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Now enjoyed this message. What if you have your Bibles
today turn over to Revelation chapter 22 Revelations chapter.
22. I was thinking back Wednesday
night when I wasn't in service and I was you know, having some
massive withdrawals Anybody have withdrawals like me on Wednesday
night, you're like, man, I'm not in church.
I'm like struggling right now. Now, you know that may sound
silly but you know, I love to come together.
I love it. I love and I understand that God
didn't leave me, I didn't go to hell because of it, right?
But at the end of the day, I love assembly, I love the
command. The Lord said do not forsake the
assembling of yourselves together and I love it and so,
but I I said, you know, probably an 18 years, we've probably only
not done to services at the end of the day only to so that's
pretty good track record across the board.
I mean, if every 18 years you only miss to, you know, your
your your together then man, we're doing something right now
is God in the assembly? Yes.
He is.
For anyone to think he's not, is a liar.
He is in the assembly because he is the head of the church.
Church, which are many members fitted and jointed together in
the same location. Hallelujah.
So he's definitely in the assembly and the anointing is
greater in the assembly, than in your own personal life.
Because he says, one can send a thousand to will send 10,000.
So, there's Anna multiplying effect of anointing in numbers,
so don't ever let the devil to deceive.
A view that you by yourselves. Good enough.
You by yourself is a sheep waiting to get eaten by a wolf
as what you really are, and you think that you've got it
together, but you need to come together because that's where
safety is. Let me just say it this way.
The father in this Parable, he will leave the 99.
The shepherd will leave the 99 and go van.
Think about this now, because we never preach this.
What does the shepherd see in the 99 that he's willing to
leavel? We always talk and focus on the
one. I'll look how I came and ran the
one down. Well, first of all, the one was
lost. I mean, it's not like the one
should be celebrated. Although we celebrate them once,
he brings them, that's where the celebration happens.
The celebration doesn't happen while they're lost the
celebration happens. When he gets them back to the,
the 99 and the 99 was able to be strong enough to say, go ahead
and find them. We only want to preach about the
one and not see the strengths in the 99 that the shepherd will
leave. The 99, is there only one wolf?
Are you want to hear this? I'm not going to preach it,
though. I'll just stay off at now.
I might start preaching it revelation. 22 verse 12.
Jesus says this behold, I am coming quickly.
Now his clinic in your quickly or two different quick leaves,
but he is quickly coming. He said, behold, I am coming
quickly and my what, my, what my, what?
Come on, say it loud. My.
What you get, louder, I'll preach shorter.
My reward is with me to render to every man according to what
he has done. This is a New Testament
scripture that is in the Book of Revelation.
The last chapter And he's coming to give an award reward to those
that are doing something I said doing something, okay?
So just being in the house isn't enough, we've got to be doing,
how's business? All right, and he says I'm
coming quickly. My reward is with me.
So does Jesus have a reward to bring?
Are you expecting your reward? Most people are Only expecting
to just be in heaven when they die.
They're not ready for a reward, nor they were expecting one.
In fact, they would almost be considered arrogant or prideful
to think. God would have a reward for
them. They should just be thankful
that they're not going to hell. Yet Jesus says I'm coming
quickly and I have a reward with me to give to what how many men
every man to render to every man.
So as Believers we should have this for understanding, there's
a reward to gain and it's not just Heaven, it's not just
heaven. He has a reward so if he's
bringing a reward, how does he know who gets what?
Because he's going to render it to every man, how according,
which means, it's not the same reward, so it can't be heaven.
It can't be Heaven because is render to every man, according
to what he has done and what have you done to earn Heaven.
You not done anything to earn Heaven because by All rights,
when you call on the name of Jesus and became a new child of
God, a new creature in Christ. If you would have dropped dead,
right? Then you're going to be present
with the Lord and you've done nothing to earn heaven.
So there's something else in this life that we're doing that
God. Must be recording.
In order to render a reward, you receive rewards because of
something accomplished. Well, how many are doing the
Bible reading plan? And aren't you excited?
Because we're in the chronological, you get to go to
the New Testament, finally, right?
