# No Guile

Key Passage: John 1:45-51
Date: June 7, 2024

Turn your Bible to John chapter one, John chapter one. The Lord has just impressed my heart on this truth: “No Guile.” That is the title for tonight, “No Guile.” I do not think I will do a good job of preaching it.

I am sure many could do a much better job than me on this subject, but “No Guile.” I believe the Lord would… I tried to go otherwise, and He would not let me. So, “No Guile”—He has a reason for tonight. Would you pray and ask Him to accomplish what is needed in your heart and your life tonight? John 1. We are going to start in verse number 45, John 1, verse number 45, on the subject, “No Guile.”

Would you please stand, if you are able, just out of respect to the Word of God? We will start in John 1, verse number 45, of God’s Word. The Bible says, “Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

And Nathanael said unto him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip saith unto him, “Come and see.”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and saith of him, “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.”

Nathanael saith unto him, “Whence knowest thou me?”

Jesus answered and said unto him, “Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.”

Nathaniel answered and said to him, “Rabbi, thou art the Son of God! Thou art the King of Israel!”

Jesus answered and said unto him, “Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these.”

He saith unto him, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, hereafter ye shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”

I believe that last verse is a way of understanding. I believe he is referring back to Jacob’s dream and the ladder. Of course, the ladder represented the Mediator, and that is Jesus Christ. He said you are going to have a special, closest glimpse of the Lord Jesus Christ, I believe, is what is being talked about there. But we focus on this thing of “No Guile,” “No Guile.”

Father, these are great people, Lord, You know that. They have made time to be in Your house tonight. Lord, would You give them what they need? Father, please cleanse us. Father, I do pray that when we leave, our hearts would be pure. And, Father, help us to be able to look at this, “No Guile.” Father, we will thank You and praise You for what You do, Lord. Guide me, please. I thank You. In Jesus’ name, we ask. Amen.

Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.

Philip, the guy that just went and told Nathanael about Jesus. Philip was a young Christian himself. He just began to really follow Jesus in a closer way. I like it about Philip. He was already bringing people to Jesus. He was already a soul winner. Can I say this about him? He was not even accurate in everything he said. Jesus, though some many thought, was the son of Joseph. He was not. He was a stepson, if you will. But Mary was conceived with the Holy Ghost. My man, he was telling people about Jesus. I like that.

And the Spirit tells Nathanael, sometimes called Bartholomew. And not mention a whole lot, but he goes and tells him. And Nathanael, he has a sincere question. He is not—in fact, Jesus said there was no guile in him. There was no deceiving at all. He just had a sincere question.

And he said, he said, “Well, can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Some will say he lived in the neighboring town, and so he had a little against that time because of that. I do not think so. Jesus said there is no guile in him. I think he is just sincere. Nazareth is a pretty rough town, if you will. We know that later on when Jesus came back to Nazareth, He came and began to tell them who He was. They tried to murder him. They tried to kill him. Jesus went through the midst of them. So I know that is good. I think it was just a sincere question Nathanael had.

And “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Now, Philip did a wise thing. Sometimes the best answer to somebody questioning about Jesus is Jesus Himself. And he did a wise thing. He said, “Come and see.” Sometimes people give us so many arguments and some of the debates. I understand sometimes we want to meet them with answers to the question. But sometimes it is just a matter of they just need to come see Jesus for themselves. And he gave him a wrong answer. And boy, if you come see Jesus, you are going to see a whole lot. And he did.

Jesus’ reaction—He dealt with him really in, I think, in compassion. First of all, He said, “Hey, Nathanael, I saw you underneath the fig tree over there.” They say that was not uncommon for them to get shade under a fig tree. He said, “I saw you over there by the fig tree,” showing him. And then He bragged on him. He said, “You have got no guile in you.”

