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Thank you for forgiving us. Thank you for your mercy to us. Thank you, Jesus, for [music] filling our hearts with love for you first and for one another, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Blessed be your holy name. We worship you, oh God. Yes, you're worthy. I like that grade. Are you Lord? He's so great. He's greater than we can [music] imagine here on earth. Blessed be his holy name. The God who lives forever. Jesus, I've heard you can't take what's broken and make it whole again. [music] Well, here's [singing] the pieces of my heart. Give me what [music and singing] you can do with him. I can't hold it all together [music and singing] anymore. So I let them fall [music] surrendered to the floor. Yeah. You make [music and singing] all things new. [music] You make [singing] all things new. [singing] God of mercy and love [music] to [singing] only you can do. and [music] make all [singing] things new. Do that. I've heard you [music and singing] can take what's broken. Verse verse again and make it [singing and music] whole again. Here's [singing] the pieces of my heart. What can you [singing] do [music] within? Cuz I can't hold it all together [singing and music] anymore. Who can hold it together? So I let them [singing and music] fall surrendered to the floor. Yeah.
You [music] make [singing] all things new. [music] You make [singing] all things new. God of mercy and [singing and music] love to only you can do [singing and music] and make all things new. Only [music and singing] you can bring such beauty from the depths [music and singing] of all my pain. Only you can [music and singing] take this shattered heart and make it beat [music and singing] again. You hold it [singing and music] all together in your hand. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. I surrender all I have. All I have and all I am. Yes. Thank you, Lord. You make [music] all [singing] things new, Lord Jesus. You [music and singing] make all things new, God of mercy [singing] and love. Do what only you can do. Make [music and singing] all things new. From [music] the ashes, from the dust. I will rise up. I'll rise up from the [singing] darkness into light. Up. We'll rise up. Rise up from [music] the ashes. From the [singing] dust I will rise up, rise up. [music] From the [singing] darkness into light, I will rise up. Rise up. [singing] You make all [music] things new. You make all [singing] things all things new. [singing] God of mercy and love. [singing] Do what only you can do and make [singing] all things new.
Yes. Thank you, Lord. [music] You know the Lord Jesus Bible [music] says in Psalm 22 that he don't despise those who [music] are uh oh how does it go? He don't [music] despise us when we are uh broken and afflicted and he understands. [music] You know what? He went through way worse than we do and he [music] understands. So, let's sing that. Uh, let's sing that from [music] the ashes again. Y'all want to do that? From the ashes, from the dust, I will [singing] rise up. Rise up out of darkness into [singing] light. I will rise up. Rise up from the ashes. [music] From the dust I will rise up, rise [singing] up. [music] Out of darkness into light. I will rise up. Rise up. You make all [singing] things [music] new. You make [music and singing] all things new. God of [singing] mercy and love, do what [singing] only you can [music] do and make [singing] all [music] things all things. [singing] Lord, [music] you make all things [singing] [music] new. [music] Thank you, Jesus. Let's give the Lord a hand clap. Give him a hand clap. [music] Oh, come all [singing] ye faithful, [music] joyful [singing] and triumphant. Oh [singing] come ye, [music] oh come ye to be.
[music and singing] Come and behold [singing] him born the king of angels. [singing] Oh come let us [singing] adore Oh come let us adore him. Oh come [singing] let us [music] adore him [singing] Christ the Lord. Yes Lord [music] we adore you this morning. Thank you Jesus. Sing [singing] choirs of angels. Sing [singing] in exaltation. Sing all [singing and music] you sits of heaven [music and singing] above. [music] Glory to God. [singing and music] Glory in the highest. Oh come [singing and music] let us adore him. Oh come let [singing] us adore him. Oh come let us adore [singing] him Christ the Lord. [singing] Thank you Lord. [music] Thank you Jesus. You're worthy. [music] Yay [singing] Lord we greet thee. born this happy [singing] morning. [music] Jesus, to thee [singing] be all the [music] gloryy. [music] Word of the [singing] father now in flesh appearing. [singing and music] Oh come let [singing] us adore him. Oh come let [singing] us [music] adore him. Oh [singing] come let us [music] adore him. [singing] Christ the [music] Lord.
Oh [singing] Lord we [music] worship you Lord. [singing] His name shall be [music] wonderful counselor. [singing] His name shall [music] be everlasting father. [singing] His name shall [music] be prince of peace. [singing] Mighty God. His name shall be [music] Emmanuel. [singing] We'll praise his name forever. We'll praise his name [music and singing] forever. will praise his name forever. [singing] The Christ the [music and singing] Lord will play praise your name. We'll praise your name [music] forever. [singing] We'll praise your name forever. [music and singing] We'll praise your name forever. [singing] Christ the Lord. [music] Oh Christ [singing] Lord. One more [music] time. Oh come let us Oh come [singing] let us adore him. Oh come let us adore him. Oh come let us adore [singing] him Christ the Lord. [singing] Come on somebody give [music] him praise this morning. Hallelujah. Jesus almighty God, prince of peace, everlasting father, God [music] manifested in the flesh. The fullness of the Godhead bodily with the name above every name, [music] Jesus. The mystery of godliness. Lord, you [music] came here. You took on a human body. You lived a sinless life. Then you died for us. Lord, you [music] took our place. We ask you Lord today to reveal that truth [music] to hearts and minds. Lord, whether here or out there watching and listening. Lord, we ask you to reveal the truth that there is only one way, one truth, one life, one way to eternal life, [music] one way for sins to be forgiven, and that is through Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Reveal that today. convict hearts [music] today and help us as Christians move,
oh God, toward holiness and a pure heart cuz we want to see you, Lord. And we pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. That was awesome. Thank you so much. Praise God. You may be seated this morning. Welcome everyone. Fire and Grace Church this morning. Golly, we're missing some folks. Sickness Alamians don't like cold, wet weather. They start melting. Do you have your Bibles this morning? All right. I hope so, cuz we got a lot of scripture to cover. But before you put up the PowerPoint this morning, we're going to start with a verse that I didn't put on the PowerPoint. Just the Lord laid it on my heart back there while we were singing. Um, but go to Hebrews chapter 12 first. We're going to start there. This is going to be the heart of mankind part four. And today we're going to be talking about the pure heart. And this one right here is the scary one because everybody thinks their heart's pure, especially Christians. We have a bad case of I thank God I'm not like other men. Um we got to change that. Amen. Um but I want to read this is uh Hebrews 12:es 12 uh through we'll just read through 15. He said wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees. Make straight paths for your feet. Now whenever you see that straight path, the word righteousness as you're going to see today means straight path, the right path, the obedient path, the holy path, the different path than the wicked, the sinner, the world system. He says, "Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but but let it rather be healed." Now, here's the verse. It's one of the scariest verses in the Bible. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. I'm gonna read that one again. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. No holiness, no seeing the Lord. Then he says, looking diligently lest any man fail or fall from the grace of God. Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled. So let holiness now what does the word holiness mean? If you looked if you look it up it means sanctified. What does sanctified means? It means cleansed. It means purged. It means washed clean.
