Well, it's great to be here again and great to have a midweek service, huh?
And midweek services are great because you get to recharge your batteries a little bit
And so I know that you haven't started doing that yet and everybody lives quite a distance away
But one of these days soon, we'll start having a regular midweek service, but we'd start one off while I'm here
I mean, I didn't just come here to have fun, right? I came here to preach but preaching is fun to me
So it's great to meet everybody then all the new people welcome to the church
Appreciate you being here. Let's
look
At our actually, let's let's turn it before we get into the main scriptures
I want to go to Hebrew chapter 4
I want to go to a couple different places and obviously I'm preaching out of Hebrew or Ephesians chapter 4
But I want to get this put into our mind tonight and this is the main focus is that
You know, we need to have the Bible in our minds. The Bible is the most important thing for the Christian
It's our offensive weapon. It's the sword of the Spirit and we need to have our eyeballs in it
We need to read it daily in the morning in the evening, and we need to put it into our in practice in our life
It's not just enough
To read the Bible, but you also have to put it in place into your life
And the title of the sermon tonight is remove renew replace
Remove renew replace. We're in Hebrew chapter 4 look at verse number 12. It says for the Word of God is quick and
And that and that's basically means it's alive the Word of God is quick and
Powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword
piercing even to the divineness under of soul and spirit and of the joints of marrow and
It's a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. This isn't just a normal book folks
This this King James Bible that everybody should be reading out of it's not just a normal book. This book is alive
It's powerful when you read it, you know that you've got a powerful book in your hand
It's not just some fairy tale like all these gay theists and fag Gnostics want to say, right?
This is the Word of God
This is what we need to use for all of our faith and practice is what we believe everything
This is you know, Jesus Christ is our cornerstone, but the work this is the Word of God
Jesus Christ is the Word of God. Amen
So everything that we believe needs to be based upon this book
It's it's for our instruction in righteousness and and we need to apply it to our lives
I said, but look what it says that it's it's sharper than any two-edged sword
No book in the world will cut you to the quick like this book right here
When you're doing something wrong and you read it in the Bible like oh, man, I got to fix that, right?
Well, if you're reading it say hey, I need to add that to my life
You know, I need to I need to quit doing this. I need to start doing that
This book it will instruct you on every aspect of your life and look if it's not in this book
You don't really need to know about it there
so it says it's a it's a it's it's
Sharpening to a two-edged sword piercing even to the divineness under of soul and spirit. That's how sharp it is
They can divide a son of the soul and spirit says and have the joints and marrow and it's a discerner of the thoughts
And intense of the heart so everything that your heart thinks it can discern
It's it's it's a powerful book. It discerns the heart it discerns your tense of your heart
You know and a lot of people stay away from this book because they're in sin
And they're like, oh man, you know, I don't want to feel I don't feel spiritual today
So I'm just not going to read it. That's the wrong attitude to have
We need to let the Bible
Remove renew and replace the things that we need to add into our life
Look at Hebrews chapter 5 just one chapter over
And so I just kind of lay in the foundation for the sermon here is that everything that I'm gonna be talking about tonight
You need the Word of God to
Implement these things into your life. Look at Hebrews chapter 5 verse 11
It says of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered seen your dole of hearing
See some people they just stop stop listening
They stop listen to the preaching but they also stop listening to what the Word of God says
Or verse 12 for when for the time you ought to be teachers
You have need that one teach you again
Let's be the first principles of the oracles of God
I know become such as have need of milk and not a strong drink
So the thing is that you're a babe in Christ
If you don't even have the first principles down, you know
You could be a safe for 20 years and you could still be a babe in Christ
See babies they just grow up you feed them they grow up right you can't really stop that
You know kids turn into toddlers and toddlers turn to children and children turn into preteens and preteens turn into teenagers
And then they become young men or young women and then they become adults
There's nothing we can do to stop that progression, right? You can try to start over but they're still gonna grow somehow, right?
but
When it comes to the Christian life, you know
You're just going to continue to stay a babe if you don't know the first principles of the oracles of God and you know
Those people need milk. You need milk first before you can have the strong meat, right?
So it says it says you're in need of milk and and not and not of straw
You have such excuse me. Let me back it up to verse
12 here
the
Let's see for one for 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 it becomes such as have need of milk and not of strong meat
so strong meat would be like
The hard to learn doctrines and things like that things that are more meaty more spiritual not just like salvation
Baptism those things are easy to understand
But what's not easy to understand is the different multiple layers of the Bible
You have to read the Bible over and over again to get more out of it and the more you read it
the more you're gonna learn and
You're gonna become more skillful in the Word of God
I mean, I'm sure you remember the first time you ever picked up the Bible and tried to read it
And you know now here you are today a lot of you
I've read the Bible multiple times and don't you learn something new every time you read it
You should be if you're not learning something new then you ought to ask so that God will show you
New things and great things out of his law 3 verse 13 it says for everyone that uses milk is
unskillful in the word of righteousness
For he is a babe. So if you if you are still a babe, that's okay
But if you're like 20 years into your Christianity and you're still a baby in Christ
You need to grow up you need to drink the milk and you learn the first principles of the things of God
So that you can you know, get out of that baby mode and get into some more strong meat see it says in verse 14
but strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age even those by
Reason of use you see that reason of use have their senses exercised
To discern both good and evil. So the more you use this book the more discernment
You're gonna get in the Word of God and then you're gonna be able to discern between good and evil
But if you don't know if you don't ever read this book
You're never gonna get that knowledge and you're always gonna be stumbling
You're always gonna be tripping up and you always know. I just don't understand why don't grow well read your Bible
Maybe you'll grow a little bit
Now, let's go to our text in Ephesians chapter 4 verse over 17
See once you get saved
You need to get rid of some things
Oh, yeah, and then you need to renew your mind and then you need to replace the old habits
You used to have with better habits. So that's why we'll be preaching to you about tonight
But you're not going to get that without reading the Word of God
Now look what it says in verse 17 Ephesians chapter 4 says this I say therefore and testify in the Lord that he henceforth
Walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind having the understanding darkened
Being 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 unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness
But you have now so learned Christ
If so be that you have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus
So what's what's the Apostle Paul saying here? He's saying hey
You know, we used to walk like these other Gentiles walked in the vanity of their mind
You know, they have their understanding darkened
There's a lot of unsaved people and you know, sometimes we expect people to be like we are
But nobody's gonna be like you if you're saved, they don't understand their understandings darkened
They're alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that's in them
You know a lot of people want to be ignorant. They want to be dumb on purpose, don't they?
They just want to go through their life and continue to sin and do whatever
That it is that they want to do and that's why the Bible says that they hate dark
Oh, they hate lot. They hate the light
They won't come to the light because men love darkness rather light because their deeds are evil, right?
And so some people just don't want it, you know, they you know, you go to someone's door, you know, no, thanks
No, they just don't the light shines in their house and they don't want that light
They don't want to receive that light and it says who being past feeling
you know some of these people are so past feeling that they've become given over to a reprobate mind and
They've given themselves over to lasciviousness. It's like lewd
Acts and things like that and work all uncleanness with greediness. Some people just want money
They love money and they love to be filthy and dirty. It says to work all uncleanness
It says but yes not so learn Christ if so be that you have
Heard him and have been taught so some are people that are saved, you know people that trust Jesus, you know, we have to
Get out of those old things that we used to have in our lives
And so I'm talking about save people here tonight people that have put on the Lord Jesus Christ
They believed on him, you know, and so number one my point number one is we need to remove
What do we need to remove from our lives?
