Bishop Noel Jones - "Keep On Serving God"

[Music] in verse 45 of eleven and then men many of the Jews this is John 11 which came to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did believed on him but some of them went their ways to the Pharisees and told them what things Jesus had done then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees the council and said what do we do what do we for this man do with many miracles on him and the Romans shall come and take us out of our place a nation and one of them named Caiaphas being the high priest that same year said unto them he know nothing at all nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people then that the whole nation perish not and this speaking not of himself but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation and not for that nation only but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death Jesus therefore walk no more openly among the Jews but when thence into a country near the wilderness into a city called Ephraim Ephraim and their continued disciples now it is an interesting dynamic that what gives Jesus witness because the miracles that he did remember they fall within the categories of what gives him witness if you remember the five categories of witness miracles was one of them there was the father there was John there was yes the testimony of John there was the miracles of course and he spoke for himself but miracles then becomes part of the witness now who is benefitting by the miracles certainly he needs no benefit by the miracles except that the miracle is a witness but why is it necessary for him to have a witness it is necessary for him to have a witness that the people who witness the miracles which is a witness would believe so the miracle in physical sense its blessing the people who he performs the miracles for so in a physical sense they're being blessed by his miracle and the miracle is a witness for them to know who he is for a spiritual benefit following me there are two things that are happening when he performs miracles the first thing that happens is that he goes against the natural order because he supersedes the natural order so he is not rebelling against the natural order he controls the natural order he is the natural order but he who is the natural order is also the supernatural order I think I could make a digression here one of the things that's interesting to the child of God then maybe we don't reflect on it enough and that is that the God of the supernatural is also the God of the natural I submit that very carefully that the God of the natural is the God of the supernatural so which means then that he has an order and he puts things in place and it operates by cause and effect he declared that the Sun will shine and the Sun will come up and go down and the moon will operate and everything will operate until time shall be no more so which means then that he has set some things in place that are irrevocable until their time has been fulfilled even in operating in the church there is the times of the Gentiles and there's a time when he will return to his brethren so he has set some things in order and he has put some things in place from a natural point of view now believe it or not we feel the effect of not obeying or operating within the parameters of his natural order even though we have been born again and we walk with him we still feel the effects of not walking according to his natural order now it becomes conflicting to the child of God because the child of God who does not walk according to the natural order wants to be exempt from like all spoiled children want to be exempt from the consequences of not walking according to the natural order we want to be exempt I was called many times to pray for the Saints in longview and I remember one night Saint was groaning under excruciating pain and called for the elders of the church they followed the spiritual order and that was the call for the elder of the church the elder of the church happened to come through the kitchen that night and the pot the head of the Lord was sitting in the pot the grease was covering everything that was in the pot so I'm called to fulfill a supernatural request to offset the consequences of the natural debacle see all spoiled children want to have free will but they don't want to deal with the consequences of their choices you talk to me now the God of the supernatural is the God of the natural and the miracle is when he steps into the natural order which he controls and decides to go against the natural order for the benefit of the individual to whom he is extending the miracle but what we fail to understand is that to move him into the place of miracle has to be for him to come out of it with something this is nice I like this we want to use God to offset the consequences of us not walking according to his natural order and we get upset when he does not intervene to remove the consequences of a behavior that naturally follows not walking according to his order natural order if a man don't work he shouldn't eat we don't want to work but we want all the benefits of having a job and we're upset when the miracle doesn't come and we get mad with people because they won't supply all of our needs which which I never prayed to anybody to supply all my need I pray to God to supply all my needs and then he puts me to work before he supplies all my needs he say you gotta come and seek me but you can't see God and not seek his order and understand that he has placed causes and effect and if you walk outside of his order you can get the same result as if you are so here comes a miracle the miracle is when something happens that supersedes the order so jocosely when miracles happen it happens first of all when he decides it step number two it happens not to further your calls but to further his calls you benefits because that miracle has called you into a place that benefits visco let me show you what I mean exegetically he set up Lazarus and the family for Lazarus to die and one party says Lazarus is dead because he continues I'd like to stop and pause there for effect then I'll into jack how many times have I been in trouble and he said Knoll is in trouble and I am glad they'll wreck this car and I'm glad Nowell is hurting and I'm glad what did he continue to say he continued to say because I'm gonna get some glory he set him up in a calamitous situation because I don't think you can find anything more calamitous than this he actually let him die he didn't make him