In you, Christ Jesus, you alone, I look to imitating your ways.
In all my ways. I'll follow you and I must move.
You, Christ Jesus, you are all I look to, imitating your hands in
all my ways. I'll follow you and I will
smooth what's an example I have Christ Jesus, I love you rely on
your Lord depend on look to you my own at.
Times the circumstances of life, what we go through makes us
forget about the fact that we are children of God and we do
our friends as if we live on our own.
This morning the Lord is reminding us of the need of the
importance for us to live as a responsible children of God.
I want you to open your mouth and speak to God this morning.
How responsible are you, Jesus, as a child of God?
How responsible am I as a child of God?
Is the challenges of life taking me away?
Are the challenges of life making me forget about the fact
that I have been purchased by the blood of Christ?
How responsible am I? How responsible are you?
Open your mouth and speak to God.
This Lord Almighty, pray converting myself in the name of
Jesus. Oh Lord of this morning we come
before your process one more time.
Save me from eternal condemnation.
We are today for living the life.
Therefore, Lord, they are responding as Your word has come
unto us. We are all marked to the
responsibilities Lord for it is holy is you.
I was Speaking of life Lord Almighty.
I was responsible Lord to carry out for it is only in you that
we can have redemption of Jesus. I pray therefore this morning we
return back unto you Jesus and we pray that I will be able to
overcome that your grace, I'll be able to Lord will abound this
man responsibility. Spirit divide by each terrified
till the end used to your Jesus. As we see there is the light the
war on nature revive to till again until all Jesus be seen.
Let's death beauty of Jesus we see in me what draws compassion
with you reasoning. Oh not spirit divide.
I need terrified to death beauty.
Of Jesus we see. Shall we happily receive our
sins? Oh da.
Spear in the. Just as we are, O Lord, your
presence, we have come. We pray in the name of Jesus
that your grace will abound for us this morning in Jesus mighty
name, Amen. Praise the Lord.
We want to thank God for the gift of life and I want to
specially welcome each and everyone of you.
In fact, greet your neighbor and tell him or her you are welcome,
you are welcome. God richly bless you.
I also specially want to thank God for the life of our brother
Joshua. Joshua Tremen.
Joshua, be on your feet. He's been away for some time
now, and he's back. Shall we welcome him?
We shall. God richly bless you.
Amen. Yeah.
If you don't understand why I welcome Joshua when you close,
come and see me. But it's very important as a
member of God's church and as a child of God, whenever you
belong to the Church of God or the family of God, you must
always make yourself relevant. I mean, I said as a child of
God, you must always make yourself relevant.
If I look at the ones he said beside you and tell him or him,
make yourself relevant. Amen.
One thing you should understand is that when you come to church,
God speaks to us through numerous ways.
There are some of us, we are in the church, but we are not
relevant. Even if you don't come, no one
knows you didn't come. And even if you come, and even
if you come, praise the Lord. But this morning I want to
encourage someone as a child of God, make yourself relevant, but
you only be relevant when you allow the Spirit of God to lead
you. Amen.
Even if you are not happy with
me, so long as I am preaching the word of God, I am OK.
I'm not here to please anyone, but please, brothers and sisters
in Christ, God has purchased us through the blood of Jesus
Christ. And so now that we have become
people of God, children of God, we all, not ourselves again, we
have become the people of God. We have become the people of
God, which stands for the church.
And so as a people of God, what it means is that you are an
ambassador of God. And as an ambassador, whenever
you are sent to go and represent your government, wherever you
go, you stand for the interest of your government.
Praise the Lord. So when you go anywhere and you
become irrelevant, what it means is that you have totally failed.
Praise the Lord. So this morning, I pray that God
will give us the grace, the ability to be relevant wherever
we go, wherever we find ourselves, even in our homes, in
our churches, in our various workplaces, and in every
institution we find ourselves. Amen.
I want to speak on the theme of the year.
Unleash to live a life worthy of your calling.
Unleashed to live a life worthy of your calling.
When you read a book of Genesis which talks about creation after
God has created everything and then he decided to create man in
his own image and in his own. Like the Bible is saying that
God created Adam and then God created Eve to God created Eve
to come and support Adam. And so when you read Bible is
saying that after God has created man, God handed over
creation unto man. And after God had handed
creation unto man, God has man to take care of his creation.
