1 00:00:29,859 --> 00:00:32,019 And now I got two lights shining right there. 2 00:00:38,499 --> 00:00:39,179 Hallelujah. 3 00:00:39,179 --> 00:00:40,379 Your friends and guests had come. 4 00:00:40,379 --> 00:00:41,579 Thank you for being with us. 5 00:00:41,579 --> 00:00:44,099 We're looking forward to what I'm going to do tonight. 6 00:00:44,419 --> 00:00:45,299 I don't know. 7 00:00:45,379 --> 00:00:50,659 During these series, I'm like, Sunday night I did some stuff on 8 00:00:50,659 --> 00:00:53,699 the testimony, but so there's four times I spoke to you. 9 00:00:54,259 --> 00:00:58,269 Generally, I would speak week five or so, but I don't know which 10 00:00:58,269 --> 00:00:59,309 one's my favorite. 11 00:01:00,189 --> 00:01:03,669 I don't know which one has the most weight for. 12 00:01:03,669 --> 00:01:08,189 My personal testimony tonight is the one that has the most weight 13 00:01:08,509 --> 00:01:12,189 for me and some lights that God turned on for me. 14 00:01:12,189 --> 00:01:14,669 And so I'm looking forward to trying to get that across. 15 00:01:14,749 --> 00:01:17,629 But I am very, very thankful for your prayers for Nancy. 16 00:01:17,629 --> 00:01:19,309 I'm glad that she's here tonight. 17 00:01:19,789 --> 00:01:21,629 She is truly the best part. 18 00:01:22,489 --> 00:01:26,249 When I travel the country, I tell churches and folks, I said, 19 00:01:26,249 --> 00:01:32,649 now, if Nancy goes with me to go to a church for the first time, 20 00:01:33,449 --> 00:01:35,449 they've always invited me back. 21 00:01:38,489 --> 00:01:40,009 So, you know, the other half of that. 22 00:01:40,009 --> 00:01:45,449 But anyway, when she goes, I go, there's something special about 23 00:01:45,449 --> 00:01:47,169 that man because that woman's with him. 24 00:01:47,169 --> 00:01:48,809 So, you know, anyway, it's awesome. 25 00:01:49,209 --> 00:01:50,969 So I'm looking forward to what we're going to do. 26 00:01:51,049 --> 00:01:52,769 If you got a ribbon, a marker. 27 00:01:52,769 --> 00:01:53,529 Galatians. 28 00:01:53,849 --> 00:01:55,369 Galatians, chapter five. 29 00:01:56,089 --> 00:01:57,289 And then we're going to. 30 00:01:57,529 --> 00:02:00,489 I told you, we're going to go to John, but we're not going to go 31 00:02:00,489 --> 00:02:01,449 to John right now. 32 00:02:01,529 --> 00:02:04,009 My sermon does not start till we get to John. 33 00:02:04,169 --> 00:02:07,609 Okay, so I'll explain it. 34 00:02:07,609 --> 00:02:10,649 Turn to the book of romance, chapter eight. 35 00:02:12,489 --> 00:02:13,769 Now, Brother Ware's. 36 00:02:15,399 --> 00:02:16,719 I was going to call you Brother Wiersbe. 37 00:02:16,719 --> 00:02:18,119 Brother Weatherby, he. 38 00:02:19,159 --> 00:02:22,319 He's not been with me before, and some of you been with me before. 39 00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:25,639 So he has no idea why I say the book of romance. 40 00:02:26,599 --> 00:02:30,679 And so Brother Weatherby. 41 00:02:30,679 --> 00:02:31,079 Mike. 42 00:02:31,079 --> 00:02:33,159 People ask me occasionally, why do you do that? 43 00:02:33,159 --> 00:02:36,759 And I just look at them and I go, how come you don't. 44 00:02:38,519 --> 00:02:39,479 Well, there you go. 45 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:42,368 So anyway, Romans, chapter eight. 46 00:02:42,368 --> 00:02:43,208 Here's the deal. 47 00:02:44,488 --> 00:02:45,208 Toward the. 48 00:02:48,008 --> 00:02:48,568 I thought. 49 00:02:48,648 --> 00:02:51,528 Okay, sorry, it was already on. 50 00:02:51,528 --> 00:02:52,248 I turned it off. 51 00:02:52,248 --> 00:03:01,648 Standing down there, You could turn it. 52 00:03:01,648 --> 00:03:02,048 Okay, there. 53 00:03:02,048 --> 00:03:03,048 Thank you for turning it back on. 54 00:03:03,048 --> 00:03:03,528 Okay. 55 00:03:03,848 --> 00:03:04,408 Anyway. 56 00:03:08,019 --> 00:03:11,739 Oh, at the conclusion, toward the end of the message tonight, I'm 57 00:03:11,739 --> 00:03:12,259 going to. 58 00:03:13,139 --> 00:03:18,219 I'm going to quote Romans 8, this verse here, but I'm not going 59 00:03:18,219 --> 00:03:19,219 to explain it. 60 00:03:19,699 --> 00:03:21,979 I'm just going to quote it because I'm going to. 61 00:03:21,979 --> 00:03:25,899 I'm reading it from someone else's testimony that they talk about 62 00:03:25,899 --> 00:03:26,579 this Verse. 63 00:03:26,579 --> 00:03:29,939 And they give their testimony that I'm going to quote someone else's 64 00:03:29,939 --> 00:03:30,499 testimony. 65 00:03:30,739 --> 00:03:32,019 I'm not going to explain it. 66 00:03:32,019 --> 00:03:34,139 So I thought it'd be valuable if I do it now. 67 00:03:34,139 --> 00:03:35,539 So the sermon's not starting. 68 00:03:35,539 --> 00:03:37,649 Okay, we're just going to explain. 69 00:03:37,649 --> 00:03:38,729 Look at Romans 8. 70 00:03:38,809 --> 00:03:40,169 One is hallelujah. 71 00:03:40,329 --> 00:03:44,809 There's therefore now no condemnation to them, which are what's 72 00:03:44,809 --> 00:03:45,609 those three words? 73 00:03:46,249 --> 00:03:49,769 In Christ Jesus, who walked not of the flesh, but after the spirit. 74 00:03:49,769 --> 00:03:51,689 But here's the verse that's going to be quoted. 75 00:03:52,729 --> 00:04:01,809 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me 76 00:04:01,809 --> 00:04:07,189 free from the law of sin and death. 77 00:04:09,189 --> 00:04:10,869 I've had the joy. 78 00:04:10,869 --> 00:04:14,109 I try to memorize passages and so on. 79 00:04:14,109 --> 00:04:17,909 And years ago, I tried to memorize Romans 6, 7, and 8, and 80 00:04:18,629 --> 00:04:19,869 it took me a long time. 81 00:04:19,869 --> 00:04:23,109 And then I was in my mid-20s, late 20s, I guess. 82 00:04:23,429 --> 00:04:27,109 I went back to it in my early 40s and tried to go over it again. 83 00:04:27,109 --> 00:04:30,509 And now I'm not 40 anymore, and I probably can't quote three 84 00:04:30,509 --> 00:04:31,349 or four verses. 85 00:04:31,789 --> 00:04:34,749 But the only reason I'm telling you that is when I memorize 86 00:04:34,749 --> 00:04:36,829 something, I have to say it a hundred times or more. 87 00:04:36,829 --> 00:04:38,909 I have to just say it over and over and over. 88 00:04:39,149 --> 00:04:42,029 Sometimes when you're memorizing Scripture, saying it that 89 00:04:42,029 --> 00:04:44,429 many times, ooh, a light comes on. 90 00:04:44,909 --> 00:04:47,869 While you're memorizing saying it, you go, yes. 91 00:04:47,869 --> 00:04:49,149 That is so awesome. 92 00:04:49,869 --> 00:04:54,109 And so I want to tell you, the light did not come on for me for 93 00:04:54,109 --> 00:04:56,189 what that man's testimony is. 94 00:04:56,749 --> 00:05:00,469 So I'm going to tell you how I always viewed it, and then we'll 95 00:05:00,469 --> 00:05:02,109 talk about the light for a moment. 96 00:05:02,269 --> 00:05:04,189 Anyway, first of all, let's do this. 97 00:05:05,469 --> 00:05:08,509 Let's talk about the law of sin and death. 98 00:05:09,229 --> 00:05:10,109 Here's the deal. 99 00:05:10,269 --> 00:05:17,669 When it's a law and God's word, it means it happens the same 100 00:05:17,669 --> 00:05:18,669 way every time. 101 00:05:19,869 --> 00:05:25,189 Like a law in science, it's a law that happens the same way all 102 00:05:25,189 --> 00:05:25,629 the time. 103 00:05:25,709 --> 00:05:26,469 Law of gravity. 104 00:05:26,469 --> 00:05:27,229 Is everybody with me? 105 00:05:27,719 --> 00:05:29,159 This says the law of sin and death. 106 00:05:29,159 --> 00:05:32,319 It's actually referring to the first five books of the Bible, the 107 00:05:32,319 --> 00:05:33,479 Torah, the. 108 00:05:33,639 --> 00:05:37,599 If you want to boil it down, the Ten Commandments, that the reason 109 00:05:37,599 --> 00:05:40,999 you and I know what sin is is because of God's law. 110 00:05:42,519 --> 00:05:44,519 So it's not like the scientific thing. 111 00:05:44,599 --> 00:05:46,999 But God's law never changes. 112 00:05:47,959 --> 00:05:48,839 It's the same. 113 00:05:49,159 --> 00:05:51,639 Our legal system is supposed to be the same. 114 00:05:51,639 --> 00:05:54,999 She wears a blindfold so she doesn't care who's in front of her. 115 00:05:55,799 --> 00:05:57,239 That's how it's Supposed to be. 116 00:05:58,919 --> 00:06:01,639 Well, God's law, it never changes. 117 00:06:01,639 --> 00:06:02,359 It doesn't bend. 118 00:06:02,359 --> 00:06:03,959 It doesn't matter who's in front of it. 119 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:05,959 So it's called the law of sin and death. 120 00:06:06,039 --> 00:06:06,439 All right? 121 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:11,599 So since we're talking about it, God's law points its finger at 122 00:06:11,599 --> 00:06:15,079 every breathing human and says, guilty. 123 00:06:16,519 --> 00:06:17,079 Guilty. 124 00:06:17,959 --> 00:06:22,159 Nobody is exempt outside the Lord Jesus, other than the Lord Jesus, 125 00:06:22,159 --> 00:06:24,619 because he, his father was God. 126 00:06:24,619 --> 00:06:29,019 It wasn't Adam has to be a virgin birth. 127 00:06:29,259 --> 00:06:32,379 So every one of us, every human, guilty. 128 00:06:32,619 --> 00:06:33,139 Guilty. 129 00:06:33,139 --> 00:06:37,339 The law of sin tells us we are all sinners. 130 00:06:37,659 --> 00:06:40,139 Okay, I'll give you a chance to say something out loud in church. 131 00:06:40,139 --> 00:06:41,499 The wages of sin is. 132 00:06:42,619 --> 00:06:45,139 So that's what God told Adam. 133 00:06:45,139 --> 00:06:48,139 The day thou eatest thereof, you're going to die. 134 00:06:48,549 --> 00:06:49,709 You're going to die spiritually. 135 00:06:49,709 --> 00:06:51,189 No more relationship with me. 136 00:06:51,669 --> 00:06:52,229 All right? 137 00:06:52,389 --> 00:06:55,269 So that's the law of sin and death. 138 00:06:55,829 --> 00:07:00,229 And because of that, we are all humans are guilty. 139 00:07:00,229 --> 00:07:05,189 And we all are carriers of the Adamic nature. 