#690: Sanctified Through the Truth

Verse 30, he sprayed his word.

Many believed on him.

Everybody say, many.

That's a wonderful thing.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him.

Everybody said, if you continue in my word, then you are my disciples indeed.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

That's the reason Satan fights the scripture so much, is because it's the only valid, relevant truth in the universe.

I was talking to a bishop that I know from Ywanda.

That's close, that's in Africa somewhere.

It's close, where's it at there?

It's close to Kenya on the map there.

Brandon, can you see where Yamanda is there?

It's a small little country close to Zambia and Kenya and around in there.

Anyway, it's on the map, all right?

And I've been to this bishop's place two times to minister the gospel.

And he told me that last year the government shut down ten thousand churches in that little country alone.

And I asked why.

He said, Well, some failed to comply with the sanitational standard, and most failed to comply with the sound ordinance.

In other words, keep it quiet, no loud music getting out of the building.

So really it was a form of communism, if you ask me.

But however it was, I'm just saying ten thousand churches were shut down.

Lester roll off, I quote him.

A person committed to God is indestructible until his work is done.

End quote.

And so it is today.

We'll run the race and we'll finish it in style.

Praise God.

And Satan, it doesn't matter how much he squawks, it means nothing.

What's the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord?

But you see, back to this the text here this morning.

Where were they at on the day of Pentecost?

I mean, 5,000 followed the Lord, loaves and fishes, 4,000 another time.

They were just following the Lord for what they could get out of the Lord.

Like it is today.

People come to church, they get with the knee from the Lord, and they hit the door.

Not a disciple.

A disciple must continue.

And that's something each believer has to decide for themselves.

Are you gonna go all the way of just dilly-dally around and miss the rapture?

Are you gonna gamble with the soul?

Now, this relevant truth is only found in the scripture.

I want to make that clear today.

There's only one inspired book in the world, and that is the Holy Scripture.

Now let's look, let's look at John 17, 17.

1717.

Can you remember that?

Sanctify them to the truth, thy word is truth.

Now, there's no such thing as absolute sanctification.

Only Christ was totally sanctified and consecrated to the will of the Father.

We are endeavoring to reach that point, but we haven't made it yet.

Because there's no one that is perfect, saved or unsaved, just yet.

But there is a sanctifying process that will help us along life's journey and uh enable us to be more spiritual and have more anointing, more authority, more blessings, all of the above, if we allow the Holy Spirit to sanctify us through the word of truth.

Now to repeat, church, there's only one word of truth, and that's uh that's the scripture.

Anybody that prophesies something contrary to the principles of scripture is incorrect.

They may mean well, but they miss it, and so just lay it aside, okay?

So Jesus said, Sanctify them to the truth, thy word is truth, and has and thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

So those that are sanctified and disciples of Christ are actually sent into the world.

Whether they're laymen or clergy, it makes no difference.

We all had the same general purpose is to evangelize the world.

And then Jesus didn't sanctify himself for himself, he was already God in the flesh.

But he said in verse 19, for their sakes, or we could say, for our sakes, I sanctify myself, that they may also might be sanctified through the truth.

So Christ's sanctification affected everyone that will believe, without exception.

And so the process, though, is what we're going through right now.

Some call it the school of hard knocks.

It's all good.

In the end, we win.

In the end, we overcome, but we grow in the process of struggle.

Now, years ago, I was in the emove business, and those eggs were selling for a thousand dollars a piece.

Don't worry, I don't have any prosperity right now, but I'll get it back.

Thousand dollars apiece.

And the chicks, I'd get in my stethoscope and listen, they're pecking, wanting to get out.

I don't want to lose that thousand dollars, and I would try to listen and help that little chick get out of that egg.

Can't do it the more you cracked the eggshell, the more they died.

So God told me when the chick was struggling inside the eggshell for oxygen, it was actually absorbing the yolk sack that caused it to live.

