And I want to look at the wise men today, I want us to read
this account. I got a few things I want to say
about them, that I think she just important for us moving
forward Because unless the Lord just comes back today.
If the trumpet blows and I'm fine with that, you know, my
Redemption, draweth Nigh. I'm expecting God to come back.
I'm expecting a trumpet to sound.
I'm walking in the righteousness of God in Christ.
And when the trumpet sounds, I'm going to hear it and be caught
up together with him. Amen.
Come on. How many you going with me?
You better work on your Superman pose because I am I'm gone.
Amen, I'm alive my. This body is going to take on
immortality. I'm going to be changed in a
moment in the twinkling of an eye and I'll let some people
know. Hey, Jesus is real before we get
up out of here. All right, so God is really
awesome. And I'm excited about that
experience, but until that takes place, there is a way to live
right now on planet Earth and I'm really excited about 2019.
I'm excited about what God's doing in the earth and I believe
it's the best year yet for anchor.
If a church but more when I say that I'm not talking about us,
I'm not talking about the building.
I'm not talking about the name anchor for.
I'm talking about your individual lives because you are
the sum total of what the vision of anchor.
Faith Church is. And God is talking to you and
calling you and pulling you out. Maybe you're here as a guest
today because you got some family you know that you came in
to spend some time with Christmas.
Hey God may just tell you to move relocate and stay with us.
Now you might laugh at that but if I have Pastor bra, Stand up
passion. Brandon would you stand up?
Patrick, Brandy Hicks originally from Kentucky, how many of you
love the great state of Kentucky, right with this guy's
from, Kentucky, move down here because his wife was from
Florida, next thing, you know, they're, they're connected in a
church and then God over to us man and God began to change
their lives. The kingdom of God began to
speak to their lives, in a way and things they've heard never
heard before. Well, he started calling his
brother Devin back home in Kentucky and talking to him
about the kingdom and just stirring him up.
Well, Devon, would you stand up because Devin don't live in
Kentucky anymore, Devin's been as already moved down.
So, Devin and his wife, all of a sudden, God begins to say, well,
you need to leave that stink, get down to Florida and be a
part of that Vision, but there's more because they have some
cousins and the cousins kept hearing about what God was
doing. So Josh, would you stand up and
just left this state of Kentucky next thing, you know, he's here,
are you serious right now? Yeah, I'm serious right now.
In fact, Devon, and and Pastor Brandon's mom moved down for a
season and got In here. And then the lord gave her a
husband and now she's in the state of Oklahoma.
But I'll tell you right now, it it's not unreasonable for God to
say, you need to leave and go to a church.
You know, people believe all over the move all over the world
for a job. A job, that's temporary.
But we're in is eternal, amen. Guys, you can be seated.
I appreciate you. I just wanted you to see that
God speaking to the hearts of people, you may have thought
that you were going to live in your little town or your
community, all your life. Only to have an encounter with
God. Amen.
And man. Now, if I went back and said,
Josh and Devon and Pastor Brandon, do you regret leaving
not at all? I mean, the things you're
growing in today, you wouldn't trade it for the world, Amen.
Because the things of God are awesome, but it's having an ear
to hear and it's living a life. We're going to talk about a
little bit later today. In Matthew Chapter 2 starting in
verse 1. It says this.
Now, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the days
of Herod, the king behold, Wise men, say wise men.
Come on, say wise men, say wise men, these are people who are
wise. Are you wise?
I said, are you wise, amen? It says, wise men from the East
came to Jerusalem saying, where is he who has been born King of
the Jews? For we have seen his star in the
east and have come to worship him.
When Herod the king heard this. He was troubled and all
Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the
chief priests and the scribes and all the people together, he
inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
Born now notice in verse 4, there's a connection between the
the wise men declaring, they want to see a king and Herod
calls him the Christ. So you got to understand when
you hear the word Christ you might as well hear the word
King, when you hear the word Christ, you might as well hear
the word King the wise men from the East says, where is the King
born of the Jews? And so Harris says, let's get
all my wives people together and find out who's this child, he
talking about and Where's the Christ going to be born?
So, Christ and King are equivalent.
Can I get an amen? I said, Christ and King are
equivalent. This is important because you
can keep a religious Jesus Christ.
But you cannot, when you understand who Christ is, you
had to get out of religion and get on into the kingdom of God.
Amen. All right, because the king is
over a government. I said a king is over a
government. Not a religion, aren't you glad
President Trump is not over with our religion?
And aren't you? Glad he's not over the Bible?
No, he's over a government. He's a part of the government.
But here's the thing. Jesus Christ is not over.
Another religion, he's over a kingdom that will never be
shaken and have no end. Can I get an amen?
Hallelujah. And I serve the king.
So we go on and it says this when they had gathered together,
Chief priests scribes of the people together, they inquired
where the Christ was to be born verse 5.
So they said to him in Bethlehem of Judea for thus it was written
by the prophet. You Bethlehem, in the land of
Judah, you are not the least among the rulers of Judah for
out of you shall come a ruler. Who will Shepherd My People
Israel then Herod when he had secretly called, the wise men
determined from them? What time, the star appeared and
he sent them to Bethlehem and said, go and search carefully
for the young child and when you have found him bring back word
to me that I may come and worship him.
Also, when they had heard the king, when they had heard the
king, they departed and behold the star, which they had seen in
the East went. Went before them till it came
and stood over where the young child was.
When they saw the star, they rejoiced, with great with
exceedingly, great joy. When they had come into the
house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother and fell
down and worshipped him. And when they had opened their
Treasures, they presented gifts to him, gold, frankincense and
myrrh. Then being divinely warned in a
dream that they should not return to Herod.
They departed for their own country.
Another way there's a lot we can learn from these wise men and I
want to make a few Statements. Before we are getting to the
context where I believe the spirit of the Lord wants us to
go today. And the first thing I want you
to understand wise men believed that the king will come
according to what is written. I said, wise men believe the
king will come according to what is written.
These Kings had been waiting for the king, in fact, if you
actually do some study of the word, this, you may not know
this. But these guys came from the
East and most likely they came from the territory that was
formerly occupied by Babble on and babble on you.
Stand took over Jerusalem because Jerusalem had fallen
into such idolatry and sin that God can no longer let go of
their sin. He had allowed them to be
overcome by the enemy and taken all together.
And as a result of that, there was a guy by the name of Daniel
who was led captive into this area or this land.
And God used this man, Daniel, and Daniel prophesied.
He spoke concerning this King. That would come.
I said he spoke concerning this King.
That would come. God, used Daniel.
So mightily over in the East that he went through multiple
administration's multiple kingdoms, not just Babylon, but
he went into success exceeding, kingdoms, that would overtake
Babylon and those would begin to overtake other kingdoms.
And he left a word to the wise men, that he was over that a
king would come and that he would have a kingdom.
That would have no end. He had a vision concerning fact.
Was documented of the first Administration, he served in
Babylon to King Nebuchadnezzar because he saw a statue of all
these kingdoms until one would come that was made and with a
rock without hands. Who is The Rock?
