Give Me the Mind of Christ (11/11/2001)

Dear father we Thank you that Jesus is our Lord. It breaks our hearts as so many people in our country

Watch the things that are going on and they put Jesus in the same Platform with Buddha and Muhammad and yet they are still in the grave and he is not he is risen

And so father we thank you that you've opened our eyes and brought us out of darkness into the marvelous light of Your son

Jesus Christ and we ask you to take us to the very throne this morning as we get into the

Word of God that you would take us and Show us that we are in fact seated in Christ in the heavenlies and we ask it in his name.

Amen Well Brother Russ, I'm glad that you have developed the fine art of Rebuking in such a way that people's minds will still be open and hear the rebuke because brother

Archie had given up the guitar for some I don't know how many years and Russ just rebuked him.

He said, you know, God gave you that gift and you're not a very good steward And so I'm glad Archie had ears that would hear hallelujah

That was a blessing to us all this morning. In fact, he's Participated in the in the making of the red white and blue album that is just about finished.

I'm sure within the weeks or days of being ready to go

To press or whatever they call it in your world But we appreciate you being with us this morning.

That was a blessing Turn with me to Colossians chapter 3 In verse 9 and I want to speak to you this morning

You might want to put your other hand. That's why God gave you two hands So you have one for the

New Testament one for the old put your other hand in 1st Samuel chapter 10 if you would

But there is a perfect pattern in 1st Samuel chapter 10 for a church service

You might wonder how that could be there in the Old Testament Well think about who wrote it and you'll figure that out.

I don't mean who the human penman was. I mean who was the author? of this book

Colossians chapter 3 Starting with verse 9 follow along if you would lie not one to another

It's interesting that this passage dealing with the church starts with that don't lie to each other Lie not one to another

Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge

After the image of him that created him now remember that little phrase when we get into 1st Samuel in a few moments

This idea of putting on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge You're gonna see this in the

Old Testament in a few moments After the image of him that created him we are renewed in knowledge after the image of Jesus Christ the scripture teaches us very clearly that all things were made by him.

So we're referencing Jesus here We're renewed in knowledge after Jesus's image when you have a problem with your thought life

Let me tell you how to cure it if you're saved today if you're born again, this will work for you Just say

Lord. Give me the mind of Christ Let me think about this issue or this person or whatever's going on at that instant in your life

Let me think about this like Jesus would and like Jesus does give me his mind

It'll work every time That's good practical preaching right there. Just try it.

You'll see it'll work for you Renewed and knowledge after the image of him that created him

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew? Circumcision nor uncircumcision

Barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all

Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercies

Now we're gonna see some of the fruits of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer mercy kindness

Humbleness of mind that's certainly not from us. Is it certainly not from our flesh? This comes from the renewed man this comes from the new you that was born again at the moment you were born again, and this comes in fact by the

Holy Spirit who is within you Dwelling within your hearts, but also connected to the very heavenlies and that's why you're also seated in the heavenlies this morning

You ever tried to figure out how you can be both on the earth and in heaven at the same time The Bible says you are

Do you remember the time Jesus was talking to the Pharisees? he was somewhere in the

Middle East standing on the planet earth and He looked at the Pharisee and he talked about the

Son of Man which is in heaven. That was present tense Now, I don't know if you figure that out or not

But Jesus was standing there on the earth talking to this man looking him in the eyes and says but I'm in heaven Did you know you're that way this morning?

If you're saved you're seated with him in him in the heavenlies and the

Holy Spirit is the connector He's the one that connects you into that realm and to the extent that you walk and live in the

Holy Spirit You can live in that realm. You're already living eternal life. You don't have to die to get there.

You can't get there. You are there If you're walking in the spirit, but if you walk in the flesh you can do every evil deed that any lost person has ever done

And that's the frightening part So notice how he's saying to lay these things aside

If you go up into the part that I didn't even read I skipped it But verse 5 mortify therefore the members which are upon the earth fornication uncleanness inordinate affection, etc

That's the flesh But he says put on therefore mercy kindness

Humbleness of mind meekness long -suffering those characteristics that are from the heavenlies because they belong to Jesus Christ But they're in you because you're born again and you are in fact one with him

For bearing one another holding one another up Forgiving one another or that's necessary since we all from time to time do still commit sins

Do we not we don't always treat one another like we ought to every moment of every day.