So the struggling process was actually more important than me helping them trying to get out early with a yolk sack exposed, and they would get infected and die.

Same way when you.

If you're struggling, you need to thank God because there's a process that we go through that helps us get the air of the Holy Ghost.

Nobody gets out of it.

This is the process that we go through.

So I don't thank God for everything that's bad.

I thank God for everything that's good.

But what I'm saying is that even the bad is working for the good of them that love God are called according to his will and purpose.

If we're disciples, we are called chosen of God, and Satan cannot do one thing about it.

Let us say that men somebody.

But you see, we've got to understand who we are in the Lord.

Jesus sanctified himself so that we through the scriptures could be sanctified like him.

Praise God.

When that devil sees you, he sees the blood of Christ.

And that devil cannot cross the blood line.

Not possible.

Because the blood of Christ is the sanctifying effect that we experience when the word is received.

No word, no sanctifying process.

This is the dilemma of the modern day church.

What is a mega church doing?

Well, we're gonna do our part.

Gotta be the judge in the end.

But we're gonna do our part.

You're gonna do your part.

Let me get personal here.

We're all gonna do our part for the kingdom of God.

This can do this, that can do that.

Here's a thumb, there's a toe, and there's an eye.

Where's the appendix?

It's been extracted.

Don't worry about it.

I can't say I don't need the hand, don't need the eye, don't need the foot.

No.

The body of Christ is joined by the Holy Spirit.

You are one in the family of God.

There are no exclusions.

Praise God.

This sanctifying sanctification that Christ experienced affects many today.

We cannot sanctify ourselves by anything we do other than becoming who God says we are.

Rules and regulations, forget it.

Amen.

Now go to 1 John 4 4.

I want to talk about just a few aspects here today.

That's true.

True.

We'll know the truth, and the truth will make us free.

It's a process.

Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.

So ding ding, Jesus is the one that sets us free and keeps us free.

Without him, there's no hope.

But thank God he's with us.

And even Christ will redeem a non-believer.

Like we all were.

Like I told some guys the other day, they're working on the fence up there.

And this person said, Well, this older man said we're all sinners.

That you're sinners because you're doing such and such.

And I said, You know how it is with me.

I said, Look, Jesus is the subject.

And here's the deal.

If you guys accept Jesus, then God accepts you, sinner at all.

So get your holy nose out of the air, everybody.

We're all sinners.

Deserving nothing.

But when we believed on the Savior, everything changed.

And if it didn't change, you're not believing correctly.

You'll never become a disciple until you settle this thing.

I have believed and that is it.

Glory to God.

And I will continue to believe.

No matter what anybody thinks or says, because I make the decision.

Now there's a good side of this Christianity.

It's all good, but we're all in a warfare.

How many have noticed that the last few months?

Nobody?

Well, if you're on the Lord's side, Satan's going to fight us.

Demons are going to attack.

But they lose in the end.

But we do go through the circumstances they create.

And have overcome them.

Now, everybody in the world, including demons, fallen angels, toxic people.

We've overcome them.

Already.

Because, everybody said, because.

Now say it with me.

Are you ready to go?

Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world.

Who's in the world?

Satan's the God of this world.

Fallen angels have been assigned over states and nations and countries.

And demons have been assigned to you, believe it or not.

At least one demon, it seems, have been assigned to each believer or each person on earth.

But fear not, God has twice as many angels as Satan has fallen angels.

And our angels are big and mean.

And they sent, they're sent to minister to the heirs of salvation, which we are.

Amen.

And so the greater one, the Holy Spirit.

Everybody said the Holy Ghost.

That's not a Pentecostal word, that's in the Bible.

But back when I came to the Pentecostal church, I still am Pentecost, they would say, so many got the Holy Ghost.

They got the Holy Ghost.

Well, that's right.

Charismatics come along.

Well, they got the Spirit.

No, when you get the Holy Ghost, you get the Holy Ghost.

That's the way it was.

