Book of Colossians | Bishop Keith Butler | April 15, 2020

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Instagram Twitter the word of faith app and add word of faith dot CC well once again welcome to Wednesday evening Bible study praise God what we do on Wednesday night is that typically we study different books of the Bible verse by verse particularly we spend time in the New Testament books because the New Testament is where we are now see there's the old there's the new there's a reason there's a new praise God because the old didn't get the job done the old had a purpose it brought us to the new praise God so we spend time with the New Covenant New Testament praise the Lord but before we do that we're going to receive our offering tonight praise the Lord you know the Bible says in Galatians chapter 6 and verse 6 let him that is taught in the word communicate now you know the New Testament translated from the Greek and the Greek word communicate Coronet oh praise God it means to distribute or to contribute to to support unto him that teach if and all good things well that would be your church hallelu or whatever you're receiving receiving the word it goes on to say be not deceived God is not mocked but whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap he does so to his flesh shall of the flesh reap ruin he does so to the spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting and by giving into organizations that preach the Word of God you are planting or sowing to the spirit praise the Lord particularly doing things that God would have you to do that is love on other people by getting the word out keeping your churches and ministries going so that the gospel can get out around the world then notice what it says in verse 9 and let us not be weary don't get tired and will doing for in due season at the right time we shall reap if we faint not now I can tell you if you're hearing testimony of the testimony during this pandemic time that people being locked in God's been getting money two people one way or the other ways praise God for them to keep going because the scripture is right and it says in verse 10 as we have therefore opportunity let us do good work unto all men especially them of the household of faith but not only are we receiving we are also given here this ministry praise the Lord when they start having trouble in northern Italy and they start having their pandemic and just how awful it happened in Italy particularly started in northern Italy and we were involved praise God and sowing seed into northern Italy glory to God to get the Word of God out there and to help those who are in need ministries in need there and then praise God we have been sowing to Samaritan's Purse the whole graham organization that is of preaching the word as well as ministering health and healing the people in New York and other places praise God and also giving to the Detroit rescue Michigan here amen and cleaners Food Bank and other things that we do here to get the word and get sustenance out to people to let them know praise governments God loves them and make sure they have clothing of food Neels praise the Lord and so praise God you can prepare your offering right now in the name of Jesus and as you prepare your offering get ready to make your tithing confession and offering confession with us in the name of Jesus praise God Alleluia we can find it in the Old Testament God built them a confession to make just as they receive the word and we're going to do ours right now so say it with me because we are tighters the windows of heaven are open the blessing is pouring out because we are source we are furnished in abundance for every good work we receive our perfect assignments raises and bonuses contracts and benefits sales and commissions settlements estates and inheritor interests and income rebates and returns checks in the mail supernatural wealth transfer scholarships tuitions paid in full bills paid off debts demolished royalties received and properties acquired we're getting our buildings our lands our houses our vehicles our equipment and even our aircraft God is bringing into our hands seed so we command our abundant harvest to come abundant harvests come to us now harbors angels go and get it to us right now in Jesus name hallelujah praise God father we thank you as we receive this offering we join our faith with those who are giving and they shall have these manifest returns in all these ways we've confessed and even though the ways in Jesus name Amen praise God alright we're about to turn the book of Colossians now amen and get right back into our verse-by-verse and book my book Bible study praise God we've been studying Colossians chapter 3 amen let me start the clock here first caught Alleluia we've been studying Colossians chapter 3 amen actually we stopped at Colossians chapter 3 we were in chapter 2 so let's back up a little bit into chapter 2 and kind of get the context it's one of the issues people don't know when they study the Bible they choose not to read the Bible in context if we were in our daily communications with people and we were just to say stuff and we had no context to what we were saying and no understanding of the context it would just be terrible I mean would just be awful that's what happens with the Bible so oftentimes so praise the Lord we read last week about how starting to verse 16 we were told because what Jesus did for us not to be judged and meat or deep or drink or holy days praise God or of the Sabbath it says which were a shadow of things to come in verse 17 and it was to tell us praise God about to hold it but the body is of Christ it tells us praise the Lord a touch not verse 21 taste not handle not in other words not to be caught up in all the physical trappings