10 "How low can you go?" // Pr Randy Skeete

so when we see sickness war famine broken families drought plates all of those are expressions of a dying world let everybody say Amen one more time and a third time I was subject for today how low can you go what did I say yes before I begin please turn off your cellphone's please please please I said please three times because three in the Bible is the number of God Father Son Holy Ghost when they had sinned by numbering the children of Israel God gave him three choices for punishment and each one hundred three three days I believe a destroying angel three months an enemy will destroy the Israelites or three years of famine three is the number of God so in the name of Jesus have asked you to turn your phone's off off off off favor number two while I'm speaking pray for me and simply say Lord put your words in that man's mouth it is a very serious request and favor number three tell me what that is I want you to think please think I say 118 come now and let us reason together saith the Lord it is thinking analyzing that separates us from the animal kingdom physically we are the same according to the Bible but at the level of the intellect we are different that's where we function like God when we think heads bowed eyes closed our Father in heaven we ask you in the name of Jesus to have mercy upon us we ask you to God and to enlighten us as we listen to your word today help us to understand to accept and to live by the truth that you will reveal to us I humble myself before you day god i signal glory but i seek to glorify your name help me to do that i pray if some people are on their way bring them safely bless in a special way those who with us for the very first time please their God in the name of Jesus Christ answer this prayer in his name we pray amen this seems to be going in and out maybe I should have a microphone in my hand that is more reliable all right so I'll turn this thing off as santa-santa so I put the book there how low can you go go with me to Luke 15 we shall begin reading at verse 11 Luke 15 reading from verse 11 if you have a Bible and someone next to you does not have a Bible let the person read with you please Luke 15 before we read from verse 11 let's read from verse 1 the Bible says then threw nearer to him all the publicans and sinners for the one to hear him the publicans and the sinners were the lowest class in the days of Jesus lowest class in the sense that the largest society hated them publicans and sinners and the Pharisees you know the morbid saying this man receiveth sinners and eat chips with them the leaders of the church the higher levels of society they were shocked and they were angry that Jesus spent time with the lowest levels of society I was in a certain country in Africa preaching about 12 years ago running a meeting just like this I was staying at a little hotel and I came down to have breakfast I was sitting eating whatever they gave me and the waiter who served me he nice fellow he came by I was talking with him and there was a radio play and the radio was playing music from the United States I said to him why are you playing music United States why don't you play music from your country he said to me nah music from our country is for long people so I said what he said now our music is for live people there is in the mind of the average human being a concept of high people and low fever and so our subject is Carlo can you go this was for Jesus when Jesus came how low did he go one of the maladies that affect Christians are one of the maladies that affect Christians is low self-esteem there are untold numbers of Christians who do not have any positive view of themselves it is not only the church it is in the wider society no concept of self esteem and because of this they engage in all kinds of behaviors in a way to improve the view of themselves and almost invariably the behavior is destructive there are some women who run from man to man because of low self-esteem there are some men you inferred involve themselves in all kinds of criminal behavior because of your self-esteem no sense of value of themselves the Bible says that Jesus fellowshipped with the very lowest of society nor with me to Luke chapter 2 then we'll come back to Luke 15 our subject is how long can you go Luke chapter 2 we shall read from verse 8 and they were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock by night and you're the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them and they were so afraid and the angel said unto them fear not for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people for unto you Is Born This Day in the City of David a savior which is home Christ the Lord and this first twelve shall be a sign unto you read the rest of that verse he shall find on the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying where in a manger Jesus came and was born when none of us was born in a manger way animals lived where animals were born that's where Jesus was born not by accident but by deliberate choice of the father and the agreement of the son that Jesus Christ would come have the very lowest level in order that he might demonstrate by his teaching but more powerfully by his life that a low birth is no excuse for a low life are you missing a low birth is no excuse for a low life by his life by his birth Jesus teaches that however low the life maybe he can lift us from the lowest level right up to fellowship with God the Father on the floor and this shall be a sign unto you ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger there's the cow there's the donkey there's whatever there's the cow down there the beetles that eat the dung and various Jesus and so we go now to Luke 15 reading from verse 11 how low can you go is our subject and I hope by the time this message is over those of us who have no view of ourselves that is positive we'll see ourselves differently and said a certain man had two sons and the younger of them said to his father father give me the portion of goods that falleth to me and he divided unto them his living and not many days after the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance with riotous living and when he had spent all there arose a mighty famine in that land and he began to be in want and he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country and he sent him into his fields to feed swine now remember this as a Jewish boy that Jesus Christ is talking about if there's one animal that the Jews hated it was a pig and the Bible says and when he had spent all there arose a mighty famine in that land and he began to be in want and he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country and he sent him into his fields to feed swine now that's one level of being