"Give Me Jesus" - Pastor Ivor Myers

give me Jesus and that's the theme how many of you want Jesus pray with me we're going to jump right into the word this morning Heavenly Father bless us as we open your word speak to our hearts this is our prayer in Jesus name Amen amen Matthew chapter 7 Matthew chapter 7 verse 21 Matthew chapter 7 verse 21 the Bible says here not everyone that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name have done many wonderful works and then will I profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity Jesus tells us here that it is not those who say but those who do many will say in that day Lord did we not do these things and he will say depart from me I never knew you this reminds me of the parable of the wheat and the tares there will be people who when they see Jesus face-to-face and Jesus says depart from me they're gonna be like wait a minute you have the wrong person I did this and I did these things and two outward appearances it looked like they were genuine Christians but God knows the heart amen jesus said not all who say unto me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom only those that do his will you see this judgment that we often talk about really boils down to one thing which is do you know Jesus and does Jesus know you how many of you want Jesus to know you amen amen come with me to the book of Acts chapter 19 Acts chapter 19 and acts 19 verse 13 the Bible says then certain of the Vagabond Jews exorcists took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus saying we adore you by Jesus whom Paul preaching and there were seven sons of one Skiba a Jew and chief of the priests which did so and the evil spirit answered and said Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you I don't know about you but this to me is one of the most hair-raising verses in all the Bible so I want you to just think about this with me for a moment here go these sons of sceva and they're going into this situation where this man is demon-possessed pretty scary situation anyone anyone ever seen a demon-possessed person okay and you you know typically don't ya you know you're like hey let someone else handle that but here these guys go they're like hey we're going to go in and we are going to preach Jesus amen amen we are gonna preach Jesus we're gonna use the name of Jesus we're gonna use the name of Jesus that Paul preaches that is a bad idea you want to know why because this Jesus was not there Jesus did you catch that it was Paul's Jesus so they went in with Paul G Paul we're gonna use your Jesus and we're gonna cast out these demons and now I just want you to imagine like the demon is like doing his crazy thing you know and then you're like in the name of Jesus that Paul preaches and the demon suddenly stops with a confused look on his face like and you're thinking ha he's listening and you see this confuse and you're kind of confused too and then the demons like wait a minute Paul I know and Jesus yeah I know him but I'm sorry I didn't get your name what was your authority again and the Bible says the demon jumped on them and beat them stripped them and they ran out of the house naked I mean whoa Wow they did not possess Jesus okay I got another question for you how many of you want Satan to know who you are how many of you want Satan to know who you are all right guys read the text again Paul I know that Satan the demons know who Paul was why do they know who Paul was yeah because he knew Jesus because he was causing damage in their kingdom so Paul they knew Jesus they knew how many of you would like the demons to know who you are you're still like I know I know look one time I was preaching this sermon it's probably by five five years ago and while I was pretty I did I was preaching this sermon and I was like you know you know I want Satan to know who I am I want the demons to know who I mean oh yeah and then my phone was ringing I actually had it on me my phone was buzzing and you know I was like that strange my phone is buzzing out you know I was out of the out of California I was kidding where exactly it was but I was like who they calling me at this time while I'm preaching so after the sermon and I'm greeting people whatever then I went outside and I looked at my phone and it was my my pastor friend from my area in California just one church over for me and he was like hey call me Matt I need to talk to you like right now and I was like all right I'll give I'll give you a text and was like I call you in a little while I called him up and he's like you'll never believe what happened today and I was like what he was like there's a girl that that's been come to my church and you know she's kind of on and off and she's had some issues and so I hadn't see her in a while but today she came to church and she was like you know I've really been struggling with some things and I want to get some help so he said afterward she came to our house for potluck and you know as a whole bunch of people there and he proceeds to tell me that she wanted prayer from him and so he began to pray and then suddenly like this look came over her face and she started talking in this different voice and he was like I was like wait what is this the elders of the church were there and he was like are you okay and then he says she started like flipping out just losing it so at and this voice was coming out of her and then he tried to like restrain her and