All Things Are Possible

Guest (Male): Your heart makes a terrible GPS. It reroutes you to comfort, to revenge, to hate, pride, and fear. God doesn't give you any of those things. God doesn't just want to correct your choices. He wants to direct your path.

Dr. Bernie Miller: New Covenant Fellowship Church. In-person worship, Sunday mornings at 10:30, 1326 Northmore Road in Chattanooga. New Covenant Fellowship Church, a place for every race.

Guest (Female): Oh, when I'm afraid, I put my trust in You, from where my strength comes from. When I am weak, I'm strong in You. You've bottled every tear that I've cried, and You saved my life. For when I was sinking deep in sin, You were my only friend. Because You died for everything I could not do. For God so loved the world. That He gave His only Son. It was more than I could give, more than I could give. He cleansed my every thought. He washed away the sin within my heart.

Guest (Female): It was more than I could give. More than I ever thought about. It was more than I ever dreamed that He died for me. And He died for all of you. It was more than I could give. More than I could give.

Guest (Female): More. He was the Lamb of sacrifice, the only one with the life to give eternally. It should have been me when they nailed Him to the cross. They repaid what my life cost. For me, He died on Calvary to redeem my soul. To Him.

Guest (Female): Who made it all begin. It should have been me when they pierced His feet and hands. It was more than I could give. More than I could give. More than I could give. He cleansed my every thought. He washed away the sin within my heart.

Guest (Female): It was more than I could give. And as He hung upon the cross, there were two thieves with Him. But only one who recognized in Him, who was no sin. And as He cried out, "It is finished!" All the saints to live. It was more than I could give. More than I could give. More than I could give. It was more than I could give. It was more than I could give.

Dr. Bernie Miller: I'd rather be under God's mighty hand and wrong, than to not be under His hand and right. Because if I'm under His hand, wrong or right, I know that I'm protected by the power of God. New Covenant Fellowship Church. In-person worship, Sunday mornings at 10:30, 1326 Northmore Road in Chattanooga. New Covenant Fellowship Church, a place for every race. Now, from New Covenant Fellowship Church. All things are possible.

Dr. Bernie Miller: At New Covenant, we show and grow people in Christ and glorify God. It's what we believe. To say it another way, if you're looking to worship in a place without having to worry about what to wear, or a plate being passed for money, come to New Covenant. Every Sunday morning at 10:30, you'll enjoy great music and solid teaching from the Bible. You'll find us on Northmore Road in Chattanooga, with directions right to our door at ncf.church. New Covenant Fellowship Church. We are a place for every race.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Good morning, and God bless you. Welcome back, members. Welcome guests and those who will be watching online. Thank you for fellowshipping with us and as we continue our series in the book of Ephesians.

Dr. Bernie Miller: You know, as you're watching TV or listening to the radio, you'd be hard-pressed not to find a commercial that talks about perfumes, colognes, odor-eliminating fragrances, and all other kinds of smells. So, as I was reading through Ephesians chapter 5, one question came up. What is the fragrance of your lifestyle?

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: What do you smell like in the nostrils of God?

Guest (Male): Right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Is your lifestyle a sweet-smelling aroma that he can't wait to sense, or is it as foul as a newly deceased carcass on the side of the road?

Guest (Male): Wow.

Dr. Bernie Miller: How do you smell to God? Are you an imitator or an imitation?

Guest (Male): Right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: The imitator will look like God. They do the things that he does. The imitations, they cover things up. They mask what they really are on the inside, on the outside. Not so you can see what's on the inside.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: So, this message today isn't just for you guys, it's for me also, as is every message. Well, any time that you gather with family, sometimes you have hard conversations that need to take place.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: And today is one of those days.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Believe me, this is not an attack on anyone. But this is what the word of God says.

Guest (Male): Right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: What is the fragrance of your lifestyle? Turn with me if you would, in your Bibles, on your Bible app, or even on the screen as we look at Ephesians chapter 5, verses 1 through 10.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity and covetousness must not even be named among you as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness or foolish talk, nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead, let there be thanksgiving.

Dr. Bernie Miller: For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or is covetous, that is, an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore, do not become partners with them. For at one time, you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. So walk as children of light, for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true. And try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We're going to be talking about two sets of people. We're going to be talking about the imitators and the imitations. We'll start with the imitators. The imitators are carbon copies. Now, for those of us who are that old, we know what a carbon copy is.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But a carbon copy is an exact replica of the person or thing that it is imitating. And in our passage, we're going to be talking more in the context of behavior instead of looks.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: The carbon copies. If you'll look in Acts 11:26, we come out with the word Christian. We often times look at it as a state of being, but it is not. The word Christian is an active lifestyle. It says, "When they had found him, they brought him to Antioch, for a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch, the disciples were first called Christians." Now, this is in Acts chapter 11, so if you read the previous chapters, you'll see why they were called Christians. They were doing the things that Jesus did.

