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Speaker 2: Amen, Let's take a confession from Joshua and best eight
Speaker 2: best book of the Law, Shallow depart out of my mouth,
Speaker 2: that I shall meditate in a day and night, that
Speaker 2: I may observe to do according to all that just
Speaker 2: rated it. But then I will make my way prospers,
Speaker 2: and then I will have good success. Amen, as we
Speaker 2: welcome each other into the presence of God, and we
Speaker 2: are moving on to a new theme. We want to
Speaker 2: move on to a new theme and through our last month.
Speaker 2: We we're looking at how best we can bring order
Speaker 2: into our conversations in May. And as we always like
Speaker 2: to point out, the fact that we move on to
Speaker 2: a new theme doesn't necessarily mean that that subject is over.
Speaker 2: It means that it should be burning behind as we
Speaker 2: move from one thematic area and to the other. And
Speaker 2: it is all these thematic areas that is ultimately going
Speaker 2: to form a whole and help us to be the
Speaker 2: men and the women that God has called us to be. Amen.
Speaker 2: The emphasies throughout the discourses in the past, Man, when
Speaker 2: we talked about all that in our conversations, was the
Speaker 2: necessity for a total and unconditional surrender to the authority
Speaker 2: and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Amen.
Speaker 2: More or less, we are saying that if our bonn
Speaker 2: again experience, or our submission to the authority of the
Speaker 2: world of God and the Holy Spirit, it is partial
Speaker 2: and conditioner, and most of it when it is partial
Speaker 2: condition Now we enter into a time of war with
Speaker 2: the Spirit of the Lord and say that I'm going to,
Speaker 2: you know, God, something I'm going to choose and pick.
Speaker 2: They are some of the things that they come quite
Speaker 2: naturally and easy for me to do, I'm going to
Speaker 2: do it. But the other ones that doesn't come naturally
Speaker 2: and easy for me to do, when I find out
Speaker 2: that there's a certain form of resistance within my mind,
Speaker 2: my heart and all that, then I'm not going to
Speaker 2: do it. And anytime that we do that and we
Speaker 2: make and the word of God conditioner, and we begin
Speaker 2: to pick and choose, we are hindering ourselves from seeing
Speaker 2: the full explosion of the power of God in our lives.
Speaker 2: And we cannot be the men and the women that
Speaker 2: God has called us to be when we begin to
Speaker 2: pick and choose. Indeed, like the Bible says, and when
Speaker 2: Jesus taught about the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and
Speaker 2: it is God's chief resource to us, he comes not
Speaker 2: only as our teacher, but also as our coach, our advocate,
Speaker 2: our counselor. And so he comes to help us, if
Speaker 2: you like, let me put it this way. The Holy
Speaker 2: Spirit comes to help us not just navigate around, you know,
Speaker 2: the tough you know, portions of the scripture, but he
Speaker 2: comes to be a bed and bearer, to be our
Speaker 2: source of encourage, you know, particularly when we have to
Speaker 2: navigate around those tough areas in our own lives. What
Speaker 2: may be tough for you may not be tough for
Speaker 2: somebody else who have allowed the spirit of the Lord
Speaker 2: to order his or her footsteps and to navigate those
Speaker 2: funny areas that you are now in, Harlene Luier, Amen.
Speaker 2: And that is what, if you like, is going to
Speaker 2: mark the difference between those who are growing maturing in
Speaker 2: the Lord as compared to those who grow to a
Speaker 2: certain place and then stagnate. And there's no room for stagnation.
Speaker 2: You will decay, Amen, you will decay. It's a lifetime battle.
