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

GOD HAS SAID THESE WORDS, HOS:4:6 MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE; WHY DO WE, AS SAINTS OF GOD, WALK THROUGH THIS PRESENT WORLD WITH FEAR OF GOD, AND TREMBLING? IT IS BECAUSE OF THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE. 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. PAUSE, AND MEDITATE ON WHAT YOU JUST READ. IF A PERSON COMMITS A TRANSGRESSION OF FEDERAL, OR STATE LAW THAT IS NOT A TORT, OR BREACH OF CONTRACT, IT IS CALLED A CRIME. IF A PERSON TRANSGRESSES ONE OF GOD’S LAWS IT IS CALLED A SIN. 1JOHN3:4 WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN TRANSGRESS ALSO THE LAW: FOR SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. WHAT IS A WILLFUL SIN? IT IS A DELIBERATE PREMEDITATED SIN DONE INTENTIONAL WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT. UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES’ IF A MAN COMMITTED A TRANSGRESSION OF GOD’S LAW IN IGNORANCE ; HE COULD BRING A SHE GOAT TO THE PRIEST, AND THE PRIEST COULD MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR THE PERSON THAT SINNED IN IGNORANCE. BUT IF A PERSON SINNED PRESUMPTUOUSLY, INTENTIONALLY, THERE WAS NO OFFERING THAT COULD BE OFFERED UP TO ATONE FOR THAT SIN, AND SIN WOULD REMAIN. NM:15:27 AND IF ANY SOUL SIN THROUGH IGNORANCE, THEN HE SHALL BRING A SHE GOAT OF THE FIRST YEAR FOR A SIN OFFERING. 28. AND THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL THAT SINNETH IGNORANTLY, WHEN HE SINNETH BY IGNORANCE BEFORE THE LORD, TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR HIM; AND IT SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM. 29. YE SHALL HAVE ONE LAW FOR HIM THAT SINNETH THROUGH IGNORANCE, BOTH FOR HIM THAT IS BORN AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND FOR THE STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH AMONG THEM. 30. BUT THE SOUL THAT DOETH OUGHT PRESUMPTUOUSLY. WHETHER HE BE BORN IN THE LAND, OR A STRANGER, THE SAME REPROACHETH THE LORD; AND THAT SOUL SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM AMONG HIS PEOPLE. 31. BECAUSE HE HATH DESPISED THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND HATH BROKEN HIS COMMANDMENT, THAT SOUL SHALL UTTERLY BE CUT OFF; HIS INIQUITY SHALL BE UPON HIM. A SIMILAR LAW IS FOUND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT TAKE A MOMENT AND EXAMINE THESE SCRIPTURES CAREFULLY. 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? 30. FOR WE KNOW HIM THAT HATH SAID, VENGEANCE BELONGETH UNTO ME, I WILL RECOMPENSE, SAITH THE LORD, AND AGAIN, THE LORD SHALL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE. 31. IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD. BEFORE A MAN RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST HE CANNOT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. FOR THE CARNAL MIND, THE MIND OF SENSE AND REASON WITHOUT THE HOLY GHOST, IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF GOD NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. ROM:8:6 FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE. 7. BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD: FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. 8. SO THEN THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD. 9. BUT YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS. WHEN A PERSON IS FIRST CALLED TO REPENTANCE THEY ARE A BABE IN CHRIST. AND IF THEY TRANSGRESS ONE OF GOD’S LAWS IN IGNORANCE, THEY CAN CONFESS THAT SIN, AND BE FORGIVEN. 1JN:1:7 BUT IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT, AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT, WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN. 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. WHY IS IT SUCH A TERRIBLE SIN TO COMMIT THE WILLFUL SIN? IF A PERSON COMMITS A WILLFUL SIN THE PERSON COMMITS THREE WRONGS, FIRST THEY TROD UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, SECONDLY THEY COUNT THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHEREWITH THEY WAS SANCTIFIED AN UNHOLY THING, AND LAST OF ALL, THEY DO DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE. WE, AS SAINTS OF GOD, SHALL NEVER COME INTO CONDEMNATION IF WE ABSTAIN FROM 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. 2. FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. 3. FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, AND FOR SIN, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH: 4. THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. THERE ARE TWO SYSTEMS OF LAW THAT MEN SHALL BE JUDGED BY ON JUDGMENT DAY. THE FIRST IS THE LAW OF MOSES, WHICH IS IN THE WORLD, THE SECOND IS THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WHICH IS IN THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH WHICH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST. THERE SHALL BE NO FLESH JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW OF MOSES, WHICH IS KNOW AS THE LAW OF SIN, AND DEATH. IN THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE WHEN WORD LAW IS MENTIONED IT IS SPEAKING OF THE LAW OF MOSES. ROM;3:20 THEREFORE BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW THERE SHALL NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT FOR BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. 21. BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, BEING WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS; 22. EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE: FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. 23. FOR ALL HAVE SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD; 24. BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS. BUT WE, THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HAVE RECEIVED THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST, ARE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND SHALL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE. WE, THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, SHALL NEVER COME INTO CONDEMNATION AS LONG AS WE ABSTAIN FROM THE WORKS OF THE FLESH. LET ME AT THIS TIME ACQUAINT YOU WITH 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 ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. LET ME GIVE YOU THE DEFINITION OF SOME OF THESE SINS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN PERIL OF NOT INHERITING THE KINGDOM OF GOD. FOR EXAMPLE ADULTERY, ADULTERY IS LISTED AS THE NUMBER ONE SIN OF THE WORKS OF THE FLESH. ARE THERE MANY PEOPLE IN ADULTERY? MULTITUDES, MULTITUDES, OF PEOPLE ARE IN ADULTERY. IF A PERSON IS MARRIED, AND HAS SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH ANY ONE OTHER THAN THEIR SPOUSE, THEY ARE IN ADULTERY. IF A MAN DIVORCES HIS WIFE FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN FORNICATION, WHICH COVERS ALL ILLEGAL SEXUAL RELATIONS ACCORDING TO GOD’S LAW; AND MARRIES AGAIN BOTH THE MAN, AND THE WOMAN HE MARRIES ARE IN 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. IF A DIVORCED WOMAN MARRIES WHILE HER PREVIOUS HUSBAND IS ALIVE SHE SHALL BE AN ADULTERESS. A MAN CAN DIVORCE HIS WIFE WHEN THE CAUSE OF ACTION IS FORNICATION, AND REMARRY WITHOUT LIVING IN ADULTERY, BUT A WOMAN CANNOT DIVORCE HER HUSBAND FOR ANY REASON, AND REMARRY AS LONG AS HER HUSBAND LIVES. 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. WHAT DOES ADULTERY DO TO THE SOUL? ADULTERY DESTROYS THE SOUL. PRV:6:32 BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING; HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL. THE PHYSICAL BODY SHALL PERISH, IT IS THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. 2:COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. WHAT IS UNCLEANNESS? THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, THAT HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST ARE SPIRITUALLY UNCLEAN. WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD. ALL MANKIND WAS IN ADAM; AND BECAUSE OF OUR PHYSICAL UNION WITH ADAM SIN WAS IMPUTED UNTO ALL MANKIND. 1COR:15:22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. NOW WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, IF HE IS BORN OF BELIEVING PARENTS HE IS IN A SANCTIFIED CONDITION. BUT, IF THE CHILD IS BORN TO UNBELIEVING PARENTS HE IS UNCLEAN. 1COR:7:13 AND THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND THAT BELIEVETH NOT, AND IF HE BE PLEASED TO DWELL WITH HER, LET HER NOT LEAVE HIM. 14. FOR THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WIFE, AND THE UNBELIEVING WIFE IS SANCTIFIED BY THE HUSBAND: ELSE WERE YOUR CHILDREN UNCLEAN; BUT NOW ARE THEY HOLY. THERE ARE MILLIONS IF NOT BILLIONS OF PEOPLE BOWING DOWN TO GRAVEN IMAGES, IDOLS. IDOLATRY IS ONE OF THE WORKS OF THE FLESH, AND THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE PSALMIST RECORDED THESE WORDS. PS:115:3 BUT OUR GOD IS IN THE HEAVENS: HE HATH DONE WHATSOEVER HE HATH PLEASED. 