Praise the Lord, welcome to God's place, part of the Jesus ministry. It's always an honor to be here in the presence of the Lord. If I was to do it together, and you've been a minister, welcome Holy Spirit here. Thank God for my beautiful wife, and most of all for Jesus Christ, and what he's done in our lives, and how he's changed us.
If I was to say, the heat of this Christ is a new creation, old things pass away, and behold, all things become new. And so I just want to give God all the glory for just for changing my life, and giving me happiness and peace and joy. You know, the devil come to kill, still in the story, but Jesus come to give you life and life more abundantly. And we pray today that there's somebody out there that don't know the Lord, and I'm not aware today.
You know, the Bible said I sent my word to heal, you saved me from destruction. And so I want to start out with a book of Ephesians in chapter two, in verse two. Talk about, you know how the devil, he's a great deceiver, and you know, that's his job, he's a liar, he's a murderer, he's a liar from the beginning. And Ephesians chapter two verse two, it says we're in, in the past, we walk according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the heir, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
So it says he works in the children of disobedience. So what does that mean? Well, see the children of obedience, that means they're serving the Lord, but the children with disobedience, they're serving the devil. And so that's what Acts 532 says, he gives the spirit to those who obey him.
And he also tells you in Psalms 25, 14, that God will reveal his secrets to those who fear him. And as you look around it and observe, you know, people, you know, it seems like the whole world has been deceived. And you know, the word of God, he warns us about that. He said, in the last days, that there'll be many false prophets and many false teachers, and many shall follow their pernicious ways.
And you know, and that's, you know, it's. It's the broad way everybody's going. In Matthew 7, 13, straight as the gate, and narrows away, he said the broad way, we'll leave the destruction and many will go there at. And but straight as the gate narrows away, narrows away the life, and very few people find it.
So it's really, you know, side of my heart, that very few people's gonna make it to heaven. Luke 13, 24, strive to enter in. Many will seek and will not be able because of their iniquities. But the devil, you know, like I said, it's the prince of the hour of the air that's telling people that, you know, that you're okay, that you're, you believe in Jesus.
And just because you believe there's a God, don't mean that you're okay. You know, the Bible says in Matthew 4, 4, that you cannot live on bread alone, you know, we can't, you know, we can't just believe. And that's what the enemies trying to make people believe that just cause we, we, there's a God. You know, the Bible says in 1st, it's in 6, 9, he said, no, you're not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God, be not deceived for a liar, for the caterer, covetous, a man kind, a doctor, a, you know, praise God shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
So, you know, there's, there's many things that he talks about that will not go to heaven. The Bible says in 1st John 5, 17, that all sin is unrighteous, and the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. So, you know, in order to make it, guys, we've got to truly be born again. We've got to give our life to Christ.
And once you give your life to Christ, they don't want to, you know more. You have a master, you have a lord, you have a savior that you got to go to. And Supreme authority. Supreme authority.
He says in Luke 646, he said, why that cost me Lord, Lord, and not do what I say. And you know, a lot of people don't understand that. I want to go to the book of John in chapter eight, verse 44, and it talks to well 43. Jesus said, why do you not understand my speech?
He said, even because you cannot hear my word. And he says, you, he said, you are the, he says, you are of your father, the devil. And the lust of your father, you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and a bow not in the truth.
Because there is no truth in him. When he speak of the lie, he speak of his own. And he is a liar and the father of it. He said, because I tell you the truth and you believe me not.
So, I mean, I see this. When you start to try to tell people about God, his cause to hold him, his God, his cause perfection. You know, the only pre- and heart will see God. People don't understand it.
Oh, no, I believe in Jesus. I'm okay. You know, I make mistakes. I see him every day.
That's one I hear all the time. I see him every day. We're all sinners. I hear preachers say, we're all sinners say by grace.
But you know, you can't be both. If I was one another, and he followed us. unclean, be named among you, not even one time as you become a saint. Second, Crechins 617, come out amongst them, be separated, said Lord, touch not an unclean thing, and I will receive you.
And I will be your Father, and you'll be my son's the daughter, said the Lord Almighty, having these promises, let us clean ourselves from our feelings of the spirit and the flesh, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. So, you know, my heart is really heavy for people that's been sitting in churches their whole lives and truly still living a sinful life and thinking it's okay. The Bible says in the book of Proverbs 1412, he says there's a way that seems right to me and but there are the ways of death. The Bible said, every man thinks he's good in his own, praise God, his own self is good, but God searches the heart.
