THE WORD OF GOD

Is the last Sunday of the year.

Some people are already getting their vows together in their

New Year's resolutions.

I should say new Year's resumes.

That they're going to tell that they're going to do

for the new year. But I don't see where, and

I know you understand. I don't see where the saints

of God need to have New Year's resolutions, or even

why you would think you would need one. Hey, man,

see where to be growing at all times? Not waiting

on the new year. Do you know some people wait

are waiting even now to change when the new year comes.

Why don't they change right now? On the twenty eighth

of December. Some of them been saying in the new

year back in August, January somewhere, even when the year

it came about last year, some in August, some in September,

some in June. I'm gonna do this when the new

year comes. I'm gonna change this whole lot of people

talking about I'm gonna go to church every Sunday. Now

it's a new year, i'ma make up my mind. I'm

gonna be at church every Sunday. You make up your

mind and be in church every Sunday. But have you

made up your mind to have church in you instead

of you and church? And when you come to a

rightful conclusion, the reason why you keep messing up because

you can't go to church every Sunday because this building

is not a church. First of all, your word and

is not on point? Are you gonna become the church?

Now?

I heard a person say when somebody died once, he said,

I'm gonna be saved for real. Now you haven't been

saved before this? You been playing with your own salvation.

Why am I saying all this? Because it's the last

Sunday of the year.

And we don't know if God is gonna bring in

the new year.

We don't know that.

Some preachers are prophesying that twenty six the church will

be no more. Some prophesientists, everybody got a prophecy when

you don't know how many prophecies come out when the

year is getting ready to come in.

Every year since every one of us been born, there's

been new.

Prophecies for every year, even prophesying that the world gonna

come to an end and this year or that year,

ain't none of that came true?

Ain't none of it coming true.

You know why because the decision making process comes from

God and when the time comes, only God knows.

But what tells us that?

Why are you prophesying something that God only knows?

Why are you.

Prophesied that only something God said? He's not gonna tell nobody,

not even the son of Man knows. So how you

gonna know to profes that you profer? Line is what

you're doing.

So when saying all of that.

Knowing that this is the last Sunday of the year,

and it was something I meant to mention. You know,

some people have asked do you have a second service

or third services?

Sometimes now we have one service? How many people have

been going?

And how many ministries uh have been having second services?

Some have services all week long, sometimes.

Two weeks long. But guess what nobody changed. If you

don't get it on the If you don't get it

Sunday morning, what what w what? H What makes you

think you're gonna get it Sunday evening? Cause some people

come Sunday morning and Sunday evening still don't get nothing.

Some people have services all week deek and still living

like hell. Some people just don't get it that the

House of God is sacred and they come up in

here doing any kind of thing, any kind of way,

but God is not mocked. You See, I learned years ago,

decade ago. I've learned decades ago that the sanctuary is

where we come into the presence of God, and it's

to be kept holy.

All of the grounds are to be kept holy to God.

It's no different than the temples in Jerusalem where they

had the wall around it. They had a Holy of Holies,

and they had a Holies, and then they had.

Other porches, several porches, but.

All of it is to be kept sacred. You understand

what I'm saying. Sanctuary is sacred to God. It's not

where your mind should be wondering about devious things, the

people crazy. I think it bad thoughts about people, because

guess what, you better be glad that we got a

mercy for God, because this is considered the Holy of Holies,

because this is where we come to get in God's

presence collectively.

Amen. And there was a Holy of Holies back in

the days.

Where only one priest could go in and his mind

had to be right while.

He was in there or he would die. So will

let's be so thankful of the grace and.

The mercy of God, because so many come up in

here with their minds jacked up, with hatred in their heart,

minds on the wrong thing, when you're supposed to be

in here meditating on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why

they had to put a rope around him, because if

he went in there with the wrong mindset, he would

fall dead. Ain't just so glad God is so merciful

and me on the grace. Coming here with your minds

all jacked up, you're coming here to make roll. Some

people come to the House of God just to make

it role you will die. I don't want you making row.

God don't want you impressing the pastor. I showed up

the day pastor I'm here. I've seen people tell certain

folks that was in the pastor's office when the pastor

was out of town.

Don't forget to tell pastor I was at church Sunday.

Are you kidding me? See, I'm breaking up all this because.

We at the end of the year and the last

Sunday of the month.

There may be a Sunday next.

Year, So are we gonna carry this foolishness on over?

If God bless us and be gracious to let us

have another year and another Sunday. Come next week, if

next week come, Yeah, I know we don't in a

run of a day, we don't think about this kind

of stuff because we're too dizzy to think about this

kind of stuff.

We got a job to go to. We got to

think about the.

Job and the people on the job and the way

they're doing us on the job. Yeah, we gotta think

about all that. We can't think of it. God, we

give you Sunday to think about Lord. But the other

six days we got to do our own stuff. Even

though the other six days is because of God, even

because the other six days because of the breath and

your body, even because the other six days is because

that's the reason why you able, is because of God.

Even because of God. You even got your job. But

we'll think about you on Sunday. See, I think about

all this kind of stuff. I don't take this lightly.

This is real.

It's life or death. You can't do whatever you want

to do at home. If you think you can do

whatever you want to do at home, you might as

well come up in here and.

Do it too, because God's here, just like he's in

your home.

Your house at home is God's house, just like this

is God's house.

Oh yeah, I could prove it to you, he said.

So, he said, the earth and the fullest other belonged

to him, and everything in it, your house and the

earth thing it belonged to God.

It's all he is. You just you just borrowing stuff.

You don't even realize. People run around our own this.

You don't own that. It's a borrow. I paid my

house off his mind. Now, no it ain't.

And not only is it not yours because it belongs

to God as well, it's not even yours because the

world said, if you don't pay taxes on it, we

gonna take it from you.

See your own nothing. That's my car, paid it off

in full. Don't pay that license plate. You can't drive

it legally since it's so much yours yours y'all, man,

do what you want to do with it? Can't you do?

Your life is not your own.

You can't do with it what you want to do either,

because it belonged to God, because.

He gave it to you. So I have a question.

Then I'm gonna get on into.

