WEBVTT 00:00:00.959 --> 00:00:14.320 I tried the best I knew how to impress upon the moderator that there were better selections than myself, but to no avail. 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:25.120 I began with a place that I have started using oftentimes when I get up in front of the Lord's people. 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:33.679 Not that we want to talk about it particularly, but that we would want to set it before you and request a prayer. 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:41.600 It's in the fourth chapter of Colossians and it's the second through the fourth verse. 00:00:42.399 --> 00:01:13.519 It says, continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving, with all, or together with, praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds, that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak. 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.799 If the Lord would answer that prayer, then we'll have church this afternoon. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:27.200 If he doesn't, then perhaps Brother James will be able to lift you up. 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:38.079 I have a subject matter on my mind, and it's not a deep subject. 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:41.519 It's not something that's mysterious. 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:54.000 It's something that we have heard over and over again in our lives, but it's what's on my mind. 00:01:55.519 --> 00:02:08.719 I have learned that the Lord can take the simplest of subjects and open them up in a rich way that it could feed the young and old alike. 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.360 Our belief is not hard to understand. 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:24.000 At the bottom line, everything, everyone who's supposed to be in heaven will be in heaven without the loss of one. 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:26.000 That's what we believe. 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:33.599 So here's the verse, and I'll just jump into just one verse in the middle of a subject. 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:38.879 It's in the third chapter of John and the sixth verse. 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:46.560 That which is born of the flesh is the flesh. 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:54.560 And that which is born of the Spirit is the Spirit. 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:00.400 But it says so much. 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:07.039 Obviously, there's two births being talked about. 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:11.840 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:17.599 And that which is born of the spirit is spirit. 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:23.199 That that is born of the flesh is not spirit. 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:28.080 And that which is born of the spirit is not flesh. 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.199 Simple thing to understand. 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:44.479 Not only are they not one of the other, not only are they two separate births, they don't agree with each other. 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.080 I'll find it here in a second. 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:49.360 Trust. 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:50.639 Galatians. 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.960 At least it was in Galatians last time I looked. 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:10.960 The fifth chapter of Galatians, 17th verse, says, For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:21.360 These are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things you would. 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:29.920 So not only not only are they two separate things, but they're contrary one to the other. 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:32.000 They don't get along. 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:35.040 They're not at peace one with the other. 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:39.120 They war one with the other. 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:43.199 That explains a lot within our lives. 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:49.040 As we're pulled one way or as we are pulled another way. 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:51.040 Well, why is that so? 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:52.879 Has it always been that way? 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:54.959 Be careful how you answer now. 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:57.519 Has it always been that way? 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:02.720 Well, the truth is, no, it hadn't always been that way. 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:04.480 Let's go back to Genesis. 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.639 Let's go back to the book of beginnings. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:25.439 Let's understand that when God finished his creation on the sixth day, first of all, he created man on that sixth day, and of all the things that God created, man was the pinnacle of his creation. 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:26.800 How do you know that? 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:29.439 Well, let me read the scripture to you. 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.279 And God created man in his own image. 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:42.720 In the image of God created he him, man, male and female created he them. 00:05:43.360 --> 00:06:03.759 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and repentish the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowls of the air and other and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:14.079 He didn't say that to any of the other parts of his creation, only to man, that he has had dominion over everything else that he has made. 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:55.680 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which the fruit of the tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat, and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I hath given every green herb for meat, and it was so, and God saw everything that he made, and behold, it was very good, and the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:01.600 Sin wasn't there. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:15.439 So there in the flesh of the spirit and the soul and the body, the natural man, my friends, there was no variance with God. 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:19.279 There was no intimate with God. 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:22.319 There was no conflict with God. 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:31.759 They were all yielding peace and harmony, and man has never been in that same state since, my friends. 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:43.519 One way that you can quickly tell how sound a man is, is to take them to the first chapter of Genesis and just see what he has to say. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:48.079 As long as you say that Adam had to sin, you're in heresy. 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:49.439 He didn't have to. 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:50.959 He chose to. 