1 Thessalonians 5 (Pastor Jeff Shipley)

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Grace, Sanctification, and the Call to Grow

It's a great day to be alive in Jesus Christ our Lord. We're going to be in first Thessalonians first Thessalonians chapter 5 this morning I. My secretary Kaylee went on the youth trip and so I had to make my own coffee this morning.

I hurt my finger. I chipped a nail. But then I didn't have anybody to make y 'all's copies for you, and then I remembered hey I still got a carry so I called carry up and I was like hey, are you coming in today?

She was like yeah, I said well guess what you get to come out of the bullpen. So I want to thank Carrie for helping me out today before we begin. And before we turn these up a lot more I want us to read first Thessalonians chapter 4 Verses 1 through 12.

Just read it to yourself. Just read it to yourself. First Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 1 through 12.

It's actually a cool verse. Baby does that reflect you.

I Be honest with you. I like that more and more. You know what that means? Hey, you did good today. Skippy do more. Well pastor last week. I that's great. Here's a bucky beaver badge. Now go back to work.

Right, I mean I can't live up to that. You know think about this for a second. God says unless you obey the entire law. You're damned. Good luck with that. That's why God had to interject. That's why God had to become our atonement our propitiation the justifying act of God through the blood of Christ.

It's what enabled us to do and receive the blessings of God, but yet There's still a call for us post Salvation and that is to do more and more. Let me ask you this is your spiritual maturity. The same today as it was a year ago.

If it is you're failing. If it's the same as it was a month ago. You're failing. How do we get that better? Well to fulfill? Chapter 4. Let's go to chapter 5 starting in chapter 5. I want you to read in verse 23.

I'll read it for you. It says this now may the God of peace himself Sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit soul and body be kept Blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful.

He will surely do it. Brothers pray for us greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you folks.

I want you to understand something if I lived out my Christian peace or my Christian life based on my obedience and adherence. I am always going to see myself as a big pile of steaming whale dung. I really am.

I'm gonna constantly feel Inadequate. I'm gonna constantly focus on the negativity of who I am. Rather on the redemptive work of Jesus Christ Christian. You've already been found condemned before you were even born.

God doesn't need any help saying that you're a big poo-poo face. Okay, the question becomes what are you gonna do with the grace of God that he has given you? Where do you go from here day to day and trying to mature in Christ?

Well, I'm gonna tell you if you're constantly focused on your failures, you're missing the grace of God. I want to look at just three things this morning. First of all, what is sanctification mean? Come on y 'all are not Bellevue.

Let's do that again. What is sanctification? To be set apart. Good job Bueller. It means to be set apart for something Special so like you chicks. They're wearing dresses. We don't have many people wearing dress.

Melanie's wearing a dress. Melanie is wearing a dress. Did you wear that type of dress on your wedding? No, right, but you could wear that dress to dinner. Yeah. You can play in the orchestra in that dress you can lead music in that dress.

That dress can be used for anything. But a wedding dress is separated for something specific Christian you were saved by grace, but you were set apart for something Specific and that is to be a part of God's plan and the family of Almighty God now.

Let's look just for a second the sanctification process that we need if you look here. It says sanctify you Completely sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit soul and body. Be kept blameless at the bottom of your pages I wrote out our type, whatever you call it caught copied and pasted Genesis 1 26 and it says and God said let us go down and make man in our own image.

God in his plural try. Try you nature is Reflected in human beings when it says we were made in the image of God. It doesn't mean that God's as ugly as already. It doesn't mean that God's as old as Gary actually God's a lot older.

But it means that we are a reflection of the image of God. God the Father Son and Holy Spirit. We are a trichotomy. We are a trichotomy. It means that we have a Spirit soul and body. Let me explain that to you for a second our body this flesh most of us Identify Ourselves with our body.

Have you ever had kind of one of those? Experiences and I've shared this with you before. That you actually realize that you're alive. You know what? I mean? It's like that that oh, wow. I'm really here.

It's what's happening is is that soul part of you that that intimate real part of you is actually Understanding that there is something more than this flesh guys. You are not your body if I cut off your left arm.

You are not prorated minus that amount less than what your identity is now. I don't want to confuse anybody with facts, especially Mississippi folks, but this is not Jeff Shipley. This is the vehicle Jeff Shipley's riding around in and though it be a Lamborghini esque type of Perfection.

