What If The Holy Spirit Left BBC? (part 2)

If anybody ever asked you the question, when did you get saved, how would you answer the question? If you're not a Christian, you can't answer that question because God has not saved you from your own sin and from Satan and hell and ultimate death.

But if you're a Christian and someone said, when were you saved? We know that's a five-pronged answer, don't we? And we know that salvation is used of lots of things in the Bible. So if anybody says, when did you get saved?

The long answer would be, I was saved in eternity past when God the Father chose me, not based on my own good works, but based on His own good pleasure. Just as He chose Israel for no reason in Deuteronomy 7 except it pleased Him to choose, God chose me in eternity past and saved me then.

The second step to that salvation would be at Calvary. God the Father sent His Son to rescue sinners. He died a substitutionary death at Calvary. He redeemed me. He propitiated the wrath of God in my place.

He reconciled me to the Holy Father, the just Father. And it should have been me getting punished, but Jesus was punished in my place. And it was such a wonderful work that God raised Him from the dead.

So I wasn't only saved in eternity past, but I was also saved around 2 ,000 years ago at Calvary. But I also was saved in time when the Holy Spirit came and arrested me and made me alive. He made me alive to see the truths of God.

And this was the day of our salvation. This is what people normally think of when we say, when did you get saved? And for me, it was 1989 and I was running away from God. I didn't want anything to do with God.

And God the Father, because of Christ the Son's work, sent the Spirit and He made me born again. He caused my salvation. So in eternity past, at Calvary, in time. Salvation is also used, number four, as an ongoing process, what we call sanctification.

We as Christians now are being saved. Not from the penalty of sin, but we're being saved as we're sanctified, saying on a regular basis no to sin and yes to righteousness. So we are being saved now, present tense, and then we ultimately will be saved.

And we will be saved when we are in glory, when we're in heaven. That is the final salvation. There's a salvation yet to come. And so we are saved in eternity past, we're saved at Calvary, we're saved in time when God makes us born again.

We are being saved now and will ultimately be saved. So when someone asks you, when are you saved, you have a long story to tell them about the great gospel, don't you? And about the Lord who saves, specifically even in the pastoral epistles.

What do we need to know about God? He is a God who is by nature a Savior, God our Savior. Today's message is going to focus in on the fourth part of salvation, what we like to call sanctification. We're going to be talking about not necessarily what God has done in eternity past at Calvary.

We're going to talk about something that's directly related to our sanctification. Listen to what Ryrie said. He said, the solution to the problems of the church today is to solve the individual Christian's problems.

And the solution to those problems is, what would you say, what would be the solution to the problem in a local church made up of Christians? How do you help Christians? If you said, you know, what's the problem in churches these days generally?

How do we prepare a seminar to fix the church? How do we make the church better? The church seems broken. What do we do? Ryrie said, the answer, the solution to that problem isn't an answer, it's a person.

And that person is the Holy Spirit. He said, the solution to those problems is a person, the Holy Spirit. He is the antidote for every error, the power of every weakness, the victory for every defeat, and the answer for every need, the Holy Spirit.

And I believe that. Not just because I believe it, but because the Bible teaches that. So today we want to focus a little bit more on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, called in theological circles, what kind of ology?

We have Christology, the study of Christ. We have angelology, the study of angels. We have, what is the study of the Holy Spirit? Pneumatology. And pneumatology just means the Spirit's doctrine, the doctrine of the Spirit, the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

How many people here have been to Bible college or Bible seminary? How many people haven't been, but would like to go? Good, you're in the right church today, because I'm going to give you a college class this morning on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

And you say, well that kind of turns me off, I don't like to study. Well then you're in the wrong church. And any church that teaches the Bible is going to have a problem, because we are to study to show ourselves approved.

We are to study the Scriptures because God wants us to worship Him with our minds. To think about God properly is what we want to do, and so lots of times there's not much focus on the Holy Spirit, and so today I want to talk about the Holy Spirit so we think about Him properly, with one main purpose.