Well, we need to remove the sin and so is that possible to remove all sin out of our lives?
It's not necessarily possible to do that, but we should give it a good try, right?
We should try our best to live a life that's pleasing to the Lord
And so we need to remove the sin out of our lives
We need to remove that trash and that corruption that's been in our lives
And you know the worldly ways that we once walked in and those things are hard to walk away from some of them
Aren't they?
Music is really hard, isn't it?
Because music was probably a big part of everybody's life in here
And I'm sure some people still struggle with the types of music that they listen to, you know
So you'll hear some stupid song in the store or you know
You can't even really go anywhere anymore without having some kind of music playing in the background
I was having breakfast this morning and some Led Zeppelin was playing when I got in there
It's just like me and I hate this song, but I just can't stand Led Zeppelin
But I just can't stand worldly music anymore, but yet your flesh is drawn to it, isn't it?
It is, it's drawn to it
And so like how do you know that some music isn't good for you?
Well, because it makes you emotional, brings you back to your childhood memories
It brings you back to, you know, romance or whatever
Or maybe it brings you back to some time when you were in the thug life or whatever you were doing
But it brings memories to you and you probably have that music stuck in your head for the rest of your life
There's albums that I know every beat, every song, every riff, everything
How do I know that? Well, because music's powerful
And that's a powerful thing. It's hard to remove that stuff out of your life
Movies, Hollywood movies, things like that and just, you know, a lot of people
Gamble, they drink, you know, they smoke weed or whatever it is that they do
Those are things that we as Christians need to get out of our lives though, right?
But some people have harder problems with certain things
Some people have proclivities to other sins that other people wouldn't have
Some people struggle with music, some people don't. Some people struggle with smoking, some people don't. Some people struggle
You know, it's just it just depends on the person and how deep you were into it
But you know as Christians who have put on the Lord Jesus Christ
We need to try to remove those things out of our lives
Well, how do we do that? Look at verse number 22 in our chapter. Ephesians chapter number 4 verse number 22
And so number one is we need to remove. It says that you put off. Isn't putting off removing something from you?
Like if I just said I'm putting off my coat because it's too hot which I'm actually gonna do right now
Put off, right? You put off
concerning the former
conversation the old man
Which is corrupt according to the deceitful lust so what's about to say we need to put off
Concerning the former conversation that's not talking about things you used to talk about
All right
When we say someone's having a conversation most of the time we're talking about someone having a conversation where we're speaking to each other
But what the Bible means here is the life that you used to live the manner of life
That you used to live the old man
So once you get saved you have what's called the new man the new man comes and that new man is
Sinless perfect, but you still have the old man living inside you
But you want to try to crucify the deeds of the old man, don't you?
And it says that you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt
Isn't the old man corrupt? Does this flesh want to do anything? That's good. No, it doesn't it wants to do things that are bad
It wants to live that old life and that's why you saw the children of Israel
Wanting to go back to Egypt wanting to have the flesh not really caring about the manna
They wanted the flesh from Egypt
You know the and the children of Israel is a picture of kind of how the Christian life is, too
We always want to go back and do stuff
We want to go back to our sin
The Bible says it's like going, you know, like a salve going back into the into the pig pen
Right or someone the dog puking and wanted to eat its own vomit who's ever seen a dog do that before it's disgusting, isn't it?
And so it should disgust us too. But yeah, that's what we want to do
That's what our flesh wants to do. Look the more we live our lives in the flesh the more fleshly things
We're gonna want to do our defenses are weakened and then you know
Then we're gonna end up doing the things that we don't want to do
So Paul talked about the fact that he was carnal Paul talked about him doing the things that the things he wanted to do
He didn't do it, you know, and that's because we can't always walk in the spirit
We can try our hardest, but we're not always gonna do that
But we should try to live most of our life in the spirit and not try to walk in the flesh, right?
But of course we are sinful people. We're never gonna be perfect like Jesus was
But for the most part we can try our best
To remove that old stuff to get away from those old people those old haunts that we used to go to
The things that you know easily beset us we need to try to put those things off
So it says which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts
See, it's deceitful it these lusts that they deceive us and they we think oh, it's okay
We're better now, you know, we can handle this but you're never gonna handle it. It's gonna handle you
Sin is gonna handle you look at Psalm chapter 119 verse 11. Just keep your
Finger or bookmark or something back in Ephesians chapter 4 because we're gonna come back to that
but Psalm 119
Verse 11. Well, how are we gonna get how are we gonna remove? How are we gonna put off these former things?
Well, Psalm 119 verse 11 says thy word have I hidden my heart
That I might not sin against thee so what it always goes back to the Bible doesn't that how are you gonna hide?
God's word in your heart where you're gonna memorize it
You know
That's that's why do we memorize verses and give prizes for that because we want that Word of God in our hearts
So we might not sin against God or that we might want to do the things that God wants us to do
You know seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you
Right. So if we seek first first thing we do we get up is we seek the kingdom of God
You know we get up we read our Bible we pray or whatever order you want to do that in acknowledge God
Give him it some acknowledgement and then you know, obviously at the end of the night
We should be meditating in God's Word and praying and I personally think that praying is an underrated thing
And a lot of times we just go on. I don't know why I just keep falling into this
Well, why don't you pray to God and ask him to help you?
Why don't you read the Bible and get some knowledge?
So you can remove these things out of your life and hide his word in your heart
Look at Hebrews chapter 12 verse number 1 Hebrews chapter 12 verse number 1
What are we talking about we're talking about removing the things out of our lives that we need these roadblocks these stumbling blocks to
The Christian life because do you really just want to be a baby for the rest of your life?
Nobody wants to be a spiritual baby for the rest of your life
That's just a hard road, isn't it? If you're always just making mistakes
You're always on the milk, you know, someone always has to reteach you everything
We need to get to where we're past that baby stage
And we're on to the stronger meat the things that's going to help us discern the difference between good and evil
Amen, so look at Hebrews chapter 12 verse 1 it says we're foreseen
We're also
We're our compass. Excuse me. We're also our compass about was so great a cloud of witnesses
Let us lay aside
Every way isn't that putting off?
You know, you got weights on you who's ever ran with weights on or you know
You do a workout with weights on or something like that
It's a lot easier to do stuff without having a whole bunch of weight on you, isn't it?
It's a lot easier to run if you don't have chains and weights or whatever it is
I know people train that way. There's a lot of who does like training in here
There's some people in here that do some kind of like physical training, right?
So it's a lot easier to run you can run faster
That's why people train so that when they take those weights off then they're faster
And you know all that type of stuff, but what the Bible's time out here is the weight of sin
Right says let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth easily beset us
And let us run with patience the race that is set before us
See God's saying that you know what the Christian, you know, we're supposed to run
We're supposed to in the Christian life. It says so run that you may obtain right? So we're supposed to be running this race
It's the Christian life. It's the you know, the apostle Paul talks about being a race all the time and
He seemed to like sports a lot. So he always has some things that he's talking about when it comes to sports
But when we lay aside that weight and that sin that that does so easily beset us
We're gonna be able to run faster, aren't we?
