 Greetings, everyone. I'm James P. Madonna of Megalife21, and welcome to Megalife21 Live. And today, on our show, we have a very special guest to return of the one and only The Evangelists Can Create, who is standing right here. Welcome back, sir, to be back. Yes, and we have, right from Can Create, assisting The Evangelist Can Create in his talk, a sermon, whatever you want to call it, is a longtime friend and associate and a very knowledgeable person in the word, and his name is Brother Bob. Brother Bob, welcome. Hi, I'm Bob. How are you doing? Good, very good. Okay, Brother Bob will be assisting The Evangelist Can Create. Now I turn it over to The Evangelist Can Create and Brother Bob. Okay. Thank you, James. Got Brother Bob over here. Brother Bob helps me out, certain verses, some things might come to my mind, but I don't know where to go to the verses. Sorry, Brother Bob here, he's very intelligent, and I thank God for Brother Bob, and he knows the word, which is fantastic, and he knows the grace message. Okay, we're going to flip around a couple things here, because there's a lot of confusion that's going on in the body of Christ. You see, we're saved by God's grace. The people in the body of Christ understand that, but since we're living in the last days, Christ can return at any minute. In the Bible, it says, before Christ returns, there's going to be a falling away. So everything that God has shown me, I see a kind of falling away when people are going to other doctrines. And once you go to other doctrines and start preaching on prosperity messages, God's going to give you this and he's going to give you that, and you run towards them, then you take your eyes off Christ. Your focus, our main focus has to be on Christ and how to edify and build up the body of Christ and also how to go out and to teach people who don't know the grace message and also to go out to the unsafe people and get the message to them about salvation. Now, before we go into the lesson, the teachings, I want to explain a little bit of what does it mean to be an evangelist. An evangelist is somebody who goes out and preaches the word of God to people that don't know Christ. So that's what we do. We're evangelists. We're not pastors. We're not preachers. But in the Bible in Paul's letters, according to how far you are in the faith and how much you're growing, how much you have your eyes on Christ, the more you're in the Word and the more that God teaches you, it comes to a point if you know the grace message, Paul says now you can go out and teach other people where there's confusion to break that confusion. So this is what we do. We teach the word. You have preachers, you have pastors, they have lots. The only problem is when it comes to the preachers and the pastors is they're almost being caught up with putting themselves up on the pedestal and taking Christ off the throne. And you can't do that because in the Bible it says you're going to be highly accountable for what was given to you. So when people come along and say they're pastors, they're preachers, you better have your life in order. So when you preach, you better be preaching the Word of God being controlled by the Holy Spirit where the Holy Spirit takes over the preaching. You see when I teach and Brother Bob goes out and gets the Word to people, it's all from the Word of God but we're letting the Holy Spirit control us that when we speak the Spirit takes over our language. So there's no confusion because there's so much going on today and confusion in the body of Christ that has to be broken. So I just wanted to get that across to the people out there and now we're going to go into our lesson and we're going to go into Galatians 5 where we're talking about the flesh that verses the Spirit. So now if we go to Galatians 519, Brother Bob, could you read that? Yes. Galatians 519, the acts of the sinful nature are obvious, sexual immorality and purity and debauchery, idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy, drunkenness, orgies and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. Okay, now what I have here, the old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is this, opposed from what the Holy Spirit wants and the Spirit gives us desires that are opposed from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other and your choices are never free from the conflict. But when you are directed by the Holy Spirit, controlled by the Holy Spirit, you are no longer under and subject to the law. Now, we've got to explain what we're talking about with the law. You see, God wrote the Ten Commandments, the law. So, before you come to Christ and Christ becomes your savior, you're putting yourself under the law. Now, all the law is showing you and showing us is you're a sinner and you need Christ as your savior. See, Christ when he died on the cross and he shed his blood and rose from the dead, he fulfilled the law. So, the only way you get to the Father now is through Christ. And the only way you're forgiven is by the blood of Christ. So, now you're under grace. But if you don't know Christ as your savior, you're putting yourself under the law. Now, we have confusion here in the body of Christ today. People are saved by grace but they're mixing the law back in with grace. And Paul says, God forbid, why are you going back under that? That's where you came from. So, the law just shows us that you're a sinner and you need Christ as a savior. So, before you come to Christ, the law shows you you're a sinner. Now, we're going to get into the flesh here. And the workings of the flesh. We have fornication. Fornication could be a different thing. It's unlawful. It's sex between two unmarried people. How big is that today? That is going on so rapidly that back in the 70s, you had different TV shows. You had the one, what was that TV show called? When John Ritter... Oh, Tree's