I've been preaching out the Gospels a little bit lately. And some good stuff in there. And talking too, tricky stuff in there. But amen. Good transitional historical books of the Bible. Get to see Jesus walk the earth, do some things. Amen. Learn a lot of things from him. and preach a message on the Holy Ghost. We've been on the Holy Ghost. We're doing pneumatology, as it's called in Bible college. Doctrine of the Holy Spirit on Thursday nights, looking at that. I've already had some folks, friends watching and messaging me, asking me things and saying things, amen. And I don't command, one thing, I don't command everybody in here to believe exactly like I do on everything. We better have the fundamentals right. We better agree on that or you can roll on out the door and say amen right there. We don't need no 11, we don't need no division. And of course, there's a lot of things that we would look at and we just, I mean, we probably ain't gonna know until we get to heaven, Blake, if people wanna argue and fight about stuff. But I'll give you something today that I believe. But we do need to know how to rightly divide our Bibles You're going to get real confused. And I want to preach a message called, You're in Danger. And we've been real lovey about the Holy Ghost the past two or three weeks. This was actually prepared for Thursday. So some of it, you know, you think, well, that's not a Sunday morning style message. Well, I don't care. Our core group's usually faithful to most every service. We honestly don't have a whole lot of visitors come through, so we're just gonna learn the Bible every single service, if y'all's all right with that. We'll get some preach. There'll be some spirit in there, amen. You preach on the doctrines of the Bible, usually we see more people on the altar when we do that, amen. or something or whatever. But I just want to give you some Bible on the Holy Ghost. And I'm not going to read all the introductions I had prepared for Thursday night, but I will tell you we've learned a couple of things about him, who he is. Notice I said he, he's a person, a man, he's not a woman, and he's not an it. He's a person, the Holy Ghost of God. And the Bible in John 16 says that when He has come, He will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. And it says the word He 12 times in those texts. Very important we understand that because there's a lot of false doctrine. You get out and start mingling around. And I had stuff in the past, Arianism, Socionism, Monarchism, but even today, Unitarians, some liberal theologians, some neo-orthodox, I mean, they all take the Holy Spirit and they'll turn him into a force or a power, but he's a person. He can be shunned, he can be doubted, he can be hated, he can be loved, he can be adored, he can be insulted, he can be lied to, and he's a person. That's very important. He's just as much a person as the Holy, in the Trinity, amen, as God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost. He's a person, amen? And that means we need to know Him more intimately in our lives, amen? He possesses personal characteristics and attributes, amen? He has the willpower. However, He wills the gift He gives you. He willed that to you, amen? And that's the gift the Spirit of God gave you the day you got saved. and he guides you different places in life just like he did the apostle paul when he said i don't want you to go up there yet you don't need to do that yet and he'll guide you throughout your life very important for us to be following the guiding of the spirit of god in our life amen since he has a will for us and he guides us he teaches us amen he's a he's intellectual i'm glad we got an intelligent Spirit of God living inside of us. Amen. I'm glad we've got somebody that's got some brains for lack of better words to tell us where to go. He knows better than you and I do. And every time we say, no, no, no, Holy Ghost, I think I ought to do this. I think I ought not do that. We mess things up in our lives. And we better find out that he's got a will in our lives. He guides our lives. And He's intelligent. He knows what's right for us, amen. And also He has power, amen. He gives you power. That's why most of the time you follow your will and you're afraid because what He's telling you to do might be something you don't think you've got the power to do. But the Spirit of God has got the power for you to do everything that He's guiding you to do. He's not going to guide you to do something that He will not equip you to do in your life, amen. You can make it through anything in this life, primarily because of the Spirit of God that God put in you, amen? Romans 5 and 3, not only so, but we glory in tribulation, also knowing that tribulation, we're gonna patience, patience, experience, experience hope, and hope things are not ashamed. Why? Because of, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, how? By the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us. God's love is shed abroad in your heart through that Spirit of God. And that's how you can go through tribulation, as that verse said, and not get bitter and angry at God, but learn patience from that tribulation. And that tribulation gives you experience in this thing and gives you even more hope, more knowing of the promise of God and understanding what God's plan is in your life. And that's all because God's love is spread through you through the Spirit of God, amen? I'm glad he's in a person this morning, amen? Secondly, by way of introduction, well not secondly yet, but he also has attributes, personal attributes. He performs miracles in the Bible. Overnight's chapter number eight and many other places. He cries out, he teaches, he calls men to work, he gives men tasks, he proceeds on missions that he's sent on, amen. He convicts men of sin, amen. He does all that by speaking to us, amen. He intercedes for us, he does a lot of things for us, amen. He has an official title, it's called the Comforter in your Bible. All those personal attributes that he has helps him to comfort us. Provides that comfort for you and I. If you don't got a good relationship with the Holy Ghost, you're probably living a subpar life. But if you'll