June 4, 2025 • 65 mins
Have you ever noticed how quickly a beautiful musical piece is ruined when just one instrument plays off-key? The same principle applies to our relationship with God. When we attempt to insert our own melody into God's divine symphony, we create disharmony that affects everything around us.
We journey through Scripture to witness both the beauty of God's perfect creation and the devastating ripple effects that occurred when sin introduced discord into His flawless orchestration.
From Solomon's gradual compromise that began with a single foreign wife and ended with a heart turned from God, to the Israelites' failure to completely drive out the inhabitants of Canaan, we see a consistent pattern: small compromises justified over time lead to major departures from God's melody. These Biblical examples serve as sobering reminders that harmony requires complete obedience, not partial compliance.
The body of Christ faces these same challenges today. When believers attempt to function outside their God-given purpose—like a foot trying to be a hand or an ear wanting to be an eye—they create spiritual "tumors" that make the entire body appear dysfunctional. These members operate with herky-jerky movements that don't align with the rhythm God has established.
The good news? Reconciliation is possible. Even though one man's disobedience brought discord to all creation, one Man's perfect obedience makes harmony possible again. Through Christ, we can return to the melody God intended for us. This requires honest self-examination and the courage to cut off those things in our lives that create dissonance with the God we claim to serve.
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j - Jesus M. Ruiz (00:03):
The vision received was that of blood cells
traveling throughout the body,supplying the much needed oxygen
and other nutrients to thediffering members of the body to
fulfill their purpose.
Once the blood cells are spent,they must return back to the
heart to be refilled beforebeing sent out again and fulfill
their purpose.
It's good to be back here again, it's good to see your faces,
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it's good to have this time ofworship with you.
But I'm thinking of a word.
Let's see if you can figure outwhat word I'm thinking of.
It's defined as a tuneful sound, a melody, a combination of
simultaneous musical notes in achord.
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It's pleasing.
It's congruent arrangement ofparts.
It brings about, maybe,internal calm or tranquility.
It's in a chord, maybe internalcalm or tranquility.
It's an accord, an interweavingof different accounts in a
single narrative, a systematicarrangement of parallel literary
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passages for the purpose ofshowing agreement.
What word am I thinking of?
Ah, I think I heard it.
What'd you say?
Harmony, yes, harmony, harmonywith God.
The definition of harmonious issomething that's musically
concordant, having parts thatare agreeable or related.
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They're congruous, they'remarked by accord or sentiment or
action.
And I guess the word that Ireceived in the morning as I was
sitting on a stool watchingover E Hall because I couldn't
figure out what the Lord wantedme to share.
What direction he wanted me togo was harmony.
And when the word harmonydropped into my head, so did
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peace, and then discord anddisharmony.
And then I just got a flood ofdifferent accounts in the
scriptures that just related tothat, stuff that I hadn't been
reading in a while, and thenstuff that I had read, but I
wasn't sure if that's what themessage should be about, and so
I found out it was an element ofthe message.
But I want to talk aboutharmony with God today.
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And obviously it begins inGenesis.
It begins in the garden, andobviously it begins in Genesis.
It begins in the garden InGenesis 1, at the end of the
chapter going into Genesis 2, itsays and God saw everything
that he had made and, behold, itwas very good, and the evening
and the morning were the sixthday.
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Thus the heavens and the earthwere finished, and all the host
of them, and on the seventh dayGod ended his work which he had
made, and he rested on theseventh day from all of his work
which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh dayand sanctified it Because that
in it he had rested from all hiswork which God created and made
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.
And that, to me, describes what, when God created everything he
created in harmony with him,because when he created these
things he said it was very good.
Not just good, but very good.
And he was so enamored andimpressed with himself that he
said I'm done, my work ofcreation is done, I'm going to
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rest.
Now.
There's nothing more for me todo to add to what I've done,
because what I've done is verygood.
There was no sickness, therewas no disease, there was no
infirmities, there was nosadness, there was no death,
there was no decay, there was noblood-sucking mosquitoes, like
Bishop says.
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It was all very good.
Not only that, in the very nextchapter, as we recount the
account of when man was createdand it specifies what happened,
it says they were both naked,the man and his wife, and were
not ashamed.
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And so, along with that list ofno, there was no sickness,
disease, decay, destruction anddeath.
There was also no shame.
And so we come to another word,which is a lack of agreement.
It's a lack of harmony.
There's quarreling, there'sconflict between persons,
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between factions, there's strife.
It's when you hear acombination of musical sounds
that strikes the ear harshly.
It's dissonant, it's a harsh orunpleasant sound.
What is that word?
Because it's not harmony.
Discord, discord.
it says in the scriptures thatby one man's sin I'm
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paraphrasing, but it's there allof creation was affected.
All of creation was infectedand it made a resounding sound
of discord and disharmonythroughout all of the creation.
But it wasn't readily seen.
The only thing that happened toAdam and Eve was they got
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kicked out of the garden.
There was a couple of otherthings that happened, but you
didn't really see, you didn'treally experience the effects of
sin immediately.
As the Lord said, if you eat ofthis tree, you shall surely die
.
Death didn't really happen forquite a while and the more and
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more time had passed, the moreand more this disharmony became
evident in the world.
It became evident in creation.
If we look at Genesis 3, 6, and7, when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food and thatit was pleasant to the eyes and
a tree to be desired to make onewise, she took of the fruit
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thereof and did eat and gave.
And we skip to verse 10.
Naked, and they sewed figleaves together and made
themselves aprons.
And we skip to verse 10.
And he said I heard thy voicein the garden and I was afraid
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and I was naked and I hid myself.
As soon as sin came into theworld, eyes were opened, a
hiding of oneself from the Godwho had covered thee in the very
beginning.
A nakedness sense was felt andfear entered in.
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And none of this was there whenGod created everything in
harmony with him.
Shame became the norm in thisworld when in the beginning it
was not so.
And in this symphony that wecall life, the works of the
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flesh are the disharmoniouschord that leads to depression.
It leads to the feeling ofwanting, wanting and being
dissatisfied, and guilt, andthere is no clear conscience
anymore.
And our sin leads us, withoutfail, to death.
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Because, though Adam did notphysically die, he was one of
the oldest men to live.
In the Bible I believe it was900 plus years.
Is that correct, murray?
Did I get that wrong?
930?
He lived a pretty long time andhe died 930 years later.
The evidence of that disharmony, the fruit of that disharmony
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really didn't hit Adam until 930years later, where he died and
ceased to exist in the life thatwas created for him, and I
don't know how long after Cainand Abel came about, but he had
a taste of what was to come whenCain killed Abel.
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Taste of what was to come whenCain killed Abel, because death
now affected it, rippled likelike a stone hitting a pond, and
the ripple effects rippled allthe way to the edges.
But it didn't happenimmediately.
It took a while.
And so, when we find ourselvesin tune with the spirit of the
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living God, we are walking inagreement with Him, as His
Spirit leads.
We are marching to the melodythat he has orchestrated.
We walk to the rhythm of thesymphony and the orchestration
that he has ordained, that hehas written, because he's the
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master conductor.
And this is when we find ourharmony.
We're not trying to hear, orhave anyone hear, our instrument
above others, because he's madeus all instruments, some
similar, some slightly different, but he's made us all as
instruments to sing and to playa particular melody.
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But we're not singing our ownmelody to our own tune within
God's masterful orchestration.
Otherwise there would bedissonance.
You hear a melody.
You hear a tune and you sort ofgroove to it and you sort of
move to it, and it's slow andit's melodic, and then you have
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this person here jumping around,dancing crazy and freaky to it,
and it's in disharmony, it'snot in rhythm with the melody
that's being played.
And in the body of Christ, whenGod is playing a melody and a
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symphony, and you have thisfreakish kind of movement from
one of the members of the body,those are the rebellious vessels
.
Those are the ones that are inthe house that cause friction,
dissonance, conflict, and strife, because they're moving to
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their own rhythm.
They're calling themselvesChristian, they're calling
themselves a vessel in the house, an instrument of the Lord.
Yet when you see their walk andyou see or you hear their talk,
it isn't in rhythm, it isn't inharmony with the melody that
God has ordained.
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And where there is strife youcan smell flesh, and where
there's strife you can find aproud heart.
It says in 1 Corinthians 3,verse 3,.
Paul said you are yet carnal,for whereas there is among you
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envying, strife and divisions,are ye not carnal and walk as
men?
These are the rebellious onesin the house that do things
contrary to the melody of thesymphony of what God has written
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.
And we have two choices in thislife we can either walk in the
flesh or we can walk in thespirit.
James said in chapter 3, verse16, where envy and strife is,
there is confusion and everyevil work We've gone over on
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Tuesdays for the last four tofive weeks.
On women what is their positionin the body?
What do the Scriptures paintfor us?
Is there God-given high callingin the body of Christ?
What is their purpose?
What are they here for?
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And we went from Genesis, ifyou were here Tuesday night.
We went from Genesis and welooked at what is the Lord
painting as a picture for us.
Because when we go according tothe scriptures scriptures,
we're going according to themelody, we're going according to
the symphony that he haswritten.
And when we find that there'sanything and strife and conflict
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and there's wrestling in thehouse of God, these are members
of the body that function in amanner that is not in accordance
with the scriptures, not inaccordance with their purpose.
We talked on Tuesday night and Idescribed how, when you are
functioning outside of what yourpurpose is, it's like a tumor.
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There are cells in the bodythat are supposed to replicate.
But when they replicate out ofcontrol in a place that they're
not supposed to be replicating,you begin to get tumors, some of
them amygdala, some of thembenign.
But every time a tumor is seenit's a danger and it's a risk.
And the doctors say we got todo something about that Because
that's not supposed to be there.
Yes, they're supposed to grow,but not in that area, not
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uncontrolled, so that you havethese balls in different places
of your body and they want totake them out.
And the things that we do inthe natural sometimes reflect
what God does in the spiritual.
Because a doctor does not allowa tumor to grow in a place and
not do anything about it.
He gets rid of it, he cuts itout Because it is a danger if
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left unchecked.
He can't control what the cellsare doing, but if he can do
something, he'll cut it out.
Take a biopsy, find out whetherit's malignant, find out
whether it's benign, but eitherway he'll take it out.
And we have tumors in the bodyof Christ, we have these ticks
that are going on and it makesthe body of Christ seem strange.
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It makes the body of Christseem not attractive.
It doesn't give glory to Godwhen you have these ticks and
these herky-jerky movements.
