How Purity Affects the Pathway of the Spirit — Brian Guerin

Anybody want to guess my password on my iPad? Test your prophetic skills. In Bible college, we used to really go for it. We'd be like, just hit the streets. I mean, when you're that low and just, you know, success in God, you just have nothing to lose anyway.

So you just go for it. And we'd just go up to people and, you know, you try and just figure out their names and miss it every time. And just back like, you know, they're never going to see you again anyway.

So you just go for it. Have you ever heard this story of the buddy I used to street preach with, trying to cast out devils? OK, I got to tell you, not enough hands went up. This is a lot of fun. So I got born again.

From Sin to Evangelistic Zeal

I'm from Louisiana, Baton Rouge, the age of 20, 1998, September. I live in Atlanta now, but we've only moved there about a year. So I'm still figuring out the area. So you've got to figure, I was steeped in sin, felonies, the whole bit.

And Jesus found me, wrecked my world at the age of 20. And I was like, what have I been doing my whole life? He's everything. I mean, his presence, I said, oh, my goodness, you know. And so I jumped in early on and ran with a couple of buddies.

And we're all just radical and didn't know a whole lot. But we just knew we loved Jesus. And we found it in the Bible. We kind of just went for it. You know, I would encourage you to still do that. But sometimes there's usually not a lot of wisdom early on in some of these areas.

And so we would go out to this four-way street at Louisiana State University. LSU, you've ever heard of that college? It's a big, yeah. So it was the perfect like buffet for evangelism. Because any block direction you went, like you could go one direction.

It was like the drug, hood, like ghetto. That was my favorite block. I knew some of them from the world back in there. And then the grunge punk fraternity boys in one block, you could go either way. So a buddy of mine, we're out there preaching.

Thank the Lord, I was a block over. But this guy, I like to call him is, he thought he was like Elijah reincarnate. This guy thought he was just going for it, miracles. And we had just been saved a month or two.

And so we hadn't seen devils cast out yet. So he's like, man, I just have to, I'm going to see devils cast out. And so the only biblical precedent we had for this was in the Bible where Jesus says, what is your name?

To the demon possessed guy, and he says, legions. Do you all know that passage? Yeah, so I kid you not, this happened. Don't do this in evangelism unless an angel tells you. So my buddy goes up to this guy.

He's like, he just swears he has a demon. He just looks at him, just could swear he has a demon. Looks him dead in the face. He goes, what is your name? Guy's like, Phil. He's like, no, no, he's just really trying to conjure up these demons.

He's like, no, no, what? He's trying to talk to the devils in this guy. Guy probably didn't, wasn't even devil possessed at all. What is your name? The guy's like, Phil, bro, you're weirding me out. Just took off.

And I just killed our street credibility for street preachers that night. But I want to encourage you guys just to go for it. You can make mistakes and all that. But anyway, so I had a couple of dreams last night and that was so powerful.

A lot of stuff you were just hitting in worship and just everything as well with what Alex shared. But a crystal clear dream that I was awakened out of it like three oh something so real that there's a real substance of fear coming at some of you in here in a real, real way.

But what was beautiful was I could see through it in the dream, I won't bog down the service with the details and the symbols, but it was all smoke and mirrors from the enemy. And you need to know that I saw crystal clear in the dream.

I could see through his schemes and plans that seemed to you so real. The voice that was coming behind this fear, it's a real substance that's been bothering some of you guys. And we're going to pray later.

Maybe Alex, you can jump in and help. We're going to come around and just go for it because the anointing breaks the yoke. I can talk to you till, you know, I'm blue in the face, but the Holy Ghost, when he sweeps in, Emerson was just laying, where were we?

Indiana, yeah. Laying hands on people. It was awesome. It was an outside tent revival. Bodies just flying out in the grass by lightning bugs, flying by, it was awesome. But the anointing breaks the yoke.

We were just in Maine, and I love fresh things God's doing. And this precious man had come out of the army, seen a lot, and he had PSTD, whatever it is. Yeah, he couldn't sleep at night. He was hearing voices and all that stuff.

Laid hands on him. Myself and the pastor was instantly set for even sleeping like a baby. And yeah, come on, Jesus. But the anointing breaks the yoke. It's the power of the spirit of God. The laying on of hands is vital.

Listen to me, you don't wanna come off of that. It can still move, but it's all over scripture. There's a transference of giftings. Impartation happens. Paul says to Timothy, don't neglect the gift that was deposited by the laying on of hands through prophecy.