Here is an amazing thing about it. Nathanael had just met Him. And Nathanael very quickly got a good grasp of who Jesus was. Did you notice that in verse number 49? Just how quickly he saw Jesus for who He was. Verse number 49: Nathanael answered and saith unto him, “Rabbi”—that is master, teacher—“Rabbi, thou art the Son of God!”

Philip the soul winner called him the son of Joseph; Nathanael saw through it. He said, “That is the Son of God right there. That is deity.” He saw Him real quickly. He called Him Rabbi. He said, “Thou art the Son of God.” Then he says, “Thou art the King of Israel.” You are the one we will be looking for. You are the Messiah. You are the King. By the way, I wish more Jewish people—I pray for Israel every day. I love them. I have a sister in all the Jewish faith. But I wish more Jewish people would realize He is the King of Israel. But Nathanael got it. He saw the Lord very quickly. He understood it. He comprehended it very quickly.

It reminds me of Jesus when He taught over there in the Beatitudes in Matthew 5. Remember what Jesus said? He said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall what? See God.” And this thing of “no guile”—Jesus had just said, “That fellow right there has no guile.” If you will, he had a pure heart. That is why he saw the Lord very quickly. Jesus said, “That fellow right there, he has no guile in him.”

Guile, if you look up Webster’s 1828 dictionary as a verb, it will say it is to disguise craftily, usually in a bad sense. We have to cover up some things and use disguise to cover up some typically bad things in our heart, maybe ill feelings towards others.

The first time the word “guile” is used in the Bible—a great way to do a Bible study of a word is find out the first time it is used in the Bible. The first time guile is used is in Exodus 21:14. “But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.” Now, you are just talking about this guy when you… Typically, you are disguising; you are crafty about it, but you are covering up some wrong things in your heart, some often ill feelings towards others. But “no guile”—you have no disguise about you. There is nothing false pretense about you. You just have a pure heart, if you will. And it is Nathanael; he saw the Lord very quickly.

Why? He had no guile. Now, can I stop and ask you just sincerely: In your heart, nobody knows besides you and the Lord, when is the last time you saw the Lord real good? When is the last time you had a meeting with God and, man, it just felt like you could reach out and the Lord was right there with you? The last time, man, you got along with God and you had burdens and you had trials and you had heartaches and you had a heartache and you had a heart that was just way out in left field, but, man, you went in there and God did something in your heart? Man, you had a true meeting with the Lord. It does not matter what everybody else thinks, and it does not matter. You can describe it to them, and you know in your heart, man, God was in that meeting and God did something in your heart. Now, when is the last time I had that? You had that? If I have guile in my heart, listen: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

Nathanael picked up on Jesus, boom, like that, and he perceived so much so quickly. He said, “Man, that right there, that is not the son of Joseph. That is the Son of God.” Rabbi, and he said, “Hey, that is the King of Israel right there.” How could he see and understand so quickly? “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

Hey, boy, when you have a meeting with the Lord, it will change you. Isaiah, in Isaiah 6th, he saw the Lord high and lifted up, and, boy, His train filled the temple. And, well, when he got a good glimpse of the Lord, it changed Isaiah. The first thing he said was, “Woe is me!” And then he began to talk about his tongue. He said, Isaiah said, “My tongue has not been right. I am among a people with unclean lips.” My tongue has not been right. And I took some tongs and took a live coal off the fire and touched it. It just purified and it cleansed it.

When is the last time you got to see God so good that it purified your heart, your tongue? When you left that time alone with God, your spouse and your kids and those around you said, “Man, something has changed about them.” They are almost like Moses when he came off the mount and had the glow of God. God did something in their heart. Isaiah met with the Lord and God changed him. By the way, in the end, Isaiah said, “Hey, Lord, whatever You want, here am I.”

But I am not going to see God like that. I am not going to know God like that. I am not going to have God change me like that. I have guile. This is not “no guile.”