When you get the Holy Ghost, you get the Holy Ghost.

But I want to ask, how much of you does the Holy Ghost have?

It's not about us receiving him, he receives us.

It's synonymous.

And then, of course, the tongues come along with it.

Oh, you tongue fighters, you won't win.

We're stammering lips in another tongue while I speak to this people.

You will not overcome the truth of God's word.

So you might as well repent of your false doctrine and become a tongue talker like all the rest of Pentecost church is.

If you want to talk to God in a heavenly language, there's no other way.

Why?

Well, I'm off now.

Not really, it's scriptural.

He that speaks in an unknown tongue doesn't speak unto men but unto God.

Satan does not know what you're praying when you're praying in the heavenly tongues.

Therefore, he cannot hinder a perfect prayer.

Glory to God.

So say after me.

You know, there's a street over there in Grove, Oklahoma called Sundi Street.

Right, Sundi Street?

I like that.

It's right there by the Spirit-Filled Church, you know.

Grove, Christians, Sundi Avenue, whatever it is, I don't know.

We could call this Pentecost Lane, change it from Beaver Street.

I don't like Beaver Street.

Pentecost Lane, I like that.

Well, need to have a little fun.

But you know.

The fact is the greater one lives in you, which is the Holy Ghost Himself.

If you're saved today by the blood of the Lamb, the Holy Spirit lives inside of your inner man.

He came to set up home.

He's not leaving.

Glory to God.

He's not, you can't hardly make him leave.

The only way you can make the Holy Spirit leave is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit, and we're not going to do that.

Therefore, we are conditionally secure.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

The Holy Spirit, when he comes, he comes to stay.

How many saved?

Say amen.

Then turn to the one that said amen and say the Holy Spirit lives in you.

It's true.

I'm saying truth.

He abides with you, and Jesus said, He shall be in you.

Praise God.

But turn over to St.

John chapter 7.

John 7 · chapter mention

I said I wasn't going to go long today, but you're bringing it out on me.

So let's go to St.

John chapter 7 here.

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Let me find it.

Let me back up here a little bit.

Getting ready for Africa.

Praise God.

Shundi, Shundai.

And all that good stuff.

I said I would find it here.

Yeah, let's look at verse 37, please.

St.

John chapter 7, 37.

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In the last day of that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink, okay?

When he gets saved, you're going to come and drink, right?

He that believes on me.

As the scripture said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

So as we've explained 20 years ago, when you become a child of God, you have the well of water indwelt, which is the residing presence of the Holy Spirit Himself.

But you're not filled.

Now we know Jesus is talking about being filled with the Holy Ghost here in verse 38.

He that believes on me, you already have the well of water.

You're already born of the Spirit of God.

So you're heaven-bound.

But we can go further for the abundant life here and now and do something for God with power.

As the scripture said, there it is.

Out of its belly shall flow a river of living water, and in verse 39, this spake he of the Spirit.

Say, but listen to me.

This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive.

Praise God, hallelujah.

You cannot extract that from the Word of God lest you get in trouble with the Lord Himself.

If we add to or take away, you're in danger getting your name blotted out of the book.

I won't do it.

No, no, no, no.

I'm just speaking truth, everybody.

What's this acquired in here?

Now, 2 Timothy 2.13.

Let me get back on the subject because I don't want to upset too many people.

Just a few.

2 Timothy 2.13.

If we believe not, now this is complicated, if we believe not, he abides faithful, he cannot deny himself.

Christ cannot deny his work he did on the cross.

Therefore, in view of the fact that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, he cannot deny himself, even though we may not may not believe everything properly all the time.

And even non-believers, they don't believe yet, but Christ cannot deny what he did on the cross for that unbeliever.

How much more being interrupted by the Holy Spirit, even though we may not believe everything properly right now?

God's not through with us.

He's still sanctifying us.

We're still growing by leaps and bounds.

That's a faith statement.