Do we we're working on it, though Aren't we? But this is what helps us when we mess up For bearing and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you

So also do ye when you see the weakness of your brother think about the weakness of yourself and That which

Christ has forgiven you of and it helps you to forgive the brother and To go on and let love cover a multitude of sin so that we have unity rather than the division that Satan wants to bring forgiving one another as Christ forgave you so also do ye verse 14 and above all these things put on love more important than any of it more important than the kindness than the

Humility the meekness the long -suffering more important than the laying side of a side of the works of the flesh

More important than all of that is that you have the very love of God for God is love so when you have love you have the nature of God within you and that love will cover a

Multitude of sins in your brother and allow you to walk with him But you know, what's even better than that that allows him to walk with you and me

I Think about that when you're getting down on your brother think about what he's putting up with That's right.

We don't like to think that way that hurts That's the light when the

Bible talks about the fact when you look in this book. It's like a glass And you look in it.

Some of us don't study it because we see ourselves. We don't like what we see Who I think

I will put that down. That's ugly. I Didn't get an amen for that Only one that came in asked my wife she could but she won't

Now let's continue here Above all these things put on love charity love agape love

That God kind of love that does not depend upon the object of the love but depends upon the lover

You young men ought to learn that kind of love because in a marriage that's the kind you'll have to have

You can't just love her when she treats you, right? When she does what you say you have to love her all the time because that's the kind of love

God commands and Then the submission will come That's for Mike, but anyway

I Said a male Russ big big uncle back there And he says let the peace of God Rule in your hearts

To the which also year called in one body now notice the unity of the body the church the unity

We are called to unity. We're called to oneness This oneness is only possible with the perfect love of God Because without it we see the imperfections in one another

This bond is called in fact at the end of verse 14 the bond of perfectness

The bond of maturity you want to see a mature Christian. He's not the one that points out all the sins

Oh, he may see some But he's not the one that's judgmental and it's quick to point out the sins and weaknesses of others

This bond of maturity is the one that has the love of God which brings the mercy which brings the kindness which brings the patience which brings everything that God is and Realizes that God does not operate on our time, but on his own in the changing of others

We get so impatient with God because he won't make everybody be like us right now You hear what

I said? That's sad in it Praise be to him that he doesn't

Let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the witch also year called in one body and be thankful, you know

Thankfulness cures many ills in our lives if we would go about from time to time throughout the day

This is something I try to practice and I hope you do too Everything you see just thank

God for it everything Now you have to be in the word for a while before you can thank him for everything because that includes what we perceive to be bad

But when you really start to know God you understand nothing really is bad because it originated from his hand and it will bring good

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly now This is all speaking to a church on how to be a church

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom that doesn't say just study the quarterly

That doesn't say just read the Bible through in a year That says that everybody that is within the hearing of my mouth today

Should be in this word in your house or in your car or It's your place at work when you have a few minutes on a break you should be in this word

Allowing it to work itself into your hearts and minds The renewing of the knowledge after the image of him that created you will only happen if you're in the word of God Such an important part of a healthy church not so much the preaching

Although that is very important and the teaching in the classes though That is very important. What's even more important to be a healthy church.

Is that everyone is doing their own in -depth? Bible study to the extent this says let it dwell in your hearts richly

Is it rich when you get into it, or is it a duty? You can kind of judge your spiritual temperature by that When you open the word up this week got into it.

Was it dutiful or was it rich? Now if it's just dutiful go ahead and do it anyway because If you dutifully read it long enough, it'll get rich But if you're walking with the one who created you he will renew knowledge in your heart and mind as you read this book

You'll see things you've never seen before this past Wednesday night Those of us with what might have been as Wednesday before last we saw a verse

In the Bible that we've all read many times and never seen what it said until last until that Wednesday night

And we're still kind of looking into that thinking about that. So the Word of God is rich and it's deep and We can't fathom at all, but we should be in it

Verse 16 let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom Teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs

Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. You see that aspect of the church service

You know now a lot of that's been laid aside in our Baptist churches because we're so afraid of the Pentecostals and the charismatics and and Some of the things that they do we know we're not right

But some of the things they do are right and we don't do them because we associate them with those wrong things and that's sad

Some of us almost had a heart attack this morning when Brenda was clapping and all of a sudden she went like that I Noticed though Brenda you kept that beneath the pulpit.