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:54.560 Do you know Adam was not deceived in the transgression? 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:59.120 Eve was, but Adam knew exactly what he was doing. 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.839 In fact, Adam rebelled against God, my friends. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.160 He willfully did that. 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:08.720 Now we might say, well, I would have done that. 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.839 You don't have any idea what you would have done, or me either. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:13.199 Because we were without sin. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:15.680 Adam was without sin at that point. 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:23.600 But Eve gave to him, and he did eat, and in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:27.040 That's what being born of the flesh is about. 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:30.560 Let's go prove that to us again and set it forth. 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:35.200 We trust in clear method and clear form. 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:40.159 Fifth chapter of Romans says this. 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:44.720 Twelfth verse, five and twelve. 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:50.000 Wherefore as by one man, who's that one man? 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:51.039 Adam. 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:52.320 Adam. 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:57.200 Not only is it one man, it's one act of one man. 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.399 It's one action of one man. 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:02.240 And look at what happens. 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:09.279 Whereas by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:10.399 Did you hear that? 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:16.720 Not only did sin enter into the world, death by sin entered into the world. 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:18.159 Well, how about before then? 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:23.200 Death had not entered into the world, because one man hadn't trespassed anything. 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:38.960 But when that happened, when but not uh wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all man, for all had sinned. 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:46.000 That's true on every human being that has ever been upon this earth, save one. 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:49.120 And that's the second man, Adam. 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:52.480 The Lord Jesus Christ didn't have that. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:56.799 Because his Father was the Holy Father. 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:14.960 And the he existed before time, and here in time he was made flesh, my friends, but he was as man with one huge exception, my friends, no sin upon him whatsoever. 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:28.639 For the law, for until or before the law, sin was in the world, talking about the law of Moses, but sin is not imputed where there is no law. 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:32.320 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses. 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.679 Now, what happened between Adam and Moses? 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:39.759 Where can you see death reigning so clearly? 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:47.200 Where is it that there was more death than has ever happened into this world naturally that we've ever seen? 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.120 It was between Adam and Moses. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:50.799 It's called the flood. 00:10:51.840 --> 00:11:02.000 It's called Noah and the flood, my friends, and I want you to know all except those eight souls that were in that ship, they drowned, my friends. 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:04.399 You talk about death reigning. 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:11.200 We have a thousand killed and it's awful, and we have a 9-11 and it's awful, and we have this many wars. 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:17.919 I tell you, there's never been an instant, my friends, where there's been more natural death than in the flood. 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:34.399 If ever there was a point that would prove what this has just said, nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that have not sinned, after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come? 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:42.320 You know, you can get in trouble when you try to make figures out of things that are not figures, but when the Bible says it's a figure, you can say it's a figure. 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:47.679 And the Bible just said that Jesus and Adam, they had a relationship. 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:51.679 And that relationship is one was a figure of the other. 00:11:51.840 --> 00:12:01.600 So much that you could call one the first Adam, man Adam, and second the second man Adam, and then in that same verse afterwards, he's also called the last man Adam. 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:02.480 What does that mean? 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:03.840 There's no third Adam. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.440 It's just number one Adam and number two Adam, and that's it. 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:16.799 And by God's grace, my friends, there are those that were chosen in Christ before the world began, that was represented in both those births. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:23.919 You see, all mankind was represented by Adam, but all those who were in Christ, who were those? 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:25.679 Those who were placed in Christ. 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.879 When did that happen before the foundation of the world? 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:35.840 And that is what how things come to us, my friends, is how Adam's transgression comes to us. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.600 I don't choose for it to happen. 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:39.919 I don't make a decision for that to happen. 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.480 I can't keep it from happening, my friends. 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:49.519 The fact is that my mom and dad were sinners, and their mom and dad were sinners, and their mom and dad were sinners, and etc. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:49.919 etc. 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:57.519 And by the way, my me and my wife are sinners, and our children are sinners, and my grandchildren are sinners, and it's the same with you, my friend. 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:00.559 It passes, but with Jesus it didn't pass. 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:05.440 Now, that which is flesh is flesh. 