1 00:00:30,259 --> 00:00:33,699 Well, I hear a lot of special music where it sounds like the hoot 2 00:00:33,699 --> 00:00:37,779 owl with post nasal drip, but that's not true today. 3 00:00:37,779 --> 00:00:43,139 We've had some great singing and it's been a pleasure to be here. 4 00:00:44,099 --> 00:00:50,499 And I'm just committing myself today to Brother Eric, that I'm going 5 00:00:50,499 --> 00:00:53,419 to be a nuisance to you a little bit more, and hopefully you 6 00:00:53,419 --> 00:00:55,419 and I can have some time together. 7 00:00:55,419 --> 00:00:58,549 You need to get a break, away from some stuff. 8 00:00:58,549 --> 00:01:00,829 So I'll buy you lunch next time we can get together. 9 00:01:01,549 --> 00:01:02,829 Appreciate you very much. 10 00:01:04,509 --> 00:01:06,269 Well, I'm like the guy that got. 11 00:01:06,269 --> 00:01:07,949 Up and said, I have so much to say. 12 00:01:07,949 --> 00:01:09,069 I don't know where to start. 13 00:01:10,269 --> 00:01:11,789 Some kid in the back said, start. 14 00:01:11,789 --> 00:01:12,909 Somewhere near the end. 15 00:01:14,669 --> 00:01:17,989 So that's what I'm doing today with the schedule that I've been 16 00:01:17,989 --> 00:01:18,509 put on. 17 00:01:19,309 --> 00:01:20,309 And I'd like for you to turn. 18 00:01:20,309 --> 00:01:23,399 In your Bible today to First Corinthians, chapter six. 19 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:25,959 We're just gonna look at two verses today. 20 00:01:26,679 --> 00:01:27,959 That'll help a little bit. 21 00:01:28,439 --> 00:01:32,159 First Corinthians, chapter six, verses 19 through 20. 22 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:34,279 I wanna preach a message this afternoon. 23 00:01:34,279 --> 00:01:39,079 Entitled how to get right and Stay Right with God. 24 00:01:39,719 --> 00:01:40,599 Do you need that? 25 00:01:41,799 --> 00:01:42,999 I believe we need that. 26 00:01:43,879 --> 00:01:47,959 And I hope today that God will use us to speak to this need. 27 00:01:48,779 --> 00:01:50,379 You know, this book starts out First. 28 00:01:50,379 --> 00:01:55,339 Corinthians, starts out by saying, it's to the saints of God. 29 00:01:55,979 --> 00:01:57,179 Any saints here today. 30 00:01:58,219 --> 00:01:59,819 You're either a saint or an ain't. 31 00:01:59,819 --> 00:02:02,659 I know that you're either saved or you lost. 32 00:02:02,659 --> 00:02:04,459 And God set you apart for a reason. 33 00:02:05,099 --> 00:02:07,299 And he wrote to the church at Corinth. 34 00:02:07,299 --> 00:02:09,259 The church which was at Corinth. 35 00:02:09,419 --> 00:02:11,179 We got some church folks here today. 36 00:02:11,659 --> 00:02:14,059 So if you're a saved person, you're a church person. 37 00:02:14,699 --> 00:02:16,619 This message is just for you. 38 00:02:16,939 --> 00:02:19,259 Look at the passage that we have in mind here. 39 00:02:19,499 --> 00:02:22,699 First Corinthians, chapter 6 and verse 19. 40 00:02:23,499 --> 00:02:27,819 What know ye not that your body. 41 00:02:27,899 --> 00:02:32,699 Is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you 42 00:02:32,699 --> 00:02:33,499 have of God? 43 00:02:34,139 --> 00:02:39,619 For you're bought with a price you're. 44 00:02:39,619 --> 00:02:42,548 Not your own, for you bought with a price. 