It, and I hope you brought your Bibles because you're

gonna visit some scriptures.

Amen.

You know there's a reason why God says he'll either

have you cold a hot, but Luke won't won't. Do

you know why God says that? Does anybody know why

God says that, I'm gonna help you out? All God

is saying is make up your mind. That's all he's saying.

And guess what.

He wants you to make up your mind, not for him,

but for you. He wants you to make up your

mind for you, nothing for him. You see, God wants

you to make up your mind because he don't want

you to. He don't want you to be playing with

your soul salvation. So you must make up your mind.

Either you gonna.

Serve God are you gonna serve the devil? And I

don't care what nobody says. I really don't. I believe

this Bible. I've set my heart on it and it's real.

I'm saying that because you're either gonna serve God or

the devil. You can say whatever you wanna say, But

the truth of the matter is you're either gonna serve

God or the devil. And here's another truth. You can't

serve them both. You can't serve them both. You can't.

Even the devil will take us. If he can just

get a little of you, he'll take it.

That's what he tells you. And that's a lie. That's

a lie.

The devil don't get a little of you. If he

got any of you, he got all of you. Because

God don't want none of you, uh either. He wants

all of you. And you see what I'm going with this.

God only wants all of you. He don't accept the

little of you. He's an all God.

It's all or nothing. We'll gone.

You can't serve God a little bit here and serve

the enemy a little bit there.

It's all the.

Way there with the devil is all the way there

with God. Folks talking about he's straddling the.

Fence, that's a lie. You can't straddle the fence. You

either on one side or the other. Jesus said to

Matthew chapter twenty five.

He said, I set the goats on the left and

the sheep on the right. I ain't seen none of

them straddling the fence.

He's saying, I put.

A couple of goats in the middle and a couple

of sheep in the middle. He said, I put the

goats on the left, all the.

Way on the left, and the shop all the way

on the right. That's it.

See, that's how I know. See this brible is so true.

It's something pressing to me. The truth is in there,

the truth that spells you can straddle the fence. It

dispells all that can't strave the fence, because the Bible

says okay, he said, I said all the goats on

the left, and all somebody said all the sheep.

On the right.

Nowhere was it mentioned that either party was in the middle.

Don't mention it. So let's look at this. Last Sunday

we talked about We talked about love, see, and I'm

gonna talk about it again this Sunday because when we

really come to understand this love, the light is gonna

shine so bright in our minds.

We think love is always it always looks pretty, But

it don't always look pretty. It don't always look pretty,

but it's still love.

See, it didn't look pretty to the rich young ruler

when Jesus said, go and sell all that you have.

That did not look pretty, dick, that didn't look pretty bad,

That wasn't no pretty picture.

Huh. That wasn't pretty.

It didn't look pretty when God allowed the devil to

have his ways with Job.

Only to a certain extent. That didn't look pretty.

But that was still love. That was the love of God.

Job didn't die. Didn't Joe suffered?

Didn't he? We're gonna suffer, aren't we? We've already been suffering.

Were still here?

Aren't we?

He still love us?

Don't The Job was prosperous after his suffering, wasn't it?

So? Are we? See? We look at love and a

different meaning that God looks at it. But if we

turned the First John.

Last before Revelation, we look at First John chapter two.

Give us some scripture here.

When you get there, say man. First John, Chapter two

and verse starting at verse seven. First John, Chapter two,

starting at verse seven. Let me say this before we

get into this. How many of us in here?

I know?

But do you know that this salvational walk that we're

walking is all about love? It's all about love, this

south walk that we walk every single day, every minute

of the day, every second of the day.

Because you gotta understand something.

Your love is going to be tested during the process

of the day. Your love gonna be a challenged the

very moment you close your eyes at night and go

to sleep and wake up in the morning. Your love

is being tested even when you're asleep, and when you

wake up.

It starts all over again. That's why we read this

morning in Sunday school. It's nothing new under sun it

starts all over again.

Your love is going to be tested throughout the day,

even if you decide to stay at home and I

go nowhere, even in your own house, and if you

live by yourself, your love is going to be tested

while you're at home, in your house by yourself. So

this salvational walk is all about love, because love is

what started it, Amen, And love is what's gonna take

it to us, take it to where it's supposed to go.

Hey man, So we look at her in verse seven

through seventeen, these scriptures talks about They talk about the

first love.

That's what he talks about. So it says, brother, I

write no new commandment unto you.

It's no new commandment that he writes under you, but

an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The

old commandment is the word which ye have heard from

the beginning. Again, a new commandment I write unto you,

which thing is true in him and in you, because

the darkness is passed away. That's what past means, them

passed away, and the true light now shine. It. He

that said he is in the light and hated his

brother is in darkness, even until now he that loveth

his brother abide it in the light. And there is

none occasion of stumbling in him. So if you in

the light, there's no cause for stumbling. And if you

in the light, then you're in love.

Amen.

But there's a butt after that tenth verse. He that

hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness,

and know it not whether he goeth, because that darkness

had blinded his eyes. So that person where it says

walketh means that you live. It's not a unless you

walk with your feet spiritually. Understanding means that you are

living spiritually in darkness. It means that there is there

is a habitual since of darkness of your life, so

which means that you habitually spend your life in darkness.

And man are in sin.

And then he goes on and say, I write unto you,

little children, because your sins are forgiving you for his namesake.

Little children could also implicate talking about young converts in

the Lord that just became saved. And that's why he

calls you little children. That's because you are little children.

And when you look at this spiritually, you'll come to

know that you are little children. Brother James is probably

about sixty something years old.

But if he walked up here the.

Moment, it's say sixty something years old, and he walk

up here right now it's for the first time to

give his life to God, he ain't nothing but a

few seconds old.

He's a new creature. Do you understand what it means

that your new creature in Christ?

I got saved when I was about thirty.

I think so that means I have a new life.

And if he got.

Saved today tomorrow, he would be a day old. That's

why your little children, because God looks at it's spiritual.

It's a new life, new beginning.

When you were coming out of your mama's womb, he

was a new life coming out new beginning.

It was a physical birth, your spiritual birth.

