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00:00:08 Father, we thank you for this and other opportunity
00:00:10 to minister to these, your precious sheep.
00:00:13 Thank you, Lord, that revelation knowledge will flow freely,
00:00:17 uninterrupted and unhindered by any satanic or demonic force.
00:00:22 And Father, I pray that you will speak through my vocal cords
00:00:24 and think through my mind.
00:00:26 I believe in all of you, it's in Jesus' name we pray.
00:00:31 And everybody said, "Amen."
00:00:34 Would you give everybody a big hand clap?
00:00:36 Their service was amazing this morning.
00:00:39 So awesome.
00:00:41 You may be seated.
00:00:46 If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of Acts,
00:00:49 chapter 4, verses 10 through 12.
00:00:53 We're gonna read it in the King James
00:00:54 and we're gonna read verse 12 in the NLT.
00:00:59 I wanna talk to you for the day.
00:01:02 This is so very important.
00:01:04 I keep hearing people saying, they make these long lists about
00:01:09 all the things you have to do to be saved.
00:01:11 And if you don't do that, then, you know, you're gonna go to
00:01:14 hell, and if you don't do this, then you're not really saved.
00:01:18 But I thought I got saved the day I got saved.
00:01:21 Now, well, no, that was--you just really--
00:01:23 and I'm wondering, is Jesus enough for our salvation?
00:01:28 So, I wanna talk about that today.
00:01:33 Is Jesus enough to keep our salvation, or are we gonna
00:01:39 continue to be instructed to keep adding stuff to it?
00:01:44 Is he enough to keep our salvation?
00:01:49 'Cause that's pretty important right now.
00:01:51 You need to know it and you need to be very secure in what the
00:01:55 Word of God says about your salvation, because if you leave
00:01:59 it up to some people, if you breathe wrong, you ain't saved
00:02:03 no more.
00:02:05 You're gonna be in hell by 12 o'clock, you know.
00:02:07 It's like, "Dawg."
00:02:08 It's like we have this thing about loving to send people to
00:02:11 hell and using fear as a mechanism to try
00:02:15 to keep people saved.
00:02:18 Look at this, Acts chapter 4, verse 10 through 12.
00:02:22 He said, "Be it known unto you all and to all the people of
00:02:26 Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom
00:02:31 you crucified, whom God raised from the dead," that same Jesus,
00:02:37 "even by him doth this man stand here before you whole."
00:02:44 Verse 11, he said, "Now Jesus now is the stone which was
00:02:48 set at naught of you builders, which is become--" he's become
00:02:53 the head of the cornerstone.
00:02:56 So, Jesus is the head of the cornerstone.
00:02:58 He said this stone, but Jesus is the head of the cornerstone.
00:03:02 "Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none of
00:03:09 their name under heaven, given among men whereby we must be
00:03:17 saved."
00:03:19 Nobody else but Jesus.
00:03:25 And then look at verse 12 in the NLT.
00:03:29 He said, "There is salvation in no one else."
00:03:34 God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be
00:03:38 saved.
00:03:39 There is salvation in no one else.
00:03:41 There is no salvation in Buddha.
00:03:43 There is no salvation in Mohammed.
00:03:45 There is no salvation in nobody else but Jesus.
00:03:51 And then in John, St. John chapter 14 and verse 6 in the
00:03:59 King James, St. John chapter 14 and verse 6 in the King James,
00:04:06 he says, "Jesus saith unto him, 'I am the way, the truth, the
00:04:14 life, no man.'"
00:04:16 How many is no man?
00:04:22 "No man cometh unto the Father but by me."
00:04:28 Nobody, nobody's coming to the Father.
00:04:35 Nobody's getting into heaven.
00:04:37 Nobody's coming to the Father's throne except by Jesus Christ.
00:04:42 Well, I don't agree.
00:04:43 There are many ways to God.
00:04:44 Ain't but one way to God.
00:04:47 Now, traditionally speaking, what about the grounds for
00:04:59 keeping our salvation?
00:05:00 What about sinning willfully after having known the truth?
00:05:09 "If I want to stay saved, I got to make sure I don't sin
00:05:14 willfully."
00:05:16 What about bearing fruit?
00:05:20 "And if I don't bear fruit, I'll be cut off," and somebody
00:05:23 says, "you go to hell."
00:05:25 What about being hot?
00:05:29 You can't be hot or cold, but you got to be lukewarm.
00:05:33 And if you're lukewarm, that ain't going to get it, 'cause
00:05:39 God said he's going to spit you out his mouth, and that means
00:05:44 you ain't saved no more.
00:05:46 What about not having enough oil in the lamp when Jesus returns?
00:05:51 What about forgetting to confess your sins?
00:05:54 Well, the Bible says you got to confess your sins.
00:05:57 Well, what if you forget one?
00:05:59 What if you forget the sin that you went to the restaurant and
00:06:05 you just had a bad attitude?
00:06:06 That's sin.
00:06:07 Anything that falls short of love is sin.
00:06:10 What if you seriously, seriously think--calm down,
00:06:13 Creflo--you seriously think that God is going to, you know, you
00:06:18 going to lose your salvation because you forgot to confess
00:06:22 something he's already taken care of?
00:06:24 Go to Hebrews chapter 10, 28 in the New Living Translation.
00:06:30 I think that's it.
00:06:34 Hebrews chapter, I think it's 928 in the Hebrew--in the NLT.
00:06:39 What about the unforgivable sin?
00:06:45 Oh, the unforgivable sin.
00:06:47 If you commit the unforgivable sin, you lose your salvation.
00:06:51 I spent more time trying to find reasons for people to lose their
00:06:55 salvation, and this morning I just want to set the record
00:06:58 straight.
00:06:59 We believe in the Word of God.
00:07:00 I just--I have to set the record straight.
00:07:03 Hebrews chapter 9, 28, before I start this, he says, "So also
00:07:08 Christ was offered once for all times as a sacrifice."
00:07:14 To do what?
00:07:15 Take away the sins of many people.
00:07:19 He'll come again, not to deal with our sins.
00:07:25 What?
00:07:28 He's coming again, but not to deal with your sins.
00:07:30 Why is he not coming again to deal with your sins?
00:07:34 'Cause he's already dealt with it.
00:07:37 Sin is something that's dealt with.
00:07:40 It's a done deal.
00:07:42 He's already handled that, and if you're still struggling
00:07:45 trying to figure out how to handle it yourself, he says,
00:07:49 "I'm coming back to deal with your sins.
00:07:51 I've already handled your sins, but I'm coming back but to bring
00:07:55 salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him."
00:08:00 And that's the salvation of your new body that's going to be put
00:08:06 on, your glorified body.
00:08:10 Now, let's get into this.
00:08:12 Let's study the Scriptures carefully and find out, is Jesus
00:08:18 enough, or do we need to add something else to him?
00:08:23 Is he enough?
00:08:24 Because some Christians aren't convinced that Jesus is enough.
00:08:30 Let's begin in John chapter 15, verse 2 in the King James.
00:08:36 Let's look at Jesus plus bearing fruit.
00:08:42 What's the deal there?
00:08:43 Is there--see, I believe that it's Jesus plus nothing, but
00:08:46 let's, for this lesson today, look at Jesus and say, "All
00:08:50 right, well, you got to handle that issue with bearing fruit."
00:08:53 Okay?
00:08:54 Well, let's look at just what he says about this
00:08:56 bearing fruit issue.
00:08:57 He says, "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit,
00:09:02 he taketh away.
00:09:04 And every branch that beareth fruit, he purges it, that it may
00:09:09 bring forth more fruit."
00:09:10 Now, how many of you know the Bible makes it clear that he is
00:09:15 the vine, we are the branch?
00:09:18 Say out loud, "I'm a branch."
00:09:21 Okay, and notice that the fruit appears through the branch, but
00:09:26 if the branch is no longer attached to the vine, it
00:09:31 withers away and it dies, right?
00:09:33 So, you can see where people are going with this.
00:09:35 They're saying, "Well, you know, every branch in me that
00:09:38 beareth not fruit, he taketh away."
00:09:41 So, if he takes the branch away 'cause you're not bearing
00:09:44 fruit, then you no longer safe.
00:09:48 Branch can't be living 'cause it's detached from the vine.
00:09:52 Now, think, think about your God whose nature is love.
00:09:58 Does that sound like something God would do?
00:10:01 Does that sound like something God would do?
00:10:03 Some of you still not sure, are you?
00:10:05 'Cause you've been camped out there for so long, you're like,
00:10:08 "Well, that's what I heard all my life."
00:10:10 But there's one problem with that, and this is the thing,
00:10:12 when we don't rightly divide the Word and study it, we look at
00:10:16 this, at first glance, this Scripture seems to say that
00:10:20 unless you bear fruit, you will be cut off from Jesus, and if
00:10:26 we're cut off from Jesus, then we're no longer saved.
