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Amen. If you will worship with Brother Smith as he sings, we'll call the name of Jesus. So me if I'm sick, for my soul is liberty, for there's no other name I can so call the name of Jesus. So for me.
In the book of Acts, a hungry heart, filled with the spirit, all the blind and lame were healed. All those miracles were done in Jesus' name, and today I know that power's just the same. So call the name of Jesus. So me if I'm sick, or if my soul needs liberty, for there's no other name whereby I can be free. So call the name of Jesus over me.
In this world, we were all born slaves to sin. To be free, we must be washed and born again. For only one man ever lived completely free, and through his name, we now can claim the victory. So call the name of Jesus over me. Well, if I'm sick, or if my soul needs liberty, for there's no other name whereby men can be free. So call the name of Jesus over me.
Well, call the name of Jesus over me. Well, if I'm sick, or if my soul needs liberty, well, there's no other name whereby men can be free. So call the name of Jesus over me. Well, in this world, we were all born slaves of sin. To be free, we must be washed and born again. And only one man ever lived completely free, and through his name, we now can claim the victory. So call the name of Jesus over me.
Well, if I'm sick, my soul needs liberty, for there's no other name whereby men can be free. So call the name of Jesus over me. We'll call the name of Jesus over me. Well, if I'm sick, or if my soul needs liberty, for there's no other name whereby men can be free. So call the name of Jesus over me. Know their name whereby men can be free. So call the name of Jesus, the name of Jesus, call the name of Jesus over me.
Hallelujah. You may be seated. Aren't you thankful that you know that name? Hallelujah. So thankful to be in, uh, this Sunday school service. Um, look, got classes going on all across this, uh, all across this campus. Um, if you will stretch your hand towards those classes. This is, uh, you know, a lot of times growing up in church, I didn't really think about the importance of everything I was learning in those Sunday school classes. But I was talking with, uh, Brother Ryan Brer a couple weeks ago, and, um, I told him that one of the, the first time I got the revelation of Oneness was in a, a class, a pre-teen class that he was teaching, and that's a big deal. Um, you never know what your, what your child, your grandchild, or even your brother or sister is learning out there, what they're gleaning, and, um, how that's shaping them and what into what they need to be. So if you will, let's say a prayer over them real quick. They're about to come and sing, and we're going to move forward in this service. Lord, I ask that you touch each and every young person over there. God, I ask that you change their life, Lord, in Jesus' name. Worship with them as they sing.
The blood that Jesus shed for me, oh, way back on Calvary. It's the blood that gives me strength from day to day. It will never lose its power. Oh, the blood that Jesus shed for me, oh, way, way back on Calvary. It's the blood that gives me strength from day to day. It will never lose its power. Oh, yes, for it reaches to the highest mountain, oh, and it flows to the lowest valley. Oh, it's the blood that gives me strength from day to day. It will never lose its power. Oh, it stills my doubt and it calms all my fears. Hey, that same blood, oh, it dries all my tears. It's the blood that gives me strength from day to day. It will never, never lose its power. Oh, for it reaches to the highest mountain. Oh, yes, it flows, oh, it flows to the lowest valley. It's the blood that gives me strength from day to day. It will never lose its power. Oh, yes, for it reaches to the highest mountain, and it flows to the lowest valley. Yes, it's the blood that gives me strength from day to day, and will never lose. Oh, yes, it will never, it will never, never, never lose. It will never lose its power.
If you will return to your seats, but please remain standing. If I could have a couple ushers come, we're going to give you an opportunity to the opportunity to be blessed. If you will march and, uh, bring your offering to the storehouse. Lord, I ask that you bless this offering. Use it to further your kingdom and spread the gospel. In Jesus' name, we pray.
I don't know about tomorrow. Will I just from day to day? That borrow from sunshine, for it may turn to gray. I don't worry for my future, for I know what my Jesus said. And today I walk beside him, for he knows what lies ahead. Many things about tomorrow, or I don't seem to understand. But I know who holds tomorrow, and I know who holds my hand.
I don't know about tomorrow. Will my breath bring me poverty? But the one who feeds the sparrow, he is the one who stands by me. Will end up past that be my portion? May be through the flame or through the flood. His friend, his presence goes before me. Let I'm come, I'm covered by his blood. For many things about tomorrow, well, I don't seem to understand. But I know who holds tomorrow, and now I know who holds my hand. For many things about tomorrow, I don't seem to understand. But I know who holds tomorrow, and I know who holds my hand. But I know who holds tomorrow, and I know who holds my hand.
