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That you are the spirit of truth and that we

should worship you in spirit and in truth. God, we

can't even worship you unless it's in spirit. Hallelujah. Because

it's in the spirit, God, that we realize and recognize

we find the truth.

So, Lord, we thank you, Lord.

Thank you for everybody that's here today. Thank you for

those that are on their way to your houses. Your houses, Lord.

Because we know some houses belong to the devil. So

we thank you.

Lord, that this is your house, Harvest Time Christian Church,

by Jesus Christ being the founder. We thank you, Lord,

for the temples that are here this morning, ready to

be filled and overflowing in the name of Jesus Christ. So, God,

we hand it over to you, and it's all in

your hands, Father. Amen. Teach, Holy Spirit, that you may

open up our understanding even more. Open up our eyes.

Open up our ears.

That we may hear and see you for who you

are and see ourselves for who we are in you.

In the name of Jesus. The truth is all that

we after, God.

The truth. In Jesus' name I pray.

Amen. If we would turn to Matthew 26.

Amen.

We're living in a day and time, as y'all turn

to Matthew 26, we're living in a day and time

that the church is doing just what the prophecy says,

falling away.

Yet, in the fall, they're still claiming to be Christians.

And then you have those who have never been a

Christian claiming to be a Christian. And you have those

who have been baptized.

As a heathen thinking that they are a saved Christian.

Amen? So the world is being bamboozled already, but now

the people of God are even being bamboozled by.

Their own selves, believing the lies.

Amen? Everybody's claiming to be a Christian. Amen? Everybody's claiming

to know God, but majority of people And that's a

great majority only know of God, maybe seated in the

house of the Lord.

Everybody don't know God.

And there are those that do know God and still

don't do right by God, calling themselves a Christian. And

what does that do?

Well, I'll tell you.

It dilutes it. It dilutes the fact that of the

real Christians, because they're looking at you who are the

real Christians who are really following the commandments of God.

They looking at you like those folks that claim to

be Christians acting a fool and acting hedonistic. But yet

they at church every Sunday. There are those that are

in the house of God and the temple of God

every Sunday.

And there is no improvement in their lives at all.

There are those houses of God that call they self,

call they self having revivals in the house of God.

We're going to be in a week of revival. We're

going to be in a three-day revival. We're going to

be in a five-day revival. We're going to be in

a two-week revival. We're going to fast for 40 days

and 40 nights. We're going to fast for 20 days,

21 days, and nothing comes out of it like a Christian.

They're still in the same state.

Do you believe because they don't understand what a revival represents?

Is it that they really don't understand the recipe for fasting?

You believe.

Could you believe maybe that's the problem with revivals because

they don't really understand what it's about and how it's

supposed to be conducted and what's supposed to happen in it?

Would you believe that they don't really understand or know

that there is a recipe for fasting? See, fasting and

losing weight ain't the same thing. Fasting and dieting is

not the same thing. Dieting is a carnal thing that

you do for yourself. Fasting is something you do unto God,

which is spiritual for the weakening of the flesh and

the building up of your spirit. So this is conclusive

for me to understand why everybody think they are Christian

and they're not because they have no real understanding. So

here we see in chapter 26 of Matthew and starting

at verse 69.

Are you with me?

It says, now Peter sat without in the palace. There

was a court outside the palace, so he sat in

their court. And when he sat in their court, Peter

could actually see Jesus and what was going on. And

a damsel came unto him, saying, you also were with

Jesus of Galilee.

She was saying it with sarcasm.

But he denied before them all. That was the first denial.

of the three that Jesus said he would do. He's saying,

I know not what you say. And when he was

gone out in the port, so then he came out

of the court, and he came out of the court

and went on to the port. And what he was

trying to do at this point, after being questioned and

gave his first denial, he was trying to get away

from them. That's what he was doing. But another maid

saw him and said unto him, who.

Were there?

This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. Also, she's

saying with sarcasm. And again, he denied with an oath.

And the oath was he didn't know him.

He don't know him.

He said, I don't know. I do not know the man.

He claimed not even to know his name. He didn't

know Jesus.

And after a while, and if you look in the

book of.

Luke, when it says after a while, according to Luke

22 and 59, it was an.

Hour of time.

It was an hour had passed. When it said after

a while, it was about an hour. You look in

the book of Luke 22 and 59 and let you

know that. It says, and after a while came unto

him they that stood by and said to Peter, they,

it was more now than came to him. Surely, they

was fully persuaded. You also are one of them. Who

is them? No. Who is them? Watch this.

