 Greetings, everyone. Greetings. Welcome to Megalife 21 Live. I'm your host, James P. Madonna, and I am proud to announce that this is the seventh sermon. That's right, the seventh time that the evangelist can create is on my show with a new topic and of course a very deep important thing, message to give to you viewers. Very important. I'm very happy to have you back again, James. Step right in and it's all yours. For the seventh time, the evangelist and the Renaissance man can create. How's everybody doing out there? Just thank God, grace, grace, now we're shaped by his grace, now we're going to look at grace today. There's a lot of confusion going on out there in the body of Christ, which is not good. Paul's letter says, let there be no confusion, rightly dividing the word of truth. See, we are under the dispensation of grace, and we got to understand what this dispensation of grace means to us, because in times past, it was all different dispensations. So before Christ came, it was the dispensation of the law. Through his ministry, it was still the dispensation of the law. After he went to the cross and suffered for our sins, he shed his blood to set us free. That's God's grace. That's his gift to us. So that's when the dispensation of grace was starting to begin, because we're saved by God's grace. Now is the right to keep the law absolutely, because the law are commandments from God. There are 10 commandments. Basically, everybody knows what the 10 commandments are. 10 commandments just shows us that we are sinners. It shows us a mirror of ourself, that we're sinners and we need a Savior named Jesus Christ. So once you are saved, then you're under God's grace, you are no longer under the law. But you as a non-believer who doesn't know Christ as their Savior, you're still putting yourself under the law, because the law only shows you you're a sinner. It points out that you're guilty, and you need a Savior, and his name is Jesus Christ. Now before we get into grace, which we're going to get into, we're going to show a little portion of God's grace. Now Bob, what does it talk about? Is that in Ephesians where it talks about grace and works? Yeah, Ephesians 2, 8, 9, 10. Okay, we're going to look at Ephesians 2, 8, 9, and 10. James got to give me some reading glasses, because the print is like so small here. So let's go to Ephesians 2, 8, 9, and 10. Okay, let me see if I can read it here, because our reading is so small here. Okay, let's see what we're at here. It seems very hard to read. All right Bob, do you know that? What's the top of your head? So James gets here. If I grace your safety and faith, and that is the gift of God, not of works, let's know man should most, for we aren't created unto good works, that He shows us beforehand that we should walk in them. Okay, so we are saved by God's grace, not of works, let's any man should most. So what that means is when somebody accepts Jesus Christ as their Savior, God gives you the gift, He gives you His grace, He gives you His peace, He gives you your forgiveness, He gives you eternal life, you're covered by the blood of Jesus. Now there are people out there trying to work to prove something to God, to get right with God, and God's saying, no it's my grace, it's a free gift. He wants to give you this free gift. All you got to do is recognize you're a sinner and you need Christ as your Savior. Now there are people who accept the Christ, but they've just accepted them in their aid, meaning their parents bring them to church, so they accept Christ to make their parents happy. Our guy meets a girl in the church and he likes her, and he starts going to church, and now he wants to go out with her, so he accepts Christ to just make her happy, so he can date her. There's other people that track people to church, and they accept Christ, just as so the other individuals will get off their back. Them individuals, in my personal opinion, if you don't make it a commitment to Christ in your heart that you're a sinner and you're lost and you really accept Christ, the other individuals, they're going to fall away. They're probably not saved, but since they're still living there's always a choice for them to become saved, which is a great thing. So you can't work to get to God, to get right with God. Yeah, you can be out there, you can be new charity work, you can be given back, you can be helping out people, because time will be, you can help out the homeless, you can help out your family, you can help out flood victims, you can do all that stuff, and that's a good thing, don't get me wrong. But that's not going to get you right with God, because God is looking at the finished work of Christ at the cross, and what Christ did at the cross when he shed his blood. When you accept Christ as your savior, and God sees that approved, and now you come into God's family. You're not covered by the blood of Christ, sorry to say, the word says, the Bible says, you're not saved. So now we're going to just dig into grace, because the message of grace was given to Paul. Now if we look at Paul's background, Paul's background was, he was a high official in the Jewish rulings, and he knew the Old Testament, and he knew to take commandments. He was a religious person, so when Christ gave the message to the apostles to go out and preach the good news, how to be saved, this man saw a file of them, and after they were preaching, he would say to the people, don't listen to this guy, these people, they have no idea what they're talking about. So he was persecuting Christ, in fact he killed Christians. So one day he was on the road to Damascus, where the apostles were walking on this road, he was following them, and all of a sudden this great light appeared, and it was Christ, and