In the Word #5 — Milton Green

Welcome to In The Word with Milton Green, with your host, Tommy Williams.

I hear a sound coming from the mountain. Hear it louder. Each day I hear a sound coming from the mountain. And it says, prepare ye the way.

I'm Tommy Williams, and I want you to stay with us for this next hour as God opens up His precious Word to us through His servant, Milton Green. Milton Green is proclaiming a message of righteousness and holiness to the Church today, calling the Church to repentance.

The author of The Cross and the Switchblade, David Wilkerson, has said that every true believer, every God-hungry minister in this nation needs to hear what Milton Green is saying. You'll see that this is a powerfully searing and searching message, yet healing and uplifting.

It will be good news to those who desire to walk with the Lord Jesus Christ with a pure heart. Now, let's get our Bibles and get in the Word with Milton Green, just as it was recorded live at a recent In The Word meeting.

We'll join Brother Milton Green, already in progress.

One Righteousness, One Gospel, and One Jesus

In Romans 10, verse 1, look here. Paul says, Brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for who? For them is for their what? It's for their salvation. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it's not according to the Word.

Is that what he says? It's not according to the Word. And not knowing about God's righteousness, they establish their own righteousness, which is self-righteous, some other righteousness, and do not subject themselves.

They're not going to let them subject themselves to the righteousness of God. Folks, there's a whole lot of righteousness today. Do you know there are many kinds of righteousness? There's many kind of Gospels.

There's many kind of Jesus. This Jesus can do this, this Jesus can do that, and this Jesus can't do anything. There's one righteousness. There's one Gospel. There's one Jesus. There's one church. And I want to tell you what, the Spirit of God is one that takes the lead.

We don't lead the Spirit of God. It's not, God, come on down here and cooperate with us. You see what we're trying to do for you? The righteousness of God is led by the Spirit of God. And I want to just ask you something.

Does the church today, as the most part, pursue righteousness by dying to the flesh? And practicing righteousness, that means walking and talking and acting like God? Does the church today walk like the world?

Do they walk after the flesh? Do they pursue righteousness as though by works? Do they want to build temples and things that we can see with our eyes for God instead of building up this inner man? This temple here.

See, I'm going to tell you something. People who are in works don't have to trust God for anything. They're not being led by the Spirit of God. They work it all out themselves. I mean, I've already told you, there's not a Baptist righteousness or a Methodist righteousness.

I just want to mention this. There's not any kind of, there's only one righteousness. There's not a Pentecostal righteousness, there's a charismatic righteousness. There's not a Baptist gospel and a Methodist gospel and Pentecostal gospel and charismatic gospel.

There's not a Baptist Jesus and a Methodist Jesus and a Pentecostal Jesus and a charismatic Jesus. There's only one Jesus. I suggest, and I don't know where you folks come from, it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is Jesus crucified.

It don't matter who you are or what you are or what you've done or anything else. The only thing that matters is Jesus Christ as your Lord. So, what I just want to encourage you to look at your Word and see if everything that, we need to look and see if everything we call church today is church.

See, if everything you call a Christian today is Christian, is it going to be a great falling away in the last days? What is falling away? It's falling away, that's apostasy. That's departing from the Word of God.

You start calling things a God, it's not God. Amen? I'm going to tell you something. The church in this Word makes disciples. They teach them a Word. You know, in the days of Charles Finney, he started, he had a morning's bench and people would come to the morning's bench, say, I need you to cry out the Lord.

And later on, the Salvation Army, and as I understand the Salvation Army is a lot different then than it is today, but would have some strong messages about the Lord and they started giving invitations.

Now, I want you to be aware of all these things as I share it with you, that you've got an enemy that talks to you and he can tell all the people the same thing to get them, you know, off. See, we have to line up here.

The Lord leads us in all truth. But they would have invitations for sinners and they would come to this morning's bench, which the Salvation Army started, and for days sometimes. So ours, people would stay there and just instruct them as they would get things right before God.

Repentance, Discipleship, and the Danger of Numerical Decisions

Now, let me give you a little example of that. I've watched this over. You let me get around somebody that's just really broken. I don't mean self-pity. I mean, it's really broken and sorry about their sins to the Lord.

