I'm looking for a harvest for my God is real. Hello everybody, welcome once again to Spiritual Impact. So glad you could stop by. I'm senior pastor, Tim Parton of Abundant Life Worship Center, and I'm joined by my associate pastor, Pastor Steve Rose.
Steve, it's good to be back on the program. Yes, it is. Glad to be back with you as well. We hope you enjoy the program and are getting advanced in the word.
That's what we're here for is to try to teach on how God's Spirit impacts our life on a daily basis. We couldn't live without it, Pastor Steve. It's true. We need Him every minute of every day.
It says in Him we live, we move, we have our being. That's the way we should be. So why are we going to get into today? Well, I want to talk a little bit about things that God can't do.
And when you look at this, that's really shocking when you start saying that there's things God can't do. You probably got a lot of his potential in just that. Yeah, and I sit there and I go, yeah, because I'm going to go back to Preface this with Matthew chapter 19 verse 25 and 26. This is what Jesus said right after.
He spoke to the rich unruler and he said, you know, it's easier for a camel to go to the Ivan needle than it is for rich man to enter in the kingdom of heaven. Right after this verse 25 says, when the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed saying who can be saved. He says, if the rich can't be saved, they're going to who can because it was a belief at that time that everyone that was rich was blessed with God. But we know with the rich unruler, his one problem was his riches.
That was the one thing that was his God above God of heaven. He says, but Jesus beheld him and he said unto them, with men, this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible. A lot of times when I talk about this, I always say, hey, how many of you out there think that God can do all things? And everybody's like, yeah, God can do all things.
And I say, well, there's some things God can't do. And see, that's what I want to look at specifically, day through scripture. Just speak to scripture that's specific things God can't do. Because you know what it says in the word of God, God doesn't sleep.
But it doesn't say, he couldn't sleep if he didn't want to, he just doesn't. And see, the thing is, I want to say, what does the scripture say that God cannot do that's impossible for him to do? So I'm going to start off with 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 10. 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 10 says, therefore, says I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they may also obtain the salvation.
Now, one of the things we need to realize right here, what we're talking about here, this is the context of what's talking about through the rest of these scriptures, it's talking about salvation. It says, which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. It is a faithful saying for if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. And what does it mean to be dead with Christ?
To have our sins under his blood. That's exactly right. And put the flesh, the old man is dead. Exactly.
We were crucified with Christ on the cross. And then, now we're part of that resurrection. Part of the life, the life that is in us is now the life that's in Christ by the Holy Spirit of God who's within us. And it says right there, but he is the protector, we partake with Jesus right there.
But now some people actually give their physical life for Christ. Even today, when they stand up and they say they're a believer, it can cost them their life. But it says if we have died with him, we live with him. Verse 12 says, if we suffer, we shall also reign with him.
Perseverance. Now, this is one of the hardest things. You know, we're in a society today. We don't have a lot of patience with anything.
But what we need to do, we need to have that perseverance that says, you know, no matter what, we're going to go on with Christ. Because there's times that you'll be in life and you'll be enjoying life and all of a sudden, something comes in and it just changes your whole world, changes your whole way of living. But that's when we got this persevere. We got to stand with Christ and believe.
Because he says, listen, he says, I will never leave your safety. That when we're going through that, he's with us right there. Amen. I like that verse 11, which is this is a faithful saying.
So therefore, that's all of God's word because his promises are ye and amen. And you're talking about God cannot lie because when God speaks, he is truth. So whatever he says becomes truth, it becomes reality. If he said my shirt was red, it would be red because he's God.
So whatever he speaks for without his mouth, there is life that comes out of that. So it becomes a reality speaking those things that be not as though they were. Amen. And if we're faithful and if we're true to God, even though we may have to suffer with him, and we've talked about this many times, Paul said all these minor persecutions.