This is what we're talking about this morning. Everybody claiming

to be a Christian.

He said, you also are one of them. Because remember,

in Antioch, they were first called Christians. So now he's

saying you are one of them. You one of them Christians.

You one of them Christians. You one of them. It

didn't say you one of him. It said you one

of them.

Let's pay attention to the reading of the word.

For your speech betrays you. He was a Galilean. And

all the other disciples with him, except Judah. Judas was

a Galilean. Then begot he to curse and to swear. Now, see,

I used to teach it like this, that he was

using profanity. But this is not what it's saying. So

I'm going to correct myself because I looked into this more.

He wasn't using profanity. The Bible says, then began.

He to curse and to swear.

Not profanity. So what he was doing was taking a

solemn oath, such as men did in the court. This

is something that they practice, amen? It was something they

did in the court of justice. They took this, they

would begin to curse and swear that, and what they

was doing was that they was saying, they was using

God to say what they were saying was true. Man,

you know how people say, man, I'm telling you, man,

on God I'm telling you. So that's what he was

actually doing. He was calling up on God to curse

him if the oath was false.

That's what he was doing.

Man, if I'm lying, God strike me down.

That's what he was doing. doing. So it seems to

be more believable if.

A person say, man, I'm telling you, if I'm lying,

God take me out. Who going to do that if

you tell them the truth? You don't want to say

nothing like that. So that's what he was doing. On God,

I don't know Jesus. On God, I don't know him.

That's what he was saying. That's worse than using profanity.

This is why, when I got this understanding, my spirit

spoke to me and said, that's worse than profanity. This

man was saying on God. He said, then begin he

to curse and to swear using an oath to say

that what he's saying is true. And it was a

sin to do so. Saying, I know not the man.

So meaning that when he swore by God that he

knew not Jesus, that's why he's saying, I know not

the man. Meaning that I swear by God I don't

know him. And immediately, after he done swore to God,

the cock crowed.

Turn with me to verse 31. Verse 31. 26 and 31.

I want to get into this. Amen. Amen. Now this is,

I read you the denial, and now I'm going to

read you the prophecy of the denial. This is before

it ever happened. It was told to him it would happen.

Then said Jesus to them, there it goes to them again,

who was them? The disciples. All you shall be offended

because of me this night. So he's telling them, all

of y'all are going to forsake me. Everyone of y'all

are going to forsake me. But I would never forsake you.

So he said, then said Jesus to them, all shall

be offended because of.

Me this night.

For it is written, it's already written, I will smite

the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be

scattered abroad. Zechariah said that in 13 and 7. But

after I am risen again, I will go before you

in Galilee.

But none of them really believed what he was saying.

Peter answered and said unto him, see, this is why

Peter answered the way he did and they did because

they didn't really believe, really believe what Jesus was saying.

Peter answered and said unto him, though all men shall

be offended because of you, yet will I never be offended.

A boastful, prideful statement, but watch this.

Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto you that

this night before the rooster crows, ye shall deny me thrice.

Peter said unto him, Though I should die with you,

yet will I not deny you. Likewise also said all

of the disciples. He said all of them made the

same boastful claim. They said the same thing Peter said.

But notice when I read verses 69 through 74, Peter

was denying him. But watch this. Peter could actually see Jesus.

I'll die with you.

He could see him being persecuted unlawfully.

Because at that time of night when they had the

Sanhedrin court, it was unlawful to have it at that

time of night. But they did everything they knew to

do to try to get rid of him because he

was taking their glory. But he really wasn't because the

glory was already his father's.

They thought it belonged to them. So them, you look.

Like one of them.

You sound like one of them.

You act like one of them. You walk like one

of them. Them being Christian. You see, when a Christian,

and they do it all the time, Some of them

probably doing it. Some of them doing it right now.

I don't even say probably. Christians try to fit in

with the world. And sometimes the Holy Ghost gets a

hold of the heathen and gives the heathen what to say.

And the heathen will say, man, you ain't part of this. Man,

you ain't made up like us, man. Man, you can't be.

No, man, go on home now.

Gone home now. And then pride jumps up in the Christian.

Man, I'm about this.

See, the world can see you because the enemy knows

the spirit of God. The evil spirits know the righteous spirits.

