Grace God's Provision for the Believer - Sunday Service

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thank you lord wow thank you lord wow thank you lord thank you lord somebody said what's going on it's the presence of god that's sitting down on you right now hallelujah it's the presence of god that's sitting on you removing burdens in your life it's the presence of god taking care of everything that concerns you it's the presence of god let him go to work let him go to work let it go to work thank you lord thank you lord [Music] thank you thank you that the lord would that the lord will visit us with his presence right now [Applause] thank you lord that that he hears our prayers and that he's honoring you right now [Music] [Applause] and i guarantee you right now that whatever was concerning you before you got here he's working that thing out right now boy he's working it out right now you might as well go ahead and praise him he's working that thing out right now hallelujah he's working that thing out right now buddy [Applause] [Music] thank you my god my god thank you lord my god wow you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you my god thank you jesus holy spirit you are welcome in this place continue lord to touch to heal to deliver to set free to make whole speak through my lips of clay holy spirit i can't even say it unless you do i receive the holy ghost articulation for this time and we give you praise for it now thank you that our ears are anointed to hear that you've prepared our hearts to receive we are grateful we are so so grateful in jesus name come on give the lord a big hand clap for praise [Applause] you you may be seated if you can i uh i won't even try to pretend like i know what was what that was all about between you and god i have no idea what he's bought you out of i'm just glad he bought you out but the best is yet to come he's not finished yet honey what god has started in you he's committed to finish in jesus name and amen praise the lord if you have your bibles [Music] go with me to the book of saint john chapter 1 verse 17 and we have been bombarding the atmosphere with teachings on grace in our daily confessions on wednesday night in our bible studies and on these sundays and each time that we begin to share i believe god that he'll help me to articulate it where you can get it because a lot of things that the church has fallen victim to has been because of a lack of teaching in detail concerning the subject of grace so this morning i'll attempt to deal with this issue we're going to talk about grace god's provision for the believer and i find that kind of fascinating grace is the provision that god has given to every believer grace is not merely uh the means whereby god forgives sin and that's where most people are related it's not just god forgiving you of your sins he does and has but the bigger picture here is that grace is god's way of dealing with one who receives christ grace is god's way of dealing with one who receives christ not only during your earthly existence but also throughout eternity and throughout the ages to come now think here with me for a moment if you have been born again god can only deal with you now that you're born again through grace that's how god deals with you somebody said what's the deal somehow satan wants to convince you that when things happen in your life as a believer that god changed his mind and he's no longer dealing with you through grace that is a commitment on his part now that you're born again now that you are a believer god can only deal with you through grace don't let the devil think uh but make you think that you know god's kind of gonna get you god's going to judge you god's going to put something on you he can only deal with the believer through grace you got to remind yourself that i am a believer so god is going to deal with me regardless of the situation he can only deal with the believer through grace if you understand that say amen so one of the reasons for this low level of christian conduct and it's it's an all-time low right now one of the reasons that we see this very low level of christian conduct is largely due to incomplete teachings of god's grace incomplete teachings of god's grace that you know that tells you that god's sending people to hell or one of the ones we're most familiar with is you know that you know people believe that an over emphasis on grace or believe that if i'm teaching grace a little bit too much it's going to be a license to sin that's not that's not true but i can't tell you the number of people be careful of overemphasizing grace because all it's going to do is cause people to live careless lives and they're going to have a license to sin that's because grace hadn't been taught enough it hadn't we look at that as a sidebar and it's the it's the in this it's the gospel it is the gospel and so if grace was preached and understood in its fullness it would eradicate this idea that grace is a license to sin or that too much grace is not good for because it it'll cause you to be careless in your christian conduct that's you can just tell that's because people have not heard enough about grace well look at john chapter 1 uh in the king james and listen to what he says here he says for the law talking about the mosaic law was given by moses but grace and truth came by who jesus christ so what happens if you subtract jesus out of the picture you subtract grace out of the picture and you subtract truth out of the picture now here's something you need to hear about truth here's what you got we know that grace is a person his name is jesus so you have jesus and out of jesus you have grace and out of grace you have truth there is no truth except it comes out of grace there is no grace except it comes out of jesus truth is inseparable it is inseparably related to grace truth is the result of grace grace is the truth that makes men free we've dealt with it like there are two separate entities you hadn't heard truth if you hadn't heard grace and you hadn't heard grace if you hadn't received jesus there is no well this is the truth of the gospel when that truth doesn't come out of grace doesn't come out of jesus jesus is the truth grace is the truth let me show you something go to go to uh saint john chapter 8 and verse 31 and 32. saint john chapter 8 31 let's look at this in the nlt saint john chapter 8 verse 31 and 32. this is so important because every time i hear people talking about you know they know the truth and i'm like well do you know grace i don't believe in the grace message you say to me not only do you not know what real truth is but you you don't even know jesus because it would be ludicrous to say i got a problem with grace when you know that jesus is the one who's full of grace and truth all right now watch this jesus said to the people who believed in him now this is jesus dealing with jesus deals with the people who believe in grace teaches us it teaches people who have believed in jesus jesus said to the people who believed in him you are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free now i'm gonna go ahead and say this and you'll begin to see this unfold throughout this series i believe with all my heart jesus says you gotta know me and when you know me you're gonna know grace and when you know out of grace comes the truth and he says if you know the truth if you know this truth if you know this truth then this truth you know will make you free what what is it that men are in bondage to the law he says if you know jesus you're going to know grace if you know grace out of grace comes truth and when you know truth it's going to set you free from the law it's going to set you free from religion