The side purpose is that you know, but the main purpose is that you know so that you bless God the Father. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3, God the Father is to be blessed as you understand the Father's role, yes, the Son's role, yes, but also the Spirit's role.

The ultimate praise we give is not praise of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit is worthy of the praise certainly, but the Spirit wants the praise to go to the Father. So we might understand the Spirit of God so that we might praise God the Father more.

Let's make it more specific, so that you might praise God the Father more. You are a living sacrifice and it should be your heart's desire to praise the Father, and so the doctrine of the Holy Spirit should help you.

Let me give you a little background before we pick up where we were last week. I believe that the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is a person. Forget I believe, the Bible teaches the Holy Spirit is a person.

He is not some it, he is not some thing, he is not an influence, he is not impersonal, he is not a force, he is a person. The early church denied Arius because he said the Holy Spirit is not a person.

Jehovah's Witnesses today, the Spirit is not a person. Mormons today, there are only two persons, God the Father and God the Son. We deny that. We can sing with Reginald Heber, holy, holy, holy, God in three persons, blessed Trinity.

We learned last week that God the Holy Spirit has mind, emotions, and will, all things that we would consider making up a person. We learned last week that the Holy Spirit can be grieved. Ever tried to grieve a force, or just grieve that impersonal force, can happen.

Blasphemed, yes, the Holy Spirit can be blasphemed. The Holy Spirit, when he was working in the life of Christ, the people said, oh, Jesus didn't cast out those demons, Satan did, and they were blaspheming the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit can be resisted as a person. Remember Stephen when he said, you men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit. You're doing just as your fathers did.

As a person, the Spirit can be obeyed. As a person, the Spirit can be insulted. Ever tried to insult a force? Hebrews 10, 29, how much severe punishment do you think he will deserve who is trampled under the foot of the Son of God and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is God, that he has divine attributes. If you would with me, turn to the book of Genesis, please. We're going to jump around a little bit. I'm mainly going to drive to Galatians chapter 5 today, so this is all introduction and review.

Genesis chapter 1, please. The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit was also involved at creation. It gets exposed a little bit more in the New Testament, but the Holy Spirit was there at the beginning.

Before time, before the world, before anything, the Spirit of God was there. He is God. Genesis chapter 1, 1, we know from our memory verses probably as children, in the beginning God created, that word there is used only of God's creation.

He creates the heavens and the earth. Verse 2, the earth was formless and void and darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God, the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, the person, was moving over the surface of the waters.

Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit was active in salvation of Old Testament believers. The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit would come upon people for special acts of service. While you have your Bibles open, turn to Mark chapter 12, and again, in just a review and a preface before we get our main passage, the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit revealed and inspired Scripture.

We could go to 2 Peter chapter 1, but go with me to Mark chapter 12, and we'll see what Jesus said. Even He taught that the Old Testament writers were guided by the Holy Spirit. Mark chapter 12, verse 35.

And Jesus began to say, as He taught in the temple, how is it, Mark 12, 35, that the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David? And here we see the Spirit's work in writing the Old Testament. Jesus said in verse 36, David himself said in the Holy Spirit, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I put your enemies beneath your feet.

David himself calls Him Lord, so in what sense is He His Son? And the large crowd enjoyed listening to Him. And so the Holy Spirit is involved in revelation and inspiration, and certainly Jesus affirms that here.

Also, if we'll turn our Bibles to Matthew chapter 1, the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit was overseeing Christ's incarnation. How was Jesus born sinless? How was Mary going to have a child in her womb when she did not know a man?

The answer is, it was the work of the Holy Spirit, third person of the Godhead. This is a fascinating passage, Matthew chapter 1. Now before we even dive into this, it would be wrong to think that Mary supplied the humanity of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit applied the deity of Jesus.

What would be wrong with that? Mary supplies the humanity, the Holy Spirit supplies the deity. We've got lots of problems with that. First of all, we have an eternal God, Jesus, who's always existed, and He doesn't need the Holy Spirit to give Him deity, does He?

