 Hello, my name is Kencreate. I'm an evangelist. The last episode I did with James Madonna, Megalife 21, we did an interview. Now I want to teach you the word and what God says. Our topic for today is the last days and the living in the spirit. So we will go to, if you have your Bibles, you will turn to 2 Timothy chapter 3. This is the dangers of the last days. You should also know Timothy that in the last days there will be very difficult times for people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful, proud, scuffing at God, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving, unforgiving. They will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and have no interest in what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride and love for pleasures rather than God. They will act as though they are religious. They will reject the power that could make them golly. You must stay away from these people. Now, this is what's going on in the United States today. Now I want to go to Galatians chapter 5. Let me turn there. Just give me a second. This is the word of God. This is not what Ken creates, teacher. When we did that interview, I was just talking to you through things I've been through and also talking about the word of God. Now I'm in the word of God. So now we go to chapter 5 and we're going to go with the flesh versus the spirit. Chapter 5, verse 19. These are the works of the flesh. Fornication. That means unlawful. Sex between two unmarried people. Uncleanness. We're talking filthy. We're talking drugs. Levitanness. That's lustful. Wrath. You know what that is. It's rage. It's violent. It's anger, strife, rivalries, conflicts, seductions, rebellions against authority, heresies, a doctor's opinion about religion, vanglory. It's vanity. It's pride. It's empty. Now we will go to the fruits of the spirit. The fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, patience. If you live by the spirit, then let's walk by it. Now we're going to break this down because people think we're living in the last days. But like I said, when the message was given to Paul, the grace message, that was the beginning of the last days. Now where we are at today is we are a second away from midnight. Now, when you look at these things, what's going on in the United States today, but it's going all around the world. It's all dealing with the flesh. You see, the devil knows how to operate and the way he works is only work through the money that works through the fashion entertainment. He will work through sports. He works through the job. He will work through religion. In fact, right now he's working through the body of Christ because the Bible says that he becomes an angel of light to deceive the elect. The elect are the believers. So what Satan wants to do is if you're on fire for Christ, he wants to get you, your eyes off of Christ and be focused on you in the world. So anybody who's focused on Christ, he is going to attack you 24-7. Now you as a believer, if you're walking in the flesh like Galatians describes, he looks at you. You're no threat to him because you're walking in the flesh. So he basically says, let's keep an eye on that God. But it's them other Christians. We have to attack them. So how do we attack them? Well, we're going to attack them by telling them what it was like in their past when they lived as the old man. Aren't you missing out on these things? Look, your friends are having a good time. Why are you reading the Bible? You could be out there having a good time like everybody else. He's going to distract us. If you like sports and you're a believer, he's going to try to keep you away from the word of God. How's he going to do that? Well, give me an example. Say you like football and your favorite teams in New York Giants and you watch them every Sunday when you come home from church. There's really nothing there, but really there is nothing wrong with watching a football game. But after that football game and say your team loses, do you get bent out of shape and think about that for three days? Or do you look at it and say the game's over? That enjoyment's over. Now let me get down to business. Let me keep my eyes on Christ. Or do you get distracted? And think about that game. Now you're going into the nighttime and something's coming on in sports and you like your sports and you start watching highlights or a basketball game comes on and you get caught up in the basketball game. Now you look at your clock and it's like, okay, I got to go to bed. So now you lay in bed, do you pray before you go to bed or do you hop in bed and you fall asleep? And then you wake up to go to work. So the way the devil wants to operate is whatever you like to do in the flesh. That's where he's going to attack you. So at the end of the day, the devil looks at you and says, you didn't have your eyes on Christ. You weren't buried in this book. You weren't praying. You weren't in the sports. So you got to realize one thing. He is a defeated foe. And we are covered by the blood of Christ. That's if you are a believer. So he's defeated. That's not the problem. Where the problem lies at the end of the day that he had victory over you in your flesh. Because if he had victory over you in your flesh, he's laughing at you. He's mocking you. He's keeping your eyes off of Christ. This is what he does. And that is just an example with sports. You could go to something else. You can go to you like cars. You're a believer. You have a