All Things Are Possible

Dr. Bernie Miller: I'd rather be under God's mighty hand and wrong than 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.

Guest (Male): New Covenant Fellowship Church: in-person worship Sunday mornings at 10:30, 1326 North Moore Road in Chattanooga. New Covenant Fellowship Church: a place for every race.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Now, from New Covenant Fellowship Church, "All Things Are Possible."

Guest (Male): 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 North Moore Road in Chattanooga, with directions right to our door at NCF.church. New Covenant Fellowship Church: we are a place for every race. And here is Pastor Bernie Miller.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Memorial Day brings out many mysteries. Folks that can't cook a lick get the grill out. They start grilling and chilling. Half the meat is raw; the other half is burnt. They call it mystery meat.

Nobody likes a mystery they can't solve, like the mystery of who finished the ice cream and put the empty carton back in the refrigerator. Or the mystery of why is someone with a cart with 10,000 items in it in the ten-items-or-less aisle? You all have been there, too.

I'm kind of glad that they don't allow the pennies because some people get up there and say, "Well, it's 13.38. Okay, wait a minute, I've got 13." They open the little purse. "Okay, I don't have anything but pennies." And they start counting while the line is wrapped around the register. You're up there thinking, "Can I give you the money?"

Memorial Day reminds us every freedom we enjoy comes with a cost somebody else willingly paid. Today we remember not only the brave men and women, but today it's called Pentecost Sunday. This is when the Holy Spirit came down and people got the Holy Spirit as Jesus had promised them. They started speaking in tongues, which was a language that some people in the Pentecostal circle take too far, I think. But it is a language, and they were speaking as the Spirit was giving them utterances.

Today we remember the brave men and women, and we also remember the time that the Holy Spirit came as Jesus had promised. One of the most mysterious places is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Their names aren't known, but their sacrifice is unforgettable. Another mystery is Jesus' unforgettable tomb that He was buried in, but on the third day He rose from the dead. The tomb was just something borrowed for a moment.

People have spent years trying to find that tomb. They go on vacations trying to find where Jesus' tomb was. It wasn't His tomb, but they're trying to find the tomb that He was laid in. They're trying harder to find the tomb than they are trying to figure out how to be born again and how to get saved. The angels confirmed to Mary, "He isn't here. Why are you looking for a dead man and He's already risen as He said He would?"

One tomb honors the unnamed dead. Another tomb is empty because death couldn't hold Him. But there are people still searching for His empty tomb, like those who binge-watch mysteries on TV. I love those series. They start out good and take you along, and you wonder how they are going to end this thing.

Another mystery is why is it that some people can remember a church argument from 1997 but can't remember a Bible verse? Now, that's another mystery. But the greatest mystery was God's mercy. People wondered, "How will God save and how will Jews and Gentiles be united like the Bible says and become one?" It was a mystery until now.

Paul gives us three answers to the mystery: the mystery was purposeful, the mystery was proclaimed, and the mystery was personified. Now, his point is being made in chapter one of Ephesians. Salvation wasn't accidental. God had a purpose. Let's discover the purpose in Ephesians chapter one, verse three.

It says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every and all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him in love. He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved."

The Beloved is His Son. "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished on us in all wisdom and insight."

I'm going to break some of those words down for you. First of all, "in Him" is a very powerful statement. "In Him" covers everything that he has talked about because if you're not in Christ, then there is no redemption. There is no forgiveness. There is no grace. There is no mercy. There is no eternal life with Him in heaven if you're not in Christ.

But if you are in Him, we have redemption. We have been adopted. We have grace, we have mercy, and an inheritance according to His will, according to His pleasure, according to His purpose. "In Him" means united and connected to and placed in Christ. It's not about a religion, not morality, and not in our self-effort, but it's all in Christ Jesus.

Christ Jesus redeemed us. It's all about redemption. Now, the word "redemption" means to release by payment, liberation through ransom. It means buying back a slave or prisoner by paying the exact price that's needed. The word was used in slave markets. Paul says humanity was enslaved to sin, to death, and bondage and condemnation. Jesus paid the ransom with His blood, which symbolizes sacrificial death. It symbolizes a covenant relationship, atonement, and substitution.