4. THEIR IDOLS ARE SILVER AND GOLD, THE WORK OF MEN’S HANDS. 5. THEY HAVE MOUTHS, BUT THEY SPEAK NOT: EYES HAVE THEY, BUT THEY SEE NOT: 6. THEY HAVE EARS, BUT THEY HEAR NOT: NOSES HAVE THEY, BUT THEY SMELL NOT: 7. THEY HAVE HANDS, BUT THEY HANDLE NOT: FEET HAVE THEY, BUT THEY WALK NOT: NEITHER SPEAK THEY THROUGH THEIR THROAT. 8. THEY THAT MAKE THEM ARE LIKE THEM; SO IS EVERY ONE THAT TRUSTETH IN THEM. EMULATIONS IS ONE OF THE WORKS OF THE FLESH. EMULATION DEFINED IS COMPETITION, RIVALRY, STRIVING TO EQUAL OR EXCEED SOMEONE AT THE SAME THING. THEY THAT COMMIT THE SIN OF EMULATION SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ARE THERE MANY COMMITTING THE SIN OF EMULATIONS? YES MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE ARE COMMITTING THIS SIN. FOOTBALL, BASE BALL, HOCKEY, BOXING, AND WRESTLING, POKER ARE ALL COMPETITIVE ACTIVITIES. A PERSON CANNOT LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE WITHOUT THE BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE. ONCE A PERSON RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST, THE HOLY GHOST GIVES THEM THE POWER TO LIVE THE SIN FREE LIFE. 1JN:3:1 BEHOLD, WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HATH BESTOWED UPON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD: THEREFORE THE WORLD KNOWETH US NOT, BECAUSE IT KNEW HIM NOT. 2. BELOVED, NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD, AND IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE: BUT WE KNOW THAT, WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM: FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS. 3. AND EVERY MAN THAT HATH THIS HOPE IN HIM PURIFIETH HIMSELF, EVEN AS HE IS PURE. 4. WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN TRANSGRESSETH ALSO THE LAW: FOR SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 5. AND YE KNOW THAT HE WAS MANIFESTED TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS; AND IN HIM IS NO SIN. 6. WHOSOEVER ABIDETH IN HIM SINNETH NOT: WHOSOEVER SINNETH HATH NOT SEEN HIM, NEITHER KNOWN HIM. 7. LITTLE CHILDREN, LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU: HE THAT DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS RIGHTEOUS, EVEN AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS. 8. HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; FOR THE DEVIL SINNETH FROM THE BEGINNING. FOR THIS PURPOSE THE SON OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. 9. WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD. 10. IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL: WHOSOEVER DOETH NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, NEITHER HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER. I DO NOT BELIEVE WHEN WE STAND BEFORE GOD ON JUDGMENT DAY THAT IGNORANCE WILL BE A VALID DEFENSE IN ALL TRANSGRESSIONS FOR GOD HAS COMMANDED HIS CHILDREN TO STUDY. 2TM:2:15 STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, A WORKMAN THAT NEEDETH NOT TO BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH. THE GREAT DIVISION IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES IS BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT. WE AS CHILDREN OF GOD THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST SHALL BE JUDGED ACCORDING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. IF YOU ARE NEW CONVERT TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION YOU MAY NOT BE ACQUAINTED AS TO WHEN THE OLD TESTAMENT LOST IT’S POWER TO SAVE. THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS IN POWER UNTIL JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS. LK:16:16 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN : SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND EVERY MAN PRESSETH INTO IT. WHAT COLOR IS SIN? SIN COMES IN TWO COLORS, SCARLET, AND CRIMSON. SCARLET IS A RED WITH AN ORANGE TINT, CRIMSON IS A RED WITH A PURPLE TINT. WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, THE PEOPLE, THE ANIMALS, THE FISH OF THE SEA, THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, CREEPING THINGS, THE GROUND ALL TURNED RED. IS:1:18 COME NOW, AND LET US REASON TOGETHER, SAITH THE LORD: THOUGH YOUR SINS BE AS SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW;