All right, grab your Bibles. Sorry, it was easier to sing when everybody was out of here. Y'all make me nervous. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. There's just something about being around God's people. And You know, God's with me when I practice too, you know, and it touches me and I if if somebody was here while I was practicing, probably heard me get choked up then too, but. For some reason it's a lot easier because my mind goes to how it applies to me and how it applies to everyone hearing and everybody online and just how good God is and the fact that now, now there is still time. Now there is still time. Amen. And he's not gone. He's still waiting by the well. He's still holding out his hand for each of us. And so the message today is titled. It is what it is. It is what it is. And we're going to read verse number 11 of Revelation 22. If I didn't tell you, sorry, Revelation 22, I figured you all knew. Verse number 11, he that is unjust, let him be unjust still. And he that is righteous, let. I'm sorry, I skipped a line. Let's start over. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. He that is filthy, let him be filthy still. And he that is righteous, let him be righteous still. And he that is holy, let him be holy still. Let's pray. Father, we thank you, Lord, for your word. We thank you for the opportunity to open it this morning. And we pray, Father, that you'd speak to our hearts, Lord, that you deal with the need of every person, Lord, Not only would you deal with the need, but that you would just draw us to yourself that we might respond as we ought to help us Lord to be pleasing in your sight and glorifying you in all that we do in Jesus name. Amen, you may be seated. You may be seated. You might guess there are four points today because there are four major mate. English, there are four major statements in the text. And so I have slightly changed them so that they are one word points. OK, so if you're taking notes and you care about what points or what, you know, we've got justice, purity, righteousness and holiness. All right. So I simplified it in that way. But I want to give the context. Of course, we're in Revelation chapter number 22. Y'all know what's happened so far in the Bible and in history and in prophecy and in future things. What's happened so far? Everything, right? Everything has happened at this point in the book of Revelation. There is nothing more to happen on this planet than has happened. At this point in the book of Revelation, this planet has completed its course and been destroyed and it's done. All right. By this time in the book of Revelation, the heaven and the earth have passed away and God has made a new heaven and a new earth and a new Jerusalem. By this time in the book of Revelation, we are in eternity future. We have gone through all the time that we're going to have here, and the statement that is made is made in the context that there is now no possibility of changing anything that's already passed. And so if you were just or unjust, you will at that point be in that same state, and there's nothing you can do to change it at that point. If you were filthy or pure, At that point. No change in it. If you were righteous or unrighteous at that point, there's no changing it. If you were. What's that last one? Holy. It's on the next page on my notes. If you were holy or unholy. There's no changing it by this point. There's no changing, and that's why the title of the message today is it is what it is, because at that point that is exactly what he's saying. It is what it is. Everything is settled. All the works that are to be done and recorded are done and recorded, and it's done. It is what it is. And so we're going to go through each of these. And. Try to keep it simple. We're going to go through each of these. And review and look at this, but the theme really of the message actually isn't so much like the fatalism. It is what it is, but it's actually the other side of that. And that is 2nd Corinthians 6 two says for he sayeth I have heard thee in a time accepted. And in the day of salvation have I secured thee Behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of salvation And so the theme today the point today is that that now is the time now if you're gonna do anything and it For the whole message if you're gonna do anything Now's the time and so I forgot to mention an announcement. We do have a a We do have a meeting of procrastinators anonymous tomorrow, and we will send out a notification that it has been moved to another time. So that is to a later date. So anyhow, we can't live that way though. but we unfortunately do all too often. Oh, I'll put it off, I'll do it next week, I'll do it next year, I'll get it done by the time I'm 20, I'll get it done by the time I'm 30, I'll get it done by the time I'm 40. When the kids grow up, I'll do this, when this, now I understand there are some things that you can do during certain seasons of life and some things that you can do