he blinded him and said, so so, why do you persecute me? The light was so blinding that he knew who that was, and he said, what must I do? He said, I'm going to give you the grace message. So he sent him to a doctor to heal his eyes, because he was like blinded. So God gave the message to Paul, which is God's grace, and he changed his name from Saul to Paul. So it was almost like Saul was a religious person. Saul basically worked for the devil and didn't know it. It was one of his individuals, screwing up other individuals. But God knows everything. God sees everything. So far it is Satan, you can't even imagine. God is the beginning, God is the end. He sees everything. He had a plan in this man's life that the devil didn't know it. So when Saul became Paul and became right with God, okay, it's almost like the devil looking at him and like, wow, you got to be kidding him, and he never knew this. And the angels marveled in at salvation. They must look at an individual and almost like to say, oh, that person will never become a believer. But when they become saved, and God starts working things out in their life, and changes start to happen in the individual's life, and they start to grow in grace, and they start to grow in Christ, and the Holy Spirit is controlling them, and they're being filled up with the Holy Spirit, and they're changing. These angels must look at this, and they must be amazed how this individual is being changed. Then they praise God. Oh, glory to God. That's why when we become a believer, God wants us to go out and preach the word to nonbeliever and be light on to them. We have to plant seeds, water the seeds, and God will make the increase. If we are doing that, then we're doing what God has told us to do. It shouldn't be a job, it should be a desire, it should be a joy doing this. So when an individual becomes saved, they're going to glorify God. That's why God says, anybody who goes to hell puts themselves there. God does not send anybody to hell. If you're lost and you die, not covered by the blood of Christ, that's where you're going. Sorry to say, but that's what the word says. So you want to see people become saved to glorify God and say, what a good God I serve. Wow, God is awesome. Before I was saved, I had no connection to Christ. I watched a TV on show, and it might be a sci-fi thing or on creation or Jacoostowe, and I used to just look at the fish and other things and say, wow, that's awesome. Now as a believer, if I watch something like that, I'm like, wow, look how awesome God, look how He created them, look at the functions, look what they do. That's awesome. See, I'm glorifying God, and that's why God wants to save us. So He gets the glory. Well James, I have one question for you. Yes, sure. You have reading glasses? I absolutely do. The last time you used them, you said you liked them. Yes. It's like men's warehouse. You gotta like the way of it, I guarantee. So we're going to look at different passages on grace. Whoa, at least these come alive. Yeah, and they're only close to the book. I told you to get a pair of salt. Now in Paul's letters, all that, in Paul's letters, okay, he opens up with greetings, and in every one of the books that God told him to write, there are letters, two churches, two believers. So in Ephesians it says, this letter is from Paul. So he chose him by God to be an apostle of Christ. God chose Paul to be an apostle of Christ. He's writing to the church at Ephesus to faithful followers of Christ. Here's grace, a grace and peace be yours sent to you from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. See, see grace, see peace. And then we have spiritual blessings. How we praise God the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ. That's where we are blessed. See, a lot of people say, well, you're blessed, but you don't understand what that blessing is. You are blessed in the heavenly places because we belong to Christ. Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and showed us in Christ to be holy without fault in his eyes. So long before God made the world, the cross was there. God chose us and he loves us, but you have to make that choice. God can't does not twist your arm. It's your choice, either accept Christ or reject Christ. And so he adopted us into his own family, bringing us to himself through Christ, and this gave him great pleasure. That's what God does. It gives God great pleasure when an individual accepts Christ as their savior because now the Bible says he works on us. We're the clay. He's the master. He wants to mold and shape us into the image of Christ to be perfect, to go through the fire and be a perfect image representing Christ. He is molding us and shaping us into like a trophy. But the problem is with us believers is we let the flesh get in the way and we can't let our flesh get in the way because flesh does what flesh does. We got to walk in the spirit. We got to be filled and the Holy Spirit has to control us. So if the Holy Spirit is controlling us throughout the day, now we're in fellowship with Christ. Now we're walking in Christ. Now when we talk, we're talking to Christ. You can be on your job and it's inner man talking to Christ. You're inner man. You're not saying words out because you're working with people, but that inner man is being renewed in Christ. We're in fellowship with Christ. So now when we pray, the Holy Spirit will control our prayer and flesh does not get in the way. But our problem is we let flesh get in the way. So when we pray, we don't know what to pray for. That's what the Bible says. So let God control your prayer. Let the Holy Spirit control you when you pray. The more you're in God's word, the more the word feeds into you. So the more the word feeds