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Amen. God is good. Amen. We're going to be coming

out of Matthew chapter 7. Amen. Amen. We're going to

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come out of Matthew chapter 7. We're going to start

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at verse 13. But let us go to the throne

of grace. Father God, we come once more again in

the name of Jesus. We come, God, to hear a

word from you today. Amen. We didn't come for no shape, form,

or fashion. But we came, God, because we need you.

We came, God, because we have to have you. We came, God,

because we can't do it without you. We need you, Lord,

in our lives always. And we know that you said

that you should never leave us nor forsake us. We

know and we understand that the leaving is on our side.

But help us to stay, Holy Spirit. Help us to

hold on to that true faith. true God of heaven.

There is no other God besides him. There never will

be any other God besides him. We believe upon him.

Our faith is in him, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

And we give all to him today as we do

every day in the name of Jesus. Help us, Lord.

Lead us. Guide us. We'll follow. When we fall short,

help us to get up. Help us to brush ourselves off.

And we just thank you for your divine covering and

your divine covering, your divine word and your divine help

in our lives. Then as your word goes forth, use me, Lord,

as your servant. It is an honor to be a

servant of the Lord. And I thank you, Lord, that

you allow me to be that. And I ask that

you cover the people and open up their ears and

eyes that they may come to know what you're speaking

directly to them. and collectively to each and every one

of us. In Jesus' holy name, we ask you bind

that spirit of the enemy, cast it out of this place,

fill it with your Holy Spirit where there's no room

for any evil to get in, and fill these temples

that stand here today, God, with your spirit running over.

In Jesus' name, and the church said thank God. Amen

and amen. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. I was prompted by God, amen,

because of the things that I see. And God shows

us things for a reason, amen. There's a narrow way

and there's a broad way. I don't mean broad way

like Hollywood either. I mean broad, meaning wide, amen. Amen.

But there's also a narrow way. But we, in this society,

believe that there's many ways. The Bible only speaks of

two ways. I heard that woman called Oprah Winfrey tell

her whole audience that there were many ways to get

to Jesus, to get to God. But there's not many ways.

There's only two ways. And one of those ways ain't

going to get you to him. There's only one way

to get to him. Not many ways. But looking at

society today, I was looking for something to give to

the people that was compatible to the understanding of the day.

And the Lord... Show me in my spirit what is

compatible today. I'll tell you what is compatible today and

what God showed me. God's will. That's what's compatible. But

there are many who believe that God's will is their

will and that God is pleased with what they're doing

outside of what God told them to do. Truly, that's error. Amen?

But we're living in a time where denomination, which has

always been dangerous because it's divided and it's division, and

denomination is not of God. Amen, somebody? Amen, somebody? It's

not of God. Denomination teaches, different denominations teach different things.

They have denominational... and different denominations. We believe in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You hear him say that.

And we believe in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But

all of us should believe in one thing. We should

believe in him, Jesus Christ.

There is no, and I do mean no, denomination in

the New Testament. Since everybody wants to believe in the

New Testament, there's no denomination in it. So, in saying

all of that, there's only one authority in religion if

we want to please God. There's only one authority. Not

many authorities. Because, see, denominational teaching... teaches that there are

many authorities in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Well, our

pastor said, well, the bishop told me, where the Bible

said that the preacher said, the apostle of our church said,

what Jesus said. Because whatever Jesus said is what's true.

Are you hearing me? Jesus is the only authority. They

don't have an authority. How can they be the authority

when the Bible tells us that all that's in authority,

God put them in authority? If you're already in authority,

why somebody got to put you there? The authority put

you there to minister his authority, not yours. So I

was moved with this because it's sad and dangerous that

there are many in the world today believing that they're

doing the will of God. Many preachers, now there's a

whole lot of them joking behind that pulpit. They know

they ain't doing God's will. They doing their own will

for their own selfish desires and their own account. But

there are those preachers that are believing because of what

they've been taught in denominational that they're doing the will

of God. The Jehovah Witness believe they're doing the will

of Jehovah, but they're not because they're a cult. And

all these denominations believe they're doing the will of God

by the teaching that they're getting from denominational teaching, but

they're a cult. Amen, somebody? See, this is hard stuff

right here. Because you will believe that because they're standing

in behind this podium in a Baptist church, in a

church of God in Christ. Well, the Catholic is totally

demonic anyway. From the beginning. Teaching these things, reading from

this Bible, and because you're not studying and showing yourself approved,

it sounds like God. I was out of town last Sunday.