better at other seasons of life, that's fine, but you know, it's like, oh, I'll go back to the gym in January, right? Or I'll start eating right on Monday. Or I'll plan for something on this day. You know, if there's something that you would like to do in the future, do it now. If it's something that can be, like for example, I'll eat right tomorrow. I know I'm talking about diet and health and stuff, whatever. I'll eat right tomorrow. Yep, and you'll say tomorrow. I'll eat right tomorrow. Do it today. I will focus on winning souls once I start deputation for the mission field. Wrong. You won't. If you're going to go to the ministry, if you're going to go and do ministry, you need to be doing ministry now. I'll tell my family after I clean up my life. Well, guess what? How long does it take to clean up your life? The whole life, pretty much, but you want to be a good platform for the gospel, but you can decide right now. Okay, next time I'm tempted, I'm not going to do it. Next time God promises me to do something, I'm going to do it. And then when that opportunity arises, do what you said you'd do. And then you can go back to when you decided and say, see, I decided that day that when this happens, that's what I'm going to do. Right. Now is the accepted time. Of course, we're talking about salvation here, but this applies to other things in our lives as well. So first point here is justice. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. Again, this is not a declaration that if you're not right with God, stay wrong. This is a declaration that by this time in civilization and history and the timeline, by this time, if you are unjust there, you're not changing that. Yeah, you're already enjoying the consequences of your life and your decisions. It may not be a lot of pleasure in enjoyment, but you're definitely already receiving your just reward. So, he that is unjust, let him be unjust still. Definition of justice here, I just put down, justice means being upright and righteous in our dealings. To be unjust is to act in ways that oppose God's righteousness. Alright? In Micah 6, verse number 8, I believe that was our theme verse for the year last year, says, He hath showed thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly, and to have mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." God requires that we walk justly. This is the expectation. Now, that is a matter of our walk, our life, our practice. God wants us to walk justly. Why do people remain unjust? Those are good points to add to the message. I just have two. There are other reasons like you all have already given us. People remain unjust because they have hard hearts. In Proverbs 29 in verse number one, it says he that being often reproved hardeneth his neck. Shall suddenly be destroyed in that without remedy. This is what we're dealing with in our text. That He that is unjust, let Him be unjust still. There's no remedy. There's no remedy at that point. The remedy is today. Refusal to accept Christ. Go over to John chapter 3. He's still waiting by the well today. John chapter 3. It says, verse number 14, And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Verse number 19, and this is the condemnation that light is come into the world. And men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. The reason that man decides to stay unjust is because he loves his sin, because his deeds are evil. He refuses to come to the light of the gospel. So there's a warning with this, a warning with this. There is no second chance to change from injustice after this life. All you get. Is now. In fact, really, so we often say, well, all you get is this life, you know, your 70 years, your 80 years, your 90 years, you know, you get maybe your 100 years, whatever all you gets this life. But no, that's not true. All you have in terms of making decisions for the Lord, the making a decision to become justified by the work of Christ at Calvary, that decision is made and only ever made now. That decision is never made in the future. It is always made now. And when you made it in the past, it was made now at that time. As the Bible says, now is the accepted time. I know a lot of people say it says today is the day of salvation. It doesn't say that it says now is the day of salvation. It gets even more specific than today. Now is the day of salvation. That's right. And he said, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto myself. And as he draws, as he as as Pastor G talked about in Sunday school, as he convinces us or convicts us of sin, righteousness and judgment. That very moment is the time. It is the accepted time while he is. And I'm trying not to read the last verse that I put in the conclusion, but or quote it. It's our it's our memory verse, by the way, while there is time while it is today. Now is the time to be saved. Now is the time to get right. Not later. Hey, not at the altar call. Now is the time. The altar call is at least 35, 40, 60, 80, 2 hours from now. I don't