00:10:29 So, what does this really mean?
00:10:33 Now, follow me carefully.
00:10:36 You see the phrase, "Every branch in me that beareth not
00:10:39 my fruit," that phrase underline it, "taketh away," "taketh
00:10:44 away," or another translation may say, "cut off."
00:10:50 That originates from a Greek word, and you can look it up
00:10:55 for yourself, Strong's, I think I wrote it down,
00:10:57 Strong's number 142, and it's the Greek word "arrow," A-I-R-O.
00:11:06 He translated it in English with two words,
00:11:10 "taketh away" or "cut off."
00:11:12 This Greek word means this, it means to lift from the ground or
00:11:17 to take up.
00:11:22 You see, a vine dresser who understands that if the branch
00:11:27 is not getting enough sunlight, it needs to be bared up or lifted
00:11:34 up or adjusted up.
00:11:37 Here's what he's saying, "Every branch in me that beareth not
00:11:43 fruit," God's gonna bear you up or lift you up.
00:11:48 He gonna lift you up until you're able to bear fruit.
00:11:54 He not gonna cut you off or take you away.
00:11:57 He's gonna prop you up, lift you up, straighten you up,
00:12:01 so you can bear--oh, my goodness.
00:12:03 [congregation applauding]
00:12:05 If a person bears no fruit at all, we don't send that person
00:12:17 from the church.
00:12:19 We put him in a fellowship group so somebody can bear him up
00:12:24 until he's able to do what he needs to do.
00:12:27 This is similar to the vine dresser.
00:12:30 Is it that our theology can convince people--and what kind
00:12:36 of fruit we looking for anyway?
00:12:38 Do you think bearing fruit means money?
00:12:40 No, bearing fruit, what fruit?
00:12:42 The fruit of the Spirit.
00:12:43 If this person who is now a part of the vine is not bearing the
00:12:48 fruit of love and joy and longsuffering and is not bearing
00:12:52 the fruit of the Spirit, let's get him.
00:12:54 Let's hold him up.
00:12:56 Let's bear up.
00:12:57 Here's the context.
00:12:58 Those who are strong bear the infirmities of the weak.
00:13:02 So, you don't need to add this to Jesus.
00:13:11 We are connected to Jesus' tree, and our fruit will be Jesus'
00:13:15 fruit.
00:13:16 Glory to God.
00:13:17 So, we don't need to connect.
00:13:19 Jesus is still enough because Jesus is the one that's bearing
00:13:23 you up.
00:13:26 Well, what about the other part?
00:13:28 "And every branch that beareth fruit, he purges it, that it may
00:13:35 bring forth more fruit."
00:13:37 Now, this is interesting.
00:13:38 The second part of John 15, too, says, "And every branch that
00:13:42 beareth fruit like fruit, he prunes," that's the word for it.
00:13:46 He prunes that, that branch, "that it may bear more fruit."
00:13:53 I was getting ready to prune some trees on my property
00:13:57 because it hadn't been pruned, and it needs to bear
00:14:00 better fruit.
00:14:01 It's gonna--I pruned some--a rose bush, and I thought,
00:14:04 "Oh, my God, it's destroyed forever."
00:14:06 But when it came back, the roses were bigger and more red,
00:14:12 and it was just beautiful.
00:14:14 And here's what he says, he says, "I believe that much of
00:14:17 pruning is to remove religion and mixture from our lives."
00:14:23 Yeah, he's getting ready to prune self-effort,
00:14:31 self-dependence.
00:14:33 He's getting ready to prune.
00:14:35 See, whatever you thought about in the Scripture before you got
00:14:39 here today, and you're hearing, gaining an understanding of what
00:14:41 I'm showing you right now, you're being pruned, baby.
00:14:46 Whatever you might be going through in your life, God may
00:14:49 allow some stuff to happen in your life, but as you trust him
00:14:52 and depend on him, and you didn't see it coming, you didn't
00:14:55 see your deliverance coming, you didn't see the money coming,
00:14:58 you didn't see the promotion coming, but all God's trying to
00:15:01 do is prune you away from religion, prune you away from
00:15:04 self-dependence, get you into a place where you say, "I can
00:15:08 depend on God."
00:15:09 That's Jesus.
00:15:10 So, it's not Jesus plus you got to bear some fruit.
00:15:14 It's Jesus who's gonna help you bear the fruit.
00:15:17 It's Jesus who's gonna help prop you up.
00:15:20 Jesus is enough to keep your salvation.
00:15:25 Oh, come on, somebody.
00:15:26 Jesus is enough to keep your salvation.
00:15:29 Number two, should we add the caution of not sinning
00:15:34 willfully?
00:15:43 "Jesus is enough to keep my salvation," or, I mean,
00:15:49 sinning willfully.
00:15:50 That's so strange to me since all sin is an act of your will.
00:15:55 When you say--when you create a category like willful sin, it's
00:16:02 almost like you're saying, and then there's the sin that you
00:16:05 call, "I made a mistake."
00:16:06 "Oh, excuse me, I cuss you.
00:16:09 I ain't mean to."
00:16:10 Now, I want to walk you through this one.
00:16:15 Go to the book of Hebrews chapter 10, 26.
00:16:21 Hebrews chapter 10, 26.
00:16:24 It's time to get it now.
00:16:26 The end of the end has begun.
00:16:28 I don't know how many, you know, 20, 30, 40, 50 more years.
00:16:31 I don't know, but I know it started.
00:16:33 I can find what happened this past Saturday and what's
00:16:36 happening now.
00:16:36 I can find it to you right in chapter and verse.
00:16:40 I can tell you what's getting ready to happen next.
00:16:43 I don't have to watch the news on this one, baby.
00:16:46 It's already been prophesied before the time.
00:16:48 All right, now watch this carefully.
00:16:52 So, we got to get out of this self-dependence and this
00:16:58 religion that's keeping us in bondage to bad doctrine and bad
00:17:02 teaching.
00:17:04 Hebrews chapter 10, verse 26.
00:17:07 Now, read verse 26 out loud with me.
00:17:09 He says, "For if we sin willfully, after that we have
00:17:14 received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more
00:17:18 sacrifice of sins."
00:17:19 So, here's what he's saying here.
00:17:21 Here's what I heard it.
00:17:23 If you sin willfully, then there's no more sacrifice for
00:17:28 you, and I took it as, "Okay, if I sin willfully, in other
00:17:33 words, I know what I'm doing, and I did it.
00:17:35 Yes, God, I did it."
00:17:37 Well, there ain't no more sacrifice for you, boy.
00:17:39 You're going to hell.
00:17:41 They didn't have to tell me.
00:17:42 I assumed that they were saying there's no sacrifice, no more
00:17:46 sacrifice is left for you because you sin willfully.
00:17:49 Therefore, you have lost your salvation because you have sin
00:17:53 willfully.
00:17:54 That's not at all what it means.
00:17:58 Context is key.
00:18:02 So, sometimes in order to get to context, you got to back up
00:18:05 several verses of Scripture.
00:18:07 I mean, if we're going to quote the Bible, we might as well know
00:18:10 what it means.
00:18:12 Don't park in bad tradition and not understand you got to get
00:18:18 the context in order to know what it means.
00:18:21 Like, Malachi 3, what's the one that say you curse with a curse?
00:18:25 And then, I don't even read it no more.
00:18:27 You curse with a curse, and you have robbed God, and you've
00:18:32 robbed the whole nation, and you're cursed with a curse.
00:18:35 You know, yes, that's a horrible Scripture, and we use it today
00:18:40 to get people to tithe, but I'm telling you, if you back up
00:18:45 about two chapters, the whole thing was a conversation to the
00:18:52 Levitical priesthood.
00:18:55 He says, "You guys are cheating me on what you give me.
00:18:57 You give me the worst of what you can give me."
00:19:01 And then he said, "You know what?
00:19:03 You are cursed with a curse."
00:19:05 It couldn't be talking about us because we're born again, and
00:19:08 Jesus took away the curse.
00:19:10 So, is Jesus somebody that's gonna take away the curse and
00:19:12 then put it back on you, then take away the curse, and then
00:19:14 put it back on you?
00:19:14 Sound a little double-minded to me.
00:19:17 That's not even for us, and we are quoting it like it's for us.
00:19:21 Malachi 3, 16, somebody said, "That ain't for us."
00:19:26 No, no, no, you--I'm not gonna tell y'all, see, 'cause y'all
00:19:34 be going visit some church and you'll be screaming out,
00:19:37 "That ain't for us," and then they gonna be--they're gonna put
00:19:39 you out the church.
00:19:40 They're gonna put you out.
00:19:41 They're gonna put you out the church.
00:19:44 Don't pay no attention to what I just said.