We're gonna be able to run with that patience that race that's set before us
It's gonna be a lot easier to get to our life
If we're not always being punished for the sin that we keep committing the pitfalls that we keep going back into
It's like it's like almost like, you know
You get to a level and then you get a setback and then you have to go back up to that level again
So you you you go back instead of going forward and
The best way to go forward and to run this Christian life
Is to not have a bunch of sin in your life weighing you down and stopping you from being the best Christian
That you can be look at verse number two looking under Jesus
The author and finisher of our faith. Hey, who do we have to look up to?
You know, we can look up to other people in the faith
We can look up to other pastors, but who should we really be looking up to?
Jesus right. It says the author and finisher of our faith
He's the one that finished it. He's the one authored it. He wrote the book. Amen
And we're supposed to be looking unto him. What did he do everything perfect everything, right?
So if we want someone to look up to you know, then it should be Jesus
And it says who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross
Despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. He finished didn't he?
He finished the race didn't he and he finished
The what it took to save all mankind, you know, we go to people's doors
We tell them all the great things that Jesus did but we can't even really it's kind of a encapsulated thing, isn't it?
It's like yeah, he healed the blind he rose people from the dead. He walked on water and they're like, okay
Okay, but we're just like babe basically just scratching the surface of what he did
We should have a little bit of passion when we preach about what Jesus did for us
It's not just a factoid that we're that we're getting out there
We need to just you know
Get a little bit of passion our preaching and remember we're not just going through a script when we're out soloing
We need to care about people, you know what people people are gonna believe you based upon, you know, how much you care
If you're just sitting there you're like yeah Jesus died for you and
Yeah, you want to pray?
You know, I mean we got to have some passion our preaching
Do you ever get fired up when you're preaching to people and just like you know what he did for us?
You know, you know what he did
He died on a cross for us and then he was buried he rose again the third day
He went to hell for three days and three nights for us
There's nothing wrong with being passionate about your preaching when you're preaching to someone
You know to me it's it's it's realistic, you know, so look at Romans chapter 10 verse 17
So we look under Jesus. We got a lay aside. That's removing isn't it? We need to
Lay aside every weight every sin that death easily beset us see our sin is the thing that's gonna make us trip
We're gonna stumble we're not gonna be able to you know, you're gonna be crawling through the race, you know because sin
Hinders you from being able to run that race. Look at the Romans chapter 10 verse 17
So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
But you know what we use this a lot for sowing and it's applicable. It's it's it's what it's talking about
But what about the faith that comes to us by hearing the Word of God in our daily life, you know
We we the more we hear God's Word the more it's gonna help us in our daily life
And it's gonna help us to believe the things in the Bible, you know people listen to Alexander Scorby sounds British
but he's actually from Brooklyn, but
Does it increase your faith when you hear the Word of God read to you?
Does it increase your faith when someone preaches the Bible to you and just plainly shows you what the Bible says?
How about just your daily reading?
You know, you're gonna hear that in your head like while you're reading it
But sometimes I'll just I'll put my app on and I'll let the I I have somebody besides score. He's actually really British but I
Read I like read along with as he reads it out loud and I don't know
I just like reading like that for some reason else. Keep me into the story more and
So, you know that faith is gonna come by hearing the Word of God
And we need to hear it in our minds and in our hearts
Let it sink down in our ears revelation go ahead and turn to Galatians chapter 5 verse 16
I'm gonna read Revelation chapter 2 verse 29
Revelation chapter 2 verse 29 says he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith
Unto the churches the Lord Jesus Christ wants us to hear not just to read and not apply it
But he wants us to read it and he wants us to hear it
He wants us to sink down into our ears and what's in here your brain, right?
And so he wants it to sink down into our brain
He wants it to be in our in our being right and so we need to understand that we need to hear what the Spirit
Says the Spirit is this book right here. You're gonna get the spirit out of here
now Galatians 5 verse 16
What's the Bible says says in verse 16 says this I say then walk in the spirit and he shall not fulfill the lusts
of the flesh, what's the key to
To you know getting rid of the sin in our lives. What's the key?
To removing the sin out of our lives. Well, if you walk in the spirit, you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh
I mean you're like that sounds really simple Pastor Thompson, but it's not always that easy. Is it?
Because as men we walk through this world, we have to hear all this smut
We have to see all this all the wicked ways that you know, the women dress out there
It's it's a hardship for men
Isn't it when you're always having to look up all the time or look down or go like this or just like walk around?
It's hard. Yeah, it's hard to walk around in this world
Filled with sin, you know, we're supposed to be in the world but not part of the world
But sometimes it's hard isn't it having to hear that music having to see?
The things that we don't that we shouldn't want to see but our flesh wants to see that stuff doesn't our flesh
Wants to lust after other women our flesh wants us to lust after things and and getting
Rich quick and things like that
No, they didn't preach the sermon about gambling, you know, a lot of people just want to get rich the easy way
They don't want to work hard for what they have
But you know, we're supposed to walk in the spirit. How are you gonna remove?
Well, you gotta walk in the spirit
looking verse 17 says for the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are
Contrary the one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would so what's the problem?
Your flesh the but we saw everybody in here is made of flesh, right?
It lusts against the spirit and so there's just constantly every single day. It's a battle
We're supposed to take up our cross daily and follow after Christ because it's a daily battle
You know what? The great thing is that every morning there's new mercies
You know the Lord gives us new mercies every day. And so if you failed yesterday
Well, then get up and walk right walk in the spirit say hey today. I'm actually gonna read my Bible today
I'm actually going to pray to the Lord today. I'm actually going to go to church today
I'm actually gonna try to walk spiritually today. I'm gonna go soul winning
You know do something that's spiritual walk in the spirit and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh
Then you won't even have to worry about it. You're so busy being spiritual, but you don't have time to walk after the flesh
And that's the easiest way
You know, why was it so, you know, I go to church a men's retreat every year
You know when I was younger when I was first saved and at that time I still smoked I know I'm wicked, right?
But at that time I still smoked and every time I'd go I'd be like I'm gonna I'm gonna quit smoking this year
And it was it was actually on the week of the Great American Smokeout. It's the day where everybody says hey today
I'm quitting and you know, it's really easy to not smoke when you're around a bunch of other Christians
You know, it's embarrassing you smell like cigarettes or whatever. It's like yeah, this is easy
It's good. And then you get back to the wall to the real world where you're stressed driving down the road
You're stressed at work and all this stuff. The kids are crying and screaming. You're just like cow. Don't take me away
Smoke a cigarette
But boy, I have quit smoking by the way, so a long long time ago
But you know, I'm just trying to say that it's easy to walk in the spirit when you're doing spiritual things
And so try to do spiritual things as much as you possibly can and you're gonna walk in the spirit
You know ask God to help you, but we all fail we all fall and you know what?
God's there to pick us up when we fall, but we have to get back up
We have to get back up and keep walking. So number one we got to remove
We got to remove the things in our life that are hindering us and stopping us. And how do we do that?