So what it means is that God gave man the ability, the power
in other ways. Man became the ambassador of
God. Man was to stand in for God and
take care of his creation. But one thing we need to take
notice that when God handed over His creation unto man, God gave
instructions unto man. So what it means is that as an
ambassador you cannot work or you cannot do things on your
own. You work with instructions,
praise the Lord. And the Bible is saying that God
instructed man to not touch the tree which was in the middle of
the garden, aside that man was giving them free will to touch
and to enjoy any other thing. So yeah, one of the things we
can see is that God gave man his will, praise the Lord.
So what it means that whenever you become an ambassador of God,
whenever you become a representative of God, even
though you are working with instructions, you also have your
own will, praise the Lord, and it is your own will that leads
you on the kind of choices you make you.
You may choose to abide by the instructions attached to your
calling, or you can also choose to leave contrary to the
instructions. And you could see that any
person who always works with the instruction attached to his
calling at the end of the day is promoted.
Praise the Lord. As our Bible is saying that when
God gave man his free will, man decided to go contrary to the
will of God in other ways. Man decided to choose to eat of
the forbidding tree, and the Bible is saying that as a result
of that, man fell. As a result of that, man died.
Amen. So one of the lessons we can
learn here is that every choice man makes, every choice man
makes has its own consequences. Every choice man makes has its
own consequences. Every choice you make, every
choice I make, has its own consequences.
If it is true, then it means that every choice man makes is
very, very important, praise the Lord.
And as a result of the choice of Adam and Eve, the Bible is
saying that one of the consequences that has come or
that it has brought on to us is eternal condemnation, death.
That's why you read a New Testament which says that for
all have seen. What did I see?
That is the consequence of a choice that was made by man.
Praise the Lord. That is the power of choice.
So the kind of choice man makes may not maybe end up on you, but
it may even go after generations to come.
If it is so, then as people of God, as children of God, we need
to be very mindful of the kind of choices we make.
Amen. Amen.
Choices has its own consequences.
What it also means is that the kind of choice man makes may
bring him life, and it can also bring him death.
The kind of choice man makes may bring you life or death.
Amen. I'm reading from Deuteronomy
chapter 30 verse 15 to 20. Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 15
to 20. See, I said before you today,
life and prosperity, death and destruction.
For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to work in
obedience to him and to keep his commands decrease and loss.
Then you will leave an increase and the Lord your God will bless
you in the land you are entering to possess.
But if you, if your heart turns away and you are not obedient
and you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship
them, declare to you this day that you will certainly be
destroyed. You will not live long in the
land you are crossing to Jordan to enter and possess this day.
I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I
have set before you life and death, blessings and kisses.
Now choose life so that you and your children may live and that
you may love the Lord your God. Listen to His voice and hold
fast to Him. For the Lord is your life, and
He will give you many years in the land He swore to give your
father's Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Amen.
Can you please repeat this after me?
For the Lord is your life, and He will give you many years in
the land he swore, Amen. So this scripture that is after
God has sent Moses to go and deliver the people of Israel
from Egypt. The Bible is saying that after
God has sent Moses, Moses went through a lot of challenges.
In fact, it wasn't easy for Moses to lead the people of
Israel after God himself has chosen Moses to go and deliver
the people of Israel from the hands of Pharaoh.
The Bible is saying that the people to whom Moses was sent to
resisted him in many ways. But because Moses was the
prophet of God, was the representative of God, God gave
his word to his people through Moses.
And so it got to a point. God was speaking to the people
of Israel through Moses and drawing their attention to the
fact that they have their will. God has given them their will,
praise the Lord. And then Moses went further, and
then he was trying to let them understand the fact that the
will God has given unto them. They must make good choice of it
or they must use their will wisely.
And so the 15th saying, I sat before you today, life and
prosperity, death and destruction, And as people of
God, as children of God who have been saved through the blood of
Jesus Christ, the same thing applies to us.
Yes, we have been saved. Yes, He has purchased us with
His blood, but He has given us our free will.
Praise the Lord. But the intention of God for
saving us is for us to inherit eternal life.
The reason why God did not leave us to remain in the Kingdom of
darkness, God did not leave us to abide in the abyss of hell,
is because His original intention for man is for Him to
inherit eternal life. And so now that God has served
us through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, God has given
us back our will just as His. He gave the will to Adam and
Eve, but as a result of the kind of choice they made, the
consequence they faced and brought eternal death unto man.