That was good. Only I could see it. I Know what you were doing She was singing with her hands.

That was she was singing with her hands But you see the Bible says lift up your hands

The Bible says sing spiritual songs But we're afraid of it because others among us who teach some false doctrine as if we never teach any

Or and I have never taught any we hope we don't teach any but I can think back to stuff I taught 15 20 years ago that I don't even believe anymore

So there is no church that has a hold on the whole box that God's in you know Why because he ain't in one and so because they get off into some areas where we feel are unscriptural

Then we don't want to do the things they do that are scriptural and that's hard It's harder for me than any of you probably

I mean, I'm certainly not charismatic Pretty boring. Actually, it is very common life

And my brother Myron golden my brat my black brother from another mother as he says same father

He took me to a church service one time where the Lord really Came down upon the place and it is so amazing that I call my wife

We were off in another state and I called her that and I said you're flying out here tomorrow I want you to be here tomorrow night that you never see anything like this

And the reason I want you to come is because no one will believe me if I tell them what happened And this was in a Baptist Church But it didn't happen the next night.

So I'm glad you didn't fly out But that one night was incredible. I saw little children.

I'm telling you. It's not a charismatic church Whatever you may or may not think about that this was a Baptist Church and I saw little children who were sitting with their parents in the

Choir because it was an evening service. It was informal and some little kids sing better than adults anyway so they had them up in the choir and The choir got into this was after a week of preaching and worship and so forth, but it's about Thursday night

The choir hit the third note of the first song and these children began to cry now

They're not old enough to even know they're supposed to all right. That's when you cry kids Now's when you raise your hands now when you clap now, it's when you jump they don't know that stuff

So I thought they were Baptists They've never even been taught that stuff and they began to weep and I looked around myself and I wasn't the only one crying

Others began to weep. This was the third note of the first song. No preaching. Nothing had happened

Except for all week. It had been going on and all of a sudden I found myself wanting to laugh for joy and I looked around and there were people laughing and clapping their hands and shouting and I looked back

Byron's list sitting back here going He said

Tony you have his hands up there for this service is over they sat behind me they wouldn't even sit with me Because they thought

I'd sit here like this and embarrass them, you know, but but it was awesome But I'll tell you what when when the presence of God is there

We're the bride. We're responders Just like in our world the husband is that which initiates the bride is that which

Responds, that's what will make a marriage happy Many of the problems are because there's not enough initiated by the grooms nowadays

But when the groom shows up the bride will respond You don't have to worry about faking anything.

We don't want any of that in this place And I don't think there is a musician that's up here this morning that wants any accolades or wants any

I'm sure they're gonna become very famous singing in this church That's not what it's all about In fact, they just didn't get behind the screen and put the screen in from up front of him by their elders would say amen to that probably but He told me once that'd be the ideal way, but the musicians behind something and the point is it's about Jesus Well, that's a good rabbit trail where was

I Whatever you do in Word or indeed do all in the name of the

Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him That's solve all the problem. Just do what you do as the

Lord leads you But I'm gonna tell you that there are some things that have been missing from Baptist Church services that until they're brought back

It's not all there. I Don't read into that anything. I'm just telling there are some scriptural things

Now let's look at some of them go into first Samuel You're gonna be amazed at this symbolism throughout this passage

That shows us in the Old Testament What a church service should be like Now I understand dispensational issues

And when brother Roy first came that's what we were preaching on that some of the couple of times we preached on the dispensations

That was for Russ's benefit Because I had to prove to him that he believed in them some of them

Anyway, I mean there is an Old Testament a New Testament. So you are a dispensation. All right He'll get me back one of these days

Let's go into the first Samuel chapter 10 in Verse 1 now we got to go up.

The chapters aren't really here. Let's go into chat into verse 27 They're right above it at the end of chapter 9

It's 1st Samuel 1st Samuel chapter 9 verse 27 and As they were going down to the end of the city

Samuel said to Saul Bid the servant pass on before us.

So there so Saul had his servants with him Maybe carrying his armor who knows?

But Samuel the man of God says I want the servant to go on. I won't just us for a minute.