and if you if if you don't do this this way then you can't be saying but do this that way you know people argue about all kind of little stuff and forget about what all these things mean praise God the issue is that you belong to Christ and our new creature in Christ Jesus amen he says in chapter 3 verse 1 that's where we'll get into it a day he said if ye then being risen with Christ if you are born again you are and we just finished celebrating that praise God if you be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ or the Anointed One sitteth on the right hand of God so it tells us first of all the command was told us how to think where to focus praise God to focus on things above and be focused particularly at the right hand the throne of God where Jesus sits well the right hand in the throne of god is the seat of all power and authority in the earth Jesus himself is seated at the right hand of the throne of God and he has authority in three worlds Philippians tells us in heaven earth and hell he tells us seek those things at the right hand recognize in other words that God has given you authority through the death burial and resurrection in heaven earth and hell angels hearken to your words praise God demon spirits are afraid in a move by your words life and death happens right here in this earth because of your words praise the Lord death and life proverbs 18:21 and the power of the tongue in proverbs 16 says you are taken or snare or trap by words of your mouth proverbs also said but a word spoken and a right word spoken in a good season or just how good it is how sweet it is let's continue to read so he says in verse 10 set your affections this great word affection means mind set your mind on things above not on things on the earth for ye are dead and your life is hid with the Anointed One his anointing in God a couple of things first of all he said you are dead you say but but I'm breathing so what do you mean you are dead well keep a finger here and turn to Romans chapter 6 and Paul writing the church at Rome expanded on this point to them hallelujah let's begin reading here with verse 11 he says likewise or in the same manner and of course you go back to the whole context on our time do it today but go back do it likewise reckon you yourself to be dead indeed unto sin in other words I'm not alive to it at all I'm dead to it praise God but alive unto God through Jesus The Anointed One our supreme authority let not the understood subject of the synthesis you are in control you do or don't do this he said let not sin therefore rule in your mortal body that's your flesh that you should obey it in its lust thereof the Apostle Paul said the first Corinthians 9:27 he said I keep under my body and I bring it he caused the body it because the body isn't you you are spirit being that has a soul mind world emotions and you live in a physical body so he said the first goodness 9:27 I bring it into subjection were to submission lest that by any means even though I preach to others I myself could be a castaway he's saying that if you let that body get out of control even though you are a minister even though you might be anointed even though you might be specially called you still can be pulled away under sin and unto death and lose it all so let's go back and read with what he says in verse 12 once again in Romans 6 let not sin therefore rule in your mortal body that you should obey it in the lusts thereof neither yield ye your members refer to your body parts as instruments of unrighteousness but yield yourselves unto God so Amen you have a choice to yield to God and his way or yield to the flash that's what happened with Adam the first man the scripture said in first Corinthians 15 and Adam all died well what did Adam do Adam yielded to the words of Satan when he said no you won't surely die amen but he could have yielded under God elsewhere it says whoever you yield yourself to you our servant to obey whose servant you are Satan became god of this world that way well so he said again in verse 13 so neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness under sin but yield praise God which means stand beside par stating but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness the God for sin shall not have dominion the word Dominion means control over you but you are not under the law but under grace alright so now to get some idea what he's talking about here in Colossians 3 so he says for you are dead verse 3 again and your life is hid with the anointed one in God that's an interesting phrase your life is hid in God in other words people of the world Nick all they see is just the physical you they don't understand what's really on the inside of you they don't know the Holy Spirit's inside you they don't know the wisdom of God's inside you they don't know praise God the power of God's inside you they don't know about the authority that you have in their name praise God until it is time for you know manifested as God tells you to do it let's come up on keep on reading a verse verse 4 when Christ who is our life not him being your life not her be in your life not them being your life but the Anointed One first and foremost Christ so that a lot shall appear then shall you also appear with him in glory now of course he is referring when cry shall appear he's referring to first Thessalonians chapter four so let's read over the first Thessalonians chapter four praise God and he says in verse thirteen I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which which have passed on if those who are asleep that ye sorrow not remember he's writing to Christians amen if you've lost someone but that is a believer that you sow not even as others which have no other expectation they have no hope