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Well, we’ve already had a full morning with all the great announcements and interviews and prayer that’s been going on the fellowship. It’s been a good day. We’ll finish it off with a few words from the Sermon on the Mount. And I have some quotes. From Oswald Chambers. He did a lot of writing on the Sermon on the Mount. And he’s got a section in his one of his books called the studies in the Sermon on the Mount.
Thank you, we got to look after each other. It’s like monkeys picking fleas off each other in the zoo. Yeah, you’re the big monkey.
Monkey. Moving right along. introductory thoughts by Oswald Chambers to the Sermon on the Mount. Only the Holy Spirit can expand the teachings of Jesus Christ. Beware of placing our Lord his teacher first. Instead of Savior, we must know him first his Savior before his teaching can have any meaning for us are before it can have any meaning other than an ideal that leads only to despair. In other words, basically what he’s saying here, this is a new kingdom that we’ve been born into. It’s not like the kingdom that we know is in the world. It’s a brand new kingdom that’s sprung in our hearts. It’s something from the inside out, not from the outside in. And what he’s saying here is only the Holy Spirit can teach about Jesus Christ in. It’s what Jesus told his disciples, I’m going away, but I’m going to send a comforter to you and he’ll teach you the truth is he’ll lead you to all truth. If Jesus is only a teacher, then all he can do is tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But by being born of the Holy Spirit above and knowing him first as Savior. We know that he did not come to teach us only he came to teach us what he teaches we should be. So the Sermon on the Mount. Basically, if you’re born into a new kingdom, and you go, what have I gotten myself into here? Just read it in Chapter Five, six, and seven of Matthew. And then he makes it really clear now it’s not really easy, but it’s really clear what the new kingdom is all about that the kingdom he came to introduce and usher in to the world is really all about, it’s an upside down kingdom. It’s an inside out kingdom. It’s not like anything, anybody ever could sit in a room with a bunch of leaders in the church and go, let’s come up with a lifestyle that fits the kingdom of God. What lifestyle did he come up with? And he started that out by sending his own son down here, and he demonstrated in was an example of the kingdom. And he was confusing people all over even his disciples, and you know all about that. Now, they had no idea what he was talking about, in most cases, he’s taught in parables, why would do what he did? If you’re keeping up with the chosen, they do a really good job in that of seeing how confused the disciples were. In now. carnal they were they were worldly thinking and they had to be changed. But so did you and I, I was once one way, and now I’m different. They have a T shirt in the chosen calls. It says that now I’m completely different. That was what Mary said, after Jesus had cast the demons out of her. Remember that our Lord’s teaching only applies to those who are His disciples. We talked before about not holding a standard up for people who’ve never been born again that don’t have the Holy Spirit. Don’t try. Don’t expect them to be able to live the Christian life. Don’t expect them to be able to have the power to turn the other cheek and go the second mile and bless those who persecute him. They can’t do it. I remember the frustration in my life. Maybe you can remember experiencing the same thing. When I was trying To be a good little credit Southern Baptist boy. And I couldn’t do it. I could keep the rules some of the time. But I had a really hard time keeping the rules. And it was frustrating to the point where I got desperate at one point, I got it put it in my heart as he told the exiles from Jerusalem when they were conquered by Nebuchadnezzar and he was taken them back to Babylon. And he said, I’ll put it in your heart to know me, it’s going to take for 70 years for you guys to get these out of worship, and all of your disobedience out of your system, and then I’ll bring you back to Jerusalem. But I’ll put it in your heart to know me. Now, I don’t understand all I know about that. But I know God put it in my heart to know him. If you know him today, he put it in your heart to know him. You didn’t do a thing. And I don’t understand all I know about that. But I believe he puts it in our hearts. Now that doesn’t mean you’re gonna come to know him. I don’t believe but it means if you do come to know him, he put it in your heart. He’s the one that did it. And if we you know, the thing that shines light on this is in Romans 12. And it’s a very familiar to verses Romans 12. One and two.
