The Birth of Death-CHARLES LAWSON BIBLE SERMON-AUG 18 2024
The Book of John Is Written That the Hearers Might Believe and, Believing, Come to Be Born to Eternal Life in Christ Jesus. "Flesh Does Not Beget Life; It Takes Spirit to Beget Life." All the Sin in the World Comes from People: Within the Heart of Every Man -- "...When Lust Hath Conceived, it Bringeth Forth Sin: and Sin, When It is Finished, Bringeth Forth Death." [James 1:15]
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00:00All right, if you have your Bible, turn to the Gospel of John, John, the Gospel of John,
00:09the Apostle, John the Baptist wrote no books, but John the Apostle did.
00:18John chapter number 1 and verse number 1, in the beginning was the Word, the Word was
00:27with God and the Word was God, the same was in the beginning with God.
00:31All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made and him
00:36was life and the life is the light of men.
00:39The light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.
00:44There was a man sent from God whose name was John, the same came for a witness to bear
00:49witness to the light that all men through him might believe.
00:53He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light.
00:58That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
01:05He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not.
01:08He came to his own and his own received him not, but as many as received him, to them
01:13gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were
01:20born, not of blood, nor the will of the flesh, nor the will of man, but of God.
01:28Note carefully verse 14, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld
01:36his glory.
01:37The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
01:41Father bless this holy word now as it goes forth.
01:44Bless the messenger this morning and give me unction to preach it, in thy name I pray,
01:50amen.
01:51As I mentioned to you in the past, we talked about the gospel.
01:55We talked about this fourth gospel.
01:58We talked about what's called the synoptic gospels, and this is an arbitrary term that's
02:03been given by most Bible colleges and so forth.
02:06Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called synoptic gospels because they have one view.
02:11The idea is that you create what's called a life of Christ, but that's really a work
02:15in vanity because it's hard to put together a life of Christ.
02:19I don't think the gospels were written for that purpose, but in any event, the fourth
02:23gospel is not considered one of the synoptic gospels.
02:27The fourth gospel was written by the apostle John.
02:31John was the only apostle left at the cross while all the rest of them had gone away.
02:36It was John on the Isle of Patmos who saw the coming of the Lord in power and great
02:41glory.
02:42It was John the apostle who wrote 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John.
02:47In 1st John chapter number one, John the apostle reaches deep into the depths of the human
02:52soul and begins to open up for us what's really going on.
02:57And so the apostle John was chosen, I believe, by the Holy Spirit to write what some consider,
03:04and I'm one of them, to be the final book in the completion of the canon of scripture,
03:09the book of John and the book of Revelation, which is called the Apocalypse.
03:14These are the last two books written in the Bible, and they're written by the same man,
03:19the apostle John.
03:20Somewhere about 90 to 95 AD closes out the canon of scripture.
03:26If you find someone telling you that John or Matthew or Mark were written 135, 140,
03:32150, 200 AD, that's a bunch of garbage.
03:35Let me tell you something right now.
03:37Please understand this.
03:38There is absolutely no evidence, absolutely no evidence that would date any of the gospels
03:46past the first century.
03:48So the apostle John writes the gospel of John and completes the scripture.
03:53I told you how the gospel of John is unique in the sense that it presents to us the new
03:58birth.
03:59The new birth is so very, very important.
04:02You don't hear a lot of preaching about the new birth today.
04:05You hear a lot of preaching about feel good and about building the kingdom.
04:09You hear an awful lot of that, but we're not interested in feeling good and building kingdoms.
04:14We're interested in preaching the word of God, exalting Christ.
04:17He'll take care of the rest of it.
04:19So the gospel of John starts in eternity past and moves into eternity future, just like
04:24the apocalypse.
04:25It goes from time past into the time future.
04:30There's only three tenses of time anyway, past, present, and future.
04:34So the apostle John says, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and
04:39the word was God.
04:41So the beginning has to do with creation, has nothing to do with God.
04:45God is from everlasting to everlasting.
04:47He has no beginning.
04:49When scripture says in the beginning, it's talking about for creatures.
04:52I'm one of them, and so are you.
04:54We are creatures here today.
04:56We had a beginning.
04:57This gospel of John is a magnificent thing because it is different from any other book
05:02in the Bible.
05:03I told you how that the gospel of John is a book within books.
