1 00:00:01,220 --> 00:00:03,100 Well, I'm glad to be back with you 2 00:00:03,100 --> 00:00:04,260 again today on Eagle's Wings. 3 00:00:04,580 --> 00:00:07,680 You know, yesterday I was over in Denver 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,040 in the airport, had some time waiting there, 5 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,280 and I was just watching people, walking around, 6 00:00:14,620 --> 00:00:15,860 watching people. 7 00:00:16,780 --> 00:00:20,080 And the truth of the matter is, I 8 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:22,980 don't see much life in the eyes of 9 00:00:22,980 --> 00:00:23,360 people. 10 00:00:23,820 --> 00:00:26,340 A lot of darkness, a lot of confusion. 11 00:00:26,340 --> 00:00:29,900 One lady sat down across from me in 12 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:31,479 the chair, and I, and every now and 13 00:00:31,479 --> 00:00:33,740 then, didn't want to be very conspicuous on 14 00:00:33,740 --> 00:00:34,820 it, but I would look at her and 15 00:00:34,820 --> 00:00:35,900 I'd watch her eyes. 16 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:39,560 And out of her eyes, I got one 17 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,580 message, and that was lost and hurt, lost 18 00:00:43,580 --> 00:00:44,580 and hurt. 19 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:47,480 Out of all the confusion, out of all 20 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:50,660 the hurt going on in this world, there 21 00:00:50,660 --> 00:00:51,820 is hope. 22 00:00:51,820 --> 00:00:54,620 And out of all the pain that's going 23 00:00:54,620 --> 00:00:55,820 on, there is hope. 24 00:00:56,220 --> 00:00:59,060 But it's only in one person, and that's 25 00:00:59,060 --> 00:01:00,120 in Jesus Christ. 26 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:04,239 And my friend, if you miss Jesus, you 27 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:04,980 miss life. 28 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:06,580 You miss Him. 29 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:08,980 You only have one chance. 30 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:10,280 This is it. 31 00:01:10,580 --> 00:01:11,820 One crack at life. 32 00:01:12,260 --> 00:01:14,600 And the problem is, the Bible says, as 33 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,940 it is appointed unto man once to die, 34 00:01:16,940 --> 00:01:19,500 after this judgment, one man said, if I 35 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:22,260 could just find out when that appointment is, 36 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:23,520 I would miss it. 37 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:26,500 I would make plans to avoid it and 38 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:27,160 not be there. 39 00:01:27,340 --> 00:01:28,620 But you can't do that. 40 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:31,760 You can't miss your appointment with death. 41 00:01:32,780 --> 00:01:36,740 Don't miss Jesus before that appointment comes. 42 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,600 One of the things that saddens my heart 43 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,820 is that I can see that same look 44 00:01:42,820 --> 00:01:46,160 in those same eyes in the churches that 45 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:47,780 I go into around the country. 46 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,340 I've been in about, what, I guess three, 47 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,300 four, three churches preaching this year. 48 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,000 And I would only say that there's been 49 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,400 one where I said there was a good 50 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,640 spirit, where there was purity. 51 00:01:59,980 --> 00:02:01,420 And the one that I'm in now, the 52 00:02:01,420 --> 00:02:02,840 one that God's placed me in to be 53 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,520 a servant under a pastor and to help 54 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,440 him bring revival in his church, in his 55 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,460 town, God is moving to purify us to 56 00:02:09,460 --> 00:02:11,360 where we have one spirit. 57 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,100 Been studying in the Word of God how 58 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:15,040 we're supposed to have one mind. 59 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,280 My friend, that only comes from the Holy 60 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:17,660 Spirit. 61 00:02:17,780 --> 00:02:19,260 I have so many things that I want 62 00:02:19,260 --> 00:02:19,900 to share with you. 63 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,120 So many areas I could take off in. 64 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,300 I've been studying in 1 Peter on this 65 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:25,240 one mind. 66 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:26,280 So essential. 67 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,340 That's why we have all this division and 68 00:02:28,340 --> 00:02:30,220 confusion in our churches, because we have other 69 00:02:30,220 --> 00:02:30,660 minds. 70 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,400 We have other intellects feeding our minds, giving 71 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:35,180 us thoughts. 72 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:37,620 And we're throwing these thoughts around and we're 73 00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:40,840 following out because action follows thought. 74 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,300 We're following out these thoughts. 75 00:02:42,420 --> 00:02:44,420 And many of us do not understand that 76 00:02:44,420 --> 00:02:45,580 we're being demonized. 77 00:02:45,660 --> 00:02:47,560 We're being influenced by demons. 78 00:02:47,780 --> 00:02:51,200 We're being influenced by philosophies of demonic beings 79 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,060 that come into our lives from so many 80 00:02:53,060 --> 00:02:53,720 different areas. 81 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,380 And we are being flooded and confused and 82 00:02:57,380 --> 00:02:59,080 polluted in our churches today. 83 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,500 My biggest concern right now and concern that 84 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:04,340 God is burning in my heart to share 85 00:03:04,340 --> 00:03:06,820 with you is that you would be born 86 00:03:06,820 --> 00:03:07,200 again. 87 00:03:07,740 --> 00:03:09,480 I shared with you last week a little 88 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,640 bit from a message from a revivalist, a 89 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:13,500 young revivalist. 90 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:14,780 He's got things to learn. 91 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:16,600 He's just been going for a short time. 92 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:18,960 And one of the reasons I'm sharing Charley 93 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:19,800 Orr with you, and I'm going to share 94 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,760 a little bit more on that message about 95 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:23,820 counterfeit Christians today with you. 96 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,580 But I told Charley when he left here, 97 00:03:26,660 --> 00:03:29,380 I said, Charley, would it be all right 98 00:03:29,380 --> 00:03:32,360 if I played some of your messages to 99 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:33,120 promote you? 100 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:35,520 You're just starting out in your ministry. 101 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,080 I believe that God is going to use 102 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,680 you, and I want to encourage you in 103 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:39,180 your ministry. 104 00:03:39,540 --> 00:03:41,480 Maybe one of the churches listening to this 105 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,140 man today, God might prompt you to get 106 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:46,000 a hold of Charley Orr and invite him 107 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:46,640 into your church. 108 00:03:46,740 --> 00:03:49,900 But before you do that, you pray and 109 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:51,280 ask God if you're willing to pay the 110 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,020 price, because this man shoots straight and he 111 00:03:54,020 --> 00:03:54,700 shoots hard. 112 00:03:55,540 --> 00:03:57,300 He was just getting warmed up to us, 113 00:03:57,420 --> 00:03:58,680 but he speaks the truth. 