I wasn't here. And I was ministering to some family members.

We was all over to my auntie's house after the, we, maybe,

was that before or after? That I was ministering to

my cousin. After we had the memorial celebration for my grandmother.

And we got, we was already talking about the Lord.

And then my cousin and his fiance came in. And

they was talking about they getting married. And I said,

and y'all live together? And he said, yeah. I said, okay.

So we ministering. He's asking. He belongs to the church

that we went to that Sunday morning. That's the church

he belonged to. And he was in counseling with the pastor.

You hear me? He was in marriage counseling. That's going

to take six weeks. Do you need six weeks for

me to tell you something about marriage? So I began

to minister to him because he asked. And my brother

was ministering to him as well. And to make a

long story short, when he began to talk, I said,

you're getting the wrong counsel. I said, you're getting the

wrong counsel. I said, it's one way that I know

that you're really getting the wrong counsel. Because the one

thing I didn't hear you say. about your counseling session.

But anyway, as we was going forth in the counseling session,

I asked him, did he love God? And I asked her,

she said, yeah. I said, do you really love him?

Y'all know how I do. I want to get deep

in your heart. Do you really love him? She said, yeah.

I said, do you really love him? He said, yeah.

I said, then I hit him. No, you don't. They

was like, I said, no, you don't. He said, yeah,

we do. I said, you sleep with her? He said, yeah.

He said, yeah. I said, no, you don't. See, if

you loved him, you wouldn't be committing fornication. If you

loved him, you would keep his commandments. And then he

was like, whoa. I mean, he actually did that. He said, whoa.

You know why? Because he didn't understand that he wasn't

really serving God. He thought he was. And then let

me go and hit you with the rest of it.

His pastor in his session, he told him, because she

gets mad because he sleeps on the couch, because he

feels condemned. He said that when he sleeps with her. Oh,

he's really seeking God. He really is. And then I

went on to help him out a little bit. I said,

you really do love him, but not like you should.

And so I began to tell him, well, he began

to convey to me that The pastor told him, he said, well,

y'all well past all that. You might as well just

keep sleeping with her. I said, oh, so the pastor

told you just keep sinning when no man know the

day of the hour. So that's what he told her.

He said, y'all past all that because she pregnant. She pregnant.

She had the baby yet, but she pregnant. So he said, well,

you might as well keep sleeping with her because y'all

past all that. So he told him, you might as

well keep sinning. And this was later on because he

stopped me at the door because I was really getting

ready to leave and held me there for about 40

minutes to an hour, still concerned about his salvation. And

then he revealed that to me. I said, oh, didn't

I tell you earlier? I knew what God was telling me.

You're getting the wrong counselor. I kept saying that when

we was in there talking, all of us. I said,

you're getting the wrong counselor. I said, first of all,

if you had come to me for counseling and I

knew all of this, I would have told you, somebody

going to have to go. Somebody got to go. You're

still sleeping in the bed with her. But you feel

the presence of God because you're feeling condemned. That's why

you're leaving the bedroom to sleep on the couch. But

the pastor told him... Just keep on doing it. Y'all

passed all that. Wrong counsel. You see, there are those

because of wrong teaching and understanding believing they're doing the

will of God and they're not. Believing they're in right

standards with God but they're not. Believing that they love

God with their whole heart but they don't. I say

what you got for God is a filial love, not agape. See,

agape love says no matter what But a filial says, well,

there's a condition on this thing. Yeah. So in saying

all that, I ain't even read scripture yet. There's a

narrow way and there's a broad way. And if you

don't get it together, the broad way will be your path.

But when you got it together, the narrow way would

be your path. You see, nobody wants to go the

narrow way. It's too troubling. It's too narrow. Can't sit

through here. But the irony of it is this. I

don't care how big you are. If you're going down

the narrow way, your big old butt don't slide through there.

God gonna grease up the wall so you can slide

on through. You hear what I'm saying? He'll grease them

walls up. You're 600 pounds. You're going to grease. You're

going to slide on through there. But the broad way,

you're going to flop and flip. Ain't nothing to stop you.

