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

WISDOM IS A TREE OF LIFE. PRV:3:18 SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE TO THEM THAT LAY HOLD UPON HER: AND HAPPY IS EVERY ONE THAT RETAINETH HER. WISDOM AND DISCRETION ARE LIFE TO THE SOUL. PRV:3:21 MY SON, LET NOT THEM DEPART FROM THINE EYES: KEEP SOUND WISDOM AND DISCRETION: 22. SO SHALL THEY BE LIFE UNTO THY SOUL, AND GRACE TO THY NECK. GOD IS A TRINITY IN UNITY; GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY GHOST. GOD THE FATHER CREATED THE LORD JESUS. COL:1:15 WHO IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE. GOD CREATED JESUS A QUICKENING SPIRIT, A LIFE GIVING SPIRIT. 1COR:15:45 AND SO IT IS WRITTEN, THE FIRST MAN ADAM WAS MADE A LIVING SOUL; THE LAST ADAM WAS MADE A QUICKENING SPIRIT. JN:1:4 IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. GOD THE FATHER CREATED ALL THINGS BY HIS SON, JESUS. EPH:3:9 AND TO MAKE ALL MEN SEE WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD HATH BEEN HID IN GOD, WHO CREATED ALL THINGS BY JESUS CHRIST. WHAT IS LIFE? LIFE IS A SPIRIT, WHEN THE SPIRIT OF LIFE LEAVES THE BODY THE BODY IS DEAD. JMS:2:26 FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD, SO FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD ALSO. WHERE IS THE SPIRIT OF LIFE FOUND IN THE HUMAN BODY? THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD. LV:17:11 FOR THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD: AND I HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU UPON THE ALTAR TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SOULS: FOR IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKETH AN ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL. WHEN JESUS CHRIST CREATED MAN, HE CREATED MAN A TRINITY IN UNITY, BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IS IN THE BREATH OF JESUS CHRIST. GN:2:7 AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND, AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL. IN THE RESURRECTION, AT THE LAST DAY, LIFE WILL COME FROM THE BREATH OF GOD. EZ:37:9 THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, PROPHESY UNTO THE WIND, PROPHESY, SON OF MAN, AND SAY TO THE WIND, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; COME FROM THE FOUR WINDS, O BREATH, AND BREATHE UPON THESE SLAIN, THAT THEY MAY LIVE. THE BODY CAN DIE, AND THE SOUL LIVE ON; OR THE SOUL CAN DIE, AND THE BODY LIVE ON. IF A MAN GOES INTO A WOMAN AND COMMITS THE SIN OF ADULTERY, THE PHYSICAL BODY WILL GET UP AND WALK AWAY BUT THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL WILL BE DESTROYED. PRV:6:32 BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING; HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL. PHYSICAL LIFE IS VERY SHORT, COMPARED TO ETERNITY IT IS AS A VAPOUR. JMS:4:14 WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE ON THE MORROW. FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOUR, THAT APPEARETH FOR A LITTLE TIME, AND THEN VANISHETH AWAY. IF A MAN WOULD LIKE TO LIVE A LONG LIFE HE MUST WATCH WHAT HE SAYS. 1PT:3:10 FOR HE THAT WILL LOVE LIFE, AND SEE GOOD DAYS, LET HIM REFRAIN HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL, AND HIS LIPS THAT THEY SPEAK NO GUILE: THE WORD "GUILE" MEANS, DECEIT, DECEPTION. THE PRECIOUS LIFE, OF THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL, IS ETERNAL IF NOT DESTROYED BECAUSE OF SOME TRANSGRESSION. PRV:6:26 FOR BY MEANS OF A WHORISH WOMAN A MAN IS BROUGHT TO A PIECE OF BREAD: AND THE ADULTRESS WILL HUNT FOR THE PRECIOUS LIFE. MULTITUDES OF MEN, AND WOMAN ARE MARRYING INTO ADULTERY. IF A MAN MARRIES A WOMAN. A DIVORCEE, THAT HAS A LIVING PREVIOUS HUSBAND HE WILL BE MARRING INTO ADULTERY. ROM:7:3 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. IF A WOMAN MARRIES A MAN THAT HAS PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, BY DIVORCE, FOR ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OTHER THAN FORNICATION, SHE WILL BE MARRING INTO ADULTERY. JESUS SAID THESE WORDS. 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. THE HARLOT'S HOUSE IS THE WAY TO HELL GOING DOWN INTO THE CHAMBERS OF DEATH. PRV:7:26 FOR SHE HATH CAST DOWN MANY WOUNDED: YEA, MANY STRONG MEN HAVE BEEN SLAIN BY HER. 27. HER HOUSE IS THE WAY TO HELL, GOING DOWN TO THE CHAMBERS OF DEATH. HOW DID DEATH COME TO BE? IT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF ADAM'S ORIGINAL SIN. ROM:5:12 WHEREFORE, AS BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN; AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED: THE LAST ENEMY TO BE DESTROYED IN THIS PRESENT WORLD IS DEATH. 