Church of Christ Pt 8 | Willie B. Williams III

[Music] luke chapter 5 and we'll begin at verse 20 now picking up where we left off uh and dealing with the church and understanding the church of christ what i want to talk about this morning is i want to talk about the aim of the church of christ and so god did not just build the church god did not die for the church god did not just jesus christ didn't just purchase the church with his blood when he built the church and the bible says when he built the church he built the church from us so god gathered sinners god gathered the dirt cleaned up the dirt and made the dirt a part of his body when god made when jesus made the church a part of his body there was a purpose and there was a aim for the church of christ and so it is imperative it is important to know just like every relationship every relationship should have a goal and a destination the reason why you kick it with att the reason why you kick it with t-mobile or whatever your carrier is you say hey listen the purpose and the intent of this relationship is for this purpose so his uh needs to be clear and understood every relationship should have a purpose every relationship should have uh a destination and so the reason that we are with jesus christ uh jesus would need to explain hey listen the reason why i died for you and i want to be with you is that this is the destination so what we want to talk about on uh this morning is the aim and the purpose of us connecting with uh jesus christ why would a person need to be a part of the church of christ why would a person need to be baptized into jesus christ why would a person need to make those steps in order to have this relationship with jesus christ the bible states here luke chapter 5 and verse 29 and levi made him a great feast in his own house jesus picked him chose him and decided uh that he was going to uh go to levi's house so what levi decided to do is i'm going to make a great feast i'm going to make a a great uh uh event not only for jesus but i'm going to make a great feast for all of my friends the bible says he made him a great feast in his own house and that was a great company of publicans and others that sat down with him and so uh jesus's mindset jesus's focus is jesus is going around and he's not only picking disciples but he's also picking apostles and he's picking those who are going to begin this journey with him so listen in order to get with jesus you got to know where jesus is going if you don't know where jesus is going it's not good to be in a relationship with jesus i need you to applaud it for your own personal life listen you need to understand where jesus is going because if you don't understand what jesus is going it's not good to kick it with jesus because where jesus is going it's going to conflict with your nature right so every relationship should have an aim every relationship should have a purpose if somebody does not know where you're going even if their family even if their loved ones even if it's your friend from childhood if you don't know where i'm going and if you don't know what i'm trying to achieve then my destination will ruin and conflict with your nature and so the bible says that jesus goes and he picks uh this individual and this individual is so excited that jesus has chosen him he decided he was gonna throw a party but you gotta understand this is not a christian party this is not a religious party uh he's only gonna throw a party in the way that he knows how to throw a party and he's gonna have some food he's gonna have some festivities the bible says it's a feast there's some there's some things at this party that if you were of the religious order you would walk by and say we don't go there matter of fact you don't you don't even need to go inside and investigate and talk to people the type of party that's being thrown in luke chapter 5 and verse 29 all you would have to do if you're a christian all you would have to do is walk by and say oh we don't attend places like that for for in present day time there are some places that you can walk by all you have to do is just smell it and you would say oh okay we don't that's not that's not our type of party that we would attend or that we would go to the bible says and the bible is setting up the scene the bible is saying he made a great feast and look he was in his own house he was in his own house and that was a great company i'm talking about all the republican is a tax collector i mean they must have told the whole office this must have been a whole office party because the bible says there was this great company of publicans and look and others that sat down with them this is a neighborhood gathering do y'all see this we're going to have a party now you think about what are some things what are some things that you would do at a worldly party right can you but before we read any further because you don't miss it you don't think this was a nice little jerusalem party and they had a little bread and maybe they had a little wine but but imagine if you were going wild out at this time what kind of party now notice they don't know this type of jesus the the jesus that we know that walks on water and that raises the dead and cast out demons uh the type of jesus that we know that removes evil out of people's lives and bring light uh into dark they don't know that type of deed matter of fact they are tax collectors and others who at the party others