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0:00our midweek service at Christian [music]
0:01Life. We're so glad you've joined us
0:03tonight. There's nothing like gathering
0:05together in the middle of the week to be
0:06refreshed, encouraged, and strengthened
0:08through worship and God's word. Whether
0:10you're here every week or just visiting
0:12with us for the first [music] time,
0:14we're happy to have you. Now, let's take
0:16a look at a few upcoming announcements.
0:18>> [music]
0:18>> Hey Kairos, we're leveling up on Friday,
0:20November 6th. We're heading to Level Up
0:23Youth Conference [music] for incredible
0:25night of worship and preaching with
0:26Brother David Jennings. But, the night
0:28[music] doesn't stop there. After
0:29service, stick around for entertainment,
0:31a talent show, and lock-in [music]
0:33activities.
0:34Food will be available for purchase, so
0:36bring some money, a change of clothes,
0:38and get ready [music] for a full night
0:40of worship, fun, and fellowship. Leave
0:43from the church at 5:30 p.m. [music]
0:45and return at approximately 1:30 a.m.
0:47Transportation is provided, and
0:49registration is completely free, [music]
0:51but you still need to RSVP. Don't miss
0:54out, get registered, invite your
0:56friends, and get ready for Level Up.
0:57>> This concludes our announcements for
0:59tonight. Thank you for being a part of
1:01our midweek service. Let's prepare our
1:03hearts and continue worshiping together.
1:09>> [music]
1:09>> Can we all stand across the sanctuary
1:11and give him praise together tonight?
1:15Yes.
1:16>> Blessed [music] be your name
1:17>> [singing]
1:18>> in the land that is plentiful,
1:21where your streams [music] of abundance
1:24flow. Blessed be your name.
1:28Come on, sing [music] that with me.
1:30Blessed be your name.
1:35Oh, yes. When I walk through [music] the
1:38wilderness,
1:40blessed be your [singing] name.
1:43>> Say every blessing
1:45>> Every [music] blessing you pour out
1:47I'll turn
1:48>> I'll turn back
1:49>> to praise.
1:50>> When the darkness closes in
1:53>> When the darkness [music] closes
1:54in
1:55>> still I will say
1:57>> still [singing] I will say
1:57>> blessed be, blessed [music] be your
2:00of
2:01the
2:01>> Lord.
2:05Blessed [music] be your
2:08the Lord.
2:10>> [music]
2:11[singing]
2:12>> Oh, blessed be the name
2:16Blessed be your name.
2:20Blessed [music] be the name
2:23of [singing] the Lord. Blessed be your
2:26[music] glorious
2:27name.
2:34>> [music]
2:37[singing]
2:49[singing]
2:52[music]
2:59[music]
3:00>> Every blessing
3:02Every blessing you pour out I'll
3:06>> [music]
3:06>> turn back to
3:08When the darkness [singing] closes in
3:11>> [music]
3:12>> Still I will say
3:15blessed be your name.
3:17>> [music]
3:19>> Blessed be the name.
3:24>> [music]
3:24>> name of the Lord.
3:26>> [singing]
3:27>> Blessed be your
3:28>> [music]
3:29>> Oh, blessed be the name.
3:32>> [singing]
3:33>> Lord, we bless your name. [music]
3:37Oh, blessed be the name.
3:41>> [music and singing]
3:42>> Blessed be your glorious
3:45name.
3:48>> [music]
3:51[singing]
3:53[music]
3:58[singing and music]
4:00>> Blessed be your name.
4:04>> [music]
4:05>> Blessed [singing]
4:06be your name. On the road marked with
4:09suffering, [music and singing]
4:11though there's pain in the offering,
4:15blessed [singing] be your name.
4:18>> Every blessing [music]
4:20>> Every blessing you pour out
4:22>> [singing]
4:23>> I'll turn it back to praise.
4:24>> I'll turn it back to praise. [music]
4:26>> And though my world may fall
4:27>> And though my world may fall to the
4:29>> [music and singing]
4:30>> Still I will say
4:32Blessed be your name.
4:33>> Blessed be the
4:35name of the Lord.
4:36>> We bless [singing and music] your name,
4:38Jesus.
4:39Blessed be the name.
4:41>> Blessed be the
4:43name of the Lord.
4:44>> Glorious [music] name.
4:45>> Glorious
4:47name.
4:47>> Blessed be the name.
4:49>> Blessed be the
4:50>> [music and singing]
4:51>> name
4:52Blessed be your
4:55>> Blessed be the name.
4:56>> Blessed be the
4:57>> [music and singing]
4:58>> name of the Lord.
4:59>> Glorious name.
5:00>> Glorious [music and singing]
5:02name.
5:03>> Say, you give
5:04>> Give and take away.
5:07>> You give and take away.
5:08>> Give and take away. [music and singing]
5:10>> But my heart will choose to say
5:13>> My heart will choose to say
5:14>> For
5:15blessed be your name.
5:16>> Blessed be your
5:18name.
5:18>> You give and [music] take away.
5:20>> Give and take away.
5:22>> You give and take away.
5:24>> Give [music] and take away.
5:26>> But my heart will always say
5:28>> My heart will always say
5:30>> For blessed be
5:31>> Blessed be
5:32>> [music]
5:32>> And you give and take away.
5:35>> Give and take away.
5:37>> Oh.
5:38>> Give and take away.
5:39>> [music]
5:40>> Oh.
5:41>> My heart will always [singing] say
5:44Blessed be your name.
5:46>> Blessed be your
5:47>> [music]
5:48>> name.
5:49>> Blessed be the name [singing] of the
5:51Lord. Blessed be your name. [music]
5:55Blessed be your name.
5:58>> Blessed be [music and singing] the name
5:59of the
5:59>> Your glorious name. Yeah.
6:01>> Glorious
6:02name.
6:03>> Blessed be [music] the name of the Lord.
6:05>> Blessed be the
6:07Oh.
6:10>> [music]
6:10>> We bless your name.
6:14Your glorious name.
6:16Your glorious
6:17>> [singing]
6:18>> name.
6:20>> [music]
6:21>> Come on, can we give that name a great
6:23big hand clap of praise tonight?
6:27Oh, Lord, we're so thankful. [music]
6:29We're so grateful.
6:32Amen.
6:33Amen. How many is thankful to be in the
6:34house of the Lord on a
6:36beautiful rainy Tuesday night?
6:39Amen. Amen.
6:41>> [music]
6:41>> I'm so glad to be in the house of the
6:43Lord. I was thinking earlier
6:46about the great move of God that we had
6:48in this place Sunday night. How many is
6:50thankful for what the Lord
6:52Yes. Amen. There was a great spirit of
6:55prayer.
6:56And man, this theme of miracles. I
6:59really believe that we are going to get
7:01a miracle this week.
7:05Does anybody else believe that?
7:08Anybody else believe that God is still
7:10able to do a miracle tonight?
7:13Well, if you believe that, let's all
7:15lift our hands and go ahead and give him
7:17an advance praise for it.
7:19>> [music]
7:19>> With your hands raised, just tell him,
7:21"Thank you, Lord.
7:23God, we're expecting and anticipating
7:25[music]
7:26great things that you have in store."
7:29Oh, we worship you, Jesus.
7:32>> [music]
7:34>> Coming before you
7:40with [music and singing] offering
7:47These [music]
7:47are our prayers and petitions
7:53I lay [music] at your feet.
7:56>> Oh, sing it out with me.
7:58>> [music]
8:01>> I want to see
8:04heavenly places.
8:07open [music and singing] my eyes,
8:11open my eyes.
8:14I want to see
8:17>> [music]
8:17>> in all of your greatness.
8:21Be magnified.
8:23Be magnified.
8:28I'm going beyond
8:31the
8:33>> [singing]
8:35>> into [music] the supernatural.
8:38Oh.
8:39>> [singing]
8:41>> I'm going beyond
8:44the
8:47believing [music and singing] for every
8:50miracle.
8:53>> [music]
8:57>> Coming before [music]
8:59you
9:02with offerings. [music]
9:03>> With [singing] offerings.
9:06>> Yes, God.
9:07These are my prayers, Lord. [singing]
9:10These are my prayers [music]
9:12>> and contentions
9:14>> I [singing] lay at your
9:16>> I lay at [music] your feet.
9:18>> Oh, God.
9:20Oh,
9:23I want to see
9:25>> I want to [music] see
9:26>> heavenly places.
9:28>> heavenly places.
9:29>> Open my eyes.
9:31>> Open my [singing and music] eyes.
9:32>> Open my eyes.
9:35>> Open my eyes.
9:35>> I want to see
9:37>> I want to see
9:39>> Oh.
9:40>> in all of your [music and singing]
9:41greatness.
9:42>> Be magnified.
9:44>> Be magnified.
9:45>> Be magnified.
