Faith and the Gospel - Wednesday Service

[Music] god in god no matter what it looks like i trust [Music] because i trust [Music] oh hallelujah ah some of y'all don't know nothing about that boy my god father we give you praise we welcome you holy spirit we welcome you into this place we welcome you into our lives we say again we trust you we depend on you and i ask your blessings to be upon us tonight and on our hearing yeah anoint our hearing give us anointed ears to hear and we praise you for it now in jesus name we pray and everybody said amen praise god you can be seated welcome to church tonight welcome to bible study those of you who are streaming live tonight we welcome you tonight we are going to get into some things tonight i am everything i'm all about uh tapping into the supernatural right now and learning the things that we need to do to prepare ourselves to win and uh so i want to start off in first john 5 and 4. tonight i want to talk to you about faith and the gospel i want to show you the connection between faith and the gospel and it's so important as christian people that we understand what faith is and that we understand where the gospel fits because when you want to see victory in this life when things begin to fail when systems no longer work when challenges become great then as christians what is it that we knew what what is that we do we have to know and understand precision everybody say precision and we can't preach the gospel in a general manner where you know you know all the questions have the same answers and you've got to know precisely how to rightly divide the word of truth and so i want to start off in first john chapter 5 verse 4 he says for whatsoever if is born of god overcometh what the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world what is it that overcometh the world even our faith so in the world and you're dealing with a lot of stuff in the world to overcome the world you're going to have to understand how to to to to operate in precision where your faith is concerned your faith is the victory that overcomes the world it's a common word that people hear but not not many people really realize what this is about when i see an issue in my life okay and or an attack or something coming against me or lack or whatever the thing may be my victory is my faith well how does that work well the first thing i do is go to the word of god and i take from the word of god the answer the answer the victory oh my goodness listen to this you take from the word of god the answer and the victory you literally go to the word to choose your victory faith sees through the storm so whatever the issue is faith doesn't look at the storm faith looks through the storm at the promise that has already been made faith looks through the storm faith looks through the sickness faith looks through the lack faith doesn't look at all of the the the challenges of life faith looks through the challenges of life and only focuses on the promise and the answer and the victory that has already been promised in his word so first base if we're going to have victory in this world we're going to have to stop neglecting the word of god first base is always going to be no matter what challenges you have go find choose your victory from the written word people don't understand when you walk around with a bible you are walking around with ammo faith looks through the storm faith looks through the sickness faith looks through the lack this is the victory that overcomes the world what even our faith and so we we're going to talk about that i need to make sure that this church doesn't lose touch with what faith is the practicality of it not just religiously hearing it i want you to know when you're here faith that you're hearing the word because no word no faith if you ain't got no faith cause you ain't got no word the word of god and the faith of god go hand in hand the bible says that faith cometh by the word of god amen so i know too many christians who say they have faith but they have no word you can't say you have faith and you you can't you can't even release the promise your faith is a promise that has already been established as your victory and it's found in the word of god your attitude needs to be devil don't let me find the word of god on this you better not let me find the word you know you you he he messing with you you say oh no stay right there stop no no no no no no more now you started it right now stay right there and then when you find it like oh that's going to do real good that's your victory that's your that's all you got in this world and the reason why some people get depressed they go crazy all that stuff because they don't have what you have you have the settled victory that you found in god's word it's unseen to the eyes but you got it in the word amen and that is the victory that over i preach on that all night that is a victory that overcomes the world even our faith so let's get started with this romans chapter 1 and verse 16 we want to connect faith and the gospel faith and the gospel i think about that you know when you're when and and there are testimonies that are working in my life right now i like to let the testimonies finish out before i start preaching on it and settling yeah i don't want i don't want to talk too quick i want to let it get done but i'm going to tell you right now i'ma it's going to hurt the devil so bad it's going to really mess him up glory be to god hallelujah