Praise the Lord, welcome to God's place, part of Jesus's ministry. It's always an honor to be here, be serving some God and sharing the word of God. You know, the word is what's changed my life. You know, it's, the Bible says in the beginning was the word, the word was God, and the word was God.
So, you know, reality, God changes our life. He is the way the life and the truth. And I'm gonna come to Father, but by Him. And, you know, just that's what we want to talk about today is the word of God.
And you know, what the Lord has laid on my heart today is just, you know, about keeping God's commandments. The Bible says in John 14, 14, He said, that's anything in my name, and I will do it. But verse 15 says, but if you love me, keep my commandments. You know, the Bible says in 1 John chapter three, verse two, he says, in 1 chapter two, verse three, he says, you know that you know of me if you keep my commandments.
In verse four, he says, if you say you know me, and not obey my commandments, then you're a liar and the truth is not in you. And you know, it mazes me today, you know, how people, like a lot of people don't even preach commandments no more, they don't preach commandments of God, they don't preach repentance. Don't wanna offend nobody, but listen, this is not what God wants. God wants us to teach people.
You know, God's called us to preachers, if He's called you to preach, then preach. Amen, we're not massaged therapists, we're not supposed to be pleasing to the Bible says that He put us in the trust with the gospel, that we not speak pleasing to men, but pleasing to God. And you know, it's really sad because so many people, you're more concerned about your friendship than truly, than you are than your friend. Amen, you know, when you've got the manifestation of the love of God in you, then you love people, you want them to know the truth, and you want them, you know, God, it's not us, but it's God in us, that wants to let people know what He expects from us when He shows up, amen.
And so it's, you know, it's so many today in this world today, it's a lot of churches are just entertainment, you know, they want to, we've got so much going on, concerts and smoking this, and a lot of people don't even have altar calls, and but church is a place that we come to teach people what God expects to, you know, alter, it's a place of change. You know, every church, every service I believe, you know, we have altar call, every service that we have, amen. And it's never, we've never had an altar call, it's somebody didn't come. And you know, and the reason that they do is because they feel the spirit of God, they feel, you know, conviction.
A lot of people don't want to preach things that will cause conviction, because, you know, they don't want to offend nobody, but we got to realize that conviction is a gift from God. It's a, it's a gift, it's a Holy Spirit, amen, that can, nobody gets saved unless they're convicted, amen. And so I thank God for conviction, if it wasn't conviction and chastisement, I wouldn't be here today. But you know, you know, I want to talk about, you know, right here in the book of Proverbs in chapter seven, it says, and I'd ask everybody out there to pray, pray for the lost and pray for me that God would use me, you know, to speak, you should not, to speak the word of God.
But in Proverbs chapter seven verse one, it says, my son, keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee, keep my commandments and live and the law as the apple of the eye, he says, bind them up on the fingers, write them on the table of the heart, amen. And so write them up on the table of your heart. The Bible says, you know, that God will write, he says what he says, he will write his law upon the table of our heart. And so I know you've got some scriptures and some words here.
We all, you know, we all need some kind of commandments in our, you know, the sinful world. The Bible tells us that this whole world lies in weakness. And you know, also we're born with that sinful nature, you know, where we need instructions from God. You know, we need to be corrected, we need to be reproved, you know, and Bible says that all scripture is given its inspiration for God, it's profitable for doctrine, reproved for correction instructions for righteousness that the men of God may be perfect and thoroughly furnished into all good works.
And so all scripture is given to us, it's divine purpose, that's the whole divine purpose is change, is conviction. That's the only way there's gonna be change is conviction. You know, and I think it's Proverbs 6, 23, he talks about, you know, the word being a lamp, but also that, you know, the law is a lot for us. And it says that instruction and reproofs are the way of life.
If we're not being corrected, if we're not being convicted, we're constantly supposed to have the spirit working within us. There's something that God wants us to grow, there's something that God wants us to surrender, you know, because the creature itself should be delivered from bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of children of God. You know, until you're free indeed, and you know, God's gonna continue to make you free. And it takes the commandments to help us, like a schoolmaster for us.
And you know, the Bible tells us, you know, that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but fools despise instruction. Don't be a fool today. The Bible says, be wise here instruction, refuse at night, in Proverbs 833. And that's what we're here today.
