Hello everybody, it's minister12.23 back in our video. The subject of this video isn't
really easy to explain because there are some, there are quite a few things I'm
going to talk about. Maybe you can get the point from the title of the video
and that's that nobody is perfect. The Bible makes it very clear that we're all
sinners, okay. It says we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. The
Bible says that there is none righteous, no not one. It says if we say we have no sin
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Ecclesiastes 7 20 says there's
not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not. The Bible is very
clear that we're all sinners, we've all come short of the glory of God. There's
nobody that's perfect except for Jesus Christ himself. He is the only man who
has been able to achieve perfection and it's not just in the matter of sinning
but in the matter of everything that we do in our life and just being perfect
and just making no mistakes whatsoever, making no bad things. It's not just about
like your mind but also what you do on a daily basis, your actions and things like
that, not just what you believe, not just what you think. The fact of the matter is
that we're all corruptible because of our flesh, because our flesh is still
here. The Bible says in James chapter 3 verse 2, for in many things we offend all.
If any man offend not in the word, the same is a perfect man and able also to
bridle the whole body. And then it says in 1st Corinthians 15, speaking of the
resurrection, talking about the fact that we put on incorruption at the
resurrection of the dead when Jesus Christ returns, it says, Behold, I show you
a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye at the last trump. For the trumpet shall sound and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this corruptible
must put on incorruption, this mortal must put on immortality. So when this
corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have
put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass a saying that has written, Death
has swallowed up in victory. So I want to give a few examples of some things just
that I want to share with people. Some things that I definitely need to work on
because everybody needs to work on things in their life. Nobody is perfect,
everybody has a problem. And I was talking with my friends the other day
and I came to realize something, and this isn't the first time I've realized
this, but I haven't really thought about it in a while. The fact that it's not just
about not sinning, because sinning is transgression to the law, that's how it's
defined in 1st John 3-4, but you probably shouldn't do things either that might
lead you to sin. For example, it's not directly a sin, it's not actually sin to
listen to some secular music with curse words and bad language and
things like that in it. It's not necessarily a sin, but it can lead you to
have sinful thoughts, which can lead you to do sinful things. So you should avoid
things which can lead you into sin, which can lead you to do bad things, and which
can mess up your life, or could get you distracted from focusing on God, focusing
on working for Him. And there are some things that I want to talk about that
have gotten me distracted over the last few years, and what I've been trying to
do to solve the situation. So one thing, and this is something who my friends
know about, people who actually know me personally, but I don't think I've ever
talked about on my channel, is that I really have a big problem with like
germs and stuff. I actually carry a bottle of hand sanitizer around most
places that I go. This bottle right here, and I fill it up, I just use the same,
most most of the time I use the same bottle, sometimes I get a new bottle, but
most of the time I just fill it up, and I have a bigger bottle that's just
downstairs, and I fill up this little bottle, and I put this in my pocket. Since
like probably early 2017, and it was before that too, I've been raised with
the philosophy as just good manners I guess, and to not spread disease that you
should wash your hands before you eat, and after you use the bathroom, and after
you touch something dirty, you know obviously most people in the modern day
know that. It's just around 2015-2016 I started taking that a little bit too far,
and I would wash my hands after pretty much touching almost anything, and it got
to that point at about the end of 2017, where literally the only thing that I
would touch without putting hand sanitizer on is like something on my
body, or food, or something like that, but if I if I touched a counter, if I
touched my clothing, or I touched my backpack, or a book, or something in my
room, something my computer, or whatever, I would wash my hands before laying down
in bed, or doing something else like that. So that became a really big problem for
me, and it got to a point where my hands became really dry because of the hand
sanitizer, because hand sanitizer has like a, well I don't know the ingredients
thing is torn up, but it has like some alcohol in it, or something like that, or
some some hand sanitizer, not all of them, I don't know if this one that I have
right now is, but it has like some kind of alcohol in it, and it really dries out
your hands, and for a while people would always, or not people would always, but
some people, especially my family, like my brother, would make fun of the fact that
I always had dry hands, and after a while it was kind of varying a little bit. In
late 2018, so a couple of months ago, I started to get away from that a little
bit, I stopped using it as much as I used to. Prior to that, like last year, or the
year before last year, I guess in 2017, it got to a point where I was putting it
on probably nine or ten times a day at least, was putting hand sanitizer on. It
got to a point in late 2018 where it was only just one or two times a day when I
was out in public, and then I put it on a little bit more when I was at home, but I
also tried to just wash my hands with soap and water more instead of just
putting hand sanitizer on. So because I don't know what happened, maybe I've
heard some people try to interpret this, maybe it's because I used to put a lot
on, I've started using less and less, and my hands had like a bad reaction to it.
My hands started getting like even more dry, and they just, they started to crack
up and bleed, and you can notice that in some of my videos in December. So about a
month, a month and a half ago, if you, like for example, one of the videos I had
back in like mid-December, when I was talking about the fact that I finished
the Old Testament, on the thumbnail video, I'm holding up my Bible, and if you look
closely, you can see like blood on my hand, like dried blood on my hands. That's
from the fact that I use a lot of hand sanitizer. If you just go to that period,
November, December, you'll see that my hands look really dry. There's, they're
like cuts all along. It wasn't like an actual cut, it's more just they started to
bleed because of how dry they were, especially like in between my fingers,
and on my knuckles, and on the side of my hands. So that was a big problem, and
thankfully, they're not as bad anymore. Let me just...