The price of redemption wasn't silver or gold; it was the life of Jesus Christ Himself. The word "forgiveness" means release, a dismissal, or cancellation of a debt. How many of you have finally got to the end of your last payment of something that you owed at the bank, and you get that last payment made? How does it make you feel? Man, when I got to that last payment of the house, I said, "Thank You!"

When we got to the last payment of this church, it was a Hallelujah and another thank You. God is so wonderful and marvelous. If you are faithful to Him, He will be faithful to you. That's what it says in Timothy. He says if you are faithless, you will suffer punishment for being faithless.

We were faithful all during COVID. You guys still gave, even though you all were at home watching me on your little tube. It was so sophomoric during those times. I said, "Man, I don't even know how to do this stuff." And then Kim Reynolds said, "Pastor, let me help." I said, "Thank you!"

So we started putting things together, and it got more elaborate and more professional. But it was really sophomoric to begin with. I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew one thing: I was going to have a message out the first Sunday that we were not meeting. I was not going to allow you all to be without a message. I know you all laughed at me, and that's all right. I laughed at myself when I looked at it.

But it was during that time, through your giving, you gave during that time and we were able to pay off the church even during the COVID period while other people were struggling to pay for certain things. I want to tell you this: there was a pastor who could not take care of his personal bills because the church wasn't paying him because they weren't getting enough money in.

I found out about it, and to this day he doesn't know that it was me—or not me, but the church. Someone told me, "Pastor, we can't help him, but can you? Can your church?" I said, "Absolutely. What are we talking about?" And he told me. I said, "Oh yeah, who do I send it to?"

I didn't want them to know that it was from us. I didn't want us to get any credit; I wanted God to get the credit. So we sent it to a second party, who sent it to a third party, who sent it to them. And to this day, they don't know. I just thank God, but it was because we were being generous that God opened up the windows of heaven and said, "Oh, you're going to do this? Okay, well let me just help you out with this other stuff that you need."

We were able to pay off the loan. In the old days, they used to give you a piece of paper and people would burn the paper. They don't give you any of that now. They just give you a receipt: paid in full. That's it. I'm thinking, "Can you give me a long piece of paper or something like that? Can you make up something? I want to burn the thing." They had to say no several times. They could tell by the way I was looking at them that I really wanted that.

The price of redemption was the cost that we could not pay. Forgiveness released us; it dismissed, it cancelled our debt. It means sending it away as far as the east is from the west. God's purpose wasn't just to improve sinners, but to redeem and release us.

Grace was God's purpose. Grace was lavished on us, the Bible says. It means to overflow, to exceed beyond our expectation. God doesn't give grace sparingly. He gives it super-abundantly. Grace on top of grace on top of grace on top of grace. As sin abounds, grace super-abounds.

When He lavished His grace on us, it exceeded our expectation. Grace is poured out like a flood. In all wisdom, that phrase means divine insight, spiritual understanding, eternal wisdom. Insight means practical understanding, discernment, applied wisdom. God's plan of salvation is not a random emotion or act. The cross is divine wisdom perfectly applied, and God wisely designed redemption before the foundation of the world.

The mystery reveals His purpose. I'm going to show you that in Ephesians chapter one, verse nine. It says, "He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him," in Christ Jesus. "Made known" means revealed, disclosed, or unveiled. What was hidden is now uncovered.

The word "mystery" means a divine truth once hidden, now revealed by God Almighty. He made known the mystery of His will. Not a puzzle to solve, but a revelation from heaven to receive. The mystery includes salvation through Christ, the union of the Jews and Gentiles.

As I said last week, the Gentiles meant anyone that wasn't a Jew. You weren't born a Jew, you were a Gentile. Even if you were a Jew and you commingled with some other race and you were half-Jew and half-that, you weren't fully a Jew; you were considered a Gentile. You had to be pure Jew. None of us can say that.