Well, you know, we we get into the Word of God and you know
We also lay aside that that sin we look unto Jesus as our example
We hear the Word of God
We get our faith from the Bible
You know and we walk in the spirit so that we won't fulfill the lust of the flesh number two
We need to renew
You know a lot of us have been brainwalk a brain defiled
It's actually being brain defiled not people will say the world brainwash, right?
You guys are a bunch of brainwashed cult members and Pastor Thompson's a cult leader and you know
I don't remember like calling everybody on the phone saying hey you guys gotta show up for church tonight
Did I say that?
No, you all just came because you wanted to come and hear the Word of God you want to hear the Bible preached
Nobody's stopping you. Nobody's making you come to this church. You come to church on your own volition, right?
So but the problem is is that we've been brain defiled and we walk in this world and our
Brains are defiled and you know, we actually need to be brainwashed
We need to have our brain washed
That's the problem is that our brains have been defiled and we got to wash them and scrub them
How do we scrub them with the Word of God, right? We need to renew so Ephesians chapter 4 back in our text
verse number 23
It says, you know, first we're supposed to put off and then it says and be renewed in the spirit of your mind
So like I said when you're saved you have the new man
And we need to renew that spirit of our mind if it gets the following to wash it up, right
So I'm here to brainwash you tonight. I want to tell you how to be brainwashed
Because we've been brain defiled for too long, you know in other churches, you know, they just don't even care
They just want you to put the money in the plate. Shut up and come back next week
take the eat the cracker drink the juice and
Rinse and repeat right sing a couple songs, but you know, our church is a little different
Well a little more militant aren't we you know, we're we're an organized
group of soldiers
That we have a we have a mission to get as many people saved as we can
Because didn't Jesus come to seek and save that which was lost
He did he came to seek and save that which was lost
But we need to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. Look at Titus chapter 1 verse 15
Titus chapter 1 verse 15
And people, you know
I'm sure you you start going to this church and your family starts saying you guys are
Maybe taking a little bit too far. You're thinking about moving. You're thinking about moving to that church. You're crazy
You need to go you need to go you're bringing back brainwashed
You know that pastor that that leader there is brainwashing you like amen
Amen, it's brainwashing me right? And so I know that sounds bad, but
But in reality it's the truth because our minds have been defiled
Titus chapter 1 verse 15 says it says on to the pier all things are pure
So when your peer you're peering all things appear to you
But unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure. So the unbelievers nothing's pure to them
They're defiled. They're unbelieving it says but even their mind and conscious is defiled
So we had our minds and consciences defiled at one time
But we need to clean them up. How did what does the filed mean? It means it's filthy. It's dirty
And so we've had a lot of growing up or it lit
I mean, I don't know what it's like to grow up in this country
But I'm sure you've had to endure a lot of filthy things and your conscience has been
Had issues like some people just get into sin and they just keep sitting but you know when Jesus saves you
He creates in you a new man
And so we need to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. Look at Psalm chapter 51 verse 10
Psalm chapter 51 verse 10
David when he sinned with Bathsheba, it was a great sin, wasn't it?
And he had you right the Hittite killed
To cover up his sin, but it didn't work see because God
Knows everything that we do. I don't know why he thought he was gonna escape from that one, but
It didn't work and when Nathan the Prophet came in he said that with the man
You know, he was the man, but you know when we sin when we get defiled
You know the Bible says right here created me a clean heart Oh God and what to say
Renew right renew a right spirit within me
So, you know the world's gonna defile us sins gonna defile us sins gonna give us problems in our mind and our soul
It's gonna get us all dirty and filthy and defiled
But you know God can you know God can do he can create in us a clean heart
But you know the Bible says in first John 1 9 it says
Well, let's turn over there real quick. I'm actually I don't have it in my notes. I should know it by heart
I think I do know it by heart
First John 1 9
Sorry, it's a new Bible
First John
Sorry
That's what what happens when I don't have it my notes first John 1 9 it says
If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and what to say
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, so
You know, what's gonna help us is being renewed in the spirit of our mind
What's gonna help us is asking God to create in us a clean heart and to renew a right spirit within us when we
Turn to Romans chapter 12 verse 2
Romans chapter 12 verse 2
So we need the Word of God to wash our brains
We need the Word of God to wash our brains and to not just be
Conformed to the world that we live in we're supposed to be separate from the world
Says love not the world neither the things that are in the world, right?
Romans chapter 12 verse 2 says and be not conformed to this world
But be transformed by the renewing of your mind so we have to renew our minds we have to be
Transformed we can't be conformed to this world. It says that you may prove
That you prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God
So once you your mind is renewed from the Bible and you're transformed you're renewed
You know that then you can start to prove the things that are good
You prove the things that are acceptable and it wants to say the perfect will of God now
Nobody's gonna be perfect
Like I said, but complete is what perfect actually means when you're talking about the King James Bible
You want to be a complete Christian? You want to be the perfect package?
Well, you need to have a renewing of your mind
See when we first get saved, we have a lot of crap in our life, right?
Just a lot of garbage a lot of trash and it needs to be cleaned up
How do we do that renewing our mind through the Bible?
Walking in the spirit and eventually those things, you know, we forget like how bad we were and then we're like, oh, yeah
I used to do that
It's bad
No, we I used to go to the bar
I used to get in fights or you know, I used to think differently
I used to listen to different kinds of music and the Bible will just clean you up. It's gonna renew
Your mind, but we can't be conformed to this world. You know, that's what when you talk about worldly Christians
People that are still conformed to this world
Their mind has not been renewed. They don't read the Bible a person that's been saved and they never read the Bible
They're never gonna grow
They never even drank the milk yet. How many people out there?
You know that claim to be Christians don't even read the Bible
They've never even read the Bible once and they're getting on Thomas. I mean we are
How there's always oh, how are you so mean?
Well, I didn't realize that reading the Bible was me
Reading the Bible out loud is me preaching the Bible. Oh, that's me. Why are you being so judgmental?
Well, God's judgmental
Isn't he?
You know, I mean just look up the word judgment in the Bible
See how many times it pops up judge in the Bible and like you're not supposed to judge
That's the opposite of what God says we are supposed to judge
So we're just not supposed to judge on righteously
so look what it says in
Let's see, let's turn over to saw 119 again somewhat saw 119 again
So, how are we gonna
Not be confirmed to this world
Well, we need to be transformed by the renewing of our mind
And then we can prove the good and acceptable and perfect will of God saw 119 verse 9
Says wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way see that word cleanse
By
Taking heed thereto according to thy word. You want to cleanse your way young men young people even old people
Yeah, well, you got to take heed there to according to that word
So you gotta actually take heed to what the Bible says and actually do it
Right, and so then you can cleanse your way why because we're already defiled
We need to clean ourselves up
And that's you know, that's something that's a process that takes place over our lifetime as a Christian
You know
You're not just instantly sinless of all sin and and you never have to work anything. We still have to work at things
You know and that's gonna happen till Jesus Christ comes back
But how do we how do we cleanse our ways? Well, we got to take heed to what the Bible says
You know read the Bible
Ephesians chapter 5 verse 25 Ephesians chapter 5 verse 25
We need to remove some things
We also need to renew some things we need to make all you know, when you renew something that you think about renewing a car
Usually when a car is all messed up with you
Well, I know it's probably the same here
But in the States, you know people try to get these old junker classic cars and and make them nice and shiny and new
Again, well, how do you do that?
