Spirit Stream #47 - True Faith vs Dead Religion

In Spirit Stream #47, Nick Griemsmann delivers a bold teaching on the often-misunderstood verse “faith without works is dead” (James 2). He clarifies the difference between true living faith that produces fruit and dead religious works that have no power.

Discover powerful truths about:
• What James really means by “faith without works is dead” — it’s not about earning salvation
• True faith naturally produces good works as fruit of the Holy Spirit, not as a means to be saved
• The danger of dead religion, self-righteousness, and performance Christianity
• How genuine faith looks like Abraham offering Isaac, and Rahab hiding the spies — actions that flowed from belief
• Renewing your mind to rest in grace while allowing the Holy Spirit to produce real transformation
• Overcoming condemnation and walking in the freedom of the simple gospel

Nick shares transparent encouragement from his own journey of deliverance and emphasizes that salvation is by grace through faith alone, but real faith is never alone — it changes how we live.

This stream is full of clarity, correction, and Spirit-led encouragement for anyone confused about faith and works.

🙏 Watch until the end for anointed prayer to encourage you!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Welcome & Holy Ghost Atmosphere
10:00 - Faith Without Works is Dead (James 2 Explained)
25:00 - True Faith Produces Fruit (Abraham & Rahab Examples)
40:00 - Dead Religion vs Living Faith
55:00 - Grace Not Works & Renewing the Mind
1:10:00 - Personal Testimony & Encouragement
1:25:00 - Closing Prayer for Genuine Faith & Holy Ghost Filling

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Hey. Hey guys, Spirit Stream forty-seven, Nick Grimsman, Holy Ghost Television, Spirit Stream number forty-seven. Hi, June. I see you over on YouTube. Thanks for commenting. Guys, we have a lot of uh good stuff going on. Uh, it's now two thousand and twenty-six. Can you believe that? Guys, I was um in 2006, I was still struggling uh trying to get free from uh mental health issues, and I was struggling and struggling, and you know, I'm thankful for the people that helped me uh in my past, but I want to give glory to the Lord Jesus Christ because nobody had the answers for me. No one, no man, no woman, no one had the answers for me. Um, they had bits and pieces, but the real answer was found in the person of Jesus of Nazareth and in that personal, intimate relationship with God through the Holy Spirit that indwells believers. You know, I struggled and struggled, I tried all sorts of stuff to be free, and maybe that's you. Maybe you have tried everything to receive healing, everything to receive deliverance, everything to prosper, all these things. But if if you just take a moment to realize that it's all about your personal relationship with the Lord, everything that goes on in your life is for you to get closer to the Lord, believe it or not. I mean, some of you are in the position because you believed a bunch of lies and now your life is really bad. So now you have to repent, you've changed your mind, you have to start believing the truth and resisting the devil, right? But a lot of us go through things and we're like, what happened? Like, for example, I love the Lord. I got saved and I ended up in a full-blown cult two weeks after I got saved, after I gave my life to the Lord Jesus Christ. And I couldn't figure it out. Like, like years later, I'm like, Well, I don't understand why. If I loved God so much, why did I go through such a horrible time? Why did I have to go through mental health issues? Why did I have to go through a cult? Why did I have to go through all these experiences that seem to be so horrific? You know, I was hearing voices in my mind telling me to hurt myself, telling me to do dumb things, uh, tell me to speak out in public. And you, you know, you can read it about about it in my books and things, but you know, I look back and I think, you know, what did I learn through all that? I learned so much through all the negative I went through that now I can minister to people and give them hope. Years ago, I prayed and prayed and prayed, Lord, how do I help all these people that contact the ministry? Everybody's suffering. Why is everybody suffering? Help, Lord, help. You know, I can't be everybody's answer. And I felt like the Lord just spoke to my heart, give people hope. If somebody can have hope, they can grab onto faith. So today I want to give you hope that this season in your life is not forever. Just like when I was in the cult, it wasn't forever. I don't like the lighting. The lighting was kind of it's like hitting my glasses too much, but whatever. Okay, that's just me being annoyed, you know, getting annoyed by the lights. But you know, like the season of life is not forever. But what happens is that you get in the season and then you forget the promise. Just like the children of Israel, they were in the um, they were in the uh uh they're they were in the uh uh wilderness and the snake started biting them, they were sinning, the snake started biting them, and then what happened? Moses lifted up the uh uh the uh the brazen serpent, which is a type of Christ, and as Moses lifted it up, as people looked at um the brazen serpent, they kept their eyes on the cross, on Lord Jesus Christ, on the Messiah, the coming Messiah, uh, then they were healed. And so your your your attack and all the stuff you go through is really to get your eyes off of the Lord. It's to get you on your circumstances, and you won't get breakthrough really until you start believing differently. You have to make a choice, you have to make a choice inside yourself that you're gonna start submitting to God and resisting the devil. And, you know, I don't hear a lot of people teach about this maybe because they haven't gone through such deep spiritual warfare as some of us have who've been through really traumatic things like cults or uh schizophrenia or just uh witchcraft stuff, all these, you know, a lot of people don't go through you know the deep stuff, right? Um, but I've come to realize that um every single attack, pretty much every single attack that you'll go through is in your emotions, it's attached to your mind, right? So your mind needs to be renewed, and your emotions follow what you believe. So if you're taking notes, write that down. Maybe somebody can comment that your emotions follow what you believe. So if you are a negative emotional person, then you're going to go into negative things. You're gonna see a negative thing in your life. If you are always getting offended, that's an emotion. It's a stronghold, they call it, right? So, you know, people have argued with me about this or tried to. They they say, well, you know, God gave us emotions, and we're supposed to, you know, we're emotional people, and and uh uh absolutely God gave us emotions. We all go through emotions, okay? It's what we do with the emotions. Be and they're like, well, the Bible says, be angry and sin not. Well, anger is an emotion when you allow anger to pull you into punching, yelling, throwing things, all that stuff, then you're sinning. You're going into the flesh. Okay. So Paul's like, be angry and sin not. Don't let your don't let the sun go down on your wrath. So you're angry about something going on. Maybe you're maybe it's righteous anger, whatever it is, but you're not going to allow that to take you into arguing with your spouse, yelling at your children, uh, all that stuff. Negative life behaviors, because it's about walking in the spirit. If you walk in the spirit, you what? Do not what? Fulfill the lust of the flesh. Let's look at that. Let's go to Galatians. Let's read Galatians today. I'm gonna go over to I'm gonna transfer over to this. Um screen share. Uh, I forgot how to do this now, all of a sudden. Um, what am I doing? Uh, yeah, how do I do this? I thought I was on screen share. No, oh, okay. Give me a second, guys. Let's see here. How do I screen share? Alright, well, this isn't working all of a sudden. Let's see if I can do this. No, that's not gonna work. Hey, there I am again. Let's go back to here. Alright, now I'm gonna figure this out real quick. Okay, I have this little thing here. I just did it last time. And how do I get it to screen share? Sorry, guys. I just totally ruined this. Uh video settings. No. Um oh here we go. Let's see if this works. All right. Here we go. How's that? Does that work? Did I just share? Yeah, here we go. All right, guys. So let's let's uh screen share here for a second. Uh let's go to Galatians. So you just go here. Galatians, we'll just start with one, one, and then we'll just start reading from it. And then we'll just kind of go as uh fast, not fast as possible. We're trying, I'm gonna kind of skip through some stuff, uh, but you guys can read it yourself. So Paul, an apostle, sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead. So Paul is stating he's an apostle, and then he goes on to talk about uh grace and peace. Uh, let me uh just open this up. Here we go, chapter one. All right. Uh, grace and peace to you from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age. So Christ gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this evil age. Okay, you're living in an evil age. You just have to accept it. You have to accept the truth, right? You have to accept the truth that you're living in an evil age, an evil time. Unfortunately, that's where we're at. Okay? According to the will of God the Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. And then Paul talks about I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ, and are turning to a different gospel. So there's a different gospel out there, and which is not even a gospel. So he's saying this isn't even good news. He says you're turning from what? You're turning from the grace of Christ, and you're going into a different gospel, but it's not even a gospel. He's saying it's not good news. Amen. Are you guys still with me? Let me go back here, see if uh all right. I hope you're still with me. Okay. So it's not even a gospel. Evidently, some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ. Remember, the gospel means what? The gospel means the good news. So people come and try to distort the good news of Jesus Christ. They're everywhere, guys. They're trying to distort the good news of Jesus Christ by what? Giving you some different gospel, but it's not good news, what they're telling you.

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Okay.