00:19:46 Leave all that alone.
00:19:48 Okay, let's--now, so in order for us to figure out what verse
00:19:52 26 says, we gotta back up so we can get some context.
00:19:58 Context is king.
00:20:00 What we've been doing is taking the text out of the context, and
00:20:03 we're left with the con.
00:20:05 Religion has gotten gigantic by taking the text out of context,
00:20:12 and we're left with the con.
00:20:15 We don't look at the pretext.
00:20:16 We don't look at the context.
00:20:19 We just say, "Oh, that's a nice Scripture.
00:20:21 I'm gonna quote it and just say what I wanna say."
00:20:24 Verse 5, let's go back to verse 5, see if we can get context.
00:20:28 "Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith,
00:20:32 'Sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not.'"
00:20:37 So, he's literally talking about the sacrifices of the Old
00:20:39 Testament, the goats and the bull and all that.
00:20:43 He says, "But a body hast thou prepared me."
00:20:46 Oh, so now we're talking about--we're getting ready to
00:20:48 change the sacrifices of animals, sacrifices, to just the
00:20:53 body of Jesus Christ.
00:20:55 Then in verse 10, "By the witch will we are sanctified."
00:20:59 We're sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
00:21:03 Christ once and for all times.
00:21:06 Okay, now Jesus' body is the sacrifice.
00:21:09 "And every priest standeth daily, and offering oftentimes
00:21:13 the same sacrifices."
00:21:15 Old Testament, where they used to offer the animal sacrifices,
00:21:18 and the priest had to stand up the whole time to order--to
00:21:22 offer those sacrifices.
00:21:25 He says, "And those sacrifices can never, never take away sin."
00:21:32 Never.
00:21:34 But then in verse 12, "But this man, after he had offered one
00:21:37 sacrifice for sin, Jesus," he says, "he forever sat down on
00:21:41 the right hand of God the Father Almighty."
00:21:44 Verse 14, "For by one offering he hath perfected forever them
00:21:50 that are sanctified."
00:21:51 One offering, one offering of his body took care of everything
00:21:57 for everybody who believe forever.
00:22:01 Verse 18, "Now where remission of these is, there is no more
00:22:08 offering for sin."
00:22:11 Watch this, verse 26, "For if we sin willfully, after that we
00:22:16 have received--" Well, what did they just receive?
00:22:21 They received the knowledge that we are doing away with all
00:22:25 animal sacrifices, and we only have one sacrifice, the body of
00:22:30 Jesus Christ.
00:22:32 He says, "Now, if we sin willfully, after that we've
00:22:36 received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more
00:22:39 sacrifices of sin."
00:22:42 In other words, if you continue--go out, Matthew
00:22:45 10--Hebrews chapter 10, 20 shows us that someone stops believing
00:22:51 in the sacrifices of Jesus, and they return back to the Old
00:22:57 Covenant, there is no longer remains a sacrifice for sin.
00:23:01 So, I don't believe in the body of Jesus, I believe in the Old
00:23:06 Covenant, so I'm going back to sacrificing bulls and goats.
00:23:11 It's because the blood sacrifices of animals is the Old
00:23:14 Covenant, so they are no longer valid.
00:23:20 They are no longer valid.
00:23:22 And so, the question is, what is willful sin?
00:23:29 Sin willfully, if you sin willfully, based on what we just
00:23:33 saw in context, sinning willfully happens by rejecting
00:23:39 Jesus as the final and the only sacrifice for sin.
00:23:42 If you reject Jesus as the final and the only sacrifice for sin,
00:23:48 you sin willfully by continuing to try to offer animal
00:23:55 sacrifices when Jesus has offered his body as the only
00:23:59 sacrifice, and he says, "If you sin willfully by rejecting Jesus
00:24:04 as the sacrifice," he says, "Well, I don't know what you're
00:24:07 gonna do, 'cause there ain't no more sacrifices left nowhere."
00:24:11 The blood sacrifice is the only sacrifice that is valid under
00:24:15 this New Covenant.
00:24:16 You can't go back to no blood of the bulls and the goats and all
00:24:20 that stuff, that's over with.
00:24:21 The priest has sat down when Jesus sacrificed his body.
00:24:26 That's what it means to sin willfully.
00:24:28 Sinning willfully means rejecting Jesus as the final
00:24:33 sacrifice.
00:24:35 Okay, now, the next thing ought to be going through your mind
00:24:39 is, "Are you serious?
00:24:43 All my life I thought it meant that."
00:24:46 But right here, you see again, Jesus is enough by his self.
00:24:53 It doesn't require plus nothing else.
00:24:57 It's Jesus is enough for me to keep my salvation, amen?
00:25:01 All right, now what about Jesus?
00:25:05 Let's look at sinning against the Holy Ghost or the blasphemy.
00:25:11 Blasphemy, have you committed blasphemy?
00:25:14 I remember I just got saved, and I got on this bus, and this guy
00:25:16 came up and he told me--I forgot what it was, but it was so--I
00:25:21 don't know, maybe I used a word wrong or--I don't know what I
00:25:24 did, I don't know what I did wrong.
00:25:26 I mean, probably was doing everything wrong, but I got on
00:25:29 the bus, and he says, "You have committed blasphemy because you
00:25:34 think Jesus did something that he wasn't supposed to do, and
00:25:37 you have committed blasphemy, and so that's it.
00:25:40 There ain't no more sacrifice left for you."
00:25:42 I said, "What?"
00:25:42 He said, "That's it, it's over."
00:25:44 And I figured, "Well, if it's over, I might as well go and
00:25:46 give me some weed and party and go--shoot, I might as well do
00:25:49 some stuff.
00:25:50 I ain't gonna--you know, you're gonna tell me I ain't going to
00:25:52 heaven, and I'm just gonna keep doing this, and you say it's
00:25:53 over.
00:25:54 Well, I guess it's over."
00:25:56 Yes, it's over.
00:25:58 And that always bothered me, and I was so scared of this
00:26:04 blasphemy.
00:26:05 I was so scared of this sin against the Holy Ghost because
00:26:10 everybody used it to put fear in folks.
00:26:13 Okay, let's remove that fear.
00:26:14 Let's look at something now.
00:26:16 Look at the book of Matthew chapter 12, verse 31 and 32.
00:26:21 Let's see where it came from.
00:26:23 Matthew 12, 31 and 32.
00:26:26 "The sin against the Son of Man," watch what he says, 31.
00:26:32 He says, "Wherefore, I say unto you, all manner of sin and
00:26:38 blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men."
00:26:42 Well, first of all, it says, "Well, all sin and blasphemy
00:26:46 shall be forgiven unto men."
00:26:48 Huh.
00:26:49 "But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be
00:26:54 forgiven unto men.
00:26:58 But whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Man, it
00:27:02 shall be forgiven him.
00:27:05 But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be
00:27:08 forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world
00:27:12 to come."
00:27:13 How many of you know, we need to know what that mean?
00:27:15 We don't need to be walking around playing.
00:27:19 We need to know what that mean right now, R-A-T.
00:27:22 You don't want to do that and not know you did it.
00:27:26 So, what's the first rule?
00:27:32 Let's go and get some context.
00:27:35 That was obviously--that text was taken out of context, and
00:27:39 everybody was freaking out over it.
00:27:41 So, let's go back to verse 22, and let's get some context,
00:27:46 okay?
00:27:47 "The sin against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the sin
00:27:51 against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven."
00:27:53 What does this mean?
00:27:54 Verse 22.
00:27:56 Watch this very carefully now.
00:27:59 Let's get context, and I went back far enough to say that this
00:28:02 is a place to start getting context.
00:28:05 All right.
00:28:06 "Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil."
00:28:09 This devil--this guy was possessed with a devil.
00:28:15 He was blind, and he was dumb, and Jesus healed him.
00:28:23 "So much that the blind and the dumb both spake, and they saw."
00:28:30 The evidence was there.
00:28:32 They saw Jesus do it.
00:28:35 Verse 23, "And all the people were amazed and said of Jesus,
00:28:42 'Is not this the Son of David?'"
00:28:45 They're trying to figure out, "Who is this?
00:28:46 Who is this that just did this?"
00:28:48 "But now the Pharisees saw it too, and they were jealous, and
00:28:53 they said, 'This is hideous.'
00:28:55 And when the Pharisees heard it, they said, 'This fellow,"
00:28:59 referring to Jesus, "'does not cast out devils, but by bells
00:29:04 above, the prince of the devils.'"
00:29:08 Now, listen to what he just said.
00:29:11 It wasn't the Holy Spirit working in him that did this.
00:29:16 It was a devil working in him that did this.
00:29:20 The Pharisees did not believe the Holy Spirit in Jesus to do
00:29:26 what he did.
00:29:33 All right, now watch this.
00:29:35 "And Jesus knew their thoughts," just like he know yours.