Prophetic Ministry, Fear, and the Laying on of Hands

Sendings, commissionings happen and things like this. Oh yeah, before I forget, my daughter, oh, son and daughter stand. Zoe and Judah, can you give them a hand? Aren't they beautiful and handsome? So proud of them.

But my daughter, during worship, got a word of knowledge on somebody's right ankle. Is there anybody here that your right ankle, you need healing or pain? Okay. Okay, two people. And then Judah saw some things, but I wanna encourage you, the laying on of hands breaks the yoke, and there was a real fear I could sense on people, but you didn't know it was all smoke, and there's no substance to it.

So whatever this fear is, it's been really binding you up, and just fear really paralyzes people in a powerful way. And the enemy, just as much as the Holy Spirit, the word of God brings faith, the enemy brings fear.

Just like Alex mentioned, the shield of faith can block those darts of the enemy, and sometimes those darts are fear. Psalm 91, you see arrows that fly by day. Often, they're just simple as fear, and there's no substance really behind them.

But the fear itself is so powerful, if you let it land and stick in your soul, it'll paralyze you. And some of you have been hindered, and I saw it play out though, and it was just smoke and mirrors. You guys get that lingo, right?

Meaning there's nothing to it. You're gonna be paralyzed as long as you believe it, and watch nothing ever happen that's behind the fear. So be free tonight. And then another one, I could see, and this is what I wanna talk on briefly.

I've been sensing the Lord on it, but especially when I see it in a dream, I could see that a new level of purity was gonna come, not only in this house, but to individuals. I know many of you have come from all over, and when this new level of purity is yielded to a powerful move of the Holy Spirit was gonna come, a move of the Spirit, I could see it in a dream.

Again, I won't bog you down with the symbols, but the Bible says, "'Out of your belly will flow rivers," regarding the Holy Spirit, but there was a level of purity needed to unlock this move of the Spirit.

Does that make sense to some of you guys? And so corporately, this house, individuals who that will land with. Another one, this dream, I know this, I'll share the symbols, but I know, you guys get prophetic symbols, all of you in here, most of you, or do dreams and all that kind of, oh, not so much.

Okay, I'm glad you told me, the leaders. So anyway, I'll give a little biblical precedent for it. You see in Jeremiah 1 .11, Jeremiah was a seer prophet. The Lord said, what do you see? And I'm glad you mentioned that.

I was like, I went to an Assemblies of God Bible college, fire, Holy Ghost, miracles, and I'm still for all of it, but we didn't have a lot of a grid for the prophetic, which means to foresee, foreknow and foretell.

Joel 2 .28 says, in the last days, how many of you in here believe we're in the last days? See, that's awesome. I don't see anybody debating that right now. Nobody, no camps, Baptists, Methodists, it doesn't matter.

Everybody knows, listen to me, that'll tell you something right there. It takes no rocket scientist to figure out what kind of hour we're in, the last generation. And in those last days that kicked off, the top popped off in Acts 2, but we're deep into it now.

The Bible says, and Joel prophesied, in those last days that you and I are in, the Holy Spirit is gonna happen again tonight. I just wanna stir hunger. Just be a slight bit hungry for it. Listen to me, it's a dangerous spot to be in because God will come.

His eyes are on to and fro, Chronicles says, throughout the earth, looking for hearts that are fully after him. If your heart's not hungry, he'll pass you up. But if you're hungry, he'll possess you and things will change, listen to me.

Anyway, Joel 2 .28, in the last days, I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh. How many of you are flesh in here? Whoa, a lot of robots. Anyway, all flesh, he'll pour spirit out upon, and the Bible says, from that, you see dreams, visions, and prophecy.

This is the main stream of God's voice in and through his people in the last hour. I won't go too much, but there's a lot of biblical precedent for the church to see, eyes to see. Dreams and visions is big.

And so, in this prophetic kind of realm, a lot of what Alex's book is on as well, you see pictures that God will speak through, symbols, and I wanna encourage you, after we pray, even corporately, if you're hungry, the Holy Spirit, you can be filled, and God will start to speak to you through dreams.

You'll be in prayer and start to see visual realms, pictures that's God's voice. You say, well, why didn't he just tell me plain? I don't know, I wish he would, trust me. Proverbs says, it's God's glory to conceal a matter, and it's your glory, as kings, to search it out.

Jesus always spoke in parables, he does this. I don't know, I'm like, man, just say it plain. Like the other morning, I went into a prophetic vision that was a breakdown to tell me to go into this fast, we have coming up, and it's like, just tell me.

