Bishop Wooden Preaches // "Things That Accompany Salvation"

[Music] so we preach today from this subject things that accompany salvation things that accompany salvation bless us Lord me we do no damage but preach that which become if sound doctrine and holiness in Jesus name Amen Fame connected with salvation things that are near salvation and accompany it things that accompany salvation simply put there are behaviors goals objections there are lifestyles there are things that are part of being saved when you get saved there are certain things that accompany the new birth the new life in Christ as believers there are certain things that we do and there are certain things that we don't do things that accompany salvation and somebody tells you that they are say there there are certain reasonable expectations there are certain things that you look for that you expect that you have that you can reasonably assume about a person if they tell you that they are saying a man the Apostle Paul said it this way to the Saints that emphasis to the Ephesians Saints he says in Ephesians 4 and 22 through 24 that you put off concerning the former conversation that you put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of you mine and that you put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness might be look at it contextually in chapter 4 verse 17 it says this I say therefore and testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds having their understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them that when we get saved we do not walk as other Gentiles walk you realize that the laws are in darkness their understanding is darkened because they are alienated from the life of God praise the Lord through ignorance the ignorance that is in them see as Christians you can we can't get our marching orders from the unsaved loss they can't explain to us they can't give us moral standards the hip-hoppers k-tel church folk how to live when church in Georgia - preaches deceased now was famous became infamous because he had a lot of worldly singers and rappers and RB people who didn't Jesus featured at its church as though their fame in the entertainment world somehow gives them some kind of license to tell the church and the Saints what we should do how we should live I turn a complete deaf ear to any moral instructions from any movie star any insane famous person doesn't matter to me how well they may do in business the CEO of Apple can't teach me morals you don't hear me a man a unsaved politician who endorses abortion can't come up in here and speak to you in this holy place and say I support a woman's right to choose here's their sentence won't get out their mouths before I have to ask them to sit down Saturday was the National Day of Mourning the National Day of Mourning you know what we were mourning since 1970 320 million african-american babies have been aborted to give you an idea I don't think the state of North Carolina what is it in me that's the population of our state it's not 20 million persons not in this state that many thoughtful who should be here I'm missing I saw where and I didn't know the churches could do it there's a Baptist of black church in african-american church in Georgia that has a sign out in front of the church that says if you are black and you vote for Trump you are mentally ill and if you're white and you vote for Trump you are a racist that's on the other side of the sign my position is vote your convictions vote for who you want but a sign like that doesn't make the argument I could say and I could make the argument if you're black and you vote for somebody who supports abortion the thing that have wiped out 20 million of us since 1973 you're mentally ill anything that's killing your people when somebody please give me the logic show me how that is good for us what is logical about 46 percent of African Americans who should be living who should be alive we're we're not here Planned Parenthood kills more African American babies more African Americans every two weeks then the Klan kill in its entire history so if you won't talk mental illness Your Honor if you want to talk about me and let's flip it let's flip it let's talk about racism 78 percent of Planned Parenthood's abortion rates are built within two miles of high black population centers we're targeted Planned Parenthood and nurses have gotten saved my I'm a little too flat top brother have gotten saved and come out of it and one nurse testified she said I heard of myself she said when I was in that field when the little black girl would come in pregnant for counseling the first thing we would recommend was abortion said when it was a white girl we'd recommend abortion last we would tell her of all of her options adoption and other things that you can do but when the little black girl comes in go straight to abortion is that not racism is that not racism and it's worse see because you got to be born before you can be discriminated against see I want to make the argument you got to be here before you can complain about not having equal access well we can complain about income inequality you've got to be yeah you got to be grown so you can grow up and get a job before you ever get to these other things it's why as believers we can't let the world give us our mark [Applause] if I could talk with over Winfrey and congratulations to her only her own network um and she's come a long way no why do you you know who your core audience is why are not watching on a may not in not like we do why you push so hard homosexuality why are you why if the girl got to kiss the girl and