45 00:02:43,428 --> 00:02:46,588 Therefore glorify God in your body and. 46 00:02:46,588 --> 00:02:49,668 In your spirit, which are God's. 47 00:02:51,028 --> 00:02:51,988 Paul starts this. 48 00:02:51,988 --> 00:02:56,868 This is one of his methods of getting the readers to tune into 49 00:02:56,948 --> 00:02:57,348 him. 50 00:02:57,988 --> 00:03:02,068 He says, what know you not? 51 00:03:03,268 --> 00:03:07,588 And the reply to that is, yes, we do know. 52 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:09,359 We've been there. 53 00:03:09,519 --> 00:03:10,759 We're there when it happens. 54 00:03:10,759 --> 00:03:15,119 And Paul is simply saying to them, I know back in Acts 18 when 55 00:03:15,519 --> 00:03:18,199 God saved some of you folks, and. 56 00:03:18,199 --> 00:03:19,039 It was out of a. 57 00:03:19,679 --> 00:03:21,599 It was out of a stained past. 58 00:03:22,479 --> 00:03:27,279 He says in this very sixth chapter that these fornicators and 59 00:03:27,279 --> 00:03:32,399 idolaters and adulterers and effeminate and abusers, such were 60 00:03:32,399 --> 00:03:33,119 some of you. 61 00:03:34,329 --> 00:03:36,009 Isn't God good to save sinners? 62 00:03:36,969 --> 00:03:38,969 We ought to recognize this fact that. 63 00:03:39,449 --> 00:03:43,649 Sinners only know one thing to do and that's to sin until God changes 64 00:03:43,649 --> 00:03:45,929 them and makes them new in Christ. 65 00:03:46,649 --> 00:03:51,209 You see, over time, while they had been saved, they hadn't always 66 00:03:51,209 --> 00:03:52,489 stayed right with God. 67 00:03:53,849 --> 00:03:54,929 Matter of fact, if you go back. 68 00:03:54,929 --> 00:03:58,889 To the first chapter, you see that they were a bunch of men, followers. 69 00:03:58,889 --> 00:04:00,969 They had celebrities that they were following. 70 00:04:01,049 --> 00:04:04,869 Peter and Apollos and Christ and Paul. 71 00:04:05,349 --> 00:04:08,229 And he says, you're just a bunch of babies. 72 00:04:08,549 --> 00:04:11,189 You never have got out of your spiritual diapers. 73 00:04:11,189 --> 00:04:12,549 You're a babe in Christ. 74 00:04:13,589 --> 00:04:17,109 And beyond that, he said, listen, it's not right. 75 00:04:17,349 --> 00:04:19,989 You've been taking your brothers and sisters to court. 76 00:04:20,469 --> 00:04:23,669 You've been suing your own brothers and sisters in Christ. 77 00:04:24,309 --> 00:04:29,369 And then he lays this sixth chapter on us and says to him, listen, 78 00:04:29,369 --> 00:04:31,129 you've got a fornication problem. 79 00:04:31,689 --> 00:04:33,689 And we've got a fornication problem today. 80 00:04:33,689 --> 00:04:35,049 And a lot of us in the church. 81 00:04:35,609 --> 00:04:36,489 Come on now. 82 00:04:36,969 --> 00:04:38,169 It happens in church. 83 00:04:38,169 --> 00:04:39,929 And it's not just a bunch of young people. 84 00:04:40,009 --> 00:04:42,649 Sometimes it's retired people as well. 85 00:04:43,448 --> 00:04:47,609 And so Paul just takes off into that and gives us these two 86 00:04:47,609 --> 00:04:48,249 verses. 87 00:04:48,489 --> 00:04:52,009 And he says, know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy 88 00:04:52,009 --> 00:04:55,059 Ghost, which he have of God, and you're not your own? 89 00:04:56,419 --> 00:04:57,539 Borrowed the price. 90 00:04:57,539 --> 00:04:59,259 Therefore glorify God in your body and. 91 00:04:59,259 --> 00:05:00,579 Your spirit, which are God's. 92 00:05:01,059 --> 00:05:02,539 Let's start out by looking kind of. 93 00:05:02,539 --> 00:05:06,579 In the middle of this, the last verse, 19, the first of 20. 