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they ever increasing faith remember these words from the book of Romans chapter 10 verse 17 so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God praise God for another day and for another privilege and opportunity to share with you the Living Word of God I need your continued faithful financial support if ever-increasing faith television is to remain on the air in your area on the screen is an adjust where you can kneel your type of offering or gift of love let me take this opportunity to thank you so very much for your past your present and whatever future support you’re led to give remember you are helping to make it happen alright turn in your Bibles to second Timothy no I just did that on purpose because y’all got me last time 2nd Peter all right here we go praise the Lord second Peter and we’ll read again our foundation scriptures for our present study 2nd Peter chapter 2 a1 2nd Peter chapter 1 if you have a say I have it we’ll begin reading at verse 1 now this is a part of the series that we’ve been teaching for some time but I’ve said this before and it’s not just a cliche or some kind of a cute statement but if I believe absolutely true and that is that the Word of God is forever pregnant which simply means it constantly gives birth to new facets of Revelation so every time you put your eyeballs on it meditate on it it will bring forth information that you didn’t see before the same way you saw it in the time before that’s the uniqueness of the Word of God it forever continually gives birth to new facets of Revelation so we’re going to read familiar verses but they are impactive if we listen to them alright 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 1 it says Simon Peter a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our and Savior Jesus Christ grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord and His divine power has given to us all things they all things all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust but also for this very reason giving all diligence add to your faith virtue to virtue knowledge to knowledge self-control to self-control perseverance to perseverance godliness to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness love for if these things are yours and abound you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ for he who lacks these things is short-sighted even to blindness and has forgotten that he was cleansed on his old sin therefore brethren be even more diligent to make your call and election Shore for if you do these things you will never stumble now I said this before but I think it’s to me it’s very awesome that he says never you know that word never is a loaded word when it says Deborah I mean that’s whatever the word never is applied to it means never it’ll never never never he says you’ll never ever stumble so I take it from that that our Heavenly Father does not want us to stumble in life and as I’ve been pointing out that word stumble in the English it says one thing but in the Greek language in which the New Testament was originally written it has a stronger meaning it literally means to fall fall down or fail so it says you will never fall you’ll never fall down you’ll never fail never Wow and the word never literally means by no means every by no means every it also carries the idea by no means not even at any time so we we have a dilemma when we read the Bible and then when we look at well maybe sometimes our own life or the lives of others who claim to know God because they do stumble they do fall and so you wonder well did God like when he said you will never stumble or fall no he didn’t lie but the the onus is on us to do what he says in his word and again he says we have to add to our faith certain things and when we do that he says will never stumble never fall I don’t know about you but I’m buying into that I have bought into that in years going by because before I found out about that I did have times when I did stumble I didn’t fall I fell flat on my face in life in terms of issues and things that I was involved in and to know that I don’t have to now I caution you again I think I’ve said this before but let me caution you because this is where we can get tricked up don’t ever in your life don’t ever never by no means ever don’t ever judge your life by the life of some of the human you know what I mean I mean we can draw lessons from one another we can gain insight inspiration things like that but the bottom line is nobody and no one can live your life but you and since all of us are different where each one is unique there are no together alike and so consequently if you make the mistake of looking at somebody else’s life then attempt to interpret the Word of God by virtue of what you see in somebody else’s life you’ll be up the creek in a boat with no oars so we’re taught thing about fail-proof living if he says I’ll never stumble I’ll never fall never fall down never fail then to me that fail-proof stale proof living living without failing again now I caution you don’t look at anyone else’s life and don’t look at your own life from the perspective of past situations let’s go with what you have right now with what you’re learning right now what you know right now from this day forward yeah I failed I don’t know about you I have failed in life in years going by when I didn’t even know God was in his word and I failed I put forth the efforts of the effort produced no result that were you know beneficial but I have I left that behind because that’s another principle Tabitha’s forgetting those things which are behind some things you remember but there are some things he and ordering so you