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Holy is... Holy Is! (1130AM) - 3.30.2025 (Elder John Swain Jr.)

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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

  2. Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the

  3. church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.

  4. We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever

  5. you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get

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  7. some tea, and get ready to receive.

  8. It's go time. Let's get into it.

  9. He's holy, He's holy, I told. He's holy.

  10. Holy. You know, sometimes God will

  11. flip it and reverse it. OK, sometime they put the

  12. response to the message before the message so you can live in

  13. the response while you listen to the message.

  14. So then when the message is over, your response goes to a

  15. different level as a result of the message we ever see.

  16. Pastors, thank you again for an opportunity and trust with

  17. atmosphere and a house like this.

  18. It's important to recognize that what we just saying because he's

  19. holy, I'm holy. So get to know me, right?

  20. That's kind of the part of the heart of the message I'm talking

  21. about later on. OK, but I'm going to, I'm going

  22. to go here with it. Like begets like.

  23. OK, what does that mean? Holy has a character to it, and

  24. anything that's denser than the character can't commune or pass

  25. through. OK, the reason God says that

  26. we're holy is because we rise to the level of who He is, and then

  27. being on the same level, we can then get to know Him as He is.

  28. What happens when you mix fire and wood?

  29. What happens to the wood? You lose the wood, it burns, but

  30. you lose the wood, right? What happens when you put fire

  31. with fire? Now when you put fire with wood,

  32. the wood becomes fire, but then you lose the wood.

  33. What happens when you put fire with fire?

  34. The fire becomes fire and the fire becomes bigger, but there's

  35. no loss in the fire because fire can roll with fire any day of

  36. the week. God is saying holy is called us

  37. to be holy because it's in that like state of, of being that

  38. we're able to participate with him in life and we not be lost

  39. in the process, that we're not consumed in the process of

  40. fellowshipping with Him and being with Him.

  41. So those words have significance and impact connected with what

  42. I'm talking about today. The title is holy is as holy is

  43. because holy is about being not doing.

  44. It's about being not achieving. I talked about it earlier today

  45. and I said this. I said do birds bark now?

  46. Come on now, how y'all slow on that one?

  47. All right, harder question. Do fish meow?

  48. Oh, I got something talking about.

  49. OK, why not? It ain't in their nature, you

  50. know that. Not because you've heard every

  51. fish. Not because you've heard every

  52. bird, but because you know the nature of a fish is not to.

  53. And if a fish is meowing you, you say this, that's not a fish.

  54. You more kind of say that than oh, that's a fish than meows.

  55. Why? Because it ain't a fish nature

  56. to meow. And the fish ain't trying to

  57. swim around going. I hope I don't meow today.

  58. The fish not doing that. The fish is just fishing too

  59. often. In understanding holiness, our

  60. focus is on, I hope I'm not unclean today.

  61. I'm focused on not being dirty today, But focus is on the

  62. dirtiness #1 #2 the focus is on doing something to get holy as

  63. well. Holy is a nature.

  64. It's something that's in you. It's something that God has made

  65. you to be. You don't have to when you when

  66. you've given your life to Jesus and he's come to live inside of

  67. you through the through the Holy Spirit of God, you don't have to

  68. try to be holy, no more than a fish has to try to fish.

  69. You put a fish in water, what's it going to do?

  70. Swim. You put a fish out of the water

  71. on land, what's it going to do? Swim.

  72. It just ain't no water to help it.

  73. It looks like a flop, but the fish is still swimming.

  74. It don't matter because my nature is to swim.

  75. I swim on land. I swim in water.

  76. I just swim. And what happens?

  77. The fish on land continues to swim on dry until, until, until

  78. he's back into the environment that's conducive for him.

  79. His very nature will bring him back into an environment that's

  80. conducive for him to prosper and succeed.

  81. That's what it means to be holy, right?

  82. The fish don't try to put on running shoes to get accommodate

  83. the dirt. The fish just says I'm going to

  84. keep fishing no matter what condition I'm in.

