Guest Speaker: Keith Moore | September 16, 2020

[Music] [Music] [Music] praise the lord hallelujah thank you lord praise be to god praise be to god you happy to be in church tonight oh god is so good to us there'll never be another service exactly like this one and especially you know being shut down a while back we we can appreciate even more what a privilege it is what an opportunity is be able to come together like this and i know we've got folks joining us by internet as well and the spirit of god is everywhere if the thing is though when you're watching online you have to make an extra effort not to be distracted it's actually challenging in that area let me just say this multitasking is a myth it is you can't do two things at once you can only go back and forth between them quickly and when you go to one you're missing something on the other so please uh be in church at your house turn off all the other stuff quit your house cleaning quit cooking quit doing all that kind of stuff or you will miss a lot of good things that you could very well need so let's agree together for exactly what the lord wants us to have tonight how many believe you can hear not just from me but you can hear from him you can hear from the lord and hearing from him is life changing his words are spirit and they are life hallelujah well i wanted to sing another song to you tonight is that okay or or you want me to skip that after last night did you uh this is another one the lord gave me uh decades ago and the title of it is simply i trust you i trust you and i mentioned to you a little bit last night actually our testimony of how the lord got us from where we were in the country in mississippi out to broken air oklahoma for rhema and then beyond that other places and things but our first month a few months we were there in oklahoma we were believing god for every tank of gas every meal and there came a time when the days were just upon us to pay for the next [Music] semester of school and we didn't have it and it looked like we were just gonna have to uh you know stop going in the middle of the year and uh i had done everything i knew to do phyllis had two and um i sat down on the couch the little uh couch that came with the house the apartment and it was all pretty sad but i i sat down there with my guitar and i just began nobody there but me at that moment i just began to sing out to the lord i trust you i trust you on this i i don't have to see where everything could come from i don't have to know how it can happen i trust you i'm i i couldn't see anything else i could do and the lord gave me that song during that time he did come through for us hallelujah the money came from unexpected channels and then the money came months later for the next time and then for the next time and months turned into years and years turned into decades and he is the faithful god how many can say he's the faithful god if you'll follow him and trust him he will supply all your needs and even give you a lot of nice things to enjoy on top of that so uh as i sing this please join with me let that be your confession too that you trust him faith is a choice if anybody ever says i'm sorry i just can't believe that they're wrong they could believe it if they chose to by nature of what faith is there's no such thing as a person who can't believe the better way to say it is i choose not to but no matter what you see or don't see you can trust in the character of your father because you know he loves you you can always trust in him go ahead guys oh thank you lord i bless you i praise you oh i trust you i trust you i trust you lord i do because i know you love me i will always trust in you [Music] sing it to the lord i trust you i trust you i trust you lord i do i never even worry that i might not make it through cause i trust you i trust you i trust you lord i do because i know you love me i will always trust in you [Music] i don't need to understand all about the workings of your class i don't have to always see everything that lies ahead of me but as long as i can know i'm in the power of your hand i can't believe you are gonna make me stand say i trust you i trust you i trust you lord i do but never even worry that i might not make it through cause i trust you i trust you i trust you lord i do because i know you love me i will always trust in you [Music] oh yes i do i don't need to understand all about the workings of your plan i don't have to always see everything that lies ahead of me but as long as i can know i'm in the power of your hand i can't believe you are gonna make me stand [Music] just tell him you trust him you're gonna make it through and trust your lord everything in my life i trust you [Music] yes i do [Music] oh i trust you i trust you i trust you lord i do i never even worry that i might not make it through cause i trust you oh i trust you i trust you lord i do because i know you love me because i know you care for me because i know you love me i will trust i will always trust [Music] always oh i trust you [Music] oh praise god thank you lord do you trust him saints it's the most personal thing there is it's between you and god your heart and him i'm trusting him for everything i'm trusting him for my salvation i'm trusting him that i'm going to heaven when i die is that right i'm trusting him that my sins are forgiven and i'm washed clean by his blood i'm trusting him to protect me down here in this dangerous world until i run my race and finish my course and get out here i'm trusting him to provide for me and enable me to pay every bill and meet every need or you trust in him saints every day every hour what to do where to go