This look at them for a minute. Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So that you may prove what the will of God is. That which is good, and acceptable, and perfect, in the will of God. So, here Paul is dealing with a bunch of Romans in every church it’s ever existed with its emphasis of fellatio, Romans are current, no matter where you find the church, Paul started, they got trouble. They got false prophets coming in, they got old ways that are coming in, say, yeah, you need Jesus. But you also need to keep the sacrifices, you need to keep the traditions going, you need to do the Jewish sacrifices and offerings. And so Paul had to battle that in every church that they had. And so here, he’s given him a overall, really, it’s a play, it’s not as much a teaching is it is pleased. He says, I plead with you, brother. And that’s a sense of urgency. I urge you brothers, by the mercies of God. Now, he wouldn’t urge them to do it on their own power. The only way that we do spiritual things and accomplish spiritual things is through the power of the Holy Spirit, and the mercy and the grace of God. And that’s what he’s calling on here. He’s not just say, go out and do it. He said, by the mercies of God, by the grace of God go out and do it in his power and his wisdom and his understanding. So I plead with you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies. Now I’m pretty picky about present my body, at least I thought I was. I didn’t have much to present there. But what I had, I was a little picky about presenting it. But then what do you say in here is I have to do that. It’s something I do, I present my body a living and holy sacrifice. Now you realize in the Old Testament, and before Jesus came, that they sacrificed animals on the altar, and they shed the blood of those, and it covered the sand, it didn’t forgive the sand, it covered the sand of the Jews, and they would sacrifice animals. And Jesus ushered in a new sacrifice. He said, we’re done with all those sacrificing animals in covering sand, I’m going to completely forgive sin, I’m going to shed blood that will cleanse you from all sin. But I want you to present your body just like I presented my body and that God so loved the world, he gave his only son to sacrifice his body. Not his spirit, but his body. Beside marriage is a physical relationship, and the two become one flesh. So you sacrifice your body to your mate to your wife, in marriage. But in the spiritual context, what he’s talking about here is I want you to present your body’s a living and holy sacrifice. Now, I was a sacrifice at how long the cross and shared the blood and no more animal sacrifices need to be given. That’s done. We’re not doing that anymore. That Lamb of God has come. He’s been sacrificed. We don’t have to do those animal sacrifices anymore. He accomplished it. He said, it’s finished. It’s done. You don’t have to do that. But here’s what you do have to do. You have to decide to present your own body to God. In a holy and living sacrifice, not a bad sacrifice, but a holy sacrifice which has been cleansed by the Holy Spirit and found righteous in God’s eyes. And that’s what happens when you give your heart to Christ and you confess your sin and he forgives your sin and cleanse you of all unrighteousness. So he said, you present that holy body to him is a living sacrifice, not a dead sacrifice. It’s one thing to die for Christ. It’s another thing to live for Christ. And it might be a lot easier to die for Christ and to live every day and the day in and day out challenges of life and trials and trouble and tribulation, irritations and interruptions that come to our life, you have to live that out every day. And it might be easier just to die. And he’s saying go ahead and die. But die is a living sacrifice. Present your body before the Lord, give your body to him. Now you’re going to give your body to somebody, you’re going to serve somebody. Now he’s saying serve the Lord. And that’s what Joshua said in Joshua 28. He says,
you guys serve the gods that you serve back in Egypt serve the gods, that you are the idols that your forefathers served. But for me in my house, we’re gonna serve the Lord. And so Joshua made a decision to present his his family, his house, his to be living sacrifices for God. So you and I have to decide that he’s urging and pleading us to do it, and then we have to decide to do it, I can’t decide for you. You can’t decide for me, I couldn’t decide for Susan, I had to decide for me. And she had to decide for her, I was responsible for my own spiritual walk. She was responsible for her own spiritual walk, you’re responsible for your own spiritual walk, you can walk in the light, or you can walk in darkness, you can walk in newness of life, or you can walk in death. Dead Man Walking when you’re walking without Christ. So this is acceptable to God, when you’re living and holy