reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

GOD INSPIRED HOSEA TO RECORD THESE WORDS, HOSEA 4:6 MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. WHAT IS A MORTAL SIN? A MORTAL SIN IS A TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S COMMANDMENT THAT BRINGS THE SPIRITUAL DEATH; THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL DIES. NO SYSTEM OF LAW COULD BE EFFECTIVE IF IT ALLOWED IGNORANCE TO BE A VALID DEFENCE IN ALL CASES . FOR MEN WOULD NOT STUDY THE LAW, AND WHEN BROUGHT BEFORE A JUDGE FOR SOME TRANSGRESSION, WOULD SIMPLY SAY THEY WERE NOT AWARE THAT THE LAW THEY TRANSGRESSED EXISTED. WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, AND THE HOLY GHOST DEPARTED FROM ADAM, AND HE DIED THE SPIRITUAL DEATH; BECAUSE OF OUR PHYSICAL UNION WITH ADAM WE ALL DIED THE SPIRITUAL DEATH. 1COR:15:22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. THOUGH ADAM WAS A SON OF GOD, (LK:3:38 WHICH WAS THE SON OF ENOS, WHICH WAS THE SON OF SETH, WHICH WAS THE SON OF ADAM, WHICH WAS THE SON OF GOD.) ADAM WAS DRIVEN FROM PARADISE, DRIVEN FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN. GN:3:22 AND THE LORD GOD SAID, BEHOLD, THE MAN IS 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 FOR EVER: 24. SO HE DROVE OUT THE MAN; AND HE PLACED AT THE EAST OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN CHERUBIMES, AND A FLAMING SWORD WHICH TURNED EVERY WAY, TO KEEP THE WAY OF THE TREE OF LIFE. NOW WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD THE CHILD IS ALIVE PHYSICALLY, BUT DEAD SPIRITUALLY. HE MUST BE BORN AGAIN, THE INNER MAN THE SOUL MUST BE BROUGHT TO LIFE. JESUS SAID THESE WORDS, JN:3:5 JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 6. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT BRINGS THE INNER MAN THE SOUL TO LIFE. TI:3:5 NOT BY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH WE HAVE DONE, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS MERCY HE SAVED US, BY THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST; ONCE A PERSON HAS RECEIVED THE PRECIOUS LIFE, THE BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE, THEY ARE A BABE IN CHRIST. IF THEY TRANSGRESS A COMMANDMENT OF GOD IN IGNORANCE THEY CAN CONFESS THAT SIN AN BE FORGIVEN. 1JN:1:9 IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. AFTER A PERSON HAS RECEIVED THE BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE, AND HAS COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THEY MUST BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT THEY DO, AND WHAT THEY SAY. HERE IS THE FIRST MORTAL SIN I WOULD LIKE TO CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION. RV:22:18 FOR I TESTIFY UNTO EVERY MAN THAT HEARETH THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK. IF ANY MAN SHALL ADD UNTO THESE THINGS, GOD SHALL ADD UNTO HIM THE PLAGUES THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK: 19. AND IF ANY MAN SHALL TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY, AND FROM THE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK. THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE MAKING NEW TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE; THEY CHANGE ALMOST EVERY SCRIPTURE. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ARE OUR STANDARD TO LIVE BY. I USE THE KING JAMES TRANSLATION, I BELIEVE THAT IT IS ACTURATE FROM COVER TO COVER. ONCE A BORN AGAIN CHILD OF GOD COMES INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, HE KNOWS ABOUT REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS, FAITH TOWARD GOD, THE LAYING ON OF HANDS, THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, AND THE ETERNAL JUDGMENT; THEY MUST BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT THEY SAY, (MT:12:36 BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT EVERY IDLE WORD MEN SHALL SPEAK, THEY SHALL GIVE ACCOUNT THEREOF IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. 