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THE WORD OF GOD

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  1. Thank you for this privileging opportunity to come before you

  2. right now in the name of Jesus. Thank you for

  3. this temple You've given us to come and worship and

  4. to give you praise and glory and be in all

  5. of you. God. Thank you for hosting us, God and

  6. watching over us. You are our only audience. Right now,

  7. Father God, we come God to hear a word from you.

  8. We come God to learn a word in the name

  9. of Jesus, that we may live right before thee and

  10. all that we do will be pleasing in thy sight. Father,

  11. in the name of Jesus, as that you open the

  12. eyes in the ears of your people that are here

  13. today and those that are listening over the airways. In

  14. the precious name of Jesus, rebut the devour for our sake,

  15. cover us and keep us Lord in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

  16. In the Book of Gallations and the fifth chapter, I

  17. looked at this this morning because I was praying through

  18. the night, and I went to sleep, and I woke

  19. up about two o'clock, because I went to sleep about

  20. eleven thirty twelve, and I woke up at two o'clock,

  21. not two o'clock on the about two fifteen somewhere in there.

  22. And I'm beginning to pray to God about his people

  23. in this house and those that are not in this house.

  24. But I say, Lord, give me a word today for

  25. your people. And see there are preachers who say that

  26. they ask God for a word to minister to his people.

  27. But the very word that God gives him the minister

  28. to his people, is the same word that he ministers

  29. to him. Amen. So I mean real. I shouldn't say real.

  30. But the men of God who minister the doctrine of

  31. Jesus Christ and not men's doctrine, are adhered to the

  32. very message that God gives him to give to the people. Aymen,

  33. because that message also is speaking to him. So in

  34. the Book of Relations, in the sixteenth verse of the

  35. fifth chapter, it's talking about walking in the spirit. And

  36. the reason I believe because I'm hearing the voice of

  37. the Lord as I was praying, is that this is

  38. a new year, and God has given us a new year,

  39. and He's given us the twelfth day, eleventh day of

  40. this year. And we always want to go backwards that

  41. we may go forward. What are you talking about? People

  42. making you New year's resolutions? They were backwards, and now

  43. they don't go forward again. Most folks making resolutions like

  44. I'm I'm gonna be in church every son, they lie

  45. to theirself. They line to theirself, and they line to God.

  46. But the thing here in this verses is talking about

  47. these verses sixteenth to the twenty sixth verse. It's talking

  48. about your spirit and your flesh. Amen. And today I

  49. want to say to each and every one of you

  50. that claim in Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior,

  51. those in this house and those that are listening. This

  52. word is for everyone whose ears are tenants. That we

  53. as people and not just people, but the chosren of God,

  54. should always be walking in the spirit. Amen. And we

  55. should always know that we're walking in the spirit. That's key.

  56. We should always know that we're walking in the spirit,

  57. because sometimes we don't even know we're not walking in

  58. the spirit. Amen. And God has given us examples to

  59. understand and to know when we're not walking in the

  60. spirit as equal to that of when we are. Amen. Amen.

  61. So here in the Book of Gallatians is talking about

  62. walking in the spirit. And in the sixteen verse it

  63. says this, I say, then this, I say, then walk

  64. in the spirit. This is what he's saying. He's telling

  65. you and me to walk in the spirit. Why, and

  66. you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. That's why,

  67. if you walk in the spirit, you will not fulfill

  68. the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusted against

  69. the spirit. And you see that lusted is a continuation,

  70. this flesh continually, non stop lustest against the spirit, and

  71. the spirit against the flesh. Why because the are contrary,

  72. the one to the other, so that ye cannot do

  73. the things that ye would. The flesh does not want

  74. you doing the things of the spirit, and the spirit

  75. don't want you doing the things of the flesh. They're

  76. contrariant to one another.

  77. And the flesh is contrary to God, but the spirit

  78. is contrary to God. So you got to choose, as

  79. a child of God, which one of these are you.

  80. In your character? But if ye be eighteen lead of

  81. the spirit, ye are not under the law. I was

  82. telling you this morning. I just told you that this morning.