sacrifice that’s acceptable to God. And it’s our spiritual service of worship. Now, we just had a great time of worship and singing. But a greater worship is when we present our bodies to God is a sacrifice. And that’s acceptable to God. And it’s our spiritual opportunity and even duty to worship Him in that way. If you’re a Christian, if you put your hand at the Christian life and plow, if you will, then you’re obligated to live that life out. Then you’re going to be pretty frustrated trying that if you’re casual, or lukewarm, or backslidden, or not even a Christian and think you are. So you can be just as desperate and back in backsliding as you can be in not knowing him. But you can know Him and not knowing Well, you can know Him and follow Him but not following him closely. That’s your choice in my choice every day. And so he’s urging us to make that decision. And then he said, Look, here’s a problem going on in the church, and they were having that problem in the church. We’re having this problem in the church. And it’s Don’t be conformed to this world. They were being conformed to the world they were in. Now, you can know Jesus Christ, but you could be carnal and worldly in knowing Jesus Christ. Or you can profess to know Jesus Christ and be carnal and worldly and you don’t know Christ at all. And only God can sort that out and who’s in which camp or category. But what he’s doing here says be conformed and I looked up conformed in a means assuming an outward expression that does not reflect what’s really going on inside. That’s another def another definition for that is hypocrite. You know, we’ve we always will have and have had a problem living what we say we believe. We believe things in weird saying about things and we hold our hands up to things and we amen to things that we really, truly believe. But then, you do and I do oftentimes really well. We’re really man of God, until we face opposition. And then not so much. until things aren’t going our way until we have that health issue, that financial issue, that neighbor issue, that marriage issue, though children issues are those car issues. They’re always issues, they’re always irritations. They’re always challenges every day. You’ll never be without them this out of heaven. And he’s saying, Look, don’t be conformed and tree in respond to those things like the world. Don’t be conformed to the world’s ways, the world’s attitudes, the world’s values. You’ve been called out of that. to a higher standard, to a different life, to a new life, to a more powerful life. But it’s a harder life and a more challenging life because it attacks everything in us. Everything that we try to save in, that’s what Jesus said, If you try to save your life, you’re going to lose it. But if you lose your sake for my life, for my sake and the gospel, then you’ll have eternal life, then you’ll find true life. So don’t be conformed. It’s a kind of masquerade act to be shaped and fashioned or brought into harmony with to be similar or identical. So you could be similar or identical to the world, or you can have a strong family resistance resemblance to Jesus Christ. And here’s Paul is saying, look, present your bodies a living, holy sacrifice, it’ll be acceptable to God. And then you will have a life that’s not just acceptable to God, but a life that similar and identical to who he is. He put it this way, after he taught him the Beatitudes, and he went through the Beatitudes, and he says, You’re the salt of the
earth. You’re the light on a hill, you’re the light of the world. Now, let your work light shine. Don’t put it under a bushel basket. Don’t be backslidden. Don’t be ashamed of the gospel, live the life. It takes courage to live the life, encourage one another and listen, in doing that, you’ll never be the man of God, you could be or should be without the man in your life next to you now, right here, without other godly men in your life. That’s the reason we have 4am groups. It’s a face to face group, you guys sitting over here, don’t know the guy sitting over here, you’ve been together 10 years in here and you don’t know each other. But you get guys in a forum group and they’re sharing their hearts. They’re sharing their troubles. They’re sharing their victories. They’re sharing life together. That’s what we call Heart to Heart groups. If you don’t have a heart to heart group, you’re never going to be the man you could be or should be. Whatever the heart to heart group is, you need godly men in your life that will push you out of that plane when you’re supposed to parachute over that Warzone. Because you’re not gonna jump out on your own. But if that guy behind you is counting on you to get out of his way, so he can jump and he puts a boot in your rear end. If you got a boot in your rear and leave recently, as if you hadn’t it’s not called you don’t need it. It’s because people don’t think you can take it.