Let's find out. Matthew chapter 1, verse 20. But after He had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to Him, Joseph, in a dream and said, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from, literally, eck in the Greek, stressing origin, of the Holy Spirit.

Because what is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins. What the Holy Spirit did was assure the sinlessness of humanity, the sinlessness of somehow having Mary taint Jesus.

Jesus' deity was eternal, but the Holy Spirit begets the human nature of Jesus, so He is sinless. True or false? The Holy Spirit brought the humanity of Christ into being. Yes? True? False? Schaefer goes on to say, it is too often assumed that Mary, the mother of Christ, contributed His humanity, and that the Holy Spirit contributed His deity, but a moment's reflection would disclose that the deity of Christ was His own from all eternity, and therefore was not originated at the time of His birth, because He became incarnate when His eternal person took on human form.

The Spirit caused the humanity of Christ to originate, and that is His act of generation. How can it be that you have this God born of a woman, and He is not tainted by sin? The answer is found in Luke 1.

Turn with me there. Luke chapter 1, I know we're jumping around, but we'll get to Galatians 5 sometime. I'm hoping this is only two part of it, you never know. Again, my whole purpose again is to show you what the Holy Spirit does, who He is.

Luke 1 .34, Mary said to the angel, how can this be? Hey, that's a great question. How can I have a child since I am a virgin? The angel answered and said to her, this is fascinating, Luke 1 .35, the Holy Spirit will come upon you.

Did you know that's the same terminology that was found in Acts chapter 1, when the Holy Spirit came upon the apostles? It's the exact same. The Holy Spirit will come upon you. This is not some kind of sexual thing at all.

He will come upon you, and the power of the most high will, what? Overshadow. No, will overshadow you, and for that reason, the Holy Child, not like every other child that's been born post-fall, the Holy Child shall be called the Son of God.

Not from Joseph, and making sure that whatever humanity Mary supplied, it was not going to be tainted by sin, because we can't have a sinful Savior now, can we? No. Come with me to Mark chapter 1. Let me show you how the Holy Spirit was involved in the ministry of Jesus.

This may be one of my favorite passages in all the Bible. Mark chapter 1. Again, what we're going to do is we're going to talk about the importance of the Holy Spirit today, but before we do that, we're just quickly reviewing how the Holy Spirit was used as God in the Old Testament and in the New Testament as well.

Mark chapter 1, verse 9. This is that fast-paced gospel, the gospel of Mark. We see in verse 9 of chapter 1, In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Immediately coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opening and the Spirit like a dove descending on him.

And a voice came out of the heavens, You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Verse 9, 10, and 11, it's almost like it's a breathless pace. Have you ever run a long ways and then stopped and tried to talk to someone?

It's just that's the kind of gospel this is. I lots of times ride my bicycle in the study there and I make phone calls. I remember I was talking to Steve Lawson on the phone and I said, By the way, if I'm huffing and puffing as I talk to you, it's not because I'm nervous or anything else, but I'm on the life cycle.

And so what does that have to do with anything? Obviously nothing based on your action. Back to the text. But it is a fast paced at once, no intervals, action gospel. And here the heavens are opened. He saw the heavens open.

Verse 10, by the way, this is the word schism, or tear, or rip. Same word used when the veil when Jesus died was what? Ripped asunder, torn in half, top down. By the way, for you Greek students, as a present passive participle, the sky is being ripped open.

It's like you're watching it right there. It's in the process of being ripped open. It's an act of God. And now we're going to see how the Holy Spirit anoints Jesus for public ministry. What kind of ministry, you ask?

I'm glad you asked. Verse 10, and the spirit like a dove descended upon him. I have a question. The spirit descends like a dove. I said to Maddie this morning during breakfast, Maddie, why did the spirit descend like a dove?

She said, because the Bible says so. Great! I thought that is a great answer, by the way. Because the text says it. But is there a significance to dove? Now without trying to be blasphemous or anything, I'm just going to try to make the point, why did the spirit not descend like an ostrich?

