Building Walls

1. Building Walls

2. Some walls are good and are built for protection

4. Walls we build between each other

5. What the Bible says: • Eph 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; • Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, • Eph 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. • Eph 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ • Rom 1:12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. • Eph 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; • Eph 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

6. My spiritual gifts • Eph 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. • Rom 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; • Rom 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

7. 3 reasons I must needs to do this! • 1) Be obedient to my LORD JESUS

8. Tearing down my walls

9. 3 reasons I must needs to do this! • 1) Be obedient to my LORD JESUS • To tear down my walls • To bring GOD glory

10. Natural Birth • My full name is • Steven Lee Prentice • Birthdate: April 27,1975 • At Copley Memorial Hospital • Time:? • Kane County, Aurora, Illionois • So the demon is born! • We are all born spiritually dead therefore we are all sinners.

11. Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: • Psa 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. • Psa 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. • Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? • Job 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. • Job 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

12. Joined the gang

13. Being jumped in

14. Worked my way up

15. Starts getting darker

16. DARKNESS

17. Light in darkness

18. Is there a GOD ?

19. Yes there is! Only JESUS can save me!!!

20. Faith comes by hearing • Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. • 1Pe 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

21. Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: • Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. • Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. • Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. • 1Jn 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: • 1Jn 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.