1 00:00:01,029 --> 00:00:03,630 Welcome to From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:03,930 --> 00:00:05,470 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:05,470 --> 00:00:07,610 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:07,610 --> 00:00:10,230 Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers 5 00:00:10,230 --> 00:00:10,490 too. 6 00:00:11,070 --> 00:00:13,270 This week we have Milton Greene with his 7 00:00:13,270 --> 00:00:15,990 message, The Flesh and the Power of Darkness. 8 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,500 When you go ahead and you let your 9 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:23,920 heart go to the lust of flesh, like 10 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,680 I was talking about forgiveness towards Bob, or 11 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:27,760 unifying these things. 12 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,180 I'm letting my heart turn from the Lord 13 00:00:32,180 --> 00:00:34,440 and the Spirit, being led by the Spirit, 14 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,960 and I'm letting my heart turn toward the 15 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:37,660 lust of the flesh. 16 00:00:37,780 --> 00:00:38,220 Isn't that right? 17 00:00:39,100 --> 00:00:41,420 So when I do that, I'm sowing to 18 00:00:41,420 --> 00:00:41,960 the flesh. 19 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:42,500 Is that right? 20 00:00:43,420 --> 00:00:46,660 So when I'm sowing to the flesh, God 21 00:00:46,660 --> 00:00:50,320 said, you're going to reap. 22 00:00:51,460 --> 00:00:52,860 Because he's not mocked. 23 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:55,180 And the fact that you reap is that 24 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:56,960 in that area, the hedge comes down and 25 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,100 the enemy can come in on you. 26 00:00:58,260 --> 00:00:59,880 And he wars against your mind, will, and 27 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:00,180 emotions. 28 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:01,600 Now do you see that? 29 00:01:02,620 --> 00:01:03,340 Maybe shake your head. 30 00:01:04,620 --> 00:01:05,560 All right. 31 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:10,960 Now, in verse 8, For the one who 32 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:13,640 sows to his own flesh, that's the way 33 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,440 he's living, shall from the flesh reap what? 34 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:19,080 Now, do you remember what we read in 35 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:19,860 2 Peter 1? 36 00:01:20,180 --> 00:01:22,700 That through the Word, and walking in the 37 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:24,960 Word, and through these promises, we have a 38 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:25,580 new walk. 39 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,040 We're not walking after the lust of the 40 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,840 flesh, but we've got a new nature. 41 00:01:29,940 --> 00:01:31,340 Do you ever see them say, Well, that's 42 00:01:31,340 --> 00:01:31,980 just my nature. 43 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:32,760 I can do anything. 44 00:01:32,860 --> 00:01:33,360 It's all right. 45 00:01:33,420 --> 00:01:34,280 I may act like a devil. 46 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:36,660 No, you have a new nature. 47 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,220 Through these promises, you have a divine nature, 48 00:01:40,380 --> 00:01:42,160 and you escape the corruption of this world 49 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,140 by lust, because the people that's in the 50 00:01:44,140 --> 00:01:45,640 lust of the world are puppets. 51 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,180 They're under control of the powers of darkness. 52 00:01:48,660 --> 00:01:50,140 The only way you get rid of the 53 00:01:50,140 --> 00:01:51,760 powers of darkness and their control over you 54 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:52,840 is by the lust of the flesh. 55 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:57,100 Is that strong? 56 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:01,800 Now, that's the only way you can be. 57 00:02:01,820 --> 00:02:03,420 I don't care where it's front row, back 58 00:02:03,420 --> 00:02:04,120 row, platform. 59 00:02:04,620 --> 00:02:06,780 I'm telling you, you just fall after it, 60 00:02:07,139 --> 00:02:09,380 and the fleshly sin strikes back at God's 61 00:02:09,380 --> 00:02:11,200 right to control your life, and it's an 62 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,460 open door for the powers of darkness. 63 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:15,000 They can work in any area that you 64 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:15,340 refuse. 65 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,080 Now, the Lord puts a hedge around you 66 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:18,300 and everything, as long as you live an 67 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:21,500 overcoming life, and you overcome these things as 68 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:22,500 the Lord leads you to them. 69 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:27,280 But when you become rebellious and you won't 70 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:32,640 overcome these areas in your life, and you're 71 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:34,540 rebelling toward God, he'll let the hedge down, 72 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:38,440 and they'll come and war against your mind, 73 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:39,820 will, and emotions in that area where you 74 00:02:39,820 --> 00:02:40,660 won't overcome it. 75 00:02:41,580 --> 00:02:45,020 Now, For the one who sows to his 76 00:02:45,020 --> 00:02:47,280 own flesh, upon the flesh reap corruption, verse 77 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:49,880 8, but the one who sows to his 78 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:50,260 spirit... 79 00:02:50,260 --> 00:02:51,660 It sounds like here's the opposite, doesn't it? 80 00:02:52,340 --> 00:02:55,660 But, the one who sows to the spirit 81 00:02:55,660 --> 00:02:56,840 shall from the spirit reap what? 82 00:02:59,010 --> 00:03:00,370 It sounds like eternal life is better than 83 00:03:00,370 --> 00:03:01,090 corruption, doesn't it? 84 00:03:07,950 --> 00:03:09,350 Now, let me just tell you something, folks. 85 00:03:11,380 --> 00:03:13,940 While we've been ignoring the powers of darkness, 86 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:15,960 that's not what the Scripture said, is it? 87 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,180 But while we've been ignoring... 88 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:20,860 They've perverted many, many things. 89 00:03:23,820 --> 00:03:30,200 They've been perverting healing, deliverance, holiness. 90 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,520 They've been perverting salvation. 91 00:03:35,380 --> 00:03:36,800 They've been perverting many things. 92 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,520 So what I suggest to you, you look 93 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,140 back here and know from whom you've learned, 94 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:42,220 whatever you know, what you know. 95 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:44,940 Now, that shouldn't have been anybody if they 96 00:03:44,940 --> 00:03:46,160 were held together by truth, should it? 97 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:49,840 I'm telling you, you better let this lead 98 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:50,420 you in all truth. 99 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:51,740 Jesus better be the one to lead you 100 00:03:51,740 --> 00:03:52,260 in all truth. 101 00:03:53,540 --> 00:03:54,260 All right, now. 102 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:57,280 But the one who sows to the spirit 103 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,080 shall from the spirit reap eternal life, and 104 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,900 let us not lose heart in doing good, 105 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:03,360 for in due time we shall reap if 106 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,560 we do not grow weary. 107 00:04:13,970 --> 00:04:15,589 Now, that's kind of plain, isn't it? 108 00:04:15,630 --> 00:04:18,269 Remember what we looked at in Romans 13. 109 00:04:18,410 --> 00:04:20,149 We put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and 110 00:04:20,149 --> 00:04:21,690 we make no provision for the lust of 111 00:04:21,690 --> 00:04:22,090 the flesh. 112 00:04:22,690 --> 00:04:23,830 When we're walking after... 113 00:04:23,830 --> 00:04:24,750 Let me ask you something. 114 00:04:24,790 --> 00:04:26,030 Do you think walking after the lust of 115 00:04:26,030 --> 00:04:27,130 the flesh is walking after sin? 116 00:04:28,690 --> 00:04:29,390 Shake your head. 117 00:04:31,580 --> 00:04:32,420 Let me try over here. 118 00:04:36,030 --> 00:04:37,450 Do you think walking after the lust of 119 00:04:37,450 --> 00:04:38,670 the flesh is walking after sin? 120 00:04:39,910 --> 00:04:40,310 Absolutely. 121 00:04:43,180 --> 00:04:44,940 The lust of the flesh is sin, isn't 122 00:04:44,940 --> 00:04:45,080 it? 123 00:04:47,180 --> 00:04:47,460 Okay. 124 00:04:51,380 --> 00:04:53,460 See, we make no provision for the lust 125 00:04:53,460 --> 00:04:56,980 of the flesh, but we die to the 126 00:04:56,980 --> 00:04:59,320 lust of the flesh, and we receive a 127 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,490 new provision that the Lord has made, that 128 00:05:03,490 --> 00:05:05,010 God has made through Jesus Christ. 129 00:05:07,350 --> 00:05:09,350 This provision leads us in the image and 130 00:05:09,350 --> 00:05:11,590 likeness of God back to the image and 131 00:05:11,590 --> 00:05:13,050 likeness of God where we've been in the 132 00:05:13,050 --> 00:05:13,990 image and likeness of Satan. 133 00:05:14,170 --> 00:05:14,650 Do you follow me? 134 00:05:15,470 --> 00:05:18,690 Now, the sin of man today is refusing 135 00:05:18,690 --> 00:05:21,670 to accept this provision that God has made 136 00:05:21,670 --> 00:05:22,890 for us to get rid of the old 137 00:05:22,890 --> 00:05:23,370 sin nature. 138 00:05:27,170 --> 00:05:27,790 Are you hearing me? 139 00:05:28,490 --> 00:05:30,790 The sin of man today is to refuse 140 00:05:30,790 --> 00:05:32,570 the provision that God has made in Jesus 141 00:05:32,570 --> 00:05:33,970 Christ for us to get rid of the 142 00:05:33,970 --> 00:05:36,830 old sin nature, walking and talking like Satan. 143 00:05:37,390 --> 00:05:39,190 And when we reject in the walking covenant 144 00:05:39,190 --> 00:05:41,290 with the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord, that 145 00:05:41,290 --> 00:05:45,190 means that we choose to enjoy walking and 146 00:05:45,190 --> 00:05:46,790 talking and acting like Satan. 147 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,620 We choose to remain in the image and 148 00:05:55,620 --> 00:05:56,440 likeness of Satan. 149 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:58,720 Now, when a person chooses to remain in 150 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,000 the image and likeness of Satan, well, what's 151 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:00,500 in his heart? 152 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:03,600 Where's his heart? 153 00:06:04,340 --> 00:06:05,580 That's where he chooses to remain. 154 00:06:06,940 --> 00:06:08,800 He finds his portion in this world, living 155 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:10,460 for his flesh, the carton, and that's a 156 00:06:10,460 --> 00:06:11,040 temporal thing. 157 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:12,120 So we're supposed to be... 158 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,140 The process that the Lord has called us 159 00:06:14,140 --> 00:06:15,780 back in covenant is to bring us back 160 00:06:15,780 --> 00:06:18,340 in image and likeness of God, from the 161 00:06:18,340 --> 00:06:20,800 image and likeness of Satan, where Adam fell 162 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,560 to, which is your nature, where you're led, 163 00:06:22,620 --> 00:06:23,640 your heart goes to the lust of your 164 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,520 flesh when you're born in this world. 165 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:27,680 Now, this process, as you know, that Jesus 166 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,660 came as the example to lead us, and 167 00:06:29,660 --> 00:06:31,280 we're to suffer, He suffered, we'll walk as 168 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:33,660 He walked, and here's an example of Him 169 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:35,640 being Lord and us listening to Him. 170 00:06:35,940 --> 00:06:37,720 This is what He said, I mean, when 171 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,680 you become one with God, you don't come 172 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:40,620 on your own terms. 