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

HOS:4:6 MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE: PAUSE, AND MEDITATE ON WHAT YOU JUST READ. MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS, WAS INSPIRED OF GOD TO SAY THESE WORDS. JN:2:3 AND WHEN THEY WANTED WINE, THE MOTHER OF JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, THEY HAVE NO WINE. 4. JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, WOMAN, WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE? MINE HOUR IS NOT YET COME. 5. HIS MOTHER SAITH UNTO THE SERVANTS, WHATSOEVER HE SAITH UNTO YOU DO IT. MARY KNEW IF THEY WANTED TO SEE WATER TURN INTO WINE THEY MUST DO WHAT JESUS COMMANDED. IF YOU WANT TO SEE THIS MORTAL PUT ON IMMORTALITY YOU MUST DO WHAT THE LORD COMMANDS. THIS IS THE COMMANDMENT THAT I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO CONSIDER. MT:5:48 BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT. GOD GAVE ABRAHAM THIS SAME COMMANDMENT CONCERNING PERFECTION. GN:17:1 AND WHEN ABRAM WAS NINETY YEARS OLD AND NINE, THE LORD APPEARED TO ABRAM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, I AM THE ALMIGHTY GOD; WALK BEFORE ME, AND BE THOU PERFECT. LOOK THIS VERSE OF SCRIPTURE OVER, AND CONSIDER WHAT THE APOSTLE PETER IS SAYING. 1PT:4:18 AND IF THE RIGHTEOUS SCARCELY BE SAVED, WHERE SHALL THE UNGODLY AND THE SINNER APPEAR. THERE WAS A TIME IN HISTORY WHEN THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERFECT MAN IN THE WHOLE WORLD, HIS NAME WAS NOAH. IF IT HAD NOT HAVE BEEN FOR NOAH AND HIS FAMILY, THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT TODAY, WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN. FOR GOD HAD TRULY INTENDED TO DESTROY EVERY MAN, WOMAN, CHILD, EVERY BEAST, EVERY BIRD, AND EVERY CREEPING THING. GN:6:5 AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY IMAGINATION OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY. 6. AND IT REPENTED THE LORD THAT HE HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH, AND IT GRIEVED HIM AT HIS HEART. 7. AND THE LORD SAID, I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH; BOTH MAN, AND BEAST, AND THE CREEPING THING, AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR; FOR IT REPENTETH ME THAT I HAVE MADE THEM. 8. BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD. 9. THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH; NOAH WAS A JUST MAN AND PERFECT IN HIS GENERATIONS, AND NOAH WALKED WITH GOD. WHO SHALL BE PERFECT WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE GOD? THOSE THAT GOD ELECTED, SELECTED, HAND PICKED TO BE ADOPTED INTO HIS FAMILY OF FAITH. WE, THE SAINTS OF GOD, THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST HAVE ACTUALLY BECOME A MEMBER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. GAL:3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. AND BECAUSE OF OUR SPIRITUAL UNION WITH JESUS, WE ARE NOT SAVED BY OUR OWN LIFE, BUT BY THE LIFE OF CHRIST. IT WAS CHRIST JESUS THAT LIVED THE PERFECT LIFE. WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE SAVED BY GRACE, THROUGH PERFECT FAITH, AND NOT OF OURSELVES IT IS A GIFT OF GOD. 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 DID WE FIND GRACE IN THE EYES OF GOD? BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. BEFORE WE HAD DONE ANY GOOD OR EVIL, GOD LOVED US AND PREDESTINATED US TO BE ADOPTED INTO HIS FAMILY. EPH:1:3 BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO HATH BLESSED US WITH ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST; 4. ACCORDING AS HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE. 5. HAVING PREDESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL, 6. TO THE PRAISE OF THE GLORY OF HIS GRACE, WHEREIN HE HATH MADE US ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED. WHERE ARE WE, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, MADE PERFECT? THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MADE PERFECT IN CHRIST JESUS, IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. PRAY SAINTS THAT GOD WILL GIVE YOU WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, AND UNDERSTANDING. COL:1:27 TO WHOM GOD WOULD MAKE KNOWN WHAT THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF THIS MYSTERY AMONG THE GENTILES; WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY: 28. WHOM WE PREACH, WARNING EVERY MAN, AND TEACHING EVERY MAN IN ALL WISDOM: THAT WE MAY PRESENT EVERY MAN PERFECT IN CHRIST JESUS. HOW DOES A MAN BECOME RIGHTEOUS IN WORD, THOUGHT, AND DEED, IN THE EYES OF GOD? WE, AS SAINTS OF GOD, BECOME RIGHTEOUS IN WORD, THOUGHT, AND DEED, WHEN WE PLACE OUR PERFECT FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS FOR OUR SALVATION, AND PLACE OUR FAITH IN THE BLOOD THAT JESUS SHED ON CALVARY'S CROSS FOR OUR REDEMPTION. WHEN WE PLACE OUR FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS FOR OUR SALVATION, GOD THE FATHER ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH IS A PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS THAT ARE PASSED. ROM:3:21 BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, BEING WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS; 22. EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE; FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE; 23. FOR ALL HAVE SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD; 24. BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS. 25. WHOM GOD HATH SET FORTH TO BE A PROPITIATION THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD, TO DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS THAT ARE PAST, THROUGH THE FORBEARANCE OF GOD. FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. BUT FAITH CAN BE MADE PERFECT BY WORKS. ABRAHAM'S FAITH WAS MADE PERFECT BY WORKS WHEN HE OFFERED ISAAC UP AS A SACRIFICE. JMS;2:19 THOU BELIEVEST THAT THERE IS ONE GOD; THOU DOEST WELL; THE DEVILS ALSO BELIEVE, AND TREMBLE. 20. BUT WILT THOU KNOW, O VAIN MAN, THAT FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD? 21. WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER JUSTIFIED BY WORKS, WHEN HE HAD OFFERED ISAAC HIS SON UPON THE ALTAR? 22. SEEST THOU HOW FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WORKS, AND BY WORKS WAS FAITH MADE PERFECT? UNDER THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES, ANY SACRIFICE THAT ISRAEL BROUGHT FOR A SIN OFFERING WAS REQUIRED OF GOD TO BE PERFECT. LV;22:21 AND WHOSOEVER OFFERETH A SACRIFICE OF PEACE OFFERINGS UNTO THE LORD TO ACCOMPLISH HIS VOW, OR A FREEWILL OFFERING IN BEEVES OR SHEEP, IT SHALL BE PERFECT TO BE ACCEPTED; THERE SHALL BE NO BLEMISH THEREIN. DID THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES' MAKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL PERFECT? THE LAW OF MOSES' MADE NOTHING PERFECT. HEB;7:19 FOR THE LAW MADE NOTHING PERFECT, BUT THE BRINGING IN OF A BETTER HOPE DID; BY THE WHICH WE DRAW NIGH UNTO GOD. YOU CAN DISTINGUISH THE CHILDREN OF GOD, FROM THE CHILDREN OF SATAN, BECAUSE GOD'S CHILDREN, AFTER THEY RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, WILL NOT WILLFULLY TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 1JN:3:9 WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM; AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD. 10. IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL: WHOSOEVER DOETH NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, NEITHER HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER. DO WE. CHILDREN OF GOD, THOSE OF US WHOM GOD IS PERFECTING, SIN WILLFULLY AFTER THEY COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH? WE HAVE ALL SINNED, BUT WE DO NOT CONTINUE IN SIN AFTER WE RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. ROM:6:1 WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN, THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND? 2. GOD FORBID, HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN? 3. KNOW YE NOT, THAT SO MANY OF US AS WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH. THERE WAS NOT A SACRIFICE IN ALL THE WORLD THAT COULD BE OFFERED UP TO GOD TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR OUR SINS, IT WAS FOR THIS REASON THAT GOD SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON INTO THE WORLD. JESUS CHRIST WAS WITHOUT SPOT OR BLEMISH. JESUS WAS PERFECT FROM HEAD TO TOE PHYSICALLY, AND SPIRITUALLY. 1PT:1:18 FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YE WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, AS SILVER AND GOLD, FROM YOUR VAIN CONVERSATION RECEIVED BY TRADITION FROM YOUR FATHERS. 19. BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT; WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE FIRST BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, WE ARE BABES IN CHRIST. WE BEGIN A GROWING SEASON, BY FEASTING UPON THE WORD OF GOD, THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. IF WE SIN IN IGNORANCE WHEN WE ARE A BABE IN CHRIST. WE CAN CONFESS THAT SIN, AND BE FORGIVEN. 1JN:1:7 BUT IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT, AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT, WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN. BUT IF AFTER WE COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE, WE KNOW ABOUT REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS, WE KNOW ABOUT FAITH TOWARD GOD, WE KNOW ABOUT THE LAYING ON OF HANDS, THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, WE KNOW ABOUT THE ETERNAL JUDGMENT. IF WE SIN WILLFULLY AFTER WE COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH THERE IS NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SIN. HEB:10:26 FOR IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, 27. BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL LOOKING FOR OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION, WHICH SHALL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES. WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR PERFECTION. THE APOSTLE PAUL RECORDED THAT HE WAS NOT PERFECT, BUT WAS STRIVING FOR PERFECTION. PHIL:3:11 IF BY ANY MEANS I MIGHT ATTAIN UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 12. NOT AS THOUGH I HAD ALREADY ATTAINED, EITHER WERE ALREADY PERFECT; BUT I FOLLOW AFTER, IF THAT I MAY APPREHEND THAT FOR WHICH ALSO I AM APPREHENDED OF CHRIST JESUS. 