00:29:38 Sometimes he'll allow his prophets to know your thoughts.
00:29:43 You ain't got to say everything for folks to know
00:29:44 what you thinking.
00:29:45 "And Jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them, 'Every
00:29:50 kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and
00:29:56 every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.'"
00:30:01 Our country needs to pay attention to this.
00:30:03 "And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself.
00:30:12 How shall then his kingdom stand?"
00:30:17 He said, "You calling me the devil, but if the devil cast
00:30:20 out the devil, how can the kingdom stand?"
00:30:24 That's just like, you know, you're talking about you're
00:30:26 gonna put yourself out the house, so you put yourself out
00:30:29 the house, but if you put yourself out the house, you
00:30:32 ain't in the house no more.
00:30:33 How you--and if I, by Beelzebub, cast out devils, by whom do your
00:30:38 children cast them out?
00:30:47 They shall be your judges, but if I cast out devils by the
00:30:53 Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you, 'cause
00:30:58 he's indeed cast these devils out by the Spirit of God.
00:31:03 Next verse, "Or else how can one enter a strong man's house and
00:31:08 spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man, and then he
00:31:16 spoil his house?"
00:31:18 Next verse, "He that is not with me is against me, and he that
00:31:22 gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
00:31:26 Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall
00:31:32 be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against the Holy
00:31:38 Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men."
00:31:41 Now, context, think about what you just read.
00:31:47 You just read that Jesus, by the Holy Ghost, cast out devils and
00:31:52 healed somebody, and you just read that the Pharisees, watch
00:31:56 this, did not believe it.
00:32:01 The sin against God, or the sin that cannot be forgiven, is
00:32:07 the sin of unbelief.
00:32:13 How can he forgive you of unbelief if you don't believe
00:32:25 that he can forgive you of unbelief?
00:32:28 So, it ain't no problem, but for you to continue to walk in
00:32:31 unbelief, that becomes blasphemous.
00:32:35 That becomes a sin against the Holy Spirit.
00:32:38 Why?
00:32:39 Because he trying to do something, but can't do it
00:32:42 because you don't believe.
00:32:44 It is not the things and the issues that have been stated
00:32:47 throughout ages and generation.
00:32:49 It is simply the sin, and the blasphemy is unbelief.
00:32:54 I don't believe that Jesus did this by the Holy Ghost.
00:32:58 I don't believe in the Holy Ghost.
00:33:01 I don't believe in Jesus.
00:33:03 And he's saying, "Well, guys, we might as well call it a day.
00:33:07 Ain't nothing we can do."
00:33:08 Because in order for us to do something, they got to believe.
00:33:12 But as soon as you repent--oh, shake it like this.
00:33:15 Yes, thank you.
00:33:16 Give it to me.
00:33:17 I saw it, I saw it, I saw it, I saw it.
00:33:19 Unbelief cannot be forgiven of, but it can be repented of.
00:33:32 Yeah, y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
00:33:34 Unbelief cannot be forgiven.
00:33:40 Why?
00:33:41 Think.
00:33:42 How come unbelief can't be forgiven?
00:33:46 'Cause it takes belief for anything that God does to be
00:33:51 done, so how do you deal with unbelief?
00:33:54 You change your mind.
00:33:57 I changed my mind.
00:33:59 Jesus did that by the Holy Ghost, and I believe in him.
00:34:02 He said, "Issue settled."
00:34:04 The unpardonable sin, even if you do something like that, God
00:34:17 probably gonna look at you because it gives requirement.
00:34:19 You have to be spiritually mature.
00:34:21 You have to have all of the gifts operating through you.
00:34:24 You have to have all of these things to qualify to even to be
00:34:28 judged for unpardonable sin.
00:34:30 Don't tell me that ain't love.
00:34:31 God said, "You did it," and he says, "I ain't paying no
00:34:34 attention to you.
00:34:35 You ain't grown enough to commit no unpardonable sin.
00:34:38 You ain't mature enough to commit.
00:34:40 I am love, and I am gonna not let you go until you change
00:34:45 your mind, and I'm gonna use my goodness to bring you to
00:34:48 repentance, and before it's over with, you're gonna know I'm God.
00:34:51 You're gonna believe in the Holy Ghost.
00:34:53 My goodness is gonna change your mind."
00:34:55 So, God is not using badness to change your mind.
00:35:01 He's using goodness to change your mind.
00:35:06 Oh, the goodness of the Lord is about to run you over, praise
00:35:11 the Lord, and stuff you never would believe.
00:35:13 I saw the saddest thing.
00:35:15 I was doing my daily confession.
00:35:16 I saw the saddest thing.
00:35:18 This young black guy came on, and he said, "I can't believe
00:35:22 these same black folks still captured by this false religion
00:35:28 of Jesus," and I'm thinking that's the only thing, that only
00:35:35 thing that heaven can't deal with, but you know what God
00:35:40 gonna do?
00:35:41 He says, "I'm gonna change your mind.
00:35:44 I'm gonna change your mind.
00:35:45 I'm gonna give you so many woulda, shoulda, couldas."
00:35:48 Oh, that woulda happened, that shoulda happened, that coulda
00:35:53 happened, and then you're gonna start looking around to see why
00:35:56 it didn't happen, and you're gonna bring it to a conclusion
00:35:59 that that had to be Jesus.
00:36:01 Ain't no other way to explain it.
00:36:03 I shoulda died in that car wreck, but I didn't die.
00:36:06 I coulda been in my grave, but I'm not in my grave.
00:36:10 I got to praise the only one who is able to lift me up out of
00:36:15 this situation, and you'll change your mind.
00:36:19 All of y'all remember when you doubted in some area, but Lord,
00:36:22 God has gone through the ditches with you.
00:36:25 He's gone through the rough times with you.
00:36:27 He's gone through the depression with you.
00:36:29 He's gone through the divorces with you.
00:36:31 He's gone through the doubting with you, the hurt with you, the
00:36:34 pain with you.
00:36:35 He's gone through the fear with you, and you had to finally fall
00:36:38 down on your bended knees, and you had to recognize this can't
00:36:42 be anybody but Jesus.
00:36:46 Jesus, my sweet rose of Sharon.
00:36:49 Jesus, my lily of the valley.
00:36:52 Jesus, my brightening morning star.
00:36:57 Jesus, my way out of no way.
00:36:59 Jesus, the one who helped me pay the bill when I didn't know
00:37:03 where the money was gonna come from.
00:37:05 Jesus, the one who died on the cross of Calvary, went to hell
00:37:10 after going to hell, got up on the third day.
00:37:13 Jesus.
00:37:36 So many people doubting, but I can't live without him.
00:37:42 That's my king.
00:37:53 The issue here is not blasphemy or sinning against the Holy
00:38:04 Spirit, the issue here is unbelief.
00:38:08 And once you believe in Jesus, you are no longer in this sin.
00:38:13 Now, I've got to address this because some people connect this
00:38:20 Matthew 12, 31 with Hebrew--with Ephesians chapter 4, 29 and 32.
00:38:25 You need to go there, Ephesians 4, 29 and 32.
00:38:32 We got to learn this.
00:38:34 It's time, it's time to go.
00:38:38 We got to do this thing, man.
00:38:41 Change your thinking, change your life.
00:38:44 Here's what they relate to this.
00:38:49 He says, and you'll see why.
00:38:53 He says, "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of
00:38:55 your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying,
00:39:00 that it may minister grace unto the hearer.
00:39:04 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God."
00:39:08 See, some people want to equate the blasphemy that we just read
00:39:13 about with grieving the Holy Spirit.
00:39:16 Grieving the Holy Spirit is different.
00:39:18 He goes on and he says, "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of
00:39:22 God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption," 31.
00:39:26 "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil
00:39:29 speaking be put away from you with all malice," 32, "and be
00:39:33 kind one to another, tenderhearted,
00:39:35 forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake,
00:39:37 has forgiven you."
00:39:38 Here's how you grieve the Holy Spirit,
00:39:39 how you treat one another.
00:39:41 You grieve the Holy Spirit by how you treat one another.
00:39:46 And he's saying, "Put those evil manners away of how you treat
00:39:51 one another."
00:39:52 He says why?
00:39:53 He says that grieves the Holy Spirit.
00:39:54 The word grief is associated with loss.
00:39:57 He says, "I'm, in a sense, married to you.
00:39:59 I'm connected with you, and I feel a sense of loss,
00:40:01 a loss of opportunity, a loss of friendship,
00:40:04 a loss of mission," just 'cause how you treat one another.
00:40:08 And sometimes lose yourself in the middle of all of that
00:40:10 emotional stuff that you go through.
00:40:13 He says that grieves the Holy Spirit.
00:40:16 I don't wanna grieve the Holy Spirit.
