Determined to Know Doctrine | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: teaching
Scripture: John 10:10, John 1:1-4, Genesis 1:1-3, Genesis 2:9, Genesis 2:16-17, Genesis 3:1-8, Acts 2:38, Ephesians 4:27, Genesis 3:22-24

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if I could tell any worship leader if I could tell any Pastor any preacher anything studying to preach is very important practicing songs are very important but being sensitive to the spirit being sensitive to the spirit folks the Lord is here right now oh yes and um just just one more time could we just worship him in a deep it may sound like thank you God I love you God I I praise you God oh I magnify your name God thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Lord if you have your Bibles would meet me in John chap 10 verse 10 and then in John 1: 1-4 we're going to continue this morning on determined to know determined to know the doctrine we have been going through major doctrines of the Bible it's very important that we know the doctrine for ourselves and it's very important that we're able to share the doctrine to know the doctrine to share the doctrine John 1010 let's listen to our Lord speak Jesus said these words the thief we know who that is the thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy I am come that they might have life would you say that word life with me life I have come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly John 1 and verse number number one in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made pay real close attention to verse four in him was life and the life life was the light of men now today I'm going to deal with the subject the spirit filled life living living the spirit filled life father in the name of Jesus I ask you today as I have opened up your word and I ask you today God as men and women have stood to the their feet and opened up their Bibles and Lord they their eyes have gazed upon the scripture and their ears heard the word that Lord for the next few moments God that you would anoint me that I would be able to teach your people that Lord we would know the doctrine we would know the doctrine of your word Lord we'll give you the praise and the honor if you will anoint me for I need that anointing God if you will anoint our ears and our hearts take us away from the carnal right now take us away from the fleshly right now let our hearts be bathed in your spirit in Jesus name I do give you praise amen and amen God bless you for standing you may be seated at this time I want to draw to your attention for a moment I want to draw to your attention John 1 1-4 when the Gospel of John is is opened up it sounds so familiar with our first book in the Bible the Book of Genesis the Bible says in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth the Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and God said let there be light and when the light appeared follow this closely when the light appeared on that creation morning when the light appeared the Earth was still empty and the Earth was still void the only thing that had happened the only thing that had happened is light and darkness were separated the darkness was separated and of course we understand that it was not until the fourth day of creation that the Sun the thing that gives us our natural light the Sun the moon the solar system was created on the fourth day so what light was created on the first day or what light was commanded to shine on the first day that light was none other than the radiance of the glory of our almighty God and God said let light be the darkness that was upon the face of the Earth was not the literal Darkness absent from our son but it was the darkness of rebellion of the angels of their evil to overthrow the Throne of God himself but although God spoke light be let there be light the Earth was still empty and void but now we see the conditions of the earth it's empty it's void that's the natural but the Holy Ghost seems to use John and when John opens up his gospel in John 1 And1 he uses the same familiar phrase in the beginning in the beginning but John takes it before the beginning because I want you to understand today that there is a Genesis 1 and one but there is also a Genesis 1 and Zer there was a plan that was in the motion of the mind of God before there was an earth that was created it was according to several Scriptures it was this God this creator that would become one of his Creations it goes like this Jesus Christ the lamb slain before the foundations of the earth we understand through different books in the Bible that Angels Rejoice to see the foundations of the earth and on and on it goes but today when we're living the spirit filled life I must take my text from Genesis 1 and0 I must find it in John 1 and one in the beginning was the word that's God's plan and the word God's plan was with God that word word there w r d in the Greek means logos and it simply means thought plan and idea so when you read with that in mind it reads like this in the beginning was the thought planned the idea and the thought planned the idea was with God and the thought planed the idea was God in the same was in the beginning with God if you could picture with me today a contractor that stands on an empty lot with a set of blueprints in his hands and this set of blueprints is a house that he's going to to build but this is going to be no ordinary house for the contractor himself has decided that he will live inside of that house so we could say today that the contractor is there and the house is there with him in his thoughts and his plans and his ideas the Bible simply says that in the beginning that God had this plan and this plan was with God this set of blueprints was with God and and this set of blueprints was God go to verse four with me the Bible says in verse four in him was life in him was life but notice the turn here and the life was the light of men the light remember in the beginning