Most people view the world in terms of right and wrong. It is much bigger than that, especially when you are born again. Those who are spiritual know how to war and realize the battle that all around them. Our love for God is the greatest thing in our lives. (1 Peter 1:23)

Speaker: Thomas Schaller
Sermon 12738
Date: 2024-06-19
Time: Wed 7:30 PM

 

P. Schaller –

Okay. Great. What a joy to be together and anticipate the work of God. Wow. It’s great. Yeah. Praise the
Lord! Great. Yes. If you’re from Finland, would you stand up? Just we want to greet you. You’re
from Finland. Here we go. Whole family right there. Tina. Alie. Great. Let’s see. Morocco,
France/Morocco. Let’s do the Morocco. Okay. Dario and Anique. Go ahead. You can stand.
Anybody from France? France? Would you stand. Wow. Your mother. Wow. Tell your mother I
remember. How old is your mother? Eighty-five. Wow. Looks great.

Let’s see. California. Chris I saw. Great to have you. There. Here. Oh, P. Manny. That’s amazing. I
think I saw Columbia. P. Brent and Lucy. Great. Let’s see. Um, let’s see. If you want to be
noticed, would you stand up? Okay. There we go. Marty! That’s right. Okay. Good. Wow. So,
through the coming days, we’ll recognize different folks. Albania. Let’s see. Turkey. Albania. You
know, it’s beautiful.

We’ve been born of God. Look at 1 Peter. This is the marvel for all of us that we have been born
of God. Let’s worship him. Lord, your people have come from afar. India. Would you stand up if
you are from India? Come on. We just want to see you. From India. Yeah. P. Atul. Great. Melvin.
Wow. Yes. So great. Great. Great. Wow. (Prayer).

Let’s look at 1 Peter 1. This is just an introductory thought for us. 1 Peter 1:23, being born again.
Another word for that is regenerated that God put his seed in us. We are born of God because
we are a child of God. We cry Abba, Father. It’s another way of saying we have a new life. We
have a new connection. New relationship. God is our Father. Something new happened to us.
We were born of God. Born again. Without God, we are natural. Natural man that does not
know God or understand God or seek God but because of being born again, we are drawn to
him.

I remember a woman telling me when she brought her baby home from the hospital, new born
baby in the bassinet in the room, the minute the baby woke up, the woman woke up.
Immediately. It was like a mother’s instinct. A mother’s heart. A mother’s connection with her
baby. And that means when we were born of God, we have this in us. I’m drawn to God. We are
drawn to God. We love God. He loved us and saved us.

That love that you have in your heart for God, it’s the greatest treasure. The greatest
commandment is love. Love God. We could write it differently. The secret in life is to love God.
And man has lost God. He is afraid of God. Blames God. Is angry at God. Accuses God. Hates
God. Ignores God. Natural man doesn’t know God or understand God or care about it. He does
– in a way it’s a paradox but it’s like a sinful nature that we have with God. That’s changed for
you.

One of the marvels of our history where we have seen for 50 years people being born again.
And when we see someone from Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan and China and Cambodia and
Burma. Burma. I don’t know of anybody in Burma but anywhere. They are born of God and we
are similar. We are similar. We are children of God. We have the Spirit of adoption. We are the
children of God and we didn’t invent it and we’re not making it up. And we don’t produce the
results. It’s a work of grace. It’s the evidence of Christ. It’s the evidence of God that God came
to find us, to love us, to save us, to pay the great price, to buy us, and we are here these days
together celebrating it. Hearing the Word, the Spirit say to us amen. The Spirit say to us that’s
true because the world is in a very troubled condition.

I think many of us would never have believed that we would go so far away and that we would
be so troubled and so angry and so hateful. That we would see people with incredible problems
and are produced, propagated by the philosophies of the world, the ways of the world and the
natural man. The sinfulness of our nature that produces so many problems that we cannot
solve. Or we think we can but we try to. We throw money at things.

