Pass The Test

pass the test hey that's what it's all about you know many people teach if you'll just say you're saved you'll be all right forever and you'll never had another moment's problem that's just not true okay do you know why god doesn't appreciate hot house lilies that the first time they get out in the sun or the first time old satan gives them a a little ruffle they just wilt and kick up their heels and forget it there is a controversy between satan and almighty god and he chooses people and he tests them himself occasionally to see if you're made out of the right stuff to see if you're a can do type person and as we'll close this lecture you'll see that he even says to you examine yourself okay and mainly it is whether or not you can be deceived basically can you how familiar are you with father's word we live in a high-tech world where you know many of us have had to learn a great deal about high technology but it would seem that theology has kind of fallen by the wayside because it's very difficult to find a person that you can really sit down and have a deep discussion in god's word oh they know all the little q words and it's wonderful to be saved but saved from what you know god makes a lot of promises in his word but there's always a condition connected with each one of them that word if it would seem people stop reading there and mentally block it out you've got to obey your father he will never leave you nor will he forsake you and he will never test you beyond what you're able to bear you want to know where that's written first corinthians chapter 10 verse 13 and he will always show you a way out so you're you're in good shape even starting regardless of what comes up but it's just like god wanted to be proud of job he even said to satan hey what do you think about my boy you can't have him can you he won't give in to you and satan said well not with that wall you have thrown around him but you see god is your wall and if you love and trust the father that wall is around you and satan said well if you'll just pull that down a little bit and just let me have my way with him you'll see how for how quick he'll read out you job never did job of course means kind of like trouble that's what his name means and it's an example to you that if you stay with the father he'll always double you in blessings just don't give in to satan open your bibles if you would to jeremiah chapter 6 we're going to start in the old testament where some of the things are laid out and hey it's up to you friend i don't know how does god bless you how are you doing you got peace of mind is and um how are you doing in this whole world uh that's that's kind of what our father would um now here we're talk we're going to talk both to the house of judah and the house of israel there are two separate houses and if you're a student of history and of god's word you're familiar with that pick it up with chapter 6 jeremiah verse 26 and it reads oh daughter of my people gurdy with sackcloth and wall of thyself and ashes make the mourning for for an only son or i might say the only son most bitter lamentation for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us in the future sense you know who that spoiler is it's the spurious messiah i don't know how you geared for that friend because it's going to happen and it will happen in this generation verse 27 i have set thee for a tower that means a watchtower a watchman and a fortress among my people that thou should just know and try their way that means to assess them as an assessor the um the word try i want you to make a note of that in the hebrew it is and it means to test or even if you would investigate investigate i've set you up there is a tower to watch and i want you to investigate current events as they apply to the letter that i have written you okay and uh you're to being a sayer what is that did he say you were to be a judge no you're not to be a judge okay god will manage the judging quite well but you are at least to have discernment where you're not led down some slippery slope by nonsense or foolery well how do i know the difference god will never mislead you people will okay verse 28 they are all grievous revolters walking with slanders they are brass and iron they are all corrupters now if you're saying something what are you supposed to be looking for silver or gold something of value now take that in a spiritual sense does the spiritual thing that you're given from the world does it lift you up does it give you solidity does it give you a foundation to stand on or do you just kind of drift into out into boom boom land it shouldn't if you're intelligent it doesn't take long to make the discernment okay he said all they are is um iron and brass what does that mean you're not going to find any silver there you can try all you want to you're not going to find any silver when you put the heat to them verse 29 the billows are burned the lead is consumed of the fire the founder melteth in vain the refiner for the wicked are not plucked away in other words slag in a furnace always goes to the outside and is cast off okay 30 reprobate or rejected silver shall men call them because the lord hath rejected them you know if you were to turn back to jeremiah don't you don't have to because i probably you've been there before jeremiah chapter 3 verse 8 god divorced israel and god he did god's a divorcee why she wouldn't listen thought she knew everything just went her own way i'll dream up my own god i'll dream up my own religion i'll worship whatever i want to well hey have to it's your you know it's your ship you sail it and we and we can even still be friends all right hey it's all right with me but god expects reverence and he expects you to absorb his truth whereby you're not easily made of full love and his word this whole word is written to one man's family and the only time it mentions other people is when they come in contact with that family so it's not a hard book to understand