Company. Tree's Company. Okay, they weren't sexually having sex but that was two women living with a man. Well, you also had swingers' clubs in New Jersey, Los Angeles, or Plato's Retreat. Yes, exactly. Where people swat wives. They were married and they swat wives and husbands with other couples. Now you also have where you have a man and woman living together, they don't want to get married because they feel they do get married. Down the line, they might get divorced. So they live together. And in their sexual bed, they're doing what they do. Yeah, the so-called open relationships. I like to call it. Okay, but God calls that fornication. Dirty magazines, fornication. How many people run to the dirty magazines because they're not connected to their spouse? Or porno websites. Right, exactly. Now you have uncleanness. This is dealing with drugs. This is dealing with filthy stuff. How many people are on drugs today because they have to feed that appetite of their empty soul, their heart? It's empty. I know I had problems with the drugs and drinking. And I loved the party all the time. And when I woke up in the morning, I couldn't wait to smoke a joint and have a cup of coffee. That was my thing. I went to work. I worked. We had our coffee break. I was outside smoking a joint. That was my thing. Went back to work. Had lunch. On my lunch break, after I was done eating, I smoked a joint. Went back to work. Finished up. Way home. Maybe smoked a joint or went home and ate. I had a smoke a joint. I loved the party. Then I got involved with the hard drugs. I got involved with the alcohol. And that's a dead-end street. But like I said, I loved the party. And this became my life. I loved rock and roll. It was like sex and drugs and rock and roll. All three go together. This is what these rock bands do. But you've got to realize, there's an unclean spirit who's the prince of darkness and his name is Satan. His name is the devil. He's a fallen angel. He comes in bombards or flesh. Sex, drugs, rock and roll. That's what he's about. That's what he's about. Do you think sexually transmitted diseases might be a form of punishment? Absolutely. Then you have variances. This is a difference of opinions. People have different opinions. Oh, I'm right. No, you're wrong. No, that's not what it is. You go by what I say. Then you have wrath. That's rage. That's violence. That's angry. How many people today are angry? Especially here on the northeast coast. How many people are stressed out? How many people are on the edge? How many people, when you're driving your car, do you see like, it's like they got to get there and they're going nowhere. Or they cut you off. Or they go through stop signs. Or they give you the middle finger. How many people are doing this today? Or they tailgate you. Or they tailgate you. Or it's like you're online and you're impatient on the line. How many people are doing this today? How many people are angry? You see, when you're growing and controlled by the Holy Spirit, God's going to show you something when you talk to people. He's showing me things of people's faces. And it's almost, they look like they're distorted. There's an ugliness about them. There's a darkness about them that you're seeing this. Because the more you grow spiritualized, God is starting to show you stuff because you're connected with the Holy Spirit. Now you have, I'm sorry. Now you have seductions. That's rebellion against authority. How many people are doing this even in the sports world? They think they're like they're a king. They sit in a mansion. They make millions of dollars. So they believe they're above the law. So now, if they get drunk and drive them, there's ones that get away with it because the cop recognizes the individual and sees them as a sports star. So it's like, could I have your autograph and he lets them go? But now how many are caught and apparently it's just defined. But how many are caught that are like nobody that go to chill? But this is the system that we live in. You have heresies. A doctrine is opinion about religion. How many people come across with different opinions about religions? How many religions are out there? You can't even name how many religions are out there. But you know what? They're there. You have religions say you find God inside yourself. You have religions that say meditate and you can get to God. There's so many different opinions about religions and it's all false. Now, when you go to the other side you're talking about the fruit of the spirit. Now Bob, if you go down into chapter 5 where do you find the fruit of the spirit? Would you like to read that? You find it at Galatians chapter 5 verse 22 but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the spirit let us keep in step with the spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. Okay, thank you brother Bob. Now, you're seeing the fruit of the spirit which is different than the works of the flesh. If you go love, what's the opposite of love? Hate. If you go joy, what's the opposite of that? It's like people think they're happy but they're not. Peace, what's the opposite of peace? War. Long suffering, what are you suffering for as a believer? You're suffering because you put your faith in Christ. The Bible says come out of this world. Don't be part of this world. So the more you come out of this world and the more you got your eyes on Christ, you're going to suffer as a believer. Then we have gentle. Be gentle to people. Then we have goodness. Be goodness. Show good to people. Your light. Shine God's light. Patience. We all deal with patience. Don't we deal with we're impatient? Like a microwave, you want to stick it in there and I want my food now. Can we be like more patient? Can we be more patient with people? Why are we so impatient? Now, we go here. If you live by the spirit, let's walk by it. These are the big things of