relationship of Jesus Christ. Even as I

speak right now, they've been led away from him. Do

you not believe it is an attempt to lead people

astray from God? When a preacher stands at the podium

and tells the people who believe in a perfect Jesus,

who believe that he walked this earth, the only one

that ever walked this earth perfect, and stand before a

congregation of five to ten thousand and tell him that

Jesus was in the era eighty five percent of his life,

that's an attack.

On your faith.

That's an attack.

It's an attack on your faith.

When Tdjakes got behind the podium and said that Eve

was Adam's mother, yeah, it's on TV, It's on the internet.

Eve was Adam's mother.

I'm sorry, y'all. He said Adam was Eve's mother. He

didn't say Eve. I'm sorry. I don't want to tell

it wrong. He said Adam was Eve's mother because Eve

was birth out of Adam. Let me tell you where

he was. Jack there, first of all. Jack there because

he's a false prophet.

And he's a liar.

I got so many more before I can get to

the point. But the point is this, Eve was never

birst in the first place.

That's where I told you.

It's always a liar in there that to help you

with things that look like the truth. He was trying

to beat the all profound and everything and Eve because

he came.

In the cool of.

The day looking for Adam. He looked for Eve because

Eve was birthed from Adam. Adam is Eve's mother. There

were people going, Amen, hallelujah.

Are you serious, y'all? Some idiots.

First of all, Adam was formed from the dust, not dirt.

Dust of the ground, win, dirt, dust of the ground.

That what about said, It's say, from the dirt of

the ground. Dust, He took dust and formed him.

That's how powerful God is. And then Eve was informed.

Eve was made.

From a real script state script said Adam was formed,

Eve was made. She wasn't worth.

That's an offense to the church waring to him.

I'm telling you you gotta know. You got to know church.

And this is how you're gonna know. He's gonna know

right here, this is how you gonna know. You can't

be believing all them folks. They wear renown because they

got ten thousand members, thirty thousand members lying about the Bible.

That ain't no true. That's a lie.

I heard a preacher the other day.

Said that Adam had a mother. He said, Adam had

a mother, but his mother didn't have a shape. Adam

had a mother, but his mother didn't have a shape.

He used a description and.

Said, Adam came from the earth. And the earth is

called mother Earth. It's called mother Earth. So the earth

was his mother. Y'all better learn his word. I told

her brother one time he he wanted to go up

against the Muslims. I said, brother, you don't want to

go against the Muslims. I said, you need to study

his word, I said, And don't study the word to

go up against the Muslim. Either, study the word to

make improve yourself unto God, a work with need. Now

a shame of the God of Jesus Christ if a

Muslim comes against See he saw Muslims come against me,

and the Lord wrecked their house.

They walk. You have seen the dog wrun.

I already tell way up under here, up under there,

that's how they left me. The Lord used me, and

I wrecked them. And he wanted, he wanted. I said,

you need to study the word, brother, because they read

the Bible and the Koran. See, a lot of folks

don't know that Muslims read the Holy Bible. They just think, oh,

they got the Koran. That's what you hear.

People say they got yeah, they got the Koran.

But they read the Bible too, to make the Bible

to come against the Bible, to make.

It of no effect.

And the Koran is right and the Bible is wrong.

That's why they read the Bible, so that they can

say the Koran is right. But the Koran was wrote

by man by man, and only a man. The Bible

was wrote by inspiration of God through a man. As

a difference, I said, Doc, you can't go against Muslims

at this point, because if you do, you're gonna wind

up being a Muslim when they get through with you.

That's what I told him.

You go up against the mutherl, you're gonna be a Christian.

When you leave there, you're gonna be a Muslim. Don't

do it, brother, we're standing at this time