I always marvel at that. That, you know, throwing money at every problem we have. That’s
what our government does. That’s the ideas. That’s the way of the world. That’s what we do.
We have problems and just throw money and you know, in, this is just a – I don’t want to get
off, but if you go to a doctor with a psychological problem, mental health problem, and you’re
10 minutes with a doctor and he writes out a prescription and you go to the drugstore and buy
the medication and that’s the answer. That’s the answer. That’s the way our world is. That’s the
answer. A medication. I’m not against that in one sense, but I am saying there’s something
missing. There’s something drastically wrong. Something very much needed in our world and
it’s to be born again.

But how can they hear without a preacher and how can there be a preacher unless he’s sent?
And how an he be sent unless he’s trained? And how can he be trained unless there is a training
ground? There’s a church that trains and sends and the Gospel is preached and some are born
again. And here we are. Some of us, we are born of God, vs. 23. Don’t – let’s not ignore that
phrase. Seeds. The world is filled with seeds. There’s spider eggs that I read about that actually
can blow up. Even spiders themselves, they can blow up into the sky and go to the other part of
the earth and land on an island. And the spiders are there now. Seeds. All kinds of seeds.
Bacteria, grain, animals, fish, plants, birds, seeds. Everywhere. Human beings. Seed. Population
growth and so on.

But with this seed, it is incorruptible. This seed is not from this world. This seed never decays.
This seed is God’s seed. You are born of God. Imagine. We are born of Christ. Born again. That
precious part of you, like be patient with it. it’s growing. It grows. That precious part of you
that’s from God and just like the woman who brought another newborn baby home, so you are
capable of hearing what God says and be drawn to God.

And the psalm has said it like many times in many ways. How much? Psalm 18, Psalm 144, Psalm 26.
Many ways. 2 Samuel 22. David writing about the wonder of it that how much he is drawn to God
and how much he loves God. Psalm 101 is another one. You can see the difference between the
natural man and the spiritual man.

I would like to say that I think there are some believers actually I have met through the years
and they are just naturally minded. That’s all that they live in. The natural mind. The holy thing
that is born in them is not growing or being cultivated. Is not being fed. Is not being developed.
They are not, they are not seeing it. And one preacher said that sometimes a Christian – have
you ever seen a 13-year old boy. He’s about this tall. And then his feet are like size 14. His feet
are huge. And maybe his hands are huge. But he’s not a big man. But his hands are big and his
feet are big. But he’s going to grow into them. The feet got bigger than the rest of his body but
he's going to grow into them.

When you are born of God, there I, there is growth and maybe you might see like not be so
satisfied but stay in there. Listen. God is in you. God is working. You are growing. You are
learning and you are developing. God is working in you. You are developing in your trials. You
are developing in quietness. You are developing in – when there’s nothing happening, some of
the greatest trials of my life have been when nothing is happening. Nothing is going on. I’m just
learning to be quiet and listen. And your heavenly Father will help you and speak to you.
So, that’s, uh, okay. Let’s finish the verse. Vs. 23.

Let’s stop there for a second. Word of God. If you throw this Bible out, you don’t have the sword of the Spirit. If you don’t have a Bible in your life, if it just sits over there, if you’re not reading it, if you’re not learning from, not listening to
what the Spirit is saying; the Spirit wants to say something to you, he will use this. This is the
sword of the Spirit. This is the tool of God. This is what you were born of.

You know you were born of the Word and your feet will grow by the Word. Just saying like you
know, your hands. Oh, man. You’ve got big hands. A little guy’s got a squeaky voice. Oh, yes.
Got big hands. Got the hands of a 30-year old man when you’re 13 but keep an eye on me cuz
God’s not done. There’s something happening. You are born of God. There’s something
happening in your life. Yeah. Just enjoy it. Enjoy what you’re learning.

When you have trials, James 1:2 says count it joy when you have these troubles and these trials.
You count it joy when your faith is brought into question and you have to process how do I
think about this. Let me show you one verse. Psalm 144 and then there’s 2 Kings 10. I believe it’s
vs. 15. I’ll tell you the story. My shoes untied and I almost tripped over it, so I want to tie it but
I’m not going to tie it! Okay. Okay. Wait a minute. All right.

You teach – could we put it up there. “Which teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight.”
Teaches my hands to war. Okay. When you are born again and you’re growing, then you’re
going to be able to see life spiritually. You’re going to be able to see life a different way. You are
going to see life a different way. This is how many people see life. Let me – it’s like right and
wrong. That’s how they see life. They may get it from their parents. They get it from their
culture what is wrong. Oh, this is wrong. That should never have happened. This is right. This is
right. And so, this is how people live.

And they are proud about being right. They have no problem condemning the wrong. They’re
very quick to judge the wrong and very proud about being right. And this or I could be very
guilty about being wrong and I could be shamed by what is right. I’m sorry this is just a brief
comment about it, but I’m trying to say something more deeply.

So, this is, this is like a box or a room. The man is in the room but listen to me. Life is bigger
than right and wrong. Life is more than right and wrong. What is it? There’s many words. God.
There’s love. There’s also faith. There’s many words for it. You could say spiritual. It’s spirit. God
judges spirits. God cares about the spirit. When Jesus came, it says he was a quickening spirit.
What happened to you at Pentecost? At Pentecost, what happened? The Holy Spirit came and it
filled the room and they were like, they – go to the verse. The Lord teaches your hands. There’s
something more in this world. And you’re actually able to discern and recognize God’s kingdom
on the earth.

Because listen. If you are left to yourself, one day you will be with a group of people that say
Jesus Christ is wrong. Jesus Christ is wrong. He’s wrong. He’s a – fill in the word. He’s a lunatic.
He’s misguided. He’s an erring rabbi. He’s um, he’s a debauchery. A debauchery practicing
drinking and prostitution and so on, however they said. He has a demon. He’s a Beelzebub. He
has a demon. Remember. You know your gospels. You know that’s how people – they don’t
know warfare. There are people that don’t know what’s going on in the world. They don’t
know. They don’t know warfare. That’s amazing. I understand it. I want to learn it.

It says teach me. Teach my hands war. Teach me what spirit I am of. Teach me your mind. I
don’t mind being in the minority but I want to know the truth. I want to know where is God?
What’s God’s mind? What’s God’s will, you know. Does God tear things down or does God save
and build up? Does he tear down the work of the devil? But he also let’s the devil have his day
and the devil is in this world so we can be trained warfare.

We can be trained to fight in warfare. We an be trained to discern the mind of God and the way of God that we would know.

How did you get this ability? You were born again. And as you walk in the Spirit, when you are
born again and you walk in the Spirit, you learn life is more than right and wrong because it’s
heart. You see, the heart. All of you know this anyway. If you as a child did something wrong,
your mother may work to understand you, to protect you from dad. And you may say to your mother, don’t tell dad. And your mother has to make a judgment. Am I going to tell dad or not?
Right? You know the idea.

What’s my point? Life is more than right and wrong. Life has to do with love. Forgiveness. It has
to do with heart and spirit. It has to do with love and grace. What about grace in the world of
right and wrong? There isn’t, there isn’t much grace. There’s a lot of judgment. But not a lot of
grace. And we’re living in a world where it says in the Bible, Matthew 24 that the love of many will
wax cold and iniquity will get cold. Friends, I don’t talk to them anymore. Relatives. We are a
divided family. We will not talk anymore. At work. They’ll be hatred, coldness, judging, anger.
There’s no – they don’t know warfare. The devil is working. The devil is working. They don’t
know how to handle it.