it's a continual thing between you and him said another time lord i trust you i trust you thank you lord would you turn again to isaiah we looked at this last night if you weren't with us we'll review just a little bit but we looked at isaiah 1 and 19 and 20. i want us to look at it again and continue on you know expectation is tied to faith and jesus said according to your faith be it unto you and you could say that as well according to your expectation if you don't expect much well then it'll be according to what you expected but you can stir yourself up and expect more do we have a big god does it have a lot of big things and good things for us but we need to stir ourselves up to think bigger expect bigger expect more and the enemies you know is always trying to lie and confuse things so well no you just that's being greedy that's being greedy you need to be happy with what you have well your overflow is your ministry nobody said you had to keep everything right but the more you have uh and the more ability you have the more you're able to do for others and help others and minister to others so you need way more than enough for you to minister effectively to others is it true so we've got to be ex we've got to get to expecting more than just enough for us expecting some excess some extra some land yap close to louisiana right huh anybody know what land yap is you don't know what lan yap is oh that's cajun thing that's extra you know if you if they put some fail and you play it and you say give me some land yap that means another dip another scoop land yet laniap's extra what it covers a lot of things uh thanks be unto god isaiah 1 19 did you find it he said the lord said if if you be willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the land now this is not an isolated verse the bible said in the mouth of two or three witnesses you can easily find multiple verses that say the same thing we'll give you another one here in just a moment but a number of folks hear this and they get excited about eating the good of the land and you should but you don't want to rush past that first part it starts with an if so enjoying the good of the land is not automatic it's conditional other translations say it like this the niv says if you're willing and obedient you'll eat the best from the land the bbe says if you give ear to my word and do it the good things of the land will be yours the good things of the land now we mentioned last night sometimes people think well yeah but that was an agrarian society he just talked about the crops and well he's talking about more than that he's talking about uh their clothes and their houses and buildings and all came from you know leather and wood and all well still today where does an automobile come from it comes out of the ground it does the steel where's the steel come from comes out of the ground all the plastic and and rubber stuff it's made out of oil products comes out of the ground i mean the leather on the seats comes from the cow that came from the grass it came out of the ground still does and so he says tomorrow the good things uh that have have been and can be produced out of the earth the lord wants his people to enjoy but it's connected to us being willing and obedient to him because uh uh there is this constant thing of being covetous over things and the bible said covetousness is idolatry it's a fact that things can mean too much to you and money can mean too much to you a house can mean too much to you a car can mean too much to you clothes jewelry you can think too much about it and focus too much on it and if something means too much to you you'll go too far to get it do you know what i mean by that you'll compromise uh people are willing to lie they're willing to steal they're willing to hurt other people and the bible said the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil it did not say money was the root of evil people misquote that all the time what did it say the love somebody said well the same thing no not at all there's a lot of people love money and have none huh they got no money and they dream about it and fantasize about it they love money and are willing to be you know do criminal things to get it well if you could love money without having any why couldn't you have some without loving it you can the money's not the problem the cars the houses the jewelry the clothes that's not the issue actually the lord wants you to enjoy these things he made the earth he made all the good things he gave all the good knowledge to make all these things are you kidding human beings would have never figured out these things never on their own god has revealed things and revealed things over the the centuries and people have learned how to do things and he did not give this just for people who blaspheme him to enjoy but the issue is is he number one didn't he say seek ye first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and the lord said all these things and he was talking about food and clothing and all those kind of things he said would be added to you but the difference is you're not chasing the things you're pursuing him and then he'll make the things chase you now the unbelieving world is chasing the things they're chasing the money they're chasing the material success but a child of god that loves god and has put god first they're not chasing the things they're chasing the will of god the plan of god they're pursuing that and the lord said if you'll do that i will cause the things to come to you they will be added to you do you believe that child of god in the job it says it like this job 36 11 it says if they obey and serve him talking