1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:22,080 You to be in the House of the Lord this morning like to say 6 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:26,800 Happy Mother's Day to each and every one of our mothers this 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,840 morning. We appreciate what you do and 8 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,640 how you help us. And you know, all through our 9 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:41,320 life, I've been shaped by a godly mom, godly grandmother, 10 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,040 and even a godly great grandmother on both sides. 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,760 Man, I, I tell the devil all the time, you don't know who you're 12 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,400 messing with. Hey, man, I've been blessed way 13 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,600 back and had lots of prayers prayed for me. 14 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,160 And I thank God for that. I feel it every Sunday morning 15 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,240 and Wednesday night when I step up here from heaven. 16 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,720 They're still praying for me. Hey, man, and, and I've been 17 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,760 here 17 years. You probably heard all my 18 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,280 mother's stories. And I've, I'm going to go a 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,960 different route today and talk about the way that mothers have 20 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,120 have shaped us and a mother, a godly mother. 21 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,440 Our number one role in our life that they play is they, they 22 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,320 shape us. They shape who we are. 23 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,360 We don't realize, you know, from the pick the shoes up to put 24 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,760 your clothes to the tricking us. I had a mother like to trick me 25 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:32,720 sometimes. I had a great grandmother that 26 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,120 no matter what I did, she would never discipline me. 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,600 And I knew that I could get away with anything at her house. 28 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,480 And I recall one time my mother told me to go out to our house, 29 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,960 we didn't live very far, that she had a prize for me. 30 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:46,680 And she told me to bend over the bed. 31 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,960 I was 3 or 4 years old. Ford told me to bend over the 32 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,000 bed. She was going to bring me a 33 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,040 prize. And she brought me a prize. 34 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,480 It was the best. She was tricky from the time she 35 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,600 did that to the time that I was 17 and she couldn't hurt me no 36 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,720 more. She broke a board on my backside 37 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:04,800 and then doubled it. She didn't quit. 38 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,160 She was trying to shape me. Hey, man, she broke the board. 39 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:09,840 I'm like, OK, are you finished? She said Nope. 40 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,240 I doubled it and just kept on. But my mother didn't know, you 41 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,640 know, she some mothers know how to My dad knew how to whoop. 42 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:17,600 He'd wear back from living. He'd reach back there and grab 43 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,080 some dirt, you know. But my mother, she would just 44 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:23,520 real close. It didn't hurt. 45 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,000 She thought she was really doing. 46 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,920 But mom's whoopings didn't hurt. But if it didn't hurt, you 47 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:31,840 didn't act like it hurt. She told Dad and dad, as I said, 48 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,360 he would reach back in left field, right field and grab some 49 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,200 dirt. And it hurt, boy, it you didn't 50 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,040 want many of them. But I appreciate those things 51 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:44,000 now shaping me. They shape us just as God shapes 52 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,120 us, Amen. And so much of us and we're who 53 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,000 we are today and and the influence of our mothers then 54 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,480 that what they had on our life, you look back, it's still 55 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,920 shaping you. You can hear those words. 56 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:59,320 So many of the scriptures that I hold dear today I learned in the 57 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,960 five feet five first five or six years of my life. 58 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Amen. And I've never forgot them. 59 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,200 I have never forgot those scriptures taught by my mother, 60 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,120 my grandmother, my great grandmother and mother's while 61 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,560 you're teaching and while you're nourishing your children. 62 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,760 Yes, even in the teen years when it seems you're banging your 63 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,400 head against the wall and they're not hearing what you're 64 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,000 saying. Anybody ever been there? 65 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,880 Seems they're just not responding. 66 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,920 Remember, you're still shaping just as God is shaping us today. 67 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:30,800 There's there's many people being shaped by God today. 68 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:35,120 And I want to preach along those lines today that God never stops 69 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,160 shaping us. And I think if there's anything 70 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,200 I could say about a godly mother today, it would be how they look 71 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,600 ahead and they see what's ahead. The little things that 72 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,640 scriptures, the things they're shaping us. 73 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,840 It's not what we think it is at the time. 74 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,000 I look at the way God's still shaping me today and shaping 75 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,640 you. It's never what we think at the 76 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,240 time. It's a far greater and a far 77 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,640 bigger picture than we could ever see. 78 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,800 And mothers never forget that. But let's stand in the reading 79 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:10,120 of the Word in Galatians chapter 6 and verse 7, Galatians chapter 80 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,080 6 and verse 7, it says do not be deceived. 