00:40:18 Well, you better ask yourself how you're treating one another.
00:40:23 Now, this ain't deep right here, how you treat one another.
00:40:25 And that includes when you're married too.
00:40:29 You're married.
00:40:30 Wife, how you treat your husband?
00:40:32 If you're not treating him right, listen,
00:40:34 you grieve the Holy Spirit.
00:40:35 Husband, how you treating your wife?
00:40:37 If you're not treating her right,
00:40:39 you grieve the Holy Spirit.
00:40:40 Parents, how you treating your children?
00:40:42 If they're not treating them where love is concerned,
00:40:46 love is the launching pad for everything you do.
00:40:49 And if you don't launch from that pad,
00:40:52 you're going the wrong way.
00:40:54 One thing, if I do one thing.
00:40:58 If I knew today that God was coming in three years,
00:41:02 of course, I wouldn't know that.
00:41:04 Nobody knows the day or the hour that he'd come,
00:41:06 but I'm just saying for the illustration,
00:41:08 if I knew, what would be the number one thing
00:41:10 I would focus on?
00:41:11 Greater revelation?
00:41:12 No, no, no.
00:41:13 The one thing I would focus on is love,
00:41:15 'cause I'm getting ready to go in a kingdom that is dominated
00:41:20 by the love of God.
00:41:22 I mean, you're gonna meet the very nature of love,
00:41:25 and the very nature of love is not like anything
00:41:27 you ever seen.
00:41:28 You ain't never seen this.
00:41:30 You ain't never experienced this.
00:41:32 It melts away stuff.
00:41:34 [speaking in tongues]
00:41:36 When you step out your body and you step into that realm of this
00:41:41 love of God, you would never experience none--that love
00:41:45 brings the peace, that love brings the joy,
00:41:47 that love--you ain't never--we ain't even never tapped it.
00:41:52 The thing you love the most cannot even begin to come up
00:41:57 with that real nature of the love.
00:42:00 Oh, that about's right.
00:42:02 The nature of the love of God that melts away stuff,
00:42:05 I don't know quite how this stuff end,
00:42:07 but I don't necessarily believe it's gonna end like everybody
00:42:09 says it's gonna end, because the nature of this love is so
00:42:12 dynamic.
00:42:14 What is it gonna melt away?
00:42:15 What is it gonna chip away?
00:42:17 You can't stand in the presence of his love.
00:42:20 There's no way you're gonna take some out and unforgiveness
00:42:23 with you to heaven.
00:42:24 Why?
00:42:25 Because it can't survive.
00:42:27 It can't survive.
00:42:34 That's what God's trying to get us walking right now.
00:42:37 Start manifesting in something that the other stuff can't
00:42:42 survive, a wicked world can't handle the love that will be
00:42:47 permeating from our lives.
00:42:51 Our emotions always challenge the victory of love that has
00:42:57 been poured in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
00:43:01 First act of the Holy Spirit was to pour this supernatural love
00:43:07 in our hearts to help us to love what's not lovely,
00:43:11 to help us to love what's ugly, to help us to love what we don't
00:43:15 quite understand, to help us to love beyond our embarrassment
00:43:19 and self-respect.
00:43:21 There's a love that you love beyond--you ain't concerned
00:43:26 about your approval addiction.
00:43:27 I will love if it's the last thing I do.
00:43:32 Teach me.
00:43:34 I don't know how to love.
00:43:35 You think you do?
00:43:36 Teach me how to love.
00:43:37 I need to love better?
00:43:39 When I was doing the Creflo show,
00:43:43 I interviewed a man whose son was killed, shot to death.
00:43:49 And it was a shock to the whole family,
00:43:54 and then the love of God came on him supernaturally.
00:43:57 And he went to the guy that killed his son,
00:44:00 he says, "I forgive you."
00:44:01 No, that ain't even--hold on, that ain't even it.
00:44:05 Hold on a minute.
00:44:07 Hold on, hold on.
00:44:12 I'll join you in a minute.
00:44:15 Now, hold on.
00:44:18 And I thought, "Well, that's enough.
00:44:20 You forgave him."
00:44:22 And the Lord wouldn't leave him alone.
00:44:25 That love got to working.
00:44:28 He ended up adopting the murderer of his son.
00:44:31 It broke down the murderer to such a point,
00:44:36 it came to the man, he says, "Why are you doing this?"
00:44:45 See, that kind of love melts pride,
00:44:49 and then that love got on him.
00:44:54 And he came to that man broken, saying, "I took your son away.
00:44:59 If you'll have me, I'd like to replace what I took from you."
00:45:06 And that man said, "I accept you as my son now."
00:45:12 "I accept you as my son now."
00:45:14 You and I sit back.
00:45:19 And a bunch of times he said, "I thought something was wrong
00:45:21 with me."
00:45:22 He says, "I know people look at me.
00:45:24 I know they think I'm crazy."
00:45:26 And I judge myself by that standard.
00:45:31 That's the greatest standard I've ever seen.
00:45:33 And I said, "I'm not their God, but I wanna be."
00:45:40 That's love.
00:45:42 We love to escape real love and get over into, "Well,
00:45:47 that ain't emotionally well.
00:45:52 Something gotta be wrong with you to do that."
00:45:54 But that's what you're gonna encounter for eternity.
00:45:59 And today, they called one another son and dad.
00:46:04 I've never seen anything like that before in my life.
00:46:07 And God said, "That's the standard that men won't go to
00:46:13 because of their self.
00:46:17 They're just like, 'I can't do that.'"
00:46:19 I wanna know what that feels like.
00:46:24 I wanna know what that feels like.
00:46:30 I wanna know what it feels like to forgive the guy that killed
00:46:34 you and left you in the trunk of a car.
00:46:36 I need you, God.
00:46:41 See, there's a little bit of stuff we all gonna buy.
00:46:47 I need you 'cause I don't wanna walk up in heaven,
00:46:52 "Look at the rules I have kept.
00:46:53 Look how many times I came to church.
00:46:55 Look how much money I gave."
00:46:58 And they just start laughing like, "This ain't what this is."
00:47:02 But I promised you that when Jesus come,
00:47:06 that you're gonna be just like me.
00:47:08 You know what that's like?
00:47:13 Every memory of anything that was outside of love,
00:47:19 you don't get to carry for eternity.
00:47:22 Why?
00:47:23 Because that presence of love burns it all away,
00:47:28 burns it all out.
00:47:31 No matter how much you love, you still have to depend on God
00:47:38 where this is concerned 'cause nobody on the planet is without
00:47:45 more training in this harsh-it agape love.
00:48:00 See, that's my standard now.
00:48:04 That's my path now.
00:48:05 Talk about whether or not you agree with grace or whether or
00:48:09 not you agree with--you know, Jesus plus nothing.
00:48:12 What?
00:48:14 I don't care about all that.
00:48:16 Can I love you when you slander me?
00:48:26 I'm tired of the hypocrisy amongst Christian people who
00:48:30 are supposed to be going after this kind of love,
00:48:34 but instead we're still so critical about you because we
00:48:38 don't agree with what you agree with.
00:48:39 We don't agree with your denomination affiliation.
00:48:42 We don't agree with your political affiliation.
00:48:44 We don't agree with who you marry.
00:48:45 We don't agree with what color.
00:48:47 Come on, humans.
00:48:51 Come on, come on.
00:48:57 And then finally, somebody said, "That's all they're hollering
00:49:09 you talking--" And then finally.
00:49:12 I'm excited, y'all.
00:49:14 We're getting to the nitty-gritty.
00:49:16 We're bypassing all this religious tomfoolery.
00:49:20 All you're looking for is somebody to condemn to hell while
00:49:24 you yourself are one step behind the one you condemn to hell.
00:49:28 All of us would end up in hell if it wasn't for a Jesus.
00:49:32 All of us would end up in hell if God didn't so love the world
00:49:37 that he gave us a Jesus.
00:49:39 Man, I'm--I'm so excited.
00:49:46 Man, I'm over it.
00:49:52 Judging what you wear, judging where you go.
00:50:00 So, here's what this Scripture says, these three.
00:50:03 So, how do we explain these Scriptures?
00:50:04 Is it Jesus plus no sins that exclude you from inheriting the
00:50:08 kingdom?
00:50:09 Now, Jesus be enough for your salvation.
00:50:11 If there are no sins--are you kidding me?
00:50:14 First Corinthians chapter 6, verse 9 through 12.
00:50:20 "Know you not," and this is what people use.
00:50:32 We throw this on folks.
00:50:34 "Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
00:50:43 kingdom of God."
00:50:45 See, pastor, the unrighteous.
00:50:55 "Yeah, but what about Jesus?"
00:50:56 No, no, no.
00:50:58 The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
00:51:03 And then we give a list.
00:51:07 "Neither are not deceived, neither fornicators,
00:51:13 nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers."