the Earth was empty and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the light appeared it's still empty and void it just has light now same with Humanity without God we're still empty and void right but thank God for the light I wouldn't know to repent I wouldn't know to be baptized I wouldn't even know sin had God not Shine the Light and I find myself empty and void in him was life verse four but notice with me notice with me no ordinary life don't think of life like our life don't think of breathing and heartbeat and brain waves don't think of it that way because down here we humans use the term like get a life get a life um we use the term about life but we're talking about it in such an inferior way our life is in no way comparable to God's life so when he says I came that you might have life not talking about heartbeating and lungs breathing and brain waves he's talking about a god life a god life that's Eternal now this is interesting in verse four in him was life but no ordinary life and the life was the light of men this word light here this word light here can also refer to information it can refer to information or it can refer to Revelation and again in the beginning the Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep but as long as darkness is there you don't know that you're empty as long as darkness is there you don't know your Void it's not until the light appears that you really see the mess that your life is in I believe this is the answer I believe this is the answer to people that know they need something and they come to the house of God knowing they need something but when the light comes on things to get things seem to get worse than they were when I was living in darkness well the answer to that is the lights on now you were in that mess out there you just didn't know you were in that mess out there because of the darkness that was upon you I want to talk to you for a few moments as we make our way through this spirit filled life now I know some of you want me to go automatically to tongues you want me to go to speaking in tongues and all of that and we're going to get there maybe not today maybe not this Sunday morning but we need to understand something living a Spirit-filled life is more than just speaking in a Heavenly language it's much more it's it's much more matter of fact tongues if I could say one thing about it today is a sign all right tongues is a sign now I know where this restaurant's at because well I live here in mville but I had a wonderful meal my wife and I and my mother-in-law had a wonderful meal Friday night at shony over here on Alexander Parkway well how did you know it was shony a sign but I don't eat the sign the sign just tells me where the food's at I know that's Elementary but we need to understand something tongues is the sign but the spirit fi life is the power behind the sign there's two trees I want to talk to you about for a few moments and we go to Genesis chapter 2 and verse number nine listen to God speak Genesis chapter 2 and verse number n and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree everybody say every tree everye God made to grow every tree that is Pleasant to the sight and good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil so he made a lot of trees but he named two of them here the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil go down to verse number 16 of chapter 2 and the Lord God commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat brother Mike Fuller brought me a thought one morning he read this verse of scripture and he says you know when you partake of what God says it doesn't cost you anything you get to freely eat of all the trees I'm going to tell you something a lot of people out there today are paying the high cost of low living there's a high cost to low living you can eat of all the trees thou mayest eat freely eat of all the trees verse 16 verse 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil Thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof Thou shalt surely die I got a question for us today God why would you create a tree that if I ate from this tree I would die God why did you even put it there because remember it's just been a couple of minutes God made how many trees all the trees which meant God meant God made the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil then he said then he said if you eat of the tree of good of the knowledge of Good and Evil if you eat of this tree you shall and I guess he knew our nature he didn't just say you're going to die he said you will surely died now God question God why did you put the tree there in the first place why put the tree there it's a good question to ask and we answer it this way because we brothers and sisters and human beings we are made like no other creature that God made we have been given a will a self will of choice we have been given Choice God doesn't want a tree to worship him because a tree has no choice but to be a tree and God doesn't want an animal to worship him because an animal I know us humans I us us humans are not staying with the order of creation but animals are dogs are still barking kittens are still meow chickens are still clucking roosters are still crowing right but it's us that can't decide who we are it's us a dog can't help but be a dog why it's a he wasn't given a choice but us God said I'm going to make you I'm going to make you just a little lower than the angels and I'm going to give you the ability to choose going to give you the ability to choose you will have you will have your own free will you can choose boy wouldn't it have been a good Sunday morning to hear from Sister Lori Hawkins I choose to be a Christian I choose to live for him nobody's making me do it this is how I want to live you decide for you and I'll decide for me and then she goes on and says but this choice I made is going to be taking me out of here I choose to be a Christian I choose to live for him God