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And he goes on to explain what that is. Okay. Then he goes on even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preach to you, let him be a curse. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be under a curse. Okay? Then Paul goes on. Am I seeking the approval of men or of God? So if you're going to be a preacher of the gospel, you have to decide if you're going to seek the approval of men. I guys, I have been through that where you know you get you feel temptation or you you want to, I guess, water down or not really water down, but it's like uh you're trying to make sure people aren't mad at you and stuff like that. It's very easy to get into that. People, please, it but Paul says, am I seeking the approval of men or of God? So you have to decide do you want to be uh you know approved of men or God? I want to be approved by God. I want the gospel that I preach to be approved by God. I want God to look at the ministry, to look at uh, you know, uh the the fruit from the ministry and what I'm speaking uh and be pleased in what I'm uh sharing with you, okay? Uh like I said, I'm not like a Bible scholar, so you know if you have different opinions or whatever, hey, praise God. All right, so here we go. 188 Nohim is our prayer number. Okay, what am I doing? Sorry, guys. Kind of fun. This is new to me. All right. Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached was not devised by man, I did not receive it by any man, nor was I taught it. Rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. Okay? Then he talks about he was what heard of my former way of life in Judaism. So he's talking about Judaism now. He was in Judaism, he persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. He was advancing in what? Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my father's. He was a zealous uh practicing uh Jew. Okay, he was advancing in the religion of Judaism. But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his son in me, okay? Very important, his son in me. So Christ lives in your body, okay? Christ lives in your body, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles. I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go to Jerusalem. So he's talking about when he received the revelation. He didn't go to Jerusalem to the apostles who came before him, but I went me, but I went to Arabia and later returned to Damascus. Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, who is Peter, and I stayed with him fifteen days, but I saw none of the apostles except James, Jesus' brother. I assure you before God that what I'm writing to you is no lie. Then he went into Cayria and Sicilia, and he was unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. They only heard the account. The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy, and they glorified God in me. Okay? So he sets the stage. Okay. Paul is setting the stage here for what? Paul is setting the stage to say that he is an apostle. He got the revelation from Jesus. He knows Peter. Hey, Martin, he knows he knows Peter, James, the Lord's brother. And what he's telling us is the truth. And he goes on before that. He says, if you guys are receiving a different gospel, what is happening here? And it's not even a gospel. It's not good news what you're receiving. He's going to tell you what this is. And this is going to help you because you're going to start to see it everywhere, not everywhere. You're going to start to see it and be like, wow, people are preaching a different good news. This is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

Okay.

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So then he goes on. 14 years later, I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas and Titus. I went in response to a revelation set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders. Okay. So he spoke privately to the leaders for fear that I was running or had already run in vain. Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. Okay, so Titus wasn't compelled to be circumcised. This issue arose, see, so now he's talking about circumcision. Okay? He's talking about circumcision. Okay, you guys getting this? So what what is he talking about here? He's talking about Titus, who I who I believe, I think it's Titus, right? Or is it Timothy who is half it talks about in the book of Acts, he's half Jewish or something. But anyway, so this issue arose. What iss what issue? Circumcision. Okay? Is everybody getting this? He's talking about circumcision, a work of the law for righteousness. Okay? Moses's law. This issue arose because of what some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to what? They're spying on our freedom in Christ. In order what? To enslave us. Okay, so there's an enslaver here. They're trying to enslave the Christians. What is this slavery? What are we talking about here? Slavery. Interesting. Okay? We're going to keep moving. We did not give in to them for a moment, so the truth of the gospel would remain with you. But as for the highly esteemed, whatever they were, makes no difference to me. God does not show favoritism, those leaders added nothing to me. On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted to preach the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised. So Peter was entrusted to speak to the circumcised. So those are law-keeping Jews.