94 00:05:09,138 --> 00:05:10,499 You're bought with a price. 95 00:05:12,499 --> 00:05:14,339 But he says before that, what? 96 00:05:15,699 --> 00:05:16,819 You're not your own. 97 00:05:18,259 --> 00:05:19,459 You're bought with a price. 98 00:05:21,579 --> 00:05:23,259 You know, I think that's one of our problems. 99 00:05:23,259 --> 00:05:25,499 We think that we run our own life. 100 00:05:26,939 --> 00:05:28,979 We can say, thank you, Lord, for saving us. 101 00:05:28,979 --> 00:05:32,139 And then we can kind of get back to a life to where we think 102 00:05:32,139 --> 00:05:33,819 we're managing our own life. 103 00:05:34,459 --> 00:05:36,699 He said, listen, you've been bought with a price. 104 00:05:37,579 --> 00:05:40,219 That's talking about the cross, that's talking about Christ 105 00:05:40,219 --> 00:05:43,339 dying in our behalf, shedding his blood for us. 106 00:05:45,269 --> 00:05:45,909 And he says. 107 00:05:49,829 --> 00:05:51,189 You'Ve been bought with a price. 108 00:05:52,469 --> 00:05:53,589 You're not your own. 109 00:05:54,709 --> 00:05:55,909 What's that telling us? 110 00:05:57,429 --> 00:05:59,269 It's telling us we have a new owner. 111 00:06:00,549 --> 00:06:02,149 We've got a new owner in life. 112 00:06:02,229 --> 00:06:05,989 We're owned, we've been paid for, and we need to Live our lives 113 00:06:05,989 --> 00:06:09,829 in such a way that we deliver to Christ the fact that we understand 114 00:06:09,909 --> 00:06:13,979 that we've got a new owner and Jesus Christ means everything to 115 00:06:13,979 --> 00:06:14,259 us. 116 00:06:16,019 --> 00:06:20,339 We've not only been saved by him, we've been surrendered to him 117 00:06:20,899 --> 00:06:23,139 and we're serving the Lord for him. 118 00:06:24,419 --> 00:06:26,859 We've got a new owner. 119 00:06:26,859 --> 00:06:28,019 Are you happy about that? 120 00:06:29,699 --> 00:06:33,979 Tell you, it was way on into my Christian life that I finally 121 00:06:33,979 --> 00:06:34,379 understood. 122 00:06:34,379 --> 00:06:36,019 What the lordship of Christ was. 123 00:06:37,789 --> 00:06:40,749 And it's living under the control of Christ. 124 00:06:41,469 --> 00:06:46,629 It's devoting our best, our all, our everything to him because 125 00:06:46,629 --> 00:06:48,429 he's our new owner in life. 126 00:06:48,909 --> 00:06:54,309 And I think it's time because it's been a long time since we've 127 00:06:54,309 --> 00:06:56,669 just stood in awe of our Savior. 128 00:06:57,389 --> 00:06:58,429 He bought us. 129 00:06:59,389 --> 00:07:01,069 He gave his life for us. 130 00:07:01,949 --> 00:07:03,309 He's claimed us. 131 00:07:04,939 --> 00:07:06,619 We have a new owner. 132 00:07:08,779 --> 00:07:10,139 Jesus paid it all. 133 00:07:11,499 --> 00:07:14,139 All to him I owe. 134 00:07:15,179 --> 00:07:16,379 We have a new owner. 135 00:07:18,059 --> 00:07:21,939 Paul starts this by saying, what know ye not that your body is 136 00:07:21,939 --> 00:07:25,179 the temple of the Holy Ghost which ye have of God? 137 00:07:26,939 --> 00:07:27,699 What's that about? 138 00:07:27,699 --> 00:07:32,249 That's about the presence of God's spirit, the Holy Ghost of God 139 00:07:32,889 --> 00:07:34,409 who is in our lives. 140 00:07:36,169 --> 00:07:37,769 You keep taking notes. 141 00:07:37,849 --> 00:07:39,209 We got a new owner. 142 00:07:39,849 --> 00:07:41,369 We got a new occupant. 