And when you, when Paul's considering things minor, and we talked about him being in the most parts of prison, being beaten, wet, being stoned, and left for dead, having to be let down over the wall in a basket to escape the city because he was wanting to kill him, all these things are minor afflictions according to Paul, compared to what waits for the born again believer, the child of God. And so we can take heart and take refuge in that. And like what you said in life, sometimes we don't see the storm coming. You know, on the weather they can kind of protect days in the head and people have time to prepare and evacuate if necessary, but in the spiritual realm, sometimes storms hit without warning.
And they do shake us. But I'm glad that our foundation is secure because it's in Jesus Christ. Absolutely. That's a great point.
And when you're sitting there talking about perseverance, you know, think about that stoning. Talk about perseverance. A lot of people don't know that one stonewy man had heard. I don't know if I want the rest of them.
But he says afterwards, he came back and you know what he did? He said he got up and went back in and began to preach the gospel. That's perseverance. Well, he was left for dead, so they knocked him out.
So that's something right there. And I'm telling you, but that's what we're talking about. The perseverance is speaking of right here in verse 12. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him that speaks of the perseverance all the way to the end.
But it says this, then it says, if we deny him, he also will deny this. That's talking about that. People who just absolutely will not believe in Christ is, you know, in the end, they've denied him all this time in the judgment when they will face. And the Bible says, you know, it is destined once for man to die and then the judgment.
They will have to stand before Christ and he will deny that he knows them. But he says in verse 13, if we believe not, yet he abide faithful. It says he cannot deny himself. I like that.
He cannot deny who he is. And when I start thinking about that, why is that a good thing for us that God cannot do this? If he can't deny himself, that means who he is, is what he's going to do. And I think about that.
He is Jehovah Jaira, the Lord God our provider. He's Jehovah Rohi, the Lord God our healer. Jehovah Sid can do the Lord God our righteousness. He is a usher die, the God who is more than an earth.
That means he cannot deny himself. So if he cannot deny himself, he's telling us the truth. And that means that's part of his character. When you talk about the names of God, it really describes the character of our Father who's in heaven.
So when he's the God of more than an earth, when he gives you what you need, it's going to be more than what you need. It's going to be in abundance. You and I are both fathers. So we have children and those children we know are, they belong to us.
And people that know us know that they belong to us. And it doesn't matter how many times that you might state that, no, you can't change the fact, you can't change DNA. And if the DNA, the blood of Christ is on the inside of us, there's no way he cannot know what he ever deny those that believe and put their trust in him because we have made him our Lord, our God, our salvation, our Savior. He is our coming Messiah.
I tell you, when you talk about that knowing you're a child, the King. I remember one time in Walmart, I was in there and you know, you always hear kids crying in Walmart saying, like, they're screaming about something, I was in there one day and I heard a baby cry and I was going, wait a minute, that's mine. And you know what, Daddy did? Daddy went to find out what was wrong with making my child cry.
And see, that's the thing right there. It says that our Father in heaven, his ears inclined into the cry of the righteous. That means when we call, he listens. That's our Father in heaven, he loves us so much.
Hey man, he's a good good Father. And because he's a good good Father, he will chastise us when we get away from his will. But it's for our benefit. It's for our good.
He is. Always in love. And we're not supposed to despise those tastings. We're supposed to embrace them because it is a learning process and it simply becomes Father is teaching us this is bad.
This is good. It's like teaching a child to touch something hard or don't wander all for this or that. Our Heavenly Father teaches us in the spiritual realm the things that we need to not go after and the things that we need to seek him for. And it's just good to be a child of God.
There's nothing like it. You can have all the titles in the world, but to be a child of God, the Creator of this universe, to know that he dwells in the world. That he dwells, his spirit dwells on the inside of us. And that we can go before the throne room not only once, but every time.
Like you said boldly. Go in there. Crawl up in our Father's lap crying Abba Father. That's something to be in the lap of God.
What better place to be there. But you know he says if you draw not at him. And really I used to not understand that word. I'd always say well if you stay away from God, he'll stay away from you.
That's not what that verse says. It actually means when you draw near to God. It says he will draw near to you. And that's a promise.
And you know if he can't deny himself he's the God who's above all. He is the great I am. And you know a lot of times I love it when in the Old Testament the people would come say that he'd say I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Now we know Abraham and Isaac and Jacob died in this physical world.