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And Paul went to the nations. He went to the Greeks, the Romans, he went over to the barbarians, he went to Malta, you know, all these places to preach a gospel. Okay. And so Peter has a different ministry than Paul. It's just like if your ministry is to the Chinese people or to the Australians, you just have different ministry callings. Okay? I mean, it's a little different than you know, people under the law or whatever. You know what I'm saying? So if your ministry is to Muslim nations, your ministry and your preaching is going to be different style than somebody preaching to people in Las Vegas. See what I'm saying? So there's different ways you preach the gospel and ways that you lead people according to what culture they're from, what religion they're from, all those things. Okay. So Peter, it's very interesting though, Peter was what? He was unlearned. Remember in Book of Acts, it says that the uh was it Book of Acts? Yeah. So they didn't, uh so Peter and John went up and remember the uh the Pharisees, they were they were amazed because they were unlearned, but they knew that he was they were with Jesus for three years or whatever, three and a half years. And so, but they were unlearned. They weren't like uh uh Pharisees, they didn't have a formal education, they were fishermen. So so God is amazing. He takes uh a Pharisee, Paul, who knows everything about the law, who could refute what the Pharisees and talk bring to them, and he takes him and he puts him with Gentiles who know nothing about the law or or the old law, you know, Moses' law and everything. And then he takes Peter, who's unlearned, to the religious people in Jerusalem and the Jewish people who know the law. It's very interesting how God did that. I think it's very wise, and uh God always is uh different than what we would think. I would say send Paul to the religious people, right? Send Paul to those who really know the law. But he sent Peter, praise God, right? Because it's by the Spirit, it's by the Spirit the gospel's preached. Amen. It's by the wisdom of God. Praise God. All right. I hope everybody's watching. Uh so give me a follow, guys. Uh, send uh uh uh what was it? Send uh send this to your other pages or whatever. I don't know how that works, you know, like share it or whatever. Okay, so uh anyway, so and recognizing the grace that I've been given. So this is uh Galatians 2, 9. James Cephas, so this is James, this is Paul uh Peter, and this translation, I don't even know what translation I'm reading from. Anyway, uh anyway, and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship so that we should go to the Gentiles and they did the circumcision. They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. Okay, so they asked you, hey, remember the poor, remember the poor Christians, help help out, all that stuff. And then talks about Cephas, Peter, came to Antioch and I opposed him to his face. Why? Because he stood condemned, he stood in judgment because of his uh what is what uh I'm just looking what am I reading? What uh translation? How do I change the translation on here? Oh, right here. Here we go. Let's go to uh where's New King James. Here we go. Let's see if that works. Okay. This is a little better. Now Peter had come to Antioch. I was stood into the face because he was to be blamed for before certain men came from James, so they came from who? The Lord's brother, James. You guys getting this? Okay, Peter, he would eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, so when the people from James came, those Peter withdrew and separated himself, fearing who is he fearing? Those who are of the circumcision, so believing Jewish people, messianic Jews. Okay. Remember, this is a time when there was still Israel and they had the temple system, they had the nation of Israel and the laws and everything like that. Okay. So remember, though there was uh a whole law system in the nation of Israel. All right. And if you lived in Israel at the time, you had to you had to follow those things, not for righteousness' sake, right? That's Paul's whole argument, is not for righteousness' sake. You do it so you don't offend people and you honor God that way, uh if it's on your heart to do that, and you don't get stoned, right? Jesus told the lady, go and sin no more. Why? So she won't get stoned, because sinful things lead to can lead to physical death, especially if you're breaking the law, or you end up in prison, right? You could go drive drunk and end up in prison. That's why we're not supposed to drive drunk. You can kill someone, hurt someone, and you hurt yourself, you ruin your life, your tech Christian testimony. Okay, so sinful things always lead to what? It can always lead to if you practice it, eventually it becomes a decay of life. Okay, it becomes a decay of life. Okay, all right. So you don't want your life to decay. All right, here we go. So then he withstood Peter face to face, Galatians 2. Okay, because why? He would eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself. Remember, there's one uh one body of Christ now. Jesus has torn down the wall of separation between Jew and Gentile. We're all one now. But what was Peter doing? He was separating himself, fearing those who are the circumcision, and the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him. So even Barnabas, who's a messianic Jew, was carried away with what? Their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, that what? That we're all one now, and that we are uh in Christ and we are not um Gentiles, uh, did not have to follow the law of Moses because they were not under it in the nation of Israel. Does that make sense? Okay when I saw that they were not straightforward in a truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, if you being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles, what does that tell you about Peter? Peter was what? When he was not around Jewish believers, what was he doing? He was living in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews. Because Peter knew he was free from righteousness by law. He knew he was righteous by faith in Christ, so he could live in the manner of Gentiles. Isn't that interesting? And not as the Jews. Why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? So then he was playing the hypocrite, he was basically separating himself and saying you had to act like this when they're around, and then he was just being a hypocrite in that area, if you think about it. So he was when the Gentiles were around, he was living like a Gentile. But when the Jews were around, he was telling he was basically saying the Gentiles have to live like the Jews. We who are Jews by nature, not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Christ Jesus. Okay. Okay, we who are Jews by nature, so a natural-born Jew and not sinners of the Gentiles. Okay, interesting there. I'm don't really understand it totally. I guess they're that's how they called them because they were sinners according to the Jewish law, right? Knowing that a man is not justified, made right with God, he is not innocent before God by what? Doing the law. Okay. You are not made right by God, by what? Performing the law, doing things in the law. You're only justified by what? Faith in Jesus Christ. So a lot of you have to understand this because you think you're right by you're right with God because you go to church, or because you didn't lie today, or because you pray, or because you don't eat pork, or because of this, or because of that. You're only justified by what? By faith in Jesus Christ. Okay, that's why later on it says, anything that's not of faith is what? Sin is missing the mark. Okay, faith. So in your own life, the enemy knows this. So what does he do? In your life, he tries to get you away from what faith in Jesus Christ. He's trying to get you away from faith. Amen. Hey Jonathan, good to see you. Hey Jonathan, good to see you. Praise God over in YouTube, over in New Zealand. All right, so I've been in New Zealand. He said near Australia, I know. Praise God. Love you, bud. Okay, so he's trying to get you away from faith in Jesus and get you where? To justify yourself by practicing the law, by doing things in the law. There's nothing wrong with the law, but you have to understand his purpose is to teach you that you're a sinner and there's no hope for you. There's no hope for you without the Messiah. Okay? There's no hope for you without Jesus' blood. There's no hope for eternal life. The law points you to Christ. Everything that's contained in the law and the prophets is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the fulfillment of the law. The end of the law is Christ to all who believe. Okay? And so there's nothing wrong with the law. The law is holy, just, and good, but it can't produce righteousness. Righteousness only comes by faith. You have to be gifted righteous by Jesus Christ. You have to be gifted righteousness. His blood makes you righteous. So a lot of us struggle with this. We struggle with works-based mentality. And our website has a ton of resources for you. We have all these videos, 30 Days to Believing Right. We have an app that can help you. We have all these things at the fathersfriends.org. We have a free app. All the videos are free for you guys to try to help you. Just help you. You know, use the ministry and get the free resources. Do you know renew your mind and go into your own ministry? I don't need you to follow me and just be somebody who watches me all the time. You know, get in your own ministry. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I appreciate people that support the ministry and all stuff. But you don't, you know, there uh comes a time where you mature and you're like, yeah, I'm I'm free. I'm I'm in Christ, I'm righteous, and I've renewed my mind. Yeah, I'm gonna go out and start my own church or start my own ministry, or I'm gonna go volunteer at the local homeless shelter. I'm gonna be a hospital volunteer, I'm gonna do something instead of sit around and just watch YouTube videos all day, right? You're supposed to mature in faith. Okay, it takes time, but eventually you'll mature in your relationship with the Lord, praying the Holy Ghost, right? All that stuff, and your mind will renew and you won't have to sit here and watch videos, teachings all the time. You'll finally get it. Everything's fulfilled. You are now to love your neighbors yourself. You're supposed to love God and love the neighbors, right? Love the brethren. Love the brethren, love the neighbors. It's fulfilled. And it's hard for us to get that because we want a bunch of rules and regulations. We want to uh we want somebody to tell us what to do to get the breakthrough. We want somebody to tell us what to do. Okay, this is what to do. Submit to God. Submit to God, submit your entire life to God. That's the first thing. You need to be born again. Okay, if you're not born again, give us a call. 188-Know Him. That's our phone number. Jesus or uh uh the Bible says that if you confess Jesus as Lord, confession, you're making a confession, public declaration of faith, confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe what? Believe with your whole heart, believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. And if you're saved and you have that in your heart, you've been circumcised in your heart, you have the circumcision from heaven. Okay, that's why natural circumcision doesn't matter anymore. That can't bring righteousness. It was a type and a shadow of things in the spirit. So your heart is now circumcised. You have a heart of flesh, no longer a heart of stone. You have a heart of flesh. So if you say, Oh, my heart is hard, oh my heart is this, and that no, that's your soul, that's your feelings. Your heart is new, your spirit is new. You need to learn who you are and you need to believe correctly. Okay? You need to start believing correctly. Submit to God and resist the devil. Start disagreeing with the lies. Start disagreeing that you're poor, start disagreeing that you're sick, start disagreeing that God doesn't have a plan for you. Start disagreeing with that stuff and agree with the truth that all God's promises are yes and in him are amen. Okay? Say that with me. Yes and amen. So if it says by his wounds I'm healed, that means by his wounds you're healed. Could it be by medication, could it be by diet change, could it be by exercise, could it be by surgery, could it be a miracle? Yeah, absolutely. Trust the Lord, trust the process. God is faithful to you. But your battle truly is in your mind. That is your emotions. It takes over your emotions, discouragement, despair, hopelessness, anger, self-hatred, rejection, all that stuff. It's those strongholds in your emotion. Amen. Amen. You can do this. It's the you know, I can't do it for you, right? I can't do it for you. I'm trying to mature you. Okay, because there's no point for you to sit in church the rest of your life and get nowhere. Okay, there's there's no point. You need to you need to know the Holy Spirit for yourself. You need to, you know, if you don't feel hunger to feel, you know, to get in the presence of God, tell the Lord. Start that relationship. If it's hard for you, go for a walk with your dog, talk to God. If you need to write a letter to God, just write a letter. If it's hard for you to pray, you don't understand how to pray, write a letter to God. Tell them you don't know how to pray. They will tell them you need help. Pray in the Spirit. You're not baptized in the Holy Ghost yet? Well, seek the Lord until you get baptized in the Holy Ghost. Go to the church service, ask your pastors, pray for you, receive the Holy Ghost. Go to that church conference, ask them to pray for you, receive the Holy Ghost. Every time you pray, Lord, thank you. I'm gonna receive the Holy Ghost that's gonna come. You know, if you're born again, you should be water baptized. What's with all these Christians that aren't water baptized? You need to go get water baptized, that's a commandment. You got to go get water baptized. Water baptism does not save you, faith saves you, but water baptism is an act of faith. Okay, you go after you're saved, you get water baptized. You make that public declaration of faith. You are agreeing with what? You're publicly agreeing with what? That now you're serving Christ. You're a disciple of Jesus. You died with him, you were buried with him in baptism, now you're risen, newness of life, your conscience is clean towards God. And then when you walk with the Lord, you want to have a clean conscience. In your heart, you want to have a clean conscience. So a lot of people, they uh they have uh thought processes and things in their emotions that they identify with. Do you identify with unforgiveness? That's not part of your new nature. You need to disagree with it. You identify that you're traumatized and you're uh you're always gonna be rejected, nobody likes you. You're just believing lies. You need to come out of that. You know, perpetual thinking you're this victim, perpetual thinking you're traumatized, perpetual thinking that you're never gonna be free, perpetual thinking you're always gonna struggle with lusts, perpetual. That's all lies, guys. You have to start stepping out of that, submitting to God and his truth, resisting the devil. Start saying, you know what? This is a bunch of lies. Yeah, I dealt with trauma. Guys, I was in a I was in a cult. I was brainwashed by a cult leader. Okay, I was taking eight to ten medications for schizophrenia years ago. Now, I could have sat there and just said, you know, poor me, I was spiritually abused, and then just do a bunch of TikToks about how he spiritually abused me, and I'm a victim. I could do that for the rest of my life and probably get a bunch of followers. Okay. But I'm not a victim. Jesus was the victim. And so I receive what? I receive my wholeness because Jesus purchased me with his own blood. He purchased my wholeness. And the Bible says we've been now made complete in Christ. You have to start believing you're free. You know, deliverance ministry is great, people get delivered. I pray for people, be delivered, praise God. But if you don't start believing that you're free from curses, that you're free from demons, that they have no hold on you, only with what you're agreeing with. You start agreeing with the truth that you're a new person in Christ, that you're free from the curse of the law, that you're not cursed, you're blessed. When you start believing the truth, then the truth starts making you free. It's not always this instant thing all the time. It can be in different situations. I was instantly free from cigarettes when I prayed and or when God came and touched me. I prayed for a long time for that, but eventually God came and touched me and healed me of that addiction. Yeah, that can happen. Absolutely. You can have a miracle, but transformation it takes you agreeing with truth. How can two walk together unless they agree? Most people just believe lies, and I'm going to show you in Galatians. Okay. So what? Uh justified by what? Not justified by works of the law. So not committing adultery, you're a nice person, you haven't committed adultery. That does not justify you with God. Okay. It's a good thing that you didn't do that. But what justifies you? Faith in Jesus Christ.

