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Divine Guidance Pt.6

Let's see if we can wind this thing up this evening; we want to move on to a couple of other areas in this study. Hopefully, as it deals with our walk in the Spirit (spiritual guidance), some of the principles have been able to find their way into your heart. The aspect of being led by the Spirit is really one of the keys to successfully experiencing sanctification in our lives, being led into truth by the Holy Spirit. We've tried to deal with (but not emphasize) a lot of things that have been misnomers regarding what it means to walk in the Spirit. We talked about all of the goose bumps, and the visions, and the dreams that so many people seem to think are real spirituality, when, in fact, we've seen that they're pretty isolated incidents that deal with outstanding individuals for specific and spectacular purposes. So, we can't expect to be led in the same manner that each of these special individuals have. We have that tendency to think that God is somehow going to speak to us in the audible voices, and the dreams, and the visions, and the angelic appearances. Though we may have experienced that at times in our lives, it's not the general method that Father has used.

So, as we tie this thing together here in this last session, the most important aspect that we've dealt with has been that guidance by those that have been placed in authority over us, those who have become our counselors. We've seen that God leads us through His principle of divine order. It's not exciting, but it's safe. It's safe not having to trust in your own intuitive direction.

We talked about the twelve different aspects of how we are led by the Spirit. We talked about the intuitive aspects--the intuition, the conscience, all of these things. I'm not going to go into them specifically, but let me just share this with you. That intuitive feeling--that knowing within ourselves, the conscience, the realizing and the knowing of truth by intuitive knowledge--is only reliable based upon your immediate obedience to the Word of God. What am I saying? If you're not doing what you know to do through the general revelation, then you can't trust any of those gut feelings, those intuitive directions. "I just sense the Lord is leading me; my conscience is speaking to me in this particular area." You're going to be led astray, because you're not fulfilling the more sure Word of prophecy. So, as we learn and deal with some of these principles, don't put any trust in that inner voice, don't put any trust in your own conscience, if you haven't first been saturated with the Word of God, with the more sure Word of prophecy. If your life is one that's already a life of obedience in fulfilling the small things, then God is able to bring you into being a ruler in the great ones. So, it's very important. As we look at a couple of these different aspects, let me show you what I'm talking about and how easy it is for us to fall into a type of deception in these particular areas. I think it's something we have to be aware of, or we're going to find ourselves in error.

Let's look at the aspect of conscience. We may develop this further as we go on, but let's look at conscience, as it pertains to spiritual guidance and this walk in the Spirit, so that you can understand what I'm talking about. Turn to Romans 9, and let's start off there for this evening. In Romans 9:1, the apostle makes this statement, "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not..." I always think it's interesting when these words are used. It's good that you're not lying to us; let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay. What he's speaking to us when he says that is not that he's a liar, and you can't believe anything he says, but this time he's really telling the truth. He's emphasizing the magnitude of the truth of this statement. What he's saying to us is this: "...I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost." The thing that we want to look at here is this: every one of us has a conscience, and we've all heard the saying, "Let your conscience be your guide," but we can't! Let your conscience, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, be your guide. Because even the unregenerate man has a conscience; the knowledge of God is in every one of us. However, Romans 1 and 2 goes on and says that man does not want to retain God in his conscience (in his knowledge). Because of that, although man has a conscience and knows right from wrong, he's continually suppressing those things, and rejecting those truths, and rejecting what he knows to be right. He's believing a lie and choosing not to retain God--not only doing these things, but taking pleasure in others that do them. They're inventors of evil, the Scripture says, and all the while knowing right from wrong, good from evil. So, it's not just the fact that we have a conscience. "Oh, you know, I've been pricked by that; I realize that's wrong." So does the pagan; so does the natural man; so does the habitual sinner. The issue is (listen to what Paul says), "...my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost." We realize the importance, then, of having our conscience (or our "knowing") under the direction or the lordship of Jesus through the person of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Do you realize those things that are speaking to you--that intuitive knowing, that pricking of your heart--is not just an innate goodness within man? It is the voice of the Holy Spirit. There is no good in man; the conscience within man is not good. It's a gift, and God uses it as a way of revealing Himself through His creation. The heavens declare the glory of God through the conscience of man.