into you, the more knowledge is being fed into you and you're renewing your mind in Christ because everything that's fed into you is connected into your mind. Okay. That's why God gave us a brain. I mean, you ever see somebody who reads and feeds into them, feeds into their mind? They could tell you a story about a book they've just read because it's the knowledge that's fed into them. So the more that we're in God's word, the more we study God's word, the more the Holy Spirit has controlled us. Now when we pray, the Holy Spirit controls our prayer and what happens? The word of God takes over our prayer because God works through his word. That's how God answers prayer through his word, not through the fleshly things. Because fleshly things with God is not connected. It's spiritual things. Okay. So now we get into Ephesians a little more. We praise the Lord. You see, he's rich in kindness. He purses our freedom through the blood of his Son and our sins are all forgiven as present and future. All sins forgiven. You know, my one friend in church said, hey, Ken, why don't you ask God to forgive you of your sins when you're already forgiven? That's just like Paul told me a lie. He says, why don't you thank him? You are forgiven. And it says right there, we are all our sins are forgiven. He showed us his kindness with all his wisdom and understanding, his secret plan, grace as we reveal to us centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. God, God gets good pleasure when an individual becomes saved. That's what God does. So this is Ephesians, but it also goes on in Ephesians that the church of Ephesus had problems. So Paul is going to pray for them for spiritual wisdom to open up their eyes. So goes on here in verse 15. Ever since I heard of your strong faith in the Lord, our love for Christians everywhere. I had never stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly. Do you pray for Christians constantly? Or do you pray for Christians that you know and even outside don't want to know? Asking God the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus to give you, to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding so that you might grow in the knowledge of God. Now, how do you get that spiritual wisdom and understanding? Well, you're going to get the knowledge and understanding, okay, by studying God's word. Now, if you're obedient to God and the Holy Spirit is controlling you, then you're going to start to get spiritual wisdom. Now, when you start to get spiritual wisdom, you could start to come out of this world. You see other individuals on a different plane than yourself. You see this world different. You see things and God shows you things. Like if I'm hanging out with a couple of people, I know, and they have gutter mouths. Okay, I look at them because I had that mouth before I was saved. But if I'm growing in Christ, I'm seeing something different. Okay, wow, this individual is in Christ. But now, if I'm not growing in Christ and I'm walking in the flesh and I hear him purses like, well, you know, everybody purses. So you see the difference. So we have to grow in spiritual, spiritual wisdom. He says, this is what Paul says, I pray that you will begin to understand the greatness of his power given to us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead. It sees him in place of honor. God's right hand in the heavenly realms. So this power that's been given to every believer is the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit lives in you. And like I said, if the Holy Spirit is controlling you and you're being filled up, then the Holy Spirit power will control your flesh. If the Holy Spirit power is controlling your flesh, then you're growing in Christ. And this is what makes God happy. So now we're going to go into another thing. We're going to go into Philippians. This is all God's grace. We're studying here today. Let's get to Philippians. And in Philippians one, two, may God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. And then Paul goes into prayer for them. I always pray for you that your request will be full of joy because you've been partners in spreading the good news about Christ from the time you first heard it. And Paul goes on and gives an example to these people about his life for Christ. Paul Wilson-Gate says, I pray that your love for each other will overflow more and more that you will keep on growing and the knowledge and understanding of wisdom. I want you to understand what really matters so that you may live pure and blameless lives until Christ returns. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation. Say those good things that are produced in your life by Christ because this will bring glory and praise to God. So the Holy Spirit again is controlling you. You're being filled by the Holy Spirit and you're living by the fruits of the Spirit. You're giving glory and praise to God. This is what God loves. And if any of his children are doing this, you're pleasing God. So if you're pleasing God, why do you worry about the people mock you, put you down or secure you? You're going to go to trials, you're going to go through storms, you're going to go through tribulations. Why are you worried about that stuff? Why do you want to keep your mouth shut or say things where people praise you in a way, okay? And you're getting an okay from people. That's not making God happy. What makes God happy is when you're wrong spiritually. Because when you're wrong spiritually, then the devil is going to come to attack your flesh. And you're going to go through trials and tribulations and separations and persecutions. You're going to go through that. You're going to be persecuted. But if you are being persecuted for Christ, that gives God glory. So if you're glorifying God and it makes it happy, what are you worried about people for? Who cares? Make God happy. That's the bottom line. And that's where we have to grow. We definitely have to grow with that respect. Now we get into Colossians because how many Bob, how many books did Paul write? 