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Faith in Jesus Christ. So, you know, you you minister, especially in ministry, you meet people. Well, I'm a good person. You know, I know I meet people all the time. I'm a good person. That's what they're doing. They're justifying by the works of the law. That's what they're doing. The whole world. All major religions do the same thing. They justify what? They themselves by being good people. Okay? You're not justified because you're a good person. That's what this says. Okay? You're justified by faith. Say that with me. I'm justified by faith in Jesus. Even we have believed in Christ Jesus that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by being a good person. By what? By works of the law. For by the works of the law, no flesh, no flesh shall be justified. So it's a great scripture when somebody comes to you and says, Well, I'm a good person. I follow all these, you know, I don't do this, I haven't done that. You know, other religions are like that. You know, they they pray a certain time of day, they don't eat this, or they don't. Guys, that's all trying to what? Justify through what? Works of the law. It says right there in Galatians, no flesh, no human being, none, none, no, no one. Gandhi, all these people that you think are these great spiritual leaders, no flesh, no human being on this entire planet can be justified by trying to keep a law, by trying to keep the law. You're not justified by the law. Okay? It's evident right there. Okay. So what what does the enemy do? He tries to get you to start thinking you're justified by your behavior. See? That's what he's trying, that's the trick, guys. If you can get this, you can start walking in more freedom. Okay. If you if you can get that the enemy is trying to get you to believe you're justified because you're trying to be a good Christian. See, if you can understand that, then you can get off of yourself. Because what that all does is it gets you flesh-oriented, it gets you to focus on your behavior. And then you do good for a while. This is why people go through cycles of struggling with stuff. Okay. You're trying to stop drinking, you're trying to stop eating, overeating, you're trying to not look at stuff on the internet. You're trying with everything you have, right? And then what happens? You go, guys. I say this because this was me. This was me. I would try so hard and it would go for about two months. And then guess what happens? Or guess what happened? I would fall again. And then what would happen? Condemnation. How many Christians do this, guys? There's tons of them in these uh in these self-help groups, all over the internet, guys. They what? They go for two months, they're clean for two months, and then they fail, and then they're feel condemned. And then what does that do, guys? Then the enemy comes and says, You're a failure. You're not righteous, you're not good enough to be Christian. Are you even Christian? Are you even saved? How could you do that sin again? And then you do it all over again. You do the, I'm gonna fast and pray. I'm gonna be a good Christian, I'm gonna go to church three times a week, I'm gonna read the Bible every day, and then what happens? Oh, you miss the Bible one morning, then you miss that prayer meeting that one time, and then ah, you get tempted and you know you fight it off, but then uh eventually you fall two months later. And it's the same thing over and over and over again. That's what we call a works-based mentality. Okay, that's why uh that's why probably, I mean, I don't I don't know the percentage, but let's just say a hype, 85 at least, of people that contact ministry for help. That's where they're at. Almost every single one of them. I was like that, guys. So you have to come out of that, and you're not a works-based believer anymore. You're a grace-based believer. You believe you're justified not by your behavior, but by what? By faith in Jesus Christ. Okay. Once you believe, then people are like, well, can we just sin? And Paul already addressed that in Romans 6. Should we continue in sin? Why should we not continue in sin? Because we died. We died to sin. We died. We died with Christ, see? And once you realize that, then the nature, the sin nature that tries to attack you all the time loses its power. Okay? So the power of sin is what? The law. So when you're under works-based mentality and you're trying to you're trying to attain righteousness by your behavior, more sin flares up. See, it's designed like that so you get to the end of yourself. So the law is beautiful because it brings you to what? You realizing you can't fulfill the law in yourself. And then you can surrender to the grace of God. So if you're struggling today, if you're struggling, okay, if you're struggling with lust, if you're struggling with addiction, if you're struggling with self-hatred or whatever it is, get to the end of yourself in prayer. We'll say a prayer at the end, hopefully, right? Get to the end of yourself where you say, you know, Lord, I surrender. I submit to you. I can't free myself. I can't overcome stuff in my own self-effort. You overcame everything. And my faith is in Jesus the Messiah. And through faith, I am delivered from this, and I am surrendering this desire that's not even part of my new nature to you. That's some stronghold that I picked up when I was a young kid, or whatever it is. You know, you don't realize that some people struggle with sinful behaviors as Christians because they latched onto it when they're eight years old, 12 years old, 14 years old. They're abused when they're eight, 10. And they they hold on to certain things because it was a comfort or it was a programming. It was in their family. They learned from their dad to be an angry person. And so now all they do is they're angry all the time, and they're saying they're Christian, but they're angry all the time. Why is this? And they're struggling with anger all the time. What why am I struggling with anger all the time? Maybe you're programmed that way. Maybe you need to come to the place of just realizing that God's grace is sufficient for you and that you can't free yourself from anger on your own. And if you keep beating yourself up, all you're gonna do is get more anger. Okay. Hope this is helping somebody. Praise God. I think it's good preaching. It's helping me. All right, ready? All right, let's keep going. All right, so no flesh is justified by what? By the works of law. But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also found sinners. Is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not. For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor, a transgressor. Okay? So, but if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners. Okay. Is Christ therefore a minister of sin? So we see ourselves as sinners, right? Because the law shows us that we're sinners. Certainly not. It says, is Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not. For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. Okay. What did he destroy here? For I through the law died to the law. So what did he destroy? If I through the law died to the law, destroyed law. Think about it. I make myself a transgressor. So in your brain, you are fighting what? You're fighting this whole law-based, works-based mentality. And what I get from this, maybe somebody else translates it differently. I don't know. You could have a different opinion. But for me, he's basically saying if I build those things which I destroyed in my mind, I'm making myself a transgressor. So basically, if I die to the law, if I basically try to start living by the law again for justification, then what? I make myself a transgressor of the commandment of faith in Jesus. Make sense? Other people, they say that's sin, right? They're talking about sin. They destroyed sin, okay, but the power of sin is the law. So, I mean, similar, right? But the law is not sin, guys. Okay, the law shows you your sin. Trying to, I'm not against the law of Moses at all. Okay? And Paul was not either. Okay? You just have to apply it correctly. For I through the law, so through the law of what? Moses died to what? The law of what? Moses, that I might live to God. So through the law, you realize you're a hopeless sinner, and you will never be able to be what? Justified in the flesh, because right up there it says the law, no flesh shall be justified, right? Hope you're getting this. I don't know if this is, you know, some people can't get this. I don't know. Maybe you're not there yet. Okay. I want you to understand this. For if, okay, so then we go on. For through the law, died to the law that I might live to God. So the law of Moses shows you that you committed adultery. Jesus said, if you look at someone to lust after them, you've already committed adultery in your heart. So you are condemned as an adulterer. You're con if you hate somebody in your heart or you're offended, all that stuff, you're a murderer in your heart. All that stuff Jesus said was explaining the holiness of God and the fullness of the Torah, how strict it was, how strict holiness was. Okay? You in yourself can never be justified by works of the law, no flesh. Okay, remember that. And Jesus showed you that when he walked the earth and he was speaking to the Jewish law-keeping people. He was saying, I mean, you read some of stuff, you're like, whoa, that is like hardcore. Yeah, because he was the Torah walking, and he was explaining and expounding on the Torah, telling you there's no hope for you. Only me. Those who believe in me, what? In Jesus, are never condemned. Okay? That's the good news, guys. And then that was supposed to bring the Jewish people who heard him to what? Submitting to him as the Messiah. But instead, many of them rejected him. Many of them received him, but many rejected him, right? And then they handed him over to the Romans, and the Romans crucified him. And then he rose from dead. Praise God. Then it goes on, guys. This is where you have to get this. This is very important for your freedom. I, so put your name in there, Nick, have been crucified with Christ. You got to get that mindset. I have been crucified with Christ. Jesus was the walking Torah, and then Jesus died for us for all the sins of the world. And he made a way to God and fulfilled the Torah, fulfilled everything. Jesus is the fulfillment of the law, guys. Jesus is everything. And you have been crucified with him. Think about yourself. With Jesus, crucified somehow, however that works. You've been crucified with him, dead and buried, and now resurrected, newness of life. Get this in your get or in your head. You have been crucified with Christ. So next time the devil says, Oh, look, you did that sin, you did this. Oh my gosh, you're a horrible person. Remind yourself, I, Nick Grimsman, have been crucified with Christ. And then you get that, then you stop focusing on your flesh, on the pull in your emotions to do something, on that thought process. You start realizing, wow, you know, I'm under grace. God is with me. The Holy Spirit loves me. I have Christ in me. You know, I feel God's love right now. Oh man, I love you, Lord. The Lord's so good. I guess I gotta tell you this real testimony real quick. I love the Lord. So yesterday I was at the grocery store. You ever go to the grocery store? Praise God. You ever you ever go to the grocery store and you're like, oh, I you get tempted. You're like, you know, I want to sweet treat. So yesterday I was at the grocery store. I'm like, I want a sweet treat. And you know, I just kind of went over that. I was like, you know, I really want cookie. I just want a cookie. And I'm like, oh, I don't know. Then I'm like, I haven't had chips ahoy for a really long time. I'm not plugging Chips Ahoy here. I'm not really interested in Chips Ahoy, but I haven't had them for a really long time. You know, it's like a kid thing, you know, like when you're a kid. I was like, you know, Chips Ahoy would be kind of good. I kind of want chips, but I want to like, I looked at the packages, like this big package. It's like, you know, it's like 150 calories per cookie or three cookies. I'm like, this is ridiculous. I'm not doing this. Because what you're gonna eat a bunch of cookies, then you know, I'm just not interested. You know, because I'm trying to, you know, I'm 45 years old, I want to treat my body better. And I'm like, you know, I'm not, you know, it was a thought process. This lady comes by and she's uh she's looking at the cookies and said, Oh, you got you're going for the cookies too. And I start talking to her and she's and I said, uh, I said, Yeah, cookies, those sound good, but nah, I think I'm gonna say no today. Okay, and and I and she goes, Oh, wow, you have a lot more strength than me. And really, guys, I don't, I just realize that I have choices. I've learned that I got the Holy Ghost and I have choices. I can go eat all the cookies I want or not, and God loves me because I'm justified by what? Faith, right? If I eat a bunch of cookies, you know, it's not gonna feel good, you know, all that stuff, right? And so I just choose not to. But somebody in their flesh, they might not have that, they have a pull to grab cookies, and they have to get the cookies. Okay. And so those ladies like, wow, you got a lot of