Praise the Lord, everybody. Thank you so much for being at Sunday school service, and, uh, we're going to get started quickly. Thank you so much for the singing today. To all of our guests that's here, welcome. So glad that you're here. I'm glad to have Sister Cardwell with us today, my aunt Teresa. I'm so glad that she's here. Uh, just real quickly, and I know some of the ones that are in the Sunday school classes will not hear what I'm going to say, but maybe you can, uh, help me, uh, get the word out. There's been a lot of confusion about the, the, uh, meeting for the staff. But everybody listen to me. We can't start a meeting while this building's full of people. You got to give people the ability to shake hands and talk and visit and filter out. So that's why I set the meeting for 5:00 instead of 4:00. Um, I, I'm not saying we have to wait till 5:00, but I'm not going to run everybody out of here. So much of being church family is you got to have time to visit. And so I don't want everybody just running out the back door. We have guests here. The guests need to be talked to, greeted, visited with. So 4:20, 4:30, when this building clears, we'll start our meeting, okay? So that's why I was setting it for five instead of four. I knew there was going to be a space of time for transfer. All right. Sure wouldn't want to mess any of y'all up on being able to watch the Super Bowl.
Exodus 15 and verse 26. Exodus 15 and verse 26. This is going to be, uh, part two of Separation. Um, I'm sorry, the, the overarching is Separation, but this is Sanctification, part two. Sanctification, part two. Sanctification, part two. And the Lord says, if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his Commandments, and keep all of his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord that healeth thee. God bless you. You may be seated.
And this is Sanctification, part two. If thou wilt diligently hearken, yes, diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord, then I will put none of these diseases upon thee. I, I, I have a great testimony that we did not have one person die during COVID. Yeah, in this church. That's a testimony. I, I don't know of any other group this large that, uh, that had no one die, uh, not one, not one death, COVID-related death in this church. Uh, that, that's, that's quite a testimony. Yes, sir. And in fact, I, I don't know of anyone that got, if I'm, if they did, I'm not remembering it. I don't remember anybody getting deathly ill in this church. Now, I'm sure there was some of you that felt like you were, but, uh, I, I didn't get reports of anyone in the hospital, no one in intensive care, unless I'm, unless it's just slipping my mind. Um, and so God knows how to put a difference between his people and the people of this world. Exodus 11 and verse 7. Exodus 11 and 7. And it may take me just a, just a moment to get this started, but I, I, I have something to say to you today. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast, that you may know how the Lord, the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. So Sanctification is not a difference that you put. It's a difference that God puts. None of us have the power to sanctify ourselves. Sanctification comes from God. God puts a difference. When God fills you with the Holy Ghost, he puts a difference between you and the world. But it is up to you. Listen to me. It's up to you to keep that difference. In the, in the second session yesterday, Dr. Hughes made a statement that just shook me. And, um, the statement that he made was this: He said, the Holy Ghost, the Bible says we have an advocate with the Father. And when you take that word advocate, and of course, I've said this many times, but it's the second part of the statement that is amazing. He said, when you take that word advocate, um, in the Old English, it, it simply means what we call today, in New English, an an attorney or a lawyer. The purpose of the Holy Ghost is to argue your case with the judge of all the earth, right? And to basically say, they've been covered by the blood, they've been sanctified, their record's been expunged. This is what he said, though: The Holy Ghost is your attorney. He's your advocate. He's not your janitor. He's here to plead your case, not clean up your mess, right? That's up to you. God offers you, good to see you, Brother Stanley. Man, if I knew you was going to be here, I'd have had you preach instead of me. God offers you righteousness. That's His gift to you. It's something you can't, you, you can't get there on your own. It's nothing you can do. Here's the way one of the old writers in the Old Testament said: Your righteousness is as filthy rags. And I was amazed when I went back and saw what that filthy rag meant. It, it, it means something you use in the bathroom. Your righteousness smells to God like rags that you use to clean yourself up with. That's what, that's what that means. A filthy rag. You know, they didn't have disposable tissue in those days. And in the, that's the best you can do. In the best you can do, that's as righteous as you can get. So He went to the cross, shed His blood, and died so that His blood could make you righteous. That's His gift to you. Your gift back to Him is to separate yourself from things that would make you unclean again. That is