They don’t know how to, how – what’s my game plan. What’s the good warfare. How do I
handle this situation? How do I show love? How can I pray for my family? How can I win
somebody who’s been hurt or offended? How do we serve one another as brothers and sisters?
How can we sit together in the same room and love each other? We are learning the devil’s
strategy and we’re learning God’s way cuz we are children of God. When you’re a child of God,
you have a heavenly Father and we are like our heavenly Father. And our heavenly Father is the
God of all grace and he teaches us love. He teaches us how to live and to fight.

So, this is a loaded subject, isn’t it? let’s go to this and we’ll finish with this. 2 Kings 10:15. I’m
thinking it’s that verse. Let’s go there. The wheel is turning. Is it right or wrong? Is it right or
wrong? And then vs. 16. Next verse, 16. Nope. Hmm. Okay. Where am I now? Come on. Are we
sure. Go back to vs. 13, vs. 14. And then 14. Okay. Okay. Uh, all right. I am so sorry about this. I
got to look for it. Okay. All right, so it’s a good portion but I’ve got to – okay.

Let’s finish this ’cause this is a bad way to finish. 1 Corinthians 15:45-46. How are you spiritual? You are
born again so you are. You are spiritual. This is Romans 8. We are born again so we are born of
the Spirit. He is there. Walk by faith in him. If we don’t live in faith, then we quench the Spirit,
grieve the Spirit. If we don’t live in faith, then are we walking in the Spirit. If we live in sin and
those deep thoughts that we have in our own hearts about life and the natural man, where we
live in the natural man without faith, then we’re actually living in our flesh.

But the way to do it is, the way to live is just to be before God in faith. In faith. We sing by faith.
We gather together by faith. We are in the Spirit of God. We drink the same Spirit. It’s our new
nature. It’s like fish are in the water. It’s their nature. And for us, to be in the Spirit it’s our
nature.

And maybe you know at times in your life when you’re just upset or indifferent or don’t care.
Then, just check your heart because you have a new heart. Just be before God by faith and say
a simple prayer of faith. Lord, here I am. Fill me with your Spirit. In living in the Spirit, you will not be troubled by other things that other people are troubled by. You’ll have God’s mind.

God will help you. You will be able to love. We’re not perfect, but we’re able to walk in the Spirit.
God will help us. God will fill us. God will give us grace. God will teach us. We learn. We learn.
We will recognize pride when it’s in us. We recognize it. We recognize bad words and bad
motivation. We recognize it like that’s the natural man. I know what the natural man is. That’s
the natural man.

I’m never so satisfied as when I am filled with your Spirit, Lord, and that you would help me in
my life and fill me continually with your Spirit. That is the satisfaction and even though it might
look like well, we’re not perfect but we are alive with big hands or big feet. We are growing and
we’ll grow into them and we will be in this and this is real. And it’s international. It’s worldwide
and we have friends and sisters and brothers in so many parts of the world that are saying
amen. Jesus Christ is real and alive. Amen. Okay. Pray with me. (Prayer).

All right. You may be seated. Just for ten or fifteen minutes before we close. All right. You may
be seated. Turn to Proverbs 16. You have a spirit in you. We believe we have a body, a soul,
spirit. Our spirit is dead until we are born again. When we are born again, then the Holy Spirit
comes into us and the place where he dwells is our spirit. He makes us alive or quickens us. We
become alive.

How many, how many of you remember there was some time, either the day you got saved or
within some weeks or months of that time you could sense that you had come alive to God?
You came alive to God? Okay. Let’s see the hands. Do it again. Okay. That’s quite a few. Yeah,
80% or so. If you didn’t raise your hand, then we’re going to pray for you.

Okay. So, no. It will happen. If you believe, walk in faith. It will happen. You come alive. And you become a
worshipper. That’s a phrase we use around here where you become a worshipper like no other
gods. You actually, if you, if you had a bunch of gods over here, you know, you turn your back
on them and you have only God and that the natural man doesn’t do that.

