Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 112 - Fool’s Gold
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- 0:14Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord, Oh my soul and all that is
- 0:18within me. Bless His holy name. All right, God, bless you.
- 0:21Once again We welcome you took this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries
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- 1:03Voice in the Wilderness, so you can see us also each week and all
- 1:10previous episodes on our YouTube channel. Again, one Voice in the Wilderness.
- 1:17The handle is at the number one v t W V tw A voice in
- 1:25the wilderness, and that's who we are, just one voice in the wilderness
- 1:29crying out, prepare ye the way of the Lord. That's what God has
- 1:34commissioned us to do. And so in this season, in this time a
- 1:38man, in these last of the last days, we are compelling men and
- 1:42women everywhere to flee from the raft to come. Amen, Amen, flee
- 1:49from the raft to come. And today we're going to continue in a very
- 1:55necessary book letter that was written to the church by the Apostle all the First
- 2:00Letter to the Corinthian Church. And we begin in our series on last week
- 2:07A Man with No Division, A Man no Division, Amen, Paul address
- 2:14that major problem that he had with the church in corinth There was division in
- 2:21the church. There were factions, there were a man groups of individuals who
- 2:24were causing separation. And by the way, as we know, we may
- 2:30crystal clear that this is one of the devil's chief chief weapons weapons that he
- 2:36uses, chief of weapons that he uses in order to a man bring habit
- 2:43in the church, and that is to cause division strife. And we are
- 2:46to be a people of unity and so a man. Today we're going to
- 2:51continue in the First Letter to the Corinthian Church, and we're going to be
- 2:54in chapter number two. And today we're going to be looking at the title
- 3:00that I'm going to use, by the way, it's going to be fools,
- 3:04gold Amen, fools gold Amen. And so we before we begin,
- 3:12we're going to amen, just say a quick brief word of prayer. Father
- 3:15Again, we're grateful to you for all of your blessings. We are,
- 3:19amen, the recipients of bountiful, bountiful blessings, Peace, joy, mercy,
- 3:23hope and passion, love, faith, Amen, and eternal life.
- 3:29Amen. To be with you forever. Amen. We certainly look forward to
- 3:31that glorious and beautiful day. But while we are here in this time,
- 3:37in this season, Lord, that you have a man called for us to
- 3:39be your ambassadors, your salt, your light, your witnesses in this earth.
- 3:45Lord, help us to stand and amen, be that light that we
- 3:49are to be, that city set up on the hill, that you may
- 3:51be glorified in all that we say and do. In the name of Jesus
- 3:54the Christ, we pray give thanks for all things. Amen and Amen.
- 3:59All right, fools, gold, fools, gold, Amen. All right.
- 4:04First Corinthians, chapter number two. I'm going to commence reading at verse
- 4:09number one. And I, brethren, when I came to you, came
- 4:14not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring Paul says unto you the
- 4:20testimony of God. But I determined not to know anything among you say Jesus
- 4:30Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear
- 4:40and in much trembling, And Paul says, my speech and my preaching here
- 4:46it is was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of
- 4:55the Spirit and of the power. That your faith should not stand in the
- 5:03wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit verse six,
- 5:10we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, not, Paul says, Yet
- 5:15not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princess of this world,
- 5:21that come to naught a man. But we speak, Paul says, the
- 5:28wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before
- 5:35the world, unto our glory. Amen, fool's gold, fools gold,
- 5:46is what the wisdom of this world is. Please understand, the wisdom of
- 5:51this world is fools gold. Anyone whose faith is built upon the wisdom of
- 6:00this world rather than in the amen wisdom of God, rather than the power
- 6:09of God, rather than in the power of the Spirit. Remember in the
- 6:11Old Testament the loss it is not by Mighty, it's not by power,
- 6:14but by My Spirit, Amen, the Spirit of the Living God. If
- 6:18your faith is built on the wisdom of man, your faith is going to
- 6:23have to stand with the wisdom of man with the amen help of the wisdom
- 6:30of man, and that is no help at all, it's fool's gold.
- 6:32You got to understand this, Amen, Because Paul said, all of the
- 6:38wisdom of this world, the princes of this world are coming to naughty,
- 6:42coming to nothing. Amen. And the Gospel of Jesus Christ, by the
- 6:46way, the testimony of God, Amen to man, does not require of
- 6:51us any added flavor, any added flair, any additional help. God doesn't
- 6:58need our help. We do not have to add any spice to it.