she threw him off her all the other elders came in the room and she was throwing them all over the place they're in the room doing everything they can praying singing all these things and this demonic voice speaking and and some of the things that demon was saying I'm not even gonna get into right he said this is what you need to hear he said at one point the demon said where is Ivor and at that point I was like wait what what does he want with me what did I do so I know when I say how many people with the demon I know I get it I get it this this girl didn't know who I was by the way so I get it but guess what if the demon knows who you are that means Jesus also knows who you are yeah so in the judgement we want Jesus to know who we are imagine how embarrassing it is for Jesus in the judgement to say I don't know who he is and then Satan to say yeah I don't know who he is either so the judgment revelation 14:6 you're familiar with it I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach on to every nation kindred tongue and people saying with a loud voice fear God and what give glory to him why for the hour of his judgment is come and worship Him that made heaven the earth the sea and all that in them is the the basis of the judgment is this simple thing do you have Jesus if you have Jesus you have nothing to worry about if you don't have Jesus you have everything to worry about but it's not too late because you can always get Jesus so we're going to look at a story this morning that's going to demonstrate for us how important it is to have Jesus in the judgment I want you to turn with me to the book of first Kings chapter 3 first Kings chapter 3 and verse 28 first Kings chapter 3 in verse 28 when you there please say Amen the Bible says here simply and all Israel heard of the judgment which the King had judged and they feared the king for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgments does this verse sound familiar to the one we just quoted revelation 14:6 and 7 you see similar words there fear judgment here you have a king we don't know the context yet we just know that there's this king who all Israel fears because they saw that the that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgments this is what we're going to look at the question is who is the king in this verse anyone know it's Solomon it's Solomon and so we're gonna find out what it is that led Israel to fear the king because they saw that the judgment of God or the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment so let's go back to the beginning of first Kings chapter 3 we're gonna start in verse 5 the Bible says in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night and God said ask what I shall give thee and Solomon said thou has shown unto thy servant David my father great mercy according as he walked before the in truth and in a brightness of righteousness I'm sorry in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee and thou has kept for him this great kindness that thou has given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this thing and now O Lord my god thou has made thy servant King instead of David my father and I am but a child I know not how to go out or come in and I servant is in the midst of thy people which thou has chosen a great people that cannot be numbered nor counted from multitude give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to do lots to judge thy people that I may do discern between good and bad for who is able to judge this vice so greater people so what is Salomon asking for here wisdom to do what judge between who good and that is that what the judgment is about is a judgement about discerning between good and bad why is there a need for discerning between good and bad because of wheat and tare because of many who what say Lord but do not do Solomon is saying give me wisdom that I can look beyond the exterior and discern between the righteous and the wicked are you with me so far all right so verse 10 and the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing and God said unto him because thou has asked this thing and has not asked for thyself long life neither has asked for riches for thyself nor has asked the life of mine enemies but has asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment behold I have done according to thy words I have given thee a wise and understanding heart so that there was none like thee before thee neither after these shalt thou shall any arrives like unto thee let me ask a question at this moment is Solomon now the wisest man that has ever lived at that very moment God says that is he now the wisest man that that has ever lived yea even though he hasn't exercised any of that wisdom yet he is now the wisest man that has ever lived let's read on verse 14 or verse 15 and Solomon did one awoke and behold it was a dream so Solomon was sleeping and in this as he's sleeping he receives a stream and in the dream God now makes him the wisest man that has ever lived yes Solomon wakes up verse 15 he came to Jerusalem and stood before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord and offered a burnt offerings and offered peace offerings and made a feast to all his servants Solomon is celebrating his he is rejoicing he this dream means much to him now he's at Jerusalem look at the next word then so what does then mean right right as he's there in Jerusalem doing this this is celebrating this dream