I said, who is The Rock? His name is Jesus and that that
Rob would crush that Idol and it would destroy every other
government. But this one would turn into a
mountain and take over the whole world.
And so, the wise men knew this new the Daniels God reigned
Supreme Order these things and kept passing it down to
generation after generation after generation, and they were
expecting for him to be born. Amen.
They were diligent about it. These word wise, men means these
were guys that were proficient in astrology.
There were some signs that were communicated, that would happen
in the stars or in the heavens that the Christ was born and
they were diligently looking for based upon something written.
Are we expecting the king to come has the Bible not said
he'll return? I said, has the Bible not said
he'll return. Now, the nation of Israel missed
him initially because he came as the suffering servant but know
this when Jesus comes back the second time, he will not come as
a suffering servant. He'll come back as a reigning
King. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah and all the nations of the world will come and pay
him homage and will bow down to him and honor him glory to his
name. That's the King you serve.
That's the family you're part of That comes out of this little
child. We're celebrating here called
Christmas. Amen.
Alright, the next thing we learn is wise.
Men, keep watch waiting for the sign to appear.
Why has been prepared to visit the king?
They were in preparation, that thing, if that's star shows up,
we gonna go see when that Char shows up.
We're going to come and generation after generation
after generation. They could have said, well, it's
just fairytale. Well, don't think it's gonna
happen? No.
There was a group of people that will so tenacious.
They said it's going to Ben is going to come to pass, then the,
in the rise, we have been there, we seen it and they pass it down
and pass it down, and pass it down to eventually the
generation showed up. Amen.
So they were in preparation to go visit the king.
The next thing is wise, men seek the king.
Are you seeking the king? I said, are you seeking the
king? I hate to tell you this, but
most Believers are just seeking heaven.
They're just seeking an exit party, they're just seeking
going into the clouds, but the Lord said to seek the king, you
understand the king's not limited to his realm.
The king will bring his realm to planet Earth.
That's why. Jesus said, when you pray pray
this way, Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed Be Your Name,
Your Kingdom Come your will be done on Earth as it is in
heaven. God.
So wants his Heavenly Kingdom to manifest in the earth, through
his kids. Amen.
So, are we seeking the king? Those wise men seek the king.
The next thing we learn is wise, men are Guided by the Light.
What did they follow? They follow that star.
They looked up to the heavens and follow the light today.
We could still follow the light. Jesus is the light of the world.
I said he's the light of the world.
He should be a he is the one that should be the lamp unto our
feet and a light unto our path. I mean, if Will Follow the word
of God wise men, follow the light and are Guided by that
light. You know what else?
Wise men do wise men recognize the worth of the king, they
recognize his worth. You know what?
Is not some you know person it just showed up and you can ask
him to come into your heart and then just disregard him as if
he's nothing until you show up before him and then want to pull
a car and say you remember, I asked you to come into my life.
That's not the worst Jesus deserves.
Jesus deserves supreme authority because he is supreme authority.
We need to understand his worth. Jesus comes in the room.
You stand into your feet at attention.
You drop it on. You, knees and honor.
Are you with me? You don't say a word when he
begins to speak. Wow, I mean today, we make
people in Authority, so common like they're nothing, you know?
And there's no big deal but I'm telling you got an honor you
gotta see worth in your king, okay.
Another thing wise men do is wise men, share about their, the
Kings coming. They had no problem coming in
Jerusalem and saying where's the king?
We know, the Kings Born show us where the king is, amen.
Another thing wise men do as they Bow Down and Worship to the
king, I'm telling, we begin to sing songs to the king.
We ought to get him worship to him.
We ought to honor him. We got to lift up our voices,
shouldn't be some casual singing.
It ought to be something from the heart fell in the spirit of
the man realizing. My gosh, my King has made me
worthy. He deserves to be honored.
Amen. And so, man, they were unashamed
a Last thing or the second. The last thing is Wiseman.
Give their Treasures to the king.
You don't come to the king empty-handed.
You understand what I'm saying? But here's the thing about our
King, The King paid, the greatest price for you.
You understand God, the father had so much worth in you that he
could not give you the word world, you know.
You've heard people say that I love you so much.
I give you the world. Well, the world is cheap in
comparison to the price. It paid to redeem you for the
Bible says. As he did not redeem you with
perishable things like silver and gold.
But with the Precious Blood, come on the precious, what blood
of Jesus. So the greatest Price ever God,
says you're worth it. How much more?
We who are born again to say king, you are worth it.
You are worth it. You're worth everything.
I have all that you've given me charge of is at your disposal
because you are worthy to be praised.
But I'm going to tell you right now all these things we've said
about wise men won't matter at all if If they, if we do not
have this quality of the wise men, if we do not have this
quality and the quality according to Matthew Chapter 2,
verses 1 through 12 that these Wiseman has is wise.
Men persevere to be in the presence of the king, they
persevere? What a group of people that had
a writing. They are not even from the
Covenant nation of Israel. And they are believing that a
king is coming. Whose kingdom will not end and
they are going to come to him to put their trust in him and show
their allegiance to him. Are you with me?
And these guys persevered now unlike the capitalistic nativity
sets that are here in the United States of America that tend to
be a little misleading and it's very misleading because
unfortunately, a lot of people People don't even read the Bible
and many Believers. Don't even read the word of God.
And so when you go and purchase early nativity set because
you're, you know, great Christian and you are going to
make sure you show the manger right, and you're going to put
out, you know, Joseph and Mary and little baby Jesus in the
manger. Yeah, you're gonna get you a
little cow out there and you little sheep right?
Then you have your Shepherds out there, right?
Go have a little star over it. A little, you know, Barn.
They look place that he was in. Right.
The Little Star there. And then who else are you going
to have in your lunatic? Tea set.
You got three little wise men, right?
Just three of them, that's it. Now if you are right you need to
put them across the other side of your room.
So if you put you in the TV is Set On You ban, do you need to
go into your kitchen and put the wise men because that's where
they were in, proximity of the day of the birth.
That's where they were now. Why is this important?
Because a lot of times we think that when we read about the wise
men, it's like they were there when it happened, but they were
not the only ones there on that day, are the Shepherds and the
shepherd's. Unlike the wise men wasn't,
we're not expecting anything. The Shepherds were out watching
their flock in essence, they were doing their life, they were
just doing life, but God interrupted their life with a
host of angels and said, my gosh, there's something so
great. Even Heaven, can't keep quiet
about it. Woo.
Glory to God, something was so great with the birth of Jesus
Christ that even heaven couldn't get quiet about it.
Heaven, bust it open from The Unseen realm into the same round
and an angel Vega An to say in the city of David, a child has
been born. The savior of the world and all
the Angels acquire began to sing a song, My Mama, and it bled.
Over into the scene Earth and all the shepherd song were like,
what is going on? And they were so blown away by
their life. We ought to go in town and see
what's happening. I ended a shame that sometimes
you got to have some kind of Supernatural experience like
that just to get Attention to go.