So God had to make a way for us. He had it in His mind all along that He would save all of those who would put their faith in Jesus Christ, no matter what color you are, no matter what nationality you are. God is not concerned about all that. He's concerned about who wants to be a part of His family.

He wants to adopt all those who want to be in His family. I said yes in 1988. I want to be a part of this family because I'm just messing up. But salvation is according to His good pleasure. That word "good pleasure" means delight, gracious intention, and joyful purpose.

The word "redemption" pleased God. The cross satisfied His justice and revealed His great love. God's purpose was predetermined. He didn't say, "You know what? Adam and Eve, they sinned. Wonder what I'm going to do." No, He already knew that Adam would go ahead and eat that whatever he ate that his wife gave him. And He knew that Eve would give him what it was that he ate.

I don't know what it was, but I know he ate it. And I know she ate it. And I know the Devil made her do it. That's one of the times you can say the Devil made you do it. Some of these times we try to say the Devil made us do it and it doesn't matter. You come home and say to your mom, "Well, the Devil made me do it." "Get out of here!" No, you did it because you wanted to do it.

But God redeemed us and He predetermined that. The Gospel was eternally planned before Bethlehem, before Calvary, before the creation of the world. God had already predetermined that the Gospel message of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ would save people. It was all going to be done. That's why Mary was impregnated. The Gospel was eternally planned.

The mystery was made known to Paul and proclaimed in Ephesians chapter three, verses one through six. It says, "For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of Gentiles—if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace which was given to me for you, that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before by referring to this, when you read, you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ."

There's a mystery. By referring to this—which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit, to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel.

Whenever you hear the Gospel and you receive Jesus Christ, no matter what nationality you are, you are automatically a fellow heir. You're automatically a fellow member. You're automatically a fellow partaker of the promises that are in Christ Jesus because of the Gospel. You can't be saved no other kind of way but through the Gospel.

The word "made known" means to uncover, to reveal, to disclose openly. For generations, people saw pieces of God's plan. Abraham's covenant revealed a piece of it. The Passover lamb revealed a piece of it. The prophets revealed a piece of it, and the sacrifices that the high priest made were just pieces of it. The temple worship was just pieces of it.

We are now the temple of the Holy Spirit. We don't worship in temples; we come together in houses even before they even have a church building. So it's not about a building; it's about this body. We house the Holy Spirit. We are the ones that the Bible said would become one in Spirit. We'll be connected like a building is connected.

But they didn't see the full picture. It was like trying to finish a puzzle with half the pieces missing. My wife loves putting together puzzles. She's good at it. I'm not. I don't have any patience for puzzles. She'll say, "Come on, honey," and I'll sit down and I'll look at her playing. She'll put those pieces in there and I mean she's methodical about it. I said, "I ain't got time. Honey, can I go watch TV?"

There's a family once tried putting together a thousand-piece puzzle. I haven't got patience for 500 pieces. Halfway through, they realized the manufacturer accidentally included pieces from another puzzle. So they're trying to put pieces that don't fit and they were so frustrated. That thing looked like a lighthouse, a horse, and Batman all together.

That's how people viewed redemption before Christ. They saw fragments, but Jesus completed the picture. Sometimes God reveals things progressively. We may not understand why we're waiting, while we're hurting, or why there is a delay. Some things are delayed because while I'm waiting, God is doing something somewhere else, and He is preparing it so that when it gets to me or us or you, you will be mentally and spiritually ready for it.

A lot of you pray for stuff that you're not really ready for. "Oh Lord, I just need more money." Well, if He gave you more money, what have you done with the money that He gave you already? Just think back. He gave you a raise. Okay, what'd you do with it? You found everything to do with it but what God wanted you to do with it. So why would He give you more to do less with? He's not going to do that.

While we are waiting for things to come into reality, know that God is always at work doing something wherever the blessing is coming from and from whom He's going to use. Don't get impatient with God. A delay doesn't mean a denial; it just means it's a delay. But boy, when that thing comes to fruition, get ready.