Don’t be conformed to the world. Well, what’s my other option, be transformed. transformed, from this world’s age from all the beliefs and values, be transformed as changes and converted in character and condition? changed in outward appearance, you know, you’ve ever had anybody say to you, What’s your deal? What is it? What do you mean? We use the same to have a piece about you. It is there’s something about you that’s different is accounting us on your face. And when you have the light of Christ in the inside, He shines out through your countenance through your faith through the peace that you have. It’s very evangelistic to be filled with the Holy Spirit. To have peace. It surpasses all comprehension. And it shows in your face. shows in your eyes when we were traveling in and out of Romania back before the wall came down, and we’d go through the border from Austria to Romania, or Hungary to Romania. And that always stopped for passport control. They want to see your passport and sometimes it’s the middle of the night and they slam the door of your cabin open and they password control while you’re waking up like that. And so we had and we had our little Bibles and our coats hanging on the wall and stuff so they wouldn’t find them. And then we’d go do our ministry and then the wall came down. And some of our guys were still count going in and out. But it one is dangerous as it was or precarious. In one of our guys was being checked with his passport one day and this guard who was a guard for years in that same border pack crossing, said to him said your missionaries, aren’t you? He says as you know, he says I could tell it by your eyes. Can they tell it by your eyes. If you’re transformed they can if you’re transformed and outward appearance to bring over a different point of view or belief to alter from one form of function to another and that’s where in the chosen Were Matthew was talking to Jesus and Jesus had just done something that was upside down that one what they were used to. And he says, But indeed, this is what, that’s what I did. And he says, Yeah, but this is different. And you said get used to different. It’s a different life. If you want to live, you have to die. If you want to be First, you have to be last. If you want to be great, you have to be a servant. It’s that difference. It’s a paradox. You have to leave your practical thinking, your rational thinking, you have to leave that at the door, when you come into the this new kingdom. It’s a live live by the Holy Spirit in you and through you. And it’s different. It’s not the same as it was, you’ve been called to something higher and different, more powerful and more Earth shaking and more life changing. That’s what it’s all about. He didn’t just give you a different countenance and a different power to be patient and turn the other cheek and go the second mile for you. He did it so you could show people what the power of the gospel can do in a man’s life. When he comes in and changes his life. People want to know what you got and they want it. Well, how do you get transformed? Well, by renewing your mind to restored a freshness and vigor and perfection, that’s what the Word of God does when you get in. But you have to get in it to get hungry for it. You don’t get hungry for the word and then go read it. You go read the word and get hungry for it. You get hungry for it, you taste and see that it’s good. If you’re not in the if you don’t have a hunger for the word is called you’re not in the word. And I mean, you got to get in the word. It’s it’s a like in Psalm one. But his delight is in the law of the Lord. And he meditates on it every Sunday morning. And then he’s a godly guy. By Sunday afternoon, when he’s criticizing the pastor for his message, he’s already lost it. You got to be on the word every day. he meditates on it every day. And every night that it did, you don’t become a man of God, in a man of the word in a spiritual, mature guy. On the backstroke, you can take a pill and get it you can’t even take a class and get it. You get it by spending time in his presence.
You know the character of God by experiencing the character of God, the way he deals with you and the way he deals with you. When you’re praying. When you journaling. When he you hear him speak, and it changes your life. And you have something to give to others. You have something when they’re going through their child their problem. You’ve been there, you’ve done that, you know what God said to you? God, I think I made an idol out of Susan. I think I love her more than I love you. I miss her so much. And he says you then make an ad a lot of her. You love her more because you love me more. See, that’s where you learn God’s character and grace. God are committed to sin again, he said, What’s in? You know, the one I’ve confessed this morning? But what was that? Adele do what it was? And he said, Did you confess it? And I said, Yeah, did I forgive it? He said, Yeah, well, then I put it behind me as far as the east is on the west. I don’t remember it anymore. What do you do? And I thought, good grief. He doesn’t keep score on me. He forgets my sand when I confess it. He doesn’t want to hear it about that anymore. It’s as a brand new sand as far as he’s concerned. What a god. Are you that way when people will offend you? Can you forgive them and not even remembered anymore? Are you putting it in a resentment back? You let in toxic jealousy and fear, bitterness and anger, resentment? You let that loose in your life because it will be toxic. And wisdom when I say are you letting it loose go like that. You got resentment banks with different people’s names on it. And God says empty that bank, I empty my bank. Why are you having your bank? Why are you claiming your right to say if he would save his life will lose it. But who loses his life he’s hard to be offended. You can’t make him mad easily. He’s not overly sensitive about how he’s treated. He didn’t take it personal all the time. He doesn’t get wounded easily. He’s got a tough skin and tender heart. That’s what God’s trying to make out of you and me. to regenerate to a better higher or more worthy state. change occurring to the Holy Spirit how he transforms our thinking through the study and meditation of the word Taylor