get as close to the Holy Ghost as you can and learn Him and know Him, I'm telling you, He'll comfort you, He'll guide you, He'll help you, amen? So then we showed some abilities by way of introduction. Secondly, we showed some things you could do. We talked about Him curing the abnormal fear of darkness, and not necessarily dark and light, but the darkness of this world, amen? You don't have to walk in fear of the things and the demonic forces and all that stuff. Listen, I've lived it. I've worried so much about my children. being grabbed by this world, amen, things like that. I've lived in fear of that stuff, but we've gotta have communion with the Holy Ghost of God so that he'll give us peace and comfort and we know that he's in charge, amen? And you really better follow what he tells you to do when it comes to that stuff too. You don't follow him, you ain't gonna have that peace and that comfort. You better let him guide how you raise your family and your children, and you don't have to have that fear of the darkness of this world. He's a cure for insomnia, amen? Psalms 127, it is vain for you to rise up early, sit up late, eat the bread of sorrows, for he giveth his beloved sleep. It's difficult during the things that we go through in this life, but we ought to be able to lay down with the peace of the Spirit of God in us. He's a cure for loneliness. What's the Bible say? I will never leave you nor forsake you. As we do have in our age, amen. The Spirit of God endures you permanently. He's in there. He's not gonna leave you. You ought not be lonely, amen. When you're all alone, you know what you ought to do? You and your counterpart, you and the Holy Ghost ought to be talking to God, amen. You ought not be lonely when you're all alone, amen. You ought to be able to be alone and not be lonely, because you're not alone. He's the cure also for a broken heart. I got a big quote here, I don't need to read, but man, the Spirit of God enables man to go through the worst of things in our lives. Any sickness, any pain, any sorrow. I mean, if you think about the men of old, in their concentration camps, you think about Jeremiah locked up in a pit, amen? You go ahead and study what them pits were, what was in them pits, and how he would have been living when he was locked up down there in that pit. Hey man, it wasn't just a jail cell. You think men, because of the Holy Ghost, can take such enormous abuse and persecution and bereavement so they can burn at the stake and still cry out Jesus' name, amen? I just seen a movie on Tortured for Christ come across my Facebook feed about Richard Wurmbrand. I can't ever say it right. Endured three years of solitary confinement for preaching the gospel, amen? You know how he did that? The love of the Spirit of God spread abroad in his heart. It's the only way he can do it. It enabled the martyrs to take unlimited punishment. And you can look in Mar's mirror. Fox's book of martyrs is great, but it's tiny. Hey man, go ahead and order Mar's mirror. Have you ever seen that one, Jeff? The martyr's mirror? It's a book about that big with the words of the early church fathers writing down Arrhenius and Justin Martyr and all those different men as they saw men tortured for the cause of Christ. It was all the way from the apostles. all the way up to the Catholics and the Protestants fightin' there, the bloody wars, amen, okay, my brain's not workin'. But all during that time, it'll cover all that, tell ya, all the men that sat and died for the cause of Christ. How'd they do that? The Spirit of God. We ought not wanna quit just when somethin's goin' wrong in our life. Somethin's happenin', amen, you know why? The Spirit of God livin' in us. So this work of the spirit is to comfort the heart of the bereaved Christian, to heal the brokenhearted, to raise up the humble contrite spirit, and to take that soul and bring him into communion with him who inhabits high eternity and sits in high and holy places. He's the cure for that brokenhearted suffering. He does a lot for us. Who he is and what he does, amen? But since we looked at all that, I thought we'd look at this morning Because of all that, I'll tell you this, we better listen to him, we better follow him, we better let him lead, we better seek our comfort from him. You better love him, you better not speak against him, you better not disagree with what he wants to do in your life. And because of all that, I'd like to look at the negative side this morning, on a Sunday morning, amen? I've looked at the positive every time we preached on it. But I wanna point out some things that we can do against him. Or some sins against the Holy Ghost you see in your Bible. See if we can't get a good idea of how to have a better relationship with him, amen? You don't wanna sin against your family, against your wife, against those that you love, you're gonna ruin that relationship. So I'd say that's the same with the Spirit of God. You don't wanna sin against the Spirit of God and bind that relationship that you have with him. So I'm gonna show you several sins against the Holy Ghost we see in our Bible. Father, I love you this morning. I pray you'd help us, God. I pray you'd help folk get closer to you. God, for four services, pretty much, we've focused on how to get in better communion with the Spirit of God, that we can have comfort and peace. But God, we need to touch on this negative, and God, I pray you'd help us, God. If there's some in the room that's doing some of the things we're gonna preach on, God, I pray, Lord, they'd get it right today, and that relationship would be healed with the Spirit God. Father, we love you and we praise you in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Let's look at Mark 3 and verse number 22 and this is just my jump off point. We have different texts for each point. A little bit of topical preaching this morning. But here's what it says. I want you to notice the first point I'm going to preach on is blaspheming the Holy Spirit. Amen. And we'll get We'll get to the next point, say amen and preach. But verse 22 says, the scribe which came down from Jerusalem said, he hath Beelzebub, who preached on this Sunday morning from Matthew, same