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

GOD HAS SAID THESE WORDS HOS:4:6 MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE: THE BIBLE IS ACTUALLY TWO WILLS, THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT. IF A MAN MAKES TWO WILLS, TWO TESTAMENTS, AND THEN DIES IT IS ONLY THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT THAT IS VALID. SO SINCE THE DEATH OF CHRIST JESUS ON CALVARY’S CROSS THE NEW TESTAMENT IS VALID. BY IT WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, SHALL INHERIT SUCH MARVELOUS GIFTS AS ETERNAL LIFE, THE IMMORTAL BODY, THE HEAVENLY CITY NEW JERUSALEM, AND BE HEIR AND JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. HEB:9:16 FOR WHERE A TESTAMENT IS, THERE MUST ALSO OF NECESSITY BE THE DEATH OF THE TESTATOR. 17. FOR A TESTAMENT IS OF FORCE AFTER MEN ARE DEAD: OTHERWISE IT IS OF NO STRENGTH AT ALL WHILE THE TESTATOR LIVETH. THE OLD TESTAMENT LOST IT’S POWER TO SAVE WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS. LK:16:16 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN: SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND EVERY MAN PRESSETH INTO IT. WERE THERE MANY SAVED BY THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES’? ONLY A FEW. THE WORD FEW IS DEFINED AS “ THREE OR MORE.” THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES IS KNOWN AS THE LAW OF SIN, AND DEATH. IF A MAN TRANSGRESSED THE LAW OF MOSES’ THEN CAME THE CURSE, AND THEN CAME CONDEMNATION. IS:24:5 THE EARTH ALSO IS DEFILED UNDER THE INHABITANTS THEREOF; BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE LAWS, CHANGED THE ORDINANCE, BROKEN THE EVERLASTING COVENANT. 6. THEREFORE HATH THE CURSE DEVOURED THE EARTH, AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN ARE DESOLATE: THEREFORE THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH ARE BURNED, AND FEW MEN LEFT. IF THERE IS NO SALVATION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT YOU MAY WONDER WHY THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS RECORDED. THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US TO CHRIST. GAL:3:23 BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE WERE KEPT UNDER THE LAW, SHUT UP UNTO THE FAITH WHICH SHOULD AFTERWARDS BE REVEALED. 24. WHEREFORE THE LAW (THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES) WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US UNTO CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH. 25. BUT AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOLMASTER. WHY SHOULD A MAN STUDY THE OLD TESTAMENT? THE OLD TESTAMENT IS PROPHESY, PROVERBS, SAYING FILLED WITH WISDOM; PSALMS, SONGS THAT GIVE COMFORT, POETRY EXCITING PLEASURE BY BEAUTY; AND HISTORY, TELLS OF THE WORLD’S CREATION, AND OF MAN’S GENEALOGY FROM ADAM UNTO CHRIST JESUS. FOR EXAMPLE , HOW OLD IS THE WORLD? THE WORLD IS ONLY FIVE DAYS OLDER THAN ADAM. FOR ADAM WAS CREATED ON THE SIXTH DAY. GN:1:27 SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD CREATED HE HIM; MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM. GN:1:31 AND GOD SAW EVERY THING THAT HE HAD MADE, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS VERY GOOD. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SIXTH DAY. THERE ARE LOTS OF MEN THAT DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS ONLY FIVE DAYS OLDER THAN ADAM. LET ME NAME A FEW, THE ATHEIST, THE AGNOSTIC, THE SKEPTIC, THE DOUBTER, THE UNBELIEVER. THE OLD TESTAMENT HAS PROPHECY IN IT, WHAT IS PROPHECY? PROPHECY FORETELLS FUTURE EVENTS. FOR EXAMPLE WHEN CHRIST JESUS RETURNS FOR HIS BRIDE, THE CHURCH, WE SHALL RISE TO MEET HIM IN THE AIR. 1THES:4:16 FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD: AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST: 17. THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR: AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD. WHERE SHALL CHRIST TAKE ALL THE SAINTS THAT RISE TO MEET HIM IN THE AIR. HE SHALL LEAD US TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES JUST OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM. WHEN HE ALIGHTS ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES ALL THE SAINTS SHALL BE WITH HIM. ZEC:14:1 BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, AND THY SPOIL SHALL BE DIVIDED IN THE MIDST OF THEE. ZEC:14:4 AND HIS FEET SHALL STAND IN THAT DAY UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 5. AND YE SHALL FLEE TO THE VALLEY OF THE MOUNTAINS; FOR THE VALLEY OF THE MOUNTAINS SHALL REACH UNTO AZAL: YEA, YE SHALL FLEE, LIKE AS YE FLED FROM BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH KING OF JUDAH: AND THE LORD MY GOD SHALL COME, AND ALL THE SAINTS WITH THEE. THE HEATHEN SHALL BE JUDGED IN THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT. JL:3:12 LET THE HEATHEN BE WAKENED, AND COME UP TO THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT FOR THERE WILL I SIT TO JUDGE ALL THE HEATHEN ROUND ABOUT. THE HEAVENLY CITY NEW JERUSALEM SHALL COME TO EARTH, IT SHALL ALIGHT ON CANAAN LAND, AND GOD SHALL RULE FROM MOUNT ZION IN ETERNITY. RV:21:1 AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY; AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA. 2. AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. 3. AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN SAYING, BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, AND BE THEIR GOD. NOW CONCERNING GOD’S REIGN FROM MOUNT ZION. MI:4:2 AND MANY NATIONS SHALL COME, AND SAY, COME, AND LET US GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD, AND TO THE HOUSE OF THE GOD OF JACOB; AND HE WILL TEACH US OF HIS WAYS, AND WE WILL WALK IN HIS PATHS: FOR THE LAW SHALL GO FORTH OF ZION, AND THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM JERUSALEM. SHOULD WE AS SAINTS OF GOD KEEP THE TITHING LAWS, THE SABBATH DAY LAWS, THE DIETARY LAWS RECORDED IN THE OLD TESTAMENTS. WE, AS SAINTS OF GOD, ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES, WE ARE UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS. 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. IF A MAN PREACHES THAT MEN SHOULD TITHE, OR MEN SHOULD NOT WORK OF THE SABBATH DAY, OR THAT MEN SHOULD NOT EAT CERTAIN MEATS BECAUSE THEY ARE UNCLEAN. AND, BUILDS AGAIN THE TITHING LAWS, OR THE SABBATH DAY LAWS, OR THE DIETARY LAWS AS THEY WERE UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES HE WILL MAKE HIMSELF A TRANSGRESSOR. GAL:2:18 FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED, I MAKE MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR. 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 NOW 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. A MAN CANNOT PREACH ONE WAY, AND LIVE ANOTHER. ROM:2:21 THOU THEREFORE WHICH TEACHEST ANOTHER, TEACHEST THOU NOT THYSELF? THOU THAT PREACHEST A MAN SHOULD NOT STEAL, DOST THOU STEAL? 22. THOU THAT SAYEST A MAN SHOULD NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DOST THOU COMMIT ADULTERY? THOU THAT ABHORRENT IDOLS, DOST THOU COMMIT SACRILEGE? 23. THOU THAT MAKEST THY BOAST OF THE LAW, THROUGH BREAKING THE LAW DISHONOUREST THOU GOD? CHRIST JESUS COMMANDED A MAN TO BREAK THE SABBATH DAY LAW. JN:5:8 JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, RISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK. 9. AND IMMEDIATELY THE MAN WAS MADE WHOLE, AND TOOK UP HIS BED, AND WALKED: AND THE SAME DAY WAS THE SABBATH. 10. THE JEWS THEREFORE SAID UNTO HIM THAT WAS CURED, IT IS THE SABBATH DAY: IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR THEE TO CARRY THY BED. CHRIST JESUS COMMANDED PETER TO BREAK THE DIETARY LAW. ACTS:10:9 ON THE MORROW, AS THEY WENT ON THEIR JOURNEY, AND DREW NIGH UNTO THE CITY, PETER WENT UP UPON THE HOUSETOP TO PRAY ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR: 10. AND HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY, AND WOULD HAVE EATEN: BUT WHILE THEY MADE READY, HE FELL INTO A TRANCE, 11. AND SAW HEAVEN OPENED, AND A CERTAIN VESSEL DESCENDING UNTO HIM, AS IT HAD BEEN A GREAT SHEET KNIT AT THE FOUR CORNERS, AND LET DOWN TO THE EARTH: 12. WHEREIN WERE ALL MANNER OF FOURFOOTED BEASTS OF THE EARTH, AND WILD BEASTS, AND CREEPING THINGS, AND FOWLS OF THE AIR. 13. AND THERE CAME A VOICE TO HIM, RISE, PETER; KILL, AND EAT. 14. BUT PETER SAID, NOT SO, LORD; FOR I HAVE NEVER EATEN ANY THING THAT IS COMMON OR UNCLEAN. 15. AND THE VOICE SPAKE UNTO HIM AGAIN THE SECOND TIME, WHAT GOD HATH CLEANSED, THAT CALL NOT THOU COMMON. THE TITHING LAWS, UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES, WAS A TAX PUT UPON THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE LEVITICAL TRIBE. THE TITHING LAWS WERE NOT BROUGHT OVER INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT BECAUSE KINGS DO NOT TAX THEIR OWN CHILDREN. MT:17:24 AND WHEN THEY WERE COME TO CAPERNAUM, THEY THAT RECEIVED TRIBUTE MONEY CAME TO PETER, AND SAID, DOTH NOT YOUR MASTER PAY TRIBUTE? 25. HE SAITH, YES. AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO THE HOUSE, JESUS PREVENTED HIM, SAYING, WHAT THINKEST THOU, SIMON? OF WHOM DO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TAKE CUSTOM OR TRIBUTE? OF THEIR OWN CHILDREN, OR OF STRANGERS. 26. PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, OF STRANGERS, JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, THEN ARE THE CHILDREN FREE. FOR MEN TO KEEP THE LAWS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT GOD GAVE TO ABRAHAM ALL MEN WERE REQUIRED TO BE CIRCUMCISED. GN:17:9 AND GOD SAID UNTO ABRAHAM, THOU SHALT KEEP MY COVENANT THEREFORE, THOU, AND THY SEED AFTER THEE IN THEIR GENERATIONS. 10. THIS IS MY COVENANT WHICH YE SHALL KEEP, BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND THY SEE AFTER THEE; EVERY MAN CHILD AMONG YOU SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED. 11. AND YE SHALL CIRCUMCISE THE FLESH OF YOUR FORESKIN; AND IT SHALL BE A TOKEN OF THE COVENANT BETWIXT ME AND YOU. JESUS CHRIST WAS CIRCUMCISED TO FULFILL THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO ABRAHAM. LK:2:21 AND WHEN EIGHT DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE CIRCUMCISING OF THE CHILD, HIS NAME WAS CALLED JESUS, WHICH WAS SO NAMED OF THE ANGEL BEFORE HE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE WOMB. WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST AND HAVE RECEIVED THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST, AND HAVE BECOME A MEMBER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST ARE CIRCUMCISED WITH A CIRCUMCISION MADE WITHOUT HANDS; BECAUSE OF OUR PHYSICAL UNION WITH CHRIST. COL:2:11 IN WHOM ALSO YE ARE CIRCUMCISED WITH THE CIRCUMCISION MADE WITHOUT HANDS, IN PUTTING OFF THE BODY OF THE SINS OF THE FLESH BY THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST: IF A MAN IS CIRCUMCISED, WITH THE INTENT TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES, AFTER HE HAS RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST AND HAS COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, HE WILL FALL FROM GRACE, AND CHRIST WILL PROFIT HIM NOTHING. GAL:5:1 STAND FAST THEREFORE IN THE LIBERTY WHEREWITH CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE, AND BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE. 2. BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU, THAT IF YE BE CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. 3. FOR I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN THAT IS CIRCUMCISED, THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO DO THE WHOLE LAW. 4. CHRIST IS BECOME OF NO EFFECT UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER OF YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW; YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE. 5. FOR WE THROUGH THE SPIRIT WAIT FOR THE HOPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. 6. FOR IN JESUS CHRIST NEITHER CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH ANY THING, NOR UNCIRCUMCISION; BUT FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE. WHY SHOULD A MAN STUDY THE NEW TESTAMENT? THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS A MAN MUST DO TO BE HEIR AND JOINTS HEIRS WITH JESUS CHRIST IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. FOR EXAMPLE THE ELECT OF GOD MUST REPENT. LK:13:5 I TELL YOU, NAY; BUT EXCEPT YE REPENT, YE SHALL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH. TO INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD , WE AS SAINTS OF GOD, MUST BE STRONG IN FAITH. ACTS:16:31 AND THEY SAID, BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED, AND THY HOUSE. WE MUST BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED, AND BORN OF THE SPIRIT, WE MUST RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. 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. WE ARE SAVED BY CONFESSION. ROM:10:9 THAT IF THOU SHALT CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH THE LORD JESUS, AND SHALT BELIEVE IN THINE HEART THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, THOU SHALT BE SAVED. 10. FOR WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVETH UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION. WE, MUST EAT OF THE FLESH, AND DRINK OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. WE EAT OF THE FLESH, AND DRINK OF THE BLOOD 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. 54. WHOSO EATETH MY FLESH, AND DRINKETH MY BLOOD, HATH ETERNAL LIFE; AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY. 55. FOR MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED. WE MUST WASH THE FEET OF THE SAINTS , AND ALLOW THEM TO WASH OUR FEET. JN:13:8 PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NEVER WASH MY FEET. JESUS ANSWERED HIM, IF I WASH THEE NOT, THOU HAST NO PART WITH ME. WE, AS SAINTS OF GOD , MUST BE OBEDIENT TO THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. JN:14:15 IF YE LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. ALL SAINTS OF GOD MUST BE FRUITFUL. JN:15:2 EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARETH NOT FRUIT HE TAKETH AWAY: AND EVERY BRANCH THAT BEARETH FRUIT, HE PURGETH IT, THAT IT MAY BRING FORTH MORE FRUIT. YOU CAN MAKE SURE OF YOUR CALL AND ELECTION. 2PT:1:5 AND BESIDE THIS, GIVING ALL DILIGENCE, ADD TO YOUR FAITH VIRTUE; AND TO VIRTUE KNOWLEDGE; 6. AND TO KNOWLEDGE TEMPERANCE; AND TO TEMPERANCE PATIENCE; AND TO PATIENCE GODLINESS; 7. AND TO GODLINESS BROTHERLY KINDNESS; AND TO BROTHERLY KINDNESS CHARITY. 10. WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN, GIVE DILIGENCE TO MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE FOR IF YE DO THESE THINGS, YE SHALL NEVER FALL: