Well, it's hard to believe that the summer's already over.
I'm thankful to Pastor. Boots and you all for giving me
the opportunity to opportunity to be here and preach and not
only to preach but to get to meet you all.
It's been a great opportunity and a lot of good experience for
me and I just like you to keep me in your prayers.
As I like you mentioned, I head back this Saturday and Zach
heads back this Friday and so just keep.
Us in your prayers as we go into this next?
We're looking forward to it and excited for what all the Lord
has. So take your Bibles tonight and
turn to Luke Chapter #21. We'll be in Luke 21 and we're.
Going to be reading verses one through 4 and says, And he
looked up and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the
treasury. And he saw also a certain poor
widow casting in that their two mites.
And he said of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow
have cast in more than they all, where all these have their
abundance cast into the offerings of God.
But she of her penury had cast in all that she had.
We pick it up here in the Loop, Chapter #21.
Jesus is sitting beside this treasury and he's.
Watching as all these rich men, I'm sure important men are
casting in all their money. They're casting in a good amount
of money. But we see here in verse #2 we
see a widow the Bible calls her. A poor widow comes up and cast.
2 mites And now I can see all the rich men sitting there right
now. Like look at this lady.
She's casting in. 2 Mites And we're casting in 100 mites or
however many they cast in But Jesus says very something very
interesting in verses #3 and four he says and he said of a
truth. I say unto you that this poor
widow have cast in more than they all and I can picture all
the rich men, important men, sitting there.
Excuse me, like, what are you trying to say?
He says. For all of these have of their
abundance cast into in unto the offerings of God.
But she of her penury had cast in all that she had all the
living that she had. She gave all that she had and
that was the difference. Are you willing to give your all
for God tonight? Let's pray.
Dear Jesus, I pray where that you just be with me, Father.
Tonight as I speak, I pray where that you give me the words to
say. Father, speak through me.
I think the word for this church, Father, I think your
word for just everyone here tonight.
Father, I pray with you would bless Father and keep blessing
this church. And just now I pray Amen.
You may be asking yourself tonight, why should I give my
all to God? Why does he deserve my all?
Well, he gave his all for you, didn't he?
Take your Bibles and turn to Matthew chapter #27, Matthew
chapter #27. And we're going to be in verse
#27, Matthew 27, verse 27. And it says then the soldiers of
the governor took Jesus into the common hole and gathered onto
him the whole band of soldiers and they stripped him and put on
him a scarlet robe. And when they had and mocked him
saying hail king of the Jews and they spit upon him and took the
Reed and smote him on the head. And after that, they had mocked
him and they they took the robe off from him and put it, put his
own raiment on him and led him away to crucify him.
Jesus didn't give 50%. Jesus didn't give 70%.
He gave his all. He gave it all so that I
wouldn't have to spend eternity in hell.
He gave his all so that you wouldn't have to spend eternity
in hell. If you think tonight about the
people that have given their all for you or the people that have
sacrificed for you, I think about my parents who are here
tonight who have sacrificed and given their all so that I could
be in a Christian School through kindergarten, through 12th grade
and so that I could have the Bible taught to me and so I can
hide the verses that I learned there in my heart and just get a
good education. I think of the teachers who have
sacrificed and given their all for me going through school.
I think the teachers who are doing that right now at college,
they're trying to prepare me the best they can to go serve the
Lord in the ministry one day. I think about pastors who have
sacrificed. Pastor Boots has been a great
role model in my life, somebody I've always looked up to and
respected very much. And I think of people like him,
pastor brothers who have given their all and that for people
like me so that we could follow in their footsteps.
I think of the youth workers who have given their all so that I
could be excited about coming to church and excited about going
to team meeting and different teen activities.
Bus workers who give their all to go out and pick kids up for
church every Sunday morning. That's a big part of our church
that I think oftentimes gets overlooked.
But as much as those people have done for you, as much as those
people sacrifice for you, Jesus has given more for you than any
person on earth could ever give for you.
He gave it all. So we should give our all for
him and #2. Anything less than all will
never be good enough. Turn to 2nd Corinthians Chapter
9 Second Corinthians Chapter 9, verse six.
Second Corinthians 9/6. It says.
But this I say. He would.
So is sparingly, shall reap also sparingly, and he would show it
bouncefully Shall reap also bouncifully.
I'm. In other words, you're going to
reap what you said, right? I'm so thankful that growing up
I had parents that taught me that you're going to get out of
things what you put into things. In other words, I can't study
for a testing, Study for 5 minutes for a test and go in and
expect to make an A. Many times I did study 5 minutes
for a test. And you know what?
I made. Well, I'm not going to tell you
tonight this. It's too embarrassing.
But that's not the important part.
And then I'm so thankful for parents who taught me you're
going to get out of things what you put into things.