know. You might not live to the altar call. I might preach for the rest of your life. Actually, probably, this is going to be short. But don't wait. If God is dealing with your heart, now is the time. Now is the time. You say, well, I can't go up there. Do it there. Number two, purity, purity, he that is filthy, let him be filthy still. He that is filthy, filthy, let him be filthy still. It's not going to be time to clean up. After the fact. Filthiness refers to the moral and spiritual impurity, rejecting the cleansing work of Christ. In Isaiah 64, verse number 6, it says, But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. It is filthy. Let it be filthy still. Benjamin Franklin said, cleanliness is next to godliness. That's not biblical, by the way. That's not Bible. That's not Bible. It is biblical, though. It is biblical. Uncleanness, uncleanness or filthiness has to do with the dirtiness of our sin. the wretchedness and the rank disgustingness of our sin. God does not view your sin as a mistake. He does not view your sin as something that you just, oops, it was an accident. Your sin is disgusting in the eyes of God. And it should be disgusting in your eyes as well. If you decide that you're going to remain filthy, you will be filthy still after this life. There is no cleaning it. There's a need for cleansing now by the blood of Jesus Christ. Isaiah said, come now, let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be as crimson, they shall be as wool. Become and be cleansed. Hebrews chapter 9 verse number 13 says, For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifyeth to the purifying of the flesh, Right all this clean in the body. Cleaning of the flesh, sanctifying the flesh. How much more verse number 14? How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot? Purge your conscience. From dead works to serve the living God. We can have purity of heart and of mind and of soul by the blood of Christ. We can have purity. Now, if you're born again, you've already been saved, but you've sinned and there's impurity in your life and there's filthiness of the flesh that's going on. I want to remind you, as Paul did in 1 Corinthians 6, that that is not what we That is not what we are called to. That is not what we're supposed to be about. But I want to remind you, though, that there is a fact of your position if you're born again. And then I want to remind you that there is an opportunity to cleanse the practice as well, but your position. So he says here, he says, No, you're not. Verse number nine of First Corinthians, chapter six. No, you're not. That the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Be not deceived. Neither fornicators nor adulterers, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. That's a whole bunch of dirtiness. And such were some of you. You see positionally. You're born again positionally. You were. You're not anymore. Don't go back to those things. Such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. That cleansing, that washing, that being clean and whole. Man, it feels good to be clean, doesn't it? We used to do these men's Bible studies with McGregor Road, and we'd go for two, three days, whatever, and you're out there, and the best you can do is clean up with like a baby wipe, you know? You come home and you're just so filthy. And you just I mean, you've been out there shooting guns and swimming in a pond or something and crawling around in the mud and sleeping on the ground and doing building fires and doing all these things. And you're just so dirty. Right. And you get home. And you just, you don't care what else is going on, you want to get to some running water and get clean. And it feels good to be clean, doesn't it? Remember when I used to do I used to work in a machine shop, rebuilding engines. I don't know anything about your engine, don't ask me. Maybe I do, but it's been a long time. So I would tear down these engines and all the way down to like all of their individual pieces, right? You'd have nuts and bolts and pans and trays and, The block and all these little pieces of pistons and rocker arms and all these things and I put them in this big wash tank and Close it and I can't remember what they called that but anyhow it would wash With some solvent and wash it all up and get all that grime off and we take it out and I'd say this is kind of nice now we can further clean it and then I'd get a wire brush air hose air hose on with a wire wire brush thing and Clean it all up, you know get it all nice and shiny and sparkly and everything the downside to doing that all day long is you become that grimy nasty engine by the end of the day and Just in case you eat at fast food I would like to remind you or let you know that when I would finish that job I would leave and after trying to wash my hands and arms the best I could, and I would go work at Arby's, and I would make your lunch. And... Now, for the most part, everything that was gonna come off, came off, except for my skin. And