9:47>> Be [music and singing] magnified.
9:50>> Yeah.
9:51I'm going beyond
9:54>> beyond the
9:56>> into the supernatural. [music]
9:59>> into the
10:01supernatural.
10:03>> Going beyond the veil.
10:05>> beyond the
10:07>> [music]
10:08[singing]
10:09>> Believing, Lord.
10:11Believing for every yes.
10:15>> Let's lift our hands and sing it. I'm
10:16going beyond the veil.
10:18>> [music]
10:20>> Oh God, take us further into [music] the
10:23supernatural.
10:27>> [singing]
10:27>> Oh yes, I'm going beyond the veil.
10:34>> [music]
10:34>> I'm believing for every miracle.
10:39Every miracle.
10:41>> [music]
10:44>> Oh, yes.
10:46Coming [music]
10:47before you
10:51>> [music]
10:51>> with offerings.
10:56Oh, Jesus.
10:58>> [music]
10:58>> These are my prayers, [singing] God.
11:03I lay at your [music and singing] feet.
11:09Oh, [singing]
11:12I want to see
11:14>> [music]
11:15>> heavenly places.
11:17>> [singing]
11:18>> Open my eyes.
11:21Open my eyes.
11:24>> [music and singing]
11:24>> I want to see
11:27all of your greatness, see
11:29>> [music]
11:31>> be magnified. [singing]
11:34Be magnified.
11:37Yeah.
11:39I'm going, Lord.
11:41>> [music and singing]
11:45>> Into the supernatural.
11:47[music and singing]
11:49Oh God.
11:51I'm going beyond the veil.
11:54>> [music]
11:57[singing]
11:58>> Believing for every miracle.
12:01>> [music]
12:07[music]
12:09>> I'm expecting.
12:13I'm pursuing.
12:15>> [music]
12:15>> the supernatural.
12:21Oh, yes. I'm believing,
12:24[music]
12:25I'm receiving [singing]
12:28the supernatural. [music]
12:33Yes, Jesus.
12:35>> [music]
12:35>> I'm expecting
12:37>> [singing]
12:38>> I'm pursuing
12:41>> [music]
12:41>> the supernatural.
12:45Oh, yes.
12:48I'm believing
12:50[music]
12:51receiving
12:54the supernatural. [music]
12:55[singing]
12:56Oh, yes.
12:58Yes.
13:01Say, I see
13:04I [music] see my miracle.
13:07The impossible [music]
13:11is possible with you.
13:13>> [music and singing]
13:14>> You're seated on high.
13:17All power is yours [music] alone.
13:20The impossible
13:23my God,
13:24is possible with you.
13:26>> [singing]
13:27>> I see an open door.
13:30Lord, I see my miracle.
13:33The impossible, yes.
13:36>> [singing]
13:37>> Is possible [music] with you.
13:40Cuz you're seated on high.
13:42>> [music]
13:44>> All power is yours alone.
13:47The [music]
13:49Oh, yes.
13:50Is possible with you.
13:53Oh, yes. I see an
13:55>> [music]
13:55>> open
13:56I see my miracle.
13:59The impossible, [music] yes.
14:02Is possible with you. Cuz you're [music]
14:06seated high.
14:08You have all power alone.
14:11>> [music]
14:12>> The impossible
14:15is possible [music]
14:17>> [singing]
14:18>> It's possible for you.
14:21>> [music]
14:22>> It's possible for you.
14:25It's possible [music]
14:26for you.
14:28It's possible for you.
14:31It's possible [music] for you.
14:35Nothing's too big for our God.
14:38It's possible for you.
14:39>> [music]
14:41>> One more time, I see an open door.
14:46>> [music]
14:46>> I see my miracle.
14:50The [music] impossible.
14:53Oh, yes.
14:54It's possible for [music] you.
14:56Cuz you're seated on your
14:59throne.
15:00All power
15:01is yours,
15:01>> [music]
15:02>> oh Lord.
15:03The impossible.
15:06One more time, it's possible.
15:09>> [music]
15:09>> I see an open door.
15:13Come on, you ought to see it in your own
15:14eyes. [music]
15:15Cuz the impossible.
15:18Nothing's too big for our God.
15:22Hey, cuz you're seated on your throne.
15:24>> [music]
15:25>> All power is yours, oh Lord.
15:30>> [music]
15:32>> It's possible.
15:34>> [singing]
15:34[music]
15:39[music]
15:40>> I'm going beyond
15:43the
15:45>> [singing]
15:47>> into the supernatural.
15:50[music]
15:53I'm going beyond [singing]
15:56the
15:59leaving for a
16:04I'm going beyond
16:05I'm going [music] beyond
16:09Oh, that's beautiful, church. Sing it
16:11out. Into the supernatural.
16:14>> [music]
16:19[music]
16:25>> Believing for every miracle.
16:28[music and singing]
16:32Let's all lift our hands right here.
16:35Oh God, I believe you for every miracle,
16:37everything that [music] you have in
16:38store for this church.
16:41Oh, I believe it, God. We trust your
16:44promises and your plan, your word will
16:47not come back void.
16:50If you believe that he's able to do
16:51[music] it, give him a thunderous hand
16:53clap of praise tonight.
16:59Oh, I believe it, Jesus.
17:01>> [music]
17:04>> Well, let's clap for just one more
17:06moment.
17:08We're clapping for the King of Kings and
17:10the Lord of Lords and he's worthy
17:13of all the accolades that we can give
17:15him.
17:16Thank you, Jesus. Praise God.
17:20Amen. Well, God bless you and happy
17:23Tuesday night, everybody.
17:25It's good to see people out here on a
17:27misty [music] November evening and we're
17:30going to have a good time in the house
17:31of the Lord. Tell three or four people
17:34that you love them. It's good to see
17:36them in church. Say something nice.
17:38Give them a compliment.
17:42>> [music]
17:47[music]
17:54[music]
18:04[music]
18:08>> God bless [music] you. You can make your
18:10way back to your seats and be seated.
18:14Well, God's been moving and blessing in
18:17the church. Good things happening and
18:20I'm still rejoicing over brother Liam.
18:23Wave your hand up there, brother Liam.
18:24Got baptized this past weekend and
18:28and started a brand new life living for
18:30the Lord and we're just rejoicing with
18:33him and all the others that
18:35have been baptized and received the Holy
18:37Ghost in recent weeks. [music] It's been
18:40a great season and I believe that that
18:42was will continue this weekend.
18:45Uh brother Mitchell had prior
18:46obligations this week and so
18:50uh
18:50he was not able to be [music] here
18:52tonight, but he will be back with us
18:54this weekend and we're believing the
18:56Lord for an outpouring of the Holy
18:57Ghost. Another week, so let's make an
19:00effort to reach out to people, invite
19:02them, bring them to the house of the
19:03Lord and good things will be happening.
19:06[music] Now, for the past uh few weeks
19:08we have been having a prayer meeting on
19:11Saturday evening.
19:13But in the month of November, we have a
19:15number of things happening on Saturdays
19:18that
19:19may conflict with the space in some of
19:21those weekends, [music] so we will not
19:24be having a called corporate prayer
19:26meeting on 8:00 on Saturday nights in
19:28the month [music] of November.
19:29But I want to challenge you, come by
19:31this sanctuary
19:33and spend time in prayer as many days as
19:35possible throughout the week. Let's do
19:39what the Lord ask us to do and let's
19:41make his house a house of prayer.
19:44And if we'll make his house a house of
19:45prayer,
19:47he in turn will make it a house of
19:49healing and blessing and he'll make it
19:51all the things that we're never able to
19:52make it if we just do that simple thing.
19:56Uh
19:57there's just there's nothing uh that can
19:59substitute for a daily prayer life.
20:02And it's just an extra special blessing
20:04when we're able to [music]
20:06come pray in the house of God. I think
20:09we need to give diligence to [music]
20:10that and we've got a lot of people that
20:12do that. And it's a great blessing to
20:14me, y'all, be in my office [music]
20:16throughout the day and
20:18and I can hear the faint murmur
20:21of sounds in this sanctuary.
20:24People travailing and interceding
20:26[music] and
20:27lifting up their voice
20:30and touching God. And And it's such a
20:32blessing to be in a praying church.
20:35And God's going to keep blessing us if
20:37we'll keep praying.
20:39So, let's keep that in mind.
20:42I want to read to you us tonight from
20:44the book of Daniel chapter 1. You can
20:47remain seated.
20:49I want to read
20:50uh just a few verses here.
20:53This is a familiar passage of scripture.
20:56I've
20:58preached from this passage from various
21:01angles over the years uh several times.
21:05And I have really felt it in my heart to
21:09come to this pulpit and preach the word
21:11of God.