  83. There it is, somebody say, there it is. I didn't

  84. make it up. But if you are lad of the spirit,

  85. you are not under the law. But if you lead

  86. in your flesh, you're under the law. It's the opposite

  87. to it. Hey man, But if you be led of

  88. the spirit, you are not under the law. You are

  89. not under the law. You are not under the law.

  90. If you be laid of the spirit. Now the works

  91. of the flesh are manifested. What does that mean? They

  92. ever did it? The works of the flesh are evident.

  93. Which are these? What is the evidence? What is the

  94. evidence of the flesh. This is the evidence of the flesh. Adultery, fornication?

  95. Whoa fornication? The preacher just preached that fornication is not

  96. a sin. The devil's preacher. That's who did it. Uncleanness, lichiviousness.

  97. What is lichiviousness? Contentions? That's what lativiousness is. Goes on

  98. the it's got a list because it's it jumps to

  99. another verse. Adolatry, Which craft? Which craft? Mm? Hm, which craft?

  100. What is which craft? Sorcery? What is which craft? I

  101. tell you which craft is? Disobedience? Is witchcraft? Hatred? Hatred?

  102. And say heye, it say hatred? Variances? Which is contentions?

  103. I'm sorry I said that, Uh, litiviousness was contentions, but

  104. it's not. It's lachivious It's the same thing. It's just lativiousness.

  105. But variances is considered to be contentions. Emulation is jealousy, raft,

  106. strife strife. What is strife? Strife is selfish ambitions, seditions?

  107. What is seditions? Dissensions, that's what sedition is, and heresies.

  108. These are the evidence of the flesh. Everybody envyings, murderers, drunkenness, drunkenness, drunkenness, revelings, reveling.

  109. What is revelling? Pretty young ladys talking calling people by

  110. their name, different names, it ain't even their name, talking

  111. bad about it, and such like and such like of

  112. the witch. I tell you this, God tell me before,

  113. as I have also told you. I'm not just telling you.

  114. I told you this in time past, that they which

  115. do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God

  116. and Man. These are evidenced. Are y'all with me, I'm

  117. gonna taking a slow These are which you have in

  118. your Bible to read over again and compare to your walk.

  119. Whether any of these are connected to you and you

  120. you're rid of it, because those that's evidence of you

  121. walking in the flesh. But there's a bright side to this,

  122. which is the key verse of this whole chapter, verse

  123. twenty two. But the fruit of the spirit I didn't

  124. say fruits. I said the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,

  125. long suffering, gentleness. Look at that gentleness. Gentleness is kindness.

  126. Understand those Gentleness don't mean just being general. It means

  127. you being kind. It's kindness, goodness, faith, faith, hmm, meekness. Temperance.

  128. What's temperance. We all need some temperance. We all need

  129. to God to strengthen that fruit of temperance. Self control

  130. is what temperance is. And he says, against such, there

  131. is no law. These are spiritual. These are spiritual, and

  132. that's where there is no law. And they that are

  133. christ have crucified death, death the flesh with the affections.

  134. And thus your passions have been crucified. Your affections have

  135. been crucified with the fruit of the spirit of all.

  136. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk

  137. in the spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory,

  138. provoking one another, envying one another, being all conceited, in

  139. other words, conceded. And when you, being concealed, you provoked

  140. some folk to anger. So let us not be desirous

  141. or conceited of vain glory, provoking one another envying one another.

  142. Why do I have to envy you? For what God

  143. gave me to use for him is what he gave

  144. me to use to him, And what he gave you

  145. to use for him he gave for you to use

  146. for him. I can't get used when he gave you,

  147. and you can't use what he gave me. So why

  148. be in this? And more to the point, we all

  149. got the same Jesus, where's he I gave? He envious you?

  150. You got the same Jesus I got where's the envy?

  151. I can't do no better than you, and you can't

  152. do no better than me. It's the same, Jesus. So

  153. the question today, after all of that, there's a walk

  154. in the flesh, and there's a walk in the spirit.

  155. But the question is how do you walk? How do

  156. you walk? Because Paul here is explaining you may be

  157. seated in the House of the Lord, that the secret

  158. to loving our neighbor as ourself is by living in

  159. the spirit and not giving into a sinful human desires.