We're still growing by leaps and bounds.

We're still growing by leaps and bounds.

You may not think you're growing, but you are, because the truth is making you free.

Now say amen, somebody.

It's like a child, it's like a ten-year or five, four-year-old.

Those shoes are too small.

I didn't know they were growing.

But they are.

Now, most of us that are adult, I hope, we're growing not up but out.

I, yeah, never mind.

Push your word the trinkets, everybody.

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Randy Davis.

Well, Christ won't deny himself.

Praise God.

You know, the Savior is so much better than we know.

He's greater than we can understand.

But he's still the Savior.

Now, there's a few more points I want to bring out about knowing the truth.

Romans 8, 1.

Now here's a good point.

We need to get this in our spirit and don't let Satan rob it.

Because that's what he wants to do.

Therefore, everybody say therefore, there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

And because we're in Christ Jesus now, there is no condemnation on you.

I said there's no condemnation on you.

There's no condemnation on me.

Satan cannot condemn what God has cleansed.

You're not condemned.

Quit walking around like you're condemned.

Satan's the one condemned to hell, none of us.

There's no condemnation.

What pest are you talking about?

I know we're all sin.

So what?

It's under the blood, it's washed by the blood.

God doesn't even know what in the world we're talking about.

So we're not condemned.

There's no condemnation.

But the condition is we need to walk after the spirit and not the flesh.

That flesh will lead us away from God.

But following the Holy Spirit leads us closer to God.

Which one do we want?

You want to know God?

Follow the Holy Spirit.

He will never lead us to commit one sin because God cannot sin.

There are three things God cannot do.

God cannot sin.

God cannot lie.

And God cannot die.

You can take it to the bank.

We're serving the immutable, all-knowing, all-powerful God of the universe.

He is in charge of things.

Praise God.

All we need to do is realize because we're saved, we're not condemned.

Quit letting people lay a guilt trip on you.

Huh?

That's not from God.

Reject it.

Ask God to help them understand that they're condemned.

That's why they want you to walk in the same path they're on, so we can all be condemned together.

No, I refuse.

When the sun sets free is free indeed.

I am free from condemnation.

Say it with me.

I am free from condemnation.

Praise God.

It makes us feel a little better.

All these churches, all these rules and regulations just condemn people.

Assign this sheet, and you swear you're not going to break any of these rules, next day they break them all.

It won't work.

Led by the Spirit.

Not a bunch of rules and regulations.

There are two principles in the New Testament we need to understand.

Keep the faith and stay in grace.

That's all.

That's all.

That's all.

That's all.

Now drop down into verse 39.

So we're not condemned.

We're not condemned.

If I look at uh a brother or sister, whether they're a baby and the Lord have been saved 50 years, they're not condemned.

They may not understand some things, they may be carnal or whatever, but they're still not condemned.

So why should we condemn them?

That'd be a Pharisee attitude.

We're not gonna do it.

We're not gonna do it.

It wouldn't be godly.

And if we're sanctified, we will not do it.

Now don't lose your sanctification just because Sister Sal says something that's wrong.

That's what she does.

Well, what are you thinking on a feminine?

Okay, Brother Mooney might say something wrong.

You're gonna get condemned because what he says is a lie.

They lied about Jesus.

They'll lie about us.

So what?

What's the chapter of the wheat, saith the Lord?

Judgment's coming.

We better keep our nose clean with the Lord.

Now look at verse 39 of that same chapter.

Height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God.

Which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So nobody, no entity in heaven or on earth or beneath the earth can separate you and me from God and His love.

Nobody.

So God actually loves us in spite of our own carnity.

He loves us in spite of all the stupid mistakes we make in life's journey.

Don't you think God knew we're gonna mess up?

But he still loved us.

Even when we're Christ, even when we're sinners, Christ died for us.

What kind of love is this?

It's a love beyond our comprehension.

It's agape love, it has no limits.

God's love has no limits.

