How to Walk the Gospel Out #6 — Milton Green

Excited, aren't they? I'm sorry I got in your way there, honey. I'm excited, too. Well, I tell you what, I'm really enjoying being here. Aren't you? Hasn't this really been a blessing? Praise God forevermore.

Everybody's still skipping like a cave, aren't they? Praise the Lord. Well, we know now if you love the Lord with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself, we become, let's just agree with me, I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

Blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. God is my Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ is my Lord, and I'm a product of His love. I have love, I have joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, faith.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I'm strengthened in all power. I'm kept by the power of God. I'm redeemed by the blood. I'm born again by the Word of God. I'm complete in Jesus.

My sins are nailed across. I'm sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. I'm seated in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Praise God. My weapons and mighty are God, down strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every thought that exalts itself against the Word of God, and I bring every thought captive to the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Glory be to God forevermore. Praise God. And now from the throne of grace, I receive grace, all the works of heaviness, fatigue, exhaustion, weariness, sleepiness, confusion, mind-binding, mind-wandering, all oppression, all the works of destruction, pain, ache, tension, all the works of darkness.

I bless my enemies. I break every word, curse, and spell. And now in the name of Jesus, I release all words, all the works of darkness. I'm free. My sins are nailed across. I'm sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.

I'm seated in the heavenly places. Praise God. Father, in the name of Jesus, we just want to bless you for your holy presence here. We thank that you put a new song in our mouth. And Lord, we just want to praise you and bless you.

And Lord, we just come to glorify Jesus. We come to receive your Word, that your Word perform its work in us in the name of Jesus. And Lord, we just ask of special enlightening and anointing on your work.

We just pray that your Spirit will just reign upon us, Lord, as we turn to you with a whole heart, as we praise you, Lord, and we just bless you in everything we say and do. Now, Lord, in Jesus' name, all the works of darkness are removed here from the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

All religious deception is bound. Every stronghold is bound. And now in the name of Jesus, Lord, we speak your blessing, peace, grace, love, healing, and deliverance over this meeting in Jesus' name. Glory be to God.

Now, hug three people around the neck again before you sit down. Okay, all right. You have a second row? Okay. Folks, to end the meeting tonight, we've had some pretty good nights this week, haven't we?

Have you wished someone had been here at different times we had to hear different things that went on? Isn't that right? That's the reason we got it on tape. So there's a 10-tape series. We're getting $3 a piece, so it's $30, so you can pick these up at the end of the meeting here tonight.

Through tonight, all the tapes through tonight will be in this, and it's called, well, that's an album here we have here tonight. And, well, I've especially enjoyed, you know, just really being here. And how many of you have not registered out front out there?

Hold up your hand right here. Is any of you? There's many of you. Hey, I wish you'd register. I'll tell you why. We want to send you a schedule, and we have some Bible studies and things, connections.

We don't want your name just to pump you and manipulate you and for money, whatever like that. But would you make yourself some kind of note right there as some way to remind yourself as you're going out there, you get registered.

Would you do that, please? And we would just like to keep up with you. When we're having another meeting around here in Fort Worth, whenever we can just let you know what's the schedule and everything is.

We don't want you to miss nothing, right? And all the other tapes in the video, we just want you to help us spread them, if you will. And next, within probably three weeks now, we have this book coming out.

It's going to be $6 .95. It's published by Huntington House. We get right to the point. It's called The Great Falling Away Today. And then, if anyone wants to say, well, this is legalism over here. This is putting on the law over here.

Well, if he doesn't understand grace, then anyone can take his book. It's close to 2 ,000 scriptures in here that show, scripture by scripture, the great falling away today and the deception that's come.

It's called The Form of God. It's on how the powers of darkness are operating, destroying people, and many of the things, a lot more that we haven't covered this week. And someone could, that'll never attend meetings and so forth like that.

I'll get these books and and I'll tell you what I had in mind to get a message out. And the publisher wants to sell books, so we was able to kind of work together on this. And so, I want you to, I want you to keep this in mind, that this, this kind of book's not going to build no one's reputation, okay?

And, or build anybody a ministry or anything, but I'll tell you what, folks. Someone, and there's some friends here that's already read the manuscript of this thing, and it is something that'll change people's life because the Word is in it, not any good stories.