114 00:03:59,060 --> 00:04:02,140 And God's taken him through the trials of 115 00:04:02,140 --> 00:04:02,440 life. 116 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,040 He's taken him through the deep waters. 117 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,340 And if we get into his testimony later 118 00:04:06,340 --> 00:04:08,980 on of how God took him and broke 119 00:04:08,980 --> 00:04:12,100 him, you'll see that he's gone through some 120 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:12,420 stuff. 121 00:04:12,780 --> 00:04:15,260 But right now, the message that he's going 122 00:04:15,260 --> 00:04:16,980 to share with us is on counterfeit Christians. 123 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:18,420 But I want to say some things before 124 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:19,300 we get into that. 125 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:22,240 And I'd like to give you all the 126 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,680 time I could on Charley Orr, but I 127 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,220 want to give you some Scripture. 128 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:26,860 And I want you to listen to this. 129 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:32,640 Jesus said, Not every one that saith unto 130 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,940 me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom 131 00:04:34,940 --> 00:04:37,640 of heaven, but he that doeth the will 132 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,760 of my Father, which is in heaven. 133 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:42,780 You cannot get away from the fact that 134 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:45,900 doing now we don't do to be saved, 135 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,300 but the doing gives evidence that we exist 136 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:51,060 in Jesus. 137 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:54,280 Oh, Theodore, a great Bible teacher of past 138 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:55,880 days who's now gone on to be with 139 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:56,280 the Lord. 140 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:59,060 Used to say that the doing will come 141 00:04:59,060 --> 00:04:59,920 out of the being. 142 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,440 But so so much of our performance today, 143 00:05:03,460 --> 00:05:05,160 we're just performance oriented. 144 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,400 And it's we're trying to do to show 145 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,120 that we're spiritual. 146 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:10,460 We're trying to show others that we can 147 00:05:10,460 --> 00:05:10,920 do it. 148 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:12,520 Preachers and laymen alike. 149 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,680 We're trying to show each other up that 150 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:15,580 we are spiritual. 151 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,060 I can keep up with you. 152 00:05:17,220 --> 00:05:18,640 I can be just as busy as you. 153 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,560 But the fact of the matter is sometimes 154 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,440 we miss Jesus on the way. 155 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,600 And a lot of the stuff that we're 156 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,160 doing, we have no business doing. 157 00:05:25,820 --> 00:05:28,060 And I can go into a church and 158 00:05:28,060 --> 00:05:29,840 I can tell if that church is on 159 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:31,960 a spiritual track or if that church is 160 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,380 on a on a doing track out of 161 00:05:34,380 --> 00:05:37,020 just works by the amount of time they 162 00:05:37,020 --> 00:05:37,720 spend praying. 163 00:05:37,860 --> 00:05:40,260 If you're not a praying church, then you 164 00:05:40,260 --> 00:05:41,520 may be very active. 165 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,540 But I have a question for you. 166 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:46,020 Who are you active for? 167 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,080 Don't we understand that this that the devil 168 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,080 will get us active any way he can, 169 00:05:53,220 --> 00:05:54,920 as long as we will not be active 170 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:55,400 in prayer? 171 00:05:55,740 --> 00:05:58,020 You may even have a visitation program, a 172 00:05:58,020 --> 00:05:59,120 soul winning program. 173 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,660 But let me tell you, if it gets 174 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:02,080 right down to it, you look at the 175 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,320 fruit, you look at the fruit that your 176 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,900 church is producing and just see if you're 177 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:08,240 getting the right type of fruit. 178 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:09,460 You know, you get out there on your 179 00:06:09,460 --> 00:06:09,740 tree. 180 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,360 If you don't take care of that fruit 181 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,040 tree, cultivate it, prune it just right, treat 182 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,300 it just right, give it just the right 183 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:17,920 kind of moisture and watering and all the 184 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,680 nutrients that it needs, it's going to come 185 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,660 out with poor fruit or maybe no fruit. 186 00:06:23,220 --> 00:06:25,420 Well, you can't do anything that's going to 187 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:27,800 produce the right type of fruit without prayer. 188 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,580 Everything is to spring out of prayer. 189 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:32,420 This is the Holy Spirit's leading. 190 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:34,120 This is the Holy Spirit's teaching. 191 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:35,860 This is the Holy Spirit's doing. 192 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:37,320 And so if you've got a lot of 193 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,780 activity without a lot of prayer backing it 194 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:41,900 up and coming before it, then I doubt 195 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:43,920 that it's the Holy Spirit's doing. 196 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,600 Now, Jesus said, He that doeth the will 197 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,000 of my Father which is in heaven. 198 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,980 Many will say unto me in that day, 199 00:06:52,420 --> 00:06:55,100 Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy 200 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:57,180 name and in thy name cast out devils 201 00:06:57,180 --> 00:06:59,740 and in thy name done many wonderful works? 202 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,280 And then will I profess unto them, I 203 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:03,460 never knew you. 204 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:06,480 Depart from me ye that work iniquity. 205 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,160 A lot of the doing is iniquity, that 206 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:10,460 self will. 207 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,160 We're doing that which I want to do 208 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:14,940 and not that which God wants me to 209 00:07:14,940 --> 00:07:15,160 do. 210 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:16,700 And that is iniquity. 211 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:18,820 You can even do something that's good. 212 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,800 And if God hasn't told you to do 213 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,360 it, then that's iniquity because it's in your 214 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,940 own self will. 215 00:07:26,180 --> 00:07:29,240 Now, are you truly born again? 