if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep or are dead in Christ Jesus shall God bring with them for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord we which are alive and remain till the coming of the Lord shall not precede them which are sleep for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the chief angel with the trunklid of God Jesus praise God shall appear amen and the dead in Christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air so shall we ever be with the lord we call this the rapture of the church the word rapture is not found in scripture but the meaning of it is we are caught up we are taken amen we are very close to that right now we're operating in with Jesus described in Matthew 24 the beginning of Sorrows he said that in these at the very end of days one of the things that would be prevalent and that would happen in great more multiplicity and fervor would be pestilence a corner virus fits that bill h1n1 fits that bill swine flu and all the others praise the Lord fit that bill as they are used to be a hundred years apart now we're seeing them ten years three years I mean apart these things are beginning to happen that Bible the Bible says their praise God the beginning of Sorrows the word sorrows there means labor pains just like a woman just about to have birth the closer she gets to the birth the more those paints get the more with ferocity as stronger those paints get amen and that's what's going to happen Jesus tells us things that get worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse the closer we get to the end now that's not a bad confession that's what God said amen but then praise the Lord the rapture will take place the salt of the earth the church will be taken out glory to God and wonderful things what happened is found in the Book of Revelations but let's go back to Colossians I have a whole series in the Book of Revelations you can get that later amen so it says when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in glory mortified the work more if I mean you subdue you put down mortified therefore your body partial members which are upon the earth of course fornication is one that's he's talking about sex outside of the union of marriage uncleanness which means operating and things that are not pure in ordinate of fashion inordinate affection excuse me which means operating and dis passions where your body is concerned evil concuss pians which is longing for that which is forbidden covetousness which is idolatry in other words seeing something else that someone else has we have a big problem with this in America and that people looking upon what someone else has and decided that well I want that they got that I wanted I should have it and it drives me thinking and drives our behavior and yet the Bible calls it i adultery you shouldn't be looking at it you should be looking to God you're putting all the things ahead of that there's article me someone has more money than you somebody who's got a better house than you somebody's got a better position than you school always going to be that praise God amen he said don't look at that wherever you are ain't old to be thankful what you have thank you for all the good amen you gave me right now it notice he calls that our adultery that notice verse six for which things these things we just mentioned the anger of God comes on the children of disobedience he calls operating in these things disobedience and puts you on anger side the good thing about God is first John 1:9 he said we'd get off hunting on either side real quick he said if we would acknowledge those sins before him he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins it's called mercy he says in Hebrews 4:16 come bold to the throne of grace in the first name that he offers you is mercy mercy is when you are guilty but you are given a pass now he's not telling you that just gonna do it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again you know and so as though God is stupid and you're gonna continue to doing that and then then think that they're not gonna be consequence for it there will be yeah amen he tells you to repent the word repent means stop going in this direction turn around I'm going to off the direction praise the Lord is more than just saying I'm sorry is that your feet also act this way now let's continue on what he said here in verse 7 into which also ye walk talking to the church of colossi before they were born again you used to walk for some time when you used to live that way but now say that about yourself you're born again but now yeah I used to be this way I used to do things this way I used to have my life this way but now Paul says you have also put off all these praise the Lord well why is that happened it's happened because of sekirin theus 5:17 it reads therefore if any man be in Christ he is now what a new creature new creations once affliction says a new species of being that didn't before exist the old things are passed away look all things have become new that's what happened to you he's not talking about your money he's talking about what happened to the real you the man on the inside the spirit man now you still have to renew your mind as we'll read and now he gives he's giving you instructions about your body it used to be your body was totally in control but now your spirit man should be in control and align with your mind or your soul you tell your body what did you can walk hold it before God so he said so then put off these things put off anger with just vengeance in other words let's throw away this whole idea that well I'm gonna get I'm gonna get him back amen he said put off vengeance he said put off wrath was just fierceness or allow yourself to become just so so angry he said put off malicious or malice amen in