God says in verse 13 of chapter 7 of Matthews,

I got to read some of this because, you know,

you got people that they're hooked on programming. Amen. They're

hooked on programming and tradition and custom. So you got

to read the scripture for the scholars. Amen. He ain't

even read no scripture this morning. I told you all

about the scripture. You weren't paying attention because I didn't

do what your custom and tradition want me to do.

Enter you in there at the straight gate. This is

the door. The straight gate is Jesus Christ. For wide

is the gate and broad is the way that leads

to destruction. And many there be which go in their act. Many.

Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way

which leads into life. And few there be that find it.

Beware of false prophets. which come to you in sheep's clothing,

but inwardly they are raving wolves. So they look like

a sheep, but on the inside they're a wolf. So

that's why you got to be spiritual. That's why you

got to be prayed up. That's why you got to

be scripturally read and understood so that you can see

right through the sheep's clothing if it's a wolf on

the other side. You should know them by the fruits.

Do men gather grapes? of thorns, of figs, of thistles.

In other words, it's impossible for a false prophet or

teacher of doctrine to bring forth good fruit. It's impossible

because they're false. Even so, every good tree brings forth

good fruit. Every good tree brings forth good fruit. But

a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. See, a good

tree brings forth Christ-likeness. A corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit, self-likeness.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can

a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Can't happen. Impossible.

Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hen

down and cast into the fire. In other words, the

ultimate judgment comes against them and against that gospel and

doctrine that they're ministering to you. Wherefore, by their fruits

ye shall know them. You're going to know them by

their fruits. Now, not everyone who says unto me, Lord, Lord. See,

that Lord, Lord part right there, that's a plead. That's

somebody pleading. Yes. shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

But he who does the will of my Father, which

is in heaven, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord,

it's a plea. Have we not prophesied? Now look here,

these people weren't bad. These people weren't believed to be

bad people. They just wasn't doing the will of God.

They believed that they were, but they weren't. Have I

not prophesied in your name? And in your name have

cast out devils. They're asking a question. And in your

name done many wonderful works. But those things that they're

mentioning are not the criteria for the will of God

and for the will of following Jesus Christ. Amen? But

rather faith in Christ and what Christ has done. You

can't be... Boastful, did not cast out. I did those things.

Those ain't the criteria. That's not the criteria God's calling on.

And then, will I profess unto them, I never knew you.

Depart from me, you who were iniquity. My God, that

right there. It's something don't nobody in this house want

to hear. Nobody wants to. You know what's happening right there?

When Jesus is telling them, depart from me, you workers

of iniquity, he's denying them. And the reason why he's

denying them, because they denied him. That's why they've been denied.

Because they denied him. Amen? So, I was prone to

this because, and I'm going to be quick as God

allowed me to be with the rest of this. I

just want to drop that in your spirit because, again,

I say, we're living in a hairy up world. And

our focus is here and here and here and here

and here everywhere because so many things are pulling on

our focus. But we got to stay focused on doing

God's will no matter what everybody else is doing. So

many Christians want to do what everybody else is doing

because of what's coming and what's already here and what's

about to come. Amen? So it's really a fearful act

and not a faithful act. So Well, maybe I should

believe this. That's how I was about right right there.

It's okay to go to visit other churches. And some

leave and go to other churches. And some leave and

go to other churches because they can't hold on to

what is true. And some go to other churches. I

heard a man say, basically, I'm not comfortable here because

the truth was going forth. He wanted to go somewhere

where his children can play and where he can be

comfortable and his wife can be comfortable. They don't want

to hear that. If you don't follow Christ, you're going

to hell. What do you want to church for if

you don't want to follow Christ? That's the whole purpose

of coming. I'm confused. Yeah, watch TV. And that's what

most people believe also. I'm glad she brought that up.

Most folks believe they don't have to come up in here.

I ministered to a young lady when I was waiting

on my rental car one time, and she was talking about,

I ain't got to go to church. I don't go

to church because of this, because of that, because of this.

And I was like, yeah, well, you know, it's a

commandment that you go to church. And well, I don't know.

I said, I read it to her. I said, I'm

going to tell you about it. I'm going to show

it to you, and I'm going to read it to you,

but you still ain't going to adhere to it. I

already see it because you're comfortable in what you're doing.

You're comfortable. I don't want to go because this one

and that one I said, so you just let folk

run you away from places. No. And then when you

say stuff like that, now you're dealing, you know, you're

dealing with a pride now. No, ain't nobody running me.

