Bishop Noel Jones - Expressing Yourself - 02-27-2022

[Music] [Applause] ephesians chapter 4 and again giving consideration to about verse 19 but focusing a little bit later on 22 23 24 19 who being past feelings have given themselves over into lasciviousness to work on cleanness of greediness but ye have not so learned christ if so that if so be rather that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in jesus that you put off concerning the former conversations the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and this is striking for me verse 23 is extremely poignant very striking for me because until i studied it in depth i never saw it to this degree and be renewed not simply in your mind but he takes it to another depth another level be renewed in the spirit of your mind be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind he goes deeper than that because now he's going down to the spirit of your mind that he put on the new man which after god is created in righteousness and true holiness and then he now delineates how it expresses itself you know it's one thing to give me a mystical and an ethereal command and then when you receive those kinds of commands you have to ask the question well how does it express itself because all of us can declare ourselves to be the children of god and anybody can talk about being a child of god we hear a whole lot of it but the question is how does that express itself how can i tell by your outward behavior what the condition of your inward self is or are the two associated you see in many instances we expect people to accept the fact that we declare ourselves to be children of god without the expression as if the two aren't connected and one of the ways we skirt about it and we get around it is we condemn people for judging yes you're judging me i told you i'm a child of god accept it when somebody want to move in with you speak in little tongues as the lord told me child of god and they get in your house and the next week you want them to leave relating to somebody who's supposed to be a child of god i really love the lord you can trust me and their actions aren't significantly associated with their conversation it's interesting dynamic he's it's not that i'm judging you but if you're lying all the time is it so wrong that i call you a liar why are you so mean let me let me stay in the bible here let me stay with the bible but put your seat belts on i'm telling you and i've got mine on the spirit of your mind that you put on 24 so 25 now he's going to give us this a description of the behavior wherefore putting away lying he's talking to church folk here speak every man truth with his neighbor oh my goodness for we are members one of another be angry and sin not let not the sun [Music] go down upon your wrath because as anger festers it becomes malicious see see you you got to get that anger away from you quickly because when anger begins to think on how to behave towards who you're angry with it becomes malice it becomes bitterness it becomes revengeful so what he's saying is now and and he's really using or gay here it's a righteous indignation but he says don't allow this righteous indignation to turn into something else i want to talk to those who it happened 15 years ago but it's just like it was yesterday what you did to me is like it was yesterday and every day is like yesterday so there is no distance between the anger and where you are right now even though what happened happened 15 years ago it's really interesting that i can plan a whole year put something on layaway to bless you and save my money what i wanted to give you it took a year of my savings because i couldn't afford to give it to you because i wasn't making that kind of money it took me a year and give it to your christmas merry christmas thank you oh it's so nice i like it so much 15 minutes later you forgot it we're riding in the car and i happen to slip and say something about your mother it came out so fast and five years later you still i slipped i didn't mean to you know i didn't mean it like that i know she mean but i didn't mean it like that five years later you're still bringing it up how many times have you gone out of your way to be good to somebody and they absorbed it it dissipated and disappeared in half an hour but you open your mouth and say something you're sorry about and they can't get over it can't forgive it always bringing it back up festering and living on it not knowing that it's eating away the goodness that may have been in you it's eating it away now notice now in 26 he moves to 27 and it's connected because if you're angry sin not don't let the sun go down on your wrath now here's 27 neither give place to the devil because the devil sure talks to you when you're mad i'm looking at you i see the white of your eyes that mask ain't covering nothing now to the thieves that we still have he's talking to saints now let him that stole steal no more but get a job but let him rather let him labor working with his hands the things which is good now notice now that he may have to give to him that needeth now there's a couple of things here i want to note the first thing is it didn't say take it back he didn't say restore it say let him that stole steal no more but he didn't say take back what you stole he didn't say that because you might take it back somebody lock you up somebody hurt you he didn't say that it's a nice thing to do to take it back stole this from you uh it's a nice thing to do you gave me too much change i'm taking it back i'm not going on said the lord bless me i'm taking it back i did that once and i was bowling in a bowling alley and the man thought i gave him a hundred when i gave him a 20 and he gave me change for a hundred and i got outside i looked at the change and i said man the man gave me too much money i took it back i said sir you gave me too much money he said never in my life would i believe that somebody would do that and he let me bowl