somebody said well i can't tell you're going through nothing you're not supposed to because i i got my faith with me glory to god i got my faith with me praise god hallelujah when i was diagnosed with cancer a year well several years ago i didn't get up and make no announcement well church ain't do that no faith looks through the storm now what challenges do you have right now that are facing you go find your victory in the word of god and see the fulfillment of that promise through the storm glory be to god romans 1 16. here's what he's saying for i am not ashamed the apostle paul is writing this now i am going to add some precision to these scriptures tonight some of you may say well i've heard this teaching before yeah maybe but i'm going to kind of tweak some stuff that you've heard in the past maybe in different era we need to do it it's time to do it okay for i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ for it this gospel of christ is the power or the ability of god to bring unto you salvation that's a greek word there is sozo which it uh contains your preservation your healing your deliverance your prosperity and he says to everyone that believeth he says to the jew first and also to the greek now let's examine this scripture because this is huge right here paul the paul the one who jesus uh showed up on the road of damascus and gave him the revelation of grace and he says paul says i'm not afraid of the gospel so i got to wondering i'm like you know i don't i'm not really sure that the word gospel appeared too many places in the old testament well the definition did and you'll find in the book of isaiah 40 and throughout isaiah 40 isaiah 4 52 they used the phrase good tidings or glad tidings okay so in that perspective in the in isaiah it mentioned good tidings or glad tidings so the gospel is good news or glad tidings or you know the gospel is you know for most of us when we were coming up in the church it says well what is the gospel good news and we stop right there we should have been asking what good news what good news well here paul says it he says i'm not ashamed of the good news what good news of christ i'm not ashamed of the good news the glad tidings the good news of what of christ of christ of christ the good news of the anointed one and his anointing and so you have to ask the question so what's what's the good news of christ what is this good news of christ the good news of christ is this news about him becoming our ransom becoming our peace offering giving us a gift of forgiveness the good news of jesus christ and his finished works the bible will also refer to it as the good news of jesus and the grace of god the grace of god let me work with this issue of the gospel right now i submit to you that the gospel of christ is the gospel of grace the gospel of christ is the gospel of grace and in the new testament paul says i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ paul says i'm not ashamed of the gospel of grace well let's break it down a little bit hold your place in romans 1. go with me to the book of acts chapter 20 and verse 24. acts chapter 20 and verse 24. and uh and then then we're going to go to galatians and and and i and i want you to see this acts 20 24 he says but none of these things move me neither count i my life dear unto myself so that i might finish my course with what joy and the ministry which i have received of the lord uh the lord jesus and this this is the ministry paul says he received to testify the gospel what gospel of the grace of god so paul said here's what i've been called to do to give testimony of the good news of the grace of god all right so now how do we connect the gospel of the grace of god and the gospel of christ well go to galatians chapter 1. galatians chapter 1 and verse 6 and 7. now watch this carefully we have to be precise because if we don't you know somebody says well the power of god is the word of god well well which word of god there's 66 word of god stuff what word of god okay he says i marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of christ the grace of christ unto another gospel notice just there he he refers to the grace of christ he said some people i'm surprised that they've removed you from the grace of christ to another gospel insinuating that this is one gospel the grace of christ unto another gospel go on he says which is not another he says there's not another gospel he says this grace of christ is the only gospel that i'm talking about here but there be some that trouble you and would pervert what the gospel of christ which jesus referred to as what the grace of christ and uh when you look at that together the gospel of christ the grace of christ all the same thing all same thing so the gospel of christ and the gospel of grace are equivalent they are the same now go back to romans chapter one and let's put this together and i want to show you what i want you to get out of this romans chapter 1 and verse 16. he says this paul says i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ i'm not ashamed of the grace of christ so he is saying i'm not ashamed of jesus christ and the almost too good to be true news about all the work that he has finished on our behalf i'm not ashamed of all the finished works of jesus christ i'm not ashamed of the grace of christ i think i gave you a definition either last week sometime that the grace god's grace is defined as unmerited abounding provision of the of the unrestrained