216 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,520 Are you really saved? 217 00:07:31,820 --> 00:07:34,860 Someone said that the new birth is not 218 00:07:34,860 --> 00:07:36,140 by natural descent. 219 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Being born again into a Christian family does 220 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,480 not ensure that one is right in God's 221 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:41,740 sight. 222 00:07:42,140 --> 00:07:43,420 Do you think that you're a Christian? 223 00:07:43,420 --> 00:07:45,640 Have you just assumed that you're a Christian 224 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:47,500 because you were born into a Christian family? 225 00:07:48,620 --> 00:07:50,640 It doesn't work in the spiritual realm the 226 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,000 way it does in the physical realm. 227 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:54,440 You have to be born again, as Jesus 228 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:54,780 said. 229 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:57,220 And somebody also said the new birth is 230 00:07:57,220 --> 00:07:59,880 not a mere making good resolutions. 231 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:02,700 Daily, one can make a determination to conquer 232 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:05,600 some besetting sin, but at evening admit failure. 233 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,980 Some may even achieve by sheer willpower a 234 00:08:08,980 --> 00:08:13,520 conquest over some base habit, but remain unregenerated. 235 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:16,620 You can have tremendous willpower to change your 236 00:08:16,620 --> 00:08:19,300 life in some area where you're morally wrong, 237 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,720 but only by the Spirit of God can 238 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:22,800 you be regenerated. 239 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,500 And someone also said the new birth is 240 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:28,380 not joining the church or observing the sacraments. 241 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:30,740 One might go to church twice on Sundays 242 00:08:30,740 --> 00:08:33,419 with their Bible and faithfully partake of the 243 00:08:33,419 --> 00:08:36,360 Lord's Supper and not be regenerated. 244 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,360 One might have been confirmed or even baptized 245 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,620 and still be a stranger to the new 246 00:08:41,620 --> 00:08:42,100 birth. 247 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,600 The new birth is not in performing good 248 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:46,140 works. 249 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,460 And this is what the Scripture clearly teaches, 250 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:50,460 for by grace are you saved through faith 251 00:08:50,460 --> 00:08:51,920 and that not of yourselves. 252 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,360 It is a gift and not of works 253 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:55,900 so that no man can boast. 254 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,380 So the new birth is not in performing 255 00:08:58,380 --> 00:08:58,900 good works. 256 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:01,960 An unconverted person, in order to appease a 257 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,480 guilty conscience, may perform many good works and 258 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,540 do many commendable things in his area. 259 00:09:09,140 --> 00:09:10,980 And a person may tithe regularly. 260 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:15,780 You may even exceed the tithe and still 261 00:09:15,780 --> 00:09:16,840 not be born again. 262 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,180 And also someone said the new birth is 263 00:09:19,180 --> 00:09:21,700 not in imitating the life of Christ. 264 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,280 One may endeavor to follow the example of 265 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,600 Christ as seen in the Gospels and yet 266 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,140 not be born again. 267 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,360 And someone also said the new birth is 268 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,200 not conviction for sin. 269 00:09:35,180 --> 00:09:36,520 Many have experienced this. 270 00:09:36,620 --> 00:09:39,480 You know, you can be convicted almost to 271 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,020 where you think you're going to die, but 272 00:09:41,020 --> 00:09:42,940 until you repent of your sin and trust 273 00:09:42,940 --> 00:09:45,180 Christ as your Savior, you've never been born 274 00:09:45,180 --> 00:09:45,560 again. 275 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,680 So you can do whatever you want. 276 00:09:48,940 --> 00:09:50,160 Many have experienced this. 277 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,740 And you can even reform to a certain 278 00:09:52,740 --> 00:09:55,560 extent without having the witness to being a 279 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:56,700 son of God. 280 00:09:56,700 --> 00:09:58,720 The new birth is not having gone forward 281 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,000 in an evangelistic meeting. 282 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:01,980 This is one that's probably got a lot 283 00:10:01,980 --> 00:10:02,320 of us. 284 00:10:02,580 --> 00:10:04,140 We thought that we were saved because we 285 00:10:04,140 --> 00:10:04,660 went forward. 286 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:05,720 This is what happened to me. 287 00:10:05,980 --> 00:10:07,600 I thought I was saved because I went 288 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:08,360 and talked to the preacher. 289 00:10:08,460 --> 00:10:10,020 I thought I was saved because that night 290 00:10:10,020 --> 00:10:12,400 I went forward and was baptized. 291 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,280 But I never was saved until I was 292 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,060 regenerated, born again by the Spirit of God, 293 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:19,760 and a change came into my heart. 294 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,300 I had cleansing and forgiveness of my sins. 295 00:10:23,300 --> 00:10:25,460 As the Bible says, therefore, if any man 296 00:10:25,460 --> 00:10:27,540 be in Christ, he's a new creature. 297 00:10:28,460 --> 00:10:29,580 Old things are passed away. 298 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:30,880 New things have come. 299 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:33,620 Until you experience this, you can go forward 300 00:10:33,620 --> 00:10:34,640 all you want. 301 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:36,680 This is why you can go forward in 302 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:38,840 an evangelistic campaign and you turn around and 303 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,260 go right back to your old ways. 304 00:10:40,540 --> 00:10:41,720 My friend, if you can go back to 305 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,540 your old ways, you never have entered into 306 00:10:44,540 --> 00:10:46,700 the new way of being born again. 307 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,860 And our churches are full of people that 308 00:10:49,860 --> 00:10:52,640 have had some kind of experience, some kind 309 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,800 of an emotional experience, some kind of an 310 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,580 experience, whatever kind, and there's thousands of them 311 00:10:58,580 --> 00:10:59,180 that you can have. 312 00:10:59,420 --> 00:11:01,640 But until you've been born again, you've been 313 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,960 born into the Kingdom of God, you enter 314 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,980 into the spiritual realm, and the Spirit of 315 00:11:05,980 --> 00:11:07,640 God comes to live within your heart. 316 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:09,080 You can be baptized. 317 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,640 You can do all kinds of things. 318 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,100 You'll never get to heaven. 