God puts everything he has for you and your imagination,
Albert. Einstein had a quote he said
imagination is everything. It's a preview to Life's Coming
Attractions. What actually happens is God
puts your real life in your imagination.
See this stuff. Did you been imagining as not
Hocus? Pocus God is showing you a
preview of a Coming Attraction he has for you and so all these
things you Been imagining. It's been God, planting seeds in
your head or what he has you. That's why?
When you're driving down the street and you see the car in
the window, you imagine yourself driving that one instead of the
one you got because that's the car God give back.
I prayed to God before I get on stage for me to have a packed
show and for me to have a lick proud and God gave me that and
then there's that. Okay, I gave you that but to not
happy. So a lot of people don't want to
turn to God. They're too scared.
They don't think he exists. But I'm You hundred shots out of
100 every time I gave it to, to my Lord, and I worked for it.
Never once has Jesus, just show up at your house, they give you
your blessing, never. So what I'm saying is if you're
out there and you believe in God or you believe in any type of
higher power, I tend to go towards crisis, that's my go-to.
And my thing is bro, don't give up work as hard as you can and
throw it at his feet and see what can happen.
Georgia. I love this.
I love all of that. Like, like being your friend for
the past six years. I've witnessed what you just
described you. Constantly come out on top.
You're reaching the next level day.
After day. After day, my question to you,
is this for the religious people who haven't had that type of
path, and it's not always been successful excess,
win-win-win-win-win, because a lot of people are really
religious, a lot of people do turn to Christ and they haven't
had their breakthrough yet everyone needs to pay attention
to this right now. Some of you will not be here in
three years time. Some of you will walk away from
the Christian faith. Because you've been deceived by
these three lies lie. Number one, God is my butler.
The Bible says, in the last days, people will become lovers
of Self in the last days. People will become on the
thankful Millions have become disillusioned with Christianity
because somewhere down the line. They heard a televangelist, tell
them. If you come to Christ, you will
know what it is. To have a material Abundant
Life, if you put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ. You will know an overflow of
God's favor, you won't no problems anymore.
Things will get back to your breakthrough is coming.
Just be patient. And God will blow your mind with
what he can do with your life and you and I already know
people who are vulnerable to these kinds of Lies.
We Know people who every single day, they look themselves in the
mirror and they say, I did not think this is how my life would
have turned out. I did not imagine when I was 15,
16 years old and I had a pocket full of Dreams that I've now
find myself in this difficult situation.
So when the prosperity comes with all this deceits, they
quickly swallow that pill and then say, oh well, if Jesus will
give me more money, if Jesus will give me a promotion, if
it's God, who's put this in my imagination that I should drive
this sports car, I'll take your Christianity, I'll take your
butler Jesus. But when things don't turn out
as the prosperity preacher promised quickly, they Abandoned
Ship disillusioned her. Hurts because they did not
really want the authentic. God of the Bible.
They just wanted this false image of God that does not
really exist. Now I can hear what some of you
are thinking, you're saying to me Joe, I could never believe in
a butler, kind of Jesus. I know that the Bible says that
I need to deny myself and take up my cross.
Well, can I just say this, are you sure about that?
Are you really sure that you have no hint of this in your own
life? Am I the only one that went?
Things go wrong in my life, I can sometimes get angry at God
and become bitter in my heart. Why is it that I'm the only one
who worked hard at the company and yet, I'm the one who got
laid off. Why is it that for all these
years? I have a beige.
You, I've served you and now I've ended up in a wheelchair
with a terrible health condition.
Why is it God that there are all these Godless parents around,
who have multiple children and then we who seek to bring up our
children in the Lord had A miscarriage.
Who are you? God, are you really there?
Do you really love us? Or are you there?
And you just feel so cold to your own children?
He see we all get mad at God. When things go wrong.
Don't we? We all get angry at God, when
the pan boils over and life gets difficult because in some way,
we've also been contaminated with this wrong view of God that
actually were not called to suffer and that we're immune
from pain. If we living in the Lord's
hands. And that leads me on to line
number 2 that Christians never suffer or at least when we do
suffer we get quite surprised. We get quite shocked and what
very quick to shake our fist at God and say why God?
The Bible says, we must through many tribulations enter the
kingdom of God. You know, there's one thing, I'm
more sure of than the sun will rise tomorrow and it's this.
If you are born again, you will go through many tribulations.
Or you reach the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven.
You will suffer and it doesn't make God look glorious.
When we drive a sports car or we have a Ferrari to know what
makes God look glorious. When we live a life like this
man, Richard worm brand. I'm going to tell you about
right now. In 1948, a Romanian, Pastor, a
man called Richard, worm brand was abducted, kidnapped and he
was put in solitary confinement for three years.
All he had to do to escape this punishment which he didn't
deserve is all he had to do was to renounce, the Lord Jesus
Christ and say I no longer believe, but he refused to he
then spent another 11 years in prison and every time he was
caught on his knees praying, the guards would come in and beaten
he was beaten so badly on his feet that he could never walk
normally. Again, what he eventually was
released from prison but he never stopped praying.
He knew what it was to To love his enemies and to pray for
those who persecute you. And because he persisted in
praying for those guards, some of them were even one for the
Lord Jesus Christ. And when we look at the life of
Richard worm brand, when we read the story of the Apostle, Paul
who was also beaten who also suffered hunger who is
imprisoned, he was Shipwrecked who suffered a terrible life,
spending his whole time on the road around Europe.