00:51:21 Go back, go back to effeminate.
00:51:27 I need to talk about this.
00:51:29 Effeminate is having like a man having female tendencies.
00:51:34 He ain't gonna go to--he going to hell.
00:51:38 He going to hell 'cause he didn't have no daddy to tell
00:51:40 him, "Don't walk around with your hands like this.
00:51:42 Put your hands up."
00:51:43 He gonna go to hell for that, really, for really, really,
00:51:46 really, really, really.
00:51:47 Or he may not be the typical societal image of a man,
00:51:53 brute, bearded, strong.
00:51:59 "Neither are not defeminate, nor the abusers of themselves
00:52:04 with mankind, thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards."
00:52:10 How many of you ever got drunk before?
00:52:16 Don't put your hands up.
00:52:17 I don't wanna know.
00:52:22 I don't wanna know.
00:52:25 I'm a work in progress.
00:52:26 I don't wanna know.
00:52:29 I know you ain't got drunk.
00:52:30 I'll come up to you.
00:52:31 You got a bottle under there or something with you?
00:52:35 "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revelers."
00:52:39 Wow, parties.
00:52:40 ♪ I used to go to the party ♪
00:52:45 ♪ Stand around ♪
00:52:48 ♪ Nor extortioners ♪
00:52:51 ♪ Stand around ♪
00:52:54 ♪ Nor extortioners ♪
00:52:59 ♪ None of these shall enter or inherit the kingdom of God ♪
00:53:04 ♪ And they stop right there ♪
00:53:07 No context, nothing.
00:53:09 That's just good enough to put enough fear in you that maybe
00:53:12 you'll come to church all the time.
00:53:14 Maybe you'll give me a time so you won't be cursed.
00:53:16 Maybe, maybe, maybe I can just get you, just keep the fear on
00:53:20 you, just keep the fear on you.
00:53:23 No context at all, but today we gonna keep reading.
00:53:26 Verse 11, "And such were some of you."
00:53:28 Can I get a witness in this?
00:53:36 "Such," now some of y'all lying, "Such were some of you."
00:53:41 Such were some of you.
00:53:46 But, but, but all of that stuff and some of us did several of
00:53:51 that list, but you were washed.
00:54:04 See, something changed because you are washed, but you are
00:54:12 sanctified, but you are justified.
00:54:15 And now that you've been washed, you're not doing those things no
00:54:19 more because you've been washed, and now you're sanctified
00:54:22 because of Jesus.
00:54:23 You're justified because of Jesus.
00:54:25 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.
00:54:29 So, they can't use that against you no more.
00:54:36 You've been washed, and this is a continuous, eternal,
00:54:43 continuous, like a waterfall shower.
00:54:46 You ain't--you walking with a shower over you.
00:54:49 Verse 12, "All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not
00:54:54 expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be
00:54:59 brought under the power of any."
00:55:01 So, the warning is make sure you don't allow yourself to become a
00:55:06 slave to anything, not a cookie, not a person, not an organization,
00:55:12 not a religion, not a political party.
00:55:15 I am not a slave to anybody or anything because I have been
00:55:20 washed.
00:55:22 Somebody say, "I've been washed."
00:55:26 Well, that was Jesus.
00:55:28 That was Jesus.
00:55:30 And look at this, Galatians 5, 19 through 21 and then 24,
00:55:38 Galatians 5, 19 through 21 and then 24.
00:55:44 "Now the works of the flesh are manifest," which are these?
00:55:53 "Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
00:55:58 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
00:56:03 seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings,
00:56:09 and such like of the witch I tell you before, as I have also
00:56:14 told you in times past, that they which do such things shall
00:56:19 not inherit the kingdom of God."
00:56:23 And they stop right there.
00:56:25 But verse 24 say, verse 24, "And they that are Christ have
00:56:31 crucified the flesh with all the affections of the lust."
00:56:37 Now, you don't need to add this to Christ 'cause Christ is the
00:56:40 one that crucified the flesh with all of that stuff.
00:56:43 He is the rescuer, the one who has rescued you.
00:56:47 He is the one that has made the difference in your life.
00:56:52 I conclude that it's not Christ plus any of these things.
00:56:58 It's Jesus all by himself.
00:57:01 Christ plus nothing is enough for you to keep your salvation.
00:57:07 Quit condemning people to hell.
00:57:12 You don't go to hell for your behavior, although Christ is
00:57:17 gonna change your behavior.
00:57:20 You let him, he will give you a desire to do what pleases him.
00:57:23 And sin has consequences, so don't flirt around with this.
00:57:28 You got to--you done found a little--well, since the Lord
00:57:34 has already crucified my flesh.
00:57:38 You ain't found no loophole because sin in this world still
00:57:44 has consequences.
00:57:48 Yeah, you'll go to heaven, but you don't wanna have to
00:57:50 experience hell on your way to heaven.
00:57:56 You just don't become a slave to anything.
00:57:58 Jesus plus nothing is all you need.
00:58:06 If anybody in here goes to hell for their behavior--now,
00:58:11 your behavior's gonna be getting better, and you're gonna be
00:58:14 doing better and all this kind of stuff, but these people make
00:58:17 it seem like you do this just one time, or if you've ever done
00:58:19 it, you're condemned.
00:58:21 If anybody--and hear me and hear me clearly, and I won't back off
00:58:24 on this--if anybody in here goes to hell for your behavior, then
00:58:28 everybody in here is going to hell, everybody.
00:58:33 So, quit measuring your interest into heaven based on your
00:58:40 behavior.
00:58:44 Measure it based on your belief in Jesus, 'cause as long as you
00:58:51 believe you're gonna go to heaven or hell based on your
00:58:54 behavior, as long as you think that, you know it's gonna happen,
00:58:56 right?
00:58:57 You're gonna continue with your self-effort to try to do without
00:59:02 Christ to earn the right to get God to do something for you when
00:59:07 he's already done it.
00:59:11 People don't wanna hear that because they think, "Yeah, but
00:59:14 what if somebody make a mistake and then go to bed with some
00:59:18 prostitute?"
00:59:19 That's not--that's adding stuff in the equation that's not in
00:59:21 the equation.
00:59:22 That's not in the equation.
00:59:23 The Holy Ghost lives on the inside of you, and he's working
00:59:26 on your desires, and you never even thought the fact that he
00:59:28 can change your desires, and you ain't gonna wanna do that.
00:59:31 You ain't gonna want no five prostitutes in the bed at the
00:59:34 same time when you got one good-looking wife at home.
00:59:37 He ain't gonna do that.
00:59:38 He gonna change your desires.
00:59:39 The stuff you used to like to do, that little freaky little
00:59:41 stuff you used to like to do, he gonna change that.
00:59:45 He gonna take the freak out your stuff, and you are gonna give
00:59:47 him the praise and the glory for what he has done.
00:59:50 He knows how to change you.
00:59:55 I can't change you.
00:59:56 You can't change nobody else, but Jesus has the power to
01:00:02 change you.
01:00:04 Are y'all listening to what I'm saying?
01:00:13 'Cause it's gonna be like this.
01:00:15 Every sermon from now on, probably gonna be one of them
01:00:17 little eye-opener like, "What did he just say?"
01:00:19 Bow your heads for a moment.
01:00:21 Lord, you are enough.
01:00:28 Jesus, you are enough.
01:00:33 I pray by the Spirit of God that you do some magnificent
01:00:39 things here today.
01:00:43 Bless us in our giving.
01:00:46 Let our giving be a time of worship and thanksgiving for
01:00:52 you, Jesus, that we give unto the Lord glory due unto his
01:00:58 name, that as we bring a generous offering, that we
01:01:02 worship you in the beauty of your holiness.
01:01:07 But today, we celebrate being able to give because we
01:01:11 celebrate a Jesus who has done so much.
01:01:16 Speak to our hearts.
01:01:18 Let this offering in this time of worship not be based on
01:01:23 bucket plunking, but let this offering in this time of
01:01:26 worship be based on what and who you are in our lives, that
01:01:33 we don't give out of necessity, but we give out of a cheerful
01:01:38 heart, that we don't give out of fear of a curse, but we give
01:01:46 out of faith in your love and believing the love that you
01:01:51 have for us.
01:01:53 We thank you for it now in Jesus' name.
01:01:56 If you need an offering envelope, raise your hands.
01:01:59 I'm trying to show you that everything we do in church, it's
01:02:03 not everything else, and then take the offering up.
01:02:07 Our giving is a part of our living.
01:02:11 It's a part of our worship.
01:02:13 It's a part of everything we do.
01:02:16 And when you can understand it the way the New Testament tries
01:02:20 to tell those and teach us, your giving is gonna be something
01:02:23 that's extraordinary in your life because God has promises to
01:02:29 those who will be willing to give.
