Now, this afternoon's time is for ministry, personal
ministry, praying one for another, or counseling, or
answering questions.
And if you have any questions relative to
the truth, that's already been given.
We just want to stay in God, in
the truth, where we are.
If there are any questions, let's open up
this wonderful subject of Christ in us, because
it is, it's just fathomless.
It's our life in him from the time
that we're born today, not only until we
see him.
Our eternity has already begun.
We have shall not perish but, what?
Everlasting life.
That's not just speaking of time, time element,
or no time limit, but a quality of
life has been imparted to us.
And we have in us, we have God
in us, and we live by the very
same life that God Almighty on the throne
has, the very same life that is in
Jesus right now.
Because our life is his life, it is
Christ within.
And we have this marvelous treasure in earthen
vessels.
And this is who we really are.
This outside thing is no longer you.
And if we live in this old outside
place, that's when we become carnal.
Having been born again, and then give back,
and just live in the natural, those Christians
are carnal Christians, and that's how we become
carnal.
We're no longer living in the Christ life,
or letting the Christ live in life through
us, but we have become carnal.
We had to make surrenders to receive Jesus,
didn't we?
Yes?
We had to make surrenders to receive the
precious Holy Spirit.
And we see folks walking the Lord just
so far, and their life is just beautiful,
just beautiful in God, just for a little
while.
And that something happens, and I know what
it is happening.
We come to the yoke, and we are
Christians very long before Jesus asks us if
we will take up our cross.
And follow him, or if we will get
in the yoke with him.
And life is wonderful and beautiful as long
as we walk with him.
But when he puts his cross, his yoke
upon us, and we refuse to obey, they
have turned everyone to their own way.
And become carnal, carnal.
And there are thousands upon thousands of Christians
who live their carnal lives.
They still come to church, they still carry
a Bible, they may be engaged in all
kinds of religious work.
You know, we can preach, we
can pray, we can sing, we can teach,
and our lives be carnal.
So when new converts come, they say, she
does things I wouldn't do, he does things
I wouldn't do.
They say they're born again, they're baptized in
the Holy Ghost.
I don't want that, I don't want to
be like that.
And I say, honey, I don't want you
to be like that.
Don't follow that crowd.
At one time they were going right, they
had to, else they wouldn't have the baptism
of the Spirit.
But they have turned every man to his
own way through disobedience and refused to take
up the cross, refused to get in the
yoke with Christ.
Don't follow that crowd.
Keep your eye on Jesus and keep in
Him.
Amen?
Yes.
Yes, you know, you, it's, I have been
in churches that were, and I'm talking about
Assembly of God churches, and I dare say
this because there's nobody, there's nobody here but
Assembly of God people and Assembly of God
sympathizers, who are one in Spirit with us.
Yes, so we can talk about ourselves.
But I, I, just now one church comes
to me, it was so dead and so
barren in that place, I could hardly get
my breath.
They had all the doctrines, they had all
the doctrine, they had all the ways, all
the expressions, praise the Lord, hallelujah, glory.
But you know you can say glory and
there's no glory in it?
You know you can say hallelujah and a
holler has gone out of it?
And a holler?
Yes.
It was dry and barren.
And oh, I didn't look forward to any
service and I was so glad when the
last service was over.
And I could get out of that place.
I said, Jesus, what's wrong here?
What's wrong here?
He says, the ground has only been prepared
for grass seeds.
You ever plant grass seeds?
Hmm?
How deep does it kill the soil?
That's right, you just rake, just rake it,
that's all.
Just rake, skim over the top and just
rake it and just gather the seeds, that's
all you have to do.
No real digging up and turning over of
the subsoil in surrender, in surrender to God.
And I know at one time they had
to be going straight or they wouldn't be
there.
But it's possible for anybody to backslide.
And there is no, no one experience that
will mature our lives.
There is no one experience that will change
us into this.
Do you know even the rapture won't change
what you are on the inside?
Do you know that?
Sure.
What will be changed to the rapture?
The physical, the body, only.
But what we are on the inside, even
the rapture cannot change that.
That has to be done down here.
And it has to be done now.
Now, as we make our surrenders and our
decisions and our commitments and let the Lord
deal with us and we follow him in
obedience.