21:13And let me just preface
21:17uh some of what has brought this
21:20scripture to my mind
21:23in the last couple of years
21:26my heart has been saddened
21:29on several occasions by people who have
21:32walked away from God
21:34who used to be in the apostolic church
21:38embraced the truth of the oneness of
21:40God, the mighty God in Christ, and
21:42water baptism in the name of Jesus,
21:44being filled with the Holy Ghost,
21:46speaking in tongues
21:48and watched those people walk away from
21:51this message.
21:52And some of them have
21:54left the truth and embraced the
21:57doctrine of the Trinity and embraced
22:00other non-biblical doctrines. And then
22:04it seems like when people walk away from
22:06truth
22:08they always want to make themselves a
22:10little pulpit.
22:11And because they don't have a natural
22:13pulpit, because nobody has a lot of
22:15respect for people like that
22:17they get on social media and they get
22:19very loud.
22:21And part of the
22:23um
22:25part of the package of walking away from
22:27truth
22:29is people invariably also walk away from
22:33holiness standards.
22:36As a church, we believe what the Bible
22:39teaches that we should be a separated
22:41people.
22:42We believe that our men should be
22:44masculine. They should dress like men,
22:48dress modestly. We believe the ladies
22:50ought to dress like ladies and dress
22:52modestly. These are things that are
22:54taught in the word of God and I'm going
22:55to touch on some of that tonight.
22:58And uh there's there's a lot that the
23:00Bible has to say
23:03about the way we live our life. And we
23:06embrace those things as a church. We we
23:09embrace them as being relevant.
23:11Well, when people walk away from the
23:13truth, it's it's like they aren't just
23:15happy
23:16to walk away for themselves. They want
23:18to drag as many people with them as they
23:21possibly can.
23:23And so they get on social media and and
23:26they are constantly
23:28fault-finding. They are constantly
23:30picking apart at the Bible doctrines,
23:34the Bible truths of holiness and
23:36separation from the world, and
23:39their goal is to get us, get people that
23:43are still in the church,
23:45believe in the truth, to get them to
23:47step down and come down
23:50and to come off of the message of
23:53self-denial, the message of holiness,
23:55and the message of separation.
23:58And um I don't spend a lot of time in
24:02this pulpit responding to error,
24:06but there are times when we do need to
24:08respond to error. There were times the
24:11Apostle Paul did so.
24:13And so I'm going to be making an appeal
24:17tonight, and I'm just going to tell you
24:18where I'm going before we even start. I
24:21want everybody in this room to get their
24:23own convictions before God.
24:27I want us to get the things that we
24:29believe as a body, the things that the
24:32Bible teaches. I want it to go from
24:34being something that my church believes
24:36to something that I believe. I want this
24:39to get in our heart and to get get it in
24:42us in a very visceral and passionate
24:46way.
24:47And so we're going to go to the Old
24:48Testament book of Daniel.
24:50And we're reading about Daniel and his
24:52friends who were
24:54Jews. They were captured by the armies
24:57of Babylon.
24:59They were brought from Babylon brought
25:01from Israel rather into Babylon.
25:04And the king of Babylon had
25:07a mission.
25:08His mission was to take these
25:11Hebrew young men
25:13who reverence the true God of the Bible
25:17and he wanted to convert them to be
25:19Babylonians
25:21to get them to abandon their faith and
25:24to embrace the culture and the gods of
25:27Babylon.
25:29And so he made a big old dinner
25:31and he brought the
25:34uh Hebrew young men in to eat at the
25:36king's table. Now, I need to say this
25:39stuff before we start reading so you'll
25:41get
25:42the impact of the scripture when we read
25:45it.
25:46As a Jewish
25:48group of of guys, they could not eat
25:51pork.
25:52It was forbidden in the law. Um nowadays
25:55we can have pork. Thank God for Jesus is
25:58all I can say. Every time you eat a
26:00piece of bacon, you need to say thank
26:02God for Jesus and cuz he's sanctified
26:05pork and catfish and all the good stuff.
26:07And but back in the Old Testament, they
26:09couldn't have that. They couldn't have
26:12any food that had been offered to idols.
26:14And so
26:16these were young men that were observing
26:19a very strict kosher diet.
26:22The Babylonian king understood that. But
26:26they were slaves. They were captives and
26:28you got to eat to live.
26:30And so no doubt these young men were
26:32hungry
26:34given this supper time.
26:36And he brings them in, he sets out a
26:39feast on the table. Now, the Bible
26:42does not tell us what was served as
26:45entrees on this particular day,
26:48but the scripture does let us know that
26:50whatever was on that table
26:52was some food that was forbidden by the
26:55law. So, let's just surmise a little bit
26:59what it could have been.
27:00Uh pork was a big uh deal for the Jews
27:04to to avoid that. So, I can just see a
27:08big old honey baked ham right there in
27:10the middle of the table and it has got
27:13that sticky glaze
27:15all over it and it's running down the
27:17sides and rivulets and and then they've
27:20got a big platter of bacon and the smell
27:23of that fresh bacon is filling the
27:25banquet hall. And over here we've got uh
27:29for the pescetarians, we've got uh fried
27:32catfish. And you've never lived until
27:35you've had some good fried catfish. And
27:38Babylonian catfish at that and and then
27:42there were there were there were
27:44platters of of cheese and platters of
27:47meat and the cheese and the meat were
27:50mingled and according to the kosher
27:52diet, you can't eat anything that's uh
27:55a dairy product that's touched a meat
27:57product and there's all these different
27:58rules and so these young men, they were
28:01they were there,
28:03they were hungry, they were slaves, they
28:05were captives, they hadn't chosen to
28:07come to Babylon,
28:09but the king brought them and his
28:12philosophy,
28:14his game plan was
28:16if I can get them to start eating, then
28:20it's going to wear their conscience
28:22down.
28:24And when they get their conscience wore
28:27down,
28:28it won't be long before they start
28:30assimilating into the culture of
28:32Babylon.
28:34So, that was his plan.
28:36So, we're going to take a reading in
28:37verse number eight. But, the Bible says,
28:41Daniel
28:42purposed in his heart
28:46that he would not defile himself
28:50with the portion of the king's meat, nor
28:52with the wine which he drank.
28:55Therefore, he requested of the prince of
28:57the eunuchs that he might not defile
28:59himself.
29:00Now, God brought Daniel in the favor and
29:03tender love with the prince of the
29:04eunuchs. And the prince of the eunuchs
29:06said unto Daniel, "I fear my lord the
29:08king, who hath appointed your meat and
29:11drink. For why should he see
29:15your faces
29:17worse liking than the children which are
29:19of your sort?"
29:21I want to stop right there.
29:24What he's basically saying is everybody
29:26else is eating it.
29:29All the other Hebrews and all the other
29:32one God people are doing it.
29:34It's just you four.
29:37Who do you think you are?
29:39Do you think you're better than all the
29:41other Pentecostals?
29:45You think you're better than all the
29:46other one God people? They're all
29:48eating.
29:49So, if you
29:51four, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and
29:53Abednego, if you won't eat, what's going
29:54to happen is you're going to get skinny
29:56and puny and the king's going to have a
29:58problem here.
30:00And
30:02Daniel
30:04He He said, "Daniel, make me endanger my
30:06head to the king." In other words, if
30:08you don't eat good and you get puny, the
30:11king's going to chop my head off. They
30:13took things serious back then.
30:16Verse 11, then Daniel said to Melzar,
30:18whom the prince of the eunuchs had set
30:20over Dana, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael,
30:24and Azariah,
30:25"Prove thy servants, I beseech thee,
30:2910 days, and let them give us pulse to
30:32eat and water to drink. Then, let our
30:36countenances be looked upon before thee
30:39and the countenance of the children
30:42that eat the portion of the king's meat.
30:45For as thou seest deal with thy
30:47servants. So, he consented to them in
30:49this matter
30:50and prove them 10 days and at the end of
30:5310 days their countenances
30:55appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than
30:58all the children
31:00which did eat the portion of the king's
31:03meat.
31:05And I'm going to take
31:07thrust of my message from that first
31:09verse that we read, verse number eight.
31:11The Bible said Daniel
31:13purposed in his heart
31:16that he would not defile himself with
31:19the portion of the king's meat.
31:21And I'm going to preach a little bit
31:23about purposed
31:24in my heart.
31:27Purposed in my heart.
31:31Daniel understood that
31:34what you take in
31:37eventually determines what you become.
31:41If you take in Babylon
31:44you take in Babylon's foods, Babylon's
31:47culture
31:49eventually you become a Babylonian.
31:52And Daniel understood that
31:55that his convictions were being put to
31:58the test
32:00when he was brought to the king's table.
32:03Now, it would have made a lot of sense
32:08for Daniel to
32:10compromise his convictions right there.
32:12Think about it.
32:14He is a slave. He's a captive.