81 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:17,200 God is not malt for whatever man souls that he will reap. 82 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:19,959 That's why we got to keep shaping. 83 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,840 That's why God keeps shaping us. That's why a parent's job, a 84 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:27,640 mother's job, a father's job. It's from the cradle to the 85 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,880 grave. And we hope that we will see 86 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,000 some of the things we've sown and in life, we hope we will see 87 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,440 that and reap that. And verse 8 says, for he who 88 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,960 sows to his flesh will love the flesh, reap corruption. 89 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:46,160 And you know, we really focus on the flesh a lot today, even as 90 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,800 parents sowing things that our kids can see. 91 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,800 But the apostle Paul says here, he changes the tune of things. 92 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,280 He says, but he who sows to the Spirit will love the Spirit, 93 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:02,080 reap everlasting life. That's why we sow, because it's 94 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,080 not of this life that we're sowing when we sow scriptures, 95 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,160 when we sow those things as mothers, as fathers, as teachers 96 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,160 and preachers. In verse 9, it said us, let us 97 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,120 not grow weary. It's easy to grow weary in the 98 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,640 world that we live in while doing good. 99 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,200 We can't grow weary while doing good. 100 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,400 For a due season we shall reap. I still believe that. 101 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,600 Hey man, I believe we're going to see it if we do not lose 102 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:30,480 heart. Therefore, as we have an 103 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:35,040 opportunity, let us do good to all, especially those of the 104 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,000 household of faith. Father, we thank you for your 105 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,240 word today. I pray that you would touch your 106 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,080 word, that you would anoint this word, that I could bring it the 107 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,240 way you showed it unto me in Jesus name, Amen. 108 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:52,080 I challenge mothers today. Keep sowing the word of God for 109 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,560 he who sows of the flesh or reap of the flesh. 110 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,120 But if you're sowing of the Spirit, keep keep sowing the 111 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:02,120 things of the Spirit because you're shaping, you're making, 112 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,560 you're molding into everlasting life, something that's going to 113 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:10,480 last as the older I get, the more I see that this life is not 114 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,000 going to last. Hey, man, your body's going to 115 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,760 wear out. You're going to, they're going 116 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,640 to take you out to an old cemetery somewhere or they're 117 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,160 going to take you to a fiery furnace and they're going to 118 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,760 cremate you. And, and from the dust that we 119 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,080 were formed, we're going to return again. 120 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,200 The Bible says you may not really realize it now. 121 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,960 You may not see it in the in those that you're shaping now, 122 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,280 but it will come back and maybe in later years, maybe in the 123 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:36,560 deep. How many has been in the deep, 124 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,160 deepest, darkest trial of your life and yet what's your mother 125 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,360 or grandmother? Somebody sowed into you. 126 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,160 You remember those words and it began to shape you and God begin 127 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,360 to meet you at the point of your need. 128 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,040 Let us not grow weary while doing good for a due time. 129 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:56,600 We shall read first Peter chapter 1 and verse 3. 130 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,320 See, we're leading, we're not just shaping, we're not just 131 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,720 harping, we're leading, Amen. If you're a godly mother today, 132 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,240 you're shaping. You're leading them to what? 133 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,680 Peter says that. And then first Peter chapter 1 134 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,760 and verse 3, it says blessed be the God the Father, our Lord 135 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,160 Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten 136 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,800 us again to a living hope. Say that with me. 137 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,120 So I know you're here this morning. 138 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,480 A living hope. Why do we have a living hope? 139 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,520 Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 140 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,040 Why did he raise from the dead, He says in verse 4 to an 141 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,320 inheritance. We have an inheritance. 142 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,680 That's why we have to keep shaping people around us as 143 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:38,320 mothers. You have to keep shaping. 144 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,320 It's incorruptible. It's undefiled. 145 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:45,560 That does not fade away and it's reserved in heaven for you say 146 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,040 it's reserved in heaven for me this morning who are kept by the 147 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,400 power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed 148 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,960 in the last time. And verse 6 says in this you 149 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:01,280 greatly rejoice though now for a little while, if it need be, you 150 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,120 have been grieved by various trials. 151 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,080 I like that, don't you? Why anybody in a trial this 152 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,680 morning, Nobody you in a trial this morning. 