Praise the Lord, now that you have become a child of God.
God has given us the free will. But it is very important for us
to know the reason why God created man, the reason why God
saved man. The reason why God saved man is
in order for man to inherit his glory is in order for man to
come back to the original plan of God, which is to inherit the
Kingdom of God. But you see what's happened in
the Garden of Eden was that man decided to disobey the
instruction of God. So what it means that whenever
man fails to disobey the instruction of God, it is a
choice you have made. And whenever man decides to obey
the instruction of God, it is a choice that you have made.
But God is expecting that as a child of God, we will or you
will obey. I will obey His commands, His
instructions, whether it is favorable or not.
When it happens this way, then what it means is that we are
adhering to the instructions, which is attached to our
colleague. Praise the Lord.
And what was this was saying that for?
I command you today to love the Lord your God, to work in
obedience to Him. The people who have been saved
from the hands of Pharaoh, do not forget that these people
were under oppression. They were maltreated, and then
God through Moses saved them. Now they have their freedom, now
they have their liberty. They were no more under
oppression. And then as Moses was leading
them, God was speaking through Moses unto them and telling them
of the need, the importance, commanding them to love the Lord
their God. I want to believe that probably
they were failing to love the Lord and they were not being
obedient to the voice of God. And that is why God through
Moses was reminding them, was telling them of the need and the
importance. So that means that you cannot be
a child of God, you cannot be an ambassador of God, you cannot be
a Christian who does not love God and who does not obey the
voice of God. At times when we talk about the
love for God, some people think it is all about what we say.
But true love is seen through our actions.
Praise the Lord, there are some people who have good vibes.
One, you need to convince a lady that you love her.
The kind of words you put together, when you hear it, you
melt. That is not the kind of love we
are talking about. And moreover, we need to
understand that the God we are serving, the Bible is saying
that He is all knowing. As I stand here, if I love God,
he knows. As you sit there, if you love
God He knows I cannot tell and even if I should tell I will
based on what I see. And it is not everything we see
that is real and genuine but our God Bible says He is all
knowing. And I pray this morning that you
love the Lord your God with all your hearts.
And if you love him, he should be seen through your actions,
you should be seen through your deeds, you should be seen
through your speech, praise the Lord.
And in fact, this morning, as we have come to the presence of
God, what kind of hearts, what kind of mind have we come before
him with? I have been talking about this
thing all the time. The love for God, the love for
God compels you to do things for God.
The love for God compels you to do things for God.
Praise the Lord. So if you get to the point that
nothing compels you, then Amen. That's to work in obedience to
Him and to keep His commands. Decrease and loss.
Then you will increase. Then you will leave an increase,
then you will leave an increase. So you could see that God has
made provision for us if we want to leave, if we want to
increase. God is expecting that we will
love Him and that we will obey His commands.
Failure to that, I don't expect anything.
At times we come to church, we come to the presence of God and
we pray, Oh God bless me, Oh God, increase me.
Oh God, let me live long. Meanwhile you don't love the
Lord, meanwhile you don't obey the word of God.
But God has made provision for us.
It's just if you want to live long, if you want to increase,
then love me. If you want to increase, if you
want to live long, then obey my comments.
So brother, anything contrary to this, don't expect the results.
Amen. God has made the provision for
us and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are
entering to possess, but your heart stays away and we are not
obedient and you are drawn away to bow down to other ghosts and
worship them. So do not forget the Lord was
leading them to the promised land as the Lord is leading us
also into heaven until he was reminding them.
He was telling them of the of the need and the importance of
them to love Him and to also obey His commands so that they
will leave an increase. And then he was saying that the
opposite, that their hearts turns away and not obedience.
You are drawn away or you, yes, you are drawn away to bow down
to other gods. So what it means that anytime we
fail to love the Lord, anytime we fail to obey the voice of
God, the instructions of God, the commands of God, what it
means is that our hearts are drawn away.
What it means is that we bow down to other gods and worship
them. Praise the Lord.
This is serious. So if you are, if you don't take
care, you may be bowing down to other gods, you may be
worshipping other gods unknowingly.
But the Bible is saying that the moment you fail to love Him, the
moment you fail to obey His commands, what it means is that
you are doing the contrary, which is bowing down to other
gods and worshipping them. What means that your heart is
drawn away from Him. And this morning it is my prayer
that the Lord will be gracious unto us.
