1 00:00:00,016 --> 00:00:02,515 Sometimes people - 2 00:00:02,515 --> 00:00:04,325 you can never please anybody, 3 00:00:04,325 --> 00:00:07,045 and with James throwing everything out on the Internet, 4 00:00:07,045 --> 00:00:10,424 we get attacked from both sides. 5 00:00:10,424 --> 00:00:12,336 We get people that say 6 00:00:12,336 --> 00:00:17,105 that we don't deal with sin 7 00:00:17,105 --> 00:00:21,221 and we're antinomian. 8 00:00:21,221 --> 00:00:24,594 But then we get charges that we're legalists. 9 00:00:24,594 --> 00:00:28,327 And brethren, I want to tell you this, 10 00:00:28,327 --> 00:00:33,926 using negatives is not legalism. 11 00:00:33,926 --> 00:00:36,263 Paul repeatedly tells these Christians 12 00:00:36,263 --> 00:00:37,662 throughout these verses 13 00:00:37,662 --> 00:00:41,174 not to do things. 14 00:00:41,174 --> 00:00:43,286 Notice, Ephesians 4:26, 15 00:00:43,286 --> 00:00:46,556 "Do not let the sun go down on your anger." 16 00:00:46,556 --> 00:00:49,326 V. 27, "Give no opportunity to the devil." 17 00:00:49,326 --> 00:00:52,134 V. 28, "Let the thief no longer steal." 18 00:00:52,134 --> 00:00:53,405 You know what it's saying? 19 00:00:53,405 --> 00:00:56,385 Stop letting the sun go down on your anger. 20 00:00:56,385 --> 00:00:58,527 Stop with unrighteous anger. 21 00:00:58,527 --> 00:01:00,945 Stop giving opportunity to the devil. 22 00:01:00,945 --> 00:01:03,525 Stop stealing. 23 00:01:03,525 --> 00:01:06,926 V. 29: Stop with the corrupting talk. 24 00:01:06,926 --> 00:01:09,645 V. 30: Stop grieving the Spirit. 25 00:01:09,645 --> 00:01:12,575 Ch 5:3 - Stop looking at pornography. 26 00:01:12,575 --> 00:01:15,585 Stop with the sexual immorality. 27 00:01:15,585 --> 00:01:18,825 Ch 5:4 - Stop with the filthiness. 28 00:01:18,825 --> 00:01:20,225 Stop with foolish talk. 29 00:01:20,225 --> 00:01:21,804 Stop with crude joking. 30 00:01:21,804 --> 00:01:24,150 Ch 5:7 - Stop being partners 31 00:01:24,150 --> 00:01:27,174 with people that are sexually immoral 32 00:01:27,174 --> 00:01:29,734 and impure and covetous. 33 00:01:29,734 --> 00:01:31,765 Ch 5:11 - Stop taking part 34 00:01:31,765 --> 00:01:34,035 in the unfruitful works of darkness. 35 00:01:34,035 --> 00:01:37,454 Ch 5:15 - Stop being unwise. 36 00:01:37,454 --> 00:01:40,605 Ch 5:17 - Stop being foolish. 37 00:01:40,605 --> 00:01:44,684 Ch 5:18 - Stop getting drunk. 38 00:01:44,684 --> 00:01:48,296 Brethren, there's a place to say to Christians: 39 00:01:48,296 --> 00:01:51,553 Stop it! Stop! 40 00:01:51,553 --> 00:01:54,346 Stop that life! 41 00:01:54,346 --> 00:01:56,266 That's what he's saying to these people. 42 00:01:56,266 --> 00:01:58,296 You say, wow, that's all pretty negative. 43 00:01:58,296 --> 00:02:00,276 Yeah, there's a lot of positive in there. 44 00:02:00,276 --> 00:02:02,215 But what I'm saying is this: 45 00:02:02,215 --> 00:02:03,515 When you tell people, 46 00:02:03,515 --> 00:02:05,255 "you need to stop doing that," 47 00:02:05,255 --> 00:02:08,006 and you tell people these kind of things, 48 00:02:08,006 --> 00:02:10,135 that's not legalism. 49 00:02:10,135 --> 00:02:12,425 That is encouraging the same kind of godliness 50 00:02:12,425 --> 00:02:13,543 that the Apostle Paul 51 00:02:13,543 --> 00:02:15,355 under the inspiration of the Spirit 52 00:02:15,355 --> 00:02:18,317 is encouraging us with. 53 00:02:18,317 --> 00:02:21,294 Brethren, when you no longer live 54 00:02:21,294 --> 00:02:22,968 the way you used to live, 55 00:02:22,968 --> 00:02:25,325 you're going to stop doing a whole bunch of stuff 56 00:02:25,325 --> 00:02:27,445 that you used to do. 57 00:02:27,445 --> 00:02:29,415 That's just a reality. 58 00:02:29,415 --> 00:02:31,053 We need to stop. 59 00:02:31,053 --> 00:02:33,336 We need to say to Christians: No longer! 60 00:02:33,336 --> 00:02:35,205 No longer! Quit it! 61 00:02:35,205 --> 00:02:38,657 Brethren, there's a place for Christians to say to themselves - 62 00:02:38,657 --> 00:02:41,765 speak to yourself - 63 00:02:41,765 --> 00:02:43,915 That's it! 64 00:02:43,915 --> 00:02:45,925 I'm done with that. 65 00:02:45,925 --> 00:02:47,806 Stop it. 66 00:02:47,806 --> 00:02:49,075 Where are the Christians 67 00:02:49,075 --> 00:02:50,944 like I talked about years ago 68 00:02:50,944 --> 00:02:53,516 in a message that I preached from Psalm 119, 69 00:02:53,516 --> 00:02:55,005 but where are the Christians 70 00:02:55,005 --> 00:02:57,504 who like David are going to say: 71 00:02:57,504 --> 00:03:01,353 "I promise to keep Your words." 72 00:03:01,353 --> 00:03:03,956 The sermon Tim just referenced is called: 73 00:03:03,956 --> 00:03:06,234 Deliberate Holiness. 74 00:03:06,234 --> 00:03:08,552 And this excerpt that you just heard 75 00:03:08,552 --> 00:03:10,505 was taken from the full sermon: 76 00:03:10,505 --> 00:03:14,056 No Longer Perishing in Futility