Why did the spirit not descend like a vulture? Why did the spirit not descend like a penguin? Why did the spirit not descend as a loon? You're saying because if you ask one more question, you're going to be the loon.

I know. Why did the spirit not descend as a flamingo? Why dove? There's a reason for dove, and it's not so you can have some cool thing on the bumper of your car shaped like a dove and a little cross in the middle.

Now think like a Jew for a minute. You may be thinking Noah's Ark, dove, branch, other things, but if you're thinking like a Jew and you're thinking Mosaic Law, you're thinking Torah, you're thinking instruction, dove meant something.

And what did dove mean? What kind of inauguration is the Holy Spirit giving Jesus? Into what kind of ministry is He saying, the Father has given His blessing and here I'm going to help you and empower you as you're cloaked in humanity?

Weak humanity, sinless humanity, but still needing the triune God to effect salvation. Why a dove? What significance would a Jew say that a dove has? It was a bird of what? Of sacrifice. Listen as I read Leviticus 5, but if a person who sins cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to Yahweh his guilt offering for that in which he has sinned, two doves, or turtle doves, or two young pigeons, one for an offering of sin and the other for a burnt offering.

He shall bring them to the priest who shall offer first that which is for the sin offering and shall nip its head at the front of the neck, but he shall not sever it. He shall also sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar.

It is a sin offering. Chapter 12 of Leviticus, but if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtle doves or two young pigeons, one for the burnt offering and one for a sin offering. The Spirit of God comes upon Jesus and He inaugurates Him into His ministry, His public ministry certainly of preaching, teaching, exorcisms, but also into His sacrificial ministry.

And it starts quickly, verse 12 of Mark, and immediately, look at the connection between baptism and temptation. Immediately the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the wilderness. That's the word impelled, by the way, when you want to drive a demon out in the New Testament time.

You drive out demons by impelling them and here the Spirit of God drives Jesus out into the wilderness, the wilderness. The very same Holy Spirit who comes upon Jesus for His inauguration of public ministry drives Him and impels Him into Satan's lair.

By the way, wilderness in the Old Testament is full of God's curse and desolation, frightening, lonely, demonic. This is what's said of the Bible when it says in Luke 4, 18, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Jesus said, for this public ministry.

Acts chapter 10, verse 38, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power. This is the Spirit when Jesus in His ministry cast out demons. I cast out demons by the Spirit of God. This is the same Spirit who in Jesus' sacrificial ministry is involved in the death of Christ.

How much more will the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, Hebrews chapter 9. This is the same Holy Spirit that's involved in the resurrection of Jesus, Romans 1, 4, and through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection.

The Holy Spirit is a person, He's alive, He's active in the life of the Old Testament, pre-Old Testament, New Testament, but what about today? So I asked a question last week, if the Holy Spirit could conceivably leave the church, what would happen?

And we know it's just for the sake of argument, for a teaching tool, but I said last week, number one, that Jesus would recede into the background if the Holy Spirit left. We looked at John 15, 26, where Jesus is the one whom the Father testifies to and the Spirit of God points to Jesus.

Show me a church that's Holy Spirit filled, that church will point to Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit will not point to Himself, that's never been His ministry, it's always been to point to Jesus, the second person of the Trinity.

He will testify about me, Jesus said. Well, what if the Holy Spirit left? Number two, everybody would lose their salvation. Turn with me to 2 Corinthians chapter 1, please. 2 Corinthians chapter 1, if the Holy Spirit were to leave, we would all lose our salvation.

So my point here is, it is because of the Holy Spirit that we have a guarantee that we're saved. If we could lose our salvation, we would, many, many times. We didn't save ourselves and we don't keep ourselves.

We are commanded to walk according to the laws of God, yes, but the Holy Spirit is used as a seal. 2 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 20, echoes what we looked at last week in Ephesians chapter 1. For as many as be the promises of God, in Him they are yes.