  85. Why 'cause that's my nature. So it is with holy.

  86. The Old Testament talks about being unclean more than holy.

  87. It does say there are some things that are holy, but it

  88. talks a lot about this will make you unclean, this will make you

  89. unclean, this will make you unclean because there's no holy

  90. really in people. We were made to be holy in the

  91. image, but there was no holy power on the inside.

  92. It's like you go to a garage, you see a Lamborghini sitting

  93. there with no engine. It's made to be a Lambo but

  94. don't have no Lambo juice in it to actually power the thing.

  95. When we in the New Testament about the Holy Spirit come to

  96. live in US and our lives being transformed and our spirits

  97. being made new. So now we got the juice to be

  98. the holy that we were made to be.

  99. The New Testament focuses on a Holy Spirit and holy people, not

  100. how unclean you are. Holy is rest.

  101. Genesis 2-3 says then God bless the 7th day and made it holy

  102. because on it he rested from all the work.

  103. How do I be holy? Rest in his promise, rest in his

  104. word, rest in what he's done, rest in what He's given you,

  105. rest in it. How do you rest?

  106. God? I thank you.

  107. How do you rest? I'm just going to breathe for a

  108. minute because that what am I doing?

  109. I'm telling everything about me. There ain't no need to panic.

  110. Ain't no need to fear because I know God is holy.

  111. I know he is here. I know he is near and I'm with

  112. him and we're going to walk this thing through.

  113. Watch me. Watch what God will do.

  114. Watch it. The idea is it's the resting in

  115. the promise is the way you activate holy.

  116. Holy is a let can you come up here, Adam real quick, this is a

  117. non union production. Don't tell your agent.

  118. OK, right. So act like you on a mountain

  119. and you snowboarding. OK, now, if you on a mountain

  120. snowboarding. OK, got to explain it because

  121. you get different people here. Mountain big, pointy, there's

  122. snow makes it slick. He'd get on the board and down

  123. the mountain. OK Now if he's on a slope on a

  124. snowboard, OK, he's going to do what he's going to slide, so

  125. move forward. Just move that way.

  126. He's going to move forward right, right.

  127. He snowboards better than I just want to let y'all know, OK, he's

  128. top counted a snowboarder one anyway, Dad, humble brag.

  129. Go back right. Go back right.

  130. So if you know anything about a snowboard on a mountain, the

  131. only thing that stops him from moving forward is if someone's

  132. resisting, right? OK, so they're going to act like

  133. you coming down the mountain, press into me.

  134. OK, Now, if I'm resisting he it's not that he's not going

  135. down the mountain, it's just that I'm resisting.

  136. All I have to do is what let and what happens?

  137. He moves automatically instead of being a snowboarder.

  138. Call it holy. That's you.

  139. That's God in you. It's in there.

  140. My being offended. All I have to do is say I

  141. forgive and holy flows through. OK, I don't have to do this.

  142. I don't have to say, oh, I forgive, let me fry some holy,

  143. let me get in some holy. Let me move some holy down.

  144. I don't have to do all of that. The system is set up already.

  145. Holy's already there. All I have to do is just let and

  146. holy flows through. And if you know anything about a

  147. snowboarder, one lap is never good enough once you get down to

  148. the bottom. Your first thought is, I got to

  149. let some more come down today. Are you ready?

  150. How long does a snowboard aboard for?

  151. As long as the snow exists and as long as the mountain is open.

  152. That's holy. Holy will press through to your

  153. life as long as you will let it and give it place.

  154. And if holy presses through your your life in a situation and you

  155. say, man, that was amazing Holy Ghost, let's go back again and

  156. recycle at the top. And now let's go do another one

  157. of holy through another area of your life.

  158. Holy is who we are. It's about the let holy's about

  159. the rest. When I let I rest, when I rest,

  160. I let when I say God, who's going to rest now Holy's able to

  161. flow through and do the work the holy's called to do.