Not really recognizing, oh, yeah, there they are. That's why

you ain't there, because you just said so. But we

have to understand, so I stay home and I watch TV.

How you know the televangelist is really giving you the

word of God? How you know what he's really teaching

you is really God. She said, I can learn the

Bible on my own. I said, really? I said, but

what kind of Bible you got? Because my Bible said

the Holy Ghost will teach you all things. If you

can learn it on your own. See, I was knocking

her block off in that parking lot. By the help

of the Lord. Where it got to a point, she

wanted to leave it alone. And that's what happens when

people go to certain ministries. They ain't comfortable. There's two uncomforts, though. One,

if you in the church, they ain't doing what God

say do. One, you in the church, they do say

God say do, and you don't want to do that.

So the Bible must be our only authority in religion

if we want to please God and go to heaven

and go to heaven. We do want to please God,

don't we? So we must give up all the various

false doctrines that propagate the many different kinds of denominations.

What does that mean? That means that reproduce are caused

to produce are the cause to spread the wrong doctrines.

And go back to only the Bible. There were no

denominations in the New Testament. There was no denomination in

the New Testament times and there would be none today

if only the Bible was taught and practiced. Because not

only the Bible is taught and practiced, we got all

these denominations. There will be only the Lord's one true church,

the church of Christ. That's all it would be, but

it's not. There's many different named so-called churches and many

different At the bottom of the sign in many churches,

it says founder, doctor, MMD, whatever the initials they use,

bachelor's degree and all that stuff, pumping their own self up. Founder. No,

Jesus Christ founded the church. That's what it should say. Founder,

Jesus Christ. So the question is, how do we make

sure that we are among the few who are saved

and not among the many who are lost? How do

you make sure of that? Well, Jesus, in the book

of Matthew, chapter 7, 22-23, tells us. He says, not

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everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the

kingdom of heaven. Now, here we go. But he who

does the will of my Father. There you go. That's

how you're going to make sure you're saved and not

among the lost. By doing the will of the Father

in heaven. Many will say to me in that day

with a plead, Lord, Lord. Have we not prophesied in

your name and cast out demons in your name? And

there are many wonders in your name. And then I

would declare to them, I never knew you. The part,

not only did I never knew you, he didn't just

say I never knew you, he said you get on

the way. I don't want Jesus to tell me to

get away. That would hurt my feelings. That would hurt

my soul. Not my feelings, my soul. To the marrow

of my bone. I'll fall apart. My skin will probably

come off my bones. Amen. He said, depart from me.

I never knew you. He said, depart. Never knew you.

Depart from me. And then he going to call me out.

You who practice iniquity. If you believe and call Jesus Lord, Lord,

you are still lost if you do not do what

God says. You call him Lord, Lord all you want to.

You call him Jesus, I love you. But if you

don't do his will, you're lost. If we are not

obeying God, we are practicing lawlessness. If we ever hope

to go to heaven, we must do the will of

the Father. If we ever hope to go to heaven

by the hope of glory, we must do the will

of God, the Father. This is the only way, not

the will of men, But God's will, not the will

of your own will, but God's will. You see, just

because we call Jesus our Lord, this will not save us.

Jesus says in the in the scripture that I just

read to you that on the day of judgment that

many will be pleading with him. calling him Lord, Lord,

and reminding him of many wonderful works that they had

done in his name. But he was saying to them,

I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice

and work lawlessness, you who are workers of iniquity. Why?

I told you earlier in Sunday school, there's always a why. Why?

You got to know why. That's what it said. You

got to know why. Because they had not done the

will of the Father. That's why. He told them to depart.

They had not done the will of the Father in heaven. Oh,

they thought they had. But they hadn't. They were not prophesied.

They thought they did it. They would do wonderful works.

They thought they did it. They would cast out demons.

They thought they did it, but they hadn't. But they

hadn't done his will. They had done their own will.

Or the will of some other man. See, that's what

we do. My pastor told me to, what did God

tell you? My pastor told me to come and tell you,

what did God tell you? Did God lead you to

tell me that? Because guess what? It ain't true. So

it must have been the pastor, not God. We have

to do the will of God, not the will of man.

A lady told me in the church where the pastor,

she was getting married. She kept talking about what the

pastor said. I said, what did God say? What did

God say about you marrying this man? Little did she

know the man was a homosexual. I kept saying, what

did God say? I couldn't tell her, but I kept saying,

what did God say? Then she married the man. She

wasn't married that long. They ain't married now. What did

God say? Nobody care what a man said unless he

said what God said. What did God say? Because if

God didn't say it, you're going to hear I never

knew you. You see, the never knew you will be

the worst thing that will ever be said to any individual.

When the Lord on judgment day says to the majority

of people, not a little few, but the majority of people, depart.

I never knew you. There will be no appeal. There

will be no appeal to that decision. You can appeal

anybody's decision just about, but not God. You can't appeal

God's decision. And there will be no second chance. You know,

there's a reason why there won't be a second chance,

because God gave you every chance in the world. He

makes sure of that. He makes very sure that you

get every chance in the world. Because you don't take them,

that ain't his problem. It's like the man out in

the water in the flood, in the boat that's sinking.

And the boat came, and he's asking God to save him.

And the boat come by and said, man, get in

the boat. We're heading on down. He said, no, I'm

waiting on the Lord. Then the second boat come by,

and he said, man, come on. I don't think there's

nobody else coming this way. He said, no, I'm waiting

on the Lord. And the third boat comes by, and

he does the same thing. And then he passes away

out there on the waters, but he goes to heaven.

He said, Lord, where were you? I was looking for you.

He said, man, I came back three times. Why didn't

you get in the boat? See, sometimes we think we're

doing the will of God, but we're not. The will

of God was he got in the first boat. God

sent the boat, man. So you ain't going to have

no appeal when God makes his decision and judgment, and

you won't get a second chance. We have to get

it right the first time. This time, right now, as

we breathe and live. Because the people in the scripture,

they seem to be honest that we read about the

ones that prophesied and cast out demons. But they were

honestly mistaken. As the majority of people are today. They're

honestly mistaken. Apparently they were good people. Cast out demons.

Preached in his name. Did wonderful works in his name.

They weren't doing no bad stuff. Except they weren't doing

his will. They weren't doing his will. So they were

mistakenly doing the wrong thing. Because they had not done

the will of God. But because they had done many

wonders of works, but they had not done the will

of the Father, which is in heaven. Many generally won't

To do things in their own way. And many really

don't care what God think about it. We cannot obey

God without doing what God says to do. You listen.

You can't obey God by doing what a man tell

you to do, your mama tell you to do. When

it's concerning obeying God now, okay? You obey your mama,

your father, and you obey people. But I'm saying when

it comes to a man telling you how to obey

God and your mama and daddy, if they ain't telling

you how to do this word right here and they

just telling you what they think is a good thing

for you, whatsoever man, the Bible says not whatsoever man think,

but the Bible says there's a way that seems right

to a man, but therefore other ways of death. There's

a way, a way, a way that seems right. It's

a way that seems right. But that way leads to death.

There's only one way that is right. This way don't

seem right. It is right. And that's God's way. It

is right. It don't seem right. It is right. Amen. Amen.

So we cannot obey God without doing what God says

to do. When God says to do it, how God

says to do it, and for the reason God says

to do it, we must obey, no matter what it is.

It might not seem right to us, but if God

said do it, it's right. I said it might not

seem right to us. I didn't think it seemed right

to me. I was sitting right there. In another building

of the church on the third row. Wasn't here. It

was another building. I was sitting right there on the end.

While the singing group was singing. I don't call them

a choir. They were heathens. And they were singing. And

it was microphones here, here, here, and here. God pointed

to this mic right here. And told me to take

it to the piano player over there so they could

hear him sing. It ain't seem right to me. I

ain't getting up in the middle of the service. I

look like walking up there grabbing a microphone and walking

over there. Didn't seem right. But it was right. Because

God told me to do it. But he's a God

of a second chance. You know what happened? I'm going

to tell you what happened. I told you what happened before.

I'm going to tell you again. A heathen came out

of the choir stand. I didn't say the choir. I

said the choir stand. Grabbed as many mics. He grabbed

the very mic God told me to get. You know

what he did with the mic? Walked over there to

the piano player. And I sat there and was like.

