 for your engagement into the Word of God. All of you that are joining us online as well. If you take this prayer sheet that's in front of you, I need you to be sure to add all of these folks to your prayer list and make sure that you're calling the Lord on their behalf. They are needing the touch of God and you are a catalyst for that when you pray, amen. So I want to encourage you to do that and as you see the names that are listed there, feel free even tonight while we're praying. Call their name out before the throne. I want you to make sure that you are lifting up especially Brother Gladden Lewis. They've called the family in and I want you to know that Brother Gladden looked at me in the face in the office several months ago after his diagnosis with cancer and said it makes no difference what takes place. I'm ready one way or the other. And so when you've got that, the devil can't defeat that I can tell you for sure, you can't kill a man twice once he's been crucified at the cross one time, you can't kill him another time, he's alive forevermore. And I want you to hold up that family, God give them strength, there is no doubt that they need that touch from heaven tonight and their church family, they're relying on you and so are many, many others that are listed there. So let's believe God that the Lord would just intervene in every situation and believe that his perfect will be accomplished in all things. He is our healer, he's our baptizer, he's our comforter, he's our strength, our source, our faithful friend. And I believe that when we call on the Lord he will hear us, amen? Come on let's do that right now here and online. Father in the name of Jesus we thank you for the privilege we have to be able to come before you tonight, we all acknowledge you tonight Lord as the God of all gods, King of all kings and we recognize right now that even as we bring these needs before you that we're not just coming before any God but you are the one true living God who is able to do far above what you think or imagine. So Lord send your word to heal broken hearts and bind up wounded spirits, send your word for healing wherever people are needing that tonight. Every name that is listed and those that are not listed that are needing your intervention this evening. We know that you're a faithful God, we know that you're a true God and we believe right now that you'll do exactly what your will is to be accomplished inside of their life. Lord we praise you for every person that is here those that are watching and we pray that this service Lord would Lord just see your enhanced blessing and touch upon it. We pray that our minds would be open in our spirits to receive the ingrafted word of God and we give you praise for it right now in Jesus mighty name. Everybody said a good amen. Amen, find somebody that looks half as happy as you do and shake their hand and make them happy, amen. And if you just shake their hand until they're happy that'll get it. While I shake all of your hands out there watching online we welcome you, God bless you for being with us tonight. All of you that are joining us around the world we're thrilled that you are. Pray that God will bless your life and that you will receive from the word of God. You've got that downloaded study that's available for you or you can do it on your iPad or iPhone, whatever. You can download that study. Also wanna encourage you to be a giver in just a few moments as we get ready to honor the Lord with what he has blessed us with. And may God bless you tonight. Amen. It's good, it's good to be in the house of God. And I'm glad that our house of God that we worship in is not blown to Jay tonight. There's a large wind blowing early this morning and I trust that your residences and your homes and all are still safe and things like that. I think one of the greatest factors of damage around here is that the roof to Mark's duck pin blew off. But he fixed that this afternoon because I'm telling you those duck eggs have got to come on and come on, amen. And so we took quite a hit here this morning. As you see behind me right now, our wonderful LED wall is not functioning and they've worked hard all day long to try to get it where it needs to be and just before service tonight, something else is overheating. So we've just nailed that this evening and you can watch the side screens. Those of you that are watching online will catch it on the lower thirds so that you can be able to fill in the blank and be therefore edified and fulfilled. If you go home with an empty blank on your page tonight, it might cause you anxiety at two o'clock in the morning. So get your answers while you can, amen. So you pray that the Lord will help us. Again, we took quite a hit today this morning. The daycare was, the winds were blowing and all the lights went out all around and we had no power here for several hours and I'm just thankful for our staff and all the staff over the daycare who just responded as children were getting dropped off to us and they were corralled with flashlights and generators into the cafeteria. And I'm just telling you, all of you folks that are here, especially all of you here in the face of assembly, you haven't lived until you've been in a 20 by 20 room with a lot of children coming in who are scared of the dark. There's not enough flashlights in the world, my dear friends, to be able to drive that darkness. So our workers were so faithful and singing and praying and running around and getting everything done and we're thankful that the Lord has kept His hand upon us, but we did take a hit and some of it is still in its repair mode. So that's the reason why I'm coming to you tonight for a wonderful offering, us unto the Lord. Amen. Usher's, come on, get to take your places and as you get ready to give this evening, I just wanna ask you please to be faithful in your giving, your steady, faithful giving throughout the year. It makes no difference if it's Christmas or not or Thanksgiving or not, the work of the ministry is forever going on. Now let me just say to you, especially those of you that may never have tithed before or given an offering, let me make sure you understand how this works, okay? The tithe belongs to the Lord. The tithe belongs to the Lord. That's the first top 10 off the top before FPL, before melting gas, before anybody, it's right off the top, that's the biblical way. Then there are offerings that you can give as unto the Lord and you do that and God measures literally the blessings back to you as you give to the Lord with a willing heart and that's a big deal. Now, here's the deal, here's the pastoral explanation for you and instruction. You don't take your tithe and buy a toy and call it tithe. That's not tithing, you've just told God what you're gonna do. I'm preaching really hard right now, I'm telling you. And you could just take any scripture out of the Word from Genesis to Revelation and it will back up what I'm saying. A lot of times people are project givers and maybe you've never known this, that we have a Guatemala outreach or we have Thanksgiving or Christmas or whatever and people go, oh okay, well I was gonna give this anyway and so I'll just do this and we'll do that but that's not the way to do that. All right, you don't wanna rob yourself. I'm losing amens as we go. But I don't care if you amen or not, I just wanna let you know the Bible is right and if you'll do it the Bible way you'll get blessed the Bible way. If you do it your way, then it's on you. Praise God. Thank you pastor for giving us this instruction. We don't wanna fall off the cliff of tithing into the abyss. And as you honor the Lord with your gifts and offerings and all of you that are watching online tonight, here's what I'm about to pray from the Lord that the Lord bless you. He won't bless what's cursed but he will bless as you bless the kingdom. Amen. Father thank you tonight for the privilege to give. Thank you Lord that we get to show you where our heart is at and we pray God as we get instruction and Lord we understand the word of God more and more that we will be able to respond more in like fashion the way that you want us to so that your kingdom will suffer no lack. We give you praise for that in Jesus name. Amen, amen. Usher's thank you for receiving tonight. Let me just mention to you just a couple of things you need to be aware of. This coming Sunday, immediately following this service is our annual