You will not live long in the land you are crossing to.
You not live long to the land you are crossing the Jordan to
enter and possess this day. I call the heavens and the earth
as witnesses against you that I have searched before you, life
and death, brothers and sisters in the Lord.
As the Lord has saved us, as the Lord has saved us, the Lord has
given us our free will. You have to make a decision for
yourself. If you inherit eternal life,
it's in your hands. If you inherit eternal
condemnation, it's in your hands.
Praise the Lord. But Moses went further and then
he advised them, Now choose life so that you and your children
may live. So what it means is that any
decision you take is not about you only, but it even affects
your children. So if you choose death, death
will come after your children and your children's children.
And if you choose life, life will come after you, your
children, and your children children.
So what means that the kind of choice we make, the kind of
decision we take is very, very critical, even though we have
been purchased by the blood of Christ, Amen.
Amen. When you come to the New
Testament, it makes it clear. It makes it clear that it is God
who calls just like God himself chose the people of Israel unto
himself, and as because He had established a covenant with the
great grandfather Abraham, after so many years, God kept His
covenant with them. We who are the New Testament
believers, the Bible makes us understand that until God calls
you, you cannot come unto him. Hello, until God calls you, you
cannot come unto him. So this morning as you are
seated here, I want you to believe in your spirit and in
your soul that it is God who has called you.
Praise the Lord. At times we walk without
confidence because we don't know who has called us.
But if you have the belief and the faith that it is God who has
called me, it is God who has called you, it even affect the
way you work. You are able to work boldly, you
are able to work courageously because you believe within your
spirit and your soul that it is God who has called you.
And that is the reason why you have become a child of God.
What a privilege. It is not everyone that God
calls. So for you to have the
opportunity for you to be called by God, praise the Lord.
Shall we read from John chapter 6 verse 41 downwards?
I'm reading from the NIV. At this the Jews there began to
grumble about him, because he said, I am the bread that came
down from heaven. They said, Is this not Jesus the
son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
How can he now say I came down from heaven?
Stop grumbling among yourselves, Jesus answered.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,
and I will raise them up at the last day.
It is written in the prophets. They will all be taught by God.
Everyone who has heard the Father and learn from Him comes
to me. No one has seen the Father
except the one who is from God. Only he has seen the Father.
Very truly. I tell you, the one who believes
has eternal life. I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manner in the wilderness, yet they died.
But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone
may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came
down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will
live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I
will give for the life of the world.
Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves.
How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Jesus said to them very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of man and eat his blood, you have no life in
you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks
my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last
day. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks
my blood remains in me and I in them.
Just as the living Father sent me, and I leave because of the
Father, so the one who fees on me will leave because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven.
Your ancestors ate mana and died, but whoever fees on the
bread will live forever. He said this while teaching in
the synagogue of Capeno. Amen.
But my interest is in the verse 44.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,
and I'll raise them up at the last day.
Do not forget that the intention of God is that man will live
eternally. And so Jesus is saying that it
is he who draws all the Father, draws people on to him, and any
person who comes on to him, he will live forever, praise the
Lord. But the reason why I added the
others is for us to understand because today is loss of our
Sunday. Do not forget that when God was
leading the people of Israel through Moses and got to a point
that God provided manner unto them and then Jesus is reminding
them that their ancestors the 8 manner, yet they died, praise
the Lord. And then he was comparing
himself to the manner or the bread, the eggs, and then he is
saying that he also came from heaven.
Anyone who eats of him answered then Jesus had not died, but
Jesus was telling them what was to happen, praise the Lord and
so he said anyone who eats will live.
Let me read it again. How can this man give us his
flesh to eat? Jesus said to them, very truly,
I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and
drink his blood, you have no life in you, Praise the Lord.
So if you are sitting here this morning, there are some people,
yes, they have accepted Jesus Christ, yes, they have been
baptized, but because they live in sin, they don't partake in
the Lord Supper. The Bible is saying that if you
do not, if you do not eat, I'll see me.
I'm fetching of Francos. Unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
So when you come and accept the Lord Jesus, when you are
baptized and you don't eat the lost Supper, you don't eat the
bread, you don't eat the you don't drink the blood, you have
no life in you. So what it means is that
partaking of the Lost Supper, it is very, very important in the
life of the believer. The reason why Jesus has saved
us is for us to have eternal life, life in abundance.