Well, you replace the all the bad stuff with good stuff, right and you replace it
You renew it put a new paint job on it and all that stuff
I've never done it before but I've seen it done. I've heard about it. So
but anyway
Look at Ephesians 5 25. It says husbands. Love your wives. Even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it
Then he might what does a?
sanctify and
Cleanse it with the washing of water by what?
The word so, how do you get sanctified? What does sanctified even mean? It means to be set apart
It means to be holy
So why did he die for us so he could sanctify us and cleanse us by the washing of water by the?
Word what's it was he talking about the Word of God?
You know you're clean
through the Word of God James chapter 4 verse 8
James chapter 4 verse number 8
When you're renewing something you're cleaning it up you're making it better
James chapter 4 verse 8 says draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you
Cleanse your hands these sinners and purify your hearts
He double-minded be afflicted in mourning weep let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up
So how do we do that? Well, how do we purify our hearts? Well, you know, you got to draw an eye to God
You know, once you draw an eye to God he's like, okay. Well, they took a step towards me
Well, I'm gonna take a step towards them. I'm gonna draw an eye to you
And we're supposed to cleanse our hands
Purify our hearts isn't that cleaning it up getting it clean
So when we're double-minded, you know, our hearts are not clean
You know, you're a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways
So if you're double-minded
Then you need to cleanse your hands purify your hearts get close to God. How do you do that? Well prayer
Reading the Bible being humble. No, isn't isn't humble getting on our hands and knees and asking God to forgive you for something
Asking God to help you, but if you're not even ever sad about what you do, that's not being humble
It's like God knows when you're being fake, doesn't he?
Now dear Heavenly Father forgive me in Jesus name. Amen. Okay, I'm good
Is that is that the most repentance you got
Because it should be a little more deep than that
When you know you've done wrong
You know, you just put your head down get on your knees and ask God to forgive you
That's the most humble thing you can do and then Bible says if you draw an eye to him
How do you draw an eye to God?
Well, we can't actually go up to heaven right now, can we?
So we call upon his name and ask him to help us
So calling upon the name of the Lord isn't just asking for salvation is asking for anything
And when we know we messed up, you know God you want God to cleanse your ways
We'll get humble, you know get get on your knees and ask him to forgive you get in the book and read it
So number three tonight, it's the last point but it's the longest one. Okay. All right, we got till midnight, right?
Oh
Nobody's sitting in the window. Okay, we're good. All right, so we need to replace
So I've talked about how we need to get rid of all the things that we you know
When we first get saved we have all this stuff in our life this trash and garbage and sin that we got to get
Out of our life and how do we do that?
Well, we renew our minds through the Word of God and we fit and we and we start to realize hey
But these things are bad. We need to get the things in our lives that are good
And so when you go to start replacing those things
See, that's the thing a lot of people they get sin out of life and then they don't replace it with the good works
You know our good habits and so, you know, we have to put off
We have to cleanse and now we must replace all the ways with better ways good ways
And so how do you do that? Well
Look at Ephesians chapter 4 verse 24
Ephesians chapter 4 verse 24
See
The old habits the old manner of your life the old lifestyle has to be replaced with a new and better lifestyle
doesn't it and you know new habits because if you used to go to the bar all the time, you know,
Oh, you know
I used to go to the bar at 4 o'clock every evening and drink until the bar closed now
What's gonna be your new habit? You got to find something don't you? Yeah something good though
But Ephesians 4 24 says and that you put on the new man
So you have the old man on you got to take the old man off put the new man on
Which after God has created a righteousness and true holiness
So the new man wants to do the things that are right
The new man wants to do the things that are true and holy and so that's what we got to start doing is putting
new practices into place with our lives
things
To replace well, let's look at Ephesians chapter 4 verse 25. It says wherefore putting away lying
Were you a liar before did you used to lie a lot?
Well, what's about to say speak every man truth with his neighbor. So here's a thing to replace stopping a liar
And start telling the truth
Stop lying to your neighbor about stuff and start telling the truth
For we are members one of another
And it says be angry and sin not is it okay to be angry
It's okay to be angry, but don't sin. Did you used to be an angry man?
You used to fight people all the time and you know, your way of settling things was just smacking them in the jaw
You know, that's not what we how we should be living as Christians anymore
It says be angry and sin not let not the Sun go down upon your wrath
neither give place to the devil
And it says let him that stole steal no more. Were you a thief before?
Well, you know you need to replace that with what but rather let him labor working with his hands a thing which is good
Hey, if you used to be a thief
You can even be a thief and steal time from your boss by not working hard by not doing what you're supposed to do
Hey, why don't you just become a hard worker?
They may have to give to him that needeth
Now replace the old ways with good things aren't these things replacing good things
Well, you know the bad things with good things
Know what it says in verse 29 let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth
But that which is good to the use of edifying
That it may minister grace under the hearers. Hey, how many things would change if you would talk to people differently?
You know, we don't have to talk to people
With the corrupt communication that used to proceed out of our mouth
You know, the f-word was one of my favorite words back in the day when I was a young unsafe person
But that is not a word that we probably using right? That's corrupt communication
Now I'm not I'm not gonna go to the point where I say, you know
You're not supposed to say bastard because that's a bad word. No, that's in the Bible. Okay
Damn piss that's in the Bible too. So I'm not getting all crazy ultra spiritual
All right, but that word is not in the Bible the f-word, you know now
There's a different kind of effort that I use but I I'm not gonna use that right now
that one's okay, too, but
Anyway, I want to get kicked out of the country today so
But
Anyway, so it says let no corrupt communication come out of your mouth
That too but that which is good to the use of edifying, you know when you're driving in your car by yourself
You know and that person cuts you off or you know, you let them in
You're like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna do the Christian thing and let that person in
I just go really slow in front of you know, I'm talking about
Super annoying, isn't it?
But you know and if colorful things come out of your mouth. Well, it just changed the way you are
You know, just don't want them in next time and then no, I'm just kidding
You don't let them in they won't disappoint you, you know, I'm just kidding
But we should you know, we should change the way we talk, you know, do your kids, you know
Are you one way here and then another way at home the way you talk?
Do your kids say mommy? What does that mean?
You know, we got to change the way we communicate. We got to change the way we communicate with our spouses
You know, we probably used to talk one way around them
And maybe we should change the way we speak in front of them now
You know, we need to replace the old man with the new man
It says and grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby you're sealed unto the day of redemption
let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice and
Be kind one to another
There's a novel idea. Hey, why don't we start being kind one to another?
Instead of having all this bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor
You're all mad
Evil speaking put that away
Put away all the malice and start being nice to each other
You know as Christians we're supposed to be nice to each other
We're supposed to be good to each other
We're not supposed to be plotting against each other or trying to climb up the ladder to a higher echelon to the other person
We're supposed to be kind one to another
tender-hearted
Forgiving one another hey to someone slightly in church. Well that happens
You know, this church is not perfect. It's never going to be that's filled with sinful people y'all sinners
Alright, it's gonna be filled with sinful people
You know, we're all sinful people
but then we sit back and judge our brother like we're better than them because maybe they have a different sin that we don't have
proclivity to
And we're not tender-hearted someone just is like mean to you or whatever, you know, you can let stuff go
Did you know that you don't have to just right every wrong that someone does to you?