05:07If you could only have one book of the whole Bible, of all 66 books of Holy Writ, there's
05:12one book that could get you right with God without problem at all, and that is the gospel
05:18of John.
05:19For what you have here is what makes a man right with God.
05:22He that hath the son hath life, John said, and to receive Christ is to believe upon him.
05:28So I'm going to preach you this morning a message that God's given me and moved upon
05:32my soul about the gospel of John, and I want to title it, and the title is very important.
05:38The title to this message this morning is the birth of death.
05:43Now think of that for a moment, the birth of death, and so we'll deal with that toward
05:48the end of the message, but keep that in your mind as we deal with it.
05:53The gospel of John has miracles that are called sign miracles.
05:59The gospel of John has the great I ams of Christ, where he says, I am this and I am
06:04that, identifying himself with the great I am of the book of Exodus.
06:09Therefore the Lord Jesus Christ is presented in the gospel of John in a fashion where no
06:13one can mistake it whatsoever.
06:16Even starting the first chapter of the gospel of John, he told you plainly, the word which
06:21is God was made flesh and dwelt among us.
06:24So it starts with the absolute deity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
06:28Someone comes to you and tells you that Christ is a created God, he got his doctrine straight
06:33out of hell.
06:34The Lord Jesus Christ is the creator, and Paul makes that plain in the book of Colossians
06:40chapter number two.
06:42But there are seven signs in the gospel of John, and starting with the first one and
06:46ending with the last one, we have quite a picture for us.
06:48In John chapter number two, we read about where he changes the water into wine.
06:53The Bible says, for this is my blood of the new covenant, Matthew chapter number 26, the
06:58New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
07:02You see, wine in the Bible, here we read it in the gospel of John, could very well be
07:08a type of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, no question.
07:12And if you notice carefully, when this new wine shows up in John chapter number two,
07:17it is not put into old bottles, it's put in new bottles.
07:22For the old bottle cannot contain all the power of that new wine.
07:27And my friend, this is important.
07:29When the Lord Jesus Christ came 2,000 years ago, he didn't come to prop up the law.
07:34He didn't come to make the law better.
07:35He didn't come to cleanse the law.
07:37He came to fulfill the law.
07:39What the law could never do, Christ completed it in absolute perfection.
07:44So we start in the gospel of John chapter number two, the scripture says, this is the
07:48first sign miracle that he performed.
07:52And so for those of you this morning to understand, we have a new covenant presented to us.
07:57But notice the last miracle in the gospel of John is in chapter number 11 and verse
08:03number one.
08:04And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
08:08Isn't that something?
08:09And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes.
08:14And his face was bound about with a napkin.
08:17And Jesus saith unto them, loose him and let him go.
08:21So we start the gospel of John's miracles with a new covenant.
08:25And we finish him with a resurrection from the dead.
08:29Now does that fit anywhere?
08:30Is there anybody in this house this morning spiritually that had been raised from the
08:34dead?
08:35I have.
08:36I had a resurrection in 1973.
08:38But the Bible says the hour is coming when all that are in the graves shall hear the
08:42voice of the son of God and come forth.
08:45He is master and Lord over death.
08:47Make no mistake about it.
08:48He doesn't raise the dead.
08:50He is the resurrection of the dead.
08:52Wherever he goes, there can be no death for he is life itself and personified in our Lord
08:59Jesus Christ.
09:00So these sign miracles, as they are called, what is the sign for?
09:05What would you use the sign for, for the most part?
09:08You use that to direct you.
09:10The sign tells you whether you're on an interstate, which one you're on, side road, where you're
09:14headed, east or west, north or south.
09:17These signs are used for direction.
09:19And these miracles in the gospel of John are for that purpose.
09:23There are many other ways that you can understand a sign, no question.
09:26But here they are used as a pointing device to point you to Christ.
09:31You see, there's a motive in writing the gospel of John.
09:34The kingdom of heaven is not found in it.
09:36It's not in here.
09:38The Jewish kingdom, sermon on the mount, none of that, and that's all wonderful in its place.
09:43But its place is not in the Gentile kingdom today, which is born of the spirit of God,
09:49the preaching of the gospel of Christ.
09:51The apostle Paul said, I came knowing nor the gospel, nothing among you, but Christ
09:56and him crucified.
09:57He also said this.