gives us a choice now a choice is based on information you make a choice or at Le let me say you should make choices based on information that goes back to another thing God gave us the ability to do God gave us the ability to reason we have been given we have been given a mind that can that can reason and within the ability to reason we make choices all right we reason information we reason information and then we make make choices but what we have to understand is choices have consequences choices have consequences you can choose but you're going to have consequences people sometimes love to flaunt it's almost it's almost a pride issue they like to flaunt that they can choose to do anything they want to and that's the truth but you can't choose the consequence you may choose to turn me off today but you won't choose the consequence you may choose never to surrender your life to Jesus Christ but you won't choose the consequence that's just the consequence here he comes he said I come that you might have life but the thief comes for what still now now no notice how that's worded in John 10:10 the thief cometh not but to what now steal kill destroy well isn't killing destroying watch this crafty devil he comes and takes something then he kills it takes the life out of it and then he hides the evidence because the last thing he wants us to figure out today is that he's behind the trouble so he kills right he steals he kills and he destroys let's watch him work let's watch him work Genesis 3 and 1 now the serpent was the most subtle was more subtle than any beast of the field which the the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman y hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden there's a couple things here that we need to be very cautious about as Christians please listen to me today listen to me today everybody listen to me today be extremely careful of who you allow to speak into your life be very careful be very careful who you allow to speak what's such a big deal because speaking brings influence now the first thing the first thing the first thing is the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and the tree of life is not in the field it's in the garden these two trees were not put in the field what's the field anything outside the perimeter of the garden all right these two trees are put within a perimeter and it's called a garden it's called a garden all right the serpent was not a beast of the garden the serpent was a beast of the field that slithered its way into the garden and then he says has God told you you can't eat of any of the trees I've got and highlighted in my notes today permitting another source of information to enter enter your mind permitting another source of information to enter your mind look up here here at me church as a Christian headed to Heaven understanding that the end is closer now than it's ever been and just I mean we are literally living in prophetic times all this stuff we've been preaching for years we're watching it unfold right now can I tell all you that plan to make Heaven your home this is not a book this is the book If this book says it's right it's right if this book says it's wrong it's wrong oh I wish we just I wish we just worship God for a few moments glory to God glory to God go I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost right now Mighty God Mighty God I've got a book that talks about the United States Constitution and it said it was very interesting it said there are two views of the Constitution among political leaders there are two views one of the views is that we have politicians that believe that the constitution is an inspired document of God that God actually helped the framers of our constitution write down these unalienable rights that all men are created equal that God inspired and I do believe with all my heart that they were inspired to write now it's not on the level it's not on the level of the word of God but I do believe that our country was founded upon one God now why this scripture hangs in that why this scripture hangs in that church I don't know but the very first church that was established in Jamestown in the United States and they've got a little replica of it right now but you can go in there and they got one scripture hanging in that church or at least they did they got one scripture hanging in that church some of you that been there could say what it is I'll go ahead and tell you if you haven't that one scripture hanging in there it says then Peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost it hangs in that because our country was founded that they wanted to worship God in the word of God so there's politicians that believe that the that the the Constitution is is an anointed document that if it was good for the 1800s it's good for the 19th century and on and on and on it goes that it's it's it's good then there's others that believe that it's just a document that should be tailored and customized to fit culture and you see the difference here don't you some believe that culture should line up to the Constitution others believe we ought to take the scissors out and trim down the Constitution to meet the culture that's nothing new people are still trying to do it to this book right here call me a bible thumper call me oldfashioned if you want to but it's still the word of God it will be alive when the world is on fire fire when every building has been consumed this word is going to be permitting another source of information to come into your life beware beware you need to filter all outside information through this word first mistake she made was permitting another source of information to enter her verse number two of Genesis 3 and the woman said unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the Trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God has said You shall not eat of it neither shall you touch it lest you die and the serpent said unto the woman you shall not surely die she said to the serpent she said to the serpent this tree here this tree here we're not allowed to eat of it for in the day that we eat of this tree here we will we will die now listen to what he says back to her you shall not surely die I have down in my notes just simply to quote this verse here Ephesians 4:27 neither give place to the devil do you know we may not we you you and I may not battle a lot of things if we just would wouldn't give him an audience there may be a lot of temptations that we would not even face today if we just didn't give him an audience you're not going to die now watch him slander verse five for God doth know that in the day you eat thereof then your eyes shall be open you shall be as God's knowing Good and Evil and when the woman who has the power of choice and when the woman that makes that makes a choice based on reason right choices are based on reason and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat and the eyes of them both were open and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons now let me show you this about the only way and this is my opinion and I'll be very I'll be very careful to tell you this is my opinion all right but the Bible said when she saw that it was good for food you're not supposed to eat it how do you know you're only Adam and Eve are the two humans they're the only two humans alive some people have often said if they just hadn't have ate that Apple well they assumed it was an apple tree I submit to you it wasn't the apple on the tree it was the pear on the ground that got in trouble all right there's where the trouble started now this just my opinion all right it's my opinion how do you know it's good for food I wonder if she watched a bird light on this tree and Peck around at the fruit and I wonder if she watched the bird fly away and thought well that bird didn't die well that Bird's still flying can I tell you something while can I tell you something today it's not over till it's over you can't have the mindset well I I know the Bible says for me not to do this but but I did it and don't seem like anything bad's happened to me it must be all right that's a foolish way of judgment there because there is coming a judgment day I I know it's not popular to preach this way I I I I know that I should be more relevant I I know that I need to tell you how to change the oil on your car and we need to get a knitting class started here at church and and and I know that we need to have a a pet blessing Sunday I know we need to do all that but I'm just here to tell you all of that is just junk what we need to get ready for is Judgement Day you might have sinned and the tires in your car didn't come off you might have sinned and you got a good report from your doctor but one day we're going to stand before God and we're going to give an account for our lives and she saw that it was a tree to make one wise I'm tell you something you can't get more than God you can't get more wisdom than what God's got when she saw that it was tree she took of the fruit and did eat and gave to her husband also and he did he did it all right now let's get ready for knowledge to come let's get ready we're going to know more than we've got oh let's get ready and the next thing they knew they f felt something they had never felt they felt afraid they felt afraid and not only did they F feel afraid they felt shameful their eyes were open can I tell you can I can I tell you today one of the reasons we need to live a spirit filled life is we won't get in anywhere near the junk that we get in if I'm just concentrating on this tree of life because I can eat from the Tree of Life I can freely eat from the Tree of Life over here is nothing but death you talk about knowledge all you want to it's the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil but yet it leads to death don't care how you cut it I don't care how immoral a man is if he only touches this tree he's going to die I don't care the gutter of sin how immorality he is how evil and you and I are seeing evil right now like we have never witnessed evil not only the church the world is seeing the evil that's going on that we're actually we're we're we're actually through through through video we're actually able to to see this and there's a lot of it somebody said I want to show you something and there's a lot of that coming out of the middle I don't want to see why don't you want to see it listen to what the news reporter says we have to see it but we wish we could get get it out of our minds at night can I can I tell you that I don't care how gut sinful a person is how immoral how messed up they are they're going to die they're going to die and I'm talking about a spiritual death they're going to die a physical and a spiritual death I don't care how moral how good morally a person is oh this is a good man over here oh he's a good moral man there's going to be people that are going to be lost that are good moral people what's the name of that tree what's the name of the tree I'm preaching from good and what good and what evil evil and what there's going to be people that are morally good that are going to die why that's all they've ever touched they just have the knowledge hey you can have the knowledge of Good and Evil and you know your mind can tell you I don't want to be evil there's people that choose not to commit sin not because they've got the Holy Ghost it's just because they see the results of sin we have a former president we have a former president that had a brother that was an alcoholic and our former president Donald Trump says that he doesn't drink now the reason it's not the holy ghost telling Donald Trump not to drink I I know some of youall might think but it's not true it's not true it's ain't the power of God it's not the spirit filled life oh Lord I done lost some PNY get the car keys I'm ready to go home I I it's the truth the trth it ain't God telling that listen that man ain't having prayer