that God has just given him what wisdom to do what discern between good and evil then check this out came there two women that were harlots unto the king and stood before him and the one woman said o my lord I and this woman dwell in one house and I was delivered of a child with her in the house some of you know this story yeah and it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered that this woman delivered also and we were together there was no stranger with us in the house save we too in the house and this woman's child died in the night because she overlaid it and she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me while thine handmaid slept and laid it in her bosom and laid her dead child in my bosom so you get what's going on verse 21 and when I arose in the morning to give my child suck behold it was dead but when I considered it in the morning behold it was not my son which I did there and the other woman said nay but the living is my son and the dead is my son and this said no but the dead is thy son and the living is my son thus they spake before the king then said the king one safe this is my son that liveth and thy son is dead and the other safe neighbor thy son is the dead and my son is the living and the King said bring me a sword and they brought a sword before the king and I pause for a second the Soliman know who's telling the truth and who's lying is Solomon at this point the wisest man that has ever lived so you're telling me then the wisest man that ever lived at this point cannot tell the difference between these two women one ton of the truth one line is that correct yeah so then check this out one of these women was putting on such a good show that the wisest man that ever lived could not discern between the two so you know what he says bring me a sword and watch what he goes on to say divide the child verse 24 verse 25 and the King said divide the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other how's that for a solution then spake the woman who's the living child was unto the king for her bowels yearned upon her son and she said o my lord give her the living child and no wise slay it but the other said let it be neither mine nor thine but divide it then the King answered and said give her the living child and in no wise sling it she is the mother thereof and all Israel heard of the judgment which the King had judged and they feared the king for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment that's the story so you say pastor okay what does this have to do with judgment well let's go back Solomon here is the king and he's the king on his throne now if you notice or not but in the Old Testament the king was symbolic of something anyone know who what or whew the king is symbolic of the king is symbolic of you got it the King is symbolic of God he is our King so Solomon I want you to just picture this now the literal story is as we have read it but I just want you to see the shadow here because Solomon is a type of the king and what happens is that two women come before this King - women - women women women come before the King both claiming that the Sun that's why you got that the Sun I'm gonna preach the matter that the Sun belongs to them the Sun I got a pause here because God said can we just put a pause right here for a second just put a pause how many believe that Jesus is all over the scriptures I believe he is and just this well I just want to just share something very very quickly maybe this Sun how many remember the story of David and Bathsheba firming that messed up story David kills Bathsheba's husband because he's impregnated Bathsheba and the Bible says that Nathan comes to him and says you know you're the man right and then David repents David repents and Nathan says you know you will live but the child is going to die we don't know the child we're never given a name for the child all we know is that the child is a male how many read a story said what an unfair thing for the child to die when David is one that did wrong check this are guys all we know about this child is that the child is the son the son of David having done no wrong suffers that someone else might live that's what I said Wow so here you have this story where both women are claiming that the son belongs to them now I know what you're thinking because in the book of Revelation there are two women the true church and the false church and right now you're like praise God we are the woman of Revelation chapter 12 amen whoo I can check out and enjoy the sermon but we're not going there today because in this story both women are in one house so so we're going to keep this in-house because there are two types of people in house those who say Lord Lord and those who really have the Lord so so so these two women they come before the King now someone you're saying what the pastor though the text says that they were harlots and I just want to mention this just in passing number one some scholars believe that the word harlot is a mistranslation it actually is should be innkeeper so these will be two innkeepers that came before the king nonetheless if the word does represent harlots remember in this story one of them is telling the truth and one is lying by the way all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God are you with me so the woman one woman is telling the truth the other is like one woman truly possesses it possesses the child the other does not