the guy got to be with the guy I mean would it don't even make the movie the movie was fine without it why does these things have to be interjected Wow and and it's on all television okay don't get me wrong she's not the only one ABC NBC CBS the point I'm making is that their minds the world's minds a duck they're darkened because they are alienated from Christ so they can't teach us through movies through songs through books through seminars in the business community whatever they can't teach us morals they can't tell us who God is see they don't know you you uh uh athlete on television gain instruct me on who God you don't hear me today Bible says because they are alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness that means no restraints no restraints sexual less less seriousness no restraints no guidelines no rules you hear it all the time any time you hear a politician an entertainer an athlete or whomever say publicly to you people should be able to love who they want to know do what they want to do it's nobody's business that's lasciviousness no restraints there are restraints there are guidelines what do you think we got all these sexually transmitted diseases from they came from man not operating in the restraints that God put in place somebody even song about the things if you can't be with the one you love love the one you're with that's somebody sitting across just across the way from you just just get with them just get with anybody the world tells us to do anything with anyone at any time no restraints and yet God said save that behavior for marriage and that is to be between a man and a woman and yet the world constantly sends us messages of no restraints praise the Lord person I want to ask President Obama when and thank you I have here the this is of 2018 the population for the state of North Carolina ten point three million so that means since since 1973 we have in the black community alone aborted the state of North Carolina two times Charlotte Jacksonville Greenville Wilmington Raleigh's carried everywhere you go go to the malls everywhere you go see all these people I love these people come never got a chance to see the light of day and if there's someone here who has had an abortion and there is someone who's certain watching and you've had an abortion and there is because one in four black women have had one according to the statistics if you've repented of your sins God has forgiven you don't don't leave don't feel the need to get up and leave the service and I know these things are hard to hear but I'll tell you what's harder if preachers say nothing if we say nothing the slaughter will continue and in certain states soon I'll be going to New York I'm going to the belly of the beast that I'm going to New York City 64,000 abortion New York City they had that many in a year 35 plus abortion clinics that's the belly of the beast New York City love life is I'm going up there to work with Justin in the brethren and I'm tell you right now the Lord willing we're going in October and going up on a Friday and on a Saturday and we're looking for a church for me to preach at that Sunday I'm going I'm going I'm going to try and turn hearts and turn minds we're going we're going to the belly of the beast they tell us no restraints I cringed because they never explained it when the then president of United States President Barack Obama and his lovely wife First Lady Michelle both said on multiple occasions people should be able to love who they want to love and every time they were said it I would ask oh really how far does that go since you gave no qualifiers guess who else agrees with you mr. president and first lady the pedophile guess who else agrees with you the incest people that has to be I'm preaching all right I come out to block with you that has to be restraints Oh [Applause] what fallen man is capable of you don't want to send the message that there are no restraints you don't want to do that we don't want to live in a society where there are no restraints for when there are no no restraints no one is safe babies get molested fathers reap their daughters mothers their son men get with men and women with women and adultery breaks out everywhere fornication breaks out everywhere and all of the hurt the pain the disease the heartache and the heartbreaks and all of the things that accompany that behavior the broken heartedness the women who've been disappointed he said he loved me and then he loved and left now she's struggling praise the Lord don't have to trust me anymore cause of a heartbreak no restraint okay you know what I could pop right here for the rest of the day and deal with the price that we are paying as a nation that have said no restraints everything goes do what you want follow your heart worst advice ever given follow your heart follow your heart wanted one of the most repeated mantras in music in society trust your heart follow your heart your heart will tell you your heart your heart your heart and yet the Bible says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked the last thing you want to trust is your heart well what should I trust preacher the written word of God the Bible will never leave you lead your strength and you can trust preaching as long as the preaching lines up with the word but the preacher don't line up with the scripture don't trust them either that's why when you come here and say bring your Bible I'm a Bible preacher you know you've noticed that right I read the scripture and let the Scriptures speak for themselves and all you got to do is just go back home and look up lasciviousness if