Can I just give you a couple things about that? I am not saying I am there. I would like to be there. I am striving. I would like to be there. I have no guile in my heart. Let me give you just a couple of things about that. If we are going to have no guile, I must learn to deal with hurts properly. Oh, friend, as long as you live in this sin-cursed world, as long as your blood is flowing through your veins, you are going to have hurts. It may come. Often hurts come from those you are close to. You are vulnerable to them.

It may be those—so often it is not necessarily even the world. David said, man, he said it was a vow mine equal; we went in the congregation of the Lord together, and both… So often hurts come from that. And I am just saying hurts come.

And you must learn to deal with that because you are going to get hurt. It is just part of it. Say it is part of the Christian life; it is, but it is part of life. And it does not matter if you are in church or not; you are going to get hurt. And it is going to be things, and it is going to break your heart, and it is going to cause tears, and it is going to cause things in your heart to happen that you do not want them to happen, but they are going to happen. And you are going to have to learn how to deal with that because Satan, man, he is ready to pounce on that. He is walking about seeking whom he may devour. And he knows when you and I get hurt, that is just going to get hurt. And he is watching for that. And he would love to turn that sour. He is always watching for it. So I have got to learn how to properly deal with my hurts. You are going to get hurt. I get hurt. It is part of it. You are never going to reach a point where you do not get hurt. Now, you can deal with it properly.

And you say, “Well, what about if the love of the Lord? Don’t be offended.” Friend, if you study out the word “offended,” it has to do with it is a stumbling block that causes you to stop living for the Lord. But you can get hurt. You are still living for the Lord. There is a difference. And you are getting offended by that thing, and you love the Lord. You love the Word of God. You are still going to get hurt. It is going to be part of life. Now, you can deal with it properly. But hurts come. And if you are going to be connected, if you are going to love people and try to help people, minister to people, and in family and families, hurts family—it is just part of it. And you are intervening with people. And that is all part of it. And here is what I am saying: You must learn to deal with it properly. So much could be said there. But Satan is always there to capitalize on it.

I thought tonight only—I think it is four, maybe five, or five times the Bible uses this word, “no guile.” One of those times in Revelation, I think it is chapter 14, it is talking about the 144,000. Remember the Jewish 12,000 from each tribe? Oh, or was that the Jehovah’s Witnesses that actually went to—you know, and I am joking about that. You will not find that in the Bible the way they are talking about it. It is Revelation 7. Well, I am getting myself in trouble joking too much today. But Revelation 7 describes the 12,000 from each tribe, and its souls in the tribulation period. And they become Jewish evangelists. And, boy, God uses them. It is amazing. People get saved, those that had not heard a clear presentation of the gospel, every tribe, every language all around the world, they get saved all over. God uses those 144,000.

Now, think about that. Think about their living in the tribulation period. The Antichrist goes after the Jewish people, the vengeance. He becomes Satan-possessed. And it is like a little child in the nursery that has got everything pretty much the world, but that one people he does not have. And it goes after that one toy that he does not have. And it goes after the Jewish people. He hates them. That is where Jesus came through them. And it has got this world power, and he has got the mark of the beast. He has got all these things that are going after the Jewish people. Here is what I am getting at: Can you imagine what all those 144,000 have gone through? People lying about it. People thinking they are doing God a favor when they are trying to kill them. Home family members. There is a great revival in the end of the Jewish people. But, man, can you imagine what all those 144,000 went through? People trying to kill them and track them down and all the technology. They have to run like rats in corners to survive.

And yet the Bible says about those 144,000—look, if you will, over Revelation 14. Let us just look at it real quickly. It is amazing to me. They have to have hurt upon hurt, but look what the Bible says about them, Revelation 14, verse number 5. Revelation 14:5. “And in their mouth was found”—what are the next two words?—“No guile.” Wow. It is very interesting. “In their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault before the throne of God.”

Can I say this—and I think we will talk about it later on the message—but one way to deal with hurt right: Do not go around talking about all your hurts all the time. Now, I advise often to go get help over that thing if the Lord wills. And you need to talk to the Lord about it. Do not go around for days on end, days on end, days on end, just talking about your hurt. “In their mouth, no guile.” And this was the people that God used in a great way.

