How to Walk the Gospel Out #1 — Milton Green

Praise God. Praise the Lord. Well, hallelujah. Praise God, hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise God. Praise God. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's a lot better than getting rocked and threw off. You know, this takes some getting used to.

I don't know, it'd be a lot easier to throw a fit now than it would to teach. I really appreciate it. I've never been treated as nice as I have here, and that takes some adjustment. It'd take me a little while to get over it, but I'm really enjoying it.

Praise, Redemption, and Trust in the Lord

Let me just start with a word. Let's start with her testimony. He lifted us up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mire he lay, and he put her feet upon a rock, making her footsteps firm, and he put a new song in her mouth, a song of praise to our God.

Many a see in fear and trust in the Lord, and blessed is a man whose trust is the Lord, and has not turned to the proud, nor lapsed into falsehood. Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders that thou hast done.

Thy thoughts are toward us. There's none to compare to thee. Our ears thou hast opened up. And then we said, Behold, Lord, we come to thee in the scroll of the book that is written of us. We delight to do thy will, O my God, because thy law is written within our heart, because we've been born again into a living hope of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, my dad.

Our inheritance is incorruptible, undefiled, fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for us. We're kept by the power of God through faith and through salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. Although we've never seen you, Lord, we love you.

And although we don't see you right now, we bless you, we praise you, and we trust you, and we rejoice with a joy unspeakable, full of glory, receiving the end of our faith, even the salvation of our soul, because we've been redeemed.

I've said before, you can tell a whole lot about a crowd, and you start with a word. You know that? We've been redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus, who without blemish, without spot, we've been born again, not a corruptible seed, but an incorruptible seed, by the word of God that liveth and abideth forever.

Christ the Cornerstone and the Priestly People

Jesus Christ is our cornerstone. He's a living son, rejected of men, but chosen of God in prescient. We're lively stones that make up a spiritual house, that offer up spiritual sacrifice, except for God and Jesus Christ.

Glory be to God. Hallelujah. We're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy priesthood. We're peculiar folks, to show forth praises unto him who delivered us out of the darkness into the kingdom, a hitch-blooded son in whom we have redemption, and a forgiveness of all our sins, who his own self is taken over, weakness, sickness, disease, infirmity, curse, and sin.

And by the stripes of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are healed in Jesus' name. Do you receive that? Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God forevermore. Father, in the name of Jesus, we bless you. We thank you, Lord, that you dwell in the midst of your praises.

We thank you, Lord, that you'll never forsake us and never leave us. Lord, we thank you for your word. Your word's forever settled in heaven. Your word is a final authority. You watch over your word to perform it.

Your word is life to us and health to all our whole flesh. And Lord, we, Jesus, we just come to glorify you. We didn't come to boast in one thing except you and your grace and mercy, Lord Jesus. We have nothing to boast in except the cross and the grace, and we're getting in on what you're up to, Lord.

We bless you, Lord. We glorify you, Lord. And Lord, Jesus, I just pray, I ask you, Lord, for just a special anointing and enlightening of your word tonight as it performs, as this word performs its work in us.

And Lord, I just pray, God, a godly repentance. I pray, God, that this word will be a mirror to our hearts, that everything that's contrary to your word will be exposed and repentance would come. I pray, God, that hearts would be purified.

I pray, God, healing and deliverance would be manifest over this congregation. I pray, God, that you'll confirm this word. And I thank you, Lord, you do confirm the word. And Lord, Jesus, I thank you that you disarmed the rulers and authorities and you made a public display of them, having made triumph over them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I separate and expose in the name of Jesus all the works of darkness, all religious traditions, all religious spirits in this place is separated, sealed by the blood and bound. Every stronghold is sealed by the blood and bound in the name of Jesus.

I renounce and seal by the blood every work of the spirit of harmony, doubt, unbelief, error, confusion, all the works of destruction, tiredness, fatigue, exhaustion. In the name of Jesus, mind-wondering, mind-binding, distracting spirits right now, I take authority over all the religious spirits over this city.

In the name of Jesus, you are sealed by the blood and bound. I break your authority. I bring you under our authority in the name of Jesus. And all that walk on you are sealed by the blood and bound in the name of Jesus.