Okay? And it means separate from something that's unclean. Right? So in this Christian life, you will either be wholly different than the world or you will be like the world. If there's no change in you when you become a Christian, then I doubt whether you've truly been born again or you truly understood the gospel and the doctrine of repentance, which means you confess your sins and turn away from them and live a different way. And what's surprising is this is almost unheard of now in the church world, particularly in the West. Repentance is a dirty word that they say Christians shouldn't even worry about. Oh, and if you preach repentance, you're preaching works salvation. Let me just go on and tell you right now, you need to just move those people out of your life. Do not listen to that nonsense. And you better read the word of God because I remember when I was a young Christian and I read this verse right here, this passage for the first time, it put the fear of God in my heart. The Lord is saying clearly, if you don't have holiness in your life as a Christian, you will not see him. Now, think about that for a minute. There's no dark corner of heaven where you're going to slip in and see Jesus a far off. Without holiness, you will not see the Lord. Now having said that, now let's go. We're going to start this. So today's the heart of mankind part four, the pure heart. Everybody ought to know this verse right here. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Now, isn't it interesting that we just read a verse that says, "Without holiness, no one will see the Lord." Right? And then it says here, the pure in heart shall see the Lord. The pursuit of holiness in your life is the process that will purify your heart. And I don't know about you, but my whole goal in this thing is to see God face to face. To be with him forever, to never have to leave his presence, to never be out of it. Because this life right here is temporary. It's short.
It's a vapor. It appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Even if you live 80 to 90 years, I'm realizing I I'm looking back now 20, 30, 40 years. It just went by like this. And regardless, no one is guaranteed they're going to live 70, 80, 90 years. It could be tomorrow. We just heard the the terrible news that the pastor of First Baptist Church just had a heart attack. And what was he 55, 56? I don't know. 52. Oh gosh, I'm turning 58. Yes. Oh, yeah. He died. Sunday. Was it Sunday? Suddenly? Yeah. So, you don't know. You don't know when it's going to happen. So, this I don't know how preachers get away with not telling you about this right here that this should be a priority in your life. Are you becoming more holy, meaning more like Jesus, or are you becoming more like the world? Are you growing in grace and the knowledge of the Lord in virtue and morality, or are you slipping back? Th this is this you you you don't stand still. You're always progressing towards something. And I want to see God and I want you to see God. So I'm not going to lie to you. You can't you can't just live a habitual unholy evil life and think, "Oh, I believe in Jesus." What's sad is I heard the First Baptist Church pastor that just passed away, one of his last little videos he did was about once saved, always saved. I'm sorry, but that's a lie. That's that verse I just that passage I just read in Hebrews 12. Looking diligently means you better pay close attention that you don't start to fail or fall from, you can look up those words there, the grace of God. But they'll say, they'll tell you out there, you can't fall from the grace of God. The word says it is plain and simple right there. Don't shout me down when I'm preaching. Jesus said, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." So if this right here, if you want to see God, you want to be with God forever, you want to be at his throne, then this should be a priority. What is it? What does it take and what does it mean for
me to be pure in heart? Let's look at this word. This is the word pure. I love this uh from Matthew 5. This is the outline of biblical usage from the blue letter Bible. So this means this takes the theers and this takes the strongs and this takes all the little Greek lexicons but it means to be clean pure purified by fire. Ain't that interesting? Right. in a similitude uh like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit in a Levitical sense clean the use of which is not forbidden imparts no uncleanness. Woo! Somebody say imparts no uncleanness because you pass on this stuff. Free from corrupt desire. I'm gonna pause right there for a minute. free from corrupt desire, from sin and guilt, free from every ad mixture of what is false. Oh, let me just tell you right now, you're going to find out and I'm going to go ahead and give you a little preview. But if you have a problem lying like most of the Republican politicians out here, the Democrats, they have no morals. The Republicans don't either really for the for the most part, none. They'll lie to you and stab you in the back. They've been doing it to me this week. But let me just go and tell you these ones running around here. Oh, we're we're Christians. Judeo-Christian values, all this stuff. There are none. Um, so few. That word ad mixture just means watered down. It means something mixed in is not supposed to be there. We don't want to have a pure heart. You can't have anything in there that you hold on to that is a mixture, that is false, that's a lie, that's deception. Can't have it. say, "Well, Pastor Dean, all of us have something." No, you don't have to. Now, I I know I've taught you about the side of your heart that's going to lie to you and it's going to try to deceive you. But here's the point of all this. To have [clears throat] a pure heart, you must dominate that other side or it will dominate you. It's just fact. Okay? And then it says, "Blameless, innocent, innocent, unstained with the guilt of anything." Lord, blessed are the pure heart. You say, "I can't do that." Guess what? I can't either. But I can sure cooperate with the one who's trying to help me do that. I can choose to walk with him or I can choose to fight him all the way and resist him. Okay? The Lord will help you if you're willing.
if you want this more than anything else. But see, let me tell you what we lie to ourselves because we'll say, Christians will say, "Oh, sure. I want to be the pure in heart." Oh, do you? But your actions then show differently. Right? But if you really, really, really, really, really, really want something, that's what you go after, right? We know that. Look at what drug addicts will do to get a drug they want. They'll lie, cheat, steal, write a bad check. They'll steal from their own mama. They'll steal from their grandma. That's really bad. Now listen, let's read a few verses here in the Bible that use the term pure heart. And these are not the only ones, but there's a few. He says 1 Timothy 15, now the end of the commandment is charity or love in action out of what? a pure heart, love in action out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeign. Now, when it says of a good conscience, he's talking about the heart. He's talking about the spirit of man and the soul of man here. But that's the end of the commandment. Somebody say the end. That means you want to know, you know, just boil it all down. Here it is. love out of a pure heart, of a good conscience, and the true faith of Jesus Christ with nothing false in it. That's what unfeign means. No falsehood, no lies, no deceit, no fraud, no agendas. 2 Timothy 2:22, "Flee also youthful lust, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." That means you're supposed to hang out with people that have the same goals as you. Amen. I will not sit in the congregation of the dead. Come on now. 1 Peter 1:22, "Seeing you have purified your souls, mind, will, and emotions, your heart in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren. See that you love one another with a pure heart fervently." Somebody say, "Pure heart." It's there a few times, isn't it? It's good stuff. Say, "Good stuff, Pastor Dean." Thank you. I appreciate it. It's God's word. Amen. One thing after today, you will not be able to say this was Pastor Dean's idea. You see it all
through the Bible. This right here I have always pondered because Jesus says this about Nathaniel and let's look at it. John 1:45-49. It says, "Philipine Nathaniel and saith unto him, we have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. And Nathaniel said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" And Philip saith unto him, "Come and see." And Jesus saw Nathaniel coming, and saith unto him, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." Somebody say, "No Gile." Gile. Just remember that. We're going to come back to that. Nathaniel saith him, "Whence knowest thou me?" And Jesus answered and said unto him, "Before Philip called thee, when thou was under the fig tree, I saw thee." And Nathaniel answered and said unto him, "Rabbi, thou art the son of God. Thou art the king of Israel. And of course, Jesus said, you're going to see greater things than these. Right? But Nathaniel, an Israelite in whom there is no guile. Jesus never said this about anyone else. So what is he telling us about Nathaniel? Why he picked Nathaniel? I'm gonna tell you right now. Because Nathaniel had a pure heart. There was no agendas in his heart. There was no desire to lie, deceive, defraud anybody. Nathaniel's heart was pure before God because his intentions, his purposes, his desires were for the right things. And Jesus knew this and goes, "Yep, that's going to be one of my disciples right there, one of my apostles." But let's look at the word guile. All right, here it is. Do and of course the outline of biblical uses craft, which means you're using your devilish wisdom to craft a scheme of some kind. Schemer, liars, deceivers, tailbears, people like cause problems in churches. They are Israelites with guile. I know quite a few of them. I could list a na uh some names. Craft, deceit, guile. And as you see here, probably meaning to decoy. That means to be. What is a decoy? Decoy looks like the real but is not. It is there to deceive. Let that sink in for a minute. That's people who want to pretend to be something they're not in order to deceive [clears throat] you, to trick you, to put bait down for you,