Look over in Psalm 62. Psalm 62. It is a wonderful verse that handles hurts. We will not get into it very deeply tonight, but just very briefly, let us look at this one verse: how to handle hurts. Our goal is to have no guile. Jesus said of Nathanael, “There is no guile in him.” I believe Jesus knew what He was talking about. Boy, he saw the Lord very quickly.

Then look over here in Psalm 62, verse number 8: How do I deal with hurt that is going to happen? Psalm 62. “Trust in him at all times, ye people; pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.” Think about that and dwell on Him.

I remember my dad. Mom and dad had moved up here, and they had cancer altogether for 10 years, and the cancer, it was growing and getting stronger. It is like a bulldozer. I mean, it was slow moving, but they could not stop it. I just kept going. And, um, I do not forget, for the most part, I was all right, but for a time period, it began to bother me. Dad would come to church; he loved church, loved you. You loved him. He would bring life to him, and he would come in here, and everybody would say, “How are you doing?” He would say, “Oh, I am doing good.” Well, he was doing good at the moment, but the rest of the week, he was not doing good. And, of course, Mom, she is not here tonight, but she knew more than I—more than I. Of course, I would see it was there and whatnot.

I never forget, I went down to the garage one morning for prayer time. And I just opened up to the Lord about it. And, praise the Lord, I had a good dad, but we were never as close as the last time once you moved up. And just God had really got us closer than ever. And maybe brought some healing and worked some things out. And it was just the last seven years of soul—very, very helpful. I told the Lord, I said, “Lord, why now? Why are You taking my dad?” And I was just very open with the Lord. That is when God changed my heart.

Now, you seem like the Lord moved in that garage. And the Lord said, “Paul, I am the one that gave you these last seven years. I moved your dad up, and I have worked things out, and I have allowed you to really just have such a good relationship the last seven years.” And I do not know what it was about that, just God changed my heart, and the hurt, the pain—I still hurt my dad passed—but it changed my heart. But it did not change my heart until I opened up fully about what was in my heart. By the way, He already knows what is in your heart anyway. But there is something about pouring your heart out to the Lord. And when you get hurt, it is a practice you have got to get into because you are going to get hurt. And it is a process sometimes, and it is not always a one-time deal. Sometimes it is a daily thing over time. You pour your heart out to the Lord. Jesus said it came—what? Isaiah 6:1—one of the things is what? To heal the brokenhearted. But I must open up and be very vulnerable. Do not live in denial. “Well, I am okay.” Well, let me ask your spouse about that. Let us ask the Lord about that. I mentioned this morning: there are no super Christians; we all get hurt.

And I am not saying for us to get bitter and mean, and I am not saying all that. But I am saying the key—there is much more—but the key is us taking our heart to the Lord and being very open, very vulnerable. That begins the healing process. And if I am going to have—now, I must learn to deal with hurts properly.

Let me say this: If I am going to have no guile in my heart—that is our goal we are talking about tonight. We would like to be like Nathanael; Jesus said there was no guile in him. He saw the Lord so quickly.

I must be dead honest and allow the Holy Spirit of God to deal with me about my heart. Look over in Jeremiah 17. You will probably know the verse. Jeremiah 17, verse number 9, a very popular verse about our heart. But Jeremiah 17:9. Jeremiah 17:9. It says this. It says, if you are there, would you say, “Amen?” Good, good, you are there. It says, “The heart is deceitful above all things.” Pretty strong language God is using there. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it?” We think we know our hearts. Oh, your heart will deceive you real quickly.