growing. As a Christian, you got to be filled up with the Holy Spirit. So every time you wake up in the morning, you should ask God and give him the right to say, Lord, you fill me up with the Holy Spirit. I'm empty today. Fill me up. Let the Holy Spirit control my life today. And what the problem is with believers, they think they're filled up when they're not. Every day brings on different adventures. Every day brings on a different day of problems and situations you're going to go through. So every day we wake up, we should ask God to fill us up with the Holy Spirit and give him the right to fill us up because this is what God wants to do in our life. He wants us to be filled up. But we got to raise our hands and say, I give up, Lord. My desire is to live for Christ. I can't do it, but I know the Holy Spirit can control my life today. And this is what we have to do. And there's too many Christians that think they get it and they don't get it. And that's a conflict with the flesh. Now we're going to go into how do we deal with the flesh that versus the Spirit. Now, Brother Bob, do you know where you can find that in scriptures where it talks about putting the full armor of God on? Yeah, that's found in Ephesians chapter 6, verse 40. It says, Finally, be strong in the Lord and his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against the flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil and the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground and after you have done everything to stand. Stand firm then with the belt of truth buckled around your waist with the breastplate of righteousness in place and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all of this, take up the shield of faith which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God and pray in the spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people. Pray for me that wherever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel for I am a ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly as I should. Okay, where did you find that, Bob? Ephesians 6. Okay, so now Bob read that and now we're going to break down. Ephesians 6. Okay, and what was that verse? Ephesians 6 verses 10 through 19. Okay, final word. Be strong in the Lord's mighty power. You understand what that means? You have the Holy Spirit living inside you. You have to let the Holy Spirit control you. You have to be filled up with the Holy Spirit. Now, when you're filled up with the Holy Spirit, you have this tremendous power that lives inside you. Your Creator is living inside you. The only way you can overcome sin, flesh, and the devil, okay, is when you are strengthening with God's power. That's why if you're unsaved, you have no power to overcome sin. But if you're a believer, you have the power built within you to overcome sin. Now, it says that we don't fight against flesh and blood. So you as a believer, if you get an argument with an individual, you're fighting against that flesh and blood. It's not what you're fighting against. You're fighting against the devil. And he's sitting in heavenly places. You see, the devil has his throne that is sitting in the heavenly places. The demons, which are fallen angels, are sitting in heavenly places. So when I met individuals, Christians, and I told them about that, they don't believe that. They believe they're on this earth and they're not sitting in the heavenly place. But Brother Bob just read it to you, in the Word of God, where they are sitting. So now when you come across believers like this or preachers who preach this, they're confusing you in the body of Christ. Because like I said, there's so much confusion going on in the body of Christ. So when you fight, you're not fighting against flesh. You're not fighting against people. You're fighting against the devil. And the Bible says you have to put on the full armor and be strengthened with his might. So when you have the full armor on, you're being protected. God protects you because the Holy Spirit is controlling you. So this is what we're fighting against. We're fighting against people. People who run say they're doing their thing. This is who they are. This is what they do. We're fighting against. Not them. We're fighting against the prince of power. These that sit in heavenly places. And what the problem is, is like if something's coming your way and you get caught in that comfort zone, but now all of a sudden you're going through a trial or a tribulation or a persecution and you sit back and you can't handle it. It's like you slink away and you fall back into the world. And the devil looks at you and says, I don't have to worry about that individual but we'll keep an eye on that individual. We got to go attack the ones that are growing in the faith. We got to go attack the ones that know the grace message. We got to take their eyes off of Christ and put their eyes on the world and themselves. And we have a problem in the body of Christ and we got messages going out there of prosperity messages like I was talking about. God's going to give you this. Name it and claim it and it's yours. Too many Christians are going this way. And when you put your mind on these material things and this is where your mindset you just took your eyes off of Christ. I know. Before I was a believer my life was sex, drugs and rock and roll. That's where my mindset was and this is what I did and this is who I was. Now today, that's not me no more because I'm a new person and new creation in Christ. And when you take your eyes off of Christ and you fall back into the world and the devil looks at you and it's almost like he's laughing at you. He looks at you like you're a joke but if you're on fire for Christ and you're wrong in Christ he doesn't like that. So he's going to come and he's going to attack you and he's going to attack you hard. You might lose friends. You