But when you’re born again, you do that. You turn your back on the gods of the world. The lies,
the ideas of the world. You turn your back on them and the world doesn’t like that and they
don’t like that. And there are people that don’t like it and your friends may not like it.
Therefore, you may lose friends when you turn to God. And you turn your back on the gods of
the world because the gods of the world, life is easy. You know this is their general philosophy.
The gods of the world is like hey, take it easy. Do whatever you want. You’re no problem. You
can figure it out on your own. You’re good. You’re good. You’re good. Whatever.

But when Jesus comes into your life, you don’t think like that anymore. You go, no. This is
serious. I have God. I turn my back on that. I want to know what God says. I am after God. God
loves us. We become a worshipper of God. There’s two places, many places in the Scripture,
but two places where you can see the first thing that happened was that they worship.

There was Moses at the burning bush. He took his shoes off. God told him take your shoes off. You’re
on holy ground. That’s worship.
So, when you take your shoes off and you’re on holy ground and only God is there, that’s
blessing for you. You have a relationship with God and it excludes. It excludes this over here. It
excludes that. This only happens by the Spirit. This is the work of the Spirit. This is the work of
grace because the Spirit is a Holy Spirit not common spirit. This is common. This is common.
You could just think of it as you know general. Common.

Everything is okay. Everybody has their perspective. Your viewpoint is fine. That viewpoint is fine. Nobody’s really wrong. I mean you may be wrong, but like it’s not that serious ’cause they don’t know about sin. There’s actually two
things here they don’t know and one is sin and the other one is holiness. That’s what the world
doesn’t understand about you and me. We understand what sin is and we understand holiness.
So, we take our shoes off. We’re at holy ground before a holy God and we love it. We are
satisfied by the holiness.

You see people don’t need to seek happiness. They need to seek holiness. This isn’t – we’ve
been here. We’ve all done it. We know what this is. The parties or the talking or the arrogance
or that weakness or the failure, the worry or the fear. The relationships, the lust. All of that. We
know how – we know about it. You find God. God finds you. You take your shoes off and it’s a
new life, a new walk. That’s what happened to you.

Now, this spiritual life that you have and I want to make that clear to you. You have it. It’s Rom.
8. You are spiritual because you are born again. So, just don’t grieve the Spirit and feed the
natural man or the flesh, but turn your back again and again. Like don’t sit with them. Don’t live
with them. Don’t walk with them, but turn your back on it.

That’s Psalm 26 and Psalm 101. You can look that up. We would turn there, but I wanted you to
just see this one part and it’s Proverbs 16:2. “All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes.” That
means without God, the living God – you have God and religion and so on. And we in our own
eyes are clean and we, you know, we may be clean by our washing. We may be clean in our
religion. But we, but the Lord weighs the spirits and that’s the second part of the verse. But the
Lord weighs the spirits.

From this verse, I understand that man needs help. That man needs, he needs the cat scan
machine, whatever it is. Cat scan, MRI. He needs help and he often is the first one to say that I
have troubles. I have troubles in my heart and as a Christian this is something you and I should
realize that to recognize I am wrong. I am not clean. I’m clean in my own eyes, but when I come
before God, I’m not clean. Woe is me Isaiah said. I’m clean in own eyes like without God but
God is saying you know if you want to be serious about you, you want to be serious, I’m a
serious God and I will talk to you. Can you take it?

Because of your new birth you say I can take it. I want to and then the Lord will say take off
your shoes and I say what? What? What’s the problem with my shoes? He goes take them off.
Take them off and that staff that’s in your hand, throw it on the ground. You see, this is a new
life that you and I have that has helped us live a life that’s actually to be honest, life is hard. Can
be very hard. Life can be very difficult and very complicated and who can figure it out. Ecclesiastes 8:17,
it says we cannot. Even a wise man, he thinks he knows it. He doesn’t know it. He’s mastered it
but he hasn’t.