exact text though. And by the prince of the devils casteth he out spirits. You hear what the Pharisee just said about your Jesus? He's got Satan in him. He's casting out devils through him. And he called them unto him and said unto them in parables, how can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom be divided against itself, the kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, the house cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against himself and be divided, he cannot stand. But hath an end, no man can enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house. That's what we preached last week. Verily I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme. But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. Does that say he's never had forgiveness or he will never have forgiveness? I don't know. But he's in danger. Does that say he's eternally damned? But he's in danger of being eternally damned because they said, He had an unclean spirit. Now let's tackle this difficult passage for a minute. Like I said in the intro, you ain't gotta agree with everything I say, but this is what's called the unpardonable sin, am I right? Blasphemy and the Holy Ghost can't never get saved, that's what's been told. The sin that they say you sin, and if a lost man committed today, then God will never forgive him. I had a boy go to this church years and years ago, told me he was saved, but there was confusion in his heart. He may have been saved, I had no reason to believe it wasn't, but he was in fear. I'm talking, I had to counsel with him over and over and over. And for some reason, Satan had a grip on his mind. He was in fear that he was committing or had committed or would commit the unpardonable sin that God had never forgiven. Now if he's saved, I don't believe there's anybody out there that teaches that saved men commit the unpardonable sin. There may be, but it's really what's taught is that lost men commit that unpardonable sin and God will never save them. Now he was in fear of that all time. That leads me to believe that he's telling us that he's lost, he's scared, he doesn't commit it, but God won't save him. But I don't know where he was, amen? But all I know is that poor soul lived in fear every day, wondering if God loved him, wondering if God saved him or would save him, and just in fear. And I can't help, it's because he may have heard teachings on this verse that had him A spooked or scared a man that God was never going to forgive him. Because maybe as a child he said something negative about Jesus. Maybe as a child he said something bad about the Holy Ghost. Maybe as a child he tried to sell his soul to the devil. I don't know. People do things like that. Who knows what he did. But he was in fear that God would never save him. That poor boy probably just need to know some Bible like 1 John 1 and 9. If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Pauline epistles even make it more clear, in my opinion, Romans 4 and 7, saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Romans 5 and 20, moreover, the law entered, and the offense might have bound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more about. Romans 8 and 1, there is therefore no condemnation. If you believe me in saying, this one really applies. There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Amen. I got all kinds of them on here. I don't need to read them all. Acts 2 and 14, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity. Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all iniquity. You know what that means in Greek? All, amen. So what about for the lost man though? He forgives you sin, amen. What about for the lost man? Is there sins that he can commit that God will say, I will never forgive you now. Some believe, when you go preaching out and talking to folk, you hear a lot of different stuff. I ain't talking about none of us in here, really. I know we all probably got different thoughts on it, but I've heard all this out somewhere. Some believe blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is just rejecting Christ. If you're going to be in danger of condemnation forever, and you're going to hell just because you did it, then I would be destined for hell, because I rejected the Spirit of God multiple times in my life. Many others have. I've heard that some believe that it's continually rejecting the Spirit of God until the doctrine of reprobation kicks in, and you're a reprobate, and now God said you did it one too many times, and now I'm not going to do it. Now I believe that can happen. But I don't know that that applies to what we're looking at right now. And the more that I talk to different people because we don't have something just written out perfectly for us to understand, because I've heard all kind of different thoughts on it. The man I was reading after yesterday said like this, I'm not saying it's what I believe, this is what he said, blasphemy means speaking against in an evil way. Blasphemy simply is speaking against an evil way, to revile, to slander. The Pharisees blasphemed the Holy Spirit when they attributed the Lord's mercy miracles to the power of the devil. They called good evil. While walking in the light or by the light, they denied the light, calling it darkness. In this sense, people who blaspheme the Holy Spirit are beyond pardon because they are beyond repentance. I can see truth in that. That may be true. They may be odd. They may never repent. Amen. Oh, that sounds good, but I'm not sure that applies to what we're looking at today. What we need to do is allow the authorized version to give us its own definition. You can't always do that with the perversions out there. They'll change the words on you. But we love the authorized version. We believe it is the perfect, inerrant, infallible word, which is pretty much in every bylaw or whatever belief statement of faith in independent, fundamental, matched churches, although we got a bunch of them that are King James preferred, amen, anymore. They don't believe it's perfect. All you got to do is go up and say, is that perfect? Is that perfect? And if they say, it's the best version, they're not like us. They ain't like me. They ain't like Jeff. Hey man, they ain't like Blake, they ain't like Tyler, they ain't like, I'm just telling you, it's perfect, it's in there, just have some of that. Is that perfect? Is there a single mistake in that? If they say, well, it's the best, you know, and you know, the italics, they weren't, they start going in all kinds of stuff, just have a little question mark, a little question mark pop up above your head, you know? Is that Mario? Yeah, just be like Mario. Let that little question mark pop up up there. And Matthew, it says, but he, let's look at 28 real fast. Verily I say unto you, all the sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, the blasphemies wherewithsoever they shall blaspheme. But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, nah, in old English, but is in danger of eternal damnation. Now look at the next verse. Why are they in danger of eternal damnation? Which would tell you what blaspheming the Holy Ghost is? Because they said he hath an unclaimed spirit. Here's what they said, the definition of blasphemy of the Holy Ghost in your DJ's Bible is saying that Christ has an unclean spirit, which would make him not God. It would make him a false prophet. It would make him demonically possessed. Y'all remember last Sunday morning? Somebody's your master, Satan or the God, amen? And you're possessed by the spirit of God, or the spirit is in the unclean, amen? I can't remember the verse, but listen, you either got devil in you or you got God in you, amen? Now here's the problem. There have been men all over, including Muslims, who there's a revival in some Muslim places where they're getting saved, but they believe Jesus was nothing but a mortal man. But now they're changing their mind. There's been Jews all over. Met one at Mike Norman's two years ago. That meeting's going on right now. That was a rabbi and did not believe that Jesus had the spirit of God in him, which means he believed the spirit of the devil was in him, amen? He did not believe he was God incarnate in the flesh, and he walked into a store and picked up a New Testament, read it, got a conviction of the Holy Ghost of God, and got born again. There's Gentiles, Jews, Muslims all over that's rejected God over and over and over and believe God, Jesus was the false prophet, but then he got saved. Well, have we ever thought that everything that Jesus said on this earth, as he taught us things and we learned things, doesn't always have to be salvation doctrine for you and I, right? So we do understand there were those that touched the hem of his garment were made whole. You didn't do that. Those that exercised faith, and he healed them, he said, thy sins be forgiven thee. And Christ had not died on the cross when all of this was even being spoken, which means they were under the covenant of the law. They were in the Old Testament. Yeah, there were elements of faith and repentance and conviction and all that, but literally, they had the king, the king that they were worshiping walk, or not worshiping, walking there on earth. And I know some think it's synonymous, but that's what we're talking about, the kingdom of heaven, when the king of heaven was walking on this earth, and he's gonna sit on the throne in the millennial kingdom, in the kingdom of heaven, amen, in the kingdom of heaven, kingdom of God will come together, amen. Kingdom of God's the spiritual children of God. And the Pharisees claim that what we believe was the king was using the spirit of the devil to work his miracles. And Jesus looked at him in Sparks Binocular, I ain't changing my Bible, but in Sparks Binocular, I'm just, I'm showing you something. He said, if you, a Pharisee, before I died on the cross, say that I have an unclean spirit, which is blasphemy with the Holy Ghost, we can see by the two verses, you have never forgiven us, and you're in danger of hellfire. I see him saying, you ain't never been forgiven and you're going to go to hell if you don't change what you believe. What I'm trying to tell you this morning is this type of blasphemy of the Holy Ghost isn't possible for you and I to even commit. That poor boy is living in fear for something that I don't even believe he can do. Can a lost man revile or slander or say something stupid about the spirit of God and really mess up some things? Yeah, there's consequences. Could God leave it alone forever? Yeah, sure he could, but I don't believe that's the exact doctrine we're looking at. Maybe even reprobation, amen? But for you and I that are saved, there'll be consequences. You start saying things about the Holy Ghost, but you ain't gonna lose yourself. God ain't gonna come around and say you ain't going to heaven. Are there verses, these verses, They don't apply to us. I don't believe that. And to say that, I just don't believe it. Not my opinion at all. So don't you ever worry about blaspheming the Holy Ghost and going to hell, okay? I'm not gonna worry about that. Let me read you some thoughts of some other men real quick. It's saying that Jesus Christ has an unclean spirit. As to how this can be applied to church age, this style of resurrection, it's a real problem. He's referencing kingdom doctrine. He's referencing the difference of what was going on in that time in the age of grace. Now here's what John Phillips, who many of us read after, said. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? Something else. Nobody can commit this sin today. It was a sin peculiar to those who lived when he lived, that's the kingdom of heaven, and who heard his marvelous teachings for themselves. It was a sin reserved for those who saw his many matches miracles, those who looked into his eyes, experienced his grace, and felt his power. It was the sin of those who then outright the sheer of malice, envy, hatred, and determined wickedness accused him of conspiring with the evil one. Such a sin revealed a state of the soul beyond the possibility of redemption, so it was unpardonable." That's what I can say, and I believe with him 100%. But I'm telling you, he believes that it ain't possible for you and I or people in this You know what that means for me? I'm not worried about it. And for my lost loved one, who may be, who knows? They may be homosexual. They may be out there in the world on drugs. They may have said a million times, I want to sell my soul to the devil. They may say, I hate Jesus. I don't believe he's God. I don't believe they're down to hell. And I'll keep, they may be, but I'm going to keep telling them about Jesus. You understand me? I'm going to keep telling them about the Lord. Amen. Amen. One day we'll preach on Romans 1, 2 over there and get in all that for the devil. I don't believe you and I can tell, oh, they're reprobate, they're gone. No, you better tell them about Jesus. And could I just say this for the sake of the marriage? For the sake of the marriage. I do my best to never blaspheme in the sense of the definition I gave earlier. Don't ever say something negative about the Spirit of God. Don't ever joke about the Spirit of God in your life. Don't run around saying, oh, the Holy Ghost of God told me I need this cheeseburger. I used to do stupid stuff like that just trying to be funny. I believe the Spirit of God said we need to pull over the Camilla. I decided a long time ago I was gonna quit joking around and messing around about the Spirit of God in my life, amen. You better be real careful what you say about the Spirit of God, because you will be in danger, not of losing your salvation, but you will pay for it, amen. Don't you see a nonchalantly in your life and just ignore the Spirit of God, jokingly say, well, the Spirit was telling me I didn't testify, but you know what? I just wasn't gonna do it, amen. You're in danger this morning. Don't joke around about that stuff. You better be real careful about what you say about the spirit of God, because you'll be in danger. Secondly, now we're going to get into the fun stuff, all right? Secondly, we see in our Bible, sins against the Spirit, lying to the Spirit of God. Acts 5 and 1, but a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a position, kept back a part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostle's feet. They were supposed to give it all, and they didn't, amen? But Peter said to Ananias, why has Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost? Satan had a part in that, didn't he? Gotten to lie to the Spirit of God and keep back part of the price of the labor. While it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine part? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. Now I never really studied this text much, and I never preached on it before, but I began reading it the other day, and I want you to know something. Satan had a part in them being liars, amen? Don't be a filthy, stinking liar. Satan had a part in it. And when they lied about what they gave, it was a spiritual issue, amen? They were lying to the Spirit of God when they lied about a spiritual issue. And what the Bible says, thou hast not lied unto men, but thou hast lied unto God, amen? Listen, you better be real careful about every time you tell a falsity in your life. Listen, it's real easy to tell little stories and tell little lies, amen, and to do things like that because it's seemingly, seemingly you get away with it, amen. But I believe that's why the Bible tells us right there. When you lie, especially about spiritual things, you ain't lying to me. You ain't getting over on men. You're trying to get over on God and you are sinning. It's God in your life just for telling that little white lie that you think's okay. Amen. Now, I grew up with just a crazy mentality. I hardly ever lied to my parents. I'm sure I did plenty of times, but I was just bold in my sin. I was a fool. Amen. I'd go home and tell my mom the stuff I was doing, and I felt like I was a punk if I wasn't man enough to admit what I was doing and have to hide everything in my life. If you're a liar and a manipulator, you are. There's something wrong in there. There's something wrong in there. You probably ought not want to do that. I thought I'd be a sissy and a chicken if that was me. But a man should be able to stand up and take credit for what he's doing. And neither here nor there, if you're a liar, especially about spiritual things, You ain't lying to me. You're lying to God. You're dangerous. Amen. I know you think you're getting away with it. You think you're impressing people. And whatever, you're in danger. Sin don't go unpunished. Yeah, right. That's what's so foolish about that, is you're lying. It's addictive. You start sewing that tangled web that you hear about. And you lie, and you lie, and you die. You keep lying. You lie your whole life about one thing. And every time, it's not going unpunished, y'all. But you think it is. That's like, that's almost like the formation of a reformed heart. You sin, you think you're getting away with it, so you think it's okay to do it. Yeah, I go to church. How many times you heard that, brother? I go to Grace Council. Brother, I've been passionate every decade, never seen you before in my life. Knocking on doors, yeah, I'm a member of Grace, though you ain't. Yeah, I'm faithful. I tithe. Preacher, I'm really sick. I can't make it. Preacher, weren't you just too busy to be there in service? Liar. I'm trying to be serious. Preacher, I can't sing in a choir. You better be real careful lying, because you're lying to God. Amen. Just be real careful. You're in danger. You're in danger. Thirdly, by polluting the spirit. That's gonna get a little hairy right here, but I don't care. 1 Corinthians 6 and 18, flea fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body, but he that commit a fornication sinneth against his own body. What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. These are popular verses talking about the indwelling Spirit of God, am I right? Your body is a temple where the Spirit of God lives. And the verse also tells us this body is not ours because when we got saved and God moved in, it became God's and it's not our body. In business law, in my business management degree, they said nine-tenths of the law is possession. That's what we're taught in school. Well, amen, God's got all of you. He possesses you and he owns you, amen? It is no longer yours. And it costs something for God to purchase it. And he put his Holy