173 00:06:42,770 --> 00:06:45,110 God has a few conditions for you. 174 00:06:45,910 --> 00:06:47,550 When you come to be one with Him, 175 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,860 and so this process of Jesus being Lord 176 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:55,160 of your life, once again in Romans 8, 177 00:06:55,180 --> 00:06:58,500 29, it's that you be conformed to the 178 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:00,600 image of Jesus, which is the image and 179 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,560 likeness of God, you'll be changed. 180 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:05,900 Old things have passed away. 181 00:07:05,980 --> 00:07:07,160 You'll walk in newness of life. 182 00:07:09,950 --> 00:07:10,970 Now, I want to ask you, how is 183 00:07:10,970 --> 00:07:13,590 anybody going to be conformed to the image 184 00:07:13,590 --> 00:07:15,110 and likeness of God that their heart goes 185 00:07:15,110 --> 00:07:16,030 after the lust of the flesh? 186 00:07:17,010 --> 00:07:17,770 That's where they live. 187 00:07:17,770 --> 00:07:18,670 That's where their heart is. 188 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:22,900 How can I be transformed in the image 189 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:25,220 and likeness of God if I'm not resisting 190 00:07:25,220 --> 00:07:26,440 the devil and dying to the flesh? 191 00:07:26,500 --> 00:07:27,700 Will you please tell me how that is? 192 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:31,380 I want to ask you that again. 193 00:07:32,580 --> 00:07:34,380 How can I be conformed to the image 194 00:07:34,380 --> 00:07:35,800 of Jesus or the image of the flesh? 195 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:40,800 I want to ask you something. 196 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:42,200 Who is it that hides truth from your 197 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:42,500 minds? 198 00:07:42,740 --> 00:07:43,660 Who is it that hides truth? 199 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:47,380 They're doing it all the time, every day, 200 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:47,740 folks. 201 00:07:47,820 --> 00:07:49,000 There's plenty of them to go around. 202 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,220 They're talking to you all the time. 203 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:56,380 Now, when you understand this, see, some of 204 00:07:56,380 --> 00:07:58,120 these things are a cultural shock. 205 00:08:03,570 --> 00:08:04,830 But this is the way it is. 206 00:08:05,110 --> 00:08:05,970 And we're going to look at it right 207 00:08:05,970 --> 00:08:06,110 here. 208 00:08:06,190 --> 00:08:08,090 Now, you receive this if you see these 209 00:08:08,090 --> 00:08:10,590 things in a word because there's a bunch 210 00:08:10,590 --> 00:08:11,010 more. 211 00:08:11,670 --> 00:08:14,730 See, we're just, I wish we'd get day 212 00:08:14,730 --> 00:08:15,590 one and two by. 213 00:08:15,770 --> 00:08:17,030 I like to get over in three and 214 00:08:17,030 --> 00:08:17,770 four and five. 215 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:21,540 I'll be glad we can do this for 216 00:08:21,540 --> 00:08:22,140 five days. 217 00:08:27,460 --> 00:08:29,020 Now, I'll tell you who it is that 218 00:08:29,020 --> 00:08:31,000 hides the truth from us, the ones we've 219 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:31,480 been ignoring. 220 00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:34,280 The powers of darkness. 221 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:35,860 Now, you know we overcome with the blood 222 00:08:35,860 --> 00:08:36,840 of the Lamb, the word of our testimony. 223 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:38,500 We love not our, that's the way you 224 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:39,080 overcome them. 225 00:08:39,539 --> 00:08:41,179 Love not your flesh. 226 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,200 And anyone, Jesus said, anyone who wishes to 227 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:46,820 come after me, that's in Mark 8. 228 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:48,280 It's on your list there. 229 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,680 You have to deny yourself, take up your 230 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:50,980 cross. 231 00:08:51,060 --> 00:08:52,240 In other words, what it is, it's a 232 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:52,900 walk of death. 233 00:08:54,860 --> 00:08:56,540 And a walk of death, you suffer in 234 00:08:56,540 --> 00:08:56,660 it. 235 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,780 But that's where the glory is. 236 00:09:02,690 --> 00:09:04,910 And when you resist temptations of the flesh, 237 00:09:04,970 --> 00:09:06,790 let me tell you something to process, folks. 238 00:09:07,010 --> 00:09:08,650 That's where the anointing grows on you. 239 00:09:12,130 --> 00:09:14,510 As you resist the flesh and temptations come 240 00:09:14,510 --> 00:09:15,770 on you, each time you do that, you 241 00:09:15,770 --> 00:09:16,290 get promoted. 242 00:09:17,850 --> 00:09:19,670 The Lord can trust you more and more, 243 00:09:19,730 --> 00:09:21,250 and He just lets more of His Spirit. 244 00:09:23,250 --> 00:09:24,530 And I'm going to come to a place 245 00:09:24,530 --> 00:09:25,970 here, and I'm going to show you in 246 00:09:25,970 --> 00:09:26,570 a word right here. 247 00:09:26,650 --> 00:09:27,850 I'm going to share with you in a 248 00:09:27,850 --> 00:09:29,030 word right here, while the power is not 249 00:09:29,030 --> 00:09:29,690 in the church today. 250 00:09:30,390 --> 00:09:30,910 Just plain. 251 00:09:31,470 --> 00:09:33,030 And I'm getting close to it right now. 252 00:09:35,250 --> 00:09:36,730 So we take up our cross. 253 00:09:37,010 --> 00:09:37,910 We deny ourselves. 254 00:09:38,010 --> 00:09:38,870 What do you deny yourself? 255 00:09:39,010 --> 00:09:42,340 You deny your carton. 256 00:09:43,180 --> 00:09:44,180 Live a life to your carton. 257 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:44,860 You live for the heavenly. 258 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:46,420 Let me ask you something. 259 00:09:46,540 --> 00:09:47,320 What about this? 260 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,480 In that same Scripture there, it says, whoever 261 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:53,300 wishes, now look at me, whoever wishes to 262 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:57,980 save his life, or carton, is going to 263 00:09:57,980 --> 00:09:58,740 lose it. 264 00:09:59,580 --> 00:10:00,160 Isn't that interesting? 265 00:10:02,950 --> 00:10:06,710 But whoever loses his life, dies to this 266 00:10:06,710 --> 00:10:09,210 flesh, carton, is the one that's going to 267 00:10:09,210 --> 00:10:09,630 save it. 268 00:10:10,370 --> 00:10:11,130 Let me ask you something. 269 00:10:11,190 --> 00:10:12,070 Is that what your Bible says? 270 00:10:12,950 --> 00:10:14,850 Did these things just get dropped in there 271 00:10:14,850 --> 00:10:17,810 to analyze, and just reject everything that comes 272 00:10:17,810 --> 00:10:18,570 against the flesh? 273 00:10:20,070 --> 00:10:22,110 When you reject everything that comes against the 274 00:10:22,110 --> 00:10:25,030 flesh, you're giving the powers of darkness to 275 00:10:25,030 --> 00:10:25,890 come and go as they want to. 276 00:10:25,950 --> 00:10:27,050 That's where they're working at. 277 00:10:27,270 --> 00:10:29,110 That's why you hadn't recognized them, you'd been 278 00:10:29,110 --> 00:10:29,910 in agreement with them. 279 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,640 You never know the devil talking to you, 280 00:10:34,660 --> 00:10:36,680 because he's telling you how to take advantage 281 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:38,300 of everything in this world for your flesh. 282 00:10:38,660 --> 00:10:40,560 That's why you don't recognize these thugs up 283 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:40,820 there. 284 00:10:42,460 --> 00:10:44,240 They tell you how to take advantage of 285 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:44,560 everything. 286 00:10:48,980 --> 00:10:50,080 That's a flesh walk. 287 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,600 That's why the world out there, to see 288 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,060 if they like it, flesh likes it. 289 00:10:54,820 --> 00:10:56,960 Because everything Satan is, the flesh is, the 290 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:57,780 lust of the flesh is. 291 00:11:00,090 --> 00:11:02,370 But see, while they're listening, they've got a 292 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:03,830 little secret thing that's happening to you. 293 00:11:03,890 --> 00:11:04,590 They're cutting you down. 294 00:11:04,670 --> 00:11:05,470 You're a tree of the field. 295 00:11:05,510 --> 00:11:06,550 We're going to look and see if they're 296 00:11:06,550 --> 00:11:07,590 tree cutters later on. 297 00:11:08,270 --> 00:11:09,410 They're cutting your tree down. 298 00:11:09,890 --> 00:11:11,310 When you're listening to the powers of darkness, 299 00:11:11,350 --> 00:11:12,330 death is working in you. 300 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:16,260 It's death. 301 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,520 Now folks, remember now, I think it just 302 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,480 happened, I'm not saying these things because I'm 303 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:23,680 starting something new, okay? 304 00:11:25,020 --> 00:11:26,560 I'm saying what we're saying right here and 305 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:27,720 getting this word in is for you to 306 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:28,520 have an understanding. 307 00:11:28,660 --> 00:11:29,680 And when you have an understanding, I'm going 308 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:30,660 to tell you what, you can walk away 309 00:11:30,660 --> 00:11:31,620 from here and you can say, in the 310 00:11:31,620 --> 00:11:32,660 name of Jesus, you can know what you're 311 00:11:32,660 --> 00:11:34,140 talking about because of the Word of God. 312 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:34,380 Amen? 313 00:11:36,060 --> 00:11:37,680 And a lot of things on your kids 314 00:11:38,780 --> 00:11:40,820 and in your family and folks and around 315 00:11:40,820 --> 00:11:42,340 and hurting people and everything, you don't have 316 00:11:42,340 --> 00:11:43,300 to tell them to hang in there no 317 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:46,060 more or pray that they'll die comfortably. 318 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:49,420 I'm going to tell you something folks, God 319 00:11:49,420 --> 00:11:50,220 is open to rise. 320 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,280 I didn't have any problem telling you right 321 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,020 there, pulling these slices up here, I could 322 00:11:55,020 --> 00:11:56,900 tell you some pretty good stories about, you 323 00:11:56,900 --> 00:11:59,740 know, but there's a lot of things I 324 00:11:59,740 --> 00:12:00,100 don't know. 325 00:12:00,540 --> 00:12:01,760 I can only share with you what I 326 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:01,880 know. 327 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:02,940 I don't have to know everything. 328 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:05,660 But let me tell you something, nobody else 329 00:12:05,660 --> 00:12:06,500 knows everything either. 330 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:08,840 I'm just a part. 331 00:12:09,340 --> 00:12:09,940 You're a part. 332 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:11,380 I'm important. 333 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:12,320 I'm part of Jesus. 334 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:12,980 Aren't you? 335 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:23,650 See, Satan saw that he couldn't stop the 336 00:12:23,650 --> 00:12:24,490 church with persecution. 337 00:12:24,650 --> 00:12:26,490 That persecution just makes you stronger and closer. 338 00:12:28,250 --> 00:12:30,230 So what he's now doing, he's been seducing 339 00:12:30,230 --> 00:12:32,330 the church to conform and be like the 340 00:12:32,330 --> 00:12:33,350 world which he already controls. 341 00:12:33,450 --> 00:12:34,550 You get like the world, he's got you. 342 00:12:35,010 --> 00:12:35,910 You get the world and the church. 343 00:12:38,470 --> 00:12:40,530 So, while the church in the past years 344 00:12:40,530 --> 00:12:43,590 has been ignoring Satan and the powers of 345 00:12:43,590 --> 00:12:47,250 darkness, the demons, Satan has been changing the 346 00:12:47,250 --> 00:12:49,090 gospel of grace into a social gospel. 347 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:53,360 We start building houses besides building up this 348 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:53,620 house. 349 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:55,160 We look for other fruit besides the fruit 350 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:55,640 of this house. 351 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:56,840 I want you to know this is a 352 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:57,420 temple, folks. 353 00:13:00,940 --> 00:13:02,480 We start getting other fruit besides it. 354 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,900 Now, Satan's perverted a lot of things. 