And if you've ever taught inschool where you have I forgot
the name of this condition, butsometimes this person Tourette's
, he'll start speaking and he'llstart sometimes cursing, and
it's totally unnatural, it'stotally out of place and he has
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no control over it.
But in the body of Christ we dohave control over it.
Yet many members don't care whatthe melody is playing, they
don't care what God has written,what God has ordained, and they
begin to do things and it makesthe body of Christ seem like
freaky.
It isn't normal, and so thosemembers of the body that are not
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in line, not in accordance withthe melody of God, cause many
who look outside to say what isthat?
Why would I want to be a partof that?
Spastic mannerisms?
Just freaky, herky-jerkymotions.
It's like listening to the beatand the rhythm of a slow
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melodic song and dancing to itlike you're in a mosh pit, like
it's a hip-hop song and you'rejumping and jiving and doing all
these weird things, and yetit's not in rhythm, it looked
completely out of the ordinary,it doesn't fit, it's not in
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harmony with the song, and so Iwant to show you a description
of that in 1 Corinthians 12,verse 14.
I gave it in the email regardingTuesday's night study, but it
bears repeating right nowregarding this message, because
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Jesus said through Paul that thebody is not one member, but
many.
He says that the foot shall saybecause I am not the hand, I am
not of the body.
Is it therefore not of the bodyand I am not of the body?
Is it therefore not of the body?
It sounds illogical for thefoot to say well, because I'm
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not the hand, I'm not of thebody.
And if the ear shall say,because I am not the eye, I am
not of the body.
Do you hear that the members ofthe body are not happy with
where they're at?
Well, I'm the foot, but I'm notthe hand.
I want to be the hand.
Well, if I'm not of the hand,then I'm not a part of this, and
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that's right, because you'recreating dissonance within the
melody and the symphony that theLord is orchestrating.
You're right.
If he wants you to be a C noteand you're playing a D or an F
note and you're not in harmony,you're not a part of the melody,
you're out of place.
It says more.
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If the whole body were an I,well, how can you hear?
Everybody can't be an apostle.
Everybody can't be a teacher.
Everybody can't be a teacher,everybody can't be a prophet.
But now have God set themembers.
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God set the members.
God set the notes on the pagewhere he wanted them.
God set the musical instrumentsof the trumpets here and the
violins here.
He didn't have them allscattered, he wanted them to be
together.
The fingers work together withthe hand.
They're not working togetherwith the knee.
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It doesn't make sense.
There's no purpose for that.
And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
If they were all a finger?
Well, how could you see, howcould you smell, how could you
taste, how could you think?
How could you do all the otherthings that this body does?
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If everybody wants to be thehand, you've got to find your
place in the body and fulfillyour role.
Then everything works perfectly, everything just flows.
You want a natural developmentin a child, and when that child
doesn't naturally develop andsomething happens and his hand
starts not working the way itdoes, you get concerned.
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Well, God is concerned thatthere are places in his body
that are not in line with hismelody.
They're not in line with thehead.
And He is the head.
Christ is the head of the bodyand when his head says for the
hand to do something, and itdoes something herky-jerky and
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doesn't do what it does, he doessomething about it, just like a
doctor would.
Whether it's medication,whether it's surgery, he's going
to do something about thatportion of the body in order to
fix it.
It says now there are manymembers, many different pieces,
many different parts, but theyall work together to make one
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body.
On the one, the eye cannot sayto the hand I have no need of
you, because all the eye can dois see.
But if the eye sees somethingthat it needs to grab, it can't
grab it.
Nor again, the head to the feet.
I have no need of you.
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How will the head travelwithout its feet?
How will it move?
And we see this in the body ofChrist because we hear I want
that title before my name, Iwant that bishop, I want that
reverend, I want that pastor, Iwant that whatever title they
have come up with, some of themscriptural, some of them not
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even scriptural, but these arethe portions, these are the
members of the body that are notflowing in line with the melody
that has been written.
We have children.
We have young men and womenrunning to go do something great
for God.
They have not been sent, theyhave not been equipped.
They have not been equipped.
Young, young men being pastors19, 21 years of age.
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What experience do you have?
Does not the scriptures tell usthat the elder should not be a
novice, a pastor's, an elder,you have to develop your
experience.
You have to develop that partof your body.
You want to go out and playfootball.
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You're going to do weights.
You can't go out there nothaving done any weights.
You're not going to have enoughstrength, you're not going to
have enough endurance to takethat physical toll upon yourself
.
We have women holding positionsthat were not made for them to
hold.
We have so, and not just women.
We have men in position thatthey're not supposed to be in.
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But they wanted that position,they wanted that title, they
wanted that preeminent place tohave the money, to have the
prestige, to have the respect,to have the reverence of the
people, and they were notsupposed to be there.
And all this does, if you lookat the fruit over time it causes
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division.
I mean, have you everexperienced a church divided,
split apart?
There was something out oforder there.
Normally, when you have all ofthese happening within the body
that I've just described, youhave division, you have disorder
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, you have disharmony in thebody.
Yet what does the melody say?
It says in 1 Corinthians 12 (22:25):
25, there should be no schism in
the body.
It says in verse 27, Ye are ofthe body of Christ and members
in particular, meaning.
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You are a particular part ofthe body, a particular part.
Find out what that part of thebody is and be it.
Stop being something you're notcalled to be, not made to be,
because it causes dysfunction inthe body of Christ.
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If you love Christ and you loveHis body, then you will seek to
find your place in it and justflow in the melody that he has
already written.
He didn't ask you to write yourown melody for Him.
He asked you to be a part ofHis melody because we've seen
throughout the Scriptures,whenever man has written their
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own melody, it has been chaos,decay, destruction, and death.
We don't search the scripturesout.
We don't let the scripturesdictate to us what to do, what
we are to be.
What do we do as men?
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We choose for ourselves what wewant to do and what we want to
be first.
That's what we do as men, aswomen.
Then, later on, we might lookat the scriptures out of context
, take them out of their contextto justify our decisions that
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we had made first, rather thanseek the scriptures first to
find out what God wants me tobe, where does He want me to go,
what does He want me to say.
We can talk about a lot ofexamples in the scriptures
Joseph's life.
Who was out of order inJoseph's life that caused him to
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go through what he went through?
Anybody, take a guess Hisbrothers.
You think his brothers?
Okay, so you think it startedwith his brothers?
Yes, they were in disorder.
Why?
His father.
His father caused that messbecause he showed preferential
treatment to his son, hisyoungest son at the time,
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because Benjamin came afterward.
But he caused that disorder andbecause of what he did, showing
preferential treatment to hisyoungest son, his other brothers
.
Strife, contention, jealousy,envy all of these are works of
the flesh, caused disharmony inthat body, cause discord and
cause what we know happened inJoseph's life.
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We look a little later on in thedifferent accounts, we're just
looking at the melody.
But in the melody of thescriptures we see bits of
disharmony in the melody thatGod had orchestrated, which is
kind of weird.
There shouldn't be disharmonyin a harmonious melody.
But somehow, masterfulconductor that He is, God is
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able to use that disharmonywithin his melody and do
something with it.
But when the Israelites askedfor a king, it says in 1 Samuel
8 (25:57):
5, the Israelites said unto him Behold, you're old and your
sons they don't walk in yourways.
Now, make us a king to judge uslike the nations.
But the thing displeased Samuelwhen they said Give us a king
to judge us like the nations.
But the thing displeased Samuelwhen they said Give us a king
to judge us.
And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.
This is the moment where Israel, instead of choosing God,
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wanted a king to imitate whatthe other nations around them
had.
They chose man over God.
Samuel was displeased and theywanted this discord.
They wanted this disharmony forthemselves.
And listen to how God responds.
And the Lord said unto SamuelHearken, unto the voice of the
people.
He didn't say, don't do whatthey said, don't do what they
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asked.
No, no, no, no, no.
Somehow, He used it.
Somehow he accepted theirdecision, knowing what it would
come about, knowing how it wouldcreate dissonance within the
melody that he had alreadyorchestrated cause He had a plan
.
He had a melody written out.
So he says hearken unto thevoice of the people and all that
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they say unto thee, for theyhave not rejected thee, they
have rejected me.
That I should not, that Ishould not reign over them.
Discord and disharmony, whenit's done within the body of
Christ, is because you do notwant the Lord to reign over you.
Adam and Eve sinned.
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They did not want the Lord toreign over them.
Israelites here sinned.
They did not want God to reignover them.
Sin is about you wanting reignover yourself.
You making your own melody.
You creating your own song thathas nothing to do with the
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melody that God has prescribedis because you want your
independence.
Let's look at Solomon's reign.
Solomon's interesting becausehe's a type of Jesus in a sense,
but you know what happened tohim at the end.
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So let's go with Solomon's life.
He says in the beginning of hisreign, in 1 Kings 3, verse 9,.
He says to God Give thereforethy servant an understanding
heart to judge thy people, thatI may discern between good and
bad.
For who is able to judge thisthy so great a people?
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Is Solomon concerned withhimself?
Who's he really concerned with?
Shall we read it again.
What do you think he'sconcerned about?
The people?
That's his concern.
He doesn't want to mess up thepeople.
He wants an understanding heart.
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That is God's heart, that younot think of yourself selfish
reasons, but think about mypeople.
And so he asked for anunderstanding heart to judge
this great people.
And the speech pleased the anunderstanding heart To judge
this great people.
And the speech pleased the Lord,because it wasn't about Solomon
, it was about he wants to takecare of my people.
And God said unto him Becauseyou have asked this thing,
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you've not asked for thyselflong life.
You've neither asked for richesfor yourself.
You've neither asked for thelife of thine enemies, but has
asked for yourself.
You neither ask for the life ofthine enemies, but as ask for
yourself understanding todiscern judgment.
Behold, I have done accordingto thy words.
I give exactly what you ask for, lo.
I have given thee a wise and anunderstanding heart, so that
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there is none like thee beforethee, neither after thee shall
any rise like unto thee.
And I have also given thee thatwhich you have not asked.
You see, when you begin to flowin the melody that God has
ordained, he begins to take yournote and your instrument and
gives you something that youdidn't ask for.
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He allows you to do things thatyou didn't really do it
yourself.
He gives you that moment, thatsolo moment that different
instruments want during thesymphony, because they want to
be heard.
But it was in line with what theconductor wrote.
It wasn't them doing it out ofplace, out of harmony with what
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was already being played andwritten.
Out of place, out of harmonywith what was already being
played and written.
And so God gave him both richesand honor.
There was not like this king inall of the days of the earth.