forget you know just forget it and go on from where you are now so we’re talking about fail-proof living now we’ve already talked about several different aspects of this and so we Wilson would want to go on now remember the key here he says add to your faith so the assumption is from the gate if you would we all start out with faith if we’re born again if we’re born of the Spirit of God if we have accepted Jesus as our Savior and Lord then we our faith goes with the package but if up to us to develop the faith it’s kind of like ordinarily all things being equal brains go with with the package when you’re born you most people I know it could be but I haven’t heard about it that any baby was ever born without a brain that’s a bad situation if you come here without a brain so we all come with faith that are born of the Spirit of God but now he tells me to add to it so that’s my responsibility so if I don’t like where I am then I gotta examine my fail to find out well have I been obedient to do what he told me to do because God didn’t create it as a telethon he didn’t create if there’s robots he create with freewill so it’s up to us to do what he tells us to do to get the benefit I mean it’s the same thing was raising a child I mean you know when you really stop a thing about it I we raise our children when I was a father in terms of the little ones at home and raising their love to get to the point where they could end on their own I wanted them to be able to succeed in life just in the natural realm so everything I told them were taught them even though they screamed and hollered and fell on the floor and fell out about some of the things that I told him to do it was all for their benefit because I didn’t need already had it I’ve already gone through or I had gone through what they were now going through but I wanted him to come out on the other side and better shaped in myself and so father wants that same thing for us so he says you’ll never say never fall never stumble no he said after your faith now he says we were talking about them about knowledge and the definition of knowledge is primarily a seeking to know primarily a seeking to know an inquiry or investigation spiritual and natural the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gain to experience and Association the fact or condition of being aware of something so he tells us to add knowledge so we were talking about the fact that they’re both there is both spiritual knowledge and there is physical or natural knowledge we need both and some people have thought that all they needed to do what they became a Christian was to get spiritual knowledge and everything else could work by itself and we’ll see we’re true then work that way because we live in a natural world we have to we have to go through natural life so we need to be equipped with knowledge about natural things in order to succeed in the natural and then of course with the assist and help of the spiritual things we come out on top big time winners so we talked about spiritual knowledge first we talked about the power of the Holy Spirit we talked about how does he come or how do we get the holy spirit we found out it was it’s a divine means of communication when we’re filled with the spirit to speak with other tongues then we talked about freedom from poverty but I can’t cash in on that or take advantage of that if I don’t know that it is the will of God for me to succeed and not fail in terms of material things so the the decreed they decrease the decreed will of God is not for us to be poor but since he told us to do the adding then it’s up to me so if I come out poor in terms of the world standards it’s got to be my fault are you following so we talked about freedom from poverty in the sense that it’s not the decreed will of God that we be poor or experience poverty but he’ll let us be poor if we let it be poor I always like to say it that way not up to God it’s up to us but I can’t do it I don’t have knowledge about how do i how do i circumvent poverty and become all that i ought to be and have all that i ought to have and even what i desire or what so we have to have nots we talked about that freedom from poverty it’s not the will of God for you to be poor if you’re poor it’s because you choose to be poor if you call yourself a Christian because think about it how many of you have a Bible if you have a Bible right now raise it up okay now while you have it up look around look around and look at all the other Bible okay thank you so if you have a Bible then you have the book of knowledge if you don’t do something with it leave it to your imagination then we found out that we have freedom from sickness I have to have knowledge about that so that out stand against those things that come against me that would attempt to take me out from the physical point of view it’s not the decreed will of God but he has to let us if we let it so I have to have knowledge about the fact I don’t have to be sick so that I’ll resist sickness in every form or any form when it comes against me instead of saying oh I think I’m going to have a coke well I think I’m going to be sick or every time I eat shrimp it makes me vomit well that’s why because you said you said that you believe that so you haven’t what you think and what you believe then last time we were talking about freedom from the fear of death not to freedom from death you will die if Jesus doesn’t come back before that in fact you’re dying right now while you’re sitting here you’re not getting closer to your origin you’re getting further away from your origin and closer to your departure this goes with territory no big deal that’s what it is but but the fear of death you