I just want you To Bid the servant pass on before us and he passed on But stand thou still for a while That I may show thee the

Word of God If every preacher in America couldn't say that to his congregation every

Sunday This nation will be back where it should be in a matter of weeks

Stand still for a moment Send your servant on the ones to take care of all your physical stuff the one take care all your fleshly problems all the worldly problems that cares the world send them on for a minute and Stand still a while that I may show thee the

Word of God Then Samuel took a vial of oil and you need to watch for symbolism

Now this is not something we make up. These are universal symbols throughout the entire

Bible Old and New Testament They're very clear and universally accepted by all theologians. You've heard them before but just watch for them

Samuel took a vial of oil And poured it on his head and kissed him

And he said is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance

What is this oil picture? of The Holy Spirit it is the

Holy Spirit who anoints people for service It is the Holy Spirit that anoints people to do things for God that they should not do in the flesh nor could they do in the flesh and without this oil of Anointing a church is not really having a real service.

It is merely playing It is playing like It's having a service

It's having one of those kind of services that God talked about in the Bible when he said your very sacrifices make me ill

Your very praises make me sick. I will none of them. He has said many times

But when the Holy Spirit The oil of anointing is upon the people upon the body of Christ upon specific

Individuals who may lead in the service but upon everyone who is in the service That is the beginning of a proper church service then

Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said Is this not because the

Lord has anointed you? The oil was symbolism. It was symbolic

It came after the real thing. The real thing was Samuel already recognized the anointing on this man's life

God had already told Samuel Saul. I'm sorry Samuel about the anointing on Saul's life to be king

And he places the oil symbolically Saying I as the man of God also recognize this gift

You know that we'll recognize gifts in one another sometime before we even see our own gift. The church will recognize gifts

Sometimes we need to tell each other we have them Sometimes we need to encourage like Russ did

That we use the gifts We need to do that sometimes from time to time, but we as the men and women will recognize the anointing of God Now let's go to verse 2 and we go to another stage now

When thou art departed from me today Then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelza and They will say unto thee

The asses which thou wentest to seek are found Now it's interesting because these are

Saul's father's donkeys and they are missing and So it is assumed by these people that Saul was out looking for them

He may not have been but they made that assumption because they belong to his father and The prophets just telling him this is what's going to happen

He says these people are going to come when you go to this place and they're going to say to you that the asses which thou went to seek are found and lo thy father hath left the care of the asses and sorrow with for you the son

Saying what shall I do? Because of my son not for my son.

He's not asking. What can I do for my son? He said what shall I do because of the state in which I find my son?

What state does this father in the human realm find his son is he's about to become

King and this is a vivid vivid picture of that aspect of the cross

That occurred in the heavenlies as the father observed as we speak his men to talk about it as The father looked down and saw his son suspended on the cross by men by sinful men for whom he was about to die and they were spitting upon him and cursing him and mocking him and This shows the father from the father's point of view while that was happening.

Now. We know that the sky turned dark And we know that the earth quaked and we know that bodies came out of graves and we know that the temple veil was rent from the top to the bottom and is about this thick and No human could have done that and we know that the father was in fact having

That's just I don't we don't have words for it feelings feelings

What was he feeling He was saying what shall I do because of my son

What would you have done? Mom's in this room if they had taken your son And said we're just gonna kill him

He's here to help. He brought nothing but light and joy and wisdom to this world

But we're just gonna kill him. What would you do moms? If you had the power that God had at that moment, what would you have done?

Would we still be sitting here today moms? Dad's That's why you didn't get to be

God But you think about this now we don't know we cannot comprehend how

God felt but we know that he has feelings because he made us in his image and we have feelings and we saw some of that as the sky grew dark and the earth quaked and We see here the agony of Propitiation have you ever thought about that propitiation means that God was satisfied with the death of his son for the sins of the cosmos

He was satisfied it was the perfect Price to be paid and he was satisfied with that price, you know, that's why you can't save yourselves

There's nothing you could do to add to that It doesn't say that God was almost propitiated in the

Bible It doesn't say in Isaiah chapter 3 that he was almost Satisfied with the death of his son as our sins were placed on his body that it was almost good enough

It says God was satisfied Now to satisfy the wrath and the perfect justice of a perfectly holy

God who is without sin and separate from it Took an amazing event It took the death of his son and he says what shall

I do because of my son at that moment? When he had to turn his own head from his son and Jesus looked up and could not see

God for the first time in all Eternity forever back and forever forward and forever present.