143 00:07:43,289 --> 00:07:46,529 When I was a boy, boy Christian back there at my 10 year 144 00:07:46,529 --> 00:07:50,609 old age, I never figured out, I thought something was going on, 145 00:07:50,609 --> 00:07:54,169 kind of weird in my life because those words that I'd picked 146 00:07:54,169 --> 00:07:57,249 up off the street now became an offense to God. 147 00:07:57,249 --> 00:07:59,929 And I began to process that, you know, that's not right to talk 148 00:07:59,929 --> 00:08:00,409 like that. 149 00:08:01,519 --> 00:08:04,159 And I began to think, well, that's not right to think like that. 150 00:08:05,039 --> 00:08:07,519 And I began to think that's not right to do that. 151 00:08:08,559 --> 00:08:10,399 Listen, that was inside information. 152 00:08:10,799 --> 00:08:14,639 I had a new occupant in my life, Holy Ghost of God. 153 00:08:17,039 --> 00:08:19,239 Why do we think the way we think as Christians? 154 00:08:19,239 --> 00:08:20,719 Because God's alive in you. 155 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:26,399 Why do we finally draw back from certain people that are a negative 156 00:08:26,399 --> 00:08:27,519 influence on our life? 157 00:08:27,599 --> 00:08:31,819 It's because the occupant in our life is now finally revealing 158 00:08:31,819 --> 00:08:35,139 to us the fact that he's alive in us. 159 00:08:35,939 --> 00:08:39,899 And while we talk about the residency of the Spirit of God, the 160 00:08:39,899 --> 00:08:43,539 real need for most Christians is that he is reigning in our life, 161 00:08:45,619 --> 00:08:49,739 not just present, but powerfully demonstrating his presence 162 00:08:49,739 --> 00:08:50,499 in our life. 163 00:08:51,059 --> 00:08:52,619 Have a book on the table back there. 164 00:08:52,619 --> 00:08:53,699 God's always there. 165 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:55,439 God's always there. 166 00:08:55,839 --> 00:08:58,519 He's in your life whether you want him or not. 167 00:08:58,519 --> 00:09:01,319 If you're not saved, he's still in your life because he's on 168 00:09:01,319 --> 00:09:01,759 the outside. 169 00:09:02,639 --> 00:09:04,919 Dealing with your life, about getting on the inside. 170 00:09:04,919 --> 00:09:08,639 And once he gets on the inside of our life, he begins to take over 171 00:09:08,719 --> 00:09:09,359 our life. 172 00:09:12,479 --> 00:09:15,679 We have a new owner, Jesus. 173 00:09:17,039 --> 00:09:21,039 We have a new occupant, the Holy Spirit of God. 174 00:09:21,039 --> 00:09:25,399 You know, Jesus, death secures two gifts for us. 175 00:09:25,959 --> 00:09:29,319 Peter mentions that on the day of Pentecost sermon when he said, 176 00:09:29,319 --> 00:09:32,959 repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of the Lord 177 00:09:32,959 --> 00:09:35,239 Jesus Christ, for the remission of sin. 178 00:09:35,239 --> 00:09:37,559 And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 179 00:09:38,119 --> 00:09:41,399 When you got saved, you received the gift of eternal life 180 00:09:42,119 --> 00:09:45,079 and you also received the gift of the Holy Spirit. 181 00:09:47,849 --> 00:09:48,729 Wake up to that. 182 00:09:49,529 --> 00:09:50,169 See that? 183 00:09:50,729 --> 00:09:52,969 We need to stand in awe of our Savior. 184 00:09:53,209 --> 00:09:56,489 And then we need to wake up to the presence of God. 185 00:09:56,729 --> 00:09:58,969 He's either happy about it or he's not. 186 00:09:59,689 --> 00:10:03,489 He's either grieved or quenched or is controlling, filling 187 00:10:03,489 --> 00:10:04,969 your life right now. 188 00:10:06,009 --> 00:10:07,449 We have a new occupant. 