37. FOR BY THY WORDS THOU SHALT BE JUSTIFIED, AND BY THY WORDS THOU SHALT BE CONDEMNED.) AND VERY CAREFUL WHAT THEY DO. OUR WORKS ARE BEING RECORDED WHETHER THEY ARE GOOD ARE EVIL. RV:20:12 AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT, STAND BEFORE GOD; AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED: AND ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE: AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. HERE IS ANOTHER MORTAL SIN. IF THE ELECT OF GOD FALL AWAY FROM THE CHURCH (AFTER THE NEW BIRTH, AND AFTER THEY COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH) THEY CANNOT REPENT OF THAT SIN. HEB:6:1 THEREFORE LEAVING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST, LET US GO ON UNTO PERFECTION; NOT LAYING AGAIN THE FOUNDATION OF REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS, AND OF FAiTH TOWARD GOD, 2. OF THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS, AND OF LAYING ON OF HANDS, AND OF RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, AND OF ETERNAL JUDGMENT. 3. AND THIS WILL WE DO, IF GOD PERMIT. 4. FOR IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO WERE ONCE ENLIGHTENED, AND HAVE TASTED OF THE HEAVENLY GIFT, AND WERE MADE PARTAKERS OF THE HOLY GHOST, 5. AND HAVE TASTED THE GOOD WORD OF GOD, AND THE POWERS OF THE WORLD TO COME, 6. IF THEY SHALL FALL AWAY, TO RENEW THEM AGAIN UNTO REPENTANCE; SEEING THEY CRUCIFY TO THEMSELVES THE SON OF GOD AFRESH, AND PUT HIM TO AN OPEN SHAME. ANOTHER MORTAL SIN; IF AFTER A MAN HAS RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, AND COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, IF HE BE CIRCUMCISED, TRYING TO BE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES', HE WILL FALL FROM GRACE AND JESUS SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. GAL:5:1 STAND FAST THEREFORE IN THE LIBERTY WHEREWITH CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE, AND BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE. 2. BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU, THAT IF YE BE CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. 3. FOR I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN THAT IS CIRCUMCISED, THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO DO THE WHOLE LAW. 4. CHRIST IS BECOME OF NO EFFECT UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER OF YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW; YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE. 5. FOR WE THROUGH THE SPIRIT WAIT FOR THE HOPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. 6. FOR IN JESUS CHRIST NEITHER CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH ANY THING, NOR UNCIRCUMCISION; BUT FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE. ANOTHER MORTAL SIN IS "SWEARING." TO MAKE A SOLEMN DECLARATION AND STRENGTHENING THAT DECLARATION BY MENTIONING SOMEONE OR SOMETHING SACRED IS A SIN ABOVE ALL THINGS A MAN CAN DO. JMS:5:12 BUT ABOVE ALL THINGS, MY BRETHREN, SWEAR NOT, NEITHER BY HEAVEN, NEITHER BY THE EARTH, NEITHER BY ANY OTHER OATH: BUT LET YOUR YEA BE YEA; AND YOUR NAY, NAY; LEST YE FALL INTO CONDEMNATION. HERE ARE SOME SINS I CALL THE BURNING OFFENCES. IF YOU DO THEM; IN THE WORLD TO COME YOU WILL MOST LIKELY BE CONDEMNED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE. NOTICE THAT LIARS ARE THE LOWEST, OF THE LOW, THE BASE OF THE BASE RV:21:7 HE THAT OVERCOMETH SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS; AND I WILL BE HIS GOD, AND HE SHALL BE MY SON. 8. BUT THE FEARFUL, AND UNBELIEVING, AND THE ABOMINABLE, AND MURDERERS, AND WHOREMONGERS, AND SORCERERS, AND IDOLATERS, AND ALL LIARS, SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRINSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH. HERE ARE A FEW SYNONYMS TO HELP WITH THE DEFINITION OF