some of you just during the past of the last two months have been so set free from formal religious teachings that's what he was talking about what happened you have heard the truth you've heard grace you've heard jesus and now you're free from the mosaic law so it's got to be preached i'm not gonna get tired of preaching grace for me to say i'm tired of preaching grace is for me to say i'm tired of preaching jesus and i am not gonna have you ever come in this church and not hear the name of jesus are you following me now now back now now while you're there back up to uh uh look at john 1 16 guys go to let's look at the nlt and then go to the amplified back up go to john chapter 1 16. all right i'm i'm moving in this slow i'm setting up a foundation here i think you guys are used to it over the last few weeks he says verse 16 from his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another the grace of god working in your life is gonna begin to produce one blessing after another the king james calls it grace upon grace one after another all right now watch this in amplified for out of his fullness out of his abundance we have all received all had a share we have all had a share and we were all supplied with one grace after another one spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing even one favor upon favor and one gift heaped upon a gift he says everybody here is born again has received something after something you didn't got blessing after blessing spiritual blessing after spiritual blessing you got some favor after favor you you don't got a gift after gift and he says that all keeps coming out of the abundance of grace you all keep getting something you didn't deserve and it keeps happening grace upon grace spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing gift upon gift favor upon favor that happens when you are open to this this magnificent grace it is grace upon grace that removes fear and what happens is once you understand that god's dealing with you through grace it removes the fear and it gives assurance it brings stability and direction to your earthly life because you know that you as a believer uh have been doubt with the blessings of his grace but you got to get that you can't let the devil not one day come and convince you that you ain't numbered or no good for nothing sinner that ain't you no mo you do not identify with being a sinner you cannot ever again say i'm just a sinner saved by grace that's a mixture of law and grace you are no longer a sinner but because you've been saved by grace you are a saint you are a new creation you are the righteousness of god that's what you got to relate with now you're going to be tempted to say oh i just feel so bad don't let that bad feeling try to change your new identity that grace has given you because you know what you're you know what you get because you're grace even when you act in this i'm stupid or did something crazy stupid and crazy can't stop grace upon grace because god says i'm gonna cause my goodness to get on you when you don't think it ought to be on you and it's gonna change your mind about the dumb behavior that you did and i'm gonna have you walking grace upon grace upon grace until you can't haul it take it no more and just like what happened this morning you just start magnifying god because his mercy kept showing up when you know you didn't deserve it and grace upon grace upon grace upon grace [Applause] but you got to maintain your status don't let it change now jesus tasted death for every man and that the grace of god that brings salvation has appeared to all men look at this in titus 2 and 11 real quick titus 2 and 11 the grace of god jesus tasted death for every man every man that's born even the ones who don't believe yet god's already made a way for the ones who hadn't believed yet all they got to do believe and they're drafted they're engrafted right now into the thing of god for the grace of god bringeth forth or bring in salvation for the grace of god that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men grace hath already appeared not to some men not just the men that go to church but to every man on the planet the grace of god has allowed salvation to be made available to everybody so the difference between those of you who are here and those who are not born again is you made a decision to believe and receive the salvation so now grace is going to now teach you and grace upon grace and but those people who are who are not born again and he's made salvation available and then they die without making that decision if god didn't send them to hell they went to hell because they rejected the free gift that jesus died for them to have sinful behavior doesn't send you to hell rejecting the free gift does [Music] so christian people quit telling other christian people they're going to hell because they didn't speak to you you going to hell because you didn't speak to me no you you don't do that you get it now look at ephesians chapter 2 and 8 first in the king james and then nlt ephesians two and eight i hadn't started the sermon yet this is all foundation i don't know who hadn't been here it might have a visitor here he need to understand that he is under dark religion and tradition that that that's that's ruining his life he's living he doesn't have to live the way he's living look what he says in verse 8 for by grace are you what but you got it how through what and that's not of your selves it is a what so did you earn this grace made it available and you believed this didn't you i look at the nlt he said god save you by his what so you were saved not deserving it you were saved not deserving it all of us nobody in this in this building deserved to be saved but he saved you anyway you know what everybody in this building deserved hell nobody in this building deserved what he made available he said god save you by his grace when did he save you by his grave when you were what so look at it you don't have to go through 50 days of doing something to get saved in seconds i believe you say not a fancy prayer not people you know around you pushing on you and throwing all all on your head messing up your new perm that you spent all day again yesterday that no you spent three seconds i believe you're saved you're saved and he says and you can't take credit for this why it is a gift from god do you understand you cannot earn a gift you cannot deserve a gift a gift is something that is freely given to you amen now since we're talking about salvation what are what are three aspects of this salvation that we've received number one we are delivered from the penalty of sin so when you got saved the penalty of sin was was simply death right you were you were saved from the penalty of sin and the penalty of sin was simply death the bible says that the wages of sin is what death so here's what you were saved from death and hell that was that was the judgment of the law you die you don't believe him the penalty is death and hell when you got saved you got saved from the penalty of sin you that day you got saved from hell so don't be going to bed every night worried about going to hell you got saved from hell that day you got saved yeah but i ain't been living right you ain't by yourself but you're getting better every day because grace upon grace upon grace keep coming up if you go to hell for your bad behavior everybody in here going to hell for you for for their bad behavior too but you don't go to hell for bad but yeah hey son you don't gotta have a bad behavior you go to hell for rejecting jesus and that doesn't mean well what if you just just misbehave all kinds of ways see you keep putting stuff in the equation that doesn't belong there you're