This sermon emphasizes the importance of walking in covenant with God, highlighting the need to resist the deception of the enemy, the significance of practicing righteousness, and the power of renewing the mind to align with God's truth. It delves into the contrast between living in the flesh and living in the spirit, urging believers to lay aside the old self and put on the new self in Christ. The sermon also addresses the dangers of being deceived, the consequences of walking in the ways of the world, and the necessity of being led by the Spirit of God.

Welcome to the Lecture 15 The Resurrection And The Three Degrees Of Glory Do you think those blessings are reality today for people who walk in covenant? Shake your head It absolutely is Unless you've got something else worked out Now, is the curses all over the church today? They really are And in a lot of cases they're called blessings See, this is where the enemy can make you think darkness is light And bitter is sweet If he can't prevent something, he perverts it And that's what he's been doing I'll tell you what we're doing, folks We're starting all over again Jesus is Lord It just doesn't matter what anybody's saying except the Lord Jesus Christ It just doesn't matter I mean, let me, it does matter But this matters more Okay, now we exchange names And Jesus' favorite name for himself, he began being called the Son of Man Here he is, through Jesus Christ All things are created in heaven and earth Visible and invisible For the throne, dominions, rules, authority Everything is being created through Jesus Christ For Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is before all things and in Jesus Christ All things hold together And now he's taken on the name of Son of Man Isn't that interesting? And of course, we are called Christians, which is what? Little Christ Isn't that right? We're called Little Christ Which means that we do the works He who believes in me, the works I do, shall he do also And what John 14 says Now, you're going to really like this Let's look in John 6 In John 6 Now there's a difference In this kind of bread and the soup line bread, isn't it? Soup line bread is for the carton, okay? This bread is for the spiritual man All this stuff about bless my flesh, my carton Go get your flesh blessed I tell you, we live to build up the inner man This is where we live We die to the carton daily And the lust of deceit, the lust of the flesh And when you choose this process and everything God makes it a reality in life Because you can, in every temptation We're called, we're told That we can go to the throne of grace He said, you've got a priest that's already been suffered And tempted in all points, yet without sin And from that same throne of grace He sits right there and say this resentment Every time anyone hurts you This unforgiveness and resentment It immediately comes to you The devil comes right there The demons come to build a case against that person Immediately, like that And right there, when they do that You, and you can't stand against or resist You just called, Lord I choose with my will To love and forgive this person Who's hurt me from your throne now I receive love and forgiveness It's flowing through me to that person And it's over for the devil Now that's grace That's grace, but you walk in covenant And you resist the devil And you know what the next thing he does Didn't say ignore him, said resist him And he flees, because you're not listening He doesn't have any ministry with you You're in Christ And you're saying, I'm not coming out Mr. Devil I'm in and I'm not coming out So, John 6, verse 48 I am the bread of life, Jesus says Your fathers ate the manna and the walrus And they died This is the bread which comes down out of heaven So that one may eat of it and not die I am the living bread that come down out of heaven If anyone eats of this bread He shall live forever Now what's this bread supposed to represent You know if you're in a covenant If you make a covenant You remember that brother Peter and I We would eat the bread And that would mean our flesh, wouldn't it That would be taking Peter into me Peter would be taking me into himself Isn't that right So what he's talking about I want you to understand and catch this folks He's talking about covenant to these folks And they get all tore up a little later Because they don't want his enemies Because these people When they get in covenant with somebody like this I mean it's all over for their I mean for You just watch the disciples walk away And watch what happen here I'm the living bread that came down out of heaven If anyone eats of this bread He shall live forever That's covenant And the bread also which I shall give For the life of the world Is my what What do you do when you go take the Lord's Supper The bread and the wine That is renewing covenant It's a serious thing He has a few warnings about this Let's go in verse 52 You know what he's talking about The symbol of covenant right there, isn't it The bread and the wine Do you see it He's saying That's how you have eternal life You have to make covenant with God You don't make covenant with the devil And have eternal life Well you The fact You're going to have eternal life somewhere I think it's called eternal death But the fact you're living Is the fact you're going to live forever Somewhere You choose You choose Because everything God ever created He's tested He built a hell He built a hell for many, many, many angels That won't agree with Satan We're given a choice today Whether we want to agree with Satan Or agree with God today And he built a hell for these angels eternally That's the judgment of God Adam, the first man created Was tested He didn't pass the test And you Me and millions of others were cursed And still cursed Because of the sin of that man The most upright man on earth Was tested Job Peter The Lord Jesus said to him Satan's a man in to sift you as wheat He didn't get out of it He said I pray that after he gets through sifting you That you return and strengthen the brethren He's tested See Peter once tried to do it in his own strength He said I'm ready to go to prison and die For you Lord Big mouth You hear that's carton talk And he said Peter before the Before the cock crows Before the sun comes up You'll deny me three times What did Peter do? He denied him three times Because you know something else happened He received grace He received power At Pentecost He wouldn't deny him anymore Was he folks? No because he received that grace To be something he wasn't You can't stand the test You can't take the test Without the grace And the power of God on your life And we're going to see how power comes in the church And why there's no power today Before we get through here