  162. God, how do I be more holy? Rest in its promise, rest in its

  163. written word, rest in his spirit, rest and knows God is

  164. called to lead you rest, rest. Thank you Lord. 11 face for rest

  165. is a laughing face. Laugh is the indication that

  166. you're resting. It is.

  167. Sometimes you just need to laugh.

  168. Who told you you got to laugh only because something funny?

  169. You go to work when you don't want to, not just because you

  170. want to, right? Who said you only can laugh was

  171. because something funny? It's my laugh.

  172. I can laugh anytime I want to come in.

  173. Come in one more time, OK? Now just play the role now.

  174. Now he's an actor. I know not between you, but All

  175. Kingdom. So he's an actor, OK?

  176. He can come from craft service. That's where the food is.

  177. And act like you're eating the craft service.

  178. He's eating the craft service, Right.

  179. OK, now get on your phone on your way to the on your way to

  180. the set, Right? And then he says, all right,

  181. Adam, we're ready for you. Hit your mark.

  182. Come on, hit your mark. And his first line is Adam's

  183. character laughs. I laugh.

  184. Know what was funny about it? You hear what I'm saying?

  185. He laughed because he chose to knock, because something was

  186. funny. He didn't need no momentum into

  187. the laugh he was eating on his phone.

  188. Mark. That's my mark.

  189. Adam, here's your mark right here.

  190. Ready. Rolling speed.

  191. Ready. All right.

  192. Ready. Action Go.

  193. That levels are too real, I think.

  194. I don't know about that one, right?

  195. You could have a seat, right? What I'm saying is rest is the

  196. choice. That joy that comes in.

  197. Rest is a choice. You don't need to feel it to

  198. release it. You don't need to feel it to let

  199. it go. You don't need to feel it to

  200. enter into it. You can choose to enter into it.

  201. Just by choosing to laugh and have joy.

  202. You will enter into the rest that releases holiness.

  203. The Bible says you say, how did Jesus make it through the cross?

  204. Because of the joy that was set before him.

  205. He endureth the cross, despising his shame.

  206. He rested in it. And then the Holy Spirit was

  207. able to come. Holy Spirit was able to come and

  208. in His Holiness break him free from bondage and put him in

  209. resurrection. Holy is rest, Holy is whole.

  210. We're holy because He's holy. Holies relationship.

  211. Leviticus 19, one says this. The Lord said to Moses, speak to

  212. the entire assembly of Israel and say to them, be holy because

  213. I the Lord your God am holy. See, that's Old Testament, not

  214. just New Testament. You know the Old Testament says

  215. that just shall live by faith, not just the New Testament.

  216. That's for another time. Each of you must respect your

  217. mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths.

  218. I am the Lord your God. Do not turn to idols or make

  219. metal gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.

  220. Notice all that comes after holy.

  221. Why? Because man.

  222. It says that each of you will respect your mother and father.

  223. Lack of respect for your parents.

  224. Man gets in the way of holy and when you carrying that do you

  225. get access denied into the presence of your father and

  226. that's what he's most concerned about.

  227. What about but my daddy and my mom are treating me wrong.

  228. Don't worry. Respect the office.

  229. Respect what you've called them what I've called them to.

  230. Don't let daddy get in the way of your holy because now that

  231. holy would allow you to give access to me.

  232. And believe me when you get here, we going to take care of

  233. all of that. Trust me, relationship is

  234. important in holy. Holy is unity with God.

  235. It's seamlessness with His Kingdom.

  236. That's kind of what I was talking about before.

  237. Holy begets holy. Romans 11/16.

  238. It says this if the part of the dough Deborah shout out.

  239. If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then

  240. the whole batch is. If the root is holy, so are the

  241. branches. If you ever confused about your

  242. being holy, don't look to you, look to the root.

  243. Don't look to you, look to the starter, because it's the

  244. condition of the starter that determines the batch.

  245. As long as I'm part of batch. If starter was holy, holler at

  246. your boy holy all day. If the root is holy, then the

  247. fruit is holy because it comes out of the root because it's

  248. about letting the roots let the fruit come forward.