355 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,060 Now, this is no reason why anybody should 356 00:13:08,060 --> 00:13:08,820 be defensive about it. 357 00:13:08,860 --> 00:13:09,460 If I can show you it in a 358 00:13:09,460 --> 00:13:10,440 word, why are you offended? 359 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:11,160 Why are you protecting? 360 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:13,300 Why would you be upset about it, see? 361 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:15,680 You shouldn't be offended. 362 00:13:16,020 --> 00:13:17,220 Wait and see if it lines up in 363 00:13:17,220 --> 00:13:17,380 a word. 364 00:13:17,460 --> 00:13:18,500 If it doesn't line up in a word, 365 00:13:18,780 --> 00:13:23,880 you're supposed to correct me, aren't you? 366 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,340 Why don't you write me a little note 367 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:28,040 there and correct me. 368 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,420 And if I'm saying I'm wrong, I'll sure 369 00:13:30,420 --> 00:13:31,720 get to it and just give it to 370 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,380 God or whatever and everything I repent. 371 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:35,780 Because I'm telling you, before God, I'm not 372 00:13:35,780 --> 00:13:37,500 going to say anything exaggerated or anything to 373 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:38,180 say what God says. 374 00:13:38,580 --> 00:13:41,000 Now, I've had a very good advantage over 375 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:41,900 a lot of you, and many of you 376 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:43,160 have been where you are, just seeing people 377 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:44,220 set free all over the place. 378 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:45,600 And when you see people set free and 379 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,000 they walk with Jesus and see them set 380 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,240 free from the powers of darkness and you 381 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,120 see that this is the way that they 382 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,020 got in there, it's a beautiful, wonderful thing. 383 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:55,040 Because I'm going to tell you, you'll not 384 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,860 walk with Jesus until you're free from these 385 00:13:56,860 --> 00:13:58,000 compulsions of the flesh. 386 00:13:58,740 --> 00:14:00,520 Those things are just pulling levers on you. 387 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,560 Now, by the way, this is good news. 388 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:05,120 It's not bad news. 389 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:05,860 This is good news. 390 00:14:06,380 --> 00:14:07,500 I'm sharing with you good news. 391 00:14:08,180 --> 00:14:09,800 This is good news for those that receive 392 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:10,000 it. 393 00:14:10,180 --> 00:14:11,440 It's bad news for those that don't. 394 00:14:12,220 --> 00:14:15,560 Now, why did the Lord say, keep yourself 395 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:16,420 unspotted from the world? 396 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:17,780 There ain't much reason to do that. 397 00:14:17,860 --> 00:14:19,280 Keep yourself unspotted from the world? 398 00:14:19,860 --> 00:14:21,320 We know in James 4, I won't turn 399 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:22,900 there, but it said, Why does the Lord 400 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:23,980 say that whoever is a friend of the 401 00:14:23,980 --> 00:14:25,340 world makes himself an enemy of God? 402 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,260 A friend of the world walks and talks 403 00:14:28,260 --> 00:14:30,240 like a world, doesn't he? 404 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:30,980 Isn't that right? 405 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:33,240 That's where the flesh wants to live. 406 00:14:36,260 --> 00:14:38,140 This is on your notes there, 1 John 407 00:14:38,140 --> 00:14:40,160 5, that all the power of this world 408 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,360 lies in the hands of the evil one. 409 00:14:42,460 --> 00:14:43,740 In other words, Satan, all the power of 410 00:14:43,740 --> 00:14:44,960 this world lies in the hands of Satan 411 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:45,920 and the powers of darkness. 412 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:48,080 All the power of this world. 413 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:49,060 Is that plain? 414 00:14:51,260 --> 00:14:52,400 And we're going to see how. 415 00:14:52,980 --> 00:14:55,340 Do you recall in Luke 4 that Satan 416 00:14:55,340 --> 00:14:58,380 said, Luke 4, 5, 6, Satan, I said, 417 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,220 told Jesus when he's being tempted, I'll give 418 00:15:01,220 --> 00:15:02,820 you all the kingdoms of the world if 419 00:15:02,820 --> 00:15:03,880 you'll bow down and worship me. 420 00:15:04,780 --> 00:15:06,080 You get a little visit like that every 421 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:07,140 day to get your heart to go after 422 00:15:07,140 --> 00:15:07,600 these things. 423 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:08,800 See, there are things in the world that 424 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:09,260 you need. 425 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:13,220 Automobiles, and stone, wood, and everything. 426 00:15:13,660 --> 00:15:14,740 But do you know what those powers of 427 00:15:14,740 --> 00:15:15,480 darkness try to do? 428 00:15:15,660 --> 00:15:17,260 To get your heart toward it. 429 00:15:19,970 --> 00:15:20,530 See your heart. 430 00:15:21,370 --> 00:15:22,710 I'll explain it to you a little later. 431 00:15:23,370 --> 00:15:25,950 See, in other words, when Satan came to 432 00:15:25,950 --> 00:15:28,130 Jesus and told him he'd give him all 433 00:15:28,130 --> 00:15:29,230 the kingdoms of the world if he'd bow 434 00:15:29,230 --> 00:15:30,790 down and worship him, what Satan was doing, 435 00:15:30,890 --> 00:15:35,110 he claims rulership of the world and Jesus 436 00:15:35,110 --> 00:15:36,150 didn't dispute it with him. 437 00:15:36,590 --> 00:15:37,490 He didn't dispute it. 438 00:15:38,450 --> 00:15:39,530 Now, I want to ask you something. 439 00:15:39,670 --> 00:15:41,010 How aware are you when you get up 440 00:15:41,010 --> 00:15:43,430 each morning, how aware are you that you 441 00:15:43,430 --> 00:15:45,230 live in the midst of an evil system 442 00:15:45,230 --> 00:15:46,830 controlled by God's enemies out there? 443 00:15:47,650 --> 00:15:49,510 Because that's just exactly what your Bible says. 444 00:15:50,530 --> 00:15:51,830 I said, if you're a friend of it, 445 00:15:51,830 --> 00:15:53,090 you're an enemy of God. 446 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,640 Now, see, Satan uses the world system. 447 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,300 He uses the world system against you to 448 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:02,780 get your heart. 449 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:04,140 He uses the lust of the flesh to 450 00:16:04,140 --> 00:16:05,300 get a person to live for himself and 451 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:06,260 be the Lord of his own life. 452 00:16:06,460 --> 00:16:07,620 That's why he talks to you, to get 453 00:16:07,620 --> 00:16:07,740 you. 454 00:16:09,220 --> 00:16:11,480 Now, I think I'll just give, you know, 455 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,060 I'll give you, let's see, I'll give one 456 00:16:13,060 --> 00:16:15,580 example about something that, how they come and 457 00:16:15,580 --> 00:16:16,980 talk to you, you know, reading newspapers and 458 00:16:16,980 --> 00:16:17,240 so forth. 459 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:18,860 Sometimes I share about this. 460 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:19,920 I just want to share about it again. 461 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:21,540 Did you ever see anybody have car fever? 462 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:24,340 Car fever. 463 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:25,440 Got to have it. 464 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:28,620 All right, let me just share something. 465 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:30,360 Now, the reason I want to point this 466 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,920 out to you, I'm just going to give 467 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,120 you some examples of some little things in 468 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,300 just your everyday walking life that get you 469 00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:39,360 programmed and everything, how they just steal your 470 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:40,680 heart right there and get you. 471 00:16:40,860 --> 00:16:42,520 A proud person is satisfied and a satisfied 472 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:43,800 person don't need God. 473 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:45,760 Proud folks, God needs them. 474 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:47,620 Do you hear me? 475 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:48,580 Let me show you. 476 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:53,400 Now, see that red car, that red convertible, 477 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:55,720 that red piece of steel. 478 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:58,680 And all of a sudden, as I look, 479 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,400 my lust in my eyes, here it begins, 480 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:01,140 and I see that. 481 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,700 And in that, as I look at that 482 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:05,440 red piece of steel, here these pictures come 483 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:06,020 in my mind. 484 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,099 And it shows me, when I get near 485 00:17:10,099 --> 00:17:11,640 Sally, how she's going, how I'm going to 486 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:13,480 look in that red piece of steel. 487 00:17:15,770 --> 00:17:17,329 And how I just go through town, how 488 00:17:17,329 --> 00:17:18,990 I get around the fence in different places, 489 00:17:19,069 --> 00:17:21,109 these pictures come and show me how I 490 00:17:21,109 --> 00:17:22,470 look, how I'm going to be something. 491 00:17:24,589 --> 00:17:26,970 Somebody, when I get in that red piece 492 00:17:26,970 --> 00:17:27,450 of steel. 493 00:17:29,090 --> 00:17:31,090 And after these pictures, now they're talking to 494 00:17:31,090 --> 00:17:31,290 you. 495 00:17:31,590 --> 00:17:32,830 Folks, I'm telling you the truth. 496 00:17:33,670 --> 00:17:35,510 In Jesus' name, I'm talking to you, I'm 497 00:17:35,510 --> 00:17:36,130 telling you the truth. 498 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,380 And in little, small things like that, they're 499 00:17:42,380 --> 00:17:43,080 getting in your heart. 500 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,740 And that is the lust of eyes, because, 501 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:46,960 see, you need an automobile to ride around 502 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,220 with in this day and time. 503 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:49,520 And you can do it, you need them. 504 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,480 But see, that automobile, that rusting piece of 505 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:54,720 steel don't need to get your heart. 506 00:17:55,140 --> 00:17:56,220 See how perverted it is? 507 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:58,500 Because you're looking at that red, the enemy, 508 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,420 as we're talking to him, he's getting that 509 00:18:00,420 --> 00:18:03,280 piece, that red piece of steel and the 510 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,640 pride of life to make this, this red 511 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:06,920 piece of steel that's going to take you 512 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:08,620 through the world and make you somebody. 513 00:18:09,620 --> 00:18:10,120 Are you seeing? 514 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:11,600 Proud. 515 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:15,760 And so finally, he just throws all those 516 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,340 pictures and how good you're going to look 517 00:18:17,340 --> 00:18:19,360 and how you're going to be accepted and 518 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:21,240 received by everybody when you get in that 519 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:22,060 red piece of steel. 520 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:24,080 And then all of a sudden, a little 521 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,060 thought comes there, I've got to have that 522 00:18:26,060 --> 00:18:27,860 red piece of steel if I work three 523 00:18:27,860 --> 00:18:28,280 jobs. 524 00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:34,890 I mean, you've got to have it. 525 00:18:34,950 --> 00:18:35,890 I mean, it's got you. 526 00:18:37,370 --> 00:18:38,750 And you go to, you've got to wait 527 00:18:38,750 --> 00:18:39,890 till the next day, how can I wait 528 00:18:39,890 --> 00:18:40,690 till the next day? 529 00:18:43,310 --> 00:18:44,790 And all night, you're just about to stay 530 00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:46,490 awake thinking about that red piece of steel 531 00:18:46,490 --> 00:18:47,910 and here comes those pictures you know of. 532 00:18:48,110 --> 00:18:49,670 The demons are just bouncing off the wall. 533 00:18:49,750 --> 00:18:51,590 They just laugh as they talk to you. 534 00:18:52,370 --> 00:18:54,550 And get you so lifted up in your 535 00:18:54,550 --> 00:18:56,010 boastful pride of life. 536 00:18:58,120 --> 00:18:59,480 You go get that red piece of steel 537 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:00,840 and you don't have much time to drive 538 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,060 around, you have to work all the time. 539 00:19:07,140 --> 00:19:09,500 But you get a little old trip, pride 540 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:10,540 trip, everything, you know. 541 00:19:10,980 --> 00:19:12,660 Every time you jump in it, because that 542 00:19:12,660 --> 00:19:13,960 makes you somebody. 543 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,180 You were nothing before you had that red 544 00:19:17,180 --> 00:19:17,840 piece of steel. 545 00:19:19,140 --> 00:19:20,960 And that red piece of steel is already 546 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:21,560 rusting. 547 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,220 And then you decide, well, you know, I 548 00:19:23,220 --> 00:19:25,700 need to go kind of get me some 549 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:28,420 clothes and so forth. 550 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,840 So, you get in your red piece of 551 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,840 steel, you drive into the clothing store and 552 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,200 you start to pull in here and something 553 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,040 says, why don't you pull over a little 554 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,160 bit, they can see you a little better 555 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:38,940 inside of you. 556 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:41,940 That's them. 557 00:19:46,060 --> 00:19:47,980 So, you're just kind of, kind of swerving 558 00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:51,160 around here, kind of, pull over here where 559 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,220 some folks can kind of see you a 560 00:19:52,220 --> 00:19:52,540 little better. 561 00:19:52,700 --> 00:19:53,940 When you get out of your red piece 562 00:19:53,940 --> 00:19:54,320 of steel. 563 00:19:56,260 --> 00:19:59,860 You go on into the clothing store and 564 00:19:59,860 --> 00:20:00,680 you find your coat. 565 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,100 And as you look at that coat, pictures 566 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:05,960 start coming again. 567 00:20:08,970 --> 00:20:10,790 And you start seeing how you're going to 568 00:20:10,790 --> 00:20:13,050 look and what a success you're going to 569 00:20:13,050 --> 00:20:13,890 be in that cotton. 570 00:20:14,770 --> 00:20:16,350 That cotton that's already rotten. 571 00:20:18,670 --> 00:20:19,470 Rusting steel. 572 00:20:21,870 --> 00:20:23,290 Then something, it's got your heart! 573 00:20:25,130 --> 00:20:25,730 Right here. 574 00:20:27,910 --> 00:20:29,130 And you try it on and you find 575 00:20:29,130 --> 00:20:30,070 a mirror and you go over and look 576 00:20:30,070 --> 00:20:31,270 at it and something up there tells you 577 00:20:31,270 --> 00:20:32,750 you've got the prettiest heart in town. 578 00:20:36,620 --> 00:20:37,940 There's nobody like you. 579 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:39,800 Nowhere. 580 00:20:45,090 --> 00:20:46,630 Now you've got your red piece of steel 581 00:20:47,390 --> 00:20:49,850 and you've got your rotten, your rusting steel 582 00:20:49,850 --> 00:20:50,670 and your rotten cotton. 583 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,180 That's why they laugh at you. 584 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:57,460 Powers of darkness. 585 00:21:00,530 --> 00:21:02,030 Now, I'm very honest. 586 00:21:03,170 --> 00:21:04,390 I'm very honest with you. 587 00:21:04,470 --> 00:21:06,590 I'm going to tell you until you probably 588 00:21:06,590 --> 00:21:08,770 have a chance to kind of get in 589 00:21:08,770 --> 00:21:09,290 this a little more. 590 00:21:09,630 --> 00:21:10,970 Why don't you just kind of put that 591 00:21:10,970 --> 00:21:12,110 on the shelf there and let the Lord 592 00:21:12,110 --> 00:21:12,650 confirm it. 593 00:21:13,870 --> 00:21:15,170 That couldn't be that way. 594 00:21:15,370 --> 00:21:16,790 Well, jump in. 595 00:21:18,210 --> 00:21:19,010 It is that way. 596 00:21:19,590 --> 00:21:20,930 It's exactly the way it is. 597 00:21:22,370 --> 00:21:22,970 All right, now. 598 00:21:24,430 --> 00:21:25,690 Flesh agrees with Satan. 599 00:21:25,690 --> 00:21:27,550 Turn to 1 John 2, please. 600 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:31,740 1 John 2. 601 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:42,980 1 John 2. 602 00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:48,950 Now, we're going to look at how Satan 603 00:21:48,950 --> 00:21:53,720 controls the world and the people of the 604 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:53,900 world. 605 00:21:55,980 --> 00:21:56,840 We're going to look at it. 606 00:21:58,420 --> 00:21:59,560 If you will, please. 607 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:02,500 Verse 15. 608 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,640 Now, you've got your scissors with you. 609 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:07,620 If you run into something you don't like, 610 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:08,640 remember, just cut it out. 611 00:22:10,340 --> 00:22:13,480 Now, it says in 15, Do not love 612 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:13,940 the world. 613 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:14,780 Look at me. 614 00:22:16,790 --> 00:22:17,550 Here they are. 615 00:22:18,110 --> 00:22:21,130 Oh, God knows I have to live in 616 00:22:21,130 --> 00:22:21,630 this world. 617 00:22:22,630 --> 00:22:24,350 He wants me to have the best. 618 00:22:25,450 --> 00:22:26,670 Has God really said? 619 00:22:26,870 --> 00:22:27,810 Yes, He just read it. 620 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:32,140 Listen. 621 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:34,640 Listen, folks. 622 00:22:38,740 --> 00:22:40,100 You're going to live in this world, but 623 00:22:40,100 --> 00:22:41,320 your heart doesn't go to the world. 624 00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:42,000 You understand what I mean? 625 00:22:42,860 --> 00:22:44,520 You know, this world is phony as a 626 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:45,080 $3 bill. 627 00:22:45,180 --> 00:22:45,780 Did you ever notice that? 628 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,400 All the roles that this world finds you 629 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:47,640 to play. 630 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:48,820 Are you always supposed to be something? 631 00:22:48,820 --> 00:22:49,660 Be noticed? 632 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:50,440 Play games? 633 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:52,200 They're your puppets. 634 00:22:58,100 --> 00:23:02,520 Do not love the world, nor the red 635 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,000 pieces of steel in the world. 636 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:06,580 That's what it's saying. 637 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:07,920 You understand? 638 00:23:08,380 --> 00:23:08,980 Now, look at me. 639 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:09,520 Look at me. 640 00:23:12,980 --> 00:23:14,000 I need some clothes to wear. 641 00:23:15,460 --> 00:23:16,960 I need an automobile to ride in. 642 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:21,100 But they're not the ones that are taking 643 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:22,540 me through this world and making me something. 644 00:23:22,980 --> 00:23:23,900 I'm something in Jesus. 645 00:23:29,050 --> 00:23:30,370 Now, I used to live that way when 646 00:23:30,370 --> 00:23:31,630 they talked to me and my heart made 647 00:23:31,630 --> 00:23:32,110 me something. 648 00:23:32,810 --> 00:23:35,030 I mean, my heart went after something so 649 00:23:35,030 --> 00:23:37,390 I could be something. 650 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,620 Now, I use these things and I appreciate 651 00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:44,640 these things and I've prospered in these things, 652 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:46,020 but I haven't got my heart. 653 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:48,740 The Lord has given me some pretty good 654 00:23:48,740 --> 00:23:49,080 things. 655 00:23:53,820 --> 00:23:54,700 And I don't have any of them. 656 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:55,700 I can't give up right now. 657 00:23:57,980 --> 00:23:58,580 None of them. 658 00:23:58,700 --> 00:23:59,360 Not any of them. 659 00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:01,000 And that's grace. 660 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,760 Nothing boasts about it except the grace of 661 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:02,960 God. 662 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:04,980 It's the grace of God to even know 663 00:24:04,980 --> 00:24:05,400 the difference. 664 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,040 But right here in 15 it said, Do 665 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,220 not love the world, the things in the 666 00:24:08,220 --> 00:24:08,320 world. 667 00:24:08,340 --> 00:24:09,760 Now, let me ask you, are you hearing 668 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:10,360 what this is saying? 669 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,420 It's going to tell you why to not 670 00:24:11,420 --> 00:24:12,620 love the world, the things in the world. 671 00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:17,400 I need some clothes to wear. 672 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,360 I need an automobile to ride in. 673 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,500 But they're not the ones that are taking 674 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:25,940 me through this world and making me something. 675 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:27,300 I'm something in Jesus. 676 00:24:32,470 --> 00:24:33,750 Now, I used to live that way when 677 00:24:33,750 --> 00:24:35,010 they talked to me and my heart made 678 00:24:35,010 --> 00:24:35,490 me something. 679 00:24:36,230 --> 00:24:38,390 I mean, my heart went after something so 680 00:24:38,390 --> 00:24:40,770 I could be something. 681 00:24:43,130 --> 00:24:44,990 Now, I use these things and I appreciate 682 00:24:44,990 --> 00:24:48,010 these things and I've prospered in these things 683 00:24:48,010 --> 00:24:49,390 but I haven't got my heart. 684 00:24:50,910 --> 00:24:52,130 The Lord has given me some pretty good 685 00:24:52,130 --> 00:24:58,060 things and I don't have any of them. 686 00:24:58,120 --> 00:24:59,080 I can't give up right now. 687 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:01,880 None of them. 688 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:02,860 Not any of them. 689 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:04,400 And that's grace. 690 00:25:04,660 --> 00:25:06,140 Nothing boasts about it except the grace of 691 00:25:06,140 --> 00:25:06,320 God. 692 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:08,380 It's the grace of God to even know 693 00:25:08,380 --> 00:25:08,760 the difference. 694 00:25:09,220 --> 00:25:10,420 But right here in 15 it said, Do 695 00:25:10,420 --> 00:25:11,600 not love the world, the things in the 696 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:11,700 world. 697 00:25:11,740 --> 00:25:13,140 Now, let me ask you, are you hearing 698 00:25:13,140 --> 00:25:13,740 what this is saying? 699 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:14,800 It's going to tell you why to not 700 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,040 love the world, the things in the world. 701 00:25:18,590 --> 00:25:20,890 If anyone loves the world, I want you 702 00:25:20,890 --> 00:25:21,570 to get ready. 703 00:25:22,110 --> 00:25:23,570 Here's another one for the refrigerator. 704 00:25:24,790 --> 00:25:26,090 If you love the world, the love that 705 00:25:26,090 --> 00:25:26,870 bothers not in you. 706 00:25:26,890 --> 00:25:27,830 Is that what your Bible says? 707 00:25:28,630 --> 00:25:29,910 Unless you've said your words. 708 00:25:30,710 --> 00:25:31,810 Or unless you're a Methodist. 709 00:25:33,490 --> 00:25:34,630 Unless you're a charismatic. 710 00:25:37,420 --> 00:25:38,040 Where's your heart? 711 00:25:39,300 --> 00:25:40,580 With a heart man believing right. 712 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,720 Do you understand that this whole thing might 713 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,460 be a little more serious than any of 714 00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:44,660 us? 715 00:25:46,220 --> 00:25:47,100 Have thought it to be? 716 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,240 Did you ever think about that, folks? 717 00:25:51,510 --> 00:25:56,690 And then maybe some of us have got 718 00:25:56,690 --> 00:25:57,210 a little light. 719 00:25:57,290 --> 00:25:58,130 Some others have not. 720 00:25:58,190 --> 00:25:58,950 And you kind of know it. 721 00:26:00,050 --> 00:26:02,770 Well, immediately they start talking to you about 722 00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:03,450 spiritual pride. 723 00:26:03,530 --> 00:26:04,590 They set you down right there. 724 00:26:04,670 --> 00:26:07,330 And then your heart gathers around a little 725 00:26:07,330 --> 00:26:07,670 truth. 726 00:26:07,750 --> 00:26:08,330 And there you count. 727 00:26:11,910 --> 00:26:12,250 Perverted. 728 00:26:14,260 --> 00:26:15,320 See the body of Christ. 729 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,440 See, some of us up the road. 730 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:17,680 There's some of us down the road. 731 00:26:18,340 --> 00:26:19,760 But God has put us here to love 732 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:20,980 and help one another, folks. 733 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:22,620 The last to come first and the first 734 00:26:22,620 --> 00:26:23,180 to come last. 735 00:26:23,180 --> 00:26:24,580 We don't know anything about the flesh. 736 00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:25,760 Know each other ain't the flesh. 737 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:26,760 There's no big shots in it. 738 00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:28,060 Have you received that yet? 739 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:30,480 If you don't, you're going to say in 740 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:31,260 bondage to men. 741 00:26:32,860 --> 00:26:33,740 Do you hear me? 742 00:26:34,340 --> 00:26:36,140 When I see man whose breath is in 743 00:26:36,140 --> 00:26:36,660 his nostril. 744 00:26:36,740 --> 00:26:37,280 Who's he? 745 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:39,460 Who's man? 746 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:42,800 That's just God speaking. 747 00:26:44,340 --> 00:26:45,400 He can do a bunch. 748 00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:46,700 He's smart. 749 00:26:50,340 --> 00:26:51,320 Who's going to get you? 750 00:26:52,860 --> 00:26:53,980 That's a bunch of lies. 751 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:56,860 Who's going to get you? 752 00:26:58,420 --> 00:27:00,560 I'll harm him who follows after that which 753 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:01,000 is good. 754 00:27:09,110 --> 00:27:11,110 If anything can intimidate you, it's got you. 755 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,600 If anything can make you fearful, it's got 756 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:16,800 you. 757 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,400 In bondage, your problem's right there. 758 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:21,280 See right here where I'm pointing at? 759 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,260 Right there is what's got you. 760 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,520 Fear and intimidation comes from the devil. 761 00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:28,820 Let me tell you something. 762 00:27:31,540 --> 00:27:33,780 When you don't fear God, you're afraid of 763 00:27:33,780 --> 00:27:34,060 everything. 764 00:27:34,060 --> 00:27:43,530 And when you fear God, you're not going 765 00:27:43,530 --> 00:27:44,450 to be afraid of anything else. 766 00:27:45,410 --> 00:27:46,850 Because when you learn the fear of God, 767 00:27:47,310 --> 00:27:48,750 you understand there's nothing else to be afraid 768 00:27:48,750 --> 00:27:48,950 of. 769 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,200 There's a difference in fear of God and 770 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:53,680 fear of the devil. 771 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:55,100 See, we've been programmed to fear the devil 772 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:58,500 because we've been programmed by Hollywood and television 773 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:05,230 and Inquirer and things like that. 774 00:28:05,390 --> 00:28:06,970 You get those kind of words, you start 775 00:28:06,970 --> 00:28:08,450 eating those kind of words and taking those 776 00:28:08,450 --> 00:28:09,670 things to heart and the devil's got you. 777 00:28:10,970 --> 00:28:11,970 I want to show you something. 778 00:28:12,070 --> 00:28:13,230 Boy, it's going to be a beautiful thing. 779 00:28:14,850 --> 00:28:16,370 Boy, I just love the Lord's Word. 780 00:28:16,550 --> 00:28:16,870 Isn't it something? 781 00:28:17,010 --> 00:28:18,230 Isn't it amazing? 782 00:28:18,410 --> 00:28:21,990 It's just amazing how God's Word sets us 783 00:28:21,990 --> 00:28:22,210 free. 784 00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:24,090 Well, let's go on. 785 00:28:24,810 --> 00:28:25,870 It says something else here. 786 00:28:25,930 --> 00:28:27,170 Do not love the world of things in 787 00:28:27,170 --> 00:28:28,490 the world if your land loves the world. 788 00:28:28,850 --> 00:28:30,070 The love of the Father is not in 789 00:28:30,070 --> 00:28:30,370 him. 790 00:28:30,910 --> 00:28:34,230 16, for all, all, all, all, all, all, 791 00:28:34,230 --> 00:28:35,290 all is in the world. 792 00:28:35,350 --> 00:28:36,070 Now here it comes. 793 00:28:36,370 --> 00:28:39,030 The lust of the flesh, the lust of 794 00:28:39,030 --> 00:28:41,310 the eyes, and the boastful pride of life. 795 00:28:41,310 --> 00:28:43,050 Who I know, who I am, and what 796 00:28:43,050 --> 00:28:43,450 I've done. 797 00:28:43,530 --> 00:28:44,250 Hey, listen to me. 798 00:28:44,550 --> 00:28:45,870 You know how we've been programmed to kind 799 00:28:45,870 --> 00:28:47,670 of drop it on somebody just... 800 00:28:47,670 --> 00:28:49,670 Well, I know someone to bang. 801 00:28:51,550 --> 00:28:54,050 Well, I did bang this. 802 00:28:54,550 --> 00:28:58,670 You know, just kind of just let them 803 00:28:58,670 --> 00:28:59,350 know. 804 00:28:59,350 --> 00:28:59,610 Huh. 805 00:29:03,250 --> 00:29:06,350 I've got four bedrooms. 806 00:29:14,580 --> 00:29:15,420 For all... 807 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:19,100 Oh, my. 808 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:20,960 It's time to laugh. 809 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:24,680 You know what Jeremiah 10, 14 says? 810 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:25,560 I'm not going to turn there, but I 811 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:26,040 just want to tell you. 812 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,860 It said all mankind is stupid and devoid 813 00:29:30,860 --> 00:29:31,480 of knowledge. 814 00:29:33,460 --> 00:29:34,400 That's why we laugh. 815 00:29:34,940 --> 00:29:36,340 God's right answer, wasn't he? 816 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:37,520 We just found out he's right. 817 00:29:39,770 --> 00:29:42,090 I mean, they make puppets out of you. 818 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:45,780 So there it is. 819 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,020 The lust of the flesh, the lust of 820 00:29:47,020 --> 00:29:48,080 the eyes, and the boastful pride of life. 821 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,440 Later on, we're going to see that that's 822 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:49,880 how... 823 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,160 These three things right there that brought about 824 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:52,780 the fall of Adam. 825 00:29:59,380 --> 00:30:01,240 Now, we run into something else. 826 00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:03,800 These things are not from the world, Father, 827 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,680 but it's from the who. 828 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:06,500 This lust of the flesh, the lust of 829 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:07,880 the eyes, the boastful pride of life. 830 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:08,460 Where's it from? 831 00:30:09,260 --> 00:30:10,220 It's from the world. 832 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:11,820 So that's the reason it says, so it's 833 00:30:11,820 --> 00:30:13,280 good reason to say not love the world, 834 00:30:13,340 --> 00:30:14,020 the things in the world. 835 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:14,300 Right? 836 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:15,480 All right, now look here. 837 00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:15,900 Watch it. 838 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:16,660 Watch me right there. 839 00:30:16,820 --> 00:30:18,380 When I lived in the natural, that's where 840 00:30:18,380 --> 00:30:22,340 my heart went, my garden, and I lived 841 00:30:22,340 --> 00:30:24,600 after the... 842 00:30:25,220 --> 00:30:26,740 I found the temporal things of the world. 843 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,100 That's where the lust of the flesh goes 844 00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:30,300 to, because it finds things in the world 845 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:30,980 to make it something. 846 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:32,880 This flesh wants to have got that pride 847 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,480 in there, so it slips a little red 848 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:35,940 car on this flesh, and it's something. 849 00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:43,060 Slip a red coat on somebody, and it's 850 00:30:43,060 --> 00:30:43,240 something. 851 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:44,300 I didn't say blue, did I? 852 00:30:49,740 --> 00:30:52,520 All right, now, verse 17. 853 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,360 The world is passing away, and also it's 854 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:57,620 what? 855 00:30:58,780 --> 00:31:00,500 He said it's gone, folks. 856 00:31:00,620 --> 00:31:02,740 I'm telling you, all the lust is headed 857 00:31:02,740 --> 00:31:03,480 for destruction. 858 00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:04,080 Amen? 859 00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:06,460 Well, it's being destroyed right now. 860 00:31:08,060 --> 00:31:10,060 The world is passed away, also it's lust, 861 00:31:10,140 --> 00:31:12,120 but the one who does what? 862 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,160 Why don't you circle that about four times? 863 00:31:16,020 --> 00:31:17,660 We keep running this over and over. 864 00:31:18,140 --> 00:31:19,400 The one who does the will of God 865 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:20,120 is the one at what? 866 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,760 All right, now, folks, are you seeing that 867 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,920 we're seeing people who walk after the flesh 868 00:31:28,910 --> 00:31:31,470 and then reap in corruption, and we're seeing 869 00:31:31,470 --> 00:31:32,630 the ones that do in the will of 870 00:31:32,630 --> 00:31:33,570 God is eternal life? 871 00:31:33,610 --> 00:31:35,750 Does it sound like covenant is something to 872 00:31:35,750 --> 00:31:37,390 walk in rather than analyze? 873 00:31:37,630 --> 00:31:37,730 Huh? 874 00:31:42,220 --> 00:31:44,100 Did the Lord in all his wisdom send 875 00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:46,140 a book down here for us to analyze 876 00:31:46,140 --> 00:31:47,720 and speculate about and vote on? 877 00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:48,040 Huh? 878 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,940 You know, God, wonder what God's doing? 879 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,100 Go get four opinions and take a majority 880 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:55,220 out of it and do it instead of 881 00:31:55,220 --> 00:31:56,340 finding out what God wants, right? 882 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:09,060 Okay, I'm not going to turn to it, 883 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,680 but you're familiar with the Scripture in Romans 884 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:11,880 12, 1 and 2. 885 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:16,980 It says that you make this—let's turn to 886 00:32:16,980 --> 00:32:17,160 it. 887 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:18,320 Turn to it there. 888 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:22,240 Romans 12. 889 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,800 Verse 1, I urge you, brethren, by the 890 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,840 mercies of God, to present your bodies a 891 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,340 living and—what kind of sacrifice? 892 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,560 Do you know that a holy sacrifice was 893 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,600 one abstained from lust of the flesh? 894 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:40,640 Did you see that a while ago? 895 00:32:41,340 --> 00:32:42,380 Did we read that in 1 Peter? 896 00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:42,940 Shake your head. 897 00:32:43,860 --> 00:32:45,540 It's not very holy when it's acting like 898 00:32:45,540 --> 00:32:46,180 Satan, is it? 899 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,960 Is your body holy when it's acting like 900 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:49,220 Satan? 901 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:50,380 No. 902 00:32:50,380 --> 00:32:50,580 No. 903 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:52,960 No, we present our bodies a living, holy 904 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,660 sacrifice, except of God, which just is your 905 00:32:55,660 --> 00:32:58,200 spiritual service of worship. 906 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:00,220 Now, look at me. 907 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,880 You make this body a living sacrifice, holding 908 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:07,680 itself unto God. 909 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:08,720 Now, listen, folks. 910 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,080 You die to this so that the Spirit 911 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,020 of godliness, so God's Spirit can come in, 912 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:23,580 and you'll be a manifestation of God in 913 00:33:23,580 --> 00:33:24,000 the flesh. 914 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,400 That is the mystery of godliness. 915 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:27,840 Now, we've heard a lot of mystery of 916 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,540 godliness, but I'm kind of making a little 917 00:33:29,540 --> 00:33:31,160 more emphasis in the mystery of iniquity, because 918 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,860 we understand how the powers of darkness and 919 00:33:32,860 --> 00:33:34,760 everything and the sin is, right? 920 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:36,960 And I'm making a little more emphasis, because 921 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:38,120 in the temple of that age they said, 922 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,180 Leave that alone. 923 00:33:40,420 --> 00:33:41,760 You know what God's saying to them right 924 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:41,960 now? 925 00:33:41,980 --> 00:33:42,440 Shut up. 926 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,240 And he's fixing it so we can hear. 927 00:33:47,340 --> 00:33:48,520 That's what he does when you witness. 928 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,020 He wants somebody to hear right there, and 929 00:33:50,020 --> 00:33:51,180 he sees their heart kind of turn to 930 00:33:51,180 --> 00:33:51,280 him. 931 00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:52,300 He tells them to shut up. 932 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,420 So they just shut down. 933 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:56,640 And a man can hear. 934 00:33:59,380 --> 00:33:59,900 Are you hearing me? 935 00:34:01,930 --> 00:34:03,970 Now, I'll tell you that God is the 936 00:34:03,970 --> 00:34:04,950 one in control of everything. 937 00:34:07,690 --> 00:34:08,530 There's no wisdom. 938 00:34:08,750 --> 00:34:09,290 There's no counsel. 939 00:34:09,429 --> 00:34:10,949 There's no understanding against God. 940 00:34:11,050 --> 00:34:12,230 And what I'm talking about here today, and 941 00:34:12,230 --> 00:34:14,449 I'm sharing about the powers of darkness, I'm 942 00:34:14,449 --> 00:34:15,909 talking about getting in on the counsel of 943 00:34:15,909 --> 00:34:18,130 God and God's Spirit and word of greed. 944 00:34:18,190 --> 00:34:18,570 Is that right? 945 00:34:21,310 --> 00:34:24,070 Now, second verse. 946 00:34:24,690 --> 00:34:27,550 And do not be what? 947 00:34:28,949 --> 00:34:29,730 Conform to the world. 948 00:34:29,810 --> 00:34:31,530 We've always said, we've always seen in 1 949 00:34:31,530 --> 00:34:33,489 Peter, As obedient children, not be conformed to 950 00:34:33,489 --> 00:34:33,909 the flesh. 951 00:34:33,949 --> 00:34:34,170 Right? 952 00:34:34,770 --> 00:34:36,690 Now we're saying, Do not be conformed to 953 00:34:36,690 --> 00:34:37,130 the world. 954 00:34:39,030 --> 00:34:40,170 But be what? 955 00:34:40,250 --> 00:34:42,489 You're going to be transformed into the divine 956 00:34:42,489 --> 00:34:45,330 nature by the renewing of your mind. 957 00:34:45,389 --> 00:34:46,949 How do you renew your mind? 958 00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:48,870 Boy, start planting this seed in here, folks. 959 00:34:49,710 --> 00:34:52,750 Now, the Lord, you start taking it to 960 00:34:52,750 --> 00:34:52,929 heart. 961 00:34:52,989 --> 00:34:54,050 Now, don't take it up here and see 962 00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:55,210 how smart you can be about it. 963 00:34:55,590 --> 00:34:56,630 Take it in here and make it a 964 00:34:56,630 --> 00:34:57,110 way of life. 965 00:34:57,130 --> 00:34:57,330 Right? 966 00:34:57,570 --> 00:34:58,710 And then when you take it into your 967 00:34:58,710 --> 00:34:59,970 heart, you eat the word, you take it 968 00:34:59,970 --> 00:35:01,390 to heart, it performs its work in you. 969 00:35:01,770 --> 00:35:07,470 Because, I mean, you just, folks in your 970 00:35:07,470 --> 00:35:08,610 heart don't have anything to do with it. 971 00:35:08,650 --> 00:35:10,010 When you start coming to the Lord with 972 00:35:10,010 --> 00:35:11,090 all your heart, you ever see a brand 973 00:35:11,090 --> 00:35:14,730 new little old baby Christian and everything, and 974 00:35:14,730 --> 00:35:17,170 he's come with all this heart, and he 975 00:35:17,170 --> 00:35:18,890 don't know many scriptures or anything, but he 976 00:35:18,890 --> 00:35:20,210 knows all this heart turning to the Lord. 977 00:35:20,290 --> 00:35:21,350 You watch him go out and talk about 978 00:35:21,350 --> 00:35:23,250 Jesus, but he can just say something, the 979 00:35:23,250 --> 00:35:24,890 Spirit of God just go all over somebody. 980 00:35:26,430 --> 00:35:28,470 See, it's not us and our intellect that's 981 00:35:28,470 --> 00:35:28,890 doing it. 982 00:35:29,090 --> 00:35:31,050 It's the Spirit of God that works with 983 00:35:31,050 --> 00:35:31,270 us. 984 00:35:31,690 --> 00:35:32,530 That's what I tell you. 985 00:35:32,730 --> 00:35:35,190 The fruit of righteousness that's walking right in 986 00:35:35,190 --> 00:35:37,550 God's eyes, we become a tree of life. 987 00:35:37,630 --> 00:35:39,250 You don't have to wait till Thursday night 988 00:35:39,250 --> 00:35:39,950 visitation. 989 00:35:40,230 --> 00:35:41,490 I'm telling you, you can slosh all over 990 00:35:41,490 --> 00:35:42,810 everybody while you're getting their hair fixed. 991 00:35:42,890 --> 00:35:43,630 What do you think about that? 992 00:35:48,340 --> 00:35:50,040 See, because when you say you don't have 993 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,240 to say too much, the Spirit of God 994 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:52,040 just moves all over. 995 00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:52,740 He's the one that did it. 996 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:53,720 It never was us. 997 00:35:56,150 --> 00:35:57,370 It never was us. 998 00:35:59,170 --> 00:36:00,950 Now, grace is when we start finding this 999 00:36:00,950 --> 00:36:01,230 out. 1000 00:36:02,470 --> 00:36:03,670 I tell you, I get a glimpse of 1001 00:36:03,670 --> 00:36:04,830 it, and it just does me in. 1002 00:36:05,290 --> 00:36:06,610 That's why I got so much confidence. 1003 00:36:06,730 --> 00:36:07,530 I know it's all Him. 1004 00:36:08,190 --> 00:36:09,830 My confidence in the Lord. 1005 00:36:12,310 --> 00:36:13,170 I have to have it. 1006 00:36:14,830 --> 00:36:15,150 Okay. 1007 00:36:16,830 --> 00:36:18,270 Do not be conformed to this world. 1008 00:36:18,270 --> 00:36:19,610 Do not be transformed in you and your 1009 00:36:19,610 --> 00:36:21,770 mind that you may prove what is the 1010 00:36:21,770 --> 00:36:22,050 what? 1011 00:36:23,310 --> 00:36:24,490 The will of God is. 1012 00:36:24,670 --> 00:36:26,190 And we've been reading about the will of 1013 00:36:26,190 --> 00:36:28,910 God being opposite the flesh over and over 1014 00:36:28,910 --> 00:36:30,230 and over and over, and you're going to 1015 00:36:30,230 --> 00:36:31,070 keep seeing it over and over. 1016 00:36:31,270 --> 00:36:32,090 As a matter of fact, we're going to 1017 00:36:32,090 --> 00:36:33,230 go into a verse later on that said, 1018 00:36:33,290 --> 00:36:33,830 who goes to heaven? 1019 00:36:35,110 --> 00:36:36,030 It said, many are going to come and 1020 00:36:36,030 --> 00:36:36,570 call me Lord. 1021 00:36:38,370 --> 00:36:39,270 He said, I don't know you. 1022 00:36:41,050 --> 00:36:42,210 And he goes ahead and said, the one 1023 00:36:42,210 --> 00:36:43,030 that goes to heaven is the one that 1024 00:36:43,030 --> 00:36:43,730 does the will of God. 1025 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,680 Now, with all the powers of darkness being 1026 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,540 ignored and left out of the Scripture a 1027 00:36:52,540 --> 00:36:55,080 lot, because of the fact that we haven't 1028 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,080 had a lot of understanding, because of traditions 1029 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:58,580 and lies and things that have been handed 1030 00:36:58,580 --> 00:37:08,150 down to us, there have been some things 1031 00:37:08,150 --> 00:37:08,870 perverted and wrong. 1032 00:37:08,890 --> 00:37:10,670 That's why you go and find a church 1033 00:37:10,670 --> 00:37:12,870 full of demons, pastor on down. 1034 00:37:12,990 --> 00:37:13,850 Are you listening to me? 1035 00:37:14,830 --> 00:37:16,270 It won't fit in a box or something 1036 00:37:16,270 --> 00:37:16,610 like that. 1037 00:37:16,650 --> 00:37:18,490 I started out by telling you that the 1038 00:37:18,490 --> 00:37:21,790 churches, top to bottom, are demonized. 1039 00:37:21,790 --> 00:37:22,990 You don't have to go very far to 1040 00:37:22,990 --> 00:37:26,610 find that out, unless you are a slanderer. 1041 00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:31,180 If you want to come to the Word 1042 00:37:31,180 --> 00:37:32,100 of God, that's up to you. 1043 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,100 This is God's movie, nothing's going to stop 1044 00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:35,400 it anyway. 1045 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:43,960 So now we see why the Lord said 1046 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,440 you overcome the world of flesh and demons. 1047 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,160 You also see if you're not overcoming, they're 1048 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:48,760 overcoming you. 1049 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:49,420 Is that right? 1050 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:51,600 All right. 1051 00:37:52,620 --> 00:37:53,780 Once again, I want to just tell you, 1052 00:37:53,820 --> 00:37:56,520 when you choose fleshly sin, when you choose 1053 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,160 fleshly sin, lust of flesh, you strike back 1054 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,360 at God's right to direct your life. 1055 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,840 Now, the sins of the flesh lead you 1056 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:05,880 from the will of God. 1057 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:06,440 Is that plain? 1058 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:13,480 You know, this is the kind of thing 1059 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:14,740 that's led us to a lot of theology, 1060 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:16,480 that God can't do nothing because He doesn't 1061 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,320 do things through people walking out of the 1062 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:18,640 flesh. 1063 00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:22,040 So we get this stuff handed down to 1064 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,860 us, and the only thing left for us 1065 00:38:23,860 --> 00:38:27,590 to do is man. 1066 00:38:28,210 --> 00:38:29,590 Sounds like humanism, doesn't it? 1067 00:38:31,390 --> 00:38:32,170 Honor men. 1068 00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:38,180 Now, Jesus at one time said, How can 1069 00:38:38,180 --> 00:38:40,240 you believe when you honor one another and 1070 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:41,620 do not seek the honor from the one 1071 00:38:41,620 --> 00:38:42,200 and only God? 1072 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:43,220 Amen? 1073 00:38:46,020 --> 00:38:46,300 All right. 1074 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,320 The whole world is slaves of demons and 1075 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:49,220 sons of disobedience. 1076 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:49,940 Did I already tell you that? 1077 00:38:52,250 --> 00:38:54,730 Now, if you're a son of disobedience, you 1078 00:38:54,730 --> 00:38:55,730 can sit in a church and be a 1079 00:38:55,730 --> 00:38:57,070 church member and be a son of disobedience. 