This is not who in what I am. This is the part of me that interacts with the world. This is what the senses interact with but that's not who I am. I am also a soul that's where my personality and my brain are that's where I Have well intending Christians not understanding trichotomy say well, you know.

In our spirit is where our emotions that are not true. That's not true at all. If you don't believe me, they are residing in your brain is someone who had a traumatic brain injury their personality Changes because of the chemical reactions in that part of the body.

That's the soul. That's how we relate in that thought processing and emotional world now for you Christians. You have or all of us have a third part. But if you're a Christian that third part is alive, and that's the pneuma the spirit.

That's the part that interacts with God now. If you're not a Christian that part of you is dead and it's been dead since before you were born. It was but you were born with a dead spirit. That's why I laugh so much when I hear people say I found Jesus man.

You didn't find Jack you were dead. Jesus Christ found you. Jesus Christ save you. That's why in some of you you've never made that Regenerative spirit you've never had your soul or your spirit be made alive again.

And you just can't make it you sit there and you try to have your soul. Morally change your life. Well, man, I got to get back into church. My life's a wreck. It ain't gonna change. I got to do this. I got to get off drugs.

I had to get my marriage, right? I got to do all this. That's your soul thinking and let me tell you you can get sober in your body with your soul. But you'll never be healed from addiction without your spirit being made alive again.

You can do a lot of things. Mentally, but you can't go to heaven with that. Here's what God said. God said he wants to sanctify us Completely. Man, that's a hard thing. How many y 'all got Sunday morning ministries?

You know what I'm saying? Some of you don't in other words on Sunday morning. You're like God bless you. God love you. I'll pray for you. Just Lord did or some of you old Southern Baptist bless you bless your hearts.

Bless your heart. But as soon as you walk out of here, man, you ain't caring. You see your spirit gets put back on the shelf and it collects dust for another week while your soul takes over and feeds.

The lust of your flesh you see when God died for you. He wants the whole thing. He wants to sanctify you completely spirit soul and body. You know, there's a hierarchy for a Christian. There's a hierarchy for a Christian if you are mature in Christ your body is subject to your soul or your mind my.

When I in the legal profession Mike and some of you others in the legal profession. Well, why did you kill everybody in the house? I don't know. Yes, you do your hand did not just sit there and go boom.

Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Well, I don't know what happened. Yeah, your brain had to send an electrical impulse down your arm for you to be able to do that. Anything else is a lie that your lawyer will tell it is impossible for your body to do something.

That your mind is not commanding it to do. But Christian you have something that can control the mind and that's hard ain't it? That's hard ain't it? But the more you submit your mind to the spirit your spirit and your spirit is submitted to God's spirit.

Everything falls in line if your life feels like a train wreck. I'm telling you the way to straighten that sucker out is for your spirit to submit to God's spirit. You're mine to submit to your spirit and your body will naturally follow like a caboose to your you understand what I'm saying?

And that's what it means to sanctify Completely. Then it says this. May you sanctify your halls and be kept blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here for those of you that want to study more systematic theology.

Here is where justification and sanctification meet. Justification the doctrine of justifications Romans 5 1 therefore having been justified by faith. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Justification is to be rendered innocent or to be held and blameless. You see we come to a point in our life where holiness means to be. What holiness means to be without blame before the Lord Jesus Christ, but also without blame before others.

When it tells us we have peace with God. If we have peace with God, we will have the strength to have peace with others. How many of you struggle with someone in this room the rest of you liars cuz y 'all hate me.

You know what I'm saying? How many y 'all struggle with folks in this it doesn't have to be all the time. They don't have to be all the time, but it can be sometimes you know what I mean? I'll tell you I know that for sure because y 'all spouses are sitting up in this room too, right?

You want to have peace with others. Submit first to have peace with God. You find the humility to submit to God. God will give you the strength to submit and be right with others. Guys, there is no legitimate grounds that we have as Christians to have anger one towards another.

I understand. People make you mad. I understand people are going to irritate you. But if you want to be sanctified completely and you're harboring a grudge and you don't forgive. What's the Lord of God say about how God forgives you?

He don't and if that don't scare you you ain't a Christian. I'm serious now if you don't forgive others God won't forgive you. You don't need just sanctification. You need salvation. Right now watch this.

Now may look at verse 23 now may the God of peace himself. Do you understand that God's peace comes from God's power. Do you know everyone who comes to me for counseling? I do like 30 people. Plus I do pastors from all over the world.