Yes, yes, yes, this is what I want.
And there are things in religious circles today
that you have to say, no, I'm not
going that way.
You know what I'm talking about?
No, I don't want that.
I'm not going that way.
No!
There are religious meetings that I wouldn't attend.
I wouldn't subject the precious Holy Spirit to
that thing.
No, I'm not going that way.
I want to, when he comes, give him
something beautiful for the price for which he
paid.
He paid the price.
I want to surrender the crucifix.
We can't of ourselves, but we're not expected
to.
We just let him live.
And you can't keep him from growing.
You just put that bulb out there in
the sun and the rain.
What's going to happen?
This is going to happen because the light
is there and it just needs to be
released.
That's all.
It's there.
Just release it.
He does the releasing.
That's his nature.
He's of that nature.
And so we just surrender to him and
he begins to breathe forth his beautiful new
creation.
But it isn't done overnight.
It takes all four seasons for a flower
to bloom.
It takes all four seasons for a seed
to come forth.
I sometimes use a little apple seed.
Little, inky, winky, tiny, teeny thing.
I can hold it on the end of
my little finger.
But potentially inside that seed is a whole
apple tree with 50 bushels of apples on
it.
Right?
And it's all inside that little seed.
Eh?
Don't you dare go to sleep this afternoon
on me.
Don't you dare.
It's all in there and it just needs
to be released.
How is it released?
Who wants to take that subject?
How is it released?
You remember Mary?
Mary?
When the Holy Ghost asked her if she
would yield herself to become the mother of
our Lord?
The thing happened to Mary physically that's happening
in you and me in the Spirit.
It's a perfect, perfect parallel.
All the suffering that Mary went through, what
she had to surrender to, the misunderstanding, 33
years, 30 years, Mary lived in misunderstanding and
God himself didn't vindicate her.
And every time she went down to that
well, have you been to Nazareth?
Every time she went down there, there she
is, she says, that baby is born of
the Holy Ghost and she's never straightened out
that tale.
Why doesn't she tell the truth?
There he is, he's a handsome little thing,
but she says he's born of the Holy
Ghost.
And Mary lived under that for 30 years
and God himself didn't vindicate her.
Yes, yes, she had to do it.
She had to do it.
He gave her this marvelous privilege.
What?
Of bringing life into the world.
Honey, through one little 15-year-old girl
came the light that received the universe.
And when I talk like this, people say,
you know, some of the younger, well, a
lot of younger preachers, I'm glad when they
come.
I had a whole different retreat and most
of the ministers were young.
I said, oh, come on, I love you.
There's hopes for you.
You're still young.
Come on.
But there's another crowd today that just don't
have time for this.
And they're going to put it over their
way.
Poor darling.
They're going to come back with their poor
little heads cracked and, you know, and wonder,
where did we miss us?
What didn't we do right?
Honey, you didn't do anything right.
But they won't let you tell them anything.
No.
One little 15-year-old girl brought the
life of God into the whole world, didn't
she?
Well, now, this is what God's asking of
us, to bring life into our world.
And this life is in you.
And just let it come forth.
And then if this life of Christ in
us comes forth, here's a miracle take place.
And all the things that need to be
done, they just get done.
And they just happen.
And it's not our responsibility and we don't
come back with our necks all galled.
Nervous breakdowns and heart attacks and kidney stones
and moral collapses and everything else because we've
gotten out of God and tried to do
spiritual work with natural means and it's absolutely
impossible.
God, which is born of the flesh, is
flesh and it always will be flesh and
never will be anything else but flesh.
But that which is born of the Spirit
of God and it'll endure forever, it'll endure,
it'll endure forever.
And he's dealing with us to make this
choice, make this decision which way we're going
and what we're going to do.
And we have this marvelous treasure in us
and when we yield to him the
life...
What did Mary do to get this life
moving in us?
How can this be?
How can it be done?
How can it be released and developed?
How?
The Holy Ghost will come upon thee.
The power of the highest will overshadow thee.
Finish it.
And that holy thing that is born of
thee shall be called the Son of God.
This is God inside of you.
Takes all the seasons which means the spring,
beautiful spring rain.
We have to have the summer sun, the
gentle wind.
