"God Will Not Bless That Location, You Need To Move!" Series: GOSPEL (Church of Christ)

all Christianity is activated by belief for some of you if you have a keyless car if you have a keyless car unless that key is near the car the car don't start the car don't start I want to I want explain something also about Christianity Christianity can't be activated unless you have faith and if you don't believe if you don't believe in the things that Jesus says some of us read we really don't we really don't pray because we don't believe it's on the menu we don't we don't believe we don't believe that they really have it to give and so the Bible says they believed and when they believed they asked the question and they said unto Peter and the rest of the Apostles they said men and brethren what shall we do when you tell somebody truly about Jesus Christ they don't shout they don't scream they don't run around because when you really hear the gospel for the first time you realize that you're not in a good state you realize that you're not pure you realize that you're not clean and they they came to Peter and the rest of the apostles and said okay then what do we need to do to get out of this state the Bible says in verse 38 then Peter said unto them you need to what you need to repent and B you need to reboot and be baptized who every one of you in the in the authority in the name of Jesus Christ you need to repent and be baptized why do you need to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins and you should have received uh and I want to talk about the gift this morning so what does the Holy Ghost and what is the Holy Spirit have to do what does the Holy Spirit have to do with the gospel what does the Holy Spirit have to do with the gospel the Bible says you need to repent and be baptized for the removal of your sins that's what remission is you can't have your sins removed unless you hear the gospel you you believe it you repent you confess you make your confession and be baptized unless you follow that and receive those things you can't have your sins removed you can get wet but you can't have your sins removed the Bible says and and if you do these things you shall what now I want I want to focus on the word receive you can't take it you can't take it and you can't ask for it so nobody can ask for the Holy Spirit to come into their life you can't ask for it and there's nowhere for you to go for you to take it the Holy Spirit is not something you can take our acts for the Holy Spirit has to be a given and you have to receive now you can reject but you have to receive but you can't take and you can't ask for it that is that clear now when does the Holy Spirit come the Holy Spirit is sinned when God sees that you're obedient which is why it's very imperative it's very important that if you're not taught properly then your activity doesn't count if you're not taught properly then baptism doesn't count somebody says I don't know I'm going back and forth should I be baptized again the question that we ask is well how were you talked before you got baptized did you know this if you did not know this then you don't get credit for baptism you don't you don't get credit for baptism somebody says well Billy ones bricked it down in a different way you can show up to graduation with the gown you can get in line and you can but they don't call your name unless you did the work first now anybody can show up to graduation and you can buy the same gown that everybody else is you can sneak on the floor and sit in the back and sit with everybody else you can wave at the crowd but they won't give you a they won't give you a diploma they I've been to some graduations from h-town I've been to some graduations where they just let people they call your name but they don't get you nothing they let you they call it word they let you work they let you walk they let you walk but they don't get you nothing so when they call your name they just they don't they don't on Judgment Day I want my name called and out and I want to receive my mansion my role and my crown and so the Bible says you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost I want to also make this clear the Holy Ghost is not a thing the Holy Ghost is a person the Holy Ghost is God and so God said I'm gonna give you my spirit I'm gonna give you my spirit that will walk with you speak to you and guide you but I need to see first that you've been taught and I need to see that you've been obedient have you received the word the only question that part of the apostille axes wait a minute have you received the Holy Ghost have you received the Holy Spirit the Bible says their response he says since you have believed because I said Christianity has activated my faith he said so since you have believed have you received the Holy Spirit the Bible says and they said unto them we have not so much Ave what we've never heard whether there be a Holy Spirit our Holy Ghost so here's what's very important to me if I teach you about the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ but I fail to tell you about the Holy Spirit then your baptism is not counted so one aspect of teaching about the Holy Spirit is I gotta tell you about the gospel is I gotta tell you about the Holy Spirit I gotta tell you about the Holy Spirit cuz if I don't tell you about the Holy Spirit then we have to be retaught again so notice that if a person receives if a person obeys the gospel what do you receive you receive the Holy Spirit this these group of individuals these group of