other words badness put off blasphemy by blasphemy is speaking vilely or vile conversation and in filthy communications out of your mouth praise the Lord Amen evil speaking when you talk about blasphemy all these are closely related he said line not one to another which is speaking thing with the intent to the sea seeing that you have put off the old man with his worse and put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him now nobody said here because all these talking about what we do you know I've heard people and have people come up to me to the altar to pray well I want the Lord to take this away from me I want the Lord take that man I want the Lord to make me want to want to want him no I mean how how would you like it if you are about to date somebody or you're dating someone and they said look I'm gonna pray to God to make me wanna won't you know that doesn't work praise the Lord now you either wonder what you don't that's a decision of yourself but I can tell you that the more time you spend with God the more time you spend in this work the more you read about what it's done for you the more you pray go over to God the more you praise the deeper and love you get with him praise the Lord that comes from actions too often people just wanna take a little shortcut and have somebody just pray for them and it's all just gonna happen they have nothing to do with it you have everything to do or what happens here in the earth you and God operate as a team the Bible tells us there's God's side and you can count on God doing his but then there's your side the question is can God count on you to do yours but if you do what you're supposed to do you'll find that praise God he's there all the time doing what it is that you need and not what he says here put on a new man which is renewed in knowledge another word having gnosis knowledge full discernment praise God and he used the term renew so now let's turn to Romans chapter 12 and see Paul bratter Church of Rome if he said anything about we're knowing the mind because this is indeed vitally important he says in verse 1 I beseech you therefore brethren Romans 12:1 I beseech you hey hey pay attention it says here by the mercies of God provide your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your logical worship or reasonable services as a logical thing to do and it's worship and praise in God when you live this way hallelujah praise God that's what he was the saying in essence in Colossians but then notice verse 2 and be not conformed or modelled to this world or age but be transformed which means to be changed how by the renewing the work we're doing is renovation of your mind so he says here amen don't mile to yourself after what is the latest thing people do the latest fad people follow though the changes that society has made see God's Word is still the same round and it was a thousand years or was 2,000 years ago and will be forever and ever it will never pass away so he said now renew your mind and the way you do that first of all is with meditation of the word Psalm 1:1 tells us about that blessed man he meditates day and night the scripture says with the word meditate means he mutters he thinks about he says praise God in Psalm 1 and he said that man shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water he will bring forth his fruit in his time amen and whatsoever he does shall prosper that's because his minds renew with the Word of God every single day so what he says here again was don't be modeled after this this age but be changed by the renovation of your mind that you may prove the word proof here's that you may allow you allow it God has his will but whether or not he gets the heavens will is based upon what you allow see the will of God is not automatic that's what some people think it's not automatic he made man a free Meryl moral agent and man can choose whatever he wants he said in Deuteronomy 30:19 that death and life's and the power or well he says there's scuse me it's just that before your life and death blessing and cursing choose life in other words you can choose whatever it is that you decide to do amen praise God you are free agent Gaad done morning robots he wants people who will love him and follow him because they choose to do it now he says that you may allow what is that good and acceptable praise God and perfect will of God and so whether or not God's will happens which is God said about you my wills that you prosper being helped but well not that happens it depends on how much your mind has been renewed how much you have learned how much you know amen praise God and see God provides us revelation of the word he gave us the Holy Spirit to teach us all things and to bring to our remembers all the things that the Lord sent unto us to reveal unto us the truthful the word but you have to spend time with him I've been married to Deborah Lorraine Butler now for forty-five and in fact about a month from from today it will be 46 years I know a whole lot about that woman I mean I know her better than anyone on earth knows I know her better than her siblings know I know things about her nobody else knows why because I've been with her constantly for accident are now 47 years amen so since we've been together so long every single solitary day I've never been away from her for more than eight days at a time and all those years praise God and so because of that all that additional time what came was insight information knowledge praise the Lord same things true with God the more time you spend time in the word the more time you spend with him more knowledge you get more understanding you get the more understanding you get the more knowledge you get the easier it is to discern his will and after all and have his result which is blessing to