about god they'll spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures didn't say you wouldn't have any challenges but you will get to enjoy uh the bible said he gives us richly uh every all kind of good things to enjoy it's the enemy who has lied to the church because he knows uh things are so important money's so important to people that if they think they they can't have any material things to serve god they won't serve god you know i i've had uh people who were who were called had a call on their life to be a minister sit across the desk from me and weep and they had a call they knew it their father was a pastor and they looked at me and they said my dad is broke all his life never had anything and i i just refuse to live that way i don't want to live that way i want to have some things i want to do some things and he thought he couldn't do that and serve god so he refused to obey the call he refused to pursue ministry and last i heard he was still trying to get rich through any means you know necessary but that's not true i mean if it means so much to you that you're willing to do that then you're disqualified from it because even if you thought you couldn't have you still or to be willing to serve god right but the truth is the lord is a father is he go with me to matthew 7 please any parents in here i'll raise your hand i want to see parents parents parents how many of you it blesses you it you enjoy seeing your children do without huh and you don't want them to have uh you know uh nice things as they grow up in material you don't want them to get a good house you don't want them to get a nice car you don't want to see them prosper materially and financially well why would we think that our father god's that way if he's that way that he it displeases him when you have anything material and financially that's very nice or valuable then he is out of keeping with all natural father and motherhood that we know anything about it's simply not true all natural good fatherhood and motherhood comes from him that's where you get it and caring about your children wanting to see them do well wanting them to succeed wanting them to enjoy things that's from him and he wants you to enjoy things but he doesn't want anything to be more important to you than him that's the issue not the money the love of it i know we taught a series a while back it's been a few years now on god being the god of more than enough yes is he yes will he run your cup over yes there's so much in the scripture about this we got to talking about how that god gave abraham too many cows too many sheep too many goats right do you remember that he gave him and lot so much livestock the land couldn't contain them well didn't god know how much livestock the land could hold he still gave him too much and you remember when they when they caught that supernatural catch of fish they caught so many fish the net broke and the ships was seeking you remember that that's too many fish wouldn't god know the the tensile strength of the net huh the the the gross weight that the boat could handle uh couldn't god give them exactly the amount to fill it but not overfill it but he didn't do that he gave them too many too many fish huh the lord is my good shepherd my cup is exactly full wouldn't god know to the molecule how much was completely full but no more and and he said if you give jesus said if you give it'll come back to you good measure press down shaken together completely full running over this is the nature of our father this we need to get to know him who he is he'll pour into your cup and it'll fill up and it'll come over the side and you go uh it's full it's full he says i know and it's running off the table into the floor you say lord lord it's a running over he says i know it isn't it great isn't it great we need to not fight his nature we need to not let people who are religiously confused talk us out of his abundance after i taught on this there was a a mother said she came on her little child just a few years old and he was sitting in the floor pushing around a toy and saying something she said she kept hearing himself phrase over and over over and over she thought what is he saying so she kind of came up behind him and he was pushing his car and saying too much milk and too many toys too too much nobody had to convince him of it little one's spirit is alive unto god you don't have to convince them that god wants them to have too much milk and too many toys and too many cookies they will agree with you instantly you have to be taught something else from this unbelieving world do you believe that your good father wants you to have way more than just enough is he the god of abundance jesus said the thief comes to steal kill and destroy but i am come that you might have life the amplified says that you might have life to the full until it overflows that's what about actually the greek word this translated abundance it means more than more than enough we're definitely talking about surplus here we're talking about running over and you'll see this in matthew 7 did you find it matthew 7 and 7 jesus said ask so is it okay to ask for some things ask it'll be given to you seek and you shall find knock it'll be open to you for every one that asks receives he that seeks finds and to him that knocks it will be opened or what man is there of you whom if his son asks bread will he give him a stone now when you read this almost everybody has no problem they agree with this and yet they'll turn right around and preachers will say that you may ask god for something good and he may say no in my wisdom i know best for you there's going to be something