But Acts chapter 10, verse 10, the Bible says, Peter was on the rooftop, hungry and in prayer, and he fell into a trance. The Greek for that is ecstasia, meaning your conscience is pushed aside. We get a little mystical, brother, this is just Bible.

Man, I'm telling you, in this day, like this isn't an hour to tiptoe around. You can if you want, I'm good. We need some Bible -believing, wholehearted, Holy Ghost-filled, you know what I'm saying? And yeah.

And I mean, this is the hour to go all in, trust me. You say, well, I don't really like that all that surrounds that world. Well, just read it in here, it's in here. The delivery's gonna change from person to person, but the fullness of this book, I wanna encourage you, don't come off of it right now.

Dive in and go all in. So anyway, Peter's hungry and in prayer, he goes into a trance, just simply meaning his conscience pushed aside. And he goes into a vision, a sheet comes down three times out of heaven, filled, this is what I mentioned earlier, filled with pigs and unclean animals, a lot of bacon.

I love bacon. And comes up, up and down three times. The Lord says, rise and eat. Peter's like, no way, I'm not gonna eat anything unclean. I mean, the Jews are like, that's not kosher. And the Bible even says, Peter, spokesman on the day of Pentecost, ran with Jesus as tight as you can for three straight years, mount of transfiguration, saw Moses and Elijah, all of it.

Saw Jesus's face light up like a light bulb. And even Peter comes out of this vision that says, he pondered as to what the vision might have meant, meaning he didn't know. Spokesman on the day of Pentecost, he ponders.

So sometimes God's gonna speak to you and you have to ponder, you have to steward. It's your glory to search it out. I just see too many people that get a prophetic word or a dream and just say, well, oh, cool, that was God.

He may be spoken. They don't dive in. First Corinthians 4 .1, Paul says we're to regard ourselves as stewards of the mysteries of God. And you wanna be people that are digging deep in the word right now, hungry and stewarding God's voice.

And that's how these things unlock. But anyway, the sheep three times, unclean animals, and finally the Holy Spirit, what happens is the three Gentiles come and Peter says, go with them. That's them, that's the three sheets that came down.

It's Gentiles, they're unclean in your eyes, but I wanna fill them with the Holy Spirit. And it's like, man, God, just tell me the Gentiles need the Holy Ghost. Like, why are we doing sheets and pigs?

And you know what I mean? But it shows you how God speaks, Solomon, a dream. He was the wisest man to ever step foot on the earth. He got his wisdom in a dream. I'm telling you, tonight, God can come in a dream and flip your world upside down, one dream.

Solomon was an ordinary man. Man, I feel presence right there, I don't know what. Ordinary man, one dream. God steps in, flipped everything upside, wisest man that we love, Proverbs, Solomon. He would have never stepped in through that threshold had that God not come in a dream and spoke to him.

We don't realize that. It says he woke up and it was but a dream. First Kings chapter three. I believe Solomon was like, that was crazy. Wow, that'd be awesome. And he didn't know it was the pot. You know, there are dreams where God can come.

Cynthia, is that, what? No way, the lights are all, how are you doing? You gotta come speak at some point. Are you here tomorrow morning too? Oh my goodness, we got a powerhouse, another one up in here.

Cynthia, love her dearly. Oh my, you better get seatbelts for tomorrow morning though. But anyway, but Solomon, you know what I'm saying? This dream, you can have a dream where God will step in it tonight and encounter you and flip your destiny upside down.

Really, I wanna stir hunger. And so then after that, I believe Solomon was like, man, I don't, you know, that was cool. I don't know that much happened. Then two mothers come up with a child. Do y 'all remember that story?

And they have one child and they said, no, it's mine. And they're fighting, arguing. So one's obviously lying, one's not. And the wisdom that's now imparted unto Solomon comes in a moment. He says, oh, that's easy, kill the child.

And instantly the true mother comes forth. She says, no, no, no, give her the baby. And then he knew from the wisdom of God. And so that Jesus as a baby was protected through dreams. Every time his father, an angel would come actually in a dream and tell them where to take Jesus.

When angels get involved, typically the stakes are greater. This is, you won't see dreams where it's like, was it a sheet or pigs or seven years or five? It usually angels will come when it really, when the stakes are higher.

I've noticed that. So you'll notice an angel came in a dream. It was like, we can't miss this one or misinterpret or diagnose what's going on here. But I just want to stir your faith. Jeremiah 1 .11 that I told you guys about.