32:17He didn't choose to be brought there,
32:20brother Wallace.
32:21He is brought there against his will.
32:24God is a god of life. God wants him to
32:27live and you have to eat to live. So,
32:30doesn't it make sense that he would eat
32:34what is set in front of of
32:37for the purpose of living. Perhaps he
32:40could rationalize that if I was back in
32:43Jerusalem, I wouldn't be eating this. Or
32:46if I get out of Babylon one day and I go
32:49back home, God knows my heart.
32:52He knows that I want to do what's right,
32:55but here I am.
32:57I am in a situation where
33:01I don't have any other choice.
33:03But here is Daniel sitting there.
33:06His stomach is growling. He's hungry.
33:09The future is uncertain. He has no idea
33:12what's going to come of it.
33:14But he's got stuff in front of him on
33:17that king's table
33:19that he knows the law of God said you
33:21can't eat it.
33:23And so Daniel
33:25sitting there, the Bible said he
33:27purposed in his heart
33:31that he would not defile himself
33:35with the king's meat.
33:37And so Daniel just got something
33:41deep inside of him that I hope gets
33:43inside of all of us.
33:45He was saying if it means I have to die,
33:49even if I have to starve to death,
33:52I will sit here at the king's table and
33:54I will starve
33:56before I break the conviction
34:00that I have in my heart.
34:02Now, I would to God that we be people of
34:05conviction.
34:06That we have the truth of the word of
34:08God so deep in our hearts that we would
34:13be willing to die for it if need be.
34:18Now,
34:19here's the problem that we have
34:22in the world today.
34:24We're We're in the Babylonian empire
34:26reinvented in America.
34:29Every sin,
34:32every lifestyle that
34:34runs contrary to the word of God,
34:37every
34:39single bit of it is piped into American
34:41homes through media 24/7.
34:45If you got social media,
34:48there's a good chance you are seeing the
34:50filth of the world
34:52displayed when you scroll.
34:55You're going to see a lot of mess and
34:58and I'm afraid that and I'm not just
35:00speaking to this church, but let me
35:03comment on the church as a whole. I'm
35:06afraid the church has been brought in
35:08the Babylon
35:10and we have gotten comfortable
35:14in the Babylonian dining hall.
35:17And I'm afraid that as a whole, we as a
35:20people
35:21have started eating the delicacies of
35:24Babylon.
35:26We have made little compromises. Anyone
35:30of them can be rationalized.
35:32Anyone of them can be explained and
35:35justified according to human reasoning.
35:39But what is happening is the church is
35:42losing its distinctiveness.
35:44The church, little by little, is
35:47becoming like the world that God saved
35:51us out of. The world is getting
35:54religious, but the church is getting
35:56worldly and it ought not to be. Little
36:00by little, I am watching as apostolic
36:04people who know better, they are
36:07assimilating into the world around us.
36:11And I am here to preach to us that we
36:14need a clear return to holiness. There
36:19needs to be a clear call and a clear
36:22sound coming from the pulpit that says,
36:25"Church, we cannot go to the world. We
36:29cannot become like the world. We cannot
36:32lose the convictions
36:35that we have dug out of the word of God
36:38that men of God have labored to instill
36:41in our hearts, that our parents have put
36:43in us from the time we were young. We
36:47want to be a people that embrace
36:49holiness and righteousness.
36:53>> [applause]
36:56>> So, I'm going to preach a little bit
36:58about these holiness convictions. Let's
37:00look again at verse number eight.
37:03The Bible said Daniel purposed in his
37:05heart
37:07that he would not defile himself.
37:10Now,
37:12stubbornness can be really bad.
37:15One scripture said that it's as
37:17iniquity. When we're stubborn in a bad
37:19way,
37:20uh we just become a difficult person.
37:23And I don't know about you guys, but I
37:25got a little streak of stubbornness in
37:27me.
37:30Am I preaching to any stubborn people?
37:34So, stubbornness when when we're
37:37just being bullheaded
37:39and irrational and unwilling to do
37:41what's right, stubbornness is bad cuz we
37:43won't change.
37:45But, I would propose to you that there
37:47is a holy stubbornness.
37:50There's a stubbornness where you get
37:52yourself set in the right direction,
37:55and you dig your heels in, and you
37:57clench your jaw, and you say by the help
38:00and grace of God, I am not backing away
38:03from 1 in of what God has called me to
38:07do. I'm going to have everything God's
38:09called me to have, and I'm going to be
38:11everything that he's called me to be. I
38:14will not let the pressure of the world
38:18around me cause me to back off of what
38:21is right.
38:23>> [applause]
38:24>> Sanctified stubbornness.
38:26Now,
38:29I saw something in this scripture. I've
38:31preached from this a half a dozen times
38:33over the years,
38:34but I never saw
38:37what I saw today before.
38:41When you read through this passage,
38:46there are several places that talk about
38:48what the other children were doing.
38:51Now, from what we can tell, Daniel and
38:53his three friends were teenagers at this
38:55time.
38:57So, they weren't very old. They were
38:58mid-teens, most likely.
39:01And so, here we got a bunch of
39:02impressionable young people, slaves,
39:06thrust into the king's banquet hall.
39:09The king's agenda is get them to
39:11compromise their convictions.
39:14And it seems like the other children
39:19took a different route than Daniel did.
39:23They look around.
39:25They're scared.
39:26They're good kids. They're not evil
39:28people.
39:30But, they're just being rational.
39:33And they reason, "I'm so a slave.
39:36I didn't ask to be here.
39:38And I don't know what else to do."
39:41And so, I can I can just see him in my
39:44mind as
39:46one of the um
39:47one of those guys, he reaches out and
39:51picks up that strip of bacon.
39:53And he holds it up and
39:55what's this?
39:58He smells it.
40:00I know I know the law says I'm not
40:02supposed to do it, but boy, it sure does
40:04smell good.
40:08And so, he kind of looks around and
40:10somebody has to break the ice.
40:13And he
40:15takes a bite of the bacon and he thinks,
40:17"Wow.
40:22Surely, it can't be that bad.
40:26I mean,
40:28wow."
40:30And this is before Jesus
40:33that made everything legal.
40:37And so, he starts trying the other
40:40delicacies. And then, somebody else
40:41joins in and
40:43before you know it, everybody's eating.
40:47And
40:49Daniel looks around
40:52and his three friends
40:55and now they're in a real quandary cuz
40:57now it's not just the Babylonians
41:02that is doing their thing
41:05but it's his fellow one God
41:09believers
41:13that they follow on Instagram
41:15that THEY GO TO CONFERENCE WITH.
41:18IT'S ALL THE ONE GOD PEOPLE
41:21HAVE started doing it.
41:24And here is Daniel
41:27and his three friends, they're not only
41:30by themselves in Babylon
41:33but now they're by themselves even when
41:35they're with their own people. Can you
41:38see that?
41:40I would propose there are some
41:42convictions
41:45that this church needs to hold on to
41:49that other churches are walking away
41:51from.
41:53Do we love the other churches? Yes, we
41:56do. Are we friends with them? Yes, we
41:58are. Are we going to cut them off? No,
42:00we're not. But just because everybody
42:03else is doing it does not make it right.
42:07Ultimately, we do not decide where we
42:10stand as a church based on the other
42:13churches around the country or the other
42:15churches in in in the city of Memphis,
42:19but we've got to get our stands from the
42:21word of God. Cuz ultimately, when we
42:25stand before God, we will not be judged
42:28based on what another church did or what
42:31they allowed. We're judged based ON WHAT
42:33GOD GAVE US.
42:37>> [applause]
42:40>> WE'RE in a time when we're feeling the
42:42pressure to conform
42:45compromise.
42:47Here is how we know compromise is
42:49starting to settle in.
42:54When we first get saved,
42:58our heart is to please the Lord.
43:02And we, in some way or shape or form,
43:04we're constantly asking ourself when we
43:06first get saved,
43:08is this pleasing to God?
43:10When you come to God, you got a pack of
43:12Camels in your pocket, and you get the
43:14Holy Ghost speaking in tongues, you get
43:16back out in your car and you go drive
43:17home, and you just got the Holy Ghost,
43:19and you go to light up a Camel.
43:22And you've done it 1,032 times before.
43:26And when you light up that cigarette,
43:29there's going to be this little
43:30something,
43:32it just don't
43:33Something don't feel right.
43:36It don't taste quite the same.
43:38It just I don't know, you feel a little
43:40guilty about it, don't even know why you
43:41feel guilty.
43:43And if you got some spiritual
43:45sensitivity,
43:47you understand that this isn't pleasing
43:49to God.
43:51And so, what happens when we first get
43:53saved is we start getting convictions,
43:56and
43:57we take the habits and the things of the
43:59world, and we lay them aside.