operation of the infinite love of god that you only get through jesus christ for men especially those who depend on him good grace is alive but that thing may they make some happen to me the grace of god is unmerited that means you don't you don't deserve it you you know you can't earn it it is abounding provision his grace is abounding when a word when something is abounding it it it increases his grace is is increasing in provision abounding provision uh of the unrestrained operation of his love that this abounding provision is is unrest unrestricted this abounding provision is a result of his unrestrained operation of this infinite love this infinite love that you can only get through jesus christ for for men especially those who are dependent upon god now paul says i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ for it is the power of god what is power ability to get results it is the power of god unto salvation so he says i'm not ashamed of this gospel of of grace this gospel of christ because this good news of christ this good news of this unmerited abounding provision uh in the operation of this of this unrestrained love that especially for those who depend on he said i'm not ashamed of that because this grace will bring you sozo greek word salvation it doesn't mean just born again he says that this is going to bring you deliverance wholeness preservation born again and everything that jesus finished will come to those who believe this gospel i believe i believe this gospel i believe this gospel amen well look at ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 through 9. see what you know what we've been doing we said i'm not ashamed of the gospel of of christ and we say well that's the word of god well what word what do you mean the word of god it's like a cop-out you just i'll give you a general answer of course it's the word of god but can you get a little bit more specific to me you know it's just like i'm asking you do you know directions to get to this church and and uh you say yeah the highway don't you think it's time for us to add more precision what we're talking about he says for by grace now watch this are you saved delivered sound same thing now for by grace are you saved but now watch this now here's the part but you don't get it except by faith saved by grace but you get it through faith and it's not of yourself that you get saved it is a gift of god you are saved by grace you're healed by grace you're delivered by grace you prosper by grace you're righteous by grace you're redeemed by grace grace has already made every provision you'll need for life but now here's what we need to know we're in this world and all these things have already been made available to us but you cannot get it unless you are proficient in operating in faith you cannot get it it is it is already but the people who don't know how to operate in faith will never walk in it you won't have it in in manifestation you won't have it in your possession you'll know about it but you won't have it because you think faith is this little ooh of thing faith takes possession of what grace has already made available and everything you need everything you're going through right now there's provision that is increasing listen there is nothing that you're going through right now there's nothing that you're going through right now that grace has not already made available it just requires you turning your faith on initiating it and understanding it enough to use your faith to take possession of it you use your faith to take possession of something that is unseen all of the provisions are made available but they're in the unseen realm you can only get in the what's what's in the unseen realm you can only get it by your faith faith is an instrument that is used to make sure that what is not seeing travels over into this physical world and one day you get to see it but faith takes possession of what grace has already made if you do not have faith you can't take possession of stuff that's already here now i'll tell you how i arrived at this point something was going on with me physically and you know i got a little concerned about it and and and then i paused and i said wait what am i doing whoa i said what am i doing uh i already got the answer to this i just need to release my faith well how do you release your faith with words we're words you release your faith words words are containers and so i put into my words my faith glory to god my faith travels into the spirit realm where the answer is then it starts the process of bringing it back and materializing into my own life and i thought none of that's going to happen if i sit here and feel sorry for myself none of that's going to happen if i sit here and wonder well what is happening why that and all the questions and none of that's going to happen if i'm worried by the news reports none of that's going to happen i don't have time to be engaged in all the things that are going to keep me away from it so you got to understand every thought that comes in from the devil is designed to deposit unbelief and the presence of unbelief is going to be the reason why your faith don't work it don't take but a little faith to get stuff done you don't need but the faith of the size of a mustard seed to get stuff done you don't need a whole lot of faith to ever getting undone you just need to make sure that unbelief is not at but is not present most of the time when stuff ain't happening