Hidden doesn't mean abandoned. God had a plan, and Paul says this mystery was revealed to him and preached to the Gentiles. It means we could never figure it out unless God revealed it. Paul says the mystery is several things: one, the Jews and Gentiles are united; two, Christ dwelling in all believers; and three, salvation through grace by faith.

The mystery was proclaimed where Christ opened the door to salvation for all nations, tribes, and tongues. The Gospel is not a private puzzle for spiritual insiders. The mystery wasn't given to be hidden in a drawer; it was given to be proclaimed to everybody who has an ear to hear.

Which brings me to Ephesians chapter three, verse eight. It says, "To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things, so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in heavenly places. This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him."

Christ Jesus, my Lord. And if He's your Lord, then you have confidence. People love secrets, don't they? The second somebody says, "Don't tell anybody," somebody's going to know. Or if someone walks up and says, "Now, I'm not gossiping, but..." Now, when you put that "but" in there, it cancels everything you said prior to it. So what you're saying is, "I'm going to tell you and yes, it's a secret and I ought to mind my own business, but I'm not. I just want to spread some gossip because that's what I do."

That's gossiping, and a lot of folks got into trouble gossiping throughout the ages. But Paul says in Ephesians 3 that God revealed the greatest secret ever told, and it was the mystery of Christ. The mystery reveals Christ's riches. Through Him, the mystery is everyone can be saved by faith in one person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

You can't be saved no other way. You can try to do whatever you want to do, but if you don't confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will not be saved. You can go to church every Sunday, you can go Wednesday night Bible study, you can go seven days a week, but if you've never received the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you're still unsaved.

Now, it's a good work you're doing, but that work that you're doing doesn't get you into heaven. Only one person gets you into heaven. In whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him. That's what it's all about: having access and faith in Him. What generations could not fully see, God revealed through Jesus Christ.

The mystery was personified. Now we get to the husbands and the wives' stuff. Now don't get too anxious on me now. I'm going to try to be as kind as possible. Ephesians chapter five, because this is where the word "mystery" is. I'm just following the scripture.

"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her." So He gave up something for her. Husbands, what are you willing to give up for her? That's exactly what it means. Now, you can say, "I don't want to hear it." It's in the word.

"So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands, I know you all are awful quiet, but that's all right. So husbands ought to also love their own wives as their own body. He who loves his own wife loves himself, for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church."

I know you guys want to come up here and shut me up, but look, I've got the microphone. Have you ever noticed everybody becomes a marriage expert after they get married? Before marriage, love is magical and kissy-face and all that stuff. I remember before we got married, my wife and I, we were walking in Sams. I grabbed for her hand.

I knew that there was a space that I hadn't got approval for yet. So I kept my hand to myself. But now that I'm married, that's another thing. After marriage, it's mysterious. "Who touched the thermostat?"

You can date for years, finish each other's sentences, share milkshakes with two straws, and after being married you argue because somebody loaded the dishwasher wrong. You know what I didn't know? I didn't know there are correct towels, decorative towels, guest towels, and just plain old towels that nobody's allowed to touch. Not even me. "Why are you using that towel?" "Oh, that's the guest towel."

"I just thought..." "That's a decorative towel! I just want that for decorating. Don't use that one here. Use that one." I'm leaving. And folks say, "Where are you going?"

I tried to leave my wife one time. I remember I was just so over this whole marriage thing. So I was coming home from WMBW when I worked there at that time, and I pulled into the driveway. My jaws were tight when I left, and hers were tight when I left. Came home, they were still tight. I pulled in the driveway. She was watching for me.

She opened that door, and she stood in that door. She had a stance, man. And I saw her standing in that doorway. I started backing up and she said, "Come here!" I put on brakes. And then I backed up again and I went around the block. And the Holy Spirit said, "Where are you going? You ain't got no place to go. You ain't got no money in your pocket. Where are you going to sleep tonight? You know she's going to find you. Turn around, take your medicine, son. Make up and do the right thing. Love your wife as yourself."