you don't believe me working unto all until the seriousness then we move on to work all uncleanness and greeted knees here's my point he says but you have not so learned Christ that is you didn't learn this way feel becoming a Christian this is not what Christ taught you if so be that you have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus that you put off concerning the former conversation a man putting off concerning the former conversation are things that accompany salvation the point of our texts the goal of our text human today Saints those who are who are streaming your Facebook live Saints the saints of God the goal of the text is that of maturity remember verse 6 starts with therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ let us go on to perfection let us grow to maturity the Christian must grow the Christian must grow in fact the writer rebukes the Saints for their lack of growth chapter 5 verse 11 through 14 says of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered other seeing you are dull of hearing dull of hearing literally means you are too lazy to understand it's amazing the emphasis that the Bible places on the listener it's amazing it's amazing you're the preacher must say it but you got to get it that's why in church you don't want to be in church on your cell phone you don't research texting people and carrying on conversations because something may be said of God that would save your life but you got to get it you got to you got to get it and so many people today are too lazy take what is actually being said sometime do you know people hear what they want to hear and they interpret what they want interpret versus hearing what you actually say jesus says he that hath ears to hear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches now Jesus could see he could actually look out and see that people had ears what he was talking about was spiritual is ears to hear spiritual things he says I got many things that I want to teach you that things that I want to tell you he says but you you're dull of hearing for wind by the time you ought to be teachers you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the Oracles of God and our become such as have need of milk and not strong meat for everyone that uses milk is look at this is a strong language unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe but the strong me strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age that mature believer mature believer even those by reason of youth that is through experience have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil in order Saints to make progress please bear with me for a few minutes in order to make progress we must lead the childhood things leave childhood things behind and move forward into spiritual growth the truth is we learn the ABCs that we might be able to read words and we learn words so that we can read synthesis and books you don't learn to ABCs to stop at ABC the point is to be able to learn how to read words words lead to sentences sentences lead to books first Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 11 Paul says when I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man he said I put away childish childish things yes we build on the basics that we might grow and move to the next level there are things that God wants to show us do you not know that the last thing the Apostle Peter said to us in writing the last thing they said to the entire body of Christ was he told us whatever you do Peter said grow for a second Peter chapter 3 verse 17 and 18 says why for beloved seeing you know these things seeing you know these things before beware less you also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own steadfastness he says don't let the world don't let sinners don't let the error of false teaching don't let the drug world don't let the world pull you from your steadfastness in Christ how is it that save believers go get pulled away so easily from their steadfastness in Jesus Christ he said instead of being pulled away he says but grow in grace grow in Greece and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the key to being pulled away is to keep from being pulled away from your steadfastness it's not that you stand still but you continue to grow you continue to seek the Lord you continue to allow the Lord to speak to you these were his last words grow in grace are you with me today oh my God is gonna bless somebody today Paul said this he says every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things everybody who strives he strives to be but you you want to be the best you don't want to be no father in God today then you were ten years ago you don't want to be a believer who can quote normal scripture today then you could five years ago you don't want to be a save man a father the head of household and you're still slow for you were slow ten years ago and you're slow now you would rather come to church ten years ago and you battle it comes now you would barely do your children I've never heard you pray they've never seen you read the Bible and and and they don't know that come a time that come a time that a man has to grow in fact you know I get in trouble with my own because what we tend to celebrate in our country and in our community we can we celebrate eternal adolescence we seem to like them the man who never grows up the guy who at 40 still trying to act like a teenager God who at 60 is still trying to behave as though he's in his 20s and still making stupid dumb silly youthful errors let me tell you something that may be entertaining but you don't