I don't have any axes to grind in that thing. All we do is just go from scripture to scripture, scripture to over 200 pages in it, okay? And so, that'll be out in about three weeks, and it's called The Great Falling Away Today, okay?

You believe it's been a great falling away today? And the last chapter ends with how, and we're not really getting into this in this meeting right here, but the building of the temple today. And folks, this is what's going on here right now.

I mean, God's putting it in the hearts of some to build the temple today. We're building a foundation right now, and we're going to build a wall around it. And that's a wall, that's a hedge, and in that camp, it's going to be holy.

Amen? And then, I want to tell you something else. In the midst of this, folks, I want you to be aware of this. We're facing a destruction like it's never been on this earth before. As just like it was in the days of Noah, only this will be worse.

In the days of Noah, they didn't go to get in the ark. When the warning, and the trumpet, and was blowing, today, they're not getting in the ark. And that's why the messages, like on these tapes, this is a purpose of this meeting here, folks.

I want to tell you, in Jesus' name, that we're not building one thing except the body of Christ. I'm going to tell you what's got each one of us that's walking together here is seeing the excitement and electricity in your lives of excited about the Word of God.

Boy, and I want to ask you something. Hadn't that praise been a blessing this week, folks? Praise God forevermore. I just want to tell you before, I haven't been anywhere and been treated any nicer. Nowhere have I ever been that I've been treated any nicer here.

I just want to thank you. I'm just so grateful to you. I go to so many places, never know which day I'm going to have to leave sometimes. And it's good to go somewhere and just relax. Amen? Praise the Lord.

Surrendering Personal Ambitions to the Lord

See, folks, I want to tell you something. When you start dealing with some of these areas in the Word, there's a lot of stories that can get out on you. I mean, I'm going to tell you, this really puts you through something.

I got in the flesh and stayed in the flesh a pretty good while. That's where I learned right last night. I got in there a little bit last night, and you saw me repent, didn't you? That doesn't get her done.

I'll tell you that for sure. That'll just mess you up. You can... And I tried to hit back these things, and then I've just... And people that I don't even know that I know could help me, and they've heard stories and things like it.

And God, I have to recognize the fact God has permitted this to happen. And so I have released that burden and responsibility that I have to... that I have to prove. I'm just going to share the Word, and if it's any vindication, if it's going to come from the Lord, then I'm feeling vindicated a little bit since I've been here.

And so this is the way we're going to have to operate, because the body of Christ doesn't look like winners to a form of godliness through the world. They really don't. It's because we don't operate on our own strength, but we operate on the strength of the Lord.

Isn't that right, brother? Praise God. So this is the rest that we enter into, and that no one can make a message like this work we've been sharing this week except God. And the only ones that can hear it is the one that the Lord has their hearts.

Now I'm going to tell you something. If you have a divided heart, you're going to be offended. You understand what I mean? The thing about it is, I'm going to tell you, I'm a teachable person. I'm teachable.

I don't have anything but Jesus. Everything else has been stripped away from me. It's all of God. I don't have any... I don't have any big organization. I don't have any big men. I don't have any... I don't have any big bucks.

I don't have any... I don't have anything but Jesus. I don't have anybody to go brag on me. I don't have anybody to go before me except the Lord. And you know, I'm... what I'm doing right here, I'm saying these things, not to boast myself, but to encourage you.

I'm going to tell you, I've learned some things, boy, and it's good. I wouldn't swap places with nobody in the world. And you shouldn't want to swap places with nobody in the world, because whatever the Lord's put in your heart, it is... it's the thing that's going to please God the most in your life.

So it doesn't matter what people are saying. Bless their hearts. They just... you know, we're in a time right now, and we've... we've been in the front end of some things for a few years, and I'm going to tell you, there's a new wave moving out right now.

There's a new wave, and... and... and anytime, any truth, I'm going to tell you, a lot of folks, when they first start hearing some things about the Holy... the Spirit of God, they're still upset about it.

Can you believe that? And so that's... as long as your heart is tied to other things, you can't be led into all truths in the Word of God. And so we're going to pray for people. We're going to let our light shine, because I believe in that.

As we are purified, sanctified, and walking holiest and righteous, we'd be able to reach out to people and take our Bible. If we got... if we know anything, and we're walking in it, where the Spirit of God is not going to lead us anywhere, it's not in this Bible right here.

