 Welcome, welcome everyone. Welcome to Megalife 21 live podcasts and videos. And I am Jayce P. Madonna of course of Megalife 21 and I would like to introduce you to my very special guest. He is back again and I'm very happy to have him. The one and only performing artist, The Evangelist. The Renaissance man himself, The Evangelist can create. Ken, welcome back. I'm very happy to have you. And he will begin right now with a brand new sermon and take it away, Mr. Ken Create. Excuse me. Just step right in here. Okay, how's everybody going out there? Hope you have a good day and a Lord. Oh, oh, I also want to introduce The Evangelist Ken Create's assistant, Brother Bob. Brother Bob, how are you today? I'm doing fine. Okay, his assistant, Brother Bob, is here and he's ready to go. He's ready to help out. Go ahead, Mr. Ken Create. Okay, my friend there, Brother Bob, he's good with scripture, so really basically on a hard time finding something. I got Brother Bob here. He can probably write to the passages. Okay, I'm doing a continuation on walking in the spirit or spiritual battle against the flesh in the devil. Now, in Paul's letters, it says, myself, Brother Bob, we are mature believers. We've been believers for a long time. I've been over 30 years. Baby Bob's been longer. But anyway, in Paul's letters, it says, we who are mature should go and teach the younger people. What I'm going to do today is teach you a lesson about spirit versus flesh. Flesh is powerful. Flesh does what flesh does. You can't get around it. You live in a fallen world. You live in a fallen body. There's nothing you can do about that. So before you became a believer in Christ, your flesh does what flesh does. It's like you could take a fish. How does he survive? The water. Take the fish out of the water. He's just going to flap. Eventually he's going to die because he survives in water. Take it out of the water and eventually he will die. Well, that's what flesh does. Flesh does what flesh does. So before you became a believer, you walked in the flesh. You were a part of this world. Once you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and you're covered, now listen closely. You're covered by the blood of Christ. Now there's preachers that come along and say you could lose your salvation. You can't lose your salvation because the Bible says, he who's in you is greater than the world. I will never leave you. So when you accept Christ as your Savior, then you're baptizing through the Holy Spirit. Meaning the Holy Spirit comes and lives inside you. Now the reason why God gives you this Holy Spirit, so you have the power to overcome the flesh in the devil. Without the Holy Spirit, you're not a believer. So the Holy Spirit strengthens us to have a relationship with Christ and to walk in the Spirit. So we're going to look at two things today. We're going to look at struggling with your sin. That's the flesh. That's what flesh does. So we're going to look at flesh first. The law is good. The trouble is not with the law, but with me because I am sold into slavery soon as my master. I don't understand myself at all. I really want to do what is right, but I don't know how to do it. Instead, I do the very things I hate, flesh. I know perfectly well now what I am doing is wrong, flesh. My bad conscience shows that I agree that the law is good, but I can't help myself because it is sin and siding that makes me do these evil things. So Paul is struggling with his flesh. He's saying the things he wants to do, he don't do, because flesh gets in the way. I know I am rotten through and through so far as the old sinful nature, as the old man that's your flesh. But when you accept Christ, you become the new man, new creation in Christ. No matter which way I turn, I can't make myself do it. Right. I want to do what is right, but I can't. What I want to do is good. I don't. When I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. So what Paul is saying is flesh is going to do what flesh does. He wants to do what's right, but he can't do it. That's why he needed the Holy Spirit to empower him to overcome the flesh. And it's not an easy thing because we get entangled with this world. We get caught up with this world. We get caught up with things in this world, material things. We go here and there to and fro. People are married. They have families. They have responsibilities. They go on vacation. They forget the purpose that God has called them because they're caught up with the world. Now the Bible says come out of this world and don't be part of this world. Okay. Because our home is in heaven. We should have both feet planted in heaven even though we're walking this planet called earths. And a lot of Christians don't get it. And a lot of Christians don't understand. I know Christians. And I've heard preachers on TV say a lot of Christians. This is a lot. Alright. God one foot in heaven and one foot on this planet. Meaning I'm saying I'm going to have it and that's where it ends. That's not where it ends. Because God has begun a good work in you. And he wants that purpose to be fulfilled. He wants to work through his spirit to accomplish what he wants you to do for Christ. And if you do this and you keep your eyes on Christ and don't walk in the flesh with his heart, the Holy Spirit's controlling you and you're being filled up with the Holy Spirit. Then