44:02When you get saved, most people when
44:04they get saved, they all days are using
44:07recreational marijuana.
44:09But when you get in the church, you find
44:11out that the scripture teaches that
44:13Christian people should not be
44:14intoxicated either with alcohol or any
44:17other kind of recreational drug. And And
44:20And marijuana's
44:22I don't have time to unpack all of that,
44:24but but but the Holy Ghost on the inside
44:27lets you know that you do not need to be
44:30smoking recreational marijuana because
44:33it's not pleasing to the Lord. You You
44:36You go turn on your playlist on your on
44:39your phone, and and you've got You've
44:41got all kind of crazy stuff on there
44:44from the world. You've got the rap music
44:47and the hip-hop and the music that
44:50celebrates sin and glorifies the
44:53lifestyles that that the Bible is
44:55calling us to forsake, and the Holy
44:58Ghost on the inside of you will say,
45:00"I'm not pleased with that music." And
45:03if you've got a true heart before the
45:05Lord, and you you're really genuinely
45:07saved, then you want to start deleting
45:10that stuff off of your playlist because
45:12you don't want to be taking stuff in
45:14that that is not pleasing to the Lord.
45:18But, here is what happens. People that
45:21are getting in the church for a while,
45:23and particularly young people raised up
45:27in the church who have not known the
45:29depths of sin, they are not asking
45:33themselves, "Is this pleasing to the
45:35Lord?" Instead, they're asking a
45:38different question. And the different
45:40question is, "What's wrong with this?
45:43What's wrong with what I'm doing? What's
45:47wrong with what I'm listening to? Show
45:50me in the Bible where it says I
45:52shouldn't listen to Lil Wayne. Show me
45:55in the Bible where I shouldn't listen to
45:57Jay-Z. Let Show me in the Bible where it
45:59says I I shouldn't listen to the worldly
46:02music, and what's wrong with this? I
46:04don't see anything wrong with this." And
46:06then here's the magic phrase, "I don't
46:09have a conviction."
46:13So, because I don't see anything wrong,
46:15and because I don't have a conviction,
46:18then why certainly it must be all right.
46:28>> [applause]
46:29>> Then,
46:32we start
46:33burning an incredible amount of energy
46:36defending
46:39things that weaken our spiritual lives.
46:47Justifying our sin six ways from Sunday.
46:51Well, ain't nothing wrong with this.
46:53Man, look at all the the other churches
46:55are doing all this now. Come on. What
46:56what they ain't nothing wrong with this.
46:57It's just What's the big deal?
47:00What's the big deal?
47:02It's okay. It won't hurt nothing.
47:04And
47:05what happens WHEN YOU GET IN THAT VEIN,
47:09JUSTIFYING and rationalizing and
47:13questioning,
47:15little by little you start moving the
47:17line
47:19closer to the world.
47:22And you move it and you move it and you
47:24let more and more of the world in.
47:26Eventually you get to a point you get
47:29what the scripture says you get past
47:31feeling. That means you can no longer
47:33feel conviction. You no longer even know
47:36what the Holy Ghost is pleased with or
47:38not pleased with because you have played
47:41games with truth and played games with
47:44conviction for so long. I don't want to
47:46be that guy. I don't want you to be that
47:49that saint of God that's moving the
47:51lines to the world. Brothers and
47:53sisters, the world is going to hell. The
47:57world is broken. The world is filled
48:00with mess and rot and filth and decay.
48:03Why in the world would we want to go
48:06back into the cesspools of sin that God
48:10drug us out of when we got saved? Let's
48:14be a people that says, "You know what?
48:16Let's live for God with everything we
48:18have. Let's go in and embrace this truth
48:22with everything that we've got."
48:26>> [applause]
48:28>> So,
48:30when you have real convictions,
48:33real convictions don't change when you
48:36get around other people
48:38that don't share.
48:40Now, you don't have to be obnoxious
48:44with your convictions. You can be
48:45discreet.
48:48But let's just Let's throw out some
48:50hypothetical scenarios. Now, this
48:52probably never happened, but so I'm just
48:54going to be hypothetical.
48:56Suppose you are
48:58a young person and you get in the car
49:00with another young person go somewhere
49:03and that other young person turns on
49:05music that's filthy and ungodly.
49:08What do you do?
49:19Sing along?
49:24Hum?
49:27Keep the beat on the dash?
49:32Now, if you're in a work truck with a
49:33sinner, you may not have much choice.
49:35You may just have to deal with it.
49:39But if you with another church person,
49:41you say, "Um
49:44Hey!
49:48What's this?"
49:50Call them out.
49:54I got the Holy Ghost. I can't listen to
49:55that.
49:58Call them out.
50:00CALL THEM OUT. REPROVE IT.
50:05YOU GOT TO HAVE THE SPIRIT OF DANIEL
50:07THAT SAYS IF ALL THE OTHER Hebrews are
50:09doing it,
50:11I'm not going TO DO IT. THIS Hebrew is
50:13not going to do it. I am going to stand
50:16for what I know to be right.
50:18>> [applause]
50:23>> You get over someone's else with church
50:25kids and they they bring out alcohol.
50:28Now, hypothetically, hypothetically
50:30speaking,
50:36there ain't nothing wrong with a just a
50:37little wine. You know, the Bible even
50:39said drink wine for your stomach's sake.
50:45Jesus drank wine and
50:47they called him a glutton and a wine
50:48bibber.
50:52You know, come on.
50:55Nobody has to know.
50:59I know
51:02I know pastor preaches us not about not
51:04drinking alcohol, but man, a few cold
51:06ones didn't never hurt nobody.
51:12You know what? You need come with me and
51:14talk with some of the people that's
51:15coming out of the ravages
51:18of drunkenness and that lifestyle.
51:21Say, "Willie, it's hurt a lot of
51:22people."
51:24And every alcoholic [clears throat]
51:26starts with its first drink.
51:28And scripture also said, "Don't even
51:30look in the wine after it turns in the
51:32cup."
51:33So,
51:36you're in a setting where there's church
51:37people drinking.
51:39What do you do?
51:44Well, I don't want to make them feel
51:45uncomfortable. Well, why not?
51:50You want them to feel validated?
51:53Hey, what you do, YOU SAY, "HEY,
51:58NO.
51:59I'M APOSTOLIC.
52:03I'M NOT DRINKING
52:05a Coors Light.
52:08Not doing it.
52:10I'M NOT I DON'T EVEN WANT TO TASTE
52:12WHISKEY.
52:13I DON'T WANT TO SAMPLE THAT
52:16CUZ I GOT A CONVICTION.
52:18I'M NOT DOING IT.
52:20TAKE A STAND. WELL, BROTHER ADAMS, if I
52:22take a stand, they'll make fun of me.
52:24They made fun of Jesus, too.
52:26And the Bible said the servant is not
52:28greater than his lord.
52:30If they made fun of the lord of glory,
52:32they might make fun of you or I, but be
52:35okay with that. Instead, let's be people
52:37of conviction. Let's be people that dig
52:40our heels in and say, "We refuse to
52:43compromise what is right."
52:46>> [applause]
52:49>> Can I go just a little further?
52:55Good preaching, pastor. Good preaching.
52:58>> [applause]
53:02>> Now,
53:05I need to push back on a false doctrine
53:08that's regurgitated so many times.
53:12Everybody here has heard it and you can
53:13quote it by heart.
53:15The false doctrine
53:17that is championed and like from every
53:19which direction nowadays
53:21says something like this. It says, "God
53:25doesn't care about the outside cuz he
53:27just looks on the heart."
53:30You heard that?
53:32God looks on the heart
53:34and because he looks on the heart, the
53:36outside don't matter.
53:39Well, it sounds good, don't it?
53:42Man looks on the outward appearance.
53:44And what they When they say that,
53:45they're
53:47they're misrepresenting a scripture in
53:48the Old Testament but from book of 1
53:50Samuel when David was being chose to be
53:52king and
53:53had nothing to do with godly holy
53:55lifestyle.
53:56So, the rationale is as long as you love
53:59God in your heart
54:01you can live and act any way you want to
54:05and it doesn't matter about the
54:06externals because God only cares
54:09about the internal.
54:11That's being said everywhere.
54:13If you get on social media, you'll find
54:15it in the first 2 minutes.
54:17It It's everywhere. God just cares about
54:19the heart.
54:20Well,
54:21let's see if that squares up with the
54:24Bible.
54:25We got to believe what the Bible
54:26believes. It teaches here. Romans
54:28chapter 12
54:31verse 1.
54:34The Bible says, "Present your
54:40What's your body?
54:45Your body is this
54:48hunk of flesh.
54:50What are you looking at right now?
54:51You're looking at Caleb Adams's
54:55I'm looking at your
54:57I can't see your spirit and soul. I know
54:59you got one, but
55:01I'm looking at your body, you're looking
55:02at my body. We live in the body.
