In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the destructive nature of sin and its opposition to the covenant and love of God. Sin is described as self-centeredness, selfishness, and self-exalting, and is attributed to the ministry of Satan, the power of darkness, and the nature of the flesh. The preacher warns against being deceived and encourages practicing righteousness. The sermon also references Ephesians 4, highlighting the importance of walking in accordance with God's Word and challenging listeners to examine their beliefs and traditions in light of the Scriptures.

When anyone receives revelation in the Word of God, it sometimes conflicts with what he has previously been taught. This causes you to have to deal with old traditions or wrong teachings. These tapes may contain some new light from God's Word, and it may be opposed to some traditions you have previously learned. Therefore, follow through these messages in your Bible, in sequence, in order that you may be able to make a choice for the Word of God rather than the traditions of men. This is tape number three in a series. We urge you to listen to all the tapes in the series in numerical order so that the whole teaching can be received and understood. Listening to a part of the series or to the tapes out of sequence can lead to a misunderstanding of the nature, the intent, and the importance of the series. It's not a question of whether you choose God, it's a question of whether God chooses you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and what? Bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain. Please look at me. What did God tell the first Adam? Be fruitful. And He told him to multiply. What did He tell the second Adam? Be fruitful and multiply. What does the second Adam tell us? Be fruitful and multiply. Let me show you how you be fruitful. You be fruitful. The only way you can be fruitful is walking in covenant. And when you walk in this word, when you take thoughts captive, and when you walk in this word and obey this word, the fruit of love and joy and peace. See, you are a tree of the field. Longsuffering and goodness and gentleness and meekness and temperance and faith will only come out of you when you walk in this word. Are you a branch? Let me ask you over here. I can't hear you. Are you a branch? Are you supposed to be a branch? Did you ever see a branch get by itself and try to bear fruit? You'll not bear fruit unless you're into the vine. Amen? You don't get into the vine unless you're in agreement with Him. And you're not in agreement with Him unless you're walking in covenant. And so He is the one that produces the fruit in you when you walk in covenant. And He said, I've chosen you that you go bear fruit for Satan. No, I've chosen you that you go bear fruit for God. That's because it's reversed back from the first Adam who fell. So because we are being conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ who is this exact image and representation of God. Is that correct? Now, if you do this, do you know what bearing fruit is? That means that you're walking in covenant. Amen. Let me say it again. I think you might just be saying it just to agree with me. Do you understand and see that a person is being fruitful is walking in covenant? Well, look at the second part. You got your big pencil ready? And then you're bearing fruit and you fruit your name. And then whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He will give to you. Do you want to see that or not? Do you want to pass out some scissors? Do you want to cut any of this out? Now, is that strong? He says, whatever you ask. Did your Bible just say, whatever you ask, you're going to get? It doesn't. It sounds a lot different than praying and hoping. It's kind of praying and knowing, right? Huh? I want my family saved. I want the whole community saved. I want my son saved. I want a lot of things. Walking in covenant. And it's done. Now, are you seeing what the church can do with the powers of darkness when you start discipline and getting sin out? Like the Bible says, when you quit being unevenly yoked with terror, how can I make covenant with Satan? We're going to look at that in a minute. Folks, that's strong right there. Now, let me just give you an example, the opposite of this. We're going to get there later. But do you know where James, James 4, he said, you ask and you ask amiss, and you do not receive because you want to consume it on your, there it is, desires, lust, your pleasures. That's what happens. People who are praying, walking out of the cart and save your time, go read the paper. You ask and you do not receive because your motives are wrong, because you're wanting to make a name for yourself. You're wanting to exalt yourself. You're wanting to make a name for your church. You're wanting to make a name for a lot of things instead of a name for the Lord Jesus Christ. The people who are making a name for the Lord Jesus Christ are hated by this world and they're persecuted. There's a difference in walking after the cart and walking after the Spirit of God. There's a big difference. Look at verse 17, and we're going to cover that a little better later. And we're going to come to that, and I want you to remember that we read this in John 15. This I command you, that you love one another. Now, here is a disciple's relationship to the world, and this is what we're