when you're at the judgment seat of Christ, Christ is going to say well done faithful servant in heaven. You can't imagine what heaven's going to be like. This is what I saw in the Brother Bob today. We look at the world but we look at creation. That's what I'm looking at. And look what God created. And it's awesome. And it's this planet. So if he created this world, this earth, and among the maze by what he created here. The mountains, the stars, the clouds, the suns, everything we can see under the sun. What is heaven like? So you can't imagine what heaven's like. But God wants to give us everything. Everything that's in heaven. He wants to give us. But we take things for granted. We take our salvation lightly. And that's not a good thing. Because if you take your salvation lightly. You did nothing for Christ. You sinned your own paper. And Christ says what did you do for me after you started to have a relationship with me? You did nothing for me and took your salvation for granted. You're saved and you just got in. You ain't getting no rewards. Meaning there could be all different levels in heaven. You'll be at a level that's low. Who wants to be at that level? I want to be closest I can be to Christ. But I also want to see people become saved so they glorify God and have a relationship with Christ. Insane. What a good God I serve. Wow. He's all powerful. He's it. He's amazing. Okay. Glory to him. That's why I want to see people become saved. But we as believers, a lot of us walk in the flesh and we take our salvation lightly. And you can't do that because there's going to be a payment. I have to judge and see the Christ. Now, we go on here. He says I am not ready really doing it. The sin within me is doing it. This is the believer's struggle with your flesh. It seems to be fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I do what is wrong. I love God's law with all my heart. But there is another law working within me. That is that war with my mind. See, you got to renew your mind in Christ. You got to be in the word. You got to be in prayer. You got to be in fellowship with other believers because if you're out of the word and you're out of prayer, you're not in fellowship or if you're in fellowship when you're using the word like, oh yeah, I go to church on Sunday. Here's my church in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. You live like the world. You live like the flesh. You're not renewing your mind. Renewing your mind means you're in the word. Renewing your mind is if you're in the word and when you pray, God works through his word. You got to remember that. A lot of people don't know how to pray. A lot of people just go through the same routine. Come on, because they're not growing in Christ and they're not laying the Holy Spirit work through them. They're not in God's word. So the more you're in God's word, the more you're renewing your mind, the more the Holy Spirit is going to work within you to accomplish what he wants to accomplish in your life for Christ. So if you're really in the word and you're strong in fellowship, the Spirit is guiding you in teaching you and living through you and you're obedient to the Spirit and your cup is overflowing in the Spirit, then when you pray, you're going to be praying God's word. And that's where God answers prayer. So many people out there, believers, oh, Lord, I need this. Oh, I want this. Oh, that guy got this, but I want that. God, he's not into that. He's into, do you pray my word? Okay, do you pray for Christians that are struggling? Do you pray for Christians going through trials and tribulations and storms? Do you pray for them to be in my word? Do you pray for them to edify and build up the body of Christ in fellowship? Do you do that? That's what God answers. He's not into material things. For Christians and your t-teams that they're taught, they water down the messages and they get caught up with all this stuff and they think they're going to be rich and they think they're going to have this and they think they're going to have that and they take their eyes off of Christ. They don't get it. Well, they listen to prosperity. Preachers, TV evangelists, they belong to mega churches. Exactly. And they listen, all they hear about is wealth, wealth, wealth, prosperity, material things. And they're caught up with this stuff. False prophets, by the way. Well, they could be false prophets or they could be saved. I don't know. I don't know these individuals, but I know one thing. They're watering down the message and that's not good. Because there's other ones come along saying, you can lose your salvation. You can't lose your salvation. The Holy Spirit lives within you. God lives within you when he says, I will never leave you. You're safe. You're sealed with the Holy Kiss of promise. You have an inheritance in Christ. Do you know what it means to be sealed? Okay. That means if somebody passes away, your dad passes away and in his will, you're going to get this and he seals it. That's yours. You can't lose it. So you can't lose your salvation. But these preachers scare believers out there thinking, whoa, I'm not doing that. I might not be saved. So they go out and they try to live for Christ. Okay. And then they turn around and say, well, look what I'm doing for Christ. And look at me and look at this and look what I'm doing. No, you