140 00:07:08,309 --> 00:07:12,309 The first half of the verse says the law of the spirit of life 141 00:07:13,749 --> 00:07:14,819 in Christ Jesus. 142 00:07:16,089 --> 00:07:16,729 Here we go again. 143 00:07:16,729 --> 00:07:17,449 It's a law. 144 00:07:17,929 --> 00:07:19,849 It's the same way every time. 145 00:07:21,449 --> 00:07:23,369 So why is it called the Spirit of life? 146 00:07:24,409 --> 00:07:27,729 Some of you might remember back and some of you have no clue. 147 00:07:27,729 --> 00:07:31,769 I over said it, but in the messages I talked about out of 1 148 00:07:31,769 --> 00:07:39,929 Corinthians 15 that it says that the first Adam was made a living 149 00:07:40,089 --> 00:07:40,569 soul. 150 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:47,999 The last Adam was made a quickening spirit, and we found out 151 00:07:47,999 --> 00:07:49,799 that the last Adam is Jesus. 152 00:07:50,119 --> 00:07:54,919 And so the law of the spirit of life in Christ, it is a law that 153 00:07:54,919 --> 00:07:59,399 if there's going to be spiritual life, it comes from Jesus. 154 00:08:00,439 --> 00:08:03,719 There's no other way to get spiritual life other than through 155 00:08:03,719 --> 00:08:04,279 Jesus. 156 00:08:04,919 --> 00:08:07,559 And I know much of humanity has no idea. 157 00:08:07,559 --> 00:08:08,999 They need a spiritual life. 158 00:08:10,229 --> 00:08:11,669 Someone needs to tell them. 159 00:08:12,309 --> 00:08:15,789 But us that have finally got to the place and God got our attention 160 00:08:15,789 --> 00:08:17,229 and we realize we're sinners. 161 00:08:17,229 --> 00:08:18,149 We need a Savior. 162 00:08:18,149 --> 00:08:19,749 We ask Jesus to save us. 163 00:08:19,749 --> 00:08:21,269 We got spiritual life. 164 00:08:21,269 --> 00:08:22,029 Listen, listen. 165 00:08:22,029 --> 00:08:25,109 The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. 166 00:08:26,389 --> 00:08:29,989 It's a law that you can get spiritual life through Jesus. 167 00:08:30,469 --> 00:08:31,429 That's the only way. 168 00:08:31,429 --> 00:08:32,149 Watch this. 169 00:08:32,229 --> 00:08:33,429 Hath made me free. 170 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:37,679 I'm liberated. 171 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,919 Free from the law of sin and death. 172 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:47,999 Honey, I am no longer in bondage to sin and death. 173 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:50,079 I didn't write it. 174 00:08:50,079 --> 00:08:50,959 We're liberated. 175 00:08:51,519 --> 00:08:55,279 So when I memorized this several times, it came up to me. 176 00:08:55,279 --> 00:08:58,559 The only way I ever, ever looked at it was that, well, hallelujah. 177 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,279 When I got saved, I got delivered from the penalty of sin, 178 00:09:01,279 --> 00:09:02,559 the consequences of sin. 179 00:09:03,319 --> 00:09:04,279 And that is true. 180 00:09:05,479 --> 00:09:07,719 But it does have more weight to it than that. 181 00:09:09,079 --> 00:09:13,479 It's a law that the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, if I have his 182 00:09:13,479 --> 00:09:17,639 life, I am no longer enchained. 183 00:09:17,639 --> 00:09:19,239 I'm no longer in bondage. 184 00:09:19,239 --> 00:09:20,319 I have been liberated. 185 00:09:20,319 --> 00:09:22,999 I am delivered from the law of sin and death. 186 00:09:23,079 --> 00:09:25,319 It hath no more reign over me. 187 00:09:26,519 --> 00:09:29,559 Ladies and gentlemen, you and I are liberated. 188 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:31,639 We are no longer attached to that. 189 00:09:31,799 --> 00:09:33,089 We do not have to. 190 00:09:33,239 --> 00:09:40,359 To walk and live in sin, not because of me, it's because of Jesus. 191 00:09:40,759 --> 00:09:41,719 It's a law. 192 00:09:42,839 --> 00:09:44,119 Glory to God. 193 00:09:45,719 --> 00:09:47,359 Okay, I'm not preaching yet. 194 00:09:47,359 --> 00:09:51,119 The sermon's getting ready to start, so let's turn to John, chapter 195 00:09:51,119 --> 00:09:51,399 15. 196 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:54,279 John, chapter 15. 197 00:09:54,999 --> 00:09:56,279 It's a glory to God. 198 00:09:57,799 --> 00:10:01,209 So I don't get to preach that later on when we get there, but I 199 00:10:01,209 --> 00:10:02,689 just wanted to tell you about it now. 200 00:10:03,489 --> 00:10:06,289 John 15, if you're able, would you please stand with me? 201 00:10:08,289 --> 00:10:10,849 So if you're counting time, we're just now starting. 202 00:10:12,369 --> 00:10:15,409 Okay, John 15. 203 00:10:16,129 --> 00:10:17,649 Oh, I just want to do this. 204 00:10:19,329 --> 00:10:25,729 Tonight is, for me personally, is humongous, but tomorrow night 205 00:10:25,729 --> 00:10:26,609 is so special. 206 00:10:27,869 --> 00:10:28,909 I hope that you won't go. 207 00:10:28,909 --> 00:10:30,709 Well, tonight, was it? 208 00:10:30,709 --> 00:10:32,109 No, please come tomorrow. 209 00:10:32,589 --> 00:10:33,909 I appreciate your attendance. 210 00:10:33,909 --> 00:10:35,549 It's been precious to me. 211 00:10:35,789 --> 00:10:36,629 It's a blessing. 212 00:10:36,629 --> 00:10:41,869 But tomorrow is so helpful, I encourage you to come. 213 00:10:43,389 --> 00:10:44,269 So, John 15. 214 00:10:44,269 --> 00:10:50,029 Jesus says, I am the true vine, My Father is the husbandman. 215 00:10:50,909 --> 00:10:51,709 Verse 4. 216 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,239 Abide in me, and I in you. 217 00:10:56,359 --> 00:11:01,839 As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide 218 00:11:01,839 --> 00:11:02,599 in the vine. 219 00:11:03,959 --> 00:11:07,479 Well, no more can ye, except you abide in me. 220 00:11:08,839 --> 00:11:12,279 I'm divine, you're the branches. 221 00:11:12,919 --> 00:11:16,599 He that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much 222 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:17,239 fruit. 223 00:11:18,289 --> 00:11:21,649 For without me you can do nothing. 224 00:11:22,129 --> 00:11:24,729 Made a couple comments last night about, without me, you can 225 00:11:24,729 --> 00:11:25,249 do nothing. 226 00:11:25,889 --> 00:11:26,329 Tonight. 227 00:11:26,329 --> 00:11:28,129 I just want to throw this out for a bit. 228 00:11:28,689 --> 00:11:36,609 In verse four, when he says, abide in me, In my entire Christian 229 00:11:36,609 --> 00:11:42,009 life up to two and a half years ago, when he said, abide in 230 00:11:42,009 --> 00:11:51,859 me, in my brain, I'm a Christian and I can't help it, I 231 00:11:51,859 --> 00:11:54,539 was thinking, okay, I know my job. 232 00:11:56,379 --> 00:11:58,699 I need to abide in Jesus. 233 00:11:59,498 --> 00:12:05,019 I'm going to do whatever I can do so I can abide in him because 234 00:12:05,019 --> 00:12:06,779 he told me to abide in him. 235 00:12:07,259 --> 00:12:10,889 There are several verses in the New Testament, especially that 236 00:12:10,889 --> 00:12:15,609 when you hear them, it makes it sound like, okay, this is what 237 00:12:15,609 --> 00:12:16,129 you gotta do. 238 00:12:16,129 --> 00:12:17,129 This is what you gotta do. 239 00:12:17,449 --> 00:12:22,169 For instance, here's one out of Galatians Stand fast therefore, 240 00:12:23,209 --> 00:12:24,809 in the liberty wherewith he hath made. 241 00:12:25,289 --> 00:12:26,249 See what I gotta do? 242 00:12:27,049 --> 00:12:28,329 I gotta stand fast now. 243 00:12:28,329 --> 00:12:29,129 I gotta do it. 244 00:12:29,129 --> 00:12:30,249 Is everybody with me? 245 00:12:30,569 --> 00:12:36,529 And in my little brain, that's how I've always looked at these admonitions. 246 00:12:36,929 --> 00:12:39,529 Abide in me, be filled. 247 00:12:39,529 --> 00:12:42,049 Okay, I gotta do the best I can. 248 00:12:42,049 --> 00:12:43,009 I want to be filled. 249 00:12:43,809 --> 00:12:45,249 And I felt like that it was. 250 00:12:45,329 --> 00:12:48,209 I have the responsibility to do this. 251 00:12:49,569 --> 00:12:53,649 And I ignore the last few words of verse 5. 252 00:12:55,249 --> 00:12:58,449 Without me, you can do nothing. 253 00:13:00,449 --> 00:13:07,189 And most of of my Christian life has been Dave McGracken trying. 254 00:13:10,069 --> 00:13:11,149 I'm trying harder. 255 00:13:11,149 --> 00:13:12,309 I'll try harder. 256 00:13:12,709 --> 00:13:14,549 I want to do, I want to make it. 257 00:13:15,189 --> 00:13:15,949 I need some more. 258 00:13:15,949 --> 00:13:17,189 I need more self discipline. 259 00:13:18,229 --> 00:13:20,789 And all of this was weight on me. 260 00:13:22,309 --> 00:13:27,509 And tonight, by God's grace, I'll get to at least tell you my 261 00:13:27,509 --> 00:13:30,389 testimony of how God's delivered me from that weight. 262 00:13:32,999 --> 00:13:39,599 So if you'll go to Galatians where your marker is, and then turn 263 00:13:39,599 --> 00:13:45,039 three pages to Ephesians 5, I'll just remind you about what we 264 00:13:45,039 --> 00:13:45,679 said last night. 265 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:46,359 We'll move on. 266 00:13:47,719 --> 00:13:48,839 Ephesians 5. 267 00:13:51,399 --> 00:13:53,559 Now last, just quickly. 268 00:13:54,759 --> 00:13:56,359 Romans 8:1. 269 00:13:58,299 --> 00:14:07,739 See Philippians 1, Colossians 1:1 and, or 1, 2 and 27. 270 00:14:07,819 --> 00:14:10,219 All of them talk about being in Christ Jesus. 271 00:14:10,539 --> 00:14:13,659 And then the Last 1 in 27 is, Christ is in us. 272 00:14:15,339 --> 00:14:16,299 Well, here we go. 273 00:14:16,459 --> 00:14:22,139 In verse 18, be not drunk with wine, wherein its excess, but be 274 00:14:22,139 --> 00:14:24,219 filled with the Spirit. 275 00:14:27,909 --> 00:14:30,229 Then he gives the three. 276 00:14:30,629 --> 00:14:33,829 These are not the only illustrations or examples. 277 00:14:33,829 --> 00:14:37,469 When you're full, when you're under his control, Remember, full 278 00:14:37,469 --> 00:14:38,069 means control. 