meetings and and not you know why he's not drinking he saw his brother die and he can reason it's the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil you get to reason do I want to be evil or do I want to be good but it still doesn't save you you're still lost because you've touched them oh God I just wish somebody help me praise him right now woo I'm talking about the spirit fill life there's young men and young girls that work their way through college and they make a lot of money because they reason in themselves got to get an education got to make it go doesn't mean they're blessed of God doesn't mean Bill Gates is blessed of God does it mean a lot of these people Elon Musk and all these people see some people people need to understand the difference between blessing and prosperity that's right Sinners can prosper but Sinners can't be blessed Sinners Prosperity only lasts for a short season but the Saints blessedness Shame Shame and fear they took that first bite they digested that first bite and all of a sudden they felt something they never felt before fear and shame and they sewed fig leaves together and tried to cover their nakedness but look at verse eight well I hope this is all right today it really is setting the foundation for the spirit fill life and they heard the voice of the Lord God Walking In The Garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord among the Trees of the garden people today shun and run run away from the only one that can help the only one that can heal and he is God isn't it amazing when we only function when we're only reaching out and touching the tree of knowledge the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil all we can see is evil and goodness that's all that's all we can see but the next thing happened to him they ran and hid from their only source of healing too many people today and I hope there's none of them here they think the church is their problem sweetie pie the church is not your problem it's what you're interacting with that's your problem you're touching something God said don't touch it's not not your problem there's people that the church is our problem we got a silence all and and there's laws right now already already in our neighboring in our neighboring country to the north Canada it's already against the laws if you raise your voice against immorality the church gets a ticket the church gets written up because somebody turns you over to the police department and they play the video of you coming down on one of the IM immoralities of this world and and and they write you a note write you a ticket you got to pay this and you can't say that you know why you're only touching the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil this tree represents the flesh it wasn't Eve's Godlike spirit that let her hear it wasn't Adam's Godlike Spirit what do you mean Godlike Spirit they had God's spirit in them the Bible said God breathed in them and they became a living Soul they had God's spirit in them but it wasn't God's spirit that led them here it was their flesh and when their flesh reached out reason it reasoned and then it made a choice and then they had to live the consequences ashamed Naked and Afraid and now death will track down Adam and Eve's life and the scripture will record that Adam that Adam died because he only had interaction with this tree right here as a matter of fact I'm going to compare these two trees right now here's the law and here's here's Grace here's the Old Testament here's the New Testament the Old Testament is the Old Testament is it's the law you got to work through the flesh to appease God but the law could never work in that the Flesh in that the flesh was weak but now we have the tree of life and we're running Church don't ever allow your mind to entertain that it's the church that's your problem don't ever allow your mind to entertain it's the word of God that is oh if I could just if I can now now a lot of people they don't say they don't say these words they don't say the word of God is my problem oh no they say the word church but where do you think you get the word of God preached to you Church see the devil has always always been a Spin Master he's already he's always said things and planted things it's the church that you're the church is not our problem the church Upon This Rock I will build my church the church is the greatest blessing of all of our Lives we were all Hellbound Sinners until somebody brought us to the house of God and the light came on and I oh look at my light look how empty I am look how is this making sense this Sunday morning people run from the very thing they run from the very thing they run from the very thing that they should run toward God in the church will turn the light on your life and you'll begin to see this is wrong this is wrong it doesn't matter how immorally evil or morally good a person is they are lost until you begin to interact with the tree of life you have no salvation Until You Reach Out And Touch the Tree of Life of which of which they have eaten of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and in Genesis chapter 20 excuse me Genesis chapter 3 verse 22 they've eaten and now in verse 22 listen to God as he talks to the angels and the Lord God said behold the man has become as one of us to know good and evil and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken so look at verse 24 see if you can come up with this with me so he drove out the man doesn't sound like he wanted to leave leave does it does it sound like he wanted to leave does it sound like God just said Adam get out of here and Adam wanted to leave you drive cattle so he drove out the man and placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the Tree of Life watch this Adam and Eve have already taken they've already eat of this tree they've already eat of this tree here they've already they've already partaken of this tree here they've already they already have the knowledge