it's unbelief that's there you've opened yourself up to something you've been listening to something you've been you you saw something you engaged with something you felt something and it just dawned on me it was like it is it is it isn't it is as impossible for me not to get what's already been made it's to me it's more impossible for me not to get it it's already there it is it's like this you are seated right now in a chair right and i say to you sit down don't even make no sense you're seated you seated why am i going to tell you to sit down you already see it and i start realizing it wait a minute everything that pertains to life and godliness has already been given to me i have access access has been granted to me i can sit there suffer be decrep depressed do stupid stuff to myself or i can activate my faith release my words and the bible tells me in isaiah 55 i close with this sunday that your words shall not return to you void or empty but shall accomplish what you sent it to accomplish so what before you get in doubt and unbelievable oh no why this ain't working oh no why god don't do this i don't know why god let that happen you sit back and think have you turned the car on you go outside sending the car wonder why the cockhole did you turn it on did you turn the heat on when you turn the car i don't want to insult you by simplifying this as much but that's what we do sometimes why would you expect to ever be healed with healing that has already been made provided for you and you've not initiated the action necessary to get it to you uh are y'all getting this man i knew when i was writing this i ain't gonna finish it at night that's cool i ain't trying to finish nothing i don't know when jesus gonna come he might come in the middle of a mess ain't near me trying to rush nothing ain't got nothing to preach because i'm rushing i ain't got time to be right i'm taking my time meditating on these things until you can get it there is nothing that's happening to you that god does not already have a provision waiting for you to access nothing nothing i don't know if you've ever experienced this but i've had days when i woke up and i just man i just didn't i wasn't feeling no joy i wasn't feeling nothing depression was knocking on my door and but i had enough sense to say all right now i'm gonna have to do something because if i sit here in this all day it's going to grow and i'm going to become progressively more of what if this is so regardless how i felt i said all right father i depend on you and uh i release my faith for joy i release my faith for deliverance of of of of this negative emotion and um and i believe i receive your word says i thank you that i have peace i think that i have jesus peace what am i doing i am releasing words to go and to provide for me the necessary provisions to fight whatever this is that's trying to keep me and i don't i don't recall it ever failing because every time see somebody said well it didn't go nowhere well i'm not going to shut up then it still ain't going to well i'm not going to shut up then i'm going to keep talking well how long you got to do this until it happened see faith has got to stay in the field it's got to stay on the job you don't let it come in until it has accomplished what you sent it to accomplish faith can't come in sit down time and i'm tired i'll pick up tomorrow no you don't get to do that you don't come in until i until you have accomplished what i sent you to accomplish you can't come back to me void or empty you've got to bring back my harvest now and until you do i ain't enough it's it's never not happened i mean if if there's something happening in the ministry and i'm like oh my god where are we going to get this from i i go to talking and sowing i go to talking and sowing i go to talking and sowing i keep talking and so on how long are you going to do it i'm going to keep doing it until something changed i am not going to just let you sit up there and just just beat me down i i i i mean you seen the movie tombstone remember when kirk russell went and uh took that man's bar and he and i think he slapped him or something and he started bleeding and kirk looked at him and said what you gonna do just stand there and bleed and and i and i had a a sense of that what you gonna do just stand there and suffer what you're gonna do just stand there and take it you're just gonna stand there and be depressed you're just gonna stand there and become progressively broke you're just to stand there and just be miserable what you're going to do curl up in a corner and just die and quit and the fight got up on the inside of me like devil you know you you know you have no authority over me you know i have been given authority over every demon and over every devil and i know that you run with fear and i know the bible says i've given you power over all of the power of the devil and nothing shall by and any means hurt you and you're just gonna sit there and shut up and cry you're just gonna cry bunch of spiritual sisters you're gonna just cry ain't nobody home stand up and holler to the top of your lungs the word of god you get it and you just read it praise god the word of god that that cancer hit my body i got in my hallway and i got a long hallway and i just said the word over and over and over again until it left then i went back and then that fear come back again i go at it again and for a while it was like every five minutes but i won't go shut up you can't defeat