might lose family members. You might lose your job. You might end up on the street. You might be executed. You're being mocked. You're going through trials. You're going through tribulations. But what does the Bible say? Count it all joy for my name's sake. So if you're going through all this stuff and you're pleasing God God's joy is overflowing in your life. And when you have God's joy it's like you ain't worried about nothing. You got peace. You got rest. You got security. All in Christ. And if you're growing spiritual wise what are you going to worry about? My life, yeah there's changes that have to come in my life. Just like brother Bob. Brother James. We all have to go through changes. This is called spiritual growth. The Bible says to be content with contentment. Happiness and prosperity doesn't necessarily have to be a lot of money. It could take many forms. Excuse me brother Bob if you need to get close to the light be my guest. No it's okay. Okay good. So what I'm saying is unsaved people run to material things. This is who they are. This is what they do. They want the mansions. They want the money. They want the fame. And other people fall in their footsteps. You take shows like American Idol. What is that show? Idol. Worshiping other individuals. How many people say me being a Christian entertainer okay before I came to Christ man I watched every Michael Jackson video. And I looked at him upstairs. Gene Kelly. I looked at these guys like they were mentors in my life. Almost like they were my idols. I want to be like them. The Bible says your idols should be Jesus Christ. But that's you as a believer. If you're unsaved you're going to idolize these people. You're going to want to follow in their footsteps. If they have things going on positive you want to follow in their footsteps. But that's good works. Good works don't get you right with God. Only the blood of Christ gets you right with the Father. So now as you as a believer if you're going to pray you got to go through Christ to get to the Father. As you as an unsaved person if you pray and you're not covered by the blood of Christ and he's not your savior you can't get to the Father. The only way you get to the Father is through God. So us as believers we have to be growing and keeping our eyes on Christ. Now brother Bob I want to go to a passage that maybe you know where to go where it talks about how God is molding us and shaping us into the image of Christ. Do you know where we can find that? To the best of my knowledge I guess I'll try Romans chapter 5. We're going to go to Romans chapter 5. Let's see. Okay. Try Romans chapter 5 verse 1. Therefore, since we have been justified through faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have gained access by faith and to the grace in which we now stand and we boast in the hope of the glory of God not only we glory in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance perseverance character and character hope and hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Okay. We'll stop right there. Now everything that brother Bob talked about was just what I was talking about the persecution the pain the suffering we're going to go through but you see you're sharing in God's glory the amazing thing about God is he wants to share with you what he has I mean how awesome is that? Well if brother Bob can look up the passage where he talks about how God is molding us and shaping us into the image of Christ okay and it's also talking about we are new creations in Christ now brother Bob if you can find that and read that that would be really good so first you're going to look for alright? molding and shaping us into Christ so I just want to talk about that a little bit you see what it is before you become a believer the angels look at you almost like you're worthless but see God is looking at you in a different way he's working on your heart so the closer you're coming to the message and you receive that message and you accept Christ as your savior God does the miracle from up above and the Holy Spirit comes into you now you're covered by the blood of Jesus now God starts working on you he starts to mold you and shape you into the image of Christ so what that means is you're not becoming Christ you're taking on his characteristics and the more you let God start to mold you and shape you in Christ the more you're going to grow spiritualized and this is what God loves to do he loves to take a sinner like he did with Paul but before Paul's name was changed he was Saul now when he was Saul he sat in high authority with the Pharisees and he knew the law but what he did was when the 12 Apostles went out and talked to people how to be saved and to be covered by the blood of Christ Saul came in and persecuted them don't listen to these people in fact he even killed Christians so now there came a point on their journey they were going to Damascus and on that road Paul was following them but then he seen a great light and that light blinded him and that light was Christ and said to Saul why do you persecute me he blinded him but he gave him the message and changed his name to Paul and told him to go to the Gentiles and preach you're saved by my grace so now what happened was it's almost like Saul was the devil's man and the devil loved this but God looked at Saul in a different way a totally different way the angels looked at Saul almost like to say that guy will never become a believer but what God did was he changed it up he saved Paul and he told them to go to the Gentiles so when he was growing God was molding and shaping him into the image of Jesus Christ he humbled them too he humbled them through the things he went through but the angels look in on this and they're amazed how this man is changing so now since he's changing he hated him just like the world hates you and he was coming out of this world and all