Inner Devotion: The Heart of True Christianity

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I want to obey the scripture which says avoid such people people asked me brother Zack why can't you fellowship with all the believers I said because the Bible says I must avoid certain people you know we could Paul had earlier told Timothy in 2nd Timothy to look at this he says if you want to be [00:11:42]

first of all verse 21 cleanse yourself from impurity from all wickedness it says in verse 19 cleanse yourself and then you'll be a vessel for honor now there's a cleansing that God does that is my past life I can't cleanse myself from my past sins because all my righteous deeds are like filthy rags [00:12:33]

my past sins only the blood of Jesus can cleanse me but my present life I can cleanse myself there are many verses that speak about cleansing myself here's one of them second Corinthians 7:1 says we cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God [00:13:06]

there are many people who have little who love money there are many people who have much you love money and this is a lover of money who still has a form of godliness and I tell you the Christian world is full of it most of these pastors you see on television they are the biggest lovers of money of all [00:24:20]

I noticed another thing in Christian television both in the United States and here that most of these Christian television preachers are people who speak in tongues and claim to be baptized in the Holy Spirit most of them perhaps 90% of them and they are the most covetous lovers of money on the face of the earth [00:24:48]

I really believe one of the greatest needs in our day is to distinguish between eloquence and anointing eloquence many worldly people have many politicians have there are some politicians I've heard about amazingly eloquent they can hold your attention for a long time they speak in such an interesting way [00:25:46]

anointing will convict you of sin convict you of the right the need for righteousness and convict you of judgment because that's what the Holy Spirit does eloquent people won't convict you of sin and righteousness and judgment so lovers of money be very very careful avoid such people [00:26:28]

I want to avoid such people I want to avoid listening to such people on the internet or television I want to know if this guy's a lover of money and a lover of himself I don't want to go anywhere near that person I don't want to attend his meetings I don't want to listen to him on television because he will not [00:26:49]

I mean this is a crude way of trying to show off to others that also unfortunately there are Christians like that whose say subtle things to show that they are superior to you beware of any person who says things to you claiming to be a testimony but the motive behind that testimony is not to help you to go that way [00:27:22]

but the motive is to show you see what a great man of God I am beware of such people who are saying things to you only to show off this is avoid such people avoid such people completely and then another you know he uses a number of words for pride so not only possible but arrogant and that is a certain attitude [00:27:50]

and I'm sorry to say I've seen that in some elders and some preachers and arrogance in the way they speak to others not the spirit of a servant I'm not talking about rebuking sin when you rebuke senior to be very strong but there's a lot of difference between rebuking sin and supposing a person has made a mistake [00:28:16]

I must distinguish between the way I correct a person for sin which is rebellion and the way I correct him for a mistake that is made okay that mistake cause some problem and that often happens in the church when we work together when we are running a conference or we're doing so many things in the church [00:28:50]

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