God looks at you as little children, young converts, because

your sins are forgiving you for His namesake. Verse thirteen,

I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him.

That is from the beginning.

I wrote unto you, young men, because you have overcome

the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because

you have known the Father. I have written to you fathers,

because you have known him.

That is from the beginning.

I have written unto you, young men, because you are

strong and the word of God abideth in you, and

ye have overcome the wicked one.

Now, so he wrote all of this to each one

of us.

He says, love not the world, neither the things that

are in the world. So many of us, claiming to

love Jesus Christ still continue to love the things that

are in the world. But he tells us to love

not the world. These there are not in their my

singing things. So love not the world, neither are the

things that are in the world. If because if you

do that, if any man love the world, the love

of the Father is not in him.

That's a sea lie for you.

If any man loved the world, the love of the

Father is not Do I need to break that down,

y'ah break it down for everybody. What sounds pretty plain

to me. If you love the world, the love of

the Father is not in you. For all that is

in the world. This is the key verse to this chapter.

The lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes,

and the pride of life is not of the Father,

but is of the world. And the world passes away,

and the lust thereof. But he that do it the

will of God abide it forever. So to the believer,

God says the believer, you don't only just commit yourself

to obey God, only committing themselves to obeying God. But

we also have a deep and sincere love for our

fellow believers. Why I'm glad, Yeah, because the believers. The

ability that the believers have for love that's in them.

That belief comes from God. So to have the ability

to love one another should also come from the motivating

factor of the fact that you love God. Hey man,

So whatever motivates you to love Jesus Christ should motivate

you to love your brother, your sisters, because He.

First loved us. Amen.

So what am I saying? I'm taking this slowly. Everybody

got somewhere to go, you know, to door and lock

the motivating factor that whatever it is in your heart

that causes you to love Jesus Christ is the same

motivating factor. It should cause you to love each and everyone,

and not just your brothers and sisters in Christ. It

should motivate you to even love those that don't know

Him and those that know Him and still don't obey him.

Amen.

Because the love of Christ that you because the love

that you have for Christ is the love that you

should have for everybody you see. Because the love of

Christ is not partial, It does not separate.

It does not say I love her.

But I don't care much for her or him. It

don't say that it loves them all. But what we

got to understand about people that we can't stand is

it's not them we can't stand. It's the ways they have.

But you make it so personal. We make it so

personal we can't stand them, period, which puts us on

the back seat of what we should be doing concerning

loving Jesus Christ. Because the motivating love of God should

motivate us to how the wisdom and understanding of how God.

Loves this, how God loves you.

May know a person that you can't stand, and you

say I can't stand him, I can't do You're in error.

With the love. You need to check your love walk because.

It's not them that you hate, dislike, or can't stand.

It's their ways, it's their nature.

But here's why you have to lean on this the

way God does.

What happens when they change their nature, you still.

Ain't gonna like them because it wasn't their nature you

didn't like. You didn't like them, and they still look

the same to you because you are not sining through

the love of Jesus Christ like you think you are,

like you think you are, like you think you are.

I want to make this plan. I won't just drive

this into you if it's possible, because when you really

understand it, it's the it's the body that's used for

an instrument of sin.

It's that mouth.

You don't like that they be the tongue and there

the words coming out of them.

That's what you don't like. It's because they got the

wrong spirit. It's the spirit you really don't like. But

when they get the right spirit, you learn to love them.

It was a whole lot of people that was here.

They didn't like me because what other folks told them.

But when they got to know me, it wasn't nothing

like folks told them, because see what they didn't really

realize was nobody here knew me.

They were just making up stories. And some people can't

wait to believe a story. You know why they can't

wait to believe a story. Because the love of God

ain't in them.

I don't care how good they shout, run up down

these eyes, spit blood out their eyeballs, and turn around

and do flips and talk in some kind of tongue.

He ain't got the love of God in them. Because

they let other folks.

They became a puppet to other folks lives.

And the folks were just you know how you have

seen them with it. Put the strings on their fingers

and they work the puppets.

That's how they were doing folk. And that's how folks

are being done.

When somebody tells them something about somebody and the person

don't even know them, but they listening, and then they

make an opinion because the person is telling it to them.

They got them on them strings.

The puppet just a puppet.

They ain't got no minding on person that's got the

strains on. You ain't got no mind, and you ain't

got no mind. Both of y'all jacked up. Why because

the love of God is not.

In your heart. See, the love of God detours you

away from stuff like that. It does, John.

Said in these chapters, in these verses. Rather as he

was speaking, John said this because the commandment of love?

How should I say the commandment to love?

Did you hear what I just said?

Does anybody really take the depth of the fact that

John said this because this commandment to love others?

Did y'all hear what I just said?

So if you heard what I just said, then you

should understand that God is not asking us to love.

It's a commandment. I mean God telling you. He asking

you love is a commandment from God to God's people.

He can't command the Heathen the love like him because

he don't know him like that and he don't have

him like that. But God is commanding his people to love.

He's not asking you love, he says. John says, this

is commanding to love others. To the Jews, it was

an old It was an old commanding. As the pinnathook

we know the first five first books is a Bible

was called a pinnateook, and in the Viticus nineteen and eighteen.

In the Viticus nineteen and eighteen, it says in the

Viticus nineteen and.

Eighteen, Thou shalt not.

Avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people,

but thy shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

Guess who said that, I am the Lord. I am

the Lord.

So what he's saying is that should take no vengeance.

You shouldn't take vengeance. You shouldn't take vengeance nor bear

any grudge against the children of thy people.

But thy shall love thy neighbor as thyself. I am

the Lord. Who's your neighbor? Is not that person living

next door to you.

Before you get that in your mind, Amen, you should

love that neighbor. And then he goes on and say,

that's old ass indepenitive, because old ass means old as.

It was in the Old Testament. But it's as new.

As Jesus was in John thirteen and verse thirty four.

And Jesus says in thirteen and thirty four a new commandment,

I give unto you that ye love one an as

I have loved you, that you also love one another.