remember about the airplane story hallelujah so do i but the fear not death but the fear of death you’re going to die we know that that unfortunately goes with the human territory if you would but I believe based on what the Word of God said that we should have a prolong tenure if you would here in this physical life if we know how to take advantage of what God has put into his word and in our covenant so we talked about freedom from the fear of death I don’t have to be afraid of it so I can drive the freeway I don’t have to be afraid I’m gonna get killed and go swimming I don’t afraid I’d like to be afraid I’m gonna drown I fly on an airplane you don’t have to be afraid that the airplane is on the crash because that’sthat’s what killed more people than the actual incident but the fear of death so we talked about that now so that covers for what I that covers prayer that covers what I want to cover in reference to the spiritual aspect now we want to look at the physical or the natural practical knowledge we need to have practical knowledge about life go to proverbs chapter 10 natural or practical knowledge I ought to have I need to have knowledge about what’s going on around me I need practical knowledge not just spiritual knowledge I need both but both in their place all right proverbs chapter 10 if you have a sale heavy verse 14 wise people store up what but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction this is God speaking to it he says wise people stupid people don’t do this but wise people notice they don’t gain or get knowledge they store it up why so you could take advantage of the next time around so he says why people store up knowledge so we want to be wise now we want to look at the first thing about natural knowledge and that is vocational knowledge what are you good at what do you have a propensity for what would you like to do you’ve got to take care of yourself eventually or let’s say it this way you should take care of yourself eventually momma and Popa have their place but there ought to be a time when it gets to the point where you take care of yourself I have to have knowledge what what what do I know how to do what do I want to do what would I like to do what maybe you could take some tests and find out your vocational aptitude in certain areas some people are multi-faceted in terms of talent well you got to find out coming it will work best for you so you can take care of yourself I don’t know about you I don’t want somebody to take care of me ami when I get to the point where I got half them I take care of me I’m out of here and I choose my personal preference you know what I mean I like doing for a mecca for believe it or not I like brushing my own teeth you praise the Lord when I was a little one I couldn’t do this and I had a Sam Hill thank God for mama helped me brush my teeth till I learn how to do it for myself but but I want to have knowledge about whatever it is I need to do and the Lord will help you if you’ll let him help you to show you what’s your best good at because sometimes you can look at something today and it seems okay that’s reasonable that’s what I’d like to do but is it practical for you is it practical for you so we need to have natural knowledge vocational career Tallis gifts what are your gifts what are your abilities we need to academically prepare ourselves for success in life and it’s getting is getting now to a point worth more and more necessary to learn knowledge in terms of practical areas because there’s so much emphasis now and has been for years now on education getting a degree going to college going to school all kinds of vocational school different things like that and so the competition is stiff out there I mean it’s still so you’re going to have to know something you should be in a position to know something can’t just skate alone and make it unless you just want to pick up a welfare stamp or check rather and food stamps and stuff like that they are available but I mean and I’m serious because there are people that that’s what they do for a living they collect welfare checks they collect food stamps but you don’t want to do that vocational college career talent gifts ability where you’re good at what would you like to do academically prepared to take care of yourself and we have we have better things available to us to be able to do than we did well 10 years ago 20 years ago 4050 years ago when I was in high school I wanted to be I wanted to play baseball I was very good at it because I worked at it and but I got discouraged and gave it up because at that particular time there was no hope of a black man becoming a major league baseball player they didn’t have it in fact I think just came out with another movie called the Jackie Robinson story well I remember the real Jackie Robinson story with Jackie Robinson in the movie he was the first one they got a chance to break into the National you know big leagues as it were and so because I couldn’t I knew a black man wasn’t going to be a major baseball player so I gave up on me even though I had the talent for it and I played well and I did all that I needed to do to be sharp but you know so where it goes or the way it went but now today there are more things available to everybody so you can’t cop out and use your color or your height or your gender as an excuse for failure not legitimately anyway so we need to have knowledge you to find out what’s available out there what would it take for me to do this or be there or be the other I need to know that God will help me but I’ve got to do something with the ability that I have so I need to find out what are my proclivities what are my talents you could take tips and all that