supposed to be disciples. Here's a relationship to the world. If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. It'd love you if you were of the world, but because you're not of the world, but I have what? Will you please circle chose you about four times? I have chose you. What's that next word? How the world. Therefore the world hates you. You don't walk, talk and act like the world. You don't compromise the world. You don't have to please the world. The world's what's being destroyed. The world's what's in darkness. The world's what's hanging in there while they're being torn apart. You don't supposed to hang on like the world. You rule and reign. Verse 20. Remember the word that I said to you, a slave is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they'll keep yours also. Now in chapter 16, verse 1. Here's a warning from Jesus. These things I've spoken to you that it may keep you from what? Stumbling. Now stumbling, look at me, folks. Stumbling means when you get the wrong wind, what happens? You know, did I mention this here? Did I talk about this last night, stumbling in spiritual darkness? Huh? See, at the noon part of the day, let me just for the benefit of some of you who wasn't here. You know, at the noon time of day, the word talks about you stumbling. Well, at noon time of day, you can see in the natural realm how to walk. This stumbling and staggering is talking about your staggering in spiritual darkness. Stumbling. You get a hold of the wrong teaching or opposite teaching, a different gospel than what this is, and you stumble. But this may, as I've spoken these things to you, to keep you from stumbling. They will make you what? From the what? Sound like some people are going to be outcasts from the synagogue. Hmm. But the hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think he's offering service to God. Well, I just looked at a couple of verses in 14. We're going to take a short break. Turn back to chapter 14. We got the be fruitful. Now we're going to look at the multiply. How do you multiply? You multiply by being a disciple. What's given to you, you're giving to someone else. That's what a disciple is. Now verse 12. Truly, truly, Jesus says, I say to you, he who believes in me, may I ask you something? Do you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? I don't want you to listen to the rest of this verse. He who believes in me, the works I do shall he do also. Is that plain? Why should there be any other works to do? The works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the Father. And then, when you're being fruitful, and in the next part you're multiplying, watch what comes next. If you're doing the works of Jesus. And whatever you ask in my name, that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. And in case you missed verse 13 and 14, he says it again, if you ask me anything in my name, I'll do it. Are you seeing everything goes back to the first sentence. You be fruitful, and you multiply. Covenant. That is covenant. That, if you just look at the top of your page right there, that is the ministry of Jesus. To be fruitful. That's walking in covenant, multiplying, it's being a disciple, and give what has been given unto you. That's love. That's covenant love. And then, the next verse, 15. If you love me, you will keep my covenant that I've made with you. Do you love the Lord? Do you really love him? He says if you love him, then your Bible says you'll keep covenant. Is that what he says? Now we're covering some things, we're going up here. Now look at me, this is important. We're going up here with some things that we're going to be sharing. And I'm mentioning some things around here. And I'm sure you've got questions. And some things have to be tied together. Now what you do, you sit there and you do not be under any condemnation to have to receive or understand anything until the Lord confirms it and shows you in your heart. You're called into liberty and freedom. Now, I know that this is just the first part. Folks, we're just getting started. There's a bunch more behind this to tie in. We're just starting out with covenant. These things that I'm telling you about, blessings and curses and things, when as I go through the word, I'm going to point back to covenant. I said, you see, you see, and you see, and you see, and it'll be quickened to you, and be quickened to you, and the Lord will enlighten your understanding. He'll give you wisdom. He'll give you understanding. And you're going to see it just like looking at this. So probably most of the questions, all the questions that you can ask, is going to be answered. You're going to have to wait until we get to them all. Okay? Amen? I want to tell you, I've still got questions, too. So it's good to have questions. There's nothing wrong with having questions. All right, now, I want you to turn with me now to John 17, and we're going to look at the prayer of Jesus to the Father. Is this, is covenant clearing up, folks? Is covenant looking better all the time? Shake your head. We're seeing some things we haven't understood before, aren't we? John 17. And Jesus, this is called the high priestly prayer to the Father. And I want you to know that I forget exactly how many times he mentions the world in this prayer, 17 times or more, but he never once prays for the world. Do you notice that? Now, verse 4, Jesus says to the Father, I