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Now, it's an interesting thing. I wanted to say, first of all, what a wonderful service we had today. We had this Thanksgiving service. And we had, I'm going to tell you, after the service, we had what a dinner. Oh, my gosh, what a dinner. Those ladies could cook.
Boy, could they cook. And, you know, we're still, back in the day, we're, you know, we believe men being men. And the ladies have doers of the word Baptist Church, one, are not ashamed of being women, two, they're very, they're blessed to be ladies, real ladies. Not like so many that are out there today, believe me.
Believe me, we don't have, it's not the way it used to be when I was growing up. But anyhow, the title of the message, again, was Give Thanks Unto the Lord. And that's what we're going to do tonight. We're going to go through this message and we're going to start here in Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 10. It's an interesting thing because in a number of my messages recently, this passage has been a part of that and going in several different directions. And here we read, we have an altar whereof they have no right to eat, would serve the tabernacle.
And what is he referring to? Well, he's referring to the Lord's table, the Lord's table. And he was talking to Jewish Christians, Jewish Christians, and he goes on to say, For the bodies of those beasts whose blood was brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp. Wherefore, Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing the reproach, bearing his reproach.
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. By him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to the name. But to do good and to communicate, forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Obey them which have the rule over you, and submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls, as they must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you. Well, here the Jewish Christians were being ridiculed, they were being ridiculed, folks, and persecuted by the Jews who really didn't believe in Jesus as the Messiah. In fact, most of the book of Hebrews tells how Christ is greater than the sacrificial system. Here the writer drives home the point of his lengthy argument may be necessary to leave the camp and suffer with Christ. To be outside the camp meant to be unclean, but Jesus suffered humiliation and uncleanness outside the Jerusalem gates on their behalf. The time had come for Jewish Christians to declare their loyalty to Christ above any other loyalty to choose to follow Messiah, whatever suffering that might entail. They needed to move outside the safe confinement of their past, their traditions, and their ceremonies, to live for Christ. Now, the question was, is there anything, is there anything that, see, you have to apply what God has shown us, what has happened in the past, to your life today.
So the question for you folks out there listening to me, including myself, is there anything holding you back, is there anything holding you back today from complete loyalty to the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, the Lord and Savior, the one who bought you with his blood, Christ Jesus? Well, we go on and we read that here in verse 14, here we have no continuing city but we seek one to come. He's saying that we really shouldn't be attached to this world because all that we have here is very temporary and that's the point that the prosperity preachers miss. Those that come up by the thousands and they go to these huge stadiums to hear the prosperity preachers tell them how much material things, how many material things that God wants to give them. Well, that's not what God says, folks, that's not what God is saying. God is saying, place up your crowns, your treasures in heaven and that's where you reward, your reward that will last forever. But the prosperity preachers, Joel Osteen and Kevin Copeland and Crefford Dollar and the others, T.D. Jakes, they're saying, grab it and stab it and get it now while you can. Osteen says, live the good life now.
No, no, no. That's not what Jesus says. But you see, these people, they don't know. They believe what this guy is telling them because they're biblically illiterate. I mean, the vast majority of those folks that empty out those big stadiums to go to hear these prosperity preachers are biblically illiterate. They're clueless. They don't know what the Bible is teaching. They know what the prosperity preachers are teaching.
But they have no clue what the Word of God actually teaches. And here he goes on to say, by Him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. That is the fruit of our lives.
Give me thanks to His name. Now, these Jewish Christians, because of their witness to Messiah, could no longer worship with the other Jews. And so what they did is they sang praises and their sacrifices, their sacrifices under, since the blood of Jesus Christ had taken away their sins past, present and future, that God was no longer pleased with these animal sacrifices, folks.