but you've got to take it from beginning to end some would tell you it's just fairy tales well hey how come history backs most of it up then don't be made a fool of god will test his children to see what they have absorbed and what they can handle if you meet his condition you've got nothing to worry about but what can you gain what he's saying here i expect you i've set you up on a tower of what knowledge wisdom common sense is that when some gun comes along with false teaching you reject it as a matter of fact traditions of men will make void the word of god don't ever listen to this man or any other man with that or woman without checking them out in the word of god god will never deceive you it is that without clear understanding you could just see turn on with me if you would to chapter nine and let's hang on to this same subject pass the test of the assayer and the sayer of course is almighty god chapter 11 i'm sorry chapter nine and let's pick it up with verse four take ye heed every one of his neighbor and trust you not in any brother for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbor will walk with slander now when you test what does that mean not not all of them are but you bet what he's saying is at least check it out you know before you would give a baby a bottle wouldn't you check the temperature of the contents of course you would it means he put this thing up on your shoulders for a reason use it okay think verse five and they will deceive everyone his neighbor and will not speak the truth they have taught their tongue to speak lies and worry themselves to commit iniquity and if you're not careful that's why you need the ability to translate for yourself so that you know what the letter from god has to say whereby if this person or any other person tells you a certain thing means a certain thing or this means it has a separate meaning or two more than one meaning that you can check it out okay um this is he did not i want to make it very clear he didn't say hate your brother and he didn't say hate your neighbor he said say them check them out be careful okay verse 6 thine habitation is in the midst of deceit through deceit they refuse to know me saith the lord and and you can you can't partly know god you either know him or you don't period it's just like faith you either have it or you don't if you don't have it do you know something you just unplugged yourself from almighty god period over it's not to say you can't come back to him but you've got to have faith in him in his word or your your pumping heir verse 7 therefore thus saith the lord of hosts behold i will melt them and try them for how shall i do for the daughter of my people he's going to purify her now understand what many would say well that sounds like a mighty mean god to me he's speaking in a spiritual sense he's going to put him in the fire i don't know how do you do as a christian when the going gets rough do you kind of oh i didn't know god would allow that well you probably never read the word then the thing is is you put a stop to it you handle it you put your foot down christians are not second-class citizens you put your foot down you take care of business christ gave you power over all of your enemies use it use that authority that's that's why god likes to kind of melt and sift and sort out this whole earth age is to get rid of those that followed satan in the first earth age and that still would after a savior was sent they want to still follow him adios amigos this whole earth age is about testing a saying verse 8 their tongue is as an arrow shot out it speaketh deceit one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth but in heart he layeth his weight you know always teach truth don't don't try to change some person's religion you should never you know everybody has to sell his own sale his own ship you know what you teach is god's word let god's word do the work and you'll be blessed all right verse 9 shall i not visit them for these things saith the lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this you know you when you turn when a nation and this is speaking in a national sense when a nation turns its back on god it's looking for trouble do you want to know something how was it possible that i will go all the way back to north korea i was there i can speak how could twelve thousand men and women there were some fantastic nurses with us defeat a hundred and twenty thousand chinese along with i don't know how many north koreans probably the same amount we came out why god was with us it makes a difference how do you think that we have lost such few personnel in afghanistan today helping to build up the morality there of women and to take away such an evil satanic person as that would come over and strike this nation which we've always been able to protect god is with us we're doing it right and he will not turn his back on this nation we have some nations that are taking advantage of the situation that's life and that's how it goes down but we cannot stand for someone to attack this nation god would not approve so let the chips fall wherever they may god will bless us and he will curse those that come against us whoever they are verse 10 for the mountains will i'm take up a weeping and wailing and for the inhabitants of the wilderness a lamentation because they are burned up so that none can pass through them neither can men hear the voice of cattle both the fowl of the heaven meaning in the end what what what did men do with cattle they didn't have a grocery store then that was your food a famine there's just one problem the famine in this end generation is for hearing the true word of god not some one verse charlie or some dreamer but taught chapter by chapter and verse by verse pass the test be a saved how how familiar are you with god's word do you know the spirits messiah will appear first six trump and it isn't only the new testament that declares that is the old as well you just heard it okay