to draw you into error, sin, compromise, temptation, whatever it may be. But see, a person who has no guile is not trying to deceive anybody, not trying to lie to anybody, not trying to scheme and craft a situation where they can manipulate and get what they want. In fact, manipulation is part of guile. You're trying to influence by by stealth. Let that sink in. an Israelite indeed in whom there is no G. Now what's what's amazing about this is this is before the cross. This is before Jesus died for our sins and rose from the dead. So you can be a person that understands lying, bearing false witness, scheming to take somebody down while you climb the ladder. all this stuff that is done in churches when you don't want any part of that. You don't want to ever do that to anybody. It's not your desire to do it. You get what I'm saying. And if you do, something is terribly wrong with your heart. If you want to sew division and strife and problems and a lot of times it's just because a person wants to be seen, they want to be heard. They want to be looked at. They want to be put on the pedestal. Let me tell you, the pedestal is no fun. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm just a man. You understand? We all really, we're all going to stand before God on level ground, flat, [laughter] the sea of glass, right? I I could really go on a tangent right here, but I'm not going to do it. Let's keep going. Here's Proverbs 4:23. Now, I love this because two, this is Old Testament. This is before the cross. And I'm saying that because now after the cross, we should be even what? More able to do this, right? If God gave them grace to do it back then under the law, guess what? How much more should we under grace? Proverbs 4:23, keep thy heart with all diligence. Why? For out of it are the issues of life.
We always talk about issues, don't we? Yep. Most of your issues come from your own heart. that inner conversation you're having. Keep thy heart. I know a lot of you have heard what that means. Keep your heart with all diligence. For out of it are the issues of life. Let's look at keep the Hebrew word nazar or nar to guard in a good sense to protect maintain and obey. Somebody say, "I'm to protect my heart by obeying. Therefore, I will maintain it." Y'all see that? Guard, be the keeper, be the preserver. This is why you have to in fact, what is it? One of the words here, let's keep going. I think one of the parts of this um the issues part here this issues I think it's interesting that it can mean a boundary which means so keep a boundary around your heart right God even has a boundary around the world right the ice wall Antarctica He said, "Keep a keep a a boundary. Keep basically keep the fence up." That's how you get that's how you will get deliverance and stay delivered. How you will escape from death, source of life. See, guard your heart, keep the border up. And one of the words here, yeah, this is the Justinia Hebrew ki lexicon says uh basically from going forth it means to go forth from danger. So you depart from dangerous things. And I love this. It says hence a gate. So your heart is a gateway. It's why you got to be careful what you allow in it, who you allow in it. Amen. Or oh me or as somebody told me both sometimes. But it says out of it are the issues of life. Refreshment, prosperity, welfare, happiness, the way of welfare or the able the the ability to live well.
It all is going to come about in how you keep, guard, protect your heart, and that's up to you to do. Now, this is why we we're going back to one that we uh that we talked about earlier. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, you double- minded. Now, that's a command. Somebody say, purify. Purify. Cleanse. What did hands and heart represent here? Hands the outward life, heart the inner life. There's a lot of people that do a lot of good stuff out here. But their inner life is defiled, wicked, evil. Psalm 15. Turn to Psalm 15. Now, you can read the whole thing. Psalm 15 is short, but we're just going to read verses 1 through3 because I want to focus in on something. Psalm 15 1-3 says this, "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?" Now, what does that represent? It's not just talking about Moses' tabernacle or David's tabernacle or Solomon's temple. It's talking about the tabernacle in heaven because Moses just made what one after the pattern he saw in heaven. That's what God told him to do. There is a tabernacle in heaven. This is where we will worship God. This is where his presence and glory will be. All right. He says, "Lord, who shall abide, stay, remain, live, dwell in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly and workketh righteousness." And look at this. And speaketh the truth. Where? In his heart. Somebody say, "Speak the truth." Speak the truth. in my heart. There can be no pure heart where there are lies being spoken. Y'all don't shout me down when I'm preaching good. Now, the Bible says this about lies. It says Satan is the father of lies. All right. The Bible is very clear in Revelation 21 6-8. All liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. Thou shalt not bear false witness. One of the ten commandments. Right?
So if we are telling lies, speaking lies in our heart, we believe lies. Our heart is not pure. And if you lie all the time, what are you? Republican Christians lie all the time. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. But it's politics. No, you're a liar. You commit adultery, you got to lie to your spouse. Where were you today? Oh, okay. Speak the truth. Not just outwardly, but inwardly. Who's going to dwell with the Lord? Who's going to see the Lord? See, this is the same principle right here in in this psalm. Who's going to see the Lord? Who's going to be in his tabernacle? Who's going to dwell in his holy hill? Those who walk uprightly, that workketh righteousness and speaks the truth in their heart, meaning those who have holiness, right? Oh, y'all quiet today. Let's keep reading this. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. You see what this is starting to tell you, right? If you're out to get somebody, to hurt somebody, to lie about somebody, you are not speaking the truth in your heart. You are not walking uprightly. You are not walking after righteousness. Right? Like that lady that had her website did nothing but speak against me, make up stuff against me, attack me for what, four, five years longer. I don't know how long it was. I mean, it's her whole life dwelt around Facebook page. I'm sorry. What did I say? Website. No, Facebook page. I'm sorry. And of course, Noel Hadley, Mr. No Hell Noel, right? Who said he was Snow White and didn't believe in hell, but he attacked me, called me a cult leader, and he was the false teacher. His his stuff's still out there on the internet about that just let me know. I mean, I knew exactly what he was. And his wife, the government agent, but let's keep going. Let's look at uprightly here. Notice what it says here. He that walketh uprightly, look at this, integrity and truth.
What is integrity? Let's just pause on that for a second. See, integrity is when you do the right thing when it's going to cost you. when it's not convenient, when it's not easy, when you're going to suffer loss. And see, hey, there's some things going on right now. I I look at people and say, you know what, you don't have to sign over your soul to the devil in blood like the rock stars do or the politicians. No, you can sell your soul on an installment plan to the devil. And he starts those payments with just getting you to compromise your integrity. And it's going to be small things at first. This is troubling because again look at what uprightly means without blemish. That's it. These are how it's translated in the King James Bible. The same um Hebrew word without blemish 44 times perfect 18 times upright eight times without spot six times uprightly four times whole four times. Sincerely, two times, complete one time, full one time, and then three miscellaneous without spot, sincere, perfect, complete, undefiled integrity. You know, we find this out when it comes to money because where your treasure is, your heart is also. I remember when I came back to the Lord when I was 19 years old, you know, one of the things God made me do over the next few years, every person that I owed money to, he made me pay it back. Pastor Dean, don't be saying that because I can't do that. Well, I understand sometimes you can't. But when I got in a position where I could, I paid somebody back $10,000. First one though was $500. The Lord reminded me in prayer, you never paid that guy that money you owed. And you know when you do stuff like that, people go, "Wow."