Try to find out where God's at. Hey then, I mean to hear, they
were right outside of town. Didn't really cost them
anything. And then they show up and see
him and then they hear from Mary all about the never like, wow,
this is awesome. And from there, they began to
tell. But there were some people that
was so far away. They couldn't see where Jesus
was, all they had was a sign from heaven.
And one night. They're like, that's it.
This is what we've been expecting.
This is what we've been seeking. This is what day after day, year
after year, decade after decade Century.
After Century, it's been told would come to pass and guys, we
are the ones that are alive to see it.
There it is. Go ahead pack up the house, pack
up, your house pack up your things.
It's time to go see the king. It's time to go and that same
night that the shepherd's. All they had to do was come out
of a field and walk into town. Down and get down and bow down.
These guys are loading up, camels, they're loading up
horses. They're calling up the Army and
they're saying, okay, we've got gifts and we need you to escort
us as we go find Jesus. See.
The problem is a nativity based upon the three gifts, given we
think only three people showed up with three little boxes.
Right now. Think about it.
Let's go back tomorrow. Matthew Chapter 2, let me read
this real quick for you because most of the time, we've never
even seen this nor do we even think about it.
But it says this verse 3, when Herod the king heard this, he
was what troubled and all Jerusalem with him.
Now, why in the world? Would he get trouble from three
guys, showing up with three little boxes.
Talking about a king being born. Because and why would all
Jerusalem get upset about it? Well, because these guys came
with just more than three Just because there's three gifts,
mention does not mean only three present showed up.
That's like me saying because you got socks shirt and pants.
That's the only got 3 presents. Well, you know, you may have get
five or six pairs of pants. You may have got six or seven
shirts for Christmas. You may have gotten so many
socks. My mom's going to come today,
probably going to bring me socks.
You understand? And I'll take them right?
But you get more than one pair. Why is it that we have allowed?
Something that we put on a shelf to begin to dictate the size of
something? Now when you study the word of
God, you'll see that it was way more than that.
I said it was way more than that.
Hallelujah, that they caused a panic in the community.
When they showed up, are you with me?
But the wise men persevered, they packed up their stuff and
said, let's go a week into their travels, they're not there a
month into their travels. They're not there three months
in still not there. Six months in still not there a
year in. They have left their house a
year ago and still have not arrived to their destination.
Are you with me? It's amazing.
Sometimes, we don't watch out, we will live a life where if we
don't get it from God, the minute we pray.
And it actually manifests in the seen realm, we stopped we turn
around. Well, I tried church.
Have you heard people say that? Well, I tried God, you tried
him. Well, that's the problem, you're
not supposed to try because if you're trying, you don't have
him. I mean, don't even have God.
You don't try. And you try religion.
And religion will fail you. Amen.
If you come to God, religiously then you'll get religion.
But if you'll come to God, because he's supreme authority
and you say I'm going no matter what the cost because he calls
the, he paid everything to get me.
I'll not stop my pursuit of him. Amen.
When I've done all to stand, I stand.
Hallelujah. So a year goes by 15 months, 18
months. In fact, scholars believe
somewhere between to 18 months in Two years.
It took those guys to get to where Jesus was.
That means when you read, it says he went into the house, not
the barn. He didn't find Jesus in a manger
but in a home and went into the house and he was a toddler at
the time and they bow down to the king and gave their gifts to
the king. They persevered to get into his
presence, man. We need to have the same
tenacity today. In this new covenant, that we
are going to persevere to be in God's presence every day now.
I know God lives in you. I understand that and I
understand we are the Temple of the Holy Ghost.
But you know, as well as I do that, a lot of All that are born
again. Live every day.
Without any acknowledgement of the Holy Ghost on the inside of
them. That God himself is a by thought
by the only time will think about him.
Sometimes when we sit down to eat, if we pray before the meal,
Or when we're in trouble, then we're calling him, Lord, I need
your help, but the Lord is ever present.
I mean, he's right here, he's Emmanuel God With Us.
He's right here yet. A lot of times we want to know,
why? Cause we don't have the
perseverance of a wise man to stay in the presence of God, to
pursue him to live the life, that constantly is pursuing, the
things of God. And so I got in my spirit today.
This thought concerning wise men, that persevere, We're to
get to the presence of God. We need this for 2019.
We need to decide that in 2019. We are going to be wise men who
pursue persist and, and persevere to be in God's
presence, which tells us we are going to hear some things from
God. And there's going to be this
time between our hearing and are seeing Are you with me?
Because there's some things in faith, you can get immediately,
but there's other things that requires through faith and
patience that we actually inherit and man, you need to be
at a settle some things. The minute you read it and know
that it has to come to pass and we are going to persevere till
it's done. For some of you, it's the mine
renewal for the Bible tells us, you are to grow up spiritually.
And some of you are banding, your education, course because
you want to get somewhere quicker than you, can renew your
own mind. Mind.
God knows he wants to train you and change you and you got to
say, you know, I'm going to get it.
I'm going to have wisdom. I'm going to be there cause the
Bible declares of a man lacks wisdom.
Let him ask of God, who gives to how many all men liberally,
which means I'm going to have wisdom.
I'm going to know the mind of Christ.
I'm going to know how to respond to this circumstance.
I'm going to know how to fight the good fight of faith, and I
will not relent till I get in the presence of what I need to
know. Hallelujah, hallelujah and Lord,
you know I need something. We open the Bible, put her
finger down by closing her eyes, read one, scripture, and want it
to be there. Now, just because it's happened
once like that, that mean will consistently God in your
infancy? Will sometimes allow you and
your ignorance and just trying to prove this point, my word is
the answer will let you and your infancy.
Open up, something pop down on one scripture, and there it is.
Lo and behold, but it doesn't always work like a for the ones
that are walking in maturity, they're going to have to seek
first, the kingdom of God, and in you're seeking you'll find in
your asking. And you'll receive in your
knocking, the door. Be open.
Amen. And that Greek word of seek
asking and and knock is a repetitive.
It means when you seek and keep on seeking and keep on seeking
to keep on seeking and asking, keep on, asking to keep on
ethnic keep on asking to knock, and keep on knocking to keep on
knocking, then you will receive the rest.
Hallelujah. So there's this perseverance
that must take place in us as Believers as wise men and God
wants us to be wise in the earth.
Amen. Hallelujah.
And so, let's look. Look at some Lifestyles that can
happen in life and God wants us to move to a wise men lifestyle
a wise man lifestyle, because if we're going to take the wise,
then with there, we've got to be a taker.
I'll take her. That means we've got to seize
hold of the promises of God. We got to take hold of the
promises of God. We got to lay hold of that which
we were laid. Hold of.
We got to take possession. You understand.
God told the Israelites I've given you the land now go up and
take it. They had to go take it now.
He was going to operate in the power.
He was going to do it. It was going to off.