with chapter 11 now of jeremiah we're not going to move around a whole lot pick it up with verse 9 same subject basically and the lord said unto me a conspiracy is found among the men of judah and among the inhabitants of jerusalem again what is the conspiracy between satan and almighty god okay they are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers for which refuse to hear my words that's important to god if you turn your back on god's word then you're turning your back on him and they went after other gods to serve them the house of israel in the house of judah here we have both houses have broken my covenant which i made with their fathers they have um the people have actually grown away from the word of god now this is speaking in a natural sense not all people do all right verse 11. therefore thus saith the lord behold or you look here i will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to escape and though they shall cry unto me i will not hearken unto them why in the world wouldn't god answer because they're talking to a different god that's why i mean if your name is sue and i come up and say oh mary oh mary mary mary you probably wouldn't answer or you'd say my name ain't sue or mary or whichever i said all right however it be get your late don't ever get your women mixed up all right anyway your ladies i mean now god is going to correct those do you think he's going to correct those that love him no but you're going to be tested because there is a conspiracy and again he wants you to be wise enough that you can handle it that you won't fall into a trap where you're in trouble in the first place okay verse 12 then shall the cities of judah inhabitants of jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense but they shall not save them at all in the times of their trouble and that's the times of jacob's trouble as well if you turn your back totally upon god upon his word then he won't save you i thank god that he blesses america we have so much to be thankful for we didn't happen by accident that we're the strongest superpower of all superpowers it didn't happen because we're satan worshipers it happened because we love our heavenly father and he will test us he tested us on though he did not i don't want you to misunderstand what i'm saying god did not cause september the 11th to happen but if you don't carry your garbage out he'll let it happen you might say well how did it happen well because we destroyed the c.i.a whereby we had no counter-intelligence to spot them in their own rat's nest and poison them that's how it happened we didn't carry our garbage out and god will bring upon you whatever you ask for that's the way it stands verse 12 then shall the cities of judah inhabits of jerusalem we got that okay and uh 13 and according to the number of thy cities were thy gods o judah and according to the number of the streets of jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing meaning an idol even altars to burn incense into baal or satan okay you can be misled my friend you want to be very careful this has happened in history and it happens down through the ages verse 14. therefore pray not thou for this people neither lift up a cry or a prayer for them for i will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble and that day of trouble is coming and the future is since known as the days of jacob's trouble is it here yet no but it's building to it i don't know how are you going to be fixed are you familiar with it 15. what has my beloved to do in mine house seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many and the holy flesh is passed from them when thou doest evil then thou rejoiceth call biblical ignorance i mean a lot of people do something holy they think they're doing something holy and you've all heard me do it i'm going to do it again at the high day of christianity passover christians still to this day call it by the name ishtar and they roll fertility eggs which was a a heathen orgy and was brought into the church that doesn't feel good does it no it doesn't but it did why because people are ignorant of god's word also brought in on that ishtar which was a heathen goddess quick like a bunny and teach their little children you know this is so so religious well it isn't at all hey i don't care what they do you'll never hear me say hey they you know don't ever go there because they do that but don't be ignorant of what they're doing you know take a good college webster's dictionary and look up the word easter easter and it will say a day name from a heathen goddess when the word in the greek manuscripts which is only one time in the king james is possible which is passover how did it get translated that try to pick up membership i don't want that kind of membership people that would rather be ignorant and to teach truth together numbers numbers don't mean anything so what he's saying is i don't see all that much holy in her yet verse 16 the lord called thy name a green olive tree fair and of a goodly fruit with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it and the branches of it are broken another it's symbolic of god's judgment and his testing listen i don't care what god does to nations as long as you stick with him you don't have anything to worry about you can handle it he will never burden you with more than you can handle and he will always show you a way out verse 17 for the lord of hosts that planted thee hath pronounced evil against thee for the evil of the house of israel and of the house of judah which they have done against themselves who did it to them they have done it to themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto baal you shall place no other gods before me that's what he said and he meant it and if you're not real careful you can let a house become an idol you can let a car become an idol well how's that brother well if you let it come before god well i'd really like to study with god's work but i've got to wash the house