You know, we're here going on by the Word of God, and it's every, you know, God breeds what God has spoke to men and women of God, and he's speaking to you. You know, and it's all good. It's all for good. The Bible tells us in Romans 712.
He says, for the law is holy, just, and good. You know, all these is beneficial for us, and it will help us, you know, to show us what God wants us to do. And most of all, you know, the commandments, the greatest commandment is to love the Lord, that God with all your heart, your mind, your soul and your strength. We were sitting here talking a minute ago about, you know, and loving our neighbor as ourself is a second commandment.
Well, if we could get those two down, then the Bible says that loving our neighbor, this is the whole fulfillment of the law. You know, then we've got all the other commandments down, because really that's the hardest commandment. It's easy to love God, the one that's saved you, that's, you know, has protection from you and your family, and give you family and bless you, and give you favor, and healed you and delivered you, and made a way for you and the wilderness, and he gave you water and rivers of water in the desert, you know, and so many times, you know, God was there loving you, and he's had his grace upon our life. It's easy to love somebody that's continually good.
And, but loving our neighbor as ourself. Also, the neighbor is the believer and the unbeliever, you know. It's whoever's around you is your neighbor, right, man? It could be your husband, your spouse.
It could be, you know, where it could be someone that's coming against you. And that's why he tells us to bless our enemies, to pray for the ones that responsibly use us, and to do good to those that do evil to us, you know, because there's so much power in that, because we're not relying on the flesh when we do that. We're totally relying on the Spirit of God to show up. Amen.
The Bible says that when we are weak, he is strong, and that's what he means by that scripture, you know, that our flesh is weak, and we're not relying on that flesh, and we're relying on the Spirit of God to come and to intervene on that behalf. And, you know, the commemps of God is what keeps us, you know, the Bible tells us, you know, that this is how we know that we know God is by keeping his commandments. You know, he's commanded from generation to generation, from old covenant to new covenant for us to keep the commandments. You know, we're not under all the 700-something laws that in the Moazic, you know, walls from the old covenant, but we are under the covering the blood of cross, but we still have commandments for today.
And like I said, the first and the second one, and then you've got the commandments of God, you know, and you know, you just got to really, most of all, the Bible says that love is the hope of him of the law. Well, you know, it makes sense because if you love God and you love your neighbor, well, if you love your neighbor, you're not gonna steal from him, you know, that's not still, well, you're not gonna kill him, so that's not murder, that's just struck out to the man. You should not covenant with the neighbor's God. If you love your neighbor, you love him enough that you're just blessed to see them blessed, and you're happy for him, so that's gonna cover that law also.
And if you love your neighbor, you're not gonna lie again. So I mean, it truly does. It fulfills the love of the covenant stands. The love of the covenant stands.
But you know, and God wants his people to be blessed. And you know, we are children of God, and I am so, I mean, I lived in a band 14 years ago, I lived in a house, she and lived underneath the bridge, praise the Lord seven years ago, addicted to heroin, walking the streets, and the only difference is that's inner life that we gave our life to Christ, amen. And the Bible says, being an evil parent, Matthew 7, 11, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in heaven, know how to give to those who are asking. The Bible says, the devil come to kill still in the story, and Jesus come to give us life in life more abundantly.
You know, when he's saying to me, he gave me life, but my wife, it's my abundance. I've got children, it's my abundance. We've got other children that's living with us. That's more abundant, say, man, we got my sons.
That's one came from Oregon, lives with us now. That's more abundant, say, man, my son, 21 years old, got shot, now he's serving the Lord. You know, he's two weeks prior to his accident, not accident, somebody, house invasion, somebody come to his house and shot him. He stood up in church and asked the church to pray for him, and his fiance said, we wanna get closer to God.
Well, two weeks later, he got shot, and he was in an ambulance, and he told the Lord, the Lord, if you'll let me live, I'll serve you. 21 years old, he don't smoke, he don't curse. He's a leader of Alpha-Concept's Roofing Company. It's amazing, he prays for these guys, 21 years old, he's a leader, a spiritual leader.