memorial service, our Christmas memorial service where we get the opportunity to remember those that have passed away and the families that are affected here in the sanctuary and we invite people both here and that are outside the church to come and join us and we will honor your loved one this coming weekend and if you put their name in to be remembered on the trees to my left and right, there will be angel wings that we will be dispensing and dispersing to all of the families to remember your loved one. And I think it's very, very important because it's so difficult during this time of year when people are looking at loss and families that the seat is not filled. I got a phone call the other day from someone who had just lost the loved one and they just needed to get on the phone for a few moments and just cry for a little bit and then they were all right because you can't stay in that position. You've got to keep moving forward by the help and the grace of God and he will help you but we wanna be able to remember your loved one and we wanna remember you as a family member of this church. So if you haven't sent in that name, hopefully you already have but if you haven't, you need to get that in tonight because we only know what we know and you send those names in and those are the ones that we're prepared for when you come for the right after the service on Sunday morning, so don't forget that. Also parents, just be advised, this coming Sunday morning is also the Bethlehem breakfast for all the paced kids as they're coming so get ready, bring your kids on time. Otherwise the eggs will be cold or gone or thrown up against the wall or stomped into crayons, I have no idea but you just be sure to get your kids here on time this weekend and if you have not already done so in bringing your gift and putting it into the sleigh out front for the gifts that will be given out for Christmas in our local community, I wanna encourage you to do that just as quickly as possible. In fact, we need it this coming weekend is really the deadline so that we can get everything wrapped and proportioned out to the families that are gonna be needing that. It takes a long time to be able to vet everything and get everything in order and I wanna thank all of you who have already given towards that, the finances that you've given is going to help purchase specific things for specific families. We are able to do that because you give. If you didn't give, we wouldn't be able to do it but when you do that there's gonna be families in this community that are going to receive from this church and are gonna have a Christmas that they otherwise would not have so I wanna thank you, thank you, thank you for all that you do and all of your giving and you do it as unto the Lord and I promise you on this earth, you may not get the reward that you're looking for but don't look for it here. If you'll look for it in heaven, thieves won't break down walls and run through your church and take stuff. Incidentally, I need to make this statement. Some of you heard your pastor this past weekend say that I would do awful things to the knees of a person who broke into this building and stole stuff. If you were offended by that, I apologize and I want to let you know that your pastor is not a violent person. However, it was pushed to the right of the edge. I felt better this afternoon after I talked to Pastor Jose who was doing an outreach already and he was inviting Youth Challenge which is the equivalent in Central America of Teen Challenge here in America and so he had a group of these guys that were there that were former drug addicts and so forth. Some of them were still coming out of that lifestyle and stealing and everything else under the sun. So he lined them all up. He told me today on the phone and told all of them. Now, I want you to know that I've been right where you are and I know exactly what goes through your mind and if any of you are thinking as we go into this church of taking something that doesn't belong to you or doing something that you shouldn't be doing, I want you to know that I'm gonna put you into prison for two years and I'm gonna tell all the prisoners that are inside of there what you try to do to my ministry and they will take care of you. Now let's go in and have a great time and celebrate the goodness of God. So he encouraged my spirit today that I wasn't falling off into hell but I do want to report to you that the thief has been is in custody tonight. Thanks to the Escambia County Sheriff's Department and the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Department, he is in custody. They were able to recover a few of the items so far as we understand that were taken from the church here. So hopefully we'll be able to get those back in the next few weeks. iPads, laptops and the like. We hope to be able to get back some of the other very pricey items that he took. Otherwise we're gonna have to replace those because there are certain things that we cannot do without and we've had to just kind of grab from different locations to make some things work. I regret that he conned people even in this church and I apologize for that. I wanna tell you, in your giving, I know this church has a great heart and when people come in you wanna do your part and I can't, I won't stop you from that but let me just give you a little pastoral caution. The reason why that God says bring all the ties and the offerings into the storehouse that there may be meat on the table is because once it's dispensed benevolence-wise, just like the gifts for Christmas and things like that, instead of you being the person who gives it directly and I know sometimes we do that and I'm not trying to break you down from that. I'm just saying that when you give it through the church, then the Lord gets the praise and then they don't keep coming back to you with a hand for you to be able to reach out to. It doesn't mean that we're mean or anything like that, it just means that we have a process whereby we can be able to dispense it in the right way and does everybody understand what I'm saying here? Okay, I don't want you to be offended by this. This is a biblical method. This is the reason why they did it the way they did it in the Bible and it's not that we always make the best decisions. We do our best, sometimes we entertain angels unaware and you find out that they actually were angels of the devil. Okay, I'm just telling you, that's the way it is, but whenever that has happened, whenever my wife and I have done that or we've given somewhere through the church to someone who was not on the up and up, then you know what, here's what I tell you, there's not a seed in here that doesn't belong to God, the carpet belongs to God, the concrete belongs to God, this pulpit, this wall, everything belongs to God. So when you ultimately take it from God's house, then you'll get what the Lord will deal with and vengeance is His, not mine. Come on, y'all, you know I was joking, don't you? Okay, some of y'all took it all serious and you know, my God, I'm gonna change churches. This pastor's violent. You have no idea how violent Pastor Ted Trailer is, but I'm just telling you, you haven't seen him with Alabama football, have you? Okay, I'm just kidding. So anyway, I'm thankful that they work diligent, or the officer that was in charge of this investigation right here, they've been very diligent, they understand the church and all of that and it actually was in the news, but thankfully Pace Assembly's name was not in the news so that it did not bring more attention than what's necessary. So I'm saying that to you and of course to the entirety of the wide world out there on internet, that I'm really a nice guy and I don't hurt people. I try not to. So what do y'all wanna do now? Some of y'all really need to smile, you're hurting my feelings and I'm not sure if I've, you know, whatever. I wanna make sure that we're all on the same page. Praise His name. Hey, let's study the Bible. What do you say? I needed to get that off my chest. I woke up at three o'clock this morning going, did I really say I would beat the knees off that guy? I don't, it was just like flowing and I, you know, all of you holy people, if he broke into your house and stole your stuff, I'm just saying. Father, would you just bless us now as we study the Word of God and open it to our understanding and we give you the praise for it. In Jesus' name, everybody said amen. Romans chapter eight, verse one says, there is therefore now no condemnation. Praise God, that's enough. Some of y'all wouldn't laugh if I gave you a $20 bill. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made us free or made me free from the law of sin and death. For what, this is a powerful verse here, for what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us. Here's the caveat, here's the condition, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit or they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. There's so much contained in there and so much more in the Word of God that's in the rest of that chapter I would encourage you to read it, reread it and read it again. It's just that powerful. So we started a couple of weeks ago talking to you about the law and the life and what that was all about and I'm not gonna go back and rehearse all of that. I wanna pick up here in part two of this lesson series and again, whoever is doing the lower thirds just stay with me because here we go. I wanna just pick up for just a moment just a tad back here before we write some new things. If the believer does not understand the law of what we see right here in the scripture, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, then there will always be that will always be an overcoming of the law of sin and death. In other words, if you don't understand how to walk in the Spirit, then sin and death will constantly overcome you because you're always trying to do something in your own power, trying my own righteousness, trying my own ability when in fact God does not want your ability or mine. He wants our obedience and He wants for us to by faith receive what He has done as our righteousness. Are you with me? So the cross of Christ, as we've been talking to you about it, is the dividing line as it regards what the Holy Spirit does. It is the dividing line. It means that He worked one way before the cross, the Holy Spirit did, and another way since the cross. He is, by definition, by title, the spirit, as we're talking about here, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. That is the functionality or a title of the Holy Spirit. In John chapter 14, we dealt with this a little bit last time we were together in John 14. Jesus is saying to His disciples and those that were following Him out before He ascended, He said, I'll pray the Father, verse number 16. I'll pray the Father and He will give you another comforter. Now, it doesn't mean another one different from me. It means the same spirit of Christ on the inside of me will dwell in you. That He may, according to the scripture there, abide with you forever. That's a big deal word right there. Verse 17, even the spirit of truth, that's another title of the Holy Spirit, whom the world cannot receive. Now, this is important. The Holy Spirit will not inhabit or abide with someone who has not first been through the blood and placed their faith at the cross. He will not bless that person with the power of His help until the blood has been applied. So the world cannot receive Him. So now that's so critical because I'm gonna tell you in recent days there has been an attack upon the Lordship of Jesus Christ and I don't have time to go into the details of it. In fact, let me just say to you, you'll wanna be here starting in the first Wednesday night. For three Wednesday nights, I'm gonna deal with Bible prophecy in the forecast 2023 on certain things on Wednesday nights. It's gonna be a little bit different format. I'm just gonna kinda talk to you. We may even open the floor for questions of Bible prophecy. I'm not a prophet. I'm not the son of one, but I can look into the Word of God and I can see what's taking place in our world and seeing what God is going to do by what He has done. It's not difficult. He will reveal His secrets to His prophets. But I'm saying to you that the attack upon the Lordship of Jesus Christ in recent days has not come from the world. It's come from the most religious among us. From a professor at Cambridge College declaring in the most grotesque way that Jesus is transgender. And I won't go into the details of it, but I will tell you, my friends, this is the order of the day. Now, why is it now that Congress and look for this, every time there are laws passed, there are consequences to it? And all of that has to do, all of that has to do with what we're talking about right here because the cross of Christ is the most recognizable symbol, I should say. In fact, it's so recognizable that a chaplain who was working with hospice of North wore a cross on his lapel. Now, we're talking about a Christian chaplain working at hospice and his, and he dealt with all different kinds of faith, Judaism and Islam and all of that kind of thing. He ministered to everybody as a hospice chaplain, but in memorial of his wife that was deceased and of his faith, he wore a cross. He has been prosecuted and removed from working in that hospice chaplaincy because he's wearing a cross. Now, here's a Bible prophecy thing. Jesus lets us know that the closer we get to his coming, the more offensive the cross and Christ himself will be. And ladies and gentlemen, the last linchpin will be the attack upon the Spirit, the Holy Spirit in perversion. He says, you can talk about, Jesus even said it. He said, you can talk about me. I'm paraphrasing, you can talk about me, but when you come against the Holy Spirit who is the only agent of conviction, you blaspheme the Holy Spirit, there is no repentance left for that. You've stepped into a realm of such debauchery and such evil that you're now speaking against the very one who is the one drawing you to me and there is nothing left, no one left to draw you. So I'm saying that in light of the fact that the world cannot receive the Holy Spirit, why? Because it's see of him not. And you know, and I know that the world only believes what it sees. But you and I by faith can look beyond this world into a realm that is unseen to the natural eye, but by the Spirit we can see God working. I wasn't there when he was crucified, but my faith is there and the power of the Holy Spirit solidifies that for me. I'm here with an inner witness. Boy, I feel like preaching right there. Neither knoweth him, but ye know him, I'm so glad he put that in there, for he dwelleth with you, watch this, and shall be in you. I would hate the thought that Jesus said, all right, y'all, I'm done with all the work here on the earth, I'm gone, and you're on your own. But he not only gave him self, the Christ, on the inside of us as a believer, but he didn't say I would just send him alongside you. As the paraclete in Greek describes, he said he's not just gonna be with you, but he shall be in you. I don't know how you feel about that, but let me make it plain. Whether you're in the deep caverns of a cave somewhere or flying 40,000 feet in the air in an aircraft, the same Holy Ghost power knows no distance or location. He shall be in you. Now that means something to me, because when I walk through difficulties, and you walk through difficulties, the Holy Spirit doesn't opt out as long as I keep my faith in the finished work of the cross for my help. Are y'all with me? So the Holy Spirit cannot come into the heart of an unbeliever until that believer has made Christ their savior at the cross. And the cross then changed everything. We learned this a couple of weeks ago. At the cross, Jesus did what? He paid for the sin debt for us forever. Now the Holy Spirit comes into the life of the believer in the moment of conversion. And you've seen my little circles up here and how that in the spirit, he comes into your spirit and lives on the inside of your spirit. There's the solace realm and the body realm as well that has to be influenced by that same spirit in order to do what we're hearing and reading here tonight, walking in the spirit. So with all of that in mind, I want you to look at Romans there one more time. Wait a minute, I'm off my page. There we go. Romans chapter eight, verses three and four. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. Because the law or the righteousness of the law was weak, he says, good word there, not able to function to deliver us from our sins. Though the law is righteous, in fact, write this down in Romans chapter seven, verse 12, the Lord reminded me before I came out here, the Bible says, wherefore the law is holy and the commandments holy and just and good. So in other words, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you understand that the Word of God is good and just and right and righteous? In fact, the Bible says that the Word of the Lord is pure, it's right, it's true, converting the soul. Well then pastor, how in the world can I live up to it? Well, there's only one way. And that's to place your faith in the finished work of the cross and have the help of the Holy Spirit for you to walk in the spirit on a daily basis. That's the reason why it says in verse four that the righteousness, this is powerful, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. The law was weak, meaning it was impotent, without strength, no power to break the hold on humanity on its own. Well then pastor, why did God then give the law to us and then people are trying to be able to live by the law and we reread it in the Word of God, it's the law. Why? Because Paul made it clear. I would not have known what sin was unless the Word told me what sin was. See, I can't be held accountable for sin unless I am understanding what sin looks like. You know, you're gonna punish your child for doing something, you gotta turn around and instruct that child. And the more you instruct them, the more they begin to understand what is right and righteous and good and what is bad and evil and wrong. You follow me? That's what the Holy Spirit is doing in us all the time. He is literally, the scripture says, working righteousness into us. You know why? We don't get it the first time. Come on, I wish you'd say amen for you and your children. You know and I know that it takes repetition and it takes prayer and it takes meditating upon the Word of God to let it get in there. Y'all follow what I'm saying? Someone walked up to me after the service Sunday morning, got through preaching and bringing a portion of this very passage of scripture to us in that placing our faith in Christ and Him crucified is what causes us to be able to be saved and lead victorious life through the power of the Holy Spirit. And they walked up having heard me teach this over and over again and said, I finally got it. I'm gonna tell you, it's a bell ringing moment whenever the pressure is off of you to perform instead of walk by faith and not by sight. You understand what I'm saying right there? Well, I know you will. Let's get a little deeper right here. So the law is weak and that is impotent. It could not save anyone. Well, then why did he put the law there? So I could understand what right and wrong is and I can understand that Jesus is right and the devil is wrong. Not only that, but Jesus is right and my flesh will never be able to please Him. So he tells me in Hebrews 11 and six that in order for us to please Him, we must respond in faith. So God gives all of us this faith, right? He gives us this faith. I'm trying to write deep and dark so that people in here can know. And there's just seed of faith. I'm gonna tell you, whenever the Lord showed me this little diagram when I was studying this, it just broke open like a gushing well because all of a sudden I realized that most of my adult Christian life was not the simplicity of childlike faith. It was because I was raised in an environment that said, these are the rules and if you don't keep them, you're out. And I had to know, I was thinking to myself, you know what, grace has to be a lot bigger than that because I don't know, some of you maybe can relate. I got saved every Sunday night because by the time the preacher got through singing us to heaven and then dragging us through hell and I'm not putting any of them down, believe me, because I'm gonna tell you, some of us wouldn't have made it had we not get the drug through hell a little bit. Come on, come on, come on. You know, some people didn't get it. So all right, we're living right on the ragged edge but we didn't get a lot of grace because we didn't understand that. We didn't understand that God's hand is bigger than mine. I drop stuff. Come on, is anybody talking to me? God don't drop nothing. I said, God don't drop nothing. God don't drop things. His hand is so big that he tattoos us in the palm of his hand and even if you try to crawl out, he's grabbing ahold of you, come on somebody. Grace is much bigger than what we think it is but it is not according to the apostle Paul, a license for us to go out and go, hey, hey. The condition is those that walk in the spirit but not in the flesh. So that walking in the spirit thing is really where you gotta zero in on because some people think that walking in the spirit is dancing and praying in the Holy Ghost all day long and that's not walking in the spirit. I'm gonna show you what it is right here. Are y'all with me right there? This is good right here even if I am teaching it. Amen, I'm getting saved. That old knee-knocking spirit's getting out of me right now y'all, come on. Bible says God's sending his own son. I'm sorry. Condemned sin in the flesh. Jesus showed up in the flesh. Now I'm gonna tell you, if you're messing around in your classroom at school and the teacher's gone down the hallway and she says, all right, y'all get your work done and she leaves the room and goes out. He leaves the room, goes out and gone for a few moments, mayhem takes place. How do you know that? Cause just today, just today, we had to put kids in rooms in the back and flashlights and lights and all that kind of stuff and when the lights come back on, I walked to the back classroom at the daycare and there are eight people on the floor, teachers and staff and they're picking up toys and putting them all this and I said, what happened? I mean, it looked, the room looked like it had exploded. Well, it took about 10 kids, five minutes or less in the dark to explode the room. There wasn't a toy in a box. You know why? Now you can laugh at that and say, all those little kids, how many times does a little kid come out in us? Come on somebody. Why? Because the teacher's out of the room. But what happened? Jesus stepped out of glory and came in the room, into earth, in a fleshly body and suddenly people are seeing what righteousness is supposed to be and act like. Had he not come down, we would not have had a visual. We wouldn't have had the Bible here. We wouldn't have had all the miracles that we read about. I mean, why go to Israel if Jesus is now walking around on the earth and we're seeing, picking up rocks at the Galilee, you know? There's where Jesus walked. All right, let me get three of those. Why? Because he came down in the flesh to show us what it was supposed to be. Now, he wasn't gonna stay here. He was going back to heaven. He praised the Father, but he sends the same Holy Spirit to us. Now just because you don't see him, he says, don't think he ain't here. I'm gonna try that on this side right over here. Just because you don't see him walking around in a toga, don't think that Jesus isn't watching you. Come on somebody. He's watching all of us all the time. What's the big deal about that? By the power of the Holy Spirit now, we are sanctified, big theological word, meaning separated from the world and separated unto God. And who does that sanctification? Well, the Bible says the Word sanctifies us. When we read what the Word of God has to say, He shows us how we should walk. But who is that person of the Godhead who is doing the sanctifying? Is it the preacher? Or is it your neighbor? Or is it your spouse? That's a good place for you to say no. Because you know, you and I have a list of rules that if you were God, more than half of us wouldn't make it. I mean, I'm done right now. You know I'm done, because I don't beat the knees off of somebody. So I'm gonna work that thing until the offering comes. All right. So look at this. Who is the sanctifier? It's the Holy Spirit. So you're gonna notice in Romans chapter number eight how that he starts moving us, he gets us in this place where our faith is in Christ and crucified. He doesn't leave that. He just says, here comes the Holy Spirit now to empower you to live like the one who died on the cross. Now when we just think about that, we have to say to ourself, I'll never be like Jesus, except the Holy Spirit makes you like Him. In that righteousness, the righteousness that came by the law might, look at what the Bible says. Verse four, might be fulfilled in us. Y'all, how much grace do you need? You got all of it. What else does