glorify thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do, verse 11, and I am no more, verse 11, I am no more in the world, and yet they themselves are in the world. I come to thee, Holy Father, in that precious. Keep them in thy name, the name which thou hast given to me. Are you ready? That they may be what? That they may be one even as what? Now, I hope you mark that. Mark that. They may be one as we are. Now, I want you to look at me. He wants us to be one as they are. Let me show you something. Do you know the first covenant God made with Adam? It's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, one. They're one because they're in covenant. That's why they're one. He intends for us to be one as they're one. Is that what you just read? And we become one with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit when you're in covenant. Is that strong? Now, let's continue. Verse 22. He's talking about their future glory. The future glory. And the glory of which thou hast given me, I have given to them that they may be what? One just as we are what? Everything's one. Is that covenant? That is covenant. All right, I want you to watch the next part. I in them and thou in me. Is that covenant? When he's talking about the Father in him, is that covenant? The Holy Spirit in him, the Holy Spirit in us, is that covenant? I in them and thou in me, that they may be what? Perfected in unity. Perfected in unity. That is covenant. And we see that in Ephesians 4. That's what the evangelists, the pastors, that's what the craftsmen who build the temple of today, they build in unity and maturity of the body. But they be perfected in unity, that the world may know that thou didst send me and didst love them, even as thou didst love me. Verse 26. And I have made thy name known to them, and will make it known that they love. Now, I want you to mark the love right here, because that is loving kindness. That is the God kind of love. And this is what you have to understand about this love, and you want to understand this verse. Thy name known to them, and make it known that the love, the loving kindness, wherewith thou didst love me, may be what? That's a God kind of love be in them. Do you see what I'm telling you? That's a God kind of love may be in them, and I in them. Is that strong? Is that good? So you see, that kind of God kind of love is supposed to be in us, that we be one. As the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one, we are to be one. That's going to be bad news for some terrors, isn't it? Huh? That's bad news for selfish ambition, and jealousy, and envy, and strife, because in average church, all the devil has to do is just come down and shake a preacher's hand. He become a member, and remain a member, and be against everything God wants to do there, and remain a member in good standing until he dies. There's something the matter with that, isn't there? Somehow that don't line up with the words. That's for people to have something else figure it out. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians 11. Well, I tell you what, I want to come back there last. When you get to be a teacher, you can do whatever you want to do, I guess. Turn to 2 Corinthians 6. I'm going to change this around. It's not time for it. This would work better. How are you liking your Bible drill? All right, 2 Corinthians 6. I want you to read with me. Since I made the remark that I did, I think we need to start here in verse 14. God says, unless you've got something else worked out, do not be bound together with unbelievers. Now, folks, in Matthew, where it tells about the tares and the wheat growing up together, and then when it becomes harvest time, you'll see the grain. You know what that grain represents? That's the fruit. That's fruit. And then when you see fruit, the tares become obvious. And it's talking about in the field. And people are always going to say, that's the tares in the church. If you look in the next chapter, you find out the field is the world where the tares come up. Why would it say one thing here? See, we do things like fight to be sick, fight for the tares and the devil, protect him. Do not be bound together with unbelievers, for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Now, sin. When you understand covenant, you understand this scripture, right? How can I be in covenant with the devil? You know, we never see people that get up out of wheelchairs and things like this. That's not going to be any problem to do. When we get in covenant and do and discipline and do what God says, it's going to be a problem. As long as we're letting part, we're walking with people that wants to make covenant with Satan, or we're making it with him ourselves. You don't get God to cooperate too much with that. What partnership have righteousness and lawlessness and sin? Just think about it. What fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Isn't that a good question? See, but if your emphasis, if your heart goes after numbers, look at me. See, if the enemy can't forbid something, he perverts it. And see, because a church today does not want to, you know, move over there, they're trying to get God to move over here, and he just doesn't move. And so since God doesn't do anything, then you have to develop theology and start writing these big, thick books that God can't do anything, see, because you have to justify being