Ghost in there as an earnest deposit because he paid for it. And you are to use your body for the glory of God. But I put this first verse in there for teenagers and maybe even adult folk, a man that aren't married and all that, anybody maybe that ain't happy at home and all that kind of stuff. Notice that one of the most absolute worst sins, we need to teach this stuff to our teenagers, are because, it's a sin, it's one of the worst, because it's not a sin against you, but it's a sin against the spirit of God in your body. Your body's His, He lives in your body. And verse 18 says, flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body, but he that commit fornication sinneth against his own body, which we just learned is God's body in the very next verse. We ain't teaching this enough. You're to be with one. Your entire life is possible. I understand there's circumstances and things happen, I understand that. But what I'm trying to say is extramarital relations is pure sin. and filthy wickedness that will destroy you. And R, why do you think Satan makes it so prevalent and so vast and so easy out there? Everything you see. I mean, I started studying this stuff years ago and I started watching every little show on Disney Channel promoting, promoting, promoting all, all types of immorality before marriage. Every bit of it. You're in danger. You're in danger. I don't believe you even to touch him. 1 Corinthians 7-1, now concerning the things wherever you wrote unto me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. Oh preacher, that means more than, no. No, read your King James Bible. You don't speak Greek, shut up. Don't touch. Touch means touch, don't touch. Look at the context in the very next verse. Somebody tell me what touching leads to. unless something's wrong with you. Your body will release chemicals into your bloodstream, endorphins, amen, when somebody of the opposite touches you and you're attracted. I told y'all it's something more material, I don't care. Somebody's gotta preach this stuff. Our kids are going to hell in a handbasket and living like the world. Because everything we're pumping into their minds. Now concerning the things wherever you go with me, it's good that a man not to touch a woman. Context, context, context. Verse two, nevertheless. What's nevertheless? Go to English class. It's a primary particle that is a continuation of the previous. Don't touch a woman. Moreover, because also to avoid fornication. Let every man have his own wife and every woman have her own husband. You can't do the latter without the former. None of my kids was ever allowed to touch, ever. I had a girl four years, and he was commanded not to touch. He stayed at Macy's five years, he was commanded not to touch. Born his date of the year, and they've been commanded not to touch for 10 years. He was supposed to be here when I preached that. Any of y'all was giving children? Sign with the world if you want. Your preacher's standing in a pulpit on whatever date this is on a Sunday morning, saying, I believe it's the Bible. That's what your pastor practices. You ought to want to protect your children from the filth of this world. And it just said, fornication, it just said, it's a sin against the body, which is God's. Your Bible's alluding that that is a far worse sin than many of the sins. They'll regret it. Now regret it, nobody that's truly in love, that's in a God-centered marriage rejoices in the fact that they ever touched somebody previous to their spouse, unless they're just good. I bet your spouse won't like you rejoicing about it. So mom and dad, do what's right to help them young'uns that ain't got the fun of love. Do what's right to help them young'uns that don't know how to make right decisions. It's a sin against the Holy Ghost. Because the Holy Ghost is in you. It's a sin against your body. The body's owned by the Holy Ghost. It's God's. And you're sinning against it. Right. Don't do it. Don't do it. It's probably why you're alive. I don't get it. I don't be kind. And why is my life so bad? Well, probably because of what you're doing. Amen. Third, fourthly, and we'll move on. Resisting the Holy Ghost. This is primary for a lot of people. But, here's what it said in Acts 7, 51. It's literally Stephen being attacked. by the Pharisees, or he's attacking them with his words, but they're getting ready to stone him, Paul's gonna hold their coats, and he's telling them they're in total and continuing opposition to God. They were resisting what the Spirit of God was telling them, and he compared them to their fathers, the nation of Israel, because they as well persecuted the true prophets that God had sent them and did not listen to what God was saying. And now that's what they're doing at Stephen's preaching, amen? And the verse implies that the Spirit of God were leading these men and those to do something different than they were. He said, you're resistant. What's that tell you? The Holy Ghost was working on that man saying, don't stone that man. Don't get mad at him. Do right. Live right. Follow him. He knows what he's talking about. They had the ability to follow the Spirit of God. It's the free will of man to make his own choice. That's what they had. This is a key text when we fight and battle the Calvinist teaching of irresistible grace, the eye and the tooth. But during that age of grace, as the Bible calls the day of man and man's emptiness, God sits back a lot of the time. He'll let you foul up. You understand that? There's not always instant judgment on your life. He'll allow you to make choices. He'll allow you to operate in your own free will. But you've got to understand that we're being answering for those sins. When you resist, not just resist the spirit here talking about lost men, but when you as a saved man resist what the spirit of God is telling you in your life, we'll get to the next point that you're grieving, and when you do that, you will answer for it. You're telling God no. Did you answer for it when you told Mommy and Daddy no? I sure hope you did. I hope none of y'all let your little kids tell you no. That's insanity. You're teaching them to be reprobate. You're teaching them to be infidels. If you