twelve men said wait a minute we thought we were saved but nobody ever even thought about the Holy Ghost they never taught us about the Holy Spirit the Bible says here in verse in verse three and he said unto them until what then were you baptized he said wait a minute what kind of baptism did you have whether person who taught you didn't tell you about the Holy Spirit he said that doesn't make any sense I want you to reflect upon your own baptism he said listen you got baptized but nobody taught you about the Holy Spirit he said I don't know what kind of baptism is that the Bible says here he and they said unto Him we were taught on to John's baptism and then said Paul our John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance and unto the people that they should believe on him which should come after that is on what Christ Jesus he said wait a minute if John talked to you John told you to go listen to Jesus you stopped too early you stop that John and and got baptized under John's baptism but John's message was even though I'm preaching and teaching to you somebody coming after me is the person that you supposed to listen to not me John preached about Jesus John didn't preach about himself he said oh you need to be taught again so the Bible says in verse three and they said today I'm sorry verse four on to repentance saying to the people that they should believe on him which should come after him that is on christ jesus verse five when they heard this they were would notice they had to get baptized again they thought they were saved they thought they were good they thought they were obedient but they realized I did the baptism but I wasn't taught properly now I need to be taught right and then I can get baptized right a Christian only get baptized once in their life you can get in water a bunch of times but if you're taught properly then God only counts baptism once you have some people say I've been baptized four times no you got in water four times but after you were taught properly then you only been baptized right anybody can get in water but it's not called baptism unless proper teaching is connected to it other than that we just taking a deal and don't do that publicly some people don't do that publicly it's only called baptism when what you're taught properly some of you have friends that you call Christian and some of you have people that go they told a word Christian around I want you to be taught and educated and say hey listen if you call yourself a Christian or if you say you are Christian one of the things that has to be clear is what were you talked and I don't be nasty about it don't be mean about it but you need to ask the question what were you taught if somebody says well I don't I didn't I never really was taught that I didn't I didn't really know that I mean we went to worship and you know I kind of just did I just and I believed but you know I didn't really know then it doesn't count as it is written I have made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed even God who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were one of the things that we've emphasized through the series God came to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12 and in Genesis chapter 12 God said listen Abraham I want you to leave your house I want you to leave your land I want you to move and go to a place that I'm gonna tell you and you're gonna have children but you're not just gonna have a child you'll have many children as many as the stars that are in the sky God start speaking God talks things that are not existing as though they were because you'll bring those things to pass a lot of people get frustrated with God because God will speak something into your present and there's nothing about your present that reflects what he's talking about and gotta do a new thing and got to speak blessings into your life even though right now it feels like you're walking in a curse what God is looking for is God is looking for believers I want to know do you believe that I can take you from here to there so many people walk around and they walk around stuff they walk around defeated they walk around like this is the best that it's gonna be some of you looked in the mirror this morning sir hey okay I guess this the best that it's gonna be don't do that cuz you know why cuz it can get better but it can't be activated unless you believe you you have to become a believer and the Bible says that when God looked at Abraham and he spoke those things into Abraham he was looking to see if whether or not abraham believed the Bible says in verse 18 who against hope believed what against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken so sure of thy seed be so one of the things about hope if I accident on the island I asked each and every one of you what do you hope for and what if I challenged your hope so my sense you know or what is 20/20 looking forward to you well you know I'm just you know one goal one hope is just someone pay these bills and uh you know keep some gas in the tank and so some people got real low hope you know I just I just kind of just want to make it you just want to go and buy what if I challenged your hope and what if I told you about this time next year but by this time next year you'll be operating in a whole different stratosphere you're gonna have new friends you're gonna be living in a new place you're gonna be healthy you're gonna be healthy mentally you don't get the toxic spirits out of your life some of you don't somehow some of you some of you