09:59He said, he did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel to the church at Corinth,
10:05letting them know in an indirect way that baptism had nothing to do with the preaching
10:10of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
10:12So we start with seven signs, changing water into wine and raising a man from the dead.
10:19Lazarus, he said, come forth.
10:22Now if he'd only said come forth, I can't imagine what would have happened, but he named
10:27him Lazarus come forth.
10:29And of course he that was dead came forth.
10:32You see my friend, the dead does not respond to the power of the word of God.
10:36The word of God creates life where it goes and it must respond.
10:41The natural world, the water, for example, the seas and all there is, they have no intelligent
10:47ability to answer to anything.
10:49But the voice that says to bring it into existence can create life where it goes forth.
10:57This is what happens to the, as the tulip, you know, total depravity, unconditional election,
11:03limited atonement, irresistible grace and predestination.
11:07They have a, they've got a, they've got a, they've got a dead body.
11:11Hyper Calvinism teaches that there is nothing in you that can give response, that all you
11:16are is just simply a dead body.
11:19But you see my friend, it's not the dead body that responds.
11:22It is the spirit of life that goes forth from the Holy Ghost.
11:26And that spirit of life can either be accepted or rejected for when it goes, it lights and
11:32gives life.
11:33And my friend, that's what brings me into existence.
11:36I'm still dead this morning, as dead as I ever was in this body of clay.
11:41It's headed to the grave.
11:42It's going to the ground.
11:43That's all it'll ever, it's about worn out.
11:45It's about finished.
11:46And after all, I wouldn't want to drag this thing into heaven with me.
11:51Imagine what this thing would look like 5,000 years from now.
11:54Imagine what Adam would look like right now if he were still around.
11:57Amen.
11:58You wouldn't want to look at him.
11:59And I'm going to tell you this.
12:00The Bible says plainly that as we have borne the image of the earthy, so shall we bear
12:05the image of the heavenly.
12:07Amen.
12:08And when he arose from the dead, he rose alive to live forevermore.
12:12So we know that these miracles have a purpose.
12:15They have a purpose to point us on a new covenant to the one who raises the dead.
12:20And it is his voice that raises the dead.
12:23It's not Lazarus' ability to respond to anything.
12:26It is that life giving command, rise Lazarus from the dead.
12:30In the book of Exodus chapter number three and verse 13, Moses said unto God, behold,
12:36when I come to the children of Israel and shall say to them, the God of your fathers
12:40that sent me into you, and they shall say to me, what is his name?
12:45What shall I say unto them?
12:46And God said to Moses, I am that I am.
12:52And he said, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am, hath sent me unto
13:01you.
13:02Boy, what a thing.
13:03You mean that's all you're going to say I am what?
13:05He is everything.
13:07There is to be everything of every need that you may ever have of all that it takes to
13:12maintain creation of all that there was necessary to bring it into existence to begin with of
13:17all there is from the alpha and the omega.
13:20I am that I am.
13:21He's the first and the last.
13:23There is nothing beside him.
13:25There is no life outside him.
13:27There's nothing that exists apart from him.
13:30He upholds all things by the word of his power and him was life and the life of the light
13:34of men and the light shineth in darkness.
13:37He says, I am that I am.
13:39And he is my dear friend.
13:41But in the gospel of John, that I am is brought out for us time and time and time again.
13:48It's mentioned over and over.
13:50For example, he said in John six, I'm the bread of life.
13:53John eight.
13:54He said, I'm the light of the world.
13:56John 10.
13:57He said, I am the door.
13:59John chapter number 10 again.
14:01He says, I am the good shepherd.
14:03Then in John chapter number 11, he said, I am the resurrection and the life standing
14:08at the tomb of Lazarus.
14:10John 14.
14:11He said, I am the way, the truth and the life.
14:14And might I add, no man cometh unto the father, he said, but by me, oh, I'm sure they mean
14:19well.
14:20I understand they're dedicated.
14:22No question in my mind that some of them would give their life completely for their religion.
14:26But my dear friend, there is only one door to heaven.
14:29There's only one name above every name.
14:31There's only one way into God and that way into God is the Lord Jesus Christ.
14:36For he is the very hand of God in salvation to mankind.
14:41No man can come to the father except by the son and no man knows the father, but the son
14:47and no man knows the son, but the father.
14:49Even if you could approach the third heaven, you wouldn't know where to find him.
14:54Even if you could by some means come near unto the person of that almighty being, you
15:00wouldn't see him.