And you know, it's funny. Some of them are looking for education and edification. But at the end of the day, you know what people are really looking for this peace, man. They're looking for peace. That's what they're looking for now what my job is is to unravel all the lies that they've been told and The devaluing they've had from the world and to be quite honest with you from the lies.

They've been telling themselves to unravel that and plug them into the only real place. You're ever gonna find peace with God. Peace is a total well being. But I want you to understand where that comes from.

It doesn't come from sitting in pastor Jeff's office. That's not where it comes from. You see it comes from God Almighty. And here's the other thing guys. You can try in vain. To obey God. But you try without the Holy Spirit of God and you submitting to that it is an exercise in futility.

I promise you that if you're sitting there and you want to make a moral reformation without a spiritual Regeneration that moral reformation will constantly fail and I'm telling you More Christians are in this room in a weakened position.

Because of self-reliance rather than reliance on God. You're so busy trying to rely on self and the rules and the standards you make for yourself and all that stuff and you have No accountability. You're not doing it in the power of the Holy Spirit and you constantly fail and then you sit there and stay in that defeated State for X amount of weeks months or even years and then someone will preach a sermon.

You'll get a little fuzzy feeling and you'll go and rededicate yourself to the premise of God's Sanctification, but you still don't plug in to the Holy Spirit of God. You're still relying on self or on music or on preaching or churches to get you there.

And it never works. Does it you just repeat the cycle? I mean, I know what I'll do. I'm gonna start a devotion every morning. I'm gonna go down to the Bible Baptist bookstore and I'm gonna get a new devotion and if Beth Moore wrote it Oh my god, it's gospel.

TD Jake's, you know, both of them are heathens, by the way. Guys it is only God's strength. It is only God's strength that is gonna enable you to obey God. In other words, you can't put that wedding dress on yourself.

God's gonna have to do it. God saved you. God sanctifies you. God's gonna bring you home. That's the Word of the Living God. Listen. But having understood that I want you to understand that God doing the power or giving you the power Doesn't mean that you can sit idly by.

We're about to do a mission trip. We're about to do a mission trip and Pastor Josiah is leading this. He is and I love pastor Josiah. I really do. He's he's such a good leader. He's such a good guy. But sometimes I have to go whisper in his ear.

Hi. So and so needs a tune-up. Because here's here's what happens. One of the things I cannot stand in my family in my church and on mission trips if I got 32 people sweating bleeding and working and I got one person sitting over there doing this.

Oh Man, I I lose my Jesus, you know, and I try now over the years I'm trying to pull back and let the other leaders kind of come forward, you know. Listen man, you can stop working when everyone else stops working or you die.

And if you die, that's a 30-second break restart your heart pick up the shovel and go back to work. Because you don't have permission to die. Okay? That's that's how I think that's how I raised my family is.

We all play one of us plays we all play one of us works. We all work and nobody quits until the job is done. That's how I just think about it guys. It's kind of the same way. You know how you're unplugged from God.

It's you unplug yourself. And here's how you do it holiness involves both the negative concept of Separation of the world as well as the dedication to God. Here's why some of y 'all are failing in your sanctification process.

You're sitting there going. I'm gonna stop Watching pornography. Okay, let's stop watching pornography. WWW hot smoking Baptist pastors calm and Witten will come up with my picture. Alright, so here we are.

I'm gonna stop looking at porn. That's what I'm gonna stop doing. So I'm gonna not Look that up anymore. How long does that last. No one wants to answer y 'all are not dumb. I can see one guy go not very long his wife sitting right there.

Right. It doesn't work on some of y 'all sit there and go. Well, I want to stop doing this or I want to start reading my Bible every day. You see the problem is what happens is there's only I in that has your prayer been Lord.

Help me to do this and it's not just reading my Bible. You can read your Bible or get off pornography. Not if you just focus on those two weak aspects of it. But also focus on the other things start serving others start being loyal to God's people and to God himself.

In other words, don't just focus on that one thing. Empower yourself to humble yourself before God and the Bible says he will lift you up. It's such an awesome thing to know every I love being around.

Guys, I do and here's why if I'm sitting down I've reached that age and that mass I've reached that age where if I'm sitting down, especially in a recliner, I might need a little assistance getting up.

