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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Holiness keeps the enemy at mad to where when he
comes looking around for some people that he can infiltrate,
some upsound, that side down environments that he can fester in,
he can't find that with me or with you, because
we've chosen right side up living, aligning ourselves with the
truth of God, breastplace in place, securing us against the
(00:20):
schemes of the enemy. Holiness is your breastplate. There's one
other piece of armor. I couldn't get by without talking
to you about it for a few moments.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Y'all still awake, everybody game.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's in verse fourteen, he says, put on a breastplate
called what.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Righteousness? Righteousness?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Jerry and I live in a fairly rural part of
Dallas Fort Worth. We like it that way, close enough
to the city we can get there quick, but it's
quiet and lazy. We live on a little two lane,
sleepy road. Somebody's got some horses over there, there's some
cows over there. And one of my closest friends lives
across the street. That's why we like it, because she's
got a pond in the front of her property. So
(01:15):
I'll get the boys and the two fishing poles I
bought on sale at the local Walmart. I have a
tackle box too that I got on sale there, because
you know, we need things. We need extra hooks because
the boys always lose the hooks, extra bobber thingies, you know,
because we need.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Extras of those.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I also have gloves in the tackle box because y'all
know I don't mind going fishing, but I ain't gonna
actually touch no fish. So we walk across the street
with whatever hot dog meat we've got left from the week,
because you know, we're professional fishermen, so our hot dog
meat is our bait. We walk across the street, we
stand in this little cove underneath some trees, and we
(01:48):
fish just right there most of the time, just little
sun perch stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We can catch quick.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
In an hour, we can catch like ten or twelve fish,
just a little, quick, easy, little fishing trip. Every now
and then, though I'm feeling adventurous.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What that means is.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Is that we will get into my friend's little rowboat
they bought on craigslist. It's metal, it's not a big deal.
It's just a little it's seaworthy, it can hold us up.
That's all we need. I'll swim and we'll row out
into the middle, and we'll fish from there every now
and then. But I always think twice before I do it.
And here's the reason, because in order to get in it,
we first have to turn it over. They leave it
(02:24):
upside down, as they should, to drain water while nobody's
using it. So I got to turn it over to
get in it. And what I do know for sure
is that when I turn this thing over, something's either
gonna hop out from underneath it, Someone's gonna waddle out
from underneath it, or worst of all, ooh, something's gonna
slither out from underneath that boat. Because the environment under
(02:45):
there is moist and damp and perfect for critters. Do
you know what I've noticed? Every single time we turn
it over, something comes out. And never once have I
had to write a golden sealed invitation and send it
into the brush nearby to invite the critters to come
and join us at one o'clock today.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Never once have I had to invite them, because the
environment created.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
By the upside down boat is invitation enough.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Righteousness is right side up living that invites the sunlight
of God's favor and blessing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Upon your life.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Unrighteousness is upside down behavior that is out of alignment
with the truth of God that you've been sitting underneath
for the last few days. It's behavior that is out
of alignment with the truth of God to where you
don't have to invite the enemy and come and make
himself at home in your life.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You just keep living upside down. And the environment created
by upside down behavior is invitation enough. Listen to me.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You can pray against the enemy till you're blue in
the face. But if you and I leave passion and
we do not walk in holiness, we do not live
in our lifestyle that is in alignment with the truth God,
we will have wasted our breath in prayer.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Pacess, somebody's got to live right.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's flat out, straight up holiness.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Holiness.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It's a word that our our grandmothers and our grandfathers
back in the good old days, when you went to
church and you sat on.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
A wooden pew.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's before some churches became so pre seeker sensitive. I remember, y'all,
I went listen, I'm off track.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I went to a church and they said, we are
a presecret sensitive church, and so we actually want to
sort of uh in a way, they said, dull down
the actual literal name of.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Jesus, just so we can get people in first.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Then we will we will be more direct later on,
I said, oh, you have invited the wrong person, because
there used to be a day in time where it
was just black and white, where there were fewer gray
areas and tolerance.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yes, come as you are, but don't stay as you are.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Holiness, brothers and sisters, I implore you, by the mercies
of God to walk in a manner worthy of this
calling by which you have been called, that every bit
of truth that you have received this weekend to align
your lifestyle to it, to not determine that you will
still dig your heels into the ground and live immorally,
(05:27):
or speak immorally.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Or do the things habits and.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Lifestyles and choices and relationships that you know are outside
of alignment with the truth of God.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Turn the boat.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Right side up so that you can invite the favor.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Of God on your life.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
The apostle Paul says, righteousness is your breastplate. The Roman
army in the first century they had many pieces of armor,
as you know, but the breastplate would have been one
of the most critical. The reason why was because it obviously.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Protected the most vital.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Organ they had, their heart. The heart is the lifeline
for your physical well being. All of the blood flow,
the vitality, the energy that you need to function in
every level of your life comes from the vitality.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Of your physical heart.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What the physical heart is to the physical life, your
spiritual heart is to.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Your spiritual life. All of the vitality, the energy that you.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Need to be who God has created you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
To be, to have fervency in.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Your prayer life, to follow Him with passion and with fire,
to read the Bible and not just be ink on a.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Page, but you hear His voice speaking to you.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To have clear reception between you and the Holy Spirit,
you need a vital spiritual heart. That's why if I
were your enemy, more than all else, I'd be after
your heart, because one shot to the spiritual heart will
wipe you out. Your spiritual heart is comprised of four things.