self-control, right? Like, oh, it's cool. So yeah, whatever, right? Anyway, long story short, I ended up going to this little uh uh this this place has it's like a Christian outreach type place, and I was driving by and I'm like, I was with little Timmy, my dog, in the car. I'm like, oh what? And they had like uh looked like a kind of an outreach thing going on. I'm gonna check that out. So I pulled over. I I go into the outreach, it's like this inside this thing. I go, Oh, what's this? I start talking to one of the leaders there, and like, oh, it's kind of cool, it's near my house. What are you guys doing? And it's pretty neat. Anyway, guess what's on the counter next to the guy? Chips Ahoy cookies. Like God is really good, and so what? I had one couple, I don't know how many I had, three, four, I don't know. They're little tiny ones, but I got some chips ahoy cookies. See, like, God knew I wanted chips ahoy cookies. I passed the test what I thought, or whatever, right? But God, you know, God is not like what you think he is, he's he's very graceful and loving and kind to you. He's not trying to put you in this cage and make you this, you know. He's not trying to make you this uh where you feel slay, you're a slave and you can't have any fun, you can't eat a cookie or anything like that. God gave me a cookie. The chips always are right there next to the guy. Well, yeah, come have a cookie. And then I told him, I said, that's kind of funny because I was just telling the Lord I wanted a cookie, but I didn't get them. See? So God's good. And then when I was there, I was like, Oh, I had a couple cookies and left. I didn't, I didn't have to buy the whole thing, I didn't have to sit there and get mad that I ate 20 cookies, right? Praise God, guys. If you want to give, if you want to become a monthly supporter, you can do at the Father's Friends. If this ministry blesses you, I'm gonna encourage you to become a monthly supporter. We're gonna start doing uh um this year, we're gonna do a monthly ministry partner meeting on Zoom. So that would be for our uh our supporters, our financial supporters. So thank you so much. You can do at thefathersfriends.org. If you're getting stuff from the ministry, you can give to the ministry. It's uh real simple and easy. I sow do spiritual things, and you and people are supposed to sow material things to those that preach gospel, your pastor, your ministers, all that stuff. That's how it's supposed to work in the kingdom of God, guys. Okay, so that's how it works. You can read in the Bible, praise God. So thank you for your support. And if you don't support the ministry, I can still minister. I'll still minister to you because I love you. All right, so there it is, thefathersfriends.org. Uh, anyway, so let's go back here. Okay, so let's go. Isn't that a pretty cool story, though? The Lord is good, guys. All right, and then uh uh okay, so I have been crucified with Christ. So put your name in there. It is what no longer I who live, it's no longer Nick that lives. So see this mentality, guys. But Christ lives in me. A lot of Christians don't believe that Christ lives in their body. You know, teach your children, you know, when they you know they got saved, they got baptized, they believe in Jesus. Start teaching them that that the Holy Spirit lives inside their body, and you want to honor your body, you want to honor yourself, you want to have purity, right? Instead of just telling people, don't go fornicate, tell them why not. You have the Holy Spirit in your body, you want to be God conscious that God lives in your body. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Amen. And so next time you get tempted to do something like that or whatever, remind yourself it's no longer I that live, but Christ lives in my body. And it's a lot harder to go do a bunch of dumb stuff when you start believing Christ lives in your body. It's a lot harder to sit at the bar and get drunk and watch sports and all that stuff if you believe Christ lives in your body. It's a lot harder to go out and try to date all these people and do the dating apps and do all this stuff when Christ lives in your body. Okay, so start teaching people Christ lives in your body. In their body. If you're born again, you have Christ living in your body. Okay, you fulfilled the law because Christ lives in your body. Okay, and the life which I now live in the flesh. So the life that I now live, as Nick Gremsman, I live by what? Faith in the Son of Almighty God, who loves who? Put your name in there. Who loves Nick, who loved Nick. So put your name in there. Who loved me and gave himself for Nick. Christ gave himself for me and for you. Amen. I do not set aside the grace of God. Very important that you get this. I do not set aside what? The grace of God, the divine favor, the unmerited favor of God. I do not set this aside. So grace of God should be your focus. The grace of God is so good. When you realize the grace of God is so amazing, the you won't want to go do a bunch of dumb things. But right now, you're a lot of people are works focused and they're trying to please God by all their behavior stuff, and then they get put under the law, and then they're struggling with sin because they're not focused on grace. Because somewhere somebody told them grace is greasy grace, and these grace preachers. See? These grace preachers are just telling you you can live in sin. Guys, when you get grace, you realize that your sin nature is dead, and you don't want to go do a bunch of sins. It doesn't mean you're sinless all the time. It means you sin less. So you sin less than you did last year, and you keep growing. Like Paul said, I'm still not perfect, but what do I do? I forget those things behind me and I press on to the prize of high calling in Christ Jesus. Okay? You're supposed to be moving forward, getting better in your behavior, getting better in your character, learning patience, learning how to forgive those that hurt you, learning how to let go of unforgiveness, learning that you're not a traumatized person anymore, learning that you don't have to listen to voices anymore, learning that God is with you all the time, not because you're a great person, but because Christ lives in your body and he never leaves you. This is why you can't lose your salvation, guys. You have to get that out of your head. They're gonna tell you you can lose your salvation every second. Why? Because it gets you to focus on your behavior. Okay, it's a trick. They want what? What do they say right here? What does it say? Read what it says up here. If it goes all the way up here, this occurred because of false brethren who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that what? That they might bring us into what bondage, slavery. See? Control. Guys, we're free. We're free to live in Christ. Okay. And I'm not saying these people are, you know, who believe you can lose your salvation all the time or whatever are trying to control you, but it's it's it's that mindset. It's a religious type mindset. And you know what? I'll probably be persecuted for saying this, right? Because people, this is a big subject. You know, the Bible says you can lose it. Some people say you can, some people say you can't. I'm telling you, if you're struggling, you have to get to the place of realizing that you are eternally secure. You have to understand that you're saved, and if you have, you know, if you're saved and you have the Spirit of God in you, you know you've been circumcised in your heart, you have to finally agree with the truth that you're eternally secure in Christ. Because if you don't, then you are gonna focus on what behavior and righteousness by what? Works of the law. See, you have to get this. If someone listen to me, I believe that if you are the Bible, it's pretty clear, but I truly believe if you have been circumcised in heart and you truly have the Holy Spirit living in you, and you have been born again, you are saved, right? You are eternally secure forever. I'm not talking about people who just say Jesus is Lord and they believe in their head and they get water baptized and they live for the world, and you're like, what is that person even saved? That's between them and God. I'm saying somebody who's truly born again is secure in their salvation. And I and I believe the Bible teaches that. Because it's no longer us that live, it's Christ that lives in us. And what Christ is not just gonna run away from us, he's our great shepherd. A great shepherd doesn't leave his sheep, right? Okay, no matter what you're struggling with, he's always with you. Guys, I've struggled with horrible things in the past, you know, horrible stuff. It took forever smoking cigarettes, it took forever for me to finally get free from it. It was horrible. It was programmed in me since I was a child, 13 years old, smoke cigarettes. You know, I struggled with looking at ungodly images on the computer. I struggled with that for a long time. Doing the two months freedom and then go back to it, three months freedom, then go back to it. I know all about it, guys. I had to learn not to take identity in strongholds, in things that feel like they're me. I had to start believing that I died as Christ that lives in me, and my mind is being renewed by the truth of the gospel. Okay, and I started getting grace. So your answer truly is the grace of God. Do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain. Okay, if righteousness comes through the law, if you can be righteous by keeping the law, then Christ died in vain. Okay? Remember up here, for by works of the law no flesh shall be justified. So you're not justified because you keep the law. Or you try to keep the law. You can you can uh you there's nothing wrong with somebody who doesn't, you know, that wants to honor the Sabbath or or not eat certain things, or there's nothing wrong with that, but your righteousness is not because you keep the Sabbath, your righteousness has to be in Christ, and then you keep the Sabbath because that's what you feel in your heart you want to do. Nothing wrong with that. If somebody doesn't want to keep the Sabbath, same thing. Because Christ is the end of the law to all those who believe. Their righteousness is of faith in Christ. See? Make sense? All right. I gotta kind of hurry through this. It's been an hour already, guys. I hope you're still with me. So then he goes on, oh foolish Galatians, Galatians 3. So he's calling them foolish. Who has what? Bewitched you. That's a big word right there, guys. That you should not obey what? The truth. And then it says, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified. So Jesus was portrayed among them as crucified. So Paul was basically saying, Hey, I showed you that G, you know, he preached so good and everything, he portrayed Jesus as crucified. He he taught them the gospel. This only I want to learn from you. Did you? So this is your question. Did you receive the Spirit? Did you receive the Holy Spirit in your heart by works of the law? By keeping the law? Did you receive the spirit because you never sinned? Or by what? Hearing of faith. Are you so foolish? Are you foolish now? This is what he's asking. Having begun in the spirit, so you you receive the spirit not by keeping the law, but by hearing about Jesus Christ who fulfilled the law for you and submitting to him. Having begun in the spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? See? Now he's what? You guys started in the spirit and now you're trying to perfect yourself by keeping the law of Moses? What is happening here? Have you suffered so many things in vain? If indeed it was in vain? Therefore, he who supplies the spirit to you and works miracles among you, does he do it by works of the law or by hearing of faith? Does God supply the spirit to people and do miracles among them because everybody keeps the law? We're Gentiles. I'm a Gentile. Or by the hearing of faith. It's by the hearing of faith. Then it goes on. Just as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. So Abraham what? Heard the gospel, the good news. He preached the gospel. Paul or uh God preached the gospel to Abraham, told them, told him that the Messiah was going to come. And what happened? Abraham believed God, and he believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Therefore, know that only those who are of faith, okay? Only those who are of faith in the Messiah are what? Sons of Abraham. In the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles what? By faith. So you're justified again by what? Faith, not by your behavior. Start believing you're justified by your faith. And then your behavior just automatically starts changing if you have the Holy Spirit. You start living in love, you start living in forgiveness, you start living in mercy and compassion. You start having the fruit of the Spirit when you get off of yourself. In the scripture, it would justify by preach the gospel. See, it says right here, preach the good news to Abraham beforehand. Amazing, huh? That the Messiah was going to come through Abraham's seed. Saying, In in you all nations shall be blessed. So then those who so then those who are what of faith are what? Blessed with believing Abraham. You're a son of Abraham. Guys, change your mind today. This is the good news. You're a son of Abraham.