But guess what? They're still alive. Because he said I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You know what?
That's not the final decision for the child of God. It's not the final thing that we're going to have to cross over. Because he says he has already taken this thing of death away. And glory be to God.
How will you wear him today? We're still from death unto life. Yes. And we're not to strive about words to no profit.
The only thing that's going to profit us anything is what does say the Word of God. I can put all my opinions, all my ideas and everything like that. That don't mount to the hill of beans. It's what thus saith the Word of God.
And we're to preach the Word in truth and love to reprieve, to rebuke with all long suffering. Everything we do is supposed to be in the love of God. And when we do that as managers we're supposed to teach the people what God's Word says and everything that he has in store for them. That spiritual impact that being a child.
And so far beneath Pastor Stephen, where God wants us to be. When we think about our heavenly Father, the creator of this universe, who spoke everything that we see into existence. And yet we live in so much lack and I'm not talking about material things. We live sometimes Christians are some of the most defeated people you see because it doesn't take much to shake their world because they're not looking at what thus saith the Word of God.
Their foundation is on upon Jesus. It's never going to crack. Nope. That's literally not.
Even though your ship may be in the midst of the storm as long as Jesus is the captain of that ship, it's never going down. That's right. Amen. And victory always is Jesus.
That's good right there to know that. He is the foundation. You know if you're building on anything other than the foundation which is Christ Jesus, you're building on the wrong foundation. The Word of God says there's two foundations to build on one's the solid rock which is Christ.
The other is sinking sand. So you're in today. That's the whole, you're talking about truth. It's one or the other.
It's not. Well you know, let's go build a house and we'll put part of it on the rock. I mean part of it on the sand. Well I'm going to tell you that ain't going to work because that's going to bust the foundation.
You got to dig deep and you got to, and I like that. That man dug deep and found upon the rock. It's not just a little casual relationship. You get in there and you find the treasures that's buried in the Word of God.
And when I look at that, but yet when we're talking about something that y'all we cannot do, he cannot deny himself. So that means every name that he has which describes his character he is. And if he cannot deny himself, if he went out and you know he swears an out to himself, what greater? That's it.
There's nothing else. I mean you try to swear about anything else. You can't because he cannot deny himself. Well the words that I speak, you say, are spirit and they're life.
Amen. Amen. You know what too? We look and I think the fair season they all had a problem with this because they're not talking with this because they thought they were so high in mighty.
They love their status. They love for people to look upon them. But the purpose that Jesus came into this world was to simply say sinners. That's right.
And you know the one thing, they always looked about this, but you know when Christ came, he looked at the heart. He did. He saw them for what they really were. He says, you know, you're like zeppicards.
I think that's not how y'all call them a tomb. He says, you're like a tomb. He says on the outside, he says you're all white and shiny. He says on the inside, you're full of dead men's bones.
And so he spoke the truth to them. You know when he's speaking truth right there, that was one of the hardest things for them to accept was truth. And so he says, that's the one thing about the Word of God. One of the things he'll do when you talk about God cannot deny himself when he brings the truth.
He says, Jesus is the truth. He is the way, the truth, and the life. And when the truth confronts you, when you're reading the Word of God and the truth confronts you, you've got to say, listen, my way is wrong. I've got to believe what God says.
So the first thing I want to look at when we're talking about this was y'all, we cannot deny himself. So that means every name he has that describes his character, his being and what he does, he says, I can't deny it. He says, that's what he is. The other is over in Hebrews chapter 6, Hebrews chapter 6 verse 16.
He says, it says, for men, verily swear by the greater. And an oath for confirmation is to them and end of all strife. So that means to seal something, that's when it makes a, I swear to the Lord above and I'm going to do what I say. They said that's the end of strife right there.
I mean, you believe it because you know they swore an oath. But as we know in this lifetime, man's Word, it always minding it. Even when they do that, but it says in verse 17, says, where in God willingly more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, that's the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. He says, because they want an oath, he gave an oath.