want to be married to anybody like that praise the Lord he may be able to sing a song and you may be able to do the percolator to his music but you don't want to marry him because you're married to a fool and you'll never be anything you'll never get anywhere because he won't grow up I thank God Lord gave me a wife we grew together we couldn't have done the things that we've done and accomplished what we've accomplished if we would have thought maturity you don't hear my preaching today some preacher some believers struggle because they fail to mature maturity leads to failure as we can as we see already that immaturity a refusal to grow a failure to launch if something that does not accompany salvation oh my let me preach you a little harder here the point of Ephesians chapter 5 the point of excuse me Hebrews 5 11 through 14 is this the writer was saying you have been professed Christians long enough to be teachers but because of your laziness and dullness in grasping the truth you you must be taught a second time the first simple doctrines of Christ you have not grown at all it's a tough letter it's a tough letter you you are still babes and unwind that is your steel on the titty close your mama is still giving she's still nursing you a grown man preach wooden milk feeding milk feeding was a metaphor used by many writers both sacred and profane to express the first principles of religion the first principles of science the first principle of any discipline when you own the early stages the first principles of what they teach you is called milk milk so if I say milk a man they applied sucking a baby sucking milk from his mother sucking was a term applied to learning and an infant to every beginners if you were called to babe you call the rookie you're a beginner and meat was for those who had learned the first principles of the truth so so you don't want to be years later still suckling years later still got to be encouraged to attend church on Sunday years later we still can't find you through the week years later it's still a struggle for you every Sunday you argue with yourself on whether or not you should pay your time steal a baby these years of leader here you are and now you confused about sexuality well pastor you know I hear that stuff you don't call what I preach stuff the saying say what it is I hear the Bible that you've been preaching they stuff it's the Word of God and you mean to tell me you mean to tell me that the world can begin to change your mind can turn you from the scriptures these things are not to be can I get a witness the characteristics of a babe is that they're doll of hearing chapter five verse eleven unskillful in the word Hebrews 5 and verse 13 but the characteristics of an adult believer is number one he's capable of instruction it is true that you find Paul go on from city to city instructing in the synagogue but he was instructing the ones who believed he was instructing the unbelieving the believer is supposed to have a spirit of learning and why they don't need endless instruction praising all the laws needs that but the believer when God saves you if you let the Lord the Lord will open your understanding praise the Lord and you you'll be able to get it from reading the Bible and studying the scriptures and hearing the preached Word of God one of the things a child chapter 5 Hebrews verse 14 teaches that when you are mature you develop the spirit of discernment discrimination you learn how to discriminate to decide between good and evil s what the word discriminate means it's to decide you need to know the difference between right and wrong because we're living in a world today where the world is calling wrong right and right wrong and then the world now will try to shame you and put you on Front Street for standing with traditional biblical truth the Bible is right and the devil is yeah let me let me move on here in chapter 6 verse 1 through 2 speaks of growing he says therefore leaving not abandoning but building on leaving building on the elementary principles of the doctrine of Christ now says we will leave the ABCs and we're gonna go to spiritual maturity somebody shout let's grow now notice what he calls the ABCs of the doctrine of Christ and you'll see how how their classes must have been much tougher than ours praise the Lord because what we call the ABCs today they didn't call the ABCs they call the ABCs oh the doctrine of Christ here's the thing he listed number one he says repentance look at this not laying again the foundation of number one repentance from dead works well you don't have to keep repenting from the same thing over and over and over because you grow move on from repentance from dead works and from from faith and faith in God through Christ Jesus notice we're going from repentance from dead works and from faith toward God through Christ that is it ought to be settled in you that you know God is through Jesus Christ that you know the perp the person of Christ and that that Jesus Christ came to give us the gift of eternal life praise Allah so that don't be settled baptisms well there's water baptism the baptism in the Holy Spirit baptisms into Christ there ought to be a settled doctrine removing know that he called these things the ABCs we call these things seminaries teachings he says and moving on from the laying on of hands that is what we ought to be sad when you understand the Ministry of the laying on of hands we bless man by laying hands on them we make offerings by the laying on of hands we are deign people by laying on of hands we impart the Holy Ghost in people by laying on the hand we heal