and Solomon in all his wisdom cannot discern between the two so Solomon wants to find out who really possesses the child who really is the owner of the child and the question that he has in his mind is very simple who loves the child the best that's how he's going to determine who loves the child the best not we need to learn a lesson here you see the woman who lost a child how did she lose a child she slept on him she snapped on him you guys don't sleep on Jesus she set on him and in sleeping on him she lost him how many of us are sleeping on Jesus so she was careless and in her carelessness she had lost the child the true mother the true mother demonstrated her love for the child in one very simple way when the King said bring a sword and divide the child she was like no no no no no give the child to the to her why did she do that check it out what was she doing what was she setting herself up for in doing that Oh give her the child what would the King have thought she was one lying and who knows what kind of punishment she may have faced for lying to the King check this out she was willing to lay down her own life that the child be not hurt she was willing to suffer herself than to have the child suffer you want to know if you have Jesus here's how you know you have Jesus when you would rather suffer then cause the Son of God to suffer he suffered once for us already yes the true woman was willing to appear as a liar by the way was Jesus did Jesus take the appearance of a sinner on our behalf even though he was innocent did he take on the appearance of one you know what's happening with this woman she was reflecting the very character of Jesus who took upon himself our sins while he had committed no sin those who pass the judgement are those who truly possess Jesus the false woman check this out was willing to divide the body the false Christian is the one that is willing to divide the body let me rephrase it another in another way she was content with half of the child how many of us are content would half of Jesus the reason right half of Jesus and half of the world one foot in the world one foot in the church the Frost woman was content she didn't say give me give me Jesus just give me part of him I'll take a little little bit of Jesus a little bit of anger a little bit of Jesus a little bit of pride a little bit of Jesus a little bit of worldliness both I can mix these together the true woman was willing to suffer rather than to see Jesus fed and to see the son suffer the master question was she willing to suffer why was she willing to do this for the child because because she loved him and why does she love him it was her child how was it her child because well she gave birth to the child so if she gave birth to the child what does that mean that child was hers I'm leading you wanted yeah she she gave birth to the child the child is hers meaning the child had been part of her formed within her yeah the child had been formed within she had a special connection with the child because a child had been formed within is Jesus supposed to be formed within us you see beloved when someone is formed within you you have a very special relationship with them that you cannot have with anyone else for example mothers how many mothers do we have in here mothers do you remember when you were when you were not a mother remember before you became a mother do you remember when you would see other people's babies and they were the ugliest thing on the planet you'd never seen raised yet if you remember come on be honest you remember right and the person would have the baby and then you'd be like whoa the mother would be like oh look at this she's so big and you'd be like it looks like an old man or woman that is ugly whoa and you know you weren't you weren't beat you were just like telling the truth the baby was ugly and every baby you saw was ugly whoa look at that thing and then something strange happens you had your first child heard of that I remember are you weren't being partial over there but it just so happened that that child was the most beautiful thing you had ever seen you remember that when it's your child you have a different relationship than you would if it was somebody else's child you bring your children to church I mean before that before this kids are in church they're running in the church tell your child to stop running in church this is the house of God and then your child comes along stumbling when it's your child you have a different relationship but loving you cannot depend on your mother's Jesus you can't depend on your pastors Jesus you can't depend on your brothers Jesus your elders Jesus your sister's Jesus it must be give me Jesus Jesus must be mine he must be formed within so so how well Solomon determine who really is the mother very simple he says bring me a sword bring me bring me a sword because how they respond to the sword that is what will determine who really possesses the child have we read somewhere that the Word of God is quick powerful sharper than to any two-edged sword dividing asunder you see beloved God tests us by his word how we respond to the Word of God determines our relationship with him this is what this is the very test God gave in the wilderness you remember when he calls the children of Israel out of other wilderness and he says to them I'm going to rain manna down from heaven you remember that to test them and to prove them to see if they will