bad it's going to be bad it's going to be hard as a stone but that's my choice for you that's not true he goes on to say if he ask a fish will he give him a serpent a snake something that would hurt him something that would kill him now almost everybody would read that and go no no that's right that's right and yet christians everywhere are believing that god is sending them bad things giving them hard things and bad things when they're asking for good things that's not what jesus taught he went on to say if you then be an evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him he's telling us don't you believe that religious junk god is not different than the fatherhood good fatherhood we know on the earth he's the same way he wants his children to be well off he wants you to prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers is that right he wants you to do well he not only want you to do well and have everything you need he wants you to overflow with abundance so you can have to do for others more and more now the reason i'm saying this and waving my hands most churchgoing people don't believe this they just don't they believe something else they believe religious ideas that people have come up with but you and i can make our choice that we are not going to let the devil rob us we are not going to just uh exist we're not just going to survive we and i'm telling you in dark times like you know the the covet and the economic woes that have been going on these times like this is when god shines for people that believe him he will show up and show out i'm telling you he will do some things why because it shows up so much when other things are just crumbling and going down he wants people to see there's hope you can if you'll come to me i'll take care of you and we need to be evidence of that in our lives watch about making excuses and accepting excuses why you can't have something why you can't get something or why you can't get it now or not this year no i don't even think about it this year well why because you think your job is your source or you think the company is your source or you think whoever's in office is your source or the government is your source our mom and dad is your source as long as you believe that you will be limited but there is a source who is the only true source can you say amen and he is unlimited unlimited and he will supply all your needs not according to anything down here but according to his riches in glory by christ jesus he knows how to do it i know uh phyllis and in the early days of our ministry we were believing for some things and man it looked like it was just it wasn't happening and the the day came and went where we thought we needed it and i came in from school to fill us in from work and she asked me about it you know because we joined hands prayed a prayer of agreement and claimed at least that much money we had to have it we thought and so she said what do you think's going on and i said i don't know i don't know everything obviously i said i know this god uses people do you remember the bible said give it will be given to you good measure pressed down shaken together running over shall men given to your bosom so the money and the stuff you need that kind of thing it's down here and it's in the hands of men and women and the way that that god gets it to you is you believe him you claim it you lay hold of it you sow seed for it and he deals with people to give you favor deals opportunities contracts money things didn't he say men were given to your bosom you you need to believe in fact you you're to say it out loud right now some people may have never said this are you a giver any givers in here i want to see it you you have given you are a giver then that verse applies to you say it out loud i'm a giver and according to jesus because i am people are all the time giving to me a lot of christians instead of saying that you know what they say nobody ever gives me anything i work hard for everything i get you are disagreeing with the head of the church your words are stout against him and against yourself never say nobody ever gives me anything and some people you know are all mixed up in their prayer oh i i work for everything i get i don't want any handouts and and you've got bigger problems than that you need to repent for that ugly pride you wouldn't have anything except god gave it to you i worked hard for what i got are you listening to me what makes your heart beat silly whose air are you breathing whose gravity is holding your feet to the ground you wouldn't have strength to get up and work you wouldn't have a job to go to unless god was sustaining you by the spirit of life every millisecond no give glory to god acknowledge your source and your help and understand this is one of the ways he wants us to all value and appreciate each other and so he'll do things in ways you wouldn't pick and he'll use people you wouldn't pick and he does it on purpose he wants you to humble yourself and receive amen yes and he wants them to reap a harvest off of sowing into you and he wants to do the same thing with you sowing into somebody else but if you do that men are going to give them to your bosom and so we phyllis and i are talking about that and i said i don't know everything that goes on in this obviously but i know this when it comes to money and the things people are involved and anytime you got people involved you got potential problems because people don't have to obey and sometimes god deals with people who do things and they procrastinate and sometimes they procrastinate more and sometimes people never do it they never obey i said but god is faithful