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.559 That's what you get on the flesh side of it, my friends. 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:12.960 You get death, you get, you get, you get uh woe. 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:29.279 It hadn't always been that way, but I tell you, from the day that it started, which is in the day that thou eatest thereof, and the very instant, my friend, the very moment that Adam broke the only law that God gave him. 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:30.240 You see that? 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:31.200 Don't eat it. 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:34.639 Not hard to understand, not difficult to explain. 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:41.679 I don't care how it looks, I don't care who touched thee differently, the fact is, don't touch that tree. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.000 I think I could have understood that. 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:45.279 How about you? 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:46.960 So what did he do? 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:49.519 Well, the serpent beguiled Eve. 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:50.879 Eve took of the tree. 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:59.360 You know, she looked on it, she saw that it was good, for a beautiful to look upon, one to make one wise, and so forth and so on. 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:04.559 And she took of that tree, and she gave to Adam, and he did eat. 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:08.879 The big difference is Adam was not deceived. 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:12.399 So that's what you get with flesh. 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:16.000 That's what we have with flesh. 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:23.360 And so we would remain there if it were not for another birth. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:30.399 Now, I have as much to do with one of those births as I do the other, which means I have nothing. 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.360 I didn't choose mom and dad to be my mom and dad. 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:35.679 I didn't choose the last name Huckabee. 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:38.080 I didn't choose my name as it is. 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:40.960 In fact, they call me my name that they don't even give me. 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:43.360 Sonny's not on my birth certificate. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:46.639 Uh, but my point is, I had no choice in it. 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.000 You know, I've received a lot of things I hadn't chose to receive. 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.960 I received the measles, I didn't choose to. 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:56.159 I received uh uh all that stuff. 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:57.440 I didn't choose to. 00:14:58.399 --> 00:14:59.600 It just came. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.159 It's like the earth receiving the rain. 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:03.440 I just have it. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.440 I didn't choose to have it, I just have it, my friend, and so do you. 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:08.879 So do you. 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.039 You know what I'm starting to receive now? 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:12.000 Old age. 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:17.360 I gotta have hearing aids, I gotta have glasses, mind starting to fail, all that type of stuff. 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.519 I don't choose for any of that to happen. 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:21.759 But Brother Bruce, that doesn't matter, does it? 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:26.000 No, it's gonna come or does come whether you choose for it to come or not. 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:27.120 What about my will? 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:29.919 My will has not a thing to do with that, my friends. 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.879 My will's impacted by that, but I don't have a thing. 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:34.960 I don't choose for those things to happen. 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:36.879 I hope that's clear to you. 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:43.840 But neither do you choose for the second to happen, which is spiritual. 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:49.279 What happens in spiritual birth? 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:53.679 Well, that which is born of the flesh is flesh. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:57.919 But that which is born of the spirit is spirit. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.120 Oh my friends, what an understatement there is in the Bible. 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.120 What goes with that? 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:09.279 All things spiritual come with that. 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.320 A whole world opens up. 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:14.559 That's a spiritual world. 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:21.279 A whole understanding opens up, which is a spiritual understanding. 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:26.159 Now we might take it for granted because it might have happened, I guess, with John the Baptist. 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:27.679 It happened before he was born. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:32.320 It might happen before, we might not have it knew when it happened, so to speak. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.519 But I know some people in the Bible knew exactly when it happened. 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:40.240 I would say Saul of Tarsus, my friend, could take you right to the point in which it happened. 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:46.240 He could take you right to that point of the road, my friends, and he could say, right here, right here. 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:50.879 I was walking in the power of my own strength, thinking I had everything to do. 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:53.919 I knew what I was going to do today, tomorrow, and the next day. 00:16:54.080 --> 00:17:01.519 I'm a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee, concerning the law, perfect, concerning zeal, my friends, without a sin. 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:03.360 He knew exactly what he wanted. 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.200 And I mean in an instant. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:09.680 No one was praying for Saul of Tarsus to be a born again, my friends. 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.240 No one had even thought about that happening. 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:13.279 Why would you? 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:14.079 Here's public. 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:17.359 He is the chief of sinners. 