nice car. But you see your neighbor or somebody you know has a fancy car. You become envious of this individual. And that's where the flesh comes in. Pride. I want what he has. I'm going to buy what he has. He's getting attention. And I'm not getting attention. So I'm going to buy what he has. So everybody can look at me. Look at my car. And I'm a somebody. See that's the problem with people today. In the body of Christ. They want their friends and everybody to look at them. Wow. Look what Larry's got. Wow. He must be really blessed. But you see when you get caught up with these things and you get what your neighbor has then all of a sudden you're taking your eyes off of Christ. And when you take your eyes off of Christ and you're putting your mind more occupied on that material car because let's face it people. That's only material. And if you get in a car crash your car can be destroyed. It goes in a junkyard. That's where it ends up anyway. So if you get caught up with your car and you wash it and you vacuum it and everything's sparkling and you drive around your neighborhood and all your friends and people and even if you pull over wow that car is great. Wow. Good luck with that. That's not a problem. But when you start to look at that car and you say wow look at my car. Look what I got. Look what I got. That's when you start to take your eyes off of Christ. And like I said the devil is going to do whatever he possibly can do to keep your eyes off of Christ. Now when it comes to unsaved people that don't know Christ as their savior they live in the flesh and you are seeing it today. Because like I said we look and say are we living in the last days? We're past the last days. We're a minute or a second before midnight. Christ is ready to return. So these people who are lost the Bible says every day that goes by their heart becomes harder and harder. Meaning they're waxing harder and harder. And when Christ knocks out their door every time they refuse to accept Christ and trust in Christ as their savior their heart is getting harder and this is where unsaved people lost people are at. Now I'm sure believers out there know what I'm talking about. I mean do you ever call up one of your friends and see if they can help you out because you're in a bind and you get their voice machine and they never call you back or do you get in contact with one of your friends and one of your friends says come and pick you up in 15 minutes and they come an hour later they're lying to you and instead of them saying look I'm running a little late I said I'd be there in 15 minutes I'm not going to come for a half hour so instead of you waiting around you know exactly what time they're going to come or they're going to call you before you come but you're in a time frame okay that's a good thing but when they say they're coming at a certain time and they show up an hour later they're lying to you and then you say why'd you come late and then if you explain that to them they're looking at you I'm not a liar I showed up so you see we like to cover up our sins if you say so I'm stick to it I mean me as an entertainer before me after I was done I had people came up to me and I had individuals like hey give me your car give me your car you do kid shows you do this so absolutely so I'm going to call you they never called so what were they doing were they putting a show on in front of their friends to make them look good how come they never called or somebody gave me their card and said call me and I would call and there was no call back what's that about be real don't be fake but this is where we are at you look at everything in the flesh and what I read to you when you go into Timothy it says why all parties isn't what these young kids do today I mean I remember in my past when I partied with my friends I had to be with my friends I had to be with my I had to be with my group so if I was strong on drugs I had to be with the people that were strong on drugs too because once I went out of that surrounding and even walked into a bar I felt uncomfortable because these people weren't doing the drugs I was doing so I had to be with my friends and now when you're hanging out with your friends and I come in you want them to enjoy what you're doing this is how the devil operates they work through the drugs they work through the booze they work through fashion they work through entertainment they work through sports they work through cars, boats material things he wants to get your mind occupied with other things now if you're lost this is what you do you're blind, you're lost but to believers out there are you getting caught up with the flesh now if you're getting caught up with the flesh and if you say to certain believers Christ can return any minute they're sleeping they're not alert they see everything going on but they're like oh that's been going on for millions of years Christ ain't going to return in my time or I might be 50 years or I might be gone when you have that attitude you're taking your mind off of Christ and you're walking like the world that's not good you should know Christ is ready to appear I know for myself when Christ is ready to appear he didn't even prepare it any minute not right there I want to be alert, I want to be ready meaning when he calls me home in the rapture, I was in his word I was praying without season or I was in fellowship or I was listening to a preacher or I was out witnessing to somebody or I was edifying the body of