that tried to sometimes too. Eventually I decided that it was not a good idea to do both of those things. Because it was so hard to get I would have to spend 40 minutes trying to just clean my hands so that I don't go to work and they're looking at me like I Even changed my job like from doing stuff toward back to going to the front and then I'm at the register But then I'm standing there at the register I probably have grease on my face and I've got grease on my hands and up my elbow back here where I didn't see it, you know, and I'm just you know punching in their their order and whatever and But, man, there's a time when you clean up. It just feels good. It just feels good. By the way, when we've been born again, you remember the day you got saved? What it felt like to be that clean? I mean, it was like squeaky clean. It was like a newborn baby clean. And I know it's kind of messy, but it was like cleaned up newborn baby clean, OK? And you had that innocence and that cleanness and you had that that feeling of wholeness and and and the guilt of sin lifted off of you and and the I'm not trying to just be about the feeling here, but hey, it feels good to be clean. Feels good not to be filthy, right? And so time goes on. And sometimes we we go and we get I don't know if you can see but I've got dust on my shoes here. Brand new shoes, man. We were Friday night. We pulled the camper up to New Chicago and Brother Chavez said, hey, just park it in the yard. It's fine. It's like, OK, how do I get there? He said, just take take the alleyway and then you go up a little hill and in the yard. I'm like, all right, great. So pull up the hill. Isaac, did you get did you end up getting video or pictures of that? All right. You got to share that with me. All right. So pulled the camper up the hill and the truck said, I like this spot. And it just started sinking. And the sand was like, I don't know why, but up there in that area, the whole yard was sand. It was all sand. So it was just. And so the back tire of the truck was this deep in sand. Yeah, it was great. I had to get up at 345 the next morning. And so I'm like, OK, so what do we do? Let's see. No, AAA's not helping. I called Brother Chavez, and I told him, I'm sorry, but you don't have a yard anymore. It's gone, it's all gone now. We're moving it around, whatever. Well, we ended up, long story, long story. We ended up dropping the camper, taking the truck. Somehow, we got the thing lifted, and it was like, so the camper's on a hill, and yeah, so we dropped the camper. oh yeah and then the thing goes in the ground like the the the tongue lift goes down the ground i'm like oh man so i try to use the jacks that are on the camper to lift it up and so i start lifting it up and then the bumper is going into the ground on the other side of the alley Like, cause there's a hill over there. And so they're hand digging, trying to get the space under the bumper so that I can lift the front up high enough to get something under that tongue thing. And so I found, I remembered I had an entrenching tool in my truck. It's a, like a army fold up army shovel. Yeah. And so we, I gave that to Isaac and he goes digging back there. And, and, and then we finally, we got it lifted up and then we put it on a thing and I'm like, there's no way to get this out of here. So I pulled the truck out. And I just hooked the chain up. I dragged it off of the wood, went back, back into the ground, but it was sand. So I just dragged it through the sand and big old whatever. So I'm like running around getting sand and everything all up in my brand new shoes. I didn't even think about the shoes. I was trying to deal with all this stuff. And so we're getting these, we're getting this thing out of here. Eventually we got it loose and backed it back out in the street. We took another route and weaved through the trees and then got up there and we were good. And so we had to, and then we got everything set and Brother Chavez pulled up. And I was like, hey, hey man, brother Chavez is here. And so everybody ran in the, yeah, everybody ran in the camper and they're, you know, getting things going so we can get ready for bed. Cause it had gotten late by that time. And so brother Chavez pulled up and he walks over and he's got a bag like this. I mean, you know, when you, when you see a bag like this, like a little shopping bag from a Hispanic man, a guy from Mexico, he's walking up and it's a bag and you can tell it's got weight to it. And he's like, here you go, brother. And he hands it to me. I'm like, oh, it was it was 10 tacos like steak tacos. They were like heavy tacos. And I was like, oh, thank you, brother. Amen. That was nice. Now, none of that has anything to do with this message, except. in life well not from that in life in life as things happen and we make dumb decisions like driving up a hill with a camper and I mean the hill was it wasn't a big hill it was like maybe this high Like about as high as this, okay? But it was like, you know, the