He was no longer pleased with those. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ came and He was the Lamb of God, whose blood took away the sins for those that called upon His name, again, past, present and future. And so the sacrifice that God demands were not bloody animal sacrifices at all, but were praise, worship, tithing and service. Now, one of the things that I really emphasize, because God's Word, the Bible emphasizes it, and, you know, sometimes, well, I've got to say, you know, after 50 years of preaching, sometimes it gets a little frustrating when I guess you expect, you expect people to be as enthusiastic as yourself when it comes to praising God, you know, and understanding how much we have to be thankful for. And you say, well, you know, aren't we blessed? Aren't we blessed? And then, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah, we're blessed, you know. And sometimes I'm, I guess maybe I expect too much, but when, I expect that every single person sitting in front of me when I'm preaching on Sunday out there should have a word of praise for Almighty God, everybody.
Every one of us. As we go through this message tonight, I think you'll see why. He says this, that, here, the praise of God continually, that the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name, but to do good and to communicate, forget not for such sacrifices, God is well pleased.
Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls, as they must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable. Recently, of course, it's always been the case, and I think every actual real true pastor out there who was raised up by God and sent out would know, could understand that. But recently, I've had some individuals who want to argue. Now, in the past, I've had over the years, you know, over all the many years, I've had a few individuals that want to argue with the pastor or the elders, not just myself, but the other pastors. And I had one woman who actually twice stood up in the middle of the sermon to rebuke me in my message. And I told her very clearly, if she had something to say to me, she would say it to me in private, not to disrupt the service, and I told her very clearly, this will not happen a third time.
Okay? And, well, I found out later on that that woman had been asked to leave a number of other churches for doing exactly the same thing. You would think that sometimes some place along the line she'd get the hint. Same thing, I have a fellow who's got, a couple of them, who have got hot and quick tempers, and they go off, they get upset. I had a situation where one fellow felt that because he had been attending the church longer than some of the others, that he should have been considered to be a deacon over the others. Well, no, deacons have to meet certain qualifications, and it's not up to the individual to decide if he's going to be the deacon, it's up to the pastor to choose the deacon, okay? And so you get, again, the same thing, the same situation here. This fellow, I find out, had been asked to leave other churches for doing the same thing.
It seems like they go down the line, they go from one to the other to the other. Over the years, too, we've had situations, and people don't realize, you know, you don't fool around with the house of God. You don't fool around with the house of God. And over the years, we've had a number of people that have come, and I had noticed that people would attend the service about every two or every three weeks. And I asked them, you know, where are you going in the other weeks? Well, they go to other churches, but you know what? One of the things that all these people had in common is they would all tell you that they had financial problems and could use some help. And every pastor out there listening to me knows he's experienced that. So they literally go to church to church, not to give, not to tithe from the churches, but literally to take money, and they justify it by saying, well, we're poor, and churches are to help the poor. But that's true. But at the same time, the Bible teaches without any stuttering that if you're not willing to work, you shouldn't eat, folks.
And so we don't mind helping people, but we're not going to help people who refuse to get out and help themselves. And so here, again, obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourself, for they watch for your souls, as they must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you. Now, all real pastors, all real pastors realize that when you're taking care of God's flock, boy, you better be very sincere.
Your boss is the Lord himself, and he expects nothing, nothing other than your very best. That's what God expects out of us, your very best. And so we're going to take a look now at some of the things that we should be thankful for. Again, I started out the program thinking, what a wonderful service we had today, and what a wonderful, wonderful meal those ladies cooked. And boy, when you think about it, we should be thankful that we had food to eat.
Many, many people in this world today maybe feel that maybe they can get every second or third day, if that, to get something to eat, to live. But God has blessed us with such abundance, and so I guess I want to start by saying I am thankful, very, very thankful that I was born alive at a time in America when the murder of preborn children was still considered a crime, as it has been for thousands of years. And there was a much higher caliber of morally superior Supreme Court than that 1973 court, Blackman court. We see that killing children was repulsive at that time.
When I was, when I was two, to the vast majority of women of that day, there was a much higher caliber for the most part of women, a much higher caliber of women where it comes to cleanliness, decency, and being honorable than there is today. And, well, I'll tell you what else, back in those days, the pastors, there were a much higher caliber of pastors. I remember this fellow named Charles Finney, and some years ago, Finney, in a message that he was preaching, he was the president of Oberlin College.