others are at the party yeah there's some others at the party and there's some tax collectors tax collectors were known to be great sinners they didn't have matter of fact many of them view the tax collector as not having a moral code because tax collectors will rob you and take your money and still charge you uh they they work these were government jobs a tax collector was a government job so they worked for the government but they were all known to be uh liars and deceivers and manipulators and they would rob you and so the people hated tax collectors because they they were thieves they were known as thieves so imagine inviting a bunch of thieves and liars and others to a to a party and they're coming to the party not because jesus is calling the party they're coming to the party because levi oh because when levi throw a party and and imagine what kind of house this is whenever you think about biblical uh houses at this time we we always uh imagine these mud huts and and things of stuff like that no no uh if if he's a tax collector he's living better if he's a tax collector he's living better than the average citizen uh in in in town on top of that this isn't a little small uh one bedroom the bible says that was a great company that mean it's his house it's his estate and everybody can get in right so you got the whole office coming to your house you invited jesus as a special guest and you got to invite your others because that's how you're going to turn up and have a good time imagine the kind of stuff that was being said at the party imagine the kind of things that were happening at the party i need you to understand christianity is not even a known religion at this time they know nothing of that also what is dominant is uh there's judaism but there's idol worship some of the idol worshiping that was going on had to deal with sexuality had to deal with sacrificing had to do with all kind of other stuff that was going on so imagine there are those who walked in they had no religion there are some that had no religion there are some who worship idols and they worship multiple idols and and their um and their worship had them doing things physically uh and spiritually that would go against a child of god and you invited jesus to the party i need you to understand you're going to be outnumbered when you go to this party it ain't going to be a lot of us it ain't going gonna be a lot of us at the party it's a whole lot of them and it's it's just very few very few of us uh believe i was excited because he pulled out all the stops and got the whole community out now if you know anything about jesus jesus is saying i need to be at this party if you know where he's going and you know what he's trying to accomplish you can imagine jesus said oh i need to be there oh thank you for the invitation and you would think uh jesus would say you know what thank you but no thank you i really don't i really don't need to be in that environment now for some of us some of us don't need to be at the party and the reason why some of us don't need to be at the party is because of where our mind is we have no intention on engaging so either you're gonna do two things either you're just gonna hang out and have fun and talk to people are you going to be there and be isolated jesus didn't plan on doing either one of those things a lot of people like to go to this text a lot of people like to go to this text for a license to go have fun a lot of people like to go to this text and say well jesus hung out with the sinners and jesus hung out and did these days well we need to go in half and have fun and go here and be able to do this but if you understood where jesus was going then you understand why jesus arrived and why jesus took the invitation here we are in verse 30. and the bible says but there are scribes and pharisees murmured against the disciples saying why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners first of all for the scribes and pharisees why are you even around the party you don't even live in this neighborhood we at levi's house but they happened to see where jesus was going they were following jesus and they looked and said now they looked and say now why is jesus sitting down eating and drinking with the publicans and this and the sinners why isn't jesus appalled because he knows their lifestyle matter of fact you can imagine some of the language that's going around at the party and some of the uh the the activities that are going around at the party why isn't jesus disgusted why isn't jesus uh just fear why isn't he storming out of this place he's just sitting there and he's look he looks unbothered matter of fact he hungry and he's what he's eating and he's he's conversing with him he's sitting down at the table and he's eating the food and he's conversing with all of these sinners jesus is so pure he's so righteous i promise you never heard jesus cuss you've never you've never seen jesus be jealous you've never seen jesus to take something that wasn't his can you imagine jesus as a child when his mother told him to do something and he was always obedient always said yes ma'am he never broke curfew jesus never stayed out too late you never had you never had to wonder if jesus was getting in the fight uh with the neighborhood kids or running with the wrong crowd jesus never run ran with the wrong crowd or did something he wasn't supposed to do he was always ob jesus was pure he was righteous he was