They just look normal, and it was only on this hand too, which is really weird. I
don't know why. This hand is pretty much fine though. This hand's always been fine.
There's like a little, just a little tiny bit of blood right here. It's dry here for
just a little bit on this hand, but for the most part, this hand has been okay.
This hand was really bad for a while, and I really needed to do something about it,
and I didn't, I didn't seek medical help or anything like that. I just really
started putting lotion on, and I just didn't use as much hand sanitizer, and
I've gotten away from that. I prayed about it a little, seeking God to help me
overcome this kind of addiction, if you would call it that, or like phobia of
germs and things like that, because I just, being sick honestly isn't all that
bad sometimes, especially when it's like just a minor sickness, but there are
other ways to avoid getting sick. I mean, I don't have to put hand sanitizer on.
Honestly, hand sanitizer is actually dangerous sometimes, because it doesn't
really get, it doesn't get, it just kills some germs, but it doesn't get rid of the
actual dirt. It doesn't get rid of the
surviving bacteria or anything like that. Sometimes it doesn't really do as much
of a job, also has the negative effects, and it doesn't work at all against like
viruses. It just kills bacteria, so that's a problem with that, and I've been trying
to get away from that, but that's just one example of things, just mistakes that
I've made, bad things, the fact that nobody's perfect, I make mistakes too.
Everybody does. We just have to admit to them and try to solve them, and there's
some other things as well. I used to, the Bible says that we shouldn't be quick to
anger. I don't have any direct verses, but there are some, like for example, I think
Ephesians 4 26, it says don't let the sun go down on your wrath, things like that.
Bible says that you shouldn't be quick to anger, that you shouldn't be
continuously angry, shouldn't hold grudges in your heart, things like that.
Well for a while, especially back before I got saved in 2016 to 2017, I was a very
angry person. I had kind of anger issues, and some people actually blame the hand
sanitizer too, because they said, and this is something that my mom said, I don't
know if it's, I don't even know if it's, this makes any sense, because I haven't
done any research on it or whatever. She said, oh well it's just you're absorbing
all that, all those chemicals in your skin or whatever, and it's making you
angry. I mean that doesn't make much sense to me, but who knows. So, but I've
gotten away from that again throughout 2018, now I don't really, I can calm
myself down a lot better, and I don't really get angry anymore, and most of the
time it wasn't like, it wasn't like, like bad anger is more just, I would kind of
yell a lot, but I wouldn't really do anything. Sometimes I would just like, like
hit myself in the thigh or whatever, and it'd be like, I would just throw my arms up in the
air or something like that, or I just, I just yell, I don't know, but I've gotten
away from that, and you know, I thank God for helping me in that dilemma, and if
anybody else has that issue in their life, anger issues or whatever, I hope
that you, I honestly hope and I pray that you find a way to solve that situation
as well, because it's not good. It's actually a sin to hold continuous anger
in your heart, and for me it wasn't continuous anger, it was just, it's just
being quick to anger, but it's also a sin to be quick to anger. It's not a sin to be
angry, because God is angry throughout the Bible, but he's slow to anger. It's a
multitude of people making him angry over a long period of time. He doesn't
just, it's not just somebody just does something bad, and then he immediately
just unleashes his wrath upon them. It takes a long time to build up his anger,
so there's nothing wrong with anger. It's just when you can't control yourself,
when you are just, you just blow your mind, you just get right in the face
immediately, you just don't know how to control your anger, you don't know how to
calm yourself down. That's the sin. That's the bad thing that you shouldn't
do, and whatever the situation is, these are just two examples from my life, and
I'm sure I can think of others. The purpose of this video, of course, is to
say that we're not, we're not perfect. We all sin, and we need to do something
about it, and this morning, which would be Sunday morning, because I tend to
film these videos in advance, I went to church, and there was a sermon delivered
about seeking God's wisdom out of James chapter 3, and I agree with it completely.
I think it's very important that we seek God's wisdom, and that we don't seek the
wisdom of the world. If we want help with a decision, if we want to know what we're
supposed to do in our lives, we need to pray, and we need to read the Bible,
because those things will help us, and the Holy Spirit will guide us in our
life to overcome our problems, overcome our dilemmas, and solve the bad things
in our life that shouldn't be there. To resist the temptations of wickedness, and
to try to live a godly life, to be made perfect, because eventually everybody,
every Christian will be perfect, but it just is a matter of trying to get there.
You have to actually walk in the Spirit. You have to try to resist the lust of
the flesh. You have to focus on God, sing to God, pray, read the Bible, learn, become
patient, learn to endure, and things like that. Those are the things that you need
in order to become perfect, and we will receive the ability to be
incorruptible when the resurrection happens, and that is when we will receive
the gift of being able to overcome all our differences. But in the
meantime, as we live in the flesh, we need to learn how to live in this world
without offending God, without going against his word, and without sinning. So
that's something that you need to do daily, that you need to work on. So that's
the message of this video. I don't think I have anything else to say. Thank
everybody for watching. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and goodbye.