You're removed from this building. You're removed from each person right here in the name of Jesus. We hold the word in the blood as a hedge. And now, I want you to just agree with me. Do you have any unforgiveness in your heart?

I tell you what, it's no use trying to hear the word when you have unforgiveness in your heart. All right, now let's just get free. I'm going to tell you what. God's going to do something here. Now, I want you to just close your eyes.

Repentance From Unforgiveness and Judgment

Now, I want you to just think of someone that you haven't been right that you've been speaking against, that you've been criticizing, fault-finding. I'm telling you what, I don't care if you're in the front pew or wherever you are.

When you judge, you're judged. When you're condemned, you're condemned. When you have unforgiveness, you have a problem with the powers of darkness. You have strongholds. You don't have peace, and you can't help but understand you're tormented.

Now, let's just repent of these things. We're going to bind up. Word curses come on us when we speak them on others. A curse doesn't light without a cause, and it lights with a cause when we condemn and curse others.

Now, let's just be free from this right now. Lord Jesus, I ask you to forgive me, and I now renounce all unforgiveness and every word of criticism, fault-finding, gossip, slander, anger, every word that I've ever spoken against anyone else.

I cast these words to the ground. I release all men right now in the name of Jesus. They're free in the name of Jesus. And Lord Jesus, I receive your forgiveness, grace, the Word. I lift up my hands to Jesus, and I receive the blood.

The blood cleanse me from every word, curse, and spell that's broken over you right now. All worry and anxiety is removed right now in the name of Jesus. All the works of fear and intimidation and dread are removed now in the name of Jesus.

Tiredness and fatigue is removed right now in the name of Jesus. All guilt and condemnation is released. You have the mind of Christ in Jesus' name. You're strengthened in all power by the mind of the Lord in Jesus' name.

And in the name of Jesus, all religious deception right now, compromise, complacency, oppression, heaviness, burden, and gloom is released right now. And in Jesus' name, I speak blessing, peace, grace, love, healing, deliverance over this man.

And, Lord, be to God forevermore. Hug three people around the neck before you sit down. Lord, hug somebody around the neck before you sit down. Hug them around the neck before you sit down. Praise God.

You want to hear some nice stories or get in the Word? Turn to John 15, please. Folks, we're going to be dealing with several things these days. Now, I'll just begin by saying this. The Word will change your life if you'll stay with us this week.

Many of you all over this building have never known the freedom that you'll have this week. And I'm saying because the Word, not the man, came to town. That's not what I'm talking about. The ministry, we're all part of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

No one has a whole loaf, but we come here for foundation. That's what we're going to be building on. That's what we're going to be talking about. And this foundation is plenty, plenty wrong in many, many lives today.

That's the reason we've been taught to hang in there and keep a stiff upper lip and let the rough end drag. Amen? And so, we want to take the Word of God and we're going to use a lot of the Word of God and we're going to deal with some religious traditions in light of the Word.

And then we're going to deal with how you can get a stronghold sitting in, well, stained glass. Sitting in a church building. How you can, see, we're programmed, you know, to say something God on our shoulders and it doesn't mess up the theology.

You know what I mean? And also, what we're going to be talking about, the main thing this week we're going to be talking about, is the overcoming. And what is a walk of peace? What is a divine nature?

And I want to tell you now before we start, what God calls love and what most of the church calls love is not the same. And so, for this reason, a lot of people are in bondage and there's been a war going on and the church hasn't showed up for it.

So, while I'm going to be talking about the powers of the dark this time and going to be exposing how they block love and by blocking love how they're able to build strongholds and torment and destruction and bring sickness and disease and how they do these things, we're going to be finding out what the divine nature and what the real love and how it's perfected in us.

Right? And we want to make one rule. I want you to remember this. I'll remind you of it every night probably, but let's just go ahead and begin it tonight. When we read something in the Word of God, we're not going to act like it's not there.

Religious Tradition, Pride, and the Unity of the Church

Amen? Now, the Pharisees, Jesus came to lead the Pharisees out of some religious traditions. Of course, they had a little spiritual pride and they had a structure built and they already, they were smarter than God.