me i'm fighting a defeated foe satan is a defeated foe it ain't like he's a winner he has already been stripped he's been defeated and this is the victory that overcomes the world even our faith amen excuse me for hollering i got a little excited the power of god is in the word of god it's the word of grace here's what god had to say about his word hebrews one and three it's the most powerful thing ever it's just so simple if trouble comes your first move after trouble comes go to the word and find the promise that fits your situation that's the first thing you do trouble comes go to the word trouble comes go to the word every christian ain't doing that trouble comes and you go to worry you go to all jesus you go to oh lord you go to what what did i do you go to condemnation i shouldn't say that i shouldn't have did that that's not what you do your first move is like a chess game your first move if trouble is the first move your first move is go to the word and get the promise that covers your situation that's your first move that's your first one that's your anchor and if you'll do that first but a lot of christians don't do that first of all they don't understand the bible like that you need to have a personal relationship with your bible you have to spend so much time in your bible there's certain scriptures you can just flip pages because you know exactly where it's going to land you know where it is and some of y'all don't even know where matthew is now seriously that's not funny that is your that is your ammo packet and you don't even know how to properly install it and christians think they can be perfect and and without the word you're not you will fail miserably you will you will you will abide in a loss that was never intended for you god never intended for you to lose in any battle he said who being in the brightness of his glory and the express image of this person and uphold it he upholdeth all things by what the word watch this of his power you know what he's saying that his power is his word and in this case his power for us is his word of grace his power for us is that gospel of christ his power for us is that grace of christ that abounding provision glory be to god that you didn't earn that you didn't work for it's just made available for those who will take hold of it with their faith you didn't have to work for it you didn't have to earn it but you do have to have your faith released in order to take possession of it so what i'm going to do over the next several wednesdays is take little pieces of this and just nail it in just like i just did that right there ain't no use me rushing you go home with that little bit right there go home k take that a little bit what i just said right there just take that right there you will be able to whip the devil until we meet again it don't take it ain't listen it doesn't take much to beat up somebody that's already been beat up and the only thing he can do throughout the week is come to you and try his best to trick you and deceive you hoping he can say something that you don't know about hoping that he can take advantage of some area of ignorance in your life my people are destroyed because of what they don't know and we think christianity is all about feelings and chill bumps and google gaga flips part of it is we gotta we gotta learn the word there's an intelligent part of it that we've got to know the precision of god's word so we can know when somebody else doesn't and when they come and they try to trick you with religion religion religion is uh i don't have time to get in that my time just ended but i remind me to talk about the latin meaning of religion it's well i'll say it real quick it's it's a return to bondage that's what that's real religion not the not the religion that comes from the word but real religion is just a re it's the job of real religion is to is to return you to bondage to put you back under some kind of bondage and that ain't what this is i hate religion in fact i wrote a book why i hate religion it freaked out a lot of people like why what do you mean you hate religion you're religious no no i'm a religious about some things i do to me my definition of religion is my discipline to do something the same way all over again same time all that it's more of a discipline but my religion is not like the latin meaning i'm not returning back to bondage i'm never going to go back to where god's delivered me out of i'm never going to live under the law of moses motivated by trying to keep me rules i ain't doing that i'm motivated by the word of god and the spirit of god and my time is up let's buy our heads father we thank you for our time tonight we thank you that we take this word we use it we apply it and great things begin to happen in our lives i speak to every condition every circumstance every situation that the people of god may be facing and i speak victory over each of those circumstances i speak victory over each of those situations i speak victory over their sick bodies i speak victory over their emotions over their hurt over their pain and i speak peace right now i release the blessings of peace over the world changes nation i release the blessings of peace and i declare that you will supernaturally begin to move you said let the redeemed of the lord say so we have been redeemed and we now pick up with precision our confidence in your word and releasing that word we thank you for it now jesus mighty name we pray and everybody