not gonna just just go crazy misbehaving why because now that you're born again the new creations on the inside of you who is now fighting that old mindset the holy ghost is on the inside of you who is now changing your your want-to's and giving you new want to see god is the one that's going to perfect you honey you think it's just up to you but once you get saved you've allowed god's quartet to enter on the inside of you and he's going to rearrange and change some things in your life and you're going to wake up and the things you want to do you ain't going to do no more and the places you want to used to go you ain't going to go no more and you spend all that money on that weed and you only want that stuff no more because god's been working on your honey you've been sleeping in that night and god was working on you while you were asleep you woke up the next morning and god's working on and even working around the people around you praise god they don't want to spend time with you no more because every time you go up there and get drunk you start preaching the gospel of grace and they can't take it no more god knows what to do to bring you out of your situation me let me settle down you're free from the penalty of sin number two you're free from the power of sin when you got saved you got saved from the power of sin sins ability you got saved from the power of sin sin trying to make you do or having you doing things all kinds of stuff you you remember when you were a sinner you were you were open to all kinds of stuff thoughts will come to your mind yeah let's do that yeah let's do that let's try it listen now you're saved you're delivered from the power of sin and this is more than that's willpower people still think their willpower is greater you didn't even have willpower before you got saved sin had to power over you amen and here's the third thing that you are been delivered from the third aspect of your salvation you've been delivered from the presence of sin what's the presence of sin the old man that man on the inside of you that sin nature on the inside of you you were delivered from that sin nature he's not there anymore he's dead he's passed away and that's what the bible says how can you continue in the sin nature huh that grace may abound reason why he says you can't continue in that sin nature because it's dead it's gone it's passed away you have a new nature on the inside of you given to you by the almighty god now just like there are three aspects of your salvation we're going to spend today and probably next week talking about the three aspects of grace we're finally going to bring grace to a place of practicality everyday living we're going to talk about these three aspects the first aspect of grace is that grace gives you standing before god it gives you a stance before god let's talk about that it gives you a posture before god it gives you a position before god grace now without you doing anything to earn it the day you believe grace gives you a stance before god that you can't earn or deserve he gives you that stance he gives you that posture grace says you're righteous without doing right but that happens because grace gives you the stance and the posture and the standing that's number one the second thing we're going to look at is grace provides for your daily life on earth i can't wait to get to this grace has provision for your everyday life while you're on the planet alive grace is going to provide for your everyday living oh my goodness and then the last thing we're going to look at is that there shall be an exceedingly great demonstration of grace in the ages to come so you think grace is gonna stop just like when you die uh-uh grace has got some stuff ready and provided for you when a believer falls asleep and dies grace is now preparing for the ages to come grace is going to have some things ready after you wake up in fact grace is what's gonna be the one that's gonna wake you up you're gonna fall asleep in grace and you're gonna wake up by grace y'all don't hear me that's like i want to teach people how to let how to let folks go how to let folks go and and how to do the funeral right and in fact you ought to let them go right at the hospital you ought to tell them bye right there and love you i see you soon thank you for letting me be your friend you got to do that right now because they're getting ready oh they fought they're getting ready to fall asleep in the arms of grace they're gonna wake up in grace they're gonna get dressed in grace they're gonna fly in grace all right so let's let's deal with something real quick i'm just kind of let's deal with the first part uh grace giving you a position go to first corinthians chapter 1 and 30. grace given you a position my god shall supply all of my needs according to his riches in glory through and by christ jesus by grace all right look what he says here god has united you with christ jesus for our benefit god made him to be wisdom itself christ made us right with god he made us pure he made us holy and he freed us from sin and now look at the scripture now there's nothing about the scripture that says you became it through your effort you you through some act of your own were made right with god what did he say christ made us right with god so the day you got born again you are 100 right with god see that's that's that's what you got to break right now what i just said huh you are and you know what that like taffy said this morning have faith in god you got to have faith in what jesus has done we have more faith in what we do for god and have little to no faith in what he's already done for us grace determines our standing so he this is how we now stand before god i'm right with god 100 i'm not getting right i'm not almost right i'm not kind of right i'm right with god say that right now i'm right with god all right now what's this he made us pure and holy uh-uh this is what a struggle is because when you see this you're going to be comparing it to your behavior you got to understand if we can get you if we get you to believe your posture and your stance that stance is going to be responsible for causing your behavior to line up with it you believe you're righteous you're going to start acting righteous and i watch this say out loud i'm pure and holy all right now watch this this is not one day this is not in the sweet blind bye this is right now the day you believed in jesus you are now 100 pure and 100 percent holy rat rat quick as a rat already done right now you hold it say out loud i'm holy you know that drives the devil crazy you are holy right now uh-uh you're gonna have problems with receiving from god with your if your response is uh-uh not yet you know what you're doing you're saying no i've got to produce some kind of evidence by my actions that i am you didn't get saved by none of your actions so why do you think it's going to be something about your actions that's going to clarify your stance you're standing before god is not determined by your goody goody stuff right you still think god's good to you because you're good no he's not i was real good sometimes and then that happened and i'm trying to figure out what's going on i've been good ain't good to you because you good shock god's not good god is good to you because he good can can anybody recall when you know you didn't deserve it god goodness showed up you had the pause like whoa what's this what's this no no no no and that's the thing that's what tradition and religion is trying to get you oh no i can't be pure and holy because of just what i said yesterday see the holy ghost is working on you and and judgmental christian police christians you heard me police stop judging people who are in