the sick and blessed children we perform miracles and impart spiritual gifts by the laying on of hands and then he said we're moving from the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead yes we're gonna get up yes Christ got up and the day will come that all who died in Jesus will be resurrected from the day glory to God there is coming a resurrection and then he the doctrine of eternal judgment I want to tell you Carlton Pearson you got it wrong and everybody who's falling into that Universal thing you got it wrong there is an eternal judgment every man must appear before the judgment seat of Christ the Bible teaches that every individual will give an account of the deeds done in their bodies and anybody will try to tell you different they're misleading you they're leading you astray that really is an eternal judgment there is a heaven and there is a hell in it amazing the number of unsaved people who believe in the existence of heaven but they believe you make your heaven or hell here on this earth they don't believe in a literal hell but they believe there's a literal literal heaven I'm here to tell you the same one who tell who taught us about heaven teach about hell in fact Jesus spoke of Hell more than in heaven and we're told he warned us to whatever you do dodge that place he said you'd be better off going to heaven with one eye with one hand and one one foot then to go to hell with both eyes both hands and both feet you don't want to go to that place the thing about getting there if when you get there you'll never get out the Bible teaches there is a place where the fire is not quenched where the maggots the worms die if not and it is the Bible calls it outer darkness and Jesus died soul wouldn't have to go to that place yes sir so he says these are elementary things and he says and this we will do if God permits other words we will move on he says I'm determined that we grow I'm determined that we move forward but I won't take knowledge that we need God's help it cannot be done without divine it takes the law to grow us that's why you gotta keep praying keep fasting and keep reading your Bible keep coming to church so you might may want to be strong but you can't be strong on your own takes the Lord lord help me to be strong God strengthen me why I'm weak I often pray and ask God to build me up when I'm torn down for I have weaknesses that I can't address I have gaps that I can't feel I have things wrong with me that I cannot straighten up but out God if you touch me you're able to help me able to help my mind able to help my heart able to help me in my thinking you able to help me with my desires cravings and lust Lord you're able and I heard the writer notice what he said he said this you all will do he didn't say this you will do if God permit he said this we will do if God for me that means he included himself my god you ought to say the word is including me also I'm in it I'm in it I'm in it let me move on here Rock him and now let's give the writer to make his point gives a hypothetical he gives a powerful hypothetical case that shows the necessity of maturity that shows the necessity of growth I sure why being lazy of understanding and dull of hearing is so dangerous because what he does is he gives a hypothetical not of a lazy Christian but it gives a hypothetical of a mature Christian hi says for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come mmm look at this thing here he says they fall away doesn't see notice see he did he's not giving an example of a baby but because you don't you don't describe a babe in Christ as one who's been enlightened and one who have tasted of the heavenly gift and then been partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted of the good Word of God and the powers of the world to come he's dealing here with anything but an immature believer and yet he says that if that person would fall away good God Almighty he says and if they fall after having received all that if they fall away to renew them again unto repentance that is if they leave Christianity I want to talk to the workers now don't take your salvation for granted don't soon that your so say that the devil can trick you don't assume that you're so far gone in Christ that nothing can pull you down because the devil can fool all of us ain't nobody beyond the devil's ability to shrink and the devil's ability to deceive so now he looks and he said I watched this he says praise the Lord if they would fall away that is if they were with their conscience of mind good God Almighty turn away from Jesus and throw themselves headlong into sin if they fall away he said it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance let me set this passage in his context I believe the man's name was desires Lord he was the first Roman Emperor to persecute Christians systematically he was the first one that began to kill him and then require that all of the them show evidence that they had sacrificed unto Him other words he said you can live if you show the world that you have sacrifice unto me that you have made me the Emperor your God instead of that Christian God that you're serving and some of the Christians are to save their own lives they confess this emperor let's go some of the other Christians are bribed their way out of it some of the other Christians got away through flight but those who denounce Jesus and then begin to serve this emperor they left the laws and the by the history teachers that they ever died and after he died a great debate broke up concerning laps and apostate Christians who submitted to the Emperor say once the