Pray for him every morning, before they go to work, he prays for him to come down for lunch. That's abundance, that's the promises of God that he would save us and her whole family, amen. But God wants us to be obedient to him. The Bible says in Hebrews 5-9, that Jesus Christ is the author of eternal salvation to those of A and you know, I was going to, you know, right here in Newarron, we in chapter 11, verse one, he says, therefore, I shall love the Lord, I God, and keep charge in his status and his judgments and his commandments always, amen.
Again, in verse eight, he says, thou shall keep all the commandments, which I commend you this day, that you shall be strong and go possess, possess the land, whether I go to possess it. He says, and you may, he said, I will prolong your days, amen. Again, it says in verse 13, is shall come to pass that if you shall hearken diligently into my commandments, which I commend you this day, to love the Lord, I God, and to serve him with all your heart and your soul, amen. So it's all the way through it.
Durran 11, 26, behold, I said before you, this day of blessing or a curse, if you obey the commandments of the Lord, I God, which I commend you this day, amen. He says, but if you don't, he saw a curse upon you, amen. And it's just, listen, it's all about being obedient to God. You know, and it's a shame because most people in the churches don't even know the commandments of God.
In Matthew 5, 17, you know, God didn't come to destroy the law, but you know that he comes at the law shall be fulfilled, amen. And the law that I'm talking about is God's law that he took Moses up on the mountain. And he wrote them with his own finger, and he said them in stone. And the reason that he said them in stone, because they was meant to be kept.
And you know, you go through all the commandments, and you know, most of them being, you know, going to church, we know we shouldn't murder, amen. We know we shouldn't steal. It's just knowing the difference from right to wrong. But some of them, it takes the power God.
Without God's help, without God's Spirit, it's impossible to keep even the Team Commandments, amen. Especially the other two that God wrote, Mark 12, verse 30, the number one greatest is to love him, the whole heart, your mind, your soul, and your strength. And the next verse 31 is the love of our neighbors, ourself. So, and you know, if you'll notice in the Team Commandments, if you really looked at them and searched them, you know, God tells you, I'll wait through the Bible if you love me, keep my commandments.
If you say, you know me, and not obey my commandments, you're a liar, and the truth's not in you. But the one that most people break, and don't even realize besides covenants, we talked about that earlier, it's so, you know, without God, I mean, everybody, you see a big mansion, said, you know, it's so easy to covenant that, but if you're really full of the whole spirit, you can be content and grateful right where you're at, amen. But the biggest one that a lot of people breaks is the number four. And that says, the Lord says, hey, he says, remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
And you know, and I'm sorry, what you want to say? Yeah, the first four commitments or how we're supposed to, you know, be obedient to God, but the next six is how we're supposed to be to our fellow brothers. And yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. Oh, you're okay.
But you know, and I was raised up my whole life, I went to church on Sunday, we used to go to church on Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night. And you know, God had woke me up about three o'clock in the morning. And the Bible says in Psalms 25 14, that the Holy Spirit will teach you all things. And so he woke me up and he started speaking to me about, hey, man, I said, no one team, he started speaking to me about keeping God's Sabbath day.
And I'm like, what are you talking about God? And so he started showing me when God took Moses upon the mountain, I wrote him his own finger, he said, I'm in stone. And then he started showing me how just one of them out of 10 says, remember, and I'm like, well, why's that Lord? And then he started doing research and study on it.
And he showed me years ago, you know, people, they honored this true Sabbath day. Well, what is the true Sabbath day? Well, Genesis chapter two verse three, God created heaven and earth in six days. Well, on the Sabbath, he rested and he sanctified that day.
Amen. Well, so many people said, well, I keep my Sabbath. Well, who Sabbath? Amen.
This is God. God said, he sanctified it. Amen. So if who are we to change God's holy day?
What right do we have? It's like your birthday. It's stamped. It's on your birth certificate.
I can't change it. Mom can't change it. It's your birthday. It's sanctified.
Amen. To be your birthday. So, you know, I started reading the get God started giving scriptures about, you know, the Sabbath and of course, Duralani chapter five verse 12, he says, keep the Sabbath to sanctify it as the Lord I God has commanded me. Amen.