Wherefore, also by Him, 2 Corinthians 1 .20, is our amen to the glory of God through us. Now, He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the, capital S, Spirit in our hearts as a what?

Pledge, that God will keep us intact, that we are kept safe by God. God is not careless, God is not lax, God does not lose things. I can't even keep my keys straight and I'm losing everything. But here, the Spirit of God's privilege and pleasure is to seal us to the day of redemption.

It is not I imagine so, it is not I hope so, it is not likely so. Samuel Rutherford said that this is the strong rope of our fastened anchor. Our salvation is fastened with God's own hand and Christ's own strength to the strong stake of God's unchangeable nature.

If the Holy Spirit left Bethlehem Bible Church, nobody would point to Jesus, everybody would lose their salvation. And number three, no one would get saved. No one would get saved. Turn with me to John chapter 3.

We're almost to Galatians, John chapter 3. John chapter 3, salvation is due to a triune work of God, which includes the Holy Spirit's work. Good thing, because if it was up to our will to save ourselves and our sinful hands and hearts to save ourselves, we would be in big trouble.

If you have a loved one, and certainly there are some even in this church, they have loved ones on their deathbed, if it was up to them to save their loved ones, it would be impossible. If it was up to the loved one to save themselves, it would be impossible.

But we know with Thomas Watson that God rides forth conquering in the chariot of his gospel. He conquers the pride of the heart and makes the will, which stood out as a fort against him, to yield and stoop to his great.

God, the Holy Spirit, makes the stony heart bleed. Look at this illustration of the Holy Spirit's salvation in John. I thought I had a favorite verse just in Mark. Maybe this is my new favorite. John chapter 3.

You've probably read it a thousand times, but just take a look at it carefully and closely. There's a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, the ruler of the Jews. This man came to him by night. You think, well, he was shy.

I don't know why he came at night. Study night sometime in John's gospel, and you're going to find things in the gospel of John about night that would be summarized by one word. Sinister. He's coming at night.

Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him. Even the unbelieving people, even those who are around, knew Jesus did these miracles.

We know you do miracles. And Jesus answered and said to him, you didn't ask me this question, but I'm going to give you this answer. Jesus is going to answer a question that Nicodemus didn't even bring up.

Truly, truly, I say to you, verse 3, unless one is born again, born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Let's just get right to the source of the issue. Born again. Remember back in chapter 1, being not born from our will, born of the flesh.

This is how do you become a child of God. It has to be done to you. You can't make yourself a child. Verse 4. How can a man be born when he's old? He cannot enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born, can he?

I have in my notes, earth to Nicodemus. If physical rebirth is impossible, how much more impossible is spiritual rebirth? But for the Holy Spirit, verse 5. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Friends, don't ever think that's baptismal regeneration. You can't get to heaven unless you're baptized in water. That is A, blasphemy, and B, not even textual. Don't think this is some kind of amniotic fluid.

The first one's born of water. You've got to be born the first time out of your mother's womb with some amniotic fluid. You know, they're going to, what do they call that when they break the water? Break the water, that's right.

Break the water and then be born of the spirit. No. Don't turn there, but listen to these words. This is Nicodemus, the teacher. Does he know the Old Testament? Of course. Listen to these words from Ezekiel.

Jesus is saying, Nicodemus, don't you know Ezekiel chapter 36? He's talking about cleansing and talking about the spirit of God. And you can't even understand this. Verse 6 of John chapter 3. That which is born of flesh is flesh.

Flesh just makes flesh, and that which is born of spirit, capital S, is spirit. You must be born again. It's not that you have some kind of morality boost in your life and you think, you know, now I pay my bills and now I don't lie and now I don't beat my wife and now I'm on time and all these other kind of things.

Clean up on the inside. I'm punctual. I wear a suit. The problem is internal. And the problem is you can't save yourself. You must be born again, but you can't save yourself. Verse 8. Then who saves? The wind blows where it wishes.

Who knows, maybe the wind blew by right then. We don't know. And you hear the sound of it. But do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So everyone who is born of the Spirit. We need the Spirit of God for salvation because otherwise no one would be saved.