There was not like a king untoSolomon.
But read verse 14.
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If thou will walk in my waysand keep my statutes and my
commandments, as thy father didwalk, then I will lengthen thy
days.
It describes Solomon's reign.
This is where it's the type ofJesus millennial reign.
It describes his reign as hehad dominion over all the region
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on this side of the river, fromTifsa even to Aza, over all the
kings on this side of the river.
He had peace on all sides roundabout him and Judah and Israel
dwelt safely, every man underhis vine and under his fig tree,
from Dan even to Beersheba, allthe days of Solomon.
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This is where it was like, or atype of Jesus millennial reign,
when he will establish peaceand there will be no more wars.
There will be him reigning.
And notice also what it says in1 Kings 11.
1 through 13.
Oh well, no, not there.
I skipped that part, but don'tworry about that.
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It says also that kings fromall over the place came to hear
the wisdom of Solomon, all ofthem.
And when they came, they gaveto him honor, they gave to him
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reverence, and there's going tocome a day where Jesus is going
to reign on earth and all thenations are to come to him and
give him the sacrifices ofpraise and worship, as it is
even done now.
And those that don't come, itsays in Zechariah he will deal
with them.
But we know the end life ofSolomon, because he walked in
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harmony with God, his wholekingdom was in peace, but then
came the end of his life.
It says in 1 Kings 11, 1.
But King Solomon.
This is the dissonance, this isthe discord.
But King Solomon loved manystrange women, together with the
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daughter of Pharaoh.
And the daughter of Pharaoh wasin the beginning of his reign.
God gave him peace, he gave himan understanding heart to judge
his people, he gave him richesand honor.
But in the very beginning ofSolomon's reign he had already
stepped out of line.
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It says together with thedaughter of Pharaoh, women of
the Moabites, the Ammonites, theEdomites, the Zidonians and the
Hittites of the nations,concerning which the Lord said
unto Israel ye shall not go intothem, neither shall they come
in unto you, for surely theywill turn away your heart after
their gods.
Solomon claimed unto these inlove.
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I'm talking about this becausethis is something that we
members individually in the bodydo.
We try to walk in the melody ofGod, but we try to walk in the
melody of carnality in the world, and we try to do them both,
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and Solomon is a perfect exampleof what happens if you try to
do that.
In the end of his days, thewomen that he married from other
nations who worshipped othergods he had 700 wives,
princesses and 300 concubines,and his wives turned away his
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heart.
Let me rephrase that, not tochange the word, because the
meaning is the same the lovesthat he had in his heart turned
him away from the Lord, becausethat's what it means to us today
.
When we desire to walk in ourown melody and our own carnality
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, while trying to walk in themelody of the Lord, our loves
turn us away from him.
It says it came to pass whenSolomon was old that his wife
turned away his heart afterother gods, and his heart was
not perfect of the Lord and wentnot fully after the Lord.
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Then did Solomon build a highplace for Chemosh, the
abomination of Moab, andlikewise did he for all of his
strange wives.
And the Lord was angry withSolomon because his heart was
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turned from the Lord, the God ofIsrael, which had appeared unto
him twice and had commanded himconcerning this thing, that he
should not go after other gods,but he didn't listen.
It says, god came to him twiceto talk about don't go after
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them.
He didn't listen.
Wherefore the Lord said untoSolomon For as much as this,
this is done of thee and thouhas not kept my covenant and my
statutes, which I have commandedthee, I will surely rend the
kingdom from thee and will giveit to thy servant,
notwithstanding in the days, Iwill not do it for David, thy
father's sake, but I will rendit out of the hand of thy son.
And there we see a generationalcurse, because the sins of the
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father, the son, had the effectsof that sin, just as we all
have the effects of Adam's sin,the progenitor.
Howbeit, I will not rend awayall thy kingdom, but will give
one tribe to thy son for David,my servant's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake, which I havechosen.
And I read that for you becauseI told you, in God's symphony
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and in his melody of harmonythere's some aspects of
dissonance that come in, andsomehow this masterful conductor
uses those dissonance becausenow he's saying but for I will
give one tribe to thy son forDavid, my servant's sake, and
for Jerusalem's sake, which Ihave chosen.
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Even though he was going torend the kingdom, he was still
going to save that remnant, thattribe of Judah, for David's
sake.
And what happened with Solomonhere?
This is what happens in thebody of Christ when the members
of the body are driven away andcut off by the lusts of their
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own heart.
James 1, 14 and 15 says butevery man is tempted when he is
drawn away from the Lord of hisown lust.
He lusted after these women, helusted after having his own
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melody, doing things his own way, for he forsook the
commandments of the Lord.
And it says when you're drawnaway of his own lust and enticed
, then when lust hath conceived,it bringeth forth sin, and sin,
when it is finished, bringethforth death.
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We talked about briefly theperiod of the Judges, if you'll
turn to Judges 1.
Just going over examples of howthis disharmony plays in with
the melody that God has alreadyordained Judges, chapter 1.
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Judges, chapter 1.
Judges.
Chapter 1 sets the stage forall of the judges that came
after All, the judges that wererisen up.
There was a reason why thisrollercoaster ride of sin and
then captivity, and then heraises up a judge to deliver the
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people and then they walk finefor the to deliver the people,
and then they walk fine for theperiod of the judges, and when
the judge dies, then they goback to sin.
There's a reason why thiscontinued to happen.
It says in chapter 1, in verse19,.
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And the Lord was with Judah andhe drave out the inhabitants of
the mountain, but could notdrive out the inhabitants of the
valley because they hadchariots of iron and they gave
Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said, and he expelled thence the
three sons of Anak and thechildren of Benjamin.
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Did not drive out the Jebusitesthat inhabited Jerusalem, but
the Jebusites dwelled with thechildren of Benjamin in
Jerusalem unto this day.
It says in verse 28, and itcame to pass when Israel was
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strong, that they put theCanaanites to tribute and did
not utterly drive them out.
Instead of taking them out,they taxed them so they could
feed off of them.
But you know, this came rightafter Joshua.
Joshua was told drive out allthe inhabitants of the land,
exterminate them all.
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Neither did Ephraim drive outthe Canaanites that dwelt in
Gezer, but the Canaanites dweltin Gezer among them.
Neither did Zebulun drive outthe inhabitants of Kitron nor
the inhabitants of Nahalal, butthe Canaanites dwelt among them
and became tributaries.
There again, they taxed them.
They lived off of them.
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Neither did Asher drive out theinhabitants of Echol, nor the
inhabitants of Zidon, nor ofAlab, nor of Aksib, nor of Helba
, nor of Aphek, nor of Rahab,but the Asherites dwelt among
the Canaanites and theinhabitants of the land, for
they did not drive them out.
Neither did Natali drive outthe inhabitants of Beth Shemesh,
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nor the inhabitants of Bethna,but he dwelt among the
Canaanites, the inhabitants ofthe land, and the Amorites
forced the children of Dan intothe mountain.
This is why everything in theJudges happened, because the
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melody was written andprescribed and commanded of the
Lord, and they did not followthe melody.
They wanted to do it their ownway.
Maybe they got tired.
They battled for a long timegetting the promised land,
getting the people out.
Maybe they just we'll just letthat little group stay there.
They're small, they'll neverdefeat us.
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That's probably what theythought.
We can tax them?
Hey, why bother fighting them?
We're having trouble with theseiron chariots.
Let's just tax them, let themlive there.
They're small, they're puny,they'll never bother us, and
that's their own thinking.
But the Lord said drive themout.
Drive them out.
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It says in chapter 2 of Judges.
And an angel of the Lord came upfrom Gilgal to Bokin and said I
made you to go up out of Egyptand have brought you unto the
land which I swear unto yourfathers.
And I said I will never breakmy covenant with you and ye
shall make no league with theinhabitants of the land.
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In other words, you make nocovenant with them of peace.
You make no league with theinhabitants of the land.
In other words, you make nocovenant with them of peace.
You make no agreement with them.
Ye shall throw down theiraltars, but you have not obeyed
my voice.
See, it wasn't just the peoplethat stayed there that well.
They're really no threat to us.
What were they doing there?
Worshiping another god Havingaltars in the land?
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That was threat to us.
What were they doing there?
Worshiping another God, havingaltars in the land that was
promised to you?
You allowed them to continueworshiping another God there and
it became a cancer unto themlater on.
You've not obeyed my voice.
Why did you do this?
Wherefore I also said I willnot drive them out from before
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you.
You didn't drive them out.
I will not drive them out frombefore you, but they shall be as
thorns in your side and theirGod shall be a snare unto you.
And it came to pass when theangel of the Lord spake these
words unto the children ofIsrael that the people lifted up
their voice and wept.
And there we begin the cycle,back and forth, back and forth.
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Why?
Because they would not dance,sing, play to the melody that
God had already orchestrated.
Now we're talking about Israel.
We're talking about arepresentation of the church,
the body of Christ.
This was their downfall.
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It was always disobedience, itwas always.
I'm going to do it my way.
I'm going to modify what yousaid.
This is what we do in the bodyof Christ today.
It not only happens corporately, it happens individually, and
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that's where the heart of thiscomes in.
For every one of us here.
We do this individually, if youwill open your eyes and see how
you allow the enemy to have alittle place in your life and
you let him there.
Individually, we maintain andwe hold on to disharmonious
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elements which lead us to havingdiscord with the symphony that
we call our life.
When we heard the melody ofheaven, we began dancing to it.
We began singing to it.
We were moving to the rhythmthat led us to eternal life and
it changed us.
It made us walk differently, itmade us talk differently, it
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made us think differently and itmade us talk differently.
It made us think differentlyand look differently and feel
differently.
We reacted differently to thethings of the world.
We were all together changedand somewhere along the line we
were tried.
The Lord tried us.
Where is your faith really?
Let's try you, let's test youand, like I said before, maybe
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the Israelites got tired, butmaybe we get tired.
Come home from a long day ofwork and we sit down and we just
watch TV and watch more TV,watch movies.
We don't get into the Wordbecause we're tired.
We woke up early five-something, got home maybe five-something,
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tired.
Where's my food?
I'm hungry, give me somethingto eat.
And then we just sit down andwe don't really get into the
Word and we sort of entertainthings that we were really into
before TV programs, movie, music, maybe old friends, maybe old
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stomping grounds we still hangout with, even though we call
ourselves Christian, and maybewe hang around with the same
kind of crowd we hang out with,but that's them.
They do that, but I don't dothat, but you still hang out
with them and you're really nota light to them.