They go, "Man, this guy really became a Christian. He brought me money. He didn't have to bring me. Nobody was going to court over the $500. Nobody was demanding it. Nobody was asking me for it. But it's a matter of integrity. And you'll get tested in the area of money probably more than any other. Telling the truth when you don't want to. And money. Let me move on before somebody's feelings gets hurt. Oh, wrong way. All right. And it says righteousness and what we just had. Walks uprightly, walks in righteousness. And here it is, just so you can see justice. I I highlighted justice, the the right thing, [snorts] moral or legal. Notice that the Hebrew definition of this word here. Because, you know, I thought a lot of Republicans in Alabama were like me. Their Christianity was real. They wanted to do the right thing. They were all about justice. It's not not at all. But guess what? There's a lot of Christians like this, too. breaking the law. You know, the Bible tells us we're supposed to as much as we possibly can obey the king, obey the government, not we're not here to fight the government, right? As much as we can possibly can. Now, when they start over going overboard and we have to take a stand, but we got to be ready to suffer the consequences for that. It's like Daniel, they made a law he couldn't pray. What did he do? He went and prayed. They told them to stop going to church. Stop teaching in the temple. Sorry. Can't do that. Stop teaching in the name of Jesus. Can't do that. That's why Christians go to jail. They get told to stop preaching Jesus, to stop praying in public, whatever it is. And we have to say no. So, it's not I'm not talking about blind obedience to everything the government says. No way. We Christians are the resistors because God is first. But there's stupid stuff that goes on that we know there's no need fighting, right? I know there's a big thing about paying taxes and Jesus paid taxes. He even s brought money out of a fish's mouth to pay taxes. So don't don't run from it.
You understand? There's people running around trying to I I knew folks that wouldn't get a marriage license when you had to do that. Wouldn't get a driver's license. Wouldn't do all these things that I'm like, why? It's pointless. These are things that we we do. I don't like getting a hunting license or a fishing license or whatever. I think we should be free to do whatever, but we're not. Right? So, there's things we do right now. There comes a point when you got to do what you got to do. Understand? Even even in Alabama, you're supposed to get a hunting license, for instance. But if you got to feed your family and you go out and kill a deer, guess what? They're fine with that. You you pro say you got to feed my I'm doing this to feed my family. They're like, "Okay, but this thing too about justice." See, I'm finding a lot of people in Alabama who's had their children taken away from them without true legal reason. And even courts admitting that they have not done anything wrong and yet their children can't get their children back four, five years into it. Their kids are growing up without them. And our leaders in the state of Alabama are doing nothing to fix this problem. Nothing. Zip. Let me tell you, let me just say this. All of the problems in Alabama, all of the corruption boils down to two things. Y'all want to know the two things it boils down to? And that's really for every state and for this nation that's so corrupt. Now, two, it boils down to two things. China's interest, the people who have sold us out, Republicans and Democrats, and to protect themselves from the child trafficking that most of them are involved in either directly or looking the other way. That's the two things they want to protect. I was on a phone call, I won't say with who person that knows what's going on. And I said, "Let me tell you the two things." I said, "You tell me if I'm wrong." I told him that I said those two things, China's interest in Alabama and the child trafficking going on here that is assisted by our government, state government. He said, "You nailed it." Exactly.
The kids are the business. I see. Let me tell you, they even the Republican part is doing everything they can do to keep me from even having a chance at winning because they don't want somebody who will bring the hammer of justice down upon them. They can't have somebody like me having power in that system because I will tear it down to the ground. And I don't care if it's an R or a D or whatever is beside your name. If you're corrupt, wicked, and evil, you need to go down. Amen. Justice, folks. Justice. I could stay there for a while. Straight paths. Rectitude. Right. What is right, what ought to be so. You see that one doing what is right, acting rightly to my creator, I will ascribe rectitude. I will vindicate his right. Y'all let that sink in for a minute. I will vindicate his right. Judge the right. Judge justly. There's rectitude means morally correct behavior or thinking. righteousness. All of this better be in your heart. Let me tell you, if you know about stuff like what's going on with our child protective services, DHR here, and I'm just using this as an example. If you know what's going on and you say nothing and do nothing, I'm so I I'm so upset about this and angry about this. I don't know, but I'm about to I'm about to let loose upon some people. Let's go to Psalm 24. You know, Jesus said that those who caused the little ones to stumble, better for them at a millstone were hung about their neck and they were cast in the depths of the sea. Let me tell you right now, I was looking one of our politicians in the eye the other day, right in the eye. And I mentioned this about the kids and about the Bib County dungeon and how two of the kids that were taken and abused in that dungeon were in foster care in Alabama. I saw his eyes in countenance change in a way and the Holy Spirit hit me and I knew that he was not pleased with what I was saying.