153 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,960 I like how the possible, I mean Peter how he threw that in 154 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,040 there. It greatly rejoice though now 155 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,440 for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various 156 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:23,280 trials. Sometimes we need a trial, 157 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:26,560 sometimes we need to walk through the valley of the shadow 158 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,760 of death and learn that we have a God that fears no evil. 159 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,320 Can I get a witness this morning? 160 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,320 Because it's there? He says that the genuineness, 161 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,159 the realness of your faith being much more precious than gold 162 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:41,720 that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to 163 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:45,560 the praise and the honor and the glory of the revelation of Jesus 164 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:51,360 Christ, whom having not seen you love, though now you do not see 165 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,640 him, yet, believing you're rejoicing with joy, 166 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,120 inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, 167 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,560 the salvation of your souls. Isn't that a word from God this 168 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:05,320 morning? We're kept by the power of God. 169 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,040 Mothers keep shaping even in the struggles. 170 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,760 I know the struggles we face in life, they're real. 171 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,040 They're real because we have an adversary, We have an enemy, we 172 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,160 have a devil that's fighting for your soul this morning. 173 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,160 Amen. He's fighting for your child. 174 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,120 So, and he's never going to quit fighting this side of heaven. 175 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,320 He's fighting for it this morning. 176 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,440 The question is, are we fighting for it or do we give in? 177 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,960 Do we give up? I think of Jeremiah if we go to 178 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,160 Jeremiah chapter 18. And the Holy Spirit took me to 179 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,600 this verse for somebody this morning because I know there's 180 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,640 times in my life I get on the wheel. 181 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:47,200 Anybody ever been on the wheel? And Jeremiah chapter 18. 182 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,120 So we learned there that we're shaping everything that we do in 183 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,440 life. If you're as there's words 184 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,520 coming out of your mouth and you go to a job on Monday morning or 185 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,280 Friday evening, whenever it is, whatever comes out of your 186 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:05,280 mouth, somebody's what listening they're hearing, they're 187 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,280 listening to what you're doing. And what comes out of your mouth 188 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,680 could be shaping somebody in One Direction or another. 189 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,280 And in Jeremiah chapter 18, it says the word which came to me, 190 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,640 Jeremiah from the Lord saying, arise, I like that. 191 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,000 The word of the Lord, you know, we come, it comes to us today. 192 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,880 We say, God bless me. No, he said, get up. 193 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,280 When the word of the Lord came, it said, arise. 194 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,800 Why would why would God say that always may he says that all 195 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,560 through Scripture, doesn't he? He says, get up from the place 196 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:42,600 that you're at and arise and begin to take hold of that which 197 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,040 Jesus Christ has already laid a hold of you. 198 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,640 But you got to arise out of the place where you're at. 199 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,240 And he said, go down to the Potter's house. 200 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,440 I like that. And there I will cause you to 201 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,240 hear my words. Think about that. 202 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,200 The Potter's house. I will cause you to hear my 203 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,560 words. And Jeremiah rose and he went 204 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:06,680 down to the Potter's house and he says there he was making 205 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:10,000 something at the wheel. I got it. 206 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,960 I got the privilege of seeing that one time. 207 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,600 I used to be an old Potter's house in Cumbia. 208 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,600 You remember it's sister, Oh bro Joe over there. 209 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,080 He made pottery, shipped it all over and as a young man I went 210 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,440 in there and I began to watch it. 211 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,920 I had never seen it. He would take this old lump of 212 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,200 clay and he would put it on this wheel and, and it was dry at 213 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,600 first. He would begin to throw that 214 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,160 water on it and he would take his foot down here and he would 215 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:34,520 touch something. He would spin it and you know, 216 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,880 he showed me, he said, look how smooth is you want a line there 217 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:38,160 and he take a little deal and hold it. 218 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:40,640 There was a line. You want another line and he 219 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,320 could do anything he wanted to it. 220 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,920 You want it flat. It was pretty cool to see that. 221 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,120 But but I begin to notice. And then later in years, I read 222 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,440 this 18th chapter of Jeremiah and he said I went down to the 223 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,600 Potter's house and there he was making something. 