1080 00:38:57,110 --> 00:38:58,030 You understand that, don't you? 1081 00:38:59,010 --> 00:38:59,370 Okay. 1082 00:39:02,390 --> 00:39:04,050 So the whole world lives for themselves and 1083 00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:04,530 their flesh. 1084 00:39:04,810 --> 00:39:06,070 They only control the powers that are. 1085 00:39:06,190 --> 00:39:07,170 I'll only show you that in a word. 1086 00:39:07,630 --> 00:39:09,090 Please turn to Ephesians 2, please. 1087 00:39:11,610 --> 00:39:12,310 Ephesians 2. 1088 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:20,440 Oh, I'll tell you what. 1089 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:25,560 I just want to tell you that I 1090 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,980 sure enjoy being with this with you. 1091 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,360 Oh, I'm just telling you, I'm just looking 1092 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:32,680 all over the place and just seeing the 1093 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:33,960 love of Jesus all over this place. 1094 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:35,960 I really am. 1095 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,540 I'm telling you what, I praise this name. 1096 00:39:38,220 --> 00:39:39,620 Oh, I'll tell you what, it's so encouraging 1097 00:39:39,620 --> 00:39:41,480 to see people that love Jesus and his 1098 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,890 Word like I'm seeing them. 1099 00:39:46,110 --> 00:39:50,780 In Ephesians 2, I want you to make 1100 00:39:50,780 --> 00:39:52,520 yourself a little note there in Ephesians 2. 1101 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,780 You know, amplified Bible is all right to 1102 00:39:54,780 --> 00:39:54,960 read. 1103 00:39:55,460 --> 00:39:56,560 The amplified version. 1104 00:39:57,500 --> 00:39:59,560 And this would be particularly interesting to you. 1105 00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:02,900 To just put amplified right there, just right 1106 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:04,620 under where it says chapter 2, just put 1107 00:40:04,620 --> 00:40:05,300 amplified Bible. 1108 00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:06,540 Because later on, you just want to pick 1109 00:40:06,540 --> 00:40:07,320 this up and read it. 1110 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:08,440 Amplified. 1111 00:40:08,860 --> 00:40:13,000 In verse 1, And you were dead. 1112 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:16,140 Will you please circle were dead. 1113 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,000 Now, I'm going to tell you what he's 1114 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:18,140 talking. 1115 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,040 You were dead before Jesus Christ became your 1116 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:20,280 Lord. 1117 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:22,500 That's what he's talking. 1118 00:40:22,580 --> 00:40:23,300 Now, have you got it circled? 1119 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:24,520 Now, I want to ask you, don't get 1120 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:24,980 ahead of me. 1121 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,660 Don't read over these other things because we're 1122 00:40:27,660 --> 00:40:29,200 going to stop at several places while you're 1123 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:29,700 somewhere else. 1124 00:40:29,780 --> 00:40:31,000 You're going to miss some things because we're 1125 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:31,520 going to look at them. 1126 00:40:32,780 --> 00:40:36,320 And you were dead in your trespasses and 1127 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,060 sins in which you what? 1128 00:40:40,860 --> 00:40:41,400 Formerly walked. 1129 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:42,780 Now, I want you to mark those two 1130 00:40:42,780 --> 00:40:43,700 words, formerly walked. 1131 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,140 That's the way you formerly walked. 1132 00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:47,240 Did I tell you about my former walk 1133 00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:48,820 before Jesus Christ became my Lord? 1134 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,400 I walked after the natural, after the lust 1135 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:50,820 of the flesh. 1136 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:51,040 Amen? 1137 00:40:53,060 --> 00:40:53,700 All right. 1138 00:40:53,740 --> 00:40:54,700 And there's something else. 1139 00:40:55,740 --> 00:40:57,920 I formerly, in which you formerly walked according 1140 00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:58,640 to the what? 1141 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,160 I formerly according to the course of the 1142 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,120 world, which means you are not walking according 1143 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,400 to the course of the world now. 1144 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:07,900 Is that correct? 1145 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,000 You formerly walked there. 1146 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:11,460 You were dead there when you're walking that 1147 00:41:11,460 --> 00:41:11,680 way. 1148 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,040 You're not walking there anymore. 1149 00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:14,040 Is that what your Bible's saying? 1150 00:41:14,860 --> 00:41:15,120 Amen? 1151 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,120 You formerly walked according to the course of 1152 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:19,480 the world, according to the what? 1153 00:41:21,260 --> 00:41:22,680 The prince of power there. 1154 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,540 You were dead when you was walking the 1155 00:41:25,540 --> 00:41:27,160 course of the world and walking according to 1156 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,880 Satan, the powers of darkness, the demons. 1157 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,060 You was formerly walked there, which means you're 1158 00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:36,100 not walking there anymore. 1159 00:41:36,180 --> 00:41:36,860 Is that what it's saying? 1160 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:38,760 All right. 1161 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,380 Now, there you've got the world. 1162 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,100 You've got Satan, who is the God of 1163 00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:42,520 this world. 1164 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:43,760 Now, you're going to look at the gods 1165 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,660 of this world and the Spirit. 1166 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,000 That's not capital S, is it? 1167 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:49,820 Will you please mark that? 1168 00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:50,860 That's a demon spirit. 1169 00:41:54,050 --> 00:41:55,350 This is the way you formerly walked. 1170 00:41:56,210 --> 00:41:59,670 But the demon spirit, that is, what's that 1171 00:41:59,670 --> 00:41:59,950 word? 1172 00:42:00,330 --> 00:42:00,790 Now. 1173 00:42:00,970 --> 00:42:01,930 Please circle now. 1174 00:42:02,090 --> 00:42:02,830 Spirit now. 1175 00:42:02,990 --> 00:42:04,450 It's right now. 1176 00:42:05,210 --> 00:42:06,370 What's it doing right now? 1177 00:42:06,590 --> 00:42:07,430 It's working. 1178 00:42:07,990 --> 00:42:08,750 Now, what's that word? 1179 00:42:09,730 --> 00:42:10,030 In. 1180 00:42:10,110 --> 00:42:10,650 Look at me. 1181 00:42:11,010 --> 00:42:11,530 Look at me. 1182 00:42:12,990 --> 00:42:14,450 Right out here is out. 1183 00:42:15,090 --> 00:42:16,150 Inside is in. 1184 00:42:16,990 --> 00:42:17,870 Are you hearing me? 1185 00:42:18,570 --> 00:42:20,770 This demon spirit, you formerly walked. 1186 00:42:20,870 --> 00:42:22,090 You're not walking according to the course of 1187 00:42:22,090 --> 00:42:22,690 the world anymore. 1188 00:42:22,970 --> 00:42:23,950 You were dead when you was walking. 1189 00:42:24,070 --> 00:42:25,950 You was formerly walking the course of Satan. 1190 00:42:26,010 --> 00:42:26,890 You're not walking there now. 1191 00:42:27,150 --> 00:42:29,470 You was formerly walking according to the spirits 1192 00:42:29,470 --> 00:42:33,250 that work in, inside of all the sons 1193 00:42:33,250 --> 00:42:34,010 of disobedience. 1194 00:42:34,110 --> 00:42:35,610 In church, out of church, wherever. 1195 00:42:36,370 --> 00:42:36,770 Are you hearing me? 1196 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:40,720 Is that plain? 1197 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:42,920 That's not real complicated, is it? 1198 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:45,620 I mean, it's right there, isn't it? 1199 00:42:48,140 --> 00:42:48,500 Now. 1200 00:42:50,870 --> 00:42:52,390 Where do the sons of disobedience walk? 1201 00:42:52,830 --> 00:42:55,110 Sons of disobedience walk after the lust of 1202 00:42:55,110 --> 00:42:56,150 flesh and after Satan. 1203 00:42:56,290 --> 00:42:56,410 Amen? 1204 00:42:57,010 --> 00:42:58,390 Then the lust of flesh is the one 1205 00:42:58,390 --> 00:43:00,030 that follows demons. 1206 00:43:00,370 --> 00:43:01,930 The lust of flesh follows the world. 1207 00:43:02,310 --> 00:43:04,370 The lust of the flesh follows the current 1208 00:43:04,370 --> 00:43:05,110 course of this world. 1209 00:43:05,170 --> 00:43:05,610 Is that right? 1210 00:43:09,110 --> 00:43:09,370 All right. 1211 00:43:09,410 --> 00:43:10,210 Now, in verse 3. 1212 00:43:12,550 --> 00:43:13,930 Among them two. 1213 00:43:14,050 --> 00:43:16,090 Now, that's among the sons of disobedience. 1214 00:43:16,570 --> 00:43:17,510 We two. 1215 00:43:18,130 --> 00:43:19,010 All what? 1216 00:43:19,990 --> 00:43:21,430 Now, you formerly walked there. 1217 00:43:21,510 --> 00:43:22,630 We see in verse 2. 1218 00:43:22,630 --> 00:43:23,470 Now, in verse 3. 1219 00:43:23,610 --> 00:43:25,590 You formerly lived there, which means you don't 1220 00:43:25,590 --> 00:43:26,310 live there anymore. 1221 00:43:26,370 --> 00:43:26,590 Amen? 1222 00:43:27,030 --> 00:43:28,690 You don't walk or live there anymore. 1223 00:43:28,750 --> 00:43:29,650 Is that what your Bible says? 1224 00:43:30,970 --> 00:43:33,250 You formerly lived in the what? 1225 00:43:35,090 --> 00:43:36,250 I can't hear you. 1226 00:43:40,430 --> 00:43:41,350 Now, look at me. 1227 00:43:42,910 --> 00:43:43,710 Now, folks. 1228 00:43:44,210 --> 00:43:44,950 And it's real simple. 1229 00:43:47,220 --> 00:43:52,040 You were dead when you had master Satan 1230 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,180 as master of your life. 1231 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,120 And you were walking after the course of 1232 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:56,460 the world. 1233 00:43:57,460 --> 00:44:00,080 After him and the demon spirits that were 1234 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:00,940 working in you. 1235 00:44:01,180 --> 00:44:03,520 They were on your land. 1236 00:44:05,380 --> 00:44:05,840 Controlled you. 1237 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:06,520 Controlled by them. 1238 00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:08,340 Now, how do they control? 1239 00:44:08,460 --> 00:44:09,480 The lust of flesh, the lust of the 1240 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:10,400 eyes, and the brood supply of life. 1241 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:11,660 You come into this world belonging to them. 1242 00:44:12,820 --> 00:44:14,060 What do you think it does to you? 1243 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,460 Now, it says you formerly walked there and 1244 00:44:21,460 --> 00:44:24,300 you formerly lived there in the lust of 1245 00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:24,720 the flesh. 1246 00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:25,860 Are you listening to me, folks? 1247 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:27,700 You formerly lived there. 1248 00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:29,920 And the lust of the flesh, which means 1249 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:31,080 you're not living there anymore. 1250 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:33,880 You formerly lived there. 1251 00:44:37,070 --> 00:44:38,490 It says it over and over and over. 1252 00:44:39,890 --> 00:44:40,430 Now, listen. 1253 00:44:40,510 --> 00:44:41,810 If we've been ignoring the powers that are, 1254 00:44:41,870 --> 00:44:44,310 we start finding out a little about it 1255 00:44:44,310 --> 00:44:45,150 in the Word, you're not going to get 1256 00:44:45,150 --> 00:44:46,030 upset about it, are you? 1257 00:44:47,430 --> 00:44:49,590 Because once you understand it, you understand what's 1258 00:44:49,590 --> 00:44:50,530 been tearing your head off. 1259 00:44:53,060 --> 00:44:53,980 And then all you have to do is 1260 00:44:53,980 --> 00:44:55,000 just line your heart up with the Word 1261 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,120 of God and let mercy get you in 1262 00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,760 grace and get under grace and get free, 1263 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,360 get your mind, will, and emotions free. 1264 00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:02,960 It's good. 1265 00:45:07,050 --> 00:45:09,490 Now, verse 3, "...among them we too, we 1266 00:45:09,490 --> 00:45:11,070 used to, all formerly lived." 