gratitude. Gratitude says, "You picked me up, You cleansed me, You, You washed me, You took me where I could not get on my own." Now, I'm not going to go back and mix myself up in what You brought me out of. Separation does not save you. Separation maintains you. I don't think I save myself. Only God can save me. But I tell you what I can do: I can stay out of the stuff that got me in the pit. He had to drag me out of. I don't have to go back to that pit. The Lord doth put a difference. Now, here's a statement I want to make: If you don't separate, then His favor has to rain on everyone. See, He wants to favor you. Yes. And so if you don't separate, then His favor rains on everyone. And if it rains on everyone, then it's no longer favor. I want you to think on what I just said. He's going to, if He, if He fills you full of the Holy Ghost as He saves you, then He's determined to favor you. You are His child. Favor is a given if you're full of the Holy Ghost. Well, if you don't separate yourself when He rains favor on you, then it rains on everybody. The minute everybody has His favor, then it's not favor anymore. You, you got to, you, you really got to process and think about what I'm saying here. If He gives you favor without separation, then He has it to give it. He has to give it to everyone also, because He's no respecter of persons. That's why He says, "Come out. I'm calling you out. Come out from among them." He wants you to be distinct and different and separated so that He can favor you. And when He favors you, He lifts you. Redemption has a lift to it. Separation does not press you down. It lifts you up. There, there has been a false doctrine in Pentecost for, for too long, that when you get in the church, then you have to live beneath everybody else, that the cross is this horrible thing that you have to carry through life, that you have to take a vow of poverty, and you have to take a vow of unhappiness. And, well, I'm just not like all those rich people out in the world. I, I'm a Christian. I'm suffering for Christ. And there, there, there has literally been a doctrine of that in religion, and mainly in Pentecost, that is, that if you're a Christian, that you have to suffer for Christ's sake, that this cross is some kind of a suffering in this world, and you have to carry this cross, and that it's bad, and then it's negative. And just let me tell you something: Every church and group that is of that ideology, that's the reason they don't grow. That's the reason they don't have growth, because you get what you believe for. And if you go, if you believe that you're going to be broke, and you're going to be busted, and you're going to be sad, and you're not going to have anything, and you're suffering for Christ, who wants to be like that? That is not the record of anyone in the Bible. No one, no one in your Bible had that record. And you know, it's always amazing because the minute you start preaching like this, you feel resistance. It's like people want to live like that. It's like they want it to be that way. But that's not what, that's not what God told Abraham. He was not called out to be beneath. Separation was to lift, not to put down. He didn't say, "I'll put you darken in the valley." He said, "I'll make you a light on the mountaintop." I'm going to lift you up. In fact, here's what He said: "In fact, don't hide your candle under a bushel." Tell, don't put your own light out. Yes, sir. And here's the deal: Every bit of this is activated by faith. You can't get the Holy Ghost until you believe. You can't get healed until you believe. And you can't be financially and physically blessed until you believe. You know what? You get just exactly what you believe for. And if you believe that this is going to be sad, and it's going to be down, and it's going to be depressed, and that you're not going to have any fun, and that to be a Christian, I mean, I listen, I was raised around people that they thought the more they frowned, the more spiritual they were. I'm just thinking about the Lord. Oh, don't laugh. Thinking about God. And the, and the, the more grouchy they could be, and the more broke they could be, the closer to God that they were. And I, I'm, listen, listen to me. I'm, I'm telling you, you, you, you get a hold of what I'm saying right now, because a church that, that, and believe me, that spirit spreads along with this spirit spreads. Whatever you are, it's contagious. And when I preached in churches like that, they not only could they not win people, they couldn't keep their young people. They couldn't keep the next generation. You know why? Because nobody wants to live like that. But that's not what Jesus said. That's not the way Jesus said it was going to be. Listen to what God told Abraham in, uh, we're going to get there. Hang on. Genesis chapter 12, and let's just begin with verse one. I want you to look at this. I want you to look at this, and I got to get where I'm going now. The Lord had said unto Abraham, "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." Now look at this. And I will make of thee a poor nation, and you're going to carry a cross, and your name's going to be mud. Is not what it says. "I will make you great, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and you shall be a blessing." Now, I'm just going to tell