this week We're going to see why there's absolutely no power Jesus Suffered more and was marred before any man More than any man It pleased the Father that he suffered I'm going to tell you something You are being tested You hear me? This inner man your heart is being tested To see who you're in agreement with Who you want to be an image of Let's go ahead 52 The Jews therefore began to argue with one another Saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat? Jesus therefore said to them Truly truly I say to you Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man And drink his blood You have no life in yourselves In other words he says Death is working in you folks You are dying You're already dead in God's eyes Unless you make covenant with God And then 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood Has what? What is he saying there? He who makes covenant with me has eternal life Do you see that? That's exactly it And I will raise him up on the last day For my flesh is true food And my blood is true drink Is this getting a little interesting folks? Now verse 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood Blood remains in me And I in him As the living Father sent me Now see I in me and me in him See that's the way you know I give you an example of Peter and myself Making covenant We become one He said he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood That's covenant They become one Is that what you're reading right there? 57 As the living Father sent me And I live because of the Father So he who eats me He also shall live because of me I don't want to go too fast I just want to I want to give you just a chance to meditate on this 58 This is a bread which come down to heaven Not as the Father's ate and died He who eats this bread shall live forever When you make covenant with God almighty You eat the blood The flesh of Jesus Christ You make covenant with him You live forever Is that plain? Now let's look in verse 60 Many therefore of his disciples When they heard this This is a difficult statement Who can listen to it? And in verse 63 It is the spirit who gives life The flesh profits nothing You folks just want to live for your carton The flesh profits nothing It's nothing It's phony It's satanic The nature of it The world system The people of the world Walk, talk and act like Satan They are an image of Satan It is the spirit who gives life The flesh profits nothing The words I have spoken to you Are spirit and are life And look at verse 66 As a result of this Many of his disciples withdrew And were not walking with him anymore And look what he said to the twelve Jesus therefore said therefore to the twelve You see there's more disciples than the twelve around There were multitudes of disciples around We see in one place in Luke See that you know that Jesus didn't do a thing to any disciples He couldn't do it to me and you See it's always Jesus where it's him To him, them or me Or you It's always him See a disciple is a disciple This is what we call to be a disciple Jesus said therefore to the twelve Do you want to go away also? You do not want to go away also do you? Now look, look at me Other people don't want to make covenant with God Because their heart goes somewhere else Now I want you to remember this scripture He who wants to save his carton Flesh Is going to what? Lose it But he who loses The life of this carton, the flesh But he who loses life For my sake and Covenant gospel Shall what? You're going to save it Now let's say that again He who loses life He who tries to save his life is going to lose it You know what I'm saying? He who tries to save his carton Lives for his carton Is going to lose it Now you're going to have one I'm telling you down here See we got a lot more hours left I'm telling you down here some things But it's going to come clearer and clearer to you But he who loses life Tries to save his life Is going to lose it But he who loses life For my sake and the gospel My sake, that's covenant Is the one that's going to save it Let me give you another way In Revelation at all ends They overcame by what? The blood of the Lamb Well what was the blood of the Lamb? That's the victory that the Lord won for us at Calvary Isn't that right? Number one That's how we overcome The victory that's already been won for us at Calvary Number two By the word of our testimony What is the word of our testimony? That we shook some preacher's hands? No! Our testimony is That we say what God says We speak the word That's what moves the spiritual realm That is how So we overcome by the blood of the Lamb The word of our testimony And love not our carton until death If your heart goes after your carton How can you walk with God? That's the spiritual realm Let me give you I'm just going to have to share something with you later Well it's hard to keep them going about 15 different directions I want to tell you it's going to be a good week Can I just tell you? Boy I'll tell you what Jesus is something You want to just throw a fit now? Praise the Lord John 7 Verse 5 And I want you to remember this We're going to tie it in somewhere else For not even his brothers were believing in him His own brothers Of course we know that later on they did But they wasn't believing in him at that time were they? An interesting thing happened to his brothers and mothers one time We're going to look at it later Now look at verse 7 He said the world The world I hope you mark this The world cannot hate you But it hates me Because I testify of it That its deeds are evil Do you know something? When you walk in covenant You convict the world of self-centeredness That's why the world hates you When you let your light shine If you got the light it's shining It's not on the bed or on the bushel And that light convicts the world And the people you get around it It convicts them of their self-centeredness And selfishness Because that's where the whole world is programmed to live For themselves The opposite of selfishness is love We become, we're walking in a supernatural realm Where we give and we give and we give and we give Because we've got an unending source from the throne of grace The more we give the more we get Give and it be given unto you full measure Shaken down, pressed down and running over Will it be given unto you as you give unto men And see that involves a lot more things than hundred dollar bills You give grace, you give mercy You give love Whatever you give your time Whatever you give Patience You get more So you will be hated by the world Is that what your bible tells us? Now I want you to turn with me to John 15 And it will be the place where we thaw our feet And I want you to know That when you come into covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ The church will not be the church We're not going to see things happen Like they did in Acts Until we know what the church knew in the book of Acts We don't know what they knew But I know that we're coming into it And it's coming fast For the people that want to know And it's not called coming to one man It's coming to the body And I want to tell you what they had a covenant relationship Let me tell you what they had That's why someone could take all their possessions The wealthy and everything that they had And throw it down They counted it as nothing Because they was no longer living for the carton They were living for eternal things They set their mind on heavenly things Instead of earthly things They're covenant When you make covenant And you come into the Lord Jesus Christ And someone else in the Lord Jesus Christ You become one You're in covenant with You got the same covenant with one another And that's what they knew And that's what the Lord is teaching us today So the disciples had a relationship We're disciples If you notice over in Acts They were the congregation of disciples They weren't a congregation of joiners And the disciples does the works of Jesus And their relationship with one another We're going to look at John 15, folks And I'm going to tell you what's the truth I pray to God You'll not let the devil take this away from you They can steal the word right out of your heart But what they do is just replace it with a lie Now when you read what you're going to read You're going to read something strong And I hope you'll hold fast to it Now here's supposed to be our relationship to one another In chapter 15, verse 12 This is my commandment Our covenant That you love one another just as I have loved you This is a disciple relationship Greater love has no one than this That he laid down his life For who? Who are friends? Friends is someone you're in covenant with Blood covenant What do you do? What is covenant? You always have to lay down your life When you make covenant Amen? Is that what we've seen over and over? You love this person as yourself That is covenant Now if you mark lay down your life For his friend That is the covenant love right there That is loving kindness That is mercy That is grace That is the God kind of love right there Now you say, well I can't do that I'm going to tell you what you absolutely cannot But I'll tell you what, when you're willing to You'll receive the grace from God That you will do it When you get an agreement right there In covenant Why do you put these things in a word for us? Alright now Fourteen You are my what? Friends If you keep covenant If you do what I command you In other words, if you do what I command you If you keep my covenant, you're my friends Covenant is made to walk in It's agreement, I will if you will Covenant is not made to analyze Speculate about it It's something you do It's a place where you live Fifteen No longer do I call you slaves For the slave does not know what his master is doing But I have called you what? That's covenant, that's disciples right here They're friends For all things that I've heard from my father I've made known to you Glory be to God forevermore That's good Why I tell you what I get glimpses of grace And it just almost consumes me I mean God is something Sixteen You got your big pencil ready? Here's another one of those refrigerated verses You did not choose me But I chose you Remember you know when someone gives the invitation You sit back there, gonna be the prize egg Well okay, I'll believe that Jesus Christ is a son of God Great The demons do it and tremble What's that got to do with making Jesus Lord? And getting in covenant It's not a mental thing, it's a heart For with a heart man believes in the righteousness He said, it's not a question where you choose God It's a question 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 tell you, 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 So 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 process reversed back from the first Adam who fell So of course we're being conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ Who is his exact image and representation of God, is that correct? Now, if you do this, 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 You want to see that or not? You want to pass out some scissors? You want to cut any of this out? Now is that so? He says whatever you ask Did your Bible just say whatever you ask you're going to get? It sounds a lot different than praying and hoping It's kind of praying and knowing, right? 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 they start disciplining and getting sin out? Like the Bible says When they quit being unevenly yoked with terrors 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 opposite of this We're going to get there later But you know we're in James 4 He says you pray and 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 pray and walk out of the cart and save you 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 And 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's 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? Have you please circles chose you about four times? I have chose you What's that next word? Hello 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 it's being torn apart You don't supposed to hang on like the world You rule and reign Verse 20 Remember the words 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 what? 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 somebody who wasn't here You know, at the noon time of day The word talks about you stumbling Well at noon time of the 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 the opposite teaching A different gospel on what this is And you stumble But this may, 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'll just look at a couple of verses in 14 We're going to take a short break Let's turn back to chapter 14 We got to be fruitful Now we're going to look at multiply How do you multiply? You multiply by being a disciple What's given to you, you're giving to somebody 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 In 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 Adam You be fruitful And you multiply Covenant That is covenant If you just look at the front of your 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 is being given unto you That's love That's covenant love And then The next verse Verse 15 If you love me You will keep my covenant That I 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? Well We're going to take a short break And Just be back here in about Please be back here in about 10 minutes Okay? Will you do that please? No one can go home Until it's over Need to turn this on Now I