 So this morning what I want to do is I want to go I want you guys to go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 verse 14 to chapter 7 verse 1 This passage Has been a real I guess you can say a model for me of Paul the Apostle because I love Paul the way He writes and the things that he shares are just incredible And so I want to start reading from chapter It's not gonna make sure there Starts chapter 6 14. He says do not be unequally yoke together with unbelievers For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness And what communion has light with darkness and what a court has Christ With Satan and what part has a believer with an unbeliever and what a green man has the temple of God with idols For you are the temple of the living God and as God has said I will dwell in them I will walk among them. I will be their God and they shall be my people therefore from all this Come out from among them and be separate sayeth the Lord then not touch What is unclean and I will receive you I will be a father to you And you shall be my sons and daughters sayeth the Lord Almighty and here's the key Therefore having these promises my beloved Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh in spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God in the fear of God seeking holiness in An ungodly world very very hard to take There's so many distractions are so many temptations are so many people that can't control themselves because they're not spirit control You know it takes a lot To be a real Christian it takes a lot to really not only come to know the Lord Jesus Christ is not just joining in a club It is a time of dying to yourself reckoning the old man to be dead And recognizing that if you want God to use your life And again, you've got to die to yourself There's no other possible way Paul the apostle was a type of person He not only was called by the Lord on his way to the mascus You know, he was knocked off his pride and God called him You know, he was blind for three days and then of course and in I as when lay hands on him And he began to see and then God began to prepare him. There's always a time of preparation preparation preparation For a lot of people is a time of perspiration Because they really don't want to wait up on the Lord. They want to work. They want to sweat But you know the Bible says that we are to rest in the Lord Now remember one of the things that I came to Christ. I didn't know much about Christianity My wife was a Christian. She grew up in the church her parents were missionaries But at the same time, you know, she took me to this church. I Wasn't a believer and I sat there and there was really nothing that impressed me about the church But somehow God already had his hand upon me Where he was leading me what he was going to do. I didn't understand that Maybe you're here today. You don't understand why you're here. Why God has chose you why God saved you And it's always not the guy who just wants to save you but God wants to use your life He wants to work in your life and through your life I think that's important That people get saved and Paul talked about in 1 Corinthians in chapter 2 and chapter 3 You have the natural man. You have the spiritual man. You have the cardinal man, you know, which are you this morning here? If you're the natural man, you don't know Christ then you're not a believer And the Bible tells us that when non-believers do not know the Lord Jesus Christ their father is the devil The devil controls your life rules over your life But when the Holy Spirit Begins to work as the Holy Spirit began to work in my life I Could tell that things were being not only convicted in my life And I can remember when I came to Christ things that didn't bother me before now They didn't appeal to me any longer. I Can remember two years before I came to Christ that I could do whatever I wanted to and I did some pretty pretty dirty things And I never got to make that came to God begin to work in my life. I Began to wonder why I feel guilty now when I never feel guilty about these things And then my mind began to go back And I began to think of all the things in my life that I had done and at the first of time what I was doing And it's I looked at my wife I Looked at Ryan's grandparents. They were different totally different different than all my family And so I came to that place of searching Searching But when you search you have to understand you have to pay the cost is going to cost you something And Jesus said a very plenty says if anyone wants to come after me letting him deny himself take up his cross The cross the instrument of death we have to learn how to die to ourselves Let me reach a couple things that I wrote here very important One of the things that I see is that people live a pleasing life without integrity to the Lord without integrity The church has become very worthy The church is in the world, you know, we're supposed to go out to the world and win the world to Christ And the world is winning the church It's so sad That the church is being overtaken by the world listen we came out of the world Why should the church go out to the world or the world come into the church and try to control the church? You know you visit a lot of churches and you begin to see that a lot of leaders a Lot of leaders they don't know about holiness You know being with Pastor Chuck so many times we you know I've met pastors believe it or not. There was this pastor down the street from Calvary Chapel Golden Springs Calvary Chapel That the guy had his wife had cancer cancer she