Speaker 2: And at any point in time, if you stop, if
Speaker 2: you cease fighting, if you cease learning, if you seize
Speaker 2: obeying and working out the truth, you stagnate, Halene Luier, Amen,
Speaker 2: Because that's what I'm saying. We don't yield, we are
Speaker 2: not going to grow and mature in the Lord. Then
Speaker 2: you could for or fail. Amen. You would fail, and
Speaker 2: you would fail Hardy Louier. And once again let's remember,
Speaker 2: you know how or the fact that it is not
Speaker 2: our lives but his life, and it is for that
Speaker 2: specific reason that he sends his spirit to take residence
Speaker 2: in us, to come alongside of us to hold our hands,
Speaker 2: to be our biggest fan base and cheer giver that
Speaker 2: you can do it, and sometimes we forget it is
Speaker 2: all because of the prize, the prize at stake. God knows,
Speaker 2: God desires for all his children, as many as the
Speaker 2: Bible says, the Lord our God shall call, as many
Speaker 2: as the Lord our God shall call the promise of
Speaker 2: the Holy bitter told the crowd in our chapter two
Speaker 2: day half of us, and as many us will believe
Speaker 2: afar off and will come to faith the promise of
Speaker 2: the helps, supernatural healths of the Holy Spirit. It's for
Speaker 2: them all. Halene Loujah. Amen. And he comes in if
Speaker 2: you like, like I said, to help us live his life.
Speaker 2: God borrows this casket of clay of ours and takes
Speaker 2: residence in the believer's heart and life, and then all
Speaker 2: our footsteps Halen Lujah Amen. So that is it. He
Speaker 2: borrows our bodies to live his life in and through us.
Speaker 2: And when we resist, then there's no way he can
Speaker 2: help us. Amen. Jesus wants to be both Lord, not
Speaker 2: just savior, but savior and Lord in our lives, every
Speaker 2: believer life. Jesus wants to be not just savior about Lord,
Speaker 2: you understand, Lord Master, hallelujah A may And as we've
Speaker 2: been pointing out, as we are learning, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of work to be done in the life of every believer.
Speaker 2: It's a lifetime work every believer, a lot of work
Speaker 2: to be done. And that is why, like we are saying,
Speaker 2: he sends his Holy Spirit into hours to make God
Speaker 2: real and tangible. God. The Holy Spirit comes to make
Speaker 2: God real and tangible to each and everyone. He is
Speaker 2: responsible for the proofs that we need. He's responsible for
Speaker 2: those visions, those dreams, those peculiar manifestations of His life
Speaker 2: and presence about in and around every believer's life that
Speaker 2: makes us rise up and says, I believe. I believe,
Speaker 2: I believe, and somebody in the people who do. That's
Speaker 2: the mystery of the godly life. And people are just wondering,
Speaker 2: what has this person seen? What is he here? Why?
Speaker 2: Where does it get and deride the power to live
Speaker 2: this life the presence of the Holy Spirit. And until
Speaker 2: you begin to experience, and you will be deley dialing
Speaker 2: around the faith and it's not going to help you.
Speaker 2: You have to reach out in faith. You just have
Speaker 2: to take the word of God by its faith ballot
Speaker 2: and cry out for help, and just do it even
Speaker 2: when you think you don't understand it. The word, the
Speaker 2: authority of the Word should be sufficient to us to
Speaker 2: demand or elicit our obedience. And then the whole reality
Speaker 2: dawns on us. And then now we are not like Paul.
Speaker 2: We say we begin to take you know, meaningful strives,
Speaker 2: and we are no longer shadow boxing. I know my
Speaker 2: Redeemer live, I know my savior list. I know that
Speaker 2: he's going to come one day, and I know that
Speaker 2: with my eyes, with my face, I will see why.
Speaker 2: Because you have the evidence with me and you do everything.
Speaker 2: It's not the responsibility of any pastor, it's not my response.
Speaker 2: The responsibility of the Holy Spirit to make Christ manifest
Speaker 2: to you and every child. They will do it. Once again,
Speaker 2: we getting to the roots. We need it, we need it,
Speaker 2: We need Godle's work to be meaningful and real. Ell
Speaker 2: somewhere along the line you're throwing the towel Halen Lujah, Amen.
Speaker 2: And then not just at the top of the list,
Speaker 2: like we always like to point up all the graces
Speaker 2: and all the virtues and resources that the Holy Spirit brings.
Speaker 2: Is the need or the ability to descend the voice
Speaker 2: of God. Halenluier, Amen. It's very very important. And once
Speaker 2: again we've been giving the A. B c's it's not
Speaker 2: just going to happen if you neglect your quiet time.
Speaker 2: Just do what you can do, or we have been
Speaker 2: implored upon to do. Do your quieter, read your Bible
Speaker 2: every day, pray every day, go to church when you
Speaker 2: come to church, sing when they are singing, Amen, clap
Speaker 2: when they are clap. Participate in the life of the church.