  249. In a starter and a dough, you put yeast or leaven in it and

  250. then it just lets it rise. Rest is key to holy.

  251. Holy is magnified through the word.

  252. Ephesians 525 says this, Husbands love your wives, just

  253. as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make.

  254. A holy sacrifice is required for holy not sacrifice to do, but

  255. sacrifice to let. When a husband sacrifices for

  256. his wife, could she be holy? He is saying, I'm going to let

  257. my desires come second to gods. I'm going to let what?

  258. I won't come second to God's design for his daughter.

  259. I'm going to lay down my life so that his life can shine through.

  260. Her sacrifice is required for holy to make a holy cleansing

  261. her by the washing with water through the Word, and to present

  262. her to Himself as a radiant church without stain or wrinkle.

  263. So your holiness is in your best interest.

  264. The purpose of his holy is so that he can get a better holy

  265. back. It's not without you going to

  266. get any benefit out of it. God is saying I man, I got the

  267. system rigged. I'm holy.

  268. You'll be holy because I'm holy. When you holy, she holy.

  269. When she holy you get back better holy than she was before

  270. you started sacrifice for her to be holy.

  271. So you get a better holy than you started with and all you had

  272. to do was just let and rest. The system will perpetuate

  273. itself when you let. Now let is an let is active

  274. because fear wants you to not let.

  275. So you have to stand against fear and let offence wants you

  276. to not let. So you have to stand against

  277. offence and let. Holy is magnified through the

  278. Word. How do you increase being holy?

  279. Get into the Word of God, not only the written word, but the

  280. Spirit, the prophetic words, and the Spirit of the living God as

  281. the Holy Spirit reveals it to you.

  282. That in itself will do a washing to make you manifest or let your

  283. holy come through. We had an example earlier about

  284. a diamond. It's hard for me to say diamond

  285. forever. Now I got to say a diamond

  286. anyway. If you know, you know.

  287. So like a diamond already has brilliance in it.

  288. You don't have to go get brilliance and put it in it.

  289. It's already there. God has put the brilliance in

  290. the diamond already and he's given light to shine through the

  291. diamond, to magnify the the brilliance.

  292. All you got to do is let the diamond shine.

  293. Hold it up. You ready?

  294. Follow those and Garrett engaged or marry for particularly

  295. engaged new fiance's. All you got to do is just let

  296. it. I'm just letting it right now.

  297. Y'all see that? I'm just let.

  298. Look at how sparkle. I'm just letting it.

  299. All you got to do is just let, OK.

  300. Dirt on a diamond doesn't change the brilliance in it.

  301. It just gets in the way of you seeing its brilliance.

  302. It's still there. So if I want the breeze of the

  303. diamond to shine, all I have to do is make sure the dirt is

  304. removed. OK, got it.

  305. That's the letting part. The letting part of what God is

  306. saying is keep the dirt off your diamond and the shine will come

  307. through. You don't have to go find a

  308. shine. Figure out a shine, Change shoes

  309. for a shine. You got it in you already.

  310. I want to draw your picture to this picture by the diamond.

  311. If I have a diamond and it's dirty, which means the

  312. brightness is not coming through the holy that it is, it's in

  313. there. It's just I can't see it.

  314. It's in there. The world can't experience.

  315. It's in there and I'm trying to make sure it comes out and I

  316. start doing something to it. OK, What am I doing?

  317. Anyone. I'm shiny.

  318. What did you say the word dirt in there any place?

  319. Because the focus ain't on the dirt.

  320. It's on the diamond when you are standing to get.

  321. The issue is not I'm trying to get rid of offense.

  322. I'm trying to let love flow. The focus is on the diamond, not

  323. the dirt. It's the perspective.

  324. Makes all the difference in the world because if you had a

  325. diamond and all you saying is I'm just dealing with dirt, I'm

  326. removing dirt. When you're going to remove dirt

  327. off a dime, you're going to remove dirt off a lump of coal.