They know you're different, butyou still kind of talk the way
they talk and you might slip up,you might say things you know
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kind of wrong, you might curse.
We entertain these things and wetry to dance both the melodies
and over a long period of timeit just doesn't look right.
And there are people that haveheard the word and they're drawn
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to the Lord.
But they've been watching youor they've been watching your
relative that call themselves aChristian and they see them talk
about the Lord.
But they've been watching youor they've been watching your
relative that call themselves aChristian and they see them talk
about the Lord and their houseis in disarray and it's that
little aspect of disharmony thatcauses them to not make that
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commitment.
We've seen it.
I don't know about you.
Maybe you have the perfectfamily and perfect relatives and
perfect friends that callthemselves Christian, but we see
that a lot.
And when you begin to dance bothmelodies, you look funky, you
look freaky, you don't looknormal, not even godly normal.
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You just look really off, godlynormal, you just look really
off.
And you can't do both Becauseyou've altered the divine melody
, you've perverted the divinemelody.
You're not a better conductorof the melody than God is.
God made the perfect melody andyou're going to come in and try
to inject yours.
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It's the epitome of arrogance.
It's the epitome of arrogance,it's the epitome of pride to
think that you can come in withyour own song, your own beat,
your own rhythm, and think thatit's going to flow with God,
when all your life you've made amess of everything.
And it is this snare that hasbeen the downfall of many a
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saint, because they would notrid of themselves the things
that God commanded them tosacrifice on the altar of
submission to Him.
There are little things overtime that we entertain and we
allow, and we've deceivedourselves because we've made
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little compromises, thinkingthat, oh, god loves me so much.
I make mistakes, I stumble.
But no, I'm talking about theones where you purposely get
involved in things and entertainthings and these little
compromises that we make over along period of time, about the
ones where you purposely getinvolved in things and entertain
things.
And these little compromisesthat we make over a long period
of time.
They cause us in the end, to beway off course.
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Solomon didn't have the rightoriginal intentions when he
asked for a wise andunderstanding heart.
He may not have married all ofthe people outside.
In the beginning of his reignhe married one, and that one in
the end, led him to how manywives, how many concubines?
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He ran for 40 years.
By the way, it started with oneand in the end he had a
thousand wives and concubines.
Doesn't happen overnight.
It happens over your lifetime.
A thousand wives and concubines.
It doesn't happen overnight.
It happens over your lifetime.
It happens because you deceivedyourself.
You thought, well, it's notthat bad.
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I mean, come on, I'm sure theIsraelites thought the same
thing.
There's a couple families there, big deal, big deal.
Hey, aren't we all tired?
We got our land, we're here.
Let's just go to our tents,let's go live with our families.
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Let's leave them alone.
They're not going to botheranybody.
I don't do it as much as I didbefore, as if that's better.
When God said no enough, cut itoff from yourself.
Didn't Jesus say it's better togo to heaven with your hand cut
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off than to go to hell with allyour body?
We need to cut those things offwith all your body.
We need to cut those things off.
We need to realize that if wedon't, god is going to cut us
off.
Anybody ever played with alizard and you grabbed its tail.
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What happens to the tail?
It grows back.
God is going to do the samething with his body.
If he has rebellious membersthat will not submit, they will
be cut off and then another.
Their fingers will grow Becausethere are people right behind
you that will walk in line, thatwill walk into the melody of
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his harmony.
They won't say like the manchild won't say I'm not even
going to entertain this.
I'm going to entertain this,but a little bit.
They're not going to say that Idon't take part in it like I
used to.
I'm being very careful and someof us think that we have no
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other alternative, that we haveno choice and we have to
continue.
We've deceived ourselves intothinking that we don't have the
power to do something different,even though we may have done
that all of our lives, at theend of Solomon's life.
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This is one of the few people inthe well, not one of the few
people.
He's one of the few people inthe Bible that is so highly
spoken of that I would not wantto be in his shoes on the day of
his death Because I don't knowwhat happened to him.
He turned from the Lord in theend.
I don't know what happened.
Don't put me in his shoes.
Put me in Moses' shoes.
He was on the Mount ofTransfiguration.
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I've got no doubt about him,but not in Solomon's Because I
don't know what happened to him.
He changed His lust, drew himaway and in the end I don't have
a lot of high hopes for himBecause he changed.
There's scriptures in Ezekielthat said if the father sins
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most of his life I'm justparaphrasing he sins, he sins,
he sins, and then he changes andthen he repents and he turns
from his wicked ways, then hewill have the blessing of my
righteousness and the blessingof my eternal life.
And the righteous man, if hewalks with me, talks with me and
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we're getting along like Enochand I walk, and then he turns
from me, then he deserves thedeath that is appointed unto him
.
When one man sinned, deathpassed to all men Because they
all sinned.
It wasn't an inherited genetictrait, it was that Adam sinned
and everyone after him sinned atsome point and they were worthy
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of death.
One man sinned unto the worldand death by sin.
So death passed unto all men,for that all have sinned.
So death pass unto all men, forthat all have sinned.
Because of one man's offensecame upon all men death.
But how about where it says inRomans 5.17, that much more,
they which receive abundance ofgrace and of the gift of
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righteousness shall reign in thelife by one Jesus Christ.
The gift of righteousness shallreign in the life by one Jesus
Christ.
Therefore, as by the offense ofone judgment came upon all men
to condemnation, even so by therighteousness of one, the free
gift came upon all men untojustification of life.
For as by one man'sdisobedience many were made
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sinners, so by the obedience ofone shall many be made righteous
.
But the good news is, becauseof one man's obedience many can
be made righteous.
But it has to do withreconciliation.
He died once and for all men.
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He died once and for all dying.
He died for the sins of theworld.
It says so is the world allsaved?
Hello, he died for the sins ofthe world.
What do you mean?
Does not man have something todo with this?
It says for if, when we wereenemies, we were reconciled to
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God by the death of His Son muchmore being reconciled.
We shall be saved by His life.
How do you get reconciled withGod?
You've got to walk in harmonywith the Lord and His Word.
There's no other way, becausewhen the light shines in the
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midst of your darkness, you aregiven a decision to make.
Will you continue in yourdarkness or will you walk in the
light that I'm about to giveyou?
Will you walk in your flesh, inyour carnality, or will you
walk in your flesh, in yourcarnality, or will you walk in
the Spirit?
Turn to Romans 17.
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Some of us might disagree withthe idea of eternal security.
We might disagree with the ideaof once saved, always saved.
But if you look in the mirrorand you ask yourself honestly
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before the Lord, the mirror ofthe word, your actions might
speak completely contrary toyour disagreement with that
doctrine.
Because you seem to makedecisions in your life that seem
to say that you're taking Godfor granted and you just think
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everything's just going to beall right.
Even if you continue walkingthis way.
That is in dissonance anddiscord with the harmony that
God has already ordained.
In Romans 11, paul is speakingof the Jews and the Gentiles.
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And if some of the branches bebroken off and thou being a wild
olive tree, gentiles weregrafted among them and with them
partakest of the root and thefatness of the olive tree.
Boast not against the branches,but if thou boast, thou bearest
not the root, but the olivetree.
Boast not against the branches,but if thou boast, thou bearest
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not the root, but the root.
Thee, he's telling the Gentiles, you were grafted in as a wild
olive branch.
You're not a part of thenatural olive branch.
You were grafted in and thosebranches that were broken off
were broken off because of theirunbelief.
Don't you boast in anythingthat you've done, because it is
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the root that made the branchholy.
If you're broken off, then youhave no root.
So I have taken you, I havegrafted you into the root, which
is holy, and in verse 19 saysthat will say then the branches
were broken off that I might begrafted in.
Well, because of unbelief theywere broken off and thou
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standest by faith.
You remain grafted in by faith,but be not high-minded Fear.
But be not high-minded Fear,for if God spared not the
natural branches and he cut themoff and they are not a part of
His root that was holy, takeheed lest he also spare not thee
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.
Behold, therefore, the goodnessand the severity of God on them
which fell, severity On themwhich fell in unbelief.
They had the severeconsequences from God.
But if toward thee goodness, ifyou continue in his goodness,
otherwise thou shalt also be cutoff.
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Sobering words to the body ofChrist today that, by words, say
they disagree.
Apostolic Christians, I disagree.
I don't believe that we haveeternal security, but your
actions may make you think twiceBecause of the things that
you're doing and the people youhang around with and the things
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that you're getting yourselfinvolved in.
That was carnal.
That was the stuff you didbefore you were born again.
Why are you still involved init now?
Why are you still playing withfire?
I don't know.
Some of us may not understandthat when we were called, there
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was in that call a requirementto sacrifice on the altar of
submission to him some of thethings that we did prior to
knowing him.
But we play around with it andwe think well, that's not too
serious.
Tell that to Solomon after 40years.
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The scriptures are a symphony ofharmony with elements here and
there of disharmony filledthroughout.
The discord was always man'srebellion to the melody, to the
divine symphony of heaven, andthe good thing is that what
began in harmony in the Gardenof Eden shall, in the end, be
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forever restored to its initialharmonious intentions.
It will get back to the way itshould have been.
We've talked about therestitution of all things.
It will come to pass, but itwill only come to pass to those
that are within the body, thatare walking in harmony with the
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Lord and His Word.
For all others, there's a fieryindignation waiting for those
who do not obey the gospel.
And the gospel is not justmerely the death, the burial,
the resurrection and how torespond to the gospel.
The gospel is all of the goodnews message and everything that
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he requires of us.
Because the Israelites wentthrough the blood, they went
through the water, they wentthrough the spirit and they
still fell in the wilderness.
Their carcasses rotted there.
Why do we think any different ofus today?
Why do we think we're so muchbetter than the saints who came
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before us that we can getexceptions that they couldn't
get, that we can get exceptionsthat they couldn't get.
There's still people that dropdead today at the judgment of
the Lord, but no one knows whenthey are.
But it does happen, because Godis the same yesterday and today
and forevermore in the future.
Do not mock God.
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The result of disharmony anddiscord in music is agitation,
like by the time you finish withthat, I don't feel at peace, I
feel restless, I feel indiscomfort.
But in life the result is guilt, sadness, death without Him.
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In music the result of harmonyis you enjoy it.
There's a satisfaction inhearing, it's like wow, that was
really nice, that was reallygood.
And in life it's righteousness,peace and joy in Him.
And it's amazing to me how Godcan take His melody, which has
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began from the dawn of the ages,to the end, whatever that end
may be.
It amazes me that he can takethe disharmony and use it.