Speaker 2: As we continue to cry out for meaning, You'll just
Speaker 2: be doing it. And God, who is responsible for the signs,
Speaker 2: the proof that we need, the tangibility that we need,
Speaker 2: our help anchor faith, he will do that, Harley Louier.
Speaker 2: And remember, like you are saying, God deems us to
Speaker 2: be imitated and image bearers of himself. Haled Luier, Amen.
Speaker 2: And as we are saying, before we can become the
Speaker 2: image bearest of God, we are talking. We are still
Speaker 2: talking about all that in our giving. I'm yes, see
Speaker 2: how west I'm going to tailor of it into it, Harleeyluier.
Speaker 2: So we are still there, we are on track, Harleed Louia, Amen.
Speaker 2: Because it all comes to back to that amen before
Speaker 2: this our ability to be ordered by the spirit of
Speaker 2: God to work in obedience to him. We have said it,
Speaker 2: and we are learning, and we are emphasizing again the needed,
Speaker 2: absolute need to disconstruct the old man. He said, even
Speaker 2: a man being Christ, he is a new creature. The
Speaker 2: old is gone and all things are new. And let
Speaker 2: me say this, it is urgent business. The old man
Speaker 2: has to be put off and the new man put on.
Speaker 2: See it as agent, very very urgent halln Loujah. He may,
Speaker 2: because the old man he cannot receive instructions from God.
Speaker 2: You and I know before we said yea and yes
Speaker 2: to Jesus, we didn't like God. We didn't like church,
Speaker 2: we didn't like believers, we didn't like church goers. He may.
Speaker 2: And so if you don't destroy the old man, it's
Speaker 2: the same you before you realize Satan wise and every time,
Speaker 2: just like that. The Israeli is when they left Egypt,
Speaker 2: they abandoned Egypt. Can you imagine it, that Pharaoh and
Speaker 2: these people that's by all the devastating effects of the temples,
Speaker 2: he did to chase the people again, just to tell
Speaker 2: you for us that what goes on in the New Testament.
Speaker 2: He would chase us again. You are gone by. It's
Speaker 2: on the church Halene Lujah. And so God gets his
Speaker 2: last life and we cross over to the other side,
Speaker 2: and so we live this life. Say down, will be
Speaker 2: at our heels and chase us to get us back
Speaker 2: to Egypt so that we can save him and put
Speaker 2: that yo back upon us that you of serving. He's
Speaker 2: not happy that we have escaped. Harley Louis. Amen. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Is agen business. The old man has
Speaker 2: to be put off and the new man put on.
Speaker 2: And that's a lot of work to do. But time flee.
Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit is given to age believer or child
Speaker 2: of God to facilitate the enormous task that needs to
Speaker 2: be done. I want you to say a big amen.
Speaker 2: He will help you. It doesn't matter how you are saying.
Speaker 2: All they say the old man bars for me, my
Speaker 2: old man. M If I want to talk about my
Speaker 2: old man, everybody will here about their heads. No, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter that old money. How distorted he distorted your
Speaker 2: psyche and everything in Christ, she said, he said, greater
Speaker 2: is he that is in us than he that is
Speaker 2: out there in the world. All that he needs is
Speaker 2: our cooperation. That's the difference. You can't be delivered. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter what it is. You can't believe it. You
Speaker 2: can't be delivered. Every vice, every wrong attitude, you can't
Speaker 2: be delivered. Why are you going to cooperate? The only
Speaker 2: spired just needs our cooperation. And then that old man
Speaker 2: who will be dealt with, Halen Lowier. Amen. God will
Speaker 2: do his part and supply the graces that we need.
Speaker 2: But you and I we must be determined. We must
Speaker 2: have determination on our part so that the partner she
Speaker 2: can work well for advantage. Amen. And like we said,
Speaker 2: we must go to school, Harly Louier. We must go
Speaker 2: to school, the School of the Spirit, and we must
Speaker 2: attend classes regularly and learn from the Holy Spirit how
Speaker 2: to nor how to communicate with each other, Harlenluier and
Speaker 2: all that he has taught us, Harly Luier. Amen. Amen.
