LRH: Order in Our Conversation - 1

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This Book of the Law shallow de bad out of

my mouth. But I shall meditate in it today and night.

I will observe to do according to all that is

written in it. But then I will make my way prosperous,

and then I will have good success. Amen, why don't

you take your seats, Just come with me too. The

Book of Polosians, chapter number one, and let's read through

portions of the book. Some Bible teachers have said that

the Book of Colosians or Pause Letters to the Colosian Church.

It's a very short book. We can be able to

read through on our own within fifteen or twenty minutes.

It's a very short letter is to be able to

read all. And so what I plan to do as

we examine the theme for the month, which is how

best we can bring order in our conversations? Hallelujah. And

the text of the Ankle scripture for our discourses on

how best we can bring order in our conversations is

taken from Collosians for verse six, and it reads that

let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so

that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

That's the year has been there amplified. Classic puts it

this way. Lad your speech at all times be gracious

that means pleasant and winsome, seasoned as it were, with salt,

so that you may never be at a loss to

know how you ought to answer anyone who puts a

question to you. And then let me read the message. Finally,

he says that use your heads as you live and

work among outsiders, don't miss a trick, make the most

of every opportunity. I'm reading five and six years from

the But the best six is that be gracious in

your speech. The goal is to bring out the best

in others in a conversation and not to put them down,

not to cut them out. Amen. And so we have

a lot of work to do for the man our best.

We can bring order into our conversations. But that's what

I said. Sometimes when you pick the texts, you know,

from the middle of polse entire discourse, then you miss

a lot, you know. So that's why sometimes it's quite

helpful to approach your Bible steady holistically or book by book.

Then you are able to put whatever verse that speaks

to you, you are able to put it in context,

having a very broad panoramic view of what the author

set out to communicating the letter. Remember, I always like

to point this man out that most of the letters

that were written in the books of the Bible, they

didn't do any chapter and any versus. No, there was

one long if you like, essay or letter or narrative.

And Bible scholars are the ones who have done over

the years, have you know, put it in chapters and

then versus because of the importance of being able to

not just read but also to steady. You know, we

can't conveniently put these truths into practice if we don't

understand the amay, and so compartmentalizing them in chapters and

versus heals the reader to follow along with the discourses

that the writers. We're doing a man, and so that

is how come might was one long letter, And as

I said, and that's all, try to read it. But

tonight I just wander us to also just read some

of the excerpts that will help us when we come

to chapter four, verse six, where we have picked our

theme from that we must bring all that into our

conversations and we'll be able to put it in rightful context. Amen.

You know, so that we have said a lot of things,

not just about our conversation, but our entire conduct as

believers in Christ. And so hopefully as we read the

excerpts as I have said, we'll be able to understand

and put our conversations in the right place in the

entire way we are living our Christian lives or the

expectations that God has for us. The book or this

letter of Paul to the church in Colose, it's one

of the letters that the apostle Paul is believed have

writing whilst he was in and the house arrest. That

was his first imprisonment. He read the last chapter of

the Book of Acts, Apostle looked letters understand that when

he appealed to Caesar, he was sent to Caesar in Rome.

But for the first two years he was left alone,

more like he was just under house arrest, and he

was allowed to receive visitors and all that. And he

believed that Paul wrote the letter to the Church in

Colose together with the church the letter or the Book

of Ephicians Philippians Colosians, and the letter to Filing Moon,

or these four letters or epistles of all our group

together of style pause prison letters, because he wrote them

in prison whilst awaiting trial before Caesar. And if you

read this for all these, particularly these three books, you

realize that most of the things are similar. He was

in the same spirit as he penned down these letters

here too, and typical of pause letters. He devotes there

all the way that the scholars have done it for us.

The first half of most of these epistles are devoted

to doctrine, knowledge, wisdom and understanding, and then the second

half is devoted to practical Christian living our best. We

can put these thoughts the theoretical pass into practice. Amen.

Remember our knowledge of God what we see it too.

It must be theoretical and experiential, and they must go

hand in hand. If your theoretical knowledge outgrows your experiential

knowledge in Christ, then your Christian life sul I say,

your work with the Lord will be stunted. You know

it's not going to be whole. You read your practice,

put the truth, validate it. That is how we grow,

and that is how we're mature in the Lord. If

we read, really read, read, and most of it we

just dump it. We say, quiet time, quiet time, devotional life,

we read it, we just dump it. And so we

are not changing, We are not maturing. We are not

becoming more christ Like as the days roll by, and

in particulars reference to what we are talking about sooner

than later, like he's saying and admonishing, our conversation should

always be seizing with salt. Messay says, don't cut people off,

don't put them down, and don't make them feel that

you are not wanted around me. You're not know ledgable,

you are not wise, you know, And these are some

of the things that hinders, you know, the unity in

the church, and it ruins relationships. If every time in

conversation you're putting people down, whether you're in church, at

the workplace or the marketplace, wherever you go, your people

are not able to draw close to you because they

know that you are put offish person. You put them

off and put them in the right place sooner than later,

then you're not able to draw close to you. And

then the whole if you like, and let's take aspect

of our work with God is dumb and God, you know,

of what use is he going to teach you toory? Theory?