279 00:14:38,869 --> 00:14:40,149 When you're under his control. 280 00:14:40,388 --> 00:14:44,069 To have a happy heart, a thankful heart, a submissive heart. 281 00:14:44,149 --> 00:14:46,549 That's just three of the pictures. 282 00:14:46,549 --> 00:14:47,509 There's many others. 283 00:14:48,069 --> 00:14:49,909 When you're controlled by the Holy Spirit. 284 00:14:50,919 --> 00:14:54,359 And so we are in Christ Jesus. 285 00:14:55,719 --> 00:14:59,079 A Christian is a person who's in Christ. 286 00:15:01,319 --> 00:15:02,199 Let me pray with you. 287 00:15:02,199 --> 00:15:03,959 Our great God surely love you. 288 00:15:03,959 --> 00:15:06,039 Thank you that you saved me. 289 00:15:06,198 --> 00:15:10,679 Thank you that you touched my life to be one of your preachers. 290 00:15:11,319 --> 00:15:15,999 And I'm overwhelmed with your mercy and grace that I. I get to 291 00:15:15,999 --> 00:15:16,519 do this. 292 00:15:18,299 --> 00:15:21,779 I'm overwhelmed with all that you've taught me and that you're 293 00:15:21,779 --> 00:15:22,539 teaching me. 294 00:15:22,539 --> 00:15:31,139 And I'm surrendering to how easily I give back into my flesh. 295 00:15:31,139 --> 00:15:33,058 Mr. Konkarni, it's so. 296 00:15:33,058 --> 00:15:36,619 It's just so disappointing and heartbreaking to me. 297 00:15:37,339 --> 00:15:40,739 But God, I do know that there's a bit of victory in surrender 298 00:15:40,739 --> 00:15:41,339 to you. 299 00:15:42,219 --> 00:15:47,509 Humbled, obedient, surrender by faith. 300 00:15:48,149 --> 00:15:49,429 I know that's true. 301 00:15:50,069 --> 00:15:53,869 And I pray as we look at this tonight that you'll give me unction 302 00:15:53,869 --> 00:15:55,349 and utterance to get this across. 303 00:15:56,069 --> 00:16:02,029 I pray we're all willing, willing hearers tonight, and hopefully 304 00:16:02,029 --> 00:16:03,109 not hearers only. 305 00:16:03,909 --> 00:16:09,749 If someone's not born again tonight, you know that and you truly 306 00:16:09,749 --> 00:16:15,579 want this individual to know they are not ready for eternity. 307 00:16:16,139 --> 00:16:19,979 I pray you'd bring true, deep, real conviction in their soul. 308 00:16:20,619 --> 00:16:21,899 They'd say yes to you. 309 00:16:22,779 --> 00:16:27,579 And I pray us, your children will say yes to you. 310 00:16:28,539 --> 00:16:30,099 So thank you for what you've already done. 311 00:16:30,099 --> 00:16:31,779 Thank you for what you're about to do. 312 00:16:31,779 --> 00:16:34,619 And it's in your mighty and holy name we pray, Jesus. 313 00:16:35,179 --> 00:16:35,819 Amen. 314 00:16:35,819 --> 00:16:36,219 Amen. 315 00:16:36,219 --> 00:16:37,259 You may be seated. 316 00:16:42,709 --> 00:16:44,949 We're not going to turn there, but I'm going to quote it to you. 317 00:16:45,349 --> 00:16:50,629 In John, chapter seven, Jesus speaks of a river. 318 00:16:50,869 --> 00:16:52,949 Listen to how Jesus said these words. 319 00:16:54,629 --> 00:17:00,229 Jesus says, he that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, 320 00:17:01,269 --> 00:17:08,589 out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 321 00:17:10,749 --> 00:17:12,829 That's what Jesus says in red letters. 322 00:17:14,349 --> 00:17:17,469 If you believe on him, as the scripture said, out of your belly 323 00:17:17,469 --> 00:17:22,109 shall flow rivers of living water. 324 00:17:24,029 --> 00:17:24,749 Mercy. 325 00:17:26,749 --> 00:17:30,469 The next verse says, this spake he of the Holy Spirit, of the 326 00:17:30,469 --> 00:17:31,069 Holy Ghost. 327 00:17:32,309 --> 00:17:37,989 So he's saying that us that believe on him, out of our bellies, 328 00:17:38,229 --> 00:17:44,549 this river called the Holy Spirit should flow out of us. 329 00:17:44,869 --> 00:17:45,709 And it's plural. 330 00:17:45,709 --> 00:17:46,389 It's rivers. 331 00:17:47,189 --> 00:17:54,869 That's fascinating, and it just be embarrassing. 332 00:17:54,869 --> 00:17:58,069 I'm not going to do it, and I don't know that I ever will do it. 333 00:17:59,599 --> 00:18:05,039 But I'm going to give us the thought that we're not going to do 334 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:06,079 publicly. 335 00:18:06,399 --> 00:18:07,519 Here's the thought. 336 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:09,039 Do you know anybody. 337 00:18:09,279 --> 00:18:11,999 Do you know anybody that you. 338 00:18:12,239 --> 00:18:15,999 The first thing you think of when you hear their name, you think, 339 00:18:15,999 --> 00:18:22,959 whoa, they got Jesus flowing out of them, man, like a river. 340 00:18:25,129 --> 00:18:25,529 How many? 341 00:18:26,329 --> 00:18:27,129 Don't say it. 342 00:18:27,529 --> 00:18:30,809 If you know one or two people, you're blessed. 343 00:18:32,729 --> 00:18:37,929 How many people in your family got that in your church? 344 00:18:39,849 --> 00:18:46,969 How many preachers do I know that truly their life, their testimony, 345 00:18:47,529 --> 00:18:49,289 I'm going to. 346 00:18:49,759 --> 00:18:52,239 If anybody's got Jesus flowing out of them, it's. 347 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,599 And then the Holy Bible says it's rivers. 348 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,799 Most of us would be thankful and be a hallelujah if someone looked 349 00:19:02,799 --> 00:19:05,678 at us and said, well, they don't have a river, but they got. 350 00:19:09,599 --> 00:19:11,359 Every once in a while, Jesus comes out. 351 00:19:12,079 --> 00:19:16,729 It's like a squirt gun, but they don't go nuts about it. 352 00:19:21,049 --> 00:19:23,529 I don't even know how that really works. 353 00:19:27,609 --> 00:19:29,609 Jesus is flowing out of us. 354 00:19:30,409 --> 00:19:33,489 The truth is I think if we're walking around going, hey, if you 355 00:19:33,489 --> 00:19:34,969 want to see it, baby, here it is. 356 00:19:35,769 --> 00:19:37,129 Well, you ain't that person. 357 00:19:38,889 --> 00:19:40,929 You don't even know what's actually happened. 358 00:19:40,929 --> 00:19:42,169 You just know you're doing right. 359 00:19:42,169 --> 00:19:43,049 You're right with God. 360 00:19:43,049 --> 00:19:44,129 You've surrendered to Him. 361 00:19:44,129 --> 00:19:45,609 He's in charge of your life. 362 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:49,639 And Jesus says people will see rivers. 363 00:19:50,839 --> 00:19:55,319 They'll see that you have connection to God, the Holy Spirit, 364 00:19:55,399 --> 00:19:56,039 Jesus. 365 00:19:56,679 --> 00:19:57,319 Amen. 366 00:19:58,359 --> 00:19:58,839 Wow. 367 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:05,079 So how do we get there? 368 00:20:05,079 --> 00:20:07,959 I want to remind you, I said it last night in humbled, surrendered 369 00:20:07,959 --> 00:20:09,239 obedience by faith. 370 00:20:09,399 --> 00:20:11,799 We're under the control of the Holy Spirit. 371 00:20:12,279 --> 00:20:14,519 Do you know what happens in humble surrender and obedience by 372 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:14,839 faith? 373 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:15,679 I'm under his control. 374 00:20:15,679 --> 00:20:16,719 You know what begins to happen. 375 00:20:16,719 --> 00:20:17,639 You know what happens? 376 00:20:18,519 --> 00:20:18,999 Wow. 377 00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:23,799 I begin to talk like Jesus. 378 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:26,999 You can't help it. 379 00:20:27,878 --> 00:20:31,239 You begin to walk like Jesus. 380 00:20:31,719 --> 00:20:33,719 That is the flow, friend. 381 00:20:36,759 --> 00:20:41,719 If he's in control, you can't act like Dave McCracken. 382 00:20:41,719 --> 00:20:43,319 You need to act like Jesus. 383 00:20:48,549 --> 00:20:50,309 This is not something that has worked for. 384 00:20:51,349 --> 00:20:54,229 It's not something that we can accomplish on our own. 385 00:20:55,029 --> 00:20:55,749 It's part. 386 00:20:56,469 --> 00:20:58,789 It's part of the gift of salvation. 387 00:20:59,749 --> 00:21:01,189 Old things are passed away. 388 00:21:01,189 --> 00:21:02,989 Behold, all things are become new. 389 00:21:02,989 --> 00:21:05,029 And it's not dependent upon me. 390 00:21:05,349 --> 00:21:07,709 Remember last night I asked you, I said, michael Wells said, 391 00:21:07,709 --> 00:21:10,349 imagine the door is above your heart, and when you get saved, the 392 00:21:10,349 --> 00:21:11,349 door is wide open. 393 00:21:12,269 --> 00:21:14,629 When you first get saved, ladies and gentlemen, the only way 394 00:21:14,629 --> 00:21:17,309 you can get saved is humble surrender and obedience by faith. 395 00:21:17,309 --> 00:21:19,549 When you get saved, the door is open. 396 00:21:19,629 --> 00:21:20,429 He has you. 397 00:21:21,709 --> 00:21:24,829 If you made an agreement with him, like, say, okay, if you'll save 398 00:21:24,829 --> 00:21:25,509 me, I'll do this. 399 00:21:25,509 --> 00:21:27,549 Well, that's not how he saves you. 400 00:21:27,869 --> 00:21:28,629 He saves you. 401 00:21:28,629 --> 00:21:31,869 That you're completely, 100% dependent on him and him alone. 402 00:21:33,549 --> 00:21:35,869 If you think you're gonna start living for him because you 403 00:21:35,869 --> 00:21:37,389 got saved, you're gonna prove it to Him. 404 00:21:37,389 --> 00:21:38,109 You're wrong. 405 00:21:38,719 --> 00:21:39,879 If you made a deal with him. 406 00:21:39,879 --> 00:21:45,359 If you do this, no, it's totally humble, unbelievable humility. 407 00:21:45,599 --> 00:21:47,519 Surrender totally and only to Him. 408 00:21:48,479 --> 00:21:49,679 The door is wide open. 409 00:21:50,399 --> 00:21:51,679 He's in control, man. 410 00:21:52,079 --> 00:21:54,798 If you go, well, I'll do it, but I don't want to be a missionary. 411 00:21:54,798 --> 00:21:56,719 Well, then you just made a deal with God. 412 00:21:56,719 --> 00:21:57,759 You don't make deals. 