55:07>> He said, "PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING
55:11SACRIFICE.
55:13Present your bodies
55:16holy.
55:17Present your bodies acceptable unto
55:20God."
55:25So, one way you can interpret the Bible
55:27is you look at what it just said in the
55:29positive. Present your bodies holy,
55:31acceptable unto God.
55:33You look at in the converse, the
55:35converse of that
55:37is that you do not present your body
55:40holy.
55:42And that you could present your body in
55:44a way that's unacceptable to God.
55:52Come on, probe the scripture with me.
55:53Are we together here?
55:56Present your bodies. That's the outward,
55:58the external,
56:00holy acceptable unto God. Well, brother
56:03Adams, that's just unreasonable.
56:06Well, that's just too much to ask of
56:08people.
56:09Come on, there's there's I mean, I had
56:11one Pentecostal pastor
56:14uh here in this area. He said one time,
56:15he said, "I don't know how in the world
56:17your church is growing with all that
56:18stuff you preach."
56:20He said, "You're preaching holiness that
56:21hadn't been preached in Memphis in 30
56:23years, and your church is growing, and I
56:24don't know why."
56:28Basically he said, "I made it easy for
56:29our people to come, and we can't get
56:31people to show up, and
56:36some people just can't connect dots.
56:40No, it's a reasonable service.
56:43Okay, and do verse two, "AND BE NOT
56:47CONFORMED
56:49TO this world."
56:51In other words, don't let the world
56:53squeeze you in ITS MOLD.
56:55BROTHER ADAMS, COME ON, EVERYBODY IN THE
56:57WORLD'S DOING IT.
57:01THAT'S EXACTLY WHY WE SHOULD NOT BE
57:03doing it.
57:05Cuz the Bible said to be not conformed
57:08to the world,
57:09but be transformed by the renewing of
57:11your mind.
57:13Now, I want you to notice what we just
57:14saw here in these two verses.
57:17We saw the external,
57:21the body,
57:23and the internal, which is the mind.
57:27Notice,
57:28we are called for both the body
57:32and the mind.
57:35The external and the internal
57:38must be devoted to God alike.
57:43Okay, I want to press the point a little
57:46bit
57:47cuz after all, you're going to hear it.
57:49There's people that will even walk out
57:50of a service like this and they'll say,
57:52"Well, I just think God looks on the
57:53heart. God looks on the heart."
57:55Yeah, we we agree with you.
58:00But he also looks at the body.
58:02HE ALSO LOOKS ON THE OUTSIDE.
58:08Second Corinthians, chapter 7, verse
58:10number 1, "Having therefore these
58:11promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse
58:14ourselves from all filthiness of the
58:19and
58:21perfecting
58:22holiness in the fear of God."
58:25I don't have time to fully unpack that
58:27scripture, but
58:28you see what we what's happening here?
58:30We have external,
58:32cleanse ourselves from the filthiness of
58:34the flesh.
58:36That's outside.
58:37External, things you're doing.
58:41And of your spirit. In other words,
58:43don't just clean the outside, get the
58:45inside clean, too. We want both clean.
58:48Perfecting holiness. Now, to perfect
58:51something means you complete it.
58:54So, this tells me that a big part of
58:56holiness God does.
58:58You can't make yourself holy.
59:00God has got to impute his holiness
59:03through Jesus Christ, through the
59:04baptism of the Holy Ghost. The holiness
59:07of God is imputed into you through being
59:10born again, but there is a little piece
59:14of the holiness business that God leaves
59:17up to you and I. You've got to perfect
59:19it. In other words, you got to get up in
59:21the morning and say, "You know what? I'm
59:23going to be a holy man. So, therefore, I
59:26choose to avert my eyes from certain
59:29sights in this world. I'm going to be a
59:31holy person. So, therefore, I choose to
59:34speak words that are holy and wholesome.
59:38I want to be a holy person. So, when I
59:40get dressed, I'm going to put on
59:42clothing that's modest and decent and
59:44appropriate, because the scripture said
59:46I need to perfect holiness."
59:50If something pops up in my social media
59:52feed that's vile, I block them.
59:55Why do I block them? Cuz I'm perfecting
59:57holiness in the fear of God.
1:00:06Inside and outside.
1:00:10Okay, can I press the point? Mouth two
1:00:12or three witnesses, let every word be
1:00:13established. I've given you two
1:00:15witnesses, let me give you a third. 1
1:00:17Peter chapter 1 verse 15,
1:00:20the Bible says, "As he which has called
1:00:22you is holy,
1:00:25so be ye holy in all manner of
1:00:28conversation." Can you say the word
1:00:30conversation?
1:00:33Today, when we talk about having a
1:00:35conversation, we talk about chatting. We
1:00:37get down and yak it up with someone and
1:00:38we we just had a good conversation.
1:00:41But, the word conversation, as it's used
1:00:43in the King James version,
1:00:46is referring to a whole lot more than
1:00:47just talking to somebody.
1:00:49It's talking about your whole lifestyle.
1:00:53Primarily, your outward, visible
1:00:56actions.
1:00:58Be holy
1:01:00in manner of lifestyle.
1:01:03That's the places I go.
1:01:05That's the entertainment that I use.
1:01:08That's the stuff I listen to. That's the
1:01:10way I do business. That's the way I
1:01:12talk. Holiness needs to go into every
1:01:16sector of our life.
1:01:18That's external.
1:01:20Well, brother Adams, I just think God
1:01:21looks on the heart.
1:01:24You Pentecostals are all worried about
1:01:26the outside. No, we're not.
1:01:29That's a lie out of the pit.
1:01:32We're not worried about it.
1:01:34We we're worried about both.
1:01:37We
1:01:38We believe just what the scripture says
1:01:41that we should be holy in all manner of
1:01:43lifestyle.
1:01:47And I don't know
1:01:50There's no Pentecostals in this room
1:01:51that believe that it's okay to be rotten
1:01:54on the inside as long as you got it on
1:01:55the outside. We don't believe that
1:01:56either. We believe you ought to have
1:01:58both right. We need the inside and the
1:02:01outside to be right and be holy and
1:02:03righteous before the Lord.
1:02:08Now, I've got to hurry.
1:02:15Internal transformation always
1:02:18produces external difference.
1:02:25I don't have time to finish everything,
1:02:27but do I have just a couple more
1:02:28minutes?
1:02:33These two sections are really pulling
1:02:35for more preaching and
1:02:39Okay. All right. All right. All right.
1:02:44Let me briefly give you four areas that
1:02:46holiness needs to influence.
1:02:51Four areas.
1:02:52Put that next slide up, sister Emma.
1:02:54Thank you.
1:02:56Entertainment is the first area
1:03:00that holiness needs to impact.
1:03:05Psalm is David said, I will set
1:03:08no
1:03:10wicked thing
1:03:13before my eyes.
1:03:16I hate the work of them that turn aside.
1:03:18That's what the psalmist said.
1:03:21Now, when you're going through life,
1:03:22there's some things you can't avoid
1:03:23seeing.
1:03:25You'll see stuff just to be in a public
1:03:28that you wish you hadn't saw.
1:03:31But what I'm entertained by, I'm
1:03:34choosing that.
1:03:37And my entertainment
1:03:41needs to be sanctified.
1:03:43What I watch, what I hear, what I
1:03:46consume on social media
1:03:50shapes
1:03:53the inside.
1:03:55The outside and the inside are
1:03:57intertwined.
1:03:59It was old brother Adams, I just believe
1:04:00God looks on the heart.
1:04:03Yeah, he does. But guess what? What you
1:04:05doing down the outside
1:04:07is impacting your heart.
1:04:10Let me prove it to you.
1:04:11The Bible says in 1 Peter
1:04:13that Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah
1:04:16Listen now, it said he vexed his
1:04:19righteous
1:04:21soul
1:04:22in seeing
1:04:25and
1:04:26hearing.
1:04:30He chose to go there.
1:04:33And he's seeing all of these homosexuals
1:04:37doing their thing flaunting it in front
1:04:39of him, and he chooses to stay there. He
1:04:43got the gay pride
1:04:44marches coming through, and he's sitting
1:04:46there in the gate. And he just kind of
1:04:49seeing and hearing. And Lot's thinking,
1:04:51"Oh, I wish they wouldn't do that. Oh, I
1:04:53don't like that. Oh, I wish I hadn't
1:04:55seen that, but I see it right there."
1:04:57And guess what? You see it, and you hear
1:05:00it, and you choose to keep seeing and
1:05:02hearing it. After a while, it starts
1:05:05doing something to your soul.
1:05:18You listen to filthy music.
1:05:20You're going to struggle with mind
1:05:22battles all day long.
1:05:26You look at pornography and listen to
1:05:28ungodly music, you're going to be eaten
1:05:30up with the lust all the time.