319 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,420 Now, I wanted to share with you, before 320 00:11:15,420 --> 00:11:17,480 Charlie got going on this, some of the 321 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,180 seriousness in this area. 322 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,060 And I don't know, Charlie may not get 323 00:11:21,060 --> 00:11:21,540 on today. 324 00:11:21,540 --> 00:11:23,700 We'll just let the Lord lead us. 325 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,660 I have my plans, and I continually have 326 00:11:26,660 --> 00:11:28,640 to yield my plans. 327 00:11:28,780 --> 00:11:30,180 I die daily, Paul said. 328 00:11:30,260 --> 00:11:32,100 That means he dies to his life, to 329 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:34,340 the life of Paul, and Jesus will live 330 00:11:34,340 --> 00:11:35,260 his life that day. 331 00:11:35,620 --> 00:11:37,020 One of the problems is, when we get 332 00:11:37,020 --> 00:11:38,700 up in the morning, if we don't die 333 00:11:38,700 --> 00:11:41,460 that day to self, you can get up 334 00:11:41,460 --> 00:11:43,100 and take off and go through the whole 335 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:45,320 day and live that day for all eternity 336 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,660 that will come up as a big zero, 337 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:49,400 wood, hay, and stubble. 338 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,340 And someday you'll have the privilege of watching 339 00:11:51,340 --> 00:11:53,460 that day be burn up in smoke. 340 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,040 You can be a pastor, a Sunday school 341 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:55,380 teacher. 342 00:11:55,780 --> 00:11:57,020 You can be a college president. 343 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:58,900 But if you do not walk in the 344 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:01,340 Spirit and start that day by dying to 345 00:12:01,340 --> 00:12:03,840 self and letting Jesus live his life through 346 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,600 you, and you die daily all through the 347 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,860 day, I don't care if you do that 348 00:12:07,860 --> 00:12:09,100 for a hundred years. 349 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,040 If you do not walk in the Spirit, 350 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:12,540 if I do not walk in the Spirit, 351 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,380 I won't have nothing but a pile of 352 00:12:15,380 --> 00:12:16,260 wood, hay, and stubble. 353 00:12:16,260 --> 00:12:18,220 And let me tell you something, that's going 354 00:12:18,220 --> 00:12:20,460 to make a mighty nice bonfire. 355 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,760 How would you like to see 50 years 356 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,560 of your life go up in smoke? 357 00:12:26,540 --> 00:12:28,220 That's what a lot of our works are 358 00:12:28,220 --> 00:12:29,540 today, smoke. 359 00:12:30,180 --> 00:12:32,940 We have Christians that are doing things not 360 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:34,680 in the Spirit, and we have people that 361 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:37,080 are doing Christian things that have never been 362 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:38,320 born again. 363 00:12:38,580 --> 00:12:39,640 We've never been born again. 364 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,800 Some while back, I shared with you in 365 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,340 Exodus 12, 13, remember? 366 00:12:43,340 --> 00:12:45,740 God said, when I see the blood, He 367 00:12:45,740 --> 00:12:46,980 would pass over you. 368 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,620 If you're not covered by the blood of 369 00:12:49,620 --> 00:12:53,560 the Lord Jesus Christ, He will have to 370 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:55,300 judge you for your sins. 371 00:12:55,940 --> 00:12:56,680 It's the blood. 372 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,460 You know, the shed blood makes salvation possible. 373 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,440 When they would shed the blood of the 374 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,580 Lamb, they were there in Egypt, been in 375 00:13:03,580 --> 00:13:05,140 bondage, and God showed them how to get 376 00:13:05,140 --> 00:13:06,660 out of bondage, and that was through the 377 00:13:06,660 --> 00:13:07,440 blood of the Lamb. 378 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:09,260 And you may have been in bondage all 379 00:13:09,260 --> 00:13:11,700 your life to your habits and whatever. 380 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:13,460 And one of the reasons that sometimes many 381 00:13:13,460 --> 00:13:17,020 professing Christians cannot get victory over sins is 382 00:13:17,020 --> 00:13:18,540 they've never been born again. 383 00:13:18,860 --> 00:13:20,920 But the blood that was shed by the 384 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,020 little lamb that day over in Egypt showed 385 00:13:24,020 --> 00:13:26,440 the blood of the Lamb of God some 386 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,460 thousands of years later that would be shed 387 00:13:28,460 --> 00:13:29,520 on Calvary. 388 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,740 The shed blood makes salvation possible. 389 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,480 But let me tell you something, my friend. 390 00:13:33,740 --> 00:13:37,020 Until they took that blood and sprinkled it 391 00:13:37,020 --> 00:13:39,720 on the doorpost, it was no good to 392 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:40,100 them. 393 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:43,440 The shed blood had to become the sprinkled 394 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:43,820 blood. 395 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,680 And it was possible, but it was not 396 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:49,240 possessed until it was put on the doorpost. 397 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,920 And you can know all about Jesus Christ. 398 00:13:52,660 --> 00:13:54,900 You can know everything that I know and 399 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:57,080 know more than I know, and that wouldn't 400 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:57,780 take much. 401 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,320 But until you apply personally what Jesus Christ 402 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,160 did for you on Calvary, until you apply 403 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,100 that to your own life, you will never, 404 00:14:07,420 --> 00:14:11,100 ever set one toenail inside of the pearly 405 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:11,480 gates. 406 00:14:11,820 --> 00:14:14,660 You won't even get to smell the fragrance 407 00:14:14,660 --> 00:14:15,040 of heaven. 408 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,600 You won't even get a vision of the 409 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:18,400 glory of God. 410 00:14:18,540 --> 00:14:20,600 All you will do is stand at the 411 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,460 great white throne judgment of God. 412 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,300 And that will not be a picnic. 413 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:26,200 And God will open up the books. 414 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,020 And He's going to show you your life. 415 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,860 He's going to show you everything that you 416 00:14:29,860 --> 00:14:30,240 did. 417 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,020 And He's going to show you all the 418 00:14:32,020 --> 00:14:33,740 times when He tried to get you to 419 00:14:33,740 --> 00:14:36,680 receive Jesus as your Savior, and you would 420 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:37,240 not do it. 421 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:39,640 You turned and walked away from this friend 422 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,460 that tried to point out Jesus to you. 423 00:14:41,660 --> 00:14:44,560 You turned off the TV from the evangelistic 424 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,920 campaign when Jesus was trying to get you 425 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:48,960 to look at Him and see how He 426 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:49,980 died on the cross from you. 427 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,500 You walked away from a church service and 428 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,040 went off to a picnic, or went water 429 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,040 skiing, or went off on a trip. 430 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,280 Instead of doing what the Holy Spirit was 431 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,120 trying to get you to Jesus, time after 432 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,320 time after time, He was trying to get 433 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:03,760 you saved. 