walk in my law what is the manner a symbol of the Word of God now check this out guys the Bible says before this the children of Israel were crying out because they were hungry and then God says I'm gonna rain manna down from it my question is why would God allow them to go hungry because they they were were they really hungry what do you think yeah they weren't making it up they were hungry why would God allow them to be hungry okay I'm gonna give you a secret this is gonna sound profound the best way to get hungry is to not eat I know it's deep right what does God do he pulls them out of Egypt and takes them off of the diet of Egypt so that when he reigns manner down from them they are like yes no no no no no no when the manna came down they were at first very happy why cuz they were hungry you want to get hungry for the word of God stop eating the diet of Egypt you see what happens is many of us come to church and we are already full from the week so when the pastor's up here preaching you're like huh you know what a man I'm so full I can't really take anymore you know can we make this short God says stop eating the diet of Egypt we fill ourselves with the secular Sunday through Friday and then we come to church on sabbath and we don't really want manna children of Israel when God started raining manna down from heaven from them they weren't first excited man ah yes a couple of days later Oh more man oh yes a little time later whoo manna a little bit later oh man ah until I got to the place where the Bible says that they loathed the manor but I mean how do we respond to the Word of God because how we respond to it determines or reveals our relationship with Jesus Christ not all who say Lord Lord but those who want do the will of my father which is in heaven that word is also a symbol of Jesus himself that sword is also a symbol of Jesus himself you see the mount of representing Christ remember how Jesus said I am the bread of life that has come down from heaven see when you reject the word who are you rejecting Christ when you accept the word who are you accepting when the word is formed within you who's being formed within you Christ so jesus said this my I am the bread that has come down from heaven and the bread that I will give you is my life which I gave for the world in other words he's telling us that he has given himself for us he died so that we might have life he was bruised he was broken on our behalf he was divided pierced on our behalf this is my body which was broken for you so when we see that Christ died for us we should be willing to say yeah we're not going to let him die a second time I will die let me suffer now because he did it once for me already do you get it we want to be like him with because of what he did for us because of him being crucified for us we now say no no no no no don't let the Sun suffer again I see every time we sin we we're faced with a choice every time were tempted we're faced with a choice either I suffer or Christ suffers see overcoming sin is bringing suffering to yourself did you catch that because sin is something that you want to do on that but to not do it means to deny your it means to suffer loss of the thing that you want to do so so the true woman says not enough I'll suffer Jesus already was bruised for me I will suffer by the way come with me in 1st Corinthians chapter 11 I'm sorry Matthew 21 Matthew 21 and verse 44 Matthew 21 and verse 44 Jesus says here whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be one broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder so we got a choice here we could be broken or we can be grinded to powder what's your choice broken we want to fall on Jesus right and be broken he was broken once for us now because of what he did for us we say I will be broken for him now if we don't do that we'll be grinded to powder if we reject Christ if we don't allow them to be from within we are grinded to powder now here comes a pop quiz Adventist are you ready is there and you should know this answer right off the top of your head think with me is there a story in the Bible of a man who rejected God and as a result a stone grinds him to powder what you say the image in Daniel and your eyebrows are raised as you're seeing it tell me about the image in Daniel is it an image of a man is that does that man represent kingdoms that have rejected the gospel and God what happens as a result of his rejecting the gospel and God a stone grinds him to what powder you guys now I understand as Adventists we look at that images and we think Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome we get it but check this out the image is the image of a man could Daniel chapter 2 not only be showing us listen this is the result of kingdoms that reject me it is also the result of the man who rejects me the man starts out with one head of gold but notice that as time goes along what happens to these metals they deteriorate they come lower and lower in value let me ask you a question what happens to the man who continues to reject the gospel he becomes harder and harder more and more base wait a minute there are how many kingdoms in daniel 2 all right head of chest and arms of billion thighs of legs of iron and clay for Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome so there was a kingdom of the head a kingdom of the heart a kingdom of the appetites and a kingdom of the direction check this out guys did you know