413 00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:00,639 Is everybody hearing me? 414 00:22:00,719 --> 00:22:01,279 No, no. 415 00:22:01,279 --> 00:22:02,759 The door is wide open. 416 00:22:02,759 --> 00:22:05,609 When you get saved, he's in charge. 417 00:22:05,609 --> 00:22:06,329 He's in control. 418 00:22:07,369 --> 00:22:08,409 Bless his name. 419 00:22:11,449 --> 00:22:14,169 After we're saved, we're supposed to be filled. 420 00:22:15,929 --> 00:22:17,329 Let's talk about that just a bit. 421 00:22:17,329 --> 00:22:19,769 I. I may. 422 00:22:19,769 --> 00:22:22,169 I didn't I thought about not trying. 423 00:22:22,489 --> 00:22:23,489 I thought about not. 424 00:22:23,489 --> 00:22:25,409 I thought about trying not to preach very long. 425 00:22:25,409 --> 00:22:26,649 But I'm changing my mind. 426 00:22:27,689 --> 00:22:28,489 So here we go. 427 00:22:28,489 --> 00:22:29,369 We need to work on this. 428 00:22:30,579 --> 00:22:31,859 It says be filled. 429 00:22:32,659 --> 00:22:33,619 That's a verb. 430 00:22:34,979 --> 00:22:36,019 Be filled. 431 00:22:37,139 --> 00:22:40,979 I went to grade school in Kentucky, and they do learn how to 432 00:22:40,979 --> 00:22:41,979 read and stuff there, too. 433 00:22:41,979 --> 00:22:43,019 And so we did that. 434 00:22:43,019 --> 00:22:45,699 Got some math in us and goes intos and so on. 435 00:22:45,939 --> 00:22:50,579 But they told me that there are three tenses. 436 00:22:50,899 --> 00:22:54,579 There's the past tense, the present tense, and the future tense. 437 00:22:54,739 --> 00:22:57,259 And in my little head, I thought, that's plenty of tenses. 438 00:22:57,259 --> 00:22:58,179 We don't need no more. 439 00:22:59,899 --> 00:23:02,619 Well, then I got older, and I became a student of the Bible and 440 00:23:02,619 --> 00:23:04,779 so on, and I found out they got more tenses. 441 00:23:06,539 --> 00:23:12,939 The verb tense for be filled is present, passive, imperative. 442 00:23:13,819 --> 00:23:19,819 That's like too many present passive, imperative tense. 443 00:23:21,179 --> 00:23:22,939 Well, the first one is pretty easy. 444 00:23:23,419 --> 00:23:25,099 When are you supposed to be filled? 445 00:23:25,499 --> 00:23:26,379 Present tense. 446 00:23:29,269 --> 00:23:30,389 Do you know you can never. 447 00:23:30,389 --> 00:23:34,149 You can never get out a present tense. 448 00:23:36,149 --> 00:23:37,189 It's impossible. 449 00:23:37,589 --> 00:23:42,149 It don't matter how quick you are, you're still in present tense. 450 00:23:42,869 --> 00:23:44,309 You can't get away from it. 451 00:23:44,949 --> 00:23:46,789 So when am I supposed to be filled? 452 00:23:49,109 --> 00:23:53,919 Now, across the country, when I talk about this, I. I tell them, 453 00:23:53,919 --> 00:23:59,239 I said, my wife's from Texas, and what she says is, right now, 454 00:24:00,999 --> 00:24:01,719 right now. 455 00:24:01,719 --> 00:24:02,279 Be filled. 456 00:24:02,519 --> 00:24:03,039 Be filled. 457 00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:03,359 Right now. 458 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:03,919 Now be filled. 459 00:24:03,919 --> 00:24:04,439 Right now. 460 00:24:04,919 --> 00:24:05,759 Now, right now. 461 00:24:05,759 --> 00:24:06,039 Now. 462 00:24:06,039 --> 00:24:06,439 Be filled. 463 00:24:06,439 --> 00:24:07,199 Right now, right now. 464 00:24:07,199 --> 00:24:07,399 Rat. 465 00:24:07,399 --> 00:24:07,559 Now. 466 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:08,239 Moment by moment. 467 00:24:08,239 --> 00:24:08,479 Rat. 468 00:24:08,479 --> 00:24:09,079 Now, right now. 469 00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:09,639 Be filled. 470 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:10,679 Amen. 471 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:12,439 What does be filled mean? 472 00:24:12,439 --> 00:24:14,759 Be under his control Right now. 473 00:24:16,599 --> 00:24:18,359 It's also passive tense. 474 00:24:21,569 --> 00:24:23,089 Okay, what is that? 475 00:24:24,529 --> 00:24:32,089 Well, if you've got a older brother who picks on you, you want 476 00:24:32,089 --> 00:24:34,929 to fight back, but you don't, because you're being passive. 477 00:24:34,929 --> 00:24:36,729 It doesn't mean that you can't hurt him. 478 00:24:36,729 --> 00:24:40,049 It doesn't mean you can't win, but you'd rather him be asleep. 479 00:24:40,049 --> 00:24:44,369 But anyway, passive means you don't fight back. 480 00:24:44,999 --> 00:24:46,759 You don't get in the fray. 481 00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:53,479 Passive tense here means you cannot fill yourself. 482 00:24:53,879 --> 00:24:56,519 You surrender to him to be in control. 483 00:24:57,079 --> 00:24:59,879 You can't do anything to get him to control you. 484 00:25:00,039 --> 00:25:01,639 You just surrender to him. 485 00:25:02,199 --> 00:25:02,839 Amen. 486 00:25:04,199 --> 00:25:05,959 So when do I surrender to him? 487 00:25:05,959 --> 00:25:06,679 Right now. 488 00:25:08,199 --> 00:25:08,839 Amen. 489 00:25:09,399 --> 00:25:15,359 I thought it was neat that the word filled has some verb use to 490 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:20,439 it, that it means to be filled, but it also means to be being 491 00:25:20,599 --> 00:25:21,079 filled. 492 00:25:22,439 --> 00:25:25,079 When are you supposed to be being filled? 493 00:25:25,479 --> 00:25:26,519 Say it out loud. 494 00:25:27,239 --> 00:25:27,958 Come on, everybody. 495 00:25:27,958 --> 00:25:28,759 Y' all from Texas. 496 00:25:28,759 --> 00:25:29,279 Right now. 497 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:30,679 When are you supposed to be filled? 498 00:25:31,399 --> 00:25:37,439 Absolutely be being filled Right now, right now, then, it includes 499 00:25:37,439 --> 00:25:37,679 this. 500 00:25:37,679 --> 00:25:39,619 It's be filled, be being filled. 501 00:25:39,619 --> 00:25:40,179 And watch. 502 00:25:40,179 --> 00:25:45,179 Be being kept filled right now, right now. 503 00:25:45,179 --> 00:25:45,819 Be filled right now. 504 00:25:45,819 --> 00:25:46,779 Be filled, be filled right now. 505 00:25:46,779 --> 00:25:47,659 Be filled right now. 506 00:25:47,659 --> 00:25:49,419 Be being filled, be being filled right now, right now. 507 00:25:49,419 --> 00:25:50,059 Be being filled. 508 00:25:50,059 --> 00:25:51,499 Be being filled right now, right now. 509 00:25:51,499 --> 00:25:52,259 Be filled right now. 510 00:25:52,259 --> 00:25:53,099 Be filled right now. 511 00:25:53,099 --> 00:25:53,379 Come on. 512 00:25:53,379 --> 00:25:53,659 Right now. 513 00:25:53,659 --> 00:25:54,739 Be filled right now. 514 00:25:54,739 --> 00:25:55,459 Come on, boy. 515 00:25:55,459 --> 00:25:56,859 And you can't fill yourself. 516 00:25:56,859 --> 00:25:58,099 You surrender to it. 517 00:25:58,339 --> 00:25:58,619 Then. 518 00:25:58,619 --> 00:25:59,939 It's imperative tense. 519 00:26:00,899 --> 00:26:05,539 And it's as if the sergeant or the captain of the platoon gives 520 00:26:05,539 --> 00:26:08,269 the order and you have to do it. 521 00:26:08,269 --> 00:26:10,349 This is imperative you. 522 00:26:10,349 --> 00:26:11,149 It's an order. 523 00:26:11,229 --> 00:26:15,789 We're supposed to be being kept filled right now. 524 00:26:16,909 --> 00:26:18,029 God gave the order. 525 00:26:19,389 --> 00:26:20,589 It wasn't the preacher. 526 00:26:21,789 --> 00:26:25,389 The Holy Bible, God's word says, hey, McCracken, be being kept 527 00:26:25,389 --> 00:26:26,429 filled right now. 528 00:26:26,669 --> 00:26:27,789 This is the order. 529 00:26:27,869 --> 00:26:29,789 And I'm going, I can't do that. 530 00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:31,949 I got to go mow the yard. 531 00:26:32,689 --> 00:26:33,889 I got stuff to do. 532 00:26:35,649 --> 00:26:38,769 Would God ever ask us to do something that's impossible to do? 533 00:26:39,329 --> 00:26:39,729 Never. 534 00:26:43,089 --> 00:26:49,449 So it's possible, moment by moment, to be being kept filled right 535 00:26:49,449 --> 00:26:49,809 now. 536 00:26:51,089 --> 00:26:51,569 Wow. 537 00:26:54,849 --> 00:26:57,329 So here's the deal. 538 00:27:00,379 --> 00:27:03,339 Since he says, hey, McCracken, be being kept filled right now. 539 00:27:04,059 --> 00:27:05,259 I mentioned it last night. 540 00:27:05,259 --> 00:27:08,339 That means, evidently, I have the potential not to be being kept 541 00:27:08,339 --> 00:27:09,339 filled right now. 542 00:27:10,059 --> 00:27:12,379 Because that's why he says, this is imperative. 543 00:27:13,339 --> 00:27:15,779 You got to keep doing it, or you're just going to keep being a 544 00:27:15,779 --> 00:27:16,059 mess. 545 00:27:17,099 --> 00:27:18,299 I'm not in charge. 546 00:27:18,699 --> 00:27:20,459 Mr. Con Garni's in charge. 547 00:27:22,779 --> 00:27:24,359 So here's what I want to work on for. 548 00:27:24,509 --> 00:27:26,189 For a bit right now. 549 00:27:26,189 --> 00:27:30,189 Is that what would. 550 00:27:30,749 --> 00:27:31,469 Here it is. 551 00:27:32,429 --> 00:27:34,029 What would shut the door. 552 00:27:35,309 --> 00:27:36,989 That I'm no longer under his control. 553 00:27:40,189 --> 00:27:42,349 Here's how I wrote it in my notes. 554 00:27:42,829 --> 00:27:48,189 Any behavior or attitude contrary to his holiness. 555 00:27:49,389 --> 00:27:54,219 Grieves and quenches the Holy Spirit of God. 556 00:27:55,739 --> 00:27:56,219 Wow. 557 00:27:57,259 --> 00:27:59,019 Those are two fascinating words. 558 00:28:01,179 --> 00:28:05,019 When I first tried to imagine in my tiny brain. 559 00:28:05,339 --> 00:28:09,499 About how can Dave McCracken grieve God? 560 00:28:10,779 --> 00:28:15,259 Grieve has a connotation of sorrow, disappointment, hurt. 561 00:28:16,469 --> 00:28:19,749 Can deeper cracking hurt disappoint God? 562 00:28:20,069 --> 00:28:21,909 A little bitty pipsqueak down here. 563 00:28:23,029 --> 00:28:25,189 But the Holy Bible says we grieve Him. 564 00:28:29,189 --> 00:28:32,869 The other one that I think is much easier to picture in my head 565 00:28:33,109 --> 00:28:35,349 is quench, not the spirit. 