 as a Christian, as a believer, as someone who is in the body, there are some things that we are promised to have. And because we're promised to have some things, there are some things that, as a Christian, that just absolutely cannot happen to us. And so what I want to do is, I want to, before we get to the ultimate conclusion, I want to work our way back, and I want to look at and see what God has said about us as Christians. I want to point out some things that are facts, some things that are not disputable. You cannot say, well, yes, but no, these are absolute facts. For example, as a Christian, I want to cover what you cannot have. I want to cover what cannot occur to you. I want to cover what cannot be, what cannot happen to a person who is an actual believer. And I mean an actual true believer, someone who is, you know, like the normal days, I mean, nowadays you have people that will say that, yes, I'm a Christian, I love the Lord, I'm spiritual, and he accepts me as who I am, and my pronouns are we, they, her, she, and him. No, not that kind of a Christian. I mean a Christian that has fallen in love with Christ, recognized they're falling in their own sense, and have placed their faith in Christ. That kind of Christian, you know, a true Christian, you know, the one that the Bible talks about. I want to cover what cannot absolutely, cannot happen to a Christian. And to get to that point, I also want to deal with what absolutely does happen to a Christian. So first of all, every Christian, or I say it this way, there is no Christian, no Christian cannot be without the Holy Spirit. Remember, John says in the Gospels, John the Baptist says, I baptize you with water. But there is one that's coming just a few days forward from now. In just a little while, he is going to baptize you with the Holy Spirit. And so to be a believer, a Christian cannot be a Christian and not have the Holy Spirit. How do I know so well? Let's go to Romans 8-9. In Romans 8-9, it tells us that however you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. If indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you, but if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. So there is no Christian that cannot have the Holy Spirit. If you are a Christian, it cannot be that you are without the Holy Spirit. If you have the Holy Spirit, you're a Christian. If you don't have the Holy Spirit, you're not a Christian. I don't care how you feel, how you think what someone told you. If you do not have the Holy Spirit, you're not a Christian. If you are a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit. That part's not debatable. That part we can't go and say, yeah, but no, it's clear. It is crystal clear. As a matter of fact, Paul says this, staying in Romans 8, and by the way, we'll be back to Romans 8 in just a little bit. For all who are being led by the Spirit, these are the sons of God. And so if you are being led by the Spirit, you are a son or daughter, a child of God. So therefore, there cannot be a Christian. Christians cannot be without the Holy Spirit. Paul tells us also in 1 Corinthians 12, and now I'm building something here. So I want y'all to see this. I'm doing what a builder ought to do. I'm laying a foundation now, not that I've ever built anything worth living. Although I did build a clubhouse before and I did build a treehouse. The clubhouse and the treehouse was torn down. There was no real foundation, but that's what we did back in the day. We would just find some wood and put some stuff together. Well, that's not what we're doing here. We're not just gonna put some stuff together. We are actually going with the foundation. We are told, this is Jesus telling us these things. This is Paul telling us these things. These are coming from the Old Testament and the New Testament. I'll look at the Old Testament just a little bit, but Paul says, for by one spirit, that being the Holy Spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Greek, whether slave or free, we were all made to drink of one spirit. So every Christian, every, I made that into three syllables, every Christian has the Holy Spirit. If you are Christian, you cannot be without the Holy Spirit. As a matter of fact, how about this passage? Let's go to other passages because we wanna build not just a foundation. We wanna build a firm, solid foundation, right? So in Ephesians one, we're told this. In him, you also, after listening to the message, obviously we're speaking of the gospel, of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having also believed, so you have believed and notice how he calls us, the Pistus Sante, those that had been believing, this is the heiress participle, you were past tense sealed. You were sealed in him with the Holy Spirit, huh? So therefore we see Paul saying that we were sealed with the Holy Spirit and not only were we sealed, it says that this Holy Spirit was given as a pledge, our bond, this down payment, this deposit of our inheritance with a view to the redemption of God's own possession to the praise and glory. So guess what we've been sealed with? We've been sealed with the Holy Spirit. And the question then is, how long have we been sealed with the Holy Spirit? Can we ever go without the Holy Spirit? Well, let's look and see what the Bible says. The Bible says, do not grieve the Holy Spirit, speaking to Christians by whom you were sealed, which is what he said in chapter one, verse 13 and 14, you were sealed for the day of redemption. And by the way, if anyone says, if anyone wants to try to fight this, you were sealed ice, hamerai, which is to or into the day of redemption. You are sealed into that time. So your sealing of the Holy Spirit does not change. You will never, ever, ever find anyone in the Bible. Post cross. After the cross, you won't find anyone that had the Holy Spirit one day and then the Holy Spirit left them. There is no such example, but I'm giving you what the Bible says. Paul says, you know, Paul, the apostle, the one who met Christ on the road to Damascus, who said he's going to suffer all these things for him for the cause of Christ. He says, you were sealed ice, hamerai, which is almost sounds Spanish today. Did that Greek sound almost Spanish? It kind of did. But you are sealed into or till or for the day of redemption, meaning that's how long you are going to be sealed by the Holy Spirit. He is a down payment. And yes, I know down payments can be forfeited, but we're not talking about us. We're not talking about you, which you're, even if you got 800 credit, 700 credit, 600 or 500 credit, even if you had Lord help you, you got 300 credit. If your credit score is 300, fine. We're not talking about a man. We're talking about God who gave the Holy Spirit as a down payment to be our pledge to seal us until, until we get to heaven, until we reach ultimate salvation. So the foundation is this. You can, if you are Christian, you cannot be without the Holy Spirit. And we're going to talk about the Holy Spirit. As a matter of fact, let's go to the Old Testament because we're told in the Old Testament that we are going to receive the Holy Spirit. We're told in Ezekiel 36. We're told in Ezekiel 11. We're told in Jeremiah. We're told in Deuteronomy. Now he's speaking of Israel, but then he also, Jesus makes this fit with us Gentiles in John one. And we just read in Romans eight, all of us that have the Holy Spirit, we are sons of God. And Jesus talks about there's these two flocks, Israel and another flock, and he will be the shepherd of both and the two shall become one flock with one shepherd. So we know this applies to us. He's been speaking about this, the Holy Spirit coming to us and he did. And then we see how long, how long will the Holy Spirit be with us? Well, forever. Now, here's the question. Can a Christian be okay with sin? Not can a Christian sin, not will a Christian sin, but can a Christian be okay with sin? Well, we find out that a Christian cannot, will not be okay with sin. How do I know? Well, let's put a couple of other pastors. Let's go to, I didn't pull this up. Let me just go ahead and type it in anyway. John 16 and eight. The Bible