the high authorities were finding out about him they want to silence him so they captured him and he was in jails, different jail cells and Paul's letters there is different things where you're talking Galatians Ephesians and Jill but he got the word out to certain individuals to go to the churches God was molding and shaping him but he says he was the chief of sinners almost like Paul looking at the individual believer saying look if God saved me and I was the worst and I persecuted Christians if he saved me he can save anybody he wants so Paul had a passion for Christ do we still have that same passion do we have that passion that Paul has and are we giving God to write, to mold and shape us into the image of Christ I mean even in my life with the drugs and with the alcohol from me that was my old man that was my old self God molding me changing me into the individual he wants me to be for his glory so God gets the glory it's about the Lord it's about me it's about him getting a glory so now when I give a testimony to people that's going to edify and build them up but they're going to see what God is doing in my life and they'll receive that to say what about me but you see what we do is we take our salvation lightly and we take it for granted and you as a believer cannot do that because you will never grow spiritual wise and the devil will look at you and say they're down keep an eye on them keep them down this is what he wants to do in our lives he wants us to get off of Christ and concentrate on the world I mean how big is it today in the sports world now you got the Super Bowl coming up which people don't even watch football but when that game comes on they're all glued in front of the TV look at the commercials look how much money is going out it's becoming entertainment so instead of you being in the Bible studying your Bible you're watching the Super Bowl so it's almost like God saying to you what's more important that stupid Super Bowl for my work well we run to the Super Bowl we watch the commercials we watch the Super Bowl or if you like basketball which I do I like sports I watch sports I grew up in sports but there's a time and a place for that and there's a time and there's a place for the Lord I mean I put on a fan the sports channel I like listening to it hearing air I listen to it but when you hear these people talk like my team got beat and it's almost like they're talking like they want to jump off a bridge that's their life that's your life when you're talking about sports what do you care about sports what restaurant are you going to go to what club are you going to go to is there drugs coming in am I going to get drunk tonight that's the unsafe people it has affected the body of Christ and you know what that's not a good thing you're not going to grow because soon, very soon Christ is ready to return and Christ is going to look at you as a believer and he's not going to judge you because of your sin that's paid for you're going to get judged according to what you did with Christ after you became a believer so were you a doer and a walker or were you a sitter and a talker a lot of Christians that I know that I'm in contact with they're idle they sit and complain God can't use you if you complain and you talk about other people and you sit and you do nothing He can't use you I have friends who were believers and they got their mindset on money and they want to sit in mansions and how to better themselves financially you're taking your eyes off of Christ how many churches have I been in and brother Bob's been in where I walk in and it's like I have to present and talk to the individuals about Christ can I just walk into a church that I'm visiting where people I know where they approach me and they talk about the word where's it coming from therein so now I talk about it so now I get a response hey don't get me wrong, that's cool you're edifying that's great but where's it coming from the other end I have another individual who's a friend of mine he's a believer when we talk we hang out how come I always got to talk about Christ in the Bible where's his conversation and now this other individual says to me oh no he's growing and I was talking to he can relate with me he's on the same page as me he can't relate to me he's not on the same page as me when we pal around together you think he say to me hey Ken look what I read in scriptures today or look what I found oh I can look at my friend and say whoa that's really good so why do I always have to talk to him about Christ something wrong with that picture it's invaded it's invaded the body of Christ the bible says come out of this world don't be part of this world where you knew your mind in Christ this world is passing away so when you leave this world it passed away you can't come back here you're going to leave it all behind your money, your cars, your houses whatever you possessed is left behind it's gone it passed away so why are you putting your treasures putting your mind and concentrating on this world when it's passing away we got to wake up we got to wake up in the body of Christ because when the last individual was saved under God's grace we're out of here which is called the rapture and you don't want to be caught up in the air in the rapture off guard that's why the disciples said to Christ when is the time and when is the hour and he says no man knows the time or the hour not even a son of man but the father knows the time in the hour so was that a mystery he was hiding from them how come if that was a mystery how come that was hidden maybe because he's not giving you the time in the hour because if you knew around that time or that hour he was going to return you as a believer are going to get your act together you see what I'm trying to say so maybe God keeps that mystery from us okay that when Christ comes back he's coming back he's