clean and then you're walking by and you're looking at this ungodly party and then you look and you say is that is that jesus that's why why would jesus that's like you walking down the street and you're looking is jesus in that place surely surely jesus and he's and not only it's not it's not like he's just walking through he's sitting down and he's conversing with the people there and and they asked him a question we don't know why are you in there right why are you in there look at jesus's statement verse 31 jesus answering and said unto them they that are whole need not a physician but they that are sick i want you to take on the mind that jesus had and how he saw everybody in the room now jesus is in there and he's eating with them he's talking with him he's conversing with him and if you ask jesus why are you in here you know what he would tell you because everybody in here is sick everybody that's having fun and in the corner and laughing in the back can you i want you to put on jesus's eyes as he's in a place like this because if you decide to go i just need you to have the same eyes that jesus would have and jesus says sit in there and as he scans the room nobody is healthy jesus has the ability to look at everybody's heart jesus has the ability to look into everybody's soul and as he scans the room and everybody's laughing and having a good time and cheering and drinking jesus says everybody's sick and incomplete nobody's healthy jesus why are you in here because they need help now if you're not there to help don't you go in there if you're not there if you're not in a health somebody says hey listen i was stressed i'm just here to have a good time then you in the wrong place because you're no benefit to the party if you're gonna go to a party just benefit the party and have the eyes of jesus make sure you scan the room and make sure your heart is as heavy as jesus's heart was that if you don't go and party and hang out and be with people who don't know god just make sure you look and see what jesus sees that says they need help and i'm here i'm not here because i just got an invitation imagine if jesus response was well i had nothing to do this tonight i was kind of free this weekend and levi was throwing the party so you know it was the weekend nobody had to go to work tomorrow so uh you know we had a carpenter holiday and so we didn't really need to we don't have anything to do our inventory was stocked up so we had made a bunch of chairs the day before so i think we good if that was jesus's response you would be like well it would confuse you you know why i confuse you because the bible says in first corinthians light and dark don't mix not like dark it light dark doesn't doesn't mix so so if light and dark doesn't mix then why is jesus who is the light why is he in a dark place then i begin to realize it's okay to go to dark places if you're the light the only reason that it's okay to go to dark places if you're the light is if you come with the eyes of jesus i'm here to help now don't don't stay too long don't don't say too long why why does an ambulance go to where shooting is not to hang out we were just driving by we had none of us do no you're not there to hang out we're here why we're here to help somebody here is injured there's there's somebody there's somebody here that's that's drinking their pain away there's somebody in here that's lost and is about to be carried away into lust and somebody need to snatch her and send her home somebody need to let him know hey man you broken and you need to get yourself together you in this dark place but there's light in me i showed up here tonight not to condemn anybody but i see some hurting and i see some broken people so if the head thinks like this then the body has to follow the bible says that jesus christ is the head and the church is his what and the church is his body where if the church is his body how the head moves is how the body should move the body should not be in contradiction to what the head is so if the head goes into a dark place and the head says hey listen i see people who are sick and in need of a physician they're not whole they're they're not healthy then you know what the body should be preparing to do if the head sees that then the body should be prepared to tend to people and to care for people and to help them to go from sickness to health jesus answering they are not whole the reason why i don't hang out with them because they don't need a physician but they that are sick they need me do you know also how jesus saw himself now if you don't see yourself like this you don't have no business in certain places but if you see yourself like jesus saw himself jesus saw himself as i have medicine for their sickness i have something that they need they don't know they need me but i see them and i see where they're sick i see where they're not whole and i have the medicine to help them now if you're not gonna bring jesus to me then don't come out and hang out with me because you're no benefit somebody said well i have a lot of friends and i have a lot of people that are in the world and they're not christians but i don't judge them but i do hang out with them and kick with them but if at any point they don't get stronger wiser or closer to god your relationship with them is no benefit because if i'm on a road to destruction and you're connected to me and somebody come a year later and i'm closer to destruction than i was