He says right here verse 8, that by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie. One thing God cannot do is lie. He says, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before. So we've run into that, the refuge of God who cannot lie.
So when you're looking at God cannot lie. What does that mean about every promise you have in this word? Think about that for just a minute. They're true.
They're true. So if we have a promise in this, God can't lie. He can't put this in there in life because he can't do it. He cannot lie.
He's not speaking at all, so he's no respecter of person. So you mentioned earlier that he states I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and he's our God. And everything that he did for them, for Moses, for Elijah, for Jeremiah, for all of them, he's the same yesterday, he's the same today and he'll be the same tomorrow, he don't ever change. So what he did for all those patriots, saints, back men are still in effect for you and I.
The benefit is we have a better covenant because it's Jesus Christ. Amen. Hallelujah, and I like that. And he says, you know, he never changed us.
If you ever work for somebody changes or somebody that's moving and you have come in and you're going, move to the going to be in today. But that's when I go to the Lord, you know what? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Does not change.
You know what? He loves me. Even said I change of not. That's right.
So if something's going on, we think God is changing. No, no. You got to go look in the mirror. That's true right there.
And they always said, you know, we're pointing fingers at somebody else that there's three pointing back at us. And we really got to judge ourselves according to the word of God. I like that. But it isn't possible for God to lie.
That means these promises we have in here, if we get in there and find the promises we got, he can't lie. I've got a little footnote here that I would just happen to glance down and see. It says, but when the kindness and the love of God, our Savior, toward men appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy, He saved us. His mercy.
He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ, our Savior, that having been justified by His grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. What? I'm telling you, I'm telling you, to heirs means what? We can't be left out.
That's right. What belongs to Christ? What belongs to us? I'm telling you, what a promise we have right there.
And you know that, what you just read? That promise? It's not a lie. It's a story.
Because again, God cannot lie. And that for us as a believer, that's one of the greatest news you can hear right there that God can't lie to you. You know, there's hardly a day goes by, Pastor Steve, that I don't sit just awestruck because of God's mercy and grace toward us. And so many times, and I may have, I don't know if I've told this on this program or not, but I was driving down the road one day.
And I got to thinking about how good God had been to me. And tears began to flow and I was just rejoicing. And I guess people coming by me thought I might have lost my mind. But you know, God said his people are peculiar people.
So I don't want to look like the world. I want to look different. But I was just thinking him and I just out loud, I just spoke. I said, God, who am I?
And what was I that you would do all this for? And he spoke to my spirit two words. He said, you're mine. How do you?
I mean, you're talking about rejoicing in. I don't know what took place after that. I mean, you're talking about light and you're fire. And he says, and you know his voice.
So you know who talked to you. So you also know that he lies. What are you telling you? That the great God of glory considers me his.
And he is mine. You don't get a bad relationship to that. He goes back to that, you know, and why are we that way? It's not because of the works that we do.
See, that's the one thing a lot of people get hung away. It's all the works. But now the spirit of God produces works in the believer. But you know, it says it's by grace or you say through faith.
And not a works, at least any man should boast. But you know, we're not a fruit of our labor in Christ when we are grafted into his family. You can't help but produce fruit because God expects us to produce fruit. But it's his spirit working through us that produces us.
It's never of ourself. It's never a flesh. I couldn't do enough. You couldn't do enough.
I can't be good enough. But simply by God's grace and mercy and Christ's shed blood at Calvary and the Holy Spirit working within us leading and guiding us in the way that we should go. We say many times he blesses us and loves us in spite of ourselves. And you know when we talk about that a lot of people think you know grace was a New Testament thing.
But salvation came by grace in the New Testament. When you look at the Word of God, it was always by the grace of God. He laid down the law so we know right from wrong. But then he told us what we needed to do.
It took a blood sacrifice. But each year they had to have the covering because it's the blood of bulls and goats. Why was Noah spared before the floods? Because Noah found what in the eyes of the Lord?
Grace. So grace was way back to him. That's right. Exactly.