tells us that, and he that is the Holy Spirit, when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment concerning sin because they do not believe in me. So now what is the Holy Spirit gonna do? If you sin, there's gonna be this convict. Now it's also gonna affect the world who doesn't believe but also us who previously didn't believe, sin bothers the Holy Spirit in us. Doesn't mean that it does not mean, it does not mean that we will never sin, but what it does mean is that it will, it leaves a nasty spiritual taste in our mouths. It's hard to function. It's hard to feel good when you sin or when you're around others who have sinned. It is hard to be around people who sin or to be in the company of sin and you feel dirty. How many of you ever just, you know what? You didn't really go out and do very much. It wasn't like you went out there and raked up or dug up the backyard or ran a mile. But just through the course of living throughout your day, you feel some film on you, some dirt, some sweat, some grime. You just feel dirty, right? And guess what? Maybe no one else can see the dirt, but you can feel the dirt. It just bothers you. So when it's sin, it's the same way. It should just bother you. There are times where, hey, you might just wake up in the middle of the night. I need to pray. Lord, I've got to just get closer with you. Let me just turn on, instead of my regular routine, let me just turn on some Christian radio, some Christian music. Let me just hear something. Let me hear someone singing about or worshiping or praising the goodness of the Lord. Or let me just go to Smart Christian YouTube channel and just listen to the good, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Not really, I'm not kidding. But the Bible says this. Paul says this in Romans 12.9. He says, let love be without hypocrisy. Look what he says. Abhor what is evil. That's sin, guys. For now, that's sin. That's evil. That's wickedness. Abhor that. So as a Christian, we're going to do that. As a matter of fact, Paul says in 1st, that's only in 5th, 22, abstain from every form or from every form of evil, from any type of evil, abstain from it. So you cannot be a Christian. As a Christian, you will not be okay with sin. You just will not. And even more so because you have the Holy Spirit in you. So you've got the Holy Spirit in you who you're going to have the Holy Spirit. That is if indeed you are a Christian. But we're only talking about Christians. We're not talking about non-Christians. We're not talking about people who call themselves Christians who are not. We're not talking about faux Christians. We're not talking about false convert. When I talk about that, we're talking about people who actually have placed their faith in Christ, those who are named in heaven. And so our foundation is these people are going to be with Holy Spirit. So you cannot be a Christian and be without the Holy Spirit. You cannot be a Christian and be okay with sin. That's not going to happen either. Now, something else, because you have the Holy Spirit, there is something else that simply cannot happen. It's impossible for this to happen. And I want you to think about this for a second. Even as Christians, we forget about this. We don't think about this, especially as we're going through something. Something that we don't, it gets us a little bit off our mark. It makes us uncomfortable when we're going through things, but we forget about this. Something, something that just cannot happen. As a Christian, you can never fail to overcome. In other words, the bad condition of it today is not the future. You are going to overcome. You are an overcomer. Well, how do I know so? Well, remember this passage? We don't think about this passage and we don't apply this passage. It's a nice passage to remember, to quote it. But we never actually just kind of just flesh out its full implication. The full implication of this passage, Romans 8.28 says that, and we know that God causes, now the word that's used here is soon erge, which is soon, which is together, and then erge, which is to work. So God works with, He causes, He works together, all things, panta, all things, He works together for the good of those, I mean to those who love God, to those who are calling for His purpose. And I think about that for a second. Let's flesh this out a little bit, shall we? He's going to take everything, everything. The word panta is just pretty easy, all, every, each, everything that happens to who? Who is God going to cause those things to work for the good of those people? Well, to us, us, us sheep, or plural, us sheepesses. I know it's not a real English word, but still, you get the point. Us sheepesses. God, as He says, God, not us, not we have to figure this out. God, so here's my question, guys. Is it a fact? Is it a fact that God, let's just, let's just go through the chat and let's just pick some people. Let's look at Eric, or Christopher, or Jeff, or Monkey Moves or Sheila. Let me ask you guys a question. For you five, did I just name? Whatever's happening in your life, Sheila, whatever's going on, Trump Reaper, Meow, it's Jenny. Is what's going on in your life, whether good or bad, is God going to take that and have it to work for your good? Nah, you don't get to determine what the good is. Oh, God, I want the good to be a brand new car. I want the good to be extra $100,000. No, no, no, no. He's determined this, but the question is, is it going to a court? Let me put it on again. I didn't write this. And nor did you. All of us, listen, hopefully, you got a decent education. I know the public system being what it is, public school system being what it is now. It ain't like it used to be, hopefully, some of you guys graduated early enough to where they taught you how to read. I think you do. I'm pretty sure you do. So, when we look at this text, what does it say? You don't have to be the best reader. You just have to be a semi-gooder reader. You have to be a gooder, you are a gooder reader than a fourth-year-old. I mean, a fourth-year-old. Look at me. Are you a gooder reader than a fourth-grader? Are you smarter than a fifth-grader? As the show used to say. He says that God, is it a fact that God is going to take whatever is happening in Sheila's life? Whatever is happening in Leonzo's life, whatever happens in Ciro's life, good or bad, is he going to cause those things to work out for the good of those people? Good or bad? Well, the answer is yes. He said so. We can read. And since God gives us these words, he can communicate with us and he wants us to know. He gives it pretty simply. That name. And we know. We absolutely know. Oidemen, we know. We know this for a fact that God is causing all these things to work together for good to who? To who? Who is the good going to work together for? For those people that I named, Sheila, Ciro, Mia, it's Jenny, Brian, Jeff, all those folks. Monkey moves, Eric. That is if indeed, if indeed, if indeed they are his, he's going to cause those things to work together for those who love. So if you are part of the love committee, meaning you love them, whatever it is, how bad it is, I don't care what it is, how bad it is, he's going to cause to work for your good. There are some implications in that that we need to think about that. Too many people don't think about that. Because oftentimes we don't think about what we do. We do things and we just don't think about the implications. For example, for example, you've got people who will just come and just change their YouTube icon or their YouTube profile picture. I don't know what Senior Conrad is doing. Go back to the other one. The other one was better. You threw us off at that. So don't do that. Shame on you. Because now I got to look for this little purple swatch. I was looking for your old one with the big bushy hair and everything. As though you should be proud of all that hair. Again, some folks just have to mature. It's okay though. It's okay. But think about the implications of even what others are going to say. As our Christian life just progresses. Think about those things. Think about those things for a second. Now it is impossible for