don't know the freedom in Christ. Christ is supposed to control you. The purpose of the ultimate sacrifice was because after thousands of years, humans mankind failed to keep the law. Right. Right. Exactly. Okay. Right. So what I'm saying is you can't live it. Better get off of you. You can't live it because flesh gets in the way. And Paul's saying here, the things I want to do, I don't do. The things I hate to do. That's what I do. So flesh gets in the way. You know, I read this one book, really, really interesting book that was from, I don't know, he might have been a pastor. He might have been a teacher. But anyway, in his book, he says, I was doing all these things for Christ. And the people of church were looking at me like, wow, look what he does. Right. If he needs him to be Sunday service, he's there. There's a picnic. He's there. And the table's got to clean. He's there. Missionary work. He's there. He says, and I thought I was living for Christ. But he said, but all attention came to me. Ego. And I took my eyes off for Christ. It was about vanity. Okay. So he goes, I come to realize one day I was on off a highway and he start crying. And he says, I don't know why I was crying, but the Holy Spirit was convicting me saying it. You don't know you have the freedom in Christ. You doing all these things, you have to, in your eyes, offer Christ. And you're putting credit on yourself. Get off yourself and let Christ do it for you. So he says, I learned that and I applied that. So now he says, I had people coming to me and I counseled them. He says, there was one guy that came to make a believer. He says, who's an alcoholic and he was still drinking. And he says to me, I'm a believer, but I'm still drinking. So he said to, you don't know the freedom you have in Christ. God is saying to you, you don't have to do that no more. You're free from that. Get away from the guilt. And this guy toward this other guy, he seen him a year later and he said to him, how you doing? He says, I'm not drinking no more. So he taught him the freedom in Christ. And that's what it's about. You don't have to do them things no more. If you take somebody drugs and I had a problem with drugs, well, when I accepted Christ, that was a process of me getting off the drugs. All right. Well, once I knew the freedom in Christ, it's like God saying to me, you don't have to smoke that joint no more. But before I was a believer, I smoked to fill up the emptiness inside me. And then I craved it because my flesh craved it. Okay. So I did what I thought I like to do. But Christ is saying, you're free. I freed you from that. You don't have to stick that joint in your mouth no more. You're done. And when I realized that, I said, Lord, I can't help myself. Help me. Help me deliver me from these drugs. And he did. So I turned it over to him and eventually the drugs went in and eventually the drink and went okay, it's gone. No more to no more. We're getting back to the flesh. Uh, the law wins the fight and makes me slave to the sins. The flesh that is still within me, flesh of what a miserable person I am. Now, Paul, Paul was in jail. Paul lived for Christ. Paul was beaten to a pulp. You can't imagine what this guy did for Christ. And he says right here, what a miserable person I am. Really? Are you kidding me? If Paul's saying this and this is an individual that had a passion for Christ and lived for Christ, what is God saying to us? He's saying he's miserable. What about you? Are you living it? If he had a tough time and he was my apostle, what are you going to go through? Okay, miserable person I am. Who will free me from the life that's dominated by sin? Thank God. The answer is Christ. There you go. There you go. Here's your answer. He said, who is going to delivery from flesh? And he says the answer is Christ. So you see how it is in my mind. I really want to obey God. But because of my sinful nature flesh, I am a slave to sin. Now, Bob, let me ask you a question. Where are the passages? Is that Galatians where it talks about flesh? The flesh and spirit. I think Galatians five. That's it. We're going to go to Galatians five and then we're going to get into spirit. Brother Bob knows what he's talking about. That's for sure. Oh, yeah. And this is all coming from Brother Bob's memory. Brother Bob does not have any paperwork, notebook, or Bible in front of him right now. He normally does, but not this time. Yeah, Bob got a great memory. Oh, yeah. That's why he's sitting there. That's why he's Brother Bob. Are you comfortable, Brother Bob? Yeah. We are now, these are great chairs, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I got a few lines. Well, we're going to read one thing here. Christ has really set us free. Say free, free, free in Christ. You don't have to do that anymore. Make sure that you stay free, free in Christ. Don't get tied up again in slavery of flesh. Paul says if you can, counting on circumstances that make you right with God, then Christ cannot help you. I say it again. If you're trying to fight favor by with God, by being circumcised, you must obey all the regulations of the law of Moses. You can't do it. It's impossible. All the law of Moses shows you as you're a sinner. You're guilty. In Christ as your Savior. When Christ went to the cross, he nailed the law to the cross. And when he said it's finished, that's it. That's