He said my god my god. Why have you forsaken me? you're not here and He was that goat that was led out into the wilderness with the sins of the people on his head

Never to return and Jesus went out into Hell if you define hell as separation of God if you define hell is the only place

God ever created where he's not Haven't you ever played the little game? Can God do this?

Can God make a rock so big that he can't lift it himself? Those kind of silly things with let me ask get you to ask a serious question

If God is omnipresent and he's everywhere at once. Can he make a place where he's not? Yes, and it's called hell

And you don't want to go there If you're born again, you can't go there if you're not born again

Is he tugging at your heart right now if he is if he's moving in your heart, that's a good sign

That probably means you were his before the foundation of the world and all you have to do is respond and receive the perfect gift

But He says what should I do for my son? The ultimate gift was being given by the father the ultimate sacrifice of his own heart as he saw his son mocked and Beaten beyond recognition and killed and crucified the ultimate grief the ultimate agony and pain the ultimate sacrifice

If you think of the times in history, or maybe some of you may have in your family situations where a mother

Lost her life while giving birth that's the ultimate sacrifice in the physical realm for giving life and This was the ultimate birth pang if you will in the spiritual realm

This was the ultimate sacrifice of giving of spiritual life that the father was going through right now as he looked at his son

Being nailed to that cross. All of that is pictured in verse 2 Now let's go on verse 3

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor and There shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel Look what these men have one carrying three kids

That's not children by the way Another carrying three loaves of bread and another carrying a bottle of wine

Wow Do you see what has to be in a church service?

you see that we couldn't even begin one if it weren't for the anointing of the Holy Spirit and We could not even begin to have a church service if it hadn't been for the sorrow that that father went through that the father went through on the day of the crucifixion and The giving of his son as a propitiation for himself

God was satisfied with his death for the sins of His own

But there's another thing that could never happen in a church church service It would have to happen to make a church service the right kind and that is all

Symbolized in verse 3 first of all, we see the three kids It's interesting because that takes care of three of the

Old Testament Things that were used as pictures of Jesus Christ.

The first would be the free will offering The second kid perhaps was the sin offering which is different than the free will offering

The free will offering was given freely from the heart out of joy as a response to what

God has done in life But the sin offering was given by necessity as a covering of the sins of the people and perhaps that third one was the scapegoat

The one who was not killed the goat who was left alive and the priest would raise his hands over the heads of the people

Symbolically taking all of their sins for their whole life And then he would place his hands on the head of that goat and a fit man would carry the goat into the wilderness never

To return the sins were removed from the people. You do understand that's New Testament and Old Testament forgiveness

Do you not forgiveness when it says God forgives us doesn't mean he says, okay. I'll let that slide.

It's okay. I love them It's not what it means. It means the sins were collected Placed upon Christ and taken away forever

Removed from the center. That's why you can't lose your salvation. That's why if you could you couldn't get it back

Because Hebrews chapter 6 says you'd have to recrucify the Son of God which would put him to open shame Because you're saying his death was not sufficient

His blood was not sufficient. I've got to have more. I just lost my salvation I did something that caused me to lose it.

What did you did something that caused you to get it? Well, you would have had to accomplish that before the foundation of the world

You'd have to be God Why can't we just rest in our salvation? That's what the

Sabbath pictures Why can't we just rest in the fact that God has done it all? That Jesus when he was on that Christ on that cross when he said it is finished

He was referring to the work of salvation. Why can't we rest in Jesus? And he says he had three kids that covers the freewill offering the sin offering the blood of Jesus Christ That was shed for his people and the scapegoat is pictured as the one who was sent off To hell with the sins of the people so that the people would not have to bear their own sins

That's not all we see here We see three loaves of bread and a bottle of wine the loaves of bread picture the body of Jesus Christ that he gave for the church and the wine pictures his blood which he said this blood

I shed for you Now it's interesting as we go into verse four we had three loaves of bread look at verse four

The Prophet tells Saul and then they will salute thee and give you two loaves of bread.

Why'd they keep one of them? They'll give you two loaves of bread which thou shalt receive of their hands.