566 00:28:36,629 --> 00:28:38,949 What does quench mean? 567 00:28:39,909 --> 00:28:40,549 I love it. 568 00:28:40,549 --> 00:28:41,549 It's a simple one. 569 00:28:41,549 --> 00:28:42,189 I love the. 570 00:28:42,189 --> 00:28:42,629 This is. 571 00:28:42,629 --> 00:28:43,829 I can see it so easy. 572 00:28:44,659 --> 00:28:46,259 Every one of us outside our home. 573 00:28:46,579 --> 00:28:50,899 Somewhere on the outside of the house, there's a water spigot. 574 00:28:51,779 --> 00:28:53,379 You hook the hose up to it. 575 00:28:53,779 --> 00:28:57,019 Turn the spigot on, come down here to the end. 576 00:28:57,019 --> 00:28:58,419 You got Wawa coming out. 577 00:28:58,899 --> 00:28:59,779 It's awesome. 578 00:29:00,899 --> 00:29:03,139 And if you've never done this, you go home and do it. 579 00:29:03,139 --> 00:29:05,179 There's some children have never held a water hose. 580 00:29:05,179 --> 00:29:05,859 That's wrong. 581 00:29:06,899 --> 00:29:08,819 They should have a water hose in their hand. 582 00:29:08,819 --> 00:29:10,579 They need to learn the joy of that. 583 00:29:11,279 --> 00:29:12,079 It's awesome. 584 00:29:13,759 --> 00:29:18,879 But us that have been outside, and the water's coming out, you can 585 00:29:18,879 --> 00:29:23,599 take the water hose and you can bend it, and you quench the water. 586 00:29:24,639 --> 00:29:25,359 There's none. 587 00:29:25,359 --> 00:29:26,559 No Wawa coming out. 588 00:29:27,439 --> 00:29:28,399 You quenched it. 589 00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:29,839 It's all still in there. 590 00:29:30,639 --> 00:29:31,359 All the power. 591 00:29:31,359 --> 00:29:32,719 All of it's still in there. 592 00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:34,959 But you quenched it. 593 00:29:35,519 --> 00:29:36,559 None's coming out. 594 00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:41,139 Since we're talking about it, some kids cannot believe that their 595 00:29:41,139 --> 00:29:44,899 parents actually drank water out of one of them nasty rubber hoses 596 00:29:45,059 --> 00:29:45,939 in the yard. 597 00:29:47,139 --> 00:29:47,779 I can't believe. 598 00:29:48,099 --> 00:29:50,339 Why would anybody ever drink water out of there? 599 00:29:52,419 --> 00:29:54,899 Because our parents wouldn't let us go back inside. 600 00:30:00,179 --> 00:30:02,659 Quench the Holy Spirit. 601 00:30:03,349 --> 00:30:06,709 He's still there, but you have quenched him. 602 00:30:07,669 --> 00:30:08,309 He can't. 603 00:30:08,309 --> 00:30:09,429 He cannot operate. 604 00:30:09,429 --> 00:30:10,669 He cannot flow through you. 605 00:30:10,669 --> 00:30:11,869 Here's another way to say it. 606 00:30:11,869 --> 00:30:13,189 The door is shut. 607 00:30:14,229 --> 00:30:16,069 You've quenched the Holy Spirit. 608 00:30:19,029 --> 00:30:20,749 I ask you to put a marker in Galatians. 609 00:30:20,749 --> 00:30:21,789 Just let's look at it. 610 00:30:21,789 --> 00:30:22,629 Galatians 5. 611 00:30:33,999 --> 00:30:34,599 We talked about. 612 00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:36,959 The battle automatically begins in verse 17. 613 00:30:36,959 --> 00:30:38,399 They lust against each other. 614 00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:39,639 Verse 19, though. 615 00:30:39,639 --> 00:30:42,839 Look at this now. 616 00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:43,919 The works of the flesh. 617 00:30:44,318 --> 00:30:45,439 Here's another word. 618 00:30:45,439 --> 00:30:49,839 The works of Mr. Konkarni are manifest, which are these? 619 00:30:49,839 --> 00:30:51,919 Let's stop right there, and I want to make a couple comments. 620 00:30:53,199 --> 00:30:57,439 The works of the flesh is when Dave McCracken, Mr. Konkarni, is 621 00:30:57,439 --> 00:30:58,559 in charge of my life. 622 00:30:59,379 --> 00:31:02,019 Works, activities, show up. 623 00:31:04,579 --> 00:31:06,339 What's inside me comes out. 624 00:31:09,459 --> 00:31:10,579 It gives us a list. 625 00:31:10,579 --> 00:31:13,139 And I already know that some of you go, well, I never did that. 626 00:31:14,019 --> 00:31:15,619 I didn't ever murder anybody. 627 00:31:15,619 --> 00:31:17,059 I'm not committed adultery. 628 00:31:17,059 --> 00:31:20,019 I don't have any little gods in my house, in my yard. 629 00:31:20,739 --> 00:31:24,459 Well, let's just stop and take a breath and admit if you put anything 630 00:31:24,459 --> 00:31:28,599 between you and God, that's a little God, if anything interrupts, 631 00:31:28,599 --> 00:31:31,359 he's no longer first, something else is first. 632 00:31:31,519 --> 00:31:32,479 Well, he's not. 633 00:31:32,719 --> 00:31:34,399 You've got your little God. 634 00:31:36,639 --> 00:31:37,359 Adultery. 635 00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:41,639 If you've looked on a man and lust after him, you've committed 636 00:31:41,639 --> 00:31:42,878 adultery already in your heart. 637 00:31:42,878 --> 00:31:43,959 If you've looked on a woman. 638 00:31:43,959 --> 00:31:44,799 Everybody here. 639 00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:45,439 I didn't write it. 640 00:31:45,439 --> 00:31:52,719 Jesus told us that if you look at a person with hate, you've already 641 00:31:52,719 --> 00:31:53,519 committed murder. 642 00:31:55,519 --> 00:31:57,359 So don't act like you've not done any of these. 643 00:31:58,559 --> 00:31:59,559 I'm gonna read the list. 644 00:31:59,559 --> 00:32:00,159 Let's look at it. 645 00:32:00,159 --> 00:32:00,879 You can read it with me. 646 00:32:00,879 --> 00:32:01,199 Here. 647 00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:02,079 Verse 19. 648 00:32:02,399 --> 00:32:04,079 Now, the works of the flesh are manifest. 649 00:32:04,079 --> 00:32:04,679 You can see them. 650 00:32:04,679 --> 00:32:05,359 Which are these? 651 00:32:06,399 --> 00:32:10,719 Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, 652 00:32:10,719 --> 00:32:16,319 witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, 653 00:32:16,639 --> 00:32:20,639 heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings. 654 00:32:20,639 --> 00:32:22,839 And I love how the Bible says and such. 655 00:32:22,839 --> 00:32:25,319 Like anything, like any of those things. 656 00:32:25,399 --> 00:32:28,199 Those two are works of Mr. Con Carney. 657 00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:29,399 Listen to it. 658 00:32:29,399 --> 00:32:30,319 We're not going to turn there. 659 00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:31,639 Ephesians continues. 660 00:32:31,639 --> 00:32:33,559 Bitterness, anger, clamor, evil. 661 00:32:33,559 --> 00:32:35,479 Speaking, malice, romance. 662 00:32:35,479 --> 00:32:36,439 Adds these words. 663 00:32:36,439 --> 00:32:40,679 Unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, debate, 664 00:32:40,679 --> 00:32:45,319 deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, despiteful, proud boasters. 665 00:32:45,959 --> 00:32:47,319 Inventor of evil things. 666 00:32:47,719 --> 00:32:49,159 Disobedient to parents. 667 00:32:51,229 --> 00:32:52,429 James says it like this. 668 00:32:52,509 --> 00:32:56,109 This descendeth not from above, but is earthly. 669 00:32:56,189 --> 00:32:58,749 It's sensual, it's devilish. 670 00:32:58,829 --> 00:33:01,869 Any works of the flesh is not from heaven. 671 00:33:02,589 --> 00:33:05,389 It's from God's enemy, the world. 672 00:33:05,389 --> 00:33:06,669 The flesh, the devil. 673 00:33:07,309 --> 00:33:08,109 Come on, friend. 674 00:33:08,109 --> 00:33:08,469 I don't. 675 00:33:08,469 --> 00:33:11,389 Maybe I'm going too fast for you anything. 676 00:33:11,389 --> 00:33:12,589 When Mr. McCracken. 677 00:33:12,589 --> 00:33:14,589 When Mr. Con Carney's in charge. 678 00:33:15,559 --> 00:33:16,359 All of these. 679 00:33:16,679 --> 00:33:18,759 None of these come from heaven. 680 00:33:20,919 --> 00:33:21,879 They're devilish. 681 00:33:22,599 --> 00:33:26,319 When I was a kid, my dad was one of those preachers. 682 00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:29,639 That preached against Hollywood or hellywood and all that 683 00:33:29,639 --> 00:33:29,959 business. 684 00:33:29,959 --> 00:33:31,719 And he preaching against the old time. 685 00:33:31,719 --> 00:33:35,959 And he's wailing away about this wickedness is coming out of 686 00:33:35,959 --> 00:33:36,759 Hollywood. 687 00:33:37,879 --> 00:33:40,719 I said, I think it's coming out of our tv. 688 00:33:40,719 --> 00:33:47,479 Dad, God is from the pits of hell. 689 00:33:47,959 --> 00:33:49,479 Like, I don't think it's from the pits of hell. 690 00:33:49,479 --> 00:33:50,919 I think it's coming from Hollywood. 691 00:33:54,039 --> 00:33:58,839 But God's word just said anything that's works of the flesh 692 00:34:00,279 --> 00:34:01,239 is devilish. 693 00:34:03,159 --> 00:34:06,079 So I finally swallowed the idea that it's true. 694 00:34:06,079 --> 00:34:09,329 When some preacher comes up and says it's straight from hell, 695 00:34:09,329 --> 00:34:11,729 folks, it's not from God. 696 00:34:12,689 --> 00:34:13,969 See, we want it both ways. 697 00:34:13,969 --> 00:34:15,009 Well, it ain't that bad. 698 00:34:15,249 --> 00:34:16,449 Well, if it's not. 699 00:34:16,449 --> 00:34:18,729 If it's works of the flesh, God does not. 700 00:34:18,729 --> 00:34:19,649 He will not. 701 00:34:19,649 --> 00:34:21,169 He cannot accept it. 702 00:34:23,649 --> 00:34:24,368 Mercy. 703 00:34:29,969 --> 00:34:31,009 Any of these. 704 00:34:31,169 --> 00:34:32,489 This list I just read. 705 00:34:32,489 --> 00:34:35,819 And any of these shut the door. 706 00:34:35,819 --> 00:34:38,939 And we're no longer under the Holy Spirit's control. 707 00:34:43,019 --> 00:34:49,579 So you and I are inundated nearly every waking hour with invitations 708 00:34:49,899 --> 00:34:53,899 to fulfill every carnal desire we have. 709 00:34:55,819 --> 00:34:57,259 I deserve me time. 710 00:34:57,419 --> 00:34:57,899 Come on. 711 00:34:57,899 --> 00:35:02,819 I can get what I Want we gossip and judge others. 