That's how you used to be but why don't you try being a little bit different now and
forgiving people
Hey, someone slightly you just forgive me that do they have to ask for forgiveness before you forgive them? No, you can forgive them anyway
Can't you can't you see maybe they just had a bad day
You know, maybe they're just a jerk and they're not where you are at spiritually
But
You know if you sink to the level that they're at then what are you doing you're dragging yourself back down to where you used
To be when you could be spiritual and just say you know what I forgive that person doesn't matter. No big deal
I mean, I've talked about this before but like where I work we can yell and scream at each other
Which I tried to yell and scream at people but sometimes it happens, but
There's people I've seen people getting the worst arguments at work
The next day. It's just like nothing happened
You know, sometimes you can get an argument with a Christian and you know what you should do act like nothing happened
If it's not a big deal anymore, it's not a bit. You know, we shouldn't be on stream at each other, obviously
But if people that are unsaved in a construction zone
Can sit there and scream at each other and the next day they're good
Then why can't we do that if someone just doesn't shake our hand in the morning or doesn't say oh
You know your kids cute or whatever
Or maybe
You know, they're not your cup of tea and you don't like going someone with that particular person
I'm just not going selling with them anymore
It's just like you shouldn't have that attitude
You know, maybe not everybody's your favorite person to go soloing with but if you get partner with someone
You should just go and don't complain about it
Let that so winning captain choose who you're going with
Obviously if you guys are throwing down in front of people then that's probably not a good thing
But that probably doesn't ever happen does it we're actually yelling and screaming at your soul any partner
Unless you're like a false prophet or something
Preaching a false gospel. They don't then go ahead and scream at him. That's fine
They're saying you got to repent of all your sins, right? Wait a second
But that's usually doesn't happen does it I mean but we need to be different
You know, we need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and when we do that
We need to be kind to one another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake have forgiven you
Who are you to sit there and hold grudges against people on Jesus died for a bunch of people that don't even love him
He's isn't he the Savior of all men
Didn't he die for everybody?
Even that reprobate that didn't want to get saved
Did he die for them, too?
So if he can forgive people why can't we forgive people especially our brothers and sisters in Christ?
Go ahead and turn to 2nd Peter chapter 2
I'm gonna read Colossians chapter 3 9
Colossians 3 9 says lie not one to another
Seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds
So if you put off the old man with his deeds, you're not gonna lie to each other
You know, and obviously again, we're sinful we can fall into sin
But you know if we put on the Lord Jesus Christ we put on the new band
Then we ought to be different than we were before. Does that make sense?
we need to steer clear of old haunts and
vaccine your soul around wicked people
This is something I'll never understand how the people don't realize
You can't keep hanging around the same people that used to hang around and expect to get more spiritual
If you're saved the last thing you should do be doing is hanging around a bunch of unsafe people now
Obviously, man, you got to go to work, you know, I understand that but that's different
You have to do that
you have to go to work and if you're around a bunch of reprobates all the time and find a different kind of
job or a different kind of way to support your family, but
We need to steer clear of our old haunts that affects our soul and being around wicked people all the time and that includes
Family
You know if you take your kids and drop them off to grandma and grandpa's and they're just sitting there telling your kids
How well, you know when you're 18, you can you can move out and do whatever you want
You don't have to listen to this crazy stuff just because it's your mom and dad
Just because it's your grandma and grandpa. I
Wouldn't let somebody take my kids. It's telling me that telling them when I'm not around how bad we are for making them
Go to church
You know, I'm gonna separate from people like that. It doesn't care. I don't care if it's my Siamese twin
I'm gonna separate from
You know
Obviously, they're gonna separate before with you before you separate with them. That's usually the way it happens
But you know don't get all broke up about it
Jesus said that would happen
He said he'd come to bring peace, but a sword
To bring cost of vision a sword chops things in half, doesn't it?
And people of the same household are gonna be against each other
So
Why would you think it's so weird that your mom wants to stop talking to you?
You know, obviously
Some people just their parents hate God or their grandparents hate God or maybe they're just not ready to be saved yet
I'm not saying just like completely, you know cast them aside
I'm just saying that you know
You need to learn who you should be hanging around with and who you shouldn't look at second Peter chapter 2 verse 6
It says and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes
Condemned them with an overthrow
making them and in sample onto those that should live this should
Live on God after should live on golly. Excuse me
So it says and delivered just lot
vexed with the filthy
Conversation of the wicked see law was a saved man
But where'd he end up in a cave with his two daughters?
It's wife Turner Turner back towards back towards San Francisco became a pillar of salt, right?
But what but whose fault was that?
Law was a saved man. What did he do vexed with the comp filthy conversation of the wicked?
That means the lifestyle he had to be around those fruit cakes all the time and see their unlawful deeds
Everybody says in verse 8 for that righteous man. See his righteous. He was saved
dwelling among them in seeing and hearing
Vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds
So the last thing we need to do is pitch our tent towards Sodom
And be around these filthy people
You know, obviously things are different here
You know with all this agenda going on with the sodomites, right?
That doesn't mean that you need to get on board with it
You just get away from it
If you have some fruitcake uncle get away from them. Don't let your kids around them
You know
If you if you're going to the same Starbucks and the same fruit cakes behind the counter every time
Go to a different place to get your coffee
I mean, I don't know if anybody gets their coffee at Starbucks here, but I saw a couple of them around
So but anyway, you just don't know anymore things have gotten really crazy
But the last thing we need to do as a righteous person is be dwelling among them
Dwelling among them allowing them around our children and our family members. This is this is bad
It's gonna vex your righteous soul from day to day and some people are like, well, I don't really think that you know
They're really that bad
Okay. Well, you know, why don't you read Genesis chapter 19?
Judges chapter 19 Jude, you know 2nd Peter and then tell me how great they are
How about Genesis when Noah, you know has his weird son do something to him?
You know, we don't know what he did but you know the Bible uses use euphemism that he looked upon his nakedness
And that's kind of weird. So it's not he accidentally just didn't see his dad naked. He did something to him
And so we need to stay away from people like that or just wicked people in general people that live an ungodly life
We need to stay away from them because you know, it's gonna do it's gonna vex your righteous soul from day to day and seeing and
Hearing
these things
You know, yeah to have to be around it and see it all the time. It's nice to come to church
You just see normal people dressed normally, you know for the most part
They're dressed normal they talk normal we don't talk, you know, it's easy to get in
Into church and feel good and feel spiritual, but then we got to walk out to the filth of the world
You know, but why would you put yourself where you're living in a place I would never move to San Francisco
There's no way. I don't care how much money you offer me. I would never live in San Francisco
I wouldn't live in some weird sodomite town where it's all a bunch of sodomites
You know or any other kind of weird?