Amen? And it's going to be in context, and it's going to be in balance, and every one of us are teachers. Amen? Boy, if the anointing's in you, the Spirit of God, you're a teacher. Amen? Okay. Now, turn to Matthew 7.

I'm telling you, I love you, and I'll tell you what, I haven't been anywhere I felt more loved than I'm here, and I want you to know it's God all over me, and it's helped me. That's what we say back in Benton.

We say this back in Cleveland, Tennessee. It helped me, and it's been helping me. Amen? I've been needing that for about two or three years. Okay. Now, I'm going to read to you a verse, which I'm not going to tell you where it is, because I don't want you to turn to it, but in your Bible, it says, and we've already read it, that I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.

Now, here's what Paul is saying, and just as you presented your members... Turn on the flesh again, Brother Walter. There he is. Walter and I are still flowing together, aren't we? I'll tell you what, that's the sweetest man that ever lived.

I'll tell you, that's my brother down there. All right. Now, for justice, you presented your members as slave to impurity. We presented the members of our body, we presented it, our members, we used to be vessels of death.

We put hatred, stealing, anger, worry. This is all the nature of Satan. This is what we did. This is what we repented of, by the way, when we came to Christ. And we, just as we presented the members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness.

All of these things, mind set on the flesh. If your mind's set on the flesh, this is the kind of things, this is the kind of fruits going to come out your mouth, from your heart right here. The mind set on the flesh is hustled toward God.

These things come out of your mouth, you're hustled toward God, and you do not subject yourself to the law of God. The flesh nature, selfish nature of Satan doesn't subject itself to the law of God. So, but that's what, before we come to make Jesus Christ Lord, we gave ourselves over to our members of our body, over to impurity, and impurity, of course, is lawlessness and breaking God's law.

What did Jesus come? Lead us with the Spirit of God, to put to death these sins of the flesh, which break God's law, in order that we fulfill God's law. Amen? Then we have a pure heart, and then we love our neighbor as Jesus has loved us, but we have to lay down our selfish ambition in life, and there it is right there.

Amen? Now, if anybody rejects that, they're rejecting love, because a God kind of love cannot be perfected in anyone when they're walking double-minded. Amen? This is going to result in further lawlessness, so now we present our members as slaves to righteousness.

We're led by the Spirit of God, Galatians 5, 16 says, walk by the Spirit, and you will not, will not, carry out the desires of the flesh. You'll not carry out the desires of the flesh, because if you, the sons of God are led to the Spirit of God, Romans 8, 14, and if you're led the Spirit of God, Romans 8, 13, you, you will, the Spirit of God leads you to put to death the deeds of the flesh, and we've already looked at how you put the deeds of the flesh, is when the pressure comes against you, persecution comes against you, affliction comes against you, and everything you don't hit back.

You, instead of hitting back with anger, unforgiveness, resentment, and all of these other things up here, you stand right in it and say, God, I'm wanting to look good to you, more than I'm wanting to look good to people.

I don't want to prove the man don't look good to you, I don't want to be like you, I don't want to be like the devil, so I'm not going to hit back with anger, unforgiveness, resentment, anything. Are you seeing that?

So then when you choose there, you're going to suffer in the flesh, but anger is going to get weaker and soon release. All pride is going to release. When you got a reputation, you got to prove it somebody, or you'll see your only reputation you're building is the nature of Jesus in your life.

Amen? Glory be to God in that exciting folks. And so, the Spirit of God will let all of these things come against you until you suffer it. You're going to suffer in the flesh because you won't hit it, but you're going to cease from sin, and all of these things are going to die.

You're going to have a pure heart, and then you're going to fulfill the law by loving the Lord. First, you love the Lord with all your heart. The Word of God washes your heart from all of these things, and then you love your neighbor as yourself.

And when you love your neighbor as yourself, you've got the divine nature. The love, that's a God kind of love perfected in you. Amen? Now, if you've got a form of godliness, it'll never happen. If your heart is tied to any traditions or carnal doctrines that does not conform you to godliness, if they don't agree with the sound words of Jesus, they're without understanding, deprive the truth, and have a morbid interest in controversial questions.

Controversial questions always attack the gospel, and we've already gone through that. Now, so, we become slaves of righteousness, and the result is sanctification. What is sanctification? To have a pure heart.

Amen? Praise God. Hebrews 12, 14 says, without this sanctification, you shall not see the Lord. Matthew 5 said, Blessed are the pure of heart, because they'll see the Lord. The pure heart and sanctification is the same thing.