And then you're not putting into practice. So you realize

that there's a visual cycle. You're not putting the truth

of the world of God into practice. The only spirit

shuts off the flow of grace. If you're not prepared

to imitate Jesus and to be like him and you

want to lead your own life, the only spirit will draw.

And that's why we have a lot of stuntard growth

in church. We are not mature, we are not growing

amen and we are cutting each other. We are putting

each other at bay, and cliches are raising up in church,

and you know, h every category, every segment of the church.

This one says that I'm an aposto. You are not

an apostle. This one says that you know, I'm a prophet.

You you know, you know my credentials, and you know

the whole church, you know, community is so divided, so discordant,

and we become a laughing stalk to the world because

they look at us and they say, look, the things

that you guys are teaching, you are not living them out.

So why do we have to join you? Because you

have shown us by the way you are living your

life that it is inapplicable. You can't apply it in

the twenty first century, so that faith, it doesn't work.

And it is all because of you and I the

way we have approached it. Our practical demonstration of Christian

living must go and use a Latin way in pari

pursuit with our knowledge handy do here, amen, they must

go hand in hand, knowledge, doctrine, practice, theoretical, practical. You

read it, you validated, and you see the thing about

when you validated is that it gives you a lot

of energy and strength to go on and apply those throuths.

Then God is it. God is looking for people who

stand up and say, yeah, I am use me, I

want to be your image bearer. And he has promised

that he will bless us. Amen, he will bless us.

God is the biggest fan base of the community of

the Saints, and that is why he has gone out

of his way. He didn't only die for us. It

didn't only come to give us power to disable the

charm and the power of saying over our lives. But

it comes up also to be our biggest fan base

by depositing his only spirit in us to help us

be the people that he has called us to be. Amen.

And it's all here. The mind transformation is doable. I

can't do it. I want to do it, and I

will do it, and it will help you do it.

But if you still want to be your own self

and say that, hey, and all that I need is

the badge of salvation and born again. And you read

the scriptures, and sometimes it just dawns on you that

we are not reading the scriptures. Even you're born against something,

the Bible says that it will be put to test.

It's not about you saying it on that day, on

judgment Day, it will be put to test whether it

will stand. Harley Louis, I'm sure as we read through

this book with So let's go. Let's start off from

Colose on chapter one. I'm going to read through these

three to twenty two. Can we do guess New King James, So,

as I said, is the one of the prison letters

Paul wrote it? Or write this letter or epistol to

the church in Colose. It is not known that p

Paul is not the one you read through the Book

of Arts, and he didn't go to Colose to plan

the church. But it is rather believed by Bible scholars

that one of his disciples, a path us, is the

one close was I think about hundred meters or so

from episodes where Paul spend a lot of time and

believe that one of the converts that's a path for

us is the one who went there and then set

up the church. So let's pick it up from there.

Let's read through some of the and then he says,

we give thanks to God and to the God and

Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Praying always for you,

and there's always for leaders. We must be prayer for

the work that we are doing is a spiritual our way,

it will always face or attract a position. And as

a Christian leader, you are not praying when we call

for the prayer times, you are not coming. You will

disarm your leadership. You're not going to be effective. But

sometimes we forget that we are accountable. Amen. I don't

know about you, but the assignment that God has entrusted

into our care, it's fearful. And God says that for

you and I in leadership, he will judge us much

more severely than those who are not. He says, to

whom much is giving, much is required. And you can't

do this in your kind our self. It's impossible because

we are not against flesh and black, against principalities and

powers spirit to our forces of darkness. Who doesn't want

to see change in the children of God? Who also

wants that the Christian faith will be ridiculed and God

is ridiculed, the Church is ridiculed. When you and I

we are not able to demonstrate living faith, that's no change.

So as far as they are concerned, the church is dead,

So why should they be attracted to a dead faith? Amen,

we're not seeing proofs. You're not seeing signs. You're not

seeing wonders because their conditionality is attached to God moving

on our behalf and rewarding us for being imade baried.