You get to get to the New Covenant, your life.
Praise God. Luke we're in Luke.
What that means? You just read malecha, which
means you just read this in Malachi chapter 3.
Look at this. How many you this kind of popped
in? And I'm going to have Amplified
classic cause that's the translation I'm reading this.
Says, then those who fear the lord talked often to one another
and the Lord, listened and heard it.
And a book of now notice this is not the book of life.
There's another book. I said there's another book.
And a book of remembrance was written before him of those who
reverenced and worship worshipfully fear the lord, and
who thought on his name and it shall be.
Mine says the Lord are scuse me and they shall be mine, says the
Lord of hosts in that day when I publicly recognized and openly
declare them to be my Jewels, my special possession, my peculiar
Treasure. I will spare them as a man,
spares his own son, who, what serves him?
So there comes a day that this book of remembrance, is going to
get opened. Now, Joe Psalms verse 56.
Verse 8 says, this is says, you have taken account of my misery
put my tears in your bottle, are they not in your book?
Now crime doesn't get you to heaven.
Even so crying and misery, does it put you in the Book of Life?
The Lamb's Book of Life is not obtained or you're not written
there because you cried out to God to, you know, remember all
the troubles you've had down here.
So this is obviously a different book yet when you go through
various trials and tribulations, and you are fearful of the Lord
and your call. On his name and any suffering
you're doing for his sake, they're going to be recorded in
a book of remembrance. There's nothing going on in your
life. God is Not documenting.
Now I said this a couple Services ago I don't remember
which one whether it was a Wednesday or Sunday, but it's
going to bear repeating at this point because not everybody was
in there. I often has a, you know, a
person who oversees individuals that there's this term
especially in the business world that is considered very negative
and very negative. And if you are in a position of
oversight and you seem to be doing Are are overseeing the
people in this capacity, you're considered - like, you don't
have good leadership and that is a micro manager.
Right people don't micromanage me like if you if you're an
overseer that's micromanaging then by all rights.
The the context is you don't trust them.
You're not giving them their ability to lead and to flourish
and allow their own gift to come out.
Well, the problem is God is a micromanager And I'm going to
show you that here in a second because even job new of a book
job said in the 19th, Chapter, verse 23 and 25, he says, oh,
that my words were written all that, they were recorded in a
book that with an iron stylist, and, and led, they were engraved
in the rock forever yet, as for me, I know that my redeemer
lives, man. Even before Jesus came.
They knew the Gamers coming. He said at last, he will take
his stand on the earth. He knew man.
If if how I am following and honoring, if they could just
write it down, I mean this is Joe who's being accused of his
best friends that he's got to have this gross sin in his life
for all this bad stuff to be happening to him and they're
just Railing at him constant. He's like man if only somebody
could have Accorded, how I was living my life.
Not like these guys say, But at the end of the day, I know my
redeemer lives and that in essence, he's going to give an
account. Of my life before others look
what it says in Matthew chapter 12 Jesus says this himself.
He says but I tell you that for every careless word that people
speak, they will give an account of it when On the day of
judgment. Now, some would say, wait a
minute. Now we're not destined for
judgment. Well, you are destined for the
Judgment seat of Christ. You are destined for that.
It's a reward ceremony. I said it's a reward ceremony
and it's not you go to heaven ceremony?
No, it's a book opening ceremony.
It's a record of your life. Verse 37, for by you.
Words, you will be what Justified and by your words you
will be and we're talking about Believers.
Now ultimately, we know this is the case with the great white
Throne judgment and the very last days, right?
That there's going to be judgment sent out to those
who've never called on the name of the Lord.
But Jesus himself, says, listen books are coming.
Books are coming and you're going to give an account for
every word, which tells us Jesus.
Is Matt micromanaging. Everything about your life right
now. How do we know this?
Look at Hebrews chapter 4. Now, this should get you
excited. It shouldn't get you in pain or
worried or upset. I mean unless you doing stuff in
secret that you think since secret, which is just a lie,
because look what it says here in Hebrews 4:12, he stopped in
verse 12. But there's a verse 13 says, for
the word of God, is what living and active sharper than any
two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of Soul and
Spirit of both joints and Marrow.