person that's wicked
This is the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished
The Lord knows how to deliver us out of you know, but he knows how to deliver us out of these things
But don't put yourself in a situation
Where you're being vexed by this filthy conversation of the wicked the lifestyle of wicked people
Don't put yourself in that position. Don't put your children in that position
Oh, you know, I know he's a little weird. But you know, I let him watch my kids every once in a while
There's actually people I know that think that way
I'm just like I would never let a sodomite watch my kid ever no matter what
Even if I had a camera on them the whole time
So look at Proverbs chapter 13 verse 18
So because I'm sure it didn't used to be a big deal to you back before you were saved maybe
But it should be a big deal now
To put yourself in a position where your kids could be harmed or you could be harmed
They stay away from those people and I don't care if it is your Siamese twin cut that thing off
You know go get removed
Anyway Proverbs 13 verse 18 says poverty and shame shall be to him that
Refuseth instruction so we gotta we gotta take the instruction right but he that regardeth reproof shall be honored
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, but it's an abomination to fools to depart from evil
See we need to depart from them
Because it's an abomination for fools unsaved people to depart from evil. It's an abomination to them
They're not going to change. You're not going to change them unless you get that person saved, but you're not going to change that person
They're going to change you
It says he that walk with the wise
Men shall be wise
That's a good thing. Hey, you won't hang out with save people hang out with wise people
It says but a companion of fools shall be destroyed what happened a lot. He was destroyed
so
You walk around you hang around with fools. You're gonna get destroyed walk with wise people. You're gonna get wise
Yes
Philippines chapter 2 or chapter 1
Philippines chapter 1
See, it's important who we choose to hang around and you can choose you don't have to hang around those people
You don't have to hang around your old
Friends, you know you think see I went through this I've been saved for over 20 years
And I went and tried to get all my friends saved and all they did is vex my soul
Because once they don't want to hear it, you should just be like, okay
peace
Philippines 127 says only let your conversation be as it become at the gospel of Christ
That whether I come and see you or else be absent
I may hear of your affairs and that you stand fast in one spirit and in one mind striving together
For the faith of the gospel
you want to put on some new things well, how about putting on a
Conversation or a lifestyle or a manner of life as it becomes the gospel of Christ
And you're not going to want to hang around those old haunts and those old people the bar life the party life
It says he stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel
Hey, you're all here. You're here trying to strive together for the faith of the gospel
What is this church trying to do try to win this this nation to Christ?
Small beacon of light in
the UK
And what's your what's your what's your purpose don't get lost in your purpose
Stay strong in the faith. And you know, I know it's hard. I know it's hard to travel
I know it's hard to gather up all your children in a car drive for three or four hours or one hour or whatever
And you know, you're all excited about how how great this church is and I agree. It's a great church
But you know the newness is gonna wear off
And then it's just gonna you know, but don't let that newness wear off
You know make make it like every week is a new week
It's a new challenge
Don't get just caught up with all it's just like any other church. It's not just like any other church
It's different, isn't it? Yeah, I mean you've been to the hellhole churches that are here haven't you?
Do what do you want to go back to that? I wouldn't want to go back
So
But after a while you're gonna start seeing each other's moles
You're gonna start seeing you know
Things that you don't like about certain people you spend a lot of time together
You start to you know, the things that irritate you about them or whatever, but you know put those things away from yourself who cares
You know learn to dwell in unity with each other like that
so
Turn to first Peter chapter 3 verse 1
So
We should hang around people that are godly and stop hanging around and having companions that are fools because you know what they're gonna do
They're gonna drag you down
And they're gonna just try to get you to go back to your old ways
Hey, you know what they're gonna be waiting for you to fail
Your parents are gonna be waiting for you to fail
Your family members all I knew that was just the face. I
I knew you'd be back
What an embarrassment
To have to go back and say well, I know it was a cult or whatever
That's what everybody says when they fail
to cult
No, you just failed you suck. That's what your problem is. You couldn't cut it
You weren't sold out or either. You're just a reprobate
infiltrator
You know and I'm not saying to you anybody in here. I'm just saying that it's that's what happens
Why do people fall off the blood they want to blame the leadership
They want to blame the other church members for really you just suck and that's why you failed
and you lost track of what you were supposed to be doing and
You started getting all selfish about everything and you look at what everybody else does that you don't like and you're just holier than everybody
else
Don't be a holier than thou either
That's a wicked way to live your life as a Christian. Oh, I'm so much better than them
I'm so much more spiritual. Why don't you have somebody else get spiritual then if you're so holy
Why aren't they why aren't they patterning after you?
Nobody likes a holier than thou stand out over there for that. I'm holier than thou
Nobody likes that and it's just it's just weird to be like that
So you're in first Peter chapter 3 verse 1 says likewise he wives being subjection to your own husbands
That if any obey not the word that they may without the word be won by what does a a
Conversation of the wise the lifestyle the wise. Hey, sometimes one person gets saved the other doesn't well, how do you win your husband over?
It's not by saying he's ungodly. He's not saved. He's this he's that I'm not cooking him anything anymore
That's not the way what's the Bible say the way to win them over is
The you win with the conversation the lifestyle that you're living being subjection to your own husbands
While they behold your chaste conversation your chaste life your chaste manner of life
Coupled with fear who's adoring whether or not be that outward adoring of plating the hair and wearing of gold and putting on apparel
That's what the worldly women do, isn't it?
Should we renew who we are as Christians shouldn't you be a better man than you were before?
Shouldn't you be a better woman than you were before? Shouldn't you be a godly husband? Shouldn't you be a godly wife?
The wider people always go back and try to say, you know
Once it's convenient for them for whatever wicked laws are in the nation that they live in. Oh, I'm just gonna divorce them
wicked
He talks to me wicked
The insubjection your husband, you know what the husbands are supposed to love their wives
I don't understand why this is so hard for people
You know men want respect
And women want to be loved, you know, you can't be just a robot husband. I love you, honey
I am going to bed now. Make sure you do my laundry and make me something to dinner
That's not what they want
You ever actually talk to your wife
They ever actually have a conversation with them. You should and I'm talking about an actual verbal conversation
Are you just like this I know
Yeah, yep, I love you too, honey, it's just like
We're supposed to be different even as husbands and wives look at verse four
Don't let it be the hidden man of the heart
He's talking about the new man
In that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit
Which is in the sight of God a great price. What's God saying? You know, it's a great price
You know what God wants to see in a woman that's godly a meek and quiet spirit
the opposite of a loud and stubborn woman right meek and quiet doesn't mean loud and
Nobody likes a loudmouth wife or a loudmouth woman and you know what God doesn't like it
This is for after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God sees saved women
Adorn themselves being in subjection unto their own husbands. You notice how that term says their own husbands
You're not subject to somebody else's husband your own husband, and I know people get so new IFP
They're like every woman must obey me
That's ridiculous guys. Not every woman has to obey you
They have to obey their own husbands and hey, if you're not married to someone you have no authority over them
Just throw that in for free for you young fellas
all right, and
The way to you know become some spiritual juggernaut is not to just have a checklist
You know get wife get kids
Be a pastor
You know
Doesn't exactly work that way all the time does it?
So, but anyway, it says even as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord whose daughters
You are as long as you do well and work and are not afraid with any amazement
So
Abraham obey or Sarah Abraham Sarah obeyed Abraham
Calling him Lord and she you know in the scripture or references in Genesis. She didn't even say it out loud
I'm sure she did call him my lord out loud, but in the instance where it talks about in the Bible
She's using her inner voice
She's thinking that and that's the type of reference reverence. Excuse me. You should have for your husband
Like well, he doesn't deserve that
Abraham always didn't deserve it either
Then he say hey Sarah lie and make sure so I don't get killed. I'm just gonna lie and say you're my sister
You know that wasn't you know, that wasn't very manly of him was it?