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:21.279 My friends, that word chief is not an adjective, it's a noun. 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:24.000 He is the chief of sinners. 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.720 He is the top sinner, my friends. 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:29.440 In that time, he was the chief. 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:32.319 The church scared to death of them. 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:34.960 They heard about him. 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:40.960 What happened when the Lord appeared unto Ananias and said, You go to a man named Saul? 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:42.079 No, wait a minute. 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:43.599 I've heard of that guy. 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.160 He throws folks like me in prison. 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.880 And you want me to go, you want me to do what? 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:53.680 I want you to go and talk to that man. 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:58.319 You know what the Lord told him? 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:03.039 That I think kind of settled that for Saul for Ananias. 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:06.559 Behold, he prayed. 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:12.240 Behold, he prayed. 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:21.200 What's the first word out of Ananias' mouth when he got to brother? 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:22.880 Saul. 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:26.079 And then what was right after that? 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:32.559 The Lord that hath appeared unto thee in the way hath appeared unto me also. 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:35.200 And sent me to tell you. 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:36.720 You know what he just did? 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:48.799 My friends, what happens, I trust, and every sermon that's inspired by the Spirit of God, it attaches to your own spiritual experiences. 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:53.200 I don't want to communicate to you on a mental level. 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:59.119 I've heard a man, one minister tell another minister, and they were extremely prominent ministers. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:00.480 And this isn't hearsay. 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:01.279 I heard it. 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:07.759 I heard one tell the other, man has two natures, and I'm not ashamed to preach to either one of them. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:09.119 Well, I am. 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:13.279 I never want to preach to the natural man. 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.400 I have no desire to preach to the natural. 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:20.960 I have not, I don't, I don't have anything to offer you from a natural standpoint. 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:38.880 But if God be my helper, my friends, I have something, if he gives me grace, I have something to offer to you, to try to present to you, to try to have you come out with an understanding better than what you did when you entered the service concerning spiritual things. 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.960 What happens in this spiritual birth? 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.160 Well, just like I said, you don't have anything to do with it. 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:49.759 You're the recipient of it. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.279 You don't choose when it happens, you can't prevent it from happening. 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:54.559 It's going to happen. 00:19:54.799 --> 00:20:06.079 In fact, if you're a child of God, if you were chosen before the foundation of the world, my friends, before you pass this world, you will be born again. 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:07.359 Period. 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:10.559 No ifs, ands, or buts. 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:14.880 It might be like John the Baptist while you were still in your mother's womb. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:20.400 Or it might be like one of the thieves on the cross in the last hours of your life, my friends. 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:23.039 But somewhere it's going to happen. 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:24.880 And let me tell you something else. 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:34.559 The way that God had begun to do this work with, I believe, Adam and Eve, the when he first began, is the same identical way he does it now. 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:36.480 He hadn't changed one iota. 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:38.000 He hadn't. 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.279 Now let me tell you that's mysterious when you think about it. 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:46.000 Because Titus tells us there's a washing in regeneration. 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:52.000 Hebrew tells us without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:59.039 Well, how could God use the blood in regeneration and washing before there was the blood? 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:05.599 Because God is God and He doesn't have to wait for something to be before he can use it, my friends. 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:08.640 He can speak to it as though it's already happened. 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:19.119 That's why all those EDs are on the uh the the end of those things, whether we're uh justified or glorified, my friends. 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:23.599 He can speak to it as if it's stolen because it's sure and it's steadfast. 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.720 But he could use the blood before there was the blood. 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:29.519 Watch this, by having faith in the blood. 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:31.680 And that's not mine or your faith at all. 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:38.720 It's God's faith, it's God's knowledge, it's God's ability to be able to use something before there was that something. 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:42.480 And it's a washing, it's a cleansing. 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:43.839 What's washed? 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:46.319 Something's washed, what is it? 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:48.640 It's the inward part, my friends. 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:54.720 It's the soul, it's the inward man that is cleansed by the washing of regeneration. 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:59.200 And when it's in that cleansed state, something miraculous happens. 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:06.559 And it Happens the same identical way, my friends, for every single one of his children. 