434 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:05,940 And time after time, you were saying, well, 435 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,340 I'm a pretty good old Joe. 436 00:15:07,540 --> 00:15:09,000 I'm a pretty good old Sally. 437 00:15:09,180 --> 00:15:10,440 I teach Sunday school. 438 00:15:10,660 --> 00:15:12,520 I even preach every now and then. 439 00:15:12,660 --> 00:15:13,820 I do all these things. 440 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:14,620 I was baptized. 441 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,140 And Jesus will say, depart from me, you 442 00:15:18,140 --> 00:15:19,840 workers of iniquity. 443 00:15:19,980 --> 00:15:21,360 I never knew you. 444 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:22,720 I never knew you. 445 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,520 So the shed blood makes salvation possible, but 446 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,040 the sprinkle blood makes salvation possessed. 447 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,780 So what are you resting on, the fact 448 00:15:31,780 --> 00:15:35,200 of Christ's death or faith in Christ's death? 449 00:15:35,340 --> 00:15:37,020 Are you trusting the fact that you're a 450 00:15:37,020 --> 00:15:38,300 pretty good person, that you're going to get 451 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:38,580 to heaven? 452 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,380 If you are, you're entertaining demonic thoughts. 453 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,600 Demons put those thoughts in your mind to 454 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:44,360 make you think that. 455 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:45,240 How do I know that? 456 00:15:45,260 --> 00:15:46,640 Because that's the way they used to do 457 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:47,040 with me. 458 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:49,240 Only had one problem, and that was I 459 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,540 had no peace, no assurance in my heart 460 00:15:51,540 --> 00:15:53,460 that if I would die, I'd go to 461 00:15:53,460 --> 00:15:53,700 heaven. 462 00:15:54,780 --> 00:15:56,580 The Bible says, but as many as believed 463 00:15:56,580 --> 00:15:57,940 in him, to them he gave the right 464 00:15:57,940 --> 00:15:59,220 to become the sons of God. 465 00:15:59,260 --> 00:16:01,040 I didn't have the right because I'd never 466 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,580 placed my faith and the trust in the 467 00:16:03,580 --> 00:16:04,300 blood of Christ. 468 00:16:05,220 --> 00:16:06,940 And this is the record that God has 469 00:16:06,940 --> 00:16:08,300 given to us eternal life. 470 00:16:08,380 --> 00:16:09,060 Remember, it's a gift. 471 00:16:09,300 --> 00:16:11,120 And this life is in his son. 472 00:16:11,380 --> 00:16:13,440 He that has the son has life. 473 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,120 Not he that does all kinds of good 474 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:15,400 works. 475 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,760 Not he that does the sacraments. 476 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,920 Not he that ties, gives the church. 477 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,580 Not he that's been baptized, whatever it is. 478 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,000 But it's those that have the son. 479 00:16:25,740 --> 00:16:28,300 But as many as received him, to them 480 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:30,880 he gave the right to become the sons 481 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:31,360 of God. 482 00:16:31,780 --> 00:16:33,760 And this is the record that God has 483 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:34,760 given to us life. 484 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:36,800 And this life is in his son. 485 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,340 He that has the son has life. 486 00:16:39,580 --> 00:16:42,160 He that has not the son does not 487 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:42,900 have life. 488 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,360 These things that have I written unto you 489 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,340 that believe on the name of the son 490 00:16:47,340 --> 00:16:49,640 of God, that you might know that you 491 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,180 have eternal life, and that you might believe 492 00:16:52,180 --> 00:16:53,560 in the name of the son of God. 493 00:16:53,820 --> 00:16:56,640 You see, it's not your doing that's going 494 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,020 to get you saved, but it's your believing. 495 00:16:59,580 --> 00:17:01,800 What are you putting your faith in? 496 00:17:01,940 --> 00:17:03,240 Where is your faith? 497 00:17:03,380 --> 00:17:04,900 Is your faith in Jesus? 498 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,040 Or is your faith in Jane? 499 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:08,040 Or Joe? 500 00:17:08,220 --> 00:17:09,020 Or John? 501 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:09,920 Or Sally? 502 00:17:10,420 --> 00:17:11,480 Or George? 503 00:17:11,780 --> 00:17:12,480 Or Mary? 504 00:17:13,339 --> 00:17:15,060 Is your faith in yourself? 505 00:17:15,060 --> 00:17:18,960 You don't have the capacity to get yourself 506 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:19,359 to heaven. 507 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:20,680 Why trust yourself? 508 00:17:20,819 --> 00:17:22,640 You don't have the capacity to get yourself 509 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,640 through today or tomorrow. 510 00:17:26,859 --> 00:17:28,060 How do you think you're going to work 511 00:17:28,060 --> 00:17:30,180 your way into heaven when you're not even 512 00:17:30,180 --> 00:17:32,080 sure you can make it back home from 513 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,320 wherever you're at or where you're planning on 514 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:34,860 going today? 515 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,260 And some of you may not make it 516 00:17:37,260 --> 00:17:37,580 today. 517 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,660 God may be getting this message to you 518 00:17:40,660 --> 00:17:40,980 today. 519 00:17:41,180 --> 00:17:43,460 This will be your last time, your last 520 00:17:43,460 --> 00:17:43,940 chance. 521 00:17:43,940 --> 00:17:46,120 And he's trying to get you to Jesus. 522 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:48,300 And you've been avoiding, and you've been avoiding, 523 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:50,580 but if you hung on this far and 524 00:17:50,580 --> 00:17:54,200 you haven't turned me off yet, examine yourself 525 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,060 to see if you're really in the faith. 526 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,000 Paul said he stood in doubt. 527 00:17:58,420 --> 00:17:59,980 He stood in doubt of many of those 528 00:17:59,980 --> 00:18:00,620 that come back. 529 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,160 They were his converts, but they were not 530 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:03,760 God's. 531 00:18:04,060 --> 00:18:05,340 And one of the problems I've had through 532 00:18:05,340 --> 00:18:08,120 my life is I've led many to pray 533 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:10,720 and receive Jesus without them ever coming to 534 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:11,860 have conviction of sin. 535 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:14,100 If you had some kind of experience without 536 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:16,280 conviction of sin where the Spirit of God 537 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,600 convicted you that you were a sinner, then 538 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:20,620 you never repented. 539 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:23,040 You never did really repent. 540 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,420 You had some kind of an experience. 541 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:27,500 And let me tell you, the devil is 542 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:28,940 in the experience business. 