Scripture: Romans 7: 15-24
Evangelist Lorraine Langham preached the message “Get me out of this and get this out of me” during Day 2 of the DC, DE, MD District Council Young People’s Convention.
Notes: Apostle Paul writes that even though he was annointed and filled with the Holy Ghost, the devil would still not leave him alone. He wrote about the law of the flesh. When you want to walk holy, your flesh keeps messing with you and you have a struggle in your flesh. It’s a war and a struggle.
Paul found himself warring after the things of the flesh. When you think you have reached your goal in Jesus and your pinnacle, your flesh will rise up in you and make you do and say things that will lead you to trouble with God. Paul finds himself in a state of wretchedness.
Jesus is coming for a church without spot or wrinkle and we want to be ready when He comes, despite what the flesh feels like. Things of the flesh just feel good. But things that feel good are not necessarily good for you. God knew that we could never keep ourselves. That’s why He sent a Helper, a Comforter and put Him on the inside of us. If you want to be Rapture-ready you can’t live like however you want to live. Make dead, mortify the deeds of the flesh. Kill the nasty attitude, disposition, lying tongue. He is coming for holy folk. You can’t do everything that the world wants to do.
God doesn’t care how good you sing, the wages of sin are still death. It’s time for the church to get it together. Let God come out in you. There is a way of escape — the Holy Ghost inside of you.
Thank God the Holy Ghost is a keeper. He will keep you if you want to be kept. The only thing you can do is kill the flesh. Don’t let it live. Step on it. Stomp on it. Tell your flesh to back up and get ready to meet the Rapture. It ain’t worth it, he ain’t worth it, she ain’t worth it.
You should be able to say: “I know I have done wrong, but clean me up, Lord and create in me a clean heart. Wash me that I may be white as snow. Renew in me a right spirit. Restore my joy. I’m coming out!”
Tags: forgiveness, Rapture, ready, sin