Okay. Now, you know like Paul he's my age, but he's perfect male specimen. He doesn't have any problem. But for me, I've reached that age where I actually get hurt going to sleep. I do and I need help getting up out of the chair now.

It's great if my wife's there. She's good to call the fire department if I'm stuck or have a heart attack. But other than that, she ain't gonna do a whole lot of good. But when pastor Josiah's there Shane's there and other big guys there I can sit there and go.

Hey, man, help me up and it's like and I'm up right guys. That's what you need to start doing some of you in your prayer life. Sit there and picture that put your arms around the feet of Christ man and sit there and go dear Lord I need help up.

I Need some help and I want to do this. Lord, you know I have the desire for this and then if your next thing in your mind is it ain't gonna matter I'm gonna fail. Anyways, you just lost focus on God and start focusing on yourself again, and your sanctification will look like this.

Focus on God and if you fail fail while striving. Greatly, and if you fail don't sit there and go well I got to wait another six months for our try agreeing because God's disappointed in me. God is not your mama.

God is not your daddy. He don't play the silent game. Okay, he wants to well, yeah, come on boy. Get back up again Lord. This is the 432nd time that I felt well, that's great because I got 433 issues of grace and every time you fail grace extends one level more.

That's what it means his grace. He wants to sanctify you Completely. Philippians 1 6 says this he that began a great work in you will Emphatically will see it completed at the day of his coming, you know when he's finished.

You know when I'm finished when I'm dead and sitting in heaven if you feel like a failure. That's understandable, but that's your feeling that's in your soul that has nothing to do with your spirit. Which is higher than your soul last thing.

Prayer, Fellowship, and Holy Distinctiveness

Start in verse 25. I Verses it says brother three times. Brother pray for us greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.

That's actually a great question. But let's do this Exposition. Lee shall we first of all brothers pray for us. Brothers pray for us. Guys, I want us to start doing something and it wouldn't. I want to start doing something if Lee comes up to me and says Pastor will you please pray for Jackie?

She's acting crazy this week and I'll say like well We'll just start praying every week because right I want us to stop and instead of saying yes I want us to say let's pray. I Want us to start doing that.

I would rather our Meet-and-greet time be a big prayer meeting than a big greet-and-meet time. You know what I'm saying? I would rather us when we get together. I would rather us as God's people pray for each other like 30 times.

In other words you walk in the door and you're a new person like wonder what today's gonna be like. I wonder if they're gonna have a light show and a smoke machine during the music because that'll be really Jesus stuff or Before you walk out that door again 30 people have said let's pray right now.

You see which one is the world really needing are they needing more smoke machines glitter bombs and light shows? Or are they needing someone to actually care and love them enough to stop get outside of yourself and waste?

Just a few precious seconds of that awesome time of yours to say let's pray. Guys we want people to be more sanctified. Listen to what God says. Let us pray for one another and then it says this Brothers greet each other with a holy kiss.

Now. Wait a minute. What's the word holy mean again? Set apart sanctification. Holy agonies. Oh, I guess all the same Greek word. What does it mean? Greet each other with a holy kiss. Lee buckle up boy.

Huh Mickey you're faking a fall in love son. Nick. Nick. He's like, I'm a green brain in the military, man. I'll kill you. Mickey knows that court of blood technique man. He hits you court of blood fallout.

Eddie Murphy. Yeah, never mind guys. What's it mean to greet each other with a holy kiss? Here's what it means. Huh? Yeah, exactly. Here's what it means. It means To have something That is different than the rest of the world.

In other words like this when I meet someone in the world. Like when I when I'm like walking down the street, I was might sit there and go something. I don't do that to any of y 'all. I don't sit there and walk up on a Sunday morning go.

What's up, man? That's what how I greet the world when I see my Witten family. I walk up and go. Because that's different than the rest of the world, right some of y 'all ain't gonna go to San Francisco.

It ain't too different, but it is different, right? It is different when I see baby rah-rah look how cute she is. I have to be gentle with girls sometimes sometimes my excitement like with Anna I'm like She goes gentle gentle gentle and I forget you know.

It shouldn't be different it should be different guys if you walk into a church and like hey. How you doing man? God God bless you, man. That's so lame and some of you dudes in here. You don't need to get in touch with your feminine side.

You need to get in touch with your spiritual side and let the joy of the Lord. Which is your strength come out and you think God's joy looking at his children is like what's up? Good to see you. The Bible says in Zephaniah that when God thinks about us He spins around wildly and dances with excitement.