sick but he allowed the natural order of his sickness to take him out he didn't interfere with the natural order before he died and I understand this that Lazarus it's not resurrection when Lazarus died it was not resurrection now you ought to think about that you're opposed that you ought to get angry but of course she was resurrected nah it's not a type of resurrection because resurrection means that you'll never die again resurrection means you won't die again the resurrected won't die again Lazarus was brought brought back to life he didn't have a glorified body he had the same body he had when he was here everything just spit out his body when you're resurrected you won't die again because Jesus is the first true firstborn of many brethren Jesus is the representative of a resurrection Jesus is the first one to be resurrected not Lazarus he was just brought back to life he died again you know he didn't interrupt the natural process whatever God Lazarus sick was based on whatever he chose to do Lazarus suffered the effects of how he lived God allowed him to no friend Lazarus didn't say was demonic it didn't see it was supernatural his sickness was as a result of his DNA the way he did and Jesus did not interfere because that wasn't the miracle he wanted to perform he didn't want to perform a miracle of healing he wanted to perform a miracle of giving him life resurrecting him in the sense that he brought him back to life because he wanted to get the kind of glory that bringing somebody back to life represents and he wanted to give us the right words for the funeral I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die doesn't that happen at every funeral so he intercedes and he supersedes rather the issue of his death because he wanted something out of it I say that to say never allow yourself to be conflicted because of what you want God to do in your natural existence that doesn't give him anything you're asking him to perform a miracle in your life but will there be any believers after that will anybody get the glory other than you being glad that you don't have to deal with the consequences of your choice in two different places it says that like when Peter was talking you know what Laura said that if John was gonna someone's gonna be here until he came back and in Laura's basically told Peter to mind his own business and it was another there's another place where he says the same thing about some being here until after so I'm just curious just in that context but you said that Lazarus was gonna die again is there any indication out of any description to say that there are those who are gonna still be alive until Christ comes back a second time is it possible that Lazarus is one of those people's gonna still be here and still here now I mean I'm just saying yes it's kind of like way out there but it does you know I wish I could put Lazarus back there only two there are only two there are only two witnesses and we argue who they are because the Bible says it is appointed unto man once to die and after that after the death the judgment well there are two people on record who have not died we bring Moses back but Moses died and we want to make Moses one of the two witnesses but Moses fulfilled the natural order or might I say the supernatural order and that it is appointed unto man once to die God superseded that because Lazarus died twice and being God he supersedes the rules here and break them because he saw the rules is and he supersedes but he supersedes for his glory and his benefit now Enoch didn't die he wasn't God took him and Elijah didn't die and I find it difficult exegetically to put anybody else in that place when he says it's appointed unto man once to die and after after death the judgment then there are only two who haven't died so why shouldn't I just assume without being dogmatic that somehow Enoch is in the crowd even though he's in a dispensation far removed and also Elijah is in that crowd yes yeah and they all died again to everybody everybody because Jesus when he comes to resurrection Jesus is the first it could be you know I can't be dogmatic it's it's it's serious speculation as to what happens I only know if there's gonna be witnesses there's no death then just gonna be hard to persuade me that it's somebody else who you're having a picnic on Friday and the meteorological system says is gonna rain torrential II and because of your contact with God you decide that you're going to go forward with your picnic and not change the date because people are coming from Vegas and from Atlanta but you're going to call out to God to stop the rain so you can have a picnic get your raincoat child why would you believe that God is going to upset the natural order so that you can self aggrandize for something as minuscule as having a picnic when he decides to stop the clock from going forward and all the time it because he wanted his people to have victory over the enemy that was upon them he was trying to keep his people from being destroyed that is not having a picnic on a Saturday morning that's keeping a whole nation together based upon the promise of God that he would protect his people oh you gotta understand that God's gotta get something out of it you get the benefit of being healed but he's only gonna heal you when he gets the benefit of somebody believing on him and knowing who he is about you writing something in a book it's about him furthering his purpose many believe when they left and saw what he did in the home of Mary and mother it wasn't a 5 a.m. prayer that moved it wasn't three weeks of fasting that moved he had set the whole thing up I want to ask you of course how much of your life would you want God to set up hello Joe hi Joe I'm not trying to be Joe I'm telling you right now if God's gonna make a job out of me he's gonna have to do it without my permission if God's gonna make a Lazarus out of me he's got to do it without my permission I am NOT going to be sitting kneeling down in prayer begging God to make a job out of me it's a compliment to be a job don't mind it's wonderful to be a lots of us slated for resurrection don't mind it but I'm asking God to put me through anything in order I told the Lord the other day I was praying about some of my habits and I said lord I need you to change some of my habits don't let me be sick for you to change them don't let me be hurt for you to change them don't let me have an accident for me to change them Lord just help me to change them by faith [Music] and it's working to corby to God