Dr. Bernie Miller: See, Christianity is an activity, not a state of being. The technical term for the book of Acts is the acts of the Apostles, or the activities and actions of the Apostles. So, it was what they were doing. We look at it as a state of being sometimes, as though it's a title or a badge, but that's not how God looks at it. He looks at it as a lifestyle that is producing fruit.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: So, are you producing fruit?

Guest (Male): Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: As you name the name of Jesus?

Guest (Male): Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: An imitator produces fruit. They are carbon copies. They don't just look like Jesus, they're doing the things that Jesus did.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: The second point is this: imitators are fragrant.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: How do you smell? When God looks at you and your lifestyle, is He pleased with it?

Guest (Male): Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Or is He saying, "That's disgusting," or "repulsive?" We just sang a song, and we have a verse for that, 1 Peter 1:16.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: "Since it is written, 'You shall be holy, for I am holy.'"

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We sang a song, "Holy Forever."

Guest (Male): Yeah.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Those of us who are imitators of Christ realize that holiness is our response of thanksgiving to the God who saved us.

Guest (Male): All right. Praise God.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Holiness should be a part of us as saints. In verse 3, you don't have to go back there, but I'm going to say it in the NIV, it says something differently, which makes it a little bit more clearer. It says, but the sexually immoral among you, not even a hint of sexual immorality or impurity. Not even a little bit. My grandmother used to say, "Not even a smidgen."

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: So, there can't be even a little bit of sin for the imitator. Because a little bit grows into a lot.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: God expects us to be holy, as He is holy. He expects us to be set apart. We are to be different, not to blend in. A lot of us are happy, we're going to blend in with the crowd so that nobody can identify us. But that's not how Jesus wants it to be. He wants you to stand out.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He wants you to be the only person wearing red in a room full of people wearing white.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He wants you to be that noticeable with your lifestyle, because he wants other people to come to know him. Can you imagine if the person that led you to Christ was silent and didn't say anything? What would you be right now?

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Not only are we be holy like Jesus.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We ought to have the same mindset. Let's look at Philippians chapter 2. "Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus." So, not only we're talking about a lifestyle of doing something, it's how you think as well. So, we have to think holy as well as living holy. "Who, though he was in the form of God, did not call equality with God a thing to be grasped." "But emptied Himself by taking on the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men." Now, a lot of us don't like to empty ourselves. Because emptying yourselves means you become vulnerable.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We don't want to be vulnerable. We want to be the tough guy or the tough lady.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We don't want anybody to see the chinks in our armor. But God's strength is in our weakness.

Guest (Male): That's right. Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: "And being found in human form, He humbled Himself." How humble are we?

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Humility is not weakness. Because Jesus took on the sin of the world. I don't consider that weak. How many of you can take on the sin of the world? I can't.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: When it comes to pain, I'm a punk. I'll just let you know that now.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Even though I'm told me to ignore it, that doesn't work. I don't care what they say in the movies.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He humbled Himself, being obedient to the point of death.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: How many of you are really willing to die for the cause of Christ?

Guest (Male): Amen. That's a good question.

Dr. Bernie Miller: See, in our country, we don't understand persecution.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We don't understand what it means to be hated because of what you believe, because we have laws protecting us. But there are many of my brothers who are in Nigeria, in Kenya, in Uganda, who are being executed for naming the name of Jesus. Being picked up in the middle of the night, stolen from their families, because they're proclaiming the name of Jesus.

Guest (Male): Wow.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Some of my brothers in China, same thing. If they meet, they risk being captured and executed for their faith in Jesus.

Guest (Male): Wow.

Dr. Bernie Miller: The first thing we'll do is call the police. If somebody came up and tried to attack us, we want to take them to court and everything else. But are you humble enough to go through death for Jesus? Not saying that all of us will go through that. But when you look at the lives of the Apostles, 11 of them gave their lives. The only one who died a natural death was the Apostle John, but it wasn't that they didn't try to kill him. They just couldn't. They boiled him in oil, that didn't work. They poisoned him, that didn't work. They beat him and stoned him, that didn't work. So, they said they pulled him on an island so he didn't have anybody to talk to. That was the only way they could get him to shut up. But that didn't work because he wrote the book of Revelation.