How excited are you to see the people the children of God your brothers in Christ don't need another dose of the world. Of a placation greeting and a fake love they need something. Genuine to feel a part of each other you know the closer We get as a world and the interconnectivity that we have actually the more separated.

We really are some of the loneliest people in the world are the ones that live in the biggest cities. Because it's a reoccurring nightmare to them every day how isolated and alone They really are when I see Mel.

I like go. It's my baby hippie Christian because she is so hippie God. She is so hippie right when I when I see little baby Kate and Robert when I see I'm sorry. It ain't something I have to make myself do like I'm about to be gone on this mission trip when I come back I'm gonna be so excited to see everybody that haven't seen.

Because this isn't play to me. This is the only family. I got guys. I ain't got nobody else. This is it. Everything that I love and care for is in this room. Everything and I'm not just saying that everything and I can't help but sit there and be Thankful at baby Steven.

You know he's so cute. You know I can't I greet each other. Something separate different in the song when we teach the guys how to fight. It's always funny the new guys will come in. I'm called pops over there the new guy because you know I'm too old to do a lot of stuff.

And I'm kind of defenseless and all the other boys beat up on me, and but it's sad. It's sad. But when I go over there, it's funny man. Hey, man. How you doing if I don't know him I go. Hey, are you a believer?

Yeah? I'm a believer. Hey, buddy. How you doing, and you know they're like whoa man. I'm Baptist. Don't touch me. You know. Sorry, man. You in the wrong place. This is like Italian love over here. This is that Jesus juice man.

I can't help it guys. Greet each other with something special and separate that the world don't have. Guys remember this and pastor Jeff gonna die y 'all remember this in a few years. Each other's all you people are gonna have my my words.

You're gonna have to make a choice not on Sunday mornings, but you're gonna have to make the choice for the rest of your life. Whether you're gonna stand with Christ or stand with the world and for it's gonna come a time when standing with Christ.

The Authority of Scripture, the Church’s Gifts, and Final Grace

It's gonna cost you. It's gonna cost you it's gonna cost you your jobs and unless you have family you don't starve. It's gonna cost some of your lives. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. Last thing it says this brothers, I Let me read it in perfection.

Listen to what it says and I'll close with this relax. It says this I Put you under oath Before The Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers now first of all. For all you people that spend way too much time on the internet and think you're intelligent.

But you're really just I mean like monkey butt stupid. Listen to me. This is why we're so confident in the Word of God if anyone's ever said to you. Well, how do you know what the Word of God the Bible said because I got 32 ,000 copies in 200 different languages over a thousand years and the 1940s they found a bunch of scrolls in a cave and everybody was like, oh my god of the Living God.

Telling you but it says right here read it to all the brothers. You know what that means? It means this Reason some of us struggle with our sanctification. It ain't because it's because we ain't got a lot of meat.

When all my boys fought and when I trained them how to fight my daughter can whoop anybody up in this room. But she's too cute. I won't let her do it. But when my ball boys fought. Like pastor Josiah, he would eat probably ten to twelve thousand calories a day a day.

Day yeah off y 'all's plates all right day. We would get up and he would have a nine egg Omelet with a pound of bacon and half a pound of sausage with biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Because the boy would get up do his chores go to school go to football practice come home start training for fighting.

Right boy was constantly Jeremiah. Listen, I'm serious. I didn't go get my wife. You don't have to get a job at 7-eleven or something baby because I can't afford to feed these thugs no more, right? I used to love it when they go spend the night at other people's houses and like thank you Jesus, you know.

It's a night to eat out guys. Some of y 'all are trying to walk in a world that is trying to destroy you and you're trying to build that Maturity and growth in Christ without any nourishment whatsoever.

You take it in zero calories and then you put yourselves in a situation With people who are sucking the life out of you. They're sucking the life out of you that spiritual life. They're sucking it out of you and you're letting them ain't forcing you to you're letting them you're running with dogs.

And you wonder why you're scratching with fleas, right? Here's what you need to do. Start eating enough of the spiritual to feed the spirit to get it stronger so you can walk up the world and go sup. How you doing.

Marines are the best, you know. Or walk up and sit there and go. Why did you marry an ugly boy and walk up? So you'll start having that strength and you'll start having that now watch what it says. It says I want you to read the letter to everyone.