I said, "Lord, is that in the Bible?" It is. It's there. I turned around, went back in. Brothers, we never fully understand phrases like, "You okay, honey?" "I'm fine." "Do whatever you want." Or the dangerous mystery phrase, "Nothing's wrong." Nothing's wrong? I'm thinking, "Something's got to be wrong because things have changed." "Nothing's wrong." That's the kind of sentence that makes a man start speaking in tongues.

Paul says this is a great, great mystery. It is. Marriage is a living illustration of Christ and the church. It's a picture of Christ's sacrifice, Christ's cleansing, and Christ's covenant. It's a picture of His covenant love for the church. So what that says is, you know, sometimes you all do some things, we do some things that God doesn't like particularly. But He doesn't stop loving us.

He doesn't say, "Go! Leave! Find another place to live!" He says, "Come on in here, let's talk about this." He doesn't push us away; He pulls us in because He wants to sit down and talk with us. He's not just talking about earthly marriages, by the way. He's into deep theology. Love is selfless devotion, sacrificial love, covenant commitment, meaning "I chose you even when it costs me," Jesus is saying.

"Gave Himself" means surrendered, handed over voluntarily. Jesus was not forced to the cross. He willingly gave Himself up to go on the cross for you and me. "Members" means that we are connected; we are connected together because of Christ Jesus. We are connected like body parts joined together in a living union.

Mystery means divine truth once hidden, now revealed by God. Marriage reveals how different people can become one. One person sleeps with a fan, another person white noise, another person a heavy blanket, another person blackout curtains, another person freezing temperatures in the winter. I don't get it. The other sleeps like a Civil War soldier on a wooden bench.

And somehow they become one. Jesus saw every stain, every wound, every failure and still said, "That's my bride." He did not abandon the church. He bled for the church. He cleansed the church and He's coming back to the church to redeem us forever and gather us so that we can be in the house that He's already made for us.

And the greatest mystery ever revealed will become an eternal reality. Now that's a mystery. But the greater mystery is Christ joining Himself to broken people. Most men think sacrifices mean, "I watched a Hallmark movie with my wife." No. Or, "I went to Walmart with her." No. "I held her purse for thirteen minutes while she was trying on outfits in the mall." No, that ain't it either.

I found out early in my life. I went up to the mall with my wife. She wanted to window shop. That's all she was doing. I didn't know that. So I decided, you know, they've got those little chairs out there. I sat down while she went in. She looked back. "Come on." "Why?" "Come on."

I said, "You going to buy anything?" "No." "Okay." Look, I learned my lesson. If she's window shopping, go in anyway because she may find something and she may need your opinion. And she certainly don't want to yell all in the store, "Hey, honey, I got this!"

But men, when we shop, we already know, "Honey, what price are you looking for? What color do you want? What size do you need?" Then we go in there and we look for that because we want to get in and out. Women, they go in, I mean, shopping becomes an excursion. And guys are like, "The ballgame's coming on."

But guys, go in the mall, go in the store, and walk with her. That's all you've got to do. Keep your trap closed unless she asks you, "Honey, you like this color on me?" "Yes, dear." I'm trying to help some of you brothers out now. You all have messed up; I'm trying to help some of you all out. You can take it or leave it, but I mean it's in the Bible and I'm trying to help you all out.

But you know, it's because you went to Walmart. I go to Sams with my wife sometimes. And man, she goes into this freezer up there, man. When I go to Sams with her, I know I've got to put on an overcoat because they have a certain section where it's about 37 degrees.

And in the summertime, you walk in there with a short-sleeve shirt on if you want to. And my wife said, "All right, honey, look, we're going to do this as a team. I'm going on the right side, I'm getting this. I want you to go on the left side, I want you to get that." I said, "Okay, honey." So we're doing a tag-team thing here. I've got my assignment, she's got her assignment, and we meet right back there at the beginning at the opening, quickly. But if we had to go and do all that stuff together, I'd still be freezing to death.