01:02:32 Give unto the Lord.
01:02:34 Learn how to give unto the Lord.
01:02:37 Don't make it this thing, "Well, I ain't got no money anyway."
01:02:40 Go outside and ask God to show you where some money on the
01:02:43 ground is.
01:02:44 Get it, give.
01:02:46 If you wanna give, God'll provide some seed for you to do
01:02:50 it.
01:02:53 He's trying to do some stuff.
01:02:55 For God so--watch this--loved the world that he gave.
01:02:59 Our giving should be a reflection of our love for him.
01:03:05 And let's love him because he is good.
01:03:09 He is awesome.
01:03:10 He is worthy to be praised.
01:03:14 My God, my Lord, my Savior, my goodness, Taffi and I have just
01:03:19 made our mind up.
01:03:25 No more holding back nothing.
01:03:30 Jesus is coming back, and we're gonna know him when we see him.
01:03:35 We're not gonna get in heaven and be walking down somewhere
01:03:39 and Jesus go right past us.
01:03:40 We ain't even know who he was.
01:03:42 Who was that?
01:03:43 That was Jesus.
01:03:43 But as soon as he gets in the vicinity, you're gonna say,
01:03:49 "Wait a minute.
01:03:50 I sense something.
01:03:52 I know that.
01:03:53 I know that presence.
01:03:54 Oh, oh, he around here somewhere.
01:03:56 Oh, oh."
01:03:57 You should know him.
01:04:00 I don't wanna spend the rest of my life serving God and then
01:04:03 not know him.
01:04:06 What's that?
01:04:08 You got a long list of what you did for Jesus, and you just--you
01:04:11 didn't ever got--you never had an intimate relationship with
01:04:13 him.
01:04:15 This giving keeps me in check that I won't even become a
01:04:20 slave, never come to a slave where money or mammon is
01:04:23 concerned.
01:04:24 Hold your offerings up.
01:04:25 Father, we thank you for this opportunity to give and to sow
01:04:29 and to plant into the kingdom of God.
01:04:31 We thank you, Lord, that the opportunity to give gives us
01:04:35 great joy because we do it out of our heart.
01:04:38 We do it out of love.
01:04:40 We do it out of our respect and honor to one who has done
01:04:45 everything for our lives.
01:04:48 We praise you for it now in Jesus' name.
01:04:51 Amen.
01:04:52 Let's just go ahead and receive this offering today.
01:04:57 And as you give, I want you to listen to me very carefully.
01:05:00 We're almost out of here.
01:05:03 If you're not born again today, think about that.
01:05:07 If the fables of religion has kept you bound in your sin and
01:05:12 you just figured there's no need of me trying to get saved
01:05:18 because of all the stuff that I've heard out of context, and
01:05:22 maybe today has put you in a position where you say, "You
01:05:25 know what?
01:05:25 I want this Jesus.
01:05:26 I want this life.
01:05:28 I feel like something happened to me today.
01:05:30 I feel like a level of freedom's taking place, that something
01:05:34 happens when the truth goes forth.
01:05:35 I just--I need to make a move.
01:05:37 I'm telling you the move you need to make.
01:05:39 If you've never made Jesus the Lord of your life, believe and
01:05:43 make him the Lord of your life.
01:05:45 Make him your Lord and Savior.
01:05:48 Get saved today, not tomorrow, not next week, today.
01:05:53 A lady showed me a picture of her son and standing in front of
01:05:56 the dome, and the 21-year-old guy was saying, "Happy Easter,
01:06:01 world changers," and the next day he died on a soccer field.
01:06:04 I just told her, I said, "I'm so sorry."
01:06:09 Man.
01:06:18 So, if you're not born again, get your Bibles and
01:06:21 personal belongings.
01:06:22 Let's not just even prolong this.
01:06:23 Come on down and get saved.
01:06:25 If you need to rededicate your life to Jesus, you've been
01:06:27 saved, but you're just--you're disconnected for some reason,
01:06:30 and you want to reconnect, come on down and let's reconnect.
01:06:33 Thirdly, if you're here and you've never received the
01:06:37 baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence
01:06:39 of speaking in tongues, come on down here and receive the
01:06:42 baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence
01:06:44 of speaking in tongues.
01:06:45 And last but not least, you believe that God's called you to
01:06:48 join this church, World Changers Church International.
01:06:52 If this is the brook where God's calling you and your family to
01:06:55 eat from this brook, come on down right now.
01:06:58 We will receive you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen?
01:07:00 Only believe.
01:07:03 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
01:07:08 whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
01:07:17 yeah.
01:07:25 Only believe.
01:07:26 Only believe that all things are possible in the name of Jesus.
01:07:31 All things are possible if you only believe.
01:07:36 Only believe.
01:07:49 Only believe.
01:07:59 All things are possible if you only believe.
01:08:04 Only believe.
01:08:26 Only believe that all things are possible if you only believe.
01:08:31 Only believe.
01:08:54 Only believe that all things are possible if you only believe.
01:09:21 [speaking in tongues]
01:09:26 Two guys following Jesus, and they saw the miracles of the
01:09:33 bread and the fish, and they said,
01:09:35 "We wanna do miracles like you.
01:09:38 What do we do?"
01:09:41 And Jesus responded and said, "Believe in the one that I sent
01:09:45 you."
01:09:47 He says, "All I want you to do is to believe in the one that I
01:09:50 sent you."
01:09:52 Amen.
01:09:53 Father, we thank you so much for those who've come to this
01:09:57 altar, that you will do a magnificent thing in their
01:10:02 lives, that they can and they will never be the same again.
01:10:07 We praise you for it, Lord.
01:10:12 In Jesus' name, amen.
01:10:16 Those of you who can, if you'll follow this gentleman up to the
01:10:18 altar, and there may be some that can't go up the steps,
01:10:22 let's go ahead and serve them as well.
01:10:24 You can go this way.
01:10:25 Congregation, don't you appreciate those who've come
01:10:27 down?
01:10:28 Amen.
01:10:29 At this time, would you stand?
01:10:32 Thank you so much for joining us for church today.
01:10:37 Thank you for taking your time out,
01:10:39 doing what you got to do, grabbing a sweater.
01:10:42 Don't let the cold keep you from--
01:10:47 May the God of grace be with you all this week,
01:10:52 and may the angels carry out the command of God to watch over you
01:10:57 lest you dash your foot against the stone.
01:11:01 May promotion visit you.
01:11:03 May favor overtake you.
01:11:05 And now unto him who is able to keep you from falling,
01:11:11 and to present you faultless before the Almighty God,
01:11:14 glory, majesty, dominion, and power,
01:11:18 both now and forever.
01:11:21 And everybody said amen.
01:11:23 God bless you.
01:11:24 Good day, everybody.
01:11:26 Amen.
01:11:30 Man, such a good Word.
01:11:32 We say it every week, but we really, really mean it.
01:11:36 We really appreciate you joining with us today on this beautiful
01:11:40 Sunday morning.
01:11:42 Denisa, what did you get out of the Word today?
01:11:43 I really have my notes, y'all.
01:11:45 I came prepared this Sunday, okay?
01:11:47 But what really stood out to me, honestly,
01:11:49 is at the very beginning of the service when Pastor broke down
01:11:52 being pruned and how he mentioned that Jesus props us
01:11:56 up, lifts us up, and straightens us up.
01:11:58 So that way he will constantly prune us so we can remove the
01:12:01 mixture, remove the religion, remove the self-effort,
01:12:05 you know, constantly being renewed in the mind so that we
01:12:07 get better and better and gooder and gooder.
01:12:09 I know "gooder" isn't a word, but stick with me.
01:12:10 We get gooder and gooder.
01:12:12 What'd you get, Grace?
01:12:13 I got good.
01:12:14 And that was good.
01:12:15 It's crazy 'cause I was gonna say that.
01:12:17 But the biggest thing that I got is--and I've said this before.
01:12:21 I feel like in the past few weeks and continuing on in this
01:12:25 season, we're in a season of detoxing.
01:12:28 Detoxing what we used to know, detoxing what we used to believe,
01:12:32 detoxing how we used to understand.
01:12:35 And we are going into a place where we have a better
01:12:38 understanding of who God is, who Jesus is,
01:12:41 and understanding that our salvation only happens,
01:12:45 only works, only sticks through Jesus Christ.
01:12:48 And the only thing that can uproot us or take us out of
01:12:51 that salvation is our unbelief.
01:12:53 And another thing that Pastor Dollar said,
01:12:55 and I realize I look past in my notes for the past couple weeks,
01:12:58 I've been writing this down every single week.
01:13:00 Over and over and over.
01:13:01 Change your thinking, change your life.
01:13:04 So change the way that you think,
01:13:06 change the way that you operate, and your life will change,
01:13:08 and it will flow, and it will line up with who Jesus is.