Guest (Male): That's right. Yeah.

Dr. Bernie Miller: So, are you willing, no matter what the cost, to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ? Are you willing, regardless of the cost, to let everyone know who you are and who you belong to? "Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him a name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Are you willing to pay whatever cost?

Guest (Male): Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: See, Jesus humbled Himself and did everything He needed to do in obedience. Obedience sometimes makes us look crazy.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We cover this in a lot of the Sunday School classes. One of the biggest ones is Jericho. God told them to march around the city one time each day. Now, you can understand how foolish they look marching around the city. Then on the last day, he said, "March around it seven times." Can you imagine a bunch of warriors with swords walking around, not saying anything, and then on the last day all they did was shout? They didn't have to do anything. God was the one fighting the battle for them. Obedience from us lets God work through us. But we want to do Him a favor, we want to do it ourselves. And it doesn't work that way.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: The next one is an emotional thing, John 14. "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." This is your emotional response to Him. If you love Him, you're going to do what He says. That's how He measures who loves Him. We can sit here and say it all day long. But love is an action verb.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: It means it requires you doing something. So, our response to Him, showing that we love Him and that He loves us is to respond in obedience to what it is that He's commanded us to do.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: A lot of us don't like what He tells us to do.

Guest (Male): No.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But it's not about us. It's about the kingdom. We ought to be kingdom-focused, not self-focused.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Then James 1:22, "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." I like the way the NIV says it, you know, be a doer, but don't deceive yourself, do what the word says.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Do what it says. Obedience is necessary.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He's never asked us a question. He always gives a command. So, it's like He's telling us what to do. But then if we're given pushback, is that obedience? You can't say, "I obeyed Him 90% of the time," when He gives you a command, or 50% of the time. Because even if it was 99 and a half, as the old song would say, "99 and a half won't do." And those of us who are old enough to know that song, that's why they're laughing.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: 99 and a half won't do. God wants 100%. So, when you look at the life of Saul, the King Saul, he only did part of what God said. But how did God respond to him? He said, "You have disobeyed," even though he did the majority of what God told him. God still counted it as disobedience. So, halfway doing something is still disobedience in God's eyes. It's like you didn't even do it at all.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Imitators are carbon copies. Imitators are also fragrant.

Guest (Male): Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But then they're selfless.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: They don't think about what they can get out of anything. They think about what they can do to fill others up.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Second Corinthians 8:5, I love this verse. Because it starts right here. "And this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us by the will of God." It starts every day with you giving yourself to the Lord. Why? If you're not fully committed to Him, nothing else is going to matter.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He wants the full commitment, not a halfway commitment. How would you feel if the Lord was halfway committed to you?

Guest (Male): Oh. That's right. Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We would raise Cain.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We'd be upset. We'd argue with Him.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But yet we do that to Him.

Guest (Male): Oh.

Dr. Bernie Miller: A lot of us can be fully committed at work. We'll go above and beyond to get that pay raise or that promotion, but we won't go above and beyond to the God who loved us and gave Himself for us.

Guest (Male): That's right. Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Luke 22:42. "Not My will, but Your will be done." Are you willing to say that each morning? "Not my will, Lord," when you get up. "Your will be done."

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Doesn't matter what I want, Lord, what You want is what's important.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But a lot of us when we come to the Lord, we give Him a list of our requests.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But we love to quote Jeremiah 29:11, don't we?

Guest (Male): Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: That He has a plan for each one of us. We'll quote that until He tells us what His plan is.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: And then we're like, "Well, no, Lord, I've got a plan. This is my plan. I don't want this one, that's okay right there, but this is my plan." And then we ask Him to bless it or cosign our plan.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But it doesn't work like that for the imitator. Our plans are aside. Yes, we have desires and He will grant some of those. But our first thing should be, "What is it that You want from me, Lord? How do I do what it is that You're wanting me to do?" Or how can I yield myself so that You can do it through me? The amazing part about God is He gives us the commands, but He's the one doing all the work. He just needs a vessel to work through.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He doesn't need us, but He just wants us to be involved. That's part of the fellowship and the love.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: If He wanted to, He can get the animals to do what He wants to do.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: And some of you are like the donkey.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: You know, the donkey is stubborn. Doesn't want to do what the master is telling him to do.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: You want to kick against Him.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But don't be like that. Not my will, but Your will be done.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: And then they put the needs of others before their own.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: When you have people who are in need. But don't don't get me wrong, we we can't know your need if you don't tell us. But when we know the need.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Don't be stingy.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Help with what what is needed. You put the needs of others ahead of your own. Our example was Jesus. We couldn't help ourselves. When it was time for the the pay the sacrifice for sin, there was no way that we could pay it. We were helpless and without any hope.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But yet and still, He stepped in and says, "I'll do it for them."