it. So when you accept Christ, now to get to the Father, you go through Jesus. But before back in the Old Testament, or even when Jesus walked the earth, they were under the law. We're under grace today. All the law shows unsaved people. You're a sinner. You need a Savior. His name is Jesus Christ. That's what the law is about. When a person chooses sin, voluntarily chooses to sin with a premeditated intent, doesn't that premeditated choice to sin open that person up to other sins? Absolutely. And more sins, like a domino effect? Right. Well, Brother Bob, you agree? Yes, I agree. And that's especially true with jealousy. If you give in to jealousy or envy, not only are those sins, but those two sins can lead to other sins, like bitterness, unforgiveness, extortion, robbery, murder. Or let's say fornication, adultery, the whole host of sins. Like now you have these group therapy for people that are actually addicted to sex. You have these social workers and psychologists that actually have group therapy for people that are addicted to many things. You know? Okay. Now, here we go. Plush spirit. Paul says, I advise you, live according to your new life in the Holy Spirit. Then you won't be doing what sinful nature craves. Plush craves are sinful. The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is opposite from the Holy Spirit. The spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. That's your flesh. These two forces are constantly fighting against each other. So you have a new nature in you, but you live in a form of body, which is flesh. So the new nature has a fight with your flesh, your body. You have Satan's material world, the flesh. When you are directed by the Holy Spirit, you are no longer under the flesh. When you follow the desires of the flesh, you live. Your lives will produce evil results, sexual immortality, impure thoughts, eagerness, lustful pleasures, adultery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, out-person anger, selfish ambitions, the visions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those who are hearing your own little group, envy, drunkenness, drugs, wild parties, all kinds of sin. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not, will not inherit the kingdom of God. So anybody living like this, and this is their life, most likely, they're not saved. And if they are saved, then the Holy Spirit is going to convict them. And if they don't listen to the Holy Spirit, then they're going to be miserable Christians. But a lot of this here, we're dealing with the flesh, but all that's dealing with here is more dealing with people that don't know Christ as their Savior. They're selfish. They're ambitious. They want power. They feel they're right, and everybody else is wrong. Self-righteousness. They have their own little group. I know when I party, I had my group of friends, and we partied. We smoked our pop, we did our drunks, and we did our drinking. We had our own little party. We had our wild parties. All right? Then you got fornication, adultery. How many people are getting divorced today? And before they get divorced, are living that adulterous life? Why? Because the guy couldn't get along with his wife. The wife couldn't get along with the husband. They fight. They got kids. They don't like each other. They hate each other. So the guy starts seeing a woman on the side. He's committing it, don't you? He don't care. He's filling the desires of his flesh. The emptiness inside. And then it leads to a divorce. Now when it leads to a divorce, the worms are open. She's going to take him. He's got to pay all the money to the kids. So really, is that guy getting over? He ain't getting over. He's just getting into more trouble. But that's flesh. People are supposed to abide by the marriage vows, and they're supposed to work it out together as a couple. But that's flesh. Not just one person. That's ungodly people. All right? But now it has affected the body, the Christ. Individuals who are married, who are Christians, go into a separation. And if they don't really go to the Lord with it, so they can be pulled back together as a family, and the marriage is tight again, and they separate, and eventually they get divorced, and they see somebody on the side, and the divorce is, oh, well that's okay, because I'm forgiven. And that's the attitude of Christians. Well, I'm forgiven. I'm going to heaven. That's covered. That's no big deal. So if I want to remarry, that's okay. I don't want to be lonely. I can't find somebody else. That's flesh. That's flesh talking. And that's how the devil wants to attack you. He wants to attack you in such a way to keep you down. Not for you to be a witness to people. Not for you to grow in Christ. Not for you to glorify God. Not for you to be in strong fellowship and in prayer and in the Word. This is how he's going to attack you. But you got to realize something. You as a believer, you are a threat to him. He's not a threat to you because his kingdom is darkness, and he's got people in darkness. He don't want you to come into his kingdom, get the word to people, and they hear it. And eventually they accept Christ because now he comes out of his kingdom. And the more you're doing this, he looks at you and says, that guy or that woman is a threat to me. So I got to bombard her or him on things that they did in the past and try to