- 7:00No wisdom, no, no, nothing. Every word of God, the
- 7:04Bible says it's pure, and the Bible again warns us against adding to his
- 7:09words. Amen. So we don't need the wisdom of man. Amen.
- 7:14The wisdom of this world added. Amen to the testimony of God, to
- 7:18the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In order for it to be effective, nothing
- 7:24is to be added, nothing is to be taken away. And the spokesman,
- 7:28by the way, whoever the spokesman is for God, does not need
- 7:31to be eloquent in speech. Amen. They don't have to be educated in
- 7:36the wisdom of this world, in the ways of this world. Amen.
- 7:41In the traditions of men. Amen. No, no, no, no,
- 7:44no, not necessary, not necessary at all. Amen. Not in
- 7:49order to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen, to declare the testimony,
- 7:56because you don't need those things. Amen. Now God is not nowhere
- 8:01in the Word of God is God anti education? Amen. But what he
- 8:07is is anti wisdom of this world, anti tradition of men. Anti God
- 8:16is against you I any of us taking His word, adding to it,
- 8:20taking away from it, thinking that we can improve somehow. Amen, upon
- 8:26what God has already spoken in the apostle. Paul certainly understood this very well,
- 8:31and by the way of all the apostles, he perhaps was the most
- 8:35highly educated of them all. Amen. He excelled in this class a pharisee
- 8:41of the pharisees. Amen, sat at the feet of probably without doubt,
- 8:48one of the most, if not the most respected and permanent Rabbi Gamaleo,
- 8:52a man, and Paul was his prize pupil. Amen, he excelled,
- 8:58He exceeded all of those who were in his classes. He certainly understood a
- 9:03man education and wisdom and all of that of this world. But then this
- 9:07is what he says later on, when he wrote to the church. He
- 9:09said, I count all of those things as dung that I may win Christ.
- 9:15I want to know Him in the power. That's what it's all about.
- 9:18Because the wisdom of this world, Paul understood, is food's gold.
- 9:24Amen. And its fallacy to go into teaching and preaching a man the word
- 9:31of God using the wisdom of man. Amen. It is the power of
- 9:35the Holy Spirit. It is the power of God that sets the captive free,
- 9:41that keeps the captive free. Amen. If your faith again, is
- 9:46built upon a man, the enticing words of man's wisdom. If your faith
- 9:52is a man built upon someone's charisma, Amen, because you like them,
- 9:56because they are eloquent in speech, and all of that. Amen. Again,
- 10:01God is not against using people who are eloquent in speech. Amen.
- 10:05Apollos, by the way, was one of the most eloquent a man of
- 10:11persons used by God in the New Testament. And again that's not necessary though,
- 10:18a man for the proclamation of the Gospel. Amen. Again, if
- 10:24your faith is built on these things, if your faith is built on the
- 10:28enticing words of the wisdom of man, a man, the tradition of man,
- 10:31Amen, you are probably no, not probably, you are definitely a
- 10:37man on shaky ground. You are on sinking sand. Your house is built,
- 10:43your faith is built on sand, Amen, no doubt about it.
- 10:48And this is precisely why so many professing believers a man are living lives of
- 10:54defeat, rather than being the more than over conquerors, more than conquerors,
- 11:01rather more than a man uh conquerors, overcomers as what I'm trying to say,
- 11:07overcommers and more than conquerors, a man that God has declared us to
- 11:11be. And man, if your faith, if your faith trust, believe
- 11:16me the Bible. The other believe me. But the Bible says your faith,
- 11:20My faith will be tested. We're gonna be put to the test.
- 11:22And if your faith is built on the tradition of man, if your faith
- 11:26is built and the wisdom of man, faith is not gonna, it's not
- 11:30gonna. It's not gonna, is not going to stand. As Jesus talked
- 11:35at the end of I believe the sermon what we call the Sermon on the
- 11:37Mount Matthew chapter number seven. He said, whoever hears these sayings of mind,
- 11:41that's the teaching the teaching of Jesus, the doctrine of Christ. A
- 11:46man he said, And the man that does them, he said, I
- 11:50were liking him. Unto a man who builds his house up on the rock,
- 11:54the rains come, the winds blow, the floods come beat upon that
- 11:58house, and it stands. But the one who hears the word of God,
- 12:03Amen, does not build his house on the word of God. The
- 12:07brother as the Pharisees in the Sadducees, and Jesus by the way warned his
- 12:11disciples to beware of the doctrine of the teachings of the traditions of the Pharisees
- 12:20and the Sadducees. So if you build your house on tradition, if you
- 12:24build your house on the eloquence of man, the wisdom of the word of
- 12:28man, the charisma of a man, your house is going to be built
- 12:35on sinking sand. And the same wind, the same rain, the same
- 12:39storms, the same floods that beat upon the house that's built on the rock
- 12:43is going to beat upon your house. But guess what your house, Jesus
- 12:46said, is going to fall, and great will be the fall of it.