Well, I'm going to tell you, he would be turning over in his grave if he was in there to see what Oberlin College is like today. I'm afraid Pastor Finney would not be very happy with the way Oberlin College has turned out. But as early as 1873, in his sermon, he prophetically stated in the very last paragraph of the sermon titled, The Decay of Conscience, and he stated this, he said, if there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, and boy does he, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall, and they are, the pulpit is responsible for it. And Pastor Finney couldn't have been any more spot on than he was.
One of the other things that I'm thankful to be, and I want to go back to what I just said. The pastors had the responsibility, first Almighty God, first Almighty God, and then to the congregations, the pastors, to march on Washington, D.C., to be bold and strong and take a stand. This was outright tyranny. It was tyranny, and it was treason against Almighty God. But the pastors failed God. They failed God. They didn't have the courage when it really counted, when it really counted.
And I was a young man at that time, and I kept saying, hey, what's wrong with, let's go. Well, I did go to Washington, D.C. There was 100 of us that did go. There should have been 10,000 of us marching up there. But the pastors failed God, and they failed the congregations, and even to this day, most of them still don't have the courage to admit it. And I remember being told by some senior pastors that if you keep that up, if you keep preaching the way you're preaching, you're going to bring the government down on all of us. I wanted to.
Boy, did I want to bring that government down. I wanted to see them stand up and fight like men for what they believed. And at least the good Lord showed me a few that did, and I praise the good Lord for that. And today we still have a remnant that's willing to fight, and I praise God for each and every one. But I'm thankful to Almighty God that I was born in America when she was still great because she was still good. That's right, America was great because she was good. America was the home of the free because of the brave. Because of the brave, our freedom did not come lightly. Our freedom was bought and paid for with the blood of patriotic Christian Americans. I'm thankful that I grew up in the freest, the most prosperous nation that the world had ever known. America was one nation under God, indivisible, with freedom and justice for all.
She was at one time, folks. I'm thankful that I grew up in a two-parent home. Boy, there are very few two-parent homes left today.
Divorce is on the same rate as marriage today. Yeah, the very first divine institution that God gave us, Marriage and the Family, has been polluted by ungodly, ungodly, unclean people in Washington, D.C. Just recently, amongst the unclean Democrats, amongst virtually every single unclean Democrat in the Senate, 13 unclean Republican senators, 13 cowardly unclean Republican senators joined in ranks with the filthy. They joined ranks and said, yes, that divine institution that God gave us, the institution of marriage and the family.
Well, we're going to take that divine institution, something that God gave us. And by the way, remember what he says in Hebrews 13. In verse 4, he says, marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled, but a whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Well, let me tell you, when you did that, those 13 senators enjoined the Democrats, they became whoremongers. That's what they did when they decided that they were going to defile, defile the divine institution of marriage with their legislation and make something more vile. They dishonored God.
They became whores, folks. You see, and again, I always hear from people saying, Brother Sanders, I agree with what you're saying. You're telling the truth, but why aren't the other preachers preaching this way? Why aren't they preaching this way? Folks, come on, when you're going to wake up, there's a total dearth of courage. There's a dearth of courage. A huge, shameful dearth of courage out there where that courage used to be in the pulpits where hell fire and damnation was preached, where heaven sweet and hell hot was preached.
Today is not there. Only in a few places will you find it. You'll find it here as long as I can breathe and as long as I can preach.
We'll preach it without compromise. I'm thankful that I was able to serve my country when she was great and the most powerful and the best trained and best equipped military that the world had ever known. That's right, folks. And I'm going to tell you, in those days, you felt blessed, honored. You felt honored to put on the uniform.
There was a camaraderie there. And today, Austin and Milley have done everything they could, following the orders of their dictator, dictator and pedophile-in-chief, Joe Biden, to destroy our military. They're forcing the best and the brightest. They're forcing the best and the brightest to leave our military. They're weakening our military. Our military right now, today, thanks to Mr. Austin and Milley, is the weakest it's ever been.