I can't wait to pray for them. You let somebody just really get broken. Folks, do you ever see anybody just get down and just cry out to the Lord? Just cry out to the Lord and so sorry and just loving the Lord so much that they're just so sorry and sad?

Folks, do you ever know what kind of people there are when you get up? Do you ever notice that something's come off of them? That they're different? They're broken? Now, these people that would be in these meetings, as the enemy is always there to pervert things, then some would just see this and possibly being led by sensuality in the flesh, then coming down the aisle, replaces repentance and a godly sorrow.

And then start building a foundation of numbers instead of righteousness. If part of this is going to affect the numbers, let's don't mess with it. Let's don't lose a big tither. Let's don't upset some folks' flesh.

We learn when we make a foundation of numbers and good reports, we start wanting to get decisions instead of disciples. And too many times, and this is a, this kind of thing that Billy Graham and many of the particular people that go through the churches see the lostness of the people in church today.

They go through there and these people in too many cases, that's not to say that everybody that walks down the aisle is not saved. I'm not saying that. Listen, hear what I'm saying. Don't try to add something I'm not saying.

There are too many people that come down the aisle and a man's led by his thoughts and things and we start, you know, exalting ministries, you know, uh, my ministry has got to look good. I'm not going to deal with that part of the Lord.

I can't deal with that part of the Lord. It's going to make my ministry look good and I've got to help you out. Now that's what Satan tried to do to Jesus when he got him to jump off the temple where in the courtyard there and he could lead all the people to God say, we're not going to lead the people to God.

God's spirit does leading. We just get in on it. So I just want to ask you, and I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I just want to ask you to just examine these things because when we're not taking thoughts, we're not aware of all these things.

Deceitful, deceitful, very deceptive thoughts come in here to cause us to start drifting and we start getting a foundation of good reports and looking good and making a name for self. We get our mind and our heart on our works and what we're doing and just forget about the works of God.

See, and then if we get busy making a name for self, well listen, if you're making a name for yourself and your ministry and your ministry, you're not making a name for our Lord Jesus Christ. If you've got some kind of image you've got to protect, then you haven't taken on the image of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The only name you make a name for is Jesus. Now that is what the Bible says. Babylon, the world in the church who acts like the world and walks and talks like that world makes a name for herself. Now, see, these traditions and things that many of them have been handed down to folks, I'm going to tell you, and the Lord can easily show you as you get in the Word.

Returning to the Word Instead of Human Tradition

I'm going to tell you what the Lord expects you to get the Word. He wants to lead you in all truth. And so you can raise up in things. They look good. They look good when we compare ourself among ourself and measure ourself by ourself.

But does it measure up to this yardstick right here? See, that's where the Pharisees missed it. A few of them got saved, but they all went to hell too, you know, that didn't get saved. So it's a serious thing, but what I'm trying to point out to you that my part, part of my part is exposing the powers of darkness as we go through the Word.

Now, I want you to be conscious and pastors, I want you to think about this as we go through, because if the powers of darkness, if they're there, like I've said at the very beginning of the testimony, we've got a very serious problem.

If they're not there, then you have a nut here that you come three days to hear. Now if they are there, what are they doing there? They've been perverting the things of the Lord. They've been deceiving us.

And so in you and me, brother and sister, we all come back to the Word of God. We start all over again. We say something like this, Lord, you know what I know that's wrong. I'm teachable. I love you more than I do my tradition.

You know, somebody that loves their traditions more than they do the Word is not teachable. If someone is intimidated by men and fearful of men, they'll not come to the Word of God. See, that's what scares people off the Word, because they want approval of men, folks.

They're not teachable. God's not going to lead them in all truth because their heart's somewhere else. They've got idols in their heart. But if we truly love the Lord and we love His Word, we can come to the Lord something like this and say, Lord, I believe the Lord will take you up on it, too.

Lord, I've let my heart go toward things that I shouldn't have let it go to. And when you just go ahead and name all the things you've let your heart be authority in your life besides the order of God, that's not to say there's not spiritual authority.

They are a spiritual authority. But everything that goes by a title I don't subject myself to. You understand that? I subject myself to the Jesus in authority, not by somebody that just goes by titles and things like that, because I don't think there's ever been a time of false teaching and false prophets as there are today.