a year ago what's the benefit of having you if you're not helping me get better i don't care if you don't do anything but jog my uh jog my my my my morality i don't care if you uh uh give me scripture or remind me of how i need to live or what i need to do to get closer to god if you don't do any of that what's the benefit of having someone who has medicine and everybody in the room stays sick if everybody in the room stays sick and there's a doctor in the room then why are you here you have to have the mind of jesus and the mind of jesus says i'm here to help let's move to the next verse the bible says in verse 32 he says this i came not to call the righteous you know what also lets me know jesus showed up to the party because he he planned on making some calls actually you thought jesus was just hanging out sometimes it frustrates me with people who use this verse and they use this verse as a license to where jesus hung out with the sinners then i mean i like hanging out with sinners too jesus never said he liked hanging out with sinners jesus jesus never said now this this is my type of party he never said that what jesus said is they're sick now if you like hanging out with sick people who never get well then something's sick with you because to hang out with jesus or to be around jesus for any amount of time something was about to get straightened out something was about to be prick your conscience was about to get pricked something was about to get purified if you hung out with jesus if you had some something dark if you had a demon or a spirit inside of you that was not of god you hung around jesus for any amount of time that that thing in you was about to come out or something was about to get rebuked jesus never said i love hanging out with the sinners jesus says but they need me that's why i'm here they need me and on top of that i'm not looking for people who think they got it together worship service church christianity doesn't benefit anybody who thinks they're okay as long as you think you're okay and you don't think you need any help and you don't think you need the lord and you don't think you need the word of god and you don't think you need the bible and i only i don't need to read every day i don't need to go to worship every sunday you know people make jokes about that i don't need to go to worship every sunday you know i go every now and then but i only do all as long as you don't think you need then it won't benefit how many people have you talked to and they said well what's going on i'm just i'm my heart is hurting my uh my blood pressure this or your body or whatever case may be and they say well have you take your medicine no i ain't taking my medicine well that's why you struggling the doctor told you that you need to take it twice every day well you know i i took it once and then well if you don't follow the instructions you're going to stay sick you need to you need to get back and follow the follow the instructions some people like staying sick so it won't benefit it won't benefit them if they come to the lord's house it won't benefit them if you give them a bible it doesn't benefit if you invite them to a gospel meeting or you invite them to a service or or some active it won't because in their mind they think they're okay so you know what you know what our worship service and our gathering should be made of a bunch of people who know they can't get it together on their own we're here and if and if you really believe that you would believe that from the pulpit i'm not here because i got it together and i'm here to do a seminar and we're doing i'm doing a five-step series on how to be the best christian in the world from the pulpit all the way to the back everybody in this room knows without jesus we can't breathe we can't function we can't walk and we're no good without jesus christ and the moment that you start thinking that you're good and you want to start holding some seminars on how to be a five-star christian we're doing a cross-country tour on how to be a five-star christian all over the world we want you to sign up for our seminar peers uh we wrote a book uh no no that's that's deception and you're lying to yourself because the only one that's five star it's jesus christ and the rest of us we are at the feet of jesus on a daily basis you could be the best christian in the world today best christian in the world today tomorrow you better you better wake up on your knees and asking god for grace and mercy to give you the strength to even be a reflection of him not of not of you yesterday because even you yesterday are still filthy rags to the lord you wake up in the morning and say god if i if i have your grace and your mercy you can give me the strength that i can walk close with you today it'll only be about the mercy and grace of god so the eyes of jesus is this i didn't come to call the righteous that's why being arrogant in in amongst the church is is so contradictory how can you be arrogant because if you claim that jesus called you then you you would have to admit he called the sinner because jesus don't call the righteous he only calls what somebody said oh yeah jesus called me i was like well i already know who you are oh me and jesus we got a wonderful relationship oh i know who you are because jesus jesus don't call jesus don't call the righteous he don't call people who believe they have it together he only calls those who know that they're broken and sick