said amen amen amen let's go ahead and continue to worship god with our gifts i know sometimes you freak out like dude i don't you mean to tell me the time is up right now you just got started you know you don't give everybody everything at one time i always got some more to say i got so much to say i got too much to say right now i at least got enough to say for the next two months but i'm thinking sometimes we need to slow up just mutter and roll things over in your head think about it silla until you get a a fresh revelation from god and remember the revelation that god gives you is for you you don't need to be called nobody to man i got a revelation i don't want to know what that was for you i got one too that's for me all right and i think things will get better if you believe it if you walk out of here with a whole new courage some stuff is going to start diminishing tonight and you're going to wake up in the joy of the lord wondering i don't even know what happened but i sure thank god and listen when god do something for you you need to thank him you need to praise him don't be going around like i can't believe that happened don't say that you need to praise him and you and you you're not the praise and tight but you better learn how to be the praise and type god gonna do some stuff for some of y'all gonna make it's gonna make you praise god in front of people you never intended to see you praise god just to deliver you just to deliver you from the bondage and give you freedom to praise him and not care about who's around you ain't got time to be looking cool when when god do something you better thank him you better thank him if you in walmart you better go in the aisle somewhere i got to thank the lord right now if you're in kroger's and you got a pack of ground beef in your hand you better throw that ground piece up make sure it ain't frozen now hit you in the head and just thank the lord cut you a step and give god some praise amen because he is worthy that's what he's getting ready to do something crazy getting ready to happen in the world but for those of us who are in christ jesus god got you he got you you're wrapped up you're tied up you're tangled up in jesus amen praise god so father we thank you for the opportunity to give to plant to sow to be givers into the kingdom of god to bring an offering and to worship you in the beauty of your holiness lord bless those who are streaming live tonight bless those who are here in the chapel with us tonight and father we just take this with us i just believe that people heard some really specific stuff from you that while i was preaching you were talking to them and showing them things and i thank you for that right now in jesus name we pray everybody say it amen if you're on stream you want to give you can text world changes space and the amount to 74483 or you can call that number on the screen one eight six six four seven seven seven six eight three you can also mail the 2500 burdette road or you can go online and give at world changers.org or creflo.ministries.org your giving is your worship to god also we have a little qr code that's available for you to take advantage of both of you both those who are online and those who are here in the chapel in person you can use that qr code it'll take you straight to text to give you just put the amount in and send and hit send uh if you're here live with us tonight if you need an offering envelope you prefer that way lift your hands up and the ushers will uh get you an offering envelope and uh you can go ahead and and give that way and if there's other ways of giving that i don't know about help yourself okay and do do what needs to be done amen while they're doing that there may be some of you who have not made jesus the lord of your life i saw the stats i think it was tuesday well over 2 000 people have been have given their heart to jesus and gotten born again isn't that phenomenal man a lot of people so god is doing it so if you you want to give your heart to the lord i want you to say this prayer with me heavenly father i realize that i'm a sinner but right now i repent of my sins i accept the free gift of forgiveness i ask you lord jesus to come into my heart be my lord and my savior i accept you now thank you lord for saving me by faith i declare that i am saved in jesus name amen now if you prayed that simple prayer i want to welcome you to the family of god if you're streaming in with us tonight if you'll just text the key word i'm saved that's one word to 51555 provide your name and email address and we'll send you a free ebook as a gift to you today and again welcome to the family of god amen god bless you any of you in here who prayed that prayer with me we welcome you to the family of god i i i'm i'm more inclined to allow some of these things to be more personal because it's just it's something about that you know it's personal i could have like ought to call in and spend another 20 minutes to beg you to come down and alter sort of make me look good like i accomplished something ain't about time that you got saved for you didn't get saved you know it better not do you know and so we do on sundays uh go up to the prayer room with people who got born again and those who join the church but uh other than that that's how we do that hey guys i love you guys thank you so much for being with us tonight those of you who streamed in 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Published: Wed Aug 25 2021