Walking in Faith: Identity, Love, and Holiness

1. "You are blessed. Come on, everybody say it. I am blessed. You are. That's what Ephesians says you are. You are chosen. You are predestined. You are adopted. You are accepted. You are redeemed, and you are sealed. That's what it says you are. This is your identity. This is who you are in Jesus. Okay, everybody? Now, I said it at the beginning, and I want to continue to say it. You have no right to self-identify. The one who calls you who you are is God. God. And you don't have any right to declare what you are. God says who you are." [01:38] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "You cannot give what you do not have. You can't give love unless you have love. God is love. When you have God, you have love. But when you don't have God, you don't have love. And I know, I know there's a, there's an understanding in the world that the world says, well, you got to love people and love this and love that. But a lot of people who talk about that don't even have God and they can't have, they don't have God. So how could they possibly understand love? You got to have love. You got to have love. And to have love, you have to have God." [04:41] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "When your theology changes your behavior, that's where the challenge is. That's where the challenge is. So let's get right into it. Ephesians chapter 5 verse 1. Therefore, be imitators of God, dear children. The bottom line is this. The bottom line is this. You need to act like your father. Now, I know some of you were told don't be like your father. But in this case, we're talking about Father God and we're talking about him. Be imitators of your father. He goes on to say, and walk in love. Listen, it's all about the walk. Walk in love. Walk in love. Walk in love. Walk in love. Three times in this chapter, you're going to see this. This idea of walk, walk, walk." [03:37] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "When you sin or live in lifestyle of sin, even as a believer, what you're really doing is this is my silly acronym sin. Satan's in now. Okay. He's in now every time we sin or we operate in uncleanliness of any time, we are opening a door to the adversary and you say, well, why is that? How does the devil have an inroad into my life? Because I may be lie, chill, steal or cheat or whatever. Here's why. Listen to this. Satan doesn't have authority of over you as a child of God. He doesn't have that right. But when you sin and you imitate his behavior, you've opened the door to darkness. The enemy does have authority. Everybody in darkness. He rules in the darkness. You are the children of light. You are not to walk in darkness, but when you walk in darkness, you open up a door to the adversary because he operates in the darkness." [09:58] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Walk circumspectly, not as fools or as unwise. Why? Because unwise people just walk and they don't really care where they're ending up in life. Can I tell you? You're not fools and you're not unwise. You should recognize how you're walking. And if you're not moving in the direction you know and God knows you're not supposed to go, you should take account and go, okay, hold up. Let's change the way we're walking. Make sense? Look at this next part. He says, not as fools or as unwise. Redeeming the time. Redeeming the time. Everybody say time. Time. One more time. Say time. Time." [21:00] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "It's not about counting time, but it's about making time count for you. Okay? So, when he says, let's put it in context now and put it all together. He says, when you walk on this planet, walk circumspectly. Walk carefully. Why? You're going to walk carefully, because in, watch this, in Kronos time, you're looking for Kairos moments. You're looking for moments where you and God encounter each other, and you encounter someone else, and you make a difference. So, you should not run through this. You should walk. You should walk. You should take account in looking for God in each and every moment so that you are redeeming the time. You're taking advantage of the opportunities that God has for you while you're living on this planet, because there is a day coming when you're not going to be here anymore, and those days are gone. You have to do it now, and you have to take your time and walk it out." [24:24] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "Submitting one to another in the fear of God. Is that what it says? It says it. All right? And everybody's like quiet. Why are you so quiet? You know where it's going? Here it is. Submitting one to another. Let me ask you a question. Does that mean I submit to you? Yes. Submitting one to another. Submitting one to another. Am I another? Am I to submit to you? Are you to submit to me? Are we to submit to each other in the body of Christ? Absolutely. We all submit to each other. We all love each other. We submit to each other. We applaud each other. We cry together. We celebrate together. Come on. Y'all getting what I'm saying? We submit to each other. Now, here's the deal. That's within the body of Christ for sure." [26:33] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "Submission is voluntary. My goodness, Lord help us. Pastor, she needs to submit. I wouldn't. And I ain't telling her that either. Why? Submission is voluntary. Submission is voluntary. Lovingly yielding, not dominating and demanding. Lovingly yielding. That's what it is. The example is Christ and the church. How many of you believe we should submit ourselves to Christ? Raise your hand. Come on, Peru. I hope you got your hands up. All right. You should want, why do you submit to Christ? Watch this. Here's the revelation. Because he loves me more than I love myself. He wants to take care of me more than I want to take care of myself. He has my best interests at hand at every moment, at every time. I have no problem submitting completely to him because I know his heart for me. A woman who understands the man's heart for her won't have no problem submitting. Won't have no problem submitting." [33:08] (66 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "The husband bears the responsibility first. Well, I just want her. Stop. Are you doing your part? If you will do her part, or I'm sorry, if you will do your part, she will do her part. Listen to the next part. It says, let each one of you in particular love his own wife as himself and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Two more seconds on this. It's the husband's job to love his wife. Why? Because the wife needs love. It's the woman's responsibility, the wife's responsibility, to respect. Men might hear it this way. Honor her husband. To respect her husband. No man ever goes to work going, man, I hope somebody loves me today. If you go to work and you say that as a dude, we're taking your man card. Because men don't do that. Men can go to work with a bunch of people that hate them. They can go to work with a bunch of people that hate them. Here's what they won't go to work for. They won't go to work for people that don't respect them. Why? Because a man needs respect. And a woman is the one who gives him respect." [43:52] (71 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "Walk in love. Walk in love. That's agape. Walk in light. And walk circumspectly. Redeeming the time. Honoring the husband and wife relationship so that you can take advantage of every Kairos moment that you have in life. Are y'all picking it up? Praise God. Are you? Blessed?" [46:15] (19 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)