And when God searches the heart, they can't be anything unclean in the heart. We cannot serve two masters. We got to give God our whole lives or none. Amen.
It's, you know, it's all we're known with God and that's why he says a number one in grace commandment is to love God and be whole heart, your mind, your soul and your strength. But the whole key of it is guys that you must be born again. Being born again means everything about your life is new. The Bible said he doesn't Christ is a new creation.
All things pass away and behold, all things become new. So many people are to see, they think, well, okay, I'll give my life to cross. I quit doing drugs, but I'm hanging on to my nicotine. I'm hanging on to my pornography.
I'm hanging on with this. Well, you can't make deals with God. I tell people you can't have a Burger King religion can't have it your way. It's it's it's either serving the Lord or you're not you're serving the devil, either righteous or you unrighteous, either holy or you unholy.
You cannot be both. The Bible said to be carnal minded his death, but to be spiritual minded his life and peace. The Bible says he in Romans eight, five, he says for they that are in the after the flesh, do mind things other flesh, but they are after the spirit, the things other spirit to be carnal minded his death to be spiritual minded his life and peace. But Romans eight, 14 for as many are led by the spirit of God.
They are sons of God. So that says it all right there. He you're led by the spirit of God or you're led by the spirit of the devil. You know, God said I'll never leave your out.
I'll never forsake you and he's talking to those people that that belong to him. Amen. I read it today. You know, Lord said, Hey, if you forsake me, I forsake you.
Amen. You can't think that God, you know, just cause you did a one, two, three AP's ABC prayer one time, 22 years ago. And that's God to save you that you're okay. You got to walk it out.
You got to live it out. The Bible said he did not take it up the cross and not himself and follow him daily is not worthy of him. He that loves his father, mother, father, son or daughter, more than God is not worthy of him. He that finds his life will lose it.
He loses life will find it. We have got to be led by the spirit of God. The Bible says Romans eight, eight if you walk into flesh, you cannot please God. You know, that bothers me more than anything.
So call preachers and deacons and church leaders that walk around angry and upset and I call just stinky fruit. Amen. I call people out on it all the time. Hey, man, praise God your fruit stinks.
And you know, if we allow the devil to take our smile, take our joy, guess what? He's winning. The Bible says in Romans eight, eight if you walk into flesh, you cannot please God. And so we're all called to be a lie into the world.
Amen. Jesus, you know, I was supposed to reveal yourself to show that we are different. We're not of this world. First John 4, 4, great, he is in the world.
Yes, I'm a lot of people like to say, well, you know, today I've been a carnal Christian. I don't think there's really such thing as a carnal Christian because Christian means cross lock. That was no carnal in Christ. You know, it's something that you're not casting down that you're not rebuking that you're not, you know, given the power of the spirit to overcome it because he tells us that we're supposed to overcome evil with good.
So anything that evil comes against us, you know, we're supposed to be able to overcome it through Christ and how we do that is just letting God deal with it. You don't try to do it on our own. We can't be self-righteous. And a lot of times just, you know, you know, somebody comes with harsh words or comes at you.
You know, sometimes you just go pray for them. That's what you're supposed to do. Go pray. Pray God to bless them.
Pray God to the ones that he says, pray for your enemies. Pray for the ones that are spotfully use you, the ones that persecute you that want to harm you. Do good to them, you know. Well, you know, when you say that the biggest thing I've learned when temptation or somebody does come at you, the enemy comes attacking you.
The first thing I've learned is just like, I mean, I call up on Jesus. I'll be honest. I'll be honest. I'll be saved.
Lord, I see my flesh. My grace is sufficient and my strength is my perfect in your weakness. So I realize this is bigger than me. I can't handle this.
God help me. And so I mean, I've had people come to my window and mock the Jesus letters on my truck and I mean, the devil, he will try to talk about when it rains at pours. You know, he tries to find your weaknesses and he'll have you two, three disperses and phone calls in a row and then he'll have somebody pull up and curse you out and he'll work on you. Try to weaken you.