believe I'm on I'm having to learn a lot of new things these days Folks listen 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 don't 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 he's going to do it And he's going to do it with his word This is just the first part Folks we're just getting started There's a bunch more behind this To tie in everything 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 though Amen I've still got questions too So it's good to have questions There's nothing wrong with having questions Alright now He says if you love me You're going to keep my commandments right 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 You know the first covenant God made with Adam Is 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 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 I don't 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 evangelist The pastor The That's what the craftsman Who built the temple of today They build in unity And maturity of the body But they be perfect 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 The 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 You want to understand this verse Thy name Know to them and make it known that the love The loving kindness were with Thou did love me May be what That's a God kind of love be in Them 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 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 word That's for people to have something else figure it out Turn with me to 1st Corinthians 11 1st Corinthians 11 Well I tell you what I want to come back there Last when you get to be teacher You can do it whatever you want to do I guess Turn to 2nd Corinthians 6 I'm going to change this around it's not time For This would work better How you liking your bible drill Alright 2nd 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 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 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 Longness now sin when you understand You understand this scripture right How can I be in covenant with the devil You know We don't see people 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 herself You don't get God to cooperate too much With that What partnership have righteousness and longness 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 And that a good question See but if your emphasis if your Heart goes after numbers Look at me see see if the enemy can't Prevent 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 it moves And see when your heart makes Him now I'm going to show you Later how satan Is behind the counting See because what counting Does the people boast and it lifts up their hearts They boast in themselves After they count So then if your emphasis Becomes numbers Numbers Instead of Righteousness You think you're helping God Out with numbers 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 a 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 Oh 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 to mark in your bible I will dwell in them And walk among them I will be their God and it's going to be my what Did we see That a holy people that we already looked in covenant Are you in the new testament right now Alright 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 Alright 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 just write covenant Right there Beloved let us now Cleanse ourselves How do you cleanse yourselves You start letting See this word can't wash you It can't remove this junk It can't get all this stuff 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 will clean all those lies This is what's happening here right now That's why what's going to happen here right this week Ain't a lot of dormant demons 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 now Back at 1st Corinthians 11 Turn back to 1st Corinthians 11 With me Now we're still Talking about covenant 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 1st 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 Alright 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'd given thanks He broke it and said This is my body Which is for you Do this In remembrance of me Folks 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 Alright now See the bread is his flesh 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 is a covenant that's a holy people unto God It's a covenant to be walked in And to obey This cup is a 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 unworthy manners 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 he 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 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 Some people 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 Folks take the table of demons And sit down And take covenant with the 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 He 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 Alright 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 For health, 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 break in 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 Do you know it? Everything in the word is based on covenant Everything in this whole word from front to back Is based on covenant 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 Psalm 25 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 He's created in the image of God Then you see him fall And you understand the 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 You know 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 spent Showing how God restores in man His image, that's what he's doing 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 just spirals down and down Until he gets to the bible 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 He sought out Abraham to bring him into place To make covenant with him Abraham wasn't seeking the father The father sought 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 it's He sees our faith He puts the failures Behind him And see it's something to hear of God Man entering into covenant with one another But to hear of God Man entering into covenant with man That's something else And folks I hope 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 neck How God sees a stiff neck 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 you to love him with 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 is 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 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 commandments 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 it walk he ought himself To walk in the water Same matter as The Lord Jesus Christ walk 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 this is God's word or just contains God's words 