It's the weakest it's ever been. But I was thankful that when I served, I was able to serve in such a military. I'm thankful for a marriage that has lasted for 54 years. And 54 years, I've been married to my wonderful wife. And we have, well, I thought it was six years, but she told me today was five years. We were together five years before that. So, actually, 59 years. Five years before we were married, we were together.
So, 59 years we've been together. I'm thankful. I'm thankful that I was able to send my son and grandsons to Christian schools. To Christian schools. I'm especially thankful about Agape Christian Academy, run by Sue and Russ Gifford. Great Christian school. A great Christian school. And my little part that I had was able to get them started. I just was so thankful.
And I highly recommend Agape Christian Academy. I'm thankful that we still have time. We still have time to reclaim America for God if we can just muster the will.
If the people, if we can muster the will. What about you out there listening to me today? Are you ready to fight? Is your freedom worth fighting for? If the Founding Fathers didn't think it was worth fighting and dying for, we wouldn't have what we have today. And I can tell you this, and you better listen to me and listen to me very carefully, the goal of the Democratic Communist Party, the goal of the Democrats, they call Democrats left out there today, is to take away your freedom. And for many of you, to take away your lives.
That's the reality. And they'll do it by hook and crook. They don't believe in God. They hate God. They hate God. They hate life. They hate freedom.
And they hate us. Now that's a reality. You better understand that.
You Prissy preachers, you just better, if what I'm saying gets you all upset, just take your pink bloomers and go and sit in the corner and cry about it. But folks, you better, that's the reality of what I'm telling you. Remember, for 50 years we've been telling you these things, and for 50 years everything we've told you has happened exactly the way we told you it would has.
Not because we're so much smarter than everybody else. Our job is to get you to tell you. The opposition job is to make sure you don't find out. You don't hear what we're telling you here.
Oh, by the way, that reminds me how I did this. If you don't get our newsletter, you really should. It's free.
It doesn't cost you anything. If you don't get it, you really, really should get it because the articles and things that we talk about here, we have the documentation. We have the documentation that you can take and make copies of and then show it to those friends and family that don't believe, that are skeptics, that are in the world and of the world. And boy, I'll tell you, we've had more people tell me how that has worked and has turned them around when they read it in the print and they decided to run it down and verify, and now they've changed.
Nobody likes to know they've been snookered. And the deathly grats and the fake news media have been deceiving people for decades and decades. I'm thankful, I'm very thankful that I've been able to preach the gospel message of salvation from coast to coast, not just coast to coast in this country. We're up on several different markets over the Internet and I'm not even sure of all the places we're up.
I know that the folks that are tech people put me up there. And we're able to get this message out around the world, the message of salvation. There is no greater message, there is no greater message, there never has been, than the fact that Jesus was born, he lived, he was crucified, he died, he was buried and he raised again on the third day.
And because of that, because of that, because he defeated death and hell, you and I can become immortal, we someday can be immortal. Now you've got God's word on that, not mine, God's word on that. I'm thankful to be the pastor of the church that I pastor. Over the years I've had people and I had people one day, I'm sitting in my office and there were some men came to see me. And these were elders and deacons from a very large evangelical church. And they asked me, because their pastor was leaving, if I would please come and candidate. Well first of all, it was a 501C3 corporation, 501C3 corporation. Second of all, now I am an unregistered New Testament, I pastor an unregistered New Testament church, we are not a government created entity.
When you are a corporation, a corporation corpus means non-living creation of the state. We are the living body of Christ, an actual New Testament church. But at the same time, we hold to a non-compromised position, we don't compromise. We preach the gospel, we preach the hard truth. We hold to the actual doctrines of scripture. And so I told them, I said, you guys, how long do you think I would last in that church that you're from?
Probably one Sunday. I said, those people don't believe the way that we believe here. And they said that you're true. Most of them don't believe that.
They don't. And that's why we need you to come. And because there are some of us that do. And I said, well look, and that's the case that what you need to do is come here.