It does not end there, though. I like verse number 10. “I the Lord”—that is Jehovah—“I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.” Here is the thing: The heart, it is deceitful above all; it is desperately wicked. And if I do not allow the Lord to guide me, the Spirit of God, which is our guide, to guide me in this matter of getting my heart right, it is a lost cause. That is why the world and the world, psychologists and psychology and all that, they are pretty good at observing, but at the end of the day they have no answers. Because our own heart can deceive itself. And they are getting deceived. But when I allow God to move in, God to be the guide, and God to determine what is right and wrong, God to bring the healing, the Spirit of God—I must, I must be very sensitive to Him and be so honest with Him.

It is amazing as the Holy Spirit and His leadership, as it reveals things that we confess things in our heart. That is what the Bible said: “If I regard iniquity in my heart, I will not hear you.” But when I allow the Spirit of God to say, “Hey, got some jealousy in there. Does it bother you when someone else gets bragged on?” And you allow the Spirit of God just to direct: Do you have ill feelings in your heart, your mind, towards others? If I brought a name up, would you have ill feelings towards him? And you allow the Spirit of God to say, “Hey, some things are not right in there.” When I allow the Spirit of God, hey, to deal with my motives—why do I do what I do? Am I doing it to look good? Am I doing it to have all these friends, all about me? My motives. And I allow the Spirit of God to—and I get real just dead honest with you—sometimes we want to be the center of attention all the time. That is our nature. It is our sin nature.

I read a book—I need to read it again. I read it periodically. It is about prayer. It is a great book, Power Through Prayer. Ian Bounds, an old Civil War chaplain. He wrote a lot of books on prayer, but I think by far his best book is Power Through Prayer. And that book, he talks about becoming a lover of praise. It is basically written to preachers: “If preachers are not careful, they will become a lover of praise.” Boy, that can be convicting. Now, I have got to allow the Spirit of God to deal with things in my heart.

And David said, “Search me, O God, and know my thoughts.” I am sorry. Let us look up—I miss quoting that thing. Let us look at this thing real quickly here. “Try me to know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.” That thing is right. I do not know if I can find the reference. I am thinking it is Psalm 23. Look over there if you would, please. Let us get that thing. It is not Psalm 23. Anybody help me out there? “Try me, O God, and know my heart.” Oh, I am sorry. I do not have a reference. Thank you, Brother Jim. That is it right there. Thank you, Brother Jim. Psalm 139:23. Great, great verse. As I am letting the Holy Spirit just work in my heart, I have got to hear right here.

139:23. He says, “Search me, O God, and know my heart.” My reason why I worded it that way: Your heart is deceitful above all things, desperately wicked. He said, “Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” My day, I used to think, “Well, I did put that, lead me in the way everlasting,” because without His leadership, it is all issue. It is going to be about like that, and I am back down again.

But you allow the Holy Spirit to just painstakingly go through your heart. Here is a good thing about it: When God gets your heart, you might not have all the talent and ability and all that, but God gets your heart right. All those older boys—Eliab, the oldest one, big old fellow, you know—and Samuel said, “Nope, not him.” Let me go to the other brother. “Nope, not him.” Let me go to the other brother. “Nope.” I want that one that is out there watching the sheep, David. Because God said, “I have been looking at his heart. His heart is right.” Man, look at their outward appearance, but the Lord looketh at the heart. So key, we get our hearts right. No guile. No guile.

I mentioned already, but our tongue is very important in this area. If I am going to enjoy life, look over, if you will, in 1 Peter chapter 3, a great verse. I have been convicted by this verse many a time. First Peter chapter 3, verse number 10, is a great, great verse. 1 Peter 3:10. Want you to find that? Would you say, “Amen?” Look at this: “For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.” So important we deal with this subject of guile, our tongue.

I think it was Thanksgiving morning. Me and Sarah, before she went back, we had to go get something. I cannot remember. You know Thanksgiving morning, all those things—the one or two things you missed, and you need it for the Thanksgiving meal, you have to go get it. Anybody? Anybody go out Thanksgiving morning to get something? Come on now. Yeah, I was there for sure, you know, and I cannot remember what it was, probably a candy bar or something here and Sarah.