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: And if you actually go back and think about it and realize what Jesus went through for us.

Guest (Male): Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: No, salvation wasn't free, but it also wasn't painless.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Our Lord was beaten, spit on, and then hung with no clothes other than this the girdle around him, in public and made fun of.

Guest (Male): Wow.

Dr. Bernie Miller: For us.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He put the needs of others. We needed a savior. He didn't need saving.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We needed a savior, so He took our place. So the imitators realize we put the needs of others before our own.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Now, the imitations. This is the hard part of the message.

Guest (Male): Oh. Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: The imitations live sinful lifestyles.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Starting in verse 5, God says this. "For you may be sure of this." That means you can count on it. It's going to happen.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Whether you believe it or not, whether you want to accept it or not, it is going to happen. Why? Our God can't lie.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He cannot lie. In Hebrews, it says it is impossible for Him to lie. So, this is going to happen. "Everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous, that is, an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of God and Christ." Does it say some inheritance?

Guest (Male): No.

Dr. Bernie Miller: No, you have no inheritance. The sexually immoral, that covers a whole lot of ground.

Guest (Male): Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: That deals with prostitution.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: That deals with fornication. That means sex without having without being married. Deals with masturbation. It deals with adultery. Having sex with somebody who's not your spouse, it deals with men on men, women on women.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Our culture says that it's okay, but God says that it's not.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: So, when we push back on that. You're, you're if you disagree with the scriptures, you're disagreeing with the Holy Spirit. You're telling Him that what He said was wrong. Let me know how that works out for you.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Because the Holy Spirit is God, He cannot lie. He says they have no inheritance. Why? Because it's an unregenerate lifestyle.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: You can't have a practicing lifestyle of sin and expect to be in good graces with God.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We sang a song, "Break Every Chain."

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Today could be that day, but you have to be willing for that to happen.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He'll break the chains. But you have to admit that there is a chain.

Guest (Male): That's right. Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: If you don't believe that there is a chain, you're not going to say, "Break this chain." You're going to stay comfortable in the lifestyle in which you're in.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: And continue to be deceived.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But please don't do that.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We don't know when Jesus is coming back.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: It could be today. Well, that would be a great Father's Day present. Being able to see my father, you know, face to face and just talking to Him every now and then. You know, Happy Father's Day, Lord.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: They live sinful lifestyles. Then next, they're lured by deception.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: They think they're okay.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: And we do that as a habit.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We compare ourselves to other people. "Well, I'm not as bad as so and so. I'm not as bad as she is. I'm not as bad as he is."

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But do you think God says, "Well, okay, it's all right. Your sin is okay. This sin over here, that's bad, so I'm gonna deal with them." No.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Sin is sin in God's eyes.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Every sin is bad in God's eyes.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: So, your sin is no better than anyone else's. So, if you think you're okay the way you are, you're living a life of deception. And you've allowed the enemy to creep in and take your heart and mind away from the truth of the scriptures.

Guest (Male): Amen. That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He's a deceiver. He's a liar as He was from the beginning. He cares nothing for anyone in here.

Guest (Male): Wow.

Dr. Bernie Miller: The enemy wants one thing: he hates Jesus so much that he hates everybody that belongs to Him, everyone who is created in His image. He hates them with that same passion. So, do not think that you're okay living the way that you're living and that you don't you're not going to pay any consequences.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Because that is a lie straight from the pit of hell.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Satan likes to trick people.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He tricks him with a little bit of lie. When in the Garden of Eden, he told Eve some truth.

Guest (Male): He really did.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He really did, but he mixed it with a little bit of lie which made it a lie.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: So, Satan will tell you everything that you want to hear so that you can be comfortable.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: And then, as time goes on, you'll get so comfortable and so complacent that you forget that you're in sin, and it doesn't even bother you. If you if you are living in a lifestyle of sin, and you have no conviction.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: That's a sign of an unregenerate heart.

Guest (Male): Wow.

Dr. Bernie Miller: If you have to justify your sin, and make excuses for it, that's the sign of an unregenerate heart.

Guest (Male): That's right. Praise God.

Dr. Bernie Miller: There is no excuse for sin. You either accept it and repent of it, or you ignore it and pay the consequences for it later.