  160. He then explains in these verses the characteristics of a

  161. life motivated by the sinful nature and a life motivated

  162. by the spirit. He has broken down and gave us

  163. the motivation of an individual who walks by the flesh.

  164. And he broke it down by how individual walks by

  165. the spirit. He said in verse sixteen, he said this,

  166. I say, then, walk in the spirit, and you shall

  167. not fulfill the lust of the law. Amen, if you

  168. walk in the spirit, you won't fulfill the lust of

  169. the law. But vice versa, if you walk in the flesh,

  170. you are fulfilling the law. And we're not under the law.

  171. We are under grace. And you are in grave trouble

  172. trying to keep the law when God says we're under grace.

  173. Ay man. The chapter eight of Romans is this verse

  174. to hear. It talks also about life and the spirit.

  175. And in verse ten it says, and if Christ be

  176. in you, notice the word is and if Christ be

  177. in you, the body is dead because of sin, but

  178. the spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the

  179. spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead,

  180. the spirit of Him raised up Jesus, that spirit is

  181. God that raised up Jesus from the dead. But if

  182. it dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from

  183. the dead, shall also quicken. In other words, that same

  184. spirit that raised Jesus from the dead will also give

  185. you life to your mortal bodies by his spirit that

  186. dwell in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to

  187. the flesh. We owe the flesh nothing. We owe it

  188. nothing to live after the flesh. We don't owe the

  189. flesh nothing to live after it. We don't owe you

  190. to funicate flesh. We don't owe you to commit a

  191. dawntree or wall I have an idols. We don't owe

  192. it to you the murder and to steal and keep.

  193. We don't owe it to you. Why because of the

  194. spirit that quickened us. Because the flesh was dead in

  195. its sin, and now we have come alive in Christ.

  196. So we don't owe you nothing flesh. For if we

  197. live after the flesh, I already told you about the

  198. spirit in verse eleven. But if the spirit of Him

  199. that raised their Jesus from the dead dwell and you.

  200. But verse thirteen says for if and this word infests

  201. in both of those, because it's conditional you live after

  202. the flesh, you should die. Anybody don't understand that you

  203. live after the flesh, you shall die. That's God speaking.

  204. But if you through the spirit do mortified, I mean,

  205. kill that thing, put that thing to death. The deeds

  206. of the body you shall live. For as many as

  207. I led by the Spirit of God, they are the

  208. sons of God. They are the sons of God that

  209. are led by the spirit of God. So I mean,

  210. if you lead by the flesh, you ain God's son.

  211. For you have not received the spirit of bontandage again

  212. to fear, But ye have received the spirit of adoption.

  213. Whereby we cry Abba, Father, Abba, Daddy. The Spirit itself

  214. buried witness. It's the key verse in this chapter. The

  215. Spirit itself veried witness with our spirit that we are

  216. the children of God. And if there it is again,

  217. then heirs heirs said it twice of God, and joint

  218. heirs three times with Christ. If so be, if so be,

  219. that we suffer with him, that we may be also

  220. glorified together. Amen. Amen. There's the flesh and then there's

  221. the Spirit of God. And these two forces are within

  222. us are constantly battling. There's a war going on with

  223. each other. There is a war going on inside of

  224. each of us. The flesh and the Spirit of God

  225. don't get along. They don't get along with each other.

  226. They have different desires. The flesh wants to commit sin,

  227. the spirit of God wants to commit righteousness. There will

  228. go war going on inside of us. But if you

  229. be led of the spirit, yeah, not under the law.

  230. Onet Tifty one and nine says says, knowing this that

  231. the law is not made for the righteous man. I

  232. want you to similar in you. The law is not

  233. made for the righteous man, even the society that we

  234. live in, the laws not made for the righteous man,

  235. but for the lawless and disordered and disobedient, for the ungodly,

  236. and for the sinners, for the unholy and the profane,

  237. For murderers of mother and fathers, and murderers and man slayers,

  238. for hormongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, sleeping

  239. with animals, for man slaughterers, for liars, for liars, for liars,

  240. for for perverters of perverted people. And if that be

  241. any other things, any other thing that is contrary to

  242. sound doctrine, the law is for that too. What are

  243. you saying, anybody standing behind this poor pit, I just podium,

  244. any poor pit preaching men's doctrine. You are under the

  245. loud and therefore you'll condemn to hell anything contrary of

  246. the doctrine of Jesus Christ. Because as God says, we're

  247. not ignorant. That's lack of knowledge. That's called lack of knowledge.

