Praise the Lord. Welcome to God's Place Party for Jesus's Ministry. Again, it's such an honor to privilege to be here tonight. My beautiful wife, Shannon, and just to share in the good news with the Gospel, Amen.
And so I want to thank God for what He's done in my life and you know, I gave my life to the Lord almost 15 years ago. And it's, there's nothing like it. There's, there's no joy or happiness in peace in this world. It's, it's all in Jesus Christ.
And, and you know, we're here today to, if you never, if you never really truly gave your life to Lord, that hopefully today will be your day. Today is the South, today is the day of salvation. No man's promised to more away. Amen.
I'm going to do some of my wife, this is Shannon, and let her just kind of give you an idea of what God has done in her life. Yes, the Lord is, is good, you know, with the good news and the Gospel of God, you know, it's, there's nothing bad that the good news can overcome. Amen. You know, myself, it's been, I guess, about seven and a half years now, you know, I've been in the Lord and I've had peace and, and joy and happiness and love and long, patience and long stuff and all these things that God has put inside of me.
But, you know, before it was unforgiveness, bitterness, hatred. Just, you know, just being calloused is the word of wretched person, you know, just, and, you know, so much torment and fear that I was going through from things that I had suffered, you know, as growing up and all the things I didn't understand why I had to go through like we all do, you know, poor, pitiful me and that's the way that I felt, but really, you're really hurting on the inside, you know, you're having heartaches and burdens and all these things. And I just thank God today for the grace of God, you know, the Bible tells us in Romans 1513, he says, now, you know, the God of all hope, you know, that can give us peace and joy and that we may have hope by the power of the Holy Ghost that it bounds with us, you know, and I thank God for his spirit because that's the only thing that can give you life. And the Bible tells us in John 10 10, he says, the enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy, but Jesus comes to give us life and life more abundantly.
Jesus' overcome it when, when, what he did on the cross that defeated everything, he overcome any oppression or hardships in our life, you know, that, because that's opportunity for us. The Bible tells us that, you know, that the grace of God and the salvation has appeared into all men, you know, and that's what he's, he's, he's, gave us all the opportunity to call the name of the Lord and be saved. Even the Word, you know, the Word of God, it's being preached every different, you know, nationality in every different country in every different language, you know, so people have an opportunity, you know, to hear the Gospel and to be saved. And today I'm just going to talk a little bit about, it's, it's trust in God, there are trials and tribulation, and the Bible will start reading 1 Peter 4, 12, you know, he tells us, beloved, thank it not string concerning the very trial, which is to try you, as though some strange thing, strange thing happened to you.
And then he tells us that, you know, my brethren counted all joy when you founded divers temptations, knowing this, that the trying of your faith work with patients. See, tell me, it's coming among all men, temptations, want to be common, you know, and don't think it's strange that, you know, why is this happening to me, and that's, like I said, that's the way that I used to feel like, you know, even when you do, you feel like you've done good in the new world. You know, it's because you don't have the Savior, you know, you've got to be born again and you've got to be saved. And that's something where, you know, we're all destroyed from lack of knowledge until we come to the knowledge of God, and we're being born again in God.
But, you know, through all of our suffering, controls and tribulations, you know, there's God, we've got to rejoice, he tells us to rejoice. The Bible tells us in 1 Peter 4, 13, he says, but rejoice, and as much as you are partakers of cross-suffering, that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. But, you know, God's praise God through your suffering because, you know, cross-suffered and he died to leave as an example that we're supposed to follow him, and may be no sin or call in his mouth. But see, the beginning of that scripture, cross-suffered, and we're being partakers of cross, just as he says right here in 1 Peter 4, 13, you know, we've got to rejoice, because we're going to be glad when the glory's revealed in us, and that, you know, God will see us through it.