God puts trouble in our life so that we will turn from the common gods and saying I’m clean in
my own eyes like meaning, like I’m good. I’m fine, you know. I got it. Don’t worry about – you
know. I got it. I’ve got this much money in the bank. I got, I got my career. I’ve got the family.
I’ve got this and I got it and the Lord is saying I weigh the spirits.

Your spirit is wrong. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You don’t realize the trouble
that you will be in within two years. The kind of trouble you will be in in 5 years or 20 or
whatever the number is. And I’d say this to say that when Joshua met God, he took off his shoes
and he worshipped and so have you. And you know that and I know that. You have worshipped
God and you know God and he has filled you with the Spirit and you are a blessed person
because you have this other life, this more life, this life from God.

You know that little picture that we drew. I’ll just draw it again. I’ll finish here in a second but
we have the world of the man with right and wrong. I’ll put here plus and negative in this world.
And then, we have the more, the Spirit and we have words that the natural man doesn’t – have
you ever notice how little the world talks about humility? This is Pride month, right? According
to the world, this is Pride month. That doesn’t sound like a good word. Pride month. That’s
Pride month. It’s Pride month.

It’s like what are we proud about? I mean what’s it mean to be proud? They are clean in their
own eyes but the Lord is searching the heart and saying, hello. Is there something missing here?
Have you any idea what your spirit is? How you are hurting. How you are somehow like life is
not – you don’t know even where you came from. You don’t know where you are going. You
don’t know who you are. Come to me. I’m broken for you. I’m God. Yeah. Wow.

So, the world doesn’t know these kind of words like humility. When is the last time there was a
conversation in the cafeteria at work or at the police station or at the university campus on
humility? How about truth? We threw that out. What about, what about holiness? I didn’t want
– what are you talking about? What is that?

They will talk about the New Age thing, about spirits and spirituality but is the spirituality
anything different from the commonality of the natural man. And the search of the human heart and all religion in the world that are searching. And by the way, religious people in the
world, there are many that are seeking God and there are many that will find God ’cause he said if
you seek me, you will find me. And it is that simple.

What spirit are you of? Like could you humble yourself and say I am not clean? I need help. Oh,
God, who are you? I come to you and Jesus was marveled in the gospels by the Gentiles. I
believe the Syrophoenician woman and the centurion soldier who and they believed and Christ
said I haven’t found greater faith in all of Jerusalem or all of Israel than these people. I believe
Cornelius prayed and his prayers were heard and he wasn’t yet born again.

‘Cause God knows the cry of the prisoner. God knows the cry of hungry hearts. God came for
those. He came for people that need that and same as a Christian. Like don’t underestimate
your ministry of the holy ground and the bare feet.

The second person is Joshua and Joshua 5 when he met this soldier, blazing soldier and he said
to him, are you for us or against us? Are you a Canaanite? What tribe are you from? What
people group are you from? What language do you speak? Who are you? I am, Joshua could
say, I am a soldier. I’m ready to battle. Are you for us or against us? And God, Christ answered,
neither. Take off your shoes. You’re on holy ground. Great story.

So, I believe it’s only – we got here, you and I, we got here only by the Holy Spirit. I believe your
hands and feet got big because of the Holy Spirit. That’s a metaphor for just saying I believe
things have happened in your life that you cannot explain. And you’re growing into them. I
believe that God is with you even when you have failed terribly and repeatedly failed and again,
again. And when you have your troubles. We all have had. But the counsel of a wise man will
draw your troubles out and fill you. The wise man is Jesus and he will fill you with the Spirit and
you will do battle.

So, we Spirit, humility, God’s love, unconditional love, grace, new vocabulary, new language, a
spiritual language. And I’m encouraged. I’m so thankful for this period of time in our history as a
church. Fifty years plus and ministers are not infallible. I’ve said that many times and many
things can be said about that, but the Spirit of God is real and the Spirit of God fills us and keeps
us and leads us and teaches us and this assembly is an assembly where we labor in our hearts,
in our prayers and in our attitudes to take off the unclean things and walk on holy ground.