I need you to change my habits but I don't need to go through I don't need to be laying at the edge of death wondering how long I'm on breathe feeling pain all over my body I don't want to go to the doctor and he gave me some craziness for me to change Lord let me change right now in the name of Jesus I bet on myself the blood of Jesus the Holy Ghost the anointing the world how much of your life do you want him to disrupt it's easy to talk without thinking dismantle the house dismantle the family put him in a moment of grief because he allowed the natural order they saw it if you had have been here the natural order would have been averted but God does not set up what's natural and go against it every time somebody's got a whim if that is so then the plane would sell them fly a boat would sell them sail you would move your legs but you'd never walk motion and combustion would not operate wind velocity jet propulsion and gravity wouldn't be in place because none of that stuff is whimsical I can take your blood and regardless of your skin color and use it internationally because of one blood God created man a doctor would seldom be able to practice medicine if it were whimsical you would walk off the top of this building and you may or may not fall walking down the street and you may slow down into space because gravity has lost its place man is systematically destroying the ecology of the earth and I don't care how we pray and have prayer meetings unless we get up and do something about it it ain't gonna change anything it might be in the will of God he might have properly decide that this would happen when he talks about a new heaven and a new earth it's because something happened to the old heaven and the Old Earth and I tell you what happened man mashing up I went Jamaican on your dad we just destroyed it so now here come the Hurricanes are becoming more intense natural order you ignore certain things certain things are going natural order and when you call God in two in a sea then you gotta tell him what's in it for me because it's gotta be some minute for him when God intercedes in the natural order he brings believers and haters all miracles that are deigned of God leave believers and haters he is now believed on by some and hated more intensely by others the miraculous move of God distinguishes who's who I Got News for you to apply this to you and I when people despise you the good things you do make them angry they want you to fail this sick when you're happy they're angry when you're content they wanna die when you're blessed because they're sitting down constantly forecasting your fall can you imagine the torment I receive because every time they're sitting expecting to hear bad news somebody brings them good news can you imagine living your life hoping for bad news what happened up there was a service I heard Jesus went up there and I heard Lazarus was four day dead I know he made a fool of himself up there didn't he what we understand the blind man seeing but four men was four days dead whose spirit had left the earth and we know he was dead we can't fake it we can't call and ask is he your son was he born blind everybody knew Lazarus was dead and now Lazarus has been brought back to life - some who believe it's good news to those who despise him it's bad news isn't it funny you can be among folk who are enjoying what God is doing in your life and right beside them are those who can't stand what God is doing in your life I wish you'd understand your blessings leave people conflicted don't you wish everybody would be happy with you then you can have an open wedding but now you got to choose who can come do you know how time consuming it is for you to have to check and cross second cross second cross cross cross cross you can't do more crossing than second well you have a less budget that will help you with your budget your enemies help you with your budget how much is your wedding gonna cost not much but the conflict born out of a blessing is what is really intensely hurtful to me it's how can we have so much hatred out of what is benefiting someone and giving God glory the miracle is a natural benefit and a supernatural benefit all at the same time I am benefiting the blind man I am benefiting the man even though it's on the Sabbath but I supersede the Sabbath because the Sabbath is all about me and if I choose to heal somebody on the Sabbath I have a right to heal somebody on the Sabbath why should anybody be mad they're mad because they don't like you Lord and when people don't like you even your goodness moves them into hate you understand now why if he's to operate in his time because he had his time lined up as to when he was going to go to the cross because the teachings of the church had to become the rudiment and the fundamental principle by which the church would spend so he had to have his Sermon on the Mount he had to have his encounters with various people in various disciples he had to give them enough time to get to the place where they understood exactly who he was and believed who he was because it was incumbent upon them the twelve of them took it spread the word with such intensity that you and I two thousand years later are still here so he had to bring them to the place where they knew he was who he said he was and believed him to the point where they were willing to give their lives for what they believed in order to promulgate so he couldn't just come and die without laying the groundwork for the rudimental foundation of a church that he had to build for generations and thousands of years so he had to orchestrate who could tell and who couldn't tell what he had done I am doing something because I moved in compassion but if I do it and you tell it you're going to hasten my dying before I prepare the people who have to present so he'll say some don't tell what I did he tell another don't say what I did he tell another go show yourself to the priest he'll tell another he'll do something openly but he do something silently because he's judging and orchestrating the time to his cross because he know that his enemies may come hating they're scared oh they they told you that's why you gotta watch people who put their place above God's will people who make their position greater than God's will are we going to church now people and who extolled title more than God's will if it's God's will for you to move out the way get out the way and not hold on to your title and ignore those who are anointed you see sometimes he appointed aren't anointed