But we were leaving. And Sarah said, “How about let us take the dogs? Let us take them both.” And Sarah is just country all the way through. I tell you what, and I think she gets it from her dad—is a problem, you know. And said, “Oh, let us do it, man.” So we put Belle in the truck in there with us. And we put Dixie in the back of the truck. And we took off down the road, man. And those—we told Belle before we even left, we said, “Belle, you want to go?” Oh, she started dancing around and barking. She barks like crazy until you take her bye-bye. She is just going crazy. She is ready to go, you know. She had not been in a while. You ever think about dogs? They have got to get a headache from barking so much, you know. She is just barking her head off. And she got in the truck, man, she is just like in heaven, you know. Dixie, he realized he was about to go. Oh, man, he started going back. She is ready to go and put the tailgate. She tried to jump in. She did not make it the first time, so she is not going to try and have to pick her up, put her in there, you know. And, man, riding down the road, man, they are just…

I do not know. Dixie is still—Dixie is about a year old now, almost. And I have not had her super long, but I remember some of our older dogs. I remember Sandy for sure. Her riding at the back of my truck and her sticking her head out. You know, they want to get their head all the way out where they get all the wind. And I am riding down the road. I was not on Route 119. It was not going that fast, okay. I was riding real pretty good. I do not remember. But I still remember watching in the side mirror as her head would stick out, and I have seen the wind actually get inside her mouth and just flatten both her jaws. And she just loves it, man. And their tails—I mean, they just love life. God wants us to be like that.

But he says, “If you are going to love life and see good days, you are going to have to refrain your tongue from speaking evil, and your lips that they speak no guile.” Our tongue is very important in this matter. By the way, our heart out of the bunch of the heart to the mouth speaketh. Our heart and our tongues kill on this thing: no guile. No guile.

It would just be a wonderful thing. I do not know why God just put this thing in my heart this week, this subject of “no guile.” I will be honest with you, I had a hard time knowing how to preach it, and I tried to change the subject, but the Lord would not let me. I do not know what all this got in mind, but I believe He would like to get our hearts where we have no guile.

We are about to come up on buying, purchasing the land. Praise the Lord for that. Building a building. Anybody who has been in the Christian world very long, you will know, you will hear stories. Oh, my goodness, you are about to go through a building. You go to a preacher fellowship, and somebody says there is in a building program. Every preacher in there starts shaking all over. The devil attacks during building programs. It is a sad thing. I do not know that I have ever told it from the pulpit because I do not want to shed bad light on a good church, but the church we were at in Lower Alabama—yeah, that is L.A.—but we built a building where we were there, and there is a sad thing about it. Pretty much from the beginning of the building program to the end, it was totally different people. Sad thing.

Now, I will be honest with you, I can see the hand of God. God kept the numbers about the same. But it was such a sad thing to see so many people leave and God replaced them. Oh, it is a sad thing. You will hear stories like that a lot if you have been around for a while. And I am saying—I say that to say this: We are about to embark on that. We are about to go that way on a building program. And I guarantee you that Satan is watching. If he can get guile in…

He is walking about seeking whom he may devour. Even in the book of Job, where you have been? He said, “I am walking up amongst the mankind down there.” What are you doing? He is trying to find out who he can devour. It would be a great time. It is Sunday night, and we are missing folks whatnot. It would be a great night for us just to get any guile out. Great time to do it.

But can I say this? Can you imagine—let us just dream for a second. It does not cost anything to dream sometimes, maybe. Can you imagine if we got all our guile out and got thoroughly right with God? I mean, not what people think—they cannot see the heart. I am talking about thoroughly right with God.