And the Bible tells us in James 1, 12, to bless is a man that endures temptation, you know, for he shall receive a crown of life to him that promised him. You know, all this temptation that you endure through Christ, you know, there's glory that's going to follow, and that's what his word says, you know. The Bible tells us in Romans 8, 18, he says, I reckon for the sufferings of this world cannot be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us. You know, and that's where today, and the appearing of Jesus Christ, you know, whenever he calls us, and we're going to be held accountable for everything that we've done in the body and the flesh, and in the spirit, you know, and when we endure these temptations, we're letting cross the power of God rest upon us.
And that's what he tells us also, and he tells us, and I'm just going to be reading a few scriptures, and Joshua will not have I not commanded thee to be strong and to be of good courage, be not afraid, neither be dismayed for the Lord that God is with thee wherever thou goest. Bible says he'll never leave us, and he'll never forsake us. And, you know, the Bible tells us in Psalms 23 that as we walk to the valley of the shadow of death, we'll fear not because he is with us. His rod and staff, they comfort us.
You know, his word and his Holy Spirit will comfort us through it, and that's what we're supposed to do. He says, you know, be not dismayed. For I'm the Lord that God, I will be with you forever, wherever thou goest. So no matter whatever trial, whatever tribulation that you go through, God's got purpose through it.
And because of what Jesus do on the cross, we all have purpose now. And the Bible tells us in Romans 12, 12, rejoice in hope, patient tribulation, continue in prayer. See, that's what we've got to hold on to is our hope, and trust in God. It's only hope that we have is to trust God.
You know, that Jesus is our only hope, and whenever we're rejoicing, and, you know, we know that God's going to see us through it, you know, just like the three Hebrew children. You know, they went through fire, but they were not burned, you know, but they knew, and they trusted God, you know, that when they stepped into that furnace fire, that God was going to see them through it. And sometimes we've got to go through that furnace of fire and to be refined, and to know that God is with us, we've got to be like the mad meat chat. I can't even say, sadrack, sadrack meat chat and be a goat.
And the three Hebrew children, we've got to be like them and have that faith and trust in God that even though I'm going through this fire, God's going to be with me. And you know, he tells us that, you know, he will regard the prayer, he will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise the prayer. We just got to pray. That's the best thing that we can do with the trials and tribulation, and that's trusting God.
The Bible says to pray without seizing, you know, and whatsoever we ask, we shall receive of him. And because we believe in prayer, and that's what we've got to continue to do is pray. The Bible tells us the Lord in Proverbs 15, 29, the Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. That's a whole other message right there.
John 931, God not hear pray for center, but those who does his will and worship him, he hears. You know, he does chastise his sons and daughters. You know, sometimes it's for disobedience. And sometimes it's maybe because, you know, you're not being saved.
And the Bible says that John 36, he that believeth on the son will have everlasting life, but he that believeth not on the son, the wrath of God, about on him. So it could be either you're being chastened for disobedience in the Lord, and he's trying to tell you like Jonah was, you know, to go and to go do something as a call that God's trying to sin you to and you're disobeying him, or you could just, you know, you could be a non-believer, and God's trying to get your attention. Amen. But you know, the Bible tells us that we got to remember that God not hear a prayer of a sinner, we just need to make sure our prayer life that we've confessed our sins.
And God has forgiven us for those sins once we've confessed them, and we've got to believe God's word that we are forgiven. And then I wrote down a few other scriptures. You know, Jude 1, 20 is one of my favorite scriptures, he's talking about us, you know, this is how we build ourselves, it's praying in the Holy Ghost, it's the most holy faith there is. And again, that's prayer, and that's the best thing that we can do through sufferings, through trials and tribulations, to pray more, you know, you always say push, pray into something happens, and that's what you've got to do, push, and you know, you will prevail.
And then Hebrews 2, 10, it says, for whom are all things, or all things, spring in many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. We're made perfect through sufferings. Amen. The Bible tells us in 1st Peter 3, 17, if the will of God be so, better see that suffer for well during the navel doing, you know, so praise God that you're suffering for Christ's sake, you know, but count it all joy, because God, he's promised them, you know, a crown of righteousness.