for free for three years and see what i'm saying he said man you can come bowl anytime you want to and boy did i bowl did i vote it worked out but notice the second thing he says is anytime you're working and you're a giver you're not likely to be a thief do you see the relationship here if i'm working and i'm not thinking of myself alone while i'm working i'm working and giving that has taken me beyond being a thief because if i had thievery in my mind i wouldn't be kind because thievery is narcissistic in its implication the very word thief means you're willing to take something that belongs to somebody else and unless you're robin hood and that's that's mythological you're not taking stuff from somebody to give it to somebody else if you steal it all right let's go on now we're talking about what you're putting off what you're putting away i love this text let no corrupt instagram proceed out of your mouth let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which be it with is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers grieve not the holy spirit of god whereby you were sealed until the day of redemption let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice now he's telling you what saints don't do oh we need a prayer line and now he's going to tell you what saints do do and be kind one to another tender hearted forgiving one another even as god for christ's sake has forgiven you i'm talking about the other side of fortification and really i want to talk about the expression of being fortified i open because the second point in the teaching that they have received was that in their experience that is because you have learned christ and i've slowed down i didn't feel like hoping this like like last week but because i think it's something that we need to get and if we're guilty then we need to purge if we're not then we need to rejoice and keep on doing what we're doing but since you have learned christ and i think that we as the promulgators of truth and as postulators of the word i think we have to take a great deal of responsibility for the presentations that we have made and i tell young preachers hotel preachers period that your intent determines your content whatever you intend in your spirit is how you present to the people the content in other words if i came here today and my intent was to raise money then the content of my message would be money oriented if i came here today and my intent was to make you stronger and to strengthen us together then i'm going to have a content that edifies i say that because the question has to be how come we have not learned christ if we have been in church every week bible class listening to other pastors and preachers as we all do how is it that we have not learned christ and i may respond by saying you were taught christ but you were a bad student or i can take the responsibility of simply saying maybe i haven't taught christ i taught morality i taught blessings and prosperity but i didn't teach christ the problem is both ways i think because oftentimes the teacher is seeking to present what it is that the people want to hear and the bible made it very clear that the day would come when we would heap to ourselves teachers because our ears are itching for a particular presentation and the preacher comes along and he scratches the itch in learning christ there are going to be times when [Music] he upsets you and i and makes us very uncomfortable i can't speak for you but i speak for myself and that is often times i have wanted the bible to go away yes and the proclivity the tendency maybe even the predilection is to get with somebody who agrees with me it goes like this now bishop jakes preach it like this but do you agree with him maybe it should be this and oh you ain't listening so let me talk to somebody over here and i keep going around until i find somebody who will help me to modify what i don't want to deal with you see we had a young man i i think he he played for lyola marymon some years ago he had a heart problem i mean if you remember i don't remember his name yeah i didn't hear what you said but yeah kimball yeah gathers yeah had a heart problem but he went around till he found the doctor that said it was okay and he died tragically on the court we skirt around because learning jesus at times makes us uncomfortable because the level of righteousness that is depicted in the historical presentation of christ and the penchant to take risks for god's sake frightens us at times we didn't come in to the relationship with christ according to the presentations that we responded to we didn't come in to take risks in projecting and proclaiming and living and walking according to his word we came in for him to fix conditions because he was marketed as a condition fixer serve jesus and everything gonna be all right i've been waiting for they're all right they didn't tell us when and and the lord is very careful about what he says he says after you suffer a why but he didn't tell us how long a while was if you so learn christ how he would react to somebody who's blogging negatively towards you really interesting you don't stuck it out there you're the one started what they started to do with you you started it amen you're the one put it out there and then they responded to it now you don't like how they respond so you amp it up a little bit and respond and then they amp it up and respond and next thing you know you're all in the ionosphere exposing every bit of thing that ever was in you and you didn't know they had more bitterness than you did so their response got you crying now got you feeling like suicide but if you have learned christ there is only so far you can go before what you have learned kicks in now if you're a saint only by label but you have no expression then you have not put off the old man now i bring it this morning because he is not asking me now to ask god to put it off he has put me in a position where it now becomes a choice