This World Is Temporary

Stop seeking the world and its pleasures and temptations. Glorify Christ in everything you do. Glorify Christ when you are with your friends.

Don't let your friends take you away from the Lord and if they do, they are not your friends. Walk away from them. A true friend is the one who takes you up, not down.

It's the one who takes you to the church, not the club. It's the one who takes you to the light, not darkness. It's the one who takes you to Christ, not Satan.

So you want to enter heaven? Cancel yourself and live for the Lord Jesus. And since you live in the man, you will enter heaven. Enter heaven in a perfect way.

Psalm 1 will apply to you completely. You enter heaven through Jesus Christ. Psalm 1 will apply to you completely and perfectly.

We will enter heaven perfect. There are two important verses that reveal this, that we will enter heaven perfect. Two vital verses that reveal this to us.

One, verse one is Ephesians 5 27. Look at Saint Paul. That he might present her, that he here means Jesus Christ, that he might present her, meaning the church, that he might present her to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she would be holy and without blemish.

That he might, Jesus, present his beloved church, the bride, in the end to the father, perfect like him. That is telling us he will bring us into heaven as perfect as he is. The second verse is Matthew 25 21.

This is when you enter heaven, what the Lord will say about you as you're entering heaven. This is true by the way. Trust every word that is written in the holy bible.

This is the only place the truth exists. Trust me, not me. Trust this perfect God, perfect man, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Look in Matthew 25 21. As you're entering heaven, the Lord will get up to welcome you. Look what he will say to you.

His Lord said to him, well done good and faithful servant. So the Lord will say to that person who enters heaven, he will say well done good and faithful servant. Now hang on, the holy bible teaches us there is no one good but God.

There is no one good. But hang on, God himself is saying in Matthew 25 21, I will say to that person who enters heaven, well done good. But hang on, the word good only applies to God.

Why are you calling me good? I'm a sinner. No, the Lord says the only reason why I called you good and faithful servant because I did not see you, I saw my son in you. That's why I called you good and faithful because I know I'm God.

You don't need to tell me who is good and who is not. My son is the good God and my son, he is the good God in his divinity and he is the faithful servant in his humanity. So that's why I saw my son in you and that was the only reason I referred to you as good and faithful servant because you entered through my son.

Otherwise I do not know who you are, a way with you or evildoer. Go to hell, a place prepared for satan and his foul spirits. But if you enter through Jesus Christ, you will hear God's calling the good and faithful servant.

And God is good and since he called you good, then he made you like God. We will be Christ like in the end. This is why John the Beloved says in first John 3 2, we shall be like him.

In the end we shall be like him. Now Psalm 1 verse 1 says, blessed is the man. In this verse, this the man, blessed is the man, this man has three qualities.

In verse 1, it tells us that this perfect man has three qualities. In the same verse, first quality, blessed is the man, the first quality is who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly. This perfect man does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly.

Second quality, nor stands in the path of sinners. Third quality, nor sits in the seat of the scornful, those who ridicule and make fun of people. So the qualities of this perfect man, one, he never walked in the counsel of the ungodly.

He never associated himself with ungodly people. Are you associating yourself with ungodly people? You need to ask yourself this question. Number two, this perfect man, he never stood in the path of the sinners.

Are you walking with sinners, doing what they do, living the way they live? Because this perfect man never did. And number three quality, third quality is he never sat in the seat of the scornful, those who make fun of things. If you're sitting in the midst of group of people and you say something and they laugh at you and make fun of you, don't associate yourself in that kind of an environment.

You need people that would appreciate, you need people that would respect, honor, honor Christ who is in you. So if they're going to make fun and joke and laugh and ridicule you and what kind of an a group you're with, you need to ask yourself this question, my beloved. We need to be very, very, very cautious of what we do, where we go and how we live our life.

Now, on the other hand, we are sinners, we are weak. Yes, we get drawn, we get tempted, we slip, we slide, we walk away, we fear of the road. I know this, God knows this more than all of us put together, but there is a difference.

God came to call not the righteous but the sinners to repentance. That's what the Lord Jesus said. I did not come to call righteous but sinners to repentance.

The Lord Jesus said, I am the doctor, that's why I came, because you are sick. If you were not sick, the doctor wouldn't have come. I know you are sinners, I know you make mistakes, I know you are weak, I know your fragility.

You don't need to tell me this, but I came, I chose to come for the sinners because my dad wants many children. At the moment, you're not ready to be my dad's children, I have to make you ready. So, I came seeking the sinner onto repentance and the Lord gave us two examples of sinners.

You see, when the Holy Bible talks about birds, plants, animals, he's referring to them in order to pass a message to what people are like. So, through the animals, he's saying there are certain characteristics in these animals. You, my children, I don't want you to be like them.

So, through those animals, he's given us a very profound spiritual lesson. What are the two animals the Lord Jesus spoke of? One sheep, the other pig. When it comes to sinners, he says, one kind of people is a sheep and the other kind of people is a pig.

You're either a sheep or a pig, one of these two. But if you choose to be like the pig, then I can't choose you. I cannot choose you.

If you choose to be like a pig, let me tell you a few characteristics of a pig, of the pig. Number one, the pig loves living in filth, loves it. You take the pig out of the filth and you wash him clean, give him a nice bath and you make him spotless, he will hate you for it.

He will get so upset with it, he can't stand cleanliness. He will run straight away and jump into the filth and the moment he is in the middle of the filth, man, he's on cloud nine. He's saying, yo, what's up bro? Get down brother, lay me some skin bro, now you're talking brother, get down, what's up.

That's the pig, loves filth, you can't clean him. He can't stand being clean, that's one. Two, for as long as the pig's eyes are on the filthy world, on the filthy ground, the mouth never shuts.

Oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink. It's always oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, everywhere. Old MacDonald had a pig, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink.

As long as the pig's eyes are on that filth, the mouth never shuts.