712 00:35:04,419 --> 00:35:04,819 Why? 713 00:35:05,299 --> 00:35:07,219 Well, we're better than they are. 714 00:35:09,219 --> 00:35:18,659 Facebook, X, Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram are all places that welcome 715 00:35:19,219 --> 00:35:25,779 gossip, judging, self love, self glory. 716 00:35:27,309 --> 00:35:31,069 Our society continues to cram their ideas and their instructions 717 00:35:31,069 --> 00:35:35,869 for happiness and peace which do not include humble, surrendered 718 00:35:35,949 --> 00:35:38,989 obedience by faith to God and his word. 719 00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:45,149 They're constantly, they're constantly pulling, pulling us away 720 00:35:45,149 --> 00:35:46,589 from that which is holy. 721 00:35:50,669 --> 00:35:52,189 So I ask, what are the buttons? 722 00:35:53,189 --> 00:35:55,029 What are the buttons that provoke you? 723 00:35:56,549 --> 00:35:57,509 No, no, no, really. 724 00:35:57,509 --> 00:35:59,029 What stirs you to jealousy? 725 00:36:00,869 --> 00:36:02,229 What moves you to hate? 726 00:36:03,509 --> 00:36:06,309 What pulls on you to lust to covet? 727 00:36:07,989 --> 00:36:10,629 What causes you to disregard modesty? 728 00:36:12,629 --> 00:36:15,429 What causes you to depart from hospitality? 729 00:36:16,949 --> 00:36:18,869 What yanks on your chain to anger? 730 00:36:20,339 --> 00:36:21,939 What tugs on you to give up? 731 00:36:22,659 --> 00:36:26,099 What tiptoes all around you trying to get your attention, saying, 732 00:36:26,099 --> 00:36:28,979 hey, hey, hey, you deserve this, you deserve this. 733 00:36:31,779 --> 00:36:36,179 These are all works of the flesh and they do not bring glory 734 00:36:36,179 --> 00:36:36,739 to God. 735 00:36:39,299 --> 00:36:40,419 We're not going to turn there. 736 00:36:40,419 --> 00:36:46,299 But in numbers 13, it gives the the account of the children of 737 00:36:46,299 --> 00:36:47,699 Israel being in the. 738 00:36:47,939 --> 00:36:48,979 In the wilderness. 739 00:36:50,339 --> 00:36:54,619 So brother Michael Wells says this. 740 00:36:54,619 --> 00:36:59,459 He says the children of Israel in the wilderness is a teaching model 741 00:36:59,619 --> 00:37:01,379 for today's believers. 742 00:37:03,059 --> 00:37:03,939 What did. 743 00:37:04,419 --> 00:37:08,139 Do you remember why the children of Israel, do you remember 744 00:37:08,139 --> 00:37:09,099 why they're in the wilderness? 745 00:37:09,099 --> 00:37:11,259 Do you remember, do you remember when they were in Egypt 746 00:37:11,259 --> 00:37:16,299 that God did the 10 gmongous miracles and then they left Israel 747 00:37:16,299 --> 00:37:19,259 and then he did the humongous big miracle and he opened the Red 748 00:37:19,259 --> 00:37:23,019 Sea and then he shut the Red Sea another miracle and wiped out 749 00:37:23,019 --> 00:37:24,539 a whole bunch of them there Egyptians. 750 00:37:26,619 --> 00:37:31,299 And do you remember they're singing, the Lord cast his horse 751 00:37:31,299 --> 00:37:32,419 on the rider into the sea. 752 00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:35,499 They're doing high fives and chest bumps and glory to gods. 753 00:37:35,579 --> 00:37:37,899 If they had some fireworks, I'm sure they shot him. 754 00:37:38,299 --> 00:37:39,099 It was awesome. 755 00:37:40,249 --> 00:37:47,289 Four days later, four days after this humongous event, they 756 00:37:47,289 --> 00:37:50,409 don't have any Wawa and they're mad at Moses and they're 757 00:37:50,409 --> 00:37:52,129 bellyaching and complaining and moaning. 758 00:37:52,129 --> 00:37:54,169 They say, well, I got some water here, but no one can drink 759 00:37:54,169 --> 00:37:54,249 it. 760 00:37:54,249 --> 00:37:55,289 It's not fit to drink. 761 00:37:56,169 --> 00:38:00,729 And God did the miracle of making the waters at Marah sweet. 762 00:38:02,089 --> 00:38:05,129 That's a huge miracle to take care of over 2 million people. 763 00:38:06,499 --> 00:38:06,819 Wow. 764 00:38:08,579 --> 00:38:12,739 It's not long that Moses says, okay, it's time for us to go to the 765 00:38:12,739 --> 00:38:13,379 promised land. 766 00:38:15,059 --> 00:38:19,219 God promised Abraham, our father, that Canaan is our land. 767 00:38:19,699 --> 00:38:20,539 I want to send. 768 00:38:20,539 --> 00:38:22,099 I'm going to send some of you spies. 769 00:38:23,859 --> 00:38:25,379 I'm going to send you spies. 770 00:38:26,499 --> 00:38:30,419 Well, let's Just go ahead and send you guys over there and you 771 00:38:30,419 --> 00:38:34,129 check out the land they were on. 772 00:38:34,449 --> 00:38:37,969 40 days, they came back. 773 00:38:38,689 --> 00:38:39,969 There's 12 of them. 774 00:38:40,449 --> 00:38:42,129 I don't know the words to the song. 775 00:38:42,129 --> 00:38:44,289 Some of you in here might know the words to the song. 776 00:38:44,289 --> 00:38:45,889 But here's what the song says. 777 00:38:46,289 --> 00:38:47,649 10 were bad, 2 were good. 778 00:38:49,649 --> 00:38:51,529 The 10 bad ones said, no, we can't do it. 779 00:38:51,529 --> 00:38:52,409 They got giants over there. 780 00:38:52,409 --> 00:38:53,449 They got chariots of iron. 781 00:38:53,449 --> 00:38:54,129 We ain't got a chance. 782 00:38:54,129 --> 00:38:55,169 There ain't no just trying. 783 00:38:55,569 --> 00:38:57,729 And two of them go, yeah, we can do it. 784 00:38:58,249 --> 00:38:59,209 God take care of us. 785 00:39:00,009 --> 00:39:06,289 And because of their unbelief, God said, you'll be in the wilderness 786 00:39:06,289 --> 00:39:07,769 40 years. 787 00:39:08,569 --> 00:39:09,889 One year for each day. 788 00:39:09,889 --> 00:39:12,329 You bozos were over there and you did not listen. 789 00:39:12,329 --> 00:39:15,249 Here, God, the wilderness is to teach us. 790 00:39:15,249 --> 00:39:17,449 We must learn how to trust God. 791 00:39:18,489 --> 00:39:19,369 Trust him. 792 00:39:19,689 --> 00:39:21,769 That's the whole purpose of 40 years. 793 00:39:22,169 --> 00:39:24,969 Stop trusting yourself and trust me. 794 00:39:24,969 --> 00:39:28,219 God says, mercy sakes. 795 00:39:31,499 --> 00:39:33,099 Trusting God affects everything. 796 00:39:34,699 --> 00:39:42,058 When we start walking by sight and not by faith, he's no longer 797 00:39:42,058 --> 00:39:42,539 in control. 798 00:39:43,979 --> 00:39:44,779 We're in control. 799 00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:49,899 Brother Weatherby said it last night. 800 00:39:49,899 --> 00:39:52,059 My friend Jerry Locke wrote it down in his book. 801 00:39:56,469 --> 00:40:00,069 It should be apparent to us the Christian life is not hard. 802 00:40:01,109 --> 00:40:02,389 It's not difficult. 803 00:40:02,949 --> 00:40:04,149 It's impossible. 804 00:40:05,189 --> 00:40:08,389 Unless you're born again and he's in you and you're in him. 805 00:40:08,789 --> 00:40:13,029 That is the only way we can live the Christian life is by his 806 00:40:13,189 --> 00:40:13,589 power. 807 00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:23,999 To live the spirit controlled life. 808 00:40:27,039 --> 00:40:35,999 It's intentional, on purpose, moment by moment. 809 00:40:35,999 --> 00:40:37,599 You don't accidentally get filled. 810 00:40:37,599 --> 00:40:38,639 You don't actually get. 811 00:40:38,639 --> 00:40:39,919 You don't accidentally get. 812 00:40:41,279 --> 00:40:42,799 You don't accidentally surrender. 813 00:40:43,529 --> 00:40:45,769 You make the choice. 814 00:40:46,969 --> 00:40:49,369 I know there's a whole bunch of crybabies in here, and sorry to 815 00:40:49,369 --> 00:40:51,289 say it to your face, but there's a whole bunch of crybabies. 816 00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:53,289 Oh, this is so hard, Christine. 817 00:40:53,289 --> 00:40:54,089 It's so hard. 818 00:40:55,289 --> 00:40:57,289 Well, it is hard when you're trying to do it yourself. 819 00:40:58,169 --> 00:40:59,129 It's impossible. 820 00:40:59,288 --> 00:41:00,009 You can't. 821 00:41:00,169 --> 00:41:01,209 Well, I'm saved. 822 00:41:01,369 --> 00:41:03,049 You cannot do it on your own. 823 00:41:03,049 --> 00:41:05,289 When your flesh is in charge, you can't live it. 824 00:41:10,259 --> 00:41:11,219 You have to make the decision. 825 00:41:11,219 --> 00:41:13,219 Well, Brother Dave, I got other stuff to do. 826 00:41:17,379 --> 00:41:18,099 I don't know. 827 00:41:18,819 --> 00:41:20,259 I think it might be a Miss Judy. 828 00:41:20,259 --> 00:41:23,059 I'm not sure, but she's talking about when she mows the yard. 829 00:41:23,059 --> 00:41:24,899 She's talking to the Lord and rejoicing. 830 00:41:25,059 --> 00:41:26,099 Mowing the yard. 831 00:41:27,539 --> 00:41:28,779 Was that you, Judy? 832 00:41:28,779 --> 00:41:29,219 It was. 833 00:41:31,059 --> 00:41:32,459 And then she said she weedy. 834 00:41:32,459 --> 00:41:34,739 So I said, you're the kind of woman we're all looking for. 835 00:41:38,069 --> 00:41:39,109 She's Rejoicing. 836 00:41:39,349 --> 00:41:42,629 You can still rejoice in God when you're in the midst of work. 837 00:41:49,989 --> 00:41:52,629 I know this is a good place to stop the sermon. 838 00:41:52,629 --> 00:41:55,789 Sorry, I'm done with the part that I wrote. 839 00:41:55,789 --> 00:41:57,189 But now I'm going to read to you. 840 00:41:58,469 --> 00:42:00,709 I'll just tell you to your face if I read it. 841 00:42:00,709 --> 00:42:01,629 Just read it to you. 842 00:42:01,629 --> 00:42:02,189 Just read it. 843 00:42:02,189 --> 00:42:03,089 It takes eight minutes. 844 00:42:04,039 --> 00:42:05,239 I practice it several times. 845 00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:06,199 It takes eight minutes. 846 00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:10,919 If I add commentary, it's a little longer. 