a Christian to not be an overcomer. It's impossible for a Christian to not be an overcomer. How do I know? Well, let's go to John 1st John 5. That is, if you're a believer, this applies to you. Why do I say though? Because it says whoever believes this. Pas-Ha-Pistuan. Dutch? Jeff, there's our favorite word. Pas-Ha-Pistuan. All of the believers. Whoever it is that's believing. If you are believing, if you're one of the believing ones, that Jesus is Christ. That person is born. They had been born. Gaggenetai, which is, it's a perfect tense. It happened in the past. They have been born of God. And whoever this is, all the ones that are loving, which is the same as all the ones that are believing. The father loves the child born of him. By this, we know that we love the children of God when we love God and observe his commandments. Now let's drop it into verse 4. Notice what it says. For whatever, and by the way, the word whatever is actually Pan also. Pan. Ha-Ti-Pan. So because or that, all the ones that have been born, that's all of you. All of you that have been born and who are the ones that have been born, he just told us whoever it is that's believing. So if you are believing, it's because you have been born of God. You've covered this before. We don't go over today. But if you have been born of God, that's that of you. That's being born of the Spirit, born from heaven. And so if you are a believer, you are born of God. And what does he call? He says that the person that's born of God overcome. Nika, he always will get the word Nike. They overcome the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith. So because of our faith and us being born, we are born of the Spirit, born from above. We are going to overcome the world through this faith of ours. And it is not going to depart. How do we know that it's not going to depart? By the way, thank you, Michelle. Michelle says first time. Glad you made it, Michelle. Welcome, welcome, welcome. But how do we know it won't depart? How do we know? Well, because he says something else, not about us. Nothing good or great about us. There's nothing, absolutely nothing good about you. Listen, Brian, I love you. Austin, love you. Jesus is eternal. Love you to death. Divine scout, wonderful human being. Eat Kelly, even you. Senior kind of rat, even you. Elizabeth, even you. Love you all to death. But you guys aren't that great. You really, you really aren't. December, lovely name, but there's nothing special about you. I'm sorry to say it. CG, Jeff, certainly nothing special about you. Nothing special about me. Nothing good, nothing good, nothing, nothing, nothing. So what is the confidence in? What is Heaven's? Why? How in the world is Heaven so confident about us? What makes Heaven? What makes Paul? What makes John? What makes the writer of the Gospels? What makes them so confident about us? Remember, Paul says, Paul, first of all, I have to address this. Senior kind of rat says, I'm worse than you think. You don't know how bad I think about you. You don't know how worse I think you are. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. No truth be told. Wouldn't it be something if we all knew how bad we all are? We would all probably, you know what? Stay away. You know what? Stay away. But what makes Heaven, what makes Paul is the one that says, I'm confident of this thing that he, God, who began a good work in you, he is going to complete it. What makes him so confident? You ever notice that God or the Bible, they never tout about really how great our faith is? Yeah, you guys have some faith and there's a few guys who I named their faith in Hebrews 11. But go back and check out the actions of some of these guys in Hebrews 11. Look at their faith. Their faith wasn't as great as we make it out to be. Now we've got folks in the chats who are fighting over who's the worst. That is awesome. That is awesome. Because some of the chats, they'll be fighting over who's the greatest. You suck, but I'm not. I'm great. You're not. But not over here because smart Christians understand we're not worthy. We're worthless. $5 worth of dirt and that's all because of inflation. But notice God doesn't really speak that highly about our faith. Even in the great faith hall of fame. Abraham. Hey, wait a second Abraham. Twice you told the same lie. Think about these great people. But do you know in Hebrews 11, it talks about Barak? You know, Barak is not Obama. Barak is the leader who defers to Deborah who is afraid of Deborah. And she says because of that, then the Lord would deliver a sister into a woman's hand. Not into Deborah's hand, but into the woman who nails a 10 pig in it because you big chicken. But the Bible comes back and says that says that or tops his faith. You know why? Because our faith, it doesn't take a whole lot of faith. It really doesn't. But what and why God or why heaven or why John or why Paul or any of the writers are so confident. The reason why they're so confident. Is because of this passage and passages like this. Not they're not confident in you or me. They're confident in someone else. John says you are from God little children and have overcome them. That is a world and those in it because because greater is he ladies and gentlemen. Who's the he greater? He is he that's in you. He didn't say great as you know that would be dumb of John to say that because we're nothing great about us. Greater is he that's in you than he whoever the he is in the world. Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. Sanders Jack three. I'm so glad you made it here. Thank you for making it here. Glad to see you here. Welcome, welcome, welcome. So he says greater is he who the Holy Spirit. The confidence that heaven has is not in you. The confidence that heaven has is in him that's in you. That's the confidence. And we determine that this confident the what the object of a confidence is the Holy Spirit that you have been sealed with ice and mirror which is until the day of redemption. It ain't gonna have it happen. You got the Holy Spirit today. Listen, you stuck with him. Now, I don't mean in a negative way, but you're stuck with him. That's it is what it is. And you can't shake him. Matter of fact, you wouldn't want to know there are some times we'll just be honest. There's some times where Holy Spirit can turn your back just a little bit. I want to do something to somebody. I want to get his person piece of my mind. Can you just Lord? Can you just write? We do that sometimes don't we? But the point is if you are a Christian one, you cannot a Christian cannot ever be without the Holy Spirit. Because a Christian has a Holy Spirit, a Christian can never be okay with sin. And because a Christian has the Holy Spirit and is never going to be okay with sin, the Christians going to overcome. John says this that we there's nothing ever ever that will ever separate us. Why? Because the Holy Spirit is literally, literally working in us. The Old Testament speaks about this. We talked before and so if someone wants to cover this later, we'll cover it later. Not in this video, but if they want to cover it in a question offline, fine. But we discovered that these two passages, he's speaking about Israel. And then later on in John, Jesus is going to say this also. The same thing that's happening in Israel is going to happen. Do we think that the Holy Spirit only works a certain way in Jews and differently in Gentiles? No. No, then I was pretty clean water on you and you will be clean and I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Will you be perfect? No. No, no, no, no, no. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. When I put the new spirit in you, God has asked this question. Now here's a pop quiz. Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for a pop quiz? Smooth artist, made alive. Glad to see you here, my friend. You made it just in time for a pop quiz. Here's a pop quiz. If God says, I'm going to put my heart, my spirit in your heart. I'm going to put my spirit in your heart. What's going to happen? Well, it's an open book quiz. So what's going to happen if he puts according to verse 27, if he puts his spirit in your heart? What's going to happen? I will put my spirit within you and there's the answer. Good. These are the easiest questions. Open book questions, especially when we're actually giving you the answers. Now, if you fail this, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay. You're not going to lose your salvation. You're not going to lose your salvation. But if you have the Holy Spirit in your heart, what does he say is going to happen? If the Holy Spirit is a big, if, big, gigantic I and a big, gigantic F. If, if, if, if you have the Holy Spirit in your heart, he says, you will walk in my statue. And you will be careful to observe all my ordinances. If you have the Holy Spirit. Well, if you're Christian, you have the Holy Spirit. It's the same thing in Jeremiah 32, 39. And there's a reason why I keep going over this because we're laying the foundation. He says, I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me always for their good and for the good of their own children. I will make an everlasting company with them and that I will not turn away from them to do good to them. And look what he says. I will put the fear of me that guys, you already spoke about that being a spirit in their hearts so that they will not turn away from me. So he won't turn away from us and we won't turn away from him. So if he puts his spirit in our hearts, you are going to walk in his statutes. You are going to overcome. This is why you can overcome. This is why you will overcome. So again, just to recap so far, if you are a Christian, you cannot be without the Holy Spirit. There's no such thing as a Christian without the Holy Spirit. If you have the Holy Spirit, well, congratulations. You are Christian. You get the wet with the water. And if you are Christian and since you cannot be with the Holy Spirit, you will never, ever, ever be okay with sin, ever. And since you do have the Holy Spirit because you're a Christian, you cannot be without the Holy Spirit and you'll never be okay with sin. Even when you do sin, it will bother you and the Holy Spirit is going to cause you to move. Guess what also is going to happen? As a Christian, you will never, ever fail to overcome. You will overcome as quickly and as graphically as we would like to. Not always, but you will to the degree that you want to. No, but to the degree that he wants you to. So now, that being the case. That being the case, there's some other implications that we need to flesh out. Here's one because of what we just covered. A Christian cannot, impossible, cannot, and you can't find a verse to back you up on this. You just can't. We can find verses to prove our point, but you can't find one to prove the opposite. A Christian cannot be without the Holy Spirit. A Christian cannot be okay with sin. A Christian cannot fail to overcome. That naturally means a Christian cannot have a demon. A Christian cannot be possessed. A Christian cannot be demonized. A Christian cannot be moved and guided by a demon. Because if you could, then what's happening with the Holy Spirit? What does the Holy, did he not just say in 1 John 4? I believe that's what he says. He says, greater is he that's in you. Who is the greater, the Holy Spirit? The greater's in you. You know, the strong man that in order to get him out or in order to take over, you got to bind him first before you, before you pillage him. The Holy Spirit who Paul says in 1 Corinthians says that he occupies this temple. He lives here. That Holy Spirit. He says, John says, greater is he, the Holy Spirit, in you than who? Than he that's in the, who's the he that's in the world? Who is the he that is in the world? I don't care who he is. I don't care who the he is. Whoever you think the greatest devil is, if it was the devil himself and the devil with 10,000 demons, the Holy Spirit in you is greater than him or them. Their pronouns are he, we, they, our, us. That's their pronouns. He's greater in you than all of them outside of you because notice where he says they are. Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. He's in the world outside of you. Greater is he. Again, scripture says, scripture says, greater is he. So therefore, kind of hard, kind of hard for him to do anything. Oh, let's, how about this passage? 1 John 5, because that's the same passage we just read about us being overcomers. We are, we overcome. And so therefore we cannot have this possession. Notice what he says. The same book speaking about us being overcome. And we all, we all of us who are believers overcome the world. Look what he says. We know that no one who was born, that's us. The Greek word. He can have a nice born of God. That's us sins. But he who was born of God, who was born of God, God keeps him. And the evil one not does touch him. You can render this as the evil one, or you can render this as the evil. This could not be speaking about just that we sin, because we all sin. He tells us earlier in 1 John 3 that we do sin. I'm sorry, 1 John 1, that we do sin. Now, we find out that it's not that we practice sin because we have this desire to sin. Because, oh, by the way, the reason why Christians don't have a desire to sin is because, what do we discover earlier? Sin, sin is not something that we're okay with. We might do it, but it should bother us. If you have a, if you have the habit or the propensity to sin, which you do, and it doesn't bother you, you can sin with impunity. It's like, you know what? Yeah, I sin, and so what? And so what? Yeah, I did it. God knows my heart. You might want to question yourself. You might want it. You might want it because you are to uphorse it. It doesn't, it shouldn't feel good. It's like the person that says, I like being clean, but you smell them and you think, wait a second, hold on, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. Do you smell yourself? You got some dirt back in your ears. You got some dirt in your neck and you say you like to know. Regular people don't like to be dirty. Now, kids do. Kids do. And so while you fight sin, Paul tells us in Roman seven that it's a, those who don't have this, it's a desire. I don't have this desire. And so going back to this, he says the one, this evil one is the hop, the evil, the Paneras. So could this be taken as the evil one? It could be, but I just, I think this is probably more the evil. So this evil will not touch you. Meaning that it's not going to have jurisdiction over you. It's not going to control you. It's not going to move you. Now, when you sin, does that mean that's a, it's not a demon. It's you. You don't need a demon to sin. You don't need news flash. You don't need a demon to sin. Go find your nearest two year old or three year old, my grandsons. I just look at them. They're out of control, but they're, they're one and four. So they're out of control and it's understandable. It is. Someone says, what if a Christian is dealing with addiction? Well, because let's go back. Matter of fact, that is a great question. Smooth artist. Let's cover this for a second because again, remember what I said? Let's go back over those things. One, a Christian cannot be without the Holy Spirit. Two, a Christian cannot be okay with sin. Three, a Christian cannot fail to overcome. So let's say you're struggling with an addiction. It can be maybe some sort of sexual addiction. It can be porn. It could be drugs. It could be work. It could be sports. It could be a lot of things and you're struggling with it. That is, if indeed you're struggling. Well, let's go back to something that we read because we don't always know what and why God is doing what he's doing. But we know that he says that we are going to overcome. Sometimes we don't overcome as fast as we would like to as quickly. Lord God, would you hurry up and take this away from me? Work, work with me, God. You took it away from Bobby. You took it away from Frank. You took it away from Mary. You took it away from Ethel. You took it away from England. I'm going to start using older names because if I keep saying names, people have a day. Are you talking about me? So aren't very many Ethels and Bertha's. There are some. So Bertha and Ethel in the