1:05:33It's going to vex your soul.
1:05:36You watching
1:05:38filthy movies and
1:05:40and you let Hollywood
1:05:42pump its values in front of you and you
1:05:45let Hollywood entertain your kids,
1:05:48well, guess what's going to happen?
1:05:49You're going to get the attitudes of
1:05:50Hollywood.
1:05:52It's going to be going for some innocent
1:05:54thing
1:05:55and it's going to start shaping the
1:05:58inside
1:06:00of the culture of your home, the the
1:06:02spirit of the home is going to start
1:06:04taking on the spirit of the world, which
1:06:07is not good. So, I would propose that we
1:06:10need a radical return to holiness
1:06:15in our entertainment.
1:06:17Quit asking what's wrong with this and
1:06:19start asking, "Is it pleasing to the
1:06:21Lord?"
1:06:22Is this video game pleasing to the Lord?
1:06:25Is this social media account pleasing to
1:06:27the Lord? Is this music pleasing to the
1:06:29Lord? Could I sit here and do this if
1:06:32Jesus was sitting next to me right now?"
1:06:34If the answer is no, it doesn't matter
1:06:37if all the other Hebrews are doing it.
1:06:39It doesn't matter if all the other
1:06:40churches in town is doing it. If it's
1:06:42not pleasing to the Lord, we have to
1:06:45answer to him. We are not answering to
1:06:47everybody else.
1:06:50>> [applause]
1:06:58>> Holiness needs to extend to our
1:07:00relationships and morality.
1:07:03I'm going to talk plain here. Sexual
1:07:05purity matters.
1:07:11Fornication, that's
1:07:14that's having sex before you married.
1:07:16Just being plain.
1:07:18That's fornication.
1:07:20Fornication is pornography.
1:07:23Any sexual activity outside the covenant
1:07:27of marriage falls under the umbrella of
1:07:28fornication.
1:07:31And that's one of the number one sins
1:07:32that the Bible calls us to forsake when
1:07:34we come to God.
1:07:36It's the way of the flesh.
1:07:38Adultery.
1:07:40What is adultery? It's cheating on your
1:07:41spouse.
1:07:44There's more than one way to commit
1:07:45adultery.
1:07:48Adultery can be physically going and
1:07:50getting involved with someone, but there
1:07:52can also be affairs that you get going
1:07:54that aren't physical.
1:07:56Emotional and your conversation and your
1:08:00texting. You're going to places that you
1:08:02shouldn't go with somebody you're not
1:08:04married to.
1:08:10Living together with someone outside of
1:08:12marriage.
1:08:16The Bible teaches that that's sinful and
1:08:18it should not be done by a Christian.
1:08:22Homosexual.
1:08:26Anything to do with homosexual activity,
1:08:29the Bible calls that sinful.
1:08:32Let me just say this.
1:08:35This is something a lot of people have a
1:08:36hard time talking about, but there's
1:08:37probably people in this room
1:08:40that from time to time struggle with
1:08:42same-sex attractions.
1:08:46It's hard to admit that because you're
1:08:47afraid of what someone would say.
1:08:49We'll just call it out in the open.
1:08:52That happens.
1:08:55The homosexual messaging is see, that's
1:08:58proof you were born gay.
1:09:00You can't help it.
1:09:02You were just born that way.
1:09:04AND SINCE YOU FEEL ATTRACTED to
1:09:07a person of the same sex, then it must
1:09:09be okay cuz God made you that way.
1:09:15Well,
1:09:17I don't
1:09:19dispute the fact that some people have
1:09:21those desires.
1:09:24But those desires are not God-given.
1:09:28I would contend that the reason we have
1:09:30those desires is we have a fallen sinful
1:09:33nature.
1:09:35I also have desires to get angry and
1:09:37lose my temper sometime, but that
1:09:39doesn't make it okay just because I want
1:09:41that. Somebody else may have a desire to
1:09:44get involved with someone they're not
1:09:45married to, but just cuz you have a
1:09:47desire for that doesn't make it okay.
1:09:50The fact that you've got normal desires
1:09:52in the inside of you does not justify
1:09:55fulfilling those desires. When we come
1:09:58to God, we are called to take our sinful
1:10:01desires and we submit them on the altar
1:10:04and we bow them to the word of God. And
1:10:07we've got to renounce every desire
1:10:08that's on the inside that is contrary to
1:10:11the word is sinful. And the life of
1:10:14holiness is that we deny ourselves when
1:10:17we need to.
1:10:25But the world has made fornication so
1:10:27common.
1:10:30Everybody's doing it.
1:10:34Not even hardly something to be
1:10:35embarrassed about in America.
1:10:38Well,
1:10:41we're called to be Christians before
1:10:42we're called to be Americans.
1:10:45And I don't care if the whole wide world
1:10:51says it's okay to eat the king's meat.
1:10:54I've [snorts] got a conviction.
1:10:57And I ain't going to do it.
1:10:59>> [applause]
1:11:02>> When I was a young man, Sister Adams and
1:11:04I
1:11:07dating,
1:11:08I felt the physical attraction to her.
1:11:12Like the most beautiful woman in the
1:11:13world.
1:11:16But you know what? I didn't have to have
1:11:18someone standing over
1:11:21my shoulder
1:11:23telling me not to commit fornication.
1:11:26Because somewhere in an altar, when I
1:11:28was a young man,
1:11:30I purposed in my HEART
1:11:33THAT I WILL NOT SLEEP WITH A WOMAN until
1:11:35I marry.
1:11:38And by the help and grace of God, I kept
1:11:40that covenant with the Lord, and I've
1:11:42kept it to to this very day, and I don't
1:11:45have any desire or any inclination to
1:11:47ever lose that covenant, cuz I've got a
1:11:50conviction down in my heart. GOD, WHERE
1:11:53IS THE DEEP ALTAR SERVICES WHERE WE LAY
1:11:55IT ON AN ALTAR AND WE MAKE SOME
1:11:57COVENANTS WITH THE LORD. WE DRAW SOME
1:12:00PERSONAL LINES AND SAY, "I DON'T CARE IF
1:12:03EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT. I WANT TO BE
1:12:05PLEASING TO HIM, AND OUT OF MY
1:12:07RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM, I am making some
1:12:10covenants and I will never violate those
1:12:12covenants."
1:12:15>> [applause]
1:12:21>> Parents, and modesty,
1:12:24our bo- bodies belong to God.
1:12:28A modest spirit
1:12:31should produce a modest appearance.
1:12:42You know, modesty starts with the heart.
1:12:47You can be immodest and have sleeves
1:12:49hanging off your fingertips.
1:12:53But when you have a heart of modesty, it
1:12:55kind of
1:12:57it just kind of means that
1:13:02you're conscientious about what you
1:13:04wear.
1:13:15Ladies, you don't need to show your
1:13:16cleavage
1:13:18to nobody except your husband.
1:13:25Is this okay?
1:13:29I MEAN, GOD FORBID WE COME IN THE CHURCH
1:13:31AND HAVE to look
1:13:34AT PARTS OF YOUR BODY THAT WASN'T MEANT
1:13:36TO BE SHOWN IN PUBLIC.
1:13:41>> [applause]
1:13:46>> Every time you bend over, you got to do
1:13:48like this.
1:13:52Might need to do something with that
1:13:53neckline.
1:14:00You go to sit down and your skirt's so
1:14:01short. Every time you sit down, you're
1:14:03like
1:14:10>> [applause]
1:14:15>> Your underwear is showing through your
1:14:17clothes.
1:14:22We don't need to pay attention to that,
1:14:24you need to pay attention to that.
1:14:29>> [applause]
1:14:34>> Some of y'all thinking, I wish brother
1:14:35Mitchell get back here in a hurry.
1:14:37>> [laughter]
1:14:42>> You know what? We ought not
1:14:45We ought not ever intentionally wear
1:14:47something
1:14:49that would solicit
1:14:52the lustful gaze
1:14:55of the opposite sex.
1:14:59Just cover up, okay?
1:15:05You
1:15:06>> [snorts]
1:15:07>> wearing something so tight, this men or
1:15:09women.
1:15:11All your cellulite dimples is
1:15:15just a shimmering every time you move.
1:15:18It's too tight.
1:15:19>> [snorts]
1:15:25>> I got to land the plane.
1:15:27Let's get deep in here.
1:15:31Character, private conduct.
1:15:36Do I tell the truth when I do business
1:15:39with people?
1:15:45Is it okay to lie a little bit if it
1:15:47means that you get the land the sale?
1:15:52What if telling the truth would offend
1:15:54the client?
1:15:56Is it okay to bend the truth a little
1:15:58bit if it would offend the client to
1:15:59hear the truth?
1:16:06What about attitudes of humility and
1:16:08kindness and godliness?