bottom of the hill was not very far, so it was kind of steep. And so that, you know, that's that. That's what happens. But sometimes we make dumb decisions, like sin. We decide to go after lust, or we decide to go after sinful pleasures of life, or we decide to covet, we decide to be proud, or we decide to choose to sin against, you know, lie and do these things against our families or against our friends or against our neighbors. Or we decide to do things against God. We decide to reject God or to ignore God in our lives even after we've been cleansed, even after we've been saved. And our feet get dirty. Right? That's the picture when Jesus washed the feet of the disciples. was that you're clean, but you get your feet dirty, and you need to clean those feet off, right? And as a believer, we really, we need to stay clean, right? I don't know what I'm gonna do about the dust. These are, I just got them. No, that ruins them. I think I'm gonna use a shop vac and an air hose. Blow it off and suck the stuff out at the same time. Just bang it. Alright, I'm just kidding. Not right now. She said take them off and smack them together. Probably would. I did kind of shake them a little bit. But anyhow, send them to my mom's house. They'll be good. They're only $22 shoes. I mean, I just ordered some more. But you know, you don't just throw stuff away and buy something new. I'm glad God doesn't do that to us, right? We get dirty. We get dirty and God doesn't just throw us away and buy somebody else. Amen. But he'll, he'll continue to buy. Amen. He'll, he will purchase us as, as, or he, he will purchase another if one will repent and trust the gospel. So, that filthiness though, in our lives, and of course we, we often talk about this in terms of getting saved. But as believers, we often get back into the world. We ought not to do that. But we often get back into the world and it's contrary to who we actually are as believers. But as we do that, we feel dirty because we're supposed to, because we are. And that filthiness of the flesh has to be cleansed and has to be dealt with and taken away. And so we have to go to 1 John 1 and verse 9 where it says, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. That is the key there is to be cleaned by the blood of Jesus Christ. And I want to go back and go to that passage I just told you to go to. So but the verse a couple of verses before that, it says, but if we walk in the light as he is, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanseth us from all sin. You see, that is the walk. That is the way that's that's what we ought to be doing is is as we are clean, we need to stay clean and get cleaned again. Right. Not saved again. We just need to keep on getting cleaned up. Right. You don't. And by the way, you can't clean yourself. Yeah, that's right. You got to go to the pressure washer of the word of God. Amen. and apply the water of the Word, amen, and the water of the Word cleanses, and the blood atones, and we can be made clean and not filthy anymore. But if you haven't done that by the time we get to the text time, you're still going to be filthy for all of eternity. Number three, righteousness. He that is righteous, let him be righteous still. to be righteous involves living to God's standard. which comes through faith in Christ. To be righteous, it involves living to God's standard. Now, again, there's positional righteousness and there's practical righteousness. Positional righteousness takes place because of what Jesus did for us at Calvary. We are positionally righteous if we trust His work. If we trust His work and we're born again, we are positionally righteous. But then there's practical righteousness. That's walking according to what His Word says. Looking like what we actually are. Right? And so this is very similar to this clean-unclean thing. Unfortunately though, some people get that flipped around and they think it's about looking like a certain way and not about being. We can dress ourselves up and make ourselves look a certain way and then not really be that. And by the way, we get really good at being righteous in the areas that everyone can see. And then we get really good at hiding the matters that everyone can't see. And we are and we fail the grace of God in that sense, or we we we do a disgrace to what God has made us. But our our righteousness again, it's it. It should be by faith in Romans 322. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe for there is no difference. But then we need to live out that righteousness. Not to be saved, but because we're saved. In Ephesians chapter 2, we see in verse number 8, for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Verse 9, not of works, lest any man should boast. And then in verse number 10, it says, for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. That tenth verse there, it brings us back around to, of course, we are saved, not by works, but we're saved then to work. We're saved and we become His workmanship. And He works in us, as Paul said later in another epistle, that He works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure. And how that looks? How that looks is we begin to do the right things. Again, not to say that just looking like it is the right way. We have to be it. That's why I mentioned when I started listing sins, I wasn't listing the most common ones people think about. I was listing like what? Pride. And the things that people don't always see directly. The things that most of the time we don't see ourselves doing. But really the root of all sin, even the ones that everybody sees, it's rooted in pride and selfishness. Why do we do what we do? Pride and selfishness. When we do the wrong thing, OK, why do we do what we do when we do the right thing? Well, grace and faith. But living in righteousness. In Philippians 1 Paul says in this, I pray that your love would abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgment. That you may approve things that are excellent and that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ being filled with the fruits of righteousness. Which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God. He that is righteous, let him be righteous still. In that day, if you, by the righteousness of Jesus Christ, have become righteous, in that day you will be righteous still. But you'll also remember whether or not you lived it over here. And there won't be anything you can do to change it. At the youngest possible age, every one of us really should plan our deathbed experience. What do I not, what do I want to say, what may I say in my deathbed? I regret doing that. Plan on not saying that because it doesn't apply. plan on when it's our time to go. We don't look back and say, I wish I had. Well, if you wish you had, it's too late now. The time to do what you wish you had done is now, is before it's too late. Because there will come a day when it's too late. I'm telling you, time flies by. Melissa said last night, she's like, they say that time goes faster as you get older, and it's absolutely true. It's absolutely true. We think about sometimes back in the day, we would think, man, this day is really long. Man, would he stop preaching? It's so long. This little time, oh, it's so long, it's so long. And y'all, I'm getting old, so I don't think in times of a few minutes of preaching. I think in times of decades now. But but that's the thing, though, as we get as we get older, we think less in times of like, you know, I find that there are things that used to bother me so much at the very moment that they're going on. But now, and maybe it's age, maybe it's maturity. I think it's probably more maturity than age. Not to say that I'm mature, I've got a lot of growing up to do. But as I grow, I find that things that used to just really, there are other things that are contributing factors, but things that used to be like, I'm like, would this just like, You know, used to, remember the days, and sometimes, you know, we're thinking back to remember the days and it's last week, but remember the days when you're like, I've got bills due and I don't have money. And you're like, I'm gonna die because these bills aren't gonna be paid. Like, that's, in your mind, you're like, I'm going to die. I'm gonna, like, life's over. I can't pay my internet bill. So life is over. I'm going to die. I paid my internet bill, by the way, but anyhow, it's auto pay, so I don't even know when it, anyway, so, but I remember days that crisis like that, and by the way, as far as growing, this is for any crisis, that you're like, this is the end of the world. Like, well, you know what? Even if you die, it's not the end of the world. there's still at least 1,007 years. So, you're, I mean, till the world ends, at least 1,007 years. So, you know, if I don't make it through this one, I got to think about those that are going to be here after I'm gone. What's, you know, what are they going to do with this? You know, it really takes things down a few notches of concern and worry and all that. You just like, you know, it doesn't matter. What matters is, well, if I'm not going to be here, what can I do about that? Nothing. But am I doing what I can do about what's going to happen when I'm gone? Like these things. I can't change those things. I can't change. Who's? John unjust or just I can't change who's filthy or or clean. I can't change who's righteous or unrighteous. I can't change who's holy or unholy. In that day. But I can do something to affect it today. And you know what? I can't change it after I die. But I can do everything I can until my last breath. Now, right and so. This matter of of the righteousness we want to continue this. We want to. We want to make sure that that whatever we're doing that God has us doing that it doesn't end. Because something happened to us. right, that it keeps on. And as I was saying, we were talking about how time just flies by. And you start planning, as I mentioned earlier, a brother that I know, you know, he