  248. So it's not really bad when you tell somebody man,

  249. he's just ignorant, unless you just be a meaning. But

  250. ignorance just means like because somebody stupid or dumb. That's

  251. a whole different world. But ignorance is just a lack

  252. of knowledge. And we're not hignorance of his devices. The

  253. Bible has just let us know that we're not ignorant

  254. of the devices of the flesh. We're not ignorant of them.

  255. So it is evident. Verse nineteen says, now the works

  256. of the flesh are ever, which means it says, the

  257. works of the flesh manifest. So whatever the work of

  258. the flesh is, And if you put it like this,

  259. if you're walking in the flesh, it will manifest that

  260. which you are walking in. It will be evident that

  261. you're walking in the flesh. How by the very evidence

  262. of the things I just read manifest evidence, it means

  263. it's without a doubt you're walking in the flesh. Yeah,

  264. you you live with him, Yeah, miss mcgarret, y'all married, No,

  265. not yet evident they walking in the flesh, because ye

  266. ain't sleeping in separate rooms. Not find as she is, you,

  267. not find as he is, ain't nobody in the house.

  268. But y'all you're a liar. The flesh does not play

  269. with temptations. So it is without a doubt that those

  270. things that are evident of the flesh do not come

  271. from the Spirit of God. They come from the devil,

  272. these things. In case we are not really understanding these

  273. this evidence of things, let me break it down as

  274. quick as I can. These acts are of one who

  275. walks in the flesh. In verse nineteen, in verse twenty,

  276. in verse twenty one, it speaks of these things. What

  277. are these things? Adultery having sex? Li'sten not just gonna

  278. explain it to you. So what is adaughtry? Well, adultery

  279. is having sex outside of your marriage. Adultry is having

  280. sex outside of marriage. And it is adultery having sex

  281. in your mind with somebody. He ain't got a touch.

  282. Just think about it, think about a real deed. Think

  283. about him. Boy, he show find who are the things

  284. I know he can do to me. You just committed adultry,

  285. your very thought in your mind of what he can

  286. do to you or what you can do to her.

  287. I heard people say, boy, I mean because Green, you

  288. just committed adultry. And and hell gonna make you screen

  289. for the rest of your life. You don't change fornication,

  290. The preacher said, forthutication ain't ain't no sin. Two people

  291. that are unmarried and see adultry and funtication, they connect

  292. two because you can have sex with a person in

  293. your mind, it's adultery, and you ain't even married to him.

  294. So fortication is two people unmarried having sex, and at

  295. times it does signify adultry. Also because what happens it manifests.

  296. It manifests because you thought about it in your mind.

  297. And if you think you have a problem with your

  298. mind of thinking about it, they don't know what to

  299. do about it. And the Bible tell you what to do.

  300. He said, think these thoughts when you see him and

  301. he looking so good to you. The Holy goes to

  302. kick you and say, wait minute, don't think that. Think

  303. you thoughts down instead of pure down, instead of holy

  304. dostead of praiseworthy. It'll help your mind. It's chievousness, sexual

  305. excess who uncleanness. Uncleanness is whatever's opposite of purity, unnatural

  306. practices like sodomy and beast street. It is unnatural, hey man,

  307. it's unnatural for humans to have sex with animals. It's uncleanness.

  308. It is uncleanness for a man to go into the

  309. whole that a woman boo boos out of. It's called sodomy.

  310. The whole back there.

  311. For men and women, because men want to be with men,

  312. and on the whole, they can go it down there.

  313. It's through it booty whole, and that side of me

  314. and the booty hale was only made for.

  315. Garbage to come out of. The booty hale was only

  316. made for exiting and not entering. It's unnatural, it's uncleanness, odultry.