That's the threefold nature of man and able to judge the
thoughts and intentions of the heart verse 13.
And there is no creature hidden from his sight.
But all things, how many things come on?
How many things? All things are open and laid
bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do meaning
there's nothing going on in the planet that he's not seeing from
a faith perspective. I'm like thank God that
everything I'm doing for the Lord as not unnoticed.
It's not like I'll Stand before God one day and say he'll save
you know I Forgot you did that. See we understand God, forgets
our sin. He throws it into the sea of
forgetfulness. He removes our sin as far as the
East is from the west, but he is recording everything.
We're doing in faith, according to his word.
He's recording it all. And I'm so excited because
anything I'm doing when nobody else is watching.
When no one gives me a thank you.
Well, no, one even knows that I was intercede and stand and
believe in going through the trial and tribulation because I
came out not with a gloomy face but with a face of Joy, when I
was going through the worst trial of my life but everybody
thought I was having the greatest time of my life, he saw
it all. I said he saw it all and wants
so awesome. Is that his word is able to
judge my And so when we make this statement but God knows my
heart, you bet he does and he never gets it wrong.
Now you can lie to somebody about your intentions, but
you'll never ever lie to whom you going to have to deal with
about your intentions. Ever because he knows the
intentions of your heart. God is a recorder because he's
coming quickly and he has a reward for you.
Aren't you glad I'm telling you right now?
If I realized at this very moment that everything I was
doing was being recorded by God and if I could look at my life
in Christ, I say man I don't know that I'm really living for
real. I don't know that he's recording
things. Good.
I mean, maybe I'm not living as I should.
Well, you know what? I could repent.
Ask God to forgive me. Get that written off my books so
that I could get something different on the books because I
don't want God on that day. When he stands before me, and
the fire comes, the Bible says, will be tested with fire.
And when the fire comes, he said, if we've got any works,
that are wood, hay, and stubble, they'll be burned up, which
means I did it so that you could like me.
And man, are we not living in a generation of wanting to get
likes? So for every one, it says all I
appreciate you. You're so awesome.
I'm so thankful for you. There's nothing wrong with
saying that and I'm not saying you shouldn't give people that,
but if the intent of why I do it is so that I can hear that.
Then the Lord is say you've got your reward on Earth.
That's all you were trying to do get there like and did you get
it? Did they tell you?
They liked you did they tell you?
They appreciated you. Did they tell you how awesome
you were? You got it but it didn't
transfer. I said it didn't see.
We preach messages. You're not going to see.
U-Haul going to the funeral. Well, you won't see a physical
U-Haul, but there is a spiritual U-Haul.
I said there is a spiritual U-Haul of what you're doing in
Christ today by faith, according to his word and the intentions
of your heart to glorify him. It will make it to your grave
and out of your grave and out of judgment.
You have cry where he'll pull out a book and say, look what
came over from the natural. Not only did they see your
effort and acknowledge your effort but it made it over into
eternity and it's now been tried as gold and silver and it is
still here in remains and I've got my reward and I'm giving you
a reward as a result of what you did.
Not only did you get it in the natural.
Now some of us we receive the reward from the which is just
receiving something from someone, some rewards can be -
they can be persecuting us but all the while God Like I got
silver and gold laid up for you. I have a Crown of Glory, a crown
of righteousness for you because you withstood, they may not have
acknowledged, but there are times, they will acknowledge.
They will give Thanksgiving. They will tell you how much they
appreciate. All that you did in obedience to
God, although they didn't realize that's your heart motive
and that you're not asking them to thank you.
Although that effort as far as the world's concerned, some
would be considered worthy of thanks but you've done it for a
higher purpose and man he sees it.
Now let me tell you, there are things in the Bible that we read
and we think they're only a moment of time, but this is why
I encourage us to read the Bible cover-to-cover Genesis 1:1 to
Revelations, 22, 21, 20 to 21. The reason that is is because it
gives context and God actually gives us a context.