process and you know who in process everybody everybody in process any words you got to say about somebody's bad behavior air that's why he just said pray everybody [Applause] everybody in the house got an issue everybody everybody that's what you're missing the whole thing the day you start being critical of other people's behavior and you forget that god has accepted the responsibility to perfect them and he's already i mean look at god i mean the devil would probably think the nerve of god calling you holy now that's what the devil do the devil will have you take credit for stuff and then start condemning you for what you did no this has got to be accomplished i am holy now say it all right now you said it now you got to believe it i am righteous now i am pure now i have been free from sin all right question do you believe you've been free from sin isn't it amazing that you believe you've been free from sin but you struggle with believing you're holy it is amazing that it's all right that you believe that you've been free from sin but i just don't know if i'm right with god and as soon as something doesn't work out like you want it to work out you the first thing you say is well i must be doing something wrong or look up to heaven and say lord have i done something wrong have i angered you to cause you to do this remember god can only deal with you now as a believer through grace somebody says well explain the trial that i'm going through i can't explain that now 12 years ago i could i can extract something tonight if you are going through a trial it is to bring to your attention your self-dependence somehow in your life you are depending on you rather than depending on god and god is committed to make sure there are some some trials that will be used to burn away self-dependence to finally bring you to a place where you can totally depend on him that's the purpose for trials so don't complain and don't get all soft and weird you know god will help me no no no no he helping you through that trial you're going through so don't moment don't get upset mumble through the trial just listen god trying to show me something i must be declaring my my my dependence on myself somewhere why did peter have to go through what peter had to go through because jesus was trying to show him peter you know you you have too much dependence on yourself now i don't lord but i ain't gonna let you die and i'm not gonna do this and he said you know what dude it ain't gonna be from long for right now you're gonna deny you even know me peter went from revelation knowledge of who jesus was to denying who jesus was trial came burned it off now he depends completely on god and i know that's a big thing now cause you give yourself too much credit you got an education you got a degree you got some money you know some important people in fact now you think you impotent and the the worst thing you can do is convince yourself that you're important that's the worst thing you can do is to go around look in the mirror and talk and look at yourself like you're important you're not and it's going to take a trial to help you get rid of that because god can show let you know you ain't important you're a little high strong and you know how to bring you down somebody said well where's the grace said there's a grace right there he loves you so much he's saving you from yourself by delivering you from yourself he's trying to tell you you're too important but you ain't listening to him but you are listening to a hard time you'll listen to when that money ain't coming through you'll listen to when you lost that job you'll listen to your wife getting tired of you talking that way and she says freddie i want a divorce right now and i was saying you're like lord what's going on he said don't handle it with your important self god knows how to deal with everybody in this room and you can play all the church games you want to play but god know you god knows you like nobody knows you god knows you better than you know yourself you might as well get honest with you quit lying to you to yourself lord i ain't praying for he like yes you are no i'm not who you talking to you talking who you talking to oh he in there he know you he been knowing you he know you in the booth the back the corner of the dog he know you and if he tells you you pray don't deny just say lord help me show it to me show me what i need to do show me how to get out of this situation and it was a situation where i got so stressed out that my face felt like it was turning and i was going to get that build policy because i just had all this stuff going on and i'm going to the lord for the help that's thing to do go to the lord help me oh lord help me he said you weren't supposed to be there in the first place by there he means you set boundaries why are you over the fence i told you not to deal with that why you deal with it oh this is easy get back over the feet get on your side of the fence get on your side of the fence do it like taffy say he always on tap the side i always on tap stuff all right i ain't asked one time i'm like why are you always on tampa side cause you're always on my side i said where i where am i he said in the center of the circle yours god will help you and the bible says you know you don't need this trials to come he says it comes if it need be and i'm constantly going for god like listen lord i don't want to have i don't want nothing that need be so i want to volunteer to work with you what i need to do get back on the side let me hop back over here what else i need to do lord cause a lot of you bringing them need these things coming up you're like oh no everybody's saying that say out loud i'm right with god i'm pure and holy and i'm forgiven a sin right now right where i sit i am that's the basis of this whole deal now as soon as you walk out of here you will have the contradiction waiting on you all right the lord was telling me about character treating people nice and right and i'm i'm in my bedroom you know talking to lord about this yes yes okay yes yes all right i forgot to tell you this happened and the phone rang again at two o'clock in the morning so you know who i thought it was i thought this wouldn't put them they're amazon people amazon people run my dough bag at five o'clock time i got a package a package i was dreaming a package so i just finished talking to god about this oh yes lord hallelujah i think i forgot it thank you telephone wrong i jumped up there not being no amazon man hello anyone nobody god said i was just quizzing you see we just talked about we just talked about this and you was ready to go at it again [Applause] i was like yeah sure what lord don't don't not the need be not the need be don't laugh at me some of y'all done the same thing or worse i'm gonna forgive them lord i'm gonna forgive them i'ma forgive them and then they come in your face hey praise the lord i forgive you but no although i got to say this no i know no i you know you know those people got to say what everything they think you don't have to say every time you think something some stuff needs to go unsaid i seriously need to start this sermon all right so now let's deal with this first part by grace of standing before god so grace is what provides that right posture you know you can't have a wrong posture when the when the bible removed the anointing and isaiah describes it as removing the yolk around the neck and taking the burdens off the shoulders now imagine the posture of a person who has the yoke around their neck and the burden on their shoulders they're walking like this but he said i i'll come to remove the burden they can stand up straight and i'll destroy the yoke it completely destroys that