And the righteous spirit should know, should know, should know

the evil spirits. But when you're out of focus, you

can't see. So let's break this down because everybody's a

Christian today. Everybody is a Christian because they go to

church or they might pray over their food or they

might read a scripture or two.

But they're a Christian. What is a Christian? What does

Christian mean?

It's a follower of Christ. Let's break that down. A

Christian is a follower of Christ.

Does that mean? Come on. Keep walking.

Just make me a follower of her. Does this make

me a follower of her? Now, throw your hands up

in the air.

Put them back down. Throw your hands up in the air.

Put them back down.

Did this make me a.

Follower of her?

See, y'all said I'm following her, but you said it

in a natural sense and didn't realize it. That's why

I did that. It was a trick.

I wasn't following her. I was just behind her. She

raised her hands up. I didn't raise my hands up.

I was just behind her.

A follower. A Christian is a follower of Christ. What

does that mean?

That they're walking behind him?

So, y'all tell me.

Everybody stand up.

Everybody stand up. Now, I want every one of you

to follow Jesus right now. Can't do it that way,

can you? You know why you can't do it that way?

Because he ain't here.

To walk around.

That's why it's a spiritual understanding. A follower of Christ

is not because I'm walking behind him. Can you walk

behind him?

Do you see him? That you can walk behind him?

No.

He's in you.

So you got to understand the spiritual. A follower, a

Christian is a follower of Christ.

What does that mean? That means a person that.

Follows the very character and attributes of Christ. Not walking

behind him. Because they called them Christians in Antioch. Jesus

wasn't walking in front of them. They called them there

because they were acting like him. See, that was a

good point. Because that's what's wrong with the church today.

They ain't got no spiritual understanding. They're taking too much

carnality and putting it in with God's word. The Bible

said worship him in spirit and in truth. So a

Christian is a follower of Christ. This word occurs three

times in the New Testament. The disciples were first called

Christians in Antioch in the book of Acts, chapter 11,

Acts 11:26

verse 26, three times. Agrippa said to Paul, because of

Paul's ways and speech, you almost persuaded me to be

a Christian.

That's in Acts 26 and 28.

Peter exalted, if anyone suffer as a Christian, there it

is again, let him not be ashamed, but let him

glorify God in this matter. And that was mentioned in

1 Peter 4 and 16. In each of these instances,

the word Christian assumes that the person called by the

name was a follower of Christ.

I said assume.

That they were a follower of Christ because they called

him a Christian too many of us we be talking

to people and we tell them oh yeah man he's

a Christian so he you know he good oh yeah

man he love the Lord so you know you gonna

be good How do you know that? How do you

know he's a Christian? Because he do good things?

How do you know? Because he did right by you?

How do you know he love the Lord?

We just slang it around. Oh yeah, he a Christian too.

He a Christian brother.

See, he just slang it around. The idiotic, demonic... Catholic

man said Trump ought to know better being that he's

a Christian. The man called Trump a Christian. See what

I mean? He's slinging it around. Trump doesn't even go

to church. He was only, when he was sitting in

the Catholic churches at the time when he got inaugurated,

he was very uncomfortable. You could see it all over

his face. And any time he even went to the

funeral of an individual, he was uncomfortable because he a heathen.

He's not a Christian. But we are putting the title

on everybody. They put the title on Trump.

You know he in trouble.

Assume that the person called by that name was a

follower But let me tell you something about a Christian.

Are you listening? Hear me very good, very well. Open

up your ears, your spiritual ears.

A Christian, every Christian that is a Christian.

Are loyal to Christ.

Christians, as I said before, were first called.

By the name by non-Christians.

There were non-Christians that called them Christians. They weren't even Christians.

But they recognized something even though they were being sarcastic.

Non-Christians called them Christians.

Imagine that.

And you got Christians calling heathens Christians. So you telling

me the heathens can recognize a Christian but the Christians can't?

Is that what you're telling me?

The heathen can recognize a Christian but the Christians can't

recognize a heathen? And they were first called back Christians

by non-Christians. They were ridiculing them, really. But eventually, they

used it themselves, meaning the people of God, as a

name of honor. Christian is a name of honor, not dishonor,

not disobedience, not heathenistically, a heathen's.

But it was a.

Name of honor and it was not of shame. Prior

to this, calling Christians, they called themselves believers. The believers.

The believers. Why do they call them believers? The ones

that believe in Jesus Christ. The ones that believe in

him so they walk like him, they follow him.

They call themselves believers.