oh i i want to rejoice right here i want to rejoice here's why i want to rejoice before he filled me with his before he put me in his word i had no choice because i was the other gentile i didn't have the resisting power i didn't have the standing power i didn't have it because i didn't have the counterbalance i didn't have in me the weaponry to refute to defeat what i was i was not born again i want to talk to the saints i was not renewed now he fills me with his spirit he gives me his word so i'm not dead to sin anymore in the same book he said ye hath he quickened who were once dead i wish you could talk to one another i ain't dead anymore i don't have to be like that anymore i got power now to resist and my resisting is now not only emotional not only intellectual but it's volitional what am i saying see when you come to god a lot of coming to god is emotional you preach a certain way [Music] and and and get you to move oh this thing is moving me oh [Music] and you run down the aisle and then oh give me jesus preaching and hyped you up got you so happy you're running and and you know we know what to do but then you're happy but you don't know why because you ain't figured it out now i'm going up here so after the emotion wears off we lose you i gotta keep you emotionally charged in order to stay if you're coming from emotion then you move from emotion to intellect and this is yeah i understand why i need to be saved you know i need to be saved but needing to be saved and walking saved hasn't yet happened because you haven't applied your will i will serve god and i will not back up no matter what comes my way it's your will that god is coming after because once he has your will the devil can't get you back i will bless the lord at all i will so it takes emotion intellect and will and will becomes a matter of choice will is the power of your spirit see when a person can't break your spirit they can't break your will so my awakening allows him to say to me put off couldn't say that to me before he filled me with his spirit see the thing i love about god is he does not expect holiness until he makes you holy one of the problems we have in our relationships i'm a marriage counselor now one of the problems we have in our relationship is expecting something from someone who doesn't have it in them and not only in a marriage or man woman relationship but in any relationship teacher student coach athlete and much of the coaches problems with athlete is not a skill set in the game that he's coaching or playing but it's his character his ability to will himself into the discipline that's needed when the emotion is gone see this is why when you deal in relationships you deal with feelings and duty feelings when feeling is to the 10th degree and duty is on a 1. then you better keep that person feeling good on it because it only treats you right when they feel good when duty is on a 10 and feeling is on a one it don't matter how they feel they gonna deliver what they supposed to deliver because their duty overcomes their feeling now tell you you want me to tell you conflict conflict is when feelings and duty are even now you got conflict [Music] i don't feel it i really don't feel it then the other voice said yeah but you're supposed to do it i i'm feeling that i don't talk to me today because i don't want to do it when duty overcomes feelings will is engaged but you can't engage your will about something you don't understand listen listen how he puts it a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways because in double-mindedness you can't engage your will it's popping around popping around so you can't engage your wheel where you're going to engage it to if you're double-minded you got a single mind to engage your will and once your will is engaged the devil got to back up see the devil messes with your mind so you don't engage your will and god says if you have learned christ now i can tell you what to do i don't have to do this for you you either choose to be angry all night or you choose to let it go i want to talk to you now cause you want to blame somebody else you want to put this on somebody else nobody wrote that blog for you the devil didn't come and take your hand and write all the nasty things you said about your brother your sister devil didn't do that you were not in a fog in a state of unconsciousness you could have been drunk though you could have been drunk and the liquor released all your inhibitions but the liquor didn't add anything to you it only released your inhibitions and released the stop you had on that side of you that needed to be stopped and had you been in your right mind you wouldn't have done it yeah but you got that liquor in you amen and you didn't have anybody with you to tell you don't go sing that anthem today leave that anthem alone today be absent don't be present in that state now let me just digress in all of your entourage have somebody in the group who'll check you can can i talk to somebody here don't just have a group of folk with you who go along with anything you do amen all you shopping women have somebody in the group who will say you know what you're spending too much money you know what your husband told you i heard him tell you have somebody in there with a conscience for the man's pocketbook have somebody in there if somebody in the group would say now you had enough now you're slurring you're talking crazy you can't walk out the building somebody got a carrier the man's talking to saints i'm talking to saints yeah i know that cbd i know it's illegal now but you need somebody in the group so now you don't smoked enough of that mess yeah your glaucoma is healed now you ain't got no you can see real good now you know he is giving them an imperative because they're awakened to the point where they can make a decision and he's saying now in the second point in the teaching they have received in their experience and now it's time [Music] to be renewed in the spirit of