And but, you know, no matter what you go through, God said, as long as you're walking the Spirit, well, how do you walk in the Spirit? We got to feed that Spirit every day. The Bible said the Spirit is when it gets a flesh and flesh is when it gets a Spirit and you're a contrary to one another, amen? And so it's always a struggle.
It's always a fight. Well, who wins when you feed the most? So we got to stay in fellowship. We got to stay in relationship.
The Bible says if you say you have fellowship with God and you walk into darkness, you're a liar and the truth is not in you. So he says, if you say you know me, not about my commandments, you're a liar and the truth is not in you. So I hear a pastor told me one time he said, man, I just got a road rage. You know, I got out and big two people up and realize I said, get saved.
You know, being saved is not something you do one time. Being saved once you receive the Holy Spirit, once you ask God to come in your heart and you receive the Holy Spirit. That's right. You can uncondition you're surrendered.
Obviously to you brother by the mercy of God to present your body as a living sacrifice, holding acceptable, which is a reasonable service. Be not conform to this world, but be a transplant by the Son of your mind that you may prove what is good, acceptable and the perfect will of God. So being saved is walking in fellowship, walking in relationship, not just, you know, praise God. God come to save us and wash away all our sins, but give us power not to go back to our sins.
And so that's what he says. He says in 1st John 3 8, that sin is of the devil. The purpose of the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. So great that he is in the world.
When the devil comes knocking at my door, I just call him Jesus. And you know what? He's right there. He's your father that loves you so much and he wants to help you.
But listen, don't let the devil deceive you. Don't let your preacher, your deacon or son, just go teach her to save you. You have got to live a righteous life for you for folks who've been going to church for 15, 60 years. They still don't live a righteous life.
Oh man, I tell you, I hear it all the time. I know such and such Christmas. I heard a story yesterday about a deacon. Praise God.
Kissed a lady was telling me she went to church and a deacon found her downstairs. I mean, kissed her and you know, he's a married man. And that's what the kind of stories that destroys churches today. But you know, that's what we're supposed to do.
We're supposed to set the example on what being a Christian is. Christian means cross lock and then praise the Lord. And that's we're not supposed to be other world. We're supposed to let God manifest because listen, without God, there's none of us good.
Or righteous, filthy as rags. Amen without God. Praise God. Nobody like me.
I didn't like myself. Amen. But if there's anything good, everything that's done good through me, it's not me. It's God.
The Bible said, I'm divine and you're the branch without me. You can do nothing. So but we'll let God manifest in us if we'll completely surrender to give our life to Christ because he's not going to manifest itself in an unclean temple. God is not going to set in a garbage can.
Amen. He wants to manifest itself. He wants to dwell itself in a holy temple. Somebody has confessed all their sins.
The Bible says, if you confess your sins, he's faithful to you. And just forgive you and cleanse you from all and righteousness. And that's how we become praise God. When God called me to preach, you know, I went out and told everybody, God, I mean, literally, I went from crack head to a preacher overnight.
It was just like in just weeks that God had changed my life. He had converted me. I told everybody, hey, God has called me to preach. He hadn't called you to crack head a month ago.
I don't care what it was a month ago. Praise God. Now I've celebrated 15 years of walking with the Lord, you know, walking righteous life. Have I made mistakes?
Of course, absolutely. I've made mistakes. But I don't live a sinful life. Amen.
Sometimes I, you know, praise God in my case, my self-speen, whole spirit, and speed. When I do make a mistake, what I do, I repent from it. God, forgive me. Lord, I know that was wrong.
Thank you for the conviction. Amen. Thank you for the Holy Spirit. Send that was wrong because without that praise Lord, we wouldn't have, we wouldn't be able to make it.
We all need that conviction. We need a Holy Spirit in us and people come to church us and, you know, praise the Lord, they get convicted and they're going to come back. I mean, praise God. A lot of people won't.
Amen. And churches has gotten afraid of preaching repents and praise God and hell and stuff like that. Literally, but if there's people that are truly wanting it, they'll receive it. Amen.
Conviction is a gift from the Holy Spirit. Churches, we're not supposed to be here and accommodate the sinners. Amen. We're supposed to let everybody know that God loves them.
He died for us while we was yet sinners, but He come to save us from sin, to deliver us from sin. Amen. God says that, hey, praise God. God knows how to deliver the, the golly from, from temptation and reserve the unjust to the dead judgment, to be punished.