the Holy Spirit bring? He brings joy and peace and all these wonderful fruit of the Spirit that's living on the inside of you right now. So I told you this past weekend, there are blessings that are upon our lives that we have yet to open up and experience because the Holy Spirit is like, I like to call it a cluster bomb of blessings because there are things that we have not, eyes have not seen and ears have not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, what God has prepared for those that love Him. Who is God in the power of the Holy Spirit? He's able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we could ask or think or imagine. Listen, the Holy Spirit didn't put those words in there in that scripture just for us to read that and be wowed by that. He wants us to experience the Christ, who is the Holy Spirit, the Christ, the anointed on the inside of us and what else is He bringing? Well, just write down what He does. This coming weekend, especially if I can get this wall back up and running, I'm gonna show you just in the book of Ephesians the spiritual blessings that you and I have available to us at a moment. Come on, somebody. That many times we pass by them and we don't recognize. Now, why is that so important? Because the cross brought all of that into being. Without Jesus, there would be no Christ. But because Jesus came and paid the price, He said, it's better for you that I go away because if I go away as the one man that's got all the Holy Spirit living on the inside of me, He's not two Holy Spirits. All of the anointing was manifest in Jesus Christ in the fullness. So He said, if I go away, that Christ, the same resurrection power, the same one who did miracles, the same one who opened up eyes, if I go away, I'm gonna go away and I'm gonna pray the Father, He's gonna send you me. And He's gonna bring all things into your life. And ultimately, He's going to set you, how do we call ourselves righteous? He said that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us. In other words, the righteousness of the law, the righteous requirements of the law. Let's look at it. The law requires what? That we live holy, that we live righteous, that we live on down the line. Well, on our own, we don't have the ability to do that. Am I right about it, y'all? Did you speed one mile an hour over the speed limit getting here? I love you people. You know why? Cause your laughs always give you away. You don't even have to say, yes I did. Okay, so if you break one of these laws, He said you broke them all. So how can the righteousness of the law then be fulfilled in me? The perfection of God. Well, the only way is for me not to put my faith in the law, cause if I just put my faith in the law or my works or whatever I do, I'm gonna get that and it's gonna condemn me every time I look in the Bible. What does that law do? It's a school master. And what's it do? He's always pointing to Christ. Now, what does the Holy Spirit do? He will not glorify Himself, John 16. He will glorify me. So if you ever hear songs that are trying to glorify the Holy Spirit or you ever hear preaching that it's all about the Holy Spirit and you never hear that Jesus Christ is the one who is the object and the means of bringing that salvation into our life. So many times there have been books written about the Holy Spirit and we've lifted the Holy Spirit up. Now, He is God. He's deity. He's the third person to the Godhead. The same power dwells in Him. Don't get me wrong. But when we try to make it woo-woo with the Holy Spirit and we bypass Jesus Christ and Him crucified, you can't have the Holy Spirit without Christ dwelling on the inside of you. I think I'm teaching something right here. He is the righteousness of the law made manifest in us. He fulfilled all of the requirements. I got a sermon waiting. Just being Himself. What was Jesus doing when He went around here and opened up eyes? He just being Jesus. See, we're always trying. Jesus said, just be. And He said, obviously you will manifest what you are. Okay. I'm sorry. It's the only out front in my eyes illustration that I have right now. On the video we found the brother coming to church with one of the biggest Bibles I've ever seen coming into Pace Assembly underneath his arm. He was standing behind me at the Latino Fest out here. We got pictures and video of all this. And yet, he manifests who he was. He lied to congregation members and said his name was this, only to find out when he was interrogated that ain't my name at all. The officer calls me and says, well, we think that he's confessed this and this and this. I said, well, and what else did he say? Well, he said he'd never been to Pace Assembly. I said, yeah, he's a liar. Because I got like videotape. He's not only here, but he was here multiple times. So don't be fooled by somebody carrying a Bible up underneath their arm. Because you will manifest who you are and who's you are. Sooner or later it will come. Sooner or later, the wolf will have to come up out of that sheep's clothing because it's hot in there. That wolf trying to wrap around that wolf is going, whoo, see, that's what happens in church when you get a real hot Holy Ghost church and the Word of God is manifest and worship and singing goes on, then the wolf gets really nervous because he can only wear out sheep's clothing for so long. Then he starts manifesting who he is. Come on somebody. That's the reason why, oh pastor, you're not supposed to judge. Oh yes you are, you read this book right here. I am a fruit inspector. And if you're telling me that you love the Lord, then you've got to love your brother who you have seen because you can't say you love the Lord who you haven't seen. And if you don't open up your bowels of compassion and reach out to the lost and the hurting and the dying and the sighing, then you have no part with me. Come on somebody. See, we've made this thing so, we've made this thing so Gracie that we don't understand that there's a righteousness by the law. When you had your little club when you were a kid, you know the little club on the back street and you built the little thing and everybody didn't get in your club, did they? Come on somebody. Opie had the He-Man Woman Haters Club. Saw that on Andy Griffith. I'm just telling you right now ladies and gentlemen, not everybody's getting into God's heaven. Grace has got the door open right now and if you want to get saved, I don't care if you are a Jeffrey Dahmer. If you want to bend your knee to Christ and sincerely repent, there is fruit unto repentance. In other words, there should be evidence. Don't tell me you slept in a Holiday Inn Express last night and you're going to be a head doctor tomorrow. Come on somebody. I mean, I'm telling you when they were getting ready to do heart surgery on Rita, I said, hey, dog, tell me how many of these things have you done? I don't need you to tell me, you know, I'm working on it. I lost three or four, but I'm feeling good about this one. The devil is a liar and I am gone. Come on somebody. It's time some genuine Christianity comes out by those that have a mark, a seal of the Holy Ghost of the cross of Christ. Come on say amen. So, man, you know a man without the clicker is just really no good. Write this down in verse number four. He says this, I think it's on your paper. Find it, it means right here the righteousness of the law which might be fulfilled in us means to find it's full accomplishment in us, not just performance by us. To find it's full accomplishment. In other words, the Lord Jesus doesn't come in halfway. He doesn't live in a duplex. He owns the whole house or he's not there at all. What is the confirmation of that? What's the confirmation that I have been born again that my faith is in the cross? The Holy Spirit is that confirmation. I don't have to sign a card, I don't have to shake the preacher's hand. I don't have to be the member of a church. None of that qualifies you. The blood of Jesus qualifies you and the residency of the abiding Holy Spirit at conversion qualifies you. Period. And he says that it is the full accomplishment in us not the performance by us. In other words, the Lord is not looking for you to try to perform or keeping the law in order to be saved or sanctified. Let's go a little deeper because here's what we see right now. And this is what we're seeing and in the future, ladies and gentlemen, you're gonna see more of it. In 1 Corinthians