I knew immediately his heart was not pure in this area. Donnie saw it too. We both felt it at the same time. Didn't mention it till we got on the road. And I'm like, hm, why did that bother him? And it bothered him in a way, not because of this the topic per se, but that don't go. It's almost like that face was like, don't go down that road. You might find me there. I don't know. We'll see. Psalm 24:es 1-10. Let's read this. The earth is the Lord's in the fullness thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Who shall stand in his holy place? Same question. And who will see God? Who will be in his presence? Who who It's the same exact theme. It says, "He that hath clean hands and a pure heart." Somebody say, "Pure heart." Pure heart. That's right. Amen. He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. Let's look at these words here, y'all. All right, it's not even 12 yet. So, here's the what the word vanity means, 1:00:041 hour, 4 secondsand it is shave or solve in Hebrew. Look at what it says up here. 1:00:111 hour, 11 secondsIt's translated vain 22 times, vanity 22 times, false five times, lying two times, falsely one time, lies one time. 1:00:231 hour, 23 secondsSo lying and falsehood and deception is connected to the word vanity here. So 1:00:311 hour, 31 secondswhat he's saying, those who have clean hands and a pure heart have not lifted up their soul to what is false. 1:00:401 hour, 40 secondsWhat is morally guile? What will ruin you? Idolatry. 1:00:481 hour, 48 secondsFalse. Falsely what is deceptive or useless. 1:00:591 hour, 59 secondsYou see, God's word is the truth. Period. 1:01:031 hour, 1 minute, 3 secondsY'all mind if I just take a second and go on a little tangent? All right. It does apply here though. 1:01:121 hour, 1 minute, 12 secondsYou know, I had to talk to somebody yesterday because I got cancelled after being invited to speak 1:01:201 hour, 1 minute, 20 secondsto a young Republican group powers in Montgomery. 1:01:251 hour, 1 minute, 25 secondsBasically threatened them and made them cancel my speaking engagement there. And I'm about tired of this because this 1:01:331 hour, 1 minute, 33 secondsjust keeps happening. All right. But I think about it. I'm like, what are they so afraid of? 1:01:431 hour, 1 minute, 43 secondsThey're as bad as the Democrats wanting to cancel people, wanting to silence people. You think there's free speech in the Republican 1:01:511 hour, 1 minute, 51 secondsparty in Alabama? Start using it and see what happens. 1:01:581 hour, 1 minute, 58 secondsBut 1:02:021 hour, 2 minutes, 2 seconds[sighs] 1:02:031 hour, 2 minutes, 3 secondsI probably shouldn't say it, but 1:02:141 hour, 2 minutes, 14 secondsit's just, you know what? It's just disturbing. That's all I got to say. 1:02:191 hour, 2 minutes, 19 secondsIt's just these people want to lie and they want falsehood. And then what I found out, 1:02:261 hour, 2 minutes, 26 secondswell, I'll tell you what I found out in the conversation is that there's a bunch of these our politicians in the state running around saying to people and 1:02:351 hour, 2 minutes, 35 secondstelling people that I'm crazy because I believe in biblical 1:02:411 hour, 2 minutes, 41 secondscreation, aka flat earth, whatever you want to call it. But I believe the Bible. But I'm crazy because I believe 1:02:501 hour, 2 minutes, 50 secondswhat the Bible says. But see, I think they're crazy for believing what the government says 1:02:581 hour, 2 minutes, 58 secondsand Catholic priest and Jewish occultism, the Zohar, where the whole spinning ball began. 1:03:091 hour, 3 minutes, 9 secondsBut see, any one of these cats in Montgomery, I can take down to Fair Hope and show them. You think they'd show up? No. 1:03:201 hour, 3 minutes, 20 secondsThey don't want to know the truth. 1:03:241 hour, 3 minutes, 24 secondsBut I'm the crazy one because I believe the Bible. 1:03:281 hour, 3 minutes, 28 secondsI'm the crazy one because I believe what I can see, what I can test and measure and prove. 1:03:351 hour, 3 minutes, 35 secondsI'm crazy because I dug up government documents of NASA and the government that admits the truth that they tried to bury for decades. 1:03:471 hour, 3 minutes, 47 secondsBut I'm the crazy one. No. So if you call yourself a Christian, yet you don't believe the Bible on things, you are the crazy one. 1:03:581 hour, 3 minutes, 58 secondsAnd I assure you on judgment day who the Lord's going to say is the crazy one. 1:04:061 hour, 4 minutes, 6 secondsHow is it you did not believe all of my word? 1:04:151 hour, 4 minutes, 15 secondsOh, I'd love to debate some of these lukewarm, dunderhead, empty, 1:04:251 hour, 4 minutes, 25 secondshardened heart, unbelieving, stiff- necked, brutish Christians in politics. 1:04:381 hour, 4 minutes, 38 secondsBut see, what's funny is none of them have the guts to come say it to my face 1:04:491 hour, 4 minutes, 49 secondsbecause then they would get a sermon. 1:04:521 hour, 4 minutes, 52 seconds[laughter] 1:04:561 hour, 4 minutes, 56 secondsMax Bobo would get them. That's right. 1:05:021 hour, 5 minutes, 2 secondsAll right. So, that was my tangent for a second. 1:05:081 hour, 5 minutes, 8 secondsSo again he says the in Psalm 24 he says those who have not walked what deceitfully and lifted up their soul to 1:05:151 hour, 5 minutes, 15 secondsvanity. It's the same thing fraud deceiving. What what is fraud? What is what is fraud? 1:05:241 hour, 5 minutes, 24 secondsFraud is when you plan how you're going to deceive someone. 1:05:311 hour, 5 minutes, 31 secondsYou plan how you're going to lie, how you're going to manipulate them, how you're going to steal from them in some way. 1:05:411 hour, 5 minutes, 41 secondsMost of the businessmen in America are going to hell. 1:05:461 hour, 5 minutes, 46 secondsMost of the politicians in America are going to hell. 1:05:511 hour, 5 minutes, 51 secondsMost of the Christians in America are going to hell because their heart's not pure. In fact, 1:05:581 hour, 5 minutes, 58 secondsthe whole megaurch seeker sensitive system is a system of fraud. 1:06:061 hour, 6 minutes, 6 secondsIt presents a decoy to you but doesn't tell you the truth. 1:06:161 hour, 6 minutes, 16 secondsY'all got quiet as Lutheran. Go to Luke. Luke 8. We're almost there. 1:06:271 hour, 6 minutes, 27 secondsWe bring it in for a landing. 1:06:351 hour, 6 minutes, 35 secondsThis is a teaching today. 1:06:401 hour, 6 minutes, 40 secondsTeaching. We take our time. We go through a lot of Bible and definitions. 1:06:461 hour, 6 minutes, 46 secondsWell, I promise you I could do the preaching thing. Just take one verse and run. 1:06:511 hour, 6 minutes, 51 secondsIt's not what we need to do. We got to learn the word. Amen. So, so I hope one of the things you're seeing so far in 1:06:591 hour, 6 minutes, 59 secondsthis series, I'm four in and we're not even close to done, right? But how many 1:07:051 hour, 7 minutes, 5 secondsplaces the Bible talks about your heart, the condition of your heart, the attitude, the beliefs, what you're 1:07:131 hour, 7 minutes, 13 secondsspeaking in your heart, what you're meditating on. 1:07:201 hour, 7 minutes, 20 secondsThe parable of the swer. Jesus said, "Now the parable of the ser is this." The seed is the word of God. Those by the wayside are they that hear. Then 1:07:271 hour, 7 minutes, 27 secondscometh the devil and taketh away the word where? Out of their hearts. Oh, the devil can take stuff out of your heart if you let him. Lest they should believe 1:07:361 hour, 7 minutes, 36 secondsand be saved. They on the rock are they which when they hear receive the word with joy. These have no root, for which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. 