See? Right? And when Jesus came along with the Word of God, they couldn't be led out of spiritual darkness. See, when you get smarter than God, you can't be led anywhere. It's called pride. And so when Jesus spoke the Word of God, they loved their structure and what he said wouldn't fit in their structure and therefore they had tunnel vision.

They used the Bible too, kind of like today. And they couldn't be led out of any spiritual darkness because the words he spoke wouldn't fit in their structure and they could only be led. In other words, when they saw the Bible, they could only see in the Bible what fit in their structure.

Does that sound familiar to you? Do you think any of that happens today? Huh? Tunnel vision. So, see, I'm of opinion, you know, the last several years, we've learned a lot of things that didn't fit in the traditions.

Isn't that right? Now, the problem is to do, since they did since Reformation, when Luther first got some light, you know, they gathered around it and after Luther died and they called it it. They're still gathered around it.

Right? Some others get it. So every time someone gets some light, they gather around it. Next thing you know, a lot of times you've got your headquarters and then this one gets more light and you've got another, you've got another headquarters over here.

And then, next thing you know, everybody's comparing himself among himself and measuring himself by himself. Your Bible says there's only one Jesus. There's only one gospel. There's not 400 different righteousness.

There's only one and there's only one church. You might as well adjust and they love one another. Now, the Word of God has perfected its love in you and this, the Word of God cannot perfect love in you when something else has captured your heart.

Now, what I'm trying to say to you, that there's a lot more light we haven't got yet. We haven't got it all and if you'll receive the Word, the Word of freedom that many of you thought you'd only experience, you've never experienced before in your life, and the main thing that we're going to be sharing about is the God kind of love this week.

Now, see, we talk about love. People in the world, while they hate their neighbor, they say they love their neighbor. But, see, what God calls, when He used the word love, it's totally different than what we've been taught in the usual traditions what love really is.

Now, let me just show you. Let me explain. But first, in John 15, verse 12. Now, Jesus says, this is my commandment, that you love one another. Now, how did He say for us to love one another? Just as I've loved you.

Now, I want you to see something right there. Jesus intends the body of Christ to love one another with the same love He loved us. Does that sound like a divine nature? Now, folks, that's a big verse right there.

Now, is that in your Bible to analyze or is it in there to do? It's in there to do. Alright, now, the Lord wouldn't tell us to do it if we couldn't do it. Is that right? Alright, now, if you're tied to a doctrine that does not conform you to godliness or some kind of teaching conform you to godliness and it has your heart, can you be led into a place to love someone else to the same love that the Lord has loved you?

It's impossible. You know why? It's called idolatry. Anything that you love. See, any time that you won't come to ever jot and tittle in the Bible right there, you have an idol. An idol is anything that you love more than you do the Word of God.

Amen? And this is what we're going to deal with. Are you willing for the Word of God to tear down anything in your life that's contrary to God this week? Now, I want you to decide right now because, see, if you get offended over some part of the Word of God, you know, that's the way Jesus becomes a stumbling stone, a rock of offense.

We don't like that part of the Bible. Right? Now, I'm not trying to be smart or cute because I don't have one thing to stand up here and point to except Jesus and the Word of God. I don't have anything else I'm building except the body of Christ, my part.

You hear what I'm saying? So don't try to read any motives in anything I'm saying because the only thing I want you to do is when you're faced with the Word of God and it's contrary to something you believed and you see the Word in context, you see the Word in balance, you have to choose Jesus before you do anything else.

Amen? So when you do, when you choose that with your will, you'll sit here and every night and every hour, how many has ever been to a meeting before that we've shared in Word? Hold up your hand right here.

Alright. Now, all these know that the Word of God begin tearing down strongholds. They'll tear down strongholds. You'll get more peace, more peace, more peace, more peace, and then Thursday we'll say, boo devil in Jesus' name.

Right? But this is what happens when the Word of God, when you see the Word and there's something in your heart or life that's contrary to the Word of God, when you come to the Word, see it's not just a religious exercise.

You come here to be your mind renewed and your heart to made pure. And if it is a religious exercise, if Jesus doesn't have all your heart, that's all it is. Just a religious exercise. You go do your quiet time, salvage conscience, and go out and walk and talk like the devil.