God asked Jeremiah, he says, what did you see? He said, I saw an almond branch. These are prophetic pictures. He didn't say, I saw an almond branch blowing in the wind. That would be a vision. They're mobile, they're visionary.

Like a movie, like you see me up here. That was the sheet coming down three times, things like this. But a picture, he said, I see an almond branch. Well, almonds, they're the first trees to sprout in Israel every spring, meaning rapid.

God said, you've seen correctly. I'm watching over my word to perform and fulfill it. And basically that almond branch was prophetic for a rapid fulfillment of God's promises. And so you'll see pictures, things like this.

And anyway, it's all throughout the word. Just wanna encourage you guys to dig deep, be open to it. And God's got a sense of humor. I'm gonna just, we just go for it. Is that okay? Like, yeah. I'll tell you a funny one I'm reminded of pictures when this first started happening.

There was these months where I started, I was sneezing and things like this. God cares too about the small things and the big. And I was like, God, what is going on? I was driving me nuts. I was sneezing.

I thought maybe I was eating something. I was allergic to it. I don't know what it was. And so I waited on the Lord one morning and began to just pray strictly on that. I was like, man, whatever it is, I'll just tweak it.

This is driving me crazy. My eyes are itching. I was sneezing. I shouldn't know, but I just didn't. And so I'm waiting on the Lord. This may step on some religious toes, but you just, when you start seeing the word, first off, just go around some of the heavenly realms.

You've got creatures with four heads up there nearest the throne of the God that you and I serve. Six wings, don't let them open them. Then you've got eyes looking at you. I'm just saying, it's all the same book we all adhere to.

But I'm waiting in stillness in a prophetic picture, just like Jeremiah saw. I see of all things, I'm asking God, what is going on? This is driving me nuts. I'm sneezing, things like this. It was just a season.

It didn't really happen anymore. And I see of all things, this prophetic picture of this boxer. Have you guys ever heard of Floyd Mayweather, the boxer? I see his face crystal clear. And I know the spirit now.

I'm years into it. I know the difference between like a soulless visual. Like it'd be like if I told you guys right now to imagine a purple elephant. You could kind of visualize one in your soul. That's the soul.

Well, the spirit, it brings a different frequency to it. So I'm like, what? I'm about to go in some warfare or some battle. Like, what was that about? And the Holy Spirit, it was a word play that he was telling me.

It was the Mayweather. Well, I was sneezing and things like this. It was his last name. So I was like, oh, it was just the pollen in the air. You know, he's like, genius. Get back to your word, man. Just stop worrying about it.

Next month it'll pass. And it did. And so he's fun like this too. He's not religious. And you say, well, where did he, you know, where in the Bible did he show boxers to people? It's like they had no boxers back then.

You know, I've had him speak through crazy wonders and things through, you know, certain electronic ways. I won't go there, but everybody's, you know, you can hear it. Like, where's that in the Bible?

It's like, they didn't have iPhones back in the Bible. You know what I mean? He speaks to the current time and how he does it. Most importantly though, you want to love Jesus wholeheartedly and desire all of who he is.

And you want his eyes finding you in the earth because you're very hungry. Because he will, he will skip people. Not that he doesn't love you any less, but he looks for hunger. Oh, what time were we watching kind of?

Oh, okay. Gotcha. So this other one, this was what I saw in this dream. It was a rain boot, like a rain boot that you wear in rainy weather with an egg in it. And I could hear people talking over it. It was a very important thing in this dream last night that I know is for in here this weekend, you guys.

And so I looked up North Carolina. Sure enough, the raining months, the rainy months are this summer, the summer. I didn't know that. But an egg speaks of something with somebody's call that's in the incubation stage that's going to birth and hatch this summer.

And I want to pray into that because it's very significant. There's some of you that, you know, God's got something in you. And when we don't have it confirmed by the prophetic, often it can stay dormant.

But there's something with these summer months that's very important to God that he wants to release, birth, hatch. I don't know who it is, but I could tell you we're talking over it. I could see it on the, it was basically the next room over.

I was looking into the situation and there's something to do with a hatching, a new birthing of something regarding destiny and call in these summer months. So let's jump into the purity and then we'll make room for the spirit.

Purity as Preparation for the Holy Spirit

Yep. Awesome. I want to read some verses to you guys. Cause again, the dream, the other one spoke of purity being needed for a move of the Holy Spirit. And I get it. Trust me that everything, you know, Jesus has done it all.

