We’ve been talking to some people, just recently, who are walking disorderly.  They want to do the right thing, they acquiesce to the right thing, and the next thing you know, somehow, they’re finding opportunities to continue to feed that old man again.  If you love God, His commandments are not grievous.  We delight in the truth.  There’s a hatred of that old man.  There’s a hatred of that rebellious action.  I don’t care how small in somebody’s eyes the issue might be.  He that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, it’s sin.  If we’re going to live in the Holy Spirit and be able to look at the evidence of it, how do I know that I truly am living in the Holy Ghost?  These things will be prominent in your life.  You will no longer be able to have lasting pleasure in the things that you used to live for and love.

The Spirit lusteth against the flesh, and the flesh against the Spirit; amen?  I am a new creature.  Old things are passed away; all things are new, praise God!  You know what?  You’ll be a little more sensitive to the words that are coming out of your mouth.  We’ll become a little more sensitive to that voice of the Holy Spirit when we find ourself moving in that realm of self‑will, self‑exaltation, lust.  We call it ambition.  “It’s admirable!  That young man’s ambitious!”  Ambitious to make a name for ourselves?

These are things that begin to manifest in the Holy Spirit if we’re practically living in the Spirit.  Listen to Jesus.  After He was filled with the Holy Spirit, His heart was set on accomplishing the task that God had given Him; amen?  Now let’s remind ourselves, it was a very difficult task.  It was a task that required Him, Jesus, the man, who suffered everything, was tempted in every way such as you and I.  Jesus was not getting a free ride on His divinity.  Jesus’ ministry was a human being full of the Holy Ghost; amen?  Not tainted by Adam’s sin, but with every opportunity to sin just like the first Adam.  So, we see Him walking out that life.  He, Himself, not as divine Son of God, as a natural man, could not comprehend what was coming upon Him.

It had never been experienced before in all of God’s creation, in all of history, that a man would take on Himself the sins of all humanity.  All of the wrath that belonged to you and me was put on Him in one moment.  He cried, “If it be possible, let this cup pass from Me,” amen?  Do we understand the magnitude of that?  And we’re going to put any of our little temptations up against this, any of our little trials up against this?  He who was one with the Father from the beginning is soon going to cry out, “My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?”  I’m only pointing out that love for the Father manifests in obedience regardless of how difficult it is.  Amen?

He had the testimony, “I do always those things that please Him.”  Walk as He walked.  “I do always those things that please Him.”  Walk as He walked!  Amen?  “It’s not possible!”  Are you full of the same Holy Ghost?  Be ye perfect as your Father which is in heaven is perfect, hallelujah!  That word talks about “wholeness,” or “to be complete.”  We’re full of the Holy Ghost.  We’re full of the Word of God.  We’ve been given all things that pertain to life and godliness through the indwelling Holy Spirit; amen?  Do I believe in sinless perfection?  Is it attainable for you and me?  Let me tell you what I believe in.  I believe that most of the church has given up on trying.

I believe in this, the Bible.  If—not when—if any man sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; amen?  We’re giving sin too much credibility.  We’ve convinced ourselves that it’s impossible.  “I’ve tried these many years.”  Well, keep trying, praise God!  Amen?  Keep believing.  Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, “I do always those things that please My Father.”  That’s the mind of Christ.  Let’s let the Spirit of God remind us who we are today.  We are not our own, we’re bought with a price.  We are the tabernacle of the Holy Ghost.  Dare we take the body of Christ and attach it to the harlotry of this world’s system, of the natural mindset, of secular humanism?