So it is as old to the Jews in the

penitive as it is new as Jesus spoke it in

the New Testaments. So it is an old commandment because

it was from the beginning and now new commandment because

of what Jesus illustrated and laid down his life for

us and to impart in us, that we too should

lay down our lives too for one another.

Amen. Jesus walked this earth for us. Amen. So we

should love.

Our brethren as Jesus loved us and lay our lives.

Down for him.

So we should practice this commandment of God to love,

because it begins to show what is true in him

will be true in us. See what's true in him

will be true in us because.

He's in us. Amen.

But again, all of this is coming about because we

need to make up our minds. Do we really love

him like we say we do? Because if we do

what need of us of new vowels and New Year's resolutions, we.

Need to make up our mind. Matter of fact, we

should have already.

Had our mind made up, because this is the last

month of the year, and if we've been struggling from

January to now about our mind's being made up, how

we're gonna really live. We want to party on this

side and live for God on that side.

You can't do that. You can party for the Lord

on one side, live for God on one side. Hey man,

one side. We gotta make up our mind. We don't know.

We don't know, do you? Yep? We don't as a church,

as a body of Christ. All over the world there.

Are multitudes of Christians that have no real sense of

nobody knows the day or the hour, because if they did,

they would.

I'm gonna use the word really, live for the Lord.

And when I say really, that means NonStop. Oh, don't

get it twisted. I preach this thing because God put

it in me to get a youth. But I fall

short too. That's the reason why it's so heart wrenching

to me. And I'm praying God help me to stay

on the straight.

And now see, now they don't get it twisted.

I ain't doing no Hainish crimes out here. My mind

may look at somebody and say I can't stand that

so and so, and then God has to make me

remember it, cause me to remember it's not him that's

doing it.

Sudden it's to spin it in them.

So Katy, hate that demon, but don't hate him, love him.

We gotta get this thing solid as we can. We

gotta get it as solid as we can, and we

cannot get it as solid as we can.

What am I talking about? The love?

The love is gonna cause us to make up our

mind and not keep going back and forth. And when

the love of God penetrates us the way it totally

like it should be doing, because we say we belong

to Him, we begin to really and truly understand how

we're supposed to perceive everything. That's why the message says,

can you see through the eyes of Jesus, Because when

you see through the eyes of Jesus, you.

Can perceive the very things that's going on.

And the only way to be able to perceive those

things through his eyes is you first have to have.

The mind of God.

And when you have the mind of Jesus, then the

love of Jesus it pours out.

It'll even surprise you, and it's coming from through you.

Hey man, I'm not gonna try to make this real

loan and try to break it down as much as

I can, But I believe all that God had me

to say even now is more than enough.

It's more than enough. So we look at this.

As John says, this is this is as old as

it is to the jew but as new as it

is to us. As when he walked this earth, there

were faithful followers of Jesus Christ as he walked the earth.

There are faithful followers of Jesus Christ right now, even

though he's not physically walking the earth. Hey man, there

are faithful followers at this time who are ready to

lay down their lives for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

There are and I know of maybe one or two.

That I really know of that really actually laid their

life on would not do what Peter did, denying, but

went on and owned up to him and died at

that point I personally know of now probably many more,

but I'm just talking about what I personally know of

that actually physically laid down their life of Jesus Christ.

So at the point that we are right now, we

me and us in this house, and even we who

will be listening to this over the airwaves, we are

definitely should be at a point in our lives right

now where our faith has increased and brought us out

of the darkness, and the darkness has passed away, but

not completely, but has passed.

Away, and it's still disappearing. Amen.

That's the reason why we have to come and assemble

ourselves and hear the preacher preacher meaning one who speaks

to an assembly of people and continues to help that

darkness slowly but surely.

Dissipate in our lives.

Thanks to the victory of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.

But we must understand that the conflict between light and

darkness is for going, is a foregone conclusion rather, which

means the darkness is always going to try to cover

up the light, and the light is always going to

dispel the darkness. It's foregoing is a foregone conclusion rather

because why because the darkness is a demon and the devil,

and the light is Jesus Christ. And the devil is

always trying to put you out, put the light out,

and the light is always putting the darkness out. And man,

notice that the darkness tries to put out the light,

but the light puts out the darkness. No amount of

no amount of darkness can control a flicker of light,

but a flick of light can't control any.

Amount of darkness. Are you with me? If I turn

out all these.

Lights in this room, and it was nighttime and the

sun and the moon wasn't shining and the lights outside wouldn't shine.

It was pinched blacking here. If I turn myself, not

even turn the light.

The light, the light bulb on in there, whatever they

call it him the flashlight on my phone. I didn't

turn the flashlight on. All I did is move my phone, and.

The screen just lit up.

You could see that the darkness is as much darkness

as it was. It would be dispelled by it, just

that little light on the phone. Because the darkness is greater,

the light is greater. Rather, the light is greater. The

light is greater than the darkness.

Hey man.

See Jesus didn't say that the darkness is all gone.

He didn't say that, but it is passing away. And

he does not say that the fullness of the light

had appeared.

But it is now shining and will shine more and more.

To the perfectness of the light, to the perfect day,

hey man. Because the darkness passes away day by day,

many by minute, moment by moment. Because the darkness passes

away day by day, many by minute, because it only

passes away in proportions.

Amen, as light shines and increases.

In your life, the darkness passes away in proportions. What

am I saying that the love of God grows more

and more. And as the love of God grows more

and more in you, the darkness passes away more and more.

It's just like the sun rise. It's pitch black outside,

outside of the street lights and whatever lights, but it's

pitch black. The sky is black. It looks black anyway.

But when the sun starts to rise little, the sky

don't just boom, no, little by little, it starts light up.

And when the sun is fully implemented, all light. Hey, man,

so can they walk in the light and hate your brother?

You cannot walk in the light and say you have

the love of God in you and not love everyone.

It just don't go that way. They don't go together.

Light and darkness don't even get along.

Man.

See, the light is considered the presence of God. We

understand that, and the darkness or the hatred is considered

the devil. And hatred does not coexist with the light.

Because if you are walking in the light, then you

should be filled with the love of God. Let's look

at first John, where we just read chapter seven, Brother,

and I write unto you no new commandment in verse

eight again a new commandment.

I write unto you.

Why because he told them about love and Leviticus, and

then he told them about love again in the New Testament.

Hey man, So if we claim.

To be in the light, which means to be in

the love of Jesus Christ, and hate anyone or anything,

or not doing the will of God as we should,

because see, all of this goes together. Not just not

loving your brother causes you not to really have the

love of God and you walk in dotness, but the

fact that you don't even keep the commandments.

Of God is of darkness as well.

Ay man, He said, I know that you love him

because you keep my commandments. I know that you love

him because you first love your.

Brother before you love me.

See, it's the love of your brother that actually God

believes that you love him because you love your brother.

Why did he say that? Because you see your brother

every day. You ain't never seen God. Hey, you love

something you ain't never seen. But and then how can

you not love something that you do?

See, That's what God is trying to make sense out

of it.

So if we say these things and it's not true,

then that we claim that we in the light, but

we hate our brother, we hate the commandments of God.

I don't want to do all the commandments of God.

We got a false claim and we are still in darkness.

You see, you're still in darkness.

You can't just love a certain group of people, not

love the other people and thank you in the light.

You in darkness. Still even though you love these people,

don't love them. You're in darkness. You still in darkness

because you can't straddle the fence people.

It's either one way or the other way.

You're still living in darkness.

If you don't have the very fullness of love in

your heart for everybody, you're still in darkness.

Because living in the light is living in love.

Since the Gospel is an illumination, it's an illuminating light.

The Gospel is an illuminating light.

To our heart, our mind. It warms our heart our mind.

To love and to love is the identifying.

Mark to God.

His love in you is an identifying mark.

How y'all with me? It is an identifying mark.

The fact that love, not just love, but the love

of God, the God they is in your heart is

an identifying mark that you are his. If he does

not see this identifying mark, then how can you say

you're a Christian because every Christian, the very word means

to be christ Like. And to be christ Like, then

you have to have the identifying mark of love on you.

The love is the key to walking in the light anyway,

because without the love of God as a Christian, you

cannot grow, specially while you hate others. I do not

keep the commandments of God.

Amen, there's no way. See what you got to understand.

There are things that love allows, and there are things

that love don't allow. The love of God that is. See,

the love of God won't allow. It won't allow it.

It won't allow you to hate your brother. It won't

allow you not to keep the commandments of God. It

does not allow you not to reach out to any

and everybody, because the love of God reaches beyond folks

that you call your friends. It reaches out to people

who are even strangers.

Amen.

It even reaches out to and even people that persecute you,

folks that talk about you. The love of God and

you reaches out even to people that persecute you.

Boy, that's hard, people that talk about you.

Like a dog, people that you have heard, not what

somebody told you you happen to walk by you happen

to hear a conversation come through a phone. How they

don't even like you, don't care about you, talk about

you like a dog.

But the love of God still.

Causes you to reach out and love them.

I said, the love of God causes you to do that.

Hatred in your heart does not, which is darkness. Darkness

does not allow you to do that. The light allows you.

To do that.

Jesus said in Matthew chapter five, in verse forty three,

he said, you have heard that it is it had

been said.

You heard it.

It had been said, thou shall love thy neighbor. How

many people heard that? Everybody heard that. Everybody heard thou

shall love thy neighbor. So Jesus said, you have heard

that it had been said, love thy love. Thou shall

love thy neighbor and hate thy enemy. You heard that before?

Have you not heard?

Because this is what they used to say, to love

thy neighbor and hate your enemy.

Jesus said, you've heard.

This, But that's what they say. Jesus said, but I

say them to you. Love your enemies, Bless them that

curse you, do good to them that hate you, and

pray for them which despisefully use you, those that despitefully

use you, they are spiteful and persecute you. That you

may be the children of your father, which means the

sons and daughters see when you do that, when you

love them, He said, this is what I see that

you are my children because of this act that you do,

despite the fact that they despitefully use you and hate

you and curse you. When I see that love in you,

portrayed in you, manifesting itself out of you towards people

who don't care nothing about you, he says that you

may be the children of your father, which is in heaven,

for he that, for he that maketh his son to

rise on the evil. He talking about the son in

the sky, For he does that, he maketh his son,

and the son belongs to God that rises on the

evil and on the good, and spend it rain on

the just and on the unjust. For if ye love

them which love you, what reward have ye do not?

Even the publicans are the sinners? Are the unbelievers do

the same thing. They do the same thing. So we're

supposed to do something different. We're supposed to do something

different than they do.

Amen.

And if you salute your brethren. Only what do you

more than others?

Do not?

Even Republicans do the same thing. They salute each other.

The world loves his own.

You've heard that before.

So he's saying to us, they're not perfect. But he's

calling on us. Jesus says, be perfect, even as your father,

which is in heaven, is perfect. He's calling on us

to be perfect because we are his and he lives

in us, and he's perfect.

Amen. So he's calling us to be perfect. So love should.

Be the unifying force and identifying mark of the Christian.

Love is a unifying force in all unity. It works

in all unity. It works in all unity, it works

in all Christians. That's the unity that love works the

same way, the same way it should work in every Christian.

Your love as a Christian shouldn't be different in my love.

As a Christian.

Why Because it's Jesus and he's not different than you,

as he is in me. The only difference in Jesus

in a person claiming Jesus, and it ain't Jesus as

a demon, and there is a difference.

Amen.

So there's a unifying force, and it is an identifying

mark of every Christian. It's the key to walking in

the light, because we can't grow spiritually while we hate God.

Because see, if you hate your brother, you hate the

order of God, is God, you hate Amen. See, the

more you grow to love other people, the more you

grow to love God.

The more you grow.

To love other people, what other people, The more you

grow to love your enemies, your persecutors, your backbiters, the more.

You're gonna grow to love God, and the more.

Of your spiritual growth and maturity will reveal itself. It

takes a mature Christian to hate people. I mean, to

hate people.

It takes so much. Let me say like it.

It takes a mature Christian not to hate people that

hate them. It takes a mature Christian to continue to

love people that slammer you and talk about you like

a dog and live on you. It takes a mature Christian,

and to you is something that we grow into. Hey man,

we start out as babies, but we have to start

to grow.