224 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,880 You ever been on the wheel of life, just spinning like crazy 225 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,600 and out of control and whatever God's still shaping you, He's 226 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,160 still making something. And he said, I arose and I went 227 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,680 down to the Potter's house and there he was making something at 228 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:12,160 the wheel. And the vessel that he made was 229 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:14,320 clay. Think about that. 230 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,400 It was clay. What are you and I? 231 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,440 We're clay. And he says, but there was 232 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,760 something different about this clay. 233 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:28,320 He said as we read this word, it says that it was a vessel that 234 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:32,880 he made was clay, but it was marred in the hand of the 235 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,800 Potter. When you looked at word marred 236 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:41,320 up in the Hebrew, it's Shakath, which is to run, to decay, 237 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,680 spoil, destroy. It describes something that's 238 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,280 boil like this. It got all over me when I read 239 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,120 it describes the clay. It's not a perfect piece of 240 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:53,480 clay. It's on a wheel. 241 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,200 It's being made, it's being formed. 242 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,400 But see, it was an old bad piece of clay. 243 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,520 Anybody ever been there? It maybe, maybe it felt ruined. 244 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,080 It was decayed. It was corrupt. 245 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,240 It was marred in the hands of the Potter. 246 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,040 It was not perfect. Amen. 247 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:07,760 Can I tell you this Christian walk? 248 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,520 It is not perfect. You may be marred, you may be 249 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,720 scarred, but you're still on the wheel. 250 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,400 Thank God He's still spinning it and He's still making us into 251 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:20,600 something, a vessel of honor. Anybody ever been on the wheel? 252 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:23,920 The wheels? Not a fun place at the time. 253 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,760 It goes on to say this Hebrew word of mard. 254 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:33,080 It means the loss of function. I've just lost all function. 255 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,640 Anybody ever been there? It says it was mard, and I like 256 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:39,600 what that says. Can I read that again? 257 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:42,800 In verse 4? It says in the vessel that he 258 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:47,480 made of clay, it was moored, it was messed up, it was spoiled, 259 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,200 it was decayed, it was out of shape and it was in the hands of 260 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,760 the Potter. But I focused in on that word it 261 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:59,600 says and the vessel that he made of clay was that's past tense. 262 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,320 Come on, teachers, help me out. That's past tense. 263 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,040 It was marred. But as the Potter begin to take 264 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,720 the clay, see it's an image of of Jesus Christ right here that 265 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,920 Jeremiah could have been seeing. It was an image of God When he 266 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,920 looks down at his children, it was a type and shadow. 267 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,720 Yes, it was marred. But as he began to put it on the 268 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,080 wheel and he began to spin it and he began to make it into 269 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,160 something that it wasn't anymore. 270 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,320 Can I get a witness? Aren't you glad you're not 271 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,040 marred anymore? But you was marred in the hand 272 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:32,280 of the Potter, so he made it again into another vessel. 273 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,640 I like that he made it again into another vessel. 274 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,240 I look at my brother sitting over here. 275 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,640 He's a he's a Texas chapter president of Northeast Texas 276 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,560 Motorcycle Ministry now. And I remember the first time he 277 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,280 walked in here, he was on the wheel what it being molded being 278 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:52,840 mad. But now he's a new vessel. 279 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,840 He's a leader. A man went from a follower to a 280 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:57,320 leader. That's what God does. 281 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,440 But even though we're marred, he's still making we're in the 282 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:01,920 hands of the Potter this morning. 283 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,800 Somebody ought to say man and the vessel he made of clay, it 284 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,640 was moored in the hand of the Potter. 285 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:13,760 So he made it again into another vessel as it seemed good for the 286 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,160 Potter to make not what I think it should be. 287 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,200 He didn't make out of me what I thought I was going to be in 288 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:22,200 life at the end of my life. I'm not, I'm not what I thought 289 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:27,400 I would be, but I put myself on the wheel and I said, God just 290 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:32,680 mold me, just make me. Then the word of the Lord in 291 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,760 verse five came to me saying, O House of Israel, See this is the 292 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,440 kicker. This is what some of you need to 293 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,880 learn this morning. This is what all Christians need 294 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,480 to learn. This is what your Mama was 295 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:48,440 trying to get you to learn. Can I not do with you as this 296 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,040 Potter? Can God not put the clay that He 297 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,680 created on the wheel? Oh yes He can. 298 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,800 It may be through many tolls and stairs. 299 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,120 It may be through you running and rebelling. 300 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,720 You may come to God bleeding and broken and life all messed up, 301 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:05,320 but He going to put you on the wheel. 302 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,320 Why? Because John 316 says God so 303 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,200 loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that you 304 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,640 should not perish, but you should have everlasting life. 305 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,640 So if it takes putting you on the wheel, he'll put you on the 306 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,240 wheel. Can I get a witness this 307 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,800 morning? He'll put you on the wheel. 