So, we realize how important it is for you and I to address this aspect of the conscience in our lives. And we can say, "Okay, now. If conscience is that thing that causes me to intuitively know what's right and wrong, is it something that works equally within every one of us?" We know that we don't all have the same convictions. We don't all have the same conscience as it pertains to our performance, our behavior, what we can eat, or what we can drink. Does conscience, then, become the determiner of what is right and what is wrong? Or is it ultimately the Holy Spirit that leads us into truth--the Holy Spirit, Who has not come to speak of Himself, but the words that Jesus spoke, and to reemphasize and reiterate the life of Jesus? So, what we're talking about here is not having confidence just in the mechanism of conscience, but having confidence in the preparation of conscience. The mechanism--we all have it, but how weak is it? We need to understand that conscience can be weak, or it can be strong. Conscience can be seared, or it can be something that is brought to life, and enhanced, and grown. So, the conscience (if we really understand what it is--this intuitive knowing within ourselves) is the soul realm that's always being spoken to by the two forces of good and evil. "When I would do good," Paul says, "evil is present" (Romans 7:21). Each of us is drawing from that conscience and trying to direct that soul realm that's so important in each one of our lives. The thing we need to understand is this, though: the conscience can be defiled, and it's important for us to take a look at these particular areas.

Turn over to Titus with me for just a second. Let's look into Titus here and see what the Holy Spirit says concerning the defiling aspect of conscience. Titus, chapter 1, verse 15.

What is it that we're going to trust in? "Let your conscience be your guide." What people are basically saying is, "Just what feels right, trust it; just trust that intuition." Natural man is told that; this is something that natural man is trained to do, actually. But how many of you can see the difference between what is socially acceptable today, as opposed to what was 20 years ago, 30 years ago? Times are changing, man! Somebody just handed me a little printout that said, "You'll probably feel you're getting older when you realize that the freshmen who are going into college today...," and it told the year that they were born. I can't remember what it was right now, but let's just say 1982. They were born in 1982, and they're going to college! They don't remember the Reagan Era; they don't remember the time when popcorn was not fixed in a microwave. For them, roller skates have always been blades. Times have changed. Those of us here who can think back beyond 1984 realize the technological changes and the political changes. What about the moral changes? Do you remember when even non-Christians left their doors open at night and didn't lock up their homes, because nobody would steal something from your front yard? What was it that caused that moral consciousness? Conscience. What was it that dictated that type of behavior? It was conscience. You were just taught that it's wrong to steal your neighbor's bike, to go into their home and "borrow" their television with no intent of bringing it back. Nobody even thought about doing those types of things, other than just a minority who were true criminals. Do you remember the day when children could just walk the streets at night? I remember as a little 8-year old kid, I was out walking the streets at night. You're just walking home! It's 9 or 10 o'clock at night, and you're out walking along the highway. Now, we know there were the very minor occurrences; but in those days, if somebody stopped, they would pick you up, give you a ride, and take you home. The consciousness of what was socially acceptable was still being governed by biblical principles, the Judeo-Christian ethics. Can I ask you, have times changed? Did men have more conscience then, or purer consciences?

What is it that's established what is socially acceptable today? Now we know that murder and mayhem is not socially acceptable today, but everything short of that is. In the society that you and I live in, there's a situational ethics approach to life, and man can basically justify anything he wants. Conscience no longer is what governs our lives, but philosophy. The conscience has been dulled; the spirit-man truths have been dulled; and the intellect has been given full reign. So, whatever is philosophically the order of the day is what gives strength and lends credibility to our hedonistic behavior. We have determined in our society that there is no God, and that "god" is whatever we perceive, that truth is whatever we embrace, and that our right is to be momentarily, temporarily satisfied. We live in a society whose consciences have been seared. People are not interested in hearing that voice anymore. It's been suppressed.