  317. What really is our doctrin? Worshiping idols? I put in

  318. your affections on anything a person instead of God. It

  319. ain't just a piece of wood. It's an individual tool.

  320. You could worship people as adultry. A whole lot of

  321. folks that go to the House of God, whole lot

  322. of folks say it to say whole lot of folks

  323. say it to say hoole. A lot of folks commit adultery,

  324. idoltry every time they come in the house of God.

  325. Why because they reference the building more than God in

  326. the house of God. And you can't cuss in here,

  327. but you're gonna cuss out there God out there too.

  328. Can't smoke my cigarette and join up in here. Can't

  329. smoke it out there either. Can't drink your drinking here. See,

  330. this is what you know in your mind, that you

  331. know is not proper to do it in here, but

  332. it's okay out there. Why you're idolizing the building. It's

  333. a building. God don't live in here. God makes his

  334. presence in here. Which craft sorcery, tampering with the powers

  335. of evil. When people be having those which call those

  336. wishes or boys or whatever, it's ouiji boys, it's witch craft.

  337. It's which craft. Ye to say, don't put that brush

  338. on my bed. That's bed. Look, that's witchcraft. You break

  339. the glass. Superstition, thank you. I just say superstition, ain't.

  340. I ain't got a name of them all. Superstition is witchcraft.

  341. And I tell you something that people don't even realize.

  342. It's witchcraft. Disobedience They don't know the disobedience is witchcraft

  343. to God. When you being disobedient to God is witchcraft.

  344. Why does he call it witchcraft? Because you got a

  345. demon in you. That's why you're being disobedient. A demon

  346. is is disobedient to God. Hatred, well, that's the difference.

  347. Hatred is the opposite of brother. They love. It's the

  348. opposite of kindness. See, even not talking to a person,

  349. or rather not liking a person for whatever reason, is

  350. hatred in God's eyes. I said even not like him.

  351. I didn't say hating a person is hatred in the

  352. sight of God. See we we sensitize it. I don't

  353. hate him, brother man. Yeah, we separated and try to

  354. soften it up. I don't like him, brother, I don't

  355. hate him either. See I don't hate him. I just

  356. don't like him. God looks at his hatred. You know

  357. why God looks at his hatred? Does anybody even know

  358. why God looks at that his hatred? Because God has

  359. given us a commandment to love. So you don't even

  360. have You don't even have. You don't neither have an

  361. opportunity to say I don't like nobody. It's not it's

  362. not a for discussion. He commands us to love, so

  363. I ain't gonna say you don't like somebody, but if

  364. you don't like him, you don't love him. You fool

  365. yourself and say I love them, I don't hate them,

  366. I just don't like them. You twist it because God

  367. commands us to love everybody. See variances. It's the same

  368. as hatred, just about because hatred is what opens up

  369. this strife that you have a discord between another or

  370. another individual. Amen vary incense just opens up hatred south

  371. it does. It's the same way when weed cigarettes cigarettes

  372. open you up to weed. We'd open you up to cocaine.

  373. Cocaine open you up to the pipe. The pipe open

  374. you up to death, devastation. Emulations jealousy. Not all jealousy

  375. is bad, but this jealousy is jealousy. Some people are

  376. so jealous they try to lure others to set up

  377. oneself unholy zeal, pretending to support true religion by torturing

  378. and burning alive those who both profess and practice it.

  379. Emulations is a That's why they call it a green

  380. eyed monster. That jealousy has the power of destruction of

  381. an individual. You be so jealous of a person, you're destructive,

  382. Hey man, raft, that's a person always start and stuff,

  383. it's all They messy, always start in trouble. They just

  384. messy strife. That's a selfish person with selfish ambitions. They

  385. ain't thinking about you, thinking about what they can get

  386. out of you and what you can do for them

  387. to get them the way they try to go. They're selfish. Seditions, seditions,

  388. those are people that cause division and separation. It's a

  389. lot of those people because this is something that they

  390. do inside the church. They go inside. They say that

  391. they go in monster pews, and they try to separate

  392. folks from each other, even try to separate you from

  393. the pastor more of them try to separate from the

  394. pastor they do from the people. That's what seditions is.