say I can't see it right now it's activated by faith sometimes God will present you with something and then just step back to see whether or not you don't walk by faith sometimes you don't have all of the money sometimes you don't have all of the resources sometimes everybody won't support you sometimes you don't see how but sometimes if you walk with God along the way he'll start providing stuff along the way because he says okay you walk in by faith God is attracted to faith sometimes the resources that you need are not at the beginning of the journey sometimes the resources that you need are in the middle of the journey but God said listen I've already strategically lined up what you need it but it's along the journey you just gotta start walking some people said well I can't start walking because I don't have what I need but you got to walk on you got to walk by faith when Jesus when Jesus was on the sea and the apostles were in the boat and y'all remember when Peter said Lord can I come out to you I need you to understand what was going on at the same time there was a storm going on at the same time so if anybody if anybody ever been in the ocean on a cruise whatever was a storm it's a scary thing because you ain't in control and the wind is the wind is swirling and that's lightning and it's raining and the boats Rocking and then he asked Jesus can I come out to you you gotta understand some of you you gotta you gotta be willing to get out you gotta want to get out somebody said I'm not happy do you believe you can be do do you hope in something better anything that's dysfunction on your life you don't have to stay dysfunctional if you have hope that it can get better but you got to be willing to get out of the boat and sometimes what you need is not in the beginning of your journey it's in the middle it's in the middle and have you ever been walking along the way and all of a sudden somebody sent a donation check along the way of somebody or somebody give you a basket of food along the way or you didn't realize how are you gonna make it and somebody a cash app some gas along come on church you saw walk around and you find out what you need alone sometimes along the way and that's why some of us we don't have to say the same testimonies because you're not willing to start if you don't hear anything else what I say this morning why won't you start you sent there at the beginning of the journey trying to calculate how you gonna make it then that means you're not dependent on Jesus God wants you to depend on him and if you're gonna depend on him he won't show you everything along the way because then you'll make it on your own power you can't say God brought me here I could tell you God brought me here I didn't bring myself here and if it wasn't for God I promised you I wouldn't have made it I can give him all glory because I'm still dumbfounded how I made it and God wants you to have that same testimony God doesn't want to hurt you God does sometimes God will remove your resources he will remove your friends sometimes he will take your support system and he will restrict your support system so they can't help you because he's waiting for you to turn to him you can call you can call everybody that you know and usually they're there for you but sometimes God will block them because he says I'm tired of you running to them and why won't you run to me I'll give you what you need but you have to understand something about God he delivers daily bread so wake up in the morning say God if I'm gonna make it today it's gonna be because of you you wake up the next morning guy you showed out yesterday you won't have to do it again today cuz I don't know how you're gonna make it guy and where he God is not worried about Monday have anybody ever stress over a bill you over stressed over something but you made it you hear they threaten you that they gonna do something to you and then you live a lot longer than you be like worried about them threats no mode what y'all gonna do I got candles what y'all go guy said get the fear out of your heart sometimes as Christians we struggle because God is no longer sending your blessings to your unbelief location you saying god help me because you see what I'm going through he said move please cuz I don't like me get me out of this situation and he says I'm not sending any blessings where you are because if I send blessings where you are that's what you're gonna do you're gonna stay there you know you know one of the best things or best ways to get somebody to move is to dry up the blessings and resources where they are and they said well you know it there's nothing here we're gonna I gotta I gotta go find something you know you're the you know the quickest way for me to leave a restaurant is when they out of something that they proclaim that they said that they had come on y'all ready to go cuz I'm not a I'm not gonna stay here go go find somewhere else sometimes God will do that and you know what if it'll feel like everybody around you is getting a job and you doing this and you doing that and God said no no I don't want to go over there so I'm gonna drive that up for you I don't once you go over there I'm gonna draw that up for you I want to go over there and all of a sudden you get this new inspiration and say you know what maybe I should do this and God said okay finally I got you where I want you to be cuz you know what yous about to use about to spend the next five 10 years in the area I ain't want you to be and you bout to go over here and do something there