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Anything that's telling you you're not a son of Abraham is lying to you. You're blessed with Abraham. Abraham is blessed, super blessed. Okay, you're blessed with Abraham. So stop. Just get this whole thing out of your head that you're always going to be the way you are. You're growing. You're growing in grace. We're growing in grace. We're growing in grace. We're growing in the knowledge of God. We're growing in the love of Jesus. We're growing in the presence of the Holy Ghost. Okay. You are now what? Those who are of faith are now blessed. You are blessed with believing Abraham. Okay. You're blessed. That's what it says.

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Anything that's telling you you're not blessed is lying to you. Your bank account is trying to tell you that you're not blessed. The people on social media who are showing all their Ferraris and everything and making you feel poor are lying to you. You're blessed with Abraham. If you have a Ferrari or if you don't. If you have a hundred bucks in your account or you don't, you are blessed with faithful Abraham. Amen? Okay. Then it goes on. For as many as are what? Of the works of the law, those who are trying to justify themselves by keeping the law. So they're saying, hey, I'm a good person, basically. Or I do all these things. I celebrate this. I do this. I I pray this way. I don't eat this. They are what? Under what? Under the curse.

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So you want to not be under the curse, guys.

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You want to get out from under the curse. And you do that by believing what? You died. You died with Christ. It's no longer you that live. Okay. So it says that Jesus, uh, Jesus uh became a curse for us. Curses everyone who hangs on a tree.

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So you have to get in Jesus, you have to submit to God and resist the devil. Disagree with all this stuff you were programmed with. Start disagreeing with it. For it is written, curse is everyone who does not continue, does not continue in all things which are written in the book of law to do them. All things, guys. But that no one is justified, but that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident. It's clear. For the just shall live by faith, yet the law is not of faith. But the man who does them shall live by them. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, like I just said, having become a curse for us. So Christ became a curse for us. For it is written, cursed as everyone hangs on a tree, that the what? That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of what? The Spirit through faith. You need the Holy Spirit. If you are not experiencing the Holy Spirit in your life, then get on your knees or sit in your chair and pray, listen to some music, read the word, and confess your sins to God and ask the Holy Spirit to come. Just ask the Holy Spirit to come. Confess the word of God. Confess, you know, that Jesus loves you. Confess that he died for you. Confess, you know, submit to him with your heart and just ask the Lord to send the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, if you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more? We are Heavenly Father, give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. So, Father, we ask for the Holy Spirit for everybody who watches this that can receive. Lord, I sincerely ask you, Father, to shed your Holy Spirit upon everyone who watches this. In Jesus' name, Father, thank you that you're good and I trust you. Amen. I believe people are going to feel the Holy Spirit. Uh and then it goes on, brethren. I speak in the manner of men, though it is not only a man's covenant. Okay, then it talks about a covenant here, okay? Okay, so anyway, then it goes on. What's the purpose of the law serve? It's added because of transgressions. So the law was added because of all the transgressions to protect the seed till the seed should come to the promise made. So you needed, so God needed to protect the seed of the Messiah. So the law was very um, it was strict. Okay, and that's why when people try to argue, well, why is the law like this? Why did they stone this? Why did they kill those people or whatever? It's because it was the protection of the seed of the Messiah, okay? Because the enemy was trying to destroy the seed. It was a point through angels by hand a meteor, now a meteor. Okay. All right. Uh then it goes on. Uh, basically, is the law then again against the promises of God? Certainly not. For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. Okay? So if there could be a law that could get rid of what? That could get rid of the human, the fallen human flesh, basically, right? Then it would have been by law, but it couldn't. Scripture can find all under sin because we were because of Adam. That the promise of by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept by the faith which would afterward be revealed, kept for the faith. Therefore, the law was our tutor. Okay? It taught us about Christ, it taught us about sin, it taught us how sinful we were, it taught us that we needed Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer what? Under what? Under a tutor. Okay. What's the tutor, guys? Therefore, the law was our what? Tutor. We're no longer under the tutor, which is what? The law. And that's the law of Moses. Okay. I'm not speaking against the law. Jesus fulfilled the law, guys. The law is holy and just and good. And there's good things in the law, and it's summed up in love your neighbor as yourself. But you're not justified by keeping it.

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You're not justified by cutting your hair a certain way or not eating certain things. There's wisdom and all that, but it all points to the Messiah.