And ooh, hallelujah.
Oh, it's so wonderful.
But fall sets in.
I don't know, I don't know what happened.
Everything was so beautiful, but the devil, but
the devil, the devil, he did this and
the devil he did that and the devil
and the devil and the devil until people
are more devil conscious and lose sight and
who we really are and who is doing
this holy thing.
He said the Holy Ghost will come on
thee.
But the devil did this and the devil
stole this and the devil got into this
and the devil did this.
Honey, you just leave the devil alone and
have your dealings with God.
No matter what happens to you, no matter
what comes in your life, you are no
match for the devil.
The devil's real.
He's real, but you're no match for the
devil.
You have your dealings with God.
When the devil, when the devil gets out
and he gets out of the cage once
in a while, he really does.
And when he's out, and I know he's
out and he's around, I say, Jesus, the
devil's out, you take care of him.
You take care of him.
No matter what happens.
You agree?
Oh, that's good.
I didn't hear you beginning.
Rebuke you.
Yes, now that was Moses.
Yes, you said Moses.
Yes, the Lord rebuked you.
He didn't contend with him at all.
No matter what touches you, no matter what
happens to you, if it's a physical thing,
will you please settle, if something physical touches
you, would you please settle it first with
God before you see the doctor?
Hmm?
Would you settle it first with God?
You will save yourself all kinds of anxiety.
Well, it's terrible, it's terrible what the devil
can do to you when you give him
room.
If you give him room and start talking
to him and start arguing with him.
If you start arguing with him, you're getting
on losing ground.
That was Eve's trouble.
Eve kept up the argument with him, you
know, and in his rationalizing and reasoning with
her until he finally got her.
Don't ever argue with him.
Don't talk with him.
Don't have anything to do with him.
But recognize, you talk to God and let
him know that you recognize that he's out,
and when he's exposed, he's defeated.
Let him know that you know who he
is and you know what he wants.
Wouldn't he love to blight?
Wouldn't he love to blight this?
Wouldn't he love to blight the Holy Child
within you?
Wouldn't he love to bring a blight over
that life?
Honey, we have this treasure in earth and
vessel, the most sacred thing, the most holy
thing, the most wonderful choice treasure that you
could ever have, more than riches and jewels
or diamonds or millions, is right inside of
you, right inside of you.
And just hold him this way.
Just hold him.
Just take care.
Just take care of what's going on inside
and pray constantly that that little life and
spirit will be kept by the power of
God.
Amen.
And you yield just as fast as you
know how.
But when the devil's out and he comes
to test you and to tempt you, because
listen to me, this is how this growth
and development takes place.
Growth and development can only take place through
a process of testing and proving and trial.
This is why we have to have our
cross.
We have to have our trials.
We have to have disappointment, discouragement.
We have to have temptations.
We have to have them.
And every time we overcome, there's a new
shoot.
Every time we overcome, a new leaf is
put out.
Every time we overcome, the stem is strengthened.
This is what happened in the life of
Jesus.
When the devil came after him, Jesus just
kept the Word on him.
Just kept the Word.
It's written, just kept the Word.
He wasn't arguing with him.
He was just living in the Word, living
in the truth.
And that's our place of life and victory.
Yes.
And Jesus was going through the identical thing
that Adam went through back in the garden.
Only Adam failed on the first test.
But Jesus suffered the temptation in his spirit
and in his soul and in his body
and came through victoriously and overcame the devil
so that he could rebuke him.
And he went from him and left him
alone.
He had power over him.
Never, ever did he once kneel to him
or bow down to him in any way
whatsoever.
And he never came arguing with him.
But he hounded him every step that he
took all of his life.
But Jesus let live this perfect God, man
that Jesus wants in every one of us.
Amen?
This is why you are tempted.
It just has to be.
That's all.
It just has to be.
Why?
Why does it?
Why?
This is the only way we can overcome
through this testing and proving, testing and proving.
He doesn't test us to destroy us.
He tests us to prove us.
And then we are strengthened and strengthened and
strengthened and grow and put on the Lord
Jesus Christ and come into this beautiful thing.
And this is why every test that we
have.
And we have to have them.
And I wonder what's in his life that
he's so tested.
He's always in a trial of some kind.