really ain't it in your heart to do and sometimes God I saw closing some doors because he said listen I ain't gonna bless you over there I don't want bless you over there because I you know what I don't want I don't want you to thank me for the job two weeks later ask me to get you out cuz you didn't you didn't realize it was like it was like this so sometimes God will look in your future and he already see you crying he's on let me go ahead and just shut the door right now you bought the you bout to step in something that you think is a blessing and God said oh I see the curse in it and he'll shut the door trust in God God wants to see things so God is looking at Abraham and the Bible says that their God that Abraham listened to God and he moved on faith and the Bible says against hope verse 18 against hope he rejected that he might become the father of many nations according that which was spoken so shall thy seed be verse 19 and being not weak in faith he considered not his word his own body now dead now here's our one of the things that they're ordered to walk by faith you have to ignore what's in your environment you have to ignore the Bible says he stopped looking at his body so he could follow God he stopped looking at his spouse so that he could follow God he started closing his eyes and started believing in the possibility of what God was saying instead of taking his environment and matching it to what God said sometimes if you look around in your environment and your community get depressed you start you start looking at your past mistakes you start looking at the old decision making and you start looking at your your status and you start realizing this is so God don't want you to look at you he doesn't want you to do inventory guy said what I'm about to do with you has nothing to do with what you see I'm doing it based upon my riches we talked about this on Wednesday and I'm gonna do it based upon my power and that's your power this is on my power that I'm gonna do this and so the Bible says he considered not his own body when he was about a hundred years old neither the deadness of Sarah's womb he said I am looking at her sometimes if you want better for your family you need to ignore yourself you need to ignore your wife you need to ignore your kids and say god I see a better family in the future somebody so I'm I I'm gonna have a beautiful marriage ignore yourself and ignore the one that you went and y'all both close your eyes and say it's you god that's gonna transform this thing notice God said i'ma give you a child he said I'm a hundred but I ain't gonna even consider that she oh - I ain't gonna consider that either I'm ignoring all of that and I'm believing in the Word of God and he moved and the Bible says in verse 20 when he when he moved he didn't stagger at the promise of God through what you know why we know how you stagger cuz you started off walking with God and you start getting blessed and then you got into the middle and then you like Peter you turn and start looking at the storm again do you know trouble happens when you walk by faith did you know that when you jump out on faith and everybody think you crazy but you say it's cool but when you jump out on faith and you start walking trouble gonna happen but be like Abraham I said in spite of the trouble Abraham wasn't perfect he never just stopped walking he made mistakes the staggering has nothing to do with whether or not he was perfect or he was sinless it was that he never stopped you gotta have that never stop spirit god i'ma keep getting up imma keep imma get out of the bed some some Christmas some of the biggest the biggest hurdle is getting out of the bed or if you can just get out of the bed and took a shower just get out of the bed and just take a shower just get out of the bed and take a shower just get out of the bed and just take a shower and just believe just push yourself stop hitting the snooze button stop crying in the bed stop rolling around and their covers if you could just Oh out of the bed and what's the next thing please do take a shower please please take a shower and then move on about your watch what God what watch what God can do the only reason that some of us we feel bad and we feel reject because you looking at stuff too long you're looking at trouble too long you pointing at God and so okay look at what happened Oh God look and you know what some of you are trying to speak for God based upon trouble that happened in your environment you get a flat tire well I guess God didn't want me to do this because look I got a flat tire God where they said no so I guessed that I guess God I don't want me her to be great because I was trying to be great and they said no I don't need them for you to be great sometimes God will send you a thousand nose so that your testimony can be awesome and you know what you'll say you know what you'll say when you receiving your reward I went to 75 places and all of them said no but I am now where I wanted to be in spite of them and God will give you a testimony like that sometimes God will send you knows because he's building your testimony and your ability your believing the nose don't believe the nose some of you stopped believing that you were awesome some of you stopped believing that you were beautiful because he said you were ugly he look at himself I'm gonna tell you all this this is sad no he's gonna do it the sermon ugly people can't call other people ugly suggest the rules there's rules to this rule city's good-looking people can't call other people