was dying When she died they found out that he had four girlfriends and his church is that really the fear of God Is that really walking in the Holy Spirit and walking holiness? The Holy Spirit has been given to each one of us individually. He's come to convict us And when the Holy Spirit speaks because we have a will God gives us the opportunity to say yes or to say no Whatever you want to say it's a prayer. It's a free will And when I have to make a decision I have to make a decision How is this gonna edify Jesus or how is this gonna hurt the Holy Spirit? And I know that if I go over those bounds, I'm gonna have to read to what I do And many of you are here today including me That you came to hear the word of God, but are you willing you came here this morning to sit in this building to hear the message But I want to ask you a question when you leave here will you leave differently? Sure is Take my medicine. I'm done with it But think about that, you know That you're coming in you know here to listen to the message and it's gonna be great people will you know They'll hear to the message, but he was an era here Let him hear who what the Holy Spirit is saying. Are you willing to hear the Holy Spirit this morning? to speak if you do hear the Holy Spirit There's no excuse for you to leave here totally different with a different attitude with a different heart Because the way God touches people one thing that I've learned in my life. I've become a crybaby. I can't believe it I get older But you know I look at my life. I look at people's it hurts me deeply to see people with great potential Great talents God's given to them and then to get ensnared by the devil And to be disqualified when they had so much potential It would put on the shelf And you know when you put on the shelf all you can do is collect dust become dusty and There has to be a real a real heart of repentance So they got can baptize me with the Holy Spirit so God can use my life and I can be holy as he is Holy as he is holy Holiness is a requirement It's a requirement Apart from holiness no one will see the Lord Hebrews chapter 9 24 And and don't let the word is you know frightened you holy it means to be separate to be separated It also means to be in the presence of God and to see the glory of God when Moses came down from Mount Sinai He had to cover his face because of the holiness of God He saw the holiness of God And I think that as we see the holiness of God Then we come to those places when there are lies and check our hearts But also to recognize that people are watching my life People watch our lives First of all your family watches your life your wife your kids You have grandkids great-grandkids Where you work? Where you play? Whatever you do in life people are watching your life And this is why Paul says be you not on equally yoke together with a non-believer what fellowship has life with darkness We are in the light. We're not in darkness. We used to be in the darkness. That's them Today we are in the light It's so many so many like Paul said efficient 430 are grieving the Holy Spirit of God You bring pain to the Holy Spirit because he is a person The Holy Spirit is the one that convicted us The Holy Spirit is the one that brought us to Christ and brings conviction to my life in Christ Jesus My position is not outside. It used to be outside of Christ. My position now is in Christ in Christ in my life And I can't make excuses for myself That I really haven't seen what the Lord is doing Paul the Apostle in the book of 1st Timothy 4 1 he says now the spirit expressly says that in the last days Some will depart from the faith Given heed to deceiving spirits Doctors of demons speaking lies in hypocrisy having their own conscience seared with a hot iron Look around today Where do you really see the holiness of God today? Not outside the church in the church Talk to people pastors Elders deacons that drink No conviction. He says proper story. She says verse one. He says what those that drink are stupid. I Had an alcoholic dad. I never drank. I Never took drugs, but I had other situations in my life That brought me down It could have destroyed me I could have ended up in hell But God gave me an opportunity just like he's giving you an opportunity Before before the time in the present and into the future Do you really want to abide in Jesus Christ? Do you really want to be obedient to the word of God? Do you really want to see God one day? One day to see him. I said chapter 6 read it when you go home The first thing God did with Isaiah. He had to deal with sinfulness his sinfulness To be able to see clearly the voice of God and to see God. I don't know if you ever heard the voice of God A lot of times people say well, how do you hear the voice of God? I've never heard the voice of God I've heard his voice through his word as I read I pray Sometimes people say whether you pray, you know, well, we all pray but how do you pray? What are you praying for? What's your attitude? What's your motive? You always tell people the first thing that you do when you get up in the morning You know, what do you do first of all? You see you should they give God's things because he kept you all night long You didn't have to say I have to breathe all night long. That's a miracle. That's faith You get up in the morning you jump out of the bed go brush your teeth take a shower Whatever it is the first thing we should do is drop to our knees and thank God for another day He's given to us. I mean that's important and then I start my day with Christ. I Start my day with Christ now. They want to be spent self spiritual or self righteous But you know what? We're dealing with the Creator of all We're dealing with a holy holy God a Holy holy God and I want to be what God wants me to I don't want to be any of you I want to be what God called me to be. I don't want to meet make you. I want to meet make him He's the one that call me. He's the one that brought me to my knees. He's the one that saved me He's the one the road in my name in the book of life. He wiped me out with his blood Cleanse me wash me by his blood And to those things I really just think Lord, thank you so much For allowing me to live that life as you control my life. I do not want to control my life The problem is the world first John 2 14 John says I Have written to you fathers because you have known him who is from the beginning. I have written to you young man because you are strong and The word of God abides in you He says are you says and you have overcome the wicked one Do you love the world or the things of the world if anyone loves the world the love of the fathers? Not in him for all that is in the world is the lust of the flesh The lust of the eyes the pride of life and it's not of the father But it is so the world and hear this and the world is passing away in The lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides for ever abides dwells stays John 15 for Abiding in Christ I Need to abide in Jesus Christ Who else can I mean what else or who else can I abide it? I? Used to lie in Satan's you know Satan control my life But when you come to Christ Jesus, Satan doesn't become a real problem if you have Christ because we have a defense Read Ephesians chapter 6 verse 10 to the end of verse 18 You got to know how to put on the armor of God the armor of God protects me You know the armor of God man, you feel safe when you fight No, he never speaks about the back but always the front You know in Vietnam when I was in Vietnam sad thing to say But we had an incredible team that went out at last 42 guys But you know what we had a guy that ran on us in a firefight The cost of our Marines to die and when I got back to the you know, I got back Tents I wasn't a Christian. I Was going to kill him My squad leader just got a hold of me. They pulled me away from them. They took me outside And they took this guy and they let you know actually they took him out of the out of the camp And they took him back to the name and when I came I became a Christian I feel that we're all in the same platoon We're supposed to help one another. We're supposed to pray for one another if one falls You pick them up and you take it you never leave your dead Yet the church today Doesn't really believe that we see so many casualties So many casualties People that have fallen People that needed help the reasons because we're so busy with our lives, you know, we love too much ourselves Still loving God more than ourselves For speed of 115 Peter said But I see who called you as holy You also be holy in all manner of life Because it is written be holy. I said six five. I say I said So I said whoa is me for I am done undone because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of All the people All the people that are Dr. Billy Graham said And atheists once spent a few days with felon and said If I say with this man if I say with this man of God much longer I shall become a Christian in spite of myself Can people say that about you being around you? your friends Your loved ones Do you impact our lives as much as Christ has emptied our lives? I Was impacted by Christ. I never want to go back to the world destroyed me Christ saved me and Christ built me up And Christ continues to do that in first Peter 1 15 16 Peter said But I see who called you as holy You also be holy in all manner of conduct again Because again it is written what be you holy for I am holy Holiness Holiness holiness He's 122 says but be you doers of the word not just here is only deceiving yourselves. There's so many Christians that are deceived called Christian They don't really believe in the wrath of God. They don't believe that God is going to judge But God will judge and when he judges it will be righteous judgment And I want to make sure that I hear that voice that good and faithful servant come in Look what I prepared for you This world is perishing is passing away We have a great task in this world to see so many people that are out there going to hell I remember in the hippie days Go to Calvary Chapel All of the people they would bring people to the hear the word of God. I Had a hippie van I used to load my van with guys my friends to go to Calvary Chapel so they could hear the word of God and Through that Believer through that in the last 40 some years 30 of my friends have been saved Three of them are pastors You know why because I care. I love them. I Hope you love your wife and your children and your friends. I thought you love God more than them But are you willing through your life not by preaching? But are you willing to them to see your life? That you're walking in a holy life, and that you're not proud that you're simple That you're humble You don't have to tell people you're humble people can see if you're humble people can tell if you're a Christian or not I've been praying to God. It's all this time for my grandkids They have a long life to live For my wife that has cancer or Ryan Rod junior my son Chey my son God has gifted me with my kids my grandkids And God has gifted me guys like David Rosales the pastors that I hear They're not only lift up my hands, but I lift up