1:07:461 hour, 7 minutes, 46 secondsAnd that which fell among thorns are they when they have heard go forth and are choke with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection. That would be many Republicans and Democrats right there. 1:07:561 hour, 7 minutes, 56 secondsAnd then here we go. But that on good ground are they which in an honest and good heart. Somebody say honest and good heart. 1:08:081 hour, 8 minutes, 8 secondsBut that which is on good ground is which is an honest and good heart. Having heard the word of God, keep it. 1:08:161 hour, 8 minutes, 16 secondsand bring forth fruit with patience or endurance. [snorts] You see it? 1:08:261 hour, 8 minutes, 26 secondsWhich one are you? All Christians, which one are you? 1:08:331 hour, 8 minutes, 33 secondsBecause you're one of these. 1:08:391 hour, 8 minutes, 39 secondsBut if your heart is being purified and you're asking God for holiness and 1:08:471 hour, 8 minutes, 47 secondsyou're pursuing holiness and purity of heart, then you can receive the word and bear fruit. 1:08:571 hour, 8 minutes, 57 secondsAnd maybe not immediately, but if you continue and you are faithful, you will always bear fruit. 1:09:061 hour, 9 minutes, 6 secondsYou understand? 1:09:081 hour, 9 minutes, 8 secondsBut it all has to do with the condition of. And notice it says honest and good. Somebody say honest. 1:09:161 hour, 9 minutes, 16 secondsHonest. 1:09:201 hour, 9 minutes, 20 secondsI'm going to start incorporating every speech I give now at the rep. I'm going to talk about liars go to hell. Well, explain that to them. 1:09:281 hour, 9 minutes, 28 secondsLiars, deceivers, schemers go to hell. H E L. Where the fire and the demons and the tormentors are. 1:09:401 hour, 9 minutes, 40 secondsI think there's going to be a special place for politicians. 1:09:501 hour, 9 minutes, 50 secondsSo, here's the word kaos. I love this right here. This is the one. 1:09:571 hour, 9 minutes, 57 secondsIt says honest, beautiful by reason of purity of heart and life. Hence, praiseworthy, morally 1:10:041 hour, 10 minutes, 4 secondsgood, noble, honorable, conferring, honor, affecting the mind agreeably, comforting, confirming. 1:10:141 hour, 10 minutes, 14 secondsY'all see that? 1:10:171 hour, 10 minutes, 17 secondsThere it is. Honest to be genuine. 1:10:261 hour, 10 minutes, 26 secondsI like this one right here. Such as one ought to be. 1:10:311 hour, 10 minutes, 31 secondsand constancy such as one ought to be. 1:10:391 hour, 10 minutes, 39 secondsGod expects this. This is not optional. 1:10:461 hour, 10 minutes, 46 secondsThis has nothing to do with rewards in heaven or how big your mansion's going to be. If you're going to have jewels in your crown, you better get all that crap out of your head. 1:10:551 hour, 10 minutes, 55 secondsThat shows your mind and heart's in the wrong place. Anyway, I can tell you what. All I care about is getting there. 1:11:001 hour, 11 minutesI don't care about any of that other stuff. I want to get there and see God and not move. 1:11:071 hour, 11 minutes, 7 secondsY'all go have fun in your mansions if you want to. I'm hanging out with him. You understand? 1:11:131 hour, 11 minutes, 13 secondsI miss him having to be here and walk by faith. 1:11:181 hour, 11 minutes, 18 secondsIt's tough sometimes. I'm like, Lord, this is not my home. 1:11:241 hour, 11 minutes, 24 secondsYou know how when you're not at home, you're never really comfortable? 1:11:281 hour, 11 minutes, 28 secondsI'm never comfortable with this place. I don't like it. It's wicked. It's evil. It's dirty. It's filthy. 1:11:361 hour, 11 minutes, 36 secondsIt's over It's so wicked out there, y'all. It's overwhelming. 1:11:431 hour, 11 minutes, 43 secondsWe are Lot living in Sodom. 1:11:551 hour, 11 minutes, 55 secondsNow, how do we cleanse it? Let's go to Let's go to Hebrews chapter 10. 1:12:071 hour, 12 minutes, 7 secondsWater in the blood. The water in the blood. 1:12:151 hour, 12 minutes, 15 secondsProverbs 20 says, "Who can say that they've cleansed their own heart 1:12:201 hour, 12 minutes, 20 seconds[laughter] 1:12:221 hour, 12 minutes, 22 secondsor purified their own heart?" Let's read this. Hebrews 10. So how do we do it? He said, "Having therefore, brethren, 1:12:301 hour, 12 minutes, 30 secondsboldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus." Now that's to enter into the very throne of God, into the 1:12:381 hour, 12 minutes, 38 secondsholy place of the holies, right? Where his presence and glory and power 1:12:441 hour, 12 minutes, 44 secondsis manifest. It says we have boldness to enter into the holiest by what? 1:12:511 hour, 12 minutes, 51 secondsThe blood of Jesus by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his 1:12:581 hour, 12 minutes, 58 secondsflesh. See Jesus flesh before it was torn and ripped up was the veil that 1:13:061 hour, 13 minutes, 6 secondsseparated us from God and from being in his presence the way we we can be now. 1:13:131 hour, 13 minutes, 13 secondsAnd once his flesh was torn, that was the veil. And it says, "In having a high priest over the house of God, let us 1:13:201 hour, 13 minutes, 20 secondsdraw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our 1:13:281 hour, 13 minutes, 28 secondshearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." Does everybody see that? 1:13:361 hour, 13 minutes, 36 secondsWhat is he talking about? The blood of Jesus and the water. 1:13:441 hour, 13 minutes, 44 secondsNow, when Jesus was on the cross and he had shed his blood there for hours and the the world went dark and 1:13:511 hour, 13 minutes, 51 secondsthere was an earthquake and all these things had happened and they came up to make sure that he had died, the Roman 1:13:591 hour, 13 minutes, 59 secondssoldiers stuck the spear in his side and it says what? Water and blood. Right? 1:14:081 hour, 14 minutes, 8 secondsBecause there's water around your heart and when you're in distress, it increases, right? Water and blood poured out. 1:14:191 hour, 14 minutes, 19 secondsThere is no way to have a pure heart unless you constantly go to Jesus 1:14:281 hour, 14 minutes, 28 secondsand say, "Lord, take your blood and cleanse my heart. Make it pure. Show me what I need to deal with. Show me where 1:14:371 hour, 14 minutes, 37 secondsI've deceived myself. Show me where somebody may have deceived me. Forgive me for hurting that person. 1:14:461 hour, 14 minutes, 46 secondsForgive me for telling that lie. for. 1:14:491 hour, 14 minutes, 49 secondsYou got to go in there and trust that when you confess, 1:14:561 hour, 14 minutes, 56 secondswhen you have the desire to repent and turn away from it, that the blood and water of Jesus will wash your sins away. 1:15:061 hour, 15 minutes, 6 secondsAnd I'm going to show you something else. So, I don't think I put this. 1:15:121 hour, 15 minutes, 12 secondsLet me see. Of course, when he says Ephesians 5:25-27, 1:15:191 hour, 15 minutes, 19 seconds"Husbands, love your wives e even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water 1:15:281 hour, 15 minutes, 28 secondsby the word that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing that it should be holy and without blemish." 