did you know that when God comes into your life that he's trying to overthrow your kingdoms he wants him he wants to win the kingdom of your mind the kingdom of your hearts the kingdom of your appetites he wants your direction to be the direction he gives you so when Jesus comes he's trying to replicate himself his mind for your mind his hearts for your hearts his desires for your desires his path for your path check this out guys a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand you see for many of us we accept God here yeah I know truth but we don't accept in here for many of us we accepted [Music] but we don't accept them here or here you see beloved Jesus is trying to replicate himself in all of our kingdoms he's trying to make us a new creation in him so that when he is formed within us do you realize what had what's happening when you get baptized your kingdoms are falling I try to get your kingdoms are falling and in the place of that Kingdom comes up a new Kingdom which is Christ in you so he said the kingdom of God is what within you that's what he's trying to do he's trying to make you a new creator creature he's trying to destroy the old image and when he destroys the whole image I love it because in Daniel 2 it says the wind came and blew away how many of you would like the Holy Spirit to come and blow away all the remnants of the old you give me Jesus you come up a new man a new creature a new creation and the judgment balls down to this one thing if Jesus has been formed within you you will not only say but you will also do all right I want to close with this one thing you know this or you may notice in Dan in the book of Revelation there's a beast that is seen coming up out of the water the Beast receives a deadly wound and all the world wondered after the Beast okay why does the world wonder after the Beast who is the Beast I've received a deadly wound right it's the papacy yeah why does the world wonder after the Beast because the wound was healed the Beast is seen coming up out of one out of water have a question for you do Adventists worship this beast whose wound has been healed or are these are they supposed to no no no right we they're supposed to know better and why do they know better that's the question why is the world right now you know tending going in that trend of oh yeah things have changed why here's why when you think of something coming up out of water what comes to mind as Christians baptism what is baptism a symbol of death burial resurrection right you become a new person a new creature things have changed you know in my old life you know I used to persecute Christians and burn them at the stake but that was the old me I've been born again I've been changed I'm no no no no that's not the same us from back in the 1260 we're new now here's the problem the Bible says that the Beast was wounded what it didn't die it was only wounded how was it wounded by the sword wait wait the piece of Revelation 13 deceives people into thinking that it has been changed we're holy now but we know better because the Beast did not die by the sword it was only wounded by the sword okay now let's bring that home you see many of us are walking around like new Christians oh yes I've been changed when in reality you know you come to church on Sabbath maybe today and the sword is doing some cuttings oh you're getting cut up but you never because Satan wants to heal your deadly wound hush don't worry you can continue to do the things that you've always done you can continue to be angry with people you can continue to do your thing you can continue to go in the place you usually go don't don't don't listen Satan knows that if you're only wounded by the sword you can never truly be born again how many of you want to live by the sword do you know what Jesus said about living by the sword those who live by the sword must one beloved Jesus is inviting us to die by the sword let the Word of God put the old man to death and in his place will come up Christ in you the hope of glory there is no other way to get Christ in you the hope of glory then by dying by the sword die daily die daily be willing to suffer rather than to have the son suffer because when Jesus when God comes back he's going to ask the question what have you done with my son that's the question the question of the judgment is very simply do you have Jesus and so my appeal to you this morning this afternoon it's very simply this I need Jesus formed within I don't want to just say Lord Lord and then turn around and only accept half of Jesus I don't want to depend upon my mother's Jesus my brothers Jesus my pastors Jesus my elders Jesus my husband's Jesus my wife's Jesus my children Jesus I need Jesus for myself give me Jesus if that is your desire I invite you to stand to your feet give me Jesus Heavenly Father we thank you for sending your son the bread of life to this world that we might be redeemed we thank you for giving us the sword that we might die to self and have Christ formed within we pray that Jesus will be our Jesus not someone elses and Lord when you come again may you say those words I know you come into my kingdom forgive us Lord for the times we have divided your body forgive us for the times we have chosen sin over you and help us help us to understand your amazing love for us in Jesus name we pray amen you may be seated

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Published: Sat Nov 18 2017