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Then it goes on. For you, so Nick and you, right? Say your name. For you are all what? Sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. You are now a son of God. Okay. You need to understand that you're a son of God or a daughter of God. You truly are a son of God. Why? Because you've been adopted by the Father through Christ Jesus, and Christ lives in your body. You're a joint out with Christ now. You're a son of God. That's what the Bible says. So anything that tells you that you're just this sinner, trying to sinner saved by grace, I'm just trying to get along. I'm going to suffer with my flesh my whole life. I'm just going to be this loser. Guys, it's a lie. You're a son of God. It hasn't even been revealed what we are yet, first John says, right? I think it's first John. When Christ appears, then it will, then we will see ourselves as he is. Because Christ lives in us. So when you're dealing with Father God or you're talking to Father God, remember you're a son. You're not this uh, oh, I'm just rejected. You're a son. Like literally, just like the Chips Ahoy thing, the cookie thing. God did that for me because he was showing me that I'm his son and he's intimately involved in my life. He's intimately involved in your life. Okay. Start believing that God's intimately involved in your life. Start believing that God loves you all the time, just like you love your son or your daughter. Maybe you know, if you have kids, think about it. Your kid misbehaves. Guess what you're gonna do? You're gonna chasten your child, discipline them. In the same way, Hebrew says that we go through chastening. Do not despise the chasing of the Lord. So you do dumb things, God will allow chastening to come in to teach you. But he's very patient and kind. You know, I guess I've tried to run away from the Lord. I've tried to try to live like a normal person. God gently brought me back. Every time I've tried it, be a little rebellion, a little rebellious stuff, get mad at God, run away. Guess what? God gently brought me back every time. Dabble here, dabble there, think that's gonna satisfy me or make me happy. God gently brings me back. Because why? I'm his son. See, I feel the presence of God. Lord, I pray that people feel your love for them, Lord. They need your love. Help them snap out of their human flesh and get in the spirit. Help them just start believing their sons and daughters. Thank you, Dad. Okay, so you're a son, you're a daughter. Start believing it. Stop thinking God's just going to cast you away because you're you make dumb choices. Just confess the dumb choices to the Lord. Get them under the blood, cleanse your conscience with the blood, right? And then ask him to give you wisdom not to make the dumb choice again. Amen. And then when you fall, remember you get back up. Don't run away from God. Adam and Eve, what'd they do? They hid from God in the garden. God still came down to talk with them. God still came down to talk. So you don't have to run from God. Just confess, Lord, I'm struggling here. I don't know what this programming is that's making me try to do this or want to do this or this emotion. Where's it coming from? Lord, I surrender, I submit to you, Jesus. And you live in my body, and I know that you're gonna get me through this. And guess what happens? Eventually you get through it, and then you're like, wow, I have a testimony. I used to struggle with this thing, and God delivered me. Wow. And it was easy. It wasn't like I had to, guys, like if I need deliverance or something, I just talk to the Lord about it and tell him I can't overcome it. You're just gonna do it by grace, you're gonna take it out of me. Guess what happens? One day I wake up, I'm like, wow, that temptation or that desire is gone. He's changed me. Right? And we're always growing in this, guys. You're always growing in grace. You don't want to go backwards, right? You want to keep moving forward. And if you are backwards right now, repent, change your mind. Lord, I'm I don't want to live in sin. I don't want to be doing this stuff. This isn't my life. You know, this is your life. You purchased my life. You know, a lot of times we go into stuff because we get hopeless. You know, we start feeling bad about ourselves, we start feeling like, you know, and where's that at? That's in your mind, that's in your emotions. It's an attack from the soul, right? Or in the soul from the devil. He's trying to tell you, oh, you're it's hopeless. You're not a son of God. You're not this. Did the Bible really say you're secure in salvation? But you did this yesterday. Oh, you said that to your parents, you said that to your your fiance, whatever it is, right? Oh, you're not really a Christian. See, he's always trying to what accuse you. That's why the power of the blood of Jesus, the power of God, the power of a clean conscience, guys. If you don't feel like you have a clean conscience, if you don't feel like you have a clean conscience, then talk to the Lord about it. You know, let you know, a lot of I used to think my brain was my conscience. So the devil always attacked my brain, telling me, Oh, you're doing this, you're doing that, you're doing that. I'm like, wait a second, that's my carnal mind. That's that's my carnal mind. My conscience is my heart here. Okay, my carnal mind will always tell me I'm doing something wrong. You know, like I grab my my glass of water, I look at the water, might tell me, oh, there's a little little dust in there, right? Your carnal mind will always try to just make you OCD or anxious or something, right? Your carnal mind. That's why your carnal mind needs to be transformed by the word of God. So you take these thoughts captive to what? The cross, to the obedience of Christ, not your obedience. You were disobedient. Just admit you deserve the lake of fire. I deserve the lake of fire. I deserve it. You have to get to that place where you understand you deserve the lake of fire because you are not good enough in yourself. You need Christ. See, you need to cling to the cross, you need to cling to the Lord Jesus Christ, you need to cling to the Spirit of God, you need to cling to His word.

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Cling to it because there might come a time, guys, where they don't let Christians on the internet anymore. And I can't preach anymore. I'm I'm in a the gulag or something, or you can't preach, you're all alone in your community, and they're persecuting Christians. You might live in a different country. I don't know. Imagine living in a different country, they don't even allow Bibles. Okay, you have to be solid in your relationship with the Lord. So be solid in your relationship with the Lord. Amen. All right, let's keep going. Hopefully, this is helping people. Thank you guys for your support, your prayers. All right, for all you are sons of God in Christ Jesus. For as many of you who baptized into Christ have put on Christ, so you have put on Christ. Now, there is neither Jew nor Greek, so we're all the same. There's neither slave nor free, there's neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you are all Christ, then you are what? Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.

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Amen.

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So we're all one in Christ.

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Okay.

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Now, I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ us from a slave, though he's a master of all, but is under guardians and stewards until the time point by the Father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who are under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because what? You are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father, Papa, Father, Daddy, Father. Therefore, you are no longer a slave. Okay? You are no longer a slave. The devil come to you and say that you're a slave of sin still. You're just a slave of lust. You're a slave of your flesh. No, I am no longer a slave. I am a son. And if a son, then what? An heir of God through Christ. That is powerful. We are heirs of God through Christ. Imagine you truly are an heir of God. You really are. Okay. Then it goes on. Then indeed he didn't. Okay, then he talks about uh when you didn't know God, so when you're an idol worshiper, you serve those by nature are not God. So idols are not gods. But now, after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you desire again to be in bondage? So he's talking about what? He's talking about idols, okay? All sorts of idols, okay? There's self-righteousness as an idol, okay? Being uh uh uh trying to have righteousness by the law can be an idol because you become self-righteous, you become your own idol, you your own self-effort. You observe what days and months and seasons in years. So he's talking about idol worship, uh, different religious types of I'm afraid for you, lest I've labored in vain for you. Okay, then he goes on. Uh he basically is urging them to be like them, okay, uh, or to to uh be like him, follow Christ, okay. Then he goes, I zealously court you. Okay, then he goes, My little children for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.

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He wants Christ, just like I want Christ to be formed in you guys. When I minister, I want Christ to be formed in you. The maturity of Christ. Remember, Jesus said, be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect. Okay, be fully grown, be mature in Christ, be mature, be mature in love. Then he goes on to talk about two covenants. We're not going to go on that today, but that's uh works versus faith. Okay. Then he goes on, okay, Christian liberty, stand fast, therefore, in what? The freedom. Freedom from what? By which Christ has made us free. Okay? And do not what? Be entangled again with a what? Yoke of bondage. Very important here. Remember back in, I think it's verse chapter one, he's or chapter one or two, where he's talking about those people coming in who were what were they doing? They were trying to get them in what? Bondage by what? Law. See? Righteousness by law, not a gospel, it's not good news. Okay, indeed, I Paul say to you that see, and then he says, if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. I testify again to every man. So now he's what? He's saying, hey, you're trying to fulfill the law in yourself by getting circumcised. You're doing it for trying to be righteous in yourself. Every man who becomes circumcised, he is a debtor to what? Keep the entire law. The whole law. So if you go back to justification by law, you have to keep the whole law. And it's clear that no one can keep the whole law, or Christ before, remember, he talked about that, that no one can keep the whole law, because if they could, Christ didn't have to come, right? You have become estranged from Christ. You who attempt to be justified by law. So when when you are literally saying, Well, God, I I was a I was a good person today. You love me. And then the next day you're like, I wasn't a good person today. You don't love me. What are you doing there? You're attempting to justify yourself by your behavior. You have fallen from grace. Okay? So you don't want to fall from grace, you want to get back up. So you fall, but you can get back up. Repent. Just repent. Lord, I repent for trying to justify myself by my behavior. I just I'm justified because of my faith in the Messiah. Praise God. It's all about faith in Jesus. And faith in Jesus will change your behavior automatically. Okay? For those wondering, oh, you say you can you can just go around sinning all the time, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? Guys, no. That's not what this is saying. This is saying grace is what sets people free from what? Bondage, from slavery of sin. For we through the spirit eagerly wait for the hope of what? Righteousness by faith. The resurrection of the dead, where we get our sinless immortal bodies. Okay? Because you'll always have to deal with this thing called the flesh in this life. You'll deal with character issues, challenges, temptations. You will. You'll just deal with it as you grow. Paul said, I'm still not perfect. And you're not perfected until you res the resurrection day. You're not going to be perfect until you get your new body. Okay, that doesn't mean that that's just uh, shall we continue in sin because we're not perfect yet or whatever? God forbid. Why? Because we died to living in sin. We died to slavery of sin. There's no reason to do that. Does that mean you're sinless all the time? No, it doesn't. Because you still have a character to deal with. You still got past traumas, you still got things you're you're working through with the Lord, you're transforming, you know. You might still be a baby Christian. You're still learning who you are in Christ. It takes a while. I'm still learning, guys. I'm a baby Christian, right? For in Christ Jesus, I'm just gonna be a baby. I'm just a baby. Just joking.