Christ I was motivating somebody I was teaching somebody and that twinkling of an eye when I'm gone I had my eyes on Christ I don't want to be when Christ is ready to return and it was like I was watching a garbage show I was smoking a joint I was in the bar having a beer I was hanging out with my friends I was watching sports I was reading I was listening to garbage music off guard I don't want to be caught off guard you see what really comes down to God uses his children in different ways you have preachers out there you have pastors out there but like I said a pastor is the head of the flock we don't have enough people behind the pulpit who are teaching people the word of God because when I walk into fellowship and I was going my pastor was teaching me the word of God so it was like I was almost going to school now I want to share this other thing with you I'm hanging out with my friend we meet another individual so we're doing a show and he says to me and my friend I can help you out why don't you come to where I go to church and the people in the church can help you out so me and my friend said fine so I said to this individual look when I come in could I introduce myself absolutely raise your hand well then could I say that's the moment he says no we don't do that I said well I'm not coming to your church so he says to me why not I says because you don't understand the word of God when you have fellowship with other believers the Bible says build each other up edify each other share with each other so when I was going into fellowship in the body of Christ and my pastor would say does anybody want to share something with us somebody raised their hand and said you know pastor I was reading this in the Bible wow I'm going to understand that my pastor said okay so now what that individual was doing is edifying the body of Christ the believers that are sitting there motivating them showing something that God showed them that other believers in fellowship might not know and then somebody else raises their hand and they say you know I ran into this lady today I was in the ANP and she was moving me to be a witness to that person so I witnessed to that person and she was pretty open now pray for that woman edifies the body of Christ now more and more I started going to church on Sundays and I'm seeing people and I'm seeing what God is doing in their life the Lord saying to me what about you raise your hand so every Sunday after that would come and my pastor say anybody want to share anything I'd raise my hand and I would share it so now when the service was over I had people coming up to me say you edified me you built me up that's what it's about but when I go to visit a church or if this man wanted me to come and visit his church there's something wrong there there's miscommunication there alright and if there's a separation there when you go to church and you praise God and you worship God and you sing the songs and the preacher preaches the word and then at the end you're going to sing some songs pray at the end and leave and go your own way what's that tell you there's something wrong with that picture it's like okay I'm done alright I'm going home I'm going to make some food but my suit goes back on a hanger until next Sunday so now 7 days, 6 days goes by and you weren't in that word you weren't in prayer and the devil's working on you to keep you at it at this is what the devil does he comes to deceive the elect God's people he comes as an angel of light with signs and wonders this is what he does he wants to take your eyes off of Christ and get focused on this world and this is a problem today in the body of Christ I'll give you an example one time I went to a Christian bookstore why am I going to that Christian bookstore well I like listening to God's music now God has all his people different towns different categories of music people know that so I went in going to looking for somebody I like is that my reason why I'm going there there's a reason also behind why I'm going there yes I'm going in to buy my CD but really what's it come down to so now I walk in the store it's a Christian bookstore so do I walk in like everybody else buy my CD pay my bill say the lady thank you and I'm out the door or am I in there not only to buy that CD but the Lord is telling me you're with believers talk to them find out what they're about find out what they need in prayer have fellowship with them I started doing this so I started to do it and the response I got from people was like you're talking to me well you're a believer and then another time I went in and it was like the Lord was showing me something don't talk to nobody just stand there and watch what they do and I just seen people going about their business looking and buying some somebody else looking around got this, went down the other aisle got this, paid their price and walked out the door that's what the unsaved people do when they go to like a Best Buy you're with believers God's showing me there's a problem in the body of Christ my children can't even tell to my other children so how is you as a believer not witness to somebody if you can't talk to somebody in the body of Christ how are you going to reach a lost person it starts first of all in the body of Christ so you have all these things of the work of the flesh a lot of believers are getting caught up with the flesh now when you have the fruits of the spirit love, joy, peace long suffering mentalness, goodness, faith