543 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,400 He is a con artist and giving you 544 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,460 whatever kind of experience that will soothe your 545 00:18:34,460 --> 00:18:36,640 taste buds and make you feel good and 546 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,380 make you feel like you're a Christian. 547 00:18:38,380 --> 00:18:41,660 And so we have counterfeit Christians today all 548 00:18:41,660 --> 00:18:42,300 over the place. 549 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:44,000 Let me take you back over to another 550 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:44,940 passage of Scripture. 551 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:46,840 Turn back over to Philippians. 552 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,180 I was looking at this in Philippians chapter 553 00:18:51,180 --> 00:18:55,380 3 and verse 17. 554 00:18:55,740 --> 00:19:00,520 Paul said, Brethren, be followers together of me 555 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,940 and mark them which walk. 556 00:19:02,940 --> 00:19:05,640 So as you have us, for an example, 557 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,480 for many walk of whom I have told 558 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,040 you often and now tell you even weeping 559 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,960 that they are the enemies of the cross 560 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:15,520 of Christ. 561 00:19:15,660 --> 00:19:17,660 Do you understand the cross of Christ? 562 00:19:17,860 --> 00:19:20,820 Do you understand that at the cross Jesus 563 00:19:20,820 --> 00:19:23,740 died for our sin and at the cross 564 00:19:23,740 --> 00:19:25,940 when we receive him as our Savior, we 565 00:19:25,940 --> 00:19:27,460 die to sin? 566 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,780 Did you die to sin when you received 567 00:19:30,780 --> 00:19:31,820 Christ as your Savior? 568 00:19:31,820 --> 00:19:36,240 Did there come into your life such a 569 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,200 troubling spirit in the area of sin where 570 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,540 you cannot be comfortable in it anymore? 571 00:19:41,860 --> 00:19:43,720 Then you were probably born again. 572 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,460 If you can sin without being convicted about 573 00:19:48,460 --> 00:19:51,040 it and troubled about it, then you're not 574 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:51,540 saved. 575 00:19:51,860 --> 00:19:54,400 And so Paul said, Mark them which walk. 576 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:56,220 So as you have us, for an example, 577 00:19:56,340 --> 00:19:58,140 for many walk of whom I have told 578 00:19:58,140 --> 00:20:00,380 you often and now tell you even weeping 579 00:20:00,380 --> 00:20:02,100 that they are the enemies of the cross 580 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:02,460 of Christ. 581 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,320 And our churches are full of people that 582 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:06,440 are the enemy of Christ. 583 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,260 And I know this is hard preaching. 584 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:09,820 This is a hard message. 585 00:20:10,220 --> 00:20:12,180 But God has given me a witness in 586 00:20:12,180 --> 00:20:14,440 my spirit that it's time for revival. 587 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:17,480 It's time to quit playing church games. 588 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,060 And I can tell you if you're playing 589 00:20:20,060 --> 00:20:21,980 church games, if your church is not pure 590 00:20:21,980 --> 00:20:23,740 and if your church is not in unity 591 00:20:23,740 --> 00:20:26,240 and if souls are not being drawn to 592 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,380 Jesus, your church is playing games. 593 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,020 We have seen God begin to purify us 594 00:20:33,020 --> 00:20:34,740 and to such a degree it is hurt 595 00:20:34,740 --> 00:20:35,360 so bad. 596 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:36,780 There's been so many tears. 597 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,660 There have been people leave the church because 598 00:20:38,660 --> 00:20:40,260 we're asking God to draw the line. 599 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,680 God, who's on this side and who's on 600 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:43,200 the other side? 601 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:44,240 Who's on your side? 602 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:45,920 Who's going to walk in the spirit and 603 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,600 be a part of your program and live 604 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,760 by faith and pray and believe you to 605 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,520 work and try to live godly by the 606 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:54,220 power of your spirit? 607 00:20:54,380 --> 00:20:54,980 And who isn't? 608 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:56,280 We ask you to draw the line. 609 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,420 And he's been drawing the line. 610 00:20:57,420 --> 00:20:58,180 But you know what? 611 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,020 As we've been seeing some folks leave our 612 00:21:00,020 --> 00:21:01,960 church, because we have a small building, we've 613 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:03,740 been believing God we need a bigger building. 614 00:21:04,020 --> 00:21:05,280 God's been bringing in others. 615 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,860 Last week he brought some Egyptians in. 616 00:21:08,060 --> 00:21:09,360 Just about blew us away. 617 00:21:09,660 --> 00:21:10,640 In walked these Egyptians. 618 00:21:11,180 --> 00:21:14,060 Man, our preacher, he just preached the word 619 00:21:14,060 --> 00:21:16,100 of God in such power and just a 620 00:21:16,100 --> 00:21:16,460 message. 621 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,400 It was just what they needed to hear. 622 00:21:18,660 --> 00:21:20,040 And they were so open. 623 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:21,800 They even said they'd be back. 624 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:22,800 Praise God. 625 00:21:22,980 --> 00:21:24,520 Let me share some more verses with you. 626 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:26,800 I know Charlie's not going to get on 627 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:27,140 today. 628 00:21:27,140 --> 00:21:29,080 Our time's getting close to being gone. 629 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:30,780 Let me take you over to Colossians 1. 630 00:21:31,140 --> 00:21:31,700 Listen to this. 631 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:32,980 Colossians 1. 632 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,980 And by the way, you pray for me. 633 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:38,320 Sometimes I have so much trouble trying to 634 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:39,540 get my messages recorded. 635 00:21:39,780 --> 00:21:40,180 Equipment. 636 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:41,040 About all the equipment. 637 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:42,340 The church equipment's been broke. 638 00:21:42,420 --> 00:21:43,280 I've been using it a lot. 639 00:21:43,580 --> 00:21:44,700 My equipment's been down. 640 00:21:45,180 --> 00:21:46,640 And I just told my wife, I wonder 641 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,140 if God wants me to do this. 642 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,240 And last Sunday I received a phone call. 643 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:52,640 There's so much encouragement to me. 644 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:55,220 And afterwards she says, there, God's confirming that 645 00:21:55,220 --> 00:21:56,300 he wants you to keep going. 646 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:58,320 Sometimes I just feel like quitting. 647 00:21:58,480 --> 00:21:59,420 It gets so tough. 648 00:21:59,520 --> 00:21:59,860 I wonder. 649 00:22:00,060 --> 00:22:01,400 And I'm not perfect. 650 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,100 I'm just like you. 651 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:04,100 I live by faith. 