15:01The Bible says he dwelleth in the light, which no man can see, which no man hath seen to
15:06whom be honor and power everlasting.
15:08Amen.
15:09The apostle Paul said that about that light that no man hath seen.
15:13You say, preacher, we saw God.
15:14The Old Testament said 70 elders of Israel saw him.
15:17No, they saw a manifestation for them to be able to behold him.
15:22Do you remember in the garden of Gethsemane when they came to take him away?
15:27They walked him there and they begin to question, who is he?
15:29Where is he?
15:30Where is this man?
15:31And the Lord Jesus Christ said, I am he.
15:36In your Bible, look at the italics.
15:39The italics is where the King James translators added a word to give it continuity.
15:44But the truth of the matter is, he simply said, I am.
15:50In plain words, he identified himself with that one in the book of Exodus.
15:54And the moment he said, I am, he let a little bit of the glory of God move forth from his
15:59mouth.
16:00When he said, I am, he gave them just a touch of what it meant to stand in the presence
16:06of that almighty eternal being.
16:08When he said, I am, he reached down inside their soul and made them little where they
16:13should be and him big where he should be.
16:16There is, my dear friend, a chasm between man and God that is insurmountable.
16:21There is no way you could even approach him.
16:22You can't see him.
16:24You can't know him.
16:25But the Lord Jesus Christ can take hold of him in one hand and he can take hold of you
16:29in the other and he can connect the two together and he does it at the cross.
16:33It is there at the cross, at the cross of Christ where he died for your sin.
16:38He takes hold of God and he takes hold of man.
16:41And my friend, I thank God that he did that.
16:43I am, he said.
16:45And what happened then?
16:46According to the gospel of John, John's gospel, remember, that started out with his deity.
16:52You remember the gospel of John that said in the beginning was the word, the word was
16:55with God and the word was God.
16:57Do you remember when the Bible uses a term like that?
16:59It's also in the book of Proverbs talks about the wisdom of God held dear in his bosom.
17:04The wisdom of God existed before the creation of anything, the word of God before the creation
17:10of anything.
17:11When God speaks by his word, he manifest himself.
17:14When he speaks by his word, he gives you his mind.
17:17When he speaks by his word, he gives you his direction.
17:21And so he said, I am, and that I am is all it took.
17:24You say, preacher, I'd like to see God.
17:26You don't want to see him right now.
17:28You don't want to see him in the state you're in.
17:30You dare not approach him to him.
17:32No way.
17:33No way.
17:34No, you say, I'm Christian.
17:35Yes, but your life is hid with Christ in God.
17:38You are accepted in the beloved.
17:39You have yet to be perfected, but praise be to God one day he will perfect me.
17:44He will perfect you.
17:46That's what he talks about in the book of Hebrews.
17:48The spirits of just men made perfect, able, able, able, glory to God to stand in the presence
17:55of almighty God to absorb him, take him in, understand him, see him for all that he is.
18:03We have finite minds.
18:05We have finite ability.
18:07We have finite understanding.
18:09Most of us know more than simply our experiences.
18:14Some of us go a little deeper and open books and begin to read them.
18:17Some of us go out and traverse the earth and learn more and more and more.
18:21My dear friend, let me tell you this.
18:23There is nowhere on this earth you can go to know more about God except through our
18:28Lord Jesus Christ and his word.
18:31And you'll never know more of the father until he reveals himself to you.
18:37David said this in Psalm chapter number two, they quoted him.
18:41He said, if I make my bed in hell, thou art there.
18:44I think about that.
18:45What do you mean?
18:46If I make my bed in hell, thou art there.
18:49Can you imagine?
18:50Can you imagine going somewhere that you could get away from God?
18:53No, you can't.
18:54Can you imagine?
18:55No, you can't.
18:56Have you ever thought about this?
18:58I sit around at night and think about stuff like this.
19:00Have you ever thought about this?
19:02For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth
19:06in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, right?
19:09God's love is wonderful.
19:11The love of God is what a blessed, blessed, blessed thing indeed, right?
19:16Now go home this afternoon and ask yourself this question.
19:20Does he love those that are in hell?
19:23You've never thought about that, have you?
19:26Have you thought about that?
19:27Some of you have.
19:28Have you wondered about that?
19:30Some of you got a shock to look on your face.
19:33I'm going to tell you why.