but they're holding on to their position at the expense of the anointing of God moving in the house some people who are pointed don't have any titles but when title become more important than anointing we got a problem your anointing threatens my position what God is doing with you is bothering me how God is moving in your life is unsettling mine stop doing those miracles stop stop praying through stop reaching the throne of grace stop having God move on your behalf stop I don't care who him bless stop you're threatening my position I want you to fail what's the news from Bethany her Jesus went up there what's the news well Vegas put your money on Jesus cuz he didn't go down and fail he went down her to get some glory and he's gonna come out there with some glory and he's gonna come out of there with some believers and you can keep on hating all you want to because he's gonna use your hate to fulfill his purpose oh you are part of the program - haters you a part of the program - it ain't your turn to function yet I'm just putting you off to the right time but don't fool yourself I've got you lined up to do part of what you need to do to get me to the cross now you know you know God is a miracle worker when his haters can give a prophetic word he has to be the power of miracle when the devil can speak the truth cuz the high Greece is raising the question not the low priest the big position man the top dog is giving a prophetic word now notice notice the irony his disciple Peter is telling him not to die being far from you stop talking like that Jesus and the high priest is prophesying of his death and don't even know what he's saying that's why you give glory to God for your enemies call your enemies get you bless can you imagine your enemy speaking blessing over your life ask Balaam come on just do a little research and find out how enemies can speak blessings while they trying to curse you while they're trying to destroy you because the God of miracle can take things out of order he supersedes the order you spoke to destroy me you hated me put me in a pit put me in the prison but you didn't know you were lining up the palace you got me to the palace you man you got me closer to God you man you talking about me put me on my knees now you man you got me this extra anointing now you mad you got me this extra blessing now you mad you got the door open for me now you mad you made a way for me with all of your negativity now you mad because the God of miracle use what you did to further my program you meant it for evil [Music] in your life define sense attitudes we don't do something with this man he's gonna move us out of our place all the people are going to believe it it's a terrible thing when you have no revelation when there's no revelatory experience when your spirit does not connect to the Spirit of God what useless energy to be in church and your spirit does not connect to the Spirit of God what useless energy for you to be in the presence of Christ and your spirit does not connect to the spirit of what he's doing how can you come up with hate when he's negotiating for your benefit and all he is asking out of the benefit is that your benefit becomes a witness none of your greatness but of his greatness that your witness moves people closer to him not to you but you benefit because he used you to get him some glory it's a marvelously God bless you with a good life that's where his glory you got the benefits in the natural he gets the benefit in the supernatural because you gave the supernatural praise for your natural benefit you don't take the natural benefit and forget him you don't take the gift over the giver you always thank the giver for the gift and you always give him praise for the gift and God knows some of us he has to really work with the gift before he releases the gift to us because we are so twisted that he got to really twist up a gift in order to fit the mess we are we should understand some of us can't get no gift off the shelf honey it's got to be tailor-made it's got to be custom fitted it's got to be worked on for years and years before he can release it to us and if you can get somebody to get along with you you ought to be glorifying God every day every time you look at me to God he come in a Honda you can do is going on when you show up to have a meeting in the park when you have discussion sitting around the table sitting around the table at the Cheesecake Factory in to talking about you they've gathered themselves into the whole nation weather also he should gathered together in one the children of God that was scattered abroad you know he's a miracle worker when the folk that don't wanna see him can't help but prophetically declare who he there are some things and as I close there were some things that you just can't deny and you search and you try to find something wrong with a person you search and you dig search and you question to find something to destroy their credulity their credibility destroy their authenticity try to minimize them depreciate them departmentalized ostracized and after you've done all your research and come up with all your [Music] still can understand it's still cannabis you can't deny but I got the wrecker God don't use that with the blind man who got the miracle he all of a sudden became a teacher notice he didn't say I know he said we know oh he just stepped in the political school the pharmacy school now all of a sudden he's rabbinical he just made himself a rabbi we we know that God don't use sinners we know you and I you got the degree but I got the miracle that puts me on the same level with you I'm the one who was blind but now I see you can see but you still don't believe women are the priests and women shouldn't preach but you can't deny anointing you can't deny somebody being used of God I know you don't like women and you can't stand with your misogynistic self but you can't deny that God has his hand on that woman and that God has his hand on that sister and that God is using that pastor that preacher yes she's a woman but she's an anointed woman of God and you can't deny it talk about all you wanna talk about her skirt talk about how she talk like a man talk about a haircut talk about all you want but you go run down that prayer line looking for her to live oh you're wicked god bless you tonight god bless you give somebody a high five say keep on serving God keep on doing what you're doing keep on allowing him to use you

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Published: Sun Mar 08 2020