652 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:06,720 I have days when I don't. 653 00:22:06,780 --> 00:22:07,520 Make it so good. 654 00:22:07,940 --> 00:22:10,320 But thank God I have a heavenly Father 655 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,120 that's like the prodigal son's father. 656 00:22:12,260 --> 00:22:13,440 He never did bring up his sins. 657 00:22:13,660 --> 00:22:15,860 He just forgave them and accepted them back. 658 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,140 Our Father loves us. 659 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:18,020 I love you. 660 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:19,160 But would you pray for me? 661 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:20,460 Pray for our ministry. 662 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,520 Pray for God to work in this area. 663 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,260 Where we are broadcasting that he would work 664 00:22:26,260 --> 00:22:27,860 in the hearts that are ready. 665 00:22:28,020 --> 00:22:29,420 That have ears to hear. 666 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,640 He that has ears to hear Jesus said, 667 00:22:31,740 --> 00:22:33,400 let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 668 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:33,980 the churches. 669 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,040 Now listen to what Colossians said. 670 00:22:36,940 --> 00:22:40,120 Starting in Colossians chapter 1, verse 9. 671 00:22:40,220 --> 00:22:41,720 I'm going to take you through 14 and 672 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,240 skip down and pick up another verse. 673 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:45,220 But in verse 9, he said, for this 674 00:22:45,220 --> 00:22:47,660 cause we also, since the day we heard 675 00:22:47,660 --> 00:22:49,760 it, do not cease to pray for you. 676 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,340 I pray for you, my friend. 677 00:22:51,540 --> 00:22:52,820 Would you pray for me? 678 00:22:52,820 --> 00:22:54,300 And here's what he would pray. 679 00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:56,540 And to desire that you might be filled 680 00:22:56,540 --> 00:22:58,760 with the knowledge of his will and all 681 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,740 wisdom and spiritual understanding. 682 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,860 That you might walk worthy of the Lord 683 00:23:03,860 --> 00:23:05,080 unto all pleasing. 684 00:23:05,220 --> 00:23:06,180 Isn't that sweet? 685 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,740 Would you pray that for me? 686 00:23:10,820 --> 00:23:12,380 Would you pray that for yourself and your 687 00:23:12,380 --> 00:23:13,380 friends and your pastor? 688 00:23:13,740 --> 00:23:15,680 That we might walk worthy of the Lord 689 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:16,580 unto all pleasing. 690 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,260 Being fruitful in every good work and increasing 691 00:23:19,260 --> 00:23:20,380 in the knowledge of God. 692 00:23:20,380 --> 00:23:23,380 Strengthened with all might according to his glorious 693 00:23:23,380 --> 00:23:23,840 power. 694 00:23:24,020 --> 00:23:26,840 Unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness. 695 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,820 Giving thanks unto the Father which hath made 696 00:23:29,820 --> 00:23:31,940 us meet to be partakers of the inheritance 697 00:23:31,940 --> 00:23:33,260 of the saints in the light. 698 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:34,380 Now listen to this. 699 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,280 And then he said, who hath delivered us 700 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,820 from the power of darkness. 701 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:40,960 If you've been saved by the blood of 702 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,680 Jesus Christ, you have been delivered from the 703 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:44,720 power of darkness. 704 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,560 And God has translated you into another kingdom. 705 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:49,480 And it's the kingdom of his dear son. 706 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:50,820 It's the kingdom of light. 707 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:52,480 And it's the kingdom of fire. 708 00:23:53,020 --> 00:23:54,960 Last week my dear woodcutter friend called me 709 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:56,140 up and was sharing on fire. 710 00:23:56,540 --> 00:23:58,000 And we've been doing some talking up here 711 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:58,540 about fire. 712 00:23:58,660 --> 00:24:00,620 We have a book by, I think it's 713 00:24:00,620 --> 00:24:01,900 Leslie or Wesley Duell. 714 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,680 There, I just reached over and got it. 715 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,000 Excuse me, Wesley Duell. 716 00:24:08,340 --> 00:24:09,420 Talking about fire. 717 00:24:09,740 --> 00:24:10,420 Tremendous book. 718 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,780 I can hardly wait to get to read 719 00:24:12,780 --> 00:24:12,880 it. 720 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,980 But God puts us into this kingdom of 721 00:24:14,980 --> 00:24:15,480 fire. 722 00:24:15,740 --> 00:24:17,420 You know they were baptized by fire. 723 00:24:17,540 --> 00:24:18,860 And they lived by faith. 724 00:24:18,860 --> 00:24:20,280 And the fire God was on their life. 725 00:24:20,340 --> 00:24:21,020 And they were light. 726 00:24:21,620 --> 00:24:23,620 And he's translated us into the kingdom of 727 00:24:23,620 --> 00:24:24,220 his dear son. 728 00:24:24,340 --> 00:24:26,340 In whom we have redemption through his blood. 729 00:24:26,580 --> 00:24:28,120 Even the forgiveness of sins. 730 00:24:28,420 --> 00:24:29,840 And then he slips down to 23. 731 00:24:30,140 --> 00:24:33,020 And he says, if you continue in the 732 00:24:33,020 --> 00:24:33,420 faith. 733 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,080 Grounded and settled and be not moved away 734 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,060 from the hope of the gospel which you 735 00:24:38,060 --> 00:24:38,560 have heard. 736 00:24:38,820 --> 00:24:40,820 And which was preached to every creature which 737 00:24:40,820 --> 00:24:41,420 is under heaven. 738 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,740 Whereof I, Paul, am made a minister. 739 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,820 Many professors, the counterfeit Christians, they move away. 740 00:24:46,820 --> 00:24:49,020 They move away from it. 741 00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:51,940 And we're like the seeds back in Matthew 742 00:24:51,940 --> 00:24:52,540 at 13. 743 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,220 I think it is. 744 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,060 You know, some just spring up for a 745 00:24:55,060 --> 00:24:55,620 while with joy. 746 00:24:55,740 --> 00:24:56,380 They jump up. 747 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:57,680 But they don't have any root. 748 00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:59,340 Do you have root? 749 00:24:59,620 --> 00:25:01,280 Now let me take you back over in 750 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:02,620 the last few minutes to Revelation. 751 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,200 Turn back over to Revelation chapter 3. 752 00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:07,280 Revelation chapter 3. 753 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:08,700 Now I'm going to take you back to 754 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:09,820 the back part of Revelation. 755 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:11,800 But in Revelation chapter 3. 756 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,120 In verse 5. 757 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,020 The message to the churches. 758 00:25:15,020 --> 00:25:16,500 To Sardis. 759 00:25:17,220 --> 00:25:18,540 And I've been over there in Turkey. 760 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,020 I used to live over there in Turkey. 761 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:22,040 I lived among the seven churches over there. 762 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,480 I studied among the seven churches. 763 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:25,660 I traveled over there. 764 00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:28,160 Been to many times. 765 00:25:28,620 --> 00:25:29,460 Tremendous place. 766 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:31,460 That's where God raised me up as a 767 00:25:31,460 --> 00:25:32,500 new believer over there. 