Why do they call them believers? Because they believe in Jesus.

And how do you know they believe in Jesus? Because

they were keeping his commandments. And that was mentioned in

Acts 5 and 14. And then there was a time

in Acts 6 and 3 they called them brothers. Hey,

Brother James. They called themselves brothers. That was in Acts

5 and 14.

No, I'm sorry. It was in Acts 6 and 3.

Then there was a time when they said, come on,

you saints of God.

Come on, saints. Acts 9 and 13. But now.

Now, in our age, today, they name Christians, the name

itself has been somewhat emptied.

See, it's empty.

When you call a heathen a Christian, that's empty.

There's no fulfilling in that. It's not fulfilling.

It's empty of it.

Empty of what?

It's empty of its.

True meaning because he ain't no Christian.

He a heathen. You calling him a Christian? You calling

her a Christian? It's empty of the true meaning of

a Christian. They not followers of Christ. They following their

father the devil.

It's empty as a follower of Christ to some today.

To some today To some today, not all, but to

some today, it means just a person who goes to church.

Everybody go to church, they're a Christian, Brother James. You

hear me, Deacon? Everybody go to church, they're a Christian.

That's what some people believe.

Man, he is a Christian, man. He go to church.

Why he smoking that weed then and drinking that yak?

Oh, man, he just need deliverance.

From what? He do it every day. What do you

think the difference between a sinner and a saint is?

Can a saint sin? Yes. But he repents of his sin.

And the difference between a saint and a sinner, why

do you.

Think they call him a sinner? Sinner. Sinner. Because he

continually sins like a joy to his heart.

That's the difference.

You calling somebody a saint that's a continuous sinner? He

need more than deliverance. He need to be saved first.

Because once he gets saved, then he can be delivered.

So some today, it means to them, because a person

goes to church, are The name of a particular denomination,

you know, he a Baptist, Catholic. So he a Christian.

But originally, he meant a noble one. That's what a

Christian is. A noble one of which any follower of

Christ can rightly be proud. So I ask you today,

are we all Christians? Are we all in Christ?

And is nobody out?

Because according to my Bible, there are only a few

in and a whole lot out. Because when the pressure

of life is applied, it's very important. Because this is

how God allows you to find out who you really are.

It also allows you to find out where you are.

It also allows you to find out not only where

you are but what you need more of. Because when

the pressures of life is applied.

To you, do you forget you're a Christian? I've seen

some pressure applied, and I ain't going to mention no name.

I told my wife about it.

When I was out of town at the celebration of

my grandmother's. I've seen pressure applied to an individual who said,

who not only a Christian, but one that ministered the

word of God. And had a premeditated action waiting to

beat somebody up in the family. See what happens when

pressure is applied? You find out who you are. And

I listened to this individual. And I was like, man,

that ain't God. That's a premeditated thing. You waiting on

this individual to say one thing out of line and

you going to beat him up?

That's premeditated.

You're waiting. That ain't something that just happened like something

that just, bam, popped out. You're sitting back there waiting.

Come on. Do it. Say it.

I'm waiting on you.

So when pressure is applied, do you forget you're a

Christian or do you stand? Do you stand on what

you believe? See, only you can really believe you're a Christian.

Once you get saved, sanctified, and Holy Ghost filled, you've

got to believe that by faith, that you're in that

character of God, that you've been saved, that you've been sanctified.

which means you've been set apart for God and not

for your own selfish desires anymore. And it's he that

live and you don't live no more. This is the

mind frame that you have to have faith in in

order to.

Be a Christian and be a follower of Christ.

Amen. Because pressure changed Peter's mind about wanting to follow Jesus.

It changed his mind.

You hear me, Deke? When he saw Jesus being persecuted,

he changed his mind.

Hold on. I don't want none of that. I don't

think I can follow you no more. You one of

them Christians, ain't you, boy? Oh, no. I'm not no Christian. See,

he was disclaiming that because that means you're a follower

of him.

Oh, no, no, no. I don't know him. I don't

know him. See, that's what happens when the pressure applies,

when the pressure's applied.

What do you believe about a Christian then or a

Christian in your life? I almost said Christianity. Y'all quit

saying Christianity. Christianity don't even exist. It's not even a denomination. Well,

it's a denomination, rather. Christianity is a denomination, which means

it's false.

You're not a Christian. You're a Christian.

Amen.