Never, ever. I don't think Satan has never been more successful than he is right now at this moment. Why not? That's exactly the way it's supposed to be. That's what Satan said it would be in the last days.

But say, Lord, if I have—now, I think this would be fair for each one of us here, if we want to be honest before the Lord. Your Word says that You will lead me in all truth. In the traditions and things that I've learned, Lord, You know what I've learned wrong.

I'm teachable, Lord. Now, right now, I fix my heart on You. You are the teacher. Unless I hear You speak through anyone, I'm not going to receive anything. I'm not going to receive anything in Milt Green or a seminar or James Robinson or no one else until it's confirmed in my heart, until I know it from God.

Is anything wrong with that? And now, Lord, my eyes are fixed on You, and You know that my heart is seeking truth. Now, I'm seeking You. I just turned my heart. I'm going to get in Your Word, Lord, because I just found out I don't have to speak Hebrew to learn what's in there, that You'll teach me.

And You said You're no respecter of any people, so it doesn't matter, Lord, if I just got past the first grade. You can teach me to read, too. That sound like God? Well, that's the way He is. Can't you see God coming over here to me and say, Milt, boy, I sure do need you.

You've got that big organization. You know so many people, and you're so smart. I need somebody like you to come and teach a seminar. You see, folks, I say these things simply because I don't have anything.

I don't have to be anything. There's a lot of freedom not having to be nothing. Do you know that? I say this to encourage you, because I have been discouraged a lot. We've all been in a war and things like that.

But I tell you, the Lord has special things for each one of you. I want to tell you something. I don't think no one has a harder time in the traditions we've brought in than shepherds. They kind of get in it by their selves.

That's the way tradition is. They've got to know everything and do it. They have to be the whole loaf, an impale sow. And then get them out there serving flesh, waiting tables. Pitiful. Break your heart.

Folks, let's just get our mind off ourself a little bit and kind of see what sin we've got in our heart and kind of see some other people that we can help and be a blessing to. Let's let our light shine and love one another, right?

If there's anything wrong, you don't have to compromise, do you? Let the Spirit of God. See, I don't have advice for people. People come up and say, I've got this situation, I've got this situation, I've got this.

And I say, I want to tell you something, my friend. I can be very presumptuous if I go past the Word of God. I can know a part and you can come and hear my part. And we're used to somebody having a part and knowing everything.

Well, I don't know everything. And I'm not going to tell anybody any more than what, if consciously, than what the Word teaches me. But I'm going to tell you something. There's a mighty move of God today, folks.

Persecution, Pleasing God, and Freedom from Human Approval

And I'm going to tell you what this move of God is going to be. You're going to be persecuted, folks. Let me tell you something. So what? So what? Let me ask you something. If you know what you know, what you know.

If you know that you've got annoying, you're watching people's lives change. You know that you're learning and you know that you're pleasing the Lord. Now, who do you really want to please in your heart?

Do you want to please God or do you want to please folks? Well, I'm going to tell you some things talk to you and come and talk to you to get your heart to go to please other things besides God. I'm going to tell you, God is the number one person you want to please.

Now, I'm just kind of mentioning some of these things as we're going along talking about the power of the Lord because I'm going to tell you, as I mention, the Lord's going to quicken some of these things.

He's going to show you if you'll let Him. I mention them so He can just talk to you about them. Now, you don't let your heart go to folks. You don't let your heart go to organization. You don't let your heart go to men.

You don't let your heart go to denomination. Let me tell you where headquarters is. It's in heaven. I'm not saying that unkindly. I just know it's a curse. It's not Jesus plus the sign in the yard. It's not Jesus plus anything.

It's all Jesus. It's all grace. It's all Him. And there was a man is zero except for Jesus working through him. Everything else burns up. I just set you free. Did I get you a little freer? Get free from folks.

Mark 7 and the Conflict Between Christ and Tradition

Demons and folks have been running this long enough. Now, Mark 7. Mark 7. Now, what about a person who loves his traditions? Do you realize there's plenty of traditions, folks? Folks, do you ever understand why there are always so many labels?

You know if they can get conservative and this over here label and this over here and here a demon behind every bush. He's gone charismatic. He's all these things. Now, you see if the enemy can get these labels going back and forth, then see you get programmed to reject truth before you examine it.