over here. And that's exactly what happened because the enemy has perverted it. He's perverted it. See, that's why we sit over here and count everything that moves. And see, when your heart makes him... Now, I'm going to show you later how Satan's behind the counting, see, because what counting does is people boast and it lifts up their hearts. They boast in themselves after they count. So then if your emphasis becomes numbers instead of righteousness, you think you're helping God out with numbers? Hmm. See then, if your emphasis is numbers, you really don't need this. That's perversion. And that's just exactly why all the terrors get in. See, it's supposed to be a narrow door, isn't it? Isn't it narrow the way? See, we made the door just a little wider where the wolves and the terrors and the devil and the whole bunch can get in. It's supposed to be a narrow way. That is perversion. Lord, we'd rather have 600 in Sunday school as have 100. 600 in Sunday school agreeing with the devil as have 100 here agreeing with you and walking in righteousness and covenant. See, that's what God sees from his point of view. Well, what agreement has with the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God. Just as God has said, I will dwell where? I will dwell in them. Mark this as we go. We found out it's okay. I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God and they shall go to be my what? Didn't we see that a holy people that we already looked in covenant? Are you in the New Testament right now? All right. Then he says, verse 17, therefore, come out from their midst and be what? You be separated from the world into righteousness, says the Lord, and do not touch what is unclean and then I will welcome you. Now, that's what he says for folks over here. He says, move over. You move over. All right. Then verse 18, and I'll be a father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty. Therefore, having these promises, you want the promises are? I'll just write covenant right there. Beloved, let us now cleanse ourselves. How do you cleanse yourself? You start letting, see, this word can't wash you. It can't remove this junk. It can't get all this stuff that this, see, the devil has been putting things in our computer for all your life and the only thing that can get it out of there is the word of God and this word of God will not perform its work in you unless you take it to heart. Eat it. And when you take the word to heart, it'll clean all those lies. This is what's happening here right now. That's why what's going to happen here right this week, a lot of dormant demons are going to leave here. They don't have any more ministry. Once you know the truth, the truth sets you free. I mean, it just washes you and cleans all the lies out of your computer. Let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit-perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Now, I want to, if you will, just look back at 1 Corinthians 11. Turn back to 1 Corinthians 11 with me. Now, we're still talking about covenants. And you know where we're going to start. I told you that we're going to be looking at the war against the covenant. Do you believe there's been a war against the covenant? I think there's been a very successful war against the covenant because we haven't even understood covenant. I mean, the devil has been prevailing, folks, and perverting everything. 1 Corinthians 11, verse 23. Now, we're going to look at this Lord's Supper. You know another name for it you might call it? A covenant meal. Amen? All right, now, let's look, because I think this might read a little different to you in light of what we've already looked at. Verse 23. For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body, which is for you. Do you understand now when you sit down to partake of the wine and the bread, what you're doing? You're renewing covenant and death to yourself and life in Christ Jesus. See, we've known it's a pretty serious thing. All right, now, see, the bread is his flesh, you remember. In the same way, he took the cup also after supper, saying, This cup is the what? This is a new covenant. We have the old covenant and we've got the new covenant we're looking at right now. Covenant's a covenant, that's a holy people unto God. It's a covenant to be walked in and to obey. This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. That's a holy, can anything be more holy? Now, I want you to watch what else he says. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Therefore, and you proclaim your own death, too, death to the flesh. Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself. He better examine himself, hadn't he? But let a man examine himself. I hope you marked that. And so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks what? He drinks what? Mark that judgment. He drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. May I ask you if the body of Christ might be judged wrongly or the body of Jesus might be judged wrongly today in him? Because the fact that it is, in verse 30 it says, for this reason, many among you are what? You're weak and you're sick. Doesn't sound like covenant people, does it? Sound like people with some curses on them, doesn't it, instead of blessings. Sound like some people that miss the Lord and a number die. Folks, in the chapter before, in a day when the demons are all in Africa, it talks about