Emperor was dead and then the fire was over and the persecutions were gone they come trying to make that way back to the church you know what I'm talking about some of y'all you ain't gonna like me today but you know this sermon here's one that ain't they designed to get many amens but some of you aha when the leader of the free country were your color whatever he did you didn't have nothin to say about it God you said that morals didn't matter you said you got to separate your religion from politics and now that he's no longer in office and I hear you come with your righteous indignation oh now it's wrong to tell a lie Amen I was wrong to do wrong but it wasn't wrong for eight years you had nothing to say because it was somebody that you liked well when that Emperor was in office he said you got to you got to serve me and many of the Christians they decided to serve him and when he died they tried to make their way back to the church well the church said oh no we got to have a talk about this we got to talk about this he said because when the fire was hot the rest of us stayed in the church many of us were killed many of us lost our jobs many of us was was persecuted in society when you went and got on the other side now that he's dead now you wanna come back and name the name of Christ one of the things that the early church did not take lightly they didn't take lightly people who would defect from the church just save their lives and then come back to the church when times were better oh no you had to be willing to go through with this through the storm and rain you remember Paul and Barnabas fell out because John marks he left the church when the fire got hot Paul said I can't use it because he wouldn't hang in there through the tough time we're living in a day where people can backslide go have their faith do whatever they wanna do they win the thing goes south then they come back to the church they want to get the same positions back but I want you to know in the early church like the Bible said you got to be willing to go through the storm and the rain do I have anybody in here who will say I'm gonna serve Jesus when it's convenient and I'm gonna serve him I'm gonna serve Jesus and stand for him what is popular to stand for him and I'm gonna stand for him some of our sir a fair-weather Christians will forever Christians we are hanging there we love your brother wooden when you're preaching stuff that everybody likes but when you get in our business when you preach that suffer then make them talk about you at the water cooler I don't even tell them that I'm from that church the devil is a liar jesus said if you ashamed of me before me I'd be ashamed of you and before the Angels that's what this was all about he said if they after they've tasted Jesus if they backslide if they leave the Lord it is impossible to restore them to renew them again seeing notice what the text says that they have crucified to themself the Lord Jesus that is on a psychological and spiritual level they have determined within themselves that Jesus is not worth serving that this man being with this man is more important than being with Jesus they have decided within themselves they would rather have their last seriousness then to be in the church they decided in their own mouth that they would rather you don't hear my preacher huh rather go smoke dope whoever bid you bid whether they will ever be a drug hit they would rather go out there and live a sinful life then decide the law and in themselves they have a conversation in there and they determined within themselves that Jesus is not worth it notice what it says they crucify to themselves the Son of God I'm intentionally parking right here because I don't want you to do that you can't have a conversation in your own man and just determine that's your own personal happiness your own personal fulfillment means more to you then suffering with Jesus you can't determine man that's your own personal fulfillment with that woman means more to you then your family and there you go you pack your bags and leave your wife and leave your children chasing after her by the time you leave you already crucified your family in your mind y'all don't like my preaching you've already come to the conclusion that little Johnny and Susie hallelujah work you sacrifice that that pleasure of that to raise your family so therefore long before you left you crucified your family in your man meaning of Awesome long before it manifested we've had conversations for six months I don't know if Jesus is Lord I don't know if I want to be saved I don't know if I want to be real I think I may want to be a five percenter I think I want to be a black Hebrew I think I want to join this I think I want a pledge I think I want to be a Mason I think I'd rather be that than to be with Jesus you're crucifying Jesus in your mind you're having a conversation with yourself and Jesus loss Jesus that disodium of the conversation and you decided that you would rather go do that go be that go be with them than to be with Jesus and when it says crucify our fresh what does a French means the water fresh means over and over and over and over every day that you're out there you did it again every day that you left your family you did it on Monday if you're with that one don't use it you did it again if you're with it in 2018 and you're still doing in 19 and you left your family you're doing it over and over and over a French afresh afresh a friend why don't you praise Him afresh [Music] a backslidden creature laughs your family that's living missionary look at you decided that you're gonna go