It says clearly in Romans 8, 28,.
We know all things worktogether for good to them that
love God, to them that arecalled according to his purpose.
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But only repentance, onlysteadfastness to the Lord and
his word in harmony with himmakes that verse possible with
him makes that verse possibleBecause there is no way that
you're going to walk like arebellious child and have that
happen to you.
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You have to at some pointrepent.
You have to at some point driveout those things in your life
that cause disharmony with theGod that you serve, the God that
you say you love at some point.
Otherwise, this doesn't applyto you.
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This applies to the children ofGod.
This applies to the sons of God.
Who are the sons of God?
They that are led by the Spiritare the sons of God, amen.
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The vision received was that of blood cells
traveling throughout the body,supplying the much needed oxygen
and other nutrients to thediffering members of the body to
fulfill their purpose.
Once the blood cells are spent,they must return back to the
heart to be refilled beforebeing sent out again and fulfill
their purpose.
It's good to be back here again, it's good to see your faces,
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it's good to have this time ofworship with you.
But I'm thinking of a word.
Let's see if you can figure outwhat word I'm thinking of.
It's defined as a tuneful sound, a melody, a combination of
simultaneous musical notes in achord.
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It's pleasing.
It's congruent arrangement ofparts.
It brings about, maybe,internal calm or tranquility.
It's in a chord, maybe internalcalm or tranquility.
It's an accord, an interweavingof different accounts in a
single narrative, a systematicarrangement of parallel literary
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passages for the purpose ofshowing agreement.
What word am I thinking of?
Ah, I think I heard it.
What'd you say?
Harmony, yes, harmony, harmonywith God.
The definition of harmonious issomething that's musically
concordant, having parts thatare agreeable or related.
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They're congruous, they'remarked by accord or sentiment or
action.
And I guess the word that Ireceived in the morning as I was
sitting on a stool watchingover E Hall because I couldn't
figure out what the Lord wantedme to share.
What direction he wanted me togo was harmony.
And when the word harmonydropped into my head, so did
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peace, and then discord anddisharmony.
And then I just got a flood ofdifferent accounts in the
scriptures that just related tothat, stuff that I hadn't been
reading in a while, and thenstuff that I had read, but I
wasn't sure if that's what themessage should be about, and so
I found out it was an element ofthe message.
But I want to talk aboutharmony with God today.
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And obviously it begins inGenesis.
It begins in the garden, andobviously it begins in Genesis.
It begins in the garden InGenesis 1, at the end of the
chapter going into Genesis 2, itsays and God saw everything
that he had made and, behold, itwas very good, and the evening
and the morning were the sixthday.
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Thus the heavens and the earthwere finished, and all the host
of them, and on the seventh dayGod ended his work which he had
made, and he rested on theseventh day from all of his work
which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh dayand sanctified it Because that
in it he had rested from all hiswork which God created and made
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.
And that, to me, describes what, when God created everything he
created in harmony with him,because when he created these
things he said it was very good.
Not just good, but very good.
And he was so enamored andimpressed with himself that he
said I'm done, my work ofcreation is done, I'm going to
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rest.
Now.
There's nothing more for me todo to add to what I've done,
because what I've done is verygood.
There was no sickness, therewas no disease, there was no
infirmities, there was nosadness, there was no death,
there was no decay, there was noblood-sucking mosquitoes, like
Bishop says.
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It was all very good.
Not only that, in the very nextchapter, as we recount the
account of when man was createdand it specifies what happened,
it says they were both naked,the man and his wife, and were
not ashamed.
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And so, along with that list ofno, there was no sickness,
disease, decay, destruction anddeath.
There was also no shame.
And so we come to another word,which is a lack of agreement.
It's a lack of harmony.
There's quarreling, there'sconflict between persons,
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between factions, there's strife.
It's when you hear acombination of musical sounds
that strikes the ear harshly.
It's dissonant, it's a harsh orunpleasant sound.
What is that word?
Because it's not harmony.
Discord, discord.
it says in the scriptures thatby one man's sin I'm
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paraphrasing, but it's there allof creation was affected.
All of creation was infectedand it made a resounding sound
of discord and disharmonythroughout all of the creation.
But it wasn't readily seen.
The only thing that happened toAdam and Eve was they got
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kicked out of the garden.
There was a couple of otherthings that happened, but you
didn't really see, you didn'treally experience the effects of
sin immediately.
As the Lord said, if you eat ofthis tree, you shall surely die
.
Death didn't really happen forquite a while and the more and
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more time had passed, the moreand more this disharmony became
evident in the world.
It became evident in creation.
If we look at Genesis 3, 6, and7, when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food and thatit was pleasant to the eyes and
a tree to be desired to make onewise, she took of the fruit
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thereof and did eat and gave.
And we skip to verse 10.
Naked, and they sewed figleaves together and made
themselves aprons.
And we skip to verse 10.
And he said I heard thy voicein the garden and I was afraid
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and I was naked and I hid myself.
As soon as sin came into theworld, eyes were opened, a
hiding of oneself from the Godwho had covered thee in the very
beginning.
A nakedness sense was felt andfear entered in.
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And none of this was there whenGod created everything in
harmony with him.
Shame became the norm in thisworld when in the beginning it
was not so.
And in this symphony that wecall life, the works of the
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flesh are the disharmoniouschord that leads to depression.
It leads to the feeling ofwanting, wanting and being
dissatisfied, and guilt, andthere is no clear conscience
anymore.
And our sin leads us, withoutfail, to death.
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Because, though Adam did notphysically die, he was one of
the oldest men to live.
In the Bible I believe it was900 plus years.
Is that correct, murray?
Did I get that wrong?
930?
He lived a pretty long time andhe died 930 years later.
The evidence of that disharmony, the fruit of that disharmony
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really didn't hit Adam until 930years later, where he died and
ceased to exist in the life thatwas created for him, and I
don't know how long after Cainand Abel came about, but he had
a taste of what was to come whenCain killed Abel.
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Taste of what was to come whenCain killed Abel, because death
now affected it, rippled likelike a stone hitting a pond, and
the ripple effects rippled allthe way to the edges.
But it didn't happenimmediately.
It took a while.
And so, when we find ourselvesin tune with the spirit of the
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living God, we are walking inagreement with Him, as His
Spirit leads.
We are marching to the melodythat he has orchestrated.
We walk to the rhythm of thesymphony and the orchestration
that he has ordained, that hehas written, because he's the
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master conductor.
And this is when we find ourharmony.
We're not trying to hear, orhave anyone hear, our instrument
above others, because he's madeus all instruments, some
similar, some slightly different, but he's made us all as
instruments to sing and to playa particular melody.
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But we're not singing our ownmelody to our own tune within
God's masterful orchestration.
Otherwise there would bedissonance.
You hear a melody.
You hear a tune and you sort ofgroove to it and you sort of
move to it, and it's slow andit's melodic, and then you have
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this person here jumping around,dancing crazy and freaky to it,
and it's in disharmony, it'snot in rhythm with the melody
that's being played.
And in the body of Christ, whenGod is playing a melody and a
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symphony, and you have thisfreakish kind of movement from
one of the members of the body,those are the rebellious vessels
.
Those are the ones that are inthe house that cause friction,
dissonance, conflict, and strife, because they're moving to
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their own rhythm.
They're calling themselvesChristian, they're calling
themselves a vessel in the house, an instrument of the Lord.
Yet when you see their walk andyou see or you hear their talk,
it isn't in rhythm, it isn't inharmony with the melody that
God has ordained.
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And where there is strife youcan smell flesh, and where
there's strife you can find aproud heart.
It says in 1 Corinthians 3,verse 3,.
Paul said you are yet carnal,for whereas there is among you
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envying, strife and divisions,are ye not carnal and walk as
men?
These are the rebellious onesin the house that do things
contrary to the melody of thesymphony of what God has written
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.
And we have two choices in thislife we can either walk in the
flesh or we can walk in thespirit.
James said in chapter 3, verse16, where envy and strife is,
there is confusion and everyevil work We've gone over on
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Tuesdays for the last four tofive weeks.
On women what is their positionin the body?
What do the Scriptures paintfor us?
Is there God-given high callingin the body of Christ?
What is their purpose?
What are they here for?
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And we went from Genesis, ifyou were here Tuesday night.
We went from Genesis and welooked at what is the Lord
painting as a picture for us.
Because when we go according tothe scriptures scriptures,
we're going according to themelody, we're going according to
the symphony that he haswritten.
And when we find that there'sanything and strife and conflict
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and there's wrestling in thehouse of God, these are members
of the body that function in amanner that is not in accordance
with the scriptures, not inaccordance with their purpose.
We talked on Tuesday night and Idescribed how, when you are
functioning outside of what yourpurpose is, it's like a tumor.
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There are cells in the bodythat are supposed to replicate.
But when they replicate out ofcontrol in a place that they're
not supposed to be replicating,you begin to get tumors, some of
them amygdala, some of thembenign.
But every time a tumor is seenit's a danger and it's a risk.
And the doctors say we got todo something about that Because
that's not supposed to be there.
Yes, they're supposed to grow,but not in that area, not
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uncontrolled, so that you havethese balls in different places
of your body and they want totake them out.
And the things that we do inthe natural sometimes reflect
what God does in the spiritual.
Because a doctor does not allowa tumor to grow in a place and
not do anything about it.
He gets rid of it, he cuts itout Because it is a danger if
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left unchecked.
He can't control what the cellsare doing, but if he can do
something, he'll cut it out.
Take a biopsy, find out whetherit's malignant, find out
whether it's benign, but eitherway he'll take it out.
And we have tumors in the bodyof Christ, we have these ticks
that are going on and it makesthe body of Christ seem strange.
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It makes the body of Christseem not attractive.
It doesn't give glory to Godwhen you have these ticks and
these herky-jerky movements.
And if you've ever taught inschool where you have I forgot
the name of this condition, butsometimes this person Tourette's
, he'll start speaking and he'llstart sometimes cursing, and
it's totally unnatural, it'stotally out of place and he has
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no control over it.
But in the body of Christ we dohave control over it.
Yet many members don't care whatthe melody is playing, they
don't care what God has written,what God has ordained, and they
begin to do things and it makesthe body of Christ seem like
freaky.
It isn't normal, and so thosemembers of the body that are not
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in line, not in accordance withthe melody of God, cause many
who look outside to say what isthat?
Why would I want to be a partof that?
Spastic mannerisms?
Just freaky, herky-jerkymotions.