1:15:371 hour, 15 minutes, 37 secondsSo there is the blood of Jesus and the washing of the water of Jesus which is the word of God. This is why again 1:15:441 hour, 15 minutes, 44 secondsyou've got to constantly put this in you and you've got to let this be what you follow. 1:15:531 hour, 15 minutes, 53 secondsYou understand this is the sword that divides between what is soul and spirit. 1:15:581 hour, 15 minutes, 58 secondsRight? So if you don't put it in there, you're not going to know. If you don't choose to obey it, you're not going to 1:16:051 hour, 16 minutes, 5 secondsknow. What did he say in Peter? You have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit. 1:16:191 hour, 16 minutes, 19 secondsNow, one more passage and I'm done. And it's only 15 after. All right. 1:16:291 hour, 16 minutes, 29 secondsSo, let's go to First John chapter 5. This is what I'm closing with. 1:16:481 hour, 16 minutes, 48 seconds1 John 5. Everybody there? 1:16:541 hour, 16 minutes, 54 secondsNow, as I read this, just keep in mind holiness and a pure heart. Okay? Now, let's read this from verse one. 1:17:051 hour, 17 minutes, 5 secondsWhosoever believeth and that word believeth means to trust, rely on, cling to. It's a present tense Greek verb which means ongoing continuously and in 1:17:141 hour, 17 minutes, 14 secondsthe present currently. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, that means God in the flesh, the Messiah, the 1:17:221 hour, 17 minutes, 22 secondsSavior, the one who suffered and died and rose again. So this this doesn't anybody that says Jesus Christ doesn't mean they believe it. He's the Christ. 1:17:331 hour, 17 minutes, 33 secondsIt says, "But anyone who truly believes this true faith is born of God, and everyone that loveth 1:17:401 hour, 17 minutes, 40 secondshim that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love 1:17:481 hour, 17 minutes, 48 secondsGod and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievious. 1:17:571 hour, 17 minutes, 57 secondsFor whatsoever is born of God overcomemeth the world, and this is the victory that overcomemeth the world, even our faith, who is he that 1:18:061 hour, 18 minutes, 6 secondsovercomemeth the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the son of God, this is he that came by water and blood. 1:18:141 hour, 18 minutes, 14 secondsYou see it there? Water and blood. 1:18:181 hour, 18 minutes, 18 secondsThis is he who came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ. Not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the 1:18:271 hour, 18 minutes, 27 secondsspirit that beareth witness because the spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven. The father, the word or the son, and the holy ghost. 1:18:371 hour, 18 minutes, 37 secondsAnd these three are one. If your bible doesn't have this verse, you have a corrupted version. 1:18:431 hour, 18 minutes, 43 secondsThen he says this, "And there are three." So there's three that bear record in heaven. There's three that bear witness in the earth. So there are three that bear witness in the earth. 1:18:531 hour, 18 minutes, 53 secondsthe spirit, the water, and the blood. And these three agree in one. 1:19:001 hour, 19 minutesEverybody see that? The spirit, the water, and the blood. 1:19:091 hour, 19 minutes, 9 secondsThis is how your heart's cleansed. 1:19:111 hour, 19 minutes, 11 secondsNow, back up to First John. I know I said that was last, but we got to go. I got to go back to this. Go to First John chapter 1. Just back up a little bit. 1:19:211 hour, 19 minutes, 21 secondsVerse five. 1:19:231 hour, 19 minutes, 23 secondsThis then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darkness 1:19:301 hour, 19 minutes, 30 secondsat all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. 1:19:401 hour, 19 minutes, 40 secondsBut if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin. 1:19:491 hour, 19 minutes, 49 secondsEverybody see that? 1:19:531 hour, 19 minutes, 53 secondsSo, you got to walk in the light. And that means what? You walk in the light of the word of God. 1:20:031 hour, 20 minutes, 3 secondsNot the word of a pastor, not the word of a flaky prophet, 1:20:111 hour, 20 minutes, 11 secondsnot the word of a politician, word of God. 1:20:171 hour, 20 minutes, 17 secondsIf you walk in that light and stay and draw near to him, what does he say he'll do? Draw near to you, 1:20:241 hour, 20 minutes, 24 secondsthen you are able to say, "Wash me. Cleanse me." Amen. 1:20:371 hour, 20 minutes, 37 secondsYou have to cooperate with him. God will not force this upon you. 1:20:451 hour, 20 minutes, 45 secondsCalvinists are some of the worst liars and deceivers that exist. 1:20:521 hour, 20 minutes, 52 secondsGod does not force anybody to live for him or to go to heaven. He does not automatically cleanse you from your sin. 1:21:021 hour, 21 minutes, 2 secondsHe hasn't chosen some for heaven and chosen some for all that's lies. 1:21:071 hour, 21 minutes, 7 secondsI mean, one of the biggest lies of of of Calvinism is that is what's called limited atonement, which means that 1:21:151 hour, 21 minutes, 15 secondsJesus only died for the elect that he chose, that his blood was only shed for them. Yet, the Bible says he died for the whole world, everyone. 1:21:281 hour, 21 minutes, 28 secondsSo, it's available. 1:21:301 hour, 21 minutes, 30 secondsThe water and the blood of Jesus that flowed from his body is eternal because it wasn't just the blood of a man. It was the blood of God who became a man. 1:21:431 hour, 21 minutes, 43 secondsIf you don't believe that, you are not saved. It's real simple. 1:21:521 hour, 21 minutes, 52 secondsThere's no blood of a man or an animal that could wash your sins away, purify 1:21:591 hour, 21 minutes, 59 secondsyour heart, cleanse you of your wickedness, give you power to live it. 1:22:061 hour, 22 minutes, 6 secondsIt had to be God Almighty in the flesh. 1:22:111 hour, 22 minutes, 11 secondsAnd if you want to know what Christmas is about, that's it. God in the flesh, 1:22:181 hour, 22 minutes, 18 secondsborn of a virgin supernaturally, who is also called what? The everlasting 1:22:261 hour, 22 minutes, 26 secondsfather, the prince of peace, the mighty God, Emmanuel, God with us. 1:22:331 hour, 22 minutes, 33 secondsHe died for you. He suffered. He let wicked, defiled 1:22:411 hour, 22 minutes, 41 secondsmen spit on him, beat him, and pull out his beard, and mock him and nail him to a cross so you could have a pure heart. 1:22:551 hour, 22 minutes, 55 secondsDon't ever take that for granted. Don't ever try to to be a two-timer on him. 1:23:021 hour, 23 minutes, 2 secondsDon't do it. Make up your mind. Do you love Jesus? Do you do you really appreciate what has been done for you? 1:23:101 hour, 23 minutes, 10 secondsDo you really understand what has been done for you to to be he has made the way for you to be with him for all eternity? 1:23:241 hour, 23 minutes, 24 secondsThere is nothing in this filthy, nasty, evil world worth losing that over. 1:23:361 hour, 23 minutes, 36 secondsnothing the flesh, the pleasures of wickedness and flesh. Look, I'm not saying we all 1:23:441 hour, 23 minutes, 44 secondshave this flesh. We're all pulled toward those things. 1:23:491 hour, 23 minutes, 49 secondsBut I'm here to tell you right now, if Paul said, as he said to the Ephesians, don't let these sins be once named among you, not once. 1:23:581 hour, 23 minutes, 58 secondsThere are certain things that better not be in your life. and especially not habitually. 