Paul said it best.

I'm just peripherrat because you haven't matured, and you look

like a grown man.

I still got to give you milk because you ain't matured.

Pass a child, say o. A child's mind in a

grown body.

He said, I ought to be feeding you meat, not milk.

But because you have not matured to the level you

should be at this time of your life. You've been

going to the ministries and the temples and the synadons

for thirty years.

Still got to give you milk. With all them teeth

in your mouth.

Chewing up my nipples, I still got to give you

milk because you have not matured enough for this meat

to eat. Even though you've got all those teeth in

your mouth, you still can't eat this meat because why

your love has.

Not grown in you. You've been going to every service.

In your ministry other ministries all the year long, and

you're still gonna go into the new year as a

as a baby, and you've been doing it for thirty

forty years.

And you're still a baby. You meant to you spiritually

meant to retire. That's what y'all. Because when a baby.

Is born and he don't grow, there's a there's a

there's there's a mental thing going on, hey man. Because

when you're a baby, you're supposed to grow up to

an adult. But if you come out of your womb

of your mother a baby, and you don't get no

bigger than you did when you came out of the womb,

and you're now twenty one years old. There's some mentar

there's some mental stuff going on, a retardation. You're retarded

in the gospel. Who wants to be retired in the gospel.

That's why still giving you milk. You retired it with

all them teeth in your mouth. And for thirty forty years.

You shouldn't even tell nobody you've been going to church

for ten years. That's embarrassing to you.

And then you don't think it's embarrassing that you walking

around fifteen years old and there's really nothing.

Really perstop wrong with you. And you got a diap on.

Now I understand that you got a physical problem, but

you were in a diaper because you ain't growed up.

Matured in your mind as an adult. They look kind

of crazy at you.

If you and the mall and you see all these

different people and they got baby bottles and they drinking

out of them as they shopping.

They look crazy be grown folks drinking baby bottles.

There's only a few of y'all walking around without a

baby bottle. Wow, because you have mature than the gospel.

And these people say they know Jesus, but they drinking

biber bout baby bottles and they've been going to the

ministry for ten twenty thirty years.

When we're gonna grow up? When is it gonna be

real to us? This love?

I tell you, when when we make up our mind,

that's when it's not gonna be real to us till

we make up our mind.

I can't make up your mind. Jesus won't make up

your mind.

He'll help you to make up your mind, but you

got to make up your own mind because it's not

his mind, is your mind. And when it becomes his mind,

then your mind is made up. Yeah, that's what it says,

this message right here. Don't make it quiet and nohow.

So when you walk into light, or you walk in love,

or when you walk in Christ, then you love everybody

like you're supposed to, and you begin to obey the

commandments of God and you begin to live like God

want us to live. Amen, somebody, and there is nothing

in you that would want to cause another person to stumble,

or yourself, because.

There's nothing in him. Jesus said the best. There's none

of you.

In me, So there's no stumbling in me? Who is

none of you, none of the devil? He say, ain't

none of you in me?

We have to grow to that.

Same conclusion that Jesus already has and should have in us,

that because we have the love of Christ in us,

we refuse not to obey his orders, his commandments, We

refuse not to love people.

We practice and want.

To know more about Him and more about his commandments,

and more about how we supposed to be. You can't

guess how you're supposed to live. Well, I got Jesus,

so I'm just supposed to be good. It don't work

that way. Good ain't gonna get you into heaven. Save

is gonna get you into heaven. And something comes along

with being saved. Hey man, but if you still can't

love everybody, you still can't keep his commandments.

You're not growing in the truth, but still in darkness.

And the light is not in them, and the fellowship

is not in them of God, it's not there, and

you're still blinded by darkness. See you, what we don't

understand is to hate and not to keep the commandments

of God.

It's to choose darkness. It's a choice we make. We

choose in darkness.

And when we choose darkness, we shut ourselves off from

the light, which is God, and separate ourselves from God.

Amen.

We actually shut ourselves off from the very presence of

God when we choose not to love our the people

are the commandments of God, We ourselves shut ourselves off

from God.

Let's look at verse eleven. Let's look at verse nine.

He just said he is in the light and hated

his brother is in darkness even until now you haven't

yet accomplished the light. That means that this person has

failed to love.

Period.

Hey man, let's jump to verse eleven. But he that

hated his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness

and know it not whether he goes because the darkness

had blinded his eyes.

So this walketh.

But he that hated his brother, and it goes on

to say walketh in darkness, walketh in darkness.

This is the person that.

Is living his life in darkness or living his life

in sin. Let's look at Second Corinthians four and four.

It's gonna break this down. There's all these kinds of darknesses,

and then I'm gonna be done. But I wanna express

this before I close. Second Crinthians, chapter four and verse four.

I hope you get your bibles are penning paper. Chapter

four says verse four. Rother Chapter four and secon Corinthians

Chapter four and verse four. It says, in whom the

God of this world we know who that is, had

blinded the minds of them which have which believe not

least the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who

is the image of God should shine unto them. So

the enemy has blinded the God of this world.

Satan control of the world's system.

Hey man has blinded the people, and you are controlled

by Satan.

The blind folks are controlled by Satan.

I don't want to hear that, but they are, and

he effectively shields them from the light of the glorious

Gospel of Christ.

So those people preaching this.

Other doctrine are controlled by the devil.

Let's look at some other stuff here.

First Corinthians, chapter ten, verse Crientcia chapter ten, verse twenty.

This is what this says. Watch it this. This is

really gonna disturb you. But I say, but I say.

These verses here chapter in this First Corinthians chapter ten,

verses fourteen through twenty two. They're talking about us fleeing

from idolatry, not adultry. Adultry a man worshiping idols and

worshiping paganism and stuff like that. So he's saying in

verse twenty of chapter ten of First Corinthians, but I

say that things with the gentile sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils,

demons and not to God. This is what the gentiles

do the world. And I wouldnot that ye should have

fellowship with devils, devils, demons. See, he's got a grave

concern when he's speaking to the apostles. See what you

the grave concern is that we really don't understand, is

that when you're worshiping idols, you know what's behind those idols?