13. BRETHREN, I COUNT NOT MYSELF TO HAVE APPREHENDED; BUT THIS ONE THING I DO, FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND, AND REACHING FORTH UNTO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEFORE, 14. I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS. 15. LET US THEREFORE, AS MANY AS BE PERFECT, BE THUS MINDED; AND IF IN ANY THING YE OTHERWISE MINDED, GOD SHALL REVEAL EVEN THIS UNTO YOU. BELOVED, CHRIST JESUS WITH ONE SACRIFICE HAS PERFECTED FOREVER THOSE OF US THAT ARE SANCTIFIED. HEB:10:14 FOR BY ONE OFFERING HE HATH PERFECTED FOR EVER THEM THAT ARE SANCTIFIED. IT IS NOT THE OUT WARD MAN, THE PHYSICAL BODY THAT GOD IS PERFECTING IT IS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL. THE OUT WARD MAN SHALL PERISH, IT IS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. 2COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YE THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. HEB:12:23 TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN, WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN, AND TO GOD THE JUDGE OF ALL, AND TO THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN MAD PERFECT. THERE ARE THOSE THAT WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE THAT THE SOUL IS MIND, WILL, AND EMOTION. BUT THAT IS NOT SO, I HAD A MIND, WILL, AND EMOTION BEFORE I EVER RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST. THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL IS NOT VISIBLE TO THE PHYSICAL EYE, BUT THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL CAN SPEAK, RV:6:9 AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE FIFTH SEAL, I SAW UNDER THE ALTAR THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND FOR THE TESTIMONY WHICH THEY HELD; 10. AND THEY CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, HOW LONG, O LORD, HOLY AND TRUE, DOST THOU NOT JUDGE AND AVENGE OUR BLOOD ON THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH? THE SOUL CAN FEEL PAIN, WHEN WE FAST THE SOUL IS AFFLICTED, IS:58:3 WHEREFORE HAVE WE FASTED, SAY THEY, AND THOU SEEST NOT? WHEREFORE HAVE WE AFFLICTED OUR SOUL, AND THOU TAKEST NO KNOWLEDGE? BEHOLD, IN THE DAY OF YOUR FAST YE FIND PLEASURE, AND EXACT ALL YOU LABOURS. THE SOUL OF MAN CAN LOVE, FOR WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL OUR SOUL. MK:12:30 AND THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND, AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH; THIS IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. AND WHEN WE SEE THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL; THE SOUL SHALL SHINE AS THE SUN. I BELIEVE WHEN JESUS TOOK HIS DISCIPLES UP ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION THAT HE WANTED TO SHOW THEM THE ETERNAL BODY, THE SOUL. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HE SHINED AS THE SUN. WE TOO SHALL SHINE LIKE THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF OUR FATHER. MT:13:43 THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER. WHO HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. WHAT ALL CAN BE PERFECTED IN THE HUMAN BODY? MAN'S FAITH CAN BE PERFECTED. JMS:2:22 SEEST THOU HOW FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WORKS, AND BY WORKS WAS FAITH MADE PERFECT. LOVE CAN BE MADE PERFECT. WHEN JESUS CHRIST RETURNS FOR HIS BRIDE THE CHURCH, WE DO NOT KNOW HOW HE SHALL APPEAR, BUT WE KNOW THAT WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM. 1JN:4:17 HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT, THAT WE MAY HAVE BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT; BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. WHEN WE RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, THE ANOINTING THAT HE 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. FOR EXAMPLE ST LUKE RECORDS THAT HE HAD PERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF ALL THINGS. LK:1:3 IT SEEMED GOOD TO ME ALSO, HAVING HAD PERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF ALL THINGS FROM THE VERY FIRST, TO WRITE UNTO THEE IN ORDER, MOST EXCELLENT THEOPHILUS, WHEN WE ARE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR SINS ARE REMITTED, AND WHEN WE RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, WE HAVE A GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD. 1PT:3:21 THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO EVEN BAPTISM DOTH ALSO NOW SAVE US ( NOT THE PUTTING AWAY OF THE FILTH OF THE FLESH, BUT THE ANSWER OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD.) BY THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST. REMEMBER THE PRIZE IS GREAT. JMS:3:2 FOR IN MANY THINGS WE OFFEND ALL. IF ANY MAN OFFEND NOT IN WORD, THE SAME IS PERFECT MAN, AND ABLE ALSO TO BRIDLE THE WHOLE BODY.