And then he tells us that in 2 Corinthians 1, 5, he says, for all, as the sufferings of cross abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by cross. Even though we're suffering, we got the Spirit of God, praise the Lord because he can comfort us. The Holy Spirit is sent to comfort us. And he also tells us in 2 Corinthians 1, 4, it's to come for others as well, that same comforting that God comfort you with.
It's a testimony to help comfort somebody else through that same trial or tribulation. You know, it's helped to build character. And then, you know, the Bible tells us in John 16, 33, he said, I've spoken these things to you. In this world, you will have tribulation.
He says, but be of good cheer because I've overcome the world. You can overcome any suffering and trial through Jesus Christ. The Bible says that, you know, we are more than a conqueror through him that loves us in Romans 8, 37. He tells us in 1st John 4, 4, greater see that's in us and that's in the world.
No worldly suffering can, you know, can overtake what God can reveal. And that's through suffering, there's grief, you know, through grief and suffering. His power will follow. And then I just want to mention one thing.
I think about King David, you know, and that's how a lot of us feel whenever we're seeking the Lord and we're trying to walk and grow in the Lord and be desopled by the Lord. And we just keep coming and having to face all these different things. I think of King David, he had to kill that bear. Then he had to kill the lion and then he had to face the giant.
Amen. But, you know, God let him overcome all of them because he tries to God. And he knew that God was with him and he was courageous and a warrior. And God had chosen him and anointed him so he could overcome his task.
And, you know, the giant, he even slain the giant and I know a lot of you know the stories, but it's just so powerful. He cut his head, the gloss head off. That was kind of a symbol of authority. You know, there's so much authority in Jesus' name and with God.
And the Bible tells us of God before us and who could be against us. The Bible tells us in 2 Timothy 2, 3, those who endured hardness as a good soldier for Christ. You're a good being a good soldier for Christ. The Bible tells us in 1st Peter 4, 16, he says, any man be a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God on this behalf.
We've got to glorify God. There were trials and tribulations and there were sufferings. One of your scriptures you quoted all the time is, I desire that you fainten to add to it. Yeah, you know, just the biggest thing is really just making sure that you're truly born again.
The Bible says in John 3, 3, he said, very, very, I've seen to you that you must be born again. And so, you know, a lot of people think they're born again. You know, it goes back to the book of Matthew. In chapter 7 where, you know, the people came to the Lord and said, Lord, if I not cast out demons, if I did not mean one for work, one for watching your name.
And the Lord said, the part for me, you're a workers of an equity, I never knew you. And so, if you're born again, that means that you are a new creation. You know, all things in your life that you used to do, you don't do them anymore. And your life now belongs to God.
He is your master. He's your father. And the Bible says, my sheep, they know my voice and they follow me. And so, you know, Luke 646 says, wow, that costs me, Lord, did not do what I say.
And so, you know, we have to be completely obedient to the Lord. You know, she was talking about Christ suffering and dying. The Bible said, even though he was a son, praise God, he learned obedience to his sufferings, amen, and he was obedient to the cross. And so, even though the death of the cross and, you know, being a Christian, it's not, you know, being a follower of God, it's not always easy.
You know, if it was easy, everybody would be doing it. Of course, you'd see everybody's not doing it. There's the Bible says, straight as a gate, and there was a way to probably be destruction. And then you go there at.
Straight as a gate, and there was a way to leave life and very few people will find it. And the only ones that's going to find it, the ones that's truly born again, the ones that's fallen in the Lord, that takes up their cross, the neither self, and followed him daily. The ones that grabs the Holy God's hand and do not let go, amen. We have to be led by the Spirit.
The Bible says, the Spirit is the Spirit, and the Spirit is the one against the flesh, and the contrary to one another. It's always a Bible. I've been serving the Lord for almost 15 years now, and my flesh, even today, my mind, my flesh is born against my Spirit. And so, but the way to overcome this, obviously we are more than a conqueror through him that loves us.
The way that we conquer it is through the love of Christ, through our love of Christ. The Bible says, the love of the love will cover a multitude of sin, amen. If you truly know God for who he is, and you truly have a great relationship, a fellowship, you know, that you serve him as your God. You can't help but to love him.