Our righteousness is in him and this, that and the other. But I want to bring some verses to you that I believe will counterbalance a lot of that that depends on us. And it's very important to live pure.

And anytime you see a breakthrough or stepping over into a new realm and destiny, purity always precedes it. Always check it. Old Testament through the new, always. Joshua, he's like, look, tomorrow boys, God's going to do great wonders amongst us.

We're going to cross the Jordan, but today purify yourselves. Cause tomorrow the Lord will do great wonders amongst you. And especially again, it's a, it's a biblical precedent. It's definitely on the Lord's heart for this time and hour.

But when I see it in a dream too, it's, it takes it to another level. And anytime, I mean, I was just reading again in Exodus, Moses, before God came to meet them, he says, look, purify yourselves. So it was just in Genesis 35, you know, that basically was at Jacob telling them, look, purify yourselves, get rid of your pagan idols and things like this.

But tonight I just want to hit new Testament. Cause a lot of times we go into the super grace dispensation with the new Testament and it gets a little sloppy and it's still God's goodness, his love, his mercy, but he's calling us higher.

You guys know what I'm saying? And I just want to encourage you in a loving way. His loving kindness leads us to repentance. But when purity comes, the river of the Holy spirit can come more powerfully.

It can flow in your life and you know, and you want this, trust me, if you may not be that familiar with it, you want Jesus would never step foot in the earth until John the Baptist was sent. The only man to full run Jesus Christ before he stepped foot on the earth was John the Baptist.

His only message was repentance, purify, purity. He comes again in the spirit of Elijah before Jesus returns again in revelation. I'm telling you, Jesus has wanted to step into our lives. There's a move of the spirit that wants to hit this house, but the purity, and I'm right here with you.

I'm always leaning in as well, but a few to hopefully balance it. Listen to this, we're gonna go through a lot of verses, but I have them on my iPad that way, you know, you don't have to wait for me to turn pages.

James 1 27, watch this. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the father is this, to visit orphans and widows. We all love that one, do it. That's God, but listen to this last one. And to keep yourself unstained from the world.

Pure religion before God, keeping yourself unstained from the world. And listen to what's highlighted there, keep yourself. No, Jesus, if he just wants to do it here, I'll just love him, it'll be fine.

You know what I mean? His grace, he just, he's so loving and good. No, no, he's not, he walks the highway of holiness. It's a narrow path. And listen, keep the foxes if you want, and you will go nowhere in destiny.

I'm not trying to be hard on you. I'm just telling you, I don't need, you don't need a prophetic word for that. And especially now I can feel the standard of the Lord in a good way, loving. Please don't take this heavy at all, but he's just, he's done with the games.

He wants a purified bride, full of power, reflecting Jesus Christ in the earth right now, and fearless man. And listen, you wanna be bold? Be righteous. The Bible says that the righteous are bold as a lion.

Where there's unrighteousness, boldness is far away. It's unattainable. It's not near. Righteousness and boldness are best friends. Okay, 1 Timothy 5 .22. Paul's writing to Timothy. He says, do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others.

Keep yourself pure. Are you guys seeing the reliance upon our part? There's a cooperation with God. 1 Timothy 6 .11. But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Talking, I could back up and show you, but basically the ways of this world.

Pursue righteousness. You have to pursue righteousness. This is New Testament. A lot of us are like, well, we have the righteousness in Christ. We do. But also you see over and over and again from these heavyweights like Paul, there's a yielding, doing away with, a turning, Hebrews 1 .9.

Listen, it's also in Psalm 45 .7 about Jesus Christ. It says, because Jesus loved righteousness and hated wickedness. That's the prerequisite. That was set in place. And because it was, he loved righteousness, hated wickedness.

And because of that, God, his God, the father anointed him with the oil of joy that catapulted him above his companions and peers. So if you want the anointing, you want joy and things like this. First, what has to be in place is loving righteousness, hating wickedness, you know.

Matthew 6 .33, seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. There's a seeking of righteousness. Are you guys tracking with me? It doesn't just fall in your lap. There's a choice is being made right now in a cutting out of the fat that's not pleasing to the Holy Spirit.

And again, not a condemning thing at all, not a have to, just a freedom. Like, oh my goodness, the freedom is on the narrow path. The broad path leads to destruction. And this will make room, I'm telling you, for the Holy Spirit to blow through this place.

How you sustain it is high, high level intimacy, obviously. And I'm going to go there, but also we can shock a lock all day long, but we keep our foxes and it just won't work. You see this cooperation here.