Of the book of remembrance. In a particular natural Kingdom
that was on the earth and you read about it in the Book of
Esther. Remember in the Book of Esther
start in chapter 2 verse 23. It says this, then when the plot
was investigated Mordecai, found out a couple guys wanted to kill
the king who was Esther's husband, and when he found out
about this, he reported it says. And when the plot was
investigated and found it to be so that they were both hang on a
wooden gallo. And it was what written in the
book of Chronicles in the Kings present.
So, the King was there And rode it out.
It was in the page. Well, Mordecai was the guy who
discovered it and reported it and saved the King's life from
an attempted assassination. But the king didn't actually do
anything about it at the time. All of a sudden Mordecai has an
enemy show up that hates him cause he won't bow down at him.
And so he's decided that he's gonna kill this guy now.
What he doesn't know is not only is when he killed a guy and kill
all of his, you know, nation of people the Jewish people, he is
hit, the queen has found out about it.
She's in prayer and fasting. She goes to the king when not
called puts her own life on the line, for the nation, for an
ancient. And because he extends a scepter
and says come on, she throws a party for the Enemy.
So, that the enemy of Mordecai. Her uncle could come with her
husband, the king. Now, when he leaves that he's
like, I'm the only one that she embodied.
He's thinking, I got it, but he's so depressed.
When he leaves that first party for and the invited to come the
next day. Remember, is that because
Mordecai won't bow down? So they're like your built.
This Gallo in your backyard. Go ahead and tomorrow request of
the king too. To kill Mordecai on the galleys.
Like that's a great idea. I'm going to do it.
Then I'll go to the party right? Because I'm the greatest guy
ever. Well what does the Lord do?
The Lord causes the king to not to be able to sleep.
And we see in the sixth chapter of Esther verse 1.
It says during that night, the king could not sleep.
So he gave an order to bring the book of records the Chronicles
and they read it before the king.
And when they were reading it, when the king couldn't sleep, it
came across a section in the book of remembrance.
It says, there's a guy by the name Immortal cob and man, he
found out that there was an assassination on you.
We investigated it. It was so and we hung those guys
and the King says, what did we do for Mordecai?
What was his reward? And they're like King, you
didn't do anything. He says, well this can't be, we
must reward. He says, who's in the court.
Oh Heyman has showed up. Now, Heyman has showed up to
talk to the king and say I want you to give me more to kind
killing, but the King was so Sly.
And Haman was so prideful that it just met together and sew and
haman's pride and in the Kings real concern to reward.
Someone he says, what shall be done to the man who has honored
the king and what it Heyman think?
Is Honore more than me, which we know that's a lie.
Because he's not honored the king at all.
In fact, his asking of what would be done, reveals the heart
of Haman because he's like, get a robe.
That was on the king, get a donkey that the King has wrote
in essence, he saying, let that person out like, they're you,
that's haman's heart. I wish I was King.
I'll in fact, if Heyman would have kept a sending in power,
Make no mistake about it. The Book of Esther would have
read this and Heyman, says, assassinated the king and took
the throne. But the king said, this is a
great idea. Mordecai is the guy I want to
do. You're going to parade him
through the street and say these things.
And what does that tell us? It tells us it's New Testament
that the weapon formed against the church won't Prosper.
That God will take what the devil meant for bad and turn it
for good. Are you hearing me?
Because God will remember all that you have done my mama.
See Daniel says it this way, he said a river of fire was flowing
and coming out from before him. Daniel Seven, Ten thousands upon
thousands worse, Having him and a myriad upon married were
standing before him and the court convened and the books
were opened. Look what it says in
Revelations, 20. Now we know this way the end it
says this and I saw the dead and that's a great white Throne
judgment the Great and the small standing Before the Throne and
the books were opened. So there are some books guys not
only is there a book of remembrance but there's also the
next one which says and another book was opened which is The
Book of Life. So we have to name Ames.
We have the book of life, we have a book of remembrance but
then there's other books. Now, those books are the records
of every wrong done to the kingdom.