308 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:22,440 Oh, you need a little line there. 309 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,000 You need a little straightening there. 310 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,640 I'll give it to you. I'll throw a little water on you 311 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,120 when you drive. So it's pretty cool. 312 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:31,000 Go look it up if you've never seen that. 313 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,400 But the word of the Lord came to me saying, can I not do with you 314 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:41,080 as this Potter says? The Lord, he says, look, as the 315 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:47,720 clay is in the Potter's hand, so are you in my hands. 316 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,080 So are we. What does that mean? 317 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,720 He can do whatever he wants with us, but he's a loving God and he 318 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:59,120 gives us a free will, right? So many times we have to go back 319 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,440 to the to the old songs. I kid my wife all time because 320 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,319 she grew up a Baptist. I kid her about that. 321 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:07,319 Also be singing old powers. I said they sing that. 322 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:11,599 The Baptist Church growing up, she said, yeah, we sing that. 323 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:14,760 Then they sing this. And you know, I go back to the 324 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,000 old song about the three Hebrew boys that was in the fire. 325 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,240 They didn't sing that one. But I found that most churches 326 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,160 sing this song. And as I remember back as I was 327 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,880 being molded and shaped as one of the earliest songs I 328 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,880 remember, you know, Jesus loves the little children, all the 329 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,800 children of the world, red and yellow, black and white. 330 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,560 You can't say that nowadays. You're racist in their sight. 331 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:40,600 That ain't what it says. Hey, man. 332 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,880 But he says red, yellow, black and white. 333 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,040 They are what precious in his sight. 334 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,480 And then I think back about the songs we sing. 335 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,600 I remember those songs that molded and made you. 336 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,680 He's got the whole world. Help me in his hands. 337 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:02,320 He's got the whole world in his hands. 338 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:04,520 Y'all something better than I do. 339 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,840 Go ahead. He's got the whole world in his 340 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:12,000 hand. He's got you and me, sister. 341 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:18,000 He's got you and me, brother in his hands. 342 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,480 He's got the whole world in his hand. 343 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:22,880 Y'all remember that? We need to remember that 344 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,840 sometime. He's got the wind and the rain. 345 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,720 Y'all are off key. He's got the wind and the rain. 346 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:33,880 All y'all got to say is in his hands. 347 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,360 I remember the other He's got the wind and the rain. 348 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,800 He's got the whole world in his hands. 349 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,160 Mother, he's got your children in his hands. 350 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,320 Aren't you glad God puts everything that's bothering us 351 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,720 in his hands? He begins to mold it, he begins 352 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,920 to make it, he begins to fix it. But see, we got to we got to be 353 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,160 willing to let God do that. Is it great to know that we're 354 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:02,720 in his hands This morning, just as Jeremiah went down to the to 355 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,680 the Potter, we go to John chapter 10 and we read in verse 356 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:11,360 27, Jesus said some miraculous words right here talking about 357 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:13,800 sheep. I taught on sheep a few 358 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,440 Wednesday nights ago about sheep. 359 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:22,480 What are sheep or dumb sheep or dumb when you look it up and you 360 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,480 if you ever been around sheep, they're dumb. 361 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,720 They they'll follow anything. But Jesus said this. 362 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,040 He said in John chapter 10 and 26. 363 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:37,360 He says you do not believe because you're not of my sheep. 364 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:42,680 As I said to you, you my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, 365 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,800 and they follow me, and I give them eternal life, and they 366 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:51,600 shall never perish, neither shall anyone see when you begin 367 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,720 to God, to let God shape you and mold you and make you in this 368 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,920 life, and He gives you eternal life. 369 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,280 He says that you will never perish, neither can anyone 370 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,600 snatch them out of my hand. Isn't that, isn't that great to 371 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,600 know that no one can snatch you out of the hand of God? 372 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,840 But I learned a long time ago, I can walk out of the hand of God. 373 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,080 I can get off the wheel and say, no, God, you're not going to 374 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,720 make that part of my life. I don't need those lines in my 375 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,560 life. I don't need that, that that 376 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,640 sprinkler of the Holy Spirit in my life. 377 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,920 I'm not going to allow you to make me say no one can snatch me 378 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,920 from the palm of his hand, but I can walk out of his hand. 379 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,400 I can walk out of that place. My Father, who has given them to 380 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,040 me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out 381 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,440 of my father's hand. And I'm the Father or one. 382 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,240 So why don't you just get on the wheel this morning, knowing that 383 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:50,160 you have a God that's trying to shape you, to mold you, and to 384 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,400 make you. Mothers never forget you're 385 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,680 shaping your children. Sometimes they're running crazy. 