- 12:50Amen. So again you know, for example, we have prosperity preaching
- 12:58that swept a lot of people away. Amen. And they were built up
- 13:05on false hope of a self sufficiency and kind of gospel kind of teaching.
- 13:13Amen. That was really a false faith. It is a false faith.
- 13:18And again, God is not against prosperity. Let me make that clear.
- 13:22I've made it clear. You know those you've been listening, listening for quite
- 13:26some time, you know that God is not anti prosperity, not at all.
- 13:31Amen. But people are being beguiled Amen, and believing that they can
- 13:39command and they can speak the blessings of God into their lives without repentance,
- 13:46without obedience to the word of God, Amen, without living Amen. As
- 13:52God has Jesus said, Listen, what do you say? Why call you
- 13:54mean lord Lord? And do nothing things I say? If you let me
- 13:58keep my what commandments? So don't tell me that you're going to command the
- 14:01blessings of God on your life, that you're going to speak prosperity into your
- 14:05life, and you're not going to be obedient to what Jesus has taught us
- 14:09to do a man, and I'm not talking about legalism. I'm talking about
- 14:13simple obedience to the Holy goes. How can we continue in sin Romans chapter
- 14:20six, that grace may abound the Bible says, God forbid. So don't
- 14:24come with your no repentance, your no obedience to the Gospel, and think
- 14:28that you can command the blessings of God to come upon your life, to
- 14:31be in your life, to be blessed in highly favored, when you're living
- 14:35in sin and contradiction to the word of God. Amen. This is this
- 14:43is how people are misled. Amen, down the path of a man destruction.
- 14:48And man, there's the way. The Bible says that seems right unto
- 14:52a man, but the end thereof is destruction. And so people are being
- 14:58beguiled Amen, into believing that they can command, they can order, Amen,
- 15:07blessings upon their life without obedience. Amen, without repentance. Amen,
- 15:13and listen, I believe that I know, and not believe. I know.
- 15:18The Bible is very clear about this. And by the way, all
- 15:22you have to do, Amen, to be a recipient of the blessings of
- 15:26God is to walk in obedience. That's what the Lord told these people in
- 15:30their Old Testament. If you were just diligently hearkened to the voice of the
- 15:33Lord your God, he said, I will command all of these blessings to
- 15:37come upon you. They're gonna overtake you. You're gonna be blessed when you
- 15:41go out. You can be blessed when you come in, blessed in the
- 15:43city, blessed in the field. All these blessings will come upon you.
- 15:46God has commanded goodness and mercy to follow us already all the days of our
- 15:52life. And then here's the cooty tide. If you will, all things
- 15:56work together for our good, all things, no matter what, even when
- 15:58the bad things that we can't see the good end we can't see the end
- 16:03of. We can't see where there's hope. Amen. When this seems like
- 16:07there's despair, Amen, that there's destruction, and that the enemy is this
- 16:12is winning. Amen. Listen, all things work together, Bible says,
- 16:18God always causes us to triumph. Amen, we win. And man,
- 16:22I believe that with all my heart. Amen. The word of God says
- 16:26it. I'm standing on it. So again, when the rain comes,
- 16:30when the winds blow and beat upon your house, and your house is built
- 16:34on that wisdom of man, Your house is built on the teachings of man,
- 16:41the doctrines of men, the traditions of men, your house is going
- 16:45to fall. Amen, Your house is going to fall. Amen, all
- 16:49right, listen, biblical faith and the wisdom of God, by the way,
- 16:56and this is what Paul is teaching here. Also, it's not even
- 16:59to be spoken among the princes of this world. It's not to be spoken
- 17:04among the carnal minded, the fleshly minded, a man the food who rejects
- 17:14the wisdom of God. And again Paul is gonna make this crystal clear here.