The Bible said that in flaming fire, take conventions on all them that not know God and not obey the gospel of God. Whose punishment is everlasting destruction. Amen. And so listen, we've got a choice.
Either we want to serve the Lord or we want to serve the devil. We're going to be righteous or we're going to be unrighteous. We're going to be holy or we're going to be unholy. And all you got to do to be, how can we live this life?
Well, with the disciples said, Hey, how can a man, you know, the Bible said it's easier for a camel, walk through the Bible and eat them in a rich man and inherit the kingdom of God. And then the disciples said, well, who might be saved? He said, well, men, this is impossible, but through God, all things is possible. So whatever you're struggling with, whatever your struggles or your temptations is, listen, if you're not overcoming them, you just need more God.
The Bible said you are more than a conqueror than the Lord's. Amen. In Romans 837, you got something I know you got something right out of that. Just as John the Baptist was preaching before the Lord, you know, he's repent and believe the gospel and he was preparing the way of the Lord and he tells us to make to make your way straight.
And you know, that's what we are. We're like the one that's crying out in the wilderness and we're praying for God to make our way straight. But we've got to help him prepare the way. We've got to repent ourselves and then preach to others about repentance and it's not judging, but that's what the Bible says.
He says to go warn every man whom we preach, wanting every man that they may be presented perfect in Christ Jesus. Well, perfect if you look it up, it's actually mature. It's telling us that we're supposed to be mature in Christ. You know, we're supposed to grow into and holy temple of God.
You know, you're once you get saved, you know, you have salvation. You're saved and you're, you have that spirit of God. But after that, you know, you've got to grow and you know, it takes a lot of growing pains to grow. You know, today's trial will be, you know, you're preparing for the next level.
I mean, everything that you go through, the Bible says to count it all joy when you follow the diver's temptations, knowing that the trying of your faith, you know, will work with patience and patience is everything that a believer has to have. There's so much virtue and power in having patience. We've got to possess patience in Christ Jesus because even God has been patient toward us and that we're supposed to be patient toward all men. And you know, through our patience, it's building long suffering.
It's part of the fruit of the spirit and it'll give you joy. It'll give you peace and it'll give you, you know, love and that's how you love your neighbor is being patient. But you can't go and preach to somebody. The Bible says he that preaches the gospel also shall live the gospel.
He can't go preach to somebody. How you need to quit knowing those drugs, you know, you know, you need to give that addiction up or you know, you don't need to be watching that or, you know, you can't preach like that. You first got to preach in love with God. First tell them what God has done for you.
So that will give them hope. And once you, you know, you're over cumber by the blood of the layman, the word of your testimony. So once you can testify to them and that will give them hope and then that will open that door for them to listen to you, you know, they don't care how much you know to they know how much you care. And that was with me.
That's what drew me to the Lord, you know, it was also, you know, not, you know, it was it was God working through Tim as a willing vessel, but actually I never had that love that someone actually make that effort to reach out to me and to show me that kind of love because I mean, I was abused. Like I said, I've talked about it before, you know, I just felt like Joseph in a pit of despair and rejection. And so once I seen hope, you know, hey, if this man, you know, was reaching out to help me, you know, there's got to be, you know, other people like that and what makes him different is Christ, you know, and I want that I want to and I want to get to know God, you know, who gave his son for me that I am forgiven because once you know you're forgiven, he gives you that joy deep down inside and you're ready to serve him. I mean, you're excited, you have his own for God, you have a passion for God.
And also, but that's a testimony you can relate to somebody else's story and their testimony. And then it gives you, you kind of people that's not been through like, you know, like we've been through drug addiction and I know we talk about a lot, but it's such an epidemic. And I just we just lost a cousin, you know, a few days back to, I mean, I lost a brother to addiction. I've lost so many friends to drug addiction.
It's just been, it was a generation curse upon my family. But I thank God that it was broken, that it was released, you know, once the, you know, that I surrender to God and that I can at least tell them, hey, Jesus did it for me. He can do it for you. You know, you know, I was in the same, same state of mind, but you know, God saved me and he come from the, he come for the whole world that we might be saved, not just for me or just for Tim or just for you.
He come for the whole world. You know, he, God gave his son for the whole world. And you know, that, that'll be a testimony to witness to others because you're not going to be able to go out and tell them unless you're living it yourself. You know, you said that well, go about just showing love and here's, here's, you also said, you know, make sure you, you live the gospel before you preach the gospel.
