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It's always an honor to be here in the presence of the Lord, be here in my beautiful wife and just sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And what I want to talk about today is the Word of Faithful. You know, we always, everybody wants faithful spouses, faithful husbands and wives and faithful children, faithful bosses and faithful employees. And you know, I'm going to go to the Word here in first single chapter 2 verse 33.
It said, and I will raise up a faithful priest that shall do according to that, which is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house in each other, walk before me, walk before my morning forever. And we just thank Lord for his word and the power in his word. And you know, that's the biggest thing.
Once we give our lives to Christ, you know, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10, 13, the Lord is faithful and he will not suffer us to be tempted more than we're able to bear and he will make it away for his escape temptation. The Word says that the Lord is faithful and he will not, praise God, and second to us as long as 3-3, the Lord is faithful and shall establish us and keep us from all evil. You know, the Lord is faithful, but you know, the question is, or we're really faithful as sons and daughters of God. You know, God has called us in the book of Acts.
He's commanded us for all of us to be witnesses. It's not a suggestion once we give our life to Christ and you know, we're brought with a price. We belong to Him. And you know, the whole, the whole duty, the Bible says in Ecclesiast chapter 12 verse 13.
He says, let's hear the conclusions of this whole matter. Fear the Lord and keep His commandments as a whole duty of men. And so that's our whole duty is to become servants to God. The Bible says you're brought with a price, be not a servant of man, but be a servant of God.
And you know, that's what I see in going back to the Word. In Matthew chapter 9 verse 37, I'm just a praise the Lord. I think, Matthew 9 chapter 9, I'm not sure exactly what scripture, 9, 36. He says the harvest is plenty, but the labors are few.
And so it's so disappointing just to know that the Father's looking down at His people, as the body of Christ, and the labors are few. You know, most people, we can leave here today and knock on every door up down this road, go to K-Mort, Wal-Mart, wherever, and ask people, 90% of the people that you talk to has been saved, they've been baptized. But what you, the Bible said, many professors, they know me, but in their works, they deny me. And so, you know, just be faithful to God.
You know, we want, you know, if we want honor from God, then we got to honor Him. The Bible talks about it in Second Timothy, you know, in the last days that means there'll be lovers of ourselves, more than lovers of God. And so Paul said in Galatians 2, 20, he said, I was crucified with Christ, never let's, I live not, but Christ, I live in me, the life I live now, that I live by faith that the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. You know, again, that our love don't want us.
And the Bible said, he that findeth his life will lose it, that he that loses life will find it. And that's the reason that we have a lack of peace and lack of joy, the body of Christ does. You know, you see people all the time claiming to be Christians, but, you know, their heads down to the butt's dragon. You just see no happiness, no peace and no virtue.
And that's, you know, that's what the Lord, if we're in God's will, then we'll have the fruits of a Christian. We'll have the love, the peace, the joy, the long suffered, the gentleness, the patience that God has caused us to have. But just because we've been delivered from the things of the world, there's a lot of people just because God is delivering them from drugs and alcohol and stuff like that, they think they're all right. But that's the first step.
You know, that's, that's what God has to do to prepare us to be His labors, to be His servants. Even Jesus Himself, He didn't come to this world to be served to, He come to serve. You know, He was wishing to stop us feet. And, you know, I seen a sign in the Lord, I know my heart actually, I've said this before, but I've seen the sign again this morning that said, you know, we're to wake up and say, God, what can I do for you today?
And you see this world of the shape that's at the end of the day, I mean, that the drug addiction is there's so many overdoses more and more every year. I mean, this has been the worst year in history. And you know, this is not, we wonder what, you know, people, what's the government going to do? What's their, this is not the government's responsibility.
It's our responsibility as Christians, as sons and daughters of God, as servants of God to go out and spread the gospel. And we're overcoming this by the blood of land, by the whatever testimony. You know, let people know what God has done in our lives. You know, people, when I first came to Loughton Cross, it's been almost 16 years ago, you know, I'd run around to everybody.
You know, I used to be a crack kid. I used to be a junkie. You know, I used to do this, I used to that. And people were, people with me, like they, like they would tell people that.