Everyone by the way, we have about 20 ,000 copies of 1st and 2nd Thessalonians. Watch this. You have a responsibility to teach. You do you know what my job of pastor is. It's really it's a cool job. My job is to make sure There's no Infighting that there's no heresy that everybody has a vision that everybody has a goal to work towards.

And you know, they want my job is to get out the way. To get out of way to let you people do an exercise to give skills and talents that God gave you. To plug you in. Tracy came up to me. She's deaf. You're not all the way deaf, right?

Are you all the way deaf? Yeah, she just said what. Yeah without her implant. She's like deaf deaf deaf stone deaf. Watch this. She came up to me Wednesday and said this pastor. I'd like to teach an ASL sign language class.

Yeah, you know what? I said Hold on a second shark. We'd Akali. Come here. Y 'all hook her up figure out how to get her on the docket. Let's get her a room. We're gonna put it in four or five six. We'll have sign up lists and go.

Man, heck yeah, she's using her gift skills and talents to feed God's people. You know, we got men in here that teach young men how to change oil. You know because some of you mommies are over mothering and some of you fathers are under fathering, right?

We've got people who are teaching all sorts of stuff. Because we want to feed the family the last thing is this. His last words and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. You know how we do everything.

I just said we need to do. At the end of the day it is God's grace. How many of you have been looking too much at your failures and not of enough of God's successes? How many of you are listening to the voice of your soul rather than the Spirit of God?

How many of you are listening to the world and everything else. How many of you are like sitting there going oh my god. What are we gonna do in November if this person's elected of this? You know what?

I'm gonna do the same thing. I did than that last day. Hey, I don't care. I really don't. Well pastor. What about inflation. God gonna take care of that. He just got me a whole room full of chairs at a meeting today.

They know what they needed and God just did it. Oh you think I can't do chairs. You think he can't deal with my wife having another, you know loaf of bread or something studying that and plus if I get hungry I'll go over Artie's, you know, he's like a hog.

So I Want to ask you something? Do you understand God's grace? Pastor I just know the song. Well, you're probably not a Christian. It's okay. I'm not fussing at you. What I'm asking you do is come down here.

Well gee pastor. I've asked Jesus in my heart. Nowhere in the Bible does it say to do that. That's why you're so screwed up because you've been listening to religion and churches rather than the Word of God that should have been read.

To you in the first place, right? Listen to me if you don't understand God's grace. You need to come up here and you music dudes come up you need to come up here and do you think? And I can't save you.

I Same spirit of God's in me is the same spirit of God's in every Christian. I don't got a double anointing or a double portion all that other garbage you hear on TV. Same spirit of God's in me. It's same spirit God's in every believer in this room.

But I got something that most of them don't use. I got the Word of the Living God. Romans 10 17 says faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. Okay? Some of you in this room going I got the grace part, but man, I'm struggling with that sanctification.

What you're missing is the last three verses. You're missing those last three verses. Your spiritual life is private and when it's private it's screwed up three times in three verses. The key right before it got to the grace of God was the brethren.

Listen, you want to get stronger in your spiritual life? You're gonna have to get vulnerable and you're gonna have to get open you are hi. My name is Jeff. I'm a sinner. Glad you're here. That's what church is.

It's one big meeting. That's what it is. If you are so prideful that you can't admit you're a sinner. That's your first problem. Listen Christian if you're if your problem is you won't admit that you're a sinner, but you can point it out in somebody else.

That's called hypocrisy. It's what Jesus damned the Pharisees of and it didn't really work out good for them when Jesus said to him. How are you gonna escape the damnation of hell? So you might want to seriously think about that.

Okay. But if you're in this room, and you're not sure about where you are with Jesus I want you to come up here if you're struggling with your sanctification. I want you to come up here and let me help you introduce you to someone who can help you.

It's called Witten Baptist Church. To see we're all idiots trying to find the same place. And we help each other if you're in this room and you need to join a church or you need to get baptized. You've never taken that first step and I ain't talking about someone sprinkling water on your butt when you're eight days old in the Catholic Church, I'm talking about believers baptism the way the Word of God says it should be that after you become a Christian.

You need to be baptized. Okay, if any of that stuff applies to you I want you to stand with me and there's a miss Carla. I want you to stand up. It's okay. Stand up. I Spiritual one if God has spoken to you today you come forward this morning as God leads.