And if you love him, then you'll love him. And praise the number one grace, come in, love him, you hold heart, your mind, your soul, and your strength. And you know what? And all you've got to do is get to know him, to love him like that.
Truly get to know him. Where you put no other God before him, anything that you put before God, it will become your God. It's praise God, it's an idol. It's like a spiritual adultery, amen, because we're supposed to be married to God, amen.
And that's a, he's our master, he's our Savior. And everything, he said, wow, that calls me Lord, Lord, and not do the things I say. And so, literally, our life don't belong to us no more. The Bible says, you're about with the price.
He said, glory if I mean your body and your spirit. And you know, a lot of people, even though they receive crosses or personal Savior, they're not going by him in their spirit. You know, it kills me to see somebody walking around. You can tell when you're walking the Lord and you got the Spirit of God and your spirit will bear witness to their spirit.
And the Lord is getting a gift to know what people's not reading their Bibles. When you don't see that lie, amen, then you know they're not putting God in them. And they're not obedient to God. You know, it's not a suggestion.
It's a commandment that we truly love him. With our whole heart and mind, or soul and strength, if we love our son or daughter or mother or father, what a God. You're not worthy of him, amen. I had a God stand up in church that says, you know, the devil makes me think I'm unworthy to serve the Lord.
Well, it might not be the devil. It might be the way that you're living, the way that you're sinning against God. The Bible says, if you love your son or daughter or mother or mother or mother, you're not worthy of me. Well that's what God says.
So if you're not putting God first in your life, then you're not worthy of me. And you know, God gave it all for us. God gave his only begotten Son, amen, for each one of us, amen. I believe if it's nobody but you or me, amen.
He would have did it just for us, amen. And so he did that. So his spirit can live and manifest and dwell in us that we can be new creations that we can walk in the life. He is a lot.
And we need to let that lie manifest and order for that lie to manifest. We have to seek him every day with our heart. You know, it's got to become a way of life. Now you bone to God.
He's your Lord. He's your Savior. He's your Master. You have to be obedient to him and order to be obedient to him.
You have to give him, give your life to him and have a fellowship relationship with him. Y'all need to communicate and know that you know what he's saying. Be over here, his voice. My She, they know my voice and they follow me.
And he says, and I know them. That's real powerful because memory in Matthew 7, he says, I never knew you. And the reason he says he never knew him, because even though people come up and ask God to save them, listen, God will do it. But you have to do your part too.
You have to allow him to save you. Amen. You know, God is just because you ask God to save you. You don't mean you could go out and see him and you're saved from that sin.
He come to give you power over that sin. He come to save you from that sin to keep you from sinning. He said in Romans 6, we want to now grace be a balance. We continue to see him.
God forbid, amen. That's the reason Jesus died. That's the reason he was crucified. That's the reason he was resurrected.
That we can receive that spirit that gives us power over that sin. 1 John 3, 8 said, see in his other devil. The purpose of the Son of God is manifest. He might destroy the works of the devil.
You know what, praise the Lord. You might say, well, my preacher don't preach it like that. Well, praise God. If I was speaking about that.
He said in the last days, there'll be many false prophets and many false teachers. And many shall follow their pernicious ways. And the way of the truth will be he was spoken of. I met a guy one day.
He was out here drinking alcohol, selling crack. And the Lord had me witness to him. I've already been to a bar up on the sidewalk of a tavern. And I started witnessing, oh, my preacher don't preach it like that.
This guy's out here selling crack, drinking whiskey and thinking that he saved. You see what kind of shape her body and the body process in the day. Well, listen, it's time that you should know the truth and the truth will make you free. The Bible says in the book of John, chapter 5 verse 39.
He said, you think you have eternal life search descriptors, amen. Go to 1st, preaching 6, 9, where it says no ye not that ye unright to shut out here and keep God. Be not to see for a liar, a drunk thief, a whore, a coverless man, abusers of mankind, a homosexual spirit. We'll not go to heaven.