law and he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did he that's a lower level this boy had fallen so low he was eating what the pigs were eating christ is teaching a lesson you can fall low but however low you are christ to lift you from that condition and I mean lift you he was saying her fill his belly with the husks that the swine did eat and no man gave her to him for 17 and when he came to himself thank God for that expression the only way we can come to ourselves is as the Holy Ghost with great persistence and determination continues to touch the heart and to touch the heart and to convict and finally we year for the conviction and through the work of the Spirit we come to ourselves what am i doing why am I here why is this my lot in life he came to himself and some of us lead to come to our souls to our senses why am i living the life I am living regardless of how low or how high you are if your life is not connected to Christ you need to ask the question why am i doing what I am doing we need to come to ourselves and the Bible says when he came to himself he said how many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare and I perish with hunger I will arise and go to my father curse them just a decision to see God has a lifting effect on the mind listen again I will do it arise let me sit again the decision to give the life to God the decision that I need a different life that very decision has a lifting effect on the mind I will arise and go to my father and will say to him father I have sinned against heaven and before thee and I'm no more worthy to be called thy son make me as one of the hired servants and he arose and came to his father first twenty but when he was yet a great way off his father saw him you know why because the father was looking for him you know God is looking for you regardless of how terrible your life may be God is looking for you when he was yet a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him verse 21 and the son said unto him father I have sinned against heaven and if I sight and I'm no more worthy to be called thy son but before he could say make me as one of the hired servants the father interrupted him which tells us a very powerful story or lesson God's desire for us it's not that we below now let me see quickly God's desire for us it's that we be humble but there's a difference between humble and being low Jesus is the highest but he was also the most humble can you say Amen he was humble in the sense he was low but as God he was the highest God's desire for you and for me is that we be humble but that we behind because everyone that databases himself the Bible says shall be worn exalted the format' boy to say make me as one of their hired servants God doesn't have servants God has sons God has daughters the father said to his servants bring forth the best robe not any rope the best robe and put it on it and with a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and be merry for this my son now God is not ashamed of a low person my son before he has the robe on him before he had his shoes on his feet before the ring of authority was on his finger the father said this is my son that man in the gutter drunk right now somewhere in Nairobi that prostitute dressing right now to do her business tonight God looks at him and God says what my son Lord looks at her and God says my daughter I'll never forget I was preaching some country in Africa and a lady came to me for counseling I may have told the story to 11 and I said come on in have a seat let's pray and I said what's the problem she said I'm a sex worker no one ever said that to me before so I compose myself and I said um well what do you want to do about it she said I want to stop now the Holy Ghost was working on her heart you see now Society saw a prostitute what did God see his daughter come on say it loudly Society Sawa what did God see his daughter if we would see members of the church fruit backslidden as God's child we would treat them differently can you say Amen God saw my daughter and she said I want to stop and I said sister God has the power for us to overcome any sin and then she told me pastor before I go out at night I kneel down and I ask God protect me from harm endanger as I try to make a living to support my two little children and my heart just broke and I felt I need more grease than she does God saw his daughter prostituting herself God sees his son destroying his mind and his body by constant consumption of alcohol and the injection of drugs it is wait God sees his children barefooted smelling like things and he tells the world this is my son this is my dog and so the father said put a ring on his hand shoes on his feet and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and be merry for this my son however low he was he is my son and today God says to some man or some woman who is as long as that person can go you are my son and you are my daughter if you come to me I will missed you up listen to Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 our Lord can you girls our subject Genesis 2:4 7 what are you standing on now what are your feet resting on what are the animals walk on what are the animals when they drop what they drop where do they drop it when the bird is flying over and can't find the bathroom where does he drop what he dropped on the ground we spit we're on the ground now listen to the Bible and the Lord God formed man from where the dust of the ground why now angels were not made that way angels were just called into existence are you not listening or you listening I repent listen to me again angels who are not made from dirt they were just called into existence Psalm 148 from first one praise ye the Lord praise ye the Lord from the heavens praise Him in the heights praising him all his angels praising him all his horse verse five let them praise the name of the Lord for he commanded and they were created I say again angels were created by command in other words God just called and angels appeared he could have done the same thing when he made man but for reasons best known to God and which we can guess at reasonably god made man from dirt the same thing that was cursed after sin and if you'll observe in Genesis chapter 3 verse 17 listen to what God said to Adam because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and has eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying thou shalt not eat of it cursed is the ground for thy sake now for seven of Genesis 2 says and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life so we have dead and we have breath of life producing a human being but when God cursed he only curse the ground he did not thirst the breath he curse what we were made of so got the dirt the ground nothing which