and they're sinners well jesus me and jesus is always talking to me i know yeah i know i know he is other are you answering though that's that's the second question no he called him but is he are you answering uh or maybe you're always talking to jesus and you don't let jesus talk to to you there are some people who like to brag i talk to god all the time i talk to jesus all the time but yeah but do you let him talk to you when was the last time you opened up the word of god and you really just put your heart and you let him speak to you to find out where you are i know i'm not right i know i got some things in my life that need to be changed and i know i need to fix some things okay well then if you know then answer the call answer the call that jesus has put out to all of the the reason why some people don't hear the call of jesus is because they think they're okay so you know what they say uh hey your phone is ringing no no no jesus already called me this morning i think that's your phone yo who who who that keep calling you ever you ever had somebody you ever had your phone and your phone just kept going off and you got mad because you think all my people was good who is that kid called it's jesus you're not answering you're you're not answering he only calls the what now notice what he's doing i don't call the righteous but i call sinners to what i'm not calling you just to call you i'm calling you to bring you back i'm calling you so you can change your mind so you can turn around i'm calling you so that you can stop living that way and you can live this way i'm calling for things to change in your life i'm not calling he says i came not to call the righteous but sinners to what sent us to repentance which lets us know that jesus is calling those to have a changed mind i want you uh to go to luke chapter four very quickly i want you to go to luke chapter four look at verse 18 luke chapter 4 and verse 18 we say this every sunday the spirit of the lord is upon me jesus is standing up in the synagogue and he's reading the scripture and he says the spirit of the lord is upon me because he has chosen me i want you to notice the type of people that the word anointed means to be chosen so jesus stands up and says i'm chosen and this is who i'm chosen to be connected to the spirit of the lord is upon me because he has chosen me anointed me to preach the gospel to the what now if you're poor he says that i'm here for you he have sent me to heal the what the brokenhearted if your heart is broken jesus says i'm here for you to preach deliverance to the captives for those who are caught in the captivity of sin sin and darkness got a hold of you you're arrested jesus says i'm for you the recovering of sight to the blind for those who have been blinded by pain for those who can't see clearly for those who don't have guidance for those who don't know which way to go for those who don't know what to do jesus says i'm for you and to set at liberty them that are bruised how do you get bruised somebody has inflicted something on you you have gone through some things you have some wounds you have some scars you have some stuff that has happened in your life that you haven't made any sense of and you don't and right now it hurts if somebody was to bring up that subject if somebody was to bring up that topic if somebody was to put their finger on it you would scream because it's still it hasn't healed yet you are bruised you are broken it hurts you cry you're in pain because that thing is still open and throbbing and jesus says i'm here for you to preach the acceptable year of the lord and the bible says and then he closed the book can't you see the type of people that are gathering at the feet of jesus anybody who's disgusted with church anybody who's discussed it with church i understand you know why because he doesn't call the righteous he doesn't call people who think they got it together everybody that he calls and that answers knows that they're broken and they have many things that are not right they have they have many things that are hurting and they're bruised and their heart has not been mended and jesus says this is my type of crowd somebody says i don't like church folk i understand yeah i understand because because church folk is not everybody's type of crowd you know why because everybody doesn't like to hang out with people who are not healthy all right if if if you if all i did all day long was cough and i said hey i want to invite y'all over we're going to hang out i want to invite everybody over we're going to have a good time on this evening uh bring your kids bring your bring all your children bring your grandbabies over and we're just gonna have a good we're gonna have a good time tonight okay so hopefully we see everybody there is everybody coming you know what you would say brother williams unfortunately we're not gonna be able to because you know what i get it i get it you don't like hanging out with sick people you know why some people leave the church i get it because it's not fun hanging out with six sick people all them people over there they unhealthy i know i know they're unhealthy they need to get it together right none of them have it together none of them none of them have it together they're crazy over there he calls them like he calls them somebody said how did you get here jesus called me i wonder how did you get here wait a minute i know if he called me and i know what i got i