Because you see, again, I would not last long over there. My preaching would be as offensive as Donald Trump is to some of these people who have Trump derangement out there. Yeah, Donald's got away sometimes, he gets a little inflammatory. I preach the word of God, and I don't stutter. I tell it exactly the way it is from the word of God. And to a lot of people, that's offensive and inflammatory, folks.
If they think I'm bad, if they don't listen to John the Baptist, or especially to the Lord Jesus, they really would have thought that he was inflammatory. I have many, many things, many more things to be thankful for. But most of all, that God chose me before the foundation of the world to spend eternity with Him in glory.
Folks, that is the most wonderful thing that ever could happen to anybody. And the day will come for each and every one of you out there listening to me. You're free to believe whatever you want, but I'm telling you that the day will come when the only thing in this whole wide world will matter to you is your standing with the Lord. Because you're either saved or you're lost.
There's no in-between. I want to go now to Daniel chapter 6. Now, Daniel didn't have any problem with courage.
Daniel had no problem with courage at all. And so here, as we go over to Daniel chapter 6, we read verses 10 through 14. Now, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, and his windows being opened in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon the knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he did aforetime. Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and made supplication before his God. Then they came near and spake before the king, concerning the king's decree. Well, has not thou signed a decree that every man that shall ask a petition of any god or man within thirty days to save thee, O king, shall be cast into the dead of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which altereth not. Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O God, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him, and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him. Then these men assembled unto the king and said unto the king, O king, that the law of the Medes and the Persians is that no decree nor statute which the king established may be changed. What would happen if Dyrus did not enforce that, then that meant that he would no longer be king, according to their statute. Now, here, Dyrus, see Daniel was one, he was, there were three presidents under the king, three presidents, and Daniel was the chief president, and also Daniel was the chief sheriff. So he held those two positions, the sheriff and president, and the other two were heathen. They didn't believe in Daniel, they didn't believe in Daniel's God, the God of Israel, and so they were out to get Daniel.
They wanted to usurp him and take his position. With the king, the king regarded as Daniel was highly, highly, highly regarded as a man of great wisdom, as a great prophet in that time. And so when he realized what he had done, he went and he couldn't sleep all night long, he couldn't sleep because Daniel was thrown into the lion's den.
So come morning, he went there and he yelled out, Daniel, Daniel, are you okay? Daniel said, yeah, king, okay, as the Lord liveth, I'm down here, and the angels had come and shut the lions' mouths. So now the king also had the authority, since the lions refused to eat Daniel, then that meant that Daniel was innocent, and the others, two presidents, were guilty. So the king threw them and all of their families, fed them all to the lions. And so now, but Daniel gave thanks, he gave thanks to the Lord. He was not, listen, he obeyed God rather than man.
Daniel obeyed God rather than man. Recently we've had some of the prissy preachers out there who fear government, and they have been sending us letters and texts saying that we should, when I told you, and I was telling people, look, you have no obligation, no obligation, okay, to give any legitimacy to the Department of Justice because they have gone completely corrupted. They are no longer a Department of Justice, they're simply a strong-arm branch, a very corrupt, led by Mark Garland, very corrupt Department of Justice, and the same thing with the FBI. Now, again, for you folks out there, look, I realize there are a lot of FBI field agents, a lot of you, that feel the same way we do, and I'm not talking to you. When I'm talking about the corruption, I'm talking about Chris Wray and those above you, those that are in the higher ranks of the FBI, that have gone a whoring, have lost all legitimacy. You have, folks, you have no obligation to legitimize them in any way, sense, because they have gone a whoring. And so they've dishonored God, they've dishonored country, they've dishonored us, and they've dishonored themselves.
And again, I know that there's a lot of you agents out there, and I know how you feel, you guys, you're even more angry than we are, okay, because what it's done to you, all your years you put in, and then to have this happen to you, to have your reputations ruined, and to have your friends and family ashamed of you because what you're working for when you didn't bring it upon yourselves. And so, you know, in Psalm 106, he tells you in verse 29, they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke upon them. Sound familiar? They provoked God to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke upon them.