come to yo life hallelujah I know what he says here praise God so you put on the new man which is renovated or renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him praise God you began to walk like God Almighty for where there is neither no watch this neither Jew nor Greek circumcision nor uncircumcision barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all what's he's telling us he says it doesn't matter what you are doesn't matter what your color is doesn't matter whether you're Jew or Gentile after the flesh whether or not you are a foreigner which is what a barbarian words were see thean which was someone that would be considered to be a savage whether you were a slave or free but praise God but now all of us are in Christ he's really saying the same thing he said in Galatians 3:28 3:28 praise God there's no male there's no female so you still have those though who still want to go back in say well i'ma fight because I'm black my fight because I'm white them and have this natural pride after the flesh which date and choose what the flesh war amen you didn't decide what you are what your body type looks like or your skin color looks like you didn't decide that a man you were born that way praise the Lord no that kind of pride it's the wrong kind of pride the Bible tells us we are all one together in Christ there's no male there's no female female races no blackness no white there's no brown there's no yellow and Christ we are all one first grit that's 1032 tiller does only three races in the whole whole earth amen they are the Jew the physical Jew there's the Gentile and there's the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ amen I don't know about you I'm a member of the church I am better to be the member of the body of Christ or what the Bible calls the church I'm more into that than being in the fact that my skin is brown the black amen and that's the way you're supposed to be per his the Lord let's continue on in verse 12 and Colossians chapter 1 but put on therefore as the chosen of God holiness how God looks at you holy and beloved put on bowels of Mercy bowels of affection praise God kindness humbleness of mind which means humility and meekness and long-suffering long-suffering refers to what patience praise God for bearing one another in other words the word forbearing means to put up with one another I don't know about you if I were to go around with you for 30 days after why I probably say you know they're really something else and if you two put it with me and you hang around with me for 30 days you probably said some things about him he's something else in other words all of us got a little idiosyncratic stuff and idiosyncratic ways he said but we learn to put up with one another he says and forgiving one another now this is critically important here because if you don't forgive you can't get dog manifest to you when you need it what did Jesus say in mark 11:25 he said when you pray forgive if you have aught against any that's your father which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses but if you choose not to give them your father will not forgive you I don't know about you I need the fog to forgive me sometime and I know soldiers the same is true with you indeed the first truck in the eleventh chapter we use that verse for communion it says over there that people enter into judgment and die prematurely because of it in other words the power of God is not manifest they're not getting an answer to prayer because God will not tolerate under forgiveness let's say it again God will not tolerate unforgiveness yeah oh you said but I just can't forgive and forget it he said you forgive it you may not always be able to forget it praise God but he said but you have to forgive it period praise God have to let it go I don't care how long ago it was I don't care who did it he said forgive it in the name of Jesus well he'll be coming down the homestretch let's read just a little bit more brigs gone If any man have a quarrel or guess any even as Christ forgave you so also do ye and above all these things put on charity the word charity is the word agape agape love put on agape love that kind of love sees everyone everywhere as invaluable that's precious including the unborn amen just because you don't see them out of the flesh doesn't mean they're not human doesn't mean they're not people indeed they are in fact God said he said I knew you in your womb before you were born before you came out and he said and I have called you to be a prophet to the nation's so God calls people water in the room because they are what people they're not peaceful amen they're human beings now let's read what he said here about this glove he said put it on praise the Lord i'ma read 1st Corinthians 13 I'm going to use the amplified translation for a moment because I think it does excellent here it says in verse 1 if I speak in the tongues of men and even of angels but have not love that reasoning intentional spiritual devotion such as inspired by God's love wrote and in us I'm only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal just a lot of racket nobody says here in verse 4 tells you how this love works love endures long and is patient and kind love never is envious and it doesn't boil over with jealousy it's not boastful or vainglorious it doesn't display itself haltingly it is not conceited arrogant and inflated with pride it is not rude unmannerly where is God and and act unbecomingly love God's loving us does not insist on his own rights or its own way for it is not self-seeking it's not touchy or fretful or resentful it takes no account of the evil done to it and it pays no attention to a suffered wrong it doesn't rejoice an injustice and unrighteousness but rejoices when right and truth prevail