And the reason that God would have me tell people that these things is because I wasn't shame when I was at, but I am very grateful where God has brought me from. And the fact that God can deliver me from all those evil things in the world, that he can deliver anybody from anything that's not a God, the Bible says, the Lord is faithful. And Jude 1, 24, unto him that is able to keep you from following, and present you follows before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. God's the only one who can keep us from evil.
He's the only one who can keep us from temptations. The Bible says, we not wrestle against flesh and blood. Against specialities, the powers of darkness, world. You know, spiritual, spiritual weakness in high places.
We're fighting demons. We're fighting spirits. And we keep fighting physically. We have to go to the Lord and fight them spiritually.
We have to put on the whole honor of God that we make stand against the walls of the devil. But the only way, you know, when Jesus said, I'm the way the life and the truth, and no man will come to Father but by me. Well, he's the only way in order to, for God to be faithful and keep us from this evil and his temptation, we have to be faithful to him and give him our whole lives. And that's, you know, he tells you out the door to God.
In Matthew 624, you cannot serve two masters, you're a loved one and hate the other. And so many people, you know, they're, they want to compromise. They want to give God a little bit of their life or maybe even most of it. Most people I know, including myself, if the reason I can preach about this so much is because, you know, most of my life when I got saved 18 years old, you know, I wouldn't willing to give up my whole life.
I still wanted to do the things that was pleasurable in the flesh. You know, you know, I would justify in the same devil that told Adam and Eve, told Eve, it's okay, you can eat the fruit of that tree. You should surely not die. The devil's telling people today, well, you've came this far.
You gave up this and you gave up that. It's okay. God understands you're a working process. But, you know, God, he suffered too much.
He gave his only begotten son. Amen. Who should ever believe on him should not perish but have everlasting life. And, you know, in order to believe on somebody, you have to know them.
Amen. We can't just believe in Jesus if we don't know him. Well, that's how we gain a relationship with God, with Jesus. God has been faithful to him.
You know, he's not going to get intimate and he's not going to. The Bible says that he will reveal his secrets to those who fear him. And, you know, that's the whole key. You know, there's so much, there's so much false doctrine going on today.
The Bible says, you know, in the last days there'll be many false teachers, there'll be many false prophets. And the word, the way the truth will be, was spoken of. And God is a loving, merciful, gracious God. And he is a forgiving God.
And he did, he came to save us from her sins though. I mean, that's, that's in Romans 6 to, 6 and 1. He's in our grace to be able to have a continuing sin. God forbid.
That's the reason Jesus came and said, we can receive that, that mighty spirit of Jesus Christ. The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. It's supposed to live in you and you're supposed to feed that spirit man every day. And we're supposed to, the Bible said, if you're abiding him, he will abide in you and you'll walk as he walks.
But God is not going to be faithful to you unless you're faithful to him. Amen. He will keep you from all the evil, all the temptation. You know, he has prepared for us a path of righteousness.
And on that path is everything that you'll ever need. The Bible said he was the plow of your knee according to the riches and glory. You know, the peace will be on that path. The happiness, the joy, the blessings, endured running 1128.
He said, I've said before you, this day a blessing or a curse, a blessing if you serve me, a curse if you don't. So when we, you know, when we try to straddle the fence, I tell people straddle the fence and make you busts, all right, man. The Bible said, without chastising where the biceps and our sons, God will be up and correct in the text and once he loves. So when we try to sin against God, when we try to serve two masters, then we're hinder in a relationship with God.
You know, me and my wife, we got an amazing marriage. God has really blessed us. And the reason is, is because we both put God first. You know, every morning I pray with my wife and over my wife, a lot of times she's asleep because I leave sometimes before 30 morning and over my children and ask God to bless our relationship with him most of all and then bless our relationship with one another.
Bless my marriage with God first and then bless my marriage with my wife. You know, but we have a wonderful marriage. We have a wonderful relationship. Now if she, praise the Lord, if she started cheating just a little bit and that's what we call it with God, oh, it's just a little things.
I'm just doing a little this or a little that, you know, she could come in and say, well, praise the Lord, if your wife told you, I love you, I'm my heart and I quit talking to three of them guys I used to talk to and now that we're married, I'm just talking to one, well, you know, it wouldn't work out. And that's, you know, but we expect that to work with God. We expect him to excuse the little sins in our life. The truth of it is God come to save us from our sins, not just some of them.