over here, about taking the table of the Lord and taking the table of demons also. See, because we always ignored, we've been programmed to ignore scripture like that. If it has anything to do with demons, you know, we've already, we just ignore it. Now, are you seeing the possibility? And I'm going to be getting into this demon thing, I'm just going to make the point now, and I want you just, the Lord, just to show you how folks take the table of demons and sit down and take covenant with Lord God Almighty at the same time. And he said, you're weak and you're sick and you die. Amen? It sounds like that God just might be a little serious about the blood of Jesus, mightn't he? It might, it sounds like he's a little serious about who he, that's the reason he does the choosing for who's going to be in covenant with him. All right, now this has been covenant, and this is covenant. We have his likeness, his strength. We have him as a defender. He walked through the covenant walls of blood for us. His covenant scars remind him daily to pray for us. He gave us his name, and that name every knee bows. Sin, sickness, depression, disease, poverty, demons. See, everything that bows to Jesus in the name of Jesus, we have authority over it in the name of Jesus because we're in Jesus. We're sons of God. We can use his name and his word, and Jesus is in the world. So as Jesus is in the world, so are we. Covenant can't be ended. It's unchangeable. You can't get out of it once you're in it. There's no breaking covenant. When you're in covenant, you're in it, either for the blessings or the curses. Blood covenant is far greater than our concept of marriage in this country. Did you know it? Everything in the world is based on covenant. Everything in this whole world, from front to back, is based on covenant. The foundation for covenant is a foundation for prayer. Covenant is a foundation for fellowship. For understanding the Bible, understanding fellowship, understanding prayer, is seeing God unfold his covenant, which the Lord is doing for us today. There's a very interesting verse we won't turn by, but it's in Psalm 25, it's on your notes, the secret of the Lord. God has a lot of secrets, doesn't he? The secret of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he will make them, the ones that fear him, know his covenant, not the ones that fear the devil. So man begins by being created in the image of God. Wasn't that the very beginning? He's created in the image of God, then you see him fall. You understand there's a covenant, but God is trying to teach man something. In covenant, see the Old Testament here is like a root, and the New Testament is like a flower. The new is written out of the old, and the old is symbols and types of the new. And you can't separate the two of them. The whole Bible is a revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ from front to back. Man was created by God, and he fell in the garden. In the rest of the book we find man trying to find God. See, that's religion. Christianity is when God seeks out man, that's grace. And he finds him. Many are called, few are chosen, but man lost the image of God when he fell away, and the rest of the Bible here is showing how God restores in man his image. That's what he's doing all the way at the front. He fell in the garden, and the rest of the Bible is restoring man back to the image and likeness of God. Isn't that right? That is what he's doing in us, and he's done in us. See, Adam lost the image of the heavenly, which is the Lord Jesus, and he took on the image of the earthly. We see man just keep spiraling down and down until he ends up in the flood, and the Lord destroys him in the flood. God starts out again with Noah, and then man begins to seek his own thing again, and he spirals down and down until he gets to Babel. He's still going to build his way, build a tower into heaven. You see a lot of that today. So you see, for no reason except for the love of God, our Father revealed himself to Abraham, and he sold out Abraham to bring him into a place to make covenant with him. Abraham wasn't seeking the Father. The Father sold Abraham. And then later on when you read about Abraham in Hebrews 11, you don't read about his failures, you read about faith. And that is the way the Lord sees us. If our hearts are right toward him and you covenant. See, he sees our faith. He puts the failures behind him. See, it's something to hear of man entering into covenant with one another. But to hear of God entering into covenant with man, that's something else. And folks, I hope that you'll spend some time to meditate and think on that this is what we're here for, and that's what church is. Covenant with God Almighty. It's an unequal covenant. What can you give God? What can you really give God? So can you see a stiff-necked, how God sees a stiff-necked, stubborn person who thinks he has something to offer to God? Who's Lord, who wants to be God, who wants to be Lord. See, all he wants is your love. He wants your love in all your heart, body, and soul. That's the kind of love he has toward you. See, that's all he wants. And he also says, if you really love him. He said, if you really love him, you're going to obey his word. Isn't that true? You know, in Philippians it talks about that we work out our salvation in fear and trembling. There is a covenant walk. Do we know much about working out our salvation in fear and trembling? There is a salvation walk. There's a covenant walk. I want you to turn to me to 1 John 2, please. 