patience if we live by the spirit then let's walk by the spirit these are the fruits of the spirit and not the flesh so when it comes to the fruits of the spirit if you're growing in God's word if you got your eyes occupied on Christ or in a race if you're running your race and you're pressing on and keeping your eyes on Christ and you're focused on Christ and you're in the word and you're praying without season and you're edified and building up the body of Christ and you're out there witnessing for Christ these fruits of the spirit you will be living in so when somebody comes along and you witness to them or somebody knows you your friends know you and they mock you they put you down they persecute you they laugh at you the bible said blessed is the man woman who's persecuted for my name's sake so really when it comes down to it they're not persecuting you they're persecuting the Lord because it's his name and they don't like his name so they're going to mock you they're going to put you down they're going to laugh at you now I know as an entertainer friends I know people I know people I've met always are trying to put me down because see this is how the devil wants to attack me the devil wants to attack me to say hey can't create what are you doing these people are laughing at you you don't have nothing throwing the towel you're going nowhere you got all these doors slammed in your face where do you actually think you're going you're not going nowhere throwing the towel but what he's telling me is these negative things but when I look in the Word of God I'm blessed I'm not worried about Satan because when I perform I know God takes over the performance and if God can reach one to two individuals out there when I perform I'm doing my job I'm running my race I have my eyes on Christ I want to finish my race where Christ will say to me well done faithful servant look at all the people you brought to me and I said well Lord what was that well you know when you used to go to the dance clubs and I used to walk on the dance floor and I blew the place apart yeah right Lord only people were watching you but there was certain ones in that club that started to understand because I was revealing it to them I remember when you performed over there and you did that show and that show yeah right Lord 200 people in the audience and two out of that 200 accepted me as their savior because I used you and you planted a seed and then I worked on that seed and they became a believer because of what you did and you showed them that you're different and they became a believer so when Satan tries to mock me and put me down and people try to put me down you're worthless what are you doing that you have no talent tries to knock me down and knock me out but the Lord says get up you're a warrior in me nobody is going to stop you if you have your eyes occupied on me so we have a lot of problems here in the body of Christ joy what's joy what's the joy of the Lord that's where people think oh I got the joy of the Lord so you're walking around and you think you're happy well I'm happy I praise God that's not joy joy is different than being happy if you got money and you got security you're a believer you're happy you're not grieving the Holy Spirit so if you read the Holy Spirit and you're living somewhere in this flesh and the flesh is taking you over then you're making the Holy Spirit sad you're grieving the Holy Spirit there's going to be a conviction in your life somewhere if you're a believer because there's going to be a guilt and you're going to know it I got to stop doing these things ain't right I got to get back into fellowship I got to get back in the Word I got to get back into prayer I got to be out there for Christ that's when the Holy Spirit convicts you now you're back on your hands and knees you're praying and you're back in the Word I know I've been through this believe me plenty of plenty of times I mean there might be two weeks that goes by and there's no work there's no prayer there's no fellowship it's not good this is what the devil's trying to do in my life hey Ken, sport team on tonight you like that team or a good college basketball game you don't want to miss that you can read the Word later so I watched the college basketball game after the college basketball game flippered around that's a good movie so I watched the movie then at the end of the day of Christ today I got victory over you today that's what we do so instead of watching the basketball game and then watching a movie get in the Word learn God's Word pray, pray without ceasing when you pray problem in the body of Christ I've been to different events there was different people that came up now the one man who was throwing the event says anybody want to raise their hand to pray so he says oh pastor so and so you you can pray so an individual prays now after that individual was done another individual raised their hand oh pastor so and so you can pray I raised my hand and he looked at me and he says you can't pray so I says well why is that he says because you're not a pastor and I looked at this guy and I said listen you don't know who I am when God puts on somebody's heart to pray in fellowship don't stop it you're quenching the spirit don't stop it they could be another individual they didn't have to be me somebody else could have raised their hand so just because that other person raised their hand and they're not a preacher to edify the body of Christ that's wrong what