13. So he wrote 13 books. Is that showing you some in the Bible? How come he wrote 13? And then you have four Gospels, right Bob? Yeah. That's when Christ bought this earth and when he went to the cross. And then you have one Peter, two Peter. So it's two books. What Peter wrote? John. Okay. Then you got Jude. Right? John. And one John, first John. Second John and third John. Okay. So that's what? Three books? John. Okay. But now who wrote John? John. Okay. So John wrote four books. Yeah. Okay. So the closest one to Paul was John wrote four books in New Testament. Yeah. Now who wrote the revelations? John. So he wrote five books? Yeah. Okay. So he wrote the most of Paul. Paul wrote 13. And it's all God's grace. Isn't God showing you something? Why did Paul write the most letters of the New Testament? Because we're under the dispensation of grace. That's our meal for us today. But preachers come along on TV or on radio, internet, and they try to mix long grace together. And you can't do that. That's a different dispensation. Order out their grace today. That's our dispensation. So we have to also get these things straight. He says, we also pray that you will strengthen with the glorious powers that you will have. All the patience and endurance you mean. Fill with joy. Always thanking the Father as the name of you to share in the arrogance that belongs to God's holy people who live in the light. See? Endurance. Patience. Patience is a tough word. And that's something I have to be dealing with. But I have to be filled. I have to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I'm filled with the Holy Spirit. God will show me patience and teach me patience because the Holy Spirit will be controlled by light. And I'll fill with joy. I can go around day and say, I'm free. I'm free in Christ. Hey, I know my eternal way. I know my eternal path. I know where I'm going. I know it's in a way. I'm not afraid here. I'm not afraid of this world. I'm not afraid to leave this world. Why? Because I'm connected to Christ. And that's where we have to be. Okay. Bob, you want to talk just a little bit? All right. All right, Bob, let me take a little break here. And Bob, let me just talk to you a little about grace. All right? We'll give you a test, Bob. Okay? So come on up, brother Bob. Hello. I'm Brother Bob. And I'd like to give a testimony of salvation because when it comes to the topic of salvation, there's a lot of confusion. Among Bible-believing Christians, okay? Most Christians who claim to be Christians and believe the Bible, they say that we're safe because we accept Christ. But accepting Christ is a very vague term. It can mean a lot of different things. Like for today, for instance, during the dispensation of grace to accept Christ to be saved means to believe that Jesus is God, that he lived a perfect, sinless life, and that he died on a cross for our sins, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day. And in addition to that, you have to trust that his death, burial and resurrection, and resurrection is totally sufficient to save you from your sins and get you into heaven, apart from any good works that you do. And it's a free gift, not of works. Now, in other dispensations, such as you read in Hebrews through Revelation, salvation is also by grace through faith and what, in Christ's deity. But the difference is this, under other dispensations, they had to accept Christ as Lord and Savior, accept Him as their king and Messiah, and agree to keep their commandments as proof of their faith in Christ in order to receive God's grace and salvation. Notice, no one could work to earn, deserve, or help earn, or help deserve their salvation. But they did have to do works of faith to prove that they were true Christians and were eligible for salvation, like you read in Hebrews through Revelation. But in Paul's Gospel today, God wants us to do good works because we should want to, because we are saved, as opposed to James and John, where you had to do good works to prove that you had saving faith in order to be saved in Christ's second coming. So that's what confuses most people. Doing good works is a required testimony of faith in James and John versus wanting to do good works knowing that you have been saved by faith in Christ alone in Paul's Gospel. Now, if you mix the two Gospels together, like most so-called Christians do, what happens is this, you either wind up preaching that after you're saved that you could lose your salvation, if you don't live right, or if you commit certain sins, or if you backslide, or they teach that after you're saved, God automatically controls your life, like a robot or a puppet, to prove to yourself, other people, and God, that you are really saved. And those lead to the doctrines of perfectionism or losing your salvation. And both of those doctrines can cause terrible harm to people who believe the Bible. And that's why I believe in brightly dividing Paul's Gospel for Christians today versus the four Gospels that he goes through revelation for the nation of Israel before Paul's revelation, and after the rapture in the future. The kingdom of Christians will be under the Pentecostal power of the Holy Spirit, and today we're indwelt by the Holy Spirit. So with us, God works to regenerate our inner man, and with the Pentecostal Christians and early acts, which is ancient Israel, God empowered the outer man to do the works of faith that he required