allow them to look at you and say no. And I don't care how old they are, Lauren. She don't tell me that. I said it on a Facebook post the other day. I don't think that one of my kids ever told me no out of pure rebellion in my home. All the way up to the age of 22. There she's 23 now. Don't let it happen, y'all. When you resist the spirit of God in your life, you're gonna answer for it. I'm just trying to tell you, you're going to answer for it. You may not think y'all are. And like I said a minute ago, we complain about how our lives are all the time. And everything ain't just for saving your life. But God does do things, allow things to change you. Fourthly, fifthly, grieving the spirit of God. I'm going to read all this real quick, even though it's almost 12. Ephesians 4 and 24, and that you put on the new man, which after God has created righteousness, true holiness, wherefore putting away lying, we already preached on that, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be ye angry and sin not, let not the sun go down upon your wrath, either give place to the devil, let him that steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands, the things which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth, let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good that you use to edify, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed into the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice. Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, have forgiven you. I want to read all that text because if we want to be contextual, just look down the text. And I know grieving God is joined by a conjunction in there, the word and, and it's part of it. But listen to all the things that seemingly can grieve the Spirit of God. Amen? Let's read them. Put on the new man. He said, quit living like you used to. It's what that says. Don't lie. Don't be angry. Don't sin. He said, don't go to bad man. Don't give place to the devil in your life. Don't steal. Go get a job, homie. Give to the needy. Don't curse or talk dirty. Edify others. Speak in grace. Know that you're eternally saved. Don't be bitter. Don't have wrath in your life. That's getting real mad and doing something stupid. Don't have anger in your life. Don't be a busybody about stuff. Don't talk about nobody. Be kind to people. Be tenderhearted. And forgive people. Wow. There's a lot of ways to grieve. The Holy Spirit right there, isn't there? Only an indwelt believer can grieve the Spirit of God. You understand that? Grieve is a love word in your Bible. We grieve him because he loves us so much. Just like you grieve your family when they treat you with love and respect, take care of you, and then you treat them like trash. Many of you did that as teenagers, like I did. Grieving, hurting someone's heart. And grieving the Spirit of God always calls for some type of retribution. Like I said in the last point, you're gonna pay for it. You'll suffer for that sin that was committed by either not obeying the Spirit of God when he's telling you not to do something, or you'll suffer for the loss of following your own plan and not his. It's closely tied to that previous point. In fact, you're resisting, you're grieving him. And grieving him, I mean, man, I remember when I was being called to preach at the bank, Debra. And before I was being called to preach, I loved it. I wanted to be the man, I wanted to be the star. And God allowed that to happen. I was in the top 2% of that bank. I was going to Disney World, talking to managers, all this stuff. And I loved it, man. I loved the prestige. I love the relationships, knowing all the millionaires over there in Kanawha City, knowing people from up there on Quarry Creek, man, and dealing with doctors and all these people and politicians that I knew. I loved all that stuff. I enjoyed, I felt like a winner when somebody would walk in with a mortgage or something, I'd get a refi, man, or they'd walk in with a 401k and I'd roll over and make five grand in five minutes. It was just tremendous. It was tremendous, I loved it. But then when God started calling me to preach and the Holy Ghost was inside of me saying, preach the gospel, preach the word, preach the word, all them worldly lusts of love, they just dissipated, man, and I became miserable. I didn't even want to talk to that mean air when I walked around the corner. I did not even care. I didn't care about the money I'd make off of it or anything. And all I wanted to do was sit there and write messages. When the Spirit of God's got a plan for you, He's gonna make you miserable if you don't do what he wants you to do. Some of you have probably been living miserable lives for years because you never follow the Spirit of God. Don't breathe Him in your life, man. You're ruining it for yourself. You're ruining this blessed life of being saved. Follow the Spirit of God in everything. I've watched some of you get, I mean, I've been here long enough. You get excited for God, maybe after a revival. faithful to every service, whatever it may be, and I just know you say, you know about it. Now, I don't know, you probably know many more times in your life than I've seen. I've just seen glimpses. But I see you get fired up, and then all of a sudden you start, things happen, you get a little further away, and we can see it. We've watched it happen to all these people that aren't here anymore, because they got so far from the Spirit of God. Now they're either out of church, or they're in church with a spirit they ain't gonna mess with. Don't grieve them in your life, you'll be absolutely miserable. Lastly, by quenching the spirit. 1 Thessalonians 5 and 12, it says, Teach ye brethren to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem them very high in love for their work's sake, and be at peace among yourselves. That's talking about me, and it's talking about y'all being at peace for fighting. Now we exhort you brethren, warn them that are unruly, Brethren, not me, y'all, warn them they're unruly. Comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. See that none render evil for evil unto any man, but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves and to all men. Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, and everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning him. Quench not the spirit, despise not profanities, prove all things, hold fast that which is good, abstain from all appearances of evil. Man. Same thing for the context as the last one, right? When groups of people grieve the Spirit, he's quenched corporately, right? The first verse said, I beseech you, brethren, a group of people, a church, what did it tell you to do? It said, know your pastor. It said, respect him as he labors for you because he's over you. It said, esteem him very high in your love. It said, do it for the church even if you hate me. Amen. It said do not fight with anyone in here so we can be peaceable. It said you're not allowed to not like them and just have a problem with them. It said, if somebody's sinning, you better warn them. It said, comfort and support that weak Christian in the room. Not make fun of them. Not say anything. It said, you better be patient. It said, make sure nobody's evil to anybody in here. It said, you better praise. Amen. Rejoice evermore. Better shout and better praise. You better be a praying church. It said, you better give thanks for everything that happens. It said, don't rebel against the preaching. What's that mean? Prove things which are biblical. Prove it through the Bible. Don't look like the word. Y'all seeing all these verses in there? This will help us from not quenching the spirit. I want to preach on that text right there on how the church can keep from quenching what God wants to do. When any of these things are present, let's just say there's a danger of quenching what the spirit of God is doing here. When we personally allow the spirit to be grieving our own personal lives, we're in of quenching the spirit corporeally. Help me, sister. That's exactly, listen, that's exactly why I don't chase people that leave here. You got a problem with me or anyone else, and you can't follow the Bible and get it right as the Bible commands you to do, and live peacefully with each other, which has absolutely nothing to do with me, you better get out of here so fast it makes our heads spin. Get it right, man. We gotta love each other. We can't have issues with each other. I rarely have to preach on this lately because I don't know of any. But the pastor's always the last to know. It better not be any man of rules who got an issue. You got a problem with me, come talk to me. But you gotta get it right. The Bible says to get it right. You know how many churches we've seen completely piled up because people got a problem with each other? I mean, piled up. You're in danger. Your kids are in danger because they don't like each other. You know what I'm saying, man? or a body, and them little babies right there in danger, when them two over there is fighting. Everybody get it right. Everybody get it right, because I don't want to be in danger. One man said like this, this is probably told more about you, Pastor, but he said, a church can quench the Holy Spirit by allowing men to usurp authority, by refusing to follow the leading, or by permitting false doctrine or moral evil to take root. greatest church on the planet. I do. I do. I believe. Men being called out of here and sent out. Pope's blowout service is true to God. Tremendous revivals. Some people just handing out Doritos and Slim Jims to everybody. What a church, amen! People won't leave after church. Hang out, you know. Men come in, work, all this stuff. There's nothing like the church, y'all. There's so many out there that's destroyed. So many. I don't want to talk about the past of this church in case people watch or whatever, but I'll just tell you the truth. There's been people in here at times that had on with other brethren and other churches and other preachers and hated them, and that's why they come here. There's been people here that had awe and hatred for the previous pastor of this church. There's been people here that had awe and hatred for me. There's definitely been people here that fought with each other for years and years in this place. And I say thank God it ain't here no more. I say thank God the Spirit of God can move in this place. And God can do something great, hallelujah. That my kids can be called to preach and your kids can be used for God. And our children can fall under Holy Ghost convention at a young age and be born again. Thank God for the church. I wouldn't do anything to hurt y'all. There's been things I've said in the past, I'm thinking about it too, maybe it's too mean, maybe it's too harsh, I wish I hadn't done it. I don't ever want to scatter the flock or hurt somebody, but this Bible's got to be preached, and truth has got to be preached. But we've got to learn to follow what the Holy Spirit, if every one of us in here would commit to follow the Spirit of God, every time He put on us to do something, or to forgive someone, or to put something down, we would have to work on it again. I've never seen it! I've never seen it! Brother George, your men start stepping out into the ministry and doing things and seeing what attacks your lives! The best thing we can do for the body is every one of us not grieve the spirit of God in our lives. So we don't quench him as a church. We need the church. I need your prayers. I need you to have the power of God in your life, in your prayer life. Don't grieve him, amen. I need you to pray for my dad. Jim needs you to pray for dad, amen. We've got to be able to pray for the salvage and help the love of the spirit walk that through. We need each other, y'all see what I'm saying? The devil wants to mess this thing up. He wants to put that hatred in your heart. We probably ought to all just pray for each other. Pray for our church. God, let the spirit of God come through this place. We see our young'uns saying to their young age, Blake, you don't have to do the things I did. We see our young'uns want to serve God. They can still have the things of this different thing, other things in the world. But they can have hobbies. They can have interests. They can do things. But I just want them to love God more than anything. God, it's what I've been through. I need more hair.