today i have to work overtime to get it paid for the user is killing me who are you paying the usury to friend how much of it goes to your principal you got five and they got a hundred didn't it well you're real you know that has to be but that's the way it is but it's best if you can stay out of it okay a car man i've got to get me a new buggy won't i look good in that got to polish that i would go to church i would i would go in the house and study god's word a little bit but i got to polish this buggy so i'll be looking good i'm just saying it's real easy for you to justify things if you're not careful and i'm not saying you should become a religious fanatic but don't ever put anything before god or you're asking for a cursing and you'll get it verse 18 and the lord has given me knowledge of it he's opened my eyes and i know it then thou showed us to me their doings you you made me aware of what's going on in the world of the conspiracy and what's happening 19 but i was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter jeremiah here is a type of messiah he's i didn't know what he said i was innocent when i came here teaching the truth they're wanting to kill me and they about did old jeremiah in a time or two i wasn't aware of it they that is brought to the slaughter and i knew not that they had devised devices against me saying let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof and let us cut him off from the land of the living that his name may be no more remembered and of course that's what happened in christ's case and this was the top four runner of it a type that you're to learn by 20 but oh lord of hosts that judgeth righteously that trius the reigns and the heart let me see thy vengeance on them for unto thee have i revealed my cause again here the word triest is bakan in the hebrew tongue it means investigate lord will try your heart he wants to know what you're made of he wants to know hey if you're true to him or not are you are you faithful can you be trusted that's what he wants to know can he count on you when the chips are down can he use you can he depend upon you so there again we have the word test investigate do you pass the test therefore verse 21 therefore thus saith the lord of the men of anathoth that seek thy life saying prophesy not in the name of the lord that thou die not by our hand do you do you know what this city anna thorth is i mean it's for preachers all right for priests if you prefer i mean these are supposed to be men of god and they're saying you either stop teaching god's word or we're going to have to kill you now that's a sad state of affairs friend but i'm going to tell you something if you openly today on national television teach god's word chapter by chapter and verse by verse i assure you you will receive some hate mail and it it tickles me to death i get so many good letters and people when it's really the word doing it they'll say you are great but it doesn't mean it's great it's the word and finally when i get one of those telling me how no good i am you know it kind of it just wakes you up and gives you a little pleasure there out of out of maybe 4 000 letters get two knuckleheads like that everybody has to have that percentage but you will not be popular and you know the sad part about it is is usually those letters are from men of anathoth do you know what i mean by that i guess i'm kind of speaking in a parable that's preachers okay our mailing list looks like who's who and i would never in my life but why well hey they can get a lot of good sermons out of our teaching chapter by chapter and verse by verse by picking up on certain things and it's a strange thing but it always sin seems new to them and you know something no one can remember all of god's word and you'll always find new when you go over it so it's good when all people can study together i would never embarrass any one of them that chooses to study with this brother okay i would not verse 22 therefore thus saith the lord of hosts behold i will punish them the young men shall die by the sword their sons and their daughters shall die by famine that's for warning truth you know it is too bad that we can't have peace in the world i really wish that we could there's only one prince of peace 23 and there shall be no remnant of them for i will bring evil upon the men of anathor even the year of their visitation of course there's that year of jacob's trouble again that has to do with isaiah chapter 61 we're not going there where jesus would get up and read that chapter from isaiah and stop in the middle because the next was the day of vengeance he stopped it's not that time yet so god tries the hearts of people why he loves you you might say well my goodness that's a funny way to show love well let me ask you something if your children are getting in trouble let's say that let's say that you have i'm going to date myself but i can't it just popped into my mind say you put a tea kettle on an open fire okay to brew a little tea and the stove is a little low and you've got a five-year-old in there and they hear the whistle blow on the kettle and they head for it they're going to get that kettle of boiling water and you've got a three-year-old playing right beside him what are you going to do are you going to say please johnny the water's hot it might burn the little one you're going to say johnny don't touch it you're going to hurt yourself well god does this he feels the same way about you he does not wish that you should hurt yourself that's why a lot of times people will pray for rattlesnakes to play with okay if get you hurt god won't give them to you all right or you better hope he doesn't it might mean he's through with you i don't know anyway no god's never i shouldn't say that god is never through with anyone all right his heart he doesn't get up every morning and say wonder who i can zap today you know he just likes to educate his children education is a fantastic thing especially if it's in