back and try to regain some years that you're lost prays alone in your seventies trying to look 35 every day you're doing it you're crucifying the Lord over and over again you win the Holiness Church now your lbgtq you're crucifying Jesus over and over again every day that you're out there puffing that cigarette they know you are preacher you're crucifying Jesus over and over again and you're putting Jesus to an open shame you got people looking at you saying if that's what the church is all about I don't want to be saved you're doing it to Jesus Christ even though the loud happened good to you how do you know he's been good the text tells us has been good well the jack says as the earth freaks the range that comes often upon it that is God sends the rain down since the ring yeah drinks in the rain God in kitchener redundant sense the ring the ass drinks the rain Wow censoring the earth drinks the ring nah actual name what can up crap are you bubble ow sends the ring and the ad drinks the ring but what can of crying is you Wow it's gone all of us is masterful Wow what about this moaning can hear the sermon you can hear the gospel wow if sending the rain the drinks some of the ground brings forth herbs bring forth food brings forth good things that is meat for the preparers good stuff vegetables crops fruit good things which leads to blessings but then there are other ground that was the same ring same God same ring ring for briars thorns thistles and that leads to cursing now the question is the question is not whether or not God sending the ring the brush is not whether that's something wrong with the gospel the question is what kind of ground are you what are you doing what are you doing with the rain that the loud is sending you for it's time to mature took it over this and get all of that to leap over this and step off of that I've been stuck too loud the law has been too good to me loud have said too much rain for me to grow sure Oh Oh gotta grab somebody by both ends and let's roll let's roll let's grow [Music] come on and help me preach come on and help me preach I expect you to grow use your preaching boss Wow because these are the better things these are the things that accompany salvation when you grow in grace [Music] and now I respect you to be on the same spiritual level and six months then y'all I expect you to climb another round hi I expect you say preacher I'm studying my Bible more than I used to hmm preacher I'm praying more than I used to pray preacher I had a better understanding I know that was a time when after six months you need to meet with me and have a counseling session but look at me now in Greece I can make it up God because these are the things that accompany salvation so he says with the hypothetical the believer growing experiencing all this and then walking away he says we expect better things of you chapter 5 those believers who refuse them to grow we don't we expect you to go from there because if immaturity will lead to failure and I have given you failure on example of those who are farther along than you then what does that tell you about where you are but any warms that tells them but we expect better things of you things that accompany salvation and why are you are striving for your better striving to seek the laws striving to do right striving to live right striving to be a good Christian Oh sometimes it's let me tell you it's hard growth thing getting better it's hard climbing that mountain he says just remember this for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward his name oh you you're working to keep from embarrassing his name you'd rather do without then to name the name of Christ and get and then be accused of being a thief you'd rather you'd rather suffer for his name than to be called a Christian and you're caught cheating on the tests you you'd rather you'd rather suffer you'd rather just suffer you just rather go through then they didn't take shortcuts that makes the faith look bad he says don't you worry God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love he says if you do this for me I won't forget you I won't forget you hallelujah I won't forget you and we desire that every one of you don't be lazy as in chapter 5 verse 11 he says but we decided every one of you show the same diligence of the full assurance of hope to the end that you be not slothful but be followers of them pay attention to those believers who are doing it them who through faith and bishops inherit promises they would tell you that through faith and perseverance staying faithful to God and persevere everything that God had given you every promise the Lord has made everything that God says will to happen will happen for you will happen but what we expect of you in the meantime is to be that kind of believer to be the kind of man of God the kind of woman of God who do those things that accompany salvation I wouldn't name the name of Christ I wouldn't I wouldn't name the name of Christ and the things that are supposed to be associated with that name none of those things are ever present in my life how you gonna love the Lord and love the church and be a long time the love of the church I love my church I believe what my church is doing they check your tie the record and you had time in ten years record don't lie how are we going how can it be how can we claim these things and then the things that are associated with that claim that was the point you if you claim to be a missionary you claim to be a preacher then you can't publicly contradict that claim all believers the truth is all believers die daily so I'm not talking