Do you think that sounds like America today? Well, in verse 107 of the Psalm, I'll give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, and His mercy endureth forever. By the way, in this 107th Psalm, I'm going to have to take a quick swig here.
I've got this spring water. This is today. This is the second time. Normally I preach this about four times a day, and today's only the second time because since we had our Thanksgiving celebration, it went on all through the day. But in this passage of Psalms 107, here it speaks of four different types of people in distress and how God rescues them. One, he talks about the wanderers in verses 4 through 9 here. He talks about the prisoners in verses 10 through 16, the sick in verses 17 through 20, and those that are tossed by the storms in verses 23 through 30. And he says, O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, when He has redeemed them from the hand of the enemy, and gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west and from the north and the south. Well, here, when He gathered them, He redeemed them from their enemies, and today the church, the body of Christ, will be redeemed when the rapture of the church takes place.
Right now, the earnest money has been paid, the down payment, but the transaction will be complete upon the rapture of the church. In verse 21 we read, O that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men, and let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare the works with rejoicing. And then I want to go over to Colossians, and Colossians chapter 2, and I wanted to go to verses 6 through 10. Now as you have therefore received Christ Jesus, the Lord, so walk you in Him, root it up and build up in Him, and established in the faith that you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Well, accepting Christ as the Lord in your life is the beginning of life with Christ, and that's what He's telling you here. He goes on to say, Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit.
Now that's interesting there, because that word vain means empty, it means an empty deceit, a worthless. After the tradition of men, and after the rudiments of the world, the rudiments he's referring to are basic principles of the world, folks. And not after Christ. For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in Him which is the head of the principality and power, in whom also you are circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, putting off the body of sins and off the flesh of the circumcision of Christ. Now, here, Paul himself, folks, was a real gifted philosopher.
In fact, he was known for his wisdom. And, in fact, it was the interesting thing, because Paul speaks about wisdom and Corinth, and in Corinth where they fancied themselves, the Corinthians, the Greeks fancied themselves to be people of great culture and a great intellect. Now, Paul here, if you go on, he says, Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, and after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
That's exactly what has happened today. What it was once was the church. But see, God's Word, the Bible tells us this will happen. It tells us this will happen. The Lord Jesus made it very clear. He said, Many, many are called, but few are chosen. He's telling you, when he says, Many will come, but few will enter. The vast majority of those that have a profession of faith do not have a possession of salvation. You know, when you go and you watch Joel Osteen or T.D.
Jakes or these guys with all these people coming out and they're preaching a prosperity message, a name-in-claiming, a grab-it-and-stab-it message, talking about living a good life now and placing up crowns on earth, all getting your riches here. That's exactly total opposition to what the Lord Jesus preached. By the way, real pastors, real pastors, real pastors are supposed to warn people.
They're supposed to be a watchman on a wall and warn about those that would fleece the flocks, warn about the false teachers. He goes on to say here, For in him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Well, you know, when Thomas asked the Lord, When will we see the Father? And Jesus said, Oh, have you been with me so long, you don't realize when you see me, you've seen the Father? For again, here, he says, For in him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily. In other words, here, when you've seen the Lord Jesus Christ, when he took on a human form, you saw the Trinity right there in him bodily, the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, I'm in the Father and the Father is in me. And you are completed him, which is the head of all principality and power.
He's talking about the Lord Jesus Christ, okay, is the head of all, of all principality and of all powers. So here, he goes on to say, In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision of me without hands, putting off the body of sin and the flesh of the circumcision of Christ. So, I want to now go over to Colossians chapter 3 and start with verse 12.
And I've got to take another sip. And so here, put on therefore, we're starting in verse 12 through 17 in Colossians chapter 3. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you also do you. Now that's one of the things that, again, all pastors understand, we have to deal with. There are some people that, again, you have to deal with within the congregation, and they cause division because they always think that they're right. And they want to argue, they want to argue with the pastor. They say, folks, there's a reason that the pastor's the pastor and that they're not. Just like all these years on the radio, I've had so many of these people call me and tell me I should be preaching this or I should be preaching that, and especially when it comes to teaching the Word of God.