god's word okay whereby you can handle it and you know how to bring blessings into your life whereby you're successful whereby you can touch people's lives it's important that's why an education in god's word do you know do you know the main reason do you know that many technologies will change but god's word never changes never it'll be the same word even in the eternity the documentation for that is mark 13 plus many other places psalms 26 very short song test yourself do we pass the test is god pleased with us are you being blessed do you have peace of mind are you easily confused in your life you shouldn't be psalms 26 verse 1 judge me o lord that means you look at me for i have walked in mine in integrity i have trusted also in the lord therefore i shall not slide i'm not going to waver i know i'm on a solid foundation that i'm doing what is pleasing to you examine me oh lord and prove me try that means test investigate my reins that means my mind and my heart for thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes and i have walked in thy truth i can see it god you have opened my eyes to your truth now you know as and for what you see at the moment that's fantastic that's what he wants for you verse four i have not set with vain persons neither will i go in with dissemblers that means people that are hypocritical what somebody that's hypocritical well be patient with them as somebody that doesn't believe god's word is true and maybe at one time in your life you didn't but take the time to check it out historically and then answer me one question how can ilai lama words christ spoke on the cross were promised by god that would happen over a thousand years before the fact man can't swing that friend god's word is always true so hang let me put it a different way who do you hang out with the dissemblers no why why not hang out where you grow why not hang out a real good reason is where you're blessed for to have god's blessings is a wonderful thing i'm sure there are many people wonder how in the world could that country preacher be on 325 television stations and never beg like the rest of them have to think about it because god blesses and when some nut comes along and try to change what's working right god's word if it ain't broke don't fix it keep doing as god's blessings flow okay hang out where you learn truth and you're blessed that's the proof in the pudding verse five i have hated the congregation of evil doers and will not sit with the wicked why you wouldn't learn much it's it's like you vote many of you have heard me say you know you move into an area and you want some advice where do you go to get that advice go to the most successful person in the new community you moved into that is successful in that business and ask their advice or go down here on the corner of the spit and whittle club and they'll give you more advice than you i mean they can write a book on advice but it's not worth a flip because none of them are successful always go to success that is your father almighty god and you'll never go wrong i will wash my hands in innocency so will i compass thine altar o lord that i may publish that i may proclaim that i can make it known with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wonderful works god will never leave you he'll never forsake you he loves you do you know why he created you have you ever read the last verse of revelation chapter 4 for his pleasure how long has it been since you pleasured him do you know that he doesn't have anyone else like you he created you because he wanted you your dna is different your fingerprints are different you're just a different person a different personality and he loves you lord i have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honor dwelleth where is that it's where god's word is taught chapter by chapter and verse by verse not where you got someone one verse revolving rev do you know how long it takes you to make it through the bible one verse at a time once a week 600 years you've got any great expectations of learning anything and i'm not criticizing i am a teacher and it's important to me to get god's word taught rather than men's traditions verse 9 gather not my soul with sinners nor my life with bloody men in other words as much as can let us let us live in peace if not we can handle it all right um verse 10. in whose hands is mischief and their right hand is full of bribes you know you deal around with a bunch of crooks and guess what you're gonna get yeah you're gonna you're gonna get robbed you're gonna get done in you're gonna get shortchanged well i just being a good christian i thought you know i should trust the brother oh boy there's one like that born every minute be wise don't let someone make a fool out of you okay christians are not second-class citizens we are the largest blessed nation in the world and there's a reason for it don't ever be ashamed of it stand up for it political correctness is out the window right is right and wrong is wrong verse 11 but as for me i will walk in mine integrity that means my common sense how you fix for it friend redeem me and be merciful unto me my foot standeth in an even place in the congregations will i bless the lord if you're in the right place and if you're on god's word you're not going to slide and and ask god to judge you he's going to anyway okay but be sure of yourself with his word that you know where you stand you know he that is your closest relative you don't have a relative closer than your heavenly father and never insult the dignity of another entity whatever it is they're selling their own ship let them sail it but you stand on that solid rock and know the course of your life and you will be blessed that's how you tell if you're not doing so good you need to dig a little deeper into his word and find out why why am i so confused all the time well find out you know it is written in mark 13 behold i have foretold you all things everything you need to know i don't