Now, what does Titus mean when it speaks towards this in verse 15 of the first chapter? He says, "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate" (verses 15-16). A generation that calls good, evil, and evil, good. Now, how is this done? It's done through training. As we're growing up in our society, this is something that the school systems have done. We have a generation that's being raised up with no conscience; their conscience is defiled. Why? Because to good works they are reprobate. There is nothing expected of them that costs them anything. It's a generation that justifies all of its actions, a generation that's not used to subordinating itself to authority. The rights of the individual reign supreme. Though we have individual rights in this nation (and I want to just speak from a political perspective so you can see where we've gone) the emphasis has swung to individual rights. Aren't you thankful for the rights we have as individuals, the laws that have been established giving us certain inalienable rights? But the majority established those. It's not about majority today; it's about individualism. Every individual is doing what's right in his own eyes, and it's the same environment that brought the judgment of God in the days of Noah.

Now, whether we like to believe it or not, we're out there being defiled daily. Your conscience and my conscience are being attacked and defiled, and just like the proverbial frog, you and I are being vexed and our consciences defiled on a daily basis. Let me ask you something. How many of you have noticed some area in your life where you have been desensitized, based just on this society that we're living in? Does anybody know what I'm talking about? If you don't think so, how do you respond now to the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic? What about the untold masses that are bound with drugs and alcohol? We have empathy; many of us here have genuine compassion and love for these people. But what about the first time you were ever made aware of a mass-murder, a Dahmer? When you hear about people being killed, and cut up, and eaten now, you say, "Aw, that's too bad." But how did that affect you the first time? It's becoming more and more common to the mass public. And though you don't feed your minds with this, many people do. They go to movies where there's mayhem, and violence, and all of these different things, and there's a desensitizing that begins to take place. It's not only in the movies, but on the news. We're hearing about kids being kidnapped, and molested, and child prostitution, and all of the vileness that's going on. They talk about the business that's going on over there in--oh, what's the place? We stopped over there on the way to Hong Kong--anyway, where the main business is child pornography and child prostitution. It's my understanding that they're just filling the Internet with all of these things that are going on. The first time you hear that, you're horrified by it, and now it's just something that goes by on the news. "It's what's going on! It's just in the world today; it's what we're living with; it's the hour."

Can I ask you a question? Has your conscience been desensitized? So much comes to us through the news media today. Do you remember how horrified our nation was when, on TV in Vietnam, we saw the man take the pistol (pow!) and popped the guy? It caused a revolution! Today, it wouldn't be 30 seconds on the news, unless somebody had a political agenda.

What are you doing to protect your conscience? What are you doing to keep the helmet of salvation in place to be able to deal with the fiery darts of the enemy that are contending for your mind? He says to us in Titus 1:15 , "Unto the pure all things are pure...." Realizing the desensitizing in my own life, one of the things I've been praying is, "Lord, don't let me just abstain from this, let me be horrified by it. Don't just keep me from drugs, and alcohol, and promiscuity, and homosexuality, and all of these other things. Don't let me just abstain; let me be horrified; let it be an abomination! Let it be something that just nauseates me, rather than just being able to go through my daily walk, and see a thousand falling at my side, and ten thousand at my right hand, and the masses being destroyed by sin, and it's not affecting me. But, Lord, don't only let me be moved because of the loss of the souls of these individuals, but let me hate the sin more than I've ever hated it before!"

You see, this is what we're talking about with the conscience. And whether we'd like to admit it or not, there is a desensitizing, there is an inundation that constantly we have to deal with. You go work, and they're wanting to tell the dirty jokes, or whatever it is. I mean, dear Lord! The guy's sitting down here at Chick-fil-A with the chick; everything today is sexual in its content. How's your conscience holding up to all of this? You say, "Well, I don't dwell on them." You don't have to dwell on them. You can actively pull down every thought, every imagination. But whether we like to believe it or not, whenever you're watching commercials, whenever you're walking through the supermarkets (or whatever it is), you may turn away; but I want you to know, that one thought (pow!), there it is. You see this magazine, you turn, and that magazine gets you. You're walking out, and you're not stopping to look at any of them, but every one of those images have come into your mind! Now every man sins, not when he's inundated by these, but when he's drawn away of his own lusts. But your conscience is being vexed; there's a defiling process that is occurring if, at the time, we are not pure. Unto the pure, all things are pure.