I've been doing this for 50 years. We really put an emphasis, really, really put an emphasis on dividing the Word of God. And there are people that will call me and they'll be as far off as far off can get. They've gotten a hold of some material written by somebody who absolutely is not in line. Instead of going to the Word of God, okay, and you take this and you measure it by God's Word, instead of doing that, they measure it by writings of other nutcases.
Not a good thing to do. And so here, and it's not a good thing if any man have a quarrel, you know, against any, even as Christ forgave you, and above all these things put it on charity which is bound of perfectness. And the peace of God rule your hearts to which also you are called in one body and must be thankful that the Word of Christ would dwell in you richly in all wisdom and teaching, admonishing one another in songs and hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts for the Lord. And whatsoever do you in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, give me thanks to God and the Father by Him. He's telling them something.
Here's what He's telling them. If you're having a hard time forgiving people, then do this. Just sit down, and it might be a good idea, even if you took a pen and paper, and just write down all of the things that God has forgiven you for. All the things over all the many years that you've asked forgiveness for God.
And then think about that. And then you'll realize, maybe it's not so hard to forgive those that you feel have done you wrong. He goes on to say that the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in wisdom, teaching, admonishing one another in songs and hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever you do in word or deed to all in the name of the Lord Jesus, give me thanks to God and the Father to Him. And then I want to end here by going over to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. And in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, I want to start with verse 13. Verse 13 through 17. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation.
Did you hear that? From the beginning chosen us to salvation. And so what does Paul teach you here?
Well, let's read this because there's a theme here. Through sanctification of the Spirit and the belief of the truth, where until you called you by our gospel and obtained you the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by epistle. Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God, even our Father, which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word.
Well, here's what He's saying. He's saying that salvation begins and ends with God. Salvation begins and ends with God.
Now, folks, you know here where He says stand fast? Well, you remember how we're always telling you three main missions that God has given us. Three main missions. Mission one, the Great Commission, Matthew 28 verses 18 through 20, to go out and preach the gospel, teach the gospel, baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Two, from Genesis to Revelation, from Genesis to Revelation, resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. Failure to resist tyranny, failure to resist tyranny is always disobedience to God. And then third, right here, therefore, brethren, stand fast. Stand fast.
He's telling you. And that means that you are to not give up any ground. You don't give up any ground. You don't compromise your position. You do not become conformed to the world.
All around you, you're seeing conformity to the world. Don't ever, never, never let the other side, don't ever let the devil's crowd frame the debate. Whoever frames the debate wins the debate. Don't ever use their terminology. Never use their terminology. Don't use the word abortion. Use the word child killing, baby killing, baby killing.
Okay? Don't use the word gay. Call it the way it is. God's word in the Bible calls it sodomy, sodomy. Tell it the way it is. It's a horrible sin. Okay, LGBTQ, lewd, gross, belligerent, transgress, that's the way it really is.
It's horrible. The Bible says it's a horrible, horrible thing. Now, folks, let me tell you, whenever you decide that you run into and you've come up a disagreement with God, it always ends this way. Like it or not, it ends this way. God wins, you lose. Now, you might think in your little mind that you might have won this argument or you're going to continue to believe what you're going to believe. But I'll tell you this. There's no chance, no chance, no chance at all that this won't happen. The time will come when you will believe every word that proceeded forth from the mouth of God.
There is no chance at all, none, that that won't happen. Well, we're up against it like we always are at this time every night. So, as we say every night, we want to say here again, good night, God bless, happy Thanksgiving, and always, always keep fighting the fight. The preceding program is sponsored by What's Right, What's Left Ministries and is responsible for its content. If you are 65 or older, you know this, watching your hard-earned dollars fly out the window on healthcare costs is frustrating.
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