you right now, you can't be a blessing to anyone if you're broke. That's right. You can't be a blessing to anyone if they don't want to be like you. There's got to be something about you that they say, "I don't know what it is, but I want what you have." Next verse, verse three. "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee. And in thee, or through thee, shall all the families of the earth be blessed." Now, this isn't just about money, but it is part of the process. Who was the richest man in the world at that time? Anybody know? It was Abraham. The guy that we're reading about. God made him the wealthiest man in the world. Guess who Job was? There wasn't another man as blessed and as wealthy as Job was. And you just go on with that. Guess who the richest man was when David lived, the man after God's own heart? Does that mean that everybody lives for God is going to be rich? No, I don't believe that. But I believe that He wants you to have more than enough. On can I tell you something? You can't even invite somebody over to your house and feed them a meal unless you got more than enough. You can't take someone out and feed them a dinner and give them a Bible study unless you have more than enough. You can't have people over for cookies and Kool-Aid in a Bible study unless you have more than enough. You can't go pick someone up and bring them to church in your car unless you have more than enough. You can't call somebody up and say, "Man, I'd like to bring you to church. You reckon you can loan me $20? I can take you to church with me." I'm not saying that everybody's going to be rich, because just quite frankly, everybody can't handle that. But I tell you what God wants you to do: He wants you to have enough for whatever mission He's called you to. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm, I'm, I'm telling you, and, and this is all part of the separation process. Everything I'm teaching you about separation, blessing, is part of it. He's not separating you to cast you down. The happiest, smiliest, filled with joy, best-dressed person in this town should be an Apostolic. You ought to, you ought to dress nice. You ought to walk with your shoulders back. You ought to have a smile on your face. There ought to be joy in your heart. And that does not mean that you don't have problems. Listen to me. There's never been a day, man's day is is a few days and full of trouble. I've had trouble since I've been living for God. I've had problems since I've been living for God. But the deal is, I'm not a victim to my circumstances because I've got a great big God that I know that I can cast my cares on Him because He cares for me. It's not that you don't live in the world that everybody else lives in, but you're separated. While you're in this world, you're in this world, but you're not of this world, because you have a God that lifts you and takes care of you. I believe. Hallelujah. And when you walk on your job, you ought to be the best dressed on your job. You said, "I don't have the money to do that." Well, figure it out. Figure it out somewhere. How make it important to you. Go to garage sales. My God, I still do. God's blessed me, but I still go to every garage sale I can go to. I stop at every Salvation Army and every Goodwill and every secondhand store. And man, all they, all they got to do out is put out a sign, "Clothing Exchange." Nice used clothes. I'm in there. I'm looking for that heart-shaped mark suit that somebody's got for sale for $50. I guarantee you, man, the shoes I got on, I think I got from eBay. I did buy this time for $5 on eBay. Man, I bid on it and snagged it. I waited till right there, just a few seconds. You know, the only problem is, is the internet slow in Mississippi. I have bid in that little circle come up there, and I thought, "Oh, it's over with." You learn to bid 15 seconds early instead of 5 seconds early, just in case the internet's slow. Listen, I, I, I'm trying to be as serious as I can with you about this. We've got a misconception about what separation means. Separation is not about you taking a vow of poverty and sloppiness. Hallelujah. I'll never forget my old pastor when I was growing up said, "I'm going to tell you, if I run into you in the grocery store and you got a moo-moo and house shoes on and got your hair stringing, I'm going to hide from you." He said, "If you go down aisle three, I'm going to go down aisle four, and I'm going to look through the cans and see if you're over there. I don't want to speak to you when you're looking like that." You, that's not a representation of what the Holy Ghost is. The most well-dressed people at the grocery store are the apostolics, the people smiling the most at the grocery store. Holiness don't mean sloppiness, right? Hallelujah. You ought to have a smile on your face and your shoulders back. I'm separated under God. That means everywhere I walk is blessed. Everything I touch is blessed. Everything I put my hand on has the blessing of God flowing through it. God wants to lift me and bless me. Hallelujah. He wants to bless your business. He wants to bless your job. You ought to be the highest-paid person on your job. Let me, let me tell you what separation is. A lot more than what kind of skirts you wear and how you wear your hair and what kind of sleeves you