Find Christianity in the Bible, and I'll believe you. Also,

find Trinity in the Bible, and I'll believe you also. Okay,

back to what we're talking about. The pressure changed Peter's mind.

You see, this walk is not an easy walk.

But yet as a Christian, we have assurance that the

word of.

God will keep us if we believe.

As a Christian, if we believe the word of God

will keep us, it will.

It won't if we don't believe it.

When trouble comes, As a matter of fact, I was talking.

To one of my brothers the other day about the trouble.

And when trouble comes, how quick we forget the word

of God.

So what am I saying?

That's how quick you forget what you believe in. But

if you stand firm on it, and the only way

to stand firm on it is you got to stay

in it. You got to practice it. You can't pick

it up once a week. You can't believe in it

once a week. You got to believe in it every

day of your life. Watch this. But as a Christian,

we have the assurance that the word of God will

keep us if we believe. But it's hard to believe

if you're not practicing what you believe. But yet today,

everybody claims to be a Christian. But I got to ask.

As I continually ask when I see it and when

folks claim it. Where's the proof? Where's the proof? Man,

come on now. If you're a doctor, there's going to

be some proof.

And it ain't because you got a stethoscope around your

neck either. There's going to be some proof, Dick.

You hear me? If you're a carpenter, there's going to

be some proof. Not because you walk around with a hammer.

When I'm asking you to use that hammer, the proof

going to come out. When I ask you to cut that,

I hand me a one by and you bring me

a two by. Come on. Come on.

I want your carpentry skills, buddy.

Huh? That's some proof. I bet you ain't going to

go to court unless you got some proof you're a

real lawyer and you and you. and it's pressing that

you might go do some prison.

Time, I bet you're going to make sure you got

a real lawyer, ain't you?

Uh-huh. You're going to want some proof. Some folk look

that lawyer up and look at his record. They want

some proof. Amen, somebody. All your power done went out

in your house. You need an electrician. You ain't going

to hire a garbage man, are you? You're going to

call somebody that know electrician. You're going to look in

a book that said they're electrician because that's going to

be proof to you that the registry say they're electrician.

And it's going to be proof to you if you

call Sister Porter.

And she say he fixed her electrical problem at home

so she know that he electrician. That's going to be

proof to you. What a proof! You say you're a Christian.

You see, those people, they practice. They practice what they

want to be. Matter of fact, to be a doctor,

it takes a lot. They go through a lot of schooling.

Am I right? Lawyers go through a lot to pass

the bar. So they press and they press and they

study and they study and they study. And they study.

And they practice. You see, when I was becoming an

aviation electrician, I had to study. Then I had to

take tests. Written tests from what I studied. And the

only way I could pass the test is if I studied.

Hear me? The only way I could pass the test

is if I studied. And then after I passed my

written test... I had to go and walk down the

corridor to a room that was a lab. And then

I had to go in and take a physical test.

Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. I had to get

the pros and everything and measure the voltage in the watch.

And I had to solve the problem in the electrical

component physically after I passed the written test. I had

a physical test. And if I didn't come right to

the physical test, I failed immediately. That's how strongly it

was that you.

Get it right.

Because in that instance, it's still this instance.

On the flight line, if you don't know what you're doing,

you can kill somebody. Y'all hear what I'm saying?

See, if I went into the physical test after walking

down the corridor, there was an instructor at the door.

And when he opened the door, he was looking at you.

Y'all didn't get this. When the instructor opened the door,

he was looking at you.

And if he saw that you had on a watch or.

A ring, you immediately failed the test. You weren't even

allowed in the room. So when you came to take

the test, you had to come right before the instructor.

So you had to practice.

And as you're walking down to the corridor, you had

to focus.

You had to check yourself.

You had to check yourself to see if you were

right before you went in the room. I went down

to the room.

I had to look at myself. Oh, I got to

take this ring off. I got to take this watch off.

I got to take off these metal glasses.

You had to check yourself. Because the instructor was going

to definitely judge you when you got to the door.

So you had to check yourself.

See, the Bible said, judge yourself that you need not

be judged by anybody else. Got to check yourself. See,

so all of those professions, they had to practice at

what they were trying to become. They made it what

we don't do a habit. Christians don't make it a

habit to pick up their word. They don't make it

a habit to study their word. But these professions that

I admitted to you, they make it a practice. And

they make it a habit.

Because why?

They want what they want. So what do they do?

You say you want to be a Christian? They say

they want to be a carpenter, a doctor. So what

do they got to do?

They got to put in the work. They put in

the work.

They put in the work. And it costs them a lot.

It cost them a lot. But they pay the price

for the books, for the college, to get what they want.

And since they pay a lot, they focus on what

they're after. And they make it a habit to study

and practice.

Because why?

Why? They're putting in the work because they believe. That's

why they're doing it. They believe in what they were

trying to become. I'm trying to become a doctor. I

ain't got time to party with y'all, man.

I got a testimony. I got an exam. They put

in the work. They stay focused.

You ain't walking in no room and having no heart

surgery and you ain't put in no work and you

ain't practice. And if I find out who you are,

I ain't going under no anesthesia until they get you

out the.

Room because you don't know what you're doing.

And that's who they're calling Christians today. They don't know

what they're doing. They ain't putting no work. They just

mention something, scripture, some.

Some, some. They think every gospel singer's a Christian.

Liar! Liar! Kirk Franklin is a heathen. As a matter

of fact, he can't even sing. He's a full-fledged heathen.

He can't dance either.

He looks flicked in what he's doing.

He ain't got no rhythm. But y'all calling him a Christian?

Man ain't a bit more a Christian than the man

in the moon. His whole surrounding is heathens. We be

glorifying the wrong folks all the time. Oprah Winfrey is

the devil's sister. Oh, but she be giving away this

and the Bible don't say just because you give away.

It don't mean nothing because you feed the hungry and

feed the sick. What you think them folks did in

the book of Matthew when they were pleading with God?

We healed them. We healed them. Yeah, but depart from me,

you workers, you sinners, you workers of iniquity.

Your works ain't going to get you into heaven.

Amen. Your salvation and your holy living is going to

get you into heaven. So you got to know what

it means to be a Christian. Because most folks don't know.

That's why they're calling them folks Christians. They don't know

what it is to be a Christian. To be a Christian,

you have to walk holy. To be a Christian, you

got to live holy. Not before me, not before your partners,

but before God. God is the judge of holiness, not me.

That's what's wrong with people. They letting somebody else judge holiness.

God is the judge of holiness. Amen. To keep God's commandments,

that's what it means to be a Christian. To know

that no weapon formed against you will prosper. I said

to know it.

That's past believing.

To know it. That no weapon formed against you will prosper.

To know it. That by his stripes.

You will heal. That all things. This is a good

one here. This is what we're really losing as Christians.

Work together for the good of.

Them that love the Lord. All things work together for

your good. That he shall. I don't care if gas

is $ 5. He shall supply all of your needs.

See, Christians know that. They know that. He shall supply

all of your needs.

He's your shepherd. Not only will he supply all of

your need, but he's your shepherd and you shall not want.

That all of his promises.

See, a lot of Christians fall short of his promises.

Because they don't believe it? No, because they don't know

it to believe it. My people perish because of what?

Lack of what?

Knowledge.

That's the problem. They fall short of the promises because

they don't know them. And then those that know them

don't believe in them.

Or should I say, those that know of them don't

believe in them.

Because those that know them, they believe. They believe that

all his promises are yes.

They don't know.

All his promises, all his promises, all of his promises

are yes and amen. In other words, yes it is

and so shall it be. Yes it is and so

shall it be as I said it would be. That's

what it's going to be. In Jesus' name, let me

put the icing on the cake. Because the name of

Jesus is the power of the promise. That's the power

of the promise. In Jesus' name. You got to know

this and believe it. And you got to believe it

in the know it. As a Christian. So you can

stand as a Christian.

People using the name so loosely.

Everybody's a Christian.

Everybody's a Christian nowadays.

It don't matter how they live. They're Christian. God is good, right?

And we are all God's children, right? God is good.

We all God's children. Like it's some kind of club.

Motorcycle club. You got motorcycles riding with God on them.

Just as demonic as ever.

Some people believe because they can sing in the choir

that they are Christian.

Or they know a few verses of the Bible.

Or you go to a temple or become, or you

go to a temple because you've been baptized. Don't you

know everybody baptized ain't no Christian? Whole lot of people

getting baptized the wrong way, and they're not even baptized.

Because the baptizer is not even baptizing them right. Amen, somebody?

They baptizing heathens. Why?

Because they're emotional.

They're emotional. And they ain't even baptizing right.

Go to the Catholic church and they sprinkle water on you.

Baptize, baptism means to be submerged because it is a burial.

And then you come and resurrect out of the water

as Jesus did.