know i got my stuff what he called you for now here's the thing i know who he doesn't call that that person is a lunatic that person's wild yeah he calls he calls some type of people have you ever have you ever noticed that somebody that you can get an argument with is just like you and it takes it take a third eye it takes somebody on the outside listening and say y'all just alike he said no we're not and and and you really you mad at yourself that happens sometimes that happens with children and you can get you can get an argument with your child and your and somebody says you're just like your mama yeah you're just like your daddy your daddy was just like that yeah matter of fact you're only arguing with yourselves could it be that the body is fighting with themselves because i see hey listen we don't have one jealous person in this room maybe we mad because somebody else got our sin and we wanted to be the only one struggling with that have you ever known some people get angry because of if somebody if somebody is is open about their sin everybody else in the room that has that same sin wants that person to sit down sit down we don't want to keep we don't want to keep hearing about this hey y'all last last night i struggled again it was just it was just calling me now it was called about seven other people in the room but they were saying listen we weren't ready to repent for it now this person who ready to repent for it is exposing everybody else who who were called for the same sin and you end up getting irritated with the person who's just like you who struggles and jesus called all of us they fight too much at that yeah he calls fighters he calls he calls people who don't who can't control the temper he call he calls people who are undisciplined he calls people who are lazy he calls people who are inconsiderate he he calls people who are negligent he calls he calls people who are abusive guess what he calls molesters and fornicators and adulterers and liars and stealers he he calls them and you know i know what you're thinking oh jesus stop calling oh you're calling you're calling too many different types call this group you know we we can we we we can deal with the people who if somebody say you know i struggle with uh i struggle with low self-esteem and ain't gluttony we say okay that's gonna be okay come on come on in we don't try not a thief and lo and lord forbid if he calls too many thieves at one local congregation everybody you got to park two blocks down the road so nobody can because they you know the parking lot ain't safe and when one member get up to go to the bathroom you gotta go follow them don't go out to the don't go out to the parking lot we had an incident last week we didn't say nothing but we ain't having that no more you can't have too many lord lord lord forbid lord forbid if the lord calls too many come on peace lord pace us give it you know warm us up don't don't don't open the flood you know we used to sing open the flood no no no no that ain't what you want the lord started going down and bringing everybody to christ too much everybody can't be under construction he says listen he stands up in the synagogue and says this the lord has anointed me now if the lord has anointed jesus then he has anointed who the church oh we gotta learn how to go out and reach the loss and not have so such low patience and be so uh irritated how can a person see it look at them out there why are you so disgusted with their sin and you so merciful with yours it's i struggle with people who are just disgusted at another person's sin but all they need the grace and mercy oh they saw mother teresa with theirs ah they're so gentle they're so gentle what they seeing they put on they put on gloves to touch they sin it's okay it's and and and they put they see in the bed it's like hey we're all just and and ready to assassinate somebody else he said this is why i'm here and then so so we understand the aim of the church is to go into places that most people don't like to go into this is why everybody doesn't enjoy church the reason why people don't like church because everybody got called got something wrong but the solution is in the house the solution is to get connected to jesus so if you're not if you're not connected to jesus you're in the right place because if you're willing to hear the gospel if you're willing to believe that jesus died for you that he was buried and that he rose again if you believe that jesus gave his life for you then you can get connected and get access to get the medicine you need jesus says hey listen i'm not at the party just to be hanging out i'm here to get people better and if you're not here matter of fact what's the purpose of worship the purpose of us coming together as a church and coming to worship is not just for ourselves it's to make the room better the bible says in colossians chapter 3 he says sing sing to one another psalms hymns and what why do we do you know we're we're supposed to sing to each other somebody said no i sing to god yeah but you ain't gonna lead me out hit a note my way we're supposed to sing to each other some people don't notice about worship we're supposed to sing to each other and the reason why some of us close our eyes doing worship because i don't like the way you're singing to me you act like you don't want to be here and you're halfway singing if somebody was going to sing to you you don't want nobody singing to you like this