You know what's behind those boodhle dolls, and of all

of that a.

Pagan worship, do you know what's behind that fallen angels,

evil demons?

So in essence, you're worshiping those demons.

Looks, look at you, Doderonimo, I'm gonna show you some

more stuff with this Deuteronomy trot thirty two and seventeen.

Look at Dudonomic thirty two. In seventeen six, it says,

let's start at sixteen. They provoked him to jealousy with

strange gods, with abominations. Provoked they him to anger. They

sacrificed unto devils, not to God, to gods who they knew,

not they didn't even know him, to new gods, these

all these new gods, Santa Claus, Easter, Bunny, and these

all the new gods that came newly up on whom

your fathers feared. Not of the rock that the God

thee thy are unmindful and has forgotten God that formed

thee Let's.

Look at Psalms ninety six in verse five.

For all the gods of the nations are idols, but

the Lord made the heavens. In other words, there's not

but one God, and there's not but one God to love.

There's not but one God to exemplify. There's not but

one God to follow the example behind. And notice this,

Paul was even speaking to them about the religious feast

he had already established. Paul had already established that these

religious feasts like Easter Feast and all these other religious

feasts that people having on Christmas and all that they

involved following, are being in fellowship with the altar. See

the Corinthians attended heaven feast.

And would have fellowship.

See, you don't really know, You don't really realize what

you're doing when you be worshiping in cahoot with the

world in these feasts that they ain't cohoot with. You're

being a follower and you're actually worshiping demons and don't

realize it.

Don't realize.

I talked very intense about this last Sunday, these feasts

that you have at Easter and Christmas, and these feasts

that you have on a different other occasions that.

You account to God.

I've spoken many times this reason why you got to

make up your mind. This is the reason why this

service is coming to you, and this word is coming

to you in this service today.

To make up your mind. It don't make no difference

if you've.

Been deeply rooted in putting crees up and direct and

the decorations and all that. I'm telling you the truth

of God. I showed it to you in God's word

in the book in the Book of Jeremiah, in chapter ten,

where it tells you it's evil to do that, he said,

do not do the things that the world that the

heathens do.

Don't do what they do.

Paul here is if Paul here has already established that

these religious feasts involved fellowship with the altar, and if

the Corinthians a tend all of these heathen feasts, they

will be having fellowship with devils. The Corinthians were the

people of God. This was the last thing Paul hoped

for his young converts at Corinth, trying to deter them

from these altars and these feasts with the Heathens.

That actually fellowship with demons. You can see the signs,

but you ignore them.

The people of God see the signs, but they ignore

them because they want to get in cohosive with what

the world is doing. They want to get in these feasts,

they want to celebrate. These things make them feel good.

But you are fellowshipping with demons, because paganism is all

about demons. You gotta even ask yourself, why do you

even put a tree up? Why do you boil eggs

and put colors on them?

Why? Because everybody else is doing it?

Because everybody else is doing it, nobody really research this,

continues to do this foolishness.

You're doing it.

Because everybody else is doing it. But God spoke to

his people, as he spoke to me, and I spoken

to you that the Bible says, learn not. In Chapter

ten of Jeremiah, thus said the Lord now does says

Charles Tompkins, does says child Thompkins thus said, the Lord,

learn not the way of the heathen.

Learn not the way of the gentiles, or the heathen,

or the sinners.

And be not dismade at the signs of heaven, for

the heathen.

Are di made at them.

For the customs of the people, of the of the

people are vain.

They're vain, they're fruital, they're no good.

And it goes on to tell you about one cutting

down the tree, and then you're looking at Paul here,

John here talking I don't know, Paul here talking about

in Corinthus how he's talking about, we should not be

celebrating the feast as the world do, because you're in

fellowship with demons.

And you don't even realize why, because there's no real understanding.

And the reason why there's no real understanding because there's

no real total connection to the truth.

What's the truth? God's word? Everything is in this book.

We can't let go of stuff.

But I'm asking you today, I beseech you, as Paul did.

The word beseech means I beg of you this day,

and if God gives us another year, use it to.

The glory of God.

Let God interject. Let this Holy Spirit quicken you in

every aspect of your life from.

Now until then, not just when the new year starts,

if it starts.

I'm talking about right now, as you set here, right now,

and as those are listening.

Make up your mind right now, because you may not

get another chance.

Make up your mind. You got to come down. No,

you can't just do what the world do. You can't

act like the world. You can't be like the world.

You can't dress like the world. I was watching the

thing I told him in Sunday school.

The people were mad. They're not mad. They're not mad

at these false prophets. They not mad at these prosperity preachers.

You know where they're mad at.

They're mad at the preachers that are preaching the undotorated

word of God. You know why, because there's no there's

no room to go to move foolishly. But these prosperity

preachers give you plenty room to be foolish and to

be sinful. So they mad at the truth of God's

men of God that preach the truth. They had him

on the radio and they tried to trick him.

He ignored them and still spoke the Word of God.

They showed him a picture of some woman claimed to

be a Christian, but she was a gospel singer. And

the dress she had on was so tight. You didn't

have to tell if it was a b a d cup.

Bra you not to tell.

You ain't have to guess, You didn't have to guess

how fat her tale was, and none of that, because.

That dress she had on was so tight.

And the pastor said this, He said, I would not

if you had just showed me the picture before you

told me who she was and what she represents, I

would not ever.

Believe she was a Christian. That's what he said. That's

what I would have seen. I would have never believed

she was a Christian. So they mad at him.

Because he's teaching the truth of the Word of God,

of how a woman should present herself as a woman

of God.

You mad at.

Her because he's telling you how a woman of God

supposed to present ourselves.

You mad at not to have all her breast shaken.

But she got big breasts. Cover them things up. You

can't cover them up down here, and the top of

them still trying to bounce out your shirt.

Your genie is so tight. And you see the print

of your vaginaa. You can see the splinter of your

black and that new fashion. That guy with this little

cloth stuff just splits.

