Salvation Is Due to Jesus Christ - Part 3 — Milton Green

Teaching Children Discipline and Discernment

People go into school, now when you start learning these truths and everything, your children need to be brought up and they learn how to control. They can learn it a lot easier than you because you and I have to unlearn a lot of things.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? But they can be brought up and they can learn discernment knee high to a duck. They learn it a lot quicker than we can and they can pick up what people are saying. As a matter of fact, the pastor was telling me about his son and so forth today.

But see, they are taught the ways of the world that get you destroyed. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now your Bible says you bring them up in discipline. Is that what your Bible says? If you're without discipline, can I tell you something?

In Hebrews 12, if you're without discipline, you're illegitimate children. If you won't receive the discipline of the Lord, if you won't walk in discipline, you're illegitimate children. I'm going to get over there too.

Probably tomorrow night. You're illegitimate children. You're false sons. But see, still and all, we have part of what's called church. You don't have to receive discipline. You show up. Did you see the commandment over there?

Deuteronomy’s Commandments and Generational Consequences

Now let's go back where we were. Deuteronomy 5. Did we see in verse 9, it says that the Lord says, I'm a jealous God. I visit the iniquity of the fathers on the third and fourth generation of those who will not obey the commandments.

That's what it amounts to. Isn't that right? So the sins that came on your father and mother are on you. This is one of the things that when we take authority and we're going to pray, we're going to ask the Lord to break the curses.

We're going to renounce all the sins of our ancestors. Do you know the sins of a mother come on a child before he's even born? Do you know the sins of a father come on a child before he's even born? They're on him while he's still in the womb.

Do you know that the words spoken by your mother before you're even born, words that she said, curses come on you while she's carrying you? Curses come on you while you're born? The mouth. See, when you walk in the world, you put judgments on each other.

See, God's the only one that judges. But see, we don't want to be judging. When you speak it, the powers of darkness carry it out. But your standard of measure, it comes right back on you. It comes right on your children.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? So we're breaking this to get this stuff off of us. Amen? Now see, if y 'all already hadn't been being taught some along these lines and so forth like this, see, this would be off the wall if I'd go someplace and just start out like this right here, that dear Lord, where did he come from?

Huh? Because see, they're programmed, they're blinded, and I mean at the threat of being thrown out if they deal with Scripture, the powers of darkness come to kill, steal, and destroy. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

Isn't it pitiful? But I mean, all is up to God who's going to come and who's not. I'm a planter and a waterer. Jesus told Peter, he said, you go feed the sheep and I'll build the church. I'm just willing to let him do it.

Amen? Okay, now. All right, now we're in verse 16. Honor your father and your mother as the Lord commanded you that your days may be what? Belonged. In other words, you don't get destroyed. Verse 17, you shall not murder.

18, you shall not commit adultery. Did we see over there that those who commit those things are not going to have any part in the kingdom of Christ? Was that in your Bible now? There wasn't nothing tricky.

Traditions, Controversial Questions, and Obedience to Christ

Now let me ask you something. How do you explain away these traditions? People are, you know, the first thing he said, he believes in sinless perfection. Let's kill him. Are you seeing how we have these controversial questions?

He believes that Christians, he was trying to teach something about the power of judgment. He believes that Christians can have demons. Let's kill him. Are you seeing all the controversy? And these controversial questions, we get programmed and we get kicked.

We get cursed when we become part of that. And then when any part of the Bible is mentioned like that, immediately we're to get angry and run to find four other people who believe that you can walk in the nature and character of Satan.

In other words, it's like going to get four devils to vote on the word of God. And I say, folks, that's just the way I bleed. I'm just going to stay at ease in Zion. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So he said, you don't have any part of the kingdom of Christ.

See, Jesus came to fulfill the law. But they say, Jesus did it, and you don't have to do it. I'm telling you, you better do it. That's the reason that the powers of darkness are all over everybody, because we're being led by their traditions.

We're coming out of it. Amen? Glory be to God. We're coming out by the grace of God. Praise the Lord. Verse 19, you shall not steal. Verse 20, you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Verse 21, you shall not covet.

Loving God and Neighbor as the Fulfillment of the Law

Now, let me ask you something, folks. First, now look at me right here. We're saying you have to love the Lord with all your heart. When you don't have an idol, when you don't have other gods, you prove you love the Lord with all your heart, right?

These other things, you know, covet, murder, steal. See, if you love your neighbors yourself, you're not going to do any of those, right? So that's what the law is really saying, and we know it in Matthew 22, 36 through 40, that the law is saying these two things, and you can write it right out from that.

On these two commandments depend the whole law. You shall love the Lord with all your heart, and number two, you shall love your neighbors yourself. And when you do that, the commandment's no problem to you.

If you love the Lord with all your heart, you don't go to read the commandments and everything. You do instinctively what the Lord leads you to do, and you don't have to go around checking in and saying, you know, I'll go and break a commandment today or anything like that.

Honey, when you've got walking peace, you go with your mind on Jesus. You don't go with your mind on the devil. Your mind's on the Word and on Jesus and on things like that, and he's teaching you and so forth, and you walk in peace.

Your heart's not condemning you. I'm going to tell you, when you break a commandment, your heart will condemn you. You don't have peace. That's right. Then you go and say, Lord, what do I do? Then you seek the Lord.