chat. Y'all forgive me if you're there. But yeah, food also. Why does God not take it away from you, but He took it away from them? Quickly. Some folks, as soon as they got saved, stop cussing. As soon as they got saved, stop lusting. You, you can't listen. You pray to God that a woman don't walk by you. You can't. Lord, why? You pray. You pray that no one even, because you so addicted to these drugs. You can smell drugs on people if they've used or been around someone. You just, you just, Lord, help me. Why? Why? Why is he taking his own sweet time about you not being fully delivered with those drugs or with this habit? Why? Here's why. And we know that God causes all things, including that addiction to work together, why, for the good to those who love them, to those who love them. Now, does that mean that he can take what's going on with you and cause it to work for the good of you and others? We don't think about that sometimes with that. What I'm going through is he's going to have me to overcome it for my benefit. He's going to use it for my benefit and for others. Because, yeah, Gertrude is struggling with her sin. And Betty Jean also is too. And so Betty Jean can look at Gertrude struggling. And so now they both, Betty Jean has an example of someone struggling and God delivering them. But all you do is you keep your focus because again, Paul is confident that he is going to finish complete the work that he started in you. Until when? Until that same day. So therefore, now I can't get in God's mind as to what his time is, what all he's doing. I cannot get into his mind. I cannot get into his mind as to why he's taking so long. But I do know this. He is going. You are going to overcome. That is, if indeed, if indeed you are his. So now about this issue of being possessed. Second Thessalonians 333 says, but the Lord is faithful and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil or the evil one. There are some other passages that we can look at to see what he says. How about how about John 8 36? John 8 36 says what anyone without without looking up. We've covered it before who the sun says free. That's you guys, you Christians, us who the sun says free. That person is free. Definitely without questions where that's what the word on toast comes from. Free indeed. Kids can be possessed. Right. Well, they can act like they're possessed, but no kids. I don't, I don't, I don't see that. I mean, they could. They could. Biblically speaking, anyone who is not saved can be possessed. But anyone who is is not. That person is free. That person cannot be bound again. That's the whole point of this term that we use before apolutrosis, which is not just Lutrosis, which is a, which is a redemption or freedom, but APA, which is kind of added to it. It's like a, a freedom and saying that you cannot go back to it again. You cannot be enslaved again. Addiction could be a thorn and it can be used. Hey, let me ask you guys a question. Let's ask, let me ask you guys a question while we're covering this. Cause that's a good point. How many of you have had any sort of struggles in the past? Any sort of struggles? I'm not sending this like a drug addiction or whatever, but a struggle, a particular sin that just kind of nagged you for a little bit and it's gone. It's something that used to just, just, I wish I can't wait. Are any of you over a particular sin that you used to be involved in, even as a Christian? There's something pretty, I'm pretty sure all of us have at least one thing. He used to just doggers or just nagging. How grateful do you feel? Or did you feel once you finally realized, hey, I don't do that anymore. That's not an issue with, with me anymore. Now the greater it is, the greater the victory, the greater your memory. Think about, think about a sports game. Think about something else. Think about, I don't know, a war. Think about a fight. Think about something, a big obstacle when it was finally overcome. You thought, wow, man, God, it's great. We, you know, we cheer about, we don't cheer about the team that beat somebody by 32 points. We cheer when the team was down by 30 and came back and won at the, on the last second. We, that, wow, what a game, what a shot, what a whatever, right? Because that person overcame something. And it seems to me as we look through the scriptures that God loves bringing us over big obstacles. He loves bringing us through things so that in the end, he gets the glory. He gets the credit. Yeah. I went through 12 step program and I just worked my way out of that versus when he does it. Wow, God is awesome. Look how he's delivered me. And so that's the reason why, the reason why you're going to overcome. Can I tell you the greatest reason why you're going to overcome? Can I also tell you the greatest reason why a Christian cannot have a demon is because Let me do this. Let me just lean in a little closer. I don't know if the camera is going to automatically focus and zoom in on, but let me just, let me just tell you this. Let me just tell you guys the reason why you as a Christian, you are guaranteed to overcome. Let me tell you why you as a Christian, you are guaranteed to not have a demon. Let me tell you why you as a Christian, you are guaranteed, and we'll talk about this issue again, to be saved, not to lose it. Let me tell you why you as a Christian, you are guaranteed to have the Holy Spirit from now until you get to your final destination. Let me tell you why. Because his name is on the line. Yes. See, we're not talking about you messing up something, your credit. Now forget you and your credit. We're talking about God's name who was on the line. This is God's name. What does God want you to do when someone is messing up his name? Well, in 1st Corinthians 5, he says, kick that chump out. Kick that chump out, turn his flesh over. Satan hopes that his soul will be saved. You are not going to sully my name. What did God do to Israel? His name was on the line. What did he do? Y'all got to go. I'm about to beat you like you've never been beaten before. I'm going to save you because of my name. I remember my covenant because of my name. We're not magnifying Corey's name. We're not magnifying Kelly's name or Sierra's name or Chris' name. We are magnifying his name. And so why is he going to do this? Because it's his name on the line. His name is on the ledger. Who gave the deposit? I didn't. You didn't. God did. What a deposit. The Holy Spirit. That's why. So it's his name. That's why whatever you go through, the suffering, financial, physical, health-wise, mentally, whatever it is. Thank God that he's on a team with you. Could you imagine? You didn't think about this, but I don't know you sports fans. Could you imagine? Could you imagine if you're playing basketball in the 80s and you got on the white jersey with some red letters and numbers and it says bulls. And you're down by 10 points, third quarter. And you look over there. Oh, God, we got Michael Jordan squad. You feel better, don't you? You feel better, don't you? What if you were like my colts or you were a Patriots fan or back in there, you were a 49ers fan. And you looked over and we got this quarterback. I'll never forget this. I'm sorry, chess champ, but Bill Belichick, your coach, said this. He said the reason why he went for this crazy fourth down play in their own territory is because he looked over and saw Peyton Manning on the other side. He said, nope, this guy's going to be this. Don't you realize that God's name is on the line? God sees his name. It ain't you. Nothing about you. There's nothing great about you. Nothing wonderful, nothing spectacular about you. The fact that Paul says nothing good is in me except the Holy Spirit. So his name is for his name. Will he accomplish these things? So yeah, you can a Christian cannot have any sort of demonization. However you want to look at it, possessed, demonized, oppressed with a demon. It's the same term. You as a Christian can't have that. Why? Because that would, have you all seen that clip? There's a clip by this old goofball who is really about time they put him out to pasture. This old heretic Kenneth Copeland, he said, who's the greatest failure? He says God. All right. That was one of the all time dumbest statements. No, no. God is going to fix and celebrate and cause victory because of his great name. What kind of, what kind of loser? What kind of failure would he be? If this Holy Spirit is in us. And some demon who he cast out of heaven, who he is going to bind and put in and put in like a fire. If that demon can uproot the Holy Spirit out of us. Can I ask you guys, I want to ask you guys a question. As a Christian, as a Christian, what year did I play football? I was 80. Oh, Lord. What year was I in high school? I graduated with 91. So 88, 89, 90. Yeah. 90 was the last, yeah, I'm sorry. 