old posture so god knew the first thing i got to do in order for them to to receive from grace is i got to get them in the right posture so the first work of grace provides a standing before god so this is fully accomplished the moment a sinner believes on jesus as the one who satisfies on his behalf the demands of god's justice you believe the guy who has satisfied god's justice now things that constitute believers standing are going to be accomplished by his grace the things that are that constitutes a belief believers stand is going to be accomplished by his grace now let me show you what i'm talking about look at ephesians chapter 1 and verse 7. i'm going to show you uh three or four scriptures on this to see it to me i thought well this sounds elementary you got to be careful about how it sounds it's one of those things that sound easy but maybe the biggest challenge to this grace walk ephesians chapter 1 verse 7 in in the nlt all right now check this out he says he is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his son watch this and forgave our sins so listen by grace i am free and forgiven of sins he purchased that with his blood i am already free say i'm free i am already forgiven of sin say i'm forgiven okay so that standard now that standing was accomplished by his grace by grace i am free by grace i have been forgiving that standing i have because of his grace here's the second part romans 3 24 in the nlt romans 3 24. and i'm i'm being repetitive on this we've heard we heard so many other things repetitive that we say them and they're wrong but we've heard them so much it's going to require me saying stuff over and over again so you can hear it so much so he can start getting rid of all of that wrong stuff he says yet god in his grace god in his grace freely makes us what right in his sight he did this through jesus christ when he freed us from the penalty for our sins so notice i am righteous i am right in his sight how did that come that came through his grace that i am right in this sight that's my posture that's my standing how did it come did was it something that i earned was it something that i worked for it was it something that i deserved no it's something that i've received by faith i am righteous through his grace here's the third one colossians chapter 1 colossians chapter 1 verse 21-22 in nlt now watch this here's a whole list here he says this includes you who were once far away from god you were his enemies separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions verse 22 yet now he has reconciled you he has reconciled you say i'm reconciled see my posture is i'm reconciled i have been restored back to friendship with god the enemy the enmity has ended between god and man because of his sins i am standing restored back to god that means god is not mad at me yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of christ in his physical body as a result he has brought you into his own presence and you are holy and blameless you stand before him without a single fault so what has been accomplished though is great i'm reconciled god's not mad at me god's not gonna try to get me you know people god gonna get you god don't like ugly he gonna get you and you ain't you're tired of him aren't you tired ain't your time god gonna get you he gonna get to you god don't like ugly honey if god was gonna get me as many times you're gonna tell me he's gonna get me out of being god right now [Applause] but he's not why because you've been reconciled back to god you watch this you have also been by his grace put in his presence do you realize that god's presence is with you all the time now that you're saved his presence is with you it is not because you feel something whether you feel something or not that's why taffy said we got to do things by faith because it's not based on you feeling something somebody says ooh i had chill bumps when i was praying this morning oh i know i know god heard my prayer this morning because i had chill buff listen you got to get to the point where you don't have no chill bumps and you still know god was with you when you was praying see that's that religion stuff that it can't be real unless i feel something that's that's what's been this that's what deceived us i have the presence of god i have an enemy and he says i'll never leave you nor forsake you so when he's not there he's broken that promise he says i'm not going to leave your forsaken but your religious oh lord help me jesus yo that doggie can't tell you no cause you think you're no more than jesus christ i'm crucified then better raise from blessings don't right here god follow them out i tell you now now i really don't receive that because my class tells me in my cemetery school that i've got to i've got to perform these five acts in order to deserve what god wants to do to me it's a lie can't you read he just said it can't you read we all reading together that's all we're doing we read we read we read i don't know what else to tell you if you don't listen to hear a born-again christian say i got to go and pray until the presence of god come on me honey you should have walked in with him this morning okay let me just gonna freak you out all right so some of you still drinking mad dog red lady 21 brass monkey now you need to leave brad's monkey long brass monkey hair brass monkey it got a spirit on it it's like a next day spirit you know you drink it and it's the next day you're like what happened don't let the color fool you look like punch but it's it's it's it's a devil swimming all up in that ball all right now watch this now we talked about this on wednesday night with the wednesday night crew can sin robbed your righteousness we we we got that wednesday night crew and the wednesday night crew people here this morning all right all right so y'all know this y'all know this this this for people who don't believe in studying the bible on wednesday even if you go to the bar and just got stupid for a minute and come back and you buy this idea because because you hadn't accept your standing well god can't be with me well why can't come on i got drunk last night oh he was right there with you you mean when that glass slid over there huh let's look at some of y'all stop you didn't leave the holy ghost when you decided to go to the bar when you went to the bar he went with you you stopped by a motel or whatever and what we call it last week miss kitty you met miss kitty daddy in room 666 you didn't go up there you didn't go up in that room by yourself he went with you i see some of you lost smart friends and what i'm saying can't hardly tell you know cause you're smart you don't already got ahead of me and you ought to see the the comments on the line right now that ain't what my bible said you're not a reasonable bible that i'm talking about yourself right now cause if you know i read your bible i would have talked about yourself right now but anyway so [Applause] all right you want scripture i'll give you a little simple one goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life when you went to the bar goodness and mercy went with you when you went to the hotel goodness and where mercy went with you and when you came back to church goodness and mercy which the only difference was is you just change your mind about that stuff and goodness and mercy say we've been here the whole time and we've been we've been working on you the whole time we saw you when you got drunk we saw you when you're with me miss kitty but we've been working on your praise god and now you don't want none of that brass monkey called pastor tried to tell you to put you in the next day and now you don't want miss kenny because martial dylan showed up and caught