bring people around them. So they'll go back into their flesh. Now, if you as a believer are walking in the Spirit and controlled by the Spirit, you're going through Israel's tribulation storms. People aren't going to like it. People are going to mock it. People are going to persecute you. It's just a way of life. This is how the devil's going to attack you. And there are Christians, okay, that could be strong, but all of a sudden all this stuff starts to come their way and they start to hold back and they slide back into the world and they get too comfortable with the world. And then the devil looks at that individual and says, hmm, it's not really a threat to me, okay, because they're not living for Christ. They went back to the world. We'll keep an eye on them, but then Christians over there, we have to attack them once because they're bringing people from my kingdom into God and God's saving them. They're the threat. But the Bible says, bless it is the man or a woman who's persecuted for my names sake. And a lot of Christians are too comfortable and they don't want to go through the fire because when the fire gets too hot, they don't know how to handle it. Why? Because they're walking in the flesh. If you have a room that's air conditioned, I want to sit there. But if the other room is 90 degrees, I don't want to go in that room. And if you as a believer are living for Christ, you're living in that 90 degree bedroom. You're in the heat. And it's getting hotter and you don't care because you're a working Christian, okay, because you got your eyes on Christ. And Christ will say to you in the rapture, well done faithful servant, and you got an abundance waiting for you in heaven that's going to blow your mind. So who just wants to get into heaven? I'm a, I want an abundance in heaven that God wants to give me. He wants to give you this. Now the creed charge the creeds that are sitting in an air conditioned church or room. Don't you like the ones that go to a Bible study or they go to a church on let's say a Sunday or Saturday. And that's all they want to do to have coffee, donuts, you know, maybe a muffin or whatever. They talk fellowship, but they don't go outside the box. They don't do anything else because they don't want to be persecuted. They don't want to be put down. They want to slide in with everybody else. They turn around and say, well, I'm going to have it. Really? It's not about just getting into heaven. God wants to give you an abundance of heaven. He wants to say, when you come home, this is all yours free of charge. Take it. Christians ain't taking it because they don't understand. And they got one foot here and they got one foot in heaven. One preacher on TV on the radio said, you should have both feet in heaven. He said one lady from his church before she passed away. She had a dream. And in the dream, God was going to take her the next day. So she went to her family, her sons and her daughters and said, today is the day that God has taken prepared her kids. And that day God took her. So this guy said, she lived for Christ, so abundance was waiting for her in heaven at the door. Billy Graham's grandmother or might have been his mother. I think it was his grandmother at her death bed. Billy Graham was around the death bed. And she said to Billy Graham, don't you see him? He's like, what are you talking about? They're here. What do you mean? Oh, they're beautiful. They're light. They're taking me home. So he said, his grandmother passed away. He didn't see him. He said, it was angels, fiery angels around my grandmother's bed. Took her right to heaven. So that man's telling the truth. She got abundance waiting for her. Abundance. She got rewards coming to her. Yeah, but for angels to be around Billy Graham's grandmother's death bed, that means the Billy Graham family was under attack. Well, yeah, of course. You, yeah, James, this is what you gotta understand. You as a believer, when you leave this world, you gotta go through dimensions. Okay. And when you go through these dimensions and you're going home, there's demons. Okay. So you need a pathway to get up into heaven. And the angels, if you live that life, protect you. And it's clear sailing up into heaven. Like an elevator. Right now, if you as a believer lived in the flesh, you say when you pass away, you might not have escorts of angels bringing you to heaven. Okay. And there might be a fight for you to get into heaven. You might make it. You'll make it because you're saved. Yeah. But when you get into heaven, so you might have to take the detours and the longer road. Now, who wants to just get into heaven? Like I said, not me. If there's a huge party going to be in heaven. All right. I want Christ to say to me, Ken, you're sitting here. I don't want to be okay. I'm having a huge party, but you're way back there. All right. I'm having a huge party. You're saved, but you're outside the banquet. Look it in. I don't want that. I don't want that. Okay. I want to live for Christ. If God saved me, he can save anybody. I want to see people become saved to say, what a good guy I by sir. He's loved. He's a forgiven God. He's a peaceful God. He's a merciful God. Glory to him. That's why I want to see people become saved. You're living. It's not about going to hell. People go to hell because they put themselves into hell. God don't put your hand in