Well, let me give you what I think about this There were three loaves

One loaf and the wine were kept. I think that pictures the body and the blood of Jesus Christ So I believe that that loaf that was kept was the

Living Word Who returned to heaven I believe the two loaves that were left is the written

Word the Old Testament in the new or if it's not a picture of the Old Testament than you then it's a picture of a double portion of the

Word of God that you need in a church service Either way you want to look at it. It pictures the

Word the written Word If you have the anointing of God and you have the sacrifice of Jesus Christ which has already been given the perfect once -and -for -all sacrifice and you understand a bit of it and you have

The Word of God and you get a double portion of it when you come to church Then you've been in a good church service

So it says then That he'll give you these two loaves of bread. Now, let's go on and let's see.

What else we see. This is kind of interesting After that they all shall come to the hill of God Where is the garrison the

Philistines and then it just goes right on and says it shall come to pass da da da da da Why did it mention that little parenthetical statement this this little statement that doesn't even fit in the church or does it?

Is it interesting that right in the midst of this perfect picture of a perfect textbook?

Bible textbook church service we see Philistines What are Philistines in a garrison of them, what is that?

That's the enemy folks the Philistines picture the flesh The Philistines picture the enemy.

We have three the world the flesh and the devil and Unfortunately, they can be with us right here

If we allow it the Bible speaks of strongholds But the Bible also speaks of the breaking down of strongholds

And much of that has to do with what we've already read about having the mind of Christ and when we don't asking for it

When we find that our mind is in the flesh in the garbage We should remember who we are.

We should remember where we are seated We are in the heavenlies in Christ at the throne of God and we should reckon that to be true

And we should say Lord. Give me your mind right now your blessed sweet sinless perfect innocent mind

And destroy my flesh it's crucified with you and you know what you can walk as a holy saint in practice at that moment

That's what the Word of God tells us And he mentions these Philistines and a garrison of them as if guarding

Jerusalem so you can't get there But you can get there because the

Bible says if you resist him he'll flee And then look what it comes to as We go on in verse 5 and it shall come to pass

When thou art come thither to the city so you can get past that garrison But did you know that even

God controls the garrison? Did you know that even Satan is there because he is a servant of God the

Most High God? Satan is there as a tool in God's hand to make us grow

Did you know that you grow better when times are bad than you do when times are good because of our human nature

That garrison is there for a purpose God is not going to let us have a perfect church now when you see some little stuff going on you think that well

It's not perfect. I'm just gonna go somewhere else. Well, go on go somewhere else and you'll find another garrison You're gonna find the

Philistines in every church some worse than others So You you don't need to create division and whisperings and criticisms what you need to do is resist the devil

Do you remember the scripture somewhere in? Ephesians chapter 6 that says we battled not against each other.

That's not how God said it That's what he meant. We battle not against flesh and blood.

We don't battle who we see in the mirror and who you're looking at But against spiritual wickedness in high places

So remember that that's the garrison and so we can resist the devil and he will flee

And so he comes on and it says thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place now look what they have a

Psaltery that means a stringed instrument. It could be like a an ancient precursor of a guitar

And then they have a Tabri and Then they have a pipe or something like a flute perhaps and a harp

Before them and they shall prophesy Now look at verse 6 and let's see what the result of all this is we're about out of time, but let's don't miss the result and the

Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee and Thou shalt prophesy with them and shalt be turned into another man

Now may I drop some dispensation on you lest we read something into this that's not here

Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 through 3 Say very clearly that God Once upon a time in the old times prophesied to us spake to us by the prophets

But in these last days he hath spoken unto us by his son. I Don't deny that there is a gift of prophecy still but it does not operate the same as it did in the

Old Testament That's the reason the word but is there in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 1

He spoke to us in time past by the prophets But in these last days he has spoken unto us by his son and his son has given us the record of his words the ultimate prophet the high prophet

The one that if you can't accept what he has said you won't accept what some prophet would tell you anyway

But let's don't miss the point here the point is this that however God chooses to work

Whether he chooses to work through a prophetic system or whether he chooses to work through an

Anointed teacher or preacher of the word the written word or whether he chooses to move in your heart and teach you as you're studying

The word on your own whatever method he used the point is You shall be turned into another

You shall be changed You'll have a new song in your heart You'll have a new name written in heaven

There will be new mercies for you that never disappear There will be a new spirit.