they already have their eyes are open they're afraid and they're shamed they already have it but now God says wait a minute it will enter into the heart of man to try to eat from both trees he will want to he will want to eat of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil but he'll also want to come over here and eat of the tree of life and live forever and do you know what God did God would not allow it God said if you're going to live in this Choice you're not going to have this world you're not going to have this world if you have this world you're not going to have that world if you got this you're not going to live in your sin and run back over here because trouble's coming to your life you're not going to have this and so I'm going to put a flaming cherub them an angel to guard the way of the tree of life and nobody can eat of the tree of life no one can eat of the tree of life because the cheram will cut him down in death and here we see even the gospel no man could go because the angel would cut him down the angel would guard the gate and the angel would cut them down but a few thousand years later a little virgin Girl by the name of Mary gave birth to the son of the Living God and some 33 years later that man stood at that gate and that angel said I'm going to catch you down and he cut him down the angel cut him down but three days later turn around cherub that Lord Jesus Christ has resurrected from the dead and has made the way that we can all now eat of the tree of life and live forever oh make up your mind today to live for God Bible study class make up your mind today to live for God would you stand with me right now make up your mind today to live for God please make up your mind today to live for God make up your mind this morning I I I plead with you right now let's open up with prayer right now let's just all pray right now let's make up our mind let's make up our mind to live for God oh God I want to live for you God oh God I want to serve you with all my heart Lord oh Jesus I don't want to be deceived God there's no good thing that dwells in me Lord in me there dwelleth no good thing God oh God help me to interact with your spirit right now Lord help me to interact with your spirit right now God help me help me Lord to interact help me to interact with your spirit right now God help me Lord to interact with your spirit right now Lord help me oh God help me Lord interact with your spirit right now God Jesus Jesus name Jesus name come on let's pray for a moment let's ask God to help us let's go to the tree of life right now oh God I need you Lord oh God I need you Lord God I need you Lord God I need you Lord I need you Lord oh mighty God I need you God I I I need you God I need need you God oh come on let's lift your voice up and pray the the Lord is really in this room today oh the Lord is really in this room today he's really in this room today oh God oh God I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord God I I can't break this habit on my own God I can't break this habit on my own God God I can't break this habit on my own God I I can't break it on my own oh just just a moment just keep praying would you please the the sweetness of God is in this room oh God the Holy Ghost is here right now I I weigh my words I I I I weigh my words very carefully with what I'm about to tell you brother John Stone elder brother John Stone we're making our way in to the court systems to offer help to offer help and uh a lot of classes that are needful needful is anger management classes anger management there's a lot of domestic violence and there's a lot of anger a lot of harm been done with anger people angered angry that fly into moments of uncontrollable anger and hurt people and kill people and even hurt themselves in that we'll teach those classes and in that those classes can help behind that elder brother Johnstone is a man that's hoping that that man or that woman that has to go to that class will interact with that tree of life if we can get them interaction with this tree of life over here there's a program called AA you struggling with alcohol addiction you go to AA but here's what they'll tell you day a they will tell you point blank you will always battle alcoholism some of you been there they'll tell you right up front you're always going to battle it it's always going to be there you're always going to have this in your life now you're going to get over it but it's always it's a sickness and it's always going to be there I'm not bashing AA today but I'm here to tell you something if I can get every alcoholic in Blunt County to come and get a hold of this tree of life right here it's the tree of life it's the Tree of Life my God have mercy sister Franklin I can't hardly contain myself today it's the tree of life I disagree with it there's too many former alcoholics that'll say I've been I I've not had a drug of I've not had a drop of liquor and I'm not wanted a drop of liquor we got clawed Claud Crowder over here in the cemetery when Claud Crowder I never I never knew it till sometime later the first service CLA Crowder was at up on the hill brother Shannon the first service CLA was at Claude went home and poured all of his liquor down the drain and for years he died never Desiring or taking another taste why we got clothed we got him we got him involved with the tree of life we can have a classroom we can have a classroom we can give you a little booklet and we can give you a little sermon on how to control your temper and how to know where your buttons are and you'll B fat battle it all the days of your life but if I can just get you over here here if I can just get you worshiping God but the life is the spirit and there's only one way and that is you have to start worshiping right now in your spirit you have to start worshiping right now in your spirit if you want to be delivered I want you to come to this altar this morning and I want you to put both of your hands up in the