them for them to enter into the kingdom. So if, because Hebrew says that God is the author of eternal salvation to those that obey him, and Paul says we're not saved by works, we're saved by God's grace apart from works. So mixing the two together will lead to those two doctrines, which are false doctrines that I just mentioned. So that's why rightly dividing is important. And I suggest that the plan of salvation has to be made clear. With Paul, let's believe Christ is God, that he lived a perfect sinless life, that he died on a cross, was buried in ropes in the third day, and trust alone in his death, burial and resurrection completely for your salvation, versus the other doctrine for Israel of believing that Christ is God, accepting him as your king and messiah and agreeing to keep his commandments is required proof of your faith in Christ in order to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Preaching that second doctrine for today will cause Christians to either doubt your salvation, or cause Christians to rest upon their good works as evidence of their salvation, or to cause unsafe to people to say if it's this hard to become a Christian forget it, I don't want it. So that's why rightly dividing is so important. So some more examples I could say is in Romans 8 Paul says if God before us who could be against us in Revelation chapter 2 and 3, John says God has something against certain believers who don't do the works of faith that God requires of them, and they have to repent and do those works in order to prove their faith and enter into the kingdom. And also Paul says nothing shall separate us from the love of God in Romans 8, whereas Jude says keep yourselves in the love of God. So there's two differences right there. So that's why it's very important. And another thing is today the baptism by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ is not experiential. We don't physically experience a change or a supernatural happening apart from believing it through the Bible. And if you don't have the good knowledge of the Bible you may be saved did not even experience it until you read it in the Bible. Whereas in Pentecost when those people were baptized with the Holy Spirit by Christ, they experienced it physically, it was experiential. Not only did they speak in tongues and perform miracles, but the Holy Spirit supernaturally caused or enabled them to keep the law and do the works of faith that required God to empower them to keep the law as evidence of their faith. Now you might be asking since we're saved by grace through faith and the law can't save us, how come during the tribulation in the future will the people of Israel have to keep the law again? And the reason is this. Number one, they have a covenant agreement with God. Even though their sins are all paid for and Christ's death is sufficient to save Israel from their sins too, they still had to keep the law to fulfill the covenant that they made with God in Exodus. And then in order to keep the law, since they couldn't keep it on their own in the Old Testament, God would have to supernaturally empower them to keep the law and do the works of faith during the tribulation. So to make it simple, we're set free from the law as you read in Romans and Galatians and the Jewish tribulations were set free to keep the law as you see in Hebrews through Revelation. So instead of being set free from the law, they're set free to keep the law. The law of liberty mentioned in the book of James, which was not applied to us today. If we try to apply it today, we'll fall into the traps of perfectionism, losing your salvation or doubting your salvation. And I think I'll turn the mic over back to Kenny again. Thank you very much, Brother Bob. That was technically the debut of Brother Bob. You have met Brother Bob. You have heard Brother Bob. Brother Bob is extremely knowledgeable in Scripture. And thank you very much, Brother Bob, for your testimony. Thank you, Brother Bob. That was great. Yes, it was. Bob fills in from me here and there. The Brother Bob is definitely going to be in the title of this 7th sermon of the evangelists can create. Okay, now we get into 1 Thessalonians. God's grace and peace to you. Now we go over here. 2 Thessalonians. God gives us grace and peace and faith through Christ. Now we go over here. 1 Timothy. God our Father Christ our Lord. He gives us grace, mercy and peace. Grace, grace, grace, grace, mercy and peace through Timothy. Grace, grace, grace. Titus. God our Father Christ in Christ, our Savior, gives us grace and peace. It's a little grace. Fill of mine. God gives us through faith in Christ, grace and peace. Hebrews. And Hebrews here, it's somewhere we're talking about God's grace. But you see all these books where Paul opens up with grace, peace, mercy, peace. You got peace with God. What more do you want? Now this is why believers don't understand. They don't understand God's grace. You know, we get in here at Thessalonians where Paul says, I encourage you in your faith. I want you to be strengthened in your faith. Don't worry about troubles and what you're going to go through. I want you to grow in your faith. Over here, God wants us to live and understand the control of the Holy Spirit. God doesn't want us to fill our lives with substitutes like alcohol or possessions through worldly pursuits. Steady wants us to live under the control of the Holy Spirit. He's in 518 who produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control in our lives to be controlled by anything or anything else is outside the will of God. That is totally amazing because even James says, oh, you really can't, you know, start to more, get more or less away from the flesh compared to the Holy Spirit. Sometimes you