Amen. Go to 1st Peter 1 16, where he says, be holy, because I am holy. Go to Matthew 5 48. He says, hey, be perfect with your Father in heaven's perfect.
Genesis 17 1. I am the Lord Almighty. Walk before me and be perfect. Listen, let me tell you something.
It ain't no joke. There's a reason why the Bible says that very few people is going to make it because very few people want to say, Father God. They want to do it God's way. Everybody's trying to have a Burger King religion.
They want to do it their way. And they want to go through the drive through to get it. They're lazy. They don't want to read their Bible.
They don't want to seek God. They want everything just laid out for them. Listen, that's not the way it works. In order to serve God and let Him be your Lord and your Savior and your Master, you've got to put you whole heart into it.
You've got to truly show Him. He said, me and honor me with the lips. The heart is far from me. It's time for preachers to start preaching.
Amen. We're not massage therapists. We're preachers. Amen.
We're supposed to step on people's feet. Yeah. We're supposed to offend people in the spirit. It brings forth conviction.
Praise God. Conviction is a gift from the Holy Spirit. Amen. Without conviction, nobody gets saved.
Listen, I tell you, it's amazing to me how churches don't have autocalls, no more churches don't preach on repentance. Church don't preach on hell. Well, how did Jesus preach? Amen.
Jesus loves you enough to tell you the truth. He still tells you the truth. He tells you the unrighteous. We're not here to kingdom of God.
He tells you in Revelation chapter 3 verse 16, because you were not cold nor hot. You will look for Him. I will spew you out of my mouth. Amen.
So listen, He says in Matthew 10, 22, those who endure to the end shall be saved. Amen. You got a fight. You got a fight to take your last breath.
Paul said, I fought the fight of good faith. Amen. Listen, it's not easy. It's a fight.
It's a spiritual fight. Amen. You're fighting with the devil. He's always on your shoulder telling you it's okay to do this.
It's okay to do that. When he told Adam and Eve, you should surely not die. Amen. God told him if you eat the fruit of this tree, you will die.
Well, guess what? They didn't drop dead. He wasn't a physical death. It was a spiritual death.
Then lost a relationship with God. And what you do that, the Bible said the body without the spirit is dead. It's hard to get that back. You cheat on your husband and wife.
It's not easy to have that relationship that you have. You have broken something there. And when you sin against God, you have broken your relationship with God. You have to show Him.
You have to repent. Turn to Him and turn to God. Turn away from Him. And truly give Him your heart again.
Amen. And show Him that you are truly sorry for these people that, you know, I hear it all the time. I repent every night at 9. Well, praise God.
I hope you don't show up at 9 o'clock. You don't miss a boat. Amen. You've got truly repentance to me.
You repent. You are truly sorry. You don't go back to that sin for you people that commit the same sin every day of your life and think it's okay because you lay your head down and ask God forgive you. You're not sorry.
If you were sorry, you wouldn't keep doing it. Amen. We've got to show God that we're sorry. He said, if my people, which are called by my name would humble ourselves to seek my face and pray, turn from your wicked ways.
Then I will hear from heaven and forgive your sins and give your lands. That's why Corona is here today. Praise God. I thank God.
I felt one wiser than buddant stronger than crone. His name is Jesus Christ. Amen. There's nothing He can't do.
But that's a reason because people have been disobedient. People's not following God. People's not harking to God's voice just like the Bible says in Luke 1324. He said, strive to enter in.
Meaning we'll seek it. We'll not be able. Because of the sins in our life. You can't serve two masters.
You'll love one and hate the other. God don't want 50% of your life. He don't want 75% of your life. He wants your whole life.
Like He gave His whole son and Jesus Christ. So we can have life. Amen. Listen, God is a good God.
And I'm just telling you what the spirit gives me today. You know, we live in the last days. It's time to get our life, get our house in order and really get our lives lined up with the Word of God. Don't put your faith in me, a preacher or somebody else.
The Bible says it's better to put your faith in the Lord than trust in the men. The Bible says first, creatures 2-5. He said, put your faith in nothing. The wisdom of man but the power of God.