He didn't sprinkle it away.

He didn't baptize you in the name of the Father,

in the name of the Son, in the Holy Ghost.

What happened to the name of Jesus?

Woo! Are you a Christian?

A Christian knows Jesus.

Why?

Because they follow him. That's why.

You ain't no Christian because you sing in a choir.

You know a few Bible verses. Or you go to church.

Or you been baptized.

It don't make you a Christian. You got to be saved.

You got to be saved. You see, them daggone Jews

would not call themselves Christians because it would say that

they were the people of the Messiah. And they didn't

believe that Jesus was the Messiah. So they didn't allow

you to call them no Christian because they didn't believe it.

You got to live holy and obey God's word. You

calling yourself a Christian.

I'm talking about there.

Ain't no easy walk, but you still got to obey

God's word. I don't care if the man got four

tires for you at $ 100 and he stole them. A

Christian ain't buying them. I had a guy on the

other day, I was giving a quote, a bid for

a roof, and I.

Told the guy what it was going to cost.

I called the company and let him hear it on

the speakerphone what it was going to cost so that

he'll know I ain't charging no more than they charge,

even though I could. Then the guy with me, he

called a guy and said he can get that amount

of shingles. And as soon as he said it, the

Spirit spoke to me and said, he's stealing that stuff.

I said, no, man, we don't need him. See, when

you're a Christian, you won't follow Jesus. You won't have

to ask what they used to be asking when they

wore them little bracelets, what.

Would Jesus do?

Because if you study it, you know what he'd do.

They used to walk around with their little braces on.

Y'all remember them braces?

WWJD.

What that mean, man? I'm asking Christians.

What it mean. They talking about what would Jesus do.

They proud of it. What would Jesus do? That's what

it say. What would Jesus do? I said, mine don't

say that.

What yours say? Mine say walk with Jesus daily and

you know what he'll do. That's what I told them

mine said. They looked at me like, you just arrogant. No,

I'm just right about it. Yeah, I'm right about it.

Because he's right about it. Right about what?

Walking with Jesus daily and you'll know what he'll do.

Y'all run around guessing what would Jesus do. That's a guess.

So you got to be holy and obey God's word.

And then It will show forth in your life what

you really are professing. When you walk like him, talk

like him, act like him, live.

Like him, then it's going to profess.

You ain't got to open your mouth. Your very character,

your very body language going to say, Jesus, Jesus, saved,

saint of God, Christian.

But when you blind and.

Can't see, everybody look like they're walking like him. When

you ignorant and blind, everybody look like they're walking like him,

but they're not. It's going to show forth in your

life what you really profess when you walk like him.

That's the truth of it.

I can't call Kirk Franklin a saint of God. I

can't call T.D. Jakes a saint of God. I can't

call them folks saints of God because they don't act

like him. They don't show a professing life like him.

They're greedy, filthy, felucca of the world. They're confused. I

believe Kirk Franklin is homosexual. I said, I believe it.

I know T.D.

Jakes is, but I believe he is. A whole lot

of sissies got wives because they're a cover up.

But when you live holy and obey him, you won't

need a sign on your car or a shirt on

your back.

You won't need no acting lessons because your actions will

show a hunger and longing for to be like Jesus.

And that is to please God. See, when you want

to be like Jesus, you want to please God. When

you want to be like Mike, you ain't trying to

please God. When you want to be like T.D. Jakes,

Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, you ain't

trying to be like God. You're trying to be like

some heathens, calling yourself a Christian. But when you're trying

to be like Jesus and you're walking the walk, then

you can call yourself a Christian.

But until then, that ain't you.

And that's going to show in the hunger and the

longing to be like him. There's got to be a

hunger for him.

Amen.

Amen. Amen. There's got to be a hunger. See, folks

get saved. They get sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost.

And then they lose the hunger somewhere along the line.

It's not that they weren't there. That's what backsliding is.

That's what happens when you backslide. That's what the word

backslide means.

You were there.

But you backslid because you lost your hunger. You lost

your focus. You began to adapt to the world. That's

what happened to all of those nations we've been reading

about in the Old Testament. And even now in this

day and time, the hunger is lost. They've lost the

hunger and the longing. You got to keep the hunger

and the longing. I tell people all the time, you

want to work with me, you got to come starving.

And then when you come starving.

You're going to get fed, but then stay hungry.

You know what I'm saying?