That if the blood of Jesus, If that name has not been
transferred into the book of life, then all of those books
are legal binding charges of which a righteous judge will
sentence. Those created beings humans into
Eternal damnation forever and it be rightly judged. and it says
in the dead were judged from the things which were written in the
books according Today, their deeds, we live in a time where
God wants to reward us and he's coming to give us a reward
because there's a book of remembrance everything you're
doing right now. God's writing it down,
everything you're doing, God knows whether you're in his will
or not. Let's look at this.
God wants to reward you according to your Works in
Christ. Meaning your faith in doing
God's will for your life now that you're a child of God.
Romans Chapter 2 Verse 6 says, who will render to each person?
Notice, you're not going to get skipped.
Nobody in this room. Nobody on planet.
Earth is getting skipped. Each person is going to be
rendered a reward according to his deeds, every one of us, look
what it says in Proverbs 2412 again a little insight on how
God is able to reward you through his book of remembrance.
If you say see, we do not know this, does he not consider Do
it, who weighs the heart. One translation says this says,
look, we didn't know about dressing and Essence.
We're trying to play ignorant like I didn't know, well sambo,
I mean II didn't know, I had to do that, look what he goes on.
And says, does he not consider who weighs the heart?
He knows whether you just can't go to God and play ignorant.
And does he not know and does he not know it who keeps your soul?
And he will not rent and will he not render to each man?
According to his work meaning that day we stand he'll know you
inside and out he will have documentation.
Of it all. Now, this is good for the
righteous when our hearts are pure and our minds are pure and
we just want to seek God with all the heart.
I'm like, wow there's a reward. I mean I will not be cheated out
of my reward. There will not be an injustice,
that will not come to Justice. My gosh, my king is so great,
but it also tells me don't think you're going to dupe the king.
Oh, don't think that he This stuff down here, don't really
matter. All that matters is that you
asked Jesus to come into your heart, so that when you die, you
go to heaven, that's all that matters.
No, that ain't all that matters. No, in essence, what you do is
you deprive your king, the pleasure.
Why would we as kids? And we have we been around our
own children and you want to reward them and they deprive you
the pleasure. When they disobey you're like,
well I can't reward your disobedience.
I'm the one that's not keeping you from this event, or from
having this or doing that. Look what you did, you've
deprived me the pleasure. And let me tell you you training
your kids wrong, if you reward them for their disobedience.
Because the Lord is not going to do that.
The Lord is rewarding us for our obedience to his word and
keeping it by faith. So he's going to judge us.
Look what it says here in Jeremiah 1710.
This is the Amplified classic. It says this, the Lord search.
He said I the Lord search the mind.
I try the heart even to give to every man, according to his ways
according to the fruit of his doing.
I mean this is what I love about my king so much.
That's what I love about my savior.
Jesus is that This the king, the righteous one and the spirit of
God, that's within me and moves around, on the planet is going
into my innermost being my heart, my thinking, my soul
round and is judging every part of my motive, why I do what I do
when I do what I do for what purpose that I do it.
And when they say, man, they're doing it for me.
They're writing it down and they're like not only will they
reap a benefit now because our faith can pull things in today
and we can walk in the blessings of God now, but it also will
then carry over Into eternity to wear.
When the king comes and begins to hand out rewards.
He says because you did it this way while you were here
naturally. Separated from me, where we
didn't look at each other face-to-face.
But by my spirit, you did my bidding, you obeyed my word,
here's your reward. Make no mistake about it.
God is not a respecter of person.
What that means is is God, doesn't respect.
One of us more than the other but he will reward us
differently. Everyone of us has the ability
to believe God to live righteous to live, holy to live Sanctified
to live with a pure motive to live selflessly to live in the
love of God to believe God, nobody can hinder that But if
you're not doing that, make no mistake, the rewards will not be
the same. On that day, when he publicly
announces us and declares that we are his special ones.
What we've done here, are either going to burn up and be gone
because that's all we got. Or we're going to have something
that carries over into eternity, where the crown of
righteousness, Crown of Glory, things are fashion for us,
because we are the King of Kings.