What is it that caused you to reject people you've only heard of? You don't know anything about them. You've just heard about them. Where's that come from? You reject truth before you've even examined it.

Where's that come from? See, you know how you reject it? Because you are made fearful. The spirit of fear comes from the devil. He gives you all kind of fearful things. And this is what the shepherds, the shepherds going, Boy, I'm telling you what.

Boy, I'm telling you it's a new day. As the Lord has opened up this thing and showing shepherds that shepherds have just had their ears beat off of them who just love the Lord with all their heart. And God in His grace is showing them how the enemy and the demons are attacking them.

Spiritual Intimidation and the Trials of Pastors

I'm going to share a few things here before this is over with. I'm going to show them how you attack shepherds. Shepherds are leaving churches today. Pastors are leaving churches like never before. You shepherds don't usually stay in a church over three years.

You get run off. You usually get run off by lost folks, church bosses that demons have raised up. You know what you do, Pastor, when you leave? You run off and leave a sheep. It's a little system of powers of darkness that work down.

Let me just go ahead and talk about it a little bit. Since I mentioned it, I might as well talk about it a little bit. You're determined, shepherd, the next church I go to, it's not going to be like this one.

Because in many cases, because the traditions and things kind of beat you down where you really have a shepherd's heart where you can't really do the things that you know in your heart you want to do.

And it's a very defeating, frustrating thing for a pressured shepherd, a precious shepherd and his traditions today. So the powers of darkness who have been ignored, what do you think they've been doing?

They've been setting up a system. And then you go into this church situation and you're determined. You've learned some things. Things are going to be different. We're going to do some things in this world.

And you go in there and you get up and you know this verse right here is just going to smack against little traditions. You know when you get to a place and right there is you do it. Let me show you what happens to you.

The demons know the one they've got set up that can intimidate you and make you the most fearful. Now let me tell you what happens to you, pastor, and you're just going to shake your head because you're going to remember it over and over.

You can stand there and you can be looking in that direction right over there. And as you come to this place and you say that word right there, as you start to do it, as you're fixing to read that verse right there, there are thoughts coming to your mind.

You're not even looking right over there at this loud mouth boss deacon, but you know right there in your mind as you're looking right over here and you do this, you're being brought to mind thoughts that are, you know, and you're just getting a picture of him just looking at it.

It's like a water hose coming at you. Pastor, you hear me, aren't you, shepherds? It's like a water hose of intimidation coming at you. And these thoughts right there just add a little water to it here, you know.

But you know, you don't have to be too hard on it. But then you go ahead and you proclaim the word. And while you're doing it you're being attacked by fear right in the pulpit. You're being attacked by fear and intimidation.

You're being attacked by demons. And it gets pretty quiet in there while you're preaching. But you know you've decided that that congregation is going to be the Lord's glory and you want to please the Lord.

And here he comes. He comes up, either that loud mouth woman or that loud mouth man that that demon's manifested in right there, controlling him. They come right up to you and get right in your face. Pastor, I know these people.

I know them. It's just like you moved in his bedroom or something. You know, he owns a place. See, he's big time. He's given so much money for God. He's helped God out so much. It's just like you moved in his house, shepherd.

He's got a lot of confidence. He's a church boss. The demons have told him what a wonderful job he does helping God out in that social work. Pastor, these people are not going to stand still for that.

I know them. Pastor, what you better do is you better back off a little on that. We'll have to get a new leader. We're going back to Egypt. Now shepherd, this is going to set you free. When he comes up to you, you see him coming and immediately when you make eye contact to him, the powers of darkness know when you make contact with any word in this Bible right here.

That's the same thing. They attack you with lust thoughts. You make eye contact. When you make eye contact with that man right there, they began. See, I've already put the intimidating thought. They've already set the stage for you.

So here comes the manifestations of demons to a man. And as he's talking to you, he really thinks in his heart he's helping God out. He's deceived. As he is attacking you there, you're being attacked by every demon of fear in the house.

They're all over you right in here. They're all outside just attacking you. You know, that same ones attack you when you don't want to give up and give the testimony or start getting a little free, something like that.

If they keep you on your mind, you know you start getting free, you get dangerous. And they attack you with fear. Freedom spreads. So while you're there, pastor, and you're talking about to this man right here, this church boss, all these demons of fear are attacking you.