19:35Because there's far more to God than the human mind can conceive.
19:41Far more to him.
19:42But I know this, when I was unlovable, he loved me.
19:45When I was in the depths of my sin, he loved me.
19:47When I was lost without God, he loved me.
19:50He came to me, I didn't come to him.
19:52He called my name, I didn't call his.
19:56While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
19:58Amen?
19:59Oh, the love of God goes beyond description, goes beyond understanding.
20:04But it's one of those things that defines him.
20:07God is love, the Bible says.
20:09You've heard the word a million times, agape, the love of God.
20:13God is something altogether different, except he revealed himself.
20:17Can't you guess that by searching, find out God?
20:19No.
20:20So what do we do?
20:21I put that out there to make you think.
20:22That's why I got up.
20:23It's not that I have the answer.
20:25A lot of times I'll just give you what I'm thinking, let you worry with it.
20:29Amen.
20:34Sometimes God will give me the answer, but sometimes I'll continue to worry with it.
20:38But that's okay.
20:40He'll never get mad at you for searching, for praying, for crying, for digging, for
20:47wanting to get close to him, to want to understand him, to pray to a man.
20:51Are you listening?
20:52He'll never get mad at you to make that effort to draw nigh to God, and he'll draw nigh to
20:58you.
20:59Amen, amen, amen.
21:00So we come down toward that giving birth to death.
21:05What a thing.
21:06What a thought.
21:08They fell backward because they couldn't stand in the presence of holiness.
21:13The Lord Jesus Christ had become sin who knew no sin when they nailed him to the tree.
21:18What is that?
21:19You get a thousand commentaries and you'll get a thousand different views on it.
21:23What sin?
21:24What kind of sin?
21:25Where's sin?
21:26Sinner?
21:27This, sin, this, that, this, that.
21:28You'll find some of the smartest minds that ever lived.
21:30They don't agree with each other.
21:32You know why they don't?
21:33Because God hasn't revealed it yet to us.
21:35He made him to be sin for us who knew no sin.
21:39And then he says that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
21:45What righteousness?
21:47There was a righteousness of the Old Testament, the righteous one.
21:50He names three men, calls them apart, and says, these are the three men.
21:54Their righteousness lifts him above all the rest of the righteous ones that have ever
21:58lived.
21:59That is the Old Testament righteousness.
22:01When the Lord Jesus Christ came into this world 2,000 years ago, prayer started.
22:05Oh, they prayed before, but they didn't pray like this man.
22:09This was the God man.
22:11Now the Lord Jesus Christ who had communed with the Father throughout eternity past now
22:15prays to him.
22:17Something's changed, hasn't it?
22:19Of course it has.
22:20He prays now to the one that he was part of in eternity past.
22:25Are you listening?
22:26You can't pray too much, can you?
22:28No.
22:29You can't preach too much, sing too much, talk too much, laugh too much, so forth.
22:32And these are all fine, but you'll never pray too much.
22:37Now we come, John chapter number 20, verse 31.
22:44These are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, son of God, and believing
22:49you might have life through his name.
22:52The word believe shows up more in the gospel of John, all three, Matthew, Mark, and Luke
22:56put together.
22:57John 20, 25.
22:59And there are also many other things which Jesus did.
23:06The which, if they should be written every one, I suppose, John tells us, that even the
23:12world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
23:17Amen.
23:19God bless your soul, John.
23:20You have blessed me so many times.
23:23I want to meet John, don't you?
23:25Yes, sir.
23:26I want to meet John, the apostle.
23:29Now look at James chapter number two and verse number nine, 19, rather.
23:36Most believe this is the Lord's brother.
23:37When we say brother, we're talking about half-brother.
23:40If there is such a thing, he's his brother.
23:43But in any event, James chapter number two and verse number 19, here's what he says.
23:51Thou believest there's one God, thou doest well.
23:56The devils also believe and tremble.
24:00I hope you fear God.
24:02I hope you haven't been listening to too many feel-good liberal preachers.
24:06I hope there's a fear of God in your soul.
24:10Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, the Bible says.
24:13I'm going to ask you a question.
24:18Satan sinned before Adam did.
24:22Did Satan's sin bring death into this world?
24:24You ever thought about that?
24:28Satan had sinned before the first man, but did Satan's sin bring death into this world?
24:36As a matter of fact, did Satan's sin originate from the heart of Adam?