in his Living Bible paraphrase says it put this way. And so dear brothers, I plead with you, by God’s mercy to give your bodies to God. Let him be a living sacrifice, and holy, the kind he can accept. When you think of what he’s done for you, Is that too much to ask, don’t copy the ways and behavior and customs of this world. But be a new and different person with a fresh newness. You know, you’re going to follow the customs and the values and the ways of the world if you don’t know the word of God, if you’re not a man of the word, if you don’t know what God’s Spirit heart and attitude is, if you hadn’t gotten wisdom, let’s see in life from his point of view, and if you haven’t gotten understanding that’s responding in any situation, the way Jesus would respond, then you have no other recourse but be worldly, casual, carnal, backslidden you may be a Christian, but you’re not spirit field. Christian, you’re not, there’s not a dynamic about your life. There’s not a power in your life, to live the life to make people hungry. And it’s not about you. If we could just get over ourselves. We just didn’t care what people thought of us didn’t care how we come across, didn’t care how they judge us, or accuse us or understand or misunderstand us. getting past that, but you don’t get past that overnight. You get past it by spending time in God’s word. You don’t know the will of God. Unless you know God, unless you know his word. And then you pray according to His will. In the greatest way to pray and endure prayer is not my will. But your will be done. This seems like a good thing to me, Lord, it seems like you would bring revival seems like you would heal. It seems like you would set free. But God had other plans. So I have to pray not my will. But your will be done. It didn’t matter what I think. Chambers puts it in more powerful terms. Why shouldn’t God break your heart? If God has to break your heart to accomplish His purpose in the world, and thank him for breaking your heart? Is that where you are now in your spirit, spiritual life? Are you at a place where you could thank God for the problems in the troubles in the tribulation in your life.
Because if you’re not as cold you don’t want to be. It’s not because you’re self centered and self preserving. And all those you go look up self in the dictionary, there’ll be about 30, self things that refer to ourselves. Forget about yourself. Don’t think highly of yourself. Don’t think more highly of yourself than you should. Don’t try to save your own life. But give it up for new life. That’s a whole message of the Scriptures. So how do you know these guys that have done that? What are their characteristics? Well, one is a they’re concerned about keeping God’s law, they want to be obedient. They want to be obedient to the word. They’re not always obedient. They can’t be consistently 100% of badian. No one can this out of heaven. But the tenor of their life is obedience. They fear God’s law, they want to keep God’s law. We’re not under the law anymore. But we’re under grace. But that doesn’t mean we don’t keep the law. That doesn’t mean we do away with the law. The law is still good. But it’s not the law that saves us its grace, it saves us and that makes us want to keep the law and be obedient. Not only want to we have the power to do it, because of the grace of God. So that guy wants to do that. In Romans eight for what the law could not do. Week is it was through the flesh God did. So I couldn’t keep the law. Law couldn’t save me. So God saved me by grace through faith. And then the law started kicking in, in my power in my life to obey the law started kicking in. Another thing about this guy, he lives keenly aware that he’s in the presence of God all the time. God’s constant viewer of his life, God’s omnipresent. So when the Holy Spirit comes to live in your heart, he’s with you and everything you do everywhere you go everything you think everything you say. And so the Psalm is finally in 139 said, search me O God and know my heart, try me and know my just thought, see if there’s any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way. Search me I know my heart. He’s gonna search me and know my heart anyway. He knows everything I think and do and why I do it. Every good thing every bad thing he understood And so he knows, he knows my struggles. He knows the number of hairs on my head or not. You can’t run and you can’t hide. You can run but you can’t hide. Let’s put it that way. So if you can’t hide, and he knows everything, why not just walk out into the light. When I just walk out into the light and say God, you know my heart, against the end alone, have I sinned and done what’s evil in your sight? I didn’t break man’s law broke your law. I haven’t been disobedient demand. Although I have been did that because I’ve been this disobedient to you. The big difference in the world that the world does not live in this way. He’s always aware that he is a blood bought soldier, under orders of his lord and savior and above all things seeks to please Him in all things. This is why the man of God views everything that happens to him differently from everybody else. So this man is not concerned with his daily needs. Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount says You guys are so worried about what you’re going to wear and what you’re going to eat and what you’re going to drink. Now to know that I love the birds of the air and I take care of them. If I’m going to take care of them. Don’t you know, I’ll take care of you. When we were going to Eastern Europe, we were raising a whole lot of money to do it and to move the whole family over there and found a place to live and do the deal. I was journaling one day. And I started panicking. What am I doing? What was I thinking? Going all the money we have to raise and the 30,000, I’ve got 10. And I said God, I don’t know why I’m going over here and putting that I don’t know what my family is going to go through in this move. I know what’s going on here. I know the life that I have. I know I get to speak and teach and speak at retreats and teach classes and do the things that I do that you’ve gifted me to do over there. I’m not going to get to do any of that I’ve worked through translators traveling around teaching stuff.