(06:56):
Your mind, the way you think, your emotions, the way
you feel, your ambitions, what you purpose.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
To do, and your conscience.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Your conscience is not the voice of God, but your
conscience is like this wiring that helps this microphone amplify
my voice. The conscience is the microphone that the Holy
Spirit uses to help.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You hear the voice of God.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So if I were your enemy, I'd be after your
heart because if I could get to your heart, that
would mean I would have automatic access to your mind.
Now I could tinker with your thinking. I'd have automatic
access to your emotions. I can mess with the way
you feel and make sure they're out.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Of alignment with the truth of God.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I can mess with your ambitions to where what you
want to do is totally out of alignment with what
God wants you to do. And more than all else,
I'd want to make it sure I have a shot
to your heart so that I can short circuit the
wires between you and the Holy Spirit. Now you can't
even hear God speak to you because you didn't have
a breastplate on the apostle, Paul says, holiness is your breastplate.
(07:59):
Holiness block you from a full frontal attack of the enemy.
Holiness keeps the enemy at maid to where when he
comes looking around for some people that he can infiltrate,
some upsund side down environments that he can fester in.
He can't find that with me or with you, because
we've chosen right side up, living aligning ourselves with the
(08:20):
truth of God, breastplace in place, securing us against the
schemes of the enemy.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Holiness is your breastplate.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I came to tell you to live right. I came
to tell you not to just have heard all of this,
to go home and live in accordance with it. Be
ye holy, not by your power, not by your might,
but by the Spirit of God.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
There is no.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Relationship you're in that if it is out of alignment
with the truth of God, that the Holy Spirit himself
won't help you to sever so that you can walk
in holiness.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
There is no lifestyle you are living that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Is too that you're too wound up in that you
can't break free from. No matter how you feel in
this moment, you can walk in holiness. There is no
way you have been speaking, no addiction, that you have,
no habit, that you have been festering in your life,
that you have been harboring in your life, that the
Holy sphere won't empower you to break free.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
From so that you can walk underneath the banner the
favor of holiness in your life be ye holy, y'all. Listen, listen.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Back in our grandmama and our grandparents' days, great grandparents,
they wanted to honor God more than they wanted to
impress people. See the problem with Instagram and Twitter and
social media. If there's a problem, y'all, the problem is
we want this. We want to be impressive. And if
(10:02):
I'm worried for our generation, it is that we are impressive,
but we don't have breastplates on. It is that we
have the applause of people, and our selfies are perfectly lit,
and we have a whole bunch of friends and a
whole bunch of Instagram likes, and people are following.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Us, and the enemy is.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Thrilled because we have sacrificed holiness on the altar of
impressing people. You gotta live for the applause of heaven.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You gotta decide.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I will not be politically correct before I will choose
to be holy. I will not be impressive before I
will choose to be holy. I may not be the
person that everybody wants to be around. I may not
be the most impressive, but what I will.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Be is holy. Because the time is coming, y'all, where.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We are gonna see our savior face to face. And
when we see him, he will not ask us how
many Instagram followers we had.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He will not ask us how many friends.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Liked our post. He will not want to see the
selfies that we took. When we see him face to face,
he's gonna ask us did we do business with his son,
Jesus Christ?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And then and then we're gonna give an account. And
I don't know about y'all, but I'm looking for well done.
I want a well done.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I want Jesus to look at me and say, you
did the thing girl. Not because they bought the books,
they bought the Bible study, they saw the movie.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
No, you did the thing because you honored me. Whether
with an audience of one or an audience of thirty thousand,
you hurt me. Yes, I came to tell.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You, brothers and sisters, walk with integrity.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Be in the dark who you are in the light.