y'all see you got to understand that goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life and i will dwell in the house of the lord forever that's his presence that's his presence i i need to look at this like what is going on with you what and satan has made that so difficult for people to receive receive what their posture receive what their stance you keep fighting him on who you are he take he uh let's see 20 30 years ago when oral stayed at the house about 25 30 years ago oral roberts uh some people know him some people young enough like who is that it's like it's a great wonderful awesome healing evangelist all right they named the university after him you know what i mean well he he came he came to my house and uh we were sitting down talking and and i forgot what he was talking he was trying to tell me i had some anointing to do something and uh you know he got in my my face you know or we'll get right in your face so you can see them burning eyes and he said uh he said we apostles know who we are don't we i'm like nah [Music] nah uh he said you got a pure heart i was like oh no i ain't got no pure heart now i said i'm saving i'm trying to live right man don't put don't don't let's just don't don't be playing with god i ain't got no pure heart i'm just talking you got my ignorant self hang on up your heart he said yes you do i said no i don't because i'm thinking the pureness of heart and the holiness of heart is based on a lifetime of you know being right and i have no lifetime of being right and this man started crying and i freaked out he started crying and i started crying i'm like i got this i got this prophet of god crying i'd have messed up he said he grabbed me he says yes you do you have a pure heart you're holy and that's why god's going to use you i hope i grabbed my arm like no i know did you see what the issue was satan had convinced me that i didn't qualify for this posture that i had to do something to qualify for this posture then he broke some stuff down to me about his life and i'm like oh don't look like you hold it either he's trying to show me something bruh you are because jesus said you are do you know one of the definitions for righteousness is declared righteous you know what god told me he said you know one word he says you know one reason why you're righteous because i said it oh that's the big fight especially amongst church people who've been in church all day life struggling to receive the grace will somebody answer that phone tell them we're in church and why they ain't here struggling to receive some of y'all gonna be thinking pastor you don't have no brass monkey this morning did you no or it would be monday uh struggling to receive your god-given posture now you watch the number of times this week where you're going to be tested where your position your stance and your posture is concerned and you got to ask god help me to see it help me to notice it because i'm going to start actively fighting against anything that tries to talk me out of who i am and who i've been made to be through this grace of god and i i thought even studying this i thought well you know i mean god that's this is a pretty easy messenger by god's that he says this is not about how they intellectually perceive what you're saying he said i'm telling you this is a deeply rooted issue that i face all the time trying to allow my limitless love to bloom in their lives and they keep building up boundaries the wrong kind of rejecting grace given posture if you should fall not saying that you will because here's here's one thing i do know when you fall you will arise and god's going to take you to the next level you're not going to be being defeated by that thing all the time that's not how that's going to happen you're going to wake up one day and there are several things that used to be a part of your behavior that don't exist anymore you have to back them like whoa whoa when that when did it happen you were so busy walking in your grace-giving posture that it started transforming your behavior see what we've done as christian is when you do something bad you say i'm a bad person you immediately relate your bad behavior to your identity and then you back up on grace given identity and now you say that identity is now based on performance and now you start preaching the gospel of performance and it starts changing your grace giving identity we can't let it happen anymore i am the righteousness of god now i'm pure and i'm holy now i'm delivered from sin now and watch this and i am the tabernacle of god's presence it doesn't it doesn't abide in that box the ark don't it don't it doesn't buy there no his presence lives in you that's why you can hear him with your inner ear that's why instructions can come from inside you got an advantage over the world they depend on outside information we live by inside information now listen you got to start walking this whole you believe it if all you're gonna do is play mental and intellectual acrobats with what i'm teaching you bro gone get out of here it ain't gonna it's not designed grace is not even designed grace is a provision for the spiritual part of your life that failed in the garden of eden grace is god's provision to take care of that new creation on the inside so that it may supply from the inside out and just like food and water and sunlight was provisioned for the grass and the animals and even human beings grace is provision for the spiritual realm that's working on the inside of a man and you keep trying to do something with it these oh yeah let me finish so we've got we are reconciled we've got the presence of god we're holy we're blameless and i like what he says and we stand before him with no single fault oh my goodness think of that think of you reminding yourself while the enemy is trying to use something you did or you missed a mark and he's trying to fault you and god says i'm not blaming you because when i see you i see you with no faults so when jesus said this he said i ain't concerned about the devil why because he can't find nothing in me the reason why stuff keep happening in the lives of church folks is you keep giving him something to find in you because you won't receive you won't receive who you are and who grace gave you he find nothing in me you remember when paul paul had the mitigated the audacity to to make what i thought was an egregious remark when he said i have wrote no man i have defaulted no man and what was the other one did nothing wrong on me you know what how could he say that when there are so many scriptures about him going and and and and reaping havoc and causing people to be killed and stoning folks he's the one behind stephen stoning he had the nerf to sit up there and say i've wronged no man you have [Music] i defrauded no man see right here here go here's a record of you i'm thinking oh what was he doing paul from that point on would never measure himself by what he did in the past or whatever happened to him paul only measured himself by the grace of god and the posture that was given to him by god's grace [Applause] something's coming you do know that don't you see right now you're looking over at russia and you're looking at ukraine and you're thinking oh wow oh we over do you really believe this god you believe he's your provider you believe he's your protector you believe your psalms 91 equipped you know you're getting ready to you know you know there's a separation from the from the wheat and the tears you do understand that don't you there's that that day where we're going to find out if you're standing on wood hay or stubble or gold silver and precious stone the bible says the people that are standing on woodhead and stubble they'll be