And we only have $10,000. We need 30. And I happen to have my Bible open to Matthew 17. And that’s where Jesus and the Pharisees came to Peter and they said, Does your master pay the temple tax? And Peter said, of course, then you went to Jesus and said, do we pay the temple tax? And Jesus said, Well, we shouldn’t have to. But we will. And so you go down to the sea and pull out a fish and there’ll be money in his mouth. And that’ll pay for yours and mine. In God’s in Peter did and they found the money and paid the temple tax. And God said to me, don’t you understand that if I called you to go somewhere, and I’m going to take care of you and I’ll provide for you to do it. That same week, another guy wrote a check for $20,000. And we were off to Europe, to Eastern Europe. God says You guys are so worried about your daily needs. But you better be worried about your spiritual needs. There’s a lot more important things in what you’re going to wear and what you’re going to drink and what you’re going to eat. He’s not this man is not concerned with his daily needs. Not that they don’t matter, but they’re not his main concern and are not what he lives for. The Christian man sits in differently to worldly affairs. Suffer hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus, Paul said, No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier. So this guy is keenly aware that he’s in the presence of God. And he needs to forget about himself and trust God by faith to provide him protect and do all that he’s called him to do. And finally, he’s always in walks in the fear of God. In the fear of God means that he realizes that what I do and how I act and the things that I decide or have consequences or blessings. If I’m disobedient, there are consequences to pay. David was disobedient with Bathsheba and killed her husband Uriah. God forgave him because David repented and confessed and broke before God. And so he didn’t take his kingdom away like he did Saul’s who never did repent. But David had consequences the rest of his life because of That sin, and the consequences were in his house with his own children, for the most part, certainly he made himself gossip for the anti King movement for his enemies and those who didn’t wish him well. But this man walks in fear of the judgment of God, the consequences if he’s not obedient. It’s not that God doesn’t give him grace, even to face the consequences. But he walked in the fear of God that there are consequences, he’s keenly aware of that. Don’t Be Dumb, don’t be deceived, God will not be mocked, but whatsoever you so that way you reap and whatsoever you reap, has been sown in your own heart, before the Lord, that man’s keenly aware of that, and it makes him want to be obedient, another reason to want to be not just to please Him, but so that he doesn’t have to discipline us as His children because he will. And he does.
For It’s time for judgment to begin in the household of God. So guys, God’s called us to a higher lifestyle, he’s called us to another kingdom. He were in this world for a little while. And then we’re going to be taken out of the world. And if we truly know Jesus, he said, You will not perish but you will have eternal life. We got heaven to look forward to that’s our hope. But while we’re here, we have to live as citizens of a new kingdom, your citizenship is in heaven from which we eagerly await the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I’m a citizen of heaven. We have too many Americans who happen to be Christian, rather than Christians who happen to be American. And we have to be careful about that. It’s a subtle difference. But am I more committed to this country? Am I more committed to this, this worldly flag that I sing about and cry when I do? Or am I more committed to a heavenly kingdom? A kingdom that he started when I came to know Christ and then never end. Married Susan that it ended. I still feel married. I still love her. But she left But Jesus said, I’m not going anywhere. I’ll always be with you. This life is temporary. It’s short. We don’t have much time left looking at most of the gray hair in this room. Let’s make it count. Amen. Let’s make it count. Let’s make every day count as live like citizens of the kingdom of heaven that we’ve been called out out of the darkness into His marvelous light. Father, that’s what we pray this morning. We want to be citizens of your kingdom. We want to be men of God for such a time as this. Want to live that life we want to see revival come and it’ll come not because we have crusades and evangelism outreaches. But because we started living the Sermon on the Mount, we started being these kind of men, we started having those kind of countenance that the Holy Spirit brings when peace and grace and joy and love is in our hearts. We start forgiving those who don’t deserve to be forgiven because we found grace in you and we can give grace to others, especially in our own home. We’ve been called to live different lives, exemplary lives. In Lord we could only do that through your power and your Holy Spirit do it Lord. In us even today in Jesus name and Norma God’s man said give them Heaven, guys.
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