And that's the key word because see, here's the thing, as long as you're living a simple life, the Holy Spirit is not going to manifest. And so you're actually doing it just on your own. You're, you're trying to witness on your own. The way that, I mean, literally, I mean, God called me to preach, I couldn't read.
I had to say God for God to use me to reach somebody because, you know, it's, if you try to do it on your own without, without being, having a pure heart, then it's self-righteous. You know, Jesus said, I'm the vine and you're the branch without me. You can do nothing. But what we have to do is let God manifest in the way that he manifests is for us to confess our sins and be completely born again.
That's God coming to heart and be obedient in the way that you worship. And more than you, he says, the first John 2, 6, if you'll body him, he will body him and he will walk as he walks. The reason he said that, when you start bodying God, you start gaining that relationship. We'll see whoever, even in this world, whoever you hang out with, you'll end up talking like him and being like him.
And when you start hanging out with Jesus, guess what? You'll start feeling the love he has for your neighbors, your brothers. You'll have the same compassion to see people's lives changed. You'll have the love.
You can't help but to love people. I mean, you're not coming from a family of murders and just hardcore people and, you know, fighting, it makes me sick today to think about that I enjoy hurting people. That's just demonic. That's a straight devil.
But since I gave my life to Christ, there's people cushing me out, swimming on me, spitting on me. And literally, I stand back and feel love for these people as they're coming against me. And that's how I know that Jesus lives in my heart because that's not me. That's something bigger than me.
That's the whole spirit. Jesus Christ lives in my heart. And so, you know, and there's a lot of people that's got this false security that think just because they go out and labor for the Lord, that they're okay, they're going to go to heaven. But I see people labor for the Lord all the time in the wrong spirit, in the flesh, grappy, no compassion.
They're just out there throwing out food or even, you know, spending their money or whatever buying clothes and stuff. But if you're not walking, you know, you're not saved by your good works. You've got to let God minister through you. And you know, the biggest thing is make sure that you spend your time with God.
You've got to let God change your life before you go out and try to change everybody else's. Amen. You've got to really set it as feet and cry out to God and humble yourself. And, you know, and He will exalt you into the time.
You know, I have such a compassion to see people who have lost change. And it really bothers me. It hurts me. Sometimes I can drive in a road and cry because I see people, kids, children that's making fun of the Jesus that's written on the truck, the Lord has blessed me to drive.
And not only that, but we've got a buddy of mine, Calum Churchlets. They've been sitting in churches for years and years and years and don't have a clue. If Jesus showed up right now, Billy Graham said, 90, 80% of churches wouldn't make it to heaven. And that's been 20, 30 years ago.
It's got worse. It's a spirit of religion, a spirit of tradition. I think as they go to church. And literally, I mean, many churches are not preaching the truth.
They're not preaching the truth. They're not preaching the condition. They're not preaching the repentance. You know, it's people having each year's, everybody wants to hear something that makes them feel good.
But, you know, praise God, it won't feel good when you make Jesus. And you're not living by the Word of God. The Bible says in Matthew 4-4 that you cannot live on bread alone, but by every word, you proceed out of the mouth of God. And if you've been saved, if you truly been saved, you don't know that you've been saved by the Bible said, if you live righteous, you are righteous.
But also, you'll have the same love and compassion and the zeal and the want to see people's lives change. You can't help but come and tell somebody about Jesus. I'll debunk the heart of my speaks. So I can talk to somebody for four or five minutes and know where their hearts at.
Some people's hearts on race cars and the weather. Amen. If you get around me and I don't talk about Jesus in the first three or four minutes, please pray for me, okay? Because when, you know, I realized that God died for me while I was a sinner.
I deserved hell. I saw hell. That's what I deserve. I deserve to be in hell right now.
And there's a lot of other people out there who deserve hell too. But because of God's love and mercy and grace that He's bestowed up on you, praise God. Even if you've never done drugs, if you've never been born again, praise God, you deserve hell too. Because you've never received Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.
Today's the day of salvation. Don't wait to the moment. You might not see the moment. You know, every day, praise God.
Everybody says, well, I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I have to wake up today.
You are because there's a lot of people that didn't wake up today. Don't waste no time. Confess your sins. Give your life to Jesus Christ.
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