You're worshiping the Word of God. Amen? And that's what we saw in Ephesians 5. We're talking about the church. Verse 27 is going to be presented. Holy, blameless, without spot or wrinkle. And verse 26 said, because they're going to be washed, they're going to sanctify.

Jesus is going to sanctify them by the washing of the Word. How can you be sanctified by the washing of the Word? Once again, the only way you can be sanctified by the Word of God is love the Lord with all your heart.

If you don't love, first, love the Lord with all your heart, then you won't give up pride, because you love pride more than you do the Word of God, more than you do Jesus. You'll love greed more than you do Jesus.

You'll love these other things more than you do Jesus. Then the Word can't wash you. But when you love the Lord with all your heart, you go to the Word of God, and everything the Word of God and the Spirit of God shows you in your heart, you'll repent, you'll repent, you'll repent, because all your motive.

Your root is Jesus. Your root is not the flesh nature. It's not greed. It's not approval of man. It's not pride. The root is Jesus. Root is your motive. And so all your motive is to please the Lord. So you let Him go.

You let Him go. Let Him go. Your whole life is to please God. Now anyone that would reject that, I want to tell you that's the gospel. I don't want to tell you something. Either you walk. Either the commandments of God say you'll leave the love of the Lord with all your heart.

Or you'll enable yourself. Or He'll not put a hedge around you. You'll be in the process of being led by the spirit of God. Or He'll not put a hedge around you and the powers of darkness will destroy you.

That's the reason today that many of all of us to some degree have found ourselves wrapped up in traditions. Blinded by them. Blinded by it's been handed down by our ancestors. Did not expose, oppose, or even understand the powers of darkness.

Now we've come to deal with them. And we'll leave that part of the Bible alone because it doesn't fit into, here it comes, our rules and doctrines. Over 400 teachings and doctrines in this country alone.

I want to remind you again, somebody's wrong. Of course it wouldn't be you. None of you wrong of course. But the church of Jesus Christ is one heart and one mind in the book of Acts. And it weighs in a one heart and one mind because they knew coming in they had to die to all selfishness.

See the fruit right here is the evidence. The fruit here is the evidence of self. When you live for yourself, you don't love your neighbor, you hate your neighbor. You exploit him, you use him, and that's the way of the world.

And that's the world in the church. And that's the falling away today. We begin calling something church. It's not church. We begin calling something Christians. It's not Christians. And then we have other things to judge people by, but instead of by their fruit.

We don't look to fruit. When you have a form of godliness, when you're walking double-minded, when you're walking with two natures, you don't deal with that part of the script. You can't deal with the flesh, you can't deal with the powers of darkness, you can't deal with holiness, can't righteousness.

Remember, these kind of things you say, the cover is holy, and that little thing that hangs down in there you know is holy. That's as close you can get to it, right? You can remember that. There's no discernment, there's nothing discerned when you explain everything away.

The Narrow Gate and the Fruit of Righteousness

All right, now, in Matthew 7, I want to just start where we left off there. I want you to know in verse 13, it says, enter by the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction.

And we've already seen this week how the powers of darkness are operating and destroying people sitting in the church, front row, back row, and whatever. Amen? And we've also seen why a form of godliness said Jesus became a curse for us at Calvary.

Christians can't have demons. These are controversial questions. Then you don't come to examine the truth. What does God call a Christian here? What church did he say was no longer under the curse of the law?

What people is no longer under the judgment law? See, people are blocked by controversial question marks. They'll never examine what the God is showing us here today. God is showing us a lot of things.

So it's a sleeping church, and a they'd rather attack somebody with controversial questions, and that's what a form of godliness is. I want to say it again. If anyone has a doctrine that does not conform you to God, they stay without understanding, deprive the truth, and have a morbid interest in controversial questions, disputes about words out of which arrive envy and strife, abusive language, and the pastors and the leaders of this block, pastors, their families, their children, are being tore all to pieces, and it's getting worse.

And they can't find any answers. They're trying to minister the Word of God right there to a bunch of fleshly people that's biting them, and admiring them, and cursing them. They speak peace to you while they set an ambush for it.

And so God has given us answers today, and people are being blocked because their hearts are captured by their doctrines. And I'm going to tell you what. He is of God who can hear the words of God. For this reason, you can't hear the Word of God because you're not of God.