So accepting the Lord Jesus Christ brings life, and Jesus is
saying that if you do not eat, if you do not drink, you have no
life in you. So what it means is that
anything that prevents the believer from partaking the law
Supper, you need to deal with it until then.
Yes, you might have accepted him, you might have been
baptized by you have no life. Praise the Lord, ask your
neighbor, do you have life? Whoever eats my flesh and drinks
my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last
day. So what happens to those who
don't eat? May the Lord help us this
morning. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks
my blood remains in me and I eat them.
So what happens to those who don't eat and drink?
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I
eat them. So whoever does not eat my flesh
and does not drink my blood, what happens to them?
I'm not saying it is the Bible. So if you are here, you don't
eat, you don't drink, then you should know and Bible is saying
that you are not in him and he's not in you.
So you will be in the church. And you say I love God, I, I, I,
I worship God, yet you are wasting your time.
Praise the Lord this morning. May the Lord be gracious unto us
because of time. I'm reading from Ephesians
chapter 4 verse one as a prisoner for the Lord.
Then I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have
received. The author of these words is
Apostle Paul. If you should study the life of
Apostle Paul and Bible says that he is someone who fought the
people of God and then when he repented, when he encountered
the light of God and he repented.
The Bible is saying that he changed from his old ways and
now began to walk in newness of life.
And in the newness of life he loved the Lord his God and he
obeyed all the commands he gave him.
If you read when Saul had an encounter with the light, Bible
is saying that when the light strike him down and then he
screamed, Who are you Lord? And then the conversation went
on and then the Lord instructed him to go.
And Bible is saying that he obeyed the voice of the Lord.
So, brethren, as people of God, when we come to the saving
knowledge of Christ, we need to obey the voice of God.
Until we obey the voice of God, we cannot love him.
Until we obey the voice of God, we cannot worship him, praise
the Lord. And so after Paul has a soul who
has become Paul has worked with God and God has used him to do
great things, to accomplish many things, Paul came to himself and
then he was saying that that is what we just read as a prisoner
for the Lord. Then I urge you to live a life
worthy of the quality you have received.
So here Paul recognized that it is a call that he received and
has responded to it. And then he is saying that, or
he has come to the point of understanding, acknowledging
that when you receive this call, you become a prisoner of Christ.
Hello. When you receive the call of
God, I've already made you to understand that until God calls
you, you cannot come on to it. And not that God has called you
and you have become a child of God.
When Paul is saying that when you receive this call, you
become a prisoner for him. How many of us are prisoners for
Christ? The other time I think spoke
about a prisoner and then he made us to understand who is a
prisoner? How is that someone is a
prisoner? It means your life does not
belong to you. Again, you don't have the
freedom to live your life the way you want.
You are forced to do things contrary to your will, praise
the Lord. So as a prisoner of Christ, what
it means is that at times you wish to have something.
You wish to have something, but because you're a prisoner of
Christ, you are compelled, just like someone when you are in the
world, what may be when you are in the world, you are a
womanizer. Unless you don't see a lady, you
sleep with her, and then you come to the serving knowledge of
Christ, and then you see a lady so that things are there, their
vibes and everything. But when you become a child of
God, because you have now become a prisoner of Christ, you are
compelled to do away with those things.
Maybe when you are in the world, you used to drink.
When you become a child of God, as a prisoner of Christ, you
have the freedom, you have the liberty, You can decide to
drink. But because you recognize that I
own not myself, I belong to God, I have AI have become a prisoner
of Christ. You do away with those things,
praise the Lord. Maybe when you are in the world
you are corrupt when you come to the saving knowledge of Christ.
Yes, you were once corrupt, but now that you have become a
prisoner of Christ, you have to do away with those things.
And that is what shows that now you live under the instruction.
Now you live for God. Until then you are not a
prisoner of Christ. So what Paul was trying to say
is that we have the liberty to live our lives anyhow.
But because of the call he received, and he has responded
to it, he has subjected himself to the will of the Master.
And because he has subjected himself, he has become a
prisoner. So when you received a call and
you fail to subject yourself, you cannot be a prisoner.