386 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:00,320 Sometimes they're on the wheel, sometimes the Potter's throwing 387 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,440 stuff their way. But most of all, we're in his 388 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,640 hands. And as the song says, the Potter 389 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,600 knows the clay, he knows how much pressure it can take. 390 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,880 He knows how much he knows how many times around the wheel 391 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,120 until we surrender to his wheel, right? 392 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,800 And guess what? He never gets tired of spinning. 393 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:24,040 He never gets tired of molding us and making us. 394 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,920 Because in Second Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 7, we read 395 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,280 here what's really going on. Because when we're molded and 396 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,480 we're being made, it says in 2nd Corinthians 4 and seven that we 397 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,920 have this treasure in an earthen vessel. 398 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,680 We live on this earth, but we are a vessel and we have a 399 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:50,160 treasure that's in it. That the excellence of power may 400 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:56,280 be of God and not of us. What I am is not of me, it's of 401 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,360 God. See, I can't, I can't, I can't 402 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:01,360 make what God's making out of my life. 403 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:04,160 There's no way that I can do what God can do in my life 404 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:05,880 because I'm what flesh and blood. 405 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,680 And all I do is wrestle against flesh and blood. 406 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,880 And I think it's principalities of the world, but it's really 407 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,840 principalities of darkness trying to live in a heavenly 408 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,920 place. But he says we have this 409 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,600 treasure in an earthen vessel, that the excellence of power may 410 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,840 be of God, not of us. We're hard pressed on every 411 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,480 side, yet not crushed in that hope. 412 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,120 The the, the pressing is going to come, but you're not crushed. 413 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,720 We're perplexed, but not in despair. 414 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,960 Persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. 415 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,040 Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus 416 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:47,640 Christ, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our 417 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,560 body for while we live. Verse 11. 418 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:58,400 While we live, for he who live are always delivered to death 419 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,600 for Jesus sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in 420 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,520 our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, 421 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,360 but life in you. Isn't it great to know that 422 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:10,320 eternal life's working in you this morning? 423 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,960 It's great to know whether you go by the rapture, whether you 424 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:19,920 go by the grave, if you've been on the wheel and God's making 425 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,440 and molding something out of your life, Guess what? 426 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,040 To be absent from this body is to do what? 427 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,440 To be present with the Lord. What a hope we have. 428 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,120 Verse 13, and I'm going to close it says since we have the same 429 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:36,200 spirit of faith according to what is written, I believed and 430 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,040 therefore I spoke. We also believe and therefore we 431 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:43,120 speak knowing we'll stand our feet and we'll close, knowing 432 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:49,040 that he who raised up the Lord Jesus, what does that do to your 433 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:53,600 spirit? He who raises up the Lord Jesus, 434 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,080 Ma, ma, ma, he who raised up the Lord. 435 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,000 That's the God that's got us on the wheel this morning. 436 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:07,160 The same God that raised Jesus from the dead will also raise us 437 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:13,560 up with Jesus and will present us with you for all things or 438 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,360 for your sake. That grace having spread through 439 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:21,840 many may cause Thanksgiving to a bound to the glory of God. 440 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,200 Therefore, we do not lose heart. Don't lose heart. 441 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,920 I said, don't lose heart. I left the hospital room the 442 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,520 other day with my good friend James. 443 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,800 He was on the incubator tubes out of every place they could 444 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,960 possibly put one in. The spirit of the Lord said say 445 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:44,000 goodbye because I'm ready. I just felt it, but see, you 446 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,360 can't turn around and tell a family that that may not be 447 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:49,560 ready and know how things work in the spirit because I, I 448 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,920 caught a glimpse of him in the other side and I prayed with him 449 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,680 and I grabbed his leg. I said, buddy, I'll see you on 450 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,520 the other side. I knew his time of departure was 451 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:00,600 at hand. Amen. 452 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,800 I knew in my spirit the Lord spoke that to me. 453 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,000 After all the prayers and pray, faith that we had prayed, he 454 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,880 went to be with the Lord. But see, for many that's not a 455 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,040 hope, that's grieving, but when you can see the other side, when 456 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,520 you know you've been on the Potter's wheel, when you know 457 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,520 the water of the Holy Ghost has been sprinkled on your life. 458 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,440 And you said, God, take all of me, take everything. 