768 00:25:32,980 --> 00:25:34,700 He sent me over there after I got 769 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:35,200 saved. 770 00:25:35,780 --> 00:25:37,780 And I was taught by the Spirit of 771 00:25:37,780 --> 00:25:39,560 God over there about these churches. 772 00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:41,960 I didn't even know they existed before I 773 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,440 got there. 774 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:44,060 But he's teaching me. 775 00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:46,480 In verse 5 it says, He that overcometh 776 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,020 the same shall be clothed in white raiment. 777 00:25:49,340 --> 00:25:51,360 And I will not blot out his name 778 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:52,440 out of the book of life. 779 00:25:52,540 --> 00:25:54,700 But I will confess his name before my 780 00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:56,140 father and before his angels. 781 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:57,880 Wouldn't that be a terrible thing? 782 00:25:58,180 --> 00:26:01,460 To get up before God and to have 783 00:26:01,460 --> 00:26:02,180 it shown to you. 784 00:26:02,220 --> 00:26:03,740 He says your name was in the book 785 00:26:03,740 --> 00:26:04,220 of life. 786 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:06,080 When you were born I put your name 787 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,160 into the book of life. 788 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,260 But you would not receive my son as 789 00:26:09,260 --> 00:26:09,700 your Savior. 790 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:12,520 And I had to blot your name out 791 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:13,440 of the book of life. 792 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:16,040 You know the overcomers are the victors. 793 00:26:16,180 --> 00:26:16,860 They're the believers. 794 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,020 They're the ones that have been born again. 795 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:20,460 Are you an overcomer? 796 00:26:20,740 --> 00:26:23,540 Are you one that's always overcome? 797 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:24,980 There's the difference. 798 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:27,000 If you've been born again by the Spirit 799 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,780 of God then you're an overcomer. 800 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:30,820 And don't let the devil talk you into 801 00:26:30,820 --> 00:26:33,860 the fact that you can't be an overcomer. 802 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,000 You go back to Romans 6 and you 803 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,800 look and you'll see there that he's delivered 804 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,980 us from the old master. 805 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:41,480 We have a new master. 806 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:42,540 Are you in? 807 00:26:42,860 --> 00:26:43,740 Are you an overcomer? 808 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:49,080 Slip back to Revelation 21 verse 6. 809 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,040 And he said unto me, It is done. 810 00:26:51,140 --> 00:26:53,140 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and 811 00:26:53,140 --> 00:26:53,460 the end. 812 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:54,860 And I will give unto him that is 813 00:26:54,860 --> 00:26:56,560 a thirst of the fountain of the water 814 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:57,520 of life freely. 815 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,120 He that overcometh shall inherit all things. 816 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,080 Are you an overcomer? 817 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,680 And I will be his God and he 818 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,540 shall be my son. 819 00:27:06,540 --> 00:27:08,780 Oh, it's a tremendous thing to know God. 820 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:11,020 Oh, Paul said that I might know him 821 00:27:11,020 --> 00:27:13,060 and the powers of his resurrection and the 822 00:27:13,060 --> 00:27:16,040 fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto 823 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:16,460 his death. 824 00:27:16,780 --> 00:27:18,040 Let me tell you, my friend, it's a 825 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,000 painful thing to know God because of the 826 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,120 things we have to go through. 827 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:23,440 But it is worth it. 828 00:27:23,980 --> 00:27:26,260 But it's also a painful thing not to 829 00:27:26,260 --> 00:27:26,800 know God. 830 00:27:27,460 --> 00:27:30,260 And it's more painful not to know God 831 00:27:30,260 --> 00:27:33,360 because the price of that pain is that 832 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:36,200 you're separated from him for all eternity. 833 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,620 A couple more verses. 834 00:27:37,820 --> 00:27:39,140 I know we're getting short on time. 835 00:27:39,420 --> 00:27:40,380 I'm about out of time. 836 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:41,700 But I want to share this with you 837 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:44,620 in Revelation chapter 20 and verse 12. 838 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,660 And I saw the dead stand and small 839 00:27:47,660 --> 00:27:49,040 and great stand before God. 840 00:27:49,140 --> 00:27:50,740 And the books were open and another book 841 00:27:50,740 --> 00:27:52,420 was open, which is the book of life. 842 00:27:52,620 --> 00:27:54,420 And the dead were judged out of those 843 00:27:54,420 --> 00:27:56,520 things which were written in the books according 844 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:57,400 to their works. 845 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,240 It's the book of life. 846 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:00,900 Are you in the book? 847 00:28:00,980 --> 00:28:02,780 Are you in the book of life? 848 00:28:02,780 --> 00:28:05,880 In Revelation 21 and 27, and there shall 849 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,020 in no wise enter into heaven into it 850 00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:12,280 anything that defile it, neither whatsoever work the 851 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,520 abomination or make it the lie, but they 852 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,240 which are written in the Lamb's book of 853 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:17,600 life. 854 00:28:17,780 --> 00:28:18,540 Are you in? 855 00:28:18,940 --> 00:28:19,780 Are you in? 856 00:28:19,940 --> 00:28:21,360 Are you in the book of life? 857 00:28:21,740 --> 00:28:24,860 And in verse 15 of chapter 20, and 858 00:28:24,860 --> 00:28:26,900 whosoever was not found written in the book 859 00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:28,800 of life was cast into the lake of 860 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:29,120 fire. 861 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:30,260 Are you in? 862 00:28:30,540 --> 00:28:31,040 Are you in? 863 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,220 Jesus says, come and let him that heareth 864 00:28:34,220 --> 00:28:36,120 say come and let him that is a 865 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:38,500 thirst come and whosoever will let him take 866 00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:39,860 of the water of life freely. 867 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:41,500 You can receive Jesus. 868 00:28:42,060 --> 00:28:42,960 Have him come in. 869 00:28:43,380 --> 00:28:44,100 Invite him in. 870 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,180 Well, I've got to go. 871 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,920 The time is way past, but let me 872 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,040 leave you with this. 873 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:51,560 Jesus Christ is all you need. 874 00:28:52,140 --> 00:28:54,300 But is he all you want? 875 00:28:54,380 --> 00:28:57,000 Let me encourage you to get Jesus into 876 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:57,580 your life. 877 00:28:57,900 --> 00:28:59,520 He's the missing ingredient. 878 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,740 If life isn't working, he's the missing ingredient. 879 00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:04,540 Till next time, God bless you, my friend.