So he says that our Lord Jesus cribe praying always

for you. That's for we're going to twenty two. Since

we head of your faith. So now you can see,

since we head of your faith in Christ Jesus, and

of your love for all the saints, laugh for all

the saints, not for some, laugh for all. Be here,

we mu'st laugh or say amen, Halleluiah. I don't think

that will come there. But I was reading The Poor

and Say on Love in First Confidence thirty, and as

I was reading through, it just tracked me that, look,

we can put love and then our conversations on the

parallel footing. Amen. And then it just jaels. Love is

patient conversation. You should be patient. Some of that we

don't know how to make conversations are thought. Oh that's

why we cut people off and put them off. Hallelujah.

When you are kinder and you are talking to somebody,

the kindness comes out, doesn't it. We can talk kindly, Amen.

He said, Love is not rude. Some of us are

conversation you don't say, oh, I'm not rue, but the conversation,

the way you are talking, immediately everybody knows that you're

a rude guy. Halle me wi say, I have not

demonstrated any but the way you are talking, your choice

of words they're putting down, you make people feel are

no important. You're nobody. Do you know me? You have

not said it is so much worse conversation. Your conversation

will betrayed whether indeed you are a person of love

or not. Halen Louiah, Amen, we are not there yet,

but we are still reading through Halened Louiah, Amen. And

when we get there, we will read and well draw

the parallels and then you see. But let's read through proportions.

As I said, since we heard of your faith in Christ, Jesus,

and of your love all the saints, that's five. Because

of the hoop which is laid up for you in heaven,

of which you had before, in the word of the

truth of the God. We are going to heaven, and

that is a holy place. Amen. Heaven is a holy

place where God dwells. So what's your conversations? Are you

demonstrating holiness? There's some word as a believers, some words

you not come out of you. And we are not

just talking about the ordinarily, but the spirit that backs

the words, the spirit that backs the way, that is

what brings the cutting. Amen. Somebody who used one word,

you also use the same way. And then the spirit behind, Oh,

foolish gallicians. Then you say, I want to call people

by you, you're foolish. The way you say it, everybody

will know that you are not caughting Paul. But there's

another spirit putting people down. My poor uses that we

read it and we laugh at it, old, foolish, gallicious,

But you you take it up. And then the foolishness

everybody coming and trapping woman the spirit. That's something. Hallelujah. Amen.

So because of the hope which is later for you

in heaven, of which you had before in the word

of the truth of the Gospel verse six, which has

come to you, as it does also in all the world,

and it's bringing for fruit as it is also among

you since the day you head and knew the grace

of God in truth saven, as you also learn from me.

Pafers to us, I said, Heparferus is the one who

is believed to have set up the church in qoloity,

our dear fellow Savern, who is a faithful minister of

Christ on your behalf, who also declared to usk your

love in the spirit. For this reason, we also, since

the day we head it, do not cease to pray

for you and to act that you may be filled

with the knowledge of His will. In all wisdom and

spiritual understanding, God has not just saved us for saving sake.

He has a mindset, he has a will, He has

a reason why he saved us. He has a vision

to get us into Heaven. But Heaven is a holy

place where God dwells. And he says that all the

preparation that is needed to be a citizen of that

kingdom begins here, begins here on hearth. Harlen Louiah, Amen.

And God has saved us, and He's doing everything by

depositing his spirit, his Holy Spirit in us to prepare

us for that transition. And yes, still a lot of

believers say, no, I still want to be my own

self like I always says, Oh leave me, leave me

and take me just as I am. No, it's on

script up. There's no way in the Bible where God

says that Yes, God receives us just as we are.

But he applies the medicine as the doctors when you

come in and then you are sick, and we apply

the medicine and say you can take you are discharged,

and then to cover you. You right there, he says that

this patient has refused his medication, So I discharge against

medical advice. So nobody holds you. Amen, we have come,

but we are receiving. We are refusing the mets that

God has prescribed that will bring wholeness and healing to

our body, souls and spirit. And we are in church

and says that leave me alone, me do what I want,

and this is our take me out. You are judging me.

You are judging me, and that's for me. I'm judging you.

And so because of that, a lot of persons continue

women and Mama, I have always said, I'm just standing

on the authority of God's word and what he has

taught me. It's tough being in the school of the spirit. Amen,

But the fruits, the fruit, the outcome is glorious. It's

beautiful when you allow him to mentor to coach you

and to fashion you into the new man that he desires.

To build. He said that old is gone. All things

are knew. That's crucifying the old man. You don't lose anything.

It's all game gain is all win win for us.

And he has promised us not just for this life,

but the life hereafter. He will reward us for cooperating. Amen.