hell. He don't send nobody to hell. Hell was created for the fallen angels and Lucifer who became saved. That's why hell was created. It's not created for men. Not created, but you see God created us with a free will to choose good or evil. It was our choice. And Adam and Eve, our first mother and father, sinned and hell was opened up. That's why Christ had to come and defeat. Defeat. Death had to defeat the flesh. But he deliberately weakened himself when he walked in the desert. It was at 40 days and 49 days. Because he was tested. He was tested from God. And he wanted to prove that even if you're weakened, it is still possible to resist. He wanted to go through the same testing that we go through. He was hungry. You ever hungry? He was thirsty. You ever thirsty? He was beaten. Anybody ever beat you up? Everything he went through, things we're going through, Christ looks at you and says, I understand. I've been there. I went through it for you. All right. And for other believers, how could you not want to serve Christ? You got to be kidding me. So it's either like well done faithful servant or you blow it. It's your choice. Like it's my choice. Now, Bob can say to me, I'm saved. Do I know what Bob saved? I don't know. I don't know what was hard. All right. Or vice versa, I could say to Bob, I'm saved. Bob could say, I don't know because I don't know your heart. Right. Well, you know, there are people in the rapture. There's people who leave this world that you think are going to make it and you're going to be like, where are they? And it was like, no, they're not here. And then there's other ones you say, nah, no way. They may and they're going to be there. Hey, hey, remember, remember the very famous and wealthy Jimmy Swagger who used to preach against lust. And he was picking up prostitutes on the road. Okay. And he still didn't continue to do it. I think so. Yeah, but people still sending him money. All right. Now we're going to get into the Holy Spirit. Let the Holy Spirit control you. This is what he's going to produce in your life. This kind of fruit, you see fruit, fruit is produced. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithful, be gentle, self-control. Here there is no conflict with the flesh. Those who belong to Christ have nailed the passions and desires of this simple world. They have been crucified at the cross. If we are living by the Holy Spirit, let us follow the Holy Spirit leading in every part of our lives. Let us not become conceited, arreate, hate one another or be jealous of one another because we're going to reap what we sow. So now if you are controlled by the Spirit, you love your brothers and sisters. You love your enemies. You pray for your brothers and sisters. You pray for your enemies. You counted all joy through everything you're going through. You are blessed. That joy is going to overflow in your life. So really what that means is when individuals look at you, they're going to look at you in a way and say, why does that guy have a step to him? Why does he have a bow to him? Why is he so confident? Why is she glowing? Why is she so beautiful? She could be a heavy-set woman. That's kind of joy overflowing. It's his light shining in darkness. We as believers, are we light shining in darkness on the unsaid people? Now the unsaid people don't see this that we in shining God's light. There's no light to be shined. Who wants to live that life? Well, they have to be open. Who wants to live? Who wants to live that life? Okay, you've got to look at it like one preacher said on the radio. He says, when you go to an event, a party, whatever, it's like you walking into a room and when you walk in the room, the lights open and start. So you've got to put on the switch to turn on the lights so you can see where you've got to go. They have to be open to be saved. We're not talking about that. That's God's daily. That's God's daily, not ours. All right? So now, if you go to an event or you go to a party and you walk in that room and people are darkness, are you got lights with that walks in that room and lights up that room and everybody's attracted to you or do you walk in that room and everybody looks at you like, I don't see no light. They're like us. That's the choice you got. So we're getting back to the flesh. All right? No, we're getting back to the spirit. Peace. Patience. Patience is a hard word. Very hard. God told me something with patience. Lord, teach me how to be patient. He was like, okay, I'm going to teach you patience. Next day I was in the store. I think it was quick check. 