189 00:10:11,139 --> 00:10:12,779 You know, what if somebody came to. 190 00:10:12,779 --> 00:10:15,059 Move and live in your house with you? 191 00:10:18,899 --> 00:10:21,099 We've never had any outside person live. 192 00:10:21,099 --> 00:10:23,299 With us that was not biologically ours. 193 00:10:23,779 --> 00:10:25,299 I'm not saying it's wrong or right. 194 00:10:25,299 --> 00:10:27,899 To do it or not, but think. 195 00:10:27,899 --> 00:10:32,419 About somebody who came to live in your life, who lived in your 196 00:10:32,419 --> 00:10:35,939 house, ate your food, watched the programs on your television, 197 00:10:37,309 --> 00:10:40,189 listen to all your phone calls and all your commentary. 198 00:10:41,549 --> 00:10:43,149 I got you on that one, didn't I? 199 00:10:45,549 --> 00:10:47,629 You've got that occupant right now. 200 00:10:48,749 --> 00:10:50,269 He's called the Holy Spirit. 201 00:10:53,469 --> 00:10:54,909 He got up with you in the morning. 202 00:10:57,229 --> 00:10:59,549 He sat at your breakfast table. 203 00:11:00,669 --> 00:11:04,909 He sat in the passenger seat of your car as you drove to work. 204 00:11:05,749 --> 00:11:08,669 He was there at the water fountain while you were talking to 205 00:11:08,669 --> 00:11:10,469 your co laborers. 206 00:11:10,949 --> 00:11:12,629 He was there when you was driving home. 207 00:11:12,789 --> 00:11:15,349 Have you ever seen so many idiots out on the road? 208 00:11:18,309 --> 00:11:20,069 I talk a lot to pastors. 209 00:11:20,709 --> 00:11:22,709 It's better than going to therapy. 210 00:11:24,149 --> 00:11:28,469 And I can't imagine people in this world driving like they do. 211 00:11:28,949 --> 00:11:31,909 And I know we get criticized. 212 00:11:31,909 --> 00:11:33,749 Old people get criticized for driving. 213 00:11:34,409 --> 00:11:35,969 I've started just putting my blinker on. 214 00:11:35,969 --> 00:11:37,049 And just leaving it on. 215 00:11:39,369 --> 00:11:40,969 They don't know if I'm turning or not. 216 00:11:41,449 --> 00:11:42,409 And I love it. 217 00:11:42,409 --> 00:11:45,049 Matter of fact, you better not be. 218 00:11:45,529 --> 00:11:47,849 Better not be threatening old people with. 219 00:11:48,489 --> 00:11:53,249 Something because life, a death sentence, doesn't mean anything. 220 00:11:53,249 --> 00:11:53,609 Does. 221 00:11:55,929 --> 00:11:56,849 Not if you're a Christian. 222 00:11:56,849 --> 00:11:57,449 It doesn't. 223 00:12:02,019 --> 00:12:06,499 I need to encourage you to wake up to this marvelous reality. 224 00:12:08,179 --> 00:12:09,459 You've got a new owner. 225 00:12:10,819 --> 00:12:12,099 You've got a new occupant. 226 00:12:13,939 --> 00:12:17,379 Christ dwells within you through the spirit of God. 227 00:12:18,259 --> 00:12:20,259 Paul Said Christ lives in me and. 228 00:12:20,579 --> 00:12:23,139 Christ in you is now the hope of glory. 229 00:12:23,139 --> 00:12:25,299 I'm the temple of God and every. 230 00:12:25,299 --> 00:12:26,139 Day is a holy day. 231 00:12:26,139 --> 00:12:28,279 And every place is a holy place. 232 00:12:29,239 --> 00:12:30,679 I need to wake up to that. 233 00:12:30,839 --> 00:12:33,079 Wake up to it in the morning. 234 00:12:34,279 --> 00:12:35,959 Say, welcome, Holy Spirit. 