1:24:081 hour, 24 minutes, 8 secondsRepent. 1:24:091 hour, 24 minutes, 9 secondsTurn to Jesus believing he is God in the flesh who died for your sins, rose from the dead. 1:24:161 hour, 24 minutes, 16 secondsAsk him to wash and cleanse your heart and stay constant in that process because it's a continual thing that you 1:24:241 hour, 24 minutes, 24 secondshave to do. It's not it's just like a marriage. You don't get married and say, "Okay, we're married now. See you later. 1:24:311 hour, 24 minutes, 31 secondsI'm gonna go do what I want to do. No, you get married to start a relationship that is to last and be ongoing. 1:24:431 hour, 24 minutes, 43 secondsThat's what it is about with Jesus. It's not starting and I'm saved. I'm once saved, always saved. No, it's a relationship. Who who who what woman 1:24:521 hour, 24 minutes, 52 secondswould marry a man if he say I'm going to marry you, but I'm leaving after we get married? 1:24:591 hour, 24 minutes, 59 secondslike, "Well, what's the purpose of getting married if you're going to walk away? 1:25:061 hour, 25 minutes, 6 secondsWhat's the purpose if you don't want to have an intimate, loving relationship, friendship, companionship? 1:25:141 hour, 25 minutes, 14 secondsWhat's the point?" And I this Donnie and I talk, we travel, and it's just like co we don't 1:25:221 hour, 25 minutes, 22 secondsunderstand this is a covenant we make with God. It is a blood covenant. 1:25:311 hour, 25 minutes, 31 secondsIt is to have a relationship with him. 1:25:351 hour, 25 minutes, 35 secondsAnd either we keep the things out of our heart that would ruin the relationship or we just give ourselves into doing the things that will ruin the relationship. 1:25:531 hour, 25 minutes, 53 secondsLet's stand. I got to stop. 1:25:571 hour, 25 minutes, 57 secondsI want to do Zach Williams wash me. I want to sing that and I and y'all put the words up if you can, please. I want to do that song. It's only about five minutes. 1:26:061 hour, 26 minutes, 6 secondsWe're going to do that song and then we're going to dismiss. 1:26:111 hour, 26 minutes, 11 secondsDo y'all see how important it is to have a pure heart? 1:26:151 hour, 26 minutes, 15 secondsAre you on the pure heart road or are you on the defiling heart road? 1:26:221 hour, 26 minutes, 22 secondsYou're on one of those roads. I remember when the Lord showed me that road, those two roads when I was 19 years old. I mean, he gave me a vision. I saw them. 1:26:311 hour, 26 minutes, 31 secondsHere's the pure heart road that led to Jesus. Oh, the evil road had all kind of stuff. 1:26:401 hour, 26 minutes, 40 secondsDrug, paraphernalia, alcohol, drugs, darkness, death, demons. 1:26:471 hour, 26 minutes, 47 secondsAnd the Lord spoke to me. He said, "Son, you can have everything the world has to offer and go to hell or you surrender your life to me and live forever. 1:26:561 hour, 26 minutes, 56 secondsYou have to choose one of those roads." Like I told y'all before, even Led Zeppelin told you that 1:27:061 hour, 27 minutes, 6 secondsthere are two paths you can go by, but they say you can change the road you're on. Yeah, you can change it anytime you want. You want to jump on the devil's road like they were on? 1:27:211 hour, 27 minutes, 21 secondsY'all ready? Let's do it. Let's worship the Lord with this song. 1:27:261 hour, 27 minutes, 26 secondsWash me, Lord. And if you need it this morning, let this be your prayer [music] to him right here. 1:28:101 hour, 28 minutes, 10 seconds[music] 1:28:151 hour, 28 minutes, 15 seconds[music] 1:28:181 hour, 28 minutes, 18 secondsFather of my eyes so I might truly see 1:28:301 hour, 28 minutes, 30 secondseverything that you've done for me. 1:28:361 hour, 28 minutes, 36 secondsLord, I'm tired and I'm my face is on [music] the floor. 1:28:471 hour, 28 minutes, 47 secondsI break this chains [music and singing] and set me free. 1:28:521 hour, 28 minutes, 52 secondsLord, I want to be washed clean. 1:29:001 hour, 29 minutes[music] 1:29:001 hour, 29 minutesDon't you know I want to be a wash clean. 1:29:111 hour, 29 minutes, 11 secondsFather, take away my pride. Just send it all aside. 1:29:221 hour, 29 minutes, 22 secondsSo I might hear what you have to say. 1:29:281 hour, 29 minutes, 28 secondsLord, I'm tired [music] of all my guilt. I'm tired of all my shame. 1:29:391 hour, 29 minutes, 39 seconds[snorts] 1:29:401 hour, 29 minutes, 40 secondsBreak this chains and set me free. 1:29:451 hour, 29 minutes, 45 secondsOh, I want [music] to be wash clean. 1:29:521 hour, 29 minutes, 52 secondsDon't you know I want to be [music] washed clean? 1:30:031 hour, 30 minutes, 3 secondsCuz I've been living a life that I just couldn't see. 1:30:081 hour, 30 minutes, 8 secondsHolding on to things I just [music] didn't need. 1:30:151 hour, 30 minutes, 15 secondsYou took these hands and wash them clean. 1:30:201 hour, 30 minutes, 20 secondsLord, like a blind man lost in the middle of the night. You came down and you opened my eyes. 1:30:291 hour, 30 minutes, 29 seconds[music] 1:30:321 hour, 30 minutes, 32 secondsAnd I won't ever be the same. [music] Oh, that's what Jesus Jesus did for me. 1:30:491 hour, 30 minutes, 49 secondsAnd I'll do the [music] same for you. 1:31:111 hour, 31 minutes, 11 seconds[music] 1:31:171 hour, 31 minutes, 17 secondsNow I've my eyes. I swallowed all my pride. 1:31:291 hour, 31 minutes, 29 secondsI finally let you lead the way. Lord, I fall down on my knees. 1:31:391 hour, 31 minutes, 39 secondsI'm just a brother of your grace and I won't ever be the [music and singing] same. 1:31:511 hour, 31 minutes, 51 secondsOh, I will wash now. I know that I will [music] wash. 1:32:071 hour, 32 minutes, 7 secondsOh. [music] I know that I will wash you. 1:32:521 hour, 32 minutes, 52 secondsYes, Lord. We thank you this morning. We thank you we can be washed clean. 1:32:581 hour, 32 minutes, 58 secondsWe thank you Jesus that you offer that to whosoever will. 1:33:041 hour, 33 minutes, 4 secondsWhoever's tired of this wicked evil world and participating in all that and Lord you can wash us clean. 1:33:141 hour, 33 minutes, 14 secondsput us on the right road and give us grace and the power of your Holy Spirit to help us, 1:33:201 hour, 33 minutes, 20 secondsto help us walk it out, to help us keep walking with you. 1:33:261 hour, 33 minutes, 26 secondsTo always speak the truth in our hearts and out of our mouths, to always be about the truth, no deceit, no guile, 1:33:341 hour, 33 minutes, 34 secondspure hearts before you. That's what we want, Lord. 1:33:401 hour, 33 minutes, 40 secondsWash us, forgive us, cleanse us, and help us to move and walk on that road of holiness and purity and desire to draw near to you. 1:33:541 hour, 33 minutes, 54 secondsWe thank you've given us your holy scriptures, your inspired infallible word to be our guide to be part of that 1:34:021 hour, 34 minutes, 2 secondswater that washes us clean. We thank you, Jesus, for shedding your blood on that cross, making the way, 1:34:101 hour, 34 minutes, 10 secondsthe power of your resurrection to know that we we have the opportunity to live with you forever. 1:34:191 hour, 34 minutes, 19 secondsAnd that is what we're going to choose every day. Pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. 1:34:291 hour, 34 minutes, 29 secondsHug some necks before you leave out there. All right. Sync to video time