  395. They cause division and separation in God's house. Heresies those

  396. people call scandals. They give stumbling blocks to one. These

  397. people are called liars. Envying, envying where pain is felt

  398. at the sight of excellence. You're doing so good, sister Lisa.

  399. It just hurts me that you're doing so good and

  400. hurt me. You got this, You got that, I ain't

  401. got it. I'm hurt because you got it. I'm envy.

  402. It's the it's the feeling of hurt of the excellence

  403. of somebody else. Even because somebody is happy, you're envious

  404. that they're happy. Yeah, Slick told me at one time,

  405. why you always smiling because I'm happy, Because I got

  406. Jesus murderous one that hates his brother in his heart

  407. and is ready to destroy his life. So you don't

  408. actually have to kill somebody, stab them to death, or

  409. shoot him, but you're because you will because you hate

  410. them in your heart. That's a murderous thing, and because

  411. the very thought of you thinking about hurting them. And

  412. you also can murder somebody by running your black mouth.

  413. You can murder folks by talking about them in a

  414. negative way. The Bible said, you murdered me with you

  415. murdered them with your mouth. That don't sound like no

  416. knife or no gun to me. Drunkenness. We don't need

  417. to know that. We know that's an intoxicated person in

  418. his mind. With the liquor you're under. That's why they

  419. call you. You'll see those liquors stores, don't they. They

  420. say spirit, wine, spirit, wine, wine and spirit whatever it

  421. got spirit up there. You got the wrong spirit, and

  422. that alcohol is gonna give you a wrong spirit. And

  423. when you have an accident, they say, you was under

  424. the influence of what wine the spirit? You wasn't under

  425. the influence of God. Revellings, revellings. That's grief, folks, excess

  426. of eating a gluttoness. No one with these things whatever

  427. into the Kingdom of God. If one of those things

  428. is something you still stuck with, you need to check

  429. your walk. You need to check your walk. Amen.

  430. And God goes on to say in verse twenty six,

  431. let us not be desirous of ainglory.

  432. He gives us the other attributes of walking in the spirit.

  433. We understand what it means to walk in the flesh.

  434. The evidence of walking in the flesh the very characters

  435. of the flesh. And I just mentioned those are the

  436. very characters of walking in the flesh. Amen. And if

  437. any of those are in you, you need to pray

  438. and ask God to deliver you from it. If you

  439. love the Lord. If you love the Lord, Amen. But

  440. when you do love the Lord, and it's entitler He

  441. speaks of the first fruit of the spirit is love.

  442. That's mentioned here in verse twenty two, key verse of

  443. this chapter. Love is the first fruit mentioned. Love. The

  444. love is not your mindful thinking of love. It's God's

  445. understanding of love. It's the God bad love that he's

  446. talking about. A filial is not a fruit of the spirit.

  447. A God baid is a fruit of the spirit. Sensuous

  448. is not a fruit of the spirit. A god ba

  449. is the only fruit here. Concerning love of the spirit

  450. of God is an intense desire to please God. That's

  451. the God they love. It is an intense, intense desire

  452. to please God. Motivate it and push into the will

  453. of your character to do so. Amen. That iparts in

  454. you loving others. That's the intensity of loving God. Is

  455. to love others and to do good to mankind. This

  456. love is what gives energy to faith. Amen. Because love is,

  457. as I've told you before, is the energy to all

  458. of the fruit of the spirit. Joy. It's an arising

  459. from the sense of God's mercy to the soul. In

  460. the parting of the sin in us. That joy peace

  461. takes place in a justified soul instead of the doubts

  462. and fears and alarms. It brings satisfaction to the mind

  463. that sin is forgiven. That's peace. Because some folks they

  464. get saved, they saved a long time, committed a damnable

  465. sin in their eyes. I say damnable because they put

  466. a weight on it, and it's too it's too damnable

  467. to come back from Peter thought because he rejected God,

  468. which is the only sin that has sin you to hell.

  469. It was hard for him to come back from it.

  470. But Jesus spoke to him. But that damnable sin will

  471. not allow peace to end end. But when you know

  472. that God has forgiven you, there's your peace of God.