their minds now the word is to be renewed to be renovated by inward reformation which means that once i have on the whole armor of god and the attack cannot come from the outside because the armor of god cannot be penetrated your thoughts about god have to be elevated to where you can say certain things about god and not flinch and that is god's protection cannot be penetrated and the only way satan can get to you is if god allows you you you gotta settle that in your mind if i step out of this house with god's protection i don't care who's shooting i don't care how much the earth is quaking i don't care how many fires rise how many mudslides come down if i'm walking under the protection of god nothing can harm me there is no witch smart enough there is no wizard powerful enough there is no demon great enough that can harm me when i'm walking with the protection of god i gotta settle that right now because some people think that they can be penetrated they can be moved they can be upstaged this is why you don't get worried about position and moving people out and lying about people and trying to put people down in order to stand on top of their head if god before us [Applause] [Music] oh the question he's asking is coming from heaven if god before us who [Music] oh i feel like shouting right there i could close right there who name somebody oh the pastor kept me down god wasn't for you talk to me you all got quiet on that uh well well the boss kept me where the god wasn't for you and it was for you that rejection is direction what god is saying is i don't want you in that door i got another door for you so i'm protecting you from less than what i want you to have oh job look the situation in the face he said the lord gave it he said nothing about the devil it was the devil giving him all that hell but he realized he can't get hell from the devil if god didn't permit it if god before you who can i preach like i feel it if god before you all things work together i want you to be renovated now because you've learned christ but i want to go not from the influence of anything that is outside of you i want you to be renewed in the spirit of your mind now i'm not dealing now with surface renewal of renewal that is stimulated by emotion i want to go deep down inside of you with a spiritual operation [Music] that goes to the core of how you think now how many i put this there are certain medicines we take that don't cure us and we were talking about the pharmaceuticals today and people worrying about this vaccine like you think modern or pfizer want to kill you [Music] won't kill you the pharmaceuticals don't want to kill you but they don't want to cure you understand you dad don't put money in their pocket you being cured don't put money in a pocket they want you with diabetes do you know the billions and billions of dollars they make with diabetes do you know that the pharmaceuticals challenge the doctors to get medicine to you within seven minutes of your visit do you know that the advertising on the tv now asks you to ask your doctor ask me to ask the doctor will this work for me i ain't got no clinic i didn't self-examinate so all you scared that people trying to kill you they ain't trying to kill you but come up with a cure and somebody might kill you amen you come up with a cure for diabetes and and you better get security because they don't want it cured see what the lord is saying here in this text is i'm not giving you something to palliate the symptoms i want your cure so what i want to do is go down to the spirit of your mind i want to get you to the place where you can make yourself think any other way oh i want to i i wish i could teach this i wish i could teach this do you know what it would mean to you right now if you couldn't think evil about somebody do you know what it would mean to you right now if you couldn't think yourself into depression i hear you right now everybody around you is depressed and you want to join them that feels like such an oddball everybody complaining and i'm over here just full of joy i would i i want to think like they think that look at him crying oh i wish i could cry but look what all i'm going through and i'm still happy i'm still full of joy i i can't even think that way anymore what god is saying i want to renew you in the spirit of your mind i want to go so deep down in you that you can't think nothing negative [Applause] [Music] hey i feel like dancing the around you looking at you all i'm sad down hearted downtrodden and you walking with your head up happy as you can be and they looking at you like you crazy but i can't speak that way anymore [Applause] [Music] i can't think defeat anymore god took it out of me god cleansed me of it i can't be a slave anymore i can't think it i can't think being used by a man or a woman anymore i used to run to it but i can't go that way no more i'm different now the right it ain't even can't even cross my mind folks look at you and don't know you now i know your face but i don't i i don't know this attitude you have something's different about you i'm different from the core everything on the outside is surface but what's on the inside has renewed my thinking i think differently so i talk differently so i walk differently so i act differently so i behave differently because i can't think like that anymore [Applause] i feel the spirit of god so now it's a put off and a put on can't sink old man anymore it goes like this ain't you gonna say something about that aren't you gonna retaliate you got them in your hand now and you know the test is when somebody's tried to break you apart and then somehow they didn't break you apart but they become vulnerable in your hand and if you thought like you used to think you would wipe them out but you find yourself making a choice not to do anything that's on christ like because you have learned christ and he has changed you not only on the surface but he went into the very spirit of your mind that's