means that you and I without the life of God in us what are we nothing I don't care how many offices you hold in government if God is not in you you're nothing I don't care how much money you have if the life of God is not in me I am nothing what does Paul say do I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith so that I can remove mountains and have not charity I am nothing what gives meaning to that debt the life of God breathed into Adam what's the lesson for us we made something by the presence of God in our lives God knows how to take the lowest and make it the highest and all can do that for you he can do that for you you're worse your value it's not what people say your value your worth and mine is how God sees us go to Luke chapter 1 the story of the birth of John the Baptist the angel comes to Zacharias the father-to-be of John the Baptist and he gives John Sakurai's some information regarding this baby that is to be born first fourteen of Luke chapter one and thou shalt have drawn gladness and many shall rejoice at his birth now read verse 15 for me that first line for he shall be one stop he shall be wrought come on say it louder he shall be great but great in whose sight in the sight of the Lord to many of us we want to be great in the sight of man and therein lies our problem God wants us to be great as he defines greatness and so the Bible says he shall be great in the sight of the Lord what was John the Baptist life he lived in the desert he was covered in the skin of a camel he had locusts wild honey that was the great man he did not live in a palace he did not have three meals a day he did not have salad and main meal and dessert and whatever juice he had wild locusts honey covered in the scale of a camera and the Bible says in the sight of he was but in the sight of man he was low then you and I have a choice whose opinion will revalue today God wants to say if you see is great in my sight God wants to save me he is great in my sight and the greatness of a man and the greatness of a woman is the presence of God in that person let me make some of you uncomfortable it's necessary male and female you can spot a woman with low self-esteem by the way she dresses you bring that I don't go any further listen to me you can spot a woman looking for attention just by the way she dresses no self-esteem so clothes are used to do for her what does not happen internally you can see it in a man but when God made Adam and Eve they had no clothes they value the earth who was what God breathed into them are you with me your value in mind today is what God breathes into us and so god made us from the dirt and then Christ came took that same dirt he became one of us and God is not ashamed to call us his children because if he's ashamed of us because we have the dirt he must be ashamed of Christ who was also of the dirty but God's desire for us you see that the glory may come to God he does this work of miraculous transformation in dirt because no one will ever believe that dirt of itself can do that so God made us out the dirt that when he transforms our lives and glorifies our lives all the credit must go to him that's what a Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground deliberately as no as God could go that through faith in him he will raise us as high as a created being can go let me say that again by saying something different in the new world we will occupy a position with God higher than angels who were not made of dirt no one said anything so you didn't hear me let me say it again in the new world we will occupy a position with God higher than angels that never sinned and that were not made of dirt that's the value God places on us and the highest expression of God's value on us is that Jesus became one of us can you say Amen so he understands what it means to come from low circumstances he understands that but as god he also knows what it means to be the highest and so Jesus came from the highest to the lowest that he may take the lowest and elevate it where to the highest and he does that individually and also nationally what did his healthiest lights if they would obey him there would be one the head not a tail there would be the lenders not the borrowers that is being the hand if they would unite with him through obedience to his will and to his law and today Jesus wants to do that for you and for me to lift us up listen to Colossians 2 verse 9 for in him that's Christ dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead was the last word in the King James Version bodily in him Christ well if the fullness of the Godhead bodily because Jesus Christ still has this human form then he took her to heaven with him and he sits on the right hand of the Father representing us no angel sits on the right hand of God let me say it again no angel sits on the right hand of God they're angels that stand at the right side of God but no angel sits on the right hand of God Jesus who is God a man there is a man sitting on the right hand of God representing you and me can you say a man from the lowest to the highest what God will do with us in the New World it's the racers to the highest possible level to which a created being can be raised I realize the carnal mind makes it difficult for us to understand deep spiritual truths let me say this again the only reason let me say differently in the new world in process of time God will elevate the redeemed to a level second only to himself let me say differently we will occupy a position higher than Gabriel I tell you good news sometimes it's so hard to believe you know the expression is too good to be true whatever your circumstance think of what God thinks of you not what you think of you because in the church there people highly qualified to depress you ah you didn't hear me there are people the gift it's not a spiritual gift if it is is from the wrong spirit to discourage people but God his desire and he proved it through the death of his son is to take the lowly the downcast the doubt from the spat upon and raise them raise them raise them and God wants to do that for you and when you realize your value is wrapped up in what God thinks of you your behavior changes you don't sell yourself short God thinks too highly of me for me to behave that way God's view means to elevate it for me to lower myself that way if your teacher believes you can be the best in a class he was lying then God says I believe you can rise high so high that only I will be higher than you how low can you go how low did Jesus go listen to how low he went then we'll close Philippians 2 verse 5 and onward let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God that's the highest let me say that again who being in the form of God that's the highest father not robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation he deliberately lowered himself which we don't do took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross in other words the Bible says Jesus went as long as he could what did I say earlier that he'd might lift us as high as he could tonight Jesus says to you my daughter why do you behave like that do you not understand how highly I value you do you not understand how I treasure you the price I have placed on you the very life of my son he says my son why do you behave the way you behave do you not understand in my eyes you are great how can the God of heaven and earth have a low people he wants a great people but who are humble and as I said earlier humility is not the same thing as a low life because Jesus the highest being when I came to this earth was also the most humble tonight I want you to surrender that life to Christ whose this ayah is to lift you he has the church militant on you your family Miller down on you because you're the only one without a degree greatness in the eye of God has nothing to do with degree it has to do with connection with Christ God wants to lift you up in the eyes of your friends your nothing you have not had a promotion in twenty years on the job but in God's eyes as you have grown in grace God has promoted you give that life to Christ apologize to God for the low self-esteem we have had not realizing the value God has placed on us as you leave this place even if you walk from this space take a tally to get home you are walking as a son of God and as a daughter of God can you say a man even if you live under a tree as Jesus did you are a child of God because greatness has nothing to do with what you have it has to do with who you know and who is that person God the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground done what gave meaning to the dirt and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living active thinking evaluating drawing soul tonight I let me tell you a secret every preacher believes the other preacher is a better Bridget did you hear me don't tell anyone I said that every preacher believes the other creature is a better preacher we have our problems with self-esteem we have it and we need Jesus Larry you do do you think a preacher was made for a better kind of death and he goes some more elevated grave no we need Christ the way you need Christ we have problems the way you have problems we suffer from low self esteem the way you do so that what I am telling you you need is exactly what I need the consciousness that if every other preacher preaches more effectively than I God accepts my best effort can you say Amen and so tonight we say Lord I recommit my life to you help me to live tonight with the consciousness that you value me so high that in Christ I sit next to you on the throne I mean if you will say that with me tonight Lord help me to remember you value me so high that I sit next to you in price on that throne stand with me sad with me my brothers and sisters stand with me I want us to leave with our heads held high simply because that's where God is our heads must not be this way that's the gate the hell that's death that's a grave God is this way and so our heads are held high not in Pride but in the consciousness that there is a God in whose eyes we are viewed as great let me make a call that you may find strange listen very carefully it is extremely specific is this someone listening to me who has never never never consciously given the life to Christ you have never said Lord I surrender my life to you I give it to you direct my life you have never made that conscious deliberate intentional commitment to Christ and you want to do that now come I said you have never this is not a general appeal there are many people in church who has Lalla who have never surrendered the life to Christ they grew up in an Adventist home they grew up in a Baptist home they grew up in a Pentecostal home and they think a relationship with Christ comes by association not realizing every individual soul must make a conscious choice to give that life to Christ if you've never done that and you want to do that now come this is not a general appeal you've never consciously surrendered your life to Christ that he might control it come head you want to do that now anyone I just had to make that appeal too many times preachers assume everyone has given the life to Christ everyone probably goes to church but not having given the life to Christ as a conscious choice 60 seconds then I pray the call is if you have never consciously given your life to Christ and you want to do that now come that's the call very specific it does not apply to everyone 45 seconds that I pray never given the life to Christ even though we have grown up in the church thirty Seconds you have never given the life to Christ you want to do that come you've never done it consciously you just think a walk with God is an automatic thing it's not automatic you must make a choice 15 seconds never consciously given the life to Christ you want to do that now come all right Outbrain but that's relief we leave with the consciousness that we're great in the sight of God as God dwells in us through the Spirit of Christ heads bowed eyes closed father in heaven we thank you that God we were made from dirt we thank you Father you breathe into that dirt your life and that life give meaning and value to the dirt we thank you that God that Jesus came took on this dirt human form at the very lowest level and through total trust in you live life at the highest level they God in heaven he you value us highly and that value is measured by the fact that someone equal with yourself Jesus Christ came and paid the price for our freedom from sin help us take God to dwell on this tremendous fact that our self-esteem may be based not in what we wear or what we drive or who we know but in our knowledge that Jesus died for us let us leave this place they got with our heads heads held high not in Pride but an acknowledgment that our Father is in heaven and with this consciousness they got there were sons of God daughters of God and if grown is the king where Princess of God princesses of God let that consciousness lead to a change in our behavior let us behave like sons of the King daughters of the king bless every man woman boy and girl and if there's someone who still needs to give that life and Charlie to Christ who has never done that move on that person's heart that that surrender might be made here this humble prayer did God take us home safely bring us back tomorrow to hear your word again I offer this prayer in Jesus name that all God's people say Amen you

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Length: 42min 1sec (2521 seconds)

Published: Mon May 26 2014