But see men make mistakes women make mistakes, but you know what? We still need to
Love each other and you know, there's nothing wrong with calling your husband Lord
I'm not saying to go home and practice like yes Lord
But would it be wrong?
It wouldn't be wrong, you know, bring him his food on a silver platter here my lord
Now I'm going too far now
But it's literally says in verse 7 though
Likewise you husbands dwell with them according to knowledge
Giving our unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel
You know men are different than women. I'm sure you all realize that
But they're not like you men they have different needs they have different desires
Then we do and we need to learn to dwell with them with knowledge
Okay, and we need to understand we give our to them as the weaker vessel
We're there to take care of them. We're there to comfort them. We're there to love them when they're having a hard day
Come home and help
You know if you have seven kids or five kids or four kids or any amount of kids actually
And your wife needs some help when you come home help them
Go with them with knowledge. You know, if you're if they're just if you're just like playing on your phone and your wife's just like
You know help them out something wrong with that
So but what it says giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life
That your prayers be not hindered. So we're just think about this. We're heirs together of the grace of life
Hey if you're if you're both saved you're married you got a good start
So why in the world are Christian couples having such a hard time staying married? Why are Christians having a hard time?
Being together. Well, they bring they drag the world in with them. They dragged their mother-in-laws in with them
They dragged their father-in-laws into the marriage with them, you know, they listen to their best friend
It's not even saved they listen to friends from the past is not even saved
Women don't obey their husbands and just say hey, this is how we're gonna live a life. This is the church
We're gonna go to this is how we're gonna raise our kids
Now I want to do it this way
It's not gonna work. If you have two heads try to compete together to see who the Lord of the family is
But I'm I saying that women are a doormat to their husbands no, but the Bible says
I'm not gonna apologize for that. You're supposed to obey your husband
Period
Right, but also men you're supposed to love your wives don't be a robot don't be weird
Help them out
They want to be loved and you want to be respected you want respect give them love
You want to be loved give your husband respect?
Try saying you're so weak. You don't even make enough money, you know
Yeah, that's just what I want to hear when I come home you suck
No
Man wants to hear that but no wife wants to have some robotic man. There's just like
food now
It's got my laundry done, huh?
All right. Good night. I mean
Gonna have some dwell with your wives of knowledge James chapter one. I'm almost done here. I'm sorry. I'm running late here
Figure I might as well unload the whole truck while I'm here
Y'all drove all these hours to get here, you know, if I just preached like a 40-minute sermon. It's like, okay
Hey Paul preached till midnight that's what I'm still going I got like five pages of notes left to go. No, I'm just kidding
That'll be Sunday night
Just kidding by James chapter 1
What the Bible says be doers of the word and not hearers only
Deceiving your own selves
You can read the Bible, but if you never put into practice, you're just you're just a hearer only you're not a doer
And you're deceiving your own self. I've read the Bible so many times. Did you practice it though?
If any be a hearer of the word and not a doer
He's like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass looking in the mirror
Right for he beholded himself and goeth his way and straightway forgave what manner of man he was
I read the Bible, but then you don't put it into practice
That's someone that just you know, it's like the Pharisees they say and do not
But we can't be like that
Says for he behold himself and go straightway forget it the manner of man
He was but who so looketh in the perfect law of liberty and continue with therein
He be not a forgetful here, but a doer of the work. This man shall be blessed and his deed
So you get new practices you remove that old stuff out of your life
You know you renew your mind with the Bible and then you have to add stuff to replace that old stuff
We're gonna go back to the old stuff. Do you understand?
You're gonna forget what manner of person you were
But if you look at the perfect law of liberty and being not a forgetful here
But a doer of the work see the Christian life is work. The ministry is work
Isn't it brother Ian the ministries work?
He'll be able to say go we just you just get up and preach
You know how long it took me to write this on I'm not gonna tell you it took me a while ago
But it takes time to study the Bible. It takes time to be able to preach it takes experience
but you know, we have to keep working and doing and
Replacing our old stuff with the new stuff. That's good
So look at Hebrews chapter 10 verse 24. I
Got two more places and we're done
Hebrews chapter 10 10 verse 24 says let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works
So you're supposed to be considerate of each other
to revoke of the love and good works
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another
And so much the more as you see the day approaching you want you want a new habit go to church
Did you used to go to church before you were saved? Well, maybe you did you're just like I'm bored mommy
You know, this is lame
You know most you probably won't like that if you were unsaved and went to church
I didn't go to church when I grew up, so I don't really have that experience. I got saved when I was 25
And then I started going to a Baptist Church. I was Baptist born Baptist bread when I die. I'll be Baptist dead
But it's true. You know, I went to a couple churches when I was younger, but I never went steadily
But this is a different type of church, isn't it?
This is the type of church that you don't want to forsake and you know
Why because you want to provoke unto love and good works you want to assemble together because God's
Commanded us to do that. You want to have a habit of going to church a manner of life of going to church
Hey, what are you doing today going to church? They shouldn't wake up ago
Are we going nah
Let's go to the movies. Let's go to Adventureland or whatever. I don't know
I forgot what those places were called you guys got these
Coastal places where you have abuses parks go there on a different day, but go to church on Sunday and
Wednesday when you have a chance, right?
Last scripture turn to first second Timothy chapter 3 10 second Timothy chapter 3 10
It says but thou hast known fully known my doctor and manner of life purpose faith chaired a long-suffering charity patience
Persecutions afflictions which came to me in Antioch and at Iconium and Lystra what persecutions I endured
But out of them all the Lord delivered me
Yeah, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution
How do you know you replaced all the bad stuff and you've renewed your mind and you're doing good things now
You've added new practices to your life. Well when you're living godly in Christ Jesus, you're gonna suffer some persecution
So then you know that you're on the right track
So what was the title of the sermon?
the title of the sermon was remove renew and replace and
We got it. We got to remove all the stuff all the junk in our life and all the former manners of our life
And we got to read that Bible and let it renew us
Let our spirit be renewed and it's going to teach us the difference between good and evil
And we could put those things into practice get rid of all that old stuff
And then we were gonna replace the junk with good things
Right, we got to replace the junk with good things. So what are you doing with your gift? God gave you a gift
It's called eternal life. What are you doing with the gift that you have now?
Because you know what now is the time to serve God
Don't wait till you're old don't say, you know, I'm gonna serve God like, you know make my fortune
I'm gonna serve God this or that no start serving God now
Start serving God now replace all that junk
With good stuff. All right, let's pray Heavenly Father. We thank you Lord so much
For all these people who come on our Wednesday night Lord and all people that traveled from afar
Lord, I just pray you bless them for the fact that they were faithful to come to church and Lord
I pray you help us Lord to get all the junk out of our life
That's possible for us to do Lord help us to walk in the spirit not fulfill the lusts of the flesh
Or help us to be renewed in the spirit of our minds Lord. I pray that you would help us again
And what like I said to replace all that garbage and have good
Holy deeds that we do and not go back to the world
We know where that leads Lord Jesus name we pray. Amen