We are a king of the king. We will cast our crowns before
the Lord. But just because you cast your
crowned up me, he collects it, you never get to wear it.
We acknowledge that. Yes, you're the great king.
I mean at the end of the day, you're the ruler of everything
but he's also says that's right. And I calls you to rule and for
you to Reign and I'm the king of kings.
So when you cast a crown before the Lord, it's not because
you're releasing your kingship. Are you hearing me?
The last scripture today is Psalm 62 12.
I hope I'm encouraging to today that man, we have a God that
doesn't forget a God. That remembers what I'm saying
is, is you should never take the thought, you know, living for
God. What's the big deal?
It's a big deal. You know, how many people right
now, naturally, or putting money away and 401, K's in some type
of retirement? They're doing why?
Cuz when they finally quit working, they can retire.
And receive a reward, they put it into stocks, they do
Investments for what a reward so that they have more than what
they currently have. So they have a sustainable, not
just sustainable but a better life In fact, we act like people
are foolish if they're not thinking about their retirement
yet. Many Believers have no context
of the book of remembrance They all think through wishful
thinking and fantasy that all of a sudden we're going to be out
of our bodies be up in heaven. We're all going to have the
exact same house like God is going to have cooker Cuddy, cut
her homes. Like some of these neighborhoods
we going to, you know, I'm saying, one style.
They just kind of move the windows around.
Right. There's only about three models
and because God is not a respecter of person, he's gonna
have one model where I and we're all going to be satisfied with
this. He's too creative to have the
same thing. It's just not going to happen.
No. He's going to reward us
according to our faithfulness. Because we love him so much and
because we, he's like you listen.
The king is like you can't out, give me, you cannot do it.
I mean, the more you continue to lay down your life to do, my
will for your life, in this natural now, man.
It has great dividends. In the life to come and guys we
still have to go through a millennial reign of Christ here.
How does God determine who judges the cities?
What is preordained? It can be preordained by the
fact of, he knows who's going to do the work necessary to get the
assignment. Not because whether you did it
work, or not, it doesn't matter. You're going.
See people take predestination as if I don't have time, I
didn't do nothing. I mean, I laid around.
I was lazy. I just, you know, set around.
I asked you to come to my heart when I was just a little kid,
but I never lived for my live for the world, you know?
But I lied, I went to heaven and he gave me 15 cities, you cannot
find that scripture that It's not true.
Grace. Empowered us to live a life of
Faith. So strong.
In fact, when faith is in operation, it activates the
grace in our life so that we can do the assignment God has for
us. And then God rewards us.
I mean, listen, I agree. If heaven was all, we got,
that'd be pretty awesome but it's not.
I mean, it's like God is let me try to get me to get you to
understand like one of those commercials but there's more As
if this dealing good enough but there's more and if you actually
read the Bible you realize but there's more.
Because how do you out give a giving God?
I mean we're at like God sitting upon his throne and kind of has
this attitude you just ought to be glad I gave you my blood.
Because that's how we all treat our own kids we'll just be
thankful. We got a roof over your head.
just be thankful because you have a roof over your head, you
should be thankful because you have a roof, but there's more
Because there's food on the table, but there's more, there's
clothes for you but there's more if you fall I'll pick you up but
there's more I'll have trained you but there's more I'm gonna
help invest in your next life and where you're going and what
you're doing, I mean there's more.
I mean seriously, it's not just because they have a roof over
their head. And do you think you can outgive
God? And all of a sudden, now, it's
prideful for your kids to expect that you would help them.
I mean, most of you is parents be like, son, why didn't you
call me when you fail or whatever?
Why don't you ask? Well, you just gave us a roof
over our head. That's good enough.
You be like you better shut up and get up in this house.
And let me teach y'all something because I mean, it's more than
just a house people. That's how you act in your
natural. How much more our heavenly
father Psalm 62, 12 says, also To You.
O, Lord, belonging mercy and loving-kindness for you render
to every man according to his work.