- 17:18Uh. And by the way, the first thing he teaches us is
- 17:21that had the prince had the princess of this world known, had they understood,
- 17:27they didn't know who Jesus was, and is they still don't know the
- 17:33princes of this world, the rulers of this world. Amen, they don't
- 17:37know who Jesus is. Some of them may give lift service, and I'm
- 17:41not putting all of them in the same basket. I realized God has people
- 17:47a man in places of government and leadership. And I'm not saying that and
- 17:51or rather painting of the broad brush. But for the most part, again,
- 17:56the rulers of this world a man are in a line against God,
- 18:02against his rule, against his authority. Amen. And so Paul tells us
- 18:07here, had the princess of this world known had they known better, he
- 18:14said, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Amen. They
- 18:19walk in their own wisdom, they walk in their own way. That they
- 18:23walk and live in a guided by Amen, the Prince and the power of
- 18:26the air. That's why Paul says, we're not wrestling against flesh and blood.
- 18:30Principal spiritual wickedness that is in the high places. Amen. The god
- 18:36of this world small g is Satan, Amen, and he works and operates
- 18:42Amen, with the kings of this world who are in cohot, in cooperation,
- 18:49as it were, with him. Most of them gladly agreeably a cooperation
- 18:59with the devil, Amen, sell their souls to wickedness. And they did
- 19:04not know. They did not understand, Paul said, because had they received
- 19:11the wisdom of God, had they been walking into wisdom of God, they
- 19:12never would have crucified the Lord of Glory. Amen. And by the way,
- 19:18one of these princes of this world, Ponteous Pilot, who sat in
- 19:23judgment of Jesus a man, asked the question what is truth? Amen?
- 19:29What is she asked Jesus, what is truth? Now? The embodiment,
- 19:34the very embodiment of truth, was standing right there in front of him,
- 19:37the very embodiment of the wisdom of God. Amen. Christ is the wisdom
- 19:42of God. The Bible teaches that was right there in front of him,
- 19:45but he didn't know. He didn't know. Amen. Amen. And the
- 19:52wisdom of this world hates Jesus. Jesus said to himself, he said,
- 19:56they hate me. The world hates me because I testify against it that its
- 20:03deeds are evil. Amen. When you walk in the wisdom of God,
- 20:06when you walk in the waves of God and man, when you stand on
- 20:08the word of God, the world is gonna hate you, because that's not
- 20:11the wisdom of this world. The wisdom of this world is to do what
- 20:15it wants to do. And it's always in defiance, not in the way
- 20:21of God, Amen, Not in the wisdom of God, not in obedience
- 20:25and alliance to the word of God. You can count on that. That's
- 20:27the way this world operates. Amen. And that's why the Bible tells us
- 20:32to come out from among them and be ye separate. Now we have to
- 20:36live in this world, or we're not to be of this world. The
- 20:37Bible tells us very clearly, love not the world. Neis are the things
- 20:41that are in the world because all that is in the world, in this
- 20:45world's system, the lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes. The
- 20:48pride of life is not of God, it is not of the Father,
- 20:52but it is of this world. And the world passes away, everything just
- 20:57in it. It's going to pass away. So get caught up in the
- 21:00traditions of men, a man, the wisdom of men, the wisdom of
- 21:03this world, because it is coming to not the Bible says, Amen,
- 21:10the wisdom of this world by the way they and again we're talking about the
- 21:14princes of this world and all those who are swept up in it. A
- 21:18man who get carried away, who are blinded by Satan. A man,
- 21:21they believe, A man foolishly believe that they can operate and sustain the universe,
- 21:29sustain this earth. A man outside or apart from God, the one
- 21:34who created it and the one who upholds it by the word of his power,
- 21:41Amen, by his eternal decrees that he decreed, a man from the
- 21:44very beginning. God, by the way, in wisdom, with wisdom,
- 21:48created the worlds and the universe. Amen. And man in his foolishness,
- 21:53A man believes that he can control the environment, control the seas, control
- 21:59the control the temperatures, Amen. Control the planet, control the resources.
- 22:07Amen. Extend the life of this world, of this planet. Amen.
- 22:12He thinks he does. And this is why we get all of this Amen.
- 22:18Junk science, Amen, and garbage and lies and propaganda. I'm gonna
- 22:25call it for what it is. It is outright propaganda in rebellion against God.
- 22:29Thinking that we mere mortal men can control what God created. That's the
- 22:36foolishness of the wisdom of this world. No man is going to save this
- 22:41planet. Read your Bible. This world is going to be destroyed, and
- 22:47it's not going to be destroyed by man. It is going to be destroyed
- 22:51by God himself, and He's going to bring about a new Heaven and a
- 22:55new Earth. The Bible says, wherein dwells righteousness. Now you can believe
- 22:59that, walk in that wisdom, order your life by that wisdom, or
- 23:02you can believe the report of the wisdom of this world, the foolishness of
- 23:06man, and walk thereby. Amen. But Paul says, listen, we
- 23:11speak. He said, we speak the wisdom of God, and a mystery,
- 23:18even the hidden wisdom which God. He said. What he says,
- 23:22God ordained before the world, unto our glory. Amen. Now, to
- 23:27whom is the wisdom of God a mystery? May I ask? To whom
- 23:33do you believe the wisdom of God is a mystery? Is it not?