their hands Because we know what the ministry is like People only see us up here preaching and teaching the word of God. Let me tell you there's more to that Just like your life. I don't know your life But God knows your life We should be praying for one another because the devil wants to deceive as many people as he can First the Salonias Paul said chapter 4 7 For God did not call us to be unclean but holy Ephesians 4 24 and that you put on the new man Which was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness I Can't I can't get out of that word out of my lips holiness Holiness it is God's choosing us to be holy Ephesians 4 once is I therefore the prisoner of the Lord we seek you to walk worthy of the calling which you were called What did God call you to do to walk in holiness? In first Korean is 367 teen he says don't you know That you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you if anyone defiles a temple of God God will destroy him For the temple of God is holy which temple you are first Peter 1 15 he says but as he who called you is holy You also be holy in all manner of in Romans 1 12 1 and 2 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice They used to sacrifice animals in the Old Testament in the New Testament Jesus became the sacrifice of all sacrifices And we need to watch sacrifice ourselves We stand in the presence of God. It doesn't mean to kill yourself. It means to deny yourself a living sacrifice holy Acceptable to God, which is your recent old service and do not be conformed to this world Notice but be a transform by the renewing of your mind That you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God in your life. I pray this morning That as God speaks to each one of us individually As we come to that place within our lives and when we leave here and we hear the speakers. It's not just another Bible study Is that say of the Lord? That is speaking It's got to spoke to my life, you know, we can't speak to people unless God speaks to you first And when God speaks to us we have to listen He who has a near to hear Let him hear when I listen too much is given much worse required Now I understand it one day as I stand before the Lord. I don't want to stand before him in shame. I Want to make sure that I did what he wanted me to do Yes, I trip and I fall But I get up as fast as I can as fast as I can. I don't want the enemy to kick me to keep me down God has given us the power to stand up to walk to talk to share the gospel of Jesus Christ And to bring pleasure Pleasure to the kingdom of God to the Lord Jesus Christ that he is pleased with Yes, I am pleased with him. I Wanted in my life. I Want to be like the old Saints Enoch, Abraham, Jacob, Isaac all of these Daniel They were men that paid the price They were men that got spoke to them and they wrote what God spoke to them. That's why we have the word of God They wish they could have been here to see the fulfillment of it If you don't read the Old Testament that you don't understand the New Testament In the Old Testament he gives the prophecies in the New Testament. He fulfills them So that we can understand them. He said that he is the author the Omega the first the last He is the first and the last And I think that when you look at the scriptures that you read it has to convict your life When I got convicted by the Lord, I've been convicted ever since I have to think How am I gonna hurt my Lord? I know he'll forgive me. I know he'll cleanse me, but I've hurt him Now I want to compete to hurt him. Maybe you're here And you've been hurting the Lord for a long long time And he's been speaking to you, but the devil has kept you from listening to him And we have the power to say to Satan the Lord be beauty Satan get to be I want to make sure that when I spend time with the Lord, I don't have my phone on my iPad But a piece of paper and a pen You see how he wants to speak to me Look nobody what you want to say to me. What do you convict me and Lord God things in my life? You want to convict me? Lord do it other I pray that would be an example my family to the church my friends And even more to my enemies My enemies may know they have had a transformation in my life. It's not just something emotional It's really my life Because he works in my life. He works through my life. Yes, he works through my life. I Can't help what are you even up? How have you given that up and will you continue to give it up for our good? Because of the love again that he has for each one of us individually As Paul said also concerning the flesh. He said in Romans 6 22 But now having set free from sin Having become slaves to God you says you have your fruit to holiness And the end ever lasting in the reasons because God desires That we would be blamed people can say that person over there walks with God. You don't have to tell people people can know People can tell they're not stupid Those that you work with those that you play with Those in your neighborhood They know your life They see your life every single day, but to me the most important thing is that God sees me 24 7 365 days in one year and I always ask the question. How will I finish? I want to finish well Want to finish well before the Lord? After serving him for so many years what would Saint love to do he would love to take me down every day He tries But greater is he that is in me that he did us all the world and I thank you for it. I Love him for it. I will continue to walk. I will continue to talk I will continue to think in my mind on Jesus and I will continue in my last breath Here am I