He's always going through something.
I wonder what's in his life that he's
always in a hard place.
Well, God can just trust him in a
hard place.
And he's just taking him from glory to
glory.
And God will take us on just as
fast as we can go.
He will.
And, you know, this crowd.
I wonder why they're always tested.
Hallelujah, life is so sweet.
The presence of Jesus is always with me.
I'm going to have all those trials.
Honey, you couldn't take one.
And the Lord just let me do it.
He said he wouldn't test us above what
we're able to bear.
But the Lord will lay it on just
as fast as he possibly can.
Just as fast as he possibly can.
All right.
We hear folks say in testimony sometimes, Would
you please pray for me?
I just had such a temptation today, and
I failed the Lord.
And I lost the victory.
But I prayed and asked Jesus to forgive
me.
And he forgave me.
And I got the victory again.
Would you please pray for me that I
don't lose the victory?
I said, well, honey, honey, you don't have
the victory.
Oh, yes, I do.
I pray, I confess, and I pray and
I ask Jesus to forgive me.
And he forgave me.
And I have the victory now.
No, you don't, dear.
You don't have the victory, you have forgiveness.
And there's a difference between having forgiveness and
having the victory.
And you won't have victory until you go
through this thing all over again and have
victory at the beginning of it and victory
all the way through it and victory at
the end.
Then you'll have victory.
But you lost the victory, so you just
got forgiveness.
Right?
Yes, you just have forgiveness.
Do people in your church or in your
congregation ever say, you know that old devil,
I had such victory in the service and
I was so blessed in the meeting, but
that old devil steals my victory before I
get home.
Well, he will if you let him, if
you let him.
But, honey, here, it's in this area that
thousands upon thousands don't know anything about living.
And they're up and down, in victory and
out of victory, carnal, and then come back
at the altar and weep and come back
and say, Oh, Lord, take the temper out
of me.
Please take the temper out of me.
And I go and pat her head.
Honey, what do you say?
Jesus, please take this temper out of me.
Jesus, please don't answer that prayer.
Jesus, don't answer that prayer, Jesus.
That's what's the matter with her.
Now she doesn't have temper enough to stand
up against the enemy and refuse a temptation,
but blows off in this carnal thing that's
completely outside of Jesus Christ.
What she needs is temper enough to just
stand still and say, Satan, I know what
you want.
I know what you're trying to do to
me.
I'm in Christ and Christ is in me,
and I refuse.
I refuse.
That's the kind of temper we need.
I refuse.
One church I was in, this man, he
loved the song The Joy Bells.
And if a song leader would ask for
a song to sing, he was always number
13.
Joy bells ringing in my heart.
And he'd get blessed, and he would get
going.
And he loved to shout, get out in
the aisles and shout.
So this night he had The Joy Bells
sung, and he had his shout, he was
shouting all over the place.
And when we left the church, his car
was parked right in front of the door.
And when we got out there, here he
was.
Here's to heaven.
Look at this.
I said, look at that.
I said, yes, it's black.
Now just look at that.
The devil does this to me every time.
You saw Joy Bells ringing in my heart.
I said, yes, I saw that.
And I was so blessed.
I said, yes, I thought you were.
But I want to know what that was
that you had in there that there wasn't
enough of it in your life to get
you away from the church door.
So we had to have a little talk.
Now I said, you know, you come out
here, you have Joy Bells and you get
blessed.
Why, of course, that old devil will try
to steal that away from you if you
let him.
But why didn't you come out here and
say, uh-huh, Jesus, the devil's loose.
And I know, I know what he's up
to.
Now, Jesus, you just live in me.
And you're in me, Jesus.
You're in me.
So you and I'll get this pump out
and get this jack out.
And Jesus, you and I are going to
jack up this car.
And Jesus, you and I are going to
get out this pump.
And Jesus, I'm going to sing to you,
Hallelujah, I'm the glory.
Do what he's up to.
He that is in you is.
And are you going to let him down,
my son, and blight this holy thing that's
taking place inside of you that, what kind
of a witness is that to the angels?
You know, each one of us have a
guardian angel.
What kind of a witness is that to
your angel?
There are angels who are ministers to those
who are heir of salvation.
What kind of a witness is that to
the angels?