ugly your license is revoked you're not allowed you're not allowed he says this verse 20 he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but we're strong in what he was strong in faith giving what glory to God even while he was waiting on God to fulfill he was still praising God you know one thing that you got to have you got to still keep the praise in your mouth while you waited you know what you know what I found out it's biblical it's biblical it's biblical to praise and cry and you crying because you heard him cuz you waiting but praise him why are you crying and the Bible says this is the model he says giving glory to God he stays strong even though his body was failing God gonna make God's gonna bring this child out of this some kind of way even though my body's failing he said we're gonna be a great nation I don't see it but but but I'm not basing what God said on what I see the Bible says in verse 21 and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to work do you believe that God is able to do everything that he said he would do the Bible says in verse 22 and therefore it was imputed to him for what it was imputed for him for Isis I'm almost done it was imputed for him for righteousness it was imputed for him for righteousness he was called righteous when he walked by faith and he gave glory to God he kept walking he didn't stagger he put his hope in God and he kept walking he kept walking he kept walking year after year he said God's gone fulfilled I'm fully persuaded I'm fully convicted that God is gonna do everything that he said he's gonna do accident shall be given seek and ye shall find knock and door shall be opened I put my trust in him God is gonna bring all of these things to pass I believe I believe this I believe that if I ask God and I put my faith and I walk with him God will bring all of those things to pass he will open up those doors he may not do it never never fall in love with the process when you prayed for the destination your prayer was only about the destination it wasn't about the process so that when God takes you through a process that's uncomfortable don't quit on the destination because the process looks like you're going in a different direction God said okay you asked for it now trust me on how I get you there and so he trusted and got it he walked in her and the Bible says he imputed he called him he said you're righteous you're righteous you you're a righteous person because not because you've never sinned and not because you didn't make mistakes not because you don't have many faults I'm calling you righteous because when I spoke you moved when I spoke you moved and you didn't stop moving you moved on my word I'm calling you a righteous person if anybody wants to be righteous this morning it's not because you are perfect and you've never made a mistake a righteous person hears god and moves that's what a righteous person is they hear God and it went and the moment that they hear God the Bible says the day you hear his voice harden not your heart that if you hear God you say okay God I'm moving when you realize that you're in a sinful state and you need to stop sinning the person who gets up immediately and says I'm not living like this anymore God says you righteous somebody so how can you call that person righteous when they were just doing this yesterday and it doesn't matter they heard my word and they moved when you realize oh I feel like God is moving me here and I feel like I need to stop doing this and and I realize I'm not supposed to be in this environment the person who ignores that voice and you stay longer you miss out on your blessings because God is no longer blessing in that spot because I sent a word for you to move to the right destination so you could receive your blessings and you stand there too long if Abraham would have stayed in his father's house he would have never known the blessings the riches that he experienced if he would have stayed I'm not blessing you there if Christ is in me then I long no longer live by my flesh my flesh is dead because of sin but if crisis had me then the Holy Spirit is what life the Holy Spirit will guide you will teach you direct you will be with you forever the purpose of the Holy Spirit is to get you to heaven it's your guy so that you can be right with God how is the Holy Spirit activated in your life the Bible tells you in this verse because the Holy Spirit is life how because of what in Romans chapter 4 God just told you about righteousness righteousness is when Abraham heard my word and he moved and it was imputed unto him as well as righteousness God said Abraham you're a righteous person because you walk by faith and so in that anybody that's in Christ the Bible says when you walk by faith and you're operating by faith you are a righteous person and the Holy Spirit is now life to you the Holy Spirit is not like do you know you quench the Holy Spirit do you know you hindered the Holy Spirit from leading you when you don't operate on faith that's why God didn't give you the spirit of fear God don't do that God doesn't give the spirit of fear what he gives he gives power and by faith when you when you activate your faith and trust in God then the Holy Spirit is now activated in your life because righteousness has faith in it and the Holy Spirit is now life because your faith is now in God and the Holy Spirit says okay now we can move [Music]

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Length: 32min 49sec (1969 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 09 2019