expected that's why when somebody gets robbed a thief robs your house they rob it when you're off guard okay when you're not there or you're sleeping they know the whole layout of your house they come intact when you're off guard that's how they attack they're not going to attack when you're waiting for them they attack when you're not waiting for them and that's what we have a problem in the body of Christ the Bible says there would be a falling away before Christ returns I'm saying it I do shows in the body of Christ now James knows about that brother Bob knows about that I mean how many times have I done it and I heard the preacher say take my number take my number call me you can come in perform for the kids and do some children shows great I call up I don't even get a call back that's a preacher how does that make me feel now I come across other Christians well maybe that's not your arena that's not what it's about it's about you can't return a telephone call that's what we're talking about but these individuals they just get behind the pulpit and preach a message and put down other people and they can't give you a return call something's wrong with that picture you know I press on I don't worry about that I pray for them individuals now just imagine somebody else comes along and they're growing but they're still weak and that happens to them are they gonna fall away because of the preacher or are they gonna be in a word growing the word and press on and just pray for that preacher we have problems big time problems in the body of Christ that have to change I'm very fascinated with 2 Timothy because 2 Timothy describes how people will become in the end times alright you know what let's go to that Bob let's go to 2 Timothy okay we're right here this is the dangers of the last days you should also know of this Timothy that in the last days there will be very difficult times for people will love only themselves and their money they will be lustful proud scupping at God disobedient to their parents ungrateful they will consider nothing sacred they will be unloving unforgiving they will slander others have no self control they will be cruel have no interest in what is good they will betray their friends be reckless pulled up with pride puffed up with pride love fleshers rather than God they will act as if they are religious but they will reject the power that could make them godly you must stay away from people like that this is just what we were talking about you got to stay away from people like this it's talking about the ungodly but also in there are Christians like living like this huh so we got a problem here there's a problem in the body of Christ this is a big problem in the USA don't you see where it says here pleasures boastful proud pleasures in what sports drugs alcohol music sex pleasures the appetite has to be filled inside they're empty do you realize we're not used to go to bars what's it saying in the bible don't get drunk with wine but be filled up with the Holy Spirit that people that do get drunk and do the carousing they do it at night how true is that you used to come out of work and what you'd go home take a shower eat it's night time go to the bar but who do you meet at your bar at the bar your friends and people sitting there all getting drunk all getting tanked why because they're lonely people they got to fill the emptiness inside them to make them happy something missing inside ok so now what do we have in the bars happy hour happy time drinks are cheap drink them all up I used to go to the bar with my one friend and he used to line them drinks up because he knew in the course of that hour after that hour they were going back to the original price he had five drinks lined up at a cheap price and then when he drank them and now time was running short five more now the happy hour is over and now people are walking around like I'm happy let's go smoke cigarettes let's go smoke a joint man that's a great tune on the jukebox yeah we're happy yeah we're having fun and then the kids do ecstasy you ain't happy that's not being happy I mean the disciples they definitely drank wine but they didn't get drunk no because the Bible says don't get drunk don't get drunk that's where they made the mistake during prohibition but see what the problem is is with believers they have stained from alcohol because they think it could lead to them liking it and getting involved in the choice okay you don't have to go here because the one guy says well how one preacher says well how can I not become an alcoholic and the preacher says don't pick up the bottle and drink it self control because that one drink that one drink can lead to you being an alcoholic one drink because I seen it happen to my friends I had one friend who passed away he was an alcoholic that one drink a glass of beer from his father when he was 12 years old that led to him being a drunk and dying an alcoholic one joint one joint can lead you and move you in the directions where you're a drug addict now when people say no that can never happen they don't know what they're talking about because with myself one joint lead to cocaine lead to angel dust acid mescaline people know what I'm talking about quailudes down ups cocaine one joint and some other drugs so you got it peer pressure is big it's big it's huge so what is it the high the high becomes boring with smoking pot because what it is it weirs off and it's almost like when something new comes into your neighborhood you want to try that and go into another higher level so when cocaine came around and you snorted the coke you felt like a million bucks you felt like you could do anything and you loved it but then another drug came along and now you got today you got ecstasy you got the pharmaceutical pills that kids are taking and they're drinking with it they're getting drunk their bodies are like