847 00:42:13,159 --> 00:42:14,639 So we don't. 848 00:42:14,639 --> 00:42:17,999 We just have a little longer than eight minutes before I read 849 00:42:17,999 --> 00:42:18,159 it. 850 00:42:18,159 --> 00:42:19,359 I want to say this to you. 851 00:42:19,359 --> 00:42:24,679 In the midst of this, one of the authors is going to use the personal 852 00:42:24,839 --> 00:42:25,559 pronoun. 853 00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,239 He's going to mistakenly, as I did. 854 00:42:30,899 --> 00:42:34,459 Well, the words are from another author, but they are my words 855 00:42:34,459 --> 00:42:34,819 too. 856 00:42:36,179 --> 00:42:39,379 When I say those words, I'm saying I did the same thing. 857 00:42:39,379 --> 00:42:40,979 I mistakenly thought this. 858 00:42:41,459 --> 00:42:42,259 Here we go. 859 00:42:42,979 --> 00:42:46,859 There are many Christians, sincere believers in the Lord Jesus 860 00:42:46,859 --> 00:42:48,659 Christ as their personal Savior. 861 00:42:48,899 --> 00:42:51,299 They're regenerated and born again. 862 00:42:51,859 --> 00:42:55,939 But they are stuck with something like a spiritual paralysis 863 00:42:57,699 --> 00:43:02,099 through their bondage to their sin. 864 00:43:03,619 --> 00:43:06,779 The paralysis come from the stake of thinking that we ourselves 865 00:43:06,779 --> 00:43:10,019 must share in the doing of what only God can do. 866 00:43:10,979 --> 00:43:14,179 One way to understand this is that Jesus makes two offers to everyone. 867 00:43:14,419 --> 00:43:18,019 He offers to set us free from the penalty of sin, and he offers 868 00:43:18,019 --> 00:43:20,899 to set us free from the power of sin. 869 00:43:21,949 --> 00:43:25,389 Both of these offers are made on exactly the same terms. 870 00:43:25,629 --> 00:43:29,229 We can accept them only by letting him do it all. 871 00:43:30,429 --> 00:43:34,509 See, every Christian has accepted the first offer, but many 872 00:43:34,509 --> 00:43:37,469 Christians have not accepted the second offer. 873 00:43:38,429 --> 00:43:44,669 They mistakenly think, as I did, that they must have some part 874 00:43:45,069 --> 00:43:47,629 in the overcoming the power of their sin. 875 00:43:48,159 --> 00:43:52,599 That their effort, their wills, their determination, oh yeah, 876 00:43:52,599 --> 00:43:56,399 strengthened and helped by the power of Christ is the way to victory. 877 00:43:56,959 --> 00:44:01,919 As long as they mistakenly believe this, they are doomed to 878 00:44:01,919 --> 00:44:07,079 defeat, as they would be doomed to eternal death if their 879 00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:11,399 salvation depended upon their working with Christ to pay for the 880 00:44:11,399 --> 00:44:12,719 penalty of their sin. 881 00:44:16,089 --> 00:44:19,329 And it's been said that while all true Christians know that they 882 00:44:19,329 --> 00:44:25,409 can have their justification only by faith, most of us have been 883 00:44:25,409 --> 00:44:29,568 brought up to believe that for sanctification or for the Spirit 884 00:44:29,568 --> 00:44:33,369 controlled life, we must paddle our own canoe. 885 00:44:34,649 --> 00:44:35,609 And that's why. 886 00:44:35,609 --> 00:44:36,529 Listen carefully. 887 00:44:36,529 --> 00:44:41,619 That's why so many of us justified Christians are so pathetically, 888 00:44:42,579 --> 00:44:50,819 miserably disappointed when they try to attain a satisfying personal 889 00:44:51,059 --> 00:44:56,459 experience of sanctification or the Spirit filled life or walking 890 00:44:56,459 --> 00:44:57,539 in newness of life. 891 00:44:58,979 --> 00:45:01,779 Dr. Scofield in his conversation was speaking of the 892 00:45:01,779 --> 00:45:06,659 up and down experience that so many Christians have, winning one 893 00:45:06,659 --> 00:45:11,509 day and failing miserably the next, confessing their sins and trying 894 00:45:11,589 --> 00:45:16,829 again and so going on in their discouragement and defeat as their 895 00:45:16,829 --> 00:45:17,749 common experience. 896 00:45:19,109 --> 00:45:25,749 That said, he is not the Christian experience, but it is the 897 00:45:25,749 --> 00:45:28,789 experience of most Christians. 898 00:45:30,549 --> 00:45:33,829 He went on to say that the Christian experience is wholly, totally, 899 00:45:33,829 --> 00:45:37,109 completely the result of the producer of the Christian experience, 900 00:45:37,429 --> 00:45:38,539 the the Holy Spirit. 901 00:45:39,099 --> 00:45:43,419 So when Christians attempt to share in the work of producing their 902 00:45:43,419 --> 00:45:46,659 Christian experience, instead of letting the Holy Spirit do it 903 00:45:46,659 --> 00:45:50,299 all, they have the discouraging experience of many Christians. 904 00:45:52,459 --> 00:45:53,818 That's Dave McCracken. 905 00:45:53,899 --> 00:45:56,139 Most of my life has been like this. 906 00:45:56,619 --> 00:45:57,819 I was trying to help him. 907 00:45:57,819 --> 00:45:58,579 I'm trying to do it. 908 00:45:58,579 --> 00:45:59,659 I'm trying the best I can. 909 00:45:59,659 --> 00:46:01,899 I prayed, I've cried lots of tears. 910 00:46:02,059 --> 00:46:04,219 And I mean it with all my soul. 911 00:46:04,649 --> 00:46:09,129 And I tell him, I love you, I want to serve you, I want to follow 912 00:46:09,129 --> 00:46:09,529 you. 913 00:46:09,689 --> 00:46:12,409 I want you to take over my life. 914 00:46:12,489 --> 00:46:13,769 I want you to do it. 915 00:46:13,769 --> 00:46:15,889 And I asked him, I told him I wanted him to. 916 00:46:15,889 --> 00:46:18,009 And then I get up and I said, I will try. 917 00:46:18,169 --> 00:46:19,849 I'll try the best I can. 918 00:46:24,409 --> 00:46:27,529 How did you accept Christ's offer from the penalty of your sin? 919 00:46:28,729 --> 00:46:31,959 You took it as an outright gift by faith. 920 00:46:31,959 --> 00:46:33,239 You let him do it all. 921 00:46:34,599 --> 00:46:39,399 Will you not accept his offer of immediate and complete freedom 922 00:46:39,399 --> 00:46:44,519 from the power of your known sins on the same terms and do it 923 00:46:44,519 --> 00:46:44,839 now? 924 00:46:46,358 --> 00:46:49,919 My Christian life, all of it was saying, jesus, I want to live 925 00:46:49,919 --> 00:46:51,639 for you and I'm going to try my best. 926 00:46:51,639 --> 00:46:52,599 I promise this. 927 00:46:52,599 --> 00:46:53,559 I want to be more. 928 00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,159 I need more self discipline. 929 00:46:55,159 --> 00:46:55,799 I need more. 930 00:46:56,209 --> 00:46:59,129 Please, I'm begging you, please help me, help me. 931 00:46:59,129 --> 00:46:59,969 I want to do it. 932 00:46:59,969 --> 00:47:01,809 I meant it with all my soul. 933 00:47:03,089 --> 00:47:07,889 And I never did by faith receive that. 934 00:47:07,889 --> 00:47:08,769 He's in charge. 935 00:47:10,849 --> 00:47:13,089 That was a light that came on for me. 936 00:47:13,889 --> 00:47:16,769 When we get saved, we get saved one time by faith and it's 937 00:47:16,769 --> 00:47:17,009 over. 938 00:47:17,009 --> 00:47:17,649 We know it. 939 00:47:17,649 --> 00:47:18,209 Hallelujah. 940 00:47:18,209 --> 00:47:19,689 When you know that you know, you know, you know. 941 00:47:19,689 --> 00:47:20,889 And nobody can take it from you. 942 00:47:20,889 --> 00:47:24,119 Cause you know, people that don't know, they don't know. 943 00:47:24,119 --> 00:47:25,239 And then we'll never know. 944 00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:26,759 You cannot know until you know. 945 00:47:26,759 --> 00:47:31,559 But when you know, oh yes, that one moment of salvation. 946 00:47:32,279 --> 00:47:37,199 Well, because of that in my head so much, I thought, well, I 947 00:47:37,199 --> 00:47:41,279 just need to ask him one time and say, okay, I surrender to you. 948 00:47:41,279 --> 00:47:42,199 You're in charge. 949 00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,879 And I'll do the best I can to do what I'm supposed to do. 950 00:47:47,649 --> 00:47:54,769 Yeah, this is just as much a miracle as the miracle of regeneration, 951 00:47:54,769 --> 00:47:55,729 of salvation. 952 00:47:56,049 --> 00:48:00,449 And it's just as exclusively the Lord's work. 953 00:48:02,449 --> 00:48:05,929 Charles Trumbull gives testimony of a missionary convention 954 00:48:05,929 --> 00:48:06,609 he attended. 955 00:48:07,089 --> 00:48:09,489 Each speaker brought up the question to the assembly. 956 00:48:09,889 --> 00:48:13,489 Is your kind of Christianity worth sending to the non Christian 957 00:48:13,489 --> 00:48:13,809 world? 958 00:48:15,459 --> 00:48:18,419 Not is Christianity worth sending, there's no doubt about that. 959 00:48:18,659 --> 00:48:20,019 But what about your kind? 960 00:48:20,019 --> 00:48:24,419 The kind that showed up in your life this morning, yesterday, 961 00:48:25,539 --> 00:48:27,059 last week, this last year? 962 00:48:27,859 --> 00:48:30,499 Is that what the non Christian world is waiting for? 963 00:48:30,899 --> 00:48:33,939 Is that what is needed to revolutionize their lives? 964 00:48:36,019 --> 00:48:37,299 It's pretty pointed. 965 00:48:38,579 --> 00:48:39,619 Trumbull continues. 966 00:48:39,619 --> 00:48:42,979 A veteran missionary had told him that he had heard and he Understood 967 00:48:43,059 --> 00:48:47,779 Finally Romans 8:2, that the law of the spirit of life in Christ 968 00:48:47,779 --> 00:48:50,499 Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 969 00:48:50,819 --> 00:48:53,979 And he said he'd taken God up on this moment by moment. 970 00:48:53,979 --> 00:48:55,699 Kind of Christianity that Christ lived. 971 00:48:55,699 --> 00:48:57,619 That's the only kind of Christianity worth living. 972 00:48:58,259 --> 00:49:01,139 God made him a new man with a new life in Christ. 973 00:49:01,219 --> 00:49:04,539 He began to give testimony of Christ's great work in him everywhere 974 00:49:04,539 --> 00:49:05,059 he went. 975 00:49:05,699 --> 00:49:10,179 Another testimony came out of his testimony of a young, high spirited, 976 00:49:10,179 --> 00:49:16,919 high tempered young missionary woman to India and she that she trusted 977 00:49:16,919 --> 00:49:17,839 God and was able. 978 00:49:17,999 --> 00:49:19,119 Enabled to claim. 