Yeah, pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, and gentleness. Watch this. Been on this one for a while. 2 Timothy 2, verses 19 through 22. Watch this, Paul writes, God's firm foundation stands bearing the seal.

The Lord knows those who are his. Oh, are they put them up here or no? Let's see, I'm looking at the screen. And let everyone who names the Lord depart from iniquity. Some versions say those who know that they are the Lord must turn away from evil.

It doesn't say you turn away from evil to then know the Lord. Those that are the Lord's. You understand you're already in him. You turn from evil. Now in a great house, there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay.

Some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself, other versions say, Paul writes to Timothy says, listen, the only prerequisite for being a special utensil for God's use is keeping yourself pure.

Are you guys tracking with me? I know this isn't a whoo, shout them down type message, but I'm telling you without it, you ain't going nowhere. I'm telling you, listen, man, it excites me. I'm like, just, I was telling my kids the other day, just like, come on, man, we want to live a life that's so pleasing to the Holy Spirit and everything.

He's here. He's in me. I want him possessing me at all times, the immersion. I love that. Listen up, you know what the true original definition of baptism means? How many want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit?

And if you don't, you do, you just don't know you do. I'm teasing, but the Bible says Jesus was, he's the highest model and he was fully at all times possessed by the Holy Spirit. And there's not just a once and for all.

You see in Acts two, an installment and a possessing of the Holy Spirit. You see Acts four, a greater outpouring and blessing increase. And so it's a continual filling, but the original definition breakdown for the word baptism is baptismal.

It's the same for pickling pickles. Completely immerse such every fiber of your being. Basically it once was a cucumber. Now it's fully, it's not one fiber of its being is not absorbed by the Holy Spirit.

And the Bible also says wherever the Holy Spirit is, there's complete liberty, meaning the more full you are of him, the fullness of freedom you walk in. Are you guys tracking with me? Healing, false ideologies, mental bondages, rejection, all that stuff that can't stay.

But as we live a life yielded to the Holy Spirit, we're more welcoming of him. And just want to encourage you guys, and I know God will share with you what it may be as the days increase. And even tonight, some things that just aren't pleasing.

Paul writes, some things are permissible, but not beneficial. You can say, well, that's another loophole we all pull. You know, well, but it's allowed. I mean, I can debate it. And why even debate it?

If it's even close, why? What for? If it's possibly under the context of those sins that so easily entangle you that Hebrews writes about, I'm good, I'm good. We don't need that in this hour. We need to run fast, hard, and focused.

And especially this younger generation, don't play with it, man. Whatever you gotta do, get vigilant, man. Cut off, delete accounts, block people, friends, really. Well, you kind of went off the deep end.

Yeah, I did, and I'm going deeper. You know what I mean? I mean, tell your friends, really. That's what happened to me. I ran tight with this crew of guys. We even, anyway, I won't go there, but we were real, real tight.

And I got so over into Jesus, I just, you know, sometimes the Lord pulls you out of wickedness because he needs to, to not walk on the path of the wicked. He's preparing you. They thought I lost my mind.

And I normally don't go here, but I can feel that right now. Some of you young people, there's people even, listen to me, they're foxes. Well, but I'm reaching them. Now, let me read this other one to you.

Well, I'm getting ahead of myself, but basically the Bible's clear. It says, you know, to win souls, but don't let the world taint you. I just read it in James 1, 27. To remain unstained from the world.

So if you're not having influence on them, then they're having influence on you. If they're not getting pulled into light, look, it's not inconsiderate, not loving. We win the loss, we go for it, but you hold the standard and you keep going higher.

You know what I mean? And oh, this is another one, Revelation 19, 7. Watch this. Let us rejoice and exalt, give him glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready. Now that's works, brother.

It's all done by Jesus. I'm righteous in him. Oh, you are. Listen to me. If that verse wasn't in there and by his grace, I'd be helpless. But also there's this over and over and over again, new covenant cooperation of us making ourself ready.

Listen to the Holy Spirit's like a dove. He's powerhouse, but he's also very gentle. And he'll just stay alongside you as you wanna hang on to your foxes as long as you want. And he's not gonna get in the way.

You can quench him easy. The Bible says, quench not the Holy Spirit. He can lift as quick as he came. And we wanna be a people that are so welcoming of him. And a certain things, you know, the Bible says, also who may ascend the hill of God.

I'm going back to Old Testament on you, but it's all Jesus. He that has clean hands and a pure heart. So even the purity of heart motives, slandering one another, gossip, what we listen to, what we watch has to be really cleansed.