It's like listening to the beatand the rhythm of a slow
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melodic song and dancing to itlike you're in a mosh pit, like
it's a hip-hop song and you'rejumping and jiving and doing all
these weird things, and yetit's not in rhythm, it looked
completely out of the ordinary,it doesn't fit, it's not in
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harmony with the song, and so Iwant to show you a description
of that in 1 Corinthians 12,verse 14.
I gave it in the email regardingTuesday's night study, but it
bears repeating right nowregarding this message, because
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Jesus said through Paul that thebody is not one member, but
many.
He says that the foot shall saybecause I am not the hand, I am
not of the body.
Is it therefore not of the bodyand I am not of the body?
Is it therefore not of the body?
It sounds illogical for thefoot to say well, because I'm
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not the hand, I'm not of thebody.
And if the ear shall say,because I am not the eye, I am
not of the body.
Do you hear that the members ofthe body are not happy with
where they're at?
Well, I'm the foot, but I'm notthe hand.
I want to be the hand.
Well, if I'm not of the hand,then I'm not a part of this, and
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that's right, because you'recreating dissonance within the
melody and the symphony that theLord is orchestrating.
You're right.
If he wants you to be a C noteand you're playing a D or an F
note and you're not in harmony,you're not a part of the melody,
you're out of place.
It says more.
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If the whole body were an I,well, how can you hear?
Everybody can't be an apostle.
Everybody can't be a teacher.
Everybody can't be a teacher,everybody can't be a prophet.
But now have God set themembers.
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God set the members.
God set the notes on the pagewhere he wanted them.
God set the musical instrumentsof the trumpets here and the
violins here.
He didn't have them allscattered, he wanted them to be
together.
The fingers work together withthe hand.
They're not working togetherwith the knee.
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It doesn't make sense.
There's no purpose for that.
And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
If they were all a finger?
Well, how could you see, howcould you smell, how could you
taste, how could you think?
How could you do all the otherthings that this body does?
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If everybody wants to be thehand, you've got to find your
place in the body and fulfillyour role.
Then everything works perfectly, everything just flows.
You want a natural developmentin a child, and when that child
doesn't naturally develop andsomething happens and his hand
starts not working the way itdoes, you get concerned.
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Well, God is concerned thatthere are places in his body
that are not in line with hismelody.
They're not in line with thehead.
And He is the head.
Christ is the head of the bodyand when his head says for the
hand to do something, and itdoes something herky-jerky and
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doesn't do what it does, he doessomething about it, just like a
doctor would.
Whether it's medication,whether it's surgery, he's going
to do something about thatportion of the body in order to
fix it.
It says now there are manymembers, many different pieces,
many different parts, but theyall work together to make one
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body.
On the one, the eye cannot sayto the hand I have no need of
you, because all the eye can dois see.
But if the eye sees somethingthat it needs to grab, it can't
grab it.
Nor again, the head to the feet.
I have no need of you.
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How will the head travelwithout its feet?
How will it move?
And we see this in the body ofChrist because we hear I want
that title before my name, Iwant that bishop, I want that
reverend, I want that pastor, Iwant that whatever title they
have come up with, some of themscriptural, some of them not
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even scriptural, but these arethe portions, these are the
members of the body that are notflowing in line with the melody
that has been written.
We have children.
We have young men and womenrunning to go do something great
for God.
They have not been sent, theyhave not been equipped.
They have not been equipped.
Young, young men being pastors19, 21 years of age.
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What experience do you have?
Does not the scriptures tell usthat the elder should not be a
novice, a pastor's, an elder,you have to develop your
experience.
You have to develop that partof your body.
You want to go out and playfootball.
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You're going to do weights.
You can't go out there nothaving done any weights.
You're not going to have enoughstrength, you're not going to
have enough endurance to takethat physical toll upon yourself
.
We have women holding positionsthat were not made for them to
hold.
We have so, and not just women.
We have men in position thatthey're not supposed to be in.
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But they wanted that position,they wanted that title, they
wanted that preeminent place tohave the money, to have the
prestige, to have the respect,to have the reverence of the
people, and they were notsupposed to be there.
And all this does, if you lookat the fruit over time it causes
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division.
I mean, have you everexperienced a church divided,
split apart?
There was something out oforder there.
Normally, when you have all ofthese happening within the body
that I've just described, youhave division, you have disorder
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, you have disharmony in thebody.
Yet what does the melody say?
It says in 1 Corinthians 12 (22:25):
25, there should be no schism in
the body.
It says in verse 27, Ye are ofthe body of Christ and members
in particular, meaning.
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You are a particular part ofthe body, a particular part.
Find out what that part of thebody is and be it.
Stop being something you're notcalled to be, not made to be,
because it causes dysfunction inthe body of Christ.
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If you love Christ and you loveHis body, then you will seek to
find your place in it and justflow in the melody that he has
already written.
He didn't ask you to write yourown melody for Him.
He asked you to be a part ofHis melody because we've seen
throughout the Scriptures,whenever man has written their
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own melody, it has been chaos,decay, destruction, and death.
We don't search the scripturesout.
We don't let the scripturesdictate to us what to do, what
we are to be.
What do we do as men?
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We choose for ourselves what wewant to do and what we want to
be first.
That's what we do as men, aswomen.
Then, later on, we might lookat the scriptures out of context
, take them out of their contextto justify our decisions that
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we had made first, rather thanseek the scriptures first to
find out what God wants me tobe, where does He want me to go,
what does He want me to say.
We can talk about a lot ofexamples in the scriptures
Joseph's life.
Who was out of order inJoseph's life that caused him to
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go through what he went through?
Anybody, take a guess Hisbrothers.
You think his brothers?
Okay, so you think it startedwith his brothers?
Yes, they were in disorder.
Why?
His father.
His father caused that messbecause he showed preferential
treatment to his son, hisyoungest son at the time,
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because Benjamin came afterward.
But he caused that disorder andbecause of what he did, showing
preferential treatment to hisyoungest son, his other brothers
.
Strife, contention, jealousy,envy all of these are works of
the flesh, caused disharmony inthat body, cause discord and
cause what we know happened inJoseph's life.
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We look a little later on in thedifferent accounts, we're just
looking at the melody.
But in the melody of thescriptures we see bits of
disharmony in the melody thatGod had orchestrated, which is
kind of weird.
There shouldn't be disharmonyin a harmonious melody.
But somehow, masterfulconductor that He is, God is
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able to use that disharmonywithin his melody and do
something with it.
But when the Israelites askedfor a king, it says in 1 Samuel
8 (25:57):
5, the Israelites said unto him Behold, you're old and your
sons they don't walk in yourways.
Now, make us a king to judge uslike the nations.
But the thing displeased Samuelwhen they said Give us a king
to judge us like the nations.
But the thing displeased Samuelwhen they said Give us a king
to judge us.
And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.
This is the moment where Israel, instead of choosing God,
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wanted a king to imitate whatthe other nations around them
had.
They chose man over God.
Samuel was displeased and theywanted this discord.
They wanted this disharmony forthemselves.
And listen to how God responds.
And the Lord said unto SamuelHearken, unto the voice of the
people.
He didn't say, don't do whatthey said, don't do what they
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asked.
No, no, no, no, no.
Somehow, He used it.
Somehow he accepted theirdecision, knowing what it would
come about, knowing how it wouldcreate dissonance within the
melody that he had alreadyorchestrated cause He had a plan
.
He had a melody written out.
So he says hearken unto thevoice of the people and all that
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they say unto thee, for theyhave not rejected thee, they
have rejected me.
That I should not, that Ishould not reign over them.
Discord and disharmony, whenit's done within the body of
Christ, is because you do notwant the Lord to reign over you.
Adam and Eve sinned.
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They did not want the Lord toreign over them.
Israelites here sinned.
They did not want God to reignover them.
Sin is about you wanting reignover yourself.
You making your own melody.
You creating your own song thathas nothing to do with the
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melody that God has prescribedis because you want your
independence.
Let's look at Solomon's reign.
Solomon's interesting becausehe's a type of Jesus in a sense,
but you know what happened tohim at the end.
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So let's go with Solomon's life.
He says in the beginning of hisreign, in 1 Kings 3, verse 9,.
He says to God Give thereforethy servant an understanding
heart to judge thy people, thatI may discern between good and
bad.
For who is able to judge thisthy so great a people?
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Is Solomon concerned withhimself?
Who's he really concerned with?
Shall we read it again.
What do you think he'sconcerned about?
The people?
That's his concern.
He doesn't want to mess up thepeople.
He wants an understanding heart.
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That is God's heart, that younot think of yourself selfish
reasons, but think about mypeople.
And so he asked for anunderstanding heart to judge
this great people.
And the speech pleased the anunderstanding heart To judge
this great people.
And the speech pleased the Lord,because it wasn't about Solomon
, it was about he wants to takecare of my people.
And God said unto him Becauseyou have asked this thing,
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you've not asked for thyselflong life.
You've neither asked for richesfor yourself.
You've neither asked for thelife of thine enemies, but has
asked for yourself.
You neither ask for the life ofthine enemies, but as ask for
yourself understanding todiscern judgment.
Behold, I have done accordingto thy words.
I give exactly what you ask for, lo.
I have given thee a wise and anunderstanding heart, so that
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there is none like thee beforethee, neither after thee shall
any rise like unto thee.
And I have also given thee thatwhich you have not asked.
You see, when you begin to flowin the melody that God has
ordained, he begins to take yournote and your instrument and
gives you something that youdidn't ask for.
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He allows you to do things thatyou didn't really do it
yourself.
He gives you that moment, thatsolo moment that different
instruments want during thesymphony, because they want to
be heard.
But it was in line with what theconductor wrote.
It wasn't them doing it out ofplace, out of harmony with what
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was already being played andwritten.
Out of place, out of harmonywith what was already being
played and written.
And so God gave him both richesand honor.
There was not like this king inall of the days of the earth.
There was not like a king untoSolomon.
But read verse 14.
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If thou will walk in my waysand keep my statutes and my
commandments, as thy father didwalk, then I will lengthen thy
days.
It describes Solomon's reign.
This is where it's the type ofJesus millennial reign.
It describes his reign as hehad dominion over all the region
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on this side of the river, fromTifsa even to Aza, over all the
kings on this side of the river.
He had peace on all sides roundabout him and Judah and Israel
dwelt safely, every man underhis vine and under his fig tree,
from Dan even to Beersheba, allthe days of Solomon.
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This is where it was like, or atype of Jesus millennial reign,
when he will establish peaceand there will be no more wars.