And here's the kind of thoughts they're putting in your mind. One thought just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. There goes the parsonage. Seriously. There it goes. I can't get a job anywhere. They'll be mad at me at headquarters.

I'll have to take the children out of college. And they're just bombarding your mind, just bang, bang, bang, bang. And you just beat, you know, just, and you're moving out of grace and you're getting out of the law because you're receiving it.

And then all that pressure coming on there, you're looking in his face, but you're not really hearing everything because all your mind is just filled with, they've all of a sudden, and they just loose a barrage on you.

What they're doing, you know what they're doing? This is attack of the powers of darkness to back you off of this right here. And this is the way they do it. And this is the way they've been doing it to you.

And then in the midst of all that pressure and all that fear and all that intimidation, all these things coming at you, it'd be a sweet little old thought come up there. Well, I can see now is not the time to bring them on.

I'll bring them on another way. Isn't that precious? Just, and then just back off of it. He didn't pass the test and the demons get to flock. That's what you're going to see this week. Pastor, I can't even go in your church and have authority over demons unless your heart is in agreement with me.

That's how much authority you have. I can't even bind the demons if you're, if you're, your heart's not in agreement with me. You have a spiritual authority and God has given you spiritual authority. And I'll tell you something else.

Well, I might all the way to day two to get on that. Pastor, I want to tell you something. You get run off because when they start attacking you, you know, just to ever appear, when you start getting close to that, they start attacking your wife.

You go home and you start hearing things. Here's pressure. She doesn't understand either. See, we, we, we've left that out. You don't understand all this stuff happening to your wife and it's just always an uproar.

Church Discipline, Spiritual Authority, and the Divided Church

How can the Word work in a book, work in people when their hearts are full of the things of the devil? Affliction, persecution, that's all they're going to think about and talk about. See, there's no rest in that.

See, if you receive all this stuff and talk about it, the Word of God can't work any into you. And so, there is a system that we haven't learned about and God is showing us today, Pastor. And it's a precious new day for you because I want to tell you something.

It's a body ministry, but when you leave and you get run off, in that church that you just left, it's just like Billy Graham saying, you know, there's a church in the church. And all probability people that are not taking thoughts captive, the enemy is able to work and intimidate them with fear and these kind of thing to put people in position of authority.

As Jude says, they're led by their ungodly lust, their worldly mind and they cause divisions. Let me tell you another way. The church is already split, folks. There's two ways to look at that. If you're looking from the basis of numbers and good reports, it's not split.

But if you're looking from the basis of the Word of God, salvation and righteousness and lost folks, there are lost folks in there. That's a split church. When you get lost folks and saved folks together, you've got a split.

So really what we're saying today, if we say 75 of the church is lost, we go quote Billy Graham and the others, you know. Then we're saying, I feel very comfortable here having my heart joined in covenant and be one with over half of it devils.

Well, you do the word. What happened to church discipline? What happened to dealing with this sin? Where'd that new Bible come from? That's not what this Bible is talking about. So pastor, you got run off.

And when you left, you left some sheep. You left some sheep that are really belong to the Lord. And boy, how they do need a shepherd. And all these things are showing the Word of God this week. Mark 7, verse 6.

And he said to them, rightly did Isaiah prophesy you hypocrites. Jesus trying to please them again. As it is written, this people honor me with their lips. They honor me with their mouth. But their heart is far from me.

I want you to know with the heart man believes in the righteous, not his head. The head gives lip service. The heart walks in it. Verse 7, here's what he says. These people that draw near with their lips and mouth and don't draw near with their hearts, here's what these kind of people do in 7.

In vain do they worship me. If they worship me on a sunny morning, I'll just stay home and read the paper. In vain they worship me if they draw near with their mouth and not their hearts. They're wasting their time.

Teaching us doctrines and precepts of men. Let me tell you another way. Teaching opinions of men is the Word of God. In vain they worship me. Do you understand that's what traditions are? Teaching opinions of men is the Word of God.

Verse 8, in these traditions you neglect the commandment of God. You hold to the traditions of men. You hold on to it. That's where your heart is. You hold on to it because you're made fearful and intimidated by it.

Anything you're afraid of has got you. Once you fear God, he said the dread of me is not in you. You have to learn the fear of God. Don't fear those that can kill a body. Fear him and put your body and soul in hell.

