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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-3771. Online donations may be made by clicking on the donations link on the BibleLineMinistries.org homepage. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family.

understand that Paul was able to judge where they were spiritually because of the thing they said and did. And so you and I are being judged. And sometimes people may question your love for the Lord. The thing about Jesus Christ when He made this statement in the book of John 14 verse 31 that the world may know that I love the Father even so I do. Nobody could find a fault or a flaw in what he said or did.

They looked. They got their magnifying glasses out and tried to find a mistake that he made, but they couldn’t find any. Looking first Peter chapter 1, first Peter in chapter 1. First Peter chapter 1, there’s a verse here that uses the word fashion. If you’ve ever seen some time on TV, they’re trying to show you the latest fashion. And they’ll have women walk down the aisle or something like that, and they’re showing the latest fashion in this. So the latest fashion on that.

And it’s mainly it’s because of the times in which we live. Because the fashion that they showed today was probably not the fashion they showed 50, 60 years ago. When I went down to the Tampa Bay Bible study that we had today, well, we have it every Wednesday. Up on the floor of the 26th floor of the field in there, there’s old pictures, 100 years old. And they show the street cars and the way the people were dressed. And they show all these old cars.

And you think they were fashionable at that time. But today would you want that car today? It might be worth more. But you have to understand that in everything in life, there’s always these storms of life that we’re going to have. And some things you can control and some things you cannot control and there’s times. I remember when I was in school, the girls used to dress a certain way. Today, they don’t dress quite the same. The style, I used to always have these ties that I got from Goodwill when I was going to Bible school.

I caught it down there for about 25 cents. You can buy a cup of ties. And they were the old ties that people had gotten rid of. And so, did you know if you kept those things for 30, 40 years, they come back into style? And so with a guy, it’s never out of style. You just wait long enough and it comes back. But with the women, most time it don’t because they keep buying stuff. That’s got to keep buying stuff.

When it comes to the Lord, there are things that God used long time ago to train His people. Think that He would teach. In our time, when it comes to building us and building our character, there’s things that God may use. They’re not using the same kind of electronics today that they used a hundred years ago. They didn’t even have them. Can you imagine a hundred years ago not to have the things that we have today? I’d love to see that again, I think.

But you realize we live on a faster pace. Nobody slows down to find out what’s going on. It’s just zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, and we don’t stop to think. I want you to see that here in 1 Peter chapter 1, look there in verse 14. And you ought to underline these. Versus as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lust in your ignorance. The only way that you can not fashion yourselves according to the former lust that you used to have, the way you used to live, the only thing that’s going toFINEST to make it different is being obedient.

Jouc You see, you can’t transform your mind, discipline the body without obedience. If you will not obey the Lord, your life will not change. And there’s people who trust Christ as Savior. They live their whole life and nothing ever happens. Nothing changes in their life. They’re just like they were when they got saved. more mature and it doesn’t matter how much Bible you know. How many times have you been to the Bible? Has the Bible ever been through you?

If the Bible doesn’t control your life, you don’t know it. You don’t know the Bible until the Bible controls you. You don’t know what walking with the Lord is like until you walk with the Lord. Until you have joy joy in your heart, you don’t know what it’s like. Until you have the peace of God, you don’t know what it’s like. So God uses things in life, process. Time is processing you. It’s building you. There might be some things that is going to happen this week or next week or whenever.

And it’s designed to help discipline you, to create within you desire for something, or not for something else. But it could be for something that God wants to discipline in your life, and God’s going to teach you patience. But don’t you get to the place where you think, I don’t need to learn anymore. I Haram had enough learning. I just want to coast from here on in. But do you know the only thing that challenges your!, thing that challenges your faith and makes your faith grow is a problem bigger than your faith, so your faith has to stretch itself to get over that obstacle.espie Soarij would allow these obstacles in your life.

Not that he wants you to go around it, not that he wants you to go under it, but he might Calories you to go over it, and in some cases through it. But he never wants us to run from it. So there’s problems in your life. There’s storms of life that God is going to allow to come. But look what he says here in verse 15, but as he which hath called us or called you is holy, so be ye holy and all manner of conversation or your whole manner of life.