gives you the right to say that we playing God that's wrong you're not edifying the body of Christ and then you walk around like you're just big shot that's not what it's about you're taking your eyes off of Christ you're getting focused on you that's wrong but anyway there was a one lady who prayed and it was almost like a ritual Lord we're in this tough situation could you help me out could you help my friends out somebody needs this we need that somebody's sick and the Lord's hearing us and it's almost like he's sitting in heaven that's been like now how many times have we heard that speech that's not how you pray you pray for others and put yourself last and when you pray pray in the spirit in the flesh because you all gotta understand God works through his word he works through this book so when you pray you're using scriptures so the more that scriptures feeds into you and the more knowledge you have in scriptures and the more you're being molded and shape it into the image of Jesus Christ then the Holy Spirit is on you on the inside so everything that fed into you the word of God when you talk to the Lord when you talk to the Father what's coming out from your mouth to God is the word of God that's how God works he works through his word but if you're not in the word and you don't understand the word when you pray it's almost like you're going through a ritual now two months past I went to this meeting then same two individuals were there that I did the event and that man was there so at the end a lady said to me a Christian woman could you lead us in a word of prayer at the end I said absolutely so I prayed this lady was like wow what a prayer so I looked at this lady and I said Deborah she goes yeah well I said you don't even know me I said what came out of me she goes yeah I said that I wanted that to itify you because it's the word of God don't look at me look at the word of God coming out of me that's how God works he works through his word now was I taught this absolutely when I was going to church on Sundays I got a grace bible church fellowship church we would do different prayer meetings or a bible study on Wednesday night and then we would get into a prayer session now there was individuals who would pray there would be five six seven of us and my pastor would say okay brother so and so you start in our clothes and would be that ear where brother stopped and another brother would pick it up now what I heard in the prayer was individuals when they were praying and talking to the Lord it was scriptures and I was totally amazed and the one man who was praying and he was using the word of God it just flew and flown right out of him and I was like wow that's what prayer is all about so now when I talk to the Lord praying to the Lord it's all scriptures I don't want my flesh to get in the way because the works of the flesh I'm telling you as a believer these will hit you they will hit you don't say they won't you got to live in the fruit of the spirit you're going to go through sufferings the fruit of the spirit says but you're going to have peace when you go through these sufferings be gentle on the people the fruit of the spirit says so kindness be good patience that's a toughie a lot of people you go myself I'll give you an example you tied your shoe you tied it too tight not the end of the day you want to take off your shoe you want to take off your sneaker you tied it so tight that you're trying to loosen it and it's too tight and it goes into another knot so are you patient and try to work on that knot and gradually make your move where it gets loose and then you can loosen the knot and take off your sneaker or is it tied too tight and you're trying to loosen it and now it's getting to you so now you're impatient you get mad and what do you do you get the scissor and you cut it and you're mad and it's almost like you throw your sneaker that's impatient here's something God taught me the Lord taught me this I'm walking with the Lord God showed me something hey, you think he got it I'm going to show you something I'm going to put you through a situation I go to a quick check I get what I got to get seven people in line you want to talk about trying to be patient seven people in line turns out young girl behind the cash register might have been a new person working there but you can tell he was uncomfortable nervous patience learn patience I'm in the line with everybody else people are talking about her how come this line ain't moving how come there's not another cash register that can take care of other people on this line why is this moving slow start talking about her now and I'm feeding off of this feeding into me and I take on their conversation that I'm impatient too now I pay my bill what do I do I storm out the door that girl didn't know what she's doing that's being impatient so the next time that came up God's going to show me patience he's showing me when I'm online when I'm online there's some people online you're going to do the same thing and being patient or are you going to stand there and wait your turn and talk to me and renew your mind in Christ and think on heavenly things so I waited in line and I paid my bill now I leave the store and I'm like praise God that's a form of being patient so now when you're in the word and you're in prayer without season and when it comes to that word patient and you learn and you learn how to be patient and you overcome that through that situation of that day