24:44Death entered the world through Adam.
24:48It's a Hebrew word, Adam.
24:50It's connected with red and of the earth.
24:52That's what the word means.
24:53It's a good name.
24:54There's a lot of men named Adam, fine name.
24:58It's a Hebrew name, pure Hebrew, of the earth, Adam, Adam.
25:04So Romans chapter number five and verse number 12 answers one question, wherefore, Romans
25:09five, 12, as by one man, sin entered into the world and death by sin.
25:16So now we know how sin came into the world, don't we?
25:20And so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned.
25:25Remember the birth of death.
25:28Now look at how James chapter number one, verse 14 and 15, watch his wording carefully.
25:36James chapter number one, verses 14 and 15.
25:43But every man is tempted when he has drawn away of his own lust and enticed.
25:51Now watch this.
25:54Then when lust hath conceived, what do we say when a woman has conceived?
26:02You ever heard that term?
26:05Well, of course you have.
26:08When lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin.
26:15And sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
26:22God is not mocked, for whatsoever man soweth, that shall he also reap.
26:30If you are one who sends out sin and you create sin, and it's going forth from you
26:38all the time, mark it in your book, it's going to bring forth death.
26:45It's not going to finish.
26:47It's not going to die.
26:50It's going to bring forth death.
26:53Don't you look at something.
26:56The word in James chapter number five, verse 15.
27:00When it hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin.
27:06The Greek word ticto, tau, iota, kappa, tau, omega, ticto.
27:12Here's what it means.
27:13To bring forth, bear, bring.
27:17Metaphorically or regular desires exciting to sin, note carefully, of females.
27:26Firstborn, children.
27:29A bringing forth of a birth.
27:33The birth of death takes place in the heart of a man.
27:38That's what that book just told you.
27:41It doesn't come from Satan.
27:43It comes from the man.
27:46It is born inside us.
27:48You say, preacher, that makes man pretty big.
27:50Yeah, it makes him big.
27:53It makes him real big.
27:54Satan was not made in the image of God, but you have been.
27:58The Bible says the day is going to come when you judge angels.
28:02That's right.
28:04You mean to tell me that all this sin eating me up and tearing me apart originated from
28:11within?
28:12Yes.
28:13That's what I'm telling you.
28:15It comes from ... I'm not blaming you for my sin.
28:21You say, no.
28:23My sin is my sin and it arises from my heart, but it doesn't stop by simply coming up.
28:30It's a spiritual thing.
28:32Now here's the thing about spirit.
28:36Flesh does not beget life.
28:38You know that.
28:39It can't do it.
28:40It can't do it.
28:42It takes spirit to beget life.
28:46God is a spirit.
28:48Life comes forth, therefore, from a spirit, not from flesh.
28:55Sin is a spiritual thing, so it gives existence to stuff that you don't want any part of,
29:02but once it comes out of you and it has been born and come out of you, it's like Pandora's
29:09box.
29:12Once that thing's opened up and it gets out and it begins to move about, you've lost control
29:18of it.
29:20This is why the same John, folks, please listen.
29:23This is important.
29:25This is why the same John, in 1 John chapter number one says, if you say you have not sinned,
29:32you call God a liar.
29:34He said, if you say you have no sin, you deceive yourself and the truth is not in you.
29:40In plain words, he says, if you'll let the Holy Ghost do his work in your heart before
29:45it ever becomes manifested forth as the deed, he will clean it up inside your heart.
29:50He'll cleanse you and forgive you, and cleansing has a lot to do with it, and I don't have
29:54time getting all that.
29:56That's a big one, though.
29:58He said, I'll cleanse you, I'll forgive you, I'll cut it off.
30:01It won't come forth.
30:02It won't be given birth.
30:04It won't come out.
30:05It'll be cut off right inside you if you walk in fellowship with him, and you have to walk
30:12in fellowship with the Lord.
30:14That's John 1.
30:15The only way you can do it, you walk in fellowship.
30:16A man walks in the darkness, he says he has fellowship with God, he's a liar, he's deceived.
30:23But anyway, I don't want to get off on a lot of that.
30:25That's beautiful stuff to study the Bible, how John connects these two together, but
30:29he makes it plain.
30:33You may have given birth to death this morning, and a death that comes out of you that begins
30:38to work now in your family, in your life, in your loved ones, those around you.