forget about it they're walking around in a a stupor like that song from the 80s I found a new drug or something like that yeah got a new drug got a new drug why? because they're empty inside people that are empty inside can run to the money want the money want the power to fill that emptiness inside them then they get a boat they like the boat for five years they get sick in a boat what's going to make me happy a bigger boat so they're going by a bigger boat like greed so a couple years later that we're off oh let me just get that car that'll make me happy I'll be fulfilled so they get that car four years later oh I gotta get a vet I want a whole collection of everything it never ends because you have emptiness inside you when God created you and you came out of your mother's womb there's a void inside you we all had don't rich people feel that they're giving their children love by buying them things well that's what they think or get off my back get off my back expressing being a parent just to keep buying the material yeah and they don't show love just give and that's like I'm showing you love and then the kids get spoiled okay then when it gets to a point where the kids should be working and the parent says well I gave you this that and the other thing now it's time to go to work they're like I don't want to go to work what's that I never did it and I'm not going to do it and what's what young people being obsessed with texting they have become so social and and now they're texting while they're driving and they're getting killed in car accidents you know it's an obsession they have they have lost social skills they don't they don't know how to communicate with other people anymore okay we're gonna end up here now because this was you know I think this was a good teaching outstanding this is a very special day in my opinion I think so so now we're gonna end up here with the Holy Spirit and just give you some verses Elias II 7 says let Christ build you up you have to walk in the spirit you gotta be controlled by the Holy Spirit you have to renew your mind in Christ you have to be in the Word and you have to be in prayer and you have to be in good fellowship where the body of Christ is gonna edify you up and motivate you and you pray for each other you know the problem is when you go to church and people are talking about sports fishing where are you gonna go to eat that's not why you're in fellowship you're there for Christ you're there to serve one another to edify one another to build up one another so you're getting ready for your work week to go out there on that battlefield where the full armor got on see when I grew up as a Roman Catholic one of the things I didn't like about it was that these people went to church went to Mass every Sunday all dressed up to the max to the hilt and nobody got to know anybody in church nobody the priest said okay greet your fellow person and say alright peace be with you and they barely shake your hand to the right, to the left and back of them peace be with you and they would leave and nobody would there was no fellowship no fellowship at all and it's affected the body of Christ I mean one guy asked me to go to his church to visit I'm like okay so it's like do you have a sharing time and almost he looked at me like what's that I says well you know when you come in and you're new coming in you raise your hand and you can say I'm glad to be here this is my name okay and I'm visiting oh yeah you could do that okay well that's good but then could I share something with them when God's the one in my life no you can't do that so you know what I said didn't end individual I don't want to go to your church that totally doesn't make sense that they said that to you so he says to me how come well because the reason is is you're keeping people close minded okay if I'm coming in and visiting and I raise my hand and telling who I am I'm supposed to edify that body of Christ and motivate that body of Christ so maybe it's it would be like a domino effect affecting other people but if I come in and I raise my hand and say I'm a visitor and then when the service is over you're talking about where you're going to go to eat or did you watch the Knicks last night I don't want to be there but in his eyes it was all about the pastor only yeah well yeah because they're looking at him like he's up on a pedestal too much of that's going on and that's not good because we're meeting brother Bob we're going we had sharing time our pastor would say anybody want to share something anybody got a testimony it's open to you that's how it should be you're edifying the body of Christ it helps you grow well yeah because like you're a unit and the Bible says we're two or more gathering my name there's power there because don't forget when that's over and you're going into Monday you got a whole work week ahead of you are you equipped are you ready there's a battlefield out there what's the point in calling somebody brother if there's no brother I agree I agree with you now you got Romans 116 for each the word it's the power of God that's your job you got to go preach the word you got to go evangelize you got to go hand out tracks show people you're different let them see something different about you one lady I witnessed to she goes wow I don't want to interrupt you you have a smile on your face this big and your face is glowing that's a glory of God or you might because I love doing what I'm doing or you might meet somebody who hit rock bottom in their life and you might turn their life around well you're not going to turn their life around Christ will will use you to get to that individual right right that's what it's about now you have over here Colossians 210 this is where we're going to finish up Colossians 210 Colossians 210 just give brother Bob a second there Colossians 210 therefore do not let anybody judge