He was saying to them about these traditions that's handed down and down. Isn't it interesting how many different ways everybody is going to heaven and they all talk a different language? Sounds like confusion, doesn't it?

Verse 9, he was also saying to them, you nicely set aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. In other words, the Word of God, you're picking shoes to it and you already got your petition and box built.

That's what the Pharisees had, see? He said, God, if you'll come on down here and be a nice Pharisee, we'll fellowship with you. Not just one or today, but we say, God, we'll fellowship with you if you'll be a good Baptist.

We'll fellowship with you if you'll act like a good Pentecostal. Verse 13, see in verse 9 it said, you set aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. Verse 13, thus you invalidate the Word of God.

You make the Word of God of no effect by your what? The Word of God has no effect because of your tradition which you've what? It's handed down to generation and generation. It's handed down and you do many things such as that.

Now who do you think it? Let me ask you this way, aren't you real glad those Pharisee demons are all dead today? Aren't you glad none of them are still around? They were kind of experts back then, weren't they?

Colossians 2: Captivity Through Philosophy and Tradition

All right. God has warned us not to be taken captive through traditions and worldly ways. Let me show it to you. Turn to Colossians 2. Colossians 2. You know what happens to a heart when it's not totally turned to the Word or something like that?

When you read scripture like that, you know what happens in a person's mind? It's deceived by the powers of darkness. Look at me. You know what happens to them when they're deceived by the powers of darkness?

Their heart's not really seeking the Word. They'll get on the defensive when you start talking about traditions. Then they want to watch you closely and what you might say and so they might trap you in some things you know that you say.

Now that's how the powers of darkness work through people. Folks, let me tell you something. It's too bad that the people that persecuted Jesus and spoke against him and spoke against his disciples has always been everybody that ever followed God in that Bible didn't have an easy time of it.

Do you understand that? I want to make you aware of something. It's not for me and you to have to figure out how God's going to do this thing. Can I just go ahead and just illustrate my place here as standing before you in this seminar?

I didn't put myself up here. No man put me up here. I'm telling you what, that God can use you at 9 o 'clock in the morning and noon. He can set you down the rest of your life. I have been sat down in my ignorance and thing.

God had. I watched, you know, like I was telling you over in India. I got sat down after I got home. I got smart. I was going to try to push. I had some things worked out. Instead of letting my light shine, I was going to stick it down some people's throats.

I saw a few things. You know what happened? God don't cooperate with that. So I found myself in a lonely, I was on the sidelines. Now, I fear God and I know that he's looking. Now see, I've come to a place.

I know he's looking at all the motives and everything in my heart. He is yours. And when he sees the motives in your heart, it's really trying to please him and do what is right in his. I'm telling you folks, you can make some stupid things, mistakes like that.

He'll turn them around. Now, I want you to know the door open is up, left up to God. We don't have to go out and get things for God. I want you to know that when he does his work of grace in you, he'll do it through you.

In Colossians 2, I like this verse in verse 4. I say that in order that no one may what? Delude you with what kind of argument. You can run in persuasive argument. Now see, when I was dying, I found James 5, 14 and 15 to be anointed with oil that I will be restored, not maybe or perhaps or when it gets 70 degrees, it says I'd be restored.

I like that. I was really interested in that verse. And when I ask about this particular verse, we went everywhere and all over the Bible except that. Well, I didn't know much about the Bible. I always believed anybody made something could fix it.

So, I just keep holding it to it. Now, verse 8, see to it that no one takes you captive. Have you come out captive? Through what? All right. Now, you can be taken captive through philosophy. You can be taken captive.

What's the next thing? Empty deception. You can be taken captive through the what? Traditions of men. You can be taken captive according to the elementary principles of the world. Are you seeing all these things can take you captive?

Are you warned right there not to be taken captive of these things? Now, what I'd do if I'd, I might just circle captive there and run you a line to philosophy, run you a line to empty deception, run you a line to traditions, run you a line to elementary principles of the world rather than according to Christ, which is His Word.

You can be taken captive through these things. Amen. Right? Well, it's next chapter. Let's turn over to Colossians 3 quickly. If. Now, if's a condition, isn't it? Verse 1, then you've been raised up at Christ, keep seeking the things on earth.