- 23:40Amen? To those who ignore it? Is it not a mystery to the
- 23:45fool who rejects the wisdom of God? Because the Bible says in Proverbs that
- 23:52wisdom is crying out in the streets on every corner, at the marketplaces.
- 24:00She utters her voice, and she's calling to men to come, come,
- 24:06come to my house, Come eat at my table, Come live? Amen,
- 24:14Why die when you can live? Amen? To whom is the wisdom
- 24:19of God a mystery? But to the fool who ignores it? To whom
- 24:26is the wisdom of God? Or from home? Whether is the wisdom of
- 24:30God hidden? Who is it? Who is it that is hidden from Is
- 24:37it because God is playing games? Is it because God doesn't want people to
- 24:41find it or have it? No? No, again, it's available.
- 24:48And the Bible says the Book of James, if any man lacks wisdom,
- 24:53let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally. It's available.
- 25:02But the food thinks he can have wisdom without having God that's the wisdom
- 25:10of that's the wisdom of man. This is the wisdom of this world,
- 25:12this foolishness. You cannot have wisdom apart from God. Amen. Amen,
- 25:21before the foundation of the world. The Bible tells us here again, and
- 25:23man, God ordain that those who seek him, Amen, and those who
- 25:29ask after his wisdom, they will have it. They will find it a
- 25:33man. And it's in abundance, it's not in short supply, Amen,
- 25:38plentifully available to all who were just simply as Solomon was a wise king at
- 25:45twenty years old, a wise man wise enough at that time to understand that
- 25:51he in his flesh, he in his amen carnality, he in his amen
- 25:57youth Amen, did not have the wisdom necessary to govern God's people. And
- 26:03God came to him and said, ask me anything that you want, I
- 26:07give it to you. And because Solomon had enough wisdom, he had enough.
- 26:11Man, Listen, you don't need all the wisdom in the Word,
- 26:15but you do need enough wisdom to know that you need wisdom from God.
- 26:18That's the beginning a man. The fear of God that I say, is
- 26:22the beginning of knowledge, the beginning of wisdom, beginning of understanding, the
- 26:25beginning of discretion. If you want knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and discretion,
- 26:29you need to ask of God a man, and Solomon had enough a
- 26:34man wisdom at least enough to know. I believe around twenty years old that
- 26:40he didn't have it. He wasn't equipped a man to a man rule over
- 26:45God's people. And he asked the Lord for wisdom. And God did he
- 26:53not? Did he not open the treasures of wisdom, the treasures of heaven
- 27:00and pour it out on Solomon Verse number nine, First Corinthians, Chapter two.
- 27:07But as it is written and almost finished, I have not seen,
- 27:11nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which
- 27:18God hath prepared for them that love him. Boy, there's so much more
- 27:22that God has for us. Paul speech of this in these terms, in
- 27:26the ages to come? Can you in the ages to come? So far?
- 27:33So far? I mean we're talking about we're talking eternity here that it's
- 27:37indescribable. You can't put a number, there is no number, there's no
- 27:41number to put on eternity. There's no time. Amen. So in the
- 27:48Ages to come, God has so much more for us. Amen. I
- 27:55has not seen, ear has not heard. Neither have entered into the heart
- 28:00of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But
- 28:03God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit. Very important. For the
- 28:07spirit. Listen what the Bible says, searcheth all things, yay, the
- 28:12deep things of God. Very important. Listen what the Bible says. For
- 28:18what man knoweth the things of a man, say the spirit of man,
- 28:22which is in him. Even so, the things of God knoweth no man
- 28:29but the spirit of God. You cannot know the things of God without the
- 28:33Spirit of God. We're gonna emphasize that in just a moment verse thirteen,
- 28:37Verse twelve. Brother Paul says, Now we have received not the spirit of
- 28:41the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know
- 28:48the things that are freely given to us of God. Fall said verse thirteen.