What kind of a witness is that to
the folks, everybody around?
What companions we make of ourselves to Jesus?
No, we have to be tested and qualify
for what we're going to be in the
ages to come.
There's no development going on as long as
we're up and down and in and out
and carnal, failing, no.
But stay in Christ, in you, the hope
of such glory.
What is the glory?
The full expression of Jesus in us.
This is what the glory is.
All right?
Now, I'm going to let...
Does anybody have any questions?
Yes?
Yeah.
In three,
did you say?
Yes.
Yes, this...
He is the seed.
And there is...
And he doesn't...
It isn't the Christ in us that commits
sin.
He doesn't sin.
He won't sin.
He can't sin.
This is the incorruptible seed.
Here is another scripture of the proof that
he is the incorruptible seed, which means in
which there is no death, in which there
is no sin.
This doesn't mean...
It really doesn't mean that the one who
possesses this seed cannot sin, but
it's the seed that won't sin.
The first
part of the question is, who so ever
is born of God does not sin.
I know.
I wonder if he commits habitual sin, or
he is habitually backsliding.
Yes.
Well, if he does, he's a backslider if
he habitually commits sin.
He's a backslider.
Yes.
But it's a willful sin.
And if we are born of God and
willfully commit sin, we take ourselves out of
God.
Now, this is a terrible scripture.
It's a terrible scripture.
We cannot willfully sin and get away with
it.
Habitual sin is conceived in us, that we
actually plan to do this thing.
It's a conceived, willful thing.
And when we do that, we do to
us exactly what Adam did, or what Eve
did when she partook that fruit.
In the day you eat thereof, you die.
You apply
what is essentially life that is given to
Christ.
You know, He is living in us, as
long as He is living in us, and
if He has control, you understand what I'm
saying.
Yes, I understand what you're saying.
But this scripture goes a little bit.
Who so ever is born of God does
not commit sin.
That's the part that we're dealing with.
Who so is born of God does not
commit sin.
You're in God.
It is that you don't do it over
and over.
You're either in or out.
What do you do at First John?
First John.
What's the name?
Well, no.
No.
Here, now this is the unregenerated man.
Yes.
Yeah, this is.
Yes, if we confess our sins, He's faithful
and just to forgive our sins and cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
But this is not a willful thing.
Do you still have?
We have deliberate sin is one thing.
To be trapped and fail is
another thing.
This sin that he's talking about here is
the frailty of human nature.
Now let me, let me.
Now this will take care of both of
these scriptures.
This is why we have to have a
high priest who makes intercession.
He ever liveth.
His life is intercession for us.
He ever liveth to make intercession for us.
Jesus does not condemn us for what we
are when he finds us and when he
picks us up.
And we have, we have this treasure in
earthen vessels in this human thing.
And here is this constant battleground.
These two dogs that I was talking about
this morning.
All right.
Now the sin that this is talking about.
If, if we say we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us.
Now this is the sin which is the
frailty of human nature.
There isn't one of us who lives an
absolutely sinless life in one, in this context,
in this context.
How many of you, well, today's what, Tuesday?
Today's Tuesday.
How many of you since Sunday have had
to say, Father, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Father, forgive me, I'm sorry.
Come on, tell the truth.
Tell the truth.
Yes.
But, but what we're talking now, now in
the frailty of human nature.
Now let's look at it this way.
How many of you wish you were more
broken in spirit than you are now?
All right.
Then unbrokenness is, is sin.
Right?
Do you see this?
Eh?
You see this?
Unbrokenness is sin.
All right.
How many of you wish you had more
of the tenderness of Jesus in you?
Eh?
All right.
Then not to be tender is sin.
That's, that's in our sinful nature.
This is what John is dealing with and
what he's talking about.
So if I, when I, if we say
we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and
the truth is not in us.
I still have this.
You see, now let me say here, you
know, some of our friends, we all have
friends who believe in entire sanctification.
And they believe that old nature has been
taken out root and branch.
You know about this, don't you?
Well, how many of you found out it
didn't go?
And it's not pulled out.
And we have this sinful nature.
Now, if we didn't have the sinful nature,
we wouldn't have tears from temptation.