There will be him reigning.
And notice also what it says in1 Kings 11.
1 through 13.
Oh well, no, not there.
I skipped that part, but don'tworry about that.
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It says also that kings fromall over the place came to hear
the wisdom of Solomon, all ofthem.
And when they came, they gaveto him honor, they gave to him
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reverence, and there's going tocome a day where Jesus is going
to reign on earth and all thenations are to come to him and
give him the sacrifices ofpraise and worship, as it is
even done now.
And those that don't come, itsays in Zechariah he will deal
with them.
But we know the end life ofSolomon, because he walked in
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harmony with God, his wholekingdom was in peace, but then
came the end of his life.
It says in 1 Kings 11, 1.
But King Solomon.
This is the dissonance, this isthe discord.
But King Solomon loved manystrange women, together with the
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daughter of Pharaoh.
And the daughter of Pharaoh wasin the beginning of his reign.
God gave him peace, he gave himan understanding heart to judge
his people, he gave him richesand honor.
But in the very beginning ofSolomon's reign he had already
stepped out of line.
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It says together with thedaughter of Pharaoh, women of
the Moabites, the Ammonites, theEdomites, the Zidonians and the
Hittites of the nations,concerning which the Lord said
unto Israel ye shall not go intothem, neither shall they come
in unto you, for surely theywill turn away your heart after
their gods.
Solomon claimed unto these inlove.
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I'm talking about this becausethis is something that we
members individually in the bodydo.
We try to walk in the melody ofGod, but we try to walk in the
melody of carnality in the world, and we try to do them both,
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and Solomon is a perfect exampleof what happens if you try to
do that.
In the end of his days, thewomen that he married from other
nations who worshipped othergods he had 700 wives,
princesses and 300 concubines,and his wives turned away his
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heart.
Let me rephrase that, not tochange the word, because the
meaning is the same the lovesthat he had in his heart turned
him away from the Lord, becausethat's what it means to us today
.
When we desire to walk in ourown melody and our own carnality
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, while trying to walk in themelody of the Lord, our loves
turn us away from him.
It says it came to pass whenSolomon was old that his wife
turned away his heart afterother gods, and his heart was
not perfect of the Lord and wentnot fully after the Lord.
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Then did Solomon build a highplace for Chemosh, the
abomination of Moab, andlikewise did he for all of his
strange wives.
And the Lord was angry withSolomon because his heart was
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turned from the Lord, the God ofIsrael, which had appeared unto
him twice and had commanded himconcerning this thing, that he
should not go after other gods,but he didn't listen.
It says, god came to him twiceto talk about don't go after
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them.
He didn't listen.
Wherefore the Lord said untoSolomon For as much as this,
this is done of thee and thouhas not kept my covenant and my
statutes, which I have commandedthee, I will surely rend the
kingdom from thee and will giveit to thy servant,
notwithstanding in the days, Iwill not do it for David, thy
father's sake, but I will rendit out of the hand of thy son.
And there we see a generationalcurse, because the sins of the
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father, the son, had the effectsof that sin, just as we all
have the effects of Adam's sin,the progenitor.
Howbeit, I will not rend awayall thy kingdom, but will give
one tribe to thy son for David,my servant's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake, which I havechosen.
And I read that for you becauseI told you, in God's symphony
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and in his melody of harmonythere's some aspects of
dissonance that come in, andsomehow this masterful conductor
uses those dissonance becausenow he's saying but for I will
give one tribe to thy son forDavid, my servant's sake, and
for Jerusalem's sake, which Ihave chosen.
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Even though he was going torend the kingdom, he was still
going to save that remnant, thattribe of Judah, for David's
sake.
And what happened with Solomonhere?
This is what happens in thebody of Christ when the members
of the body are driven away andcut off by the lusts of their
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own heart.
James 1, 14 and 15 says butevery man is tempted when he is
drawn away from the Lord of hisown lust.
He lusted after these women, helusted after having his own
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melody, doing things his own way, for he forsook the
commandments of the Lord.
And it says when you're drawnaway of his own lust and enticed
, then when lust hath conceived,it bringeth forth sin, and sin,
when it is finished, bringethforth death.
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We talked about briefly theperiod of the Judges, if you'll
turn to Judges 1.
Just going over examples of howthis disharmony plays in with
the melody that God has alreadyordained Judges, chapter 1.
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Judges, chapter 1.
Judges.
Chapter 1 sets the stage forall of the judges that came
after All, the judges that wererisen up.
There was a reason why thisrollercoaster ride of sin and
then captivity, and then heraises up a judge to deliver the
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people and then they walk finefor the to deliver the people,
and then they walk fine for theperiod of the judges, and when
the judge dies, then they goback to sin.
There's a reason why thiscontinued to happen.
It says in chapter 1, in verse19,.
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And the Lord was with Judah andhe drave out the inhabitants of
the mountain, but could notdrive out the inhabitants of the
valley because they hadchariots of iron and they gave
Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said, and he expelled thence the
three sons of Anak and thechildren of Benjamin.
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Did not drive out the Jebusitesthat inhabited Jerusalem, but
the Jebusites dwelled with thechildren of Benjamin in
Jerusalem unto this day.
It says in verse 28, and itcame to pass when Israel was
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strong, that they put theCanaanites to tribute and did
not utterly drive them out.
Instead of taking them out,they taxed them so they could
feed off of them.
But you know, this came rightafter Joshua.
Joshua was told drive out allthe inhabitants of the land,
exterminate them all.
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Neither did Ephraim drive outthe Canaanites that dwelt in
Gezer, but the Canaanites dweltin Gezer among them.
Neither did Zebulun drive outthe inhabitants of Kitron nor
the inhabitants of Nahalal, butthe Canaanites dwelt among them
and became tributaries.
There again, they taxed them.
They lived off of them.
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Neither did Asher drive out theinhabitants of Echol, nor the
inhabitants of Zidon, nor ofAlab, nor of Aksib, nor of Helba
, nor of Aphek, nor of Rahab,but the Asherites dwelt among
the Canaanites and theinhabitants of the land, for
they did not drive them out.
Neither did Natali drive outthe inhabitants of Beth Shemesh,
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nor the inhabitants of Bethna,but he dwelt among the
Canaanites, the inhabitants ofthe land, and the Amorites
forced the children of Dan intothe mountain.
This is why everything in theJudges happened, because the
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melody was written andprescribed and commanded of the
Lord, and they did not followthe melody.
They wanted to do it their ownway.
Maybe they got tired.
They battled for a long timegetting the promised land,
getting the people out.
Maybe they just we'll just letthat little group stay there.
They're small, they'll neverdefeat us.
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That's probably what theythought.
We can tax them?
Hey, why bother fighting them?
We're having trouble with theseiron chariots.
Let's just tax them, let themlive there.
They're small, they're puny,they'll never bother us, and
that's their own thinking.
But the Lord said drive themout.
Drive them out.
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It says in chapter 2 of Judges.
And an angel of the Lord came upfrom Gilgal to Bokin and said I
made you to go up out of Egyptand have brought you unto the
land which I swear unto yourfathers.
And I said I will never breakmy covenant with you and ye
shall make no league with theinhabitants of the land.
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In other words, you make nocovenant with them of peace.
You make no league with theinhabitants of the land.
In other words, you make nocovenant with them of peace.
You make no agreement with them.
Ye shall throw down theiraltars, but you have not obeyed
my voice.
See, it wasn't just the peoplethat stayed there that well.
They're really no threat to us.
What were they doing there?
Worshiping another god Havingaltars in the land?
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That was threat to us.
What were they doing there?
Worshiping another God, havingaltars in the land that was
promised to you?
You allowed them to continueworshiping another God there and
it became a cancer unto themlater on.
You've not obeyed my voice.
Why did you do this?
Wherefore I also said I willnot drive them out from before
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you.
You didn't drive them out.
I will not drive them out frombefore you, but they shall be as
thorns in your side and theirGod shall be a snare unto you.
And it came to pass when theangel of the Lord spake these
words unto the children ofIsrael that the people lifted up
their voice and wept.
And there we begin the cycle,back and forth, back and forth.
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Why?
Because they would not dance,sing, play to the melody that
God had already orchestrated.
Now we're talking about Israel.
We're talking about arepresentation of the church,
the body of Christ.
This was their downfall.
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It was always disobedience, itwas always.
I'm going to do it my way.
I'm going to modify what yousaid.
This is what we do in the bodyof Christ today.
It not only happens corporately, it happens individually, and
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that's where the heart of thiscomes in.
For every one of us here.
We do this individually, if youwill open your eyes and see how
you allow the enemy to have alittle place in your life and
you let him there.
Individually, we maintain andwe hold on to disharmonious
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elements which lead us to havingdiscord with the symphony that
we call our life.
When we heard the melody ofheaven, we began dancing to it.
We began singing to it.
We were moving to the rhythmthat led us to eternal life and
it changed us.
It made us walk differently, itmade us talk differently, it
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made us think differently and itmade us talk differently.
It made us think differentlyand look differently and feel
differently.
We reacted differently to thethings of the world.
We were all together changedand somewhere along the line we
were tried.
The Lord tried us.
Where is your faith really?
Let's try you, let's test youand, like I said before, maybe
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the Israelites got tired, butmaybe we get tired.
Come home from a long day ofwork and we sit down and we just
watch TV and watch more TV,watch movies.
We don't get into the Wordbecause we're tired.
We woke up early five-something, got home maybe five-something,
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tired.
Where's my food?
I'm hungry, give me somethingto eat.
And then we just sit down andwe don't really get into the
Word and we sort of entertainthings that we were really into
before TV programs, movie, music, maybe old friends, maybe old
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stomping grounds we still hangout with, even though we call
ourselves Christian, and maybewe hang around with the same
kind of crowd we hang out with,but that's them.
They do that, but I don't dothat, but you still hang out
with them and you're really nota light to them.
They know you're different, butyou still kind of talk the way
they talk and you might slip up,you might say things you know
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kind of wrong, you might curse.
We entertain these things and wetry to dance both the melodies
and over a long period of timeit just doesn't look right.
And there are people that haveheard the word and they're drawn
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to the Lord.
But they've been watching youor they've been watching your
relative that call themselves aChristian and they see them talk
about the Lord.
But they've been watching youor they've been watching your
relative that call themselves aChristian and they see them talk
about the Lord and their houseis in disarray and it's that
little aspect of disharmony thatcauses them to not make that
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commitment.
We've seen it.
I don't know about you.