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:08.799 Let me read it to you. 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:12.000 I could quote at it, but let me just read it. 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:20.480 Second Peter, first chapter, fourth verse. 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:38.160 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these, listen, ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in this world through lust. 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:40.000 What did he just say? 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:48.480 He says, My friends, in the work of regeneration, you inherit a divine nature. 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:52.960 It's Christ in you, the hope of glory. 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:55.839 Listen how 1 John says it. 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:01.279 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin. 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.720 Whoa, that needs some explaining, doesn't it? 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:08.880 I've sinned since I've been up here in front of you, I'm sure. 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:12.400 But I just read to you. 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:14.559 Does that mean I'm not born of God? 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:15.279 No. 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:18.160 Then don't rightly divide that. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:21.200 You know, that's the problem with so many folks. 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:31.359 They look at the scriptures and they try to make natural interpretations when Jesus Christ said, the words that I speak, they're spirit and they're life. 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:34.319 You've got to have spiritual understanding. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:43.359 You've got to be able to use that divine nature that's been planted within you, my friends, that has, I can get to it in a second, that has the fruit. 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:48.160 And you need to be able to use that to have spiritual discernment. 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.079 I believe in the church having spiritual. 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:59.759 I do not believe that that is limited to ministers, nor do I believe that that is limited to brethren. 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:05.599 I've had some wonderful spiritual discussion that really exceeded my understanding. 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:12.960 I've had sisters teach me things, my friends, as recently as like a couple of weeks ago. 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:17.680 Well, I'm not going to say that. 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:23.119 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin. 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:26.240 Now please remember this last part, because it's very important. 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:27.200 Why? 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:28.319 Why is that true? 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:29.920 What's he talking about? 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:32.319 The body sins, my friend. 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:38.720 But I'll tell you something in you that does not sin, and it's the Spirit of God that's in you. 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:40.559 And you know why it doesn't? 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:41.440 Listen. 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:49.039 Does not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him. 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:51.119 Seed. 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:52.400 Hold on to that. 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:54.400 I want to get back to that in just a second. 00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:56.559 Seed remaineth in him. 00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:58.559 Let me finish reading that. 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:10.480 Whosoever is born, whom, yeah, whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:15.759 Now you look what you get from that which is spirit is spirit. 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:16.880 You know what you get? 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:29.839 You get a whole spiritual entity in you that's divine, it's godly, it cannot sin, for its seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin. 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.839 It's impossible for that within you to sin. 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:40.160 Now, this sins, this body sins, our mind is still carnal to some degree. 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:47.759 Our flesh, and and and we can we can we can act, my friends, like we haven't been born of God. 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:50.880 But the fact is, God has done that work. 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:54.720 I don't do it, the gospel doesn't do it, God does it. 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:55.359 How? 00:25:55.599 --> 00:26:03.440 The hour is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:10.480 Now, let's see some interesting things about seed. 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.119 I don't know what you think about when I when you think about seed. 00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:27.200 I know uh people are in the uh congregation today that's made a whole earning, a whole life in their work life about seeds and and working with seeds and so forth and so on. 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:32.160 But when I think about seeds, my friend, I think about uh natural seeds. 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:33.359 Let me say it another way. 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:34.720 I think about plants. 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:37.279 I think about things bearing fruit. 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:38.480 That's what I think about. 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:41.039 It's things, well let me let's watch this. 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:43.119 Watch what it says over here. 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:49.759 Back in the fifth chapter of Galatians, listen to what it said. 00:26:50.160 --> 00:27:02.960 In the 19th verse, it says, Now the works of the flesh are, and then start to listen to them, we'll go back to it, but in the 22nd verse it says, but the fruit of the spirit. 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:07.599 Doesn't say the works of the spirit, it says the fruit of the spirit. 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:10.079 It sounds like seed to me. 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:13.920 God plants it within you, my friends. 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:16.960 Let me first deal with the works of the flesh. 00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:21.200 The works, 19th, uh 5th chapter of Galatians 19th, verse. 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:24.160 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these. 00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:25.599 Don't have to warn about it. 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:28.559 Don't, you know, I like it when the Bible says just what it is. 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:32.559 It would do you and I good when it says it, just to accept what it says. 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:35.359 If it says that's what it is, that's what it is. 00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:41.359 If it says, well, these things work together for good, and then it says, What shall you say to these things? 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:42.000 Guess what? 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:44.400 He's talked about them right in between those two places. 00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:46.079 Don't have to go anywhere else. 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:47.279 There they are. 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:48.319 Just accept it. 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:49.200 Don't make it hard. 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:50.480 They're there. 00:27:51.440 --> 00:28:18.000 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanliness, lascifishness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulation, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envies, murders, drunkenness, revelies, and such like. 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:20.400 That's not a complete list of them. 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:23.279 There's others that are just like those things. 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:24.240 Wow. 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:27.599 That's a pretty fruitful thing, isn't it? 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:29.920 To our shame it is. 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:31.839 It's very fruitful. 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:35.200 And it comes, my friends, from the flesh. 00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:38.400 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:57.839 But in contrast to that, but the fruit of the Spirit is, listen, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance against their such there is no law. 00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:00.240 Let me tell you an experience I had one time. 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:06.559 If you've heard me before, you've probably heard the experience, but at least there's one person that's never heard me before that's in the congregation. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:13.440 My daughter, Elisa, my middle daughter, uh, Hannah's. 00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:14.880 What are you looking me for? 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:17.119 Hannah Hannah's mother. 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:20.400 Daniel's mother. 00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:22.799 Elisa, my second daughter. 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:38.880 I was, I had, I had moved from Arkansas to Texas, gone back for an association, and while we were there, I heard that a distant cousin of mine, her husband, had committed suicide. 00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:44.640 And they wanted me to do the funeral in around Fayette. 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:47.920 I didn't know what to do. 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:50.640 I flew in, we rearranged that schedule. 00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:52.799 I didn't have a rent car or anything like that. 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:54.960 Lisa says, Daddy, I'll take you. 00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:57.440 So Lisa took me. 00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:01.599 Lisa and I were the only two primitive Baptists in that congregation. 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:04.319 And he was a very well-known. 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:07.759 I can't remember what it was. 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:10.079 I think it was a chiropractor. 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:12.079 Well known. 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:13.200 And the place was crowded. 00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:14.880 There wasn't a place for anybody to sit. 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:18.480 It was and and I knew what those people. 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:26.400 In fact, I visited with the family ahead of time, and I'm glad this isn't being recorded anywhere, so I don't want to ever know about this, tongue in cheek. 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:34.559 But anyway, I I you can't believe what the kids of that family told me. 00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:38.160 They actually were cussy when they told it to me. 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.119 And I thought, Lord, what am I gonna do? 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:42.880 What am I gonna do? 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:44.319 I never met the man. 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:47.519 First time I seen him was in that that that coffin. 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:49.680 I I'd never seen him before in my life. 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:57.440 If no other time in my life the Lord gave me something to say, it was at that funeral. 00:30:57.839 --> 00:30:58.880 And I told them. 00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:00.240 I knew what they were thinking. 00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:05.200 Everybody there, I'm sure, well, most people there, I can get away with that. 00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:09.200 Most people there thought he was going to hell because he committed suicide. 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:15.759 Isn't it funny when it says nothing shall separate you from the love of God? 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:17.839 What's the first thing that's listed? 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.359 It's not life, it's death. 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:27.279 Death can't separate you from the love of God, even if you take your own. 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:36.240 Now, in no way do you understand that I'm suggesting that's the most selfish act a person can commit, my friend. 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.880 I remember elder Larry Webb, a close friend of mine. 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:42.720 Stories after stories. 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:43.519 I'm sorry. 00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:49.759 If if if everybody was like Hannah over there, I gotta say this is story number three, and I wouldn't have to say anything else. 00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:50.880 She'd know it. 00:31:54.880 --> 00:32:03.599 When Sharon and I got married, there was a couple there, and the woman was very pregnant with a child. 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:09.680