But see, this is where the test and
the temptation comes and we have to cautiously
decide which nature we're going to live in.
But if we slip back into that old
nature, not willingly, but we have been trapped
for a minute and maybe said something that
we're sorry we said, then this is if
I confess, Jesus will forgive.
He ever lived to make intercession for me.
And oh, honey, this is so beautiful.
When I'm not broken, Jesus says, Father, accept
my brokenness for her hardness.
This is the ministry of a high priest.
Father, accept my love where they haven't expressed
love.
And he prays for us.
And because we have this high priest, I
can confess my sin.
And he is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
But this is talking about the frailties of
human nature.
This is not talking about going out and
committing adultery.
But this thing over here says if he
that is born of God will go out
and do that if he's living in God.
But if I concede in my heart to
do that, then I take myself out of
God and I'm cut off and cast out.
There's two different things that John is dealing
with.
Do you see this?
This is Tom.
I'm a scholar of the text.
He told me about this illustration that when
Father stole the turkey, he was down in
the field where God was forgiven for that
turkey he stole.
And true, Lord, Father, he's the one who
forgave him for that and he was the
one.
Sounds like he didn't know much about the
Lord.
Well...
What you really...
Well, the word that you're reaching for is
capacity.
Yes.
Different people have different capacities.
And it is true.
God...
God does require of me...
Now, I know we're living in a time
when...
People don't want a distinction between the preacher
and the layman, but there is a difference.
And God requires more of the preacher and
the ministry.
He does.
There is a difference, but there's a trying
to break down today everything that God has
established.
There is a difference in requirement.
There's a call on ministers and so on,
but in this area, God deals with the
capacity.
God knows my capacity, and if you have
six children in your family, they're all different.
They're all different, and you don't expect of
one, you know not to expect of this
one the same as this one, because they
don't have the capacity that this child has.
Now, he understands every one of us.
All right, now here is this time element,
too.
Sometime in teaching like this, folks will say,
I just got saved, you've been on the
way for 50 years, I just got saved,
is there time enough left for me to
reach this maturity?
Ah, the Lord will take us on just
as fast as he can take us.
Now, he says, he uses the word more
often than he uses maturity, he uses perfection,
and there is a difference.
Won't performing be perfect?
And then in his Sermon on the Mount,
when he finishes the Sermon on the Mount,
what did he ask for?
The very last thing that he asked for
in the Sermon on the Mount is that
we be perfect.
That bothered me for a while, and be
ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which
is in heaven is perfect.
And that bothered me for a while, I
held that before him and got that straightened
out.
How many of you have ever seen a
perfectly perfect baby?
Four, so you had four, yes, yes, you
had four, yes, now, yes, and so I
can easily comfort these newborn babes and say,
honey, there's a terrific responsibility on me and
it scares me when I think I have
known the Lord for more than fifty years,
that frightens me.
But all he asks of you is that
you just be a perfect baby, that's all
he's asking of you now.
He's not asking you to put on high
-heeled shoes and try to live in some
preacher's uniform and act like Pastor Joshua, just
be a perfect one-year-old, and if
you're two-year-old, just be a perfect
two-year-old, and if you're three-year
-old, just be a perfect three-year-old.
He's just, isn't he?
He is just and perfect in all his
ways, yes, dear.
I don't hear you, dear.
Where does it leave
us?
Oh, honey, we need a revival, don't we?
Yes, we need, and preaching of repentance.
Never leave repentance out of your ministry, and
sanctification and holiness, the requirements of God are
still the same, they're still the same.
But this spirit of the age, I can
do anything, and God is love.
I heard one preacher, I almost broke up
the meeting.
This preacher was telling the people that don't
worry, dear, don't worry.
When Jesus comes, if you're not all that
you're supposed to be, on the way up
in the rapture, he'll change you so that
when you, by the time you get where
he is, God is love and he is
so loving and he understands and he'll forgive
you.
There's certainly none of the word of God
in that.
The soul that's in us, it shall die.
And the carnal Christian, carnality leads, is death.
That's death, that's death.
The day you eat thereof, you die.
And something happens in the life of one
who has been born again, every explosion of
carnality instead of progression, there's withering and withering
and withering and withering, and finally death, and
they're just out of God.
That's where they are.