And so, you know, first John chapter three verse 22, he says, whatsoever we ask we shall receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things pleasing inside. Amen. And so, and he says, praise the Lord and he says, and you'll know that he dwell within you and you in him and we about in us is a spirit that he has given us. I mean, so that's how that we get the manifestation of God is by keeping God's commandments.
The Bible says in John 14 21, he had my commandments and keeping my commandments. It is he that loves me. He either loves me will be loved by my father and I will love him and I will manifest myself. So that's why we don't see the manifestation.
That's why we don't see the power of God. You know, I've been honored to see a person that was tagged. It was dead. I've seen God raise him up.
I've seen cancer healed. I've seen it healed. I feel the presence of God. I hear God's voice and that's what God wants for all of us.
Amen. And the Bible says in Genesis chapter 2 verse 2, he said, on the seventh day God ended his work when he had made and he rested on the seventh day. Amen. From all of his work which he had made and he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.
Amen. In the book of Exodus in chapter 31, 12 through 18, the Lord said, six days work shall be done on the Sabbath. You should rest. Amen.
And he said, any man work on the Sabbath day. He should surely be put to death. You know, the Bible says in the book of praise God, he says in the book of Mark in chapter 2 verse 28, the Lord says, the Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath day. So again, it's not up to us to change it.
He's the Lord over the Sabbath day. And it went on to do some research about what Jesus did on the Sabbath day and which is, if you look at your calendar, the first day of the week is on Sunday, the seventh day is on Saturday and you think about it. What's the most part of the day of the week? Saturday.
Saturday. All the football games, college games actually starts from Friday not Sunday, everybody gets paid, they're hitting streets and it goes from Saturday not Sunday. Amen. But Luke 13 verse 10, he said, and he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
Talk about Jesus. In Acts 18, 4, he said, and he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, amen. So Jesus himself, he preached on the Sabbath. Mark chapter 1 verse 21, on the Sabbath day he entered in the synagogue and talked.
Numbers chapter 15 verse 33, and he found him gathering sticks and brought him to Moses and Aaron. And because it was not declared, what should be done to him? And the Lord said unto Moses, the man shall surely be put to death and all the congregations shall stone him with stones. So listen, God, there's a man that did nothing but carry some sticks through his yard.
And they brought him to Moses and Aaron and said, what must we do with this man? And the Lord told Moses that this man must be put to death and they all stoned him to death. Now we're not under the old law, we don't stone people to death no more. Amen.
As far as Moses is law, but he broke God's law. And you know that's what happened. It's still in the New Testament, the Bible says in Proverbs 19, 16, those who keepeth my commandments keepeth his own soul. Those who despise my way shall die.
James 15, who shall ever keep the whole off? The only point is guilty of all. Amen. Okay, Exodus 31, 16, wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for his perpetual covenant.
That means forever. Amen. And so listen, guys, we got to quit wavering. We got to quit changing.
Rules of God. We have got to be obedient to God. He's the author of eternal salvation to those of a man. And that's how we get the manifestation.
He's showing God. He says, if you love me, you say you love me and keep not my commandments, then you're a liar. And the truth is not anything. Thank God, by the grace of God, by the power of God, through the Holy Spirit, me and my wife, we keep the Sabbath through him.
You know, we don't go to the lake. We don't go fishing. We don't go motorcycle riding. We don't do anything.
We study the word of God. And we have church on Saturday. And I know some of the people out there have probably seen, they're probably Saturday of angels. Listen, I don't believe in none of the denominations.
Amen. I believe I've never been to a Saturday church in my whole life. And then I believe that God has taught us to as one body of Christ. I believe in unity.
I believe God wants us all to come together. And I believe that the Bible said he that is in the Lord is one of the denominations. There's one God. Amen.
If we're all seeking the same God, we all will be in the same spirit. Amen. Praise God. And so the fact that we separate ourselves, that is not of God.
To me, that's not right standing with God. That's unrighteous. Amen. The Bible said, I'll see in his unrighteous, in the unrighteous, shout out in the name of the King of God.
If you're my brother, amen. There's one God. If you're seeking God, be whole heart. He's going to teach us anyway.