1267 00:45:11,070 --> 00:45:13,590 It means you were formerly lived in the 1268 00:45:13,590 --> 00:45:14,230 lust of the flesh. 1269 00:45:14,270 --> 00:45:15,570 You formerly lived in the lust of the 1270 00:45:15,570 --> 00:45:15,710 flesh. 1271 00:45:15,750 --> 00:45:17,530 It means that you're not living there anymore. 1272 00:45:17,630 --> 00:45:18,750 Is that what your Bible says? 1273 00:45:20,070 --> 00:45:22,130 You're not living in the lust of the 1274 00:45:22,130 --> 00:45:22,930 flesh anymore. 1275 00:45:23,030 --> 00:45:24,190 You formerly lived there. 1276 00:45:24,250 --> 00:45:25,990 You formerly walked there after the world. 1277 00:45:29,140 --> 00:45:31,000 Adulging the desires of the flesh. 1278 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,220 You formerly was indulging the desires of the 1279 00:45:33,220 --> 00:45:33,320 flesh. 1280 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:34,180 Are you circling these? 1281 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:36,100 All right. 1282 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:37,680 Good. 1283 00:45:42,510 --> 00:45:43,650 We don't have to get out that wet 1284 00:45:43,650 --> 00:45:44,010 squirrel. 1285 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,420 You formerly indulged the lust of the flesh, 1286 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:51,480 the desires of the flesh. 1287 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:52,860 Folks, is this plain? 1288 00:45:55,750 --> 00:45:56,910 And of the what? 1289 00:45:58,290 --> 00:46:00,430 Whatever come in your mind or whatever desire 1290 00:46:00,430 --> 00:46:01,610 to come in your mind right there. 1291 00:46:01,690 --> 00:46:02,230 Turn right. 1292 00:46:02,510 --> 00:46:03,490 Yes, sir, Mr. Satan. 1293 00:46:03,770 --> 00:46:04,390 Turn left. 1294 00:46:04,570 --> 00:46:05,630 Yes, sir, Mr. Satan. 1295 00:46:06,750 --> 00:46:08,030 Now where do we go to? 1296 00:46:08,290 --> 00:46:09,450 Let's go over a little of greed. 1297 00:46:10,350 --> 00:46:11,630 Let's go to the shopping center of lust 1298 00:46:11,630 --> 00:46:12,170 a little bit. 1299 00:46:18,020 --> 00:46:19,280 Folks, who do you think that talks to 1300 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:20,540 you and you go in those grocery stores 1301 00:46:20,540 --> 00:46:22,000 and get over around that magazine counter? 1302 00:46:26,990 --> 00:46:29,590 On those television there and make you want 1303 00:46:29,590 --> 00:46:31,390 to hop on some old channel and just 1304 00:46:31,390 --> 00:46:33,090 kind of camp there a little while? 1305 00:46:36,910 --> 00:46:37,370 You're idle. 1306 00:46:40,730 --> 00:46:42,070 Everything in the room points to you're idle. 1307 00:46:42,510 --> 00:46:43,430 You're the latest in the devil. 1308 00:46:51,540 --> 00:46:55,600 What do you think soap operas do to 1309 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:55,900 folks? 1310 00:46:57,720 --> 00:46:59,160 That sure make them righteous, won't it? 1311 00:47:02,130 --> 00:47:04,270 If you're not got anger and immorality or 1312 00:47:04,270 --> 00:47:05,770 anything like that, you just keep letting that, 1313 00:47:05,790 --> 00:47:07,090 just taking that stuff in your heart. 1314 00:47:07,850 --> 00:47:09,010 What's the word that says, watch what you 1315 00:47:09,010 --> 00:47:09,530 listen to? 1316 00:47:09,810 --> 00:47:11,410 What Mark 4, you better be careful what 1317 00:47:11,410 --> 00:47:12,030 you listen to. 1318 00:47:13,030 --> 00:47:14,970 What if you receive a lot of unbelief? 1319 00:47:15,030 --> 00:47:15,690 What are you going to get? 1320 00:47:16,750 --> 00:47:18,010 What if you're talking to a harlot? 1321 00:47:21,070 --> 00:47:22,050 It's not pure in heart. 1322 00:47:22,590 --> 00:47:23,270 Come before the Lord. 1323 00:47:23,350 --> 00:47:24,690 What do you think this harlot is going 1324 00:47:24,690 --> 00:47:25,450 to load you up with? 1325 00:47:25,690 --> 00:47:26,010 Faith? 1326 00:47:35,350 --> 00:47:35,910 All right, now. 1327 00:47:36,770 --> 00:47:38,530 We too all formerly lived in the lust 1328 00:47:38,530 --> 00:47:39,970 of the flesh, indulged in the desires of 1329 00:47:39,970 --> 00:47:43,770 the flesh and the mind, and were, and 1330 00:47:43,770 --> 00:47:45,070 were by nature. 1331 00:47:46,190 --> 00:47:47,750 You know what kind of nature it was? 1332 00:47:47,810 --> 00:47:48,810 Have you circled nature yet? 1333 00:47:50,170 --> 00:47:51,330 See, you've got a new nature now. 1334 00:47:51,350 --> 00:47:52,250 You've got a divine nature. 1335 00:47:52,350 --> 00:47:53,930 You hadn't got the old nature. 1336 00:47:54,330 --> 00:47:57,070 Were by nature, children of wrath, even as 1337 00:47:57,070 --> 00:47:57,390 the rest. 1338 00:47:57,430 --> 00:47:58,750 And that doesn't sound like a children of 1339 00:47:58,750 --> 00:47:59,290 God, does it? 1340 00:47:59,890 --> 00:48:00,010 Huh? 1341 00:48:01,590 --> 00:48:04,250 Hath God really said, we just read it? 1342 00:48:05,610 --> 00:48:07,010 And it says a lot more. 1343 00:48:08,250 --> 00:48:09,390 We're just getting started. 1344 00:48:15,430 --> 00:48:17,950 Now, let's turn over to Ephesians 5, please. 1345 00:48:19,590 --> 00:48:20,330 Ephesians 5. 1346 00:48:25,930 --> 00:48:26,790 Ephesians 5. 1347 00:48:31,020 --> 00:48:32,340 Let me ask you something. 1348 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:33,320 Who are we supposed to be in the 1349 00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:34,180 image and likeness of? 1350 00:48:35,180 --> 00:48:35,620 God. 1351 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:37,020 Now watch that first verse right there. 1352 00:48:40,700 --> 00:48:43,500 Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children. 1353 00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:43,800 Right? 1354 00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:45,020 Look in verse 3. 1355 00:48:45,180 --> 00:48:47,340 Do not let immorality or impurity or greed 1356 00:48:47,340 --> 00:48:48,540 even be named among you. 1357 00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:50,340 It's not even to be named among you 1358 00:48:50,340 --> 00:48:51,320 as proper among the saints. 1359 00:48:51,420 --> 00:48:52,460 Do you assume what kind of language? 1360 00:48:52,540 --> 00:48:53,860 We don't walk, talk and act like the 1361 00:48:53,860 --> 00:48:54,020 world. 1362 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:54,620 Is that plain? 1363 00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:56,700 Not even named. 1364 00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:00,780 Now, where I was going in verse 5, 1365 00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:01,960 I thought I'd add those other two. 1366 00:49:02,020 --> 00:49:02,740 And in verse 5. 1367 00:49:03,220 --> 00:49:05,100 For this you know with certainty. 1368 00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:06,600 If God says you can know something with 1369 00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:07,600 certainty, you think it's certain. 1370 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:09,800 Either you know or you don't know. 1371 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,680 If God says you can know with certainty, 1372 00:49:12,180 --> 00:49:14,680 do you think you can know it for 1373 00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:15,000 certain? 1374 00:49:17,150 --> 00:49:18,090 Here's what he says. 1375 00:49:18,130 --> 00:49:20,190 You can know for certain that no immoral 1376 00:49:20,190 --> 00:49:23,870 or impure person or covetous man who is 1377 00:49:23,870 --> 00:49:26,450 an adulterer has an inheritance in the kingdom 1378 00:49:26,450 --> 00:49:28,050 of Christ and God. 1379 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:32,640 Hath God really said? 1380 00:49:33,300 --> 00:49:33,760 Yes, sir. 1381 00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:34,760 Verse 5. 1382 00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:38,700 It says something real interesting. 1383 00:49:38,780 --> 00:49:39,320 Verse 6. 1384 00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:41,680 Let no one what? 1385 00:49:42,780 --> 00:49:44,940 Oh, God put that in there because it 1386 00:49:44,940 --> 00:49:47,740 might be someone who would deceive you. 1387 00:49:47,860 --> 00:49:47,960 Huh? 1388 00:49:48,220 --> 00:49:49,420 Something might deceive you. 1389 00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:49,880 Isn't that right? 1390 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,060 Recognize the reason that got in verse 6? 1391 00:49:52,460 --> 00:49:53,400 Let no one deceive you. 1392 00:49:53,940 --> 00:49:54,560 Shake your head. 1393 00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:56,940 Alright, let's see what he says about this. 1394 00:49:57,340 --> 00:50:01,340 Let no one deceive you with what kind 1395 00:50:01,340 --> 00:50:01,760 of words? 1396 00:50:03,020 --> 00:50:04,600 A lot of nice empty words. 1397 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,000 For because of these things right there. 1398 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:08,460 Will you circle these things and run your 1399 00:50:08,460 --> 00:50:11,020 little line up there to immoral, impure, covetous 1400 00:50:11,020 --> 00:50:12,960 man or adulterer has idols in his heart. 1401 00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:16,960 Because of these things, the wrath of God 1402 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,840 comes upon the who. 1403 00:50:20,950 --> 00:50:21,470 There it is. 1404 00:50:21,610 --> 00:50:22,490 The sons of disobedience. 1405 00:50:22,630 --> 00:50:27,450 Therefore, verse 7, do not be partakers with 1406 00:50:27,450 --> 00:50:27,690 them. 1407 00:50:27,750 --> 00:50:28,310 Is that plain? 1408 00:50:31,900 --> 00:50:34,900 But you were formerly darkness, which means you're 1409 00:50:34,900 --> 00:50:35,820 not darkness anymore. 1410 00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:37,200 When you see the light, you walk in 1411 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:37,500 the light. 1412 00:50:37,580 --> 00:50:38,160 It's His light. 1413 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:40,660 What it wants to tell you over in 1414 00:50:40,660 --> 00:50:42,140 John that you better walk in the light. 1415 00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:43,480 Why you held the light? 1416 00:50:43,580 --> 00:50:45,820 Because darkness is there to pursue you. 1417 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:47,400 Who do you think that darkness is? 1418 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:52,240 But darkness is not blessings. 1419 00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,340 You understand now that demons are not blessings. 1420 00:50:59,940 --> 00:51:01,680 Can I just kind of drop this out 1421 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:02,480 here that they're curses? 1422 00:51:06,020 --> 00:51:07,540 All it takes is one demon to have 1423 00:51:07,540 --> 00:51:09,780 any ground in your life and you've got 1424 00:51:09,780 --> 00:51:10,520 a curse in your life. 1425 00:51:11,020 --> 00:51:11,480 You understand that? 1426 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:12,900 All it takes is one demon. 1427 00:51:15,330 --> 00:51:16,010 Right now. 1428 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,320 But you were formerly dark, but now you're 1429 00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:22,180 light in the Lord. 1430 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,680 Walk as children of light. 1431 00:51:24,780 --> 00:51:25,480 Now, what does it say? 1432 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:26,880 That word right there in verse 8 says 1433 00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:27,480 walk. 1434 00:51:27,940 --> 00:51:28,340 Walk. 1435 00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,060 That's your deeds. 1436 00:51:30,180 --> 00:51:30,760 That's how you live. 1437 00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:31,240 Isn't that right? 1438 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:32,960 Walk as children of light. 1439 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,800 Now, you know, it says the interesting thing 1440 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,120 in 14 for this reason, it says awake, 1441 00:51:38,260 --> 00:51:40,480 sleeper, and arise from the dead. 1442 00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:42,840 Christ was going to shine on you. 1443 00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:43,720 Thought I'd throw that in. 1444 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:46,780 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 1445 00:51:46,780 --> 00:51:48,000 and Classic Sermon series. 1446 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,760 This week, you heard Milton Green with his 1447 00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,200 message, The Flesh and the Power of Darkness. 1448 00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:55,520 Tune in next week to hear The Cross 1449 00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,460 in China, a Chinese revival story. 1450 00:51:58,260 --> 00:52:00,560 On From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.