Now, what can we do, run to the local monastery? No, we're in the world, though we're not of it. We are the salt, and we are the light; we don't run and hide from this stuff. But, beloved, if you think you can be successful and not prepare to do battle with it, you're fooling yourself. If you think that just holding to proper doctrine is going to keep you safe, you're deceiving yourself. There's a war going on for your mind. So, it speaks to us here, and Paul says, "You've got to realize this one thing: your conscience can be defiled." "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure."

So, we're contrasting now a society to whom nothing is pure. We're living in a society where they reward people for evil. They're inventors of evil, the Scripture says. They not only do these things, but they take pleasure, they exalt, they make stars out of the people that do these things. We're living in that world, and we're bringing our children up in a world that's going to be worse than what we're living in right now. What's going to happen if Jesus tarries? In Europe right now, in a couple of nations, if anything of any derogatory manner whatsoever is said about any homosexual: five months in jail, with the campaign that these people have put on. You say, "How can it be? How can these people be influencing society to this degree?" It's not them; it's God having turned them over. God is behind this. These decisions are supernatural insanity, but it's what man does when he's turned over, without conscience. God is involved in this hour and is the Author of turning men over. He's not the author of the act; He's the Author of turning men over because of the evil of their hearts continually. What do we do as a people? How do we protect ourselves? How do we prepare our children for this generation that's coming? Do you understand what's going on in our streets? Do you understand what's going to happen in our streets before long? There's going to be the gay parades of San Francisco on the streets day, after day, after day, and that will be acceptable behavior! How do we prepare ourselves for that? Unto the pure, all things are pure. So what do we do? We make preparations to become more pure. If you're not going forward, you're going backwards. And we deal with the intents of our hearts. It's not just an obedience; it's not just an abstaining from this thing because it's wrong. It's an abstaining from it because it is an offense to God. When we abstain because there's a consequence, that's selfishness. When we abstain because it's an offense, that's glory to God. Many times, the abstinence is because of consequence. "I don't want to have to deal with the guilt; I don't want to deal with the fear of rejection from Father." And the emphasis is how it will affect others. Unless the motivation is solely, "This is a reproach to my Father," then it's not pure. You've abstained, and it's good that you haven't partaken. But we need to move toward purity, the motive that is always, "This is an offense to my Father. How can I do this and sin against my God?"

To the pure, all things are pure. If we're not, then, making provision to become more pure, we're setting ourselves up to become defiled, because that is the direction of society around us today. Not only in society, but even here in our own midst. If we were to take a survey right now, and if I were to ask some of you, "How many of you have been desensitized in different areas as it pertains to your conscience?" it would be interesting to see (if we were truthful before God) what's acceptable now that may not have been acceptable five or ten years ago. Now, who changed--God, or your conscience?

So, what we have to determine (and I'm going to spend a little bit of time on that) is what the difference is between a strong conscience and a weak conscience. It's probably not what some of you think; in fact, it's probably just the opposite of what many of you think. The Scripture says the weak conscience is the one that can't eat meat, and the strong conscience is the guy that can eat meat offered to idols. We seem to think that legalism is holiness, and it's not. Paul makes a clear distinction. The weak conscience is the guy who says, "I can't eat." The strong conscience says, "Yes, I can eat it; because idols are nothing, demons are nothing, and there are no gods but One." He's aware of that, and he's able to walk in the Spirit, and make the weightier matters of the heart the real issue, and not meats, and drinks, and holy days. So, when we look at strong conscience versus weak conscience, it will help us to understand it from that perspective. But the thing I want you to see right now is that the conscience that you have at this moment (wherever you are, whatever condition you're in) is being defiled by society. We don't have that guarantee, then, that we're going to continually walk in this ability to trust the conscience at all times, unless we're confident that it's under the direction of the Holy Spirit and under the purifying process continually of cleansing by the Word of God, as Hebrews tells us.

So, the conscience--how trustworthy is it? It's very reliable if it's under the direction of the Holy Spirit, if you're a person who's been constantly purifying yourself through the Word of God and weighing every decision by the more sure Word of prophecy. But your conscience can be defiled.