The woman's little button. Both buns just shaking. Why are

we trying to be like the world? You trying to

be like the world, And you say you love God. Well,

let me check this before I close this. I gotta

check this because I gotta know the truth. I can't

just believe in folks. Tell me, I gotta believe what

God say.

So God says.

Let's see what God says. Let me see.

God said. Oh, that's what he said. Let me tell

y'all what you say again, Love not the world. Neither

are the things that are in the world. If any

man love the world, the love of the Father is

not in him.

For all that is in the world, the lust of

the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the

pride of life is not of the Father, but is

of the world. And the world passes away, and the

lust there are but he that doeth the will, the

will the will of God, abideth forever and ever. So

I'm conclusive now that we're not supposed to be looking

like the world. We're not supposed to be doing what

the world does. We're not supposed to be.

Acting like the world. We're supposed to look different.

Paul said, if you look like the world, sound like

the world, you must be of the world. That's what

they say. The quacks like a duck, walk like a duck,

swim like a duck. It must be a duck.

Must be a duck.

If you walk like the world, you talk like the world.

You see, Peter knew something. He had to get Jesus

Christ off his back. He did because he was frightened.

So what did Peter do? They said, you look like

one of them.

See we look different than the world. You look like

one of them. This is in his denial state, when

they took Jesus to court illegally, and the people look,

see you want of them Jesus people.

You look like.

One of them. You even sound like one of them.

So Peter had to get that Jesus off his back.

So what did he do? He began to use profanity.

He began to speak a language that the world understood.

That's what he did.

He began to speak a language that the world understood,

and the world know their own.

He had to get Jesus off his back. See the

world know how they look, and they know how you look.

And I'm sure in your lifetime of walking in this

salvational walk, people have walked up to you and said

to you, you must be saved, You must be you

must be a Christian.

That because the world knows that you don't look like them.

You look different.

And as long as you've been in ministry, if ain't

nobody ever told that to you, you better check yourself, better

check yourself, because apparently you look like them.

The world looks.

Like the world. The world acts like the world. The

world speaks like the world. The world performs like the world.

A Christian acts like Jesus, looks like.

Jesus, shines like Jesus, speaks like Jesus, walks like Jesus.

And if they stumble, you know the dust that you're

scraping off of you. When say shake the dust off

you and get up after you and fell short, you

got to get up and shake the dust off.

Do you understand what that really means. You know what

the dust is. The dust is the world.

So get up and dust the world off of you

and get back in line.

The dust is other world. The dust is the world.

The dust is sin, which is other world. So that's

why I said, get up and dust yourself off. Get

that out you. Hey man, hey man, let us stand.

I took time.

Because the probability that we're going into a new world,

new season, we're going into a new year, and we

can't leave this last Sunday and still live the same

way we've been living. Hey man, you can't play with this.

It's real. You can't joke about it. That's why I

don't like them folks talking about their Christian Christian comic comedians.

Ain't the funny about the Bible.

They making jokes about job and different patriots of old

and people setting out there laughing because they're just as

ignorant as the person on stage.

He's trying to be like the world.

The world got comedians they talk about they talk about

the Bible too, They talk about Christians, denominations.

They got you now, they got you up, are doing it?

Come on, somebody wake up, Let the light shine you

can't do what the world do.

You can't be like the world. Lets you out of

the world. Amen. Let us pray you having me.

Father, we thank you for your presence today. We thank

you for your word that's shine such a bright light

on the truth of everything and all things.

We know God, we either with you or were not.

And we know God that you've been so gracious and

you've been so merciful. You've really been merciful God, that

you've given us so much time to make up our

mind and keep our minds made up because we understand God,

just as they quote once you save, you always say

that's a person with their mind not made up. They're

not made up, they have made up their mind. You're

not saved once, you always saved. You're only saved if

you stay saved. Because if that was so, Lord, why

would we need to fight the fight of faith, to

fight the fight of faith to stay saved.

And continue to believe in trust in you.

So many, God, have lost faith in you, so many

have fallen short of your gospel. So many have walked away.

But it's my prayer, bring them back, God, bring them

back God. If they're still in a mindset of they

that they can be delivered and not being given over

to a debase mind. That's sad to me, Lord, because

there's no way out of that. But Lord, please be

grace and be merciful and to them and to us.

God and Holy Spirit, continue to lead us and teach us,

continue to drive us and make us mindful, to learn more,

to meditate more, to fast more, to give more time

to the Lord in our studies of the Gospel in

these Bibles, in the name of Jesus Christ, that we

may grow and be drawn closer to You and become

more complete in You, and become more like You.

Inside and out.

Lord, in the name of Jesus, Touch everyone under the

sound of my boys. And Lord, whatever the concerns outside

of this prayer that those here may have, I pray

God that you will touch that too, in the name

of Jesus. Some may have different concerns right now, Lord,

and they need your help.

It is my prayer that you help them.

Father God, in the name of Jesus, Help them, Lord,

because if they're leaning and depending on you, only you

can do it. There's none other than you. There's no

other God besides you. There's no other miracle worker. No

other healer but you, Lord. No other one that can

prosper our souls, even as we prosper, but you, because

you give what we need.

No one can do it but you. Lord.

You are the only God, not the only true God.

You're the only God. All the other gods that people

claim the figment of their own imagination, they're not real.

They're not real, they're not real, they don't even exist.

You are the only God that exists and have all

ways existed and shall always exist. That we trust and

believe in only you, God in Heaven, Lord Jesus.

Christ, a savior. You the only true God.

So we're calling on you because you are the only

one that can help us whatever I need is at

this moment. Lord, we need you in the name of Jesus.

There can't no preacher, no apostle, no pastor. We need you, God,

because you are the giver of all things. Yes, you

could use me to pray for him, but you are

the one that give the increase. Father, you'll use me

to ask you because we have not, Because we ask not,

and we're asking right now, God, in obedience to your word,

that it move you, and our faith is in you.

Knowing that our faith is the only thing that moves you, Father,

so we ask him right now in the name of

Jesus Christ. He is the door to you, Lord. We

use him to get to you, and we're using him

right now. We're using him right now. Jesus help us.

Jesus help us. Holy Spirit is in Jesus name. I pray, Amen, Amen,