Speaker 2: And one of the hard truths and lessons that we
Speaker 2: will be learning in the School of the Spirit is
Speaker 2: our giving life. Amen, Our giving life, Harlely Louier. And
Speaker 2: now we've been learning here three tis our time, our talents,
Speaker 2: and our treasures. Hallelujah. God saves us and redeems us
Speaker 2: so that we can give back to him the life
Speaker 2: that he redeems. He wants us to give that life
Speaker 2: back to him. Second Corinthians five, verse fifteen, before we
Speaker 2: come to seventeen, or that possible came to seventeen and
Speaker 2: told us that the old man is gone, and behold
Speaker 2: all things and listen to him. In Second Corinthians five
Speaker 2: point fifteen as a preamble to the distraction of the
Speaker 2: old man. And then if you like the outdooring of
Speaker 2: the new man, he says this, and he died for
Speaker 2: all that those who live might no longer live for themselves,
Speaker 2: but for him who for their sake died and most raised.
Speaker 2: That's why we say it's a life of exchange. Amen, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: He died for all that those who lived might no
Speaker 2: longer live for themselves, but for him who for their
Speaker 2: sake died. That's three halle Louis Yeah. Amen. In the
Speaker 2: spiritual or the cosmic world, lots of things are taking place,
Speaker 2: Lots of battles takes place over the life of every believer,
Speaker 2: even after redemption. As I said, Satan is out are
Speaker 2: here trying to get us back and to lock his
Speaker 2: in harlen lujah, Amen, and Because of that, I'm talking
Speaker 2: about the need for us to rise up, just rise up.
Speaker 2: The spiritual warfare. For believer, it's a lifetime. It's a
Speaker 2: lifetime or spiritual warfare we talk about. It's not when
Speaker 2: we are doing first thing and praying the Lord or
Speaker 2: I pip that we are engaging in spiritual warfare. Every
Speaker 2: morning when you wake up and you are going on
Speaker 2: your knees, you're asking God to help you, like the
Speaker 2: apostle purse. Therefore, put on the full armor of God
Speaker 2: during that quiet time. God will bring that son, daughter,
Speaker 2: Can you put it on so that we can withstand
Speaker 2: the wilds of the devil, that's the schemes of the devil,
Speaker 2: the wows of the devil. And he said, I've been
Speaker 2: done all to stand because we are not worrying against
Speaker 2: flesh and black, but against principalities and powers, spiritual forces
Speaker 2: of darkness. Harled Luyer and the spiritual affair. It's for
Speaker 2: a lifetime, halened Louia. And like we say, where is
Speaker 2: the fight being fought? You could see in your mind
Speaker 2: or in the heart, in your mind or in the
Speaker 2: the Bible says, out of the abundance of the heart,
Speaker 2: the mouth speaks halened Louyer. Amen. Before we came to Christ,
Speaker 2: we were exposed to a certain way of life that's simply,
Speaker 2: like I mentioned, it wants to have nothing to do
Speaker 2: with God or the Word of go Hallelujah Amen. And
Speaker 2: we had learned a lot of ways of the world,
Speaker 2: Satan's philosophy, the way and manner he compelled us to
Speaker 2: live in defiance of the Word of God, and we
Speaker 2: all lived it out. Halee luia. But then once we
Speaker 2: come to Christ, then, like he says, that the old
Speaker 2: is gone, everything is new, Halleluiah, Amen. And so in
Speaker 2: this man's as we are looking at yet another. We
Speaker 2: are looking at a very very important subject of bringing
Speaker 2: order in our giving life as individuals, as families, and
Speaker 2: I believe in as a church. Halleluia. And our text
Speaker 2: is taken from Matthew chapter six, verse twenty four. Can
Speaker 2: we now pick it up. So those are some of
Speaker 2: the truths that we have lent. Like I said, we
Speaker 2: are tailed oving all our conversations, our conversations with God,
Speaker 2: order in our prayer, ordering conversations with one another. And
Speaker 2: now we're going to look at how we can bring
Speaker 2: order to our giving life and can we put it
Speaker 2: in context? Now, let's start from verse nineteen and then
Speaker 2: come to twenty four, just a little context. And he says,
Speaker 2: do not lay out for yourselves treasures on earth, where
Speaker 2: mouth and rust destroyed, and where thieves break in and
Speaker 2: steal twenty But layer for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
Speaker 2: neither moth nor rast destroys, and were thieves. Do not
Speaker 2: break in and steal. Where your treasure is there, your
Speaker 2: heart will be also twenty two. The lamp of the
Speaker 2: body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good,
Speaker 2: your whole body will be full of life. Twenty three.