this little light of mine today's you know today's a love day you don't want you don't nobody sing it this little [Music] i need to close my eyes that's you're not supposed to be and if and if i don't like the way you're singing to me i can imagine how god looking at you like is this this is the best the bible says we're supposed to pray for you don't pray for god you don't pray for god this is a you don't pray for god you don't get up and say i want to say a prayer request or for for god he's going through some things on this past week there's a lot of things nobody prays i want you to think about it nobody prays for god you pray on yours and our behalf so the reason our gatherings together should benefit everybody in the room because i'm not here to talk about you i'm here to pray for you to god and sometimes uh you you you know when the the environment is toxic when somebody says have you heard hey listen if you ain't got nothing beneficial you didn't hear about something did you hear did they tell you about hey listen there's a difference between praying for and praying on and some churches have become predatory where they pray on instead of praying for no no i need you to pray for me so notice we singing right we singing and then the bible says we we should pray for one another and then what do we do in this time we give the word because the word should encourage you right that that should benefit the lord don't have bible studies in heaven god don't have bible studies in heaven he don't say what's that what's that verse the lord don't do that the bible said it's for who it's for the body right and then and even in our worship when we do communion it could our giving even though we give to the lord what's the what's the second purpose of that it should benefit the community it should benefit the environment it's beneficial for a church to be in every community why because it's beneficial to broken sick unhealthy people it should be the place to go and we understand everybody don't like it because everybody don't like being around sick people but for those who know they sick you ignore the rest of the people in the hospital and someone why are you in the hospital because i'm sick hey do you know there's other sick people in there yeah i know but if you have you ever noticed that when you're really sick and you need to go to the hospital the other sick people in the hospital don't bother you have you ever noticed that there's a cancer ward upstairs there's uh they doing amputations uh on that wing uh over here uh they're doing uh surgeries and gallbladder and doing all kind of stuff over here over here they're dealing with they got all kind of people all kind of sicknesses you go in there now that whole wing is corona all that but if you sick right now if you really really sick corona corona vibes don't even bother that they got coronavirus in there because you what when you focus and when you realize what you're going through other sick people really don't bother you somebody says i don't i don't really mind coming to worship why because i know what i'm dealing with man some people looking for a country club because you're looking for people just like you then to give the appearance that everything is well i want you all just one last scripture we'll close john chapter four turn your bibles to john chapter four we'll close in john chapter 4. in john chapter 4 and we'll look at verse 18. actually for the sake of time let's let's move down uh we'll start at verse 21 in john chapter 4 and verse 21 jesus said unto her woman believe me the hour cometh when you shall neither in this mountain nor yet at jerusalem worship worship the father you worship you know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the jews look at verse 23 but the hour comes and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seek as such to worship him the bible lets us know that the lord is looking for he's searching for he's seeking to identify true worshipers who worship him in spirit and in truth what i'm trying to tell you this morning is that church has a focus and church has an aim and jesus already lets you know i'm telling you what i'm looking for i'm looking for those who are sick and unhealthy i'm looking for worshipers i'm looking for people who will come to me and receive this medicine receive this bread of life that can change their lives i'm looking for those never let service hinder your worship never let service hinder your worship a worshiper is not restricted by service there are some people who only worship in a service he never said in that text he's looking for worship services i'm looking to attend a worship service you know what he says i'm looking for worshipers and a worshiper is not confined by 10 to 11 o'clock a worshiper worships every day serves every day god is looking for his body to go out into dark places and change the atmosphere go into all the world preach the gospel baptize them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit i want you to go to the whole world and change the environment change change the landscape when we when we walk in and give hope to those who have lost hope and jesus says if i've been anointed for that purpose then you know that the church is anointed for that purpose as well

Channel: North Colony Church of Christ

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Length: 49min 24sec (2964 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 21 2021