love bears up under anything and everything that comes it's ever ready to believe the best not the worst of every person is hopes are faithless under all circumstances it endures everything without weakening God's love or love never fails it never fades out or becomes obsolete or it comes to an end finally he says in verse 13 and so faith hope love abide these three things but the greatest of these is the love of God love is the basis for why God save you the love should be the basis for every decision that we make now let's go back here in Colossians chapter 3 and let's finish out I got a few minutes left here praise God hallelujah nobody says he praise the Lord he says amen and above all these things put on a gap in love which is the bond of perfectness that word bond of perfectness means it is the it is the tie it's the sole time it's what it's what puts us together praise God it's what keeps us operating together it's the love of God that love of God causes us to be able to have patience with one another with each other and be able to look past each other's faults because every single one of us got false there's not a one of us that doesn't have faults if you're a you're a person that think you don't have any fault if you're a person that's full of pride there's no such thing as a perfect individual in error so all of us got issues and so we all have to look over other people's issues and when we look over other people's issues people get to look over our issues and we get to operate together as a family now he hasn't changed he says in verse 15 and let which means you allow the peace of God Iranian praise God or Irina which means the word their peace is quietness prosperity and rest let quietness amen let rest let it rule in your heart barbar be old praise God let it arbitrate let it govern so he said let peace let that quietness ruin your heart to the which also you are called in one body and be thankful now there's a mouthful versus I started ramping up tonight praise God he said let that peace of God let it arbitrate let it govern let it call the shots one translation says let it be the umpire let it call you safer out I can use baseball parlance in other words one of the ways in which God shows you his will and God leads and guide you is inside through your spirit with this peace or lack thereof you know the Bible doesn't say buy a house on XYZ streeted for X amount of dollars amen there's no scripture that tells you that but there is the scripture that tells you however you can know inside was not you're making a good decision or not that piece of God in here not up here what your head but in here remember you are a spirit being that possesses the soul my world emotions and you live in a physical body God programmed you to upper a by that peace my spiritual father Kenneth E Hagin used to call it the Bell birdie spoon feeling he used to say it's kind of a different saying Amen but I but I got exactly what he meant in other words there was something even when my head was going no no no no but inside here there was yeah yeah yeah this is the right way to go amen I know when I was telling my family that I was leaving a wonderful job that I had with IBM going away to Bible School going to a part of the country I'd never been before they didn't even really know where it was going to a place at the time that people would question its validity the kind of Bible school that it was etc got amen and everyone everyone was against they couldn't see it and today the truth with my own mind I couldn't see it it wasn't it wasn't that I saw it it was that I heard it the Lord told me what to do in prayer and I had absolute peace about it I remember and I'm so grateful for this my mother said to me she said son I don't understand this move you are making but I have a knowing I have peace inside that everything is going to be right about it that's all I needed I just needed somebody Trey Scott and yeah and and that helped me and I went on down the rest is history I went to Bible School miracles happen and praise God I now I've been out here in a full-time ministry over 40 years praise God amen it happened though because peace was listened to peace was follow now in order to hear and receive that peace sometimes what you got to do sometimes you got to pull away to get quiet the bigger the decision the more time you need to take so sometimes you got to get away you may you may need to take several days and just get quiet before God just even fast and pray sometimes and just you know praying the Holy Ghost and just listen now we're talking about not God speaking to you with these things outside your head cause your ears we're talking about the Holy Spirit giving you our knowing on the inside peace this is the way to go yeah my son and I speaking to someone right now about that big decision take the time don't make that decision just yet get before me saith the Lord and let my spirit let you know if this is the right way to go see the opposite of that peace is your head man your eyes and your body may be saying yeah this is it it's the right way to go but deep in here there's something telling you don't do it tell you what it is it's the peace of God let it arbitrate let it govern let it call the shots I know he said which also ye are called in other words God has called you to operate in your life this way is one of the primary ways in which he leads in God you denote the rest of verse and be thankful thank God that there is always guidance whether it's the written word where does it it's the peace of God when that's the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking unto you praise the Lord well there's other methodologies that God has provided but God always provide a way for you to know which way to go and that's why Jesus