01:13:12 Church just blessed me.
01:13:14 If this message resonated with you in any way,
01:13:16 you know how sometimes you're like,
01:13:17 "Oh, I was just talking with my friend about that."
01:13:19 Please share.
01:13:20 We want you to spread the word.
01:13:21 Don't just keep it to yourself.
01:13:23 I guarantee you if there was someone that popped in your
01:13:25 mind, God wants you to share it with them.
01:13:26 So please take a moment and share that with someone that you
01:13:29 may know.
01:13:30 Now, one of my most exciting times--
01:13:32 Come on, give in.
01:13:33 Come on.
01:13:34 Okay, it's time to give, y'all.
01:13:35 And I know the QR code is gonna pop up on your screen,
01:13:37 but I was just telling Grace, if you didn't get a chance to catch
01:13:40 Pastor Taffy this morning, she was flowing in the Spirit.
01:13:43 Literally in my Bible study last night,
01:13:45 I was asking God for a revelation of sowing.
01:13:47 What does that look like?
01:13:49 And she literally broke down the fatness and how the fatness
01:13:52 represents the goodness of God and the very best of God.
01:13:56 And I want to share this scripture with you.
01:13:58 So we're gonna go to Genesis.
01:13:59 It's chapter 4, verses 3 and 4, and I'm coming from the King
01:14:02 James Version where it says, "And in the process of time,
01:14:05 it came to pass that Cain brought a fruit of the ground
01:14:08 an offering unto the Lord.
01:14:10 And Abel, he also brought of the firstling of his flock and of
01:14:13 the fat thereof.
01:14:15 And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering."
01:14:18 And what the Holy Spirit helped me understand is it wasn't like,
01:14:22 "Oh, we love this offering more than this."
01:14:24 But it was simply that Abel bought his very best,
01:14:27 his very best, the fat thereof, signifying that he depended on
01:14:31 God for his provision.
01:14:32 So that was what his sacrifice is.
01:14:34 It's not a percentage.
01:14:35 We know this.
01:14:36 We don't just do 10% or whatever you feel led to.
01:14:38 But do the very best that you can in your offering to God
01:14:41 today to signify that you depend on him.
01:14:44 It's not a number.
01:14:45 It don't matter what it is, but your very best.
01:14:47 So how can they give, Grace?
01:14:48 That was good.
01:14:49 That was good.
01:14:50 Happy to have you in my Bible study last night.
01:14:53 Man, we just be in a pocket, okay?
01:14:55 Y'all already know it is four ways to give.
01:14:58 This ministry gives a opportunity for you to give so
01:15:01 you do not miss out.
01:15:03 The first way is texting World Changers.
01:15:05 You leave a space and you text your amount to 74483.
01:15:10 You can call 866-477-7683.
01:15:16 You can send in my mail by 2500 Burdett Road, sorry,
01:15:21 College Park, Georgia, 30349.
01:15:24 Or you can give online at worldchangers.org or
01:15:28 creflodollarministries.org.
01:15:30 All right, Denisa, so what do the men got going on?
01:15:33 Okay, guys, I want you to put something in the chat for me.
01:15:35 Y'all have been going in month after month.
01:15:39 We see the recap.
01:15:40 I'm a little jealous.
01:15:41 I'm jealous, too.
01:15:42 But I really appreciate you all showing up.
01:15:44 So this coming Saturday, actually, this Saturday,
01:15:47 put this Saturday in the chat, October the 14th at 11 a.m.,
01:15:51 there will be another men's fellowship.
01:15:53 Men, we need you.
01:15:54 Y'all constantly show up.
01:15:55 Bring your cousins, your uncles, your nephews,
01:15:57 your friends, your homeboy, anybody and everybody.
01:15:59 Bring 'em, bring 'em, bring 'em.
01:16:00 I'm here.
01:16:01 I've also seen that they've been doing small groups.
01:16:03 They've been doing a deep dive, really getting in and being
01:16:05 vulnerable.
01:16:06 We appreciate you, and this is a safe space created just for you.
01:16:10 And so what you're going to do is you're going to text WCCI
01:16:13 Fellowship to the number 51555 and register.
01:16:16 Please register just so we have a head count.
01:16:18 We can prepare for you all.
01:16:19 And again, it's WCCI Fellowship to 51555.
01:16:23 Yes.
01:16:24 So what else is coming up, Grace?
01:16:26 So the cutest thing, I just love the Fall Festival.
01:16:29 It is so cute.
01:16:31 We are overjoyed to bring back this classic favorite.
01:16:34 And I heard they're going to have petting zoos, balloon
01:16:38 sculpting, candy, wink, wink, and so much more for the 2023
01:16:44 Fall Festival.
01:16:45 We are looking forward to seeing you here.
01:16:47 It is happening on Saturday, October 28th, excuse me,
01:16:51 at 11 a.m.
01:16:52 Make sure you dress up in your cutest Fall Festival costume.
01:16:57 If you are interested, text FALLFEST to 51555,
01:17:02 or you can register at worldchangers.org,
01:17:05 and you do not want to miss out.
01:17:06 So again, like Denisa said, bring your family,
01:17:09 bring your friends, bring your neighbors.
01:17:11 Get cute.
01:17:12 Don't just come.
01:17:13 Get cute in your costume and come fellowship
01:17:16 with us at the Fall Festival.
01:17:19 What do we have next, Denisa?
01:17:20 Well, you know we always close it out with the greatest power.
01:17:23 Because we know and we believe that our Lord and Savior's
01:17:26 greatest power dwells on the inside of you.
01:17:28 Yes.
01:17:28 And a good way for you to just keep yourself reminded of that
01:17:31 is to play that song in the morning.
01:17:32 Why don't you get tapped in, share it
01:17:34 with your friends and your family, Spotify, Apple Music.
01:17:37 We have a challenge that I keep--
01:17:39 I check the hashtags so I can see
01:17:40 all the cute in your cards and everything.
01:17:42 Yes, yes, yes.
01:17:43 And continue to share that and promote that.
01:17:45 And it's not just a song.
01:17:46 This is a way of life.
01:17:47 It's to declare-- for you to declare and decree
01:17:49 over your life that God has the greatest power.
01:17:51 Yes.
01:17:52 I'm not even going to try to sing it
01:17:53 because that's not my gift.
01:17:54 But the greatest power dwells on the inside of you.
01:17:56 And we want you to text "greatest power" to 51555
01:17:59 if you haven't already to stay tapped in.
01:18:01 Yes.
01:18:02 So last but not least, stay connected.
01:18:05 I am biased, OK?
01:18:07 This is the best, greatest, dopest, most blessed ministry
01:18:13 in the world.
01:18:14 So make sure that you are keeping up
01:18:17 with the goings on here at World Changers
01:18:20 by visiting worldchangers.org.
01:18:22 Again, keep up with all the events, announcements,
01:18:25 services.
01:18:26 I know y'all be at home.
01:18:27 But come out and connect with us in person if you can.
01:18:31 And make sure that you're sending it out,
01:18:33 spreading it out, everything that we have going on.
01:18:36 Again, keep in contact.
01:18:38 Keep connected with us at worldchangers.org.
01:18:41 Yeah.
01:18:42 So this is kind of transitioning to my favorite part,
01:18:44 where we get to bless and love on you and speak over your week.
01:18:47 And I just want to share this one scripture that
01:18:49 has really been like ministering to my spirit and my heart.
01:18:52 And that's St. John chapter 3, verse 1 and 2.
01:18:54 And it says, "Beloved, I wish that above all things,
01:18:57 that thou mayest prosper and be in health,
01:19:00 even as your soul prospers."
01:19:02 We know your soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions.
01:19:04 And I am declaring in the Kring over your week
01:19:06 that your mind prospers, your soul prospers,
01:19:09 your will prospers.
01:19:10 And may it align with the will of God.
01:19:12 And may he just bless you so much that you come back
01:19:15 and you're like, look what God did.
01:19:18 What about you, Grace?
01:19:19 I received that.
01:19:21 I just received that.
01:19:22 And y'all know we love you.
01:19:24 Have an amazing week.
01:19:26 And remember, people like you change the world.
01:19:29 Change the world.
01:19:30 [MUSIC - KING, "CHANGE THE WORLD"]
01:19:32 Change the world.
01:19:36 Change the world.
01:19:40 I'm a world changer.
01:19:44 Changing the world everywhere I go.
01:19:48 I'm a world changer.
01:19:52 Anointed with the power of the Holy Ghost.
01:19:55 I'm a world changer.
01:19:57 Telling the world of God's saving grace.
01:20:03 I'm a world changer.
01:20:04 Making a mark that can't be erased.
01:20:12 For God has equipped us to go higher,
01:20:16 to make a mark that cannot be erased.
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