It's going to be his Our doing it but not outside of their
faith. When he says walk around judge
Eric, oh, don't say nothing for six days, just be quiet and do
it one time but on the seventh day circling seven times and on
the last time, blow a trumpet shout and the wall of come down,
I've given you the city. Well they did that.
Can you imagine what it would look like when they shouted with
a loud? Shout?
And the Wall came down and they were like, praise the law, we
got it, and then, you know, hung out All the people in Jericho
would have stayed in Jericho. All the Israelites outside of
Jericho would have stayed outside the people in Jericho.
Would it continue to eat the food that was in there and the
Israelites would have stayed camped outside.
They did not go through a wall broken down by the power of God,
in their belief of through. Their shout to an empty City.
Oh, I'm preaching. Didn't go into an empty City,
nobody's here, where'd everybody go?
Oh, the Lord took him away like they were just full translated
to another location, know, they were in there.
I said they were in there and they were in there fighting,
they weren't fighting themselves as God did at some points.
They were coming to fight them but the good news is, they're
sword was not stronger than the sword of the Israelite.
Amen. And so, the Israelites had to go
in and take it. It you understand you've got to
pull out the sword of the spirit.
You got to get in here in 2019 and go take some things, man.
Come on. You got to go.
Take some stuff. Can we get this in our spirit?
The day. We had to go take some things.
God wants you to possess all that he has for you but you got
to get a tenacity as a wise man. It's Alma persevere till I take
it. Reminds me of one of David's,
Mighty, Man. The Bible says that he was in a
fight, man, and he was fighting the enemy, and he slew 800 all
by himself. He stayed in that fight, till he
took possession of a win. And when he was done, they had
to pry his hand open away from his sword.
He had become one with his weapon.
How many of us have become one with the word?
Well, we're Wilden that thing and we not going to let another
enemy. Come take another piece of
ground from us. We going To stay in the fight
till we whip it all and we lay it all out and have the victory.
You got to have a tonight, that's what wise people do, and
this is what God is calling us to do.
Are you with me? Come on, do I some Champions up
in here today? Do we have some Champions up in
this place today? You know, there's times to be
quiet and there's times that he, you know, top I'm saying.
God has a victory shall for us today, guys.
Got a course and direction. His church is not weak.
Broke down, not hoping to Get somewhere Heavens arriving in
his church and coming through his kids that will stand in
faith and believe God that it get a tenacity about themselves
and say I'm going to have a lifestyle, I'm going to be a
taker. Well what kind of take her argue
or you an Undertaker? What's an Undertaker and
Undertaker is a person who lives a life living for the dead.
And the unfortunately, there's a lot of people living dead.
They're living dead, they're just Undertaker's in life.
Woe is me, reminds me of the LI Mall help.
Some of you with a little bit older because you know what?
I'm like a bridge your I'm a my whole generation is called the
bridge or generation anyway. So I'm bridging, you know, these
people that were born back in on the 20s, 30s.
You know, 40s 50s, you know, those and I'm bringing them over
into this Millennial, there's this song and he Hall, how many
member he Hall. Yeah, my dad was a Hee-Haw fan
Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me. Come on, Jaime, remember that
some of y'all. Could sing it right now, right?
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.
I mean, need to live and dead. Just living dead.
You know, just barely getting through.
Barely barely. Hold Lord.
Jesus, come take me, take me soon.
Lord, Jesus come come quickly, right.
Life stinks and Lisa have Jesus. That's living dead.
God don't want you living dead. He don't want you to be an
Undertaker in life. Are you in more?
You dealing with dead stuff all the time?
Luke chapter 9, verses 59 and 60 says, and he said unto him,
follow me. He said, Lord suffer me to go
back home and bury my father. Jesus said to him.
Let the dead bury the dead. But God, but go thou and preach
the kingdom of God. So many Believers, you know, or
born again and God is trying to deliver them but they want to go
hang her out, the dead stuff still.
Well I need a deal. You're not you don't need to
deal with the dead. What you need to do is come on
over into life. Some of you and Dad
relationships, can I say that I got that my spirit and some of
you are in some dead relationships, you trying to
hang out with some female or some mail.
That's dead. You need to let the dead bury
the dead. They ain't coming along.
They ain't Following you to church.
Go ahead. Let him stay.
And find you another location. God is well able but pass.
You don't know. I can't afford it.
Without them. You can't afford to stay with
them. Quit kissing on a zombie.
Are you in me? I mean seriously.
The world's fixie aided by The Walking Dead.
Who in the world wants to lift lock on that.
Amen. That's lipstick on a pig.
All right. You don't cast a pearl before
the you go, right? Matthew chapter, 23, verses 27,
28 says woe to you. See there's this, you know, all
everybody's great God love God loves everybody.
But God's come to deliver everybody, God's come to redeem
everybody. God's come to get them out of
the mess there, and get him into a great place, not not, take
them out of a mess can make them still stink and are still be
ultimately stinky and put perfume on them.
See, this is that false doctrine that runs around in the mouth of
Believers. Well, I'm just a sinner saved by
grace, are you? That means you are a perfumed
pig and God doesn't have perfume pigs.
No, he changed your nature. Hallelujah.
Amen. You were dead without Jesus.
No, hope, but the minute you by the grace of God, through faith
was born again. You became a child of the
Living. God, hallelujah.
What you? You need to do is throw off your
dad man. Clothes, put off the old man.
And put on the new man who glory to God.
Matthew 23, 27 28, says woe to you.
Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites.
For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside
appear, beautiful, but on the inside full of Dead Man's Bones
and all uncleanness. U2 so, U2, outwardly appear
righteous to men but inwardly, you are full of hypocrisy and
lawlessness. Well, These people look like
what they look like James. 2:17 says, even so faith.
If it has no work is what dead being by itself.
Don't come and tell me I believe God.
Don't tell me, you believe, God, and you're doing nothing.
Don't tell me. You're in faith.
And yet everything you do, you can see yourself doing and God's
not even required to be there for you to do it.
Faith is being somewhere that, if it ain't God, you dead.
I mean, you stepped out beyond your ability and you need God,
you don't step out on water yourself.
You believe, God is going to cause that water to somehow
Harden. Are you levitate on it?
So you can walk out on it because by yourself, you're sunk
well. The Lord told me to walk on
water. So I got this boat.
You're not walking, you're on a boat now.
Well, I'm standing in the boat. You're in a boat.
It's not the same. Amen.
I mean you can go practice your your your Lake walking out at
Lake anchor, Faith out here because there's a concrete slab.
So when it rains just start walking across and you look like
you're walking on water when we know there's asphalt underneath
it. No, we're talking about dropping
you off in the middle of the Atlantic.
Taking your rast, taking it all and you come walking out of that
thing. Now that's some.
Where are you? Is me, I want if there's ever
been a person lost at sea that would say Lord command me to
walk. Why do I have to sit out here
and float? Let me tell you, I think shudder
to say many would say, but I can only God can do that really.
Peter did it? He just needed a word but too
often men are bold enough. Why?