30:42What do I do, preacher?
30:43I confess it, pray to God, cleanse you, cleanse it from all unrighteousness, cleansed by
30:50the blood of Christ.
30:51The only thing that can cleanse you is the blood of Christ.
30:54You see, it's one thing to be forgiven, another thing to be cleansed.
30:57I'm wanting to get into this, but I'm not going to do it.
31:01It's heavy-duty stuff, folks.
31:04You ever see anything rotting and decaying, does it have a smell to it?
31:08All right.
31:10Are you listening?
31:12Have you given birth to death?
31:14I'm going to close with this.
31:17If you believe, and he said if these things are written that you might believe, the Greek
31:21word for believe is pistou, pistou, okay?
31:26That's believe.
31:27Now, what's it mean?
31:28Well, the devils believe and tremble, right?
31:33They assent, they agree to an intellectual, physical fact that God exists, yes, and a
31:40lot of people do that, too.
31:42There is a God, man upstairs, supreme being, call him whatever you want to.
31:45Sure, you agree to that, that's fine, but that's not what John's talking about.
31:51John's talking about putting your trust in, taking hold of, pulling into you, and taking
32:01hold of him as your savior, and casting your sin upon him, confessing to him, and receiving
32:08what he's done for you at the cross at Calvary, and say, Lord Jesus, I believe.
32:13I believe in you.
32:14I believe on you.
32:16I'm trusting you.
32:17If I didn't have you, I'd go to hell, but you're my savior.
32:21I love you.
32:22I believe you.
32:23I believe in you, and I can't have without you.
32:29The lexicon says, to be firmly persuaded as to something to believe.
32:36Firmly persuaded with the idea of hope and certain expectation.
32:43It seems like an oxymoron, I guess might be the word for it, to call the birth of death,
32:50but the truth of the matter is, all the sin in this world is not coming from demons, folks.
32:57It's coming from people, us, me.
33:03Have you ever been chastened by the Lord?
33:05I have.
33:06He's busted my hide more than once.
33:09I don't know about you, but I can't get away.
33:12He wears me out.
33:14He sure does, but that's okay.
33:18He lets me know when he does it that I belong to him.
33:21Amen.
33:23He lets me know where to go.
33:24Go back to 1 John 1.
33:25Get this thing done right.
33:28Confess it before it's born, before it comes out, before it's given birth, while it resides
33:33deep down in the soul.
33:34We don't know our soul.
33:35He does.
33:36Search me and try me, David said.
33:38See if there be any wicked way in me, if there's a propensity inside me to do a certain thing,
33:42to go a certain direction, do this, that, this, that.
33:45Search me.
33:46Try me.
33:47Seek out within my soul.
33:49Would you bow your head?
33:50Father, in Jesus' name, I've delivered my soul.
33:54Bless your holy name now.
33:57Help these dear folk.
33:58If there's somebody in the house this morning that needs help, let them come today.
34:03Let them come.
34:04Let them call upon your name.
34:06Maybe they got a hold of what I'm saying.
34:07Maybe they're realizing now that the problem is not the fellow next to them or the guy
34:12down the street.
34:13It's rising up from inside their own soul, and it's giving birth to death.
34:20Anybody raise your hand this morning and say, Preacher Lost, don't you pray for me.
34:24God bless you.
34:25God bless you with hands everywhere, all over the place.
34:27God bless every one of you.
34:29I'm just the messenger, but I'm doing what God's calling me to do, and I want to help
34:33you.
34:34God bless you over here.
34:36God bless you back there.
34:37Let's pray then.
34:38Let's pray.
34:39You all put your hands up.
34:40Let's pray, Father.
34:41I thank you, Lord.
34:42I'm not worried to be up here.
34:44Don't claim any right to it.
34:47Solely by the grace of God that you reach down, pull me out of hell, and call me by
34:51your grace and put a Bible in my hand and your word in my heart.
34:57Bless these dear folk.
34:58Let them do what they need to do this morning.
35:01Let them do what they need to do right now.
35:04I think maybe right now that they're beginning to see things differently.
35:07They're beginning to understand now spiritual truths, great spiritual truths.
35:12They're beginning to get a hold of it and thank God for it, Lord.
35:16Thank God for it.
35:18Bless every one of them now.
35:19Bless them.
35:20Bless all of them.
35:21In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
35:25Let's stand up here this morning.