235 00:12:36,759 --> 00:12:37,799 You're in my life. 236 00:12:37,959 --> 00:12:38,759 Take my life. 237 00:12:38,759 --> 00:12:44,039 Today you have a new owner died for you. 238 00:12:45,719 --> 00:12:47,079 You have a new occupant. 239 00:12:47,959 --> 00:12:50,919 He came to live into you, live into your life. 240 00:12:52,279 --> 00:12:59,439 And then third, what know ye not that your body is the temple 241 00:12:59,439 --> 00:13:02,279 of the Holy Ghost which you have of God and you're not your own? 242 00:13:02,919 --> 00:13:04,119 You're bought with a price. 243 00:13:05,479 --> 00:13:08,119 Therefore, what is it there for? 244 00:13:08,759 --> 00:13:14,759 Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are 245 00:13:14,759 --> 00:13:15,319 God's. 246 00:13:17,479 --> 00:13:18,919 You've got a new occupation. 247 00:13:21,099 --> 00:13:23,339 You know what you'll be happy you've done when you stand before 248 00:13:23,339 --> 00:13:23,739 him? 249 00:13:24,299 --> 00:13:27,419 That you've lived your life to the glory of God. 250 00:13:29,099 --> 00:13:34,259 That you lived your life day by day, decision by decision, relationship 251 00:13:34,259 --> 00:13:35,259 by relationship. 252 00:13:36,619 --> 00:13:37,819 For the glory of God. 253 00:13:38,459 --> 00:13:39,659 It's really simple. 254 00:13:40,539 --> 00:13:43,099 You're out of God's will when you don't live for his glory. 255 00:13:43,899 --> 00:13:46,619 You're in God's will when you live for his glory. 256 00:13:48,339 --> 00:13:55,259 Glorify God in your body, what you put in your body and what you 257 00:13:55,259 --> 00:13:56,179 put on your body. 258 00:13:57,539 --> 00:14:00,259 Now if you don't, if you don't figure out how you ought to dress, 259 00:14:00,739 --> 00:14:02,499 be sure and don't go to Walmart. 260 00:14:04,499 --> 00:14:07,459 I don't go there often, I told you this morning, I just don't have. 261 00:14:07,459 --> 00:14:10,339 The makeup to tolerate that. 262 00:14:11,299 --> 00:14:15,939 But the few times I've been there, been utterly shocked at how 263 00:14:15,939 --> 00:14:16,339 some people. 264 00:14:16,339 --> 00:14:17,619 Dress to go to Walmart. 265 00:14:20,339 --> 00:14:23,179 And I don't mean that in any kind of judgmental way, I just mean. 266 00:14:23,179 --> 00:14:25,059 That by a hilarious way. 267 00:14:26,179 --> 00:14:31,179 It is absolutely crazy, you know, that the world can't see who 268 00:14:31,179 --> 00:14:31,539 we are. 269 00:14:31,539 --> 00:14:33,619 Unless they see us as we are. 270 00:14:34,899 --> 00:14:36,979 And they see our body. 271 00:14:38,259 --> 00:14:40,339 And so we ought to think about how we dress. 272 00:14:40,579 --> 00:14:43,749 I'm not a legalistic, but I do think that you need to have some 273 00:14:43,749 --> 00:14:46,269 kind of standards of morality and modesty. 274 00:14:48,749 --> 00:14:51,389 But also what I put in my body. 275 00:14:52,589 --> 00:14:56,269 You know, some people take the outward alright, they do the outward 276 00:14:56,269 --> 00:14:56,789 stuff right. 277 00:14:56,789 --> 00:14:59,869 They dress right, but they don't dye it right. 278 00:15:01,709 --> 00:15:03,749 And I'm fixing this skinny old preacher. 279 00:15:03,749 --> 00:15:05,229 Is fixing to get in trouble right here. 280 00:15:08,759 --> 00:15:10,799 I get up every day, I have. 281 00:15:10,799 --> 00:15:18,439 A breakfast diet of four powdered donuts and a Dr. Pepper. 282 00:15:21,159 --> 00:15:22,159 Yeah, excited. 