wear. Don't reduce it down to something that foolish. Don't take separation and boil it down to the bare minimums. Let me tell you what real separation is. Real separation is: I was sloppy, and I was late to work, and I wasn't a good employee, but I'm filled with the Holy Ghost now, and now I'm 15 minutes early, and now I come in dressed nice, and now I'm the best employee that my, that my boss has, because God filled me with the Holy Ghost, and it makes me walk different and talk different. I view myself as an important person now. Yes, sir. Amen. Don't you bring a bad reproach on the Holy Ghost by standing around the water cooler, riding the time clock. That's stealing. That's theft. Separation is a lot more than just the way you dress and the way you fix your hair. It's the entire way you view yourself. God has called you out to lift you up, to make you somebody. You are separated so that the world would want to be like you, not want to run from you. That's what the witness is. That's what the witness is. Where everybody around you says, "Man, what has happened to you?" I don't need Zig Ziglar. I got the Holy Ghost. I don't need Dale Carnegie. I got all that living inside of me. On it ought to change you. Yes, sir. Biggest embarrassment in the world is somebody gets the Holy Ghost and, and, and late, late on the job, won't show up, and stealing. That's not a representation of the Holy Ghost. This separation I'm talking about is not just about the way you pile your hair exactly right. Man, if you're going to frown and tell people off and be mean and cuss people out, cut your hair too. Just chop that mess off, 'cause you're not, your hair, your long hair ain't doing you anything if it's not on the inside. It's an embarrassment to the church. This stuff ought to work from the inside out. It ought to work from the inside out. This is what the Bible's talking about when it says, "You have a form of godliness." The worst testimony in the world is a woman in a long dress and long sleeves with her hair piled up in a Pentecostal hairdo, and is mean, and you can't hardly be around her. Sir, I'm going to tell you what that is. That, that's going from shore to shore to make a convert. When you make them, they're twofold, a child of hell. That, that's the high kind of hypocrisy that blasphemes the Holy Ghost and dams people in your community to hell. Man, if you can't, if you can't smile and have joy in your heart, then just go ahead and dress like the world, 'cause you're not going to make it anyhow. You, you got to put on the gifts of the Spirit. That's what you got to put on before you put on that long dress. Put on the gifts of the Spirit before you put, put on those long sleeves. Put joy in your heart. Put hope and peace inside of you. Have an encouraging word for somebody that you go around there. There's nothing that I hate anymore than to call up an Apostolic, "How you doing?" "Well, I'm surviving." Well, I don't even want to talk to you no more. You're just surviving. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says He was going to give you joy unspeakable and full of glory. Now, that's what the Bible says. And all you're doing is surviving. Well, something's wrong, 'cause you ought to be bouncing from cloud to cloud. And that does not mean we don't have problems. I'm telling you, I've carried problems since I've been in the church that, that weighted me down. I, I've had situations happen that I didn't know if I was going to live through for a little while. And just like every other human, I've gotten under the load of it before. Just like every other human, I've wondered if I was better off dead at times. But just for a little while. But then I got to thinking about the Lord, and how He saved me, and how He changed me, and how many things He brought me through. And then I decided that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if He can bring me to, to here, He can get me the glory, and it's going to be all right. And I cast my cares on Him. I don't know how, but I know it's going to be all right. And I tell you one thing: When I'm going through those things, I do it in the altar. I don't take it to the grocery store, right? I may weep and cry, but I won't do it in the altar. I'm not going to do it in town on some sinner's shoulder and then ask them if they want to come to church. Be seated before I get up out that altar. I get that smile back on my face and joy in my heart, because when I go out there, I got to be a testimony. I, I got to testify the goodness of God. You can't borrow, pick money from people and win them to God. You can't always go to your boss not having enough money at the end of the week because you're, you're bad. Let me tell you something: There's no room in church for people that are bad with their finances. I'm just telling you. That's as much of a sin as smoking and drinking. Oh, I know I'm going to get in trouble. That's a third of your New Testament is about stewardship. And most of us in America don't stay broke because there's not enough money coming in. We stay broke because there's too much money going out. You know, all of us getting, getting financial buying every once in a while. Some of y'all, y'all made that your zip code. You're not passing through, you just lean back on your hunches and decided to live