You come starving, and once you eat, stay hungry. Why

you got to stay hungry? Why you got to stay hungry?

Because you want to keep eating. And you don't want

to starve again. See, when you're hungry, that don't mean

you're starving. That just means you didn't eat.

But it's been a while.

Now you're hungry again. Starving means you ain't had nothing

in a long, long time. But when you lose that

hunger and that longing. See, when you get hungry, you long.

For a chicken sandwich, don't you?

For some baby back ribs, some mashed potatoes and greens

and pork chops. You're hungry, now you got to longing

for something.

So you got to stay.

Hungry and continue to long for the Lord Jesus Christ's

ways in your life. If you want to be like Jesus,

if you want to please God, so are.

You in or out?

Either you're in or you're out. Because see, Out is

a dangerous place to be, even once you've been in. See,

when Jesus went in, he stayed in. He stayed in.

He never came out. He had a mission to complete

a purpose.

That's what we got.

Once we get in, there's a mission to complete a purpose.

The devil got a mission to complete a purpose that

he put in his own people. They on a mission, too,

to complete a purpose.

You don't hear what I'm saying?

So God is asking you today, because he wasn't talking

to you like this yesterday, but he was talking to you.

But not about this, but somewhat. So God is asking today,

are you in or are you out?

Are you going to be a Christian? Are you going

to just be like a Christian? Which means every now

and then. Because trouble... didn't dictate to Jesus whether or

not he will continue to believe in God. He stayed

Jesus through all the trouble, through all the mockery, and

through the cross.

To the barrier.

So trouble never dictated to Jesus. whether or not he

would continue, continue to believe God. But people, Sister Lee

was talking about me in church.

I ain't going there no more.

Well, Deacon James, they ain't going to let me sing

on Sunday, so I ain't coming no more. Why was

Sister Barbara sitting in my seat? She's sitting in my seat.

I come back next Sunday sitting in my seat.

No, I sit there every Sunday.

Trouble didn't dictate to Jesus whether or not he would

stay Jesus. And it definitely didn't dictate to him whether

or not he was going to continue to believe God.

The world, it didn't turn Jesus to the left or

to the right. The world, like it do some of

us that claim to be Christian. Somebody out there in

the world cuss you out real good.

Oh, my God, that old man raised up and shake

the dust off. And you will feel them words. You

will remember them words you used to say.

But are you going to say them? Are you going

to stand on your Christianity, being a Christian? The world

didn't turn him from the right to the left. It

didn't change his mind that God had his back. Not

just in something, but he knew that God had it

in all things. So Jesus knew when he got in,

there was no out. I had to continue this thing

and take it all the way through. So the moment

you stepped up to the altar, wherever the altar was,

you stepped in. And if you didn't really have a

real heart to step in, you shouldn't have did it.

When you came up in front of a congregation of

a ministry during altar time and gave your life to

the Lord, you stepped in.

And then left church and stepped out. Because you never

stepped in.

You was emotional. You were performing for the people. Because

you know they applaud you when you come up here

to get saved.

You were acting. Because you know how you're going to

find out you was acting?

Life going to show it to you when you leave

this comfortable place called the temple of God. Life out

there going to show you Amen, somebody. So Jesus knew

when he got in there was no out. He had

to complete his mission no matter what.

Somebody say no matter what. Somebody say. no matter what.

The world threw at him everything they knew and he

did not change from the mission that he was put on.

So if you have that same tenacity that Jesus had

And if you got that same Jesus that operated that

way in you, you too are in and not out.

So what say ye today?

This day, this day, September the 20th of 2026, what

say ye?

To yourself and to the Lord.

Are you in or are you out? Amen?

Give God a hand for that.

You see, because our words have to match our actions. Amen?

And I'm just talking a little bit until Deke get

where he got to go. Our words dictate everything. Supposed

to dictate our actions. I'm a Christian.

I've spoken it out of my mouth.

I'm a Christian. So what should I be doing since

I say I'm a Christian?

Living holy.

Keeping the commandments of God. Obeying God's commandments. Because why?

I said it. I don't care what people say. I

said I'm a Christian. Now when people say it, two

things could be going on. But the fact of the

matter is this. When they do say it, is it true?

Is it true when they do say it? Only you

have to know. You have to examine yourself, amen? You

have to examine yourself. You know how you live. You

don't impress me when you come here, and I don't

impress you when I come here. And you can't impress God,

so the only person you can impress is you.

Amen, somebody. Let us stand.