459 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,280 I'm yours. I'm on the wheel. 460 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:29,960 Make with me what you will. There's a piece, a man, he 461 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,960 opened his eyes and he looked at me for the last time. 462 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,800 The next day he would go be with the Lord. 463 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,920 You know what the Holy Spirit spoke to me, this writer. 464 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,800 Do not lose heart even though our outward man is perishing. 465 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:47,680 Verse 16 you're perishing. We hear the doctor say, you know 466 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,920 what, your terminal, that shouldn't be nothing, that 467 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,560 you're all terminal. We're all terminal. 468 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,120 We're all going to die because it's you know, it's appointed to 469 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:59,800 you to die. It's appointed each and every. 470 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:05,320 We have a date with death unless Jesus Christ steps out on the 471 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,920 clouds and blows the trumpet. I want to take the flight. 472 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,240 I pray everyday. God just let me fly. 473 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,960 I want to take that flight. Amen. 474 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,080 I don't want to go by the grave, but if I do, I don't lose heart. 475 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,800 Because even though the outward man is perishing, the inward 476 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,360 man, if you, if you choose to get on that wheel that 477 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:27,320 Jeremiah's seen at the Potter's house, guess what's happening. 478 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:33,360 The inward man is being renewed. I hear these Christians talking 479 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:36,000 about man every day. Just every day I'm being 480 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:45,640 renewed, yet the N word man is being renewed day by day. 481 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:52,560 You got to look at life like this for a light affliction. 482 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,000 Think about all the hell that's going on in earth today. 483 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,080 I see the guy the other day he had a shirt on. 484 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,880 He said he said I'm sorry but I'm not apologizing. 485 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,760 I've been the same gender all my life. 486 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,240 We got to apologize. We're going through hell here on 487 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,760 earth. But yet the Apostle Paul said 488 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,640 it's but a lot of affliction. Why could he say that? 489 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,480 Because he knew what hell would be like. 490 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,960 He had a glimpse of both. He said I was taken up into the 491 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,120 3rd heaven, whether in the spirit or out, I don't know. 492 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:28,640 But I believe the Apostle Paul was taking some other places 493 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,040 because he had a fire that a lot of people ain't got. 494 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,440 He knew what was on what, what what lay beneath a man for our 495 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:40,160 light affliction, which is but for a moment, life is but a 496 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,080 vapor. Anybody learning that yet? 497 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,600 But if I asked Brother Lee back there, he's a little older than 498 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,600 some other, he would say life is but a vapor. 499 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,280 It only seems a few days ago that I could run, I could jump, 500 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,320 I could do all those. Life is but a vapor. 501 00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:01,560 What does the Bible say? And then it's it's gone for a 502 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:06,560 light affliction, which is but for a moment this goes right. 503 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,600 What I was preaching to you about the will is working for us 504 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,840 a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 505 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,480 What's the eternal weight? Everlasting life while we do not 506 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,760 look, see, this is what you got to do if you're going to live 507 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,520 for Jesus because you cannot see Jesus. 508 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,280 I hear all these people that have seen him and I hope they 509 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,600 did because they're writing books and making millions. 510 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,600 They better hope they did. But why? 511 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,520 We do not look at the things which you're seeing. 512 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,880 Would you close your eyes this morning and not look at what 513 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,120 you're seeing? While we do not look at things 514 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,240 which you're seeing, but at the things which you're not seeing? 515 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,480 What do you see? Is there wary in your mind this 516 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,440 morning? Do you recall the words that 517 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,120 Mother spoke to you years ago? What do you see? 518 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,520 What do you see when you're all alone and nobody else is around? 519 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:07,200 And what do you see for the things which you're seeing, the 520 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,200 things which you're striving for? 521 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:14,160 He says they're only temporary. But the things which are not 522 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,160 seen, I can't see heaven. I can't see the friends that's 523 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,280 going on to be with the Lord, the loved ones. 524 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,920 But he said that which I cannot see is eternal. 