burned up and they won't lose some things but they'll still go to heaven the church playing time is over which i have no time i cannot have weak presentations when you come here to eat i got to make sure in all you're getting you get understanding because god's raising upper army right now seated in this church are soldiers that god is raising up but our battle is not against flesh and blood it is its powers and principalities and wicked spirits in heavenly places the devil is after your soul and if you don't know what i'm talking about you're not going to win we're not playing churchill we're not here to break my sermon you're not here to none of that's what you used to do you got to get you better get this i have such an urgency to preach this i can't tell you you better get this you better get it now arise shine you know what the word arise means it means oh my goodness it means to change your posture and change your position you know what happens if you don't change your posture and position to one that's grace given and grace-based isaiah begins to prophesy that darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness shall cover the people and then he talks about the transference of wealth because that the forces of the gentiles shall be moved into the hands of righteous people who know what to do with it one of the greatest moves of god you ever seen before in your life it ain't going to be straggle distracted in the fence you're either in and out and some folks don't understand that cynicism has taken over our nation we don't believe nothing we are even operating in this country by truth that's not truth but we call it truth and we've convinced the nation of a lie or lies that's not nowhere to truth and the worst part about it is christian people have bought in on it and they're preaching more politics in the pulpit and failing to train people in the gospel [Applause] well there ain't nothing wrong with politics it's not if you've been called to it that's but he put us here he let let them juggle do what they need to do and you need to do what you need to do there's a need there's a hunger there's a starvation that's going on in the body of christ christian people are starving [Applause] and yet they're satisfied with past religious untrue doctrine how we've made our mind up we've built boundaries our job is to teach the gospel as much as we can it's going to either draw or it's going to drive it is it's going to draw or it's going to drive i'm good man i'm good got time for no church game ain't got time for church game ain't got time for listen and don't calm tell me what i ought to do god already told me what to do i am not wasting i am not wasting my teaching studying time to deal with immature christians who don't want to change help me come to church well i can't come it's on it's free on the stream pull it up listen join me every day i don't know what else i can do it's time for you to grow up we've been feeding you milk for some of y'all for 30 years god knock on you 25 years old still sucking on the bottle and you know where he says the growth is authenticated in righteousness your stance in righteousness is an indication that you're no longer a babe he says because as long as you are immature in the word of righteousness you are a babe and still in need of milk man i love y'all i do i'm just trying to understand what i'm saying i'm just trying to get it in you the best i know how now i'll go and look at this teaching and probably figure out man i should have said that i wish i would have said that oh i should have said that and i try to get better and better every time i come here to do it but the only only person i know to be is me i i can't i can't i'm just i'm just i just know this is right i it took a while to get here but now that we're here man we're going we're going to function in this and remember god i think it came up in the word of prophet prophecy god's getting ready to raise up some people who are remnants to this move and i believe i may be a little president but i believe everybody in the world changes is a remnant getting ready to be used by god in a magnificent way but we gotta train in being prepared for all the tricks of the devil and one big trick is talking you out of who you are so the day you walk out of here saying emcee hammer you can't touch this i wouldn't do the thing across but i stumped my toe playing football with little children yesterday no no no no no [Music] no no no no no no you good all is well with you i said you good all is well with you you good all is well with you don't believe that devil you good all is well with you you lift your hands up you rejoice you talk to god anytime you want to don't let that devil convince you that this presence of god is not here the presence of the lord is in you he walks with you he talks with you goodness and mercy follows you all the days of your life you dwell in the house of the lord forever god hears your prayers i don't care if they three seconds or five minutes or two hours god will hear you when you pray glory be to god that word is working on your behalf no more fear in your life no more lack in your life no more sleepless nights in your life no more depression in your life no more no more bad days no more no more sad days it's all gonna be glad days because of who we are come on somebody shout amen quickly by your heads father we give you praise for the day we thank you that soldiers in this house are prepared and we are preparing and we know who we are today and we thank you for it right now let us receive this message help us to keep this message assist us in our training of this message and we give you praise ahead of time in jesus name now those of you who are here today those of you who are on that stream right now wherever you are i'm going to lead you in a prayer of salvation remember as soon as you believe things are going to happen as soon as you believe your posture is a gift that comes through god's grace for your life you're about to become pure and holy forgiving of your sins all kinds of wonderful things begin to happen in your life say this prayer with me heavenly father i realize that i'm a sinner but right now i repent of all my sins i receive the gift of forgiveness i believe in you jesus come into my heart save me so by faith i declare that i'm saved in jesus name amen now if you just prayed that prayer of salvation with me today text the key word i'm saved that's one word to 51555. provide your name and your email address and we'll send you a free ebook as a gift to you today and welcome to the kingdom of god if you are here in this domain you just prayed that prayer with me then we want to recognize you in just a moment and have you to come to the altar and minister you in some special ways as well but before we do that let's go ahead and honor god with our gifts it is a it's the last great part of our worship [Applause] amen it's to me it's the most precious part of my worship to god it's the part where i can say in honor i present this gift to you lord it's the part where i can say uh thank you and for the grace that you've shown me thank you that mercy follows me thank you for never leaving me thank you for recreating me giving me a new creation thank you for healing me lord oh my goodness thank you for delivering me thank you lord thank you for causing love to grow on the inside of me look at those things have a flashback and honor god with your gifts if you need an offering envelope i'll just have one if you'll lift your hands up they'll get one in your hands but we have got to get what the new testament say it says about the giving of gifts we've we've got to make the distinction now between old covenant giving and what does the new testament say under the grace of god what is grace based giving and what is it that we might be doing because we just probably are not giving right like i said this is a part of worship we're bringing our gifts to him worshiping him in the beauty of his holiness this is what this is and the more more you get that you're going to start encountering changes even where your finances are concerned not that you even went to god and did some little five step thing you just like i just wanted to honor god with my gift see there's some certain things that are true always and god multiplying the seeds you sow is always going to be true but how we go before god becomes so important so vital and i pray that this church will never be caught up in a spirit of mammoth now most church people don't even know what mammon is they think mammon is having money they don't have an idea what mammon is mammon is a demon spirit that tries to convince you that you don't need god you don't need to trust god because now you trust money and now that is becomes a leader in your life and people in this country are being motivated by mammon you can't trust nothing that they do in this country because you you know at the end at the very end of it it's motivation by mammon and it's like wow what is this and to be able to come and to give to god without being motivated by the demon of mammon okay this is something we got to talk about i wrote a great book on mammoth i mean it did worse than sales than anybody so i'm gonna sell it again and if they don't buy then i'm just gonna give it away and i might just start off like that just give is you interested in being free from mammoth here honey take this and read it and see what happened to you because we got to we got to know stuff we got to quit listening to this jack led gospel being preached by people and you don't even know what you don't even know if it's true or not you just repeat what you hear you and that's what we built up this repeat what you hear it's just like during the time of pandemic i'm following signs why you don't know nobody knows science spell it you're just repeating what you hear and we got to stop doing that we got to stop doing that we got to get in the word we got to know him not just know about him or not traditionally no you need to know him for yourself amen pastor you know you're going to get in trouble all this stuff you said this morning i can't tell you how much i don't care i'm dumb but i don't care oh can i read it anyway why should it bother me i don't read it and if they was making newspapers i just i just used it for you know the little hamsters and stuff just cut it up real good let the hamsters you know what do what to it yeah i don't care about all that let's go ahead and give you ready father we sow this seed out of worship and thanksgiving to you it's an honor for us to do it we're blessed to be able to do it in jesus name amen you can go ahead and receive the offering those of you who are at home and streaming in you can text world changes and the amount spacing the amount to 744-83 you can call that number on the screen 1-866-477-7683 you can also go to 2500 burdette road if you want to mail or you can go to the websites worldchanges.org or creflo.ministries.org if you use your paypal you can use it there also there is a code there we call them codes qr codes and you can um access that with your phone if you're using that as well praise the lord now a couple more things i'm gonna go ahead and give you the benediction for today um if you are here and you believe that god's calling you to join this church world changes church international then i want to open the altar up for those of you who'd like to do that you believe this is where god wants you you believe that this is uh a church for you and your family i mean we're not for everybody but if you believe that you found your church we want to give you that opportunity to respond today so if that's you you can go ahead get your bibles and personal belongings you can make your way down also those of you who prayed the prayer of salvation and you got saved if you'll do the same thing and make your way down at this time as i talk to those who are members of our e-church you can come and to all of you who are interested in e-church membership if you want to join you can go to the website you can go to worldchanges.org and you can click join at the top of the page text join wcc i all one word to 5155 and we will send you all of the benefits of e membership god bless you and welcome to world changers e church in jesus name amen praise the lord [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh man [Music] okay where he's gone god bless y'all it is an honor for taff and i to get to teach you the word of god to get to lead you in the things of god and to get to pastor you i don't know what another pastor feels like but we want to pastor you and we thank god for the privilege and the opportunity to do so so at this time we welcome you and we pray that god's richest and best will continue to be yours as you seek him first if you would turn this way and follow this gentleman to the prayer room they're going to take you and minister to you get some information from you and be a blessing to you today in jesus name [Music] okay come on church let's stand on up for the benediction [Music] um just a little word easter is coming up right around the corner and we really want to bring attention to jesus so we're going to start upping our celebration every year we'll we'll add on a little bit more and more as we go uh but our easter celebration will kick off with a good friday night of worship friday april the 15th at 6 p.m good friday activities will begin at 6 p.m with an outdoor water baptism experience for adults teens children and families so if you hadn't been baptized over the last couple years because of the pandemic we're going to open up baptism in three locations and we're going to be baptizing people inside outside and just turning into a celebration followed by a night of worship so you know you can bring a lawn chair a blanket enjoy the music uh we'll comply with public health guidance and the fact that at the time of the night of worship we eventually want this to turn into a easter festival and uh we just we want to bring attention and we want to have a march down old national eventually we want to they shut things down for everything but jesus amen and so we want to be able to do something like that so keep that in mind go ahead and put it on your calendar all right repeat that well i'll say this over you now this is the blessing uh i'm declaring this right out of god's word over your life i don't know what the enemy might try to strategize against you with but you want to walk out of here knowing you received the final blessings now may the god of peace who brought up brought us up from the up from the dead our lord jesus christ the great shepherd of the sheep and he and ratified an eternal covenant with his blood may he equip you with all you need for doing his will may he produce in you through the power of jesus christ every good thing that is pleasing to him all glory to him forever and forever and may the lord bless you may the lord protect you may the lord smile on you and be gracious to you may the lord show you his favor and may the lord give you his peace and now i plead the blood of jesus over your life and i declare that all is well with you and your house now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the almighty god be glory majesty dominion and power both now and forever and everybody said amen god bless you everybody

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Published: Sun Mar 06 2022