have to repeat yourself so people understand that basically, in a way, if you're repeating it's because you're emphasizing something and the Holy Spirit has to be emphasized because the Holy Spirit has to control us. There's too many preachers out there that even though they preach out the Holy Spirit, they kind of get away from the teachings even every week about the Holy Spirit how it should control you because if the Holy Spirit isn't controlling you, you're going to walk in the flesh. There's no doubt about it. So the reason why I always bring up the Holy Spirit in a way I repeated myself is because in the sermon teachings, I want the Holy Spirit to be front and center to control this teaching. That's why I get more into the Spirit. But, and that's why also I can repeat myself about the flesh because that's what we're dealing with. We're flesh. We're body. The Holy Spirit lives within us. The Holy Spirit has to control us. The power of the Holy Spirit has to control us. Otherwise, like I said, flesh will control you and flesh can control you. That's not a good thing. You're not going to grow. You are not going to grow in Christ. Okay. Because when God saved you, he not only saved you when he gave you eternal life, now he put a purchase on your life and the Bible says, let he who began a good work in you, let him control you until the day of Jesus Christ. So God wants to control our lives. He wants to take over our lives. That's the bottom line. If we let flesh get in the way, then we're not letting God control our lives. And it's not a good thing. No, that's not a good thing. That's a bad thing. And that's a sad thing. But it's hard. The reason why it's hard is because we live in a body of flesh that has fallen. And we get caught up in the world. We get entangled with the world. We get involved with the world. We got to work. We hustle. We bustle. We're on the run. And it gets kind of bombarded and it gets kind of hard. So you got to really pray to the Lord and say, Lord, control me today. Fill me with your spirit. You'll be in fellowship with Christ. I know I've been through it. There's days I had great days with Christ and then there's other days I wake up or run in late. I got to go to work and along the run. I'm doing this. I'm doing that. And it's like, wow, everything hits the fan. Now you get impatient. You get impartial. You get aggressive. You get angry for a while. For a while. Because the beginning of my day, I started out. I was moving too quick. Now I got to get to work and everything's hitting fast. So I got to move and I got to get it throughout the day. There was no fellowship with Christ. So me, in my life, I definitely see the difference. And the difference is you go up in the flesh or you go up in the spirit and God will not twist your arm as a boy. Just like he will not twist the person who is a non-believer to come to salvation. You have a choice. So an individual has a choice to accept Christ or reject Christ. Now, one of God's children has a choice to either live in the spirit, let the spirit control you, let the spirit fill you up, or you walk in the flesh. So saved have a choice to grow or not to grow. Unsaved have a choice to receive Christ or reject Christ. Now we're going to get into one more passage and full up. So I just broke down some grace for you. Okay Bob, give my book there because I have something there. I think that's a one Timothy. Yeah, I read one Timothy. And we're going to get into this maybe next time. One and two Timothy is an excellent. I think it's one Timothy chapter one where it talks about Perlis times. Oh yeah, I know two Timothy. I described today's people right to where we're at. So let me get to this. I'm pretty sure it's one Timothy chapter three Perlis times. And like I said, you have all different interpretations of Bibles. You know how many Bibles are out there today? And I think if you have like the King James version, I think that's a pretty solid Bible. You don't want to re-written, you don't want a so-called modern re-written, confusing Bible version. You don't want that. I'm glad everyone out there got to meet Brother Bob before. I'm really happy about that. Yeah, that was good. Yeah. That was what he's talking about. He's talking about that. And he gave his testimony, which was good. And this is knowledge to him. All right, I think I'm near it right now. Hold on. I think I'm near it right there. Yeah, two Timothy chapter three verse one. This talks about Perlis times, where we are to dead. And this is what I will wrap this up with. To show people what's going on. Because there's Christians out there that are blind. Because we're walking in the flesh. Like I said, we're walking in the flesh. You can be blind to this world. You're walking in the spirit, being controlled by the spirit. Now your eyes are open. You're not blind. You can see. Okay, so that was chapter three. One Timothy chapter three. No, two Timothy. Sorry, chapter three. Okay. Two Timothy chapters three. Okay, chapter three, the dangers of what we're living in today. You should also know this Timothy, that in the last days, there will be very difficult times where people will love themselves and their money and their buddies. They will be both small and proud, scuffing at God, disobedient to parents, ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving, unforgiving. They will slander others and have no self control. It will be cruel and have no interest in what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride in love, pleasures rather than God. They will act as if they are religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. You must stay away from people like this. Okay, now this could be showing a picture of unsafe people above. Couldn't that