there's going to be other days where it's going to come up on you again because you're not going to walk into a store at times and there's two people there yeah that happens but there's going to come times or there's seven to ten people in line or you're going to learn how to be patient because once you can learn how to be patient through that situation then when other things come up you're going to be patient but we, believers non-believers, you see non-believers a lot of them run they're inpatient okay I got my food got a microwave, stick it in I want to eat in two minutes why don't you cook your food on the stove be patient how come that's not boiling fast enough I'm starving you're very impatient you have to learn that and as you as a believer in being in the word of God in the Spirit the Holy Spirit you're filled up with the Holy Spirit so do you learn from Him and apply this in your life or are you going to be impatient so patience is very big with the Lord then it says temper you have a bad temper do you get angry easy or are you down to earth that's another big thing with the unsaved, they get angry they're on their wrath says it right here in the flesh full of rage they're violent they don't like you they want to do something to you you as a believer do you have the different attitude do you have love you have peace with these people long suffering are you suffering because of Christ are you coming out of this world and keeping your eyes on Christ anybody who's a believer who's growing in Christ and running the race and has their eyes focused on Christ and renewing their mind on heavenly things is going to suffer in this world because the devil is going to bring people into your life to make you miserable because they are miserable so these are things that we have to learn you have to be in the word you have to be in prayer you have to be in fellowship and you also have to be under good teaching because we're under grace today but like I said a lot of these preachers are mixing grace with the law that's not for today we're under the dispensation of grace but we'll see even being under the dispensation of grace we'll take advantage of that so we're like I should do this for the Lord today I should be in the word I should be in prayer or listen to a preacher or listen to God's music well I'm under grace I'm watching the TV that's gone the day's over you did nothing you did nothing for the Lord you heard it and you did nothing all of a sudden it's a week it's two weeks it's three weeks it's a month it's two months you're out of fellowship three months four all of a sudden six months goes behind your backsliding instead of going forward running the race you're going backwards what are you doing I know I've been through this plenty of times in fact it's times right now I need charts and I want to go according to my charts so I can put okay in the morning I was in Galatians chapter 5 I studied for a half hour then I prayed I prayed for the people in the body of Christ because what a preacher I learned on the radio said he doesn't even pray for himself I'm like wow he says oh there's pray for me so there's no need for me to pray for myself that's pretty like exciting this man doesn't even pray for himself alright so anyway now I prayed ten minutes okay now I go to my chart and say morning time Galatians chapter 5 prayer ten minutes lunch time ten minutes prayer night time half hour half hour prayer now I look at the end of the day okay I spent an hour and a half with the Lord an hour and a half is better than nothing fifteen minutes is better than nothing so I make my chart and I'm doing good in my chart now I think I'm feeling great then all of a sudden it's like alright next day comes nothing ah preacher here prayer here ah Lord's music here now all of a sudden two weeks go by and I look at my chart and it's like what's up on my chart if I look at my chart and two weeks went by I was like three days I was in the Word yeah I prayed here and there I listened to the preachers what am I learning what am I doing I have to be in the Word I have to be in the Word because the Bible says put the full armor of God on because you don't know when your enemy is going to come and attack you so be equipped beforehand so when he comes with his strategies in his way you won't be deceived say and we as believers are deceived there's so many different situations in life that we go through you can do examples of stories from people do we learn do we learn the Word do we not witness the people are we praying see there was one preacher on TV that taught me and he's also on the radio he says when was the time that you ever laid back in bed your comfort zone and everything's quiet and you're just going to talk to the Lord you forget about you you forget about Christians you forget about unsafe people and you talk to God on how awesome he is you talk to God on he's the creator you talk to God that he created the heavens and the earth you talk to God that he's all powerful you talk to God and you marvel at God how he created the stars you talk to God when you say to him when I see that dawn come up and that sun rises that's awesome you created that you talk to God when you wake up in the morning and you see a blue sky with white clouds and you say how awesome the creator you are you talk to God that underneath it when that sun goes down there's a lesser light and up in the sky becomes night time and hidden underneath clouds with stars that appear that's