1:16:12Treating people with dignity and
1:16:13respect.
1:16:17What I'm preaching to you is that the
1:16:19world
1:16:22is living sinful.
1:16:25They're going crazy.
1:16:27And I'm just bearing my soul to you
1:16:29right now.
1:16:31What burdens my heart is I'm seeing a
1:16:33lot of church people
1:16:36starting to live just like the world's
1:16:38living.
1:16:41And somehow we've gotten smart enough
1:16:44that this Bible just don't matter
1:16:45anymore.
1:16:48We know better than the Bible. We know
1:16:50better than the pastor. We know better
1:16:52than everybody else and
1:16:53we've managed to make our case why it's
1:16:56okay for us.
1:17:01We need to stop defending things that
1:17:02God's called us to surrender.
1:17:07Holiness is not seeing how much of the
1:17:09world we can embrace and still be saved.
1:17:11Holiness is about surrendering every
1:17:14part of our life to the lordship of
1:17:17Jesus Christ.
1:17:20>> [applause]
1:17:23>> Uh I'm done. Let's stand together.
1:17:26Put up verse 12.
1:17:34Let me end it here.
1:17:38Daniel said, "I'm not eating
1:17:41the king's meat. I ain't going to do it.
1:17:43I'll die first."
1:17:45He told the guy that was over the
1:17:47dinner. He said, "Here,
1:17:49do this."
1:17:50He said, "Me and my
1:17:52three friends here,
1:17:54we want to just drink water,
1:17:57no wine, just water,
1:17:59and we want to eat pulse, which is a
1:18:02form of a bean.
1:18:04Beans and water,
1:18:06that's what we're going."
1:18:09The guy says, "Well, if you do that,
1:18:12you won't get enough nutrition and
1:18:14you'll get sickly and the king will
1:18:15notice and
1:18:17and I'll be in trouble."
1:18:18Here's what he said.
1:18:21He said, "Prove thy servants, I beseech
1:18:23thee,
1:18:2410 days.
1:18:26Let him give us pulse to eat and water
1:18:28to drink."
1:18:31Daniel basically said, "Put
1:18:35our convictions
1:18:38to the test.
1:18:42Give us 10 days
1:18:44and at the end of 10 days, you compare
1:18:48us,
1:18:50the people that have stayed true to
1:18:51convictions,
1:18:54and you compare us with the other
1:18:56children, the other Hebrews,
1:19:01that made a decision to
1:19:04assimilate with Babylon."
1:19:10Brothers and sisters, you don't always
1:19:12see
1:19:14the benefit of being true to convictions
1:19:16on day one.
1:19:20But, you give us a little bit of time.
1:19:25One says, "Well, brother Adams, you know
1:19:26what? You preaching all that holiness
1:19:27stuff at church.
1:19:30Man, you just you way out of touch with
1:19:33society."
1:19:35I say, "Thank God."
1:19:40And you preaching convictions and that
1:19:42that's what the old-timers used to
1:19:44preach and all the new-timers quit
1:19:45preaching about that stuff.
1:19:48Well,
1:19:49I can't help that.
1:19:52But I'll just tell you this.
1:19:54You give us the next 5 years holding on
1:19:58the convictions.
1:20:00Compare our prayer meeting with the
1:20:02prayer meetings of churches that don't
1:20:04hold on the convictions.
1:20:07>> [applause]
1:20:10>> And I'm even going to venture to say you
1:20:13look at how full our sanctuary is
1:20:15compared to those who compromise.
1:20:19I've just got a feeling that God's
1:20:21blessing is going to be on the people
1:20:24that embrace righteousness and godliness
1:20:26and holiness.
1:20:28If we can get his favor, if we can get
1:20:31him to smile at us, if we live a life
1:20:35that is upright and pleasing to the
1:20:37Lord, it's going to bring the blessing
1:20:40of heaven and we will have no regrets.
1:20:47I have no regrets about the beer I
1:20:49didn't drink.
1:20:52The porn I didn't look at.
1:20:54The cigarette I didn't smoke.
1:20:57I have no regrets about telling the
1:20:59truth.
1:21:00I have no regrets about being faithful
1:21:03to my wife.
1:21:04There's no regrets to that.
1:21:07And I believe that if we'll embrace what
1:21:10I'm preaching tonight, we can all live a
1:21:11life that
1:21:13has very little if any regrets.
1:21:16And we can have the favor and the
1:21:17blessing of God.
1:21:19Can you join me at this altar and I just
1:21:21think we need to spend a few minutes and
1:21:23let the God know that we hunger for his
1:21:25holiness.
1:21:29Years ago we sang that song, holiness is
1:21:32what I long for. Holiness is what I
1:21:34need.
1:21:36And I think we just need to lift our
1:21:37hands to the Lord and just
1:21:40ask him to
1:21:41examine every part of our life.
1:21:45Why don't you pray real honest, God, if
1:21:47there's any
1:21:49sinful thing that's in my life that that
1:21:52needs to
1:21:53be gotten rid of or laid down on the
1:21:55altar, just can just talk to me right
1:21:58now.
1:22:00God, don't spare me convictions.
1:22:07Don't spare me
1:22:10convictions, God.
1:22:16Holiness standards are not our
1:22:18salvation, but they'll sure help us to
1:22:21walk uprightly before the Lord.
1:22:26They'll keep a whole lot of hurt out of
1:22:27our life.
1:22:33Oh, let's pray, church. Let's pray.
1:22:35Let's pray. We need to receive this
1:22:37word.
1:22:38God, I pray that the spirit of holiness
1:22:41would be in this church.
1:22:43I pray the spirit of holiness to rest in
1:22:46our homes.
1:22:50God, I pray that my mind and my heart
1:22:53would be
1:22:55in alignment with your holy nature.
1:23:00God, I pray that when you look at
1:23:02Christian Life Church, you would see a
1:23:04reflection of your holiness.
1:23:08I pray that the nature of Jesus Christ
1:23:11would be alive and well in this church.
1:23:29Thank you, Jesus.
1:23:31Why don't you just let your heart melt
1:23:33right now before the presence of the
1:23:35Lord?
1:23:36Let's not stand here with a hard heart
1:23:38and
1:23:40push the word away. Let's receive it.
1:23:44Let's have an open heart to the word of
1:23:46God.
1:23:56Hallelujah.
1:23:59>> [music]
1:24:02>> Wonderful Jesus.
1:24:09Hallelujah.
1:24:11>> [music]
1:24:13>> God, let conviction be deep in our
1:24:15souls. [music]
1:24:22Hallelujah.
1:24:26>> [music]
1:24:31>> Thank you, Jesus. [music]
1:24:40Let's receive this word and
1:24:43This is the kind of
1:24:45preaching it's not just about what we're
1:24:46doing here in the altar, but this is how
1:24:48we live when we go home.
1:24:51And let's just get the spirit of Daniel
1:24:53[music]
1:24:54and his three Hebrew friends and says,
1:24:56"You know what? We're going
1:24:57We're going to walk uprightly.
1:25:00When I go to work tomorrow, I'm going to
1:25:02walk uprightly.
1:25:04The guys might be carrying on and being
1:25:06lewd and vulgar, but I'm not.
1:25:08I'm not going to laugh at their jokes.
1:25:10I'm not going to go along with that.
1:25:12It's not cuz I'm better. Cuz I'm not
1:25:14better than them, but
1:25:16cuz he's he's looking at me.
1:25:23We deal with our kids and our spouse,
1:25:26let's deal with them.
1:25:28Brothers, let's be men of God at home.
1:25:36Let's be kind and full of the love of
1:25:38God.
1:25:41You know, holiness
1:25:43is not abusive.
1:25:47Being controlling and abusive is
1:25:49contrary to the spirit of holiness.
1:25:53As men, we got to be strong and we got
1:25:55to lay the law down.
1:25:58We can't let the kids run wild and
1:26:02run over mom. Man of the house has got
1:26:04to
1:26:06you got to put your foot down.
1:26:08You know what we can do it in love.
1:26:11We can set a direction for a home and do
1:26:13it in love
1:26:14and in the spirit [music] of holiness.
1:26:17We need to do that. Let's embrace it.
1:26:19Let's do it with all of our heart.
1:26:22I love everybody and thank you for
1:26:23receiving the word tonight.
1:26:26Brother Mitchell called us to week of
1:26:28fasting and we made commitments. If you
1:26:30weren't here,
1:26:31just ask everyone to take at least
1:26:32[music] today and push the plate back
1:26:34and
1:26:35we're going to be fasting and praying
1:26:37for
1:26:38big things to break loose in the Holy
1:26:39Ghost this weekend and
1:26:41so let's do it. God's helping us. Good
1:26:44things are happening.
1:26:45Be dismissed in the fear of the Lord.

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