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

HERE ARE THE SINS KNOWN AS "WORKS OF THE FLESH." GAL:5:19 NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE: ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS, 20. IDOLATRY, WITCHCRAFT, HATRED, VARIANCE, EMULATIONS, WRATH, STRIFE, SEDITIONS, HERESIES, 21. ENVYINGS, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELLINGS, AND SUCH LIKE OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE WORKS OF THE FLESH MUST ALSO INCLUDE THESE SINS I CALL THE BURNING OFFENSES. RV:21:8 BUT THE FEARFUL, AND UNBELIEVING, AND THE ABOMINABLE, AND MURDERERS, AND WHOREMONGERS, AND SORCERERS, AND IDOLATERS, AND ALL LIARS, SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH. IF A PERSON WILL ABSTAIN FROM THE WORKS OF THE FLESH THEY SHALL NEVER COME INTO CONDEMNATION. IN THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE THE LAW OF MOSES IS KNOWN AS THE LAW OF SIN, AND DEATH. ROM:8:1 THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. 2. FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. 3. FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, AND FOR SIN, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH; THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. THE CARNAL MIND , THE MIND OF SENSE, AND REASON WITHOUT THE HOLY GHOST IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. ROM:8:6 FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE, 7. BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD; FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. 8. SO THEN THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD. 9. BUT YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS. WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM, THEY ARE ALIVE PHYSICALLY BUT DEAD SPIRITUALLY. THEY MUST BE BORN AGAIN; THEY MUST BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED, AND BORN OF THE SPIRIT, THEY MUST RECEIVE THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST. IF YOU ARE A NEW CONVERT TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHY YOU MUST BE BAPTIZED. ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE TRUE ETERNAL SPIRITUAL CHURCH. THE ONLY WAY INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST IS THROUGH THE WATER OF BAPTISM. GAL:3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHY YOU MUST RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT BRINGS LIFE TO THE INWARD MAN, THE SOUL OF MAN. JN:3:6 THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. IT IS THE SOUL OF MAN THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. FOR THE SOUL OF MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. 2COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. YOU MAY NOT KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE ELECT OF GOD THAT HAVE BEEN BORN OF THE WATER, AND OF THE SPIRIT. YOU CAN IDENTIFY THE CHILDREN OF GOD THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE, RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT WILFULLY TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 1JN:3:8 HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; FOR THE DEVIL SINNETH FROM THE BEGINNING. FOR THIS PURPOSE THE SON OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. 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. ADULTERY IS LISTED AS THE NUMBER ONE SIN OF THE WORKS OF THE FLESH. ARE THERE MANY PEOPLE IN ADULTERY? MULTITUDES , MULTITUDES, OF PEOPLE ARE IN ADULTERY. IF A PERSON IS MARRIED, AND HAS SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH ANY ONE OTHER THAN THEIR SPOUSE, THEY ARE IN ADULTERY. IF A MAN DIVORCES HIS WIFE FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN FORNICATION, WHICH COVERS ALL ILLEGAL SEXUAL RELATIONS ACCORDING TO GOD’S LAW; AND MARRIES AGAIN BOTH THE MAN, AND THE WOMAN HE MARRIES ARE IN ADULTERY. 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. IF A DIVORCED WOMAN MARRIES WHILE HER PREVIOUS HUSBAND IS ALIVE SHE SHALL BE AN ADULTERESS. A MAN CAN DIVORCE HIS WIFE WHEN THE CAUSE OF ACTION IS FORNICATION, AND REMARRY WITHOUT LIVING IN ADULTERY, BUT A WOMAN CANNOT DIVORCE HER HUSBAND FOR ANY REASON, AND REMARRY AS LONG AS HER HUSBAND LIVES. ROM:7:1 KNOW YE NOT, BRETHREN, ( FOR I SPEAK TO THEM THAT KNOW THE LAW,) HOW THAT THE LAW HATH DOMINION OVER A MAN AS LONG AS HE LIVETH? 2. FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE LIVETH; BUT IF THE HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS LOOSED FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND. 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. WHAT DOES ADULTERY DO TO THE SOUL? ADULTERY DESTROYS THE SOUL. PRV:6:32 BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING; HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL. FORNICATION COVERS ALL UNLAWFUL SEXUAL ACTS. LV:18:22 THOU SHALT NOT LIE WITH MANKIND, AS WITH WOMANKIND; IT IS ABOMINATION. 23. NEITHER SHALT THOU LIE WITH ANY BEAST TO DEFILE THYSELF THEREWITH; NEITHER SHALL ANY WOMAN STAND BEFORE A BEAST TO LIE DOWN THERETO IT IS CONFUSION. WHAT IS UNCLEANNESS? THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, THAT HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST ARE SPIRITUALLY UNCLEAN. WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD. ALL MANKIND WAS IN ADAM; AND BECAUSE OF OUR PHYSICAL UNION WITH ADAM SIN WAS IMPUTED UNTO ALL MANKIND. 1COR:15:22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. NOW WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, IF HE IS BORN OF BELIEVING PARENTS HE IS IN A SANCTIFIED CONDITION. BUT, IF THE CHILD IS BORN TO UNBELIEVING PARENTS HE IS UNCLEAN. 1COR:7:13 AND THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND THAT BELIEVETH NOT, AND IF HE BE PLEASED TO DWELL WITH HER, LET HER NOT LEAVE HIM. 14. FOR THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WIFE, AND THE UNBELIEVING WIFE IS SANCTIFIED BY THE HUSBAND: ELSE WERE YOUR CHILDREN UNCLEAN; BUT NOW ARE THEY HOLY. WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, AND ARE IN A SANCTIFIED CONDITION; ARE BY THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WHICH IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, FORBIDDEN TO MARRY AN UNCLEAN PERSON. FOR YOU AS A SANCTIFIED PERSON WILL NOT CLEANSE THE UNCLEAN PERSON ; BUT THE UNCLEAN PERSON WILL DEFILE YOU. 2COR:6:14 BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS; FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HATH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH UNRIGHTEOUSNESS? AND WHAT COMMUNION HATH LIGHT WITH DARKNESS? 15. AND WHAT CONCORD HATH CHRIST WITH BELIAL? OR WHAT PART HATH HE THAT BELIEVETH WITH AN INFIDEL? 16. AND WHAT AGREEMENT HATH THE TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS? FOR YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD; AS GOD HATH SAID, I WILL DWELL IN THEM, AND WALK IN THEM: AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. 17. WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH THE LORD; AND TOUCH NOT THE UNCLEAN THING; AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU, 18. AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU, AND YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAITH THE LORD ALMIGHTY. WHAT IS LASCIVIOUSNESS. LASCIVIOUSNESS IS UNBRIDLED LUST . AN INTENSE , OBSESSIVE CRAVING, AS EVE LUSTED AFTER THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT. WHAT IS IDOLATRY? IT IS THE WORSHIP OF IDOLS. THERE ARE MILLIONS IF NOT BILLIONS OF PEOPLE BOWING DOWN TO GRAVEN IMAGES, IDOLS. IDOLATRY IS ONE OF THE WORKS OF THE FLESH, AND THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE PSALMIST RECORDED THESE WORDS. PS:115:3 BUT OUR GOD IS IN THE HEAVENS: HE HATH DONE WHATSOEVER HE HATH PLEASED. 4. THEIR IDOLS ARE SILVER AND GOLD, THE WORK OF MEN’S HANDS. 5. THEY HAVE MOUTHS, BUT THEY SPEAK NOT: EYES HAVE THEY , BUT THEY SEE NOT: 6. THEY HAVE EARS, BUT THEY HEAR NOT: NOSES HAVE THEY, BUT THEY SMELL NOT: 7. THEY HAVE HANDS, BUT THEY HANDLE NOT: FEET HAVE THEY, BUT THEY WALK NOT: NEITHER SPEAK THEY THROUGH THEIR THROAT. 8. THEY THAT MAKE THEM ARE LIKE THEM; SO IS EVERY ONE THAT TRUSTETH IN THEM. VARIANCE IS ONE OF THE WORKS OF THE FLESH, DEFINED AS THE LACK OF AGREEMENT AMONG PERSONS, GROUPS, OR THINGS; TENSION OR STRIFE RESULTING FROM LACK OF AGREEMENT. HERE IS A VERSE OF SCRIPTURE THAT MAY HELP YOU TO AVOID VARIANCE. 