How well have you subjected yourself to the call you have
received? So what I want you to understand
this morning is that as a child of God, your will does not
belong to you. The reason why I will have to
wake up early in the morning and come to church even though my
sleep is not enough for me is because I don't owe myself as a
prisoner. You have to wake up on time, but
when you owe yourself, you wake up the time you want.
Praise the Lord. The reason why one the other
that I can see was saying that when you go to the prison, they
don't get the food of their choice and even the kind of food
they give them. You have no choice.
If you don't eat, you die. So as a prisoner of Christ, you
don't choose what you want to eat.
May the Lord help us this morning.
I pray that we all come to the point of understanding that
because of the blood of Christ we have become prisoners of
Christ. Because we have been saved by
Him and we have become children of God.
We are prisoners of Christ. Until you get this understanding
and you come to this level, all our worship will be full of
hypocrisy. And that is the reason why maybe
as an elder I'm saying it is no good to drink.
Yet when I close, I'll go and drink.
I'll look left, I will look right and I drink.
It is no good to commit fornication as an elder.
I am. I'm a member.
Why would an elder, why would a member do that?
He has not got to the point of understanding that he is a
prisoner of Christ. He has not subjected himself to
the calling he has received. And so when you are in a church
and you are living a double life, you are living a
hypocritical life. You should know that it's
because you have not subjected yourself to the calling you have
received for the calling you have received.
All right, but you have decided. So it's a matter of decision.
You have decided not to subject yourself to the call you have
received. How well have you subjected
yourself to the call you have received?
The scripture makes sense to understand that we have the
right to do everything, but as children of God we don't deserve
to do everything. The other time I was telling
someone, where do the people dress anyhow?
And as children of God, we also at times dress anyhow.
So when you come and you bring the wetly person here and you
bring the Christian here, you can't even differentiate who is
the wetly person and who is the Christian.
But as a child of God, as an ambassador of Christ, where do
you stand? People should see, even from
your appearance, who you are. As a child of God, how do you
live your life? I remember I went to a funeral
and I met some of my classmates and then they were going to
drink. They were calling themselves no,
because I'm quite wage. I don't know.
And so forth. Why is he saying you live your
life for people to move to see the enemies are quite sorry for?
Oh yeah, massive. Oh yeah.
Oh. How?
I love you and those people one day raise their hands, you could
see that tears are coming. And so when you are sitting
here, you look at the person appear as you see that this
person, he loves God. So knowing you're correct, that
is why I'm saying that it is God the all knowing One who knows
the heart of men. We can only talk about what we
see, but the one who sees beyond the physical.
I mean, maybe let me read this and I'll bring my message to a
close. First Thessalonians chapter 4-1
to 8. As for the other matters,
brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in
order to please God, as in fact you are living now.
We ask you and aunt you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and
more, for you know what instructions we give you by the
authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God's will that you should
be sanctified. It is God's will that you should
be certified, that you should avoid sexual immorality.
Please listen carefully. I'm reading the tray.
It is cause will that you should be sanctified.
So when Bible say it is God's will, what it means is that God
is expecting that. God is expecting that.
It is God's will that you should be sanctified, that you should
avoid sexual immorality, that each of you should learn to
control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not
in passionates last like the pagans who do not know God.
And that's in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage
of a brother or a sister. The Lord will punish all those
who commit such sins as we told you and warn you before.
For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject
a human being, but God, the very God who gives you His Holy
Spirit. Amen.
So it is the expectation of God that we will live a holy life.
Hello. So if when the people are
committing fornication and friends adultery, God is
expecting that we will leave contrary.
So maybe you are here this morning you have been committing
fornication. No one sees you, maybe even you
just you are just coming from you are just coming from one.
No one has seen you. But this morning the word of God
is telling us, is admonishing us, that God is expecting that
we will do away with these things.
The expectation of God is that as people of God, as children of
God, we will live a holy and pure life.
Amen. And then he's saying that anyone
who reject these instructions, anyone who lives his life
anyhow, does not reject a human being, but God.
So yes, you have accepted him. You have been baptized by, if
you live your life anyhow, you should know that you have
rejected God. So what it means is that you can
be in the church and reject God and you be in the church, you
die. We will say you are a member and
we will bury you. Prepare for us.
We will say you are going to heaven.
But he who knows everything, may the Lord help us.
Then Galatians chapter 121. Then I went to Syria and
Sicilia. I was personally unknown to the
churches of Judea that are in Christ.