So anyway, when you see the Word of God and you see the Spirit of God shows you something contrary in your life, you have to make a choice with your will right then. And as you sit there and you see, and you come to these things and you see these things and you, and this is what God watches.

He watches your heart. And when you make a conscious, you consciously choose with your will against these things and you always, you come to the light, you come to the light, you come to the light, you endure, you persevere, you endure to the end, you overcome, you love Jesus more than you do any sin, the world, the things in the world, anything else.

Therefore He can lead you in all truth. Amen? That's how you get your heart cleansed, that's how your heart gets purified, and that's how all sin in your life strongholds attach themselves to them. Front row, back row, or platform.

Strongholds, Peace, and the Powers of Darkness

Now we like to use controversial questions and then we go out there and hang in there or something like that. I want to show you in your Word right here this week, front row, back row, back here, right here, anywhere that when you break God's laws and rebel, see we've had deliverance ministries springing up all over the place.

And in these deliverance ministries all over, see, we've dealt with everything but how are they getting there? How does a stronghold get there? We're going to see how a stronghold gets there. We're going to see why you don't walk in peace.

We're going to see why you don't overcome. And it's more to it than saying greater is He that's in me than He that's in the world every six months. Right? And we're going to see how they happen there.

Let me just go ahead and tell you first, our religious traditions and things we're still learning now have prevented us. As for instance, our ancestors who wrote most of the doctrines we have that do not conform you to godliness did not understand the powers of darkness.

They did not expose, oppose, or even understand the powers of darkness. So therefore, they were left out of our religious traditions and now when that part of the Bible is dealt with, you're supposed to be offended because headquarters doesn't deal with that.

See what I mean? And so this is what we get and see the next thing, you get, let me just tell you, headquarters is in heaven and the Lord is wanting to show us a lot of things. You follow me? Okay. Now, in John 15 verse 12, once again, this is my commandment that you love one another just as I have loved you.

The same love that Jesus loved us. Now that is the body of Christ right there and you're real familiar with 1 John. Teaching about this love too. Verse 13. Greater love has no one than this. Now I want you to mark this.

That one lay down his life for his friends. Now, we're going to see something about how we lay down our life. But first, I want you to see that this is what turned Ephesians 4. This is what the pastor, evangelist, teacher, prophet, apostle.

This love is what the true prophets, apostles, evangelists, teachers, pastors perfect in the body of Christ. Now, in Ephesians 4 verse 11, I want you to see it. And he gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers.

Now I want to ask you one more time before I start. Did Jesus say that you and I were to love one another just as he's loved us? Are we supposed to be perfected in love, have our mind renewed, and have a pure heart and love one another as Jesus has loved us?

Does that sound like a divine nature? There's no other book that exists that tells you how to do this except here. The world doesn't know that kind of love. Absolutely not. All right, now let's see what these evangelists, pastors, teachers do.

Verse 12. For the equipping of the saints, for the work of the service, to building up the body of Christ until. We keep building and building and building until, until, until, until, until. We all, all, all, all, all attain to the unity of the faith.

There was an act where there was one heart and one mind. You know why? Jesus stood in the very center. He had all their hearts. And if he doesn't have all your hearts, you won't stay. I'll tell you that for sure.

Until they attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a mature man. And a mature man has a pure heart and he has a divine nature. And this is how this body of Christ is built up.

To the measure of the stature of the same measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. Now that's how you're perfected in love. Is a word supposed to cleanse your heart? What is it supposed to cleanse from your heart?

What is it supposed to cleanse from your heart? All rebellion and everything is contrary. It doesn't look like the Lord, the Word of God. But the Word of God, listen to me folks. It's religion. I want to tell you something.

It's pure the religion to think that the Word of God is going to do anything in your heart. If the Lord doesn't have all your heart. And that's the thing I want to show you tonight. Jesus came to fulfill the law.

But I want to tell you something. He fulfills the law in you. And this is what I want to show you. And it's because we haven't been, many have not been fulfilling the law. That's how the powers of darkness have been getting their ground.

Because they haven't been led by the Spirit of God. They make their commitment to men. They make their commitment to theology. They make their commitment to a structure. I'm telling you that you don't make your commitment to nothing but the Lord Jesus Christ.

And everything else comes second. Do you understand? Follow me? And that way and that way only is the only way that this Word of God will ever change your heart. It will ever renew your mind. He has to have all your heart and all your mind.

The Law, Holiness, and Loving God Above All

Now let's just look at that verse in Matthew 5. I know you're familiar with it, but I want you to see it. Because this is where we're going to pivot to share about a lot of things here. Matthew 5. Folks, we hear this thing about blessings and curses.

Can I tell you something? The blessings and curses are here today. I won't totally be able to get into them tonight. But you'll see what's blessed and what receives a curse. You're going to see it and you're going to understand it.

Wouldn't that be good to know that? Can I tell you another thing? You, me, or anyone else that doesn't understand how the powers of darkness are working are being destroyed. And I can show you your Bible where it says in the midst of the congregation.

See folks, what I'm trying to say, over the years we've been, and particularly in the last several years, we've been learning a lot of things. Don't camp around nothing, folks. Don't settle down and settle in.

Because I want you to know right now, there's a fresh new move. And there's a whole bunch. Honey, we just know enough to know that we don't know what we ought to know. Amen? And see, you know what that causes you to do?

See, when you think you know everything, we get like the Pharisees and other things. And then we turn a wise way from God and we see those folks down the street that don't know what we know. And then, you know, you said if you want to go there, you've got to come up here and crawl up this tower right where we're building right here.

And see, we take our eyes off Jesus. We never keep going along. And that's what He's done. That's what the powers of the earth did to the Pharisees. That's what He's been doing since the Reformation. The church of Jesus Christ gathers around Jesus Christ.

He's the only one that knows it all. And buddy, when you understand what blessings and curses are, and you understand that you can get these strongholds sitting on the front pew, I mean you'll jump out of that bed in the morning and say, reporting for duty, Lord Jesus.

Amen? Amen? Right. Now I'll tell you this is good news. This is good news for those that will receive it and it's bad news for those that won't. Amen? Alright. Now, in Matthew 5, verse 17. Now, let me just mention something.

We're going to mention something about the law and everything, but I want you to just think about something. You know, we hear a lot of things about holiness. We hear people stand up and they take a Bible and say, God, I believe this cover is holy.

I believe that little thing that hangs down right there is holy too, you know, and everything. You know, that's real cute. But what I'd like to know, what is holiness? We're going to see what holiness is.

I'll tell you what holiness is. It's walking with the divine nature of God. It's walking that verse we saw in John 15. That's what holiness is. It's not that little thing that hangs down right there out of the middle.

That's not holy. Amen? Good. Now, usually when you hear anything mentioned about the law, see, folks, we think about the law, we think about rituals. That was, you know, in the Old Testament and the Old Covenant.

When people broke the law in the Old Covenant, now I want you to listen very clearly because, see, we've had something real, real, real, real complicated made out of the law. It's kind of like if you're going to know anything about the last days, if you're going to learn anything about the last days, you've got to go find a Far Eastern expert before you can find out what God's saying about the last days, right?

I'm going to tell you something. The law, it's a, here, I want to encourage you, it's a simplicity and a purity of devotion to Christ. It's not a complicated thing to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. It's complicated when you start bowing to academics and intellect and all these other things, and you have to go to a man who has a word chain in the pulpit before you can hear from God.

That's what's complicated because he makes it so complicated. You sit back there with a little Jesus, and he's got the big one, right? Huh? So if you want to hear from God, and you know what that does?

You're cursed. You're absolutely cursed because you come into the bondage of a man. Man becomes your source instead of Jesus becoming your source, and you have a curse. Can I tell you what? If that's where you've been walking and living, you are loaded with the powers of darkness.

But I want to tell you something. In good news, you can get free because all you have to do at once. Don't go. See, I don't want you to receive anything from me that you don't see in the Word of God in balance and context.

If you're the only one here, and everybody seems to be seeing something with you, don't you receive nothing that the Lord doesn't show to you, but be sure that you don't have one of these little old strongholds when you're reading something clearly in the Word of God right there.

You know what strongholds do? They contradict it. They tell you it's not there, although you're reading it right there. Let me give you an example. When you're reading the Bible, and you come to a place right there, and you say, Well, doggies, we don't do that.