you by what you eat or drink or in regard to a religious festival or a new moon celebration or a Sabbath day these are a shadow of the things that were to come the reality however is found in Christ now you see what brother Bob just said to you new moons new days celebrations holidays is this what the world is still doing people run to astrology there's a holiday coming up you're making it special see I like Thanksgiving I think Thanksgiving is great I love it too that's a day of thanks to God families are getting together I think Thanksgiving is great Christmas has become more of a worldly thing because you don't know when Christ was born we kind of celebrate that at the end of the year because what's a week later the new year so they stick it together it has become materialistic Easter has become all that's when Christ rose from the dead the Easter bunny thing Easter bunny type of thing so I don't know when he was resurrected from the dead I don't know the month I don't know the dead but the main thing is if you're a believer in Christ you have to put your eyes and keep your eyes on Christ because when I go out to do shows and when I'm done and people come to me I talk about my faith I talk about Christ because that's what Paul says Paul says in his letters God gets the glory I'm doing this for Christ I'm not doing it for Paul I'm not doing this to show off I don't want to get clapping from individuals I'm doing this for Christ like these TV evangelists today I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me I depend on Christ His mighty power that works within me you see what it is what I'm talking about it's right there I work very hard at this I depend on Christ's mighty power that works within me so if I'm out there doing shows and God's using me as a tool who's working the mighty power that's within me Christ God's power is turned on it's awesome so now when people come to me I talk about Christ that's what Paul says right here I don't depend on myself that's flesh you could be talented and you could be good but there might be somebody who comes along that spiritually is growing and God is almost like looking at that individual saying you don't belong on that stage that person belongs on that stage because when he's done he talks about me so you can't hold the candle to this individual because it's not the individual it's me doing it and I use that individual as a tool this is what it's all about people we gotta get our act together we gotta keep our eyes on Christ when you pray use the word of God Paul's letters this is what I pray for this is what I pray for it's the word too many Christians I've been in this situation when they pray it's all flesh it's material things where's the word you pray let the flesh go let the spirit take over pray in the spiritual realm not in the flesh because when you pray in the spiritual realm Jesus is almost looking at the Father saying you hear that Father that's what we wanna hear that individual is praying for other individuals to grow that individual is praying for Christians to have a full armor of God on that individual is praying for other Christians to be controlled filled with the Holy Spirit that's what it's about that individual is praying for other Christians and even themselves and the deceiving of the devil that individual is praying for other Christians to get out there plant seeds, water seeds bring people to Christ it's the word we have to use the word in prayer because the more you study the word the more the word comes into you when you talk to God God works through his word and when you pray to God it's his word coming out of you because you're fulfilled inside this is all about Christ so I want to thank Brother James, Brother Bob and in conclusion I'm going to pray for every believer people that don't know Christ thank you and have a great day okay you're going to pray now alright and we can we can finish in prayer Lord I thank you for this time I thank you that you filled this up with the Holy Spirit I thank you that the Holy Spirit controlled this lesson, this teaching and that your word is going to be given out Lord and that we will pray for individuals Christian individuals to get along with each other and not be like the world and not be like the flesh and come out of this world to motivate, to educate to edify and build up the body of Christ and pray for each other and pray that they will grow renew their mind in Christ Father and that they would be controlled by the Holy Spirit they'll be in your word they'll pray without season they'll be in fellowship they'll serve one another keeping their eyes on Christ you get the glory let your light shine in their life I pray for the weak Christians it's time to wake up everything you're doing everything you're trying to do is passing away it's time to wake up on Christ make them fall Lord let them have troubled minds let the Holy Spirit convict them in such a way that they can't sleep they're restless, they can't eat put them on their hands and knees to get back right with you this is what we need in the body of Christ because there's too much going on the devil has come in and deceived the body of Christ these preachers, these teachers these pastors watering down a message people are taking their eyes off of Christ it's time for your people to wake up and put their mind and renew their mind on Christ humble themselves, love their enemies like Christ loved them go reach them Lord's people and bring them to Christ this is a prayer now and thank you for this time in Jesus' name, amen okay, outstanding I just want to watch a little bit I want to thank the evangelist can create and brother Bob it was great having you this was a very special day and this was an exceptional outstanding show here on Megalife 21 Live and I thank the both of yous for coming thank you alright this has been a Megalife 21 production