The challenge is two men your us. We are not

cooperative with the Holy Spirit. We are not cooperating with him.

You're not reading our word. If he read it, he said,

this is not for me. So we step out of

the the community in the marketplace, nobody recognizes as as

children of God. Hey, conversation that is, he will ship

your mouth sha share He said, yes, sir, he said

something back. You know, for my old life. I have

one word bit that if I give him that word,

it will settle he said, Shah, and let him go, Papa.

He will think that I'm a FOOLO. I need to

say something. I need to I said, he has, he has.

He has trampled on myself esteem. I should. Now he's

pointing out to you. Look at the cross. Look at

the cross. Look at before pilot. Look at what they

did to him. They spat on him, this hitting and

Peter will reference it. When he was admonishing the church

in his pistol, he said, look at Jesus, I was there.

He was there, and the courtier and went away beating him,

slapping him and doing all kinds of thing, and said

he was looking at the wonder working man that he

had he had worked with, was working on the water.

And then was ah and Jesus nothing nothing, nothing, nothing.

Even Pilot was exasperated. He said, God, you know me,

just open your mouth, make a defense. I'll let you go.

And he told him that look, you never have had

power over me, except that they had been given to

you from heaven. And Pilot was confused. And then he

would go back. And then the people were saying no, no, crucifying.

He said, I see nothing in him. And now after everything,

then the whole explanation unraveled. He had to take our

punishment for us. He died for us. He took the pain,

he took the shame on us, and he says we

should be just like him. He never hit back, He

never spoke back or talked back to people who cut him.

The man. They gave him all kinds of names, but

he never defended himself. And he says, with you be

like him. So it's a tough call. And then he says,

I will help you. Amen. So he said, for this

reason we also since the day we head it, do

not cease to pray for you and to ask that

you may be filled with the knowledge of His will

in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. That is what the

Holy Spray brings. As you you commit yourself to diligent

and faithful reading, steady meditated and application of the Word

of God in your life, and the Holy Spay will

push you, will set He will set up the scenarios

for you. He will set up the scenarios for where

the truth that you have learned it will call for application,

and see what choices you are going to make. He

is responsible for the whole Christian life. That's why we

say it is not our life, by His life. So

all that you and I need to do is to cooperate.

But you that diligent Bible, steady devotional life is going

to help you to be a go to descend the

voice of the Spirit. So now when everybody are being

insulted and deep within he's saying shut up, chat up

chat up, chat up chat up. Shall up. It is

when you start boiling, then you hear that the voice

if then you is going up. Yes, But once soon

after you cooperate, you realize that everything is cool. You

overcome one person insults you, you overcome the second. But

now everybody can insult you, and then you will smile

it Harry here, But the first one now is going

to test how cooperative you are. Amen. For this reason,

we also since the day we heard it, do not

cease to pray for you and to ask that you

may be failed with the knowledge of His will in

all wisdom and spiritual understanding. This then that you may

walk now listen to that that you may work worthy

of the Lord, fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every

good way, and increasing in the knowledge of God. We

bear fruit when we are maturing, isn't it, Harlenluiah, a

man who work wealthy of the Lord. When they see us,

they man see us as children of God. One of

the ways that when we're growing up we try to

wrap around our minds is the fact that, hey, you

are a representative of Jesus. We have been born again,

so we have royal blood. Amen, you are a king

a here you can if you call a you are

you say a princess? Are you are, amen, Halen Louia, Amen,

not a princess of the kings of this heath, but

of the royal Kingdom of God. So when you step

out there in the community, you are mindful. You are

mindful the way you talk, the conversations that you aren't

trying to when not to talk. Amen, very very im poor.

You see, you wrap your mind about all these truths.

So the Bible is telling us that you are work

worthy of the Lord. So you carry the Holy Spirit

in you. You are an ambassador of Jesus Christ. And

you know that you must behave yourself and you must

not give room for people to do what to insult

the name of the Lord. It will check you. You

meditate on these troops. Wow, worthy of the Lord. Work

worthy of the Lord. I am going to the market today.

Anytime I sit in the trusky, there's problem with the maid.

So okay, let me go here and go and change

my coins face so that today there will no be ana.

Then you change. Fortunately, you're unfortunate if you're not able

to change and say okay today, Now the test has come.

I add some fifty p what do I do? Then

God said, can you leave it to him? Is this

fifty P that every time you go and mess up?

And when they can you can you leave it? Alad?

You can buy your liberty with fifty p Harry Louiah,

and then you leave it. Then you are learning. You

are picking your lessons. Hallelujah, Amen, working worthy of the Lord,

fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every good way, and

increasing in the knowledge of God.

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