And yeah, see people be moved in love and discover this book and love it. And that it would be
precious in our hearts and it would be obeyed and honored. And we would do things that God
would lead us to do and to help people and find them and encourage them whether they are
children or young people, adults, young adults and elderly people, disabled people,
handicapped people, troubled people, addicted people, lost people. All kinds of people because God has sent his Spirit into the world and to you and I so that we could be ministers of the New
Testament and help people find Jesus Christ in a personal way.

And you know, if I can go back to that burning bush or I could go back to that place and I have in
my mind places in my life where I was. I was under, you know, I was in Plattsburg, New York on
a college campus seeking God and the Spirit filled me clearly and I understood. And I just take
off your shoes and you’re there. And you say I don’t know about my future. I don’t now where
I’m going to go or what to do. And God answers your prayers and helps you and you live your
life and you live your life and the devil will say it doesn’t work. Go back home. Go back to your
world. Go back to the way it was before. Go back there and we say, no. I’m never going back.

I can’t go back. I can’t go back, back to another spirit. I can’t go back to another way. We have
found him and we walk with him and we help others find him. And that’s a privilege and a great
joy.

So, we’re going to have a good time in the next couple weeks or 10 days and the Lord is going
to minister to our hearts and we’re going to live in this for another 50 years and praise the Lord
all the way and learn warfare. And have hands that have learned. We’ve learned.

Remember when that guy – P. Love, you want to come up here for a minute? There was a
soldier, a soldier in the time of David, remember? And they were like enemies but then he was
trying to be friendly. So, they hugged each other and he put it in the fifth rib there. Oh, Oh, he
said. He put it in the fifth rib, right? Remember that story? Like my enemy is showing love but
he doesn’t love me. My enemy is showing like he’s greeting me to kiss me but he doesn’t love
me. But I have to learn warfare and recognize who is my enemy. Is he my enemy? The one that
kisses me? Thanks, pastor. He did a good job. That was difficult. That was very difficult.

Do you realize that your enemy will kiss you and how many kisses are there over here in this
world of, in the world. They’re kissing all the time and they’re killing each other all the time. It’s
not good but you learn Jesus. Who is it? Jesus says one of you will betray me and John said,
who is it? Who is it? Isn’t that good? One of you will betray me and John said – his head was on
the bosom of Jesus, the closest one. Who is it, Lord?

You know, I believe we’re learning and growing and I’m hopeful that we’ll not live like a fool
but be wise and walk carefully and finish our course and do what God called us to do and not
turn to the right or to the left. But have holy ground and go back to the holy ground. And go
back to the holy ground and be humble and go back to the holy ground to hear what God has to
say to prepare us for the battle. Cuz not everybody that is kissing and hugging you is loving you
right? But Jesus is the one that loves me. Jesus is the one that’ll be honest and direct and love
us and fill us with his Spirit. Amen. Okay. That’s the end of that. Amen. And we’ll close. Would
you pray with me. (Prayer). Amen.

Let me just say that a little more clearly to everybody. Get in the habit of confessing your sin
and do it through the day when you’re aware of it. Just say Lord, I think I need help. Forgive me.
I have a weird, I have a weird attitude. I’m judgmental. I’m, I don’t mean only emotion but it’s
something that a mindset. I’m proud. I’m just proud and I confess that. And forgive me, cleanse
me, and wash me and fill me with your Spirit. That’s the way to live.

I think there are Christians they never confess their sin. They don’t recognize their pride and
they’re judging and they judge people a lot. We’re very good at that. We judge people by many
ways, but don’t do that. Be humble. And judge yourself first. First judge yourself. Cast the log
out of your own eye before you analyze somebody’s little problem over there, you know. Got
it? Okay. That was, that was in my prayer. Okay. Let’s say amen. (Prayer). Amen.

 

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