where we are today lord lord i need the surgery that goes deep down inside of me that renews me not on the surface of my thinking but the depth of my spirit which is married to your spirit that makes it so i can't even think that anymore and if i can't think it anymore i sure can't do it because as a man thinketh in his heart not only do i can't think it anymore i'm not that anymore let me talk to you as i close isn't it marvelous when the people around you are spiritual enough to know when you've changed you know i hear people people talk about love love love love all the time and you know you know how i interpret love trust i love you i love you i love you i love you i trust you i trust you so now the debate is can you love who you don't trust it's interesting interesting conversation to be trustworthy is core love is an emotion to be trustworthy you love some people but you wouldn't put your life in their hands because you don't trust them it's interesting dynamic trust worthy people have a character strength that you can depend on them no matter how they feel because feelings change but core values and what makes you you gives the people around you the power to say that's not her whatever you just said about her that ain't her whatever you said about him that ain't him how you know how you know because i know him and i know his core values i know her and i know her core values because when somebody has been changed in the spirit of their mind that irreversible over situation that ain't reversible over how somebody made you feel because you can feel like a fool and still do what you're supposed to do it don't change me because this is me if i give you my word that's me it don't matter how you treat me i'm gonna keep my word you think you're getting over on me but i know you playing me but i said i would core see the lord ain't trying to move you on the surface the lord is trying to fix you for any situation so that no matter what comes up you can open your mouth look the devil in the face and say i will bless the lord at all not sometimes [Music] church till the next time but children of god as i ran through that survey i saw some things that were that was very very disheartening but very encouraging and the unchurched in that survey and i should do it with the ministers the unchurched still have faith and trust in church leadership 60 to 70 percent of unchurchful had marvelous things to say about their trust in church leadership and church what does that say that says with all of the way we haven't lived right with all of the way we have cussed people out and gone crazy with the way we act make people feel uncomfortable they still have some confidence what does that do that does not make me feel like we should keep on doing what we've been doing what that makes me feel like is god saying to me up your game if 60 still think you're valuable if you're up your game we could move it to 80 and if we can just win one soul out of those who were skeptical we have conquered the whole world i'm teaching this because we have got to come to the place where we don't only talk it we express it to each other because if we're all in the same body why are we lying to each other i'm closing the text said one and i'm going to get to it probably next week godzilla one he said you are members one of another so put off lying now why would i lie to you lying is really born out of fear ain't no faith in lying lying is fear fear all right what am i afraid of i'm lying to you about who i am because i'm scared if i tell you the truth you won't want to deal with me amen so i fabricate how important i am how much i got how much i'm doing because i figured out man if you tell her now he ain't gonna want you so you lie if you cutting up and you got a wife and you're out you're playing you come home lying you're lying because you're scared she's gonna throw you out mm-hmm you're lying because you don't want to you're scared if she knows she ain't gonna treat you like she like you ain't done what you did johnny walker johnny taylor said you're running out of lies you're lying you're lying because you're trying to cover up something that you're afraid if it's exposed now why would i lie to you i lie to you because i'm afraid that you won't think of me in the same way you would if you didn't know what i did but if we're one body and remembers one of another i should be able to tell you the truth about whatever's wrong with me and you should be able to handle it through prayer and restoring me to god so perfect love casteth out fear i shouldn't be afraid that i would be decimated by a person that i'm a member of remembers one of another which means i ought to have your back and you ought to have my back as we adjourn in fellowship with the lord jesus christ interesting we'll talk about it if you're in this building and you're not saved i think we have pointed out to you what god wants to do he wants to restore you and he wants to renew your mind i need thee [Music] oh i need this [Music] [Music] i [Music] the lord is calling somebody earnestly and he's reaching for you right now and he's saying come come come unto me all ye that labor all these that are heavy late if you have any burden if you have any yoke he says take my yoke upon you and learn of me there is a distinct difference between being unsaved and being saved saved you're dealing with weaknesses you're getting over unsaved you're just living any way you choose the lord is saying i want to challenge you now i want to challenge you to come under my blood let my blood cleanse you let my spirit rejuvenate you that you may walk in the newness of life that your outlook will be different that your intake will be different if you will just come i come to [Music] [Music] call [Music] to bring you out of that trap [Music] he's called [Music] [Music] he's called [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you

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Published: Mon Feb 28 2022