And that's the reason people, you know, even the word of God says that, you know, that God will send a strong delusion to make people believe the law. And you know, of course, the description for which is really God would do that. And the fact of it is he's doing it because people's not truly giving their whole heart to God. And you want to serve the devil, he'll let you serve the devil.
You have your own free will. He's not going to force you to serve in him. If you want to cheat on him, you know what, you'll take his hand off and he'll let you have it your way. And but you know, that's why the Bible sits straight as the gate and narrows away.
The Bible really starts to destruction. And he says, but straight as the gate that leads a lot for very few people find it. And that's the reason very few people find it because most people, majority of the people that call their Christians today, has truly never been truly born again. Amen.
When you're truly born again, then your life becomes new. Everything about you becomes new. And if you've got something in your life that's not a God, he will start convicting you of it. And you know what, and it will bother you because you've got it because you've gained an intimate relationship with God.
When you're truly born with God, you want to get to know God. You'll get just spent time with God every day. The Bible says he didn't find his life shall lose it, but he'll lose his life will find it. And you know, that's, I tell people I got saved like 47 times and then I really got saved.
I really surrendered and gave my whole life to Christ. And then things, they changed. Amen. My feelings changed.
My heart to God changed. I mean, literally all day long, I think about God and everything I do on the way up here today. I was just looking at the beautiful skies and the trees and thinking about the beautiful gifts that God has given me, every good and perfect gift I get from the Lord above. Thinking about my children, my kids, my wife.
And I was thinking, man, you know, I want to make God as happy as my kids, as my family makes me happy because you know he's so awesome. And he wants everyone else to be blessed. He wants to say, he says, I wish above all things, he should prosper me in good health, even as your soul prospers. When the Word of God said, my people should store for my knowledge, that means information.
People don't realize it. When we sin against God, big sins, little sins, they're all equal in God's eyes. You open up the door for the enemy to come into your life and destroy. You come to kill, steal, destroy.
There's people right now that's lost their marriages over little big sins. You know, the Bible says, you are my temple, keep it holy. If any man to file my temple, he said, I will destroy them. You know, it's like anything that's not of God.
If it's either God or it's un-golly, it's either praise the Lord or it's unholy. It can't be both. Either we're sinners or saints. You know, praise God.
So, you know, when the Bible says you're a sin with good things, people don't realize what these little sins open up doors for the devil to come into their life and take away their finances and take away their health and take away, like I said, the devil comes to kill the devil to destroy and you're giving him that authority. Amen. But Jesus comes to give you life a lot more abundantly. I know you got something you want to add to this.
Amen. Yes, the Bible says that. Great is his faithfulness. Great is not faithfulness.
You know, he's such a faithful father to us. And once we see that, it'll give you that urgency to want to be faithful to the Father and to his will. He says, if you be faithful and little, he'll make you rulers over much. So it starts off with, you know, seeking God with all of your heart, your mind, your soul and your strength.
The Bible says in Matthew 6, 33 to seek him and his kingdom, all these other things will be added. So if we can just be faithful to God, he'll take care of everything else in our life. You know, and even as, you know, we sow seeds, the Bible says that, you know, whatever you sow is, you shall reap. So those seeds are being sowed.
Let it be watered and God will give the increase. You know, it's not our job to give the increase. You know, it's our job to remain faithful. And the Bible says that our fruit shall remain when we abide in him and we remain faithful.
And see, the Bible also tells us to be not weary and well-doing, we'll reap if we fake not. So as long as we continue to abide with God, continue to be faithful, we can be fruitful. That's the only way to be fruitful is to be faithful. And if you think about it, if you have a garden and you're so and, you know, you're so and seed and you've got to water it, you've got to watch over it, you've got to give it nourishment.
Spiritual nourishment is what we need. And that's the Holy Spirit that gives us that spiritual nourishment. But there's going to be labor in that process, you know, and that's to be unfaithful to God. And most of all, he's been faithful to his holy commandments that's delivered unto us.
And that's the main faithfulness that we shall abide with in relationship with God. And right here, I was going to read a scripture 1 Corinthians 4, too. He says, moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful. So God is looking for a faithful man.