And then all of a sudden, something here will say, Well, if that were so, Dr. Taylor would know that. Dr. Taylor is not Lord. See, but the powers of darkness. You've got a flaming missile right there, and made you skip over the Lord.

The Lord can't lead you anywhere. Dr. Taylor is your Lord. Amen? So this is what I'm trying to tell you. Don't make anything intellectual. God, I'm going to tell you this is a whosoever will Bible right there.

It's a simplicity and a purity of devotion to Christ. And I'm going to tell you what? That Jesus used untrained men. I'm going to tell you what? When he has all your heart, he'll make you look smart. He'll show you.

He said he'd lead you into all truth. And that's all grace. And we get in on it, right? Okay. So these rituals have passed away when Jesus came to fulfill the law. When they broke the law then, they had to sacrifice to make.

And then the sacrifices were looking forward to the cross. And then the sacrifices, looking forward to the cross of Jesus, they were no longer breaking the law anymore. And so they were forgiven and they were released.

Now today, when we break the law today, you know what happens? We come before the sacrifice. Who is the sacrifice? Jesus Christ. And he has taken every sin. He sits on the throne of grace. And then when we confess it, we confess it.

It is put on the blood. And then we're no longer breaking the law, right? That's what you come when you come to repentance to the Lord Jesus Christ. And there's some things I want to share with you about that.

And I'm excited about it. I'm excited about the Word because I know what the Word is going to do with you. Amen? So let's turn. We'll read this verse and then we're going to turn and see what the law is.

Verse 17. Jesus said, Do not think that I came to abolish the law. Jesus did not come to do away with the law of God. The rituals are done away with. Jesus replaced that. But the law of God has not been done away are the prophets.

But Jesus said, I didn't come to abolish, but I came to fulfill. Amen? Okay. Now, if Jesus didn't abolish the law, and he did come to fulfill the law, I don't know what the law is really saying. And so you turn to Matthew 22 real quickly.

And we'll see what the law is really saying. Now, we are in the New Testament now, aren't we? Right? Okay. Now, verse 36. Teacher. Now, this is important because you know this is not supposed to be in the New Testament the way some people talk and think.

Teacher, which is a great commandment in the law. And he said to him, Now, I want you to mark this. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart. I want you to mark that. Now, that's very, very, very important.

I mentioned that a while ago when you come to the Word. You love the Lord with all your heart. Now, when you mark, I want you to look at me right here. When you love the Lord with all your heart, you don't love wood and stone more than you do the Lord.

You don't love family more than you do the Lord. You don't love the world, the things of the world more than the Lord. You don't love pride more than the Lord. You don't love greed more than the Lord.

You don't love selfishness more than the Lord. You don't love anything more than the Lord. He has all your heart. Now, if there's anything that you don't love the Lord with all your heart, don't you make something like that way off.

Because if you love anything more than you do the Lord, you're not making Him Lord. You are really loving something else more than you are the Lord. See, everything comes second to the Lord. And see, this is a mistake that most people make.

When they come to the Lord, they don't come with their whole heart and then they wonder why they live defeated lives. Religion is not activity. Being religious is being active, you know. I'm telling you, faithful as He had called you, and He'll bring it to pass, but He cannot bring it to pass in you unless you first come to Him with all your heart.

Now let me give you an example. Many of you have come before God in this manner and say, God, I don't know what's in my heart, I don't know what's wrong, but I know I love you more than I do anything else in this world, and I know I want to please you more than anything else in this world.

And you play and cry out to God right there, and you stand up and you've got peace all over you. Is that right? How many has ever done that and had peace all over you? Alright, now, you know why? God took you at your word.

You know why He had peace? He told the powers of darkness, shut up. He put a hedge around you. You know why? You were coming to Him with the whole heart, but that didn't end it. There was a walk after you got there.

So many of you that walked after that, that got this peace, you got involved in teachings and doctrines that did not conform you to godliness, and the next thing, you began drifting and drifting and drifting.

Your first love's over there, and then you're over here somewhere, and you say, well, what happened? See, it's overcoming, and this is something that I want to show you in a word. I'll show you how you can have that peace back.