know have you read what he told us that's the important thing okay turn with me to psalm 66 as we begin to get down to it close here psalm 66 and then we're going to leave the old testament and psalm 66 verse 1 make a joyful noise unto god all ye lands that means this earth sing forth the honor of his name make his praise glorious celebrate it pay attention to your father and thank him for everything he does for you it makes his day verse 3 say unto god how terrible art thou art thou in thy works how amazing awesome is a better translation all inspiring would better fit to the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee they're going to surrender there is a day coming when every knee is going to bow to our heavenly father it won't last long there will still be some that know it all that will sneak off over in a corner and then that when revelation chapter 20 comes to pass that's it but they sailed their own chip into it got no excuse verse 4 all the earth shall worship thee again every knee that's a there's only one given time that's going to happen okay and shall sing unto thee they shall sing to thy name what does this pause mean in the music it means something was just said and i'm going to connect something with it and what it means i'm going to connect the reason for it following the exhortation and here it comes verse 5 come and see the works of god he is terrible he's always awe-inspiring in his doing toward the children of men he turned the sea into dry land they went through the the flood on foot there did we rejoice in him i mean he helps his children seven he ruleth by his power forever not not some short thing you're signing up for friend his eyes beheld the nations let not the rebellious exalt themselves and then another pause in the music eli what are we going to connect this time it means he's returning from that answer to the exhortation let's hear it oh bless our god ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard which holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to be moved you know it amazes me when some christian will say i i tell you what someday i'm going to get around to giving my soul to god yeah i would do that i'm going to give my soul to god they've never read the bible they're not familiar with the word do you know why because in ezekiel chapter 18 verse 4 god says all souls are mine i mean friend he's already got your soul it's what he does with it that should be important to you when he tests you verse 10 for thou o god has proved us i guess you know what this word proved means have proved us thou has tried us as silver is tried god is going to test those that love him i don't know can you bear a little testing if he rubs you up a little bit or are you going to be weak and run you know god at the same time chastises us if we need it okay i know none of you ever do okay but he will do it okay but i mean for no reason when he prepares you for what's ahead sometimes he will test you to see if you believe him why well if he really puts you in a bad day i mean you're ready just to chunk it to the wind then you'd better remember first corinthians 10 13 or many other scriptures you can cut it he's never going to put more on you so whatever it is that's on you that is so bad brace up take care of the roughest first i mean take name kick dragon get it squared away and get about your father's business okay i mean take care of business don't let some evil spirit bad spirit if you prefer to call it a negative thought throw it over your shoulder get rid of it be positive take care of business okay uh verse 10 for thou o god has proved us that and tried us as silver thou brought us to us into the net thou latest affliction upon our loins okay and thou has caused men to ride over our heads we went through fire and through water but thou brought us us out into a wealthy place he'll always do it i don't know what you got friend are you a wimp we're by oh lord i hope i hope nothing i hope nothing too difficult happens why not a little exercise before breakfast is good okay handle it be sure of yourself put your faith in god and know you're a can-do-type person i mean this is not just a book it's the truth and he will stand with you and he will always bring you into a much better place the word is moist in moist place that means it's not the dry desert you can produce spiritually in a moist place you can produce and god will strengthen you don't just be one of these that just lives from one day to the next wondered i just wonder what's happening read it understand what tomorrow brings the minor prophets are like reading tomorrow's newspaper only it's a lot better and more accurate okay okay to conclude this lecture turn to the new testament ii corinthians pass the test god loves to test his children you know and i suppose that's why we have tests in school while you were in school find out how you're doing find out if you've got it or not find out if you made the great well god's no different he tests you every once in a while he can throw you a little old pop test so quick in your life you make your head spin and you might have to make a snap decision i hope you're familiar with his word because it'll most likely be right if you have chapter 13 verse 5 we're going to conclude with a few verses here and you probably would know what the subject is chapter 13 second corinthians verse 5 this is god's advice to you examine your self whether you be in the faith prove that means a say test prove your own selves know ye not your own selves i don't know how familiar are you with yourself know that jesus christ is in you except you be reprobates and um that would be someone that you know what a reprobate is in the greek here is one that pretends to be a christian a lot of people don't claim to be christians that doesn't make them a reprobate but if somebody claims to be and they're not they don't believe a word of it then that's boy that's bad okay examine yourself you know it's kind of