about perfection all believers die daily but what he's talking about is putting Christ to an open shame and and crucifying Jesus determinate in your own mind that Jesus is not worthless he says we're persuaded we we just believe that you won't do that you came from being a missionary you came from that some of us have from the church went to back to the club we're gonna go from the church at a bar how you do that it may be it may be manifested it may have been manifested right away but it didn't happen right away the crucifixion had been going on for a long time and then you finally go ahead on and and and just put Jesus out there and then and then get bad with your baser and and the Christian and nobody better not say anything to me will have anything and every day you're in that state the church may say nothing but I tell you what the world is talking about you and the world is speaking negatively of the Lord because of what you did well it can't keep the Lord forgive me for singing a lot yes but you ain't gonna forgive you for a single act if you do that same single act and next day and the next day and the next day and then your lifestyle becomes that single last so no longer is no longer a single act you have determined that this is the way you're gonna be so that means there's no true repentance and if you've been out down have you done it long enough you've been alone a long enough long enough long enough long enough long enough long enough then you won't crucify Christ anymore cuz after a while everybody will forget that you ever saved in the first place but in the initial fall damage is done damage is done not just to your family's name not just to your local church but to Jesus Christ himself and I'll be honest with you I don't want to do that to Jesus but Jesus will never be crucified again Jesus gets crucified often he's never physically gone back to that cross but the writer shows us how high it's done we want you to walk in the things that accompany salvation you didn't save couples engaged respect we have the it is a reasonable five days for each baby for you to save your sex for marriage they ain't you ain't J being judgmental they ain't being hot you name the name of Christ you said you had the whole ago it's reasonable that's reasonable you Christian young man young preacher Davis going on y'all get married it's reasonable for us to expect a certain level bridge wouldn't it's reasonable to expect that if a family is saved and they get a car they get a house they make bills it's reasonable to expect but in the pay their bills on time cuz you sit down spoke in tongues when you were getting the car hook up my shy he's coming on a Honda hobo Bobo show show show show show and now after all of that after all of that then you go and won't pay the man don't just talk about you he talks about your church he talks about your God he talks against your religion you have made a negative impression you college students you're in a school you're in the school to learn you're not in school to be a thug you're in school to be a drug dealer you're not in school to not go to class I don't go to cloud I do what I want see you're dumb so you take over they don't kick you out and you end up being a loser you and your way to nowhere land a man a man that's not why it's not why you placed there I'm through but I want to walk in those things that accompany salvation dear Jesus dear Jesus we want the fruits of salvation evident in our lives dear Jesus dear Jesus I want the fruit of everything look what I'm a I am a male I'm an American male I'm an african-american male I'm an American male Lord let the things that are that that people reasonably expect from a grown man to be evident in my life may I not act like a child as a grown me Lord Jesus Oh God every father you're to pray this prayer every husband every mother every saint no matter what you are today your ask God Lord let those those reasonable expectations that accompany a person who claims to be who and what I am let those things be evident Oh Oh God starting with my Christianity starting with my walk with you let the fruit follow let the evidence show forth Oh Oh God let's just let the evidence of chastity whether it's in in-person or online or on Facebook our own posts let let their posts be hold it that's a good prayer right there let would let what they post be sanctified it's reasonable to expect that a save young ladies online posts and what they put on I would be sanctified you will be sanctified in the church and look like a little hoochie only it is reasonable for us to expect you to look like a saint online because you said you were saying oh my god bless right now bless right now bless right now in the name of Jesus let it follow us Lord let it follow us in Jesus name email why are you standing but maybe somebody here today who wants to be saying I want to know Jesus this is good this is good this is a good sermon again saving tight but it's right ha but it's fair it's kind of preaching that we used to hear all the time yeah now everything goes we were in trouble the first time somebody put on that bumper sticker on the car Christian's not perfect just forgiven people begin to read read that and say you know what we ain't perfect and Danny won't be out gold and we're just gonna be forgiven and begin to live right your life young man is the Lord call you to a higher level serve the Lord whatever summarizes preach I want to be saved will pray for you and the law will save you from your sins glory to God god bless you today

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Published: Wed Sep 04 2019