But God's a God of second chance. And after they

did what they did and they sung another song, God

said it again. I got up so fast I didn't

remember saying that. God's will. And I'm going to tell you,

I can't stop right there. But when God tells you

to do something, there's something behind it. There was a

man in the building who was sitting in the back

by the wall. It was far away. He was 72

years old. When I took that mic over there and

they could hear the piano player singing, that man was

72 years old, on a cane, got up, walked to

the front of the church, and ask God to be

his Lord and Savior. It might not make sense to you,

but if God said it, do his will. Do his will. Amen?

Do his will. Because nothing is more important than pleasing

God by doing his will so that we can go

to heaven. Ain't nothing more important in this life. The

movies is nice. Amen. Going out of town is nice.

Going to the fair is nice. Going to the circus

is nice. Going to other countries is nice. But ain't

nothing greater than going to heaven. Ain't nothing greater than

going to heaven. And all those things I said pleases you.

But doing God's will pleases him so you can go

to heaven, which is the ultimate place to go. And

guess what? It's not a vacation. It's permanent. So we

have to learn from the scriptures that's been exposed to

us in this service that we don't go to heaven

by doing the will of men or by doing what

we think is right. The only way we can go

to heaven is by doing the will of the Father

and that the will be found right in our Bibles. See,

that will is found right in our Bibles. This is

the will of God. It ain't in a man unless

he got it out of here. Our woman, but the

will is the Bible. Do we really know what the

will of the Father is so that we can be sure? See,

you got to be sure of going to heaven. Because

you know what? This is too important. It's too important

of a matter to assume that we do have to

take someone else's word for what God's will is. It's

too important of a matter. We got to get the Bible.

We got to get the Bible. Do we really know

what the Bible says? that God wants us to do

in order to be saved? Do we? What must I

do to be saved? It's a very important question. People

have taken this salvation loosely. Some folks have believed that

they have gotten saved, but they hadn't. They got emotionally

filled and did something emotionally and not spiritually. They meant somebody.

Many people will answer this question in many different ways,

but there's only one way. The many different denominations give

us many different and conflicting answers of what must you

do to be saved. How can you get so many

different answers of what you must do to be saved?

That's a conflict in itself. That's a 20,000 million billion

trillion flag. They all fly up at the same time.

How can there be so many different ways to be saved?

Only God's way is correct. That's only one way. There's

not many different ways. The Bible is the only reliable

source we can go to for our answers. Not just

how can I be saved, but how must I live?

What must I do? How can I do it? How

should I approach this? What should I say? It's the

answer to all of our questions. We just don't depend

on it for all of our answers. But it got

our answers to every question. There ain't a question you

can ask that's not in this Bible. It's in here.

You see, since this Bible... It is our soul that

if we don't take our answers from, it's our soul

that's going to be lost. You can't buy another soul.

Can't nobody give you another soul. You can't get another

soul like you can get another heart. Amen, somebody. You

can't get another soul like you can get another liver.

you don't have but one soul. And once it's corrupt

and gone, it's over. But if it's corrupt and you're

still here, it can be fixed. It can be fixed. Amen?

But you only get one soul. And you don't want

it to be lost. It's going to be lost, though,

if you follow man's advice. See, our obedience to Christ

is a very serious decision and must not be taken lightly.

You make the decision to be obedient to Christ when

you are in a service, when you're at home, when

you're on the streets, when you're in the grocery store,

and you decide by the leading of the Lord, here

I am, Lord, take me, save me, deliver me from myself.

So now you done made a decision to obey Jesus Christ.

You made a decision to be faithful to him. Amen?

You made that decision when you did that. And you

can't take it lightly. Some people, they claim to be

saved and when they mess up 20,000 times in the

same thing, you know what they say? I'm still under construction.

That's their excuse for their own. That's their comfort for themselves.

There's a TV host. that always says, I ain't going

to mention his name because he's a TV host. I'm

still under construction. And I look at him and I say, man,

you ain't even broke ground. You ain't broke ground. Every

day you go home, you got a whole wine cellar

in your house. You got a whole bar. You got

a bar in your house that's better than the club.

You got the most expensive wine, you got the most

expensive gin and whiskey in your house greater than a

bar outside our club. You got a cigar room in

your house, but you under construction. No, sir, you have

not yet built the foundation. The ground ain't even been broken.

There's still grass and humps and bumps and rocks and

forest laying on the ground. You ain't cleared the land.

You ain't under construction. You're under destruction. Thank you, brother.