If you hear anything that the Lord says through me today, it's seek the Lord. Get to know Him. Give Him your whole heart. Everybody says, I know Jesus.
I love Jesus. The Bible says in 1 John 2-4, if you say you know me and not obey my command, but you're a liar. And the truth is not in you. 1 John 1-6.
He says, if you say you have fellowship with me and you walk in darkness, you're a liar. You know, I can relate to that for many years. I respect God. I knew that was a God.
He'd save me from death situations over and over again. He did miracles in my life that nobody could do but God. But I really didn't know Him. I knew about Him.
And I knew He was real. But you know, I never got to know Him into praise the Lord. Just like she said chastisement. I mean, I got a plastic valve in my heart.
I fell off three stories of concrete twice my mother's by me a casket. Once my bitch was written up. Praise the Lord. Finally, I said, hey, the Lord has truly beaten the devil out of me.
Amen. I surrender. I give up. Lord, I can't do this without you.
I understand that if I don't, if I keep rebelling, I keep rejecting you. I'm going to die. The way just to see this death. Amen.
So I said, Lord, if I've never been saved and saved me today, I don't know anything. If you don't come to me as a child, you shall not hear Him. God, Lord, I don't have a read. I don't have a pray.
There's not one song in the whole world. I remember all the words. But all I know is I need you. I need you to lead me.
I need you to guide me. I don't have nothing to offer you. I'm in jail. I'm homeless.
I'm a drug addict. I'm a junkie. I'm a crackhead. All I have to offer you is my heart.
But I will give you my heart today if you will accept me for who I am right now. And you know what He said just as you are. Amen. No matter what you're doing yesterday, no matter what you're doing before, no matter what you're doing your past God will accept you just as you are.
All I have to do is get down to my face and confess my heart and He was resurrected for me. Amen. And you know what. I started getting a relationship with God.
I couldn't even read. But I was sent with that Bible in front of me for hours at a time in the Knox County jail. And you know what I couldn't read it, but God was first speaking to me. He was the Holy Spirit was not revealing things to me later on.
I read what He had done spoke to me. Listen, there's nothing like walking in the presence of God. There's nothing like knowing God before You that Who could be against You. I've seen many miracles.
I see miracles in my life every day. I see His blessings. I see the fruit. I see I see people's lives change.
Praise the Lord, Lord, He's blessed us with me. We've always got six or eight praise We're watching people get saved. We're watching people come out of jails. We got one man right now that he's been in prison for almost 30 years and he's been coming faithfully.
He's about to give a big testimony. He's giving his life to Lord and you're talking about a changed man. Lord, he's bringing half a lounge down to church right now. Praise the Lord.
It's amazing what God will do if you were surrendered. Without God you have no happiness. You have no peace. You're just existing.
You have no purpose. Amen. You head down to the budget drag and wonder what you're going to do next. Well listen, what you need to do next is surrender and give your life to God.
He said if people confess your sins, amen. He said, Lord, it's faithful just for giving and cleaning you from all in crisis. You know what you can become a perfect person right now. Amen.
People say, ain't nobody going to be perfect. Well just ask God for giving for your sins and all your sins is gone. There washes away from the, as far as the east is from the west, please surrender and give your life to the Lord. We're looking for God is raising up on our army right now.
God's place is looking for soldiers. That's no matter what you've been. If you've been a hell's angel or prostitute, whatever, God loves you. He's looking for you.
People like you make better Christians. Come to God's place. You're welcome. The number's on the screen.
College, let's pray for you. You pray for us. Let's pray for one another. Let's get this thing right.
We'll see you next time. 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 has faith in just forgiving you and cleans you from all in righteousness.
And now it means your life don't blow to you no more. It blows to him. And the Bible says trust God to be a whole heart and not to lean on your own understanding. Knowledge him in all ways and he's so he can get your past.
Now it's time to get a relationship with God by reading and praying and seeking God to be a whole heart each and every day of your life. The Bible says the number one greatest commandment is to love God with your whole heart, your mind, your soul and your strength. Thank you for tuning in. God bless you.
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