  473. Lone suffering, lone suffering, long suffering, bearing through all trouble,

  474. lone suffering and difficulties, suffering through the difficulty, difficulty, tease,

  475. and the troubles of life and bearing them. Ay man,

  476. not crying like a baby in a Pom puppy without murmuring,

  477. are complaining. It's lone suffering. Having patience is lone suffering

  478. having patience without Look here, I can't put up with him.

  479. You need to work on your lone suffering because God

  480. put up with you a whole lot longer than you're

  481. putting up with him. I said, God put up with

  482. you a lot longer than you trying to put up

  483. with him. And God still putting up with you even

  484. when you ain't putting up with him? Huh, don't. Suffering

  485. is the opposite of a short tempered person. Gentleness is kindness,

  486. it's goodness, it's generosity to others. Sometimes no, no, at

  487. all times we try to be kind without being generous.

  488. But kindness and generosity go together. They go together. You

  489. can't separate them. You can't do one without the other.

  490. If you're trying to do one without the other, you're

  491. not doing either one of them. You don't realize that,

  492. but it's true. Just like people think they can straddle

  493. the fence, it's impossible. You neither fuck God against God.

  494. There's no middle. There's no middle between generosity and kindness,

  495. goodness to do good to the body and soul of men,

  496. to the uttermost of our ability, But all of the

  497. most come from a good, good, good thing that God

  498. gives us. When you get saved heart, you have to

  499. have a good mind to have goodness and to perform it,

  500. you have to have a good mind. And a good

  501. mind comes from God. And the mind that comes from

  502. God comes from here, which is God's mind. Amen. A

  503. good mind is a purified mind. That's why you see

  504. people acting a fool. But you can yet see the

  505. good because why you got a good mind? Amen, because

  506. a good mind is purified by the spirit of God. See,

  507. we're talking about the attributes of the spirit, not the flesh.

  508. The flesh don't see like God. The flesh. See a

  509. person acting up, Oh he's the dirty dog. He's going

  510. to hell. God don't see it that way. He don't

  511. see it that way. Look at him sitting on that

  512. deg gonna bust. Stop smoking that dope. On a Friday

  513. Sunday he show up in church because he don't repeat

  514. it Friday night and Saturday and came came to church.

  515. You didn't know that you want to You don't want

  516. to show the man goodness because you seen what he

  517. was doing. But God show you goodness when he saw

  518. what you were doing. See, it's ironic to me. If

  519. God showed goodness and mercy and kindness and gentleness and

  520. long suffering and peace and joy to us when we

  521. were in our mess, I can't understand why we don't

  522. show it to other people. Here's why I don't understand it,

  523. Because if he being you, you ought to be doing

  524. the same thing he did before he got in you.

  525. He gave it to you. Now that he's in you.

  526. You ought to give it to others. Why because you

  527. don't live no more. You have died that what you say,

  528. and he live in you, right, So it's not you

  529. live anymore, but he did live in you, right. Faith

  530. dependability never betraying the secret of your friend. That's faith, y'all.

  531. We don't want to do that. Let me tell you something.

  532. I don't tell nobody. I told you because they told

  533. me not to tell you. Don't tell nobody I told

  534. you because they told me not to tell you. That's

  535. not faith. That's not the pendability. Faith is never disappointing

  536. the confidence of people that they have in you. So

  537. when you walk in the walk and in the spirit,

  538. don't get to walking in the flesh because you're betraying

  539. the confidence that the people having you. And you don't

  540. want to do that because you and your walk in

  541. the spirit may be the only thing that people can

  542. recognize and identify with God. And that's why people say

  543. what they say about you and need because there are

  544. people claiming to walk in the spirit, were walking in

  545. the flesh, and they they they bring us all together,

  546. or you go to jobs that ain't no I know

  547. a whole lot of people go to church. They had

  548. a fool. You must have a fool too. Wrong answer,

  549. meekness and gentleness. I'm almost done, y'all. Whole on. I'm

  550. trying to teach you something because it's the beginning of

  551. the year and you're gonna have to pay attention to

  552. your walk. Hey man, Meekness is gentleness. They go together,

  553. suffering injury without feeling spirit of revenge, suffering in it,

  554. suffering injurias without feeling a spirit of revenge. So they

  555. talked about you like a dog. But you got to

  556. have meatness and gentleness towards that. You can't be running

  557. around with the spirit of revenge because that's part of

  558. the walk of the flesh. I don't care what they

  559. did to you. You can't be thinking about revenge because sometime,

  560. let me tell you something, when folks say something to

  561. me the wrong way, I be thinking about how it

  562. can slapping their mouth, how what I can do doing

  563. Then I have to repent. Oh I'm trying to I'm

  564. striving for perfection. Yeah, yeah, see, I'm not telling y'all.