90 was the last year. 90. So 98. Throw me off. Ask me about where you got to play football because I'm talking about football. But let me ask you guys a question. Which of you, I'm sure, I'm sure over four or something, you guys in the chat, I'm sure one of you this happened to. Which of you guys put the Holy Spirit in your heart? By show of hands, which of you caused the Holy Spirit to come into you? Which of you put the Holy Spirit in you? Which of you opened the door and, hey, Holy Spirit, come on in. Come on, sit down. Which of you, which of you brought the Holy Spirit to you? Which of you made the Holy Spirit, forced the Holy Spirit, whatever, bargained with the Holy Spirit? Which of you did that? Yeah, like I mean, as Jenny said, not I, not me, negative, none of us. Exactly. Nobody, none of you are responsible for the Holy Spirit being in you. The Holy Spirit is responsible for him being in you. So if he, he came in, you can say he barged in, whatever. You can say whatever you want to say. It's him that did so, not you, Mr. Mrs. Missy Poo. It wasn't you that did so. The Holy Spirit came in on his own accord. Remember, how are we born? We are born from above. And at the end of it, we are born from above. Jesus says we are not born by the will of flesh or blood, no by the will of man, but we were born by the will of God. So him coming in, that was on him, not on you. That was on him, not on you. And so to think then that he came in on his own accord that somebody else is going to put him out. Hmm. Yeah, yeah, Holy Spirit, you ain't got to go home, but you got to get up out of here. That's not how that works. You didn't invite him in. You didn't bring him in. You didn't, you didn't, you didn't show him to his seat in your heart. That's him coming in. That's why Paul says that's why he knocked, he knocked, I open. Well, you open after, here's the thing, Jose, you open after he put the key in. You open after he came in, so to speak, he regenerated your heart and then you responded with faith. But that regeneration was, that was on him. He's doing this work. Remember what we read, what we read, what he says in the Old Testament, all those prophets, what he's going to do, he did it. And he didn't do it for, for a temporary momentary thing. No. By the way also, now we've covered this. Christians cannot be without the Holy Spirit. Christians cannot be okay with sin, though you might sin. As a matter of fact, you will sin. You cannot be okay with it. There should be this struggle, like again, Roman 7, Paul's, yeah, I do this stuff, but it's not my desire. I don't like it. It bothers him to me. And you Christian, you cannot fail to overcome. And because of those first three things, that means you cannot be with a demon. You cannot have a demon. You cannot be possessed. You cannot be oppressed. A demon is not having his way in your life. He's not dogging you or anything of those things. Guess what else a Christian can't do? A Christian can never, ever, ever, ever. Since he's an overcomer, he can never stop following. That, that sheep, that sheep, a sheep, a sheep, a sheep, we can never stop following. We'll come back to that in a second. So, and these, these three are put, these two put together. He can never stop following. And thus, as a Christian, he can never, ever, ever, ever, ever see hell. There's no Christian that will ever see hell. Well, he's got to be a Christian to the, to the very end. Won't he? We just, we just read what God said, you will. So go find a verse that that's, that's not describing a Christian. And then come back and say, well, see, see, it's not describing a Christian. He just says what's going to happen. Is there, is, is, because this was funny. Is there an example of a Christian who didn't have the Holy Spirit? Is there an example of a Christian who had the Holy Spirit and lost it in the Bible? No. Is there an example of a Christian who from our eyes is hard to see if they did or did not overcome. But he did say, he did say that they will overcome. We will overcome because the Spirit's in us. He did say he gives us, he seals us with the Holy Spirit. And he's a pledge. Ice. Hey, Mara, which is, I don't every time I say Mara, every, I think it sounds Spanish to me, but ice and mirror into or to the day of redemption. And there is no passive of a Christian having a demon, being demonized, being impressed. Now Christians will have demons around them. Sure. Of course, of course there are going to be demons around you when you go to your family reunion is going to be a whole bunch of demons around you. Sometimes when you go to church might be the demon in the, in the, in the pew or in the chair, in the chair beside you, right behind you. They're going to be, you're going to have some demonic encounters. When you go to work, when you drive, when you go to the grocery store, the majority of the world is unsaved. And they are living it up with their demon brother. That's going to happen. But that's a them problem, not a us problem. And if they become believers, then it's no longer their problem. It's someone else's problem. Believers just don't have. So hopefully she said, what about at home? If the person at home is a person in your house can have a demon if they're not saved. Now are demons like hanging out at your house or my microwaves? I had to anoint my microwave because it's possessed. There's, there's demonic activity. No, the only demonic activity in that microwave. You could, you keep on putting honey buns and stuff in there and pushing 25 seconds. He met bad boy up. I'm telling them myself. I'm telling them myself. I haven't had a honey bun and microwaving while though. So I'm, I'm, I'm being delivered. And I looked at one, I looked at one a day. I was at the convenience store or CVS, the drug store. And I looked at that hostess. Beautiful. Delicious. Delicious looking hostess honey bun with the white icing. You put it in that microwave for about 25 seconds. The bag blows up and it won't explode. It just blows up nice and hot and warm. You take it back and might make you want to speak in tongues. Stop. I'm tipping myself. But this anointing the house and this and that or what have you that's not how you deal with it. Do you think, do you think demons are bothered by your oil? No. No. What demons don't like is the presence of the Lord. That's what they don't like. It does sound good manual. It is. It is. But I determined, I had determined that if I'm going to eat those sort of things, the honey buns. I have to earn it through a workout. So I have to work off and work out enough to earn it. No, it's not a long time. You got it nice and hot. Josh, you don't, you don't know, listen, Josh, you don't know honey bunology. I know honey bunology. Been doing this since I was in high school. That was my meal. Pizza, honey bun, fries and a little red toxic little orange drink. That's what I've always had. Yeah. No little light, not a cinnamon roll. No, no, you imposter. Not a cinnamon roll. A honey bun. Hostess white honey buns. I'm the reason why they have not gone out of business. 