When he could have had a comfortable life in Jerusalem
when we read that live, we can't then say, Jesus promises, you
success, abundance and comfort Annie's.
No. Rather.
We should be preaching. The message that when we suffer,
we should count it all joy because although these pains
hurts, they're only temporary. But we have an eternal Christ
who has pleasures and joys in him for all of eternity that are
waiters, okay, lie, number three, abundance, equals
happiness. Jesus said, take heed and beware
of covetousness for one's. Life does not consist in the
abundance of the things he possesses.
Now, I don't want anyone to misunderstand me here.
There is nothing wrong with being rich.
We need more wealthy Christians, to be able to pour into
Ministries, to support the work of the gospel, and to feed the
poor, there's nothing wrong with having dreams and aspirations
and goals for the future, because God has given us life to
enjoy, but it does become sinful when we turn those things into
idols. And when we succumb, It's a
moving Target syndrome. What is moving?
Target syndrome? What's where you say?
I just need a little bit more and then I'll be happy.
I just need a thousand followers on Twitter and then I'll be
happy. You get a thousand followers.
Oh now, I need 10,000. Now I need 100,000 a million
followers so if I get a wife then my life will be complete.
You guess a wife? No, I just need a bigger income,
a bigger house, a better car and constantly were breaking the
tenth commandment. It's were coveting and were
being greedy and being on thankful for what, the Lord God
has already given us. In our lives.
A poor farmer quickly understood the pain and misery.
That comes with being competitive and greedy, a sort
of Genie like person told him whatever you want, you can have
under one condition, the farmer next door will get double.
So this farmer agreed to it and said, Okay, I want a thousand
acres of land, that's fine. But I'm going to give Farmer.
Next door. 2,000 acres of land. The next day he said, do you
know what I want? 500 cows, so there we got 500
cows. How many did his neighbor gets?
A Thousand Candles. Okay, I want to BMW said the
farmer. You got a BMW but the neighbor
got a Lamborghini until eventually this farmer got.
So caught up with envy and jealousy and competitiveness
that he said, do you know what I want you to remove just one of
my eyes that will I'll teach my next door neighbor and I truly
do believe that if we stopped comparing ourselves, if we stop
stalking other people and looking at what God has done in
their life would be so much happier and we notice the
individual blessings, these given just to ORS, you see the
most content person in the room, it's not the person who has the
most. This is the person who's
happiest with the least, but I know what you're doing right
now. Some of you are smiling from ear
to ear because Thinking Joe they can keep their Lamborghinis.
They can keep their Mansions, they can keep their money, they
can keep their Fame, their clout, Just Give Me Jesus
Christ. He's all I need if I have Christ
and the most blessed person in the world.
Can you say that? I mean, can you really say what
Jeremiah says here? The Lord is my portion says my
soul. Therefore, I hope in him.
Or are you constantly getting food?
Envy? You're looking at what other
people have on their plates and you're jealous of what they're
eating, what the menu of life has served them, or do you look
down at your plate and notice you only have one thing, it's
the bread of life, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you cry out that is enough for me, the bread of life,
satisfies, my soul and Christ is all I need.
I don't know if anyone here likes the singer Johnny Cash.
Does anybody know what the last song that Johnny Cash?
Song was called, it was called hurt.
And in that song, Johnny writes these words and you can have it
all my Empire of dirt. If I could start again, A
Million Miles Away, I would keep myself.
So what is Johnny saying here? He's saying, after the decades,
I had of Fame after all the records, I sold, after all those
beautiful women. I dated, when I look at it, all
amounted together is, all I see is a big Big pile of dirt,
that's all I've lived for his dirt and I believe what John
he's really saying. If you know, Johnny story, you
know that he was a born again, believer that he change.
That they came to the Lord. Jesus Christ, repented and put
his trust in him. I think John is saying here, if
I could have my 70 years on Earth.
Again, I would not live for abundance or not live for this
worthless. Dirt had live for the Lord.
Jesus Christ. The one who will never let you
down. My dear friends.
Some of you are far too serious about this life and yet, you're
so flippant about the most precious thing.
You own your Eternal Soul friends.
I am telling you about a man who can take the most precious
thing. You own your Eternal Soul.
And if you put it in his hands, he'll be eternally safe.
And that is an investment that you will never ever regret
friends turn from this greed, turn from your Idols that you
hold in your heart turn. From this covetousness, this
desire for more and more and more and turn to the Lord Jesus
Christ. Who does not offer you rubies
and gold. But he offers you forgiveness of
sins turn to this one who on the cross.
He bled and died so that you might be forgiven.
And so that he might gift you another most precious gift.
The righteousness of God can be accredited into your account, so
God doesn't see you and your sins and your failings.
He sees the righteousness, the Perfection of Lord, Jesus
Christ. Come to the one who conquered
the grave and says any who trust in me?
I'll beat their grave. I'll give them eternal life
because I can assure. You of one thing.
I don't know where you can invest your money.
I don't know what the best currency to put your money into,
but I know one thing. If you invest your life in the
Lord, Jesus Christ, you will never regret it because that is
the best decision you could ever make.
Will you do it? Will you do it?
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