10 people in line. That line moves slowly. I was in that line for 15 minutes. God's is like showing me, okay? Come on, patience. You wait. I was like, wow, Lord, must have a sense of you. Because I'm like walking around and I'm like, come on. Come on. You're too slow. Come on. This lady's pulling paintings out. Right? And when I teach you patience, patience is a hard word. If you get aggravated on your job you're impatient. Forget it. Patience is very hard. That's why you gotta let the Holy Spirit control you. And now we have, you gotta be kind. Help out fellow man. Time in need. Help them out. Help out your brothers and sisters in Christ when they're hurting. Take them in if they need to be taken in. Give them food if they need food. If their trap, car breaks down, go and help them out. Don't push them to the curb. Too many Christians do that. Be faithful. Be faithful Be gentle. Be self-control. That's another thing. Self-control is hard because when you get angry your voice changes. It gets louder and you get in a bad mood and you get angry and it just comes out of you. Self-control is more patient, is more kind, is torn down, not loud, not arrogant, not aggressive. Live by the Spirit and not the flesh. Now, before we close, I just want to say one thing. The Bible says, come out of this world. Don't be part of this world. I set you apart from this world. Don't be entangled with the things and new fears of this world. Me? I grew up on sports. I love sports. I played the sports. My dad just passed away. He was great in sports. My brothers were real good in sports and I was good in sports. We stay in front of that TV and watch sports even as a believer. Oh, basketball game is coming on. Gotta watch the basketball game. Oh, World Series is coming on. I gotta watch the World Series. Oh, football players are coming on. Are my favorite teams coming on? I gotta watch it. I'm watching and my team's losing. I'm yelling at the screen. Why am I yelling at the TV? What am I stupid? You actually think that guy with quarterback is responded? Like, you think he's like saying, put that guy out there in TV land. He's yelling at me. What's he doing that for? So, you yelling at that screen ain't gonna accomplish nothing, but people do it. I've done it. I've seen people throw things at their TV screen and I'm like, really? Are you kidding? That's your life? They're getting paid a lot. You gotta be kidding me. So, now it's gotten to the point where if I put a baseball game on or a football game on or a basketball game on and I start watching it, I'm all of a sudden it's like, there's nothing here no more. That interest is going away. It's a game. I understand that, but that was an interest to me. Okay? All the games coming on. Now it's like, who cares? That interest is going away. The Bible says come out of this world. So, when it comes to the entertainment and it comes to the sports or the TV movies, all that interest is going away. I don't care no more. You do love the classics. Yeah, I do, okay? But even that's going away. All right? You're here. You gotta deal with certain things. You gotta deal with people. It's a way of life. You can't get around it. But I know one thing for sure. The more the things you like to do and now it's going away, meaning I don't like doing that no more. I have no more interest in that. That means you're coming out of this world. And this is where Christians gotta be, because I've been in different churches. I performed at different churches. I was in different fellowships. And even when I meet other believers, it's like me bringing up scriptures. In one church of God, me bringing up scriptures. What about that? Why don't they approach me and bring something to me about scriptures that's going to edify me, that's going to teach me where somebody going through a situation that's going to help somebody else out. Me, I approach, I talk. Yeah, you're right, brother. Yeah, you're right, brother. Yeah. And then it's like, okay, it's breakfast. They get you down there. They get to call up you five minutes later. They just leave away and go talk to somebody. And then before you know, conversations like, well, how's your job doing? Oh, how's your family doing? Oh, did you watch the sports last night? Oh, you're going to go fishing later? Oh, maybe we'll go bowling. Really? Is that why you're in fellowship? Yeah. You're in fellowship for Christ. Christ says, I knock at the door. I'm knocking. Let me in. The Christians are saying, ah, you stay out there. We're saved. We're covered. We're partying. We're having a good time in here. And then the one pastor on the radio said, because this was on the radio, he's like, people are jumping around, praising God, tambourines, dancing in the aisles, doing this and doing that. He says, they're making them a form of entertainment. And he said, at the same time, Christ is knocking. Let me in. It's about me. The Christians are like, we're lying in here. Okay, this is our deal. So when you called in the rapture, Jesus was going to be like, oh, that was your deal. Okay, but you know what? Now it's my deal. Okay, let's make a deal. And the deal is me to you. I don't want to hear that. I want to hear well done faithful servant. You did your job. I'm pleased. Welcome. It's all yours. Now it's the message. I want to get out to believers because there's too many believers out there. They don't get it. They're living in their flesh. They're living in the world. They're following the world. They're not coming out of this world. Your relationship with Christ is not going to be strong. Let me tell you one more thing in closing. Even talking to my cousin, she's a pastor, talking to other Christians. Oh, Christ might not come in our lifetime. Oh, Christ ain't coming for 15 years. Oh, well, Christ got to do things with the body of Christ. So the body of Christ is going to be strong and we're going to prosper. Really? Are you serious? The United States is going down the tubes. Are you that blind? The Bible says every day that goes by man's heart waxes harder and harder. Okay, it's not getting so up there. They're getting more wickeder. They're getting more evil to