- 28:56Which things also we speak not in the words very important, not in
- 29:03the words which mens wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy ghosts teacheth comparing spiritual
- 29:14things with spiritual things. But the natural man all so important Verse fourteen,
- 29:21final verse But the natural man, Ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living
- 29:25God, please understand that the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit
- 29:32of God, for they are foolishness unto him. Neither can he know them,
- 29:40because they are spiritually discerned. Ladies and gentlemen, without the spirit of
- 29:47the Living God, without the presence of the Holy Ghost, Amen, you
- 29:51must receive the Holy ghosts. You must be born again of the water and
- 29:56of the Spirit. Otherwise, as Jesus said to Nickodine, you cannot even
- 30:00see the Kingdom of God. You cannot enter in, you cannot understand it,
- 30:04you cannot grasp it. Amen, you cannot know it. So without
- 30:11the presence of the Holy Spirit in you, as a natural man of the
- 30:17earth, of this world, worldly, earthly, you cannot receive the things
- 30:22of God. You cannot know the things of God. You cannot understand the
- 30:26things of God. Amen, because all the things of the Spirit of God,
- 30:33they air foolishness to the natural man, to the natural mind. Amen.
- 30:38And again, you will never know it, you will never perceive it,
- 30:42you will never understand it. Amen. First and foremost, because such
- 30:49a man is spiritually dead, and he's blinded. Amen, by the Prince
- 30:56of this world, the devil, say than the Bible speaks of blinding the
- 31:02minds of them. What he does understand. However, what the natural man
- 31:07does understand, what he does gravitate toward, of course, is the spirit
- 31:14of this world. A man the spirit of this world. He follows after
- 31:18it, he seeks after it. He pursues after the wisdom of this world.
- 31:22He buys into the wisdom of this world. Amen. Because again,
- 31:29he does not possess the ability to understand a man, not even the grace
- 31:37of God, the love of God, the compassion of God, the mercy
- 31:41of God, the faithfulness of God, the goodness of God is long suffering.
- 31:45He the natural man, doesn't see it. He doesn't he doesn't he
- 31:48doesn't get it. He doesn't know it. I'm going to close with these
- 31:56few words from the apostle Paul, because I'm not beating up on the natural
- 32:00man. I'm not beating up on the blind man. Because Paul said,
- 32:04such were we, Such were we. This is what Paul writes to Titus,
- 32:12his son in the Gospel Titus chapter three, beginning at verse three.
- 32:15For we ourselves, the apostle rights also were sometimes foolish. Now the words
- 32:22in the past we were foolish, we were disobedient, we were deceived,
- 32:27serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating
- 32:35one another. But after you won't get it before then, ladies and gentlemen.
- 32:40But after that, the kindness and love of God, our Savior toward
- 32:47man appeared. Not by works of righteousness, no, no, no,
- 32:52no, no, he says, not by works of righteousness, which we
- 32:57have done. But according to his mercy, He saved us by the washing
- 33:05of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Which listen what he says,
- 33:10he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ, our Savior, that being justified
- 33:19by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal
- 33:27life. All of us, at some point were foolish, disobedient, blinded,
- 33:36a man serving divers lusts, living in pleasure, living according to the
- 33:39wisdom of this world and the wisdom of man. But God, thank you
- 33:44Jesus. All rights to the Ephesians. But God, who is rich in
- 33:47mercy. Listen. The wisdom of this world is temporal. The treasures of
- 33:55this world, temporal princes of this world come to naught. They rise,
- 34:01they fall, they come, they go, and it's all fool's gold.
- 34:08Don't buy it, don't traffic in it by the truth, the Bible says,
- 34:15and sell it. Not set your affection on things above, not on
- 34:20the things of this world. Seek you first, the kingdom, Jesus said,
- 34:25and his righteousness, and all the other things that be added unto you.
- 34:30Don't set your treasure. Don't set your affections on food's gold. You
- 34:37brought nothing into this world, and you will, certainly, the Bible says,
- 34:40carry nothing out. Father, If you will just help us today to
- 34:45walk in your wisdom, to walk in your way, not to be enticed,
- 34:49not to be carried away in any fashion or form, in the tradition
- 34:54of men, in the wisdom of men, and the enticing word to men,
- 35:00in the charisma of men. But Brother, in the spirit and in
- 35:05the power of God, let that be the resting place for our faith.
- 35:10In your power, in your word, in your wisdom, and your promises.
- 35:16In Jesus Christ, our Savior. We thank you now in advance.
- 35:21We know that you're able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask
- 35:23or think. We praise you now in Jesus name, Amen and Amen.
- 35:28All right, God bless you everyone, Let's have a great day in the Lord