And if we remain with him, he's going to remain with us. Because the Bible says that, you know, he that had the son has eternal life, but he that not had the son, the wrath of God abotteth on him. So if you're being faithful and evil, you know, there's a way that you can be faithful and evil, you know, and the wrath of God abotteth on us. So to do good and not, it's sin.
So we need to continue to do good and to be faithful to God so that we can produce fruit and that we can be fruitful in every fruit, not just one spirit, not just, you know, one of the fruit of the spirit. We need to be fruitful in every fruit, you know, and that's what he's called us to. And as long as we stay with God and God's grace will keep us and keep us to be faithful. But if you're like Tim says, you cannot serve too.
You know, if you're trying to serve the world and serve God, it's not going to work. The Bible says that a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways and that the love of the Father won't be in you. So you're not going to care to be faithful. You know, if there's no love of God, you're not going to care to be faithful.
See, that love of God will come through true repentance. You know, when we have true repentance with God, not just in emotion, but actual repentance means to change. And we repent and turn away, then, you know, you will get that love for God. And then you've realized how faithful he has been to you.
You should have been dead so many times. And that will make you want to serve him, you know, for the rest of the days of your life and keep his commitments and to bond with Christ and to walk and holiness and to build, you know, and he says that, you know, we're God's building and according to the grace of God, which is given to me as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation in another builder, they're on. But let every man take heed how he builds their own. For the other foundation can no man lay that is laid, which is only Jesus Christ.
And that's in 1 Corinthians 3, 11, 3, 10, and 3, 11. So we're called to build on the temple. God lives in us now. We're the temple of the Holy Spirit to dwell.
So we're supposed to build and to own to that, you know, to holy living and holy things and repentance and offering, you know, sacrifices into God. We're supposed to be living sacrifices into God and we're supposed to be holy and acceptable and to him. And the only way that we can do that is from the altar of our heart is to give God everything and to pour out and to give it to God. And we build on that foundation on that rock on Jesus because he's the cornerstone.
Without the cornerstone, our buildings will decay us. They will fall. So we've got to know that that's what we're building our foundation on is Jesus because how we respond to everyday life will show where we're built if we're on that solid rock and that foundation. Because when the storms come and the wind's blow, you know, if you're still standing, that house, if you're built upon a rock, you will still stand.
And that's what we've got to do. We've got to continue to grow. We've got to stay faithful, amen. And the Bible says that, you know, that he's come to a lot into the world and any man walking the light should not abide in darkness but have a lot of life.
And so in order for him, his light to shine through us, we have to be faithful to God. You know, he's, they can't be any darkness in us for his light to shine through us. Again, we can't start to be masters. And that's why when he says, in 1 John 2, 6, if you're body to me, I will body in you and you'll walk as I walk.
And so that's what happens when we start to body in God and he starts manifesting in us. And then we become more like him. You know, you realize who, people that you hang out with, you end up start act like a man. And so if you hang out with God all day, you'll be more and more like Jesus Christ, amen.
You'll act like him, you'll have compassion for others like him. You'll have a desire to seek peace for sports. It's just what we're conformed to the image of God. We're conformed.
We're supposed to be ambassadors of Christ, amen. We're his children, amen. And it's his spirit, the same spirit that lived that raised Jesus from the death, it's supposed to be in us. And so that spirit in us, you know, it wants to go, amen.
It wants to tell people about Jesus. It wants to be a lot for the Lord, amen. And so the Bible tells you, you know, it says in Proverbs 28, 20, a faithful man, John bound with blessings, you know. So when you're faithful to God, what's he saying in Psalms 37, 4, if you don't like yourself and the Lord, he will give you the desires of your heart.
Hebrews 11, 6, that the Lord is rewarded for those who do it, we'll seek him. Don't get me wrong, we don't do this for blessings. We do it because we love God. But when we do it, when we do love God, then praise God, we love him because he first loved us.
He says in John 14, 14, ask anything in my name and I will do it. But if you love me, be faithful, keep my commandments. He says in 1 John 3, 3, 22, I think, he says whatsoever, you shall ask me, you shall receive because you keep my commandments. And do those things pleasing in my sight, amen.
When he says in Matthew 21, 22, he says whatsoever, you ask believing in prayer, you shall receive it because you keep my commandments. Praise the Lord. Whatsoever you ask, you shall receive it, ask believing. We'll see in order to believe God, you have to know God again.