Everything that your God has entrusted to you over these
last few days.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The enemy does not mind. He doesn't like, but he
doesn't mind that you heard him. He didn't mind you
came here. What he minds is if you leave here
and live by what you heard
Holiness keeps the enemy at mad to where when he
comes looking around for some people that he can infiltrate,
some upsound, that side down environments that he can fester in,
he can't find that with me or with you, because
we've chosen right side up living, aligning ourselves with the
truth of God, breastplace in place, securing us against the
(00:20):
schemes of the enemy. Holiness is your breastplate. There's one
other piece of armor. I couldn't get by without talking
to you about it for a few moments.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Y'all still awake, everybody game.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's in verse fourteen, he says, put on a breastplate
called what.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Righteousness? Righteousness?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Jerry and I live in a fairly rural part of
Dallas Fort Worth. We like it that way, close enough
to the city we can get there quick, but it's
quiet and lazy. We live on a little two lane,
sleepy road. Somebody's got some horses over there, there's some
cows over there. And one of my closest friends lives
across the street. That's why we like it, because she's
got a pond in the front of her property. So
(01:15):
I'll get the boys and the two fishing poles I
bought on sale at the local Walmart. I have a
tackle box too that I got on sale there, because
you know, we need things. We need extra hooks because
the boys always lose the hooks, extra bobber thingies, you know,
because we need.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Extras of those.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I also have gloves in the tackle box because y'all
know I don't mind going fishing, but I ain't gonna
actually touch no fish. So we walk across the street
with whatever hot dog meat we've got left from the week,
because you know, we're professional fishermen, so our hot dog
meat is our bait. We walk across the street, we
stand in this little cove underneath some trees, and we
(01:48):
fish just right there most of the time, just little
sun perch stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We can catch quick.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
In an hour, we can catch like ten or twelve fish,
just a little, quick, easy, little fishing trip. Every now
and then, though I'm feeling adventurous.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What that means is.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Is that we will get into my friend's little rowboat
they bought on craigslist. It's metal, it's not a big deal.
It's just a little it's seaworthy, it can hold us up.
That's all we need. I'll swim and we'll row out
into the middle, and we'll fish from there every now
and then. But I always think twice before I do it.
And here's the reason, because in order to get in it,
we first have to turn it over. They leave it
(02:24):
upside down, as they should, to drain water while nobody's
using it. So I got to turn it over to
get in it. And what I do know for sure
is that when I turn this thing over, something's either
gonna hop out from underneath it, Someone's gonna waddle out
from underneath it, or worst of all, ooh, something's gonna
slither out from underneath that boat. Because the environment under
(02:45):
there is moist and damp and perfect for critters. Do
you know what I've noticed? Every single time we turn
it over, something comes out. And never once have I
had to write a golden sealed invitation and send it
into the brush nearby to invite the critters to come
and join us at one o'clock today.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Never once have I had to invite them, because the
environment created.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
By the upside down boat is invitation enough.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Righteousness is right side up living that invites the sunlight
of God's favor and blessing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Upon your life.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Unrighteousness is upside down behavior that is out of alignment
with the truth of God that you've been sitting underneath
for the last few days. It's behavior that is out
of alignment with the truth of God to where you
don't have to invite the enemy and come and make
himself at home in your life.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You just keep living upside down. And the environment created
by upside down behavior is invitation enough. Listen to me.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You can pray against the enemy till you're blue in
the face. But if you and I leave passion and
we do not walk in holiness, we do not live
in our lifestyle that is in alignment with the truth God,
we will have wasted our breath in prayer.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Pacess, somebody's got to live right.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's flat out, straight up holiness.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Holiness.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It's a word that our our grandmothers and our grandfathers
back in the good old days, when you went to
church and you sat on.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
A wooden pew.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's before some churches became so pre seeker sensitive. I remember, y'all,
I went listen, I'm off track.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I went to a church and they said, we are
a presecret sensitive church, and so we actually want to
sort of uh in a way, they said, dull down
the actual literal name of.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Jesus, just so we can get people in first.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Then we will we will be more direct later on,
I said, oh, you have invited the wrong person, because
there used to be a day in time where it
was just black and white, where there were fewer gray
areas and tolerance.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yes, come as you are, but don't stay as you are.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Holiness, brothers and sisters, I implore you, by the mercies
of God to walk in a manner worthy of this
calling by which you have been called, that every bit
of truth that you have received this weekend to align
your lifestyle to it, to not determine that you will
still dig your heels into the ground and live immorally,
(05:27):
or speak immorally.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Or do the things habits and.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Lifestyles and choices and relationships that you know are outside
of alignment with the truth of God.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Turn the boat.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Right side up so that you can invite the favor.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Of God on your life.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
The apostle Paul says, righteousness is your breastplate. The Roman
army in the first century they had many pieces of armor,
as you know, but the breastplate would have been one
of the most critical. The reason why was because it obviously.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Protected the most vital.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Organ they had, their heart. The heart is the lifeline
for your physical well being. All of the blood flow,
the vitality, the energy that you need to function in
every level of your life comes from the vitality.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Of your physical heart.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What the physical heart is to the physical life, your
spiritual heart is to.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Your spiritual life. All of the vitality, the energy that you.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Need to be who God has created you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
To be, to have fervency in.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Your prayer life, to follow Him with passion and with fire,
to read the Bible and not just be ink on a.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Page, but you hear His voice speaking to you.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To have clear reception between you and the Holy Spirit,
you need a vital spiritual heart. That's why if I
were your enemy, more than all else, I'd be after
your heart, because one shot to the spiritual heart will
wipe you out. Your spiritual heart is comprised of four things.