  328. You're going to remove dirt off a bunch of things and still

  329. never get the brightness of a diamond.

  330. That's why the focus is on the brightness, not the dirt.

  331. Your folks ought to be on the holy that you are, not the dirt

  332. that you're kicking back and pushing back and walking free

  333. of. And I'm going to tell you this,

  334. that if you get a very high quality diamond, it will shine

  335. even through the dirt. The quality of holy you got is

  336. the highest quality of holy. You'll be holy because I'm holy.

  337. There's no higher quality of holy than the Father that begot

  338. you. So even when you're dirty, you

  339. still got some shine. If you focus on the shine, not

  340. the dirt on the diamond, not the dirt on your life, it doesn't

  341. mean you ignore the dirt. And you know who's looking for

  342. dirty diamonds? Folks who know the value but are

  343. convinced the owner doesn't. The folks who are looking for

  344. dirty diamonds are the folks who know the value of the diamond

  345. but are convinced that the owner doesn't.

  346. I got A50 karat pink diamond covered in dirt.

  347. The folks who's looking for that are like, like, you know, that's

  348. just a lump of coal, right? You know, once dirt get on the

  349. diamond, it never comes. The diamond is ruined.

  350. The diamond is ruined. Yeah, it is.

  351. Trust me. It ain't worth nothing.

  352. It's just worth dirt. Dirt ain't worth nothing.

  353. But I'll give you $100 for the dirt.

  354. That's more than anybody pay you for dirt.

  355. Just give me the lump of dirt. They won't even say diamond.

  356. And if and if you don't know what you got, you traded for 100

  357. thinking you got over. But what you did was you got cut

  358. out of your inheritance. You know the reason that dirt

  359. cannot damage diamonds? Do you know one of the reasons?

  360. Because diamonds are already formed under pressure.

  361. Diamonds are some of the hardest substances in the earth.

  362. Your holiness is battle tested under pressure.

  363. Dirt can't stop it unless you let it.

  364. The holiness you carry has that hardness, that resilience, that

  365. strength, that toughness. Like a diamond.

  366. If you bury a diamond under a mountain of dirt, you know what

  367. the diamond says. I'm still a diamond.

  368. I'm still a diamond. Because you don't need to gas up

  369. it's own shine. He knows what it is.

  370. As a matter of fact, the diamond's talking to the dirt on

  371. top of it. You know, I'm a diamond.

  372. You just dirt. I'm a diamond.

  373. It's, it's being who it's called to be.

  374. That's what it means to be holy. Holy is our holies magnified

  375. through purpose and grace. Second Timothy one verse 9.

  376. He has saved us and called us to a holy life, not to do holy

  377. life, not because of anything we have done, but because of His

  378. own purpose and grace. How do you be holy?

  379. Rest in the God's purpose and grace.

  380. You receive the grace of God, the grace to forgive, the grace

  381. to restore. You don't know what I've done.

  382. You don't know how much I've done it.

  383. Receive the grace of God. Paul who was Saul, Saul who

  384. became Paul because Paul was already in Saul the whole time

  385. Saul was Saul. Christmas production need to be

  386. there. Saul murder.

  387. People. But he says in his.

  388. Letters I have wronged no man. How can he say that because of

  389. the surpassing grace that I've experienced, the grace is

  390. greater than any of right of wrong I've done?

  391. Grace is the diamond, the wrong is the dirt.

  392. You can't stop a. Diamond from being a diamond.

  393. Put it under a whole earth full of dirt.

  394. The diamond not going to break and it's still going to be a

  395. diamond. Purpose and grace causes you to

  396. walk and be in and exuberate holiness because you're being

  397. you, who you called to be. And purpose is not occupation,

  398. it's identity. A fish don't have a job, it just

  399. be a fish. The only fish, only job the fish

  400. got made is to be ate by somebody or some other fish.

  401. I don't know. That's not even a job, that's a

  402. privilege. Where that came from I.