there. Well, boy, it just got so quiet. You can't be a testimony if you're constantly in a bind. If you're constantly in financial trouble, man, there's too many stewardship classes for that. Most of us are broke because we're trying to keep up with the Joneses, not because there's not enough coming in. Hallelujah. Good. Some of us getting in a Dave Ramsey course and learning to bring a 50-cent baloney sandwich in a sack with some chips instead of spending $20 every day at Doordash. About a couple of months of that, and you could probably pay some bills off and change your life. But you'd rather be in a bind all the time and whine all the time and make it look like God's not being good to you. God's not the problem. Right? A lack of stewardship is the problem. Your problem. Eating your boss ain't paying you enough, because if your boss started paying you more, you'd just go buy a four-wheeler. You'd figure out a way to spend that too. Well, it's 3:50. Your situation's not going to change. If, if you got a $100,000 a year raise, you'd go buy a boat, and then you'd be in worse trouble. All right, listen. You can't, you can't pay a person with bad money skills enough money to keep them from being broke. They just buy more expensive junk. That's all they do. You, you can't fix bad stewardship with giving people more money. There ain't but one way bad stewardship is repaired: that's people learning how to budget their finances. Because I'm telling you, a man that can waste $1,000 a week can waste $10,000 a week just as easy. In fact, he can probably do it easier. Come on. You hadn't got a money problem. You have a principle problem. Brother Cole, I thought you was teaching on Sanctification. I am. Sanctification. This is what Sanctification means: set aside by God for holy use. When you're sanctified, it means God set you aside to make you an example of what it means to live for Him. And He don't want you to be a bad testimony. And if you've got a lack of faith and bad habits, you're going to drive people away from the church instead of drawing them to it. I'm telling you, the person that's best at handling their money in your neighborhood ought to be you. Right? People ought to be amazed at how well you live on what you make. It ought to blow their, their minds. They ought to shake their head and say, "I don't know, I don't know what's going on with those people. I, I, I don't know what's going on with those Morales. I mean, I mean, I know he's not rich, but look at all God's blessed him with. I got to find out what's going on down there at Pine Grove Pentecost Church, because everybody I run into dresses nice, and and it's happy and joyful, and and and it just, it, it just amazes me at how they live." And I, exactly right. I got to find out what's going on. That's what God intended. He intended for His blessings to just come through you and affect everything you touch. But guess what? It takes something on your part to cause that to happen. That's right. You've got to understand that Sanctification means you got to get in the harness with Him. You don't, you don't just live the way you want to live and do what you want to do, and then blame the problems on God. "Well, it's not working." You say, "Who does that?" A lot of people do do that. "I don't know why God just don't bless me like He does Brother So-and-so." Well, you may not, you, you're probably not living according to the principles that Brother So-and-so is living according to. God cannot bless over bad stewardship. He can't bless over a bad attitude. He can't bless over a lack of faith. He flows through that stuff, not in spite of it. Go. That's right. In fact, here's what the Bible says: "Without faith, it is impossible to please God." Can I add a couple more to that? Without you thinking I'm adding to the word, without good stewardship, it's impossible to please God. Without proper boundaries in your life, it's impossible to please God. Hallelujah. Sanctified, set apart. I got to get done. All right, two or three minutes. Two or three minutes, and I'll be finished. All right. God has a reason for you to walk, dress, and eat and live differently. He wants to lift you up so the rest of the world will look at you and wonder, "What is it about them that makes them so blessed?" Divorce, adultery, and all these other things. The church should have different statistics than the world. Your neighbors ought to be able to look at you after 20 or 25 years of living beside you and say, "Man, look at my marriage, and look at theirs. Look at, look at our kids. Look at their kids." The worst thing that a person can do, and I'm almost done, that's full of the Holy Ghost, is not understand what Sanctification means and think that the way you win people is to get down on their level. There is a big difference between being a witness and running with the world. And you got to have enough wisdom to know where that line changes. You'll never win the world if you're isolated from it, but you'll also never win them unless you're insulated from them. You got to have the wisdom to know what it means to visit with them on your turf in order to win them, and not start running with them on their turf. The silliest thing an Apostolic can do is start trying to identify with worldly people. If you get to sitting around with them trying