Survival is sacrifice if you want your relationships to make it. Jesus sacrificed everything for the church. He didn't just give flowers; He gave His life. He gave us the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. Religion hides stains, but Jesus removes stains.

The mystery is this: Christ loved imperfect people perfectly. The church is not flawless, but Jesus still gave Himself up for her. So when you make mistakes and do things that are crazy, He still loves you.

Some people treat the mystery of salvation like a free sample at Sams: a little cup, a tiny sip. I remember Barbara's sister; we saw her up there. She had these little cups and little sips. "Pastor, you all want this?" I said, "What is it?" A little cup, a little sip. They want to give it to you so you'll go and buy the big old thing that houses all that.

Those little cups, those little things, they only want a little taste to see people thinking about that. They only want a little taste to see if the Lord is good. They don't want the whole package. Just "Give me a little sip. Let me just taste a little bit." Because the Bible says "Taste and see that the Lord is good." You're taking that out of context.

No, you taste and see because the Lord is good. And God wants you to taste a little bit of what it means to be a part of Him and to know His goodness. But God didn't come to give you samples. God said, "I didn't come to give you samples; I came to give you abundance."

Grace is not a thimble; grace is an ocean. Another mystery is in Isaiah 55. It says, "'My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.'"

God doesn't give His divine truth to those who just want samples. If you want to be filled with the Spirit, you need to be born again. The Bible says as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God. So the question today is: do you want a thimble or do you want an ocean? Because if you want a little thimble, all you may shout one time and that's all you've got.

Just a little thimble. But man, I want to be filled with the Spirit all the time. And look, let me share a couple things real quick. Where is that? It's in the Bible somewhere. My Bible's all tore up from the floor up. Oh, it's back here. That's where it is.

All righty then. People were talking about being able to speak in tongues, and people are so fascinated with that, especially during Pentecost. Let me read you something. First Corinthians 14 says, "Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries." There's that word again.

"But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation. One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself. But one who prophesies edifies the church. Now I wish that all spoke in a tongue, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying."

It's for the edification of the church. Your spiritual gifts are for the edification of the church. And if you can't edify the church, there is no need to speak in tongues. Speak in a language that everybody understands, for crying out loud. People want to be all spiritual, "Yeah, I can speak in tongues."

I have the gift. And one day I was at Promise Keepers, and I knew I had the gift. And I heard the guys up on the stage—they were of another nationality—and they started speaking and I recognized it. I said, "Now I understand." I didn't know what they were saying, but it sounded like my word.

So I knew that what I had was real and genuine. But I don't use it here; I don't need to. No, I use it in my own prayer closet, so to speak. And sometimes I'll come in here and I'll hear a spirit, I'll get the feeling that there's a certain kind of spirit in here, and I start praying.

And when I start praying, I don't need to pray out loud. And you know, some of that spirit dissipates because I'm the pastor over the flock and I've got to guard the flock. And so God uses all of my gifts to protect you. And I want to protect you, but I also want you to understand what the Bible says.

Don't get all fascinated with people who say, "Well, I speak in tongues." So what? What are you saying? Speak to me. What did you just say? If I'm not edified by that, zip your lip. People go crazy sometimes. "Yeah, I'm Spirit-filled." Well, if you're Spirit-filled, you're loving. If you're Spirit-filled, you're considerate of other people. If you're Spirit-filled, it'll show. Read the Love Chapter because it's talking about people who have spiritual gifts, and if you have spiritual gifts, then you operate in love. You're considerate of other people. Now, that's the mystery.

Guest (Male): 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 North Moore Road in Chattanooga or online at NCF.church/messages. New Covenant Fellowship Church: a place for every race.

Dr. Bernie Miller: There is no way any thing or anyone can separate you from the love of God. There is nothing that you can do to separate yourself from the love of God. It is a done deal. It's sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, and we are sealed until the day of redemption.

Guest (Male): New Covenant Fellowship Church: in-person worship Sunday mornings at 10:30, 1326 North Moore Road in Chattanooga. New Covenant Fellowship Church: a place for every race.