  403. Don't know Holy is our foundation for Kingdom family.

  404. Hebrews 2 verse. 11. Both the one who makes.

  405. People holy and those who are made holy are of the same

  406. family, so Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and

  407. sisters. Holy is the foundation.

  408. For Kingdom family. Put that on top of.

  409. Your mind when you come to church.

  410. And you see somebody. And you're like, is holy on your

  411. mind? All I got to have.

  412. It is on your mind. Is holy on your.

  413. Mind. Or is it what you can do for me

  414. on your mind? Brothers and.

  415. Sisters is the foundation of our Kingdom family and holy is the

  416. foundation of that relationship. If you are putting holy first,

  417. then all the other aspects of relationship will be rightly

  418. ordered. Pastor preached that pretty.

  419. Good on Wednesday, go look at the tape.

  420. Holy is a generational matter. First, Peter. 1 Concerning this

  421. salvation. Verse 10 Concerning this

  422. salvation. The prophets who spoke of the

  423. grace that was to come to you searched intently and with

  424. greatest care. Something diamonds are worth

  425. searching out. So it's holiness.

  426. It's worth finding out, trying to find out the time and

  427. circumstances in which the Spirit of Christ in them was

  428. pointing when he had predicted the sufferings and the Messiah

  429. and the glories that would follow.

  430. What's the glories that will follow?

  431. Christ in us, the hope of glory, Christ in us, the holiness of

  432. God. Christ in us, the living Spirit.

  433. We're living and working through us.

  434. It was revealed to. Them that they were not serving

  435. themselves. They were not serving.

  436. Themselves but you. The prophets of old.

  437. Didn't serve themselves, they were serving you.

  438. They were searching out. For you.

  439. They were walking with God. For you, your holy ain't just

  440. for you, it's for the next generation to come.

  441. They need a witness and an example, a testimony, and they

  442. need your momentum. Continue the diamond.

  443. Metaphor. If I treat well my diamonds,

  444. good quality diamonds, and I treat them well, when I pass

  445. away, I pass on an inheritance. That kick starts the next

  446. generation. So it is with your witness of

  447. holy to your family when you give them an example of holy

  448. respect, mom and dad, holy walking, forgiveness rather than

  449. offense, holy rest in the peace of God.

  450. When you pass that on, then they are able to walk in a level of

  451. holy that surpasses what you were able to walk to the walk

  452. in. Verse.

  453. That section ends this. But as just as.

  454. Verse 15 But just as he who called you was holy, so you be

  455. holy, and all you do for is written, be holy because I am

  456. holy, be holy because of the generations that are dependent

  457. on you, that are counting on you not do holy, be holy not.

  458. Do holy be. Holy not do holy be holy.

  459. Holy is not doing. Right, it's shining bright and

  460. your God identity. Revelation 2210 is my last

  461. verse. Revelation, 2210.

  462. Then he told me. Talking about Jesus, No, this

  463. John is experiencing encounter, I believe, with an Angel here,

  464. he says. Then he told me or the

  465. representative of the Kingdom. Then he told me, Do not seal up

  466. the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is

  467. near. Let the one who does wrong

  468. continue to do wrong. Let the vile person continue to

  469. be vile. You ready?

  470. Listen to this part. Let the one who does right

  471. continue to do right, and let the holy person continue to be

  472. holy. What that suggests?

  473. To me is that you can do right and possibly not be holy.

  474. Because Holiness is. Not in the doing.

  475. But what it all? Suggests to me that if I am

  476. being holy, than doing right is like my, like a fish's swim.

  477. Doing right is like a dog's bark, doing rights like a bird's

  478. chirp. If I'm being holy than doing

  479. right, it's part of my nature and flows from it.

  480. I could put. On a bird suit and go.

  481. I'm. Doing right in terms of a bird,

  482. but nobody would meant to do you OK.

  483. Passing them you got to. You got to Fact Check them

  484. Broad. You have speaking up there, man.

  485. Do put on the birds too. Try to convince us he was a bird

  486. by his outward doings when we can tell by his nature he

  487. wasn't. How you can?

  488. Tell by you what you wasn't because he couldn't make a bird.

  489. The test of. Nature is whether you can

  490. duplicate your DNA. That's why.

  491. Discipleship is essential to carrying out holiness.

  492. It's the testimony of the holiest we have comes from a God

  493. that makes others like it in his image.

  494. And through discipleship, people see that the holy we have is a

  495. holy that He is, and the holy that we are is a holy that He

  496. is. It's not a put on, it's a being.

  497. Because it can be. Replicated in the lives of

  498. others, so holy is. Holy Just.

  499. Is and that's the encouragement and the admonition for all of us

  500. here today. There's other scriptures.

  501. Without Holiness, you won't see the Lord.

  502. Holiness is like the uniform to get in the locker room after we

  503. won the championship. Holiness is the access.

  504. Holiness is the thing that keeps you clean and pure and and like

  505. you to get in there. Holiness is like the TSA check.

  506. I don't have the four oz so I can get on the plane and go

  507. someplace. Holiness is the don't put

  508. holiness above love and relationship, but holiness is

  509. the quality and character of our being that allows us to live in

  510. an environment with a God who only knows good, who only knows

  511. love, who only check that, who only is good, who only is love,

  512. who only is grace, who only is glory, who only is honor.

  513. Have you ever gone to? Some place and he was like

  514. stepped into it and he was like, oh, I am not dressed right for

  515. this. So, my soul, you look in.

  516. The leaf rather than enjoy what you are invited to participate

  517. in because you don't feel that I'm dressed for it.

  518. I don't fit the environment. God is saying holy is the swag

  519. of everything that I do in heaven.

  520. So I'm going to swag you up with some holy.

  521. So when you come in here, you can know.

  522. You can go in the kitchen, the bedroom, dining room, any place

  523. in heaven because you'll fit right in.

  524. Because holy is the character and nature of all it is.

  525. We are. And all this that we do here.

  526. Hey, man, holy, it ain't that deep.

  527. It's practical. I'm going to close with this one

  528. for those people who knew. People make Holies.

  529. Some kind of You got to be some brilliant person who's as

  530. handsome as Elder John, as smart as Elder John, and as brilliant

  531. as Elder John, and as with a marriage like Elder John.

  532. And if that's not that, I can't be holy.

  533. OK, I. Was talking to Pastor Dylan.

  534. It's my brother. He pulls that stuff out of me.

  535. Every pilot needs a six. Every pilot needs a wing man

  536. because there's stuff I can't see, but he can, and there's

  537. stuff he'll shoot down that if he doesn't, I'm dead.

  538. That's my 6. And my wing man there.

  539. He helps bring out of. Me helps increase my vision to.

  540. Be able to see behind. Me in ways that I can because

  541. he's looking behind and being behind, so he's chopping it up

  542. in there. Love you man.

  543. Your good brother we chopping up back there.

  544. And and. He says questions.

  545. And dust up man, look, I don't know what's pulling on.

  546. You know exactly what God is saying, doing and he said this,

  547. this is. For the new people, if holy is.

  548. About just letting the brightness of the diamond shine

  549. through, which means polishing. OK, there's different kinds of

  550. polishing. There's there's Electro.

  551. Sonic polishing. You put it in the machine and

  552. has waves and it. OK, there's.

  553. Chemical polishing. There's special clothes, but if

  554. I got a diamond, you know what also is polishing?

  555. If you're a beginner. And you just gave your life to

  556. the Lord and you. Don't think you.

  557. Qualify for Holy. This is.

  558. This is holy too. Don't feel you got to.

  559. Be something when you say your testimony, holy when you

  560. forgive, holy when you fall and you get up, holy when you keep

  561. showing up, when you feel like you're under qualified, holy

  562. when you say I want to be accountable, holy when you say

  563. this. I didn't understand that but I

  564. want to. Please just be slower and

  565. explain it to me. Are you ready in this

  566. environment? English is not my first language

  567. but I want to know please help me holy.