Timothy. All right. So now if that's the case and you see in the United States going down the tubes, we're Christians. Right. Don't care. Just read to Timothy. Okay. The Christians don't care. Now, when it comes down to it, well, we can have a revival. Revival. Revival will what? If you want to have a revival, start living for Christ. Now, if the Christians in the United States say half of them were three quarters of them were living for Christ, God would do a revival here. You will see changes in the United States. You're not seeing it and it's not going to change. That's why Jesus says, I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming as a thief in the night. Don't sleep. Be alert. Live in my light. Don't live in darkness because if you're caught off guard, when Christ comes to take it, you're in trouble when you least expect it. You're in trouble. He comes when you least trouble. All right. So now if you got your bags packed and you're ready to get out of here, you're living for Christ. You got your eyes on Christ and you can't wait because you're like, Lord, you can return today. You can return tomorrow. You can return two months from now. I'm living today for you like you're going to return today. And Christians are like, they don't get it. They don't get it. Well, I got to do this. I got to get food. I got to go here. I don't have time for this. Yeah, maybe later. Oh, false promises. Oh, I'll call you back later. Come on. Really? You're going to be kidding me. In Christ, they say, listen, all you sins are paid for. You're forgiven. But like I said, Christ is going to say, what did you do for me? Were you in the Word? Were you in prayer? Did you help out your brothers and sisters? Did you pray for your enemies? Did you do this? Or did you just like oddie day, day, day, and you went through like, well, I'll go to heaven. So that's good enough for me. Well, you know what? If you live that way and you leave this world, you know rewards. And it's like, you know what? I don't go with me because the one preacher on a radio said, it's like, I make it simple. You know when you go to a event and you got a ticket to go to the event, all right? He says, I was invited to an event and I was supposed to preach at the event and teach. He says, but I got a call and they said, why don't you come an hour and a half early because we're going to have a big dinner and we're inviting you. So he said, okay, so we brought him and his wife to the event and they went in the separate room. It was a night room. So they were late. So the people that he was going to go in the other room to and preach to were invited to this event. It was only the insiders. So when Christ is going to have an event, are you in the VIP room or are you in the other room? Look it in. Okay? He says, one more thing in closing, you go to a tie of fear. The guys that are in the tuxes and the women that are in the three piece gowns, people look at them at the event and says, whoa, who's that person? That person's special. And you and your wife, you're in a suit and she's in a dress, you're just invited. So when you go to heaven, want to be in a suit, man? And women, do you want to be in a gown? Or do you want to be in a tux? Or do you want to be in a suit? The woman being in a gown is your choice. So now in closing, I just want to thank James for opening up his door, me and brother Bob. Now Bob, you have anything else to say? I don't think so. He preached a very good message and even I got a little bit out of it. That's okay. Yeah. Oh, no, it was extremely educational. You have a heavy duty story that you would like to tell? I didn't bring that one. One story. Okay. I didn't bring that one. Okay. I just want to, well, what I wanted to say in closing, I pray for all the Christians and I pray for the lost people. Oh, one more thing. God told me something because when my dad passed away, he died in my arms. Okay. And when my mom passed away, she died in a chair. I watched both and then passed away right before my eyes. Now, moral to the story is where my mom passed away in the power, she was in a chair where my dad passed away. He passed away sitting down on the floor right next to my mother would have been three and a half years ago holding hands. So then two were meant to die together. Same exact area of the house. They would be holding hands like, come on honey, let's go on a date. Give me your hands. Amazing. That's amazing. Hopefully, they're home with the Lord. I don't know. They were Catholics. I got the word today. They heard the word. I didn't know their heart. God knows their heart. What I'm saying is in closing, God showed me something like, wow, this is amazing. It's going to be you one day. You go to a funeral, I say to my friends, yeah, see a person in casket. Yeah, well, that's going to be you. Where are you going? Oh, I worry about it. Hey, I got to go talk to Sam over here or I got to go talk to Charles. They want to run away from you. But I'm saying, but you know you can't get away from that casket. So thank you for this day and God bless everybody. Yeah, remember rich people and poor people have the same size grave and you can't, there are no trailer hitches for a hearse. Remember that. Thank you very much. Evangelist can create who's been a pleasure. God bless you. Now, what you couple minutes of that if you want to see what it looks like.