You will have a new heart There will be new things. In fact, all things will be made new

The Bible says that your teachers as they teach they'll teach both old and new If you're in the right church when you're taught the

Word of God, you're gonna learn some new stuff I don't care if your brother Roy a Theologian there was why you're gonna say man on and that's good

Old things and new the old stuff's good, too When we go back and review things that some of us have known for years some of the new ones hadn't heard it

That's good because we know they're learning It's all good a New lump 1st

Corinthians 5 7 through 9 you purge out the old lump the leaven if A church will recognize sin

Unlike the 1st Corinthian Church when they allowed just carnality and fornication and wife swapping and all this to go on Without saying anything about it

If the church is shown that these things are going on and they see that these things are going on and they don't say something

About it and all of a sudden they're a modern church, aren't they? They're a Corinthian church.

They're either modern or very old one of the other The point is that if we'll purge out the old lump will be made a new lump a

New thing can happen in this place if we will walk Holy as he is holy and when we fail if we will bring it to the

Lord If we will realize the blood of Christ has covered it and done away with it

But bring it by confession to the Lord and be restored to fellowship and walk holy

It brings power I'm gonna show you the power in just a moment a new lump a new creation a new man a new way a new

Commandment he's given us. He said it's really an old commandment. I've told you love your brother Said I give you a new commandment in first John.

He said really it's an old commandment He said I'll tell you this. How can you say that you walk in the light and hate your brother?

You cannot and Then he says in Revelation 21 I make all things new so you come to the right kind of church service with the anointing of God with the sacrifice of Jesus both the propitiation where God was satisfied and you understand the

Hurting heart of the father as he gave this gift, but he gave it in love to you and you see on the other side the

Substitutionary death of Jesus that these kids picture the substitution. He died in our place

He put he allowed the sins of us to be placed upon his head and he went out into that place they will never even understand what he went through on that cross for us and When we see that the spiritual songs and the singing unto him and the lifting up of praise to God Takes place and then we get a double portion of the

Word of God all of a sudden we can go home another man But it doesn't end there look at verse 7 you're saying it does do the chickens ready we're almost to the end and Let it be when these signs are coming to thee

Look at this This is power. Why is it the little paltry modern church cannot affect this country anymore?

why is it that where churches are you still have beer joints and for it and and Start to say fornication, but I'm thinking of is pornography and all of the evil that we see all around us

Because there's no power anymore. But look what the result of this would be And let it be when these signs are coming to thee that thou do as occasions serve thee

Or God is with thee Whatever God puts into your mind and heart to accomplish for him.

You can do it Because of him, but only if these other things have been in place

And then there's a part in verse 8 9 and we'll talk about it a future message But it talks about burnt offerings and peace offerings and these are offerings that are lifted up from our hands and our hearts

And our lips to the Lord and now shall go down before me and Gilgal That's the important thing is wherever you go go before God And behold,

I will come down unto thee and he will And then to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice sacrifices of peace offering

Seven days shalt thou tarry till I come to thee the Prophet says and show thee what you will do now

He is a picture of God So when these praises and offerings were lifted up to God for seven days

God came down and gave his will and said here's what you're gonna do Saul well when

God did that Saul had the power to do it and It was so that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel God gave him another heart

Wow And all those signs came to pass that day didn't have to wait a lifetime

And Then I'm back in Colossians the last verse that we read when we started the service and Whatsoever you do in word or deed

Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the

Father by him It's all right there in that little passage All we have to do is live it

Practice it and walk with God. Let's stand and have prayer together

You know, if we'll do it God's way he's not just concerned with good doctrine God is concerned with good doctrine

But he's also concerned with biblical practice and he gives it to us and says when you worship me

Worship my way don't invent new strange fire to the Lord Worship my way and look at the power

He gives when his people have done that the few times they did it in history in the Bible history Look at the power that they had walls can crumble.

Let's pray father We thank you for your word for it is truly our light in this dark wilderness that we walk through But we thank you that you've taught us that this is not our country

That our country is right there where you are and we're simply ambassadors here for a season help us to be good ambassadors

Lord we pray that you would go with us in our fellowship time and bless that Bless our meal together and our evening service and we ask it in Jesus name.