Remember to all of these things we’re talking about the transforming of your mind, the discipline of the body, the changing of your life are not just one little time deals. And it’s done. It’s your whole life. You are to keep growing all your every day of your life. And every day is going to come designed with you in mind with all kind of things that you need to make you what God wants you to be. So look in Ephesians 4, the book of Ephesians 4.

Ephesians chapter 4, and you’ll notice there in verse 23. Verse 23 says, and be in your underlying this. Renewed, renewed in the spirit of your mind. Sometimes you’ll find the word of God talking about, you know, that we’re supposed to walk as the believer in love and in spirit. It means in attitude. You see, you might learn some biblical truth, but what is your attitude toward change? arij. Did you know that sometimes we don’t like change? But what is your attitude?

God wants your life to change. Are you against that change? Are you against changing anything in your life? Because, well, I’ve just never done that before. Well, you didn’t know the Lord before either. And you never grew in the Lord before either. But is it something you, well, I can’t do that because I don’t like that. It has nothing to do with what you like or don’t like. What does God say? What does God want? If God wants me to change, I change.

If God’s Word says I’m doing something that I should not do, what is my attitude? The spirit behind it all. The attitude that you have. Because that is the biggest key to helping you to grow strong in the Lord. And as he says here, look what he says in verse 22, that you put off concerning the former conversation or manner of life, the old man. So there’s something that God doesn’t want you to do, and there is something that He does want you to do.

Put off and to put on. So he says in verse 24 that you put on the new man. See, these are all personal decisions. They’re decisions that you and I have to make. All these things deal with being processed in time because it takes time to take things off, takes time to put things on. It takes time to discipline the mind, time to discipline the body. All these things involve time. And all of it is very important. So let me just mention that to you one more time.

I only had just a minute, only 60 seconds in it. Didn’t seek it and didn’t choose it. Forced upon me can’t refuse it. I must suffer if I lose it and give a count if I abuse it. It’s just a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it. Did you realize God is going to reward me in heaven for all eternity? For what I do in every minute God gave me to live? That’s why the guy says, lost oneDWG with 60 studied diamond minutes.

No reward necessary because it’s gone forever. And you and I are living our lives and yesterday is gone. It’s a cancelled check. Tomorrow, ask us a promissory note. Today is cash. Spend what you got. We’re God wants you to and you’d be surprised what God has for you. Let me give you just a couple of other things I wanted to mention to you. I wrote down five things. I can give to you kind of quickly. Take your Bible and turn to Deuteronomy chapter 32.

Deuteronomy chapter 32. And look there in verse 11 in the book of Deuteronomy because in this In this time that God’s given to us to live, there is going to be something that you and I really really want to be. And that is a time of ease. When we mete to make all these big decisions, when”” it seems like the nest egg is secure and things are going long. long, pretty smooth. I don’t have any serious health problems and I don’t have any serious financial problems.

Everybody loves me. Wellimbabwe there’s going to be a time when it seemed like everything is going your way. Has it ever happened yet? We’ll just keep hoping it’ll happen down the road someplace in. But the reason I always live because you want to be it is. You want to have all your needs You don’t like and love all those problems. And as it says in verse 11, to kind of give you an idea of what God is like in the process of time.

You see, there’s a time when the little eaglets are in the nest. And these little eaglets, all they have to do is open their mouth wide and mama will fill it. And God says, open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. Well, fell it. When’s the last time you opened your mouth wide to the Lord and ask Him what you want? Well, it’s nice and big850. Or do you just ask the Lord for aually crumb like you’re a recip.

Palest. Or do you realize that your heavenly Father owns the whole world Rove and all the gold? And that all He has to do is make things abound towards you? Do you know He is able to do that?Gaza. You know, I just preached a sermon not long ago on what God is able to do. you’re supposed to believe that and open your mouth wide and see what God said. He said, novel, fill it. But sometime we go, look, do you guys see him?

What did you say? He believed me, me, me, me. Don’t be mealy mouth. He says,irgin, boldly to the throne of grace that you may obtain help in time of need. Isn’t that what he said? And yet we’re so timid. We’re so shy. God didn’t say be like looking for you. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, flutter over her young, spread it upPhiladelphia wing, take it them and bear them off on her wings. And she takes them way up.