Maybe you have the perfectfamily and perfect relatives and
perfect friends that callthemselves Christian, but we see
that a lot.
And when you begin to dance bothmelodies, you look funky, you
look freaky, you don't looknormal, not even godly normal.
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You just look really off, godlynormal, you just look really
off.
And you can't do both Becauseyou've altered the divine melody
, you've perverted the divinemelody.
You're not a better conductorof the melody than God is.
God made the perfect melody andyou're going to come in and try
to inject yours.
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It's the epitome of arrogance.
It's the epitome of arrogance,it's the epitome of pride to
think that you can come in withyour own song, your own beat,
your own rhythm, and think thatit's going to flow with God,
when all your life you've made amess of everything.
And it is this snare that hasbeen the downfall of many a
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saint, because they would notrid of themselves the things
that God commanded them tosacrifice on the altar of
submission to Him.
There are little things overtime that we entertain and we
allow, and we've deceivedourselves because we've made
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little compromises, thinkingthat, oh, god loves me so much.
I make mistakes, I stumble.
But no, I'm talking about theones where you purposely get
involved in things and entertainthings and these little
compromises that we make over along period of time, about the
ones where you purposely getinvolved in things and entertain
things.
And these little compromisesthat we make over a long period
of time.
They cause us in the end, to beway off course.
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Solomon didn't have the rightoriginal intentions when he
asked for a wise andunderstanding heart.
He may not have married all ofthe people outside.
In the beginning of his reignhe married one, and that one in
the end, led him to how manywives, how many concubines?
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He ran for 40 years.
By the way, it started with oneand in the end he had a
thousand wives and concubines.
Doesn't happen overnight.
It happens over your lifetime.
A thousand wives and concubines.
It doesn't happen overnight.
It happens over your lifetime.
It happens because you deceivedyourself.
You thought, well, it's notthat bad.
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I mean, come on, I'm sure theIsraelites thought the same
thing.
There's a couple families there, big deal, big deal.
Hey, aren't we all tired?
We got our land, we're here.
Let's just go to our tents,let's go live with our families.
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Let's leave them alone.
They're not going to botheranybody.
I don't do it as much as I didbefore, as if that's better.
When God said no enough, cut itoff from yourself.
Didn't Jesus say it's better togo to heaven with your hand cut
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off than to go to hell with allyour body?
We need to cut those things offwith all your body.
We need to cut those things off.
We need to realize that if wedon't, god is going to cut us
off.
Anybody ever played with alizard and you grabbed its tail.
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What happens to the tail?
It grows back.
God is going to do the samething with his body.
If he has rebellious membersthat will not submit, they will
be cut off and then another.
Their fingers will grow Becausethere are people right behind
you that will walk in line, thatwill walk into the melody of
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his harmony.
They won't say like the manchild won't say I'm not even
going to entertain this.
I'm going to entertain this,but a little bit.
They're not going to say that Idon't take part in it like I
used to.
I'm being very careful and someof us think that we have no
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other alternative, that we haveno choice and we have to
continue.
We've deceived ourselves intothinking that we don't have the
power to do something different,even though we may have done
that all of our lives, at theend of Solomon's life.
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This is one of the few people inthe well, not one of the few
people.
He's one of the few people inthe Bible that is so highly
spoken of that I would not wantto be in his shoes on the day of
his death Because I don't knowwhat happened to him.
He turned from the Lord in theend.
I don't know what happened.
Don't put me in his shoes.
Put me in Moses' shoes.
He was on the Mount ofTransfiguration.
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I've got no doubt about him,but not in Solomon's Because I
don't know what happened to him.
He changed His lust, drew himaway and in the end I don't have
a lot of high hopes for himBecause he changed.
There's scriptures in Ezekielthat said if the father sins
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most of his life I'm justparaphrasing he sins, he sins,
he sins, and then he changes andthen he repents and he turns
from his wicked ways, then hewill have the blessing of my
righteousness and the blessingof my eternal life.
And the righteous man, if hewalks with me, talks with me and
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we're getting along like Enochand I walk, and then he turns
from me, then he deserves thedeath that is appointed unto him
.
When one man sinned, deathpassed to all men Because they
all sinned.
It wasn't an inherited genetictrait, it was that Adam sinned
and everyone after him sinned atsome point and they were worthy
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of death.
One man sinned unto the worldand death by sin.
So death passed unto all men,for that all have sinned.
So death pass unto all men, forthat all have sinned.
Because of one man's offensecame upon all men death.
But how about where it says inRomans 5.17, that much more,
they which receive abundance ofgrace and of the gift of
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righteousness shall reign in thelife by one Jesus Christ.
The gift of righteousness shallreign in the life by one Jesus
Christ.
Therefore, as by the offense ofone judgment came upon all men
to condemnation, even so by therighteousness of one, the free
gift came upon all men untojustification of life.
For as by one man'sdisobedience many were made
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sinners, so by the obedience ofone shall many be made righteous
.
But the good news is, becauseof one man's obedience many can
be made righteous.
But it has to do withreconciliation.
He died once and for all men.
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He died once and for all dying.
He died for the sins of theworld.
It says so is the world allsaved?
Hello, he died for the sins ofthe world.
What do you mean?
Does not man have something todo with this?
It says for if, when we wereenemies, we were reconciled to
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God by the death of His Son muchmore being reconciled.
We shall be saved by His life.
How do you get reconciled withGod?
You've got to walk in harmonywith the Lord and His Word.
There's no other way, becausewhen the light shines in the
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midst of your darkness, you aregiven a decision to make.
Will you continue in yourdarkness or will you walk in the
light that I'm about to giveyou?
Will you walk in your flesh, inyour carnality, or will you
walk in your flesh, in yourcarnality, or will you walk in
the Spirit?
Turn to Romans 17.
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Some of us might disagree withthe idea of eternal security.
We might disagree with the ideaof once saved, always saved.
But if you look in the mirrorand you ask yourself honestly
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before the Lord, the mirror ofthe word, your actions might
speak completely contrary toyour disagreement with that
doctrine.
Because you seem to makedecisions in your life that seem
to say that you're taking Godfor granted and you just think
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everything's just going to beall right.
Even if you continue walkingthis way.
That is in dissonance anddiscord with the harmony that
God has already ordained.
In Romans 11, paul is speakingof the Jews and the Gentiles.
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And if some of the branches bebroken off and thou being a wild
olive tree, gentiles weregrafted among them and with them
partakest of the root and thefatness of the olive tree.
Boast not against the branches,but if thou boast, thou bearest
not the root, but the olivetree.
Boast not against the branches,but if thou boast, thou bearest
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not the root, but the root.
Thee, he's telling the Gentiles, you were grafted in as a wild
olive branch.
You're not a part of thenatural olive branch.
You were grafted in and thosebranches that were broken off
were broken off because of theirunbelief.
Don't you boast in anythingthat you've done, because it is
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the root that made the branchholy.
If you're broken off, then youhave no root.
So I have taken you, I havegrafted you into the root, which
is holy, and in verse 19 saysthat will say then the branches
were broken off that I might begrafted in.
Well, because of unbelief theywere broken off and thou
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standest by faith.
You remain grafted in by faith,but be not high-minded Fear.
But be not high-minded Fear,for if God spared not the
natural branches and he cut themoff and they are not a part of
His root that was holy, takeheed lest he also spare not thee
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.
Behold, therefore, the goodnessand the severity of God on them
which fell, severity On themwhich fell in unbelief.
They had the severeconsequences from God.
But if toward thee goodness, ifyou continue in his goodness,
otherwise thou shalt also be cutoff.
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Sobering words to the body ofChrist today that, by words, say
they disagree.
Apostolic Christians, I disagree.
I don't believe that we haveeternal security, but your
actions may make you think twiceBecause of the things that
you're doing and the people youhang around with and the things
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that you're getting yourselfinvolved in.
That was carnal.
That was the stuff you didbefore you were born again.
Why are you still involved init now?
Why are you still playing withfire?
I don't know.
Some of us may not understandthat when we were called, there
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was in that call a requirementto sacrifice on the altar of
submission to him some of thethings that we did prior to
knowing him.
But we play around with it andwe think well, that's not too
serious.
Tell that to Solomon after 40years.
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The scriptures are a symphony ofharmony with elements here and
there of disharmony filledthroughout.
The discord was always man'srebellion to the melody, to the
divine symphony of heaven, andthe good thing is that what
began in harmony in the Gardenof Eden shall, in the end, be
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forever restored to its initialharmonious intentions.
It will get back to the way itshould have been.
We've talked about therestitution of all things.
It will come to pass, but itwill only come to pass to those
that are within the body, thatare walking in harmony with the
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Lord and His Word.
For all others, there's a fieryindignation waiting for those
who do not obey the gospel.
And the gospel is not justmerely the death, the burial,
the resurrection and how torespond to the gospel.
The gospel is all of the goodnews message and everything that
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he requires of us.
Because the Israelites wentthrough the blood, they went
through the water, they wentthrough the spirit and they
still fell in the wilderness.
Their carcasses rotted there.
Why do we think any different ofus today?
Why do we think we're so muchbetter than the saints who came
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before us that we can getexceptions that they couldn't
get, that we can get exceptionsthat they couldn't get.
There's still people that dropdead today at the judgment of
the Lord, but no one knows whenthey are.
But it does happen, because Godis the same yesterday and today
and forevermore in the future.
Do not mock God.
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The result of disharmony anddiscord in music is agitation,
like by the time you finish withthat, I don't feel at peace, I
feel restless, I feel indiscomfort.
But in life the result is guilt, sadness, death without Him.
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In music the result of harmonyis you enjoy it.
There's a satisfaction inhearing, it's like wow, that was
really nice, that was reallygood.
And in life it's righteousness,peace and joy in Him.
And it's amazing to me how Godcan take His melody, which has
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began from the dawn of the ages,to the end, whatever that end
may be.
It amazes me that he can takethe disharmony and use it.
It says clearly in Romans 8, 28,.
We know all things worktogether for good to them that
love God, to them that arecalled according to his purpose.
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But only repentance, onlysteadfastness to the Lord and
his word in harmony with himmakes that verse possible with
him makes that verse possibleBecause there is no way that
you're going to walk like arebellious child and have that
happen to you.
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You have to at some pointrepent.
You have to at some point driveout those things in your life
that cause disharmony with theGod that you serve, the God that
you say you love at some point.
Otherwise, this doesn't applyto you.
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This applies to the children ofGod.
This applies to the sons of God.
Who are the sons of God?
They that are led by the Spiritare the sons of God, amen.
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