No prayers would be answered. No one would understand the Bible. And now let's get to Galatians chapter 5. Without the Holy Spirit there'd be no fruit of the Spirit in your life or in this church. How would you like to come here every Sunday and have like a Jerry Springer thing break out?

How would you like to come here and instead of a fellowship meal and communion, getting together and encouraging one another, that when you got together here there was nothing but immorality, idolatry, disputes and factions.

How would you like that? I wouldn't like it. I don't think I'd probably come anymore. Fellowship luncheons, communion services full of dissensions and carousing and envying and sexual sin. If it wasn't for the Spirit of God that's exactly what we would be doing.

Let's turn to Galatians 5 as I said and answer this question. How do we deal with sin? When we struggle with sin how can we say no to sin? Are we forever quote unquote addicted to the sins we commit? Is that sin that's in my life that I just can't seem to break always going to be there?

Is there something about death that I'm going to look back and say, at least I don't have to deal with that sin anymore? There's probably some truth to that. But here in Galatians chapter 5 we are going to learn how to struggle with sin and it is by the power of the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.

It's going to get black before it gets white. It's going to look ugly before it gets good. And Paul is purposely going to say, let me show you the black velvet backdrop before I show you the diamond. To show you how great the difference is between flesh controlled people and spirit controlled people.

Verse 16 of Galatians chapter 5. It's all about the Holy Spirit. It's all about true godly living. It's all about anything but moralism. Trying to do better, stay up late, work harder, sweat and toil without the Holy Spirit.

Verse 16. But I say, walk by the Spirit. And you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. With an imperative, with an ongoing imperative, may your conduct be directed by the Spirit of God. May you surrender yourself to the Spirit's controlling.

And if you do, you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. As the Spirit of God influences you, you don't carry out this fallen humanness. You say, yeah but life's hard. Ever wonder why life on earth is so hard as a redeemed Christian?

Answer, verse 17. Why is it so hard to live a godly life? You'll find out it's not Satan. Although I'm sure he contributes. But here Paul says, here's the reason why it's difficult to live a Christ honoring life.

For the flesh, that unredeemed part of us, that spiritual, that sinful hangover that we have, sets its desire against the Spirit, capital S, the Holy Spirit. And by the way, it goes both ways. And the Holy Spirit against the flesh.

There's a war going on. For these things are in opposition to one another. It's like two magnets. Both on the same side. Repulsing each other. They're in opposition to one another so that you may not do the things that you please.

You want to obey. You want to honor God. You realize you've been saved from your past life and sin. You say, God I want to honor you but I just sometimes don't. Sounds like Romans 7 to me, doesn't it to you?

For that what I would do, I do not do. But what I hate, that do I. And then he says, verse 18. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. The Holy Spirit's going to bring you into all that.

Now he talks about the deeds of the flesh. And so here's what you should do. I've got a little book that I'm reading to the kids at night. And it's called, what's the name of the book? It's A to Z Bible characters.

And so we went through K the other day and it was kindness. And we said, look at how unkind this person is. Isn't that ugly and gross? Who wants to be like that unkind person? The kids are like, I don't.

I'm unkind sometimes. Who wants to be like that horrible unkind person? Who'd like to be like this kind person and generous and giving and loving? Oh, I would. That's exactly how Paul's writing this. You're going to see these next few things and you're going to go, this is bad.

This is gross. This makes me want to just throw up. So therefore, get rid of that. Put it behind you and now walk according to the control of the Spirit of God. So let's look at the bad stuff first. This is basically, go to any college dorm and you're going to see this.

Or go into any unbeliever's heart and you're going to see this. Or go into our unbelieving heart before salvation and you would see this. So why would we want it in our life as Christians? By the way, these all come from within.

It's not environment. It's not the past. It's not because your mother spanked you. It's not because of anything else. It's from your heart. Mark chapter 7. These come from within, Jesus says. Verse 19.