25 seconds is not too long. Y'all stop putting your microwave on super nuclear power. Anyway, back to back to the topic. Judas was not a believer. Judas was not a believer. Judas said, I mean not Judas. Jesus says in John 13 that all of them have been cleansed except one person. Judas, Judas was never cleansed. And he calls him a devil. So, but he can have no, he can have no dominion over you. Why? Because what does the Bible say? Greater is he that's in you. Do you know what would have to have? John would be a liar if greater is he that's in the world than he was in you. That would make John a liar. So we, we, we don't have to worry. That's not the greatest trick though is when the enemy or other people will say that. Yeah, you can't have one. And you start thinking everything that's going on in your life is a demon. No, it's just that you have no willpower. It's no that you have no self discipline. No, you can't. You can't keep hanging out with him and succumbing to him because you're lonely and then calling a demon. No, you can't go hang out with the fellas and do stuff and say as a demon. You can't watch certain stuff and then stuff start accidentally falling out of your mouth. No, it's not a demon. It's you. It's you. What's her name? The lady that got us that helped us to get in this trouble with Adam Eve. The Bible tells us that she saw the fruit and it was pleasing to her eyes. All he did was like, yeah, so what does he do? He sees as we said, we just recently covered this. He sees he's got tape on you. He sees the game plan. He sees what you you keep walking by that fruit every day that nudging Adam. That is some beautiful fruit. I bet that fruit. What do you think that fruit tastes like? I bet it's delicious. That's all. So what does he want to whisper to you? Hey, that fruit might be awesome. You might want to try it out. Yeah, but if I do, I'll get it. No, that's not what God meant, which is why there has to be this desire for the word and this hunger for the word so that when these things come, what can you do? Give him the word. He's very deceptive. He's only got a couple of tricks and they work. They work. And so when you get to work and and you got these demonic and the demonically infused and influenced people around you and they got the. They start coming to you with all in an amazing. You're fasting. You haven't told anybody. You haven't told anybody you're fasting and now everybody wants to have a piece of party. Everybody wants to your best friend who is cheap, never treated. You now all of a sudden wants to treat you to the dinner or the lunch. Now, now that I'm fasting, now, now you want to treat me. You're a jerk in the hot app or so. Again, stuff is going on behind, you know, so he can't make you do anything, but he can try to make things look appealing through other people. So you cannot be possessed. As a matter of fact, here's how easy it is. It's so easy to defeat a demon. All you got to do is, as James says, walk away, resist him. So you got to do. Think about that. You got bullies that are tougher than the devil in that regard. You got bullies. If you walked away, they won't walk. They'll walk. They'll walk with you. But not the devil. If you resist him, the Bible says he'll leave you alone. Is God lying? No, he's not lying. No, he's not lying. Sometimes I'm like Popeye's chicken. You know what? Popeye's chicken. And I do love that chicken from Popeye. So you know what? The red beans and rice that I don't know what they do with that red beans and rice. I know it's not healthy. They put something on it. I don't know. I won't eat their shrimp. But anyway. So no, a Christian cannot, because of those other things, he cannot. And can a Christian stop following? Well, first of all, notice what he says here in John 5. Truly, truly I say to you, this is Jesus speaking. This is not me. This is Jesus. This is your Lord. He says that he who hears my word and believes. There's our favorite word guys. Pistuon, the believing one in him who sent me. Not only does he says has a turn of life. Let's let's let's skip over. Let's skip over. He has to her life, even though he says at K right now. Let's skip over that part. Let's just act like that wasn't there. It's a big thing. It's a big thing to overlook. But just for the sake of this, let's just overlook that part of the verse. Let's go to the next part. He says has turn of life and does not come into judgment. Does not. Does not ice. There's that word again ice. Crescent. Oak. Ercuti. So into judgment, not. He's coming. You're not going to judgment. But Allah met up a bacon. I'm so hungry. That sound that met up a bacon reminded me of bacon. Praise God for the pigs. Praise God for pork. Anyway, but met up a bacon. But he has what? Past. Act to. Fanatu. Past from death. I see you to mess the whole thing up. He's passed from death. Y'all go and check out ISIS comment in the chat. That's just you didn't mess everything up. I don't know what Popeyes year round. But anyway, past from best past to perfect tense. Past. Past. Past. Past from death. Someone says, uh, pork is unclean. God never said pork is unclean. No, he did not. No, no, no. The devil is alive. No, he said it's unclean to you to you Jews. I ain't Jewish. So anyway, let's get serious. But notice what he says. He says you have passed from death. Going into life. Think about that. Think about that. Ladies and gentlemen, you have passed from death. Going. Who said that? Jesus said that. Jesus said that. Amen. So I think I think you can. I think you can book that Dano. So you don't know this book. Anyway, I think you can take that to the bank. I think you can. Now. Take this at the bank with you while you're going. While you're going to take out a loan to buy some pork. Buy some bacon. Fried. Turn it over. It's so perfect. You don't even have to season bacon. Just put on a piece of bread. You put some egg with it also anyway. Look what Jesus said you're going to do. Notice, notice, notice what people do. They add a condition condition out there. He says he says he says about his sheep. That's us. He says he calls his own sheep. His own idiot. That means his the sheep belong to him by name. He by name. That means he knows him. He knows you. He knows you ready for life. Even though you're ready for life. He knows you Kelly. She you know Wendy knows you. He knows you by name. The Bible says you know you so much. Even the very hairs of your head are numbered. God has to really know me to have numbered the hairs on my head. He's got to. He's got to know me intimately to know they and I'm shaving. I shade. Listen. I shave it every day. But he knows he knows that knows my name. And he leaves them out who the sheep he leaves his sheep out. When he puts forth all his own sheep, he goes ahead of them. Notice there's no conditions. What he says is going to happen. He goes ahead of them. And what do the sheep do? The sheep follow him. He even Jesus even tells us why we follow him. So a sheep cannot ever stop following him. He says his sheep follow him. Why? Because they the sheep know his voice. Then he gives gets real emphatic. Jesus gets real emphatic here. He says a stranger they simply will not follow. Now simply will not follow is the nice way. The nice way of putting it. But what he says. What he says is not they simply will not follow. We've got this before. He says. This is the most emphatic way to say it will never ever ever happen. It's a double negation of a future active indicative. A future active indicative is that in the future you will do so. He puts a double negation and then says that it will never ever ever happen. You will never ever ever ever ever. As long as you got skin and hair, blood vessels and teeth. I shouldn't say teeth because some of you may lose your teeth. You will never ever ever follow a strange voice or a stranger. Never. Why? Because you don't know the stranger's voice. Islam comes. Hinduism, Buddhism, some sort of new age religion, atheism, whatever. You will never listen to that. I mean you can't hear it. You can. Okay, I hear what you're saying. It didn't register. You could put a pile of drugs in front of me. You can put alcohol, you can put heroin, whatever. It doesn't do anything to me. Now to give me, it'll give me a long sentence if you put it in front of me. But I'm not, I'm not moved to do anything with it. Period at all. That had influenced me so I can see it. I can hear about it. But I don't know that. I don't know that. And I don't know this other religion. I don't know this other thing that's pulled this other, this strange voice. So