(06:56):
Your mind, the way you think, your emotions, the way
you feel, your ambitions, what you purpose.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
To do, and your conscience.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Your conscience is not the voice of God, but your
conscience is like this wiring that helps this microphone amplify
my voice. The conscience is the microphone that the Holy
Spirit uses to help.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You hear the voice of God.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So if I were your enemy, I'd be after your
heart because if I could get to your heart, that
would mean I would have automatic access to your mind.
Now I could tinker with your thinking. I'd have automatic
access to your emotions. I can mess with the way
you feel and make sure they're out.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Of alignment with the truth of God.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I can mess with your ambitions to where what you
want to do is totally out of alignment with what
God wants you to do. And more than all else,
I'd want to make it sure I have a shot
to your heart so that I can short circuit the
wires between you and the Holy Spirit. Now you can't
even hear God speak to you because you didn't have
a breastplate on the apostle, Paul says, holiness is your breastplate.
(07:59):
Holiness block you from a full frontal attack of the enemy.
Holiness keeps the enemy at maid to where when he
comes looking around for some people that he can infiltrate,
some upsund side down environments that he can fester in.
He can't find that with me or with you, because
we've chosen right side up, living aligning ourselves with the
(08:20):
truth of God, breastplace in place, securing us against the
schemes of the enemy.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Holiness is your breastplate.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I came to tell you to live right. I came
to tell you not to just have heard all of this,
to go home and live in accordance with it. Be
ye holy, not by your power, not by your might,
but by the Spirit of God.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
There is no.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Relationship you're in that if it is out of alignment
with the truth of God, that the Holy Spirit himself
won't help you to sever so that you can walk
in holiness.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
There is no lifestyle you are living that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Is too that you're too wound up in that you
can't break free from. No matter how you feel in
this moment, you can walk in holiness. There is no
way you have been speaking, no addiction, that you have,
no habit, that you have been festering in your life,
that you have been harboring in your life, that the
Holy sphere won't empower you to break free.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
From so that you can walk underneath the banner the
favor of holiness in your life be ye holy, y'all. Listen, listen.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Back in our grandmama and our grandparents' days, great grandparents,
they wanted to honor God more than they wanted to
impress people. See the problem with Instagram and Twitter and
social media. If there's a problem, y'all, the problem is
we want this. We want to be impressive. And if
(10:02):
I'm worried for our generation, it is that we are impressive,
but we don't have breastplates on. It is that we
have the applause of people, and our selfies are perfectly lit,
and we have a whole bunch of friends and a
whole bunch of Instagram likes, and people are following.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Us, and the enemy is.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Thrilled because we have sacrificed holiness on the altar of
impressing people. You gotta live for the applause of heaven.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You gotta decide.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I will not be politically correct before I will choose
to be holy. I will not be impressive before I
will choose to be holy. I may not be the
person that everybody wants to be around. I may not
be the most impressive, but what I will.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Be is holy. Because the time is coming, y'all, where.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We are gonna see our savior face to face. And
when we see him, he will not ask us how
many Instagram followers we had.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He will not ask us how many friends.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Liked our post. He will not want to see the
selfies that we took. When we see him face to face,
he's gonna ask us did we do business with his son,
Jesus Christ?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And then and then we're gonna give an account. And
I don't know about y'all, but I'm looking for well done.
I want a well done.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I want Jesus to look at me and say, you
did the thing girl. Not because they bought the books,
they bought the Bible study, they saw the movie.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
No, you did the thing because you honored me. Whether
with an audience of one or an audience of thirty thousand,
you hurt me. Yes, I came to tell.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You, brothers and sisters, walk with integrity.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Be in the dark who you are in the light.
Everything that your God has entrusted to you over these
last few days.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The enemy does not mind. He doesn't like, but he
doesn't mind that you heard him. He didn't mind you
came here. What he minds is if you leave here
and live by what you heard
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