Because they want to live dead, they want to be Undertaker's.
Want to just get through life. Barely get through.
Don't can't expect the miraculous, a medium.
Maybe you could have been safe, they only would have believed
God and asked all right. So verse 26 says, just as the
body is dead body without the spirit is dead.
So also faith without works is dead.
Revelation is 3, 1 and 3 says this, the angel of the church in
Sardis, write he who has the seven spirits of God.
And the Seven Stars says, I know, your deeds, and that you
have a name that you are alive, but you are but you are.
A lot of people are trying to fake it.
Trying to look like it. Saying a few things but on the
inside, did just tied up in the dead.
Tied up with dead. Things tied up with dead
thinking. Amen.
God doesn't want that. That's not how a wise man lives
because when you're an Undertaker, you'll go nowhere.
You'll go nowhere, says wake up and strengthen the things that
remain which are worked were about to die for you.
For I have found not found your Deeds, completed in the sight of
my God. So remember what you have
received and heard faith comes by hearing and you can only
hear. If you receive what you're
hearing, receiving means I hear it.
Now I'm doing. It says and keep it and repent,
which means I'm a doer of the word.
Therefore, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief and
you will not know at what hour I will come.
Well, the next time a taker is this if you're not going to be
an Undertaker and you say, man, I don't want to be that.
I want to live dead, I won't have a dead, a lifestyle of the
Dead, where I'm just hanging out with dead stuff all the time,
where dead people dead thinking dead did ways of living, you can
become another taker, but it's still in the taker.
God wants you to be. And that's a caretaker a
caretaker, just a Mass for themself.
Again, begins to Define how they'll serve God.
Well, okay, yes, I'm going to follow you but I'm gonna follow
you so I can be blessed myself. Take care of me and mine because
all that matters is I'm going to go to heaven and I need to live
comfortable and let God bless me and he gave me and for me and
take care of me and care for me, and take care of me.
Cause you know I got to care about me because you understand,
you know, I got to take care of me.
A lot of times we don't go somewhere because we're
concerned about our care. Well, Bo how what would happen
to me. And unfortunately, try to save
your life. Well, we goes on and says this
in. Luke chapter 9, verse 61 62.
This is what we call religious living.
Religious living where basically, you'd begin to
develop your own Idols about Jesus.
Okay. I don't know why so quiet.
I mean, y'all are doing really good there for a while.
I mean, are we saying? This is me if it is repent.
Okay, just repent because you don't want to follow God on your
terms. You want to follow God on his
terms. Amen.
Don't be at are caretaker. Just caring for your own stuff
all the time. Okay says that's another said
Lord Luke chapter 9 61 to cease to another said Lord I will
follow thee, but let me first go and bid them farewell, which are
at home at my house and Jesus said unto him.
No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit
for the kingdom of God. What?
It is fit for the kingdom of God.
Is fit for the kingdom of God. I said is fit for the kingdom of
God, I believe was John Duncan I was having a conversation about
this passage of scripture. Another time that I had
ministered and it Bears repeating at this point is that
when one context, you could take, when a man puts his plow,
that means I received the assignment, okay?
And the work God has called me to do and so you begin to plow
but then you look back now what's going to happen when you
look back while you got Hand on the plow still walking forward.
You're going to quit walking Street.
And there's many Believers that want the plow and want to do a
work of God while looking back at their old life.
And now all of a sudden you can't keep a straight line.
So if anybody's following you while you got your hand on the
plow, the like, where are we going?
I mean this guy's walking around like a drunk man.
Oh I'm preaching now and unfortunately a lot of Believers
are actually getting drunk and saying it's okay under grace.
Oh I'm preaching, good now. Yeah, why they want to stagger
and stumble around? And I like God's grace when Gods
like I want you to walk straight, I want you to stay in
line, I want you to be in a It with me.
I want you to walk in righteousness.
Amen. I've been freed from all way of
living I don't look back longing for something.
Every time you look back and say what of that past life, I can
bring into this slide under the grace of God, you crooked.
I said you're crooked It's crooked can't do it.
No, can't do it. You got to stay fourth.
What happens when a man puts his hand on a plow.
Begins to look back. He's no longer looking at the
author and finisher of his faith.
I'm amazed at people that walk straight for quite some time and
then hit a rock, hit a hit, an obstacle And instead of dealing
with the obstacle, want to start looking back and try to find
another course. God has given you this thing
called the Holy Ghost, he is due to this power and instead of you
walking around your obstacle, God wants you to drop down a
little bit of TNT. Holy Ghost, and blow that thing
up out of your way. Remove it, stay straight, keep
moving. But caretakers man, they begin
to move forward and As man, there's some self-sacrifice.
Did this begin to go? What about me?
See, Hebrews 6:1 and to says
this, leave it there for leaving the elementary teachings about
the Christ. Let us press on to maturity not
laying again, the foundation of repentance from dead works and
Faith towards God. The the most Elementary
principle that can be priest in any church Elementary.
Jesus Christ died on the cross and Rose from the grave.
Now is it necessary? You bet because you'll never do
Algebra until you learn two plus three equals five.
But algebras real algebras real deal.
Trigonometry is a real deal, we've unlocked all kind of
mysteries through calculus and all kind of mathematical
equations because we knew a foundational Elementary.
Principal two plus three equals five.
Now, I'm not, I'm not trying to diminish, Jesus Christ died on
the cross, and Rose from the grave.
We have to have that, but we're but the Bible is very clear
here. We've got to have more than just
that And if you are associated with a church that only
preaches, this principle, they are willfully keeping you in
elementary school. Well, I don't want to talk about
stuff that people. Listen, it's the Holy Ghost
assignment to teach you. It's the Holy Ghost assignment
to educate you and equip you. And he allowed me to communicate
principles that are well beyond Jesus Christ died on the cross
and Rose from the grave because he did this.
Now, this is afforded to you as a child because of what he did
here. Now, this you can walk in
because he did. Now this is who you are and if
you listen to the Holy Ghost, you'll say yep.
That's me. Yep.
And you'll learn that. Next thing, you know, you'll do
more than just want to go to heaven.
You'll begin to call Heaven down to earth.
You'll no longer just say, Jesus healed the sick.
You'll say I can lay hands on the sick and they will recover
too, because I'm a Child of God. Hallelujah.
Not because of who I am. But because who lives in me?
You'll no longer say, oh, I'm running from the devil.
You'll say, where's he at? I'll tell him to go.
You've messed with the wrong person.
I'm a child of the king, but you're not going to get there in
elementary teaching. You're not going to get there in
fleshly living. You'll get there through
pressing to maturity and the Bible tells us if we press on
which means it's our, let us say us.
Say us let us press to maturity. No one's stopping you from
growing up. But you You'll never stand
before. Jesus one day and say, I mean,
that I didn't know about that, Dad, he'll say what's because
you didn't want to know. It's cuz you didn't want to
know. the minute I put my nature in you and put the Holy Ghost in
you, it was available to you, if you just pressed If you just
went after it, let us press on to maturity maturity is
something we can attain to and should want to and when you
begin to mature sin will never have anything on you.