It's always been by grace. And you know, that's one of the hardest things for the church to accept a lot of times is this by grace. Not other things that we do. And again when you ask people a lot of times you say, why should you inherit the kingdom of God?
And they'll tell you because I do this, I do that, and I do this. What my answer to that would be is because of the blood of Christ, because of what he did for me on the cross on Calvary. I put my faith in trust in him and he says, when I put my faith in trust in him, believe in my heart and confess it to my mouth. Lord Jesus Christ, I say, we say, you were saved by the grace of God.
How will you? I mean, heavens are home, Lord be the God which the God cannot lie and cannot deny himself has given me that promise right there. And that's something you can count on. You know, another promise I love in God's Word is when the church is raptured out.
It says, Christ himself. That's right. He's coming to get us. That's right.
And where he is there we can be also. I'll tell you. There are a lot of things in life that bring joy to us and God created many things that we see. We all like to go up to the mountains and just look at his creation and his beauty.
But there's not anything that takes the place of the peace and knowing that everything in your heart is settled with Jesus Christ. And that should, I go home today. I know where I'm going. Not because of anything Tim Parton done, because of what Jesus done at Calvary.
Thank you. And if you're watching this program today and you don't have that assurance, you don't have that relationship with the church. You don't have that relationship with the great God of glory who only wants good things for your life. Who wants you to come and live with him forever, eternally in heaven.
If you will simply believe and trust in the name of Jesus Christ. Pastor Steve, it's only a prayer away. And would you help him? Hey.
Father, I come to you Lord. I confess that I'm a sinner. I need a Savior. Lord Jesus, I ask you to come into my heart.
I believe that you are the Savior, the sacrifice. Father, I ask you to forgive me of my sins to cleanse me from my righteousness. Father, thank you, Lord, for saving me, making me a new creation in Christ Jesus. Father, I give you things.
And by your grace, I'm saved. One day I shall see you. And again, I give you things in the precious name of Jesus. Amen.
Amen. If you prayed that prayer and gave your heart and life to Jesus, or you were just enjoying everything, we would love for you to send us an email or something. Let us know so that we can pray for you. We'd like to put you on our prayer list and just to all our friends and partners.
We want to encourage you to be all that you can be in God. And we just want to be able to lift your name up in prayer. But you know what, Pastor Steve? I just appreciate God's goodness.
Amen. And I appreciate the fact there is some things that he can't do. Amen. And when we find out about those things he can't do, he just encourages us in the things in which he can't do.
Amen. Glad that he knows our name. That's right. And he calls us by name.
Yes he does. And we can call upon him. You think about, you know, there's a lot of dignitaries in life that even by, you know, you have to have an appointment and you have to really be somebody to get, but the greatest one of all, I call Father. Amen.
And he says, my child, come any time. Amen. Boldly. Not every other one of the brothers.
And be afraid, but you can come in and trust no one that I love you and everything I've promised here. I want to just put into your life. Amen. That we can have that good life.
It's always good to come together here on the TV show. We'd like to see you in person. We'd like to invite you to come down to the Bundant Life Worship Center located at 923, Dolly Parton Parkway in Sarival, Tennessee. You can also check out our website.
That'll be A-L-W-C, SevereVille.com. And you can email us at A-L-W-C, SevereVille, at gmail.com. And our phone number is 865-366-1173. Amen.
We're just part of the family of God. So we invite you to come and grow with us. And we'll be looking forward to seeing you, either at the church or next time here on Spiritual Impact, until then. This is Pastor Tim, Pastor Steve, saying, God bless you.
We love you. Walk with God. Trust with God. Amen.
Hello, everybody. This is Pastor Tim Parton of Abundant Life Worship Center. For those of you that live in the Subramal area, or maybe you just visit from time to time, we'd like to take a moment and invite you to come visit us at the church. We're located at 923, Dolly Parton Parkway, right here in Sarival.
Our service time is Sunday morning at 11 a.m. Wednesday evening at 630. We just love sharing the Word of God. We're just a family church.
So we invite you to come and grow with us. God bless. We just a little faith. We are never alone.
So this battle I won't fear. Cause I can hear the sound of hell.