chapter 118, the Bible says for the foolishness or the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. What I am doing and saying to you right now, this world not only is getting to the point where it despises this message, but soon will qualify this. Listen, the newest legislation that just came out in Congress has basically told this book right here to be hate speech and anybody that speaks from it. Well, pastor, that doesn't seem right, but it's not right, because this world is headed in that direction. And they would call what I'm doing here tonight teaching and preaching to you about the cross foolishness, foolishness, but to us unto us which are saved, we have experienced the power of God. To those it's foolishness, but to us it's the power of God. Have you ever come into the knowledge of something and maybe for a long time, you thought it to be one way and then suddenly the light came on, you went, oh, this is it. Well, guess what, that's what happened when you came to Jesus Christ. You don't just come to church because it's a social gathering. If that's the case, you're missing it all the way. I'm here for survival. I'm here because I invested into the kingdom of God. I'm not here to mark off my religious exercise of the law. I'm here because I'm all in. Come on, somebody, look at your neighbor and tell them I'm all in. Ooh, son, this gives a little preachy. I think y'all can preach this one right here, don't you? Listen, the cross, the power is not in the two beams. On your paper, how is the preaching of the cross then the power of God? Well, first of all, you need to know I'm not up here elevating two sticks of wood for you to bow down and worship. Some people would go and get a bark off of the olive tree next to where Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, make it holy and sell it to everybody. And gullible Christians pay thousands of dollars for a piece of bark that came out of their backyard in Michigan. Come on, somebody. Why, I'm not talking about two wooden beams or even his dying on the cross because many Jews died at the hands of the Romans. 30,000 plus of them before Jesus arrived there. What made Jesus and his cross different? Well, the Bible says in 2 Corinthians chapter 13 verse four, for though he was crucified through weakness, that is, his flesh became weak for our weaknesses, yet he liveth by what? By the power of God. Now, what is he saying to us? He's saying if Jesus went that way, then you need to look at your flesh and count it weak like Paul did. And yet on the other side of that, I'm picking up the ultimate power of the entire universe and the Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of me. Ladies and gentlemen, the Holy Spirit is not a different Holy Spirit than the same resurrection power that raised up the three-day dead body of Jesus Christ. He is the same Holy Ghost power living on the inside of you that raised up the three-day dead body of Jesus Christ. Now friends, he says it like this, if he raised up Jesus' dead body from the grave, shall he not raise up our bodies from the grave? Now to the world, that kind of stuff is foolishness, crazy, and all they're doing today is discrediting everything they can about Christ and the cross and the message and all that kind of thing. But ladies and gentlemen, to those of us who have had an encounter with God and the Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of us, it is the power of God unto salvation. The power to live is always found in the Holy Spirit. He is life. He's the life. Years ago, a whole sect of ultra-faith movement people were saying that Jesus died spiritually when he went down to hell. Well, that isn't true, that's heresy. The body of Jesus died, but the Christ was very much alive. Come on now. The anointing, the Christ, the anointed one was very much alive. They put the body of Jesus on a slab and rolled the stone. But the Christ, according to the book of Ephesians, went down into the abyss, into the very chambers of hell, and led captivity captive. Come on, somebody. I said, he led captivity captive. Well, who did that? The Holy Spirit did that. And they said, well, how in the world are you gonna be able to explain what's going on? And Jesus said, that's all right. My body's on ice up there. The Spirit that's very much alive when the Spirit entered back into the body of Jesus Christ, he stands up, the stone is rolled away, and he walks out and said, hey, hey, hey, I told y'all. Now why do I say all that? Because that is the crux of the entirety of our hope into the future. Is that the Holy Spirit is gonna raise up our dead bodies from the grave and or at the rapture snatch us off of the earth. If we don't have that assurance, then our hope is gone, and why am I teaching this message? But ladies and gentlemen, the power behind the cross is none other than the Holy Spirit who's dwelling on the inside of you. And it is the cross righted down that makes it possible for the Holy Spirit to work. Look at the pattern through the Word of God. First the Passover, then Pentecost. You gotta have a Passover before Pentecost. You gotta have blood before you have Spirit. He won't put His Spirit on something. Listen, in recent years, I've heard people talking about, oh, I talk in tongues, but they live like the devil. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no. There'll be conviction there. Something will, something, someone is gonna deal with that. And if you're genuinely saved, you don't wanna live like the devil. Come on, what's the difference, but you've heard me say it, what's the difference between the pig and the sheep? If the lamb gets in the mud, he cries his way out. Come get me, shepherd. If the pig gets in the mud, he loves where he's at. So if you are still a pig, still in your sins and in your transgressions, and there's no Holy Spirit dwelling inside of you, then the evidence will be the fact that you're wallering in what you're supposed to get up out of. Come on now. Living the crucified life and walking in the Spirit is, I'm explaining it here now, is having our faith exclusively in the cross of Christ so that the Holy Spirit can sanctify us unto Christ. And this is the only way for the believer to have a life that what we would call an overcoming life, an overcoming Christian life. How many of you wanna be overcomers? Let me explain. This book right here is written for overcomers. I'm gonna try that on again. Even the church at Laodicea in its worst sinful state still has an option to be able to bend their knee in repentance and become an overcomer in the house of God. Think about it. The worst among us while the door of grace is open. So when he's sanctifying us, when the Holy Spirit is sanctifying us, he's removing us from the world by the word, by prayer, by even church attendance. How many of you know this is a discipline for the lives of people right here? How many of you are tired and ready to stay at the house tonight? Come on, be honest, or God's gonna fry you in the seat. Look at there. Half this congregation. But you know what? Your Spirit said, we're going to church. Now, first of all, you're gonna be better because you were here tonight. You may not feel physically better and your minds may be so tired that you're about to drift off to sleep right now. But the mere fact that you're in the atmosphere of the presence of God and the Word of God is coming, faith is coming into your heart and he is sanctifying you. Come on, somebody. He's separating you from that worldly mentality out there that's death and sin into the spirit of a life drawing you closer and closer to the Lord Jesus Christ. I need that old world broke off of me. Sometimes it's like a leech. Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody. Sometimes you have like horrible thoughts about beating knees and stuff and you just want to just, Lord, forgive me. Get that out of my head, out of my, look, it came out of my mouth. From the abundance of my heart, my mouth spoke and there I am. See, the only reason why you're laughing at me is because you haven't told your confession here today, but I am all over the page out there. You're reading my mail. You know my shoe size the whole bit. I'm just telling you, every one of us need to be sanctified on a daily basis and I'm glad the Holy Ghost is the one who's doing it. And as long as I'll keep my faith in the cross, the Holy Spirit will keep working. The moment I take my faith and say, well, I got it figured out, or I just go, oh, you know, I'll be all right. You're on your own. The Holy Spirit will only help and will only bless what He births. If He didn't birth it, He's not gonna bless it. I'm almost done. Y'all with me? Romans 8 and 2 says, for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, half made me free. You're to underline that scripture and say it out loud every day. Do you realize what the Holy Spirit has done through your faith in the cross? The law of the spirit of the life in Christ Jesus half made me free from the law of sin and death. I was condemned. I didn't have to do anything to go to hell. All I had to do is just be born. I was born in sin and in sin did my mother concede me and what happens? I'm on my way to hell just that, but I did have to say yes to Jesus Christ and say I'm gonna keep my faith in what you have done. And because of that, He's made me free. He's not only made me free instantaneously, this is the process of sanctification, instantaneous sanctification. He separated me among, say glory to God. The world is wonderful, I love my enemies. It's a good place to say amen. Hard crew, Jesus. But there is progressive sanctification that takes place. In other words, how many of you can know that just living today, just working today, just whatever that it was, watching TV, driving down the road, whatever it was, there's enough attacks coming against your life to leech on to you with this old stinky world that Lord, you wanna get home. Let me ask it like this. Do you like a bath? See when you were a child, let me talk to this side. I was just smelling something over here. When you're a child, wearing you're a child, you had to be made to get in the bath. Come on, somebody. Because you were undisciplined and you could live in the dirt and get in your bed and not think a thing about it. But because you're an adult in the room, somebody has to adult in the room. Oh, come on, baby. Come on, get in the bath, let's get a bath. No. Now, you can laugh all you want to, but this is what happens in the spiritual realm when the Lord is trying to wash us. And he puts his finger on something and the next thing we know, no, I like that dirt. Come on. You made me go here, you made me go here. How many of your kids have ever eaten dirt before? How many of you have eaten dirt sometime in your lifetime? Why am I saying that? Because that is the propensity of our sinful nature. But what does the Holy Ghost doing? Baby, we need to get in the bath because we got to get you cleaned up. Right. Why? Don't pour water on my head, I don't like it, it's dirty. So what did Johnson and Johnson do? They created no tears and so now he got shampoo and they still cry. I mean, I want to show on the bottle, hey, no tears, no tears. What's up with you crying? No tears here. Look, no tears, no tears, run them eyes. But you know, and I know that if you don't give them a bath, little by little they get worse. In fact, are you preaching with me right here? The longer you stay dirty, the possibility of you getting an infection or disease or something else. I wish you would say a man right there is greater on the scale. So Lord, that's what Peter did. Jesus over there washing feet and all that kind of stuff and he's trying to be Mr. Cool's super religious guy. He said, I'm washing your feet. Jesus, Peter says, don't wash my feet, wash all of me. That's what he said, you should read that Bible. He said, wash all of me then. And we're sincere in his thoughts but Jesus said, you have no need of that, you're clean. It's just the grubbiness of the day that I need to sanctify your feet. I'm gonna show you what it looks like to be sanctified day by day. Come on, somebody, you know what I'm talking about. You read that verse of scripture and you pull your little promise one out there and it don't say nothing to you. But then you read one on a billboard and you're driving down the road and it goes pah! What was the Holy Ghost doing? He making you more like him? I'll tell you one thing the Holy Ghost will never do. He'll never lie. He can't lie. And he'll never lead you to anybody but Jesus. I think I'm preaching right there. You haven't got to worry about the Holy Ghost. Now, if something leads you to something else then you'll know it's not the Holy Ghost. Y'all stop stopping me like this. So is it wrong? Listen, it's on your paper. It is wrong to be saved by faith. We're good at that. And then attempt to be sanctified by self. In other words, I got it now, God. I know just where to put the scalpel. You're like the guy on the TV that's on the phone with the doctor. Make a small incision just above your navel. Aren't you supposed to be doing this? Cause we don't want our flesh dead now, do we? Come on, say amen right there. We don't want our flesh dead cause it's just that little bit of flesh that helps me. But the Lord says there is no glory in our flesh so we should not act like anything of our flesh is going to bring pleasing, is gonna be pleasing to Christ. In fact, he wants you to kill it. In fact, it's so important that you kill it every day that he said, I die daily. Take up your cross daily and follow me. It's wrong to be saved by faith. Lord, I give you my life. Come into my heart, forgive me of my sins. Boom, you're saved. Praise God. And then turn around and act like we got the rest of it all worked out that we'll sanctify ourselves. Well, look at me. I'm the pastor and I heard somebody's knees. The Lord sanctified me all night last night along with a few other things. What does Galatians 3 and 3 says? Look at this, this is important. Paul says, are you so foolish? Having began in the spirit, are you now made perfect, complete by the flesh? Do you think now that you gave your life to Jesus Christ and now all of a sudden you're gonna work all these things out on your own, you can't do that? That's the reason why I set the Holy Spirit to help you. Why are you trying to do it? And they that are Christ have crucified the flesh with affections and lust. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. That's the reason why he says in Romans 8 and 1, there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Well, pastor, I'm trying to walk after the spirit. You don't have to, just keep your faith right here in the Holy Spirit or do the rest. Listen, condemnation is of the devil. Conviction is of the Holy Ghost and that's good. The moment you stop sensing conviction, you better get on your face and call out on the Lord. Because you're set up for condemnation. The enemy is always gonna condemn you. See, he's always gonna condemn you. But the Holy Spirit will always convict you. Well, what's the difference? One, there's no hope. The other one, he gives you hope. He says, repent and you'll be back in full fellowship with me, right? All right, so many people think that walking in the spirit has to do with spiritual things, faithful attendants or, you know, I'm walking in the spirit, I'm giving my finances, I'm witnessing to other people. And those are all good things, but that's not walking in the spirit. What's walking in the spirit? The walk of the Holy Spirit and the life of the believer is the process of sanctification that I've just talked to you about. It is the key for daily living in that I have kept my faith in the cross and what Christ has done. That allows the Holy Spirit to help me to walk in the spirit. Walk according to the way Christ is. The Christ man on the inside of us will never go against what the Holy Spirit is doing inside of our life. Are you with me? Relations five, 16. This I say then, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. What is it that pleases God? It's faith. And Paul came to the conclusion and said, in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. That's a statement. To write this down, the word walk that Paul uses to describe the way a person is supposed to live is actually the order, the orders of their behavior. In other words, when I say I'm a walk in the spirit, it means I'm ordering, I'm keeping my faith in what Christ has done, but I am ordering my behavior based upon the Christ man on the inside of me. You follow what I'm saying? Ordering our behavior according to Christ requires a crucifixion of our own flesh, saying no to our flesh. How many times a day do you have to say no to your flesh? You know and I know. Come on somebody. So Rita's pulling out on Highway 90 yesterday