I'm going to tell you that's just exactly like the Pharisees. When you want the approval of men, or some doctrines, or traditions, and everything, then if this has your heart, then you cannot be led into all truth of the Bible.

You're just exactly where the Pharisees are. Each doctrine is going to say, do this, do this, do this, and you go to heaven. Do this, do this, and do this, and you go to heaven. You got 400 of them in this country.

Over. There's only one righteousness, one Jesus, one church. That's all. And they love one another, and they do because, it's good to go over this. Because when you don't have a form of Godliness, when you're being perfected in love and putting it to death, the result of it is love.

If you're not putting it to death, you're being destroyed. That's how the church is. It's a dwelling place of demons today. They can have 14 deliverance ministries going full-time. And I'm telling you, they work day and night.

And they can cast them out, they get around to the corner out there, they're right back because the flesh hasn't changed. The heart still is attached to the stronghold. If you love greed, you're going to have them living with you.

Demons of greed. If you're going to love pride, you're going to have a stronghold of pride. It's the last part of the week, you've got a demon of pride. He's living with you. And it's not on your shoulder either.

Don't start none of that stuff to protect your theology anymore. It's in you. Just like Ephesians 2, verse 3 says. And you know what they are? They're building strongholds. Greed is a root. Pride is a root.

And then other things come off of those things. Put the pride up there, brother. And they build up, see the root pride right here? It used to be down here. But see, when there's pride there, you're making a name for yourself.

You've got selfish ambition, you're self-righteous, you want to control others, you're self-glorious. All these things work off of pride. And I'm going to tell you what diseases work off of these things.

Of approval, a man is a root. And diseases begin working off of these things too. And this is what destroys people. And I wish we'd had a little more time. I'd like to have gone into the curses, the blessings and curses and so forth.

And showed you how diseases get in our bodies. Alright? It's a broad road to destruction. You believe that? I can't hear you. Alright. Verse 14. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life or eternal life.

How many believe it's a narrow and a small way to eternal life? I want to ask you again, did it get more narrow this week? See, the form of God has made it wide so devils, terrors, whoops and everything else can get through it.

All you have to do is just join. Alright, here we go. First verse 15. Beware of false preachers, false prophets who's going to come to you in sheep's clothing, going to be like a Christian. But in really, that's in their heart.

They are what? They're not a sheep, they're a wolf. You know why? If you got pride right there, you're going to take the Word of God. You're going to take the people of God and the things of God to fulfill selfish ambition.

Making a name for yourself to fulfill selfishness and things like that because your pride wants the approval of men, not the approval of God. Pride will never pay you all the Word of God because pride is going to be king and lord over God's heritage.

He always picks the things out of the Bible that will please your flesh. Are you hearing me? You don't want me to say these things over and over, aren't you? I want you to forget it. Well, I've already explained all that.

Let's continue. You're going to know them by their what? The only way you can know a wolf is what comes out of his heart. Amen? You hear what's in his heart, it's going to come out of his mouth. Can you hear pride?

Can you hear greed? Can you hear selfishness? Can you hear control? Even so, every good tree, that's you and I, is going to bear good fruit, but the bad tree is going to bear bad fruit. A good tree, a tree of Jesus Christ, cannot produce bad fruit the fruit of the flesh.

Hey, if he's led by the Spirit of God, no kind of bad tree, the one that loves flesh, produced the God kind of love, the good fruit. Amen? Now, every tree that does not bear good fruit, bears the fruit of flesh, which is the opposite of love, and then the hedge comes down, God's that doesn't protect him.

This is why when you sin, you know the head, put the man back up there, would you? Please, Walter. This is when this fruit comes out of your mouth right there, you don't have peace. Because you break God's law and you break God's law, the hedge comes down and the powers of darkness are attacking you.

It's only when you repent that peace returns. If you don't repent, the powers of darkness will keep putting chains on you until they've destroyed you. Now, every tree that does not bear good fruit, the fruit of love, it's cut down.

The tree cutters are the powers of darkness and they're thrown into the fire. We've already seen that. That's a fiery test we go through. If you come, you're a slave that's through fire, you'll either come through the fire and you'll have divine nature, which is gold, you'll be the gold, or else you're going to be burned up in the fire because you won't be obedient or you'll have a form of godliness or whatever, right?