this is a fact. And then I won't cover it, but it's still, it's still. Cheshap is still the undefeated text with all of those scholars, all those with the doctorate degrees and so forth. All of them. They have not gotten past that. John 10 28. Yes, but it says if you are a sheep. No, he's telling that you are a sheep and that you have life at this present moment and you will never ever ever impossible. The possibility of perishing is negated. So. And notice. Just like they said, just like we discovered, you didn't put the Holy Spirit in you. That wasn't you. You also didn't put yourself in Jesus. No, no, no. Have to break it to you guys. You're not the cause of you being in Christ. No. Now it's a great gift. It's a wonderful gift that we have salvation, but the greatest gift ever, the greatest gift ever is not you getting salvation. That's secondary. That's part of the that comes as a result of the greatest gift. And I say the greatest gift because the gift giver and the gift receiver tends to make this gift even special. The Bible tells us that you as a believer, as bad as you are as rotten as you are, you're the gift that was given to the son by the father. That's why we have in our marriage ceremonies, who gives this woman to be with this man. The father is given this bride away. The father is given the bride. That's us to the groom. So you didn't even the mere fact that you're in Christ. You didn't do it. He did it. You know why it had happened? Because you just don't. You just aren't that good. You're not that great. Again, that's why your name in online. His name is on the line. He picked. I like that. T.T. said he picked me first. Amen. He picked you second. He picked me first. I'm kidding. Amen, Layla. It wasn't my blood. It was his blood. Think about it. Think about what that says about his blood. He paid the ultimate price with his blood and it didn't do anything. It amounted to the same effect as the blood of bulls and goats. Just temporary, temporary salvation. People are wondering why what's happening with it. No guys, it's on slow mode. So if you, if you type and then try to type back again in the next 30 seconds, it won't show. It's not, you're not being shadowed or blocked or it's, we're on slow mode. That's all guys. That's all. It's not, it's not you. It's the whole chat. The only, the only people that can type multiple comments over and over again is me. I'm not doing it. And then the moderators, they're the only ones. So look at rock, look, look at rock being real, being real humble. Me and T.T. said he picked us first. Rock, rock did us better. He said, I'll be last. And he made, he made us feel bad. T.T. He made us feel bad. Yeah. Amen. Way to show us up. You did. But you being in him and then you did that he did that. God did that. I'm grateful for the gift. Wait a second. How can you say the greatest gift is us being given to Christ? We're no good. We're riding. Yeah. I don't know. Nothing, nothing, nothing. We're riding. I know about that part. But if you gave a master sculptor just some clay, that's just some clay. It's just some dirt and mud. But what could he do with it? Thank you for what you gave me and what, and watch what I create. And I'll preserve it and keep it. You find one of these masterpieces that didn't start off as a masterpiece. Is it, is it not valuable? And it's not valuable because of the contents of it. It's not valuable because of what it's made up of. It's valuable because of what whose hand it was in, who turned it into a masterpiece. Which is why we said the Holy Spirit is in you and is going to cause you to become an overcomer. So whatever greatness is in you is because of what he's working in you. That's the point that Paul is trying to get out. So yeah, you're, you're, you're five dollars worth of, worth of dirt. But what does he do with that? He molds you into, into something for his own glory. Amen. And so all of the father gifts will come. He says, welcome. Why will they come? Why will they come? Because you have the Holy Spirit. That foundation cannot be unshaken. And I don't care what passage you come up with. You won't get past, you cannot get past these passages. You just simply cannot. And when you come up with a passage that says, when you come up with a passage that says, all of these things that I said was untrue. It's because you're putting yourself and your name on the line. You're making it about you. I can take the Holy Spirit out of me. Though I never put the Holy Spirit in me in the first place. I'm not the reason or the cause of the Holy Spirit being in me. And so yeah, I can still trump the Holy Spirit. You got that kind of power, huh? Or I didn't put myself in Christ. Or maybe you think that you did put yourself in Christ. Maybe you think you're the reason why you're in Christ. I put myself in and I can take myself out. You can put yourself in. You were given. And he said that those that were given, I ain't losing. I'm not the best. My wife can teach math. She can run math circles around me. She picked on me the other day. She was doing some sort of little assignment with my daughter. Charting stuff and graphs and this and that and asked me, could I figure it out? And I looked like I was stupid because I don't know that stuff. So I'm not the greatest at math. Not the greatest at math. But I can figure out this equation. I can certainly figure out this equation. Not very high to count. This is the will of him who sent me. That all that he has given, that's me and you, all of us. Now that's a big number. I don't know what the number is, but it's a big number. More than a hundred, I imagine. More than a thousand. Maybe more than a million. Maybe more than a billion. I don't know. But all of whatever that number is, all of them, he's given. The father is given to Jesus. He says, I will lose none. So take the number of people that were given and subtract zero. Let's call that number. Here's sweetheart. If you're listening, X represents the number that God was given that God gave to Jesus. X represents a number. I can, I can do this without any problem. X represents that number. X minus zero. Sweetheart, you're going to be proud of me. You're going to be proud of me. X minus zero equals what? Ladies and gentlemen, equals X. I can do that. I can fit. Listen, all the, the wheels and you have to spin that much in my head. I know X minus zero equals that same number. So how many will, since Jesus is losing this, he's losing this many. I don't care how big you write the zero. It's still zero. So whatever he started off with, whatever he started off with is how many he's going to end up with. Because his name is on line. His name. As God says, I am the Lord, that is my name. And I won't lose not one. So if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Lord, is Lord. The Bible is clear. You shall be saved. I understand that there are people that believe you can be possessed. Love them to death. And I understand there are people that believe that you can maybe even lose the Holy Spirit. Love them to death. I even believe that there, even though there are people that believe that you can lose your salvation. Love them to death. But they don't have a biblical leg to stand on. These are some of, you are spiritually arrogant to think that you are going to afford and undo what God has done. And I still wish they would actually ask these questions. They will. They will understand. I understand. I listen. I understand. If there's ever an applicable verse, not verse, but if there ever was an applicable clip to those people that believe that God won't accomplish what he said he's going to accomplish. If there's ever an applicable clip that tells us about people who think that God is going to sully his name. If there's ever a clip for people who think that God won't finish what he said he's going to finish. That he who began a good work in us will not finish it. That he's not greater than who's in the world, the one who's in us. He's not greater than them. If there's ever a clip that they should ever listen to. We love you and you're saved. But you can be saved and stupid. Tweet that. You can be saved and stupid. Amen. Amen.