You'll go Seasons without sin. You'll be able to count on one
hand when you had to pray and ask God to forgive you.
Because you walk in step with the spirit, you're led by the
spear, you're walking according to righteousness, and everything
around, you is prospering and being blessed.
And when you get in a trial, you'll have a cocoon of Peace
around you. When you walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, you'll have a rod with you.
Hallelujah, you'll say That's All Right.
In fact. When when Trouble Comes you
actually say, oh you picking on me?
Have you been around those people that like want to get in
the fight? Well, they only want to get in
it because they think they're good.
That it will you understand? I'm good at fighting the good
fight of Faith so when God begins to give me a fake
problem. Like oh yeah, you want some of
this right here. Okay, we going now because you
fixing to lose because greater is he, that's in me, I say
greater. Is he that's in me than he?
That's in the world? Amen.
Now, God told me that about me. I don't need you to convince me.
God told me. I'm trying to convince you.
That the greater ones on the inside of you.
Quit settling quit being a caretaker of your life.
Well, I just want to get by. I don't want nothing, big or
fancy. I just want to get by as long as
I get to heaven. Know what you need to do is
aspired to be all that. God has called you to be.
What did Paul say? Paul said this, I'll let me go
on and read verse 2. It says, and the instruction of
washing laying on of hands. The resurrection of the dead and
judgment. That's all elementary stuff.
Philippians chapter 3 starting in verse 12.
Paul says, it's not that I've already obtained it or I have
already become perfect. That means I've reached Maturity
of what I was called to be. That's what he's saying.
I haven't reached it yet. He said, but I press on who
presses? I press.
Not God. Pray, he does Paul presses.
So who's pressing Paul presses? In fact in this same chapter
book in the previous chapter he said I put wigs between two
people, whether to go on and be with the Lord of remain here
with you. I just think I could die.
Because this far better to be with the Lord, but I'm convinced
my purpose is not done, so I'm going to make a decision.
Not God that me. And the decision is.
It's necessary that I'm here for you.
I'm going to have to live and not die.
I'm going to have to get myself together.
I'm going to have to cause myself to not give in to the
circumstance that I am and the trouble.
I'm feeling in the pain that I'm feeling right now.
I'm going to let that go and allow the whole calling of God
to rise up in me. Can I get an amen, you need to
get the holy calling, a God to rise up in you.
He goes on and says this listen, I press on so that I may lay
hold of that which I was laid hold of By Christ Jesus, which
means god called me to a work. I can't abandon it.
Verse 13, brother. I do not regard myself as laying
hold of it yet. But one thing I do forgetting,
what lies behind and Reaching Forward to what lies ahead?
What's he doing? I got him on the plow and I'm
Not Looking Back. No, I ain't no looking back for
me. I don't have time to look back.
I don't have time to look back and live life like a single.
I don't have time to look back and live life like I did when I
was in high school I don't have time to go back and live life.
Like I used to three years ago or are they?
I have responsibilities. Today, I'm going to Walking out
responsibility today. And I'm gonna look forward to
some responsibility in the future.
I'm not looking for an easy Road.
I'm looking for God's Road. Amen.
He said man I got my hands on some I'm going Paul one like I'm
gonna excited I planted one church.
Nah we got to plant more. They good enough, that we got
these people born again. We got another Nation to
conquer. Amen.
Hallelujah. So he goes on and says this.
Let us also, he said, I press on toward the goal of the project
were calling of God in Christ. Jesus verse 15.
Let us therefore as many as are perfect or mature.
Have this attitude. Have What?
Attitude keep pressing Get your assignment done.
Then he goes on and says and if anything you have a different
attitude Well, we can just agree to disagree.
Is that what it says? Let's read again.
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect.
Armature have this attitude and if in anything you have a
different attitude, we can agree to disagree.
Is that what it says? No, you understand in the church
today is creeping in the same thing as the culture of the
world which is is there's no right and wrong.
We're all right, what you believe is?
What you believe in, what you believe, what you believe and I
should respect. What you believe is.
You should respect what? I believe.
Who am I to Question your belief.
And it's happening in the church.
Well, you can believe that about God.
That's fine. We can agree to disagree.
I can't agree to disagree. All I can do is, do, is agree to
agree with God. We need to learn to agree, to
agree, with God. I'm not holding my thoughts.
I want his thoughts. Well now, Pastor Earle, that's
fine. If you guys want to believe that
you can be baptized in the Holy Ghost, whatever.
And speaking in tongues, that's you.
The, you can do that. The Bible says it.
Now, you can choose not but don't stop me from praying in
tongues when we come together. Now Pastor, you know, we just
don't do that here. I do it.
Well now we can agree to disagree but this isn't it's a
prayer language. I'm praying.
I'm sorry, you don't have it but that's your fault.
Well, you know, brother aren't you know, God, you know, gave me
this helmet, you know, this sickness, you know.
Well, let me pray for you. Lay hands on the Bible says lay
hands on the sick. The be healed.
Now brother, you may believe that you know we can agree to
disagree. No I can't.
I do not agree with you at all and I do not agree to disagree
with you. I'm going to tell you straight
up you wrong. Because look how God anointed
Jesus of Nazareth. Who went around doing good.
And healing all who were oppressed of the devil.
Don't give me your little man-made tradition or your
man-made Doctrine, just so you can feel good with your
infirmity. Let's believe God.
Nobody want to be a caretaker. Well I'm doing all that matters.
Is that when I die I will go to him.
We all going to die. One day when God says you
shouldn't have to die and sickness.
I like well when Minister say get healed and then just leave
Hey, new. Leave a good testimony.
God healed me. I decide to go.
Right. I mean if we going to go out,
let's go out just cause we leave our body or let's go get
martyred. Then Let's do those two.
Let's don't let some curse of the devil.
Take us out. Hallelujah.
Okay, that's all right. Well, what'd he say?
See you say well I just can't believe that.
Well guess, let's read that scripture then in context, let
us therefore as many as Armature have this attitude and if in
anything you have a different attitude God will reveal that.
Also to you, meaning if you don't agree with what I'm
saying, God, I get. You're right.
That's what he's saying. He's saying he'll show you that
I'm right and you need to do it this way.
All right. Oh, that's being cocky.
No, that's being confident in the things of God.
Because if you can't get confident in God's word, then
you'll never go to him in prayer and confidence in your prayers
aren't even reaching Heaven. There, manmade, manmade prayers.
You're crying out like a religious person.
You got a little caretaking life man and you're like, oh Lord,
please bless me. Lord, please do this Lord to if
it's your will if you're sure we'll and he's like read my
word. I'll tell you what my will is.
More people are stuck in, if he is, will one time we see this,
one passage, and Jesus, even answered that one.
Lord, if you're willing, you'll heal me and he said, I am, Well,
he was willing to heal him. He's not a respecter of person.