to find that out okay another area of natural factor knowledge we need knowledge about our bodies and health it’s up to us to be healthy all things being equal so I need to have knowledge about nutrition vitamin mineral supplement diet now when I say diet I was looking at this note and most of the time the word did that diet connotes losing weight but diet just simply means what you do on a regular basis and you’re just your regular life your regular method of eating should be a dot not a dot to lose weight but just something that’s consistent that you do all the time that gives you the kind of results that you want now thank God for those that want to lose weight and many people need to lose weight sorry president and the thing is so so good about you’re in control now I was looking at a movie one time uh so it’s an old movie they don’t make them like this anymore but I used to make some Italian movie makers came up with some really different kinds of things I think one was called oh my goodness with him on the name of it mondo Connie anybody ever remember Monica it’s a long time ago but it’s very very interesting do you ever have a chance to go and get an old movie it’s called mondo Connie it’s a dog’s life that’s what that means no canine done no but I mean it’s really interesting and what they showed particular places in Scandinavia where they they raised these geese for to market them and what they would do they would take these geese and they would stick a big funnel about that long down their throats they would put whatever it is that the geese ate grain or whatever it was and he put it inside of this round thing that had a handle on it and they would turn it and grind it up and force it down the animal so it’s called their livers to get big and the animals would get big force they force-fed them well most of the time we force feed ourselves and and it’s it’s a subject nobody wants to talk about it but everybody sees it and our our nation is obese overweight big-time people get mad when you talk about it because they don’t want to do what it takes to not be overweight it takes effort doesn’t work by itself but we need to have knowledge about the why why am i as big as I am why why do I you know what well what can I do or can I do anything or is it inevitable I was born this way you know we’ve heard that quite a bit in recent days yet hard morning this way really really I need to have knowledge about that my body nutrition vitamin mineral die take care of the body it’s the temple of God go to first Corinthians chapter 6 first Corinthians chapter 6 yes I think it was a statement I forget what it’s in relationship to what is the statement something like oh no I remember what it was some years ago one of the manufacturers that come out with preparations for women’s hair I forget the name of the company but the advertisements are advertisements on television was one of them was if I only have one life to live let me give it as a blonde you buy every member that well really okay well guess what that’s about it you only have one life to live this physical way you better do something constructive with it or if you’re not going to be here very long first Corinthians chapter 6 verse 19 look at this it says or do you not know that your body say my body say my body say my body okay my body or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have from God whoa and you are not your own and you are not your own you don’t really as a Christian that we’re talking about a Christian because we have a greater responsibility than the person that may not be a Christian but you you better be careful tearing up God’s property okay look at this now or do you not know that your body is the temple not just building the faith film is not the temple the cathedral with the cross on the top and the spire is reaching up into the sky that’s not the temple you are take your right finger put it on your forehead and say I are the temple I know that’s not good French but you understand what I’m saying want to get your attention okay but look at this this is it this is awesome or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have from God and you are not your own so you’re you’re dealing with somebody else’s property you’re a skewer a caretaker a trustee what are you doing with God’s property now looking at knowledge about the body the temple of God not only is it the temple of God but it is the house you live is its style scripturally as a health because our bodies are not us our bodies are simply where us live and where we live we are created in the likeness and image of God in that we are spirit and spirits are real I mean they’re there they’re actually they’re more real than physical bodies are because the Bible says and you can’t disprove it Bible says God is a spirit and God who is a spirit created us and we are spirits we have to have bodies in order to live here in this three-dimensional earth realm because that’s what we were created for you know usually the maker of whatever item it is that they make they make it for a purpose and if you abuse the purpose and don’t take advantage of the purpose for which the manufacturer made it you might not get the benefit out of him having made it so so God created us as spirits because he’s a spirit but he created us to have physical bodies because we were designed crafted to live here in this three-dimensional physical world and in order to live here you got to have a body or you end up being a disembodied spirit you don’t want to do that so we we we we are spirits but we have a body think about it your body is your home that’s where you live so what are you doing to the house you live it I know about you I wouldn’t