Speaker 2: But if your eye is bad, your whole body will
Speaker 2: be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is
Speaker 2: in you is darkness, how great is that darkness? And
Speaker 2: then he says that no one can save two masters,
Speaker 2: for either he will hate the one and love the other,
Speaker 2: or else he will lawyer to the one and despise
Speaker 2: the other. You cannot save God, and mammon, Amen. He's
Speaker 2: talking about being divided, die vision, save God, or save man.
Speaker 2: And already before in nineteen was thinking about the treasures
Speaker 2: he knows. And in this verse yea, he says, you
Speaker 2: cannot save God. And mammon mamone was the name for
Speaker 2: the god or the spirit behind wealth, money or property
Speaker 2: in Jesus' day, how they do here and so by
Speaker 2: so saying, he was talking about the under geathering, you know,
Speaker 2: spirit behind the drive the quest for money, at the
Speaker 2: exclusion of the same drive passion and enthusiasm for God.
Speaker 2: In a in a way, Jesus was trying to let
Speaker 2: us draw our attention. Look, if we put the same zeal, passion,
Speaker 2: enthusiasm in our sech for God as we do for money,
Speaker 2: we will find him. And this one, let me say
Speaker 2: a few think here and do what I believe we
Speaker 2: should do this night, and then lay the foundation for
Speaker 2: our subsequent talks. Is the fact that this is part
Speaker 2: of what he said during the Semon on the Mount.
Speaker 2: So Matthew chapter five, six and seven. The gospel writer
Speaker 2: Matthew sets in place what Bible scholars and the church
Speaker 2: or the Christian Bible students and scholars have come to know,
Speaker 2: and called the Salmon on the Mount Harlen Louis, and
Speaker 2: the Salmon on the Mount, we could call it eve
Speaker 2: you like a code of ethics for believers. Jesus in
Speaker 2: the Salmon on the mound sets out kingdom ethics, kingdom ethos, culture,
Speaker 2: and principles that God expects to see in the life
Speaker 2: of his children. And I just want us to read there.
Speaker 2: I look at it. There are seventy two verses before
Speaker 2: we get to these twenty four. So we are going
Speaker 2: to attempt to read all these seventy two verses, you know,
Speaker 2: so that we can get the backdrop, you know, of
Speaker 2: where money comes in. And I have yet that. But
Speaker 2: don't take me on because I've not ready anywhere. If
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, it is me that I'm wrong. The same
Speaker 2: one on the mount can be cited as one of
Speaker 2: the longest lecture times or sessions that Jesus had with
Speaker 2: his disciples here on earth. I don't know it said five, six, seven,
Speaker 2: and from five and six to twenty four alone, I've
Speaker 2: counted seventy two verses, and we have to continue from
Speaker 2: there to the end of chapter six and then chapter seven,
Speaker 2: and all these things from the gospel I can't seem
Speaker 2: to have been one long lecture or session. And I've
Speaker 2: told you, amen, it was a session where he lay
Speaker 2: clearly the kingdom principles that God wants or expects to
Speaker 2: be seen in his disciples or larous. And remember who
Speaker 2: the disciple is. The disciple is someone who is falling
Speaker 2: a rabbi so that he can be coached, mentor taught
Speaker 2: and hopefully become just like his rabbi. That's why we
Speaker 2: call disciples were larous. Amen. Jesus came to teach and
Speaker 2: to do We'll read it somewhere Halleluier, so the Bible says.
Speaker 2: And seeing the multi use, he went up on the mountain,
Speaker 2: and when he was seated, look at the people who
Speaker 2: came to it. His disciples. His disciples came to him.
Speaker 2: So it wasn't just the crowd, but particularly his disciples
Speaker 2: was the focus of this rather long lecture. Three chapters,
Speaker 2: three long chapters, Hall the Lawyer. Amen.
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