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 you Know 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 they 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 devil are Obvious anyone who does not Practice righteousness is not From God nor the one who does Not love his brother is that plain That's not even covenant if you don't love your Brother that's a form of Godliness 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 the 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 all 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 say Have 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 Ever since they said the first thing They said in this word Have God really said And they say it to you every day Oh God's not that way Oh have 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 right there in your lap I've got a list of Scriptures that's on your list right there I'm just going to quote them and I'm going to have time to turn Them on but James 1 20 Now I want you to listen here's the ones that say 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 A hearer of the word rather than a doer 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 says 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 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 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 sound like some people are going to be Disappointing a lot of people are going to come And say Lord Lord And he said 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 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 Well I'm telling you what That's all that 4th chapter You want to make a little note before you go to sleep tonight Read the 4th chapter To relate to what we're all doing When you lay down in your bed get your Bible And read the 4th chapter of Ephesians Tonight Just make yourself a note Go to sleep every night With the word of God it's alright to just get sleeping 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 That means lost folks Also walk and here's the way they walk In the futility of their minds 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 They cannot discern The things that we know in the spiritual realm You can't even go tell them I don't care whether it's a closest relationship Mother son or whatever it is All you can do is pray for them Go to the spirit of God And 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 here 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 argument You know that they think they're all They're deceived 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 And see they have their little Old flesh ride And they just enjoy it because see 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 Now 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? And the Lord will let that ignorance Remain right there And they'll spend an eternity In hell Separated from all hope And separated all love I'll tell you what The average church member today Would find it more important to get someone Out of jail Than 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 we've gone 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 Cartons 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 As Jesus Christ is in the world So are you You are now born again And you are now 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 He says now Don't you make your body A living sacrifice 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 a 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 When you moved 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 I see in this building right here You Everything I see right here is going to pass away This house 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 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 When you walk through the shopping centers You have one split second To resist it In law school and teaching And you take every thought Captive because Everything in this world Is a big old phony Three dollar 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 after things In the world you remember that you had a road You had to pretend to be something you're not The sequel you could look someone in the eye Shake his hand Smile at 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 All this deceit and they call it clever All this deceitful Working out the angles They call it That's them Be 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 impurity Is with greediness, greediness Greed, I, me, my, get all you can And can 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've heard him and have been taught in him Just as truth is In Jesus That in reference to your what Now you have a former manner of 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 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 lust 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 For my, 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 Is I I, me, my Sit Shake your head Sin Is opposite from covenant Sin is self-centeredness Sin is 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 If they don't talk you into not coming back Tomorrow night You'll have to get back here to hear it Faith comes by hearing the word of God Not, faith doesn't come by sitting home Watching the idol Or television Do you ever notice how all the chairs Point to the idol Alright now So we lay aside the old self which be incorrupted In accordance with the lust of deceit And that you may be What? Renewed in the spirit of your mind That you'll put on the new self That's the image of Jesus isn't it? The new self and you lay aside the image of Satan And you put on the image of Jesus Isn't that right? Which is the likeness of God There it is, there's the first atom on the end That made him in our likeness Now watch how it's reversed Has been created in righteousness And holiness of the truth Now I want you to watch in verse 26 It says be angry yet do Not sin Do not let the sun go down On your anger, why did he say that? He said if there's any anger in your life Folks he said you better have it right Before the sun goes down, is that what your bible Just said there? You know why? He said that you better deal with that anger Before the sun goes down Because the next verse Do not give the devil A place or an opportunity And that's where we're going to start tomorrow We're going to see the war Against you, how deceit has come Against the covenant How deceit has come in their life How we're going to expose with the word of God The powers of darkness And how they have deceived And war Against the covenant And the word of God Well I'll tell you what If I could never have learned how to get past that first day It just starts getting good It will It will get good tomorrow night