You're trying to make an excuse to stay sick.
Okay, I'll go back to the middle.
I love, you know, he'll show you.
He's the Healer. My gosh, he can save you from
Eternal damnation and he can't put cancer on the back door,
seriously, he'll beat cancer. He's with cancer.
He's stripped cancer of all of his power and authority, man.
Don't need to find a cure for cancer.
God's already give the man to cure for cancer.
His name is Jesus period. Don't come to me and my grandma
and I don't want to hear it. I will believe God and every man
will be a liar. There are many godly people I
know who for who failed to fight the good fight of faith.
And get it off. I don't judge them for that but
I know my God's word doesn't fail and I refuse to allow a
circumstance in someone's life to change the truth of God's
word. More people are believing
people's experiences than taking the time and reading the Bible.
Just let you know and guess relations are Bible reading plan
for to 2019 is available. You can pick it up after service
so you can read the whole Bible. Like us I'm amazed at how many
Believers Never actually read the Bible. so, if you've not
read it, cover to cover at least three times, You really have
nothing to say to me. Now, why do I say that?
Because everything has to be confirmed by two or three
Witnesses. And if you've not even
disciplined yourself to read the Bible, cover to cover three
times, you're not even a disciple.
No, what you are is you are a world Hopper.
Well, you want to do is not get punished for your sin, and you
just want to go to heaven, but not live the life that God died
for you to live while you're here.
Alleluia, I have many more things to say than that because
I'm gonna tell you right now, when we get released on video,
I'm not here to gain a crowd. I'm not here to be popular.
I'm not here to get a bunch of followers.
I don't want, nobody following me anyway, I want him to follow
Jesus. I'm not looking for great
tweets. I'm not looking for people to
give me thumbs up on Facebook though.
I am I'm not looking to pick a fight either, I'm just here to
communicate truth And I'm here to let them know if you're not
in a local body church and all you do is watch Us online.
You're wrong. Because you'll never live to the
fullness. God has you, because he desires
you to be connected to a local body, not to pop.
In when it's convenient for you, it wasn't convenient for Jesus
to leave heaven and put himself in the flesh and take the
suffering. He did to lay down his life so
that you could have a life abundantly I don't know what
this casual stuff is but it ain't casual.
If you're going to live the fullness of God, you got to
discipline yourself and allow the god kind to come out of you.
And that's what we're pulling on here.
Amen. So maybe I'm a vitamin shot to
you. Maybe I supplement B, I'm
preaching something. You're not even hearing in your
community and maybe you need to say, wow, this is good and I
want here. Maybe you need to ask God
relocate me to st. Augustine.
So I can show up at the church instead of just being a casual
looker and listener become a doer.
Amen. Now, listen when I preach like
that, I expect this congregation to shout with an uproar because
you know what it takes to live for God.
You know we ain't casual here and then you can't go getting
solid on me because this they're picking up all this stuff.
You sneeze will hear it. You burp.
We hear it. Your child cries.
We hear it and I will not be like the church that I just
heard of someone who went up and they went into with their child
and that they stopped him at the door and says, no you need to go
over here and you can be in our overflow room because we're
recording it. They didn't want to hear the
child cry in service. I'ma tell you right now, this is
about people. This is not about production, so
if a child cries, don't worry about, I'm going to preach and
I'll go on and they'll just No, even though you can't see it
somebody's upset now. That doesn't mean you wouldn't
at maybe be respectful enough say, okay.
I can't get my child under control.
I'm a walk out for a minute till we can't.
That's fine. I understand that.
But you understand, we're not here to try to put on a show.
We're here to show them Jesus and communicate the truth of
God's word. Don't be sending me a tithe.
If you don't go to church you go to your own church and give them
the time. You send an offering if God
leads it but that I'm not here to try to do that.
There's a world that's lost and dying.
There's a compromised word. There's this thing.
They like sin doesn't exist anymore but it does.
It's like carnality isn't in the church but it is and we've got
to say stuff. Preaching communicated.
Amen. Okay.
Brother enjoy following my example, observe these okay,
verse 16, however, let us keep living by the same standard,
which we obtained. That means don't backslide
Brethren. Joining follow my example,
observe those who walk according to the pattern, you haven't us
for many. Whom I've often told you and now
tell you even weeping that they are enemies of the Cross of
Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their
appetite and whose glory is their shame.
Who set their minds on Earthly things for our citizenship is in
heaven, which from which also we eagerly.
Wait, Our Savior and Lord Jesus. Christ.
My gosh man. Don't be a caretaker, don't say
well, it's amazing how sometimes people get in these obstacles or
Trials of life and then all of a sudden they used to be someone
who went after God. But now they just want to like
manage their life to make sure they get in heaven.
Paul said, I ran with some people who used to run with me
and now they don't roam with me. All they're doing is trying to
maintain their own life but unfortunately their end is
destruction and I will get to the fullness that they are.
In fact, some people started running in such a way that Paul
had to pray different for them. He became so concerned about
them because they used to run with him but now they're not
running with him. So concerned about them
eternally that he turned this prayer.
When do you pray this prayer? We Don't Preach on this prayer
much to E. Well, I pray for so and soon,
delivered him over to Satan for the destruction of their flesh.
So they would not blaspheme God. That is a new testament prayer.
New Testament, New Covenant, Grace, Covenant prayer.
I'm praying that the Lord to send them over to Satan for the
destruction, their flesh or they will not blaspheme God.
And that was love. Hallelujah.
No, we need to have a kingdom lifestyle.
Can I get an amen. So, we don't want to be, you
know, living dead, we're Undertaker's.
We don't want to be living religiously.
We're caretakers. We want to be like wise man who
persevere to be in the presence of God, we want to live the
kingdom. We won't have a kingdom
lifestyle. That means you're a risk-taker.
I said you're a risk-taker. You're a risk-taker.
Well, how is it was a risk-taker look?
Like, well risk taker, is this person, Romans chapter, 16,
verse 3 and 4 says greet, Priscilla and Aquila my fellow
workers in Christ who Rest their own necks for my life to whom.
Not only I will give thanks but also all the churches of the
Gentiles. Are you living in such a way
that your life's at risk, meaning you're risking your
reputation, you're risking your wealth and Fortune, you're
risking your comfort, you're risking everything about you.
So that you accomplish God's plan, this is the only person
that truly living on the Earth right now.
Philippians chapter 2, verse 29, and 30 says receive him.
Then in the Lord and with all joy and hold men like him in
high regard who in High regard those who have prospered and
have the big house and the nice cars and go on vacation when
they want to and show up at church when they want to and you
know, and are nice to people and do certain things, you know,
when they want to, you know, and just kind of go through life and
seem like they're successful, know who are we holding in high
regard because he came close to death.
Meaning lay down their life so much so that the work of God can
move forward, hold. Who in high regard the one who's
willing to sacrifice his own life, for the work of Christ,
risking his life to complete. What was deficient in your, in
your service, to me? Amen.