You can't practice once a week for a sport that you're playing.
Expect to be the MVP. You can't expect to be able to
play an instrument if you never practice.
And the same thing applies to serving the Lord.
You can't expect to have a thriving bus route and have kids
coming every Sunday morning if you're skipping out and not
being faithful to bus visitation.
You can't expect to hear from the Lord if you're never
spending any time alone with Him in prayer and devotional life.
We can't expect to see souls saved if we're never going out
and giving the gospel. What we put into things is what
we're going to get out of things.
You we should put our all into serving God.
My Third Point tonight is for the teens.
I'm always got to pick on the youth group.
I've gotten to know them a little bit over the past few
days. So turn God is looking for
teenagers who will give their all to serving Him.
God is looking for the teenagers who will give their all.
Turn to John Chapter 6. John Chapter #6.
Many of you know the story of the feeding of the 5000 and
that's where we pick it up. In verses 8:00 and 9:00 of John
chapter six we see this young boy coming to give 5 loaves and
two fishes to Jesus, says one of his disciples, Andrew Simon
Peters brothers safe unto him. There's a lad here which have 5
barley loaves and two small fishes.
But what are they among so many? This boy, he didn't give half of
what he had to Jesus. He didn't have give a little bit
of what he had to Jesus. He gave all of what he had to
Jesus and he didn't have much. He only had five lives and two
fishes. But young person, when you give
your all to Jesus, when you give your life and surrender to
Jesus, he will do more with it than you could have ever
imagined. I don't think that this young
man, when he came up to Jesus, he wasn't expecting Jesus to
feed 5000 people with just five lives and two fishes.
I don't think he expected that to happen.
But when we give our all to serving God, he will bless that
you can ask anyone in here. You ask your parents.
Ask Pastor Boots. Ask any of the youth workers in
here. That surrendered life and giving
your all to God is far better than anything that the world has
to offer today. But you have to be willing.
You have to be willing to give God your all.
And sometimes being willing to give God your all means you're
going to. Have to give up some things in
your life. Are you willing to give up that
friend that may not be the best influence for you in your life.
Are you willing to stop listening to the wrong music?
Are you willing to stop disrespecting your parents?
Are you willing to do get rid of anything that will keep you from
giving your all and do anything that will keep you from serving
God? Now more than ever we need some
teenagers and we need some young adults who are surrendered and
giving their all to God. And the last point I have
tonight is. When you give God your all,
expect Satan to come after you. You know sayings not worried for
the Christians that aren't back slid and he's not worried about
the Christians that are in church once a week.
He's not worried about the Christians that aren't really
doing much for God because he's already got them right where he
wants them. He's got them not doing too
many. He's worried about the
Christians that are given their all to God.
He's worried about the servants of God that are really putting
effort and time into it and the servants of God.
They're given their all. I think of men in the Bible who
Satan attacked. I think of men like Joe who was
a man sold out to God, but then Satan came and try to do
everything that he could to Joe to get him from not being as
faithful to God as he should be. I think of men like Joseph who
as far as we know trying to do his best to live for the Lord
and then Satan sends along pot of his wife to try to tempt
Joseph and try to get him to do something that would be immoral
and wrong inside of God. I think of men like Daniel who
is threatened to be thrown in the lines then because of his
faithfulness to prayer and faithfulness and dedication to
the things of God. But all three of these men, the
St. and Tempted each have something in common.
They each were giving their all to God, and each had a
surrendered life to God all. Whenever we give God our all,
that's when Satan will try his best to make us fall.
Turn to Revelation chapter #20 tonight.
I'm thankful tonight that no matter how much Satan attacks
us, no matter how much he comes after us, when we try to give
our all to him, I think what we have a more powerful God than
Satan. Turn to Revelation 20 and we're
going to be looking at verse #10.
It says, and the devil that deceived them was cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false
prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever
and ever. I'm thankful that we can serve
God and we can give him our all, knowing that we're on the
winning side. The devil knows he's already
beaten. The devil knows he's already
defeated. But he's going to try his best
to get us from giving, to keep us from giving our.
All to God and keep us from serving him and I'm thankful
that when we. Give God our life.
We know that we're on the winning side and that God's
already taking care of us. Will you give God your all
tonight? It won't always be easy.
It's not always going to be sunshine and rainbows.
But it's worth it. Let's pray.
Dear Jesus, I think it worth for all that you do for his Father.
I pray worthy would take these few words that I've said, Father
and I pray worth. You just speak the heart's
father and just help be with me wars.
I go back to college and all the college students in this church
Father, that have already gone back.
I pray with you. Just watch over them and protect
them. I probably the helps to really
give our all tonight, Father. And you just never pray.
Amen. Amen.
You would send your seat to the heads Bottom your eyes closed
tonight. Simple.