air and I want you to open your mouth and I want you to begin to worship God I want you to begin to praise God I want you to begin to magnify God this morning come on church family come on let's gather up around this altar right now in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus God come on I worship you Lord come on some of you that are burdened some of you that are miserable today some of you are that are depressed you're oppressed and you're sad and you're beat down worship God today it's the entrance into the Tree of Life Worship God right now worship God right now oh worship God right now worship worship worship worship God it's the tree of life it's the spirit oh come on Holy Ghost come on Holy Ghost you don't have to be good to worship God you don't have to be a good moral person to worship God you can have walked out of the sin of the evil get your hands up and worship God hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah woo come on worship God the devil's going to tell you you got to wait till you're good to worship if I could get good without worship why would I need it I got to worship I got to worship I got to worship go ahead worship it's the Tree of Life woo it's the tree of life is the Tree of Life go ahead worship I plead with you to worship it's your pathway to Deliverance it's your pathway Deliverance right now worship worship worship worship I give myself away so you can use me and give myself away give myself away so you can use me I give myself away oh yes I do you I give myself away so you can use me my life is not my own to you I belong I give myself I give myself to you oh my life is not my own to you I belong yeah I give myself I give myself to you Lord life is on my you are belong I give myself I give myself to you oh yes I do life is not my to you I belong you I belong I give myself I give myself to you this life is no life is my belong to you I give myself I give myself to you oh yes I do my life is not my hope to you I belong I give myself I give myself to you Lord give myself away oh yes I Give Myself Away show you you you give it to you myself give myself give myself away so you and you me give myself away oh yeah I Give Myself Away give myself away I'm Lord give myself away so you take me I give myself I give myself away you you can you I give myself I give myself away so you and we love you help me sing and we'll never stop can live without you Jesus we love you can't get enough enough all this is for you Jes sing we love you we love you we never stop we'll never stop can live without you Jesus we love you you can't get enough all this is for you Jesus when you walk into the room s and hold the situation ceas to when you walk into the room the Day begin to rise there is resurrection and all you do we love you and we'll never stop we can't live without you Jesus we love you we can't get enough all this is for you Jesus all this is for you all this is for you Jes when you walk into the room s starts to Bish every hope situation ceases toist when you walk into the room the head begin to rise Resurrection Li in all you do we love you and we'll never stop we can't live without you Jesus we love you and can't get enough all this is for you J all I give it all I give it all go ahead give him all give him all right now it I give it all I give it all give it I give it all oh God I love you Lord I give it all I give it all oh I give it all I give it give it all I give it all you give it all I give it all I give it all give it all I give it all I give you everything give I give it all I give it all I I give it all my hand take my it it I it I it all it it it we love you and we'll never stop can't live without you Jes we love you can't get enough Can't Get Enough all this is for you Jesus one more time one more time how I interact with that tree of the know know of Good and Evil I interact through my flesh but how I interact with that tree of life I interact with it through the spirit now the natural world such Carpenter and the spiritual world are greatly related in that there's a lot of a lot of similarities between the natural world and the spiritual world let's take for instance let's take for instance um bodybuilders okay bodybuilders there's no truthful bodybuilder that will tell you I look this way because I went to the gym one time right what will they tell you well I look this way because I have a a a a regiment I have a schedule I'm there daily I'm there twice uh uh in the day or whatever whatever it is now let's flip it over to the spiritual let's flip it the spiritual we really can't expect for God to change us if we just have a ever now and then brush with him and worship the only way you can have the tree of life is to Worship in spirit it's it's it's not a Pentecostal thing it's not a p oh that's not my personality the reason you're saying that is somebody has told you that okay you're just saying that but well it's just not my personality well God made our mouths not to shout at a football game God made our hands not to only be used at my favorite hobby God made our voices our hands to worship him right and if you will learn how to open up your mouth and cry out to God God not caring what anybody else around you thinks I'm telling you over time you'll walk out of your deliverance you'll walk out of your bondage things will start changing around may not be overnight but you don't stop I don't care how far you hit the ground between this Sunday and next Sunday I don't care how many times you hit the ground set your alarm clock for next Sunday morning and be here in the house of God get around godly people this is what this is what happened when you come to church you make friends with people at church Friends start influencing your life you need to have them in the right influence right well I be back next well no be back tonight at 5:30 for prayer next Sunday morning I'm just going to continue these two trees right here all right God bless you dismissed in Jesus name