Look over at 1 Timothy for just a second. In chapter 4, it goes even a step further. The Holy Spirit speaking here says, "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils" (verse 1). You see right here what we're talking about: a departure. You're either going toward God, or you're going away from God. There is no neutrality. You're in pursuit, or you're backsliding. That's all there is; there's nothing else. There's no neutral; there's no place to just stop and spend five years in neutral; it doesn't work. You see, you're for God, or you're against Him. You're a friend of the world, or you're an enemy of the world because you're a friend of God. There is no neutrality. So, in the latter times, he says, some are going to depart from the faith. This is talking about doctrinally, and it's talking about experientially. He says there's going to be that departure, and they're going to give heed to seducing spirits, those that bring a wandering, that lead us astray, the doctrines of devils. "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; [look at this] having their conscience seared with a hot iron" (verse 2). Now, who are these people? These are professed believers. These are people within the community who are now being seduced from an outside spirit. That spirit is going to be in the guise of prophets. It's going to be in the guise of false teachers that are going to say, "Yeah, this is acceptable; there's nothing wrong with that. Don't you understand how antiquated these supposed doctrines are that you're adhering to?" You know, they have out now the new "gender-free bible." That's interesting, isn't it? We have people interpreting the Scriptures from every political self-interest perspective. And those of us that would dare stand up and say, "The woman was made for the man, and not the man for the woman," just anger people! If you want to say something that will just cause people to rise up in anger, and want to gnash on you with their teeth, just speak something along those lines; just speak the order of the Word of God. Talk about disciplining children (their little idols); that'll get them! Our society is so perverted, their conscience having been seared, God having turned them over to a reprobate mind, doing the things that are inconvenient, unnatural, unholy, implacable, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. And here's a group of people that seek the glory of God, and the integrity and the purity of His Word, a God Who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We've come into a society who not only hates God, but they hate us. They're looking for that opportunity to destroy us and truly believe, by this false prophet doctrine, that they're doing God a service. You see, those are the people that are dangerous; those are the ones that we need to really keep our eye on--not the pagans, the religious folks.

Did you know that they just had an E.C.T. III (just when you thought it was safe to go back into the seminary!)? Evangelicals and Catholics Together. It's not only the Catholic Church, but J.I. Packer, Chuck Colson, the football player guy (What's that coach's name? I can't think of his name right now, the Promise Keeper guy, but I can't remember his name. That shows how big of an influence he made on me!). But these are people who affect hundreds of thousands and millions of lives, and there are others that we could go on and speak toward who are embracing this. Then there are those that are on the outside that are not accepting this apostate church that is being given authority to speak as the representatives of the kingdom. You and I, the fundamentalist fanatics, are on the outskirts here, and they're all just waiting for the legal opportunity to take us out, so there can be peace, and harmony, and unity. We want to reason with these "brothers" by the Word of God, assuming that they will hear the truth, see the error of their ways, and then embrace the Word of God. But their consciences have been seared. God has turned them over to a reprobate mind. They cannot hear the truth; they have no appetite for the truth. They've lost their first love. Beloved, they may have started on course, but they no longer embrace their first love. They're influencing millions, and you and I are daily dealing with their infiltration into our minds through all of their different ministries, the people who are following them, etc. It's to the place where, many times, we'd even question ourselves. "Are we being isolationists? Are we being non-loving? Are we being so narrow? Because, after all, they name the name of Jesus!" The devil believes and trembles. Not everyone that says to Him, "Lord, Lord," is going to enter in, not even those who have done miracles in His name. So who is it going to be? Who is going to inhabit the holy hill, but those who have pure hearts and consciences? A chaste, holy virgin, without spot or wrinkle.

How's your conscience tonight? It can be defiled; it can be seared. Now, what is it that causes a defiling but associating ourselves with impure environments, with impure fellowship, etc.? What causes us to be seared? The embracing of apostate doctrine. You see, the thing that caused the searing was believing contrary to the Word of God. We're defiled when we behave contrary; we're seared when we believe contrary. When it becomes an established doctrine, when a lie becomes the truth, then there's the searing of the conscience. And it comes through doctrines of devils, through teachers who are speaking lies in hypocrisy. They know this is wrong, but they're speaking it as performers of satanic wiles, whose consciences have been seared.

Paul says to Timothy, If you'll let the brethren know that this is the hour that they're coming into--"If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. But refuse profane and old wives' fables [the wisdom of the world, those things that have been embraced by other generations: refuse them], and exercise thyself rather unto godliness" (verses 6-7).