Guest (Male): That's right. Wow.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Jesus did not die on the cross for nothing.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: He gave His life for every person in this room, for every person on this planet.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But He gave us the choice to choose Him and to choose His way, His payment.

Guest (Male): That's right. Wow.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Then the last thing is imitations they lack discernment.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Discernment is the ability to tell the difference between right and wrong.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Most of us learned that as children. Because you don't ever have to tell a child how to do the wrong thing. You have to teach them how to do the right thing.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Not doing the right thing is displeasing to the Lord.

Guest (Male): That's right. That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Displeasing to the Lord. Doing the wrong thing causes separation between us and Him.

Guest (Male): That's right. Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Please don't think that you're okay the way that you are. Because every person has some form of sin that they're dealing with. If you think that you don't have one, then you have been deceived. You are lying to yourself and allowing the enemy to lie to you.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Don't allow the enemy to keep you from eternity with Jesus.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Don't think the lives of the lifestyles that you live are okay, you're okay the way that you are when the scriptures say contrary.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: It is written, "Let God be true and every man a liar." What He has written is the standard. Anything that contradicts that is wrong.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: If that hurts your feelings, or if you're offended, then you're just offended.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But I'd rather that you be offended and know the truth and have a chance to make it right than to sit here and sugarcoat it and watch you go to hell.

Guest (Male): That's right. That's right. All right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Jesus doesn't want anybody separated from Him.

Guest (Male): Amen.

Dr. Bernie Miller: But we all have a choice in the matter.

Guest (Male): That's right.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We all have a choice. What's your choice? What is the fragrance of your lifestyle?

Guest (Male): Oh. Yes.

Dr. Bernie Miller: What do you smell like to Jesus?

Dr. Bernie Miller: All things are possible. From New Covenant Fellowship Church. Connect with us anytime at ncf.church/connect. Or on social media at NCF Chattanooga. Worship with us every Sunday morning at 10:30, in person at 1326 Northmore Road in Chattanooga, or online at ncf.church/messages. New Covenant Fellowship Church. A place for every race.

Guest (Female): (Music) They caught me red-handed in the act of sin. They all demanded that I be taken to Him. When we arrived, they threw me to the ground. I wanted to die, then He turned around. He heard me moan, but I knew I was wrong when He saw my fear. I heard the words I didn't think I'd hear.

Guest (Male): Cast the first stone. If you've never done wrong, cast the first stone.

Guest (Female): Or leave her alone.

Guest (Male): Cast the first stone. Cast the first stone. Or leave her alone. They quoted the law. They said I should be stoned. My soul felt heavy. What I win, what I lose or would it be a draw. They told Him what I did and all they saw. But when He wrote on the ground it was a sight to see. When He said, "Whoever's not guilty of what I have done." They all started leaving from the youngest to the oldest one.

Guest (Male): Cast the first stone. If you've never done wrong, cast the first stone, or leave her alone. Cast the first stone. Cast the first stone. Or leave her alone. Cast the first stone. If you've never done wrong, cast the first stone, or leave her alone. Cast the first stone. Cast the first stone. Or leave her alone. Cast the first stone. If you've never done wrong, cast the first stone, or leave her alone. Cast the first stone. Cast the first stone. Or leave her alone.

Dr. Bernie Miller: If you believe God will never put more on you than you can bear, pretty soon you're going to be like a cellphone at 1%. Some of our lives are at 1% spiritually and emotionally. If you don't know Jesus, you cannot be charged. New Covenant Fellowship Church. In-person worship, Sunday mornings at 10:30, 1326 Northmore Road in Chattanooga. New Covenant Fellowship Church, a place for every race.

Guest (Female): (Music) Children, you're the salt of the Earth. Don't lose your flavor. We need you to lead the world. We know you're able. Grow up big and strong. And hold on. Cuz you're just a heartbeat from your soul's desire. Don't give up, don't give up. Don't give up, children. You're just a heartbeat from your soul's desire. Don't give up, don't give up. There's help from Heaven. Take joy and being young. Don't forget your Maker. He's your helper when the evil comes. Don't let nothing break you. You can make a difference. Believe. Don't be deceived. Keep on sewing. You'll never know 'til what it will grow. You're just a heartbeat from your soul's desire. Don't give up, don't give up. Don't give up, children. You're just a heartbeat from your soul's desire. Don't give up, don't give up. There's help from Heaven.

Guest (Female): You're just a heartbeat from your soul's desire. Don't give up, don't give up. There's help from Heaven.