also be showing a picture of safe people? I'm not sure. I think it might, but I can't say for sure. I know it refers to unsafe people, but I'm not sure whether or not it refers to a carnal safe to people. I'm not really sure about that verse for that. Okay, so we're looking at, let's just say it's working with both people. Okay, because we know in the body of Christ that the Amen Devil comes as an angel of light to deceive the elect. So we know, as we go through it too, now we can be both slow and proud. Right? Okay, we can let material things control us. Right? Of course. We can let people get to our head and get disappointed and angry. You? Right. We can lose self control. We can be unforgiven. Right? Yup. Okay, we can be puffed up with pride. Yup. Okay, so Christians can do this too, but with God to say it once again, be filled with the Holy Spirit, because if you're filled with the Holy Spirit and the Spirit's controlling you, these things will not control you. But you see, lowest people were uncovered by the blood of Christ. This is the stuff that controls them because it's their flesh and they live in a form of body. They're both slow and they're proud. They laugh at God. They mock God. They're disobedient to the parents. Parents don't get along with children. Children don't get along with parents. It's here. People have no self control. They lose it. They're angry. They're frustrated. Everything's like hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. No patience. That's no self control. Everything's got to be here. It's got to be done now. Come on. Come on. You got to move. You got to move. I know people like that. I work for a guy like that. The guy's so impatient. It's amazing. He thinks he's going from 8.8 to B and it's like, okay, you can get from 0.8 to B, but are you trying to get to B? It's not going to save you no time. So take your time. What about slave drivers? That too, yeah. Abuse their employees and exploit their employees. That's what it is. Like the disabled. Paying disabled people less than minimum wage and they're trying to exploit them. Exactly. So we have here people who are lovers of self, money, power, greed. Well, this is here today. It's here, people. Today people love to do these things. It could be sex, drinking, drugs, entertainment, material, gain, whatever fills their appetite. This is the emptiness inside the individual because they don't have the Holy Spirit. So these are the things that fill their inside. They're filling your void and what they do. A man is rich. He grows up fishing, loves to fish. As he gets older and becomes more into what he's doing. He buys a boat. At first, he loves this boat a couple more times. He goes out and fishes as much as possible. He's filling that void inside him. A couple years later, he gets sick of that boat. So the emptiness comes back inside him. So to fill this emptiness, it is like he gets a bigger boat where he thinks his bigger boat is going to make him feel better. Bigger boat, he can fish, he can party, he can sleep. But time will go by and the emptiness again will give him. And the yacht, okay? The big yacht. So now he can't go to a yacht, but he likes cars. So he'll buy a bed and he loves that bed. So for three, four years, he loves it. But here comes the void again. Ferrari. So here comes the Ferrari. Lamborghini. You got to fill that emptiness inside. You got to fill that soul. Why? Because you're empty. You don't have Christ. These people run to their pleasures. They will always be empty inside. The only one who can fill their emptiness is Christ. When somebody thinks Christ is their savior, God fills that emptiness inside with his Holy Spirit. Now God comes inside and the person's life starts to change. You're filled now with the Holy Spirit. So if you see a car and you like that car and you're a believer, and you know that car can get you from point A to point B, and that's what you're looking at, and you're filled with the Holy Spirit. You're going to get that car. You will be content with content. But you're not going to be caught up with that car. Like, look at my car. I got to wash my car. Hey, my car, beautiful. My car is better than yours. That's filling the emptiness inside. My mansion. That's what unsafe people do. Their mansion is better than yours. This is what they do. Matthew 24, 4, let no man deceive you. For many people today come with different signs and wonders, different religions, Christian science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Moslems, all these different teachings. They try to get you right with God, but they're wrong. They try to meditate for you to meditate and become like God and be like God. They're wrong. This is what's going on. So we have this stuff going on today in the United States of America. I mean, it was like, I grew up watching sports. I love sports. But now I see sports a little different. I see sports in the way. Money is free. It's not worth it. These guys get everything they want. They travel the whole world. They travel the United States. They have the best transportation. They go to the restaurants. They go to the hotel. Clothes are free. Clothes are free. They're totally taken care of. And they're money in there. And they sit in mansions. You actually think they care about the sport they play. They strike out three times. You think they're going home crying? They have all these pleasures. They don't care. So when I was growing up and I watched sports on TV, I watched individuals that love to play because in the off season, they had to get another job. They weren't more than a million years. So they had to play. And then when the season started, they had to be in shape because somebody down below could take their place. So they had to play. Today, it's money. It's a business. So when I watched these individuals play and they're going through the motions, I watched this. It's like, you know what, there's not a year going on. So God is showing me, hey, what's more important? Watching that basketball game or studying that word. That basketball game is going to be over. This world's passing away. Are you my word? So God is bringing me out of certain situations where I used to love watching the sports. I put it on. It's like, there's nothing there. Then I changed the dial. Not in there. Not in there. Not in there. Not in there. It's not in there. So it's like, I really don't watch TV though because there's not that near to watch. You're coming out of this world. That's what God does. That's what God wants to do in your life as a believer. We have to get it. And it's a shame. A lot of Christians don't get it, don't understand, are confused because of what they're taught. And the Bible says, let there be no confusion, right? We divide in order of the truth. No watering down messages. Okay. But we're confused. And that confusion has to be broken. And the only way it can be broken is like I said, you have to be filled in control, dealing with the Holy Spirit. So in closing, I want to thank James. I want to thank Brother Bob. And I want to thank everybody out there. Remember, be filled to be controlled by the Holy Spirit. Now if Christ ain't your savior, it's so simple to accept Christ. It's just a simple prayer. You're a sinner. You're a sinner. Acknowledge you're a sinner before God and accept Christ as your savior. And if you accept Christ as your savior, I'm a sinner. I need you, Christ, that's my favor. Come into my life. Come into my heart. Take over my life. Fill me up with your Holy Spirit. Let me be covered by the blood of Christ. I mean it, Lord. I don't want to go to hell. I don't want to go to hell. I don't want to be separated from you. I want a relationship with you. I want to be the individual that you created me to be. I want to give you the glory. Cleanse me from my righteousness. Come into my heart. Come into my life. Control my life. I take you as my Lord and Savior now and Lord Jesus Christ, name my prayer. If you just say that simple prayer and you truly mean it, you're saved. It's simple. It's not hard. You don't have to be a rocket scientist. You don't have to study. You don't have to write. You don't have to pass no test. Christ paid it all. I made that choice 32 years ago. I accepted Christ. Right and simple. I know I'm saved. I know I'm going to happen. I know it's awaiting me. It's abundance awaiting for me, for me if I let the Holy Spirit control me and fill me and I walk with Christ and I'm in fellowship with Christ and I'm teaching believers and I'm edifying and I'm motivating believers and I'm being a witness for God and I'm leading people to Christ which I don't know about. That's not my business. Christ does the same, not me. But if I'm at the judgment seat of Christ, if Christ says to me, well done, faithful servant, you did your job and I got a month's wait for me. I tell you what, I'm not blowing it. Can I be Christian out here? Don't blow it. Thank you. Mr. Evangelist, can't create. Do you have a heavy duty poem or story to tell? No, I'm not going to say it because I'm going to put this little book away. Okay. I just want to thank you. Yeah, thank you. This is the seventh sermon of The Evangelist Can Create and the debut of the one and only the assistant of The Evangelist Can Create, Brother Bob. You have, you've got a bonus, an unexpected bonus, a plus. Thank you, Brother Bob, for giving your honest testimony and your educational sermon of your own. Thank you. Yup. Okay. And thank you for joining us, everyone. I'm Megalike 21 Law. I'm James P. Madonna. God willing, we will see you on the eighth sermon. The eighth appearance of The Evangelist Can Create, also known as the Renaissance man that can create. I just want to apologize to our viewers, to the Can Create fans. I know this is not religious, but the performing artists Can Create years ago did an outstanding performance at the Labor Day Festival, the Labor Day Weekend Festival in Laura, New Jersey. And because of this insane copyright, infringement, law, YouTube muted the volume and all that great DJ music from the video is completely muted. And I just want to say to everyone out there that a DJ is actually, in my opinion, is actually advertising, providing free advertisement of the songs. And there's no profit being made when Can Create performs to DJ music. No one's making any profit. So to mute the entire long video that yours truly takes is really a crying shame, because it was an outstanding performance. But by the way, there is also folk music at this festival where there's musicians, where there is not copyright infringement, where the video will not be muted that Can Create can perform. It's only when there's a DJ playing original music. I know I'm digressing, but I just had to tell people and apologize for the muted DJ original music. So this is something that the Renaissance man Can Create has to deal with when he's performing, you know, using non-copyright music. Hey, gentlemen, even if it's classical music, which is supposed to be public domain, Mozart, Bach, you know, Vivaldi, if somebody plays that, if someone today plays a violin, the Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and a winter, summer, autumn, whatever, they consider that, you know, not copyright infringement, but they consider that third party infringement. It's ridiculous. It's supposed to be public domain. Anyway, I'm sorry for digressing. I just want to thank everyone today for this very special seventh sermon of the Evangelist Can Create. Thank you.