1 John 2. We're going to look at people who are in covenant with God. The people that really know the Lord. 1 John 2, verse 13. We need to always keep our scissors with us. If we don't like something in here, we can just cut it out. Verse 3. And by this we know. I want you to mark know. Either you know or you don't know. We know that we have come to what? I can't hear you. We know him if. There's a condition. If you know him, if what? You keep his covenant. You know him if you keep his commandment, his covenant. The one who says I've come to know him and doesn't keep his covenant or commandment is a liar. Is that plain? He's a liar and the truth is not in him. Five. But whoever keeps his word in him, the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in him. The one who says he remains in him, Jesus. Here's the way you'll see him walk. He ought himself to walk in the what? Same manner as the Lord Jesus Christ walked. Isn't that plain? You're just going to receive that? What about when God tells us in the word. Now do not be deceived. It's just God almighty. Do you believe it's God's word or just contains God's word? Is this God's word? Is this word from God? All right. When God says to you, do not be deceived. Does that mean you're too smart to be deceived? Or is it possible you might could be deceived? Amen. You could be deceived. So when God warns us and all this sleepiness and over here already gathered around something, deception really, when God warns us to do not be deceived, when you see that word, do not be deceived, you better see what he's talking about. Now let's look at one of those verses. In chapter 3, verse 7. Little children. Chapter 3, verse 7. Little children let no one what? Deceive you. Which means little children there's something around that'll try to deceive you. There are some deceivers around. That's the reason God's warning you little children. Little children do not let anyone deceive you. The one who practices righteousness is the one that's what? Don't be deceived about that little children. The one who practices righteousness is the one who is righteous just as he is righteous. Verse 10. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious. Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not from God nor the one who does not love his brother. A form of godliness is not godliness. That's not covenant. That's deception. That's for people who are deceived. Now, back up one more verse in chapter 2. Verse 29. It says, talks about Jesus. If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness. The ones who practice righteousness. I hope you mark that. Put that one on your refrigerator too. The one who practices righteousness is born of him. You know, how is it that the enemy ever deceived us to think we didn't have to walk in the Word? We're told, oh, you can't do that. You ever read your Bible just reading along and you come to something in the Word? And you say, you know, if I can read right here, it says to do this. And we don't do this. And then a little voice up there says, half God really said. God wouldn't mean that. That's not the way God is. God knows you've got to enjoy yourself in this world. And besides that, if that were so, Dr. Brown would know. Dr. Brown's not Lord. When you receive that in your heart, you're making Dr. Brown. Dr. Brown doesn't lead you in all truth. How can Jesus ever teach you anything? He said he wants to lead you in all truth. And the demon comes along and tells you to let someone else lead you in all truth. I'm telling you a truth here. It happens to you all the time when you read the Bible. They all the time, ever since they said the first thing they said in this Word, half God really said. And they say it to you every day. Oh, God's not that way. Oh, half God really said. See, those are the kind of things we're going to start getting into. I'm just kind of making reference to them now. We're going to see them in the Word. And when we end this thing up on Saturday, you're going to see the church covered up with the powers of darkness and deception. And how they got there. You're going to see it in your Bible. You've got it right there in your lap. I've got a list of scriptures. It's on your list right there. I'm just going to quote them. I don't have time to turn them on, but James 1, 22. Now, I want you to listen. Here's the ones that are here and the ones that obey the Word of God. I'm going to quit telling you where these things are. I'll be gone before you get there. I'm just going to say somewhere in the Bible it says. Now, when you get to be a teacher, we'll do it your way. I'm teasing you. Partly. Here are the words rather than to do of the Word deludes himself. And in Acts 5, he gives his Holy Spirit to those who obey him. John 3, he who does not obey the Son, that means the Word, shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. And the next verse in Hebrew 5, he became to all who obey him the source of eternal life. And Luke 8, 21, my brothers and sisters and mother, that's the family, that's the spiritual family he's talking about. Or the one who first hears the Word of God and do it. Jesus said, that's who my brothers and sister and mother, that's who my spiritual family is. Romans 8, 13 and 14, he said, if you're living by the Spirit of God, you're putting to death the deeds of the flesh. In other words, he said, if you're living in the Spirit of God, you're putting to death the deeds of the carton. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the ones that are the sons of God. And it says what it plainly says, and we're going to look at it later on. I'm just going through it. But he said, the sons of God are led by the Spirit, and the sons of God are the ones who are putting to death the deeds of the flesh. That's who the sons of God are. Matthew 7, he orders that, and 21 is the best verse to find out who's going to go to heaven. You want to find out who's going to go to heaven? Right there, it just plainly says, for everyone who says, Lord, Lord, sounds like some people are going to be disappointed. A lot of people are going to come and say, Lord, Lord. And he'll say, depart from me, I never knew you. That's the saddest thing in the Bible. But see, they thought they knew him, Lord, Lord. He said, depart from me, I never knew you, for eternity. Not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of God, but one who does the will of God. Is that plain? Do not be deceived, little children. Little children over here, do not be deceived. The one who's righteous, practice righteousness. That's covenant. Turn with me to Ephesians 4. Ephesians 4. And we're going to look at our walk before we go home. This is a Christian's walk. This is the way you walk. And I'm just going to have a look at part of it. The rest of the chapter. Verse 17. Boy, I'm telling you what, that's all. All that fourth chapter. You want to make a little note before you go to sleep tonight. Read the fourth chapter to relate to what we all do. When you lay down in your bed, get your Bible and read the fourth chapter of Ephesians. Tonight. Just make yourself a note. Go to sleep every night with the word of God. It's all right to just get to sleep and just lay your Bible over the side and go on to sleep. 17. This I say therefore and affirm together with the Lord that you walk. We're talking about the walk. You walk no longer just as Gentiles. Gentiles. That means lost folks. Also walk. And here's the way they walk. In the futility of their mind. See, they think everything that goes on. Listen to me, folks. They have no discernment. Their mind does not. They don't have any discernment. And they cannot discern the things that we know in the spiritual realm. You can't even go tell them. I don't care what it's the closest relationship, mother, son, or whatever it is. I mean, all you can do is pray for them. Go into the spirit of God. Give revelation. They're walking in the futility of their mind. And their carton's puffed up. And they're just living for the carton. And they get some advantage for the carton. And their heart's lifted up because they've got their carton in some kind of elevated position. And the demons are just working them like puppets. Let me just tell you this way. Demons, there's a spirit of God that wants to be an expression of Jesus through you and me. Is that correct? Or the spirit of the devil has no body. He has no body. And he goes throughout looking for ground that he might move in and become an expression of Satan through you. And they are now an expression of Satan through the people in the world. That's why the Lord's in covenant with Satan. That's why the smoke is on them. That's why they're dead even while they walk. They're walking in the futility of their mind. And they're wise in their own eyes. That's why they can come back harsh and with persuasive arguments that they think they're deceived. They're in deception. They're puppets. The demons just pull levers on them and just be an expression of all the old lust and greed and deceit and pride. It's already in their flesh and it just comes alive. They have their little old flesh ride and they just enjoy it because they have not moved out of the natural. And they know nothing about moving into the spiritual until we tell them. And you only do that with the word of God. They walk in the futility of their mind, verse 18, being darkened in their understanding. They're excluded from the life of God because of the what? Ignorance. And the Lord will let that ignorance remain right there. And they'll spend an eternity in hell, separated from all hope and separated from all love. I'll tell you what, the average church member today would find it more important to get someone out of jail and get the smoke off of a person out here, save them out of hell. Because of the church and funeral that the church plays. The life of God because the ignorance is in them and because of the what? Hardness of the heart. You know what God calls that? That's a proud and unrepentant heart. A proud heart. And they having become what? There it is, they're callous. I hope you mark these, having given themselves over to sensuality. That's living as a carton. That's feelings, emotions. Look here, that's carton. That's where sensuality is. You understand? Let me just put it another way. When I was 43 years old, let me just get down here. When I was 43 years old, for all the 43 years, and someone asked me, well how old are you now? 11 years ago I got saved. When I was 43 years old, all my, every decision I ever made was based on what I see, smell, taste, hear and feel. That's natural senses. And it was all based with my carton in mind because