So what I'm saying is that because of these aspects I've mentioned this morning, if you're taking notes behind your eyelids today, we can't make God love us anymore than he already does.

I can't start doing something to make God love me anymore, and I can't stop doing something to make God love me anymore.

He loves us in spite of what we do or do not do.

The question is, is how sanctified are we and how set apart are we for the master's work?

That's the question.

Well, I'll admit I can't do anything.

I don't know anything, I can't be anything.

And yet God says, You see, the Lord takes a nobody, and then through sanctification, He makes a somebody.

And when you understand you're somebody in Christ, you seem to walk with a little spring.

You know, those guys that are uh, what do you call those dignitaries from another country?

They come in, you know, like Hitler, you know, they walk like this, you know, they got a little spring in their stead.

Hey, we ought to have a jump, praise God, because we're somebody in the Lord.

God says we're kings and priests, and we're gonna judge the world.

Glory to God.

It's just a matter of time.

We're gonna assume our position in God's infinite eternity.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

It's all coming this way fast.

So I wish we could help the Lord in this area, but the fact is we just hinder.

Why did we struggle to try to be more spiritual when we're already spiritual?

There's no such thing as being more spiritual.

You're either spiritual or you're not.

Now we could be more anointed.

But if you're a Christian, you are spiritual because you have a spirit that's been resurrected to walk in newness of life.

This is the package deal.

But it's up to you how far you're gonna go in this covenant.

Amen.

Some are just along for the ride.

Well, you're gonna be let out at the next stop sign.

I'm not joking.

This thing is narrowing down here.

There's a separation in the church and the contemporary church in America.

They're professed ones, Baptists are correct, and there's the ones that's got the goods.

They're hated.

Well, we're in pretty good company.

But you know what?

God is not an Indian giver, and I apologize to our uh Indian friends.

There's no difference concerning salvation, but we get that slang Indian giver.

There was a song uh power venerators, Indian Giver, or something like that, years ago.

Yeah, I was born.

I was listening to that kind of stuff.

They wore tight pants about this.

I don't know how they got in those tight pants, but they did.

Oh, we got some in church today.

I want to say something, people.

You'll never see me preaching with no socks on.

Not gonna happen.

Poor prosperity preachers can't even buy any socks to wear.

You're just old-fashioned.

You got it.

You got it.

We're rare.

In other words, God cannot retract salvation.

Once you receive salvation, He won't take it back.

You can't make God take back your salvation.

Now you can walk off over a period of time.

You're not gonna do that, are you?

Why?

Because the truth warns us not to do that.

But we're not gonna tempt the Lord.

No, we're not gonna tempt God.

We're gonna stay in the ark because the ark's getting ready to go up when the flood comes.

Praise God.

Furthermore, God would not retract any good thing from his children.

I mean, nothing.

And actually, he's given us all things to enjoy right now.

We already have what we need right now.

Will you quit looking to the forward?

Oh God, if you just do this, he's already done things.

Like, for example, when Moses is leading the children of Israel out of Egypt and they come up the Red Sea and they're gonna, the Pharaoh's army's gonna kill them, you know.

And Moses, Moses, what are we gonna do?

And God, and Moses says, What are we gonna do?

And God says, What's that in your hand?

A stick.

Can God use a stick?

Hold the stick up.

See, we have to do something.

And then God does something.

Oh, let me say it again.

We have to do something, we get to do something, and then God does something.

He has already done something, but now it's up to us to step out on the water and trust God and see what he's gonna do next.

Because it's unknown until it's known.

Like, for example, this hopeful land up here for a new building one of these years.

I mean, you know what?

We're not gonna know until we step out and see what God's gonna do.

That's right.

That's right.

Praise God.

It's easy to talk about it.

Let's see who's gonna step out and fill the net one more time.

We're not hell, we're not catching anything.

Throw it on the other side of the boat one more time.