knock the windows out of my own house think about it so I have to have knowledge about that fact so that I can take advantage of it and take care of it because I am a property overseer the property is my body and guess what it’s the vehicle by which you traverse this three-dimensional physical world and guess what yes no only one you got and if the only one you’re going to ever get so if you don’t take care of it mmm will be unto you are we going to go through this one the rest of our lives I can buy a new car get a later model you can’t get another body like it’s in part thank God for some thank God for the part but still if you didn’t have a body you wouldn’t have anything for the part to be attached to so I need I need knowledge about the care and oversight of my body because it was the only one I got and I got to take care of it in order for it to last now go to first Timothy chapter four we’ll look at something else about knowledge about our bodies about our health to our responsibility to take care of our bodies again it’s the only one you have need to take care of it and a lot of the things that caused us grief is the fact that we have not taken care of our bodies and the thing that’s so unique about the body that God created it is it’s a marvel it’s a marvel and it is so so marvelously made that it will take abuse for a long time before breaking down but if you keep on keeping on it will get to the point where you’ll finally break down but if you take care of it pretty good piece of merchandise it lasts pretty long time but you got to take care of it so I need to have knowledge about what do I need to do and particularly in these days in time where we’re in fact there’s a program I don’t look at the program I haven’t really looked at it but I happened to run up on it while I was on vacation called I think it’s called American greed you know greed like greedy greed and and because our world now is so conscious of gaining money that they they will do the manufacturers I don’t know if they ever got together with one another guided to collusion but it looks like it they do everything they can to kill us not not fast because they won’t make any money if they kill you fast so they got to do it by degrees you don’t even know what you’re not even aware of it all the time but there’s so much stuff in the atmosphere and the water and stuff I mean good gracious of life if you don’t take care of yourself you won’t be here long the changes got take care of things so you need to have knowledge about okay what do I need to do or what can I do to prolong my life and what can I do can maximize my life in the sense that I can get the most mileage out of this vehicle if you would Alan got change the oil some time got to put good fuel in it you know what I mean take care of it so we need to do that but now why is this I told you first Timothy chapter what for all right look at verse 8 for bodily exercise profiteth little but godliness is profitable for all things having promise of the life that now is and now is end of that which is to come the first part of the verse is the one I want to Center down on that most people don’t want to hear about said for bodily exercise profits let’s just stop there and look at that etymologically what what does what does profit connote would you could we use the word increase if you profit get in whatever way you increased is that right so so it says that that bodily exercise profits a little but wisdom would dictate you ought to have the little dated profit and and let me tell you particularly particularly you young folk when I say young young you know I guess 40 or under take advantage of it now when you’re real when you’re really young all being exercised with wow you do all that stuff you get my age yeah I’m doing the more exercise I am Michelle you know lion oh I’m going to exercise what see nothing about no sit up to sit down you know really I mean it used to be men I get in front of the mirror men I was proud of myself and I would execute I do it now because if I don’t do it nobody will do it for me and I hate every minute of it I don’t want to do I don’t want to do no more exercises but I also do not want to experience what I experienced when I don’t do exercise I praise the Lord yeah mm-hmm so do it now while you’re reeling build yourself up get a good strong solid foundation so that when you do get to a certain point you don’t have to go in the gym every five minutes it’s been three hours in there you know and it’s nothing wrong with that but you know do why you can but you’ll get to the point when you super defeated Jim normal way I’m going to go again we’re going to put a do away with all Jim’s okay if this but look at this set for Bob the exercise profits a little well God is telling me I must need that exercise because again we have this treasure in earthen vessel and the vessel carries the treasure if the vessel is rundown dilapidated and it’s not functioning at the highest level it’s going to hinder or impede the progress of the man on the inside the spirit land if I’m in an iron lung or hooked up to some dialysis machines and all whatever where I can’t get up and go when I want to go then my spirit the real me I’m bound by that body that’s not functioning correctly and there’s nothing in the world like being free who I could be able to get up and go on your own strength whenever you want to not to have somebody help you get up and go thank God for help don’t misunderstand me on that that or minimizing if I’d rather do it myself may I’d rather be able to do it myself there are some time when you get to a point you need some help and thank God for good solid honest lovable help but take advantage of yourself