I'm so glad that he's merciful that he has loving kindness,
that he is taking time, he has in his Heaven realm, those, not
himself, but those who are ever right?
Trevor and he's got your name. Trevor stand up to everybody
knows who I'm talking about the way.
I'm not talking behind his back. I'm talking to his face Trevor.
This is how he treated his wife and why he did that.
This is how he treated his coworker and why he did that.
This is how he gave in the offering.
This is how he's recording at all.
Everything every bit of it, Trevor.
Was so full of the flesh this day.
But he didn't yield instead, he crucified it.
There's a reward for that. Not an action.
Nothing. Do I believe that he said,
Trevor was full of the Flesh and acted on it today, but then all
of a sudden when we got up there you can't find that one.
Why? Because Trevor repented the next
day or five hours later and the blood came in and wrote that one
out. Come on.
Are you hearing me? But there are those, you know
again he did it for his own, Merit did it for his own.
Merit did it for his own Merit. When the fire comes, it burns
up. I'm just using one, I could pick
out anybody's name right here. Your name.
You have a book. Every person.
Ever Birth has a book. It's an autobiography.
And you're not writing it angels are riding on your behalf in
heaven. God before you ever came into
your mother's womb, the psalmist says before.
It one day of my life, was you already wrote out all the days
of my life. He has a printed copy of what
your life should be. But the angels are recording
your life. As it is, And God is going to
match those books up. Then he'll pull out the book of
remembrance that in, it's going to even have tears in a bottle
of your troubles and trials. And when you cried out to God
and stayed in faith and believed him to vindicate you and you
didn't defend yourself. You said.
Vengeance is mine. Thus saith the Lord.
I will repay. I'm not going to defend myself.
That doesn't mean they're in times.
You have to say things. Paul said, well if we don't
boast In the Flesh, I'm gonna go ahead and go there.
I mean, if that's what you're looking for, if you want a job
description of how much I've laid out, I've laid out way more
than half the people you trying to call apostles I mean if you
want to go there, I'll give you my resume.
I've been in Trials, more often. I've been Shipwrecked left for
dead. I've done more than all these
people that you putting on a pedestal and honoring because
only reason, they're not correcting you and I am.
I mean that really just summarizes his whole
description. I only have to do this because I
actually love you and correct you they come and tell you stuff
that make you feel good in order to get a following.
So, if we want to compare lives, what if they actually done?
But most of the time it is. I'm not talking about it.
God will vindicate me? He'll do it.
I'll leave room for the Lord to show.
Mike it. Why?
Because he's recording it anyway.
And don't think anyone who's back biting you who's running
off at behind your back, talking about you and saying things
about you and you find out that someone so is saying so on.
So that all of a sudden, you don't need it.
God's got it written down. And they'll come a time that if
the blood is not there, it is show up because he's righteous
and he's just and he'll know. Well So April found out that
these girls in the youth ministry are talking about her
all the time and instead of correcting them she just let it
go and began to pray and intercede for them.
I remember that you're going to get a reward.
What a great God we have. And guess what?
This reward that he's bringing moss.
Cannot eat, Russ cannot destroy. Thieves cannot steal.
No, it can't be at loss. It is guaranteed.
Is it worth living for God? Sacrificing for God, putting
down your flesh for God? Walking In Love for God, is it
worth walking in love with a brother?
Is it worth doing? Are you bet it is?
Cuz the king is coming. He's coming quickly and he has a
reward for you. because when he opens up the book of life, he
says Simon You're in. Now let's find out what you've
done and pull out the book of remembrance.
Let's bring your reward. Oh what a day that would be now,
you know how we all going to be? He's going to give us all those
rewards are going to be like Lord.
You can keep them but Lord's like I can but I'm giving them
to you. I'm giving them to you.
How do we know this is true? Again?
Documented history, the Queen of Sheba came with more gifts than
King Solomon ever had in his life blew him.
Oh, I mean, just more stuff than he had ever received from anyone
else, but she's blown away at his kingdom realm.
And he gave her more than she brought him when she left
because you cannot out give the king.
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