He's going to teach us the same things. You know, there's a lot of times that the people, the church, God's place, the message I'll preach, somebody seeking God, God's had them on the same scriptures all day long studying the same thing. A lot of times Shannon and I, we think a lot. The Bible said he brings one and he'll take two and he makes them as one.
He says, me and my father, we are as one. Amen. And if you'll seek me to be whole heart, then Jesus said you and him was one too. So that means the body of Christ will be as one.
We're all supposed to have the same mind said. He selected to be no division among you. Amen. Praise the Lord.
There's another commandment that a lot of us, we break. We have broke. And it's the first commandment. The Bible says to have no other gods before him.
And either that could be a family, your children, your spouse, that's why the Bible says, that he that loves a son or daughter or mother, father more than me, is not worthy of me. It could be money. The Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. He also tells us to, it could be materialistic things.
It could be watching TV. So anything you spend more time in that you're putting your heart into that becomes your God. And he tells us to love not the world as the things that are in the world or the love that fathers not in us. And our greatest commandment is to love the Lord, God, with all of our heart or mind or soul and our strength.
So anything before that, that becomes an idol and that we're worshiping another God. And that's what we've got to always continue to make sure there's no strong code of us to spend more time, either awedowness or we spend more time doing things that are pleasurable to ourselves as of going vacation wise or just spending time, anything that sports, anything that you can do more that consumes and yes, consumes your mind. And that's one commandment too that the Bible tells us that we can't serve two masters. We'll serve one and despise the other.
So you can't serve them both at the same time. Amen. And that's why we must be born again. You might be out there today and it's hard to understand.
If you've never been born again and you're not going to understand even what we're talking about, the Bible says a natural man can't understand the things of spirit. There are foolishness to him because he's not spiritually discerned. So you can't even understand that we're supposed to love God more than we love our children. Amen.
That's, that's, don't even make sense to you. But see the key of it is realizing that, you know, you can't do this on your own. We all, we all need a Savior and Jesus Christ come to be our Savior. And you know, he wants to save us all.
He's long suffered and he's not willing for any of us to perish. And we all need a Savior. Amen. And all the times you should have been dead in your life and all the things that happen to you, until it was God that's pulled you through it.
Every good and perfect gift is a gift from God. Amen. The beautiful children that you have today, amen. Everything that's the higher that you breathe, it belongs to God.
So he, he, he deserves to be. He wants our first fruit of everything. Amen. And that's another way that people is losing their blessings.
You know, it's not given their tithing. And we don't preach about giving money. You know, praise God, but God wants you to pay your tithes because the Bible says in Malachi chapter three verse five, if you not, give your tithes to the storehouse, then you shall be cursed, amen. And I see people working, I know when God works sixty, seventy, eighty hours a week, but you can't never get ahead.
And that's the God. And he's not paying his tithes and he's got curses in his life. And he and I just had his discussion. And so you, you know, God wants you to be blessed, but we got to get these curses out of our lives.
And the biggest curse is being disobedient to God. You can't reject God and be rebellious to God and disobey God and inspect God and bless you. He wants to bless you. He said, I'm able to do exceedingly abundantly above all things you ask or think.
If you love me, keep my commandments, ask anything in my name and I will do it. He said, whatsoever you ask, you shall receive of me because you keep my commandments and do those things pleasing to my side. So if you want to change in your life, then give your life to Jesus and let him control it. And be born again.
Ask God to come in your heart, save you, praise the Lord. And you know what, when you do that, then your life belongs to him. And you've got to grab a hold of his hand and ask him for instructions. You know, everything you do, you've got to ask God.
Let the Spirit lead you and guide you. Amen. He know he is away, the life and the truth and no man will come to Father but by him. Listen, pray for this ministry.
If you've got his touch to you today, if you want prayer, call the number on the screen. We're praying for leaders. We're praying for help, amen. We want to be able to God use us to touch more people.
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God bless you. Remember, the Bible says in the book of John chapter 3 verse 3 that you must be born again. And being born again means that you ask God to come in your heart and save you from your sins. The Bible says if you confess your sins, he is faithful and just forgiving and clean you from all in righteousness.
And now it means your life don't belong to you no more. It belongs to him. And the Bible says trust God be a whole heart, not to lean on your own understanding. Knowledge him in all ways and he shall lead you past.
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