See, theres a time when you’re in the nest and everything is warming, cozy and fuzzy and everything is just wonderful. But sometimes because the Lord knows what’s best, he’s going to change some things. And that’s whenever he might have to Put a few sticks up into the nest so that it becomes so uncomfortable because God may want you to move. Maybe he has something else that he wants you to do and you’ll never do it if he lets you have everything you want where you are.

So God can dry up this. Did you know he dried up the brook for Elijah? Why did he dry up the brook? Because God wanted him to move. God had something else He wanted Him to do. The ravens fed Him and He had all of His needs met. He hid the water and then God takes care of everything. And it forced Him to do something else. God knows what He’s doing. So there’s going to be storms in your life and in the process of time.

You see, all time is not exactly the same. There’s going to be times when you’re totally disheartened and totally in despair. All these things come upon us. And God says that He takes and we ride them up high. And so there’s a whole sermon here, but we’re not going to take the time for that right now. Turn in your Bible to the book of Psalms, a hundred and third Psalm. A hundred and third Psalm. A hundred and third Psalm.

And look in verse 13, verse 13 of the hundred and third Psalm says like as a father, because you see there’s times a failure. There’s times of weakness. You see, you and I live in a physical body, and if you get down physically, it is so easy to get down spiritually. Because sometimes our spiritual growth and desires is because we have the physical ability to do something, but when you can’t do it, and you can’t make things happen, that you realize you can lead to such failure in your own mind.

But that’s sometimes because we have set such high expectations for ourselves and what we think we can and cannot do. And we limit ourselves and God says, I’m in charge. It has nothing to do with what your dreams are. It’s mine. It’s His purpose, not ours. And so we have a built-in frustration when we shoot for here and we come in here. All this emptiness that we have. And then sometimes it seems like God’s not using me. He’s put me on his shelf and this doesn’t happen.

and that doesn’t happen. And you can’t stand because you don’t have patience. And God’s want to teach us patience whether we like it or not. But he says in verse 30, like as a father, pity it, his children, so the Lord pity it them, that fear him. For he knoweth our frame. He remembers that weird dust. He knows the limitations of that physical body that you have. He knows you have an old sinful nature. He knows you have limitations.

He knows all of that. God says, He remembers. And that demonstrates the mercy of God because God is so filled with goodness and compassion and His promises that they don’t fail. So we need to know that. Look in Ezekiel and chapter 34. Ezekiel chapter 34. Ezekiel chapter 34 and look at it in verse 12 He’s equal 34 in verse 12. We’re just starting verse 11.

But look what he says in verse 11, for thus saith the Lord God, behold I, even I, will both search my sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd seek it out his flocks in the day, that he is among his sheep that are scattered. So will I seek out my sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and the dark day. Not all days are dark. Not all days are cloudy, but then not all days are bright and sunny either.

Days come with a variety of little sunshine and maybe a little rain and a little thunder and a little tornado, a little hurricane. All the things it comes. And so we would like to have I guess you could say insurance that it doesn’t happen. So we think in our mind just like we pay insurance premiums that in case something happens, we’re covered. Well, in life, we’d like to be covered with insurance that if I serve a Lord, that’s like me making a payment to keep that problem from coming.

This will keep that problem from coming. And if I serve Lord, that’ll keep that problem from coming. And we think our obedience is my insurance that nothing will go wrong, nothing will go wrong, nothing will go wrong, nothing will go wrong. I got news for you, it won’t work that way, not with the Lord. Because God is going to Jeans all those things, I just saw avelope a video clip enthusi somebody sent to me. And it’s an interesting little story, but how they videotape pursued this I don’t know.

But there was a mountain lion getting up on a big old rock. This mountain lion looked down there and, lo and behold, there was a little bitty bear. And this mountain lion took off after the bear. In the little bear, saw the lion lion and took off a running and it sounded like a little kid crying. And he’s trying to run as fast as he can and he came out and run that lion. It finally gets down to the river and the only thing there was this log and it was going up and and he thought, he’s going to get to the other side.

So he’s flying up this logcli and he gets up there and here comes the lion right up the log behind him. So the bear turned around and looked at the lion and he started going backwards and the lion comesResidents up. And you’re sitting there and you’re launching this and there’s a roaring lion. He’s seeking whom he made a vower and he wants to devour that little kid. He kept licking Playoff his chops and looking at that bear and a little cub.

and all of a sudden the limb breaks andovych falls into the water. But the limb breaks off and so he crawls upon the limb and now he’s floating down the so now the lion’s got to go back down and he goes down the bank and he goes down there and on some rocks and he’s sitting there waiting for the little bear to come and get on his plate and he’s going to eat him up and the little bear got right up here close to him and whenever the lion got ready to get he jumped off into the water and started fighting first life because of water in the world and all of their and the poor little bear cub.