You'll be destroyed. Now, so then you're going to know them by their fruits. Verse 21, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, is going to enter the kingdom of heaven. Which tree do you think is not going to enter the kingdom of heaven?

The good tree or the bad tree? The bad tree is not going to enter. You're talking about two trees right here in this verse right here. The bad tree is not going to enter the kingdom of heaven because he's not perfected in love, because he continues to bear the fruit of the flesh.

He's got a form of godliness. And we've seen, and clearly, this week, that you will overcome or you'll be destroyed. Now, we're not seeing it by my stories, we've seen it in the Word of God. Is that correct?

Amen. All right, now, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, is going to enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does a will to my Father who is in heaven. What's the will of the Father in heaven? We saw it in 1 Thessalonians 4 verse 3, that will of God is sanctification, that you possess your vessel, not in impurity, but in purity, which is sanctification.

And he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but he's rejecting God who gives his spirit. Isn't that right? So you're going to have a pure heart. You're no longer, so that's what sanctification is. It's a process of putting to death the deeds of the flesh and being worshiped by the Word of God, right?

So now, many are going to say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name. In your name, we cast out demons, Lord. In your name, we perform many miracles. Did them all in the name of Jesus.

And people who believed, who do prophecy, who cast out demons, who do miracles today, do you think any of that could be done through spiritism? Do you know anything about spiritism? See, I don't want to put a question mark over everything God does, because, see, we've been programmed to fear everything the Spirit does, many, many times, and a lot of people have overcome that.

But in a congregation like this, there's some that totally have been programmed to fear. Now, I tell you, when you fear is when the Lord doesn't have all your heart, because you don't have discernment.

Let's just see this man here is casting out demons. He was doing miracles. He was prophesying. When he did these things, who got the glory? Him or Jesus? That's a good question. Where did everything he did point to?

The Lord or his ministry? I can't hear you. Well, let me tell you what the Lord said about this fellow right here. Next verse. And then I'm going to declare them, I never knew you, Jesus said. Depart from me, you who practice what?

Us. And we saw that practicing lawlessness, in 1 John 3, 4, is sin is lawlessness, and no one born of God is going to sin, and the children of God and the children of the devil is going to be obvious.

In other words, if we sin, we're going to come repent and put it on the blood, because we have a walk of peace. We'll walk in peace all the time, right? All right, now, if a person's not overcoming, if he's not teaching holiness, if he's not teaching righteousness, where is he?

I didn't plan on going there. Hold your place. Come over here to 2 Thessalonians. 2 Thessalonians 2. I want you to see something with me. Do you know what the ministry through Brother Bob here is supposed to do?

It glorifies Jesus and drives you to the Word. Do you know what the ministry is supposed to do? It drives you to Jesus and drives you to the Word of God. Do I need you to follow me? Absolutely. I need you to walk with me.

I don't need you to follow me, no more than you've seen me follow Jesus. I'm not your source. Amen? Jesus is your source through me. You only receive from me what you hear from Jesus. Is that right? Is Jesus your teacher?

After you're fully trained, you're going to be like your teacher. So if you follow the man who's got spiritual pride, what do you think you're going to wind up with? If he's got pride, what do you think you're going to wind up with?

If he loves greed, what do you think you're going to wind up with? If he's in rebellion in the power of the Word of God, what do you think you're going to wind up with? Who's your source? There you go.

Every man of God wants that. It's only those with selfish ambition that are threatened by that. Let me say it again. It's only those who love selfish ambition and buildings of selfish ambition who are threatened by that statement.

Are you hearing me? Okay. Now, we're talking about the day of the Lord. Do you know what the day of the Lord is? The day of the Lord is a day of glory, but it's also a day of judgment. Can I tell you just much judgment?

And the day of the Lord, I believe, is on us right now. Let me tell you why it's on us right now. Look at me. Look at it right there in verse 3. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it, the day of the Lord, will not come.

I'd better go to verse 2 so you see what I'm talking about. Verse 1. Now, we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, that's the coming of Jesus, that you may not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by spirit or message or letter as from us to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

Now, we're talking about the day of the Lord. Now, if you read over in Amos there, you know Amos said, what's the day of the Lord going to be? If you are looking for the day of the Lord, he said, you sell the righteous for money and the needy for a pair of shoes, Mr. Pride and Selfishness.