now why you’ve got your strengths and all the things you can do for yourself because that time goes on this thing is not getting any younger hoo and on honey what’s really in your experience of the attack you subtract but it really really really something is when you look at the calendar and you find that you’re 80 years old and you’ve got a 37 year old man and you’re and your mind won’t keep up with that 80 people not in this closet I want to but so I need to I need to take care of myself while I can so I need to do the things I need to have knowledge about what can I do to maximize my physical life here on planet earth to get the maximum mileage out of it if you would running properly not an 8 cylinder engine running on three cylinders so he says for bodily exercise profiteth little and it exercise the Bible talking about and that I’m talking about is not that one it goes like this and bicep is highly developed and the rest of it is getting more and more highly developed mm-hmm no no no you got to do some downtown ago but it’s you know what I’m telling the truth so I need to have knowledge about the Bible I mean about my body nutrition that vitam is whatever and I mean it’s I keep saying I’m going to do that I’ve got to start doing this it’s I don’t know if there’s the word that’s more descriptive than the word incredible if there’s a word that’s that we commonly use this more descriptive than that then the word incredible I tell you every single week I’ll say it this way almost every day but every single week in the mail I get something about nutrition vitamins about the latest discovery for this and the other if you took all the stuff that they recommend they would arrest you as a junkie put you behind bars I mean I’m gonna do Betty help me to remit I want to do this just just put curiosity thing I mean all of the material that I get and you know they’re talking about it paper paperless society and all that kind of stuff I mean it is awesome and they got a new discovery every week yes when you yes when you thought it was safe to go into the water here comes y’all I would never I mean it’s amazing it’s amazing so you really don’t know and all these you know you have to believe that there are some people that really mean as well but I think most of this stuff is all about money it’s all about making money get you to subscribe to their newsletter you couldn’t take all the stuff that’s recommended if you wanted to but you got to take something in other words you need to do something so you’ve got to be wise enough to find it okay what what what you know between you and your your medical professional or whatever it is find out what you need to do and take advantage of it so that you can live a productive life not not just live a long time you know decrepit and crippled and you know out of sorts and all that but be able to live a life and enjoy it so anyway we need to have knowledge about these things in order to get the maximum benefit out okay verse six tells us there in second Peter take talks about temperance or self-control what I said I thought I said taking Peter no no second Peter that’s when we started out second Peter chapter one don’t go there don’t try that on me did I say second Peter Oh second Peter okay you got it second Peter comes at the first Peter anyway look at verse six if you have second Peter chapter 1 verse 6 do you have to raise your hand everybody read out loud [Music] thank you notice self-control not the control of others but control this you control you self-control it’s also called in the Bible temperance and the old the traditional kicking game but self-control to master control and control the body with all of its left all right look at first John first John chapter 2 y’all sure want to find something wrong unless your heart first John chapter two self-control most people are out of control first John chapter two you have to say I have it alright very interesting – very interesting verses verse 15 they do not love the world or the things in the world if anyone loves the world the love of the father is not in it for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world now talking about the world system if we get to the point where we love the world system and all this involved in it then what we don’t realize we’re getting to the point where we’re loving Satan’s domain because he’s the god of the world system doesn’t say not to have things that are in the world but when you get to the point where it’s really controlling you and well I don’t say that I will say that but-but-but-but self-control look at this everything in the world system appeals to our flesh our senses in other words and obviously there’s a place for the senses but when it gets to the point where compromises our spiritual values and functions then it’s a dangerous thing I’ve got a I’ve got a control got to learn how to control myself I learned a long time ago and I’ve had a few years to be able to to to work this out so that I know that it that it works when I was younger yeah when we first got married my wife when I first got married but you were and I was 20 21 and I thought I had to have everything he came down the pike I mean anything came I got a I got a ham one gotta have one of these I mean talked in Reverse I got had one she thought I mean everybody done Ellie’s but I got AB and and the the systems of the world because they’re they’re based on money and getting more money they have to they have to make you dissatisfied with what and where you are right now so you buy more and most people don’t know how to have no self-control so they go for every advertisement that comes down the line years ago there was a man it’s I think it’s real a little book now call his name the author was named Vance Packard and the book was I don’t have to get the title but it dealt with what’s called psychological obsolescence the meaning making things psychologically obsolete absolutely nothing wrong with but they make the work your head to where you dissatisfied with it but this is this plays in 3d I got a head wanna go how did you exist before the 3d and when you really think about so much of the stuff it gratifies the flesh but it doesn’t really add any quality to your life but you got to have one everybody has one you don’t want to be the last one on the block with one of these whether your friends going to think what are they going to think when you’re pushing up daisies I mean what are they gonna think it’s a funeral when they bury you what difference is what what difference does it make what they think but they’ve got people and I used to be like that I anything came bought into it right away I had to have one I got had one of those who got to have one got a hammer and my my family they did my wife and kids in the clinic mean I got a I got a iPhone and um I dropped it in adversely cracked glass is cracked I just haven’t got around to going to get a you know another phone cuz it sometimes I can’t even see the letter that’s here you know because of the cracks but just because they made another one I’m not going to buy one just because when this one gets to the point where she’s completely non-functional obviously I mean I want to have a telephone I mean it’s good music communication but some of you you trade off that’s why you end it you’re not you have no control you let those people out there program you and you got to have one something you got two or three phones boy I didn’t go over to and all the rest of the stuff that they have I mean every and people don’t they don’t do any thinking now is this really how is this going to really improve my life how is this really going to make a positive impact on my life and the quality of my life other than just another gadget or gizmo no controller it figured I mean people I think what was the last in it y’all can tell me this somebody was scary and I ain’t saying that name yet get on me what was the last one was the last phone they had iPhone iPhone 5 people were in line days before waiting for the phone is that amazing and that is percent of the time you don’t even use all the stuff is on there I’ve got stuff on my TV and other mechanical I mean no electronic gadgets and every I’ve never used the stuff but at that time had headway so I had to be I have to be in control I’m in control I don’t get I don’t buy sub just because they every time it’s one way if we stay I stayed in I kept the family in debt was always buying whatever came down the pike I had one of them oh yeah it works in Reverse yeah I’m good nothing wrong with having things but I do think there’s a problem when things have you to the extent that you can’t function like you should as a child of God simply because of the thing so I got to have I have to have self-control I’ve got a control self of course the biggest issue there is with with eating and you know people get mad when you talk about that as though I stuff the stuff down your throat and major 350-pound get mad at me go look in the mirror you’re the problem and the thing about you know you’re not happy about it because if you work it wouldn’t matter what anybody said it wouldn’t affect you when I owed it but you get incensed you get upset because somebody because you’re too undisciplined to control yourself you keep letting the fourth spoon in the knife control you speaking to you in several languages take another bite take another one yeah then you’re miserable can’t buy any clothes nothing fits Omar the tent makers out of business out there you can’t hit anything in the hill amen I mean it sounds funny a comical various now you say it’s serious pitiful pitiful out of control no control and if you’re not controlled in one area of your life control is control is control if you’re in control you’re in control I don’t care what it is and what you apply the control to you’re still in control I mean some people I mean this is hard I know it’s hard but you know I want people to be I want people to enjoy their lives yeah and when you know you see somebody killing themselves you know particular if you love them you don’t want to see them kill themselves and you know a park maxy handcuffing them and locking them up put him in the cellar yourself and and depriving them of food only other thing you have at your disposal in some words you know and like I said before when I deal with people that are overweight or attempting the Lord would use me to help attempt to help people that are overweight and they get mad you know but if I didn’t love you I wouldn’t put it like here if you get 350 pounds long as that as long as I don’t have to buy your clothes I don’t have to get provide to bid think about it what do I care if there’s no progress what but God will God has to have somebody to sound the alarm somebody to say something about it perhaps who see we never know oh I do know I’m out of telling aren’t you glad I’m so glad II don’t know why I talk about me like that I stay right where you are just been investigating asportation report information about how you may obtain an audio CD and DVD of the message which you’ve just heard for your own spiritual enrichment and edification remember again the DS telecast and radio broadcasting made possible by the continued people offering view the viewers and listeners remember also these words in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 7 but we walk by what they not by what [Music]