Are you exercising yourself to godliness? You see, it's not something that just comes. There's an exercise there; there's a process. We have to be at work in one another's lives. We have to be exercising (meaning "to challenge yourself, to put yourself to the test, to put a strain on yourself"). If you're not going forward, what's happening? You're backsliding. How much effort is being made to have even more of a pure conscience than you've ever had in your life? What efforts are you taking to exercise yourself to godliness? "For bodily exercise profiteth little" (verse 8a). How much effort are you putting into your bodily exercise? Do you spend as much time exercising to godliness as you do your physical man? How much time do you spend grooming yourself physically? Adolescents can really get into that, and then for some people it doesn't go away! One of the great time-saving inventions of man is waxing. If you're not careful, you've just got one eyebrow left over here, but it's a little bolder! We spend time on every little eyelash, in manicuring ourselves, in a 74-power mirror checking every pore! We've got Q-tips that are 12 feet long, so we can be sure we get everywhere, and your toes are moving, and we've got to clean every little... Don't misunderstand what I'm saying; I'm a great promoter of hygiene. But you can get carried away! The women sit down, and you've got cleansing, scalding, exfoliating, pre-foundation, semi-foundation, ultra preparation for foundation, foundation, foundation enhancer, more foundation, and then the stuff! What are you doing with the spirit man? What are you doing to exercise the spirit man to godliness? How pretty is your conscience?

So, he speaks to us here about exercising ourselves to godliness, for "...[it] is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come" (verse 8b). So, we realize that there is a war going on, and, in the context here, you see what the apostle is speaking. He's saying that there are going to be these liars, these hypocrites. They're going to bring you false doctrine, and it's going to cause the searing of your conscience, but you need to exercise yourself rather to godliness. Now, if we don't, and we begin to believe the lie (the "easy believe-ism" that's being propagated in our society today), immediately your conscience begins to be seared. You're no longer able to hear the truth. So, we need to prepare ourselves.

We'll talk a little bit on Wednesday about the preparation of the conscience to allow ourselves to have the Word of God take root. He says in Hebrews 9 and 10 (you might want to read those couple of chapters between now and Wednesday) that there is a preparation that causes a cleansing from all evil in our consciences. And he talks to us about how to do that as we exercise ourselves to godliness.

Father, we thank You for the Word of God, and we ask that You would just continually work in our hearts and purify us for this day that we're in. Holy Spirit, we're so dependent upon Your leading us into truth, and so we come and understand the war that's raging around us and how susceptible the conscience of man is to manipulation. The conscience is manipulated by sin within our members, from sin that is without in our society, and from sin that's within the church--others around us who are using their liberty as an occasion to the flesh and offending our consciences as we run and play with them. Help us to know the truth, Father, and help us to prepare ourselves to walk in the Spirit that we would not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. We'll give You all the praise, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Let's stand before the Lord. As Gary plays for us, we just thank the Lord for the Word that He's speaking to each one of us. We thank the Lord for that ministry that came to us tonight through the drama team: how to know that we have eternal life. How pure is your conscience? How protective are you of that great gift of knowing the heart of God? Do you just do what's right because you know it? Your conscience knows within you, because you're in such intimate fellowship that God's heart is beating within you. And the words you hear yourself speaking aren't coming from your mind; they're coming directly from the Spirit. Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. We just want to know You, Father. We just want to hear that voice and obey, that You would receive the glory. Let's sing this chorus together and just rejoice in His goodness. "Purify My Heart, Oh Lord."

Hallelujah! Just slip your hands up and take just a moment and worship Him now. Just thank Him for the working in your life. Thank Him for His presence and His preparation in this hour that we live, that He's guarding your heart and your mind, that as you're seeking Him, you find Him, praise God! Thank him for being at work in you to will and to do His good pleasure, and that He'll keep that which you've committed unto Him against that day.

We offer ourselves up to You, Father, and we subordinate our will, and we ask You to purify our hearts. Help us to go forth, Father, in assurance of Your love and Your presence. Help us to not just abstain, but to abhor that we might love You, and represent that love through our obedience, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Before you go, turn to somebody and say, "Walk in the Spirit," praise God! Amen. Go in peace, God's love go with you.

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