525 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,920 And in chapter 5 he says, for we know that if our earthly house, 526 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,480 this tent is going to blow away, right, it's going to be 527 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,120 destroyed. We have a building from God. 528 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,400 Boy, I love this verse right here. 529 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:42,880 A house that is not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 530 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,400 For in this tent now we see we grown earnestly desiring to be 531 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,160 clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven, if indeed 532 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,560 having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 533 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,840 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not 534 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,280 because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed that 535 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,400 mortality may be swallowed up by life. 536 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:13,760 Now he who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also 537 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:18,600 how get have has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 538 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,120 You have a guarantee this morning. 539 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,800 For we are always confident, knowing well, some of you say 540 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,000 it's good stuff, it's in the Bible, read it. 541 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,920 Hey man, it's there. close your eyes and know this. 542 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:33,920 What are you doing right now? You're believing for that. 543 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,280 What you cannot see, knowing that while we're at home in the 544 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,960 body, we're absent from the Lord. 545 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,320 And in verse 7 it says, for we walk by faith. 546 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,480 Say that with me we walk by faith. 547 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,960 I don't walk by what I see at the church house. 548 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,040 I don't walk by what I see my brother doing. 549 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,400 I walk by faith, which is a substance of things hoped for, 550 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,280 the evidence of what I cannot see. 551 00:30:55,280 --> 00:31:00,320 In Hebrews we say it with me, we walk by faith and not by sight. 552 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,040 That which I'm doing I do not want to do, but I do it anyway. 553 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,560 Sometimes that's OK. Just keep walking by faith. 554 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,920 You'll become that person that the Bible says you can be. 555 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,240 Just keep walking by faith. Just get on the wheel. 556 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,440 Let him spin you a little bit more. 557 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,200 For we walk by faith and not by sight. 558 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,640 We are confident, yes, well pleased. 559 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,440 I love this verse right here. Rather, to be absent from the 560 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,200 body is to be present with the Lord. 561 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:35,040 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be 562 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,560 well pleasing to him. Why don't we do this verse 10 563 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,840 after you've been on the wheel because we must all appear 564 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,800 before what the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive 565 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,960 the things done in the body according to what he has done, 566 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,080 whether good or bad. Knowing therefore, that the 567 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:57,000 terror of the Lord we persuade men, but we are all well known 568 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,440 by God. Paint yourself and say I'm well 569 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,080 known by God. He knows me, He knows my rising 570 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,440 up, my sitting down, He knows all my ways and he has searched 571 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,160 me. We are all well known to God and 572 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:13,080 I also must trust or well known in your conscience. 573 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:14,960 Father, we thank you for your word. 574 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,080 We thank You that your word is truth and life. 575 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,560 I have given you the word of God and what it says about who you 576 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,320 are this morning. We thank God for the mothers 577 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:29,200 that have shaped us, that has molded us, that has made us. 578 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,520 And you know the greatest thing about God and he's like a 579 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,200 mother. He will never quit loving you. 580 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:40,040 Jesus loves you this morning. He's aware of everything you're 581 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,200 going through. Would you somebody grasp that 582 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,640 this morning? The devil's going to come and 583 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,400 tell you, man, you ain't even worthy to be in this. 584 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,920 You don't know about God. You're not living for God. 585 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,120 You just get on the wheel and say, God, I know it. 586 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,000 I agree with the devil. Devil says, oh, you can't tell. 587 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,400 You're right, devil, I can't do it, but I know a man who can. 588 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,800 Jesus loves you this morning as the song plays. 589 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,400 Would you let him love you this morning? 590 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,080 Would you get out of your mind what all you've done and what 591 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,640 all you maybe said this week that ain't lining up with the 592 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,600 Word of God? And just remember that Jesus 593 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,280 loves you. If you need to know He loves 594 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,400 you, come up this morning. Just worship him. 595 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,920 Pray where you're at, wherever you worship. 596 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,880 But let him shape you. Let him mold you. 597 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,880 Let Him make you. Thanks for listening to the 598 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,200 Cross Power Church podcast. May you know that true hope, 599 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,360 peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus. 600 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,480 If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in 601 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,960 person. You can find service times at 602 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,520 crosspowerchurch.com.