And the promise of, well, I see in
the rapture, I see the overcomers.
You can't fool around with this thing.
I'm going to be raptured when he comes,
I'm going to have a crown and sit
on the throne and rule and reign.
That's not the word of God.
So the only thing to do is to
confess our sin, confess our failure, turn back
and give ourselves to this holy seed.
He won't sin.
And I walk in him, as Brother says,
abide in him.
I won't sin.
Because this holy thing, there's no sin in
him and he won't.
But if in human frailty along the way,
I'm talking about deliberate, willful sin, but this
carnal, if unwillingly I'm tested and fail, I
can confess my sin, and he's faithful and
just to forgive me.
Well, then the fellowship is restored and we
just go on, we go on.
That doesn't mean that there's a break in
the fellowship, because soon as we're conscious of
sinning, we confess it, don't you?
Yeah, we confess it.
Immediately.
And he forgives.
And he ever lives to make intercession for
us.
And we just come on in him.
Well, there was no repentance in Judas at
any time.
But Peter got restored and the other disciples
weren't even conscious of what was happening.
Jesus did it so perfectly.
Do you think there is development if a
person dies brand new in the Lord?
There's no way that he is fully developed
to his capacity.
Is there further development in him?
Well, brother, we have the countless ages to
learn God and go on in God.
But in this thing, as far as the
Church and the Bride of Jesus Christ is
concerned, we qualify for a position in Jesus.
Well, now, when we leave this world, what
we have qualified for, that's the rank that
we will be in.
That will never be changed.
But we can, we, of course, we've got
the eternal age, where there's life, there's growth,
and we will constantly go on.
But if you miss, the Bible says, if
we don't yield and let him deal with
us and pay this price here and now,
it says, they shall suffer loss.
Well, you know, with that life gone, I
mean, they just got on the sand field.
Maybe they're not receiving more life because they're
not seeking more life.
Now, would they, because I know it's beyond
the place of judgment, would they be in
it and just suffer the loss of what
they could have had or would they be
kept?
Well, we're either saved or not saved, you
know.
We're either, the dead in Christ shall rise.
We're either in Christ or not in Christ.
And the promise is only to those who
are in Christ.
And it's this life element, you see, that
is the eternity, the eternal part of us.
And if I'm cut off from that eternal
thing that comes in when Jesus comes in,
I have no hope of the resurrection.
There's a, well, there's a, no, well, yes,
yes, you can, you can use these terms.
I can, I can be out of fellowship.
I can be saved, but be out of
fellowship.
You, you just, you can be saved, but
if you stop praying and stop feeding on
the Word, it isn't very long until you're
out of fellowship.
And that fellowship, we come back into fellowship
and fellowship is, is restored again.
The relationship will be broken, yes.
The day you eat thereof, you die.
You die.
The day you eat, yes, we're all tempted.
It's not a sin to be tempted.
The sin is when we react.
When the act is committed, that's when the
sin is.
We're all tempted.
It's not a sin to be tempted.
The sin is when you yield.
I thought it was, and
it used to be something that I know
would be my choice to think.
So, therefore, I was made of it.
If I live without condemnation, and all the
money that I have, and all of that,
I'll be not convicted.
Now, later on, as far as I know,
I haven't stolen anything since I've been here,
but I won't tell you that.
Then, if I have, you see, there's a
difference in the moment.
Sure.
So, therefore, but to
live, that's in a sense, but for me
to live, now that I have the capabilities
of that, then I'm not sealed with it.
Yes.
Just stay in Christ.
That's the faith place.
That's our hiding place.
That's where the strength is.
That's where the power is.
That's where the life is.
In Christ.
All right?
We're going to pray for each other.
Is there anybody here with a need that
you would like to mention for which you
would like prayer?
Brother Petrie?
Petrie?
All right.
Come on out here, dear.
You can kneel.
Anybody else?
What is?
Come on.
Yes, brother.
All right.
All right, brother.
Honey, did you say a hi to honey
yet?
We have to pay to let him live.
Who will pay to let him live?
What misunderstanding, my brother,
when once you know and fellowship with him
and turn the whole life.
He becomes our life.
Don't you dare to know sometimes that
you know him.
You know him.
Our Father.