You give before the Lord. You get put on the blood, and then when you get put on the blood, the Lord no longer sees you breaking the law, and when you're no longer breaking God's law, the powers of darkness have no ground.

They have to butt out, and the hedge returns, and you're back in peace again. This is why 2 Peter 3 says, when he comes, you better be found in peace. See, folks, what makes this so hard for some folks to receive is that we're waking up from a nightmare.

Yeah. But now we've got the answer. We don't have to pick and choose and skip. We can take the whole thing there now. Amen? Amen. And you know something? I don't care where you come from or what your background or anything else is.

You can understand the Bible when the Spirit of God, when you're walking in it, he'll just get all over you. It's the most exciting thing you ever did. And then you don't have to go to folks. You don't have to put your trust in folks.

Trusting Jesus Rather Than Human Teachers

Put your trust in Jesus, and he shows it. See, we're all a part of the body of Christ. Then when you lay down to take a nap, you have to tell him you love him about three or four times. Amen? That's all.

It's his call to him, boy, I tell you. It's wonderful. We're still back there in chapter 5. So now, this is what the Lord said. Now, verse 22. These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire of cloud and thick gloom.

Now, the reason I want you to listen to this scripture is because he's saying scripture in the New Testament. Amen? And there's a purpose for him being there. Now, when he spoke, brother, I want to tell you what this is about the strongest thing God ever said on his earth.

Do you understand what I mean? He said, I'm going to destroy all the earth that's not in covenant with me. See, the only way you can get in the presence of God is to be holy. Isn't that right? Clean hands and a pure heart.

Holiness, Covenant, and Access to God

The only way you can be holy is through Jesus. That's what covenant is, to get back in the presence of God. We fell from the mercy of Adam away from God, right? Now we're getting back. Say, well, I just don't much like it like that.

Well, you love the nature and character of Satan. Do you ever hear anybody jumping in front of a train going about 90 miles an hour and telling it to stop? You better adjust to something, folks. Satan didn't create this world.

God did. God's got the power. He's one to fear. We've been lied to. These words the Lord spoke, verse 22, to all the assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire of the cloud and the thick gloom with a great voice.

And he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to him. You know what? Romans 8, Hebrews 8, 6, if you want to write it there, we start right there and we get a new covenant with better promises.

The New Covenant Written on the Heart

And then he writes it on our heart. We get over in about verse 10. Here it's written on stone for them, but now in our covenant today it's written on our hearts. And immediately we know because we have the Spirit of God.

This reading, the Spirit of God comes in to you to show you when you break God's commandments. He didn't come in to you just to give you experience and then go and say, I've got it. Amen? The Spirit of God comes to lead you in a way just like the cloud and the fire led them through the wilderness.

Amen? Now that's the purpose of the Spirit of God. But see, if you go through a form of God, you don't have to obey God. See, that's deception. You don't have to. You make somebody Lord and then you don't have to obey him.

And then somebody becomes your Lord. See, now see, look at me. Before Jesus becomes your Lord, who's your master? Satan. All of these demons of worry and envy and jealousy and pride and unforgiveness and retaliation, they're filling your mind full of stuff and you're being led by it, right?

Repentance, Spiritual Warfare, and the Lordship of Jesus

Right. But then when you repent, you have a change of heart. Your heart will have a nature and character of Satan. Now you'll have a nature and character of God and you'll have a new master and Lord. His name is the Lord Jesus Christ and His...

And then you obey a different spirit. You don't obey these spirits. You resist these thoughts from them. And you take every thought, catch you to the immediacy of who? Jesus, unless you find somebody that's got another tower built in the heaven called the form of godliness.

How many of you in this hold up your hands? See, folks got different towers, all kind of towers. You can find any flavor you want today. Just whatever you like. You can go get your ears tickled. And it came about when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribe.

The Fear of God and Keeping His Commandments

And let's look in verse 29. Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would what? That they would what? Look at me, folks. We're taught a reverential awe. Your Bible says, fear Him. When you teach the Bible like it is, it becomes a fear of God.

When you know God's got wrath and He's going to destroy you if you don't want to honor Him and obey Him, right? Then you're going to fear Him. But if you're walking in spiritual darkness and ignorance, you change the word of God and you call fearing God reverential awe.

So everybody can be at ease in Zion and men can be lord over God's heritage. By the powers of darkness control the whole place. Is that the way it is? Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear me and they would keep some of my commandments.

Back then, prior to keep all the commandments, today, since we got Jesus, we don't have to do nothing except ignore the devil and ignore the commandments and ignore God. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

Are you all seeing deception? Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep my commandments always, that it might be what? It would be well with them if they keep the commandments and their sons forever.

In other words, the curses that come on the parents wouldn't go on their children if they'd go ahead and keep the commandments. Same thing today. Verse 33. Here's what the Lord said. You shall walk in all the way which the Lord his God has commanded you that.

Will you tell me what those three words say? That you may what? And then what's the opposite of living? Being destroyed or getting killed. That you may live. You're going to be destroyed on the curse because the powers of darkness move in when people break the commandments of God's law.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now let's say it again now. So you walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you that you may live and that it may be what? That it may be well with you if you obey the commandments of God and that you may what?

Prolong your days and not be destroyed in the land which you shall possess. They had a land to possess and now we got a land to possess. Is that correct?