And so if you really got a personal relationship with God, when you ask God, faith comes by hearing by the Word of God. When he tells you all through the Word of God, Matthew 7, 7, ask you shall receive. Well, you believe it because you don't have a personal relationship with God. And he's showing you so many times he doesn't build your faith because you prayed for things and they just happened just yesterday.
I was praying, you know, I lost a set of keys. I misplaced them. I said, okay, Lord, I'm going to here to find these keys. The Bible said we speak often deaf with the power tongue weak from the fruit thereof.
And I said, well, before I find these keys, I'm going to get these, I got a couple of chairs in the back of one of our vehicles that we use for my old son football game. I got these chairs out and they got these old covers that you put on them. So I carried over to the front porch, put one on the rocking chair, started putting the cover on them and the rocking chair started rocking and my keys fell off. So it's so amazing how God works, you know, even though I wasn't going out there, I was going out there to look for my keys.
But then I said, well, I'm going to do this first. Not realizing God had me do that first. So I would find my keys. God is so faithful.
There's nothing He's so amazing. And I would encourage you today to get to know Him. I mean, we put our faith in other things. We put our faith in the Bible says put your faith in all the wisdom of the man but the power of God.
We put our faith in our finances or the economy or our government or whoever the President is. And as long as you're welcome the Lord, you can put all your faith in Him. You know, I have total confidence that God will always supply our needs to those who are welcome with Him. He gave us stories all through the Word of God.
We'd shout right in the me, shout a bit, go into the fire. We'd even burn when the Israelites was in the wilderness and God fed them. You know, praise God, He dropped food down from heaven. Amen.
He provided water to a rock. God is so faithful. And He's the same day today. He's the same today, yesterday, forever more.
And God wants to be faithful to you. But you've got to be faithful to God first. You've got to be willing to commit and give your life to Christ. And let Him be the Lord of your life.
He says, why the Father calls me Lord Lord and not do what I say. And also, you know, being faithful, the Bible says if we continue in His Word, we shall indeed be His disciple. And that's what we're, it's a discipleship. That's what discipleship is.
Being faithful to seeking His face. This is seeking God's face right here. The Word. Knowing the truth and the truth making us free and everything.
And being free indeed. You know, because we're destroyed from like an awful, we don't know. So it's very important that we do learn the truth so we know how to be made free. Amen.
And that, you know, that is through faithfulness. But you know, because, you know, that's how we overcome sin. When we said all that, say this, this right here. This is your, I call it my GPS, God's perfect spirit.
This Jesus is the way to life and the truth. And this is, in the beginning was the Word. In the words of God, the Word is God. Your Word, the Word of God is the way.
It is Jesus. Amen. There's a problem be faithful to the Word. You know, he told us this office, can you not watch and pray with me for one hour?
Amen. That's so little to ask for. But most people, even in churches, you know, many times you can ask them how many people was actually going to read your Bible every day for an hour. And not many people can raise their hands.
And you can see why that so many, so called Christians walk in the flesh. You have to feed that spirit. You have to put God in you. This is a living molecule of Jesus Christ.
And the more that you put in you, the more power of God that you will have. It's like spirit, spirit, spirit, man will grow. You'll have more wisdom, more knowledge, more understanding. Your life will be better.
He is rewarded for those who do it like they can. We want to thank you for tuning in today. You know, it's been such a blessing to be here. And we ask you to pray for God's place ministry.
It's His ministry. We're just honored to be a part of it. And you know, we're praying for the churches getting, it's bussing at the seams. We're praying for expanding.
We want to pray for more territory, more buildings and more housing for the homelessness coming in that will call them hallway houses. But we thank you for tuning in. If you need prior to the numbers on screen, join us at God's place church 11-8-8-1. And if you need transportation, give us a call.
Thank you. Have a good night and 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 has faith when just forgive you 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 whole heart and not to lean on your own understanding.
Know the human always and he shall lead and get your past. Now it's time to get a relationship with God by reading and praying, seeking God be whole heart each and every day of your life. The Bible says the number one and greatest commitment is to love God with your whole heart, your mind, your soul, and your strength. Thank you for tuning in.
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