They only heard the reports. The man who formally persecuted
us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.
And they praised God because of me, praise the Lord.
So this is Saul who has now become Paul.
And the Bible is saying that as a result of what he did after he
had an encounter with the light of God, after he he repented,
after he became born again because of the life he lived,
because of the faith he kept, the Bible is saying that.
And they praise God because of him.
So what it means is that because of you, because of me, people
should be able to praise God. But when people are not able to
praise God because of you and because of me, what it means is
that we have failed God. This morning.
May the Lord be gracious unto us.
Amen. Shall we be on our feet and just
bow down your head and contemplates on the word you
have heard this morning? Living a life worthy of your
calling? Living a life worthy of your
calling. Living a life worthy of your
calling. What kind of life do you live?
Do you truly love God? Do you obey the commands of God?
What kind of choices do you make?
Are the choices of the choices you make, are they the ones that
brings you life or that brings you death?
Just contemplates and the word of God you have heard this
morning just as.
I am your present. As I can.
With. An unveiling.
Face gives he out your glory. Transform me to Christ your Son.
I can. Oh my God, please open your
eyes. Project the lyrics for us.
Can you please repeat after me? Just as I am, just as I am your
presence, I come, Your presence. I come with an unveiling face,
with an unveiling face, gazing at your glory, gazing at your
glory, transforming to Christ your Son, transforming to Christ
your Son, I come, Oh my God bless.
Me. I come, Oh my God bless.
We have to understand that the call we have received, when you
receive this call and you come, all you have to do is to gaze at
Him. The moment you take your eyes
off him, you fail. And this morning we want to, no
matter the kind of situation we find ourselves, we want to turn
our eyes back on him. We want to gaze at him.
If you gaze at him hanging on the tree, hanging on the cross,
you shall be saved. As as I heard your prayers, as I
come, we tie all. Billy, please.
Gazing at your glory, transforming to Christ your son.
I come. Oh my God, bless you.
Yeah, I come. Oh my God.
Let's dance as I am your prayer. Oh my God, most at times we
come. To the presence of God, but
many. Of us live hypocritical.
Lives with their mind that my bastard does not know, My elder
does not know, my brother does not know, my sister does not
know. Forgetting that the one who has
called us, he knows you this morning if you can.
Just raise up your two hands. We want to surrender ourselves
unto him that you'll be. Gracious unto us.
The intention of God for calling you, for calling me, is for us
to inherit eternal life, some of us for months.
For yes, we don't. Partake the Lost Supper and it
does not mean anything to us. Yet we come to church and we
call ourselves people of God, children of God.
Some of us, we live our lives anyhow.
Transforming to Christ your. Son.
I can't. Oh my God, let's talk of you can
change. My life.
I yes, says my soul on fire yard to do you as I thought.
You can't. Change my life I.
Said my soul on fire yard. To do Lord, you are the one.
I need. Cause me to Lord.
Bring. Me to my knees, you are my
knees. The God cause me to see, Hold me
in your eyes, bring me to your broom and feed me with your
Larry's eyes. That's our job.
You can't change my life and say I soul on fire to do your That's
our job. You can't change my life.
I. Lima.
Lehi mahi.
He. Touch me.
Anytime the word of God comes, it is for a.
Purpose this morning as we stand before the presence of God, I
just want you to cry unto him for a touch.
The touch of God is enough to bring transformation into our
lives. This morning we are praying for
a touch of God. The touch of God that is able to
bring transformation. The touch of God that is able to
bring renewal. Touch me, oh Lord.
Touch me. Yeah, yeah, Touch me.
Just. 1. I.
So. That I may know your way.
So so that I may know your way so that I may.
Know. Your way, soon as I do, revive
me. Oh Lord, let us be.
Reach me me so that I know your ways.
Just be silenced in the presence of God.
As you do self retrospection, how well do you love the Lord?
Are the things you confess. Contrary to their life.
And contrary to the kind of life you are living.
How well do you love the Lord? How well do you obey the
commands of the Lord? Do you live a hypocritical life?
How sincere are you to yourself? How do you value the salvation
you have received? Just contemplate on all these
things, even as you sit on the feet of the Master, the one who
is able. To wash us through his weight.
The one who is able to cleanse us through his weight.
Lord, this morning may you open our eyes so that we will see
you, so that we will know your way.
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