Now, I'm not saying we're all going to be a bunch of Martyrs,
but I'm saying when you're living life, are you asking, God
what do you require of mine? What am I risking?
What risk and risk is only when if you do it and it failed,
you're out. Because that's what faith
requires, Faith requires us to get out into a place that if
they won. But God, we're a mess and we
can't accomplish And in 2019, we need to be Risk Takers.
I'm what I mean by that is literally hear God and then step
out on that word. And a risk taker is someone who
will believe God at his word. Even though right now in the
natural, I can't even see it, but I'll persevere till it comes
to pass. Amen.
We got to be a risk taker for Acts chapter 15 verse 6.
He says men who have risked their lives for the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ. I'm telling you got to risk your
reputation risk. What you think you want to do a
lot risk? What people think about you for
the sake of following the call of God?
I risk things. For the sake of God, I let go of
career, I let go of my own personal desires that and plans
when God apprehended me that day in Atlanta, Georgia, I went
places without jobs at a risk. That if I got there and the John
never came through, then I couldn't pay.
Rent, couldn't pay food for my kids and we'd all be in trouble.
Yet God, showed up every time. I said he showed up every time.
I didn't wait for a job to court me.
I showed up in places, God ordained for me.
I know people will I can't go, I won't have insurance, I have
insurance, his name is Jesus. He's the best health care plan,
you God? Amen.
Well don't you feel bad? Pastor Earle then when you were
growing up with your kids y'all didn't have any health care.
I never took him to the doctor. What's the problem?
I always love it. When people say this, I heard
this the other day with somebody had a cracked windshield.
I think I was at the gym. Yeah, I'm a windshield crack.
He said but it's okay. My insurance paid for it now.
They didn't you did. I mean, how many monthly
payments did you make? Once you go calculate that, I
mean, it's like we think that somebody's doing something for
us. I mean if you never get an
accident in 20-something years, how much money do you think
you've paid to have that assurance?
Then all of a sudden when you total your car you could have
bought yourself one yourself. Oh, I'm preaching now because
they're taking your money and they're getting interest off of
it and you feel secure. I mean who really wants health
care? Because who wants to say, I hope
I get sick. I hope I get so sick.
I hope I have the worst diseases.
I hope I get I hope I need the most expensive surgeries So, I
can get the most out of my insurance.
I mean, who does that, right? No, you're like I'll pay it hope
to never use it. You willfully hope to never use
what you expense every month. What?
And feel empowered by that. But then God says tithe.
Now, you messing with my money, Pastor, you giving it to the
insurance company and the minute you need to make a claim, they
drop you. Yes, preaching.
Good now, yeah. This is good stuff.
Like a weary land or break a. Take a risk financially.
Now we don't want to brag Blaze. Well, we got a caretaker little
Nest Egg, because I'm going to retire one day where you
retiring too. Hey, what do you have outside of
God? It'd be better for you to invest
in the Kingdom because he said, if you invest in him, you'll
play Treasures up. Where the moth?
Can't give to Ruskin destroy these?
Can't steal, but that's called trust.
That's called Faith. That's called taking her.
But what if I give God all my money through all these years
and it doesn't come through? Well, then you don't believe
because he'll never he said, I've never seen the righteous
forsaken or their children, begging for bread.
You got to take a risk, I'm gonna empty out my covers and
give it to somebody else. This Christmas season, what you
going to eat, doesn't matter. God told me to do and I'm doing
it where you going to starve to death.
You watch because you know what? When you actually follow God's
word, what risks are you really taking?
Cuz his word will never return to us.
Boyd. Now I'm telling you right now,
if you're living the life of God a kingdom life you're going to
get out somewhere to where all of a sudden looks like.
Bro, you're an idiot and you'll say but God and then when it's
time that like dude God was there.
Yep you're right. And so many people man, I want
to see the supernatural. You got to be a risk-taker.
You're not gonna see the supernatural by accident.
You're not going to walk him in miracles signs and wonders by
accident. Now you're ready to step out
when I would really love to see people healed today.
Well, then, why don't you actually lay hands on the purple
and put the person in Public's when God tells you to do so
well. But what if they don't get it,
that's not your responsibility. Your responsibility is respond
because I can guarantee you this if you don't lay hands on them,
they're not going to get it. If God told you lay hands on
that person that you went by Jesus.
You can I pray for you real quick because you don't know,
this could be one of the nine leopards who as they went stayed
away from Jesus. Yet got healed, only one came
back which was a Samaritan and began to Rejoice to God and say
you healed my body. They may leave Publix Be healed
the minute they crank up their car and all of a sudden can't
find you but because you took the risk to obey the Holy Ghost
and lay hands on the sick, they did recover.
It ain't about your reputation. It's about your obedience is
about you stepping out and doing God, and I'm hungry, but I feel
like the Lord sent me to pay for my co-workers word food.
Do it take a risk and then your stomach grumbles the rest of the
day because nobody buys you nothing.
But six months from then. I had somebody send me a smoked
turkey while I was in India. I mean it today.
Vladimir took a picture of this fat turkey at my doorstep.
Seriously. I've given a lot of food away.
So it has a way of showing back up and it's not cause I'm broken
couldn't a bone it myself but my God's that good.
You understand he's so good that even when I have it he does a
exceedingly abundantly far beyond what I could think or
imagine because I'm a risk taker.
I'm not here for me. I'm here for him.
I don't have to care for my life.
He cares for it. I'd be concerned about dead
things, he took care of the Dead things, and they gave me a life.
Now, all I got to do a stand and believe our Usher's well or us
have already distributed our communion at this point.
I want us to do communion together.
All right, so if you need an element means if you didn't
receive one. Then I want to encourage you
right now, raise your hand or Usher's, that get one to you
say, hey, I don't have a communion element.
I came in a little late or slit in or miss that.
At hand off, just raise your hand or Usher, don't come around
and give you one because we going to 2019.
As we talk about celebrating Jesus Christ as our Lord.
You all right, everybody. Good.
Amen. I love it.
Y'all pulled some things out of me today.
I think God when you actually want to hear the word of God and
pull things out, I want to take communion together for though
and say, well can I I'm not a partner of anchor features can
I? Yeah, you can take communion if
you're a Believer now, if you're not a Believer, don't Okay, and
if you are a Believer and you're in sinning, you know, it don't
unless you repent. So, why are you saying that
Pastor Earle? I mean, I like, can't I take it
because the Bible says, you shouldn't take it because the
Bible says, if you take a communion where you recognize
the death burial and resurrection of Jesus, in an
unworthy manner, you'll take it bringing judgment to yourself.
So it's actually God's mercy. If you're not going to repent to
just with stain. Was staying.
Now God's best plan is that you actually repent and just get
right with God child of God. Just get reconnected with the
Lord, he loves you so much because when you were lost him
were really no good and had no hope Christ, still loves you and
made a way for you. How much more you being his
child? Does he want you to stay in
fellowship with him? How much more?
How much quicker Is he there to forgive you of all your
transgression? How much quicker?