283 00:15:22,159 --> 00:15:24,758 I mean, I'm a Texan, I'm a Dr. Pepper guy. 284 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:28,639 Now I know that's not healthy, but. 285 00:15:28,639 --> 00:15:33,399 I'm happy and that makes a lot of difference to me. 286 00:15:34,049 --> 00:15:35,409 And so far it hadn't spread out. 287 00:15:35,409 --> 00:15:40,849 Very far and I've always been somewhat small. 288 00:15:41,249 --> 00:15:46,329 I again, am surprised that you did not bring up today that you were 289 00:15:46,329 --> 00:15:50,088 an all conference guard in basketball in high school and you 290 00:15:50,088 --> 00:15:54,129 were on the state regional championship baseball team as a leadoff 291 00:15:54,129 --> 00:15:58,049 batter and a right fielder and batted.290, hit two home runs. 292 00:15:58,049 --> 00:15:59,649 I'm just really surprised about that. 293 00:16:03,139 --> 00:16:05,539 That's, that's, that's news for the day. 294 00:16:08,659 --> 00:16:11,139 But, you know, a lot of that stuff was just about me. 295 00:16:13,939 --> 00:16:17,539 I led a couple of people to the Lord during my high school years. 296 00:16:18,259 --> 00:16:20,499 One guy served for our country. 297 00:16:20,499 --> 00:16:26,509 He was in the room with President Bush when the towers were 298 00:16:27,149 --> 00:16:27,549 hit. 299 00:16:27,869 --> 00:16:31,709 He was part of that Nebraska group, led him to Christ. 300 00:16:33,709 --> 00:16:34,789 He didn't have a car. 301 00:16:34,789 --> 00:16:35,549 I had a car. 302 00:16:36,269 --> 00:16:37,669 He made straight A's. 303 00:16:37,669 --> 00:16:39,069 I barely got by. 304 00:16:39,789 --> 00:16:41,708 There was a connection there. 305 00:16:42,509 --> 00:16:46,349 But I asked him, I said, rob, would you like to go to church sometime 306 00:16:46,349 --> 00:16:46,629 with me? 307 00:16:46,629 --> 00:16:47,229 Yeah, I would. 308 00:16:47,789 --> 00:16:49,309 He got saved in our church. 309 00:16:50,919 --> 00:16:55,079 John Calhoun was a young man that had polio when he was a boy, 310 00:16:55,079 --> 00:16:56,479 and everybody made fun of him. 311 00:16:56,479 --> 00:17:00,679 But I made him a friend and found his Bible in my library one 312 00:17:00,679 --> 00:17:02,919 day and gave it back to him. 313 00:17:02,919 --> 00:17:03,639 Sent it to him. 314 00:17:04,279 --> 00:17:07,479 I wish I could go on and on about people that I influenced for 315 00:17:07,479 --> 00:17:15,199 Christ, but I'm ashamed that I didn't have a better influence on 316 00:17:15,199 --> 00:17:15,479 people. 317 00:17:16,689 --> 00:17:17,729 We've got a young man now. 318 00:17:17,729 --> 00:17:21,809 That young man, when he was young, he played ball with me. 319 00:17:22,609 --> 00:17:26,729 And for the first time in his life, as far as I know, he came to 320 00:17:26,729 --> 00:17:30,449 church three weeks ago because somebody invited him. 321 00:17:30,449 --> 00:17:31,169 I didn't invite him. 322 00:17:31,169 --> 00:17:32,768 I've been in his home, witness to him. 323 00:17:34,289 --> 00:17:38,049 What I'm saying, folks, you've got a new occupation. 324 00:17:38,609 --> 00:17:41,329 Live your life to the glory of God. 325 00:17:43,018 --> 00:17:46,618 Glorify God in your body and in your spirit. 326 00:17:47,658 --> 00:17:49,178 Spirit's about attitude. 