2TI:2:23 BUT FOOLISH AND UNLEARNED QUESTIONS AVOID, KNOWING THAT THEY DO GENDER STRIFES. EMULATIONS IS ONE OF THE WORKS OF THE FLESH. EMULATION DEFINED IS COMPETITION, RIVALRY, STRIVING TO EQUAL OR EXCEED SOMEONE AT THE SAME THING. THEY THAT COMMIT THE SIN OF EMULATION SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ARE THERE MANY COMMITTING THE SIN OF EMULATIONS? YES MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE ARE COMMITTING THIS SIN. FOOTBALL, BASE BALL, HOCKEY, BOXING, WRESTLING, AND POKER ARE ALL COMPETITIVE ACTIVITIES. THERE IS MY OPINION NO COMPETITIVE ACTIVITY THAT BREAKS MORE ARMS , LEGS, NECKS, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY THAN DOES FOOTBALL. I BELIEVE THAT FOOTBALL IS A COMPETITIVE SPORT SENT FROM SATAN TO CRIPPLE MEN IN THIS PRESENT WORLD , AND IN THE WORLD TO COME KEEP MEN FROM INHERITING SUCH MARVELOUS GIFTS AS ETERNAL LIFE, THE IMMORTAL BODY, AND THE HOLY CITY NEW JERUSALEM WHICH IS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. WHAT IS WRATH? FORCEFUL OFTEN VINDICTIVE OF ANGER. PUNISHMENT OR VENGEANCE AS MANIFESTING OF ANGER. WHAT IS WITCHCRAFT? WITCHES OR SORCERERS ARE PEOPLE THAT MAKE A COVENANT WITH THE DEVIL TO RECEIVE POWER. SOME WITCHES, AND SORCERERS RECEIVE THE POWER TO TELL THE FUTURE. ACTS:16:16 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS WE WENT TO PRAYER, A CERTAIN DAMSEL POSSESSED WITH A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION MET US, WHICH BROUGHT HER MASTERS MUCH GAIN BY SOOTHSAYING: 17. THE SAME FOLLOWED PAUL AND US, AND CRIED, SAYING, THESE MEN ARE THE SERVANTS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, WHICH SHEW UNTO US THE WAY OF SALVATION. 18. AND THIS DID SHE MANY DAYS. BUT PAUL, BEING GRIEVED, TURNED AND SAID TO THE SPIRIT, I COMMAND THEE IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST TO COME OUT OF HER. AND HE CAME OUT THE SAME HOUR. THE WITCH AT ENDOR HAD THE POWER TO CALL UP SAMUEL FROM THE DEAD SO THAT KING SAUL COULD TALK TO HIM. 1SM:28:11 THEN SAID THE WOMAN, WHOM SHALL I BRING UP UNTO THEE? AND HE SAID, BRING ME UP SAMUEL. 12. AND WHEN THE WOMAN SAW SAMUEL, SHE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE: AND THE WOMAN SPAKE TO SAUL, SAYING, WHY HAST THOU DECEIVED ME? FOR THOU ART SAUL. THERE WAS SORCERER BY THE NAME OF SIMON THAT BEWITCHED THE PEOPLE OF SAMARIA. ACTS:8:9 BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN, CALLED SIMON, WHICH BEFORETIME IN THE CITY USED SORCERY, AND BEWITCHED THE PEOPLE OF SAMARIA, GIVING OUT THAT HIMSELF WAS SOME GREAT ONE. WHAT IS HATRED? HATRED IS AN EMOTION OF HATE SO STRONG THAT IT DEMANDS ACTION. .WHAT IS HERESY? HERESY IS PREACHING OR TEACHING THOSE THINGS THAT DO NOT AGREE WITH THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRUE, THINGS THAT WILL NOT AGREE WITH FINAL REALITY. HERESY PROCEEDS FROM SATAN AND IS DESIGNED TO SEND THOSE THAT BELIEVE THEM INTO THE FLAMES OF HELL. HERE ARE SOME OF THE MOST PREACHED HERESIES , " FAITH PLUS NOTHING EQUALS SALVATION." IF A PERSON BELIEVES THAT HERESY AND REFUSES TO BE BAPTIZED THEY SHALL NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 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. IF A PERSON DOES NOT EAT OF THE FLESH OF THE LORD JESUS AND DRINK OF HIS BLOOD, HE WILL HAVE NO LIFE IN HIM. 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. WE EAT OF THE FLESH OF JESUS, AND DRINK OF HIS BLOOD WHEN WE PARTAKE OF THE LORD’S SUPPER. WHAT IS ENVY? ENVY IS A FEELING OF DISCONTENT AND RESENTMENT AROUSED BY AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH DESIRE FOR THE POSSESSIONS OR QUALITIES OF ANOTHER. WHAT IS STRIFE? STRIFE IS TO STRUGGLE, FIGHT, OR QUARREL. WHAT IS SEDITION? IT IS THE CREATING OF A REVOLT, DISTURBANCE , OR VIOLENCE AGAINST LAWFUL CIVIL AUTHORITY WITH THE INTENT TO CAUSE IT’S OVERTHROW OR DESTRUCTION. POWER IN THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE IS THE LAWFUL CIVIL AUTHORITY. RM:13:1 LET EVERY SOUL BE SUBJECT UNTO THE HIGHER POWERS. FOR THERE IS NO POWER BUT OF GOD: THE POWERS THAT BE ARE ORDAINED OF GOD. 2. WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH THE POWER, RESISTETH THE ORDINANCE OF GOD: AND THEY THAT RESIST SHALL RECEIVE TO THEMSELVES DAMNATION. 3. FOR RULERS ARE NOT A TERROR TO GOOD WORKS, BUT TO THE EVIL. WILT THOU THEN NOT BE AFRAID OF THE POWER? DO THAT WHICH IS GOOD, AND THOU SHALT HAVE PRAISE OF THE SAME: 4. FOR HE IS THE MINISTER OF GOD TO THEE FOR GOOD. BUT IF THOU DO THAT WHICH IS EVIL, BE AFRAID; FOR HE BEARETH NOT THE SWORD IN VAIN: FOR HE IS THE MINSTER OF GOD, A REVENGER TO EXECUTE WRATH UPON HIM THAT DOETH EVIL. WHAT IS MURDER? IT IS THE UNLAWFUL, UNJUSTIFIED, PREMEDITATED KILLING OF A HUMAN BEING. WHAT IS REVELLING. IT IS TO ENGAGE IN UPROARIOUS FESTIVITIES.