  568. I don't want. To go to church because I've

  569. been hurt by the people. Church ain't never hurt nobody.

  570. This ad was brought to you by me.

  571. It's people. In the church that have hurt

  572. people. Don't confuse the two, I don't.

  573. Want to come to church because people hurt me there.

  574. But I thought. Because you asked.

  575. I'm going to sit here. Mad and just hurt because of

  576. what I've been hurt. You know that's still holy.

  577. A diamond begins. As a lump of coal, not a

  578. diamond, folks. It begins as something you burn

  579. that has noxious gas that will kill people.

  580. It's only after. Years, and only after being

  581. under pressure does the cold become the diamond.

  582. The fact you come and. Start with dirt Don't mean

  583. diamond ain't in you don't mean holy ain't there.

  584. They don't. So if you're just beginning and

  585. you feeling all those kind of ways, holy.

  586. When this guy right? Here is my son when he was

  587. conceiving his mama's womb. He was no less my son then than

  588. he is right now. He was no more my son then than

  589. he is right now. If you've just given.

  590. Your life to Jesus today. And if you haven't?

  591. I encourage you to. It's as simple as saying Jesus.

  592. Thank you for what you. Did for me.

  593. I want to live as a child of God.

  594. I want to know God is my father. I accept all that you've done,

  595. both paying for the sin and all the benefit that comes.

  596. Help me live this out. I want to be part of the family.

  597. If you haven't and you. Prayed that prayer from your

  598. heart, then that means you have been born again.

  599. And whether? You know it or not, what's been

  600. what has exploded on the inside of you like an atomic bomb is

  601. holy. So don't you disqualify

  602. yourself? Because you're just starting and

  603. I tell you this. And I'll close and.

  604. If you ever feel. Discouraged.

  605. And you ever feel like people don't want you, You just come

  606. around here. And if anybody in this?

  607. Church treats you wrong, which I'm sure they won't.

  608. We do hard in culture to make sure we know we carry the

  609. pastor's heart, the pastor's hearts to love people well.

  610. But if you feel uncomfortable, concerned, or just whatever, you

  611. come sit next to me and we'll be holy together.

  612. You understand what I'm? Saying holy works as a people,

  613. not just individually. A diamond that's best.

  614. On a setting with baguettes, not just by I'm saying, you know.

  615. What about a solitaire? Diamond what usually comes with

  616. a marriage with it, so it's not just by itself either.

  617. OK. You qualify, Father.

  618. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this

  619. time. We thank you for what?

  620. You're doing. Here's a prayer I.

  621. Want to have everybody pray? Ready.

  622. That's this. OK, and I want.

  623. You. I want you to lift your head up

  624. when you pray. You don't have to keep your eyes

  625. open. Lift your head up when you pray.

  626. Why? Because you're holy.

  627. No one, No one wears a diamond like walks around with a diamond

  628. like this. That's this.

  629. This is the prayer we all going to pray.

  630. You ready, Father? That's a lot.

  631. But it's. If it's for me.

  632. Which it seems it. Is.

  633. I'm willing to take it. All but just help me know,

  634. understand, live it out. I know I'm.

  635. Going to make. Mistakes.

  636. But help me to. Remember, my mistakes are a

  637. failure. My mistakes are just.

  638. Learning. And sometimes the.

  639. More I fix, the more I make mistakes, just the faster the

  640. learning. And the more people.

  641. I can help. So again, like I say.

  642. I don't know about all this holy.

  643. But Holy Spirit, I'm. Willing to let you be holy in me

  644. and through me. Just like God.

  645. My father. In Jesus name, Amen, I'll be

  646. back. Quick man.

  647. What a great message. Some of us are going to start

  648. talking differently about ourselves this week because we

  649. heard something that shifted us. Amen.

  650. Look, we may be out of time. We're never out of holy.

  651. And so till next time you know what it is, get your love fixed

  652. man. Amen.

  653. Thank you so much for. Tuning into this week's sermon,

  654. we pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.

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  660. the drill. You know the motto, get your

  661. love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.