was like, when I turn this age, I'm going to do this. And this is what the next 10 years of my life is going to look like. And I'm like, man, you planning 10 years out. And then I turned 40. And I was like, Hmm, That's a really good idea, actually. And so you plan, OK, what am I going to do from 40 to 50? What am I going to do when I'm 50? And then the 50 to 60 time. And then what am I going to do from 60 to 70? And am I going to make it from 70 to 80? And what am I going to do, right? And then when I'm 80, I'm going to say, who am I? And who are you and what are you talking to me for? But so, those things are important. But when we think about what are we gonna do in the future, we have to think about what am I doing right now? Because I can't just plan 10 years. I can't plan my 50s if I don't plan my 40s. I can't plan my 40s if I don't plan today. Right? And I know I'm talking about planning. You know. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. So you don't know what tomorrow is going to be. But you can plan today. Now you can plan for those things, but you can't necessarily expect the morrow. So. He that is righteous, let him be righteous still. Let's be filled with the fruits of righteousness. Continue in righteousness, and then that continues in eternity. Number four, holiness. He that is holy, let him be holy still. So the nature of holiness is to be set apart for God. To be holy is to be set apart for God. Now, contrary to popular belief, to be holy is not to check off a whole bunch of boxes of things that you do or don't do. To be holy is to be set apart for God. Will some boxes get checked along the way? Probably, yeah. But living a life that's pleasing to Him, is to be fully yielded to Him. If He says it, you're doing it. If He says don't do it, there's no argument there. No big deal. I know. I'm not to do that. He says in 1 Peter 1, verse number 16, Be ye holy, for I am holy. Romans 12, verse 1 says, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. It's not an unreasonable thing for God to ask us to give back to Him what He has given to us for service in His work. We present our bodies a living sacrifice. That's pretty holistic, that we present our bodies a living sacrifice. What's not included there? Now, does that mean that, well, we just go through the motions with our bodies and our soul and spirit's not involved? It's just our body. No, we present our bodies a living sacrifice because that's what we have to work with, right? You can't just be like, all right, I'm gonna lay the body over here, I'm gonna go over here and work for God. You who's gonna go over here and work for God? You need to take the body with you, right? Hey, if you're with us in spirit today, we can't see you. And you can't do anything. And you're not of any good to anybody. So, I know some people are watching online. I'm with you in spirit. It's okay. We love you. Apply the message. If you're supposed to be here, be here next time. You can't be here now because it's now and you're not here. So that's the way things work. If you didn't do what you're supposed to do now, you're not doing it. That's right. And if you don't do it now, you've already messed up. So, be here the next now, okay? But you have to prepare for the next now, all right? The next now, yes, you have to prepare for the next now. Every time I say that, I picture these purple little square things, little cube things here, now and laters. I don't know why every I keep saying now and then now Not now and later now and now again Because I never I never I never ate one of those later. It was always now Whenever I was eating it was now I mean Anybody else eat it now and later later. No you eat it now you always eat now exactly I mean I Well, but when you eat it later, the later is now. So it's, you know, anyhow, the reason they call them that's because you couldn't actually eat. Anyhow, that is not an endorsement. But if y'all want to pay us for the for the advertisement, you can I don't know if they're even in business anymore. So what do you say? Willy Wonka? Didn't he die a long time ago? OK. Anyhow, so. We have a promise here that if we if we are holy in that day going to keep on being holy. You can mess it up now. And you can get right now. But you can't change it. The state that you are in after the judgment you will forever be in that state. I'm not talking about Indiana. The conditions of the people at the time of this verse are final. Final. If unjust, filthy, unrighteous. Unholy, there is no opportunity to change after this life. So, Hebrews 3. Hebrews chapter 3. Sorry, I've transitioned from the fourth point to the conclusion, by the way. Hebrews chapter 3. This is your memory verse for the week while it is said. Today. If you will hear his voice. Harden not your hearts as in the provocation. Now's the time. Now is the time. We must choose to seek justice, purity, righteousness, and holiness. The time is fleeting and eternity is final. Now is the time. What are you going to do?