EACH, "FEARFUL" FRIGHTENED, ALARMED, APPREHENSIVE. "UNBELIEVING", DOUBTING, DUBIOUS, SKEPTICAL. "ABOMINABLE", DISGUSTING, CONTEMPTIBLE, DESPICABLE. "MURDERERS", MANSLAYER, KILLER, ASSASSIN. "WHOREMONGERS." PIMP, MADAM, HARLOT. "SORCERERS", DEVIL WORSHIPPER, A PERSON WITH A FAMILIAR SPIRIT, A WITCH, A PERSON WITH A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION. "IDOLATERS", WORSHIPPER OF IDOLS, BOWING TO IMAGES, ADORATION OF IDOLS. "LIARS." PREVARICATOR, PERJURER, FALSIFIER. IF YOU WILL NOT DO THE WORKS OF THE FLESH YOU WILL NEVER COME INTO CONDEMNATION. THE BURNING OFFENCES MUST BE INCLUDED IN THE WORKS OF THE FLESH. ROM:8:1 THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. HERE ARE THE WORKS OF THE FLESH. GAL:5:19 NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE; ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS, 20. IDOLATRY, WITCHCRAFT, HATRED, VARIANCE, EMULATIONS, WRATH, STRIFE, SEDITIONS, HERESIES, 21. ENVYINGS, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELLINGS, AND SUCH LIKE: OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ADULTERY IS LISTED AS THE NUMBER ONE REASON THAT MEN, AND WOMEN WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. WHAT IS ADULTERY? IT IS SEXUAL RELATIONS BETWEEN A MARRIED PERSON AND ONE THAT IS NOT THEIR SPOUSE. A PERSON CAN MARRY INTO ADULTERY. IF A MAN MARRIES A WOMAN THAT HAS BEEN DIVORCED, AND HER PREVIOUS HUSBAND IS LIVING HE IS MARRYING INTO ADULTERY. ROM:7:1 KNOW YE NOT, BRETHREN, (FOR I SPEAK TO THEM THAT KNOW THE LAW,) HOW THAT THE LAW HATH DOMINION OVER A MAN AS LONG AS HE LIVETH? 2. FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE LIVETH; BUT IF THE HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS LOOSED FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND. 3. SO THEN IF, WHILE HER HUSBAND LIVETH, SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN, SHE SHALL BE CALLED AN ADULTERESS: BUT IF HER HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS FREE FROM THAT LAW; SO THAT SHE IS NO ADULTERESS, THOUGH SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN. IF A WOMAN MARRIES A MAN THAT HAS DIVORCED HIS WIFE FOR SOME CAUSE OF ACTION OTHER THAN FORNICATION, SHE WILL BE MARRYING INTO ADULTERY. MT:19:9 AND I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, EXCEPT IT BE FOR FORNICATION, AND SHALL MARRY ANOTHER, COMMITTETH ADULTERY: AND WHOSO MARRIETH HER WHICH IS PUT AWAY DOTH COMMIT ADULTERY. ADULTERY DESTROYS THE SOUL. PRV:6:32 BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING: HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL. IT IS THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. 2COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. ARE THERE MANY PEOPLE IN ADULTERY? TO GET AWAY FROM ADULTERY AND FORNICATION YOU WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE TO GET OUT OF THIS WORLD. 1COR:5:9 I WROTE UNTO YOU IN AN EPISTLE NOT TO COMPANY WITH FORNICATIORS: 10. YET NOT ALTOGETHER WITH THE FORNICATIORS OF THIS WORLD, OR WITH THE COVETOUS OR EXTORTIONERS, OR WITH IDOLATERS; FOR THEN MUST YE NEED GO OUT OF THE WORLD. 1COR:5:11 BUT NOW I HAVE WRITTEN UNTO YOU NOT TO KEEP COMPANY, IF ANY MAN THAT IS CALLED A BROTHER BE A FORNICATOR, OR COVETOUS, OR AN IDOLATER, OR A RAILER, OR A DRUNKARD, OR AN EXTORTIONER; WITH SUCH AN ONE NO NOT TO EAT. "FORNICATION" COVERS ALL UNLAWFUL SEXUAL ACTS. "UNCLEANNESS" PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND STILL IN THEIR SINS. "LASCIVIOUSNESS" TO LUST AFTER THINGS FORBIDDEN BY COMMANDMENT. "IDOLATRY" THE WORSHIP OF IDOLS. "WITCHCRAFT" DEVIL WORSHIP. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN HATRED AND WRATH. "HATRED", IS TO HATE SOMEONE. "WRATH" IS HATRED MOVED TO ACTION. "EMULATIONS" IS COMPETITION, RIVALRY, STRIVING TO EQUAL OR EXCEED SOMEONE AT THE SAME THING. THE LORD JESUS DOES NOT COMMAND US NOT TO PLAY FOOTBALL, WRESTLE, BOX, PLAY POKER, DICE, AND ETC. HE SIMPLY COMMANDS US NOT TO COMMIT THE SIN OF EMULATIONS WHICH COVERS ALL COMPETITION. AFTER A MAN HAS RECEIVED THE PRECIOUS LIFE, THE INNER MAN THE SOUL HAS COME TO LIFE, AND AFTER HE HAS COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, IF HE SINS WILFULLY THERE IS NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SIN. WHY? BECAUSE HE DOES DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE. HEB:10:26 FOR IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, 27. BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL LOOKING FOR OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION, WHICH SHALL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES. 28. HE THAT DESPISED MOSES' LAW DIED WITHOUT MERCY UNDER TWO OR THREE WITNESSES: 29. OF HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, SUPPOSE YE, SHALL HE BE THOUGHT WORTHY, WHO HATH TRODDEN UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, AND HATH COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, WHEREWITH HE WAS SANCTIFIED, AN UNHOLY THING, AND HATH DONE DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE? IT IS A MORTAL SIN TO BLASPHREME THE HOLY GHOST. MT:12:32 AND WHOSOEVER SPEAKETH A WORD AGAINST THE SON OF MAN, IT SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM: BUT WHOSOEVER SPEAKETH AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST, IT SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN HIM, NEITHER IN THIS WORLD, NEITHER IN THE WORLD TO COME. IT IS A MORTAL SIN TO SEND A CHILD OF GOD AWAY EMPTY; WHEN THEY ARE IN NEED OF THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE, FOOD, AND CLOTHES. JESUS IS SPEAKING IN THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE. MT:25:41 THEN SHALL HE SAY ALSO UNTO THEM ON THE LEFT HAND, DEPART FROM ME, YE CURSED, INTO THE EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS: 42. FOR I WAS HUNGRED, AND YE GAVE ME NO MEAT: I WAS THIRSTY, AND YE GAVE ME NO DRINK: 43. I WAS A STRANGER, AND YE TOOK ME NOT IN: NAKED, AND YE CLOTHED ME NOT: SICK, AND IN PRISON, AND YE VISITED ME NOT. 44. THEN SHALL THEY ALSO ANSWER HIM, SAYING, LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE AN HUNGRED, OR ATHIRST, OR A STRANGER, OR NAKED, OR SICK, OR IN PRISON, AND DID NOT MINISTER UNTO THEE? 45. THEN SHALL HE ANSWER THEM, SAYING, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, INASMUCH AS YE DID IT NOT TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, YE DID IT NOT TO ME.THE ANTICHRIST IS COMING, AND IT IS A MORTAL SIN TO TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST. RV:13:16 AND HE CAUSED ALL, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, RICH AND POOR, FREE AND BOND, TO RECEIVE A MARK IN THEIR RIGHT HAND, OR IN THEIR FOREHEADS: 17. AND THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL, SAVE HE THAT HAD THE MARK, OR THE NAME OF THE BEAST, OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME. HERE IS WISDOM. LET HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING COUNT THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST: FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN; AND HIS NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX. REV. 14:9 AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, IF ANY MAN WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD, OR IN HIS HAND, 10. THE SAME SHALL DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS POURED OUT WITHOUT MIXTURE INTO THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION; AND HE SHALL BE TORMENTED, WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS, AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LAMB. FORGET THE THINGS BEHIND REACHING FORTH UNTO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEFORE, PHIL:3:14. I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.