1COR:15:26 THE LAST ENEMY THAT SHALL BE DESTROYED IS DEATH. WITH OUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE IS NO REMISSION OF SIN. A MAN'S BLOOD CAN BE SHED WITHOUT HIM DYING. WHY DID JESUS DIE ON CAVALRY'S CROSS? HE DIED THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD OF BOTH THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. ROM: 14:9 FOR TO THIS END CHRIST BOTH DIED, AND ROSE, AND REVIVED, THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD BOTH OF THE DEAD AND LIVING. THIS FLESHLY BODY IS JUST TEMPORARY IT WILL PERISH, IT MAY LIVE UP TO HUNDRED TWENTY YEARS. GN:6:3 AND THE LORD SAID, MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT ALWAYS STRIVE WITH MAN, FOR THAT HE ALSO IS FLESH: YET HIS DAYS SHALL BE AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS. IT IS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY, FOR THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. 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. EVERY THING VISIBLE IS TEMPORARY, THE THINGS THAT ARE INVISIBLE ARE ETERNAL. 2COR:4:18 WHILE WE LOOK NOT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN: FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORAL; BUT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL. ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN ARE PREDESTINATED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF JESUS CHRIST. GOD HAS PLANNED OUR LIVES IN SUCH A WAY THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR GOOD. ROM:8:28 AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORKS TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. 29. FOR WHOM HE DID FORE KNOW, HE ALSO DID PREDESTINATE TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN. 30. MOREOVER WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE, THEM HE ALSO CALLED: AND WHOM HE CALLED THEM HE ALSO JUSTIFIED: AND WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, THEM HE ALSO GLORIFIED. ONLY THE ELECT OF GOD ORDAINED TO ETERNAL LIFE WILL BELIEVE. ACTS:13:48 AND WHEN THE GENTILES HEARD THIS, THEY WERE GLAD, AND GLORIFIED THE WORD OF THE LORD: AND AS MANY AS WERE ORDAINED TO ETERNAL LIFE BELIEVED. WE ARE COMMANDED NOT TO TEMPT GOD. MT:4:5 THEN THE DEVIL TAKETH HIM UP INTO THE HOLY CITY, AND SETTETH HIM ON A PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE, 6. AND SAITH UNTO HIM, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, CAST THYSELF DOWN: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE CONCERNING THEE: AND IN THEIR HANDS THEY SHALL BEAR THEE UP, LEST AT ANY TIME THOU DASH THY FOOT AGAINST A STONE. 7. JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, IT IS WRITTEN AGAIN, THOU SHALT NOT TEMPT THE LORD THY GOD. BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM, WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD THEY ARE ALIVE PHYSICALLY, BUT DEAD SPIRITUAL, THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL IS DEAD. 1COR:15:22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT BRINGS THE INNER MAN TO LIFE. JN:3:5 JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 6. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. BAPTISM IS THE PRINCE OF SACRAMENTS, BECAUSE WHEN THE ELECT OF GOD ARE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THEY ARE TRANSLATED OUT OF THE WORLD, AND INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST. GAL:3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. AND WE COME INTO THE PROMISE THAT WE SHALL RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. ACTS:2:38 THEN PETER SAID UNTO THEM, REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. WHEN WE ARE BAPTIZED WE DIE TO THIS PRESENT WORLD BUT ARE ALIVE IN CHRIST. AND BECAUSE OF OUR SPIRITUAL UNION WITH CHRIST WE SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE. ROM:5:10 FOR IF, WHEN WE WERE ENEMIES, WE WERE RECONCILED TO GOD BY THE DEATH OF HIS SON, MUCH MORE, BEING RECONCILED, WE SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE. WHEN WE ARE BAPTIZED WE DIE TO THIS WORLD. COL:3:3 FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. COL:3:4 WHEN CHRIST WHO IS OUR LIFE, SHALL APPEAR, THEN SHALL YE ALSO APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY GAL:2:19 FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT LIVE UNTO GOD. 20. I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; YET NOT I BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME: AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOT LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME. 21. I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD: FOR IF RIGHTEOUSNESS COME BY THE LAW, THEN CHRIST IS DEAD IN VAIN. ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1JN:5:11 AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. ROM:8:2 FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. THE HOLY GHOST CAME INTO THE WORLD FROM GOD THE FATHER. JESUS IS SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES AND HE SAYS, JN:14:16 AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, AND HE SHALL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER, THAT HE MAY ABIDE WITH YOU FOR EVER; 17. EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT SEETH HIM NOT, NEITHER KNOWETH HIM: BUT YE KNOW HIM; FOR HE DWELLETH WITH YOU, AND SHALL BE IN YOU. THE HOLY GHOST WAS A GIFT TO THE SAINTS OF GOD FROM THE FATHER THROUGH THE JESUS THE SON. AFTER HIS DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION, JESUS CAME TO HIS DISCIPLES, AND BREATHED ON THEM AND SAID RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST. JN:20:21 THEN SAID JESUS TO THEM AGAIN, PEACE BE UNTO YOU: AS MY FATHER HATH SENT ME, EVEN SO SEND I YOU. 22. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST: 23. WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT, THEY ARE REMITTED UNTO THEM; AND WHOSE SOEVER SIN YE RETAIN, THEY ARE RETAINED. WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL COMES TO LIFE, AND OUR PERSONALITY, OUR CHARACTER, OUR DISPOSITION, CHANGES. THE SOUL OF MAN DELIGHTS IN THE LAWS OF GOD. ROM:7:22 FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD MAN. WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST LOVE, JOY, PEACE, COMES TO DWELL WITHIN US. GAL:5:22 BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH, 23. MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE: AGAINST SUCH IS NO LAW. THE ANOINTING THE HOLY GHOST BRINGS WILL TEACH US AND BRING US INTO ALL TRUTH. 1JN:2:27 BUT THE ANOINTING WHICH YE HAVE RECEIVED OF HIM ABIDETH IN YOU, AND YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN TEACH YOU: BUT AS THE SAME ANOINTING TEACHETH YOU OF ALL THINGS, AND IS TRUTH, AND IS NO LIE, AND EVEN AS IT HATH TAUGHT YOU, YE SHALL ABIDE IN HIM. LOOK THIS VERSE OF SCRIPTURE OVER CAREFULLY. WHAT SO EVER GOD DOTH IT SHALL BE FOREVER. YOU HAVE BEEN CREATED YOU SHALL SPEND ETERNITY SOME WHERE. ECCL:3:14 I KNOW THAT, WHATSOEVER GOD DOETH, IT SHALL BE FOR EVER: NOTHING CAN BE PUT TO IT, NOR ANY THING TAKEN FROM IT: AND GOD DOETH IT, THAT MEN SHOULD FEAR BEFORE HIM. IN THIS PRESENT WORLD WE MUST MAKE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DECISIONS, BUT NONE GREATER THAN THIS. DT:30:19 I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH TO RECORD THIS DAY AGAINST YOU, THAT I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING: THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE, THAT BOTH THOU AND THY SEED MAY LIVE: IF A MAN WILL NOT DEPART FROM EVIL HE JUST DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES. IF A PERSON GOES INTO THE FLAMES IT SHALL BE FOR ETERNITY. THE RICH MAN IN HELL SAID THESE WORDS. LK:16:24 AND HE CRIED AND SAID, FATHER ABRAHAM, HAVE MERCY ON ME, AND SEND LAZARUS, THAT HE MAY DIP THE TIP OF HIS FINGER IN WATER, AND COOL MY TONGUE; FOR I AM TORMENTED IN THIS FLAME. WHEN DOE LIFE BEGIN? ; LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION. EX:21:22 IF MEN STRIVE, AND HURT A WOMAN WITH CHILD, SO THAT HER FRUIT DEPART FROM HER, AND YET NO MISCHIEF FOLLOW: HE SHALL BE SURELY PUNISHED, ACCORDING AS THE WOMAN'S HUSBAND WILL LAY UPON HIM; AND HE SHALL PAY AS THE JUDGES DETERMINE. EXCEPT A MAN EAT OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND IN ADDITION DRINK OF HIS BLOOD HE WILL HAVE NO LIFE IN HIM. WE EAT OF THE BODY, AND DRINK OF THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS WHEN WE PARTAKE OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. JN:6:53 THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, EXCEPT YE EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN, AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, YE HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU. IN THE WORLD TO COME ALL MEN WILL BE REQUIRED TO COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE THE LORD IN JERUSALEM, AND THEY WILL GO FORTH AND LOOK AT MEN IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. IS:66:24 AND THEY SHALL GO FORTH, AND LOOK UPON THE CARCASES OF THE MEN THAT HAVE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST ME: FOR THEIR WORM SHALL NOT DIE, NEITHER SHALL THEIR FIRE BE QUENCHED; AND THEY SHALL BE AN ABHORRING UNTO ALL FLESH. YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH TO LIFE BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE CHRISTIAN BRETHREN. 1JN:3;14 WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE, BECAUSE WE LOVE THE BRETHREN. HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER ABIDETH IN DEATH. MAY THESE WORDS OF JESUS COMFORT YOU. LK:12:32 FEAR NOT, LITTLE FLOCK; FOR IT IS YOUR FATHER'S GOOD PLEASURE TO GIVE YOU THE KINGDOM.