I tried every brand and he catches on the bass, and I catch nothing.

You know what I'm saying?

That's because I'm not a fisherman.

I fish for men, okay?

And women.

And every now and then we'll snag a few.

That's up to them to stay in the boat.

We just bring them in.

The last thing I want to say today is we're complete in Christ.

We're complete in Christ.

Colossians 2 10, the last verse today.

Praise God.

Let's roll off.

Quote if a person's committed to God, he is indestructible until his work is done.

End quote.

So, whatever God's assigned you to do, you cannot be defeated until you finish what you're supposed to do.

God will see to it.

Because it's all him anyway.

We're just along for the ride.

Cheer up, everybody.

We're not driving the boat, Jesus is.

We're not driving the car, Jesus is.

We're not driving a motorcycle.

Well, we might be driving a motorcycle, but you know.

He's in charge.

Never get that time.

I think it was Mike, Mike Long that was going to Tulsa, and he had a blowout.

You know where the overpass is, where you're going to Tulsa there, and and McDonald's is there, where you all stop and get Big Mac and fries and a chocolate shake.

You know where it's at, right?

Well, he had a blowout.

Right there, pull underneath the that arch there and pull over the side of the road.

Got out and looked, and he walked around in the car, and suddenly the tire blew up again, and he drove the tossa.

Now explain that to me.

There's been many times I'm well aware that God put gasoline in my automobile.

That's what you call getting home on a prayer.

You don't think God can do that?

We need to take the limits off everybody.

God's already provided everything we need.

To leave live here in an abundant way.

And receive the glory of the new Jerusalem soon.

We're complete in Christ.

Closest to 10.

You are complete in him.

Turn your neighbor and say, you're already complete in Jesus.

So what are you trying to help for?

We're already complete.

We got our wedding garment on right now.

I know there's a little polishing we need to do, let the Lord do on us, but nevertheless.

We're in covenant.

Our name's in the book.

We're complete in Christ.

And he is the head of all principality and power.

He calls the shots, but we're complete in him.

Satan can't do nothing.

We're more than conquerors through Christ.

We have the abundant life now.

Might as well start acting like it.

Quit looking at what you don't have and start appreciating what you do have.

Oh, let me say it again.

Can I say it again?

Quit looking at the lack and looking at the provisions we already have.

Praise God.

And be thankful.

I mean, when we develop the kind of faith that some of these people had back in the yesteryear, they had nothing to eat.

And this one lady says, let's sit down now, kids.

We're going to thank God for our food.

They sat down to the table.

They didn't have any food.

It seemed.

Folks, there is a spirit realm that's more real than this realm that's changing.

And everything that happens in, listen now, everything that happens in the natural realm here first takes place in the spirit world.

Then it comes over as a manifestation of good or evil.

But we are the ones that decide what's coming.

Now I know we're not little gods, but Jesus said, Ask what you will and it shall be done.

If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, then he said, Ask what you will and it shall be done.

This is the truth that Satan wants to stop.

But the fact is, he cannot stop a child of God that knows the truth.

Because God has blessed us, and he cannot re God is not a man that he should lie near the Son of Man, He should repent.

Has He blessed him?

Shall He not make it good?

What does God rot?

He's blessed us and we didn't deserve anything.

I know.

But we still have it.

Because God loves us and we're complete in Christ.

So today, when you leave this church building today, know that God is with you.

God is in you, and He's coming back for you.

We are complete in Christ.

Quit worrying about everything you can't change the past.

Child of God, you have no past.

It's all under the blood.

All we have is a glorious future.

I said, we got a glorious future.

When Satan tells you you have no future, or your past is brought up from the devil, give your mind that devil, his future is a lake of fire.

We've read the last chapter in the book.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

This old whining, sniveling, complaining, Christianity's gotta stop.

I know we have problems.

Join the club.

Amen.

Why has God blessed some of you the way he has?

Because you've been faithful to him.

Are we faithful to him?

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