hard to do we have we have some people that truly have problems i suppose that let me see if i can go back in memory here real quickly psychology everybody has about 10 to 15 percent of themselves they're not going to share with anybody okay that's just the way we are i mean you're not going to share it with a mate you're not going to share it with anybody that's private and it's things that you have done and seen and said and thought that for one reason or the other you're not going to share it but beloved always do share it with yourself okay now if that number if that percentage grows up to something like 40 percent if a person has 40 of themselves they're never going to share with anyone else then you've got a person that has a bad problem they really have a problem they're going to have a mental problem is what it'll ultimately end up being okay so stay balanced examine yourself and and see that you have that you utilize integrity that we mentioned earlier from the old testament and i translated it or said common sense always use common sense when someone comes up to you and said do you see that white horse back there he said that horse is black don't agree that it's a white horse just you know it's so if you if you don't want to say that horse wasn't white just say whoa or giddy up scout you know so whatever but use common sense don't let somebody tell you you know you know it's outright spooky don't go along just butt out okay use common sense don't ever let someone go out here about 50 foot off the ground and start building a platform okay on something every foundation's got to be solid on the rock okay and and you'll do okay all right i got so sidetracked there i digressed some people might call it i don't know verse six but i trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates this old paul talking as their teacher he said i i trust that you know we weren't putting you on that we weren't just pretending we are christian verse 7. now i pray to god that you do no evil not that we should appear approved but that ye should do that which is honest though we be as reprobates what he's saying here is i want you to do what you know is right for god not just to look good in front of us even if we did fall short you do good for the right reasons what is the right reason please god do you know something he loves you you're his child he cares about you he's not some force flitting around out in space you're made in his image that means he has the same feelings you do you can make him cry when you're disappointing or you can make him happy when you tell him you love him verse 8 for we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth did you know that truth will always stand it doesn't matter what man wants to do to truth somebody can lie about you write stories about you if it's not truth don't worry it can't do any harm to people that mean anything you've always got nuts that like gossip okay i guess we can call them nuts i i think so yeah like enjoy gossip and make stuff up and stuff nine four we are glad when we are weak and you're strong that's the way a real teacher should feel that his students or her students grow strong even if you're even if you think you're a little weak that you're happy when they're strong they're growing they're gaining okay and this also we wish even your perfection i'd like for you to be a lot more mature than i am that's what he's saying boy that's generous isn't it that's paul talking and only paul could probably uh that's going a long way one more verse therefore i write these things being absent lest being present i should use sharpness paul was pretty bold a lot of people would call him an old crank you know but he what he said he meant all right according to the power which the lord has given me to edification and not to destruction god expects you to be bold in your belief and that's you know we live in a generation where sometimes boldness is misunderstood you know someone wrote me a letter yesterday and said oh dear brother you're the you're the best teacher i've ever heard on television but you could sure catch a lot more people if you could just be a little sweeter and show a little more love well you know if i had to part from god's truth anybody that would be drawn just by sugar and love i don't want them okay i'm not hard up for students all right so the kind of people that deception would draw you don't need okay just lay the truth out and like it or lump it uh that's the way it is i got a letter from somebody saying that lump it is a bad word you know somebody always you know uh somebody always you know linguist or interesting you know i guess it's according to colloquialism and different i don't even know why i thought that anyway that's the way it goes you know stick with your father's word regardless of what man may say please god and the people that you should have close to you and love you will love you those that don't hey have a good trip okay no problem you can still be buddies but they're probably not going to study with you because they probably wouldn't listen to you and that's fine everybody must sell their own but rest assured of this thing god will test you god will give you what you can take care of no more no less how much can you take care of how much do you have then god's talking to you keep climbing the ladder and the top rung is the top rung go for it okay heavenly father we thank you father for the written word we thank you father for your advice for your guidance we thank you father for your blessings we thank you for being with our service personnel father on this day that are in harm's way reach out touch lead guide thank you for the victory father for we know this nation is pleasing to thee in that you bless it may we grow to be more pleasing and those that have no love for you the true father yahweh the living god learn more of thee in jesus precious name amen

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Published: Thu Jun 24 2021