  565. I'm like Paul not I have not yet apprehended all

  566. of this, But yet I'm striving for it, hey man.

  567. So yes, my mind will click over to the left

  568. of how I can time to the chair and put

  569. a fire up under them, burn them alive, and then

  570. the Holy goes kick in. No revenge something, because vengeance

  571. is mine, just said the Lord. Meekness and gentleness is

  572. the opposite of bad anger. I say bad anger because

  573. there's a good anger, but not bad anger. And I

  574. saved this one for last because when love energizes this one,

  575. it actually helps energize the rest of them. And that's temperance.

  576. Self control. Self control will cause you not to be

  577. vengeful pushed by love. Self control is the ability to

  578. control your passions and lust for things. Self control will

  579. help you to control those five blouses you're trying to buy,

  580. hey man, when you got one already at home, and

  581. then you about to put yourself in debt, talking about

  582. the devil. Now, was you swiping that credit card or

  583. that bank debit car? It wasn't the devil. Self control

  584. will keep you from being in debt. Are you hearing me?

  585. Self control will keep you from the lust of a

  586. man or a woman, hey man. Self control will keep

  587. you from picking up that little bit of thing like that,

  588. that you allow them to have more power than you.

  589. The cigarette, the joint. Some of the joints are smaller than

  590. that because after they get through puff puffing and passing,

  591. and you probably.

  592. The big.

  593. Caught. They call it a roach. Amen. Amen. Self control, temperance,

  594. keep you from going off when somebody get on your nerves. Hey, man,

  595. self control, work on it. Sister Lisa, you got new babies.

  596. Self control, because they're gonna drop them off. They already

  597. dropped them off. Amen, you're hearing me. Self control. Amen.

  598. So in my conclusion, I guess the question stands, which

  599. way do you really walk? Which way do you really walk?

  600. After is it in the flesh or is it the

  601. spirit of God? The question is which way do you

  602. really walk? Because I've given you every attribute of the

  603. flesh and every attribute of the spirit. I've given you

  604. both characters of each one by God's word, not my word.

  605. This God's word, the truth of God's word is in

  606. this book. And it just gave you the characters of

  607. flesh walking, and the characters are walking in the spirit

  608. of God. So I guess the question stands which way

  609. do you really walk? But if you don't have an answer.

  610. Just watch your walk when you leave here. And you

  611. don't even have to answer the question right here. You

  612. know why because the Bible says it will be evident.

  613. It said it will manifest, which will be evident as

  614. to who you are walking with. Amen, it will tell

  615. on you. Amen. Amen, you gotta handclap a praise. We

  616. have to always have us a checklist when the word

  617. of God is going forth. Amen, And we need to

  618. be checking if this is always going to apply to you.

  619. But which way does it apply? It's always going to

  620. apply not only the preach word of God, but we

  621. always also to have a checklist. When we're reading the

  622. word of God ourselves in our private time, at our

  623. homes or wherever we may be, that should be a

  624. checklist come out in the Bible. When you begin to

  625. read the word of God. You should be reading the

  626. word of God as to though is this me or

  627. is this not me? You gotta be reading the word

  628. of God when you read the word of God said,

  629. and the truth shall make you free? Where show does

  630. it made me free? To have your checklist when you're

  631. reading the word of God. Killed that ain't me? I

  632. ain't killed nobody with a knife or a gun. Eat

  633. my mouth. That's when I steal, not a thief, and

  634. it's steal. None of those pins have toilet paper from

  635. my job. It's comical, but it's real and you don't

  636. get a free buy. Amen, Let us stand