awesome that's God he's your creator do you talk to God how awesome he is or when you rise off of God and get focused on you okay the body Christ unsaved people that's great but do you ever take the time they just talk to the Lord that he's the greatest creator forever you talk to God how he saved somebody and he's working in their life where he brings them do you talk to God about the throne he sits on and angels hover around him and say glory glory is the God almighty do you talk to God and thank God that Jesus walked this earth and paid the price for your sins and when he shed his blood that's the forgiveness of God do you talk to God he gives you this free gift his grace something you don't deserve do you talk to God when God sees you he doesn't see you he sees Christ in your place do you talk to God about these things this is God's love this is God's forgiveness do you talk to God that God one day is gonna make you like Christ so if you take a loaf of bread and you got the top you got the middle you got the end so let's just say the top is God the middle is the spirit you got the three pieces in Jesus you are in that loaf of bread you are part of that loaf of bread you're not the beginning you're not the middle and you aren't the end but you're in that loaf God is creating us to be like Christ so he's creating you to be like Christ he's turning you into the image of Christ this is what the devil does not want you to understand and this is what he tries to do by you walking in the flesh now if you're unsaved you're walking in the flesh it says the works of the flesh in Galatians 519 these are the things you do this is the unnatural man you do this because you're not saved sin flesh devil have you so somebody who's lost they're blind they don't understand they can't see but you as a believer are the light of God and you're supposed to go to them and show that you are then then so if you're hanging out with your friends and they're smoking a joint do you smoke a joint with them or do you say no I refuse it so now when you refuse it your friends look at you and say wow what's up with that guy how come he didn't smoke how come he didn't party with us they might mock you and put you down but when they're by themselves do you go to a bar I'll tell you this one situation I went through I'm not drinking I'm not doing the drugs I called my friend and I said to him what are you doing so you want to get a coffee I ended up going to a restaurant I didn't think I was going to a restaurant go to a restaurant I have a coffee he says I gotta run late he walks in the door and he says to me yeah you drive Kenny home but yeah I'll drive him home so my friend leaves now I'm with my other friend or leave it he says to me Ken is it right if I go to this bar I gotta talk to one of my friends or I'll drive you home now I could have turned around and said no drive me home I don't go to a bar no way now God delivered me from the boots what am I going to order if I'm going to order a beer or have a shot I'm not walking in that bar but if I'm walking in that bar and a lady said what would you like I'll have a soda or I'll have a club soda or I'll have a water nothing wrong with it nothing wrong with it that's where Christians get off that thing too okay so now I'm there there's this man sitting next to me and he says to me wow you don't drink so I start witnessing to him wow you know I have problems with drugs and drinking I don't do them no more oh what were you in AA I said no he said how did you get off him so I presented the message of salvation to him so he's hearing me and all of a sudden he says to me he says you know brother listening to you is like wow you make a lot of sense I said really so he goes yeah he goes my mother's a believer and my grandmother's a believer and I'm like wow look at this this is amazing so I'm talking to him so I said where are they they live down south I says what are you doing up here he says well I've been doing some traveling he does that do construction I says okay he said I've been working up here but I lost my job having problems with my alimony and stuff like that so I says oh okay so I said do you get in the word he says well my mother gave it to me my grandmother gave it to me but no not really he said but I understand what you're talking about because they already told me that I says okay so I said well let me give you a tip and he says what's that I says there's a Christian bookstore around here I said why don't you get a bible like tomorrow because it's too late now and start feeding in the word and I'll pray for you that's a great idea he says you know what I was going to do I said what's that he said if you did not sit next to me I said yes he says I was going to go home I had a gun loaded and I was going to blow my brains out now you are telling me God did not put me there to talk to this individual and this was in a bar so when Christians come across and say hey what are you going in that bar listen if you don't drink and you don't do drugs and if God tells you to go to the bar and you're going to have a water and you're going to have a soda walk in that bar if you're too weak and your temptation is too strong don't walk in that bar but if you walk in that bar and you're strong in the Lord and you don't drink no more you are going to be sitting next to people those are the lonely people that's why they are sitting in the bar why do you think they are in that bar they drown their sorrows and misery in