 Good afternoon, Pastor David. Yeah It's a great afternoon. Yeah, welcome everybody to unfiltered a random moment with Pastor David The New Year's kicked off. Yeah, and we're we're in a season now to see what what's gonna happen in as we move forward And you know, I've been thinking about some of your latest sermons and and that's good But I wanted to ask you what the earmark of carnality is in the church I Can tell you in 1st Corinthians 3 I can tell you that the Apostle Paul tells us what What our components to carnality? In 1st Corinthians 3 verse 3 he says it's envy strife and division And he said to him I Where where there is envy strife and division is that not he said basically a sign of carnality And then he went on to speak concerning what that division was over And he says because some of you are Saying that I'm of of Paul or I'm of Cephas or I'm of Christ you know, you're you're basically dividing the body of Christ into Loyalties that are Are causing the strife and causing the division and so he says when you do that He he said are you not carnal? Are you not mere men in other words? Are you not living in a fleshly way using fleshly measurements? pertaining to that which would seem to make up or be components of Spiritual maturity in and when you begin to Divide over I'm a follower of this or I'm a follower of that he said then what you've done is you've put yourself in a position of Elevating a man to a place that he really ought not to be so I think in the church today. We have to be careful of What we find ourselves being proud of I Think that it's it's not a sign of carnality to Identify with a local congregation and it's not a sign of carnality to be loyal to the doctrinal Makeup of that fallow ship as long as those things that are are held most firmly our Theologically orthodox and yes There is a theological orthodoxy. Yes Church councils over the centuries have very studiously and vigorously Worked out hammered out things that we must Essentially believe in order to be a member of the body of Christ Things that relate to the scriptures and their inerrancy or the second coming of Jesus and And the power of the Holy Spirit and things of that nature There are essentials to the faith and then there are things that are non-essentials, you know The essential to the faith is believe it in Christ to be born again. That's an essential of the faith a Non-essential may be what time do I start church services or what is the order of service? so if the doctrine is solid and Jesus is central and and Everything is you know, it's orthodox then okay be a Baptist or be a four square or whatever it may be Whatever club you identify with, you know, that's fine. They call them tribes today, but whatever club you may belong to You know, as long as it's orthodox, I've got no problem or beef with you but if you belong to an organization that That says that Jesus Christ is the first creation of God or that that he appeared on the American continent or whatever, you know, that is that is heresy and that is a mark of occult and so there are differences and we need to be aware of those differences, but what is a mark of carnality today? I think strife division and That's that's a pretty big Pretty big one today and and what would be the danger or a church that is or any your mark of carnality What is the result of that? Is it? destruction it wouldn't be It disrupts the unity of the body of Christ we have to be Unitized on a single Awareness and that is who Jesus Christ is and so when I take my my Particular church and say that this is the church that has all the truth and there's nobody else who has it completely as we do I think that's going to create a real problem. And so the again the earmark is is breaking unity, you know That's the earmark of carnality Well pastor David, thank you so much on sharing on that just want to remind our church family that we have Wednesday evening services tomorrow at 7 p.m. And you're starting a new book I'm going to start the book of Ephesians and we're going to be looking at the blessings introduction to the blessings that every believer has in the Lord Jesus Christ and You know, I'll be sharing about about how some of us live as spiritual poppers. We honestly Don't realize what we have in Christ and today there are a lot of Christians who live Less than what God would have them to live they they do they just they live in a manner that is is It makes the gospel appear to be just a myth myths and stories I mean, you know, they're saying oh, I believe in Jesus, but they live exactly like the world I mean, I see Christians driving around with their masks on too, you know, and it's just odd We we live like like the world and you know now someone's going to get hurt feelings because I said that but you know what suck it up Our identity in Christ or who we are in Christ are positioning Christ. Yeah, that's good Well, thank you again pastor want to invite your friends and family to come on out to join us on Wednesday evening 7 p.m. As pastor David starts the book of Ephesians and then we have our Sunday morning services at 8 30 and 1045 we look forward to you guys coming out and joining us and pastor David again. Thank you and God bless you. All right. We'll see you guys