I was Lord of my own life. And then I came to a place where the Lord had led me, where I made Jesus Christ. Now that's a natural walk. And I moved into, I took a step into the spiritual realm. I'm still tied to this carton. God said carton, die. Carton, in agreement with Satan, it has to die. Because now you're a new creation. Old things have passed away. All things have become new milk. You are now born again. And now you are a brand new baby. If I'd been 143, I'd be a brand new baby. I just moved into the spiritual realm. I have the word written on my heart because I have the spirit of God in me. And I can know the way. See, that's covenant, which is just your reasonable service of worship. Now you just forget about those 43 years. That's history. You are in a new dimension now. You're in the spiritual realm now. You're no longer conformed to this world. You no longer walk, talk and act like this world. But you're having your mind renewed. That you'll not only know but prove what is the good and perfect and acceptable will of God. Because now, milk, you don't walk after the flesh no more. But you walk in the flesh because you're right now. From the natural right here, you moved into the heavenly places. Because when you made covenant with me, you moved at my right hand in Christ Jesus. Because Jesus is in me and I'm in him. And that tears the devil to pieces when you know it. And he didn't want you to know it. Because see, I'm in the spiritual realm and everything that I see in this building right here, you. Everything I see right here is going to pass away. All this building, this piano. All these cartons I'm looking at are deteriorating. They begin dying when they're born. They're going to pass away, they're just already deteriorating. Passing away. All those nice clothes, pews. Everything is going to go. But see, I'm not bothered by that because that's not where I'm living at. I'm living for eternal things, not temporal things. The world out there lives for the temporal. Just like grass, here today and gone tomorrow. A vapor. They're choosing to find their portion in this world. And then to walk, talk and act like Satan and then find an eternity to spend with him in hell. Rather than come over to make covenant with God Almighty. They choose to be wise in their own eyes. That's Satan. He's an expert at talking to people. To walk, talk and act like him. So now, I'm tied to this flesh. I'm going to be loose from it one of these days. But while I'm in it, I'm dying. I'm dying to pride. I'm dying to anger. Hate. Lust. I don't have to lust. See, I used to lust. I don't lust in Jesus' name. Who do you think puts those pictures in your mind? The Lord's going to teach you. And you'll take every thought captive because everything in this world is a big old phony $3 bill roll that people play. They're puppets. Folks, I want to give you just a second to remember. When you're walking and living nicer things in the world, you remember that you had a role. You had to pretend to be something you're not. I let him put a hand on his shoulder and tell him a lie. As Jeremiah says, you speak peace to a neighbor while you set an ambush for him right in here. Who do you think is promoting all that in people that do that? They call it clever. All this deceitful working out the angles, they call it. That's them being an expression of Satan through the flesh. He says, don't walk that way. Look in verse 19. And they in the world, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, that's flesh, for the practice of every kind of impurities with greediness, greediness, greed, I, me, my, get all you can and can't all you can get, idolatry. But you did not learn Christ in this way. You don't learn about Christ this way. That's not the way that you walk if you know Christ, if indeed you heard him and have been taught in him, just as truth is in Jesus, that in reference to your what? Life. You don't walk and talk and act that way. My former manner of life when I was 43 years old, I don't walk, talk and act, and I don't even think that way anymore. In reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old man. Do you see that? That was the old man. That cartons the old man, which is being what? Corrupted in accordance with what? The lust of deceit, and I want you to know that the lusts are deceitful. Corruption. You know what sin is, folks. Let me just tell you. You know what sin says. You know what envy says. I, me, my. I should have that. You know what jealousy says. I, me, my. I should be in that place over there. You know what greed says. Get all I from I, me, my. That's cartons. All that's cartons. Hate means I hate because he hurt my I, me, my cartons. I'm angry because something doesn't please I, me, my cartons. Sin is I, me, my. I'm Lord Satan. All sin. See it? Shake your head. Sin is opposite from covenant. Sin is self-centeredness. Sin is self-selfishness. Sin is self-exalting. Sin is the opposite from love. Sin is the ministry of Satan and the power of the darkness and the nature of the flesh. They're all in agreement. And the world. Do you see if you're not overcoming the world, the flesh and the devil, the demons, you understand they're overcoming you? Now see, folks, we just got into a place now where you can just start seeing it start to fit together just like that. This concludes tape number three. 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