to impress them and how much you're like them, and how much your family's like them, in a little while, you'll have no influence over them anymore, because the whole thing that makes you attractive to them is the difference, not the sameness. Be willing to be different. Don't try to identify. Don't be afraid to say, "No, I didn't see that movie. I don't watch that stuff." Right. Exactly. Don't be afraid to do that. Right. That's right. Come on. Don't be afraid. And, and, and I, I could go into a lot of examples right now, and I, I won't, because this is not a place to set standards and create a bunch of questions in three minutes, two minutes. But you, you, you don't need to be afraid when you're sitting. In fact, you should be proud when you're sitting around them to say, "No, no, my, my kids ain't in that club. They, they, they play music at church. They, they're in the choir." Why should you be ashamed? All right. When in 10 years, your kids are going to still keep going up, and their kids are going to meet their kids, going to be in drug rehab. Your kids' marriages are going to work, and theirs are going to end in divorce, according to statistics. Well, you see what draws them to you is the difference. Stay different. Don't try to identify. So good. Can I, can I close with an illustration? Donald Trump will probably be president again, whether you like him or not, whether you're happy with him or not, he's probably going to be president again. You know why? Because he's got enough guts to be different. What draws the world to him is his difference. And all those that go to Washington and try to fit in, yes, sir. You get their names mixed up, and you can't remember who they are. That's right. You know why? 'Cause they just blend in with all the rest. That's right. You know who's that guy from over? You know that guy? You know he went in there, boy, just really looked like he was a shooting rocket. Now, like he's been bought out. They bought him over and over and over and over and over and over again. Yes, sir. You know what they're complaining about? Speaker Johnson. He was so different until he got in, and now he's sitting around making sure that he fits in with all the rest. And he went from everybody talking to about him till nobody's going to talk about him. If they do, it's going to be negative. You know what that has brought this church to where it is? Our difference. Don't be afraid to be Sanctified. Sanctification is separation, and God set you apart. That's right. God did it. He separated you to make you a testimony and a light, right, to the rest of this world. Don't put a bushel over your candle. Stand proud. The spirit of a man, the Bible says, is the candle of the Lord. Stand proud. Be willing to be different and to shine. Stand together. Let's lift our hands all over the house. Would you lift, lift your hands and thank God? Come on, everybody. Everybody, everybody lifting your hands. Come on, just for a moment or two. Let's praise Him before we close. Come on, Hallelujah. Come on, thank Him. Thank Him. Magnify Him. Lift Him up. My God, have mercy. Come on, praise Him. You know what you got to do? You got to decide who you're going to please. Every one of you, every day, you got to decide where you're going, who you're going to please. Am I going to please my co-workers, or am I going to please God? Am I going to please my family, or am I going to please God? Let me give you a hint: You can't do both. You can't do both. And your greatest testimony, I'm gonna let you go home, but your greatest testimony is not what you speak out of your mouth. Your greatest testimony is what they see on a day-by-day basis. Your testimony is your lifestyle. There's a reason that God wanted men to wear pants and women to wear skirts. There's a reason. You can get all the "what" and "wherefores" and all that, but God is very much into separation. He is so into separation, so into separation, that He didn't want them to wear wool and linen together. And there was no sin in wearing wool and linen together. It was a hybrid to say, "I'm so against separation, I don't even want you to mix cloth. I want my people to be distinct." Yes. I want them to see you coming, but not with your head down and some old frumpy dress, but with your shoulders back and your head up. He said, "If you're ashamed of me, I'm going to be ashamed of you." You ought to be the best-dressed, best-talking, best-employee, best-business owner. I'm going to let you go home, but don't you run. If you're going to run a business, you're Apostolic. Don't you be a sloppy business owner. You get back with people. You tell somebody you're going to be there at 8:00, you be there. You show up. You be on time. You be the most dependable contractor that there is, because you're representing Jesus Christ and the Kingdom. That's what Sanctification is, folks. That's what it is. It's not some airy-fairy, uh, spirit thing that you can't wrap your hands around. It's practical, everyday life that sets you apart and makes you a testimony. That's what Sanctification is. I'm the best because I'm Holy Ghost filled. I live like this and dress like this because I'm Sanctified for Holy use. God flows through me. Everything I do and everything I touch is blessed. God bless you. I love you. Don't forget church Tuesday, Wednesday.