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Like my little dog over there, a little Timmy. For he's a little baby. For in Christ Jesus, neither what? Circumcision nor uncertain avails anything. But faith, what? Working through what? Love. Faith in Christ working through what? Love your neighbors yourself. The royal law. Okay. If you love, you're good. You ran well. So then he goes, hey, you ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? Who's hindering you, guys? This persuasion does not come from God, from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens a whole lump. What kind of leaven is that, guys? Justification by works of the law. That's what he's talking about. I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind, but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is. And brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased. I could wish that those who trouble you even cut themselves off. Wow. So basically he's saying I wish they circumcised themselves or cut it off. Okay, anyway, he's pretty funny. Okay, he's pretty uh pretty bold sometimes. Okay, so anyway, guys, think about this. There uh Paul's saying that if he preaches justification by law, then he is not um he won't be persecuted by these people. So, like the same thing. If if I preach a bunch of things to do, I won't be persecuted, but if I preach grace in Christ alone, Christ plus nothing, then people persecute you, okay? Because it's too simple, it's too hard for them to get. They can't handle it. Why? Because they want to put you in bondage. Why? Because if you're put under bondage by somebody, they can control you. It's a spirit of witchcraft, just like Paul said earlier, who has bewitched you. It's a spirit of control. Okay, you're be you people are trying to control, they're you're being controlled, right? You want to, if you're feeling control, you want to maybe pray about that and go, wait, this is kind of a controlling thing here going on. This doctor's kind of controlling. Okay, oh, I'm and that person's kind of controlling, and you'll notice that there's a lot of people like that, a lot of ministers are like that, and they don't realize something. You know, I used to be like that too. Years ago, I was like that. I just learned that way. I didn't know, but God had mercy on me. Okay, I wasn't doing it willfully, like where I was, oh, I want to control people. It was just that type of uh mindset I had. I didn't realize, yeah. Okay, so there's a lot of good people out there that don't realize they're doing this. I'm not trying to bash people, right? Not saying they're not saved or anything, but some people are doing it to control you, okay? But you want to watch that. All right. For you, brethren, have been called to what liberty. Liberty. Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh. Okay, what's that mean? Don't use your liberty to just go and do dumb things, right? Which unfortunately I am guilty of in the past, and I don't want to do that again. Okay, I'm just trying to be transparent. We all fall short sometimes. But God, you know, chastens, forgives, all that stuff. Do not use your liberty as opportunity for the flesh. So you're free, but let's not use that to go do dumb things. That's what he's saying. He's encouraging you to live a godly life. But through love, serve one another. For all the law, the whole entire law of Moses is what? It's fulfilled in what? One word. One in one word, the whole law. Amazing, huh? You shall what? Love your neighbor as yourself.

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So the law is what? Fulfilled in one word, love. And it's hard for people to get that. It's really hard for people to get that. It's really hard. It is. It's it's uh the self-righteous mindset, is it's real hard to get how simple everything really is. It has to be simple because the average person on the earth is a simple person. A lot of people don't read, they don't know how to read. Think of a thousand years ago. How would you preach the gospel? A lot of people didn't read, they had to learn love, love your neighbor as yourself. Okay, but if you bite and devour one another, so if you fight, beware lest you be consumed by one another. So you start fighting each other, you eventually start consuming one another, fighting, and then bad stuff happens. Then he says, walk in the spirit. So, what is walking in the spirit, guys? Liberty, freedom. Freedom from what? Law. I used to think walking the spirit was walking in the law. And a lot of people think that. I thought that for a long time. I thought walking in the spirit was keeping the Ten Commandments, not eating pork, keeping the Sabbath, all that stuff. That's what I thought walking in the spirit was. It's more than that, guys. It's love. It's love. For the law is fulfilled one word. You shall love your neighbors yourself. I say then, walk in the spirit. Walk in what? Love your neighbors yourself. See the context here? You get it? So you walk in this because he says, don't bite and devour, lest you be consumed. And then he says, I say this then, walk in the spirit. Walk in the freedom that you have in Christ, walk in Christ in you, walk in hope and joy, being a son of God. Walk in loving your neighbors yourself. And what? You shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. If you walk in the truths that he's talking about, you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the spirit. And the spirit against so your flesh wants you to try to be justified by yourself by itself. See? And these are contrary to one another. So you do not do the things that you wish. So you struggle because you got this mindset and this flesh that wants to self-justify. Okay? But if you were led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Amen? You're not under what? Condemnation. And you're in the spirit because you have Christ. So now be led by it. Now the works of the flesh are evident. So, what are the works of the flesh? I mean, it's it's it's evident, guys. These people who are adulterers, they're sexually moral, unclean, right? They do sexually immoral things, lewdness, all that stuff. Those people, idol worshippers, sorcery, people who do all that stuff, hatred, divisions, contentions, like arguing with people, being jealousy, having jealous outbursts of wrath, being jealous outbursts of wrath, rage, selfish ambitions. That's a big one, guys. How many people do you know are selfishly ambitious? Selfish ambitions, dissensions, which is like divisions, I think, or yeah, heresies, people preaching heresies, envy, envy is a work of the flesh, murders, of course, drunkenness, drunkenness, orgies or rivalries, big parties, party lifestyle, and the like. So he's saying, what are the works of the flesh? So those people are under the law, they're they're they're not living in the spirit. It's very easy to see. Okay, these are the unsaved people. These are people that don't have the spirit of God who practice such things. Okay. I tell you before, and just as I also told you times past, those who practice, see, it's very important that you see the term practice here. When you're practicing drunkenness, you're trying to get better at it. When you're practicing uh envy, you know, like you're you're you're an envious person, you have that iniquity of envy or jealousy or rage. This is your practicing it. It's a practicing thing, it's like your lifestyle. See, he's talking about people whose lifestyle, they're practicing it. They just live in sexual morality, they're practicing it. Okay. They what? They will not inherit the kingdom of God. Super easy. It just divides it. It doesn't mean those who struggle with these things, those who practice. Practice is such a different thing, guys, than struggling with a sin or having hatred you're dealing with, or falling into something. Way different than practicing it. See the difference here? Somebody who's circumcised in heart doesn't want to practice being a drunkard. They might struggle with drunkenness, they might occasionally fall into it, but they're not, they don't want to live there and practice how good they can get at being a drunkard and going to all these parties and fornicating and all this sexual morality. Eventually, God will chasten them and bring them back if they're struggling in that area or they fall into it or they get deceived. Sometimes you can get deceived and you think, oh, it's not that big of a deal. I got grace. Sometimes that happens. Okay. But these are people who practice these. Okay. So flesh versus spirit. People who live in the flesh are those who practice such things and they will not partake of or inherit the rulership of God. The kingdom of God, the rulership, the authority of God. So they're not sons of God, it sounds like. But the fruit of the Spirit is love. So here's the fruit. So this right here, guys, this tells you what your personality should be like. Okay? Your personality should be this love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Okay? That's your personality in Christ. That's your personality, and that's how you should aim to live. In love. Just aim to live in faith and love, and the joy and the peace and everything who will manifest as you believe the truth. Okay. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, self-control. So next time you say, I just don't have any self-control, remind yourself, you know, I do have a I have Christ in me. I have self-control. And it might take some time to get you to learn self-control in a certain area. It might take some time to learn who you are with self-control. But start believing you have self-control. And then don't condemn yourself when you make a mistake because you're under grace, not the law. You're not trying to rebel. You just deal with the self-control thing. That's, you know, since you were a kid, you were programmed not to have self-control. You're just learning. Like somebody who's super obese. You know, they just never learn self-control, maybe. Maybe they're abused. And eating a lot uh help helps them with their emotions. Well, we can help those people through truth, right? The Holy Spirit can help people if you have health problems because you eat too much. You know, that's something I deal with. I like to eat, uh, you know, everybody likes to eat. But you know what I mean? I like sometimes I pick the wrong food, so God's teaching me. Do I give myself grace? Yeah, absolutely. Am I going to condemn myself for being overweight? No, I'm not. I don't want health problems, so I want, I want, I want to live a long life. So I'm choosing grace. I'm choosing the right way to go. Instead of condemning myself, oh, I had pizza today. I can't have pizza, I can't have carbs. See, then you're tormenting yourself instead of just Lord, give me grace. I'd like a pizza pizza once in a while, I'd like a cookie once in a while. And God does that. But the other way, I'd eat whole pizza and then cry about it. Condemn myself. See, I'm learning grace in the same way you're learning grace in different areas of your life. Amen. So focus on love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, self-control. Against such there is no law. So you won't be condemned if you live in there. You won't feel condemnation, you won't feel guilty for things. Amen. And those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. So you're already crucified with Christ. You're not trying to crucify yourself. In another section, Paul said, put to death the deeds of the body, right? By the spirit. If you by the spirit put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. So by the spirit, by what? Agreeing with the spirit. See? It's not I'm struggling with my flesh all day. Oh my God, you got to crucify my flesh. You're already crucified. Start believing the truth. You die with Christ. Amen. See, you just got to learn. Amen. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. So you live in the spirit. Now walk in the spirit. You're already living the spirit because you got the Holy Ghost. Now walk in Him. Let us not be conceited. So let's not be conceited and think we're better than others, provoking other people, envying one another. Amen. Then it talks about trespasses, uh doing good, uh, restoring somebody who's uh uh making mistakes or rebelling or struggling, right? And then it talks about other stuff here, and then it goes on. So you can read Galatians 6 yourself. I'm gonna end the broadcast, guys. I just want to love you, uh, tell you I love you, and uh I care about you, and thank you so much for your support of the ministry. This is Holy Ghost Television, it's Spirit Street 47. Please share with others. I'm gonna pray for you now. 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