I was very thankful. God has put this in my heart. It is so prone to one, and I am not trying to act like I have got it all together, but God has put this thing in my heart this week. It is from the Lord, and I am so thankful for it. But this week I guess I have had a little—and I get attached to that land that I have been praying for a long time, and I am excited about it. Man, my wife knows mine can be there and all that. But the Lord has kind of got my heart a little bit on that issue this week. And it has been my heart this week: “Lord, if we can see more people saved over here, more life changed over here, we will just stay.” Not about the building and land and all that. I think God can use it more. That is why we are going that way. But I say that: Our hearts are thoroughly right with God. Only the Spirit of God can do that. I cannot do that in my own heart, much less somebody else’s heart. I am talking about when the Spirit of God just cleanses this. We live on a higher plane than this world down here.

And the Lord—wouldn’t it be wonderful? I wish the Lord could say it about me anymore: “That fellow right there, he has no guile.” Nathanael very quickly saw the Lord. He grasped it, boom. No guile.

Bow your heads and close your eyes tonight. Let us just, as a church family, let us just try to get real clean. Let us just try to let the Lord—ask the Lord to get us there. We would like no guile. Lord, would You do something in my heart tonight? I would like no guile. If you are there tonight, you say, “Preacher, I would like to have a pure heart like that. I would like to have a heart of no guile. I would like to be there.” Oh, me too, me too. I would like to be there. Oh, God bless you. God bless you. So wonderful desire, wonderful desire. Oh, let us seek after that. Thank you. Thank you. Many, many, many hands. Let us come to the Lord tonight. Let us just come to the Lord tonight. So, “Lord, search me, O God, know my heart.” Lord, Lord, help me to be like that. I would like to be that one with no guile. Oh, and when you see the Lord, you see the Lord. Oh, He changes us. He heals us. He purifies us. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see…”

Well, let us just say, “Lord, would You cleanse me and wash me and make me pure and reveal and convey?” I want to be thorough. Well, let us do that tonight. Let us just spend some time with the Lord asking Him to purify our hearts—no guile. Let us all stand, if you would. Please, we are going to have a word of prayer. We will just get our musicians playing tonight. And let us just come. Let us just do some hearts and let the Lord do that. Ask Him to do that. No guile.

Father, Lord, leadership, You have wanted us to focus on this thing now. Lord, would You take the words and the truth and would You… add meaning where it needs be. Father, help us to be a people that You could say have “no guile.” Lord, forgive me; I am so far from there at times. Help us to get back to saying “no guile.” Lord, help us to just come sincerely seeking You. No guile tonight. Well, we will thank You. Brad, would you praise You for what You do, Lord? It is in Jesus’ name we ask. Amen. Would you come as our instruments play? Let us just come seek the Lord. No guile. Have it be good. Let us all… You raise your hand once you just come. Be good of our whole church family just come. Let us just seek the Lord. No guile. No guile.

And I try to go to the Lord often and say, “Lord, just search my heart.” And at least, at least every morning in your breath—I am at least. And here is your thing: I am not too worried when He points out things. Praise the Lord for the blood of Jesus. I can get right. But I get worried if I do not have Him point out anything. Guarantee it is not because I have got everything right. Never do. And I say, “Man, the Lord convicts me.” That is a good thing. If it gets so cold you do not have any convictions, something might not be right. And it is just that sensitive walking in the light, letting Him convict and guide. And that is how we can live with no guile in a sin-cursed world. And oh, praise the Lord for the blood of Jesus. Amen, it can cleanse them. Just one drop of the blood of Jesus. And what about that? There is power in the blood. I am thankful for that. Man, I need that. And there is cleansing there and purifying there. And preachers have got to quit because we are going to go get some food somewhere, right? Amen. So glad you are in church on a Sunday night. Praise the Lord. Just Christmas right around the corner, a great time of the year. Let us enjoy it, enjoy our family. And praise the Lord for God’s goodness, giving His Son. And what a blessing. Kalentine has been good to have them with us when y’all had them back, Kalentine. Remember. Good deal. Been glad to have them. It has been great. I told them this morning they are leaving us. Praise the Lord. It will be easy time to not be in church. But they are going to be in church. I am glad they are. It is awesome. Praise the Lord for it. Brother Kyle, would you dismiss us in order, very please?

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