that bottle so you see when happy time comes happy hour they will get happy because the drinks are cheaper their half price are cheaper so they have an hour friends I hung out would line up the drinks and drink as much as possible before that hour and it's done they are getting happy let's be happy they are drowning their problems in the alcohol they are miserable people because they don't know Christ how do I notice I lived there I was drunk I went in the bars I did all my drugs I did it all I saw Christ outside the bar I've seen it all it's all there so God is showing me look you've seen it I've shown you you lived there are you going to grow are you going to be in prayer are you going to be in fellowship are you going to be a witness for me are you going to edify the body of Christ are you going to edify the body of Christ are you going to live in the flesh and see your friends people you met your family your relatives and see all the people on their way to help what are you doing and that's my message to the believers today because there's too much confusion that's going on in the body of Christ so we have to live by the fruits of the spirit now how do we live by the fruits of the spirit ask God to fill you up every day with the Holy Spirit now once you were filled up your couple overflow you have to be filled up every single day with the Holy Spirit just don't wake up and think like okay this is what I'm going to do and I'm going to do this and I'm going to be in the Word and I'm going to be in prayer you're going to fall because you're dealing with the flesh your flesh you're dealing with people and most of all you got Satan and the demons that are on you 24 7 so these are the changes we need in the body of Christ forgive one another bless one another edify one another motivate one another don't think about money God will supply your needs if God makes you a millionaire not a wrong would it bless other people don't keep it to yourself because there'll be a time you're going to lose it all and you're going to be in the flesh like people were in the flesh you see people that live in the flesh they'll lose people but you can be a believer and still be walking in the flesh you're not going to grow and you're not going to have strong fellowship and you're not going to edify and motivate the body of Christ I did a show one time when I was done I got to speak to the people after I was done a couple days later I ran into the brother in Christ to put the event on and he said hey remember what you did last week I said yeah you led two young kids to Christ and I was like really he goes absolutely and he says what you did and what you talked about opened their eyes they accepted Christ so I look at that and say praise the Lord glory to God I'm just an instrument I'm just a tool God works through me I motivate the body of Christ another time I did a show and I got to speak and I said to the young kids out there I says look if God gives you a talent for example you like to build models I know one young kid he builds models he builds the planes and he's very good and he's doing it I encouraged this kid and I said give God the glory because once you give God the glory and you're being a witness for God through what you're doing watch where he brings you because you're giving God the glory if you have another young kid and that young kid likes to draw but people are putting them down I said to him you draw give God the glory keep your eyes on Christ be focused, be in the Word be in prayer, be in fellowship edify, motivate the body of Christ be a witness for Christ and when you're drawn give him the glory God can use you and bring you to a higher level where what is going on that picture you're not doing no more the Holy Spirit is doing it because God's going to use you as a testimony through your artwork so do it and do it to God's glory I mean I could go on and on and on and on and on but we're supposed to build each other up in the body of Christ in closing yes we are at the end of the last days it's all here, you got your weather changes you got wars and rumors of wars you got the president of the United States that's going to sit down with the Pope to go to Israel to make a peace treaty we're there the Antichrist is ready to come on the scene it's all set oh everything is in place all the pieces are in place all the furniture is in place the curtain is about to open up once that curtain opens up we are out of here as believers now when you're at the judgment seat of Christ Christ is going to say to you what did you do for me your sins have been paid for they're done God does not remember your sins no more but God's going to look at you and say where's the fruit show me the fruit who did you bring to me look at here who's here that you brought to me where's the fruit hey when you were on that corner and there were three of your friends and they knew you were a believer why'd you change the subject how come you weren't bold for me how come you didn't stand for me hey can't create when you did that show how come you didn't talk about me this is what it's all about people bringing people to Christ you growing in Christ you edifying the body of Christ you building people up in the body of Christ you motivating the body of Christ teach the word of God teach the word of God teach people how to pray teach them I was taught I'm applying I want my eyes on Christ that's the bottom line so I want to thank you and I pray for everybody in Jesus name