And you know that it can’t protect itself. And so finally, he gets WARN up on the land and we got up on the land. Here comes the mountain lion. And now there there are face to face. And this mountain lion with those claws, the claw slapped that little bear, and he when he slapped him again, and he slapped him again, and this time you could see the blood all over the face of the sub. And the little little little thing about him, he just saw, ah, just hollering at this lion.

Ah, and he just hollering to him out, wow, that was as loud as he could. He knew that this is the end of the road, this is his last defense. And as he hollering, the lion just stopped and looked at him. looked past that little bear. And the little bear didn’t know that mama was behind him. And mama was behind him. And while the little bear was going, the mama bear was behind him going, ah! And the lion turned and haultail and got out of there.

And the little bear finally realized that wasn’t his voice. And he turned around and he looked at mama and all he was the happiest little bear you ever seen in your life. He wouldn’t go there to mama, mama just starting to clean them up and blood was on him and she’d oh they were just a loving in the house. You ain’t seen anything like in your life. I almost cried. I watched that thing about four times and and sometimes you know you just have a bad day.

Not all days are good day but right before that the little bear was playing on this rock. He rolled off the rock and onto the grass and he was laying there in the grass and he was just having a ball. And then he got up and he saw the lion, changed everything. He was going along so good. You see, there’s always somebody or something ready to rain on your party.

And it doesn’t matter what you’re going through. There’s storms in life. But you and I are supposed understand that all that happens and it’s going to take place. Now when you get a chance and you read the 37th Psalm, the 37th Psalm, it talks about the soul of man looking out at the storms of life. And then when you get to the 73rd Psalm, it talks about all the storms that are within. So you and I have storms that are without and And we have storms that are within.

And so you and I need to learn how to trust the Lord and trust Him to walk us through the storms because everybody’s going to have some storms. All right, now look up here. This hand represent. You and me, the wall of represent sin. It’s all the bad things that we’ve ever done, the whole world. But God says that He loves us and He hates what we do wrong. The Lord says that we have to pay for our sins, the wages of sin is death, so we all have to die.

And that means to be eternally separated from the Lord forever. But God loves us. He wants us to go to heaven to be with Him. And God says that to go to heaven, you’d have to be perfect. His righteousness is God, and none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We have all come short of God’s perfection. And all the good works we could ever do will never pay forndumigroup. So God says?there’s nothing that we can do toworkshop ourselves.

So a man doesn’t have to do good works to go to heaven. He has to be perfect. And as far as our sins, he has to pay for those. and that’s death in hell. This hand represent Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from Him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin didn’t have to die. He came into the world and took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead.

And He says, whosoever in the whole world would believe He did it for them, He would put this payment to their account. Doesn’t that make sense? So simple, so easy that all that anybody has to do is believe it. And if you’ll believe that He paid for all of your sins, He puts that payment He made to your account. All your sins are paid. You go to heaven on what He did for you. substitution. Christ died for my sins.

I believe that I have eternal life. Hey, that believer on me hath everlasting life. I’m so glad I’m going to heaven whenever I die. Let’s pray, shall we? If you’re here tonight, you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior. That’s the best thing you could ever do. But if you’re here tonight or if you are watching by internet. Don’t forget you can do it right where you are. You don’t have to stand up or come forward. You don’t have to send me into He mayo.

Right where you are, you can say, Lord, I don’t understand at all, but I believe Christ died and paid for my sins and I’m going to trust Him as my Savior. When God said if you would believe it, trust Him, He would give you the free gift right now of eternal life. And you can know that you’re going to heaven whenever you die. Is it in one at all before we close? Say, preach or pray for me. I will trust Christ as my Savior.

I want to be certain of going to heaven. In one at all. Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together. We ask Your blessings upon each one here. And Father, there must be a lot of people that watch by internet that Father have a heavy heart. And I pray that You’ll use the message tonight to be a blessing to them. In Christ, then we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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