said in John 10 is multiple times in John 10 my sea sheep know my voice and a stranger do not follow race go and they'll be blessed cause with that let's finish up almost done here today and praise God goes on be thankful let the word of Christ that's the scripture dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom let it teach you let it warn you praise God and you can do it to one another with Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with joy in your hearts to the Lord you know the script even tells us about wearing our children I'm noticing these just says your teaching admonishing in Ephesians chapter 6 you know people have moved away from what the Bible said what you're supposed to do with children how you supposed to raise them and then they wonder why when they get to become teenagers and completely rebellious they don't even recognize this child well the scripture told us in the Fijians chapter 1 this speech is chapter 6 this gives me first one children obey your parents in the Lord this is right honor thy father and mother was the first commandment promised that it may be well with thee and that thou may has lived long on the earth and ye father's and you particularly any father's caution even mothers but he says and ye fathers it doesn't say in Scripture your father and mother so you're just making an emphasis obviously he says a lot about mothers elsewhere but he says any father's provoke not your children to anger or wrath but fathers bring them up in the nurture the word nurture means the instruction and admonition which means the warnings of the Lord in other words men father's praise God should be sitting down with their children and instructing them to what the scripture says there's something about having man in the house glory to God it's important that's why God wants there to be families his definition from the Bible of family is a man and a woman and holy matrimony who bring about children that are instructed in God's ways and when they are instructed in God's ways they could bless any lead other people and gods will get done in here that's God's Way praise the Lord so he says so let that were the Christ then dwell in you abundantly well how do you get it to dwell in you meditate it take the time every day praise God it will teach it will it - praise the Lord and it will produce joy and you and finally verse 17 and so then whatsoever you do in word or deed whatever you say or act do it all in the authority the anima the authority and their character of the Lord Jesus giving thanks and to the Father by him hallelujah father we thank you tonight for the word we give you praise and glory for it with Paul wrote by the Holy Spirit to the church that colossi applies to us we hear it we receive it we choose to believe it we now choose to speak in an act like its soul and we thank you for it in Jesus name now there might be someone here that says you know I I really want to live that way praise God but I need help to do it well God didn't ask you to do it he asked he asked you to allow him to do it through you God loves you praise God and so making Jesus Christ Lord of your life is very simple and you can pray with me today and he'll be glad to come into your life if you're someone who's out of fellowship with God you've known the Lord but you've fallen away from him but you want to come back to him today praise God let me tell you you can do it today first John 1:9 was written even to you it reason we would homology oh we would acknowledge our sin to God he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness if you want to be safe we're almost ten nine for you I'm ask you to pray with me right now bow your head close your eyes let's pray together dear Heavenly Father that's right treat me right now dear Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus I do believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God that he died for me on the cross where he carried my sins thank you Jesus you were put in the grave but I believe you're risen and you're alive right now coming to my heart I accept you as my savior and now as the master of my life I repent of sin I'm sorry Lord I accept your offer of forgiveness thank God I'm forgiven thank God I'm restored heaven is my home jesus is my Lord hallelujah now if you prayed that prayer with me let us give you some free material that will help you and your walk with Christ we have a free ebook called where do I go from here and if you're on our Church online just click the slide below to complete the form if you're joining us from some another some other platform go to word of faith dot CC slash salvation offer just complete the form and we'll Cine that free book amen I know we learned some something tonight we'll continue in the book of Colossians next week this sunny morning join us at 10:30 praise God a.m. Eastern Standard Time what else Keith Butler reminding you have a wonderful evening in Jesus and remember to fight the good fight oh babe praise God for His Word through Bishop Butler meditate the word and use it in your day-to-day life let God use you this week and encourage others after all we are the light of the world congratulations to those of you who made a decision for Jesus I'm sure you want to know where do I go from here so I want to encourage you to fill out the form at Word of Faith that CC forward slash salvation offer so we can get that book to you and it'll explain to you what to do neck we want to support you in your new walk with Christ and remember to share your testimonies with us the website is on the screen and as always we look forward to seeing you at our next service god bless you remember Jesus is Lord and the blood still works you

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Published: Wed Apr 15 2020