and she's trying to get coming this direction and so forth. We were in a hurry trying to get here yesterday and all of a sudden this guy who's got this gigantic truck, I mean the bumper's off the ground this high and she starts to pull on 90 and then holds back and he goes in the back end of her. Okay. And she calls and said, hey, I just been hit, I'm up here, blah, blah, blah. And Phillip, one of our board members was pulling out, he was right there. And so I came up there and I walked up to the car and I looked at the car and then I looked at this gigantic truck and on the front of it is not even a scratch. I mean, he takes spray paint, it's done. But when our lives, when our lives are a reflection of Christ, it changes the environment around us. It should, right? Other people should take note. Now, I'm not talking about beating your chest, I'm just talking about what you bring to the table. So I walk up there and Rita's got her information out and they're starting to exchange and the information there. And I walk up and I stick my hand out to this guy and I say, hey, I'm Joey Rogers. Thanks for working together with us and all that kind of stuff. He said, oh no. Now, I don't, every time I give my name out in public, I either pucker or duck. He said, oh no, I've hit the preacher. I didn't know this guy from Adam, okay? I've hit the preacher. I said, oh no, you hit the preacher's wife. My car is fine. Why am I saying that? Because it wasn't, I said, how do you know me? Oh, I know you. I've been down in that church before. It's amazing. Everybody around here has been in the Pace Assembly before and everybody got keys. I don't know why the guy who went through the wall didn't just use this key. Come on in. See, if you don't use your key, you don't have a key. Anyway, I'm sorry. That was flesh coming out right there. Our behavior should be such, okay? And it doesn't work. It doesn't work for us all the time because we're in the flesh. Anybody ever get mad today? Thank you for the honest folk in the house. The rest of y'all are going straight down. One day I'm just gonna hear a sucking sound and half my congregation is just gonna disappear right before my very eyes. Just, where'd you go? You're battling, you and I are battling with this flesh all the time. You know, that's, I wish I really had a vivid picture of this but in my mind, in the video of my mind when I see Abraham or whoever that it is in the Bible bringing that lamb or that oxen or whatever it may be and putting it on the altar, I don't see the bullock walking up and going, hey, go ahead and cut my throat today. Why did they have horns on the four corners of the brazen altar? Because they tied the sacrifice, bind the sacrifice to the altar. That's you and me. Because our flesh, whenever we start getting hurt, come on, a little cut on our finger, a little paper cut. Think about having your, you're an animal throat cut gutted, inspected and then burnt for the sacrifice. That's a radical thing. But when he speaks of the brazen altar when he speaks of the sacrifice that there's this particular sacrifice name that I'm trying to think of right now, the whole burnt offering, there it is. When he speaks of the whole burnt offering, that's what Abraham was saying to Isaac. That's what Jesus represents on all of the offerings, the whole burnt offering. So it wasn't like, oh, I get this, I'll sacrifice this but I won't sacrifice this. What is he doing? He's making us more like him by getting rid of us. There can't be two of me. There can only be one of him. And that one of him is what influences people. Just like walking up on somebody, you don't even know who they are. And suddenly the emanating presence of God through the Holy Spirit is coming out through you and you haven't even told them you're a church goer or you got a cross around your neck or anything like that. It's just the presence of God. Now, some people might call it the aura. But the Holy Spirit is not an aura. He's not an it. He's not a thing. He's a person. And in him I live and in him I move and in him I have my being. And as long as I stay crucified and that flesh stays crucified, the Holy Spirit works through me and works in me. And when I come up on the situation, when we met the guy down there and shook his hand, oh, I hit the preacher. I said, okay, let's, you know, we can work this out right here. We don't have to have the police officers come and do all the reporting and all that kind of stuff. We can work this out right here. So, yeah, we do this. Okay. And then what did I do? I went into preacher mode. That's exactly right. I invited him to church. What was that all about? I didn't know about the car. I didn't get the car fixed. He proposes to start telling me how that a year ago his wife's mother who had Alzheimer's passed away and just a few weeks ago, his mother with Alzheimer's passes away. So why am I there now? I ain't about the car. It's about, hey, man, I'm praying for you, praying for your family. Come on to church. We'd love you, love to have you. The man just hit the car. If you let flesh go, you're going, hey, get you got cold card out right now. I want to see some lizards around here or something. I need something in my hair. And you miss the whole point. Right? What does it become? It becomes an opportunity for me to let the Christ man out. Am I right? If you miss that opportunity, you missed the whole reason why you all went through and suddenly you're focused upon something fleshy. I wish I had some help right here. So let me drop this in your spirit. The only thing standing between you and victory, not you and Victor, but you and Victor, is unbelief. The refusal to believe that his sufficiency is enough in everything. Well, pastor, I got it into spiritual things, but you know, the car, I got to take the car down to the, no, no, no. He is sufficient in all things. Start looking for the operation of the Holy Spirit in every situation of your life. And you become blessed and a blessing at the same time. Anybody get anything out of this here tonight? Now I'm going to tell you, I'm not going to mention knees being broke, not ever again. And I'm not even going to talk about little lizards and Geico and all that kind of stuff. I don't want you to walk out of here and start posting stuff out. Hey, talked about lizards tonight, boy. I want you to get the message, okay? Somebody asked me the other day, did you ever think about going to be a comic? I said, well, if this gig don't work out after 30 years, I'm thinking about it right here. I want to pray for you before we walk out of this building. Because the Bible says, mm, mm, mm, mm. The Bible says that the seed that I have just sown, they're old birds, old birds waiting to snatch the seed of this victory message and overcoming message for you. Doubt and unbelief, all kinds of stuff to snatch this word. I'm praying right now when I'm praying, please understand, you don't have to. It's like whenever dad would plant the seed in the ground, I wrote on the back of the tractor and the disc on the back of it would cover the seed up to make sure the birds wouldn't eat it up. And that was my job, to make sure the seed got in the ground and it got covered up. My prayer right now is that God will cover the seed in your life right now so that the enemy won't steal this because he knows and I know, and you do too, that this message right here is the one that's gonna keep you out of trouble, get you out of trouble and give you a joy filled life in the spirit every day of your life. If you believe that and you want this prayer, lift both of your hands towards heaven right now. Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray for the seed that is sown among these and those that are watching right now that you would just cover this seed, Lord, in our hearts and in our lives. We need you so desperately, Lord, and we need the truth of your word. So I don't want Lord it to be forgotten. I want the seed to muse inside of the hearts and lives of people and suddenly it springs up in the lives of other people as they're used by the hands of God. We give you praise for that right now in Jesus' mighty name. Everybody believes it, say it, amen. Amen, come on, give God glory for His Word tonight. Stand to your feet, shake hands with somebody, be nice on the way out the door or otherwise Jesus ain't living on the inside of you. I'll see you Sunday. Don't miss it, it's gonna be a great time.