And he say that believing. He ministers to people about

what God may be saying to them. But you can

lead people to Christ and go to hell. I want

you to know just because you lead folks to Christ

don't mean you going. A whole lot of people that

led folks to Christ and wound up in hell. He

tell folks about Jesus this and Jesus that and he'll

bless you here and bless you there, but he going

to hell if he don't change his ways. You ain't

started nothing. You ain't even broke ground, brother. You ain't

cleared the land. You see, it's another example of individuals

believing they doing the will of God, but they're not.

You can't fool yourself because who going to bring you

around but God? And he's fooling himself. See, it must

be on the lowest terms as laid out in the

scriptures and not on our own terms. Amen? We've already

read the scriptures in Matthew. Only a few will be saved.

And many will be lost. And only those who do

the will of the Father can go to heaven. And

we read in 1 John 1, 2, and 4, he

who says, I know him... and does not keep his commandments,

God said he a liar. He's a liar and the

truth is not in him. A liar is a pretty

strong word to say in pretty strong language. A person

is a liar to himself and everyone else who says

he knows and loves God but does not keep his commandments,

we know that a liar cannot go to heaven. So,

in conclusion, we must do all of God's will. We

must do all of God's will so that we can

go to heaven. There is no other way. There's no

other way to get to heaven. Those that do the

will of my Father. That's what Jesus said. No single

condition that God imposes can be ignored. Amen. Well, that's

just a little thing. No, it can't be ignored. But

it's real small. It can't be ignored. God has no

non-essential commands. When we don't obey a command of God,

we have just broken it. When you don't obey it,

you're broken. Many people think that God will save them

no matter what. No matter if they follow God's specific

instructions or what they must do to be saved or not.

Some people believe that. You got churches that teach that.

I know you're a homosexual, but God loves you. You

still going to go to heaven. Liar. It's a lie.

They teach that. You hear me? They teach it in

churches in this America and other countries. I just heard

the other day when I was looking at and they

was talking about how they don't believe that God. Basically,

they don't believe God word is true. Because they believe

they can still do whatever they do. And because he's

a loving God, they're going to make it to heaven.

He's going to stay a loving God whether you go

to heaven or hell. And if you go to hell,

he's going to still love you. So many people think

that God will save them no matter if they follow

God's specific instructions on what they must do to be saved.

Are not. So what then is God's will? So that

we can go to heaven. and not have to endure

eternal punishment forever and ever. That's why it's called eternal punishment,

because it's forever and ever and ever and ever and ever.

It don't stop. What must we do? I'll tell you

what you must do. You will find the answer in

the Bible. You want to go to heaven? Then you

must do God's will. Amen? Amen. Give God a hand.

Come on. Amen. Amen. Amen. Want to go to heaven?

Want to go to heaven? Everybody think they're going to heaven.

And there are some people that think people that died

a hellacious life, they believe they're in heaven. You got preachers.

I was talking to somebody the other day, my auntie cousin,

I don't know which one, she died in the hospital

long ago. the sister or cousin of my mother-in-law. I

never knew who she really was when I said cousin

or sister. So she died the other day and the

doctor came and he said, sorry for your loss. I said,

I appreciate that. He said, but she's in a better place.

I said, is she? I don't know that. I don't

know that. I didn't know her like that and what

she believed about God. So My point is this. She

may be in a better place, but my point is this.

People are so quick to tell people they're in a

better place. This man died in a robbery. Shot in

the head, died immediately. Oh, but he in a better place. Huh?

This one died of an overdose immediately. This one died,

went off a bridge, car blew up, and they died.

Right after, they just got through cussing everybody out. and

stealing out of the house, and that's why they cussed

them out. But they sit up here, and the preacher said,

we're in a better place. Those preachers, so many of

them preachers are liars. They are liars and don't know

they're lying. But they're lying for the comfort of the family.

So what are they doing? They're compromising. They're compromising. We

don't compromise the gospel. They're compromising. Why? Why? Because they

don't want the family to feel bad. I'm not going

to be doing no funeral. Because see, first of all,

if I'm doing a funeral, they ain't in no better place.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? Let me break it

down to you and then I'm done. If I'm doing

a funeral, if I'm doing a funeral, they ain't in

no better place. But if I'm doing a home going,

they ain't in a better place. That's the difference. That's

the difference. Amen? Amen. Let us stand to our feet.