979 00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:26,319 Enabled of God to claim Christ in his fullness and as her victory 980 00:49:26,479 --> 00:49:28,319 by faith in the same way. 981 00:49:29,119 --> 00:49:30,239 Here's her letter. 982 00:49:30,799 --> 00:49:34,199 I wanted to write to you at first, but I was scarcely dared to 983 00:49:34,199 --> 00:49:35,759 for I was afraid it would not last. 984 00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:40,799 But it has lasted and oh, it is so wonderful since she went on 985 00:49:40,799 --> 00:49:42,519 just as an illustration of what I mean. 986 00:49:42,519 --> 00:49:47,419 Do you know that not only for three months have I not once slammed 987 00:49:47,419 --> 00:49:51,219 the door in the face of one of these stupid Indian servants that 988 00:49:51,219 --> 00:49:52,619 used to get on my nerves so. 989 00:49:53,339 --> 00:50:00,179 But I haven't even wanted to once in three months, Trumbull says, 990 00:50:00,179 --> 00:50:01,179 and that was a miracle. 991 00:50:01,659 --> 00:50:03,379 Oh, not keeping from slamming the door. 992 00:50:03,379 --> 00:50:04,139 That's no miracle. 993 00:50:04,139 --> 00:50:07,179 Any ordinary unsaved person who's halfway decent can keep from 994 00:50:07,179 --> 00:50:10,459 slamming the door by setting their teeth or using their willpower, 995 00:50:10,459 --> 00:50:12,659 putting their hands behind their back, determined not to do 996 00:50:12,659 --> 00:50:13,949 what they really feel like doing. 997 00:50:14,589 --> 00:50:16,029 No, there's no miracle in that. 998 00:50:16,189 --> 00:50:22,229 But to go for three months without once wanting to, without 999 00:50:22,229 --> 00:50:25,869 once feeling within yourself that angry surge of irritation of 1000 00:50:25,869 --> 00:50:30,789 temper that makes you want to show your anger in some outward uncontrolled 1001 00:50:30,789 --> 00:50:31,149 way. 1002 00:50:31,789 --> 00:50:37,549 Does not your heart tell you that indeed that would be a miracle 1003 00:50:39,879 --> 00:50:40,599 in your life? 1004 00:50:42,839 --> 00:50:43,639 See, whatever. 1005 00:50:44,999 --> 00:50:49,959 These sins that got a stranglehold on us and we keep going 1006 00:50:49,959 --> 00:50:51,839 back to it, keep going back to it. 1007 00:50:51,839 --> 00:50:53,199 We can't get victory over it. 1008 00:50:53,199 --> 00:50:54,599 We can't get victory over it. 1009 00:50:57,159 --> 00:51:01,599 Wouldn't it be a miracle if you could go three months and not 1010 00:51:01,599 --> 00:51:02,759 even once want to? 1011 00:51:05,729 --> 00:51:08,129 I don't know about you, but I've gone three months before. 1012 00:51:09,169 --> 00:51:11,009 Oh, I did it. 1013 00:51:11,009 --> 00:51:17,169 I've gone a year before, but that thing pokes his head up in the 1014 00:51:17,169 --> 00:51:21,809 most appropriate time for Mr. Konkarni to get his way. 1015 00:51:25,649 --> 00:51:26,089 Okay. 1016 00:51:26,089 --> 00:51:28,089 What are the conditions of this victorious life? 1017 00:51:28,089 --> 00:51:28,929 I'm almost done. 1018 00:51:30,699 --> 00:51:33,419 Brother Trumbull said there's two I use the word for. 1019 00:51:34,059 --> 00:51:36,139 He said there's only two conditions. 1020 00:51:36,859 --> 00:51:38,059 They're very simple. 1021 00:51:38,779 --> 00:51:41,259 Surrender and faith. 1022 00:51:43,179 --> 00:51:46,579 Some Christians have not surrendered unconditionally to the 1023 00:51:46,579 --> 00:51:48,539 mastery of Jesus Christ. 1024 00:51:50,219 --> 00:51:52,939 All they have, as Mr. McConkie says, they put. 1025 00:51:54,059 --> 00:51:58,129 He said they surrendered their sins to Christ, but not their wills. 1026 00:52:01,249 --> 00:52:06,849 See, every habit of your life, every ambition, every hope, every 1027 00:52:06,849 --> 00:52:08,769 loved one, every possession. 1028 00:52:08,849 --> 00:52:16,169 You, yourself, all of these must he have if he is to make himself 1029 00:52:16,169 --> 00:52:21,729 not only your savior, but your life? 1030 00:52:24,859 --> 00:52:25,979 You want the Christ life? 1031 00:52:27,419 --> 00:52:28,059 Surrender. 1032 00:52:29,579 --> 00:52:31,659 Does Mr. Konkarni want you to surrender? 1033 00:52:31,899 --> 00:52:32,299 No. 1034 00:52:33,659 --> 00:52:36,059 The adamic nature didn't want you to get saved. 1035 00:52:36,459 --> 00:52:38,179 And God's conviction came upon you. 1036 00:52:38,179 --> 00:52:40,139 And you realized you needed to be saved. 1037 00:52:40,139 --> 00:52:40,899 And you got saved. 1038 00:52:40,899 --> 00:52:42,099 And you thought, glory to God. 1039 00:52:42,099 --> 00:52:43,179 It's all victory now. 1040 00:52:43,259 --> 00:52:47,459 And then you didn't know that Mr. Konkarni lives with you now. 1041 00:52:47,459 --> 00:52:49,339 We got this battle going on all the time. 1042 00:52:51,799 --> 00:52:54,879 And when I try to live the Christian life, when I tell Jesus 1043 00:52:54,879 --> 00:52:57,279 I'm trying the best I can, he's going, McCracken, would you 1044 00:52:57,279 --> 00:52:57,959 just stop trying? 1045 00:52:58,839 --> 00:53:00,439 You can't do it, Bozo. 1046 00:53:00,439 --> 00:53:00,999 Stop it. 1047 00:53:02,039 --> 00:53:02,679 Trust me. 1048 00:53:02,679 --> 00:53:08,319 Ask me to forgive you and trust me and receive my life by faith. 1049 00:53:08,319 --> 00:53:09,479 I say I'm already saved. 1050 00:53:09,479 --> 00:53:12,759 I know he's there, but I want his life to be my life. 1051 00:53:14,359 --> 00:53:15,679 I'll do it tomorrow night, too. 1052 00:53:15,679 --> 00:53:19,349 But I'm going to conclude I am crucified with Christ. 1053 00:53:20,789 --> 00:53:21,469 No, no, no. 1054 00:53:21,469 --> 00:53:22,269 Nevertheless, I live. 1055 00:53:22,269 --> 00:53:22,909 No, no, no, no. 1056 00:53:22,909 --> 00:53:27,989 Yet not I. Christ liveth in me. 1057 00:53:28,469 --> 00:53:29,749 It's kind of like a river. 1058 00:53:30,709 --> 00:53:36,229 The life which I now live in the flesh, it's doable. 1059 00:53:37,909 --> 00:53:40,029 I live by the faith of the Son of God. 1060 00:53:40,029 --> 00:53:41,549 I'm not even dependent on Dave. 1061 00:53:41,549 --> 00:53:42,589 I'm dependent on him. 1062 00:53:42,589 --> 00:53:43,984 My faith is in his faith. 1063 00:53:43,984 --> 00:53:48,449 I, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself 1064 00:53:48,449 --> 00:53:49,089 for me. 1065 00:53:50,049 --> 00:53:50,929 Would you not. 1066 00:53:51,569 --> 00:53:54,609 Would you not surrender and take it as an outright gift? 1067 00:53:55,809 --> 00:53:56,529 How often? 1068 00:53:57,249 --> 00:53:59,089 Sometimes I make it 30 seconds. 1069 00:54:00,208 --> 00:54:01,729 Sometimes I make it three minutes. 1070 00:54:02,769 --> 00:54:05,129 Sometimes I make it a few hours and didn't even realize it 1071 00:54:05,129 --> 00:54:05,729 went by. 1072 00:54:07,329 --> 00:54:08,609 That's a hallelujah. 1073 00:54:10,859 --> 00:54:14,459 But moment by moment, on purpose, I want him. 1074 00:54:14,459 --> 00:54:15,259 I want him. 1075 00:54:15,659 --> 00:54:17,179 I desire so much. 1076 00:54:17,179 --> 00:54:18,699 I want him to be in control. 1077 00:54:19,739 --> 00:54:23,259 I'm so weary with this fellow over here being in control. 1078 00:54:24,459 --> 00:54:27,499 There's nothing, nothing eternal that comes out of him. 1079 00:54:27,819 --> 00:54:30,419 There's nothing good that brings glory to God that comes out 1080 00:54:30,419 --> 00:54:33,099 of him and satisfies Dave. 1081 00:54:33,099 --> 00:54:37,349 Oh, yeah, I'm a happy dude, but I know I'm not right with him. 1082 00:54:40,229 --> 00:54:41,709 I ask you to stand with me. 1083 00:54:41,709 --> 00:54:42,709 Thank you for listening. 1084 00:54:44,549 --> 00:54:45,909 Let me pray with you, please. 1085 00:54:47,429 --> 00:54:48,829 Our great God, I come to you. 1086 00:54:48,829 --> 00:54:50,229 I thank you for the truth. 1087 00:54:52,069 --> 00:54:57,549 Thank you for the help from others in my life that I needed to 1088 00:54:57,549 --> 00:55:02,269 turn on lights for me to see that the spirit filled life is a 1089 00:55:02,269 --> 00:55:02,789 reality. 1090 00:55:06,529 --> 00:55:09,809 The up and down experience is not the normal Christian life. 1091 00:55:11,889 --> 00:55:15,329 It's not supposed to be the Christian experience, as Brother 1092 00:55:15,329 --> 00:55:16,289 Scofield said. 1093 00:55:18,289 --> 00:55:23,369 I pray that as folks have heard this and you're stirring up 1094 00:55:23,369 --> 00:55:30,099 in their souls, I pray there'd be a revival of your people surrendering 1095 00:55:30,099 --> 00:55:34,859 by faith to let you be who you are in their life. 1096 00:55:39,659 --> 00:55:40,539 Thank you, Christ. 1097 00:55:42,219 --> 00:55:42,939 Thank you. 1098 00:55:43,179 --> 00:55:44,699 For those that are not saved. 1099 00:55:46,459 --> 00:55:49,139 I know you love them and you're bringing conviction on their 1100 00:55:49,139 --> 00:55:49,499 soul. 1101 00:55:49,499 --> 00:55:51,339 I pray they want to get saved tonight. 1102 00:55:53,899 --> 00:55:54,939 Our heads are bowed. 1103 00:55:54,939 --> 00:55:56,059 The music begins. 1104 00:56:03,259 --> 00:56:05,139 If you want to sing with Brother Donaldson, you're welcome 1105 00:56:05,139 --> 00:56:05,339 to. 1106 00:56:05,339 --> 00:56:07,939 But if you want to just come tonight and just spend some time 1107 00:56:07,939 --> 00:56:10,379 with Jesus, maybe you need to do like I did. 1108 00:56:10,379 --> 00:56:11,099 Say I'm sorry. 1109 00:56:11,099 --> 00:56:12,699 I've been trying to do this on my own. 1110 00:56:13,499 --> 00:56:14,819 I realize I can't. 1111 00:56:14,819 --> 00:56:16,339 I proved it a thousand times. 1112 00:56:16,339 --> 00:56:17,259 I can't do it. 1113 00:56:17,579 --> 00:56:19,739 I surrender to you by faith. 1114 00:56:19,739 --> 00:56:20,699 Thank you, Jesus. 1115 00:56:21,179 --> 00:56:22,699 You're in charge of my life now.