327 00:17:50,058 --> 00:17:52,538 And you know, some Christians, they say they are. 328 00:17:52,538 --> 00:17:54,538 And I'm going to say they are if they say they are. 329 00:17:55,738 --> 00:17:56,578 If you had. 330 00:17:56,578 --> 00:18:00,298 If their attitude had an odor, you couldn't stay in the same room. 331 00:18:01,898 --> 00:18:03,178 Got a bad attitude. 332 00:18:04,218 --> 00:18:08,469 Listen, you can be doctrinally straight as you can be and have a 333 00:18:08,469 --> 00:18:08,829 sorry. 334 00:18:08,829 --> 00:18:11,629 Attitude, and you're not going to glorify God. 335 00:18:11,949 --> 00:18:14,629 I'm a Baptist all the way through, just like the pastor said 336 00:18:14,629 --> 00:18:15,149 this morning. 337 00:18:15,949 --> 00:18:20,749 I'm a Baptist head to toe and intend to be as long as I'm alive. 338 00:18:20,749 --> 00:18:24,068 And then when I'm dead, I hope that they'll have some good Baptist 339 00:18:24,068 --> 00:18:25,309 preaching in the day. 340 00:18:25,309 --> 00:18:31,469 I know that I'm old enough now that fried chicken and potato salad's 341 00:18:31,469 --> 00:18:32,269 on speed dial. 342 00:18:33,959 --> 00:18:36,439 I mean, I just know that that could happen at any moment. 343 00:18:37,159 --> 00:18:40,919 But I'm so glad to know that I've got an occupation that's going 344 00:18:40,919 --> 00:18:42,119 to take me right to the end. 345 00:18:42,919 --> 00:18:44,359 I may not be able to preach. 346 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:46,199 All my life, but I'll sure want to. 347 00:18:46,679 --> 00:18:47,759 But I'm going to tell you this. 348 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:50,279 I'm going to live my life to the glory of God if He'll let me. 349 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:53,559 In my body and in my spirit. 350 00:18:54,439 --> 00:18:58,039 And wherever I go, my sense of humor just gets me in trouble. 351 00:18:58,199 --> 00:19:00,999 I get people that just leave mad because I'm happy. 352 00:19:01,519 --> 00:19:03,839 Listen, if that's the biggest problem you. 353 00:19:03,839 --> 00:19:05,999 Got, you're the problem, not me. 354 00:19:08,399 --> 00:19:09,599 Just leave happy. 355 00:19:09,999 --> 00:19:11,479 And when you leave today, be sure. 356 00:19:11,479 --> 00:19:13,679 And smile on your way out, even if you are mad. 357 00:19:16,239 --> 00:19:19,519 Occupation is that we're to glorify God. 358 00:19:23,439 --> 00:19:27,559 Let your light so shine before men they may see your good works 359 00:19:27,559 --> 00:19:27,839 and. 360 00:19:28,409 --> 00:19:30,489 Glorify your God which is in heaven. 361 00:19:31,369 --> 00:19:35,369 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all to the glory of God. 362 00:19:35,449 --> 00:19:38,729 Whatever you eat, whatever you drink, do. 363 00:19:38,729 --> 00:19:39,849 All to the glory of God. 364 00:19:40,649 --> 00:19:46,969 You have a new owner and a new occupant and a new occupation. 365 00:19:48,169 --> 00:19:50,889 Now go to work and live for God. 366 00:19:51,449 --> 00:19:52,729 Be available to God. 367 00:19:53,859 --> 00:19:55,619 Be in awe of the spirit of God. 368 00:19:57,139 --> 00:19:59,139 Be aware of the presence of God. 369 00:20:00,019 --> 00:20:04,219 Be available to the God who brings us life and we get to bring 370 00:20:04,219 --> 00:20:04,859 him glory. 371 00:20:04,859 --> 00:20:05,419 Let's pray. 372 00:20:05,419 --> 00:20:06,739 Father, thank you for the day. 373 00:20:07,379 --> 00:20:09,859 Bless your word to our hearts in Christ's name. 374 00:20:09,939 --> 00:20:10,499 Amen.