and we're counting on him and if he has to deal with somebody else he will do it and i mentioned a a man that we had we didn't know personally but a man that a minister we respected i said i said do you believe he could hear from god yeah yeah i said if god has to use him to bring it to us he will a week later that man found me and put money in my hand my mouth was open and when the man walked away the lord was saying what you said about me is true i will do whatever needs to be done i will use whoever i need to use if you trust me can you say thank you lord. that's not our job who he uses we don't even think about that but we do need to hold on to him and keep expecting and not give up and not quit and through faith and perseverance we'll inherit hallelujah and if we don't give up we shall reap the scripture said if we don't faint we shall reap somebody say i'm not going to faint not going to give up not going to quit and i shall reap i shall reap you need to be as good a reaper as you are sower it's not just all up to god you need to use your faith to reap just like you use your faith to sow in uh none of that was in my notes which is okay too uh go with me please i know you're there in matthew now but go over to philippians the second chapter philippians chapter 2 thank you father you believing with me tonight four people are the bible said this about jesus in philippians 2 it talks about how he got the name that is above every name how the highest place of authority in the universe has been bestowed on him and in philippians 2 7 was 6 2 6. it says who being in the form of god he thought it not robbery to be or some translation say being equal with god but made himself of no reputation took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient said out loud he humbled himself and became obedient and it said even unto death even the death of the cross wherefore now wherefore connects the previous statement to this one in other words because he did that god also has highly exalted him and given him a name that is above every name that at the name of jesus every knee should bow things in heaven things in earth things under the earth and that every knee should confess that jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father now i believe the spirit of god is saying in these these couple of days that we've been with you this truth that you see in isaiah 1 19 that if you are willing and will obey the lord you will experience good things that not everybody does because it qualifies you to do so it qualifies and it it allows the lord to do for you what he doesn't do for everybody else you might say what do you mean allows the lord any god he does whatever he wants to well he doesn't violate his own word he doesn't contradict himself and he can't lie and if he says this is the way things will happen then he's not going to do things any other way than that and also the bible said he is known and this is throughout the universe for his righteous judgments he is perfectly fair he has never nor will he ever do anything that is not right and just and fair boy it is it is absolute blasphemy to shake a fist at god and say that's not fair it's not fair implying he's not fair p you know if people weren't such babies that it'd be more serious a lot of times folks don't half know what they're saying but that is maligning god's intrinsic character who he is and what he is the bible tells us in romans that there will come a time you know and people are doing it now when he is judged you think what what and that it will be shown that he is true and every man a liar that ever accused him of being unfair or untrue why because things will come out and everybody will see it and they'll go uh uh god was fair he was good he was more merciful than you would have asked him to he gave you every opportunity can you see this although there are people blaspheming and railing they're doing it and they'll continue to do it it will be shown and seen in time to come that they're the liar that god was good he was fair he was righteous and for god to bless you and use you and do things to you and for you and with you good things that most of the billions of the planet did not get to experience he's got to be fair in why he did it can you hear this child of god he's got to he's got to be justified in doing it for you and he didn't do it for millions of other people and the thing that gives him the right to do it is that you obeyed him when they wouldn't and you obeyed him further than they were willing to go can you see this now this is not you know sometimes people hollow well what about what about grace brother can you what about grace i hadn't forgot about grace we're not talking about you being saved or lost your righteousness is not based on any of your performance no your righteousness and your you're being saved is not based on your works but your reward is it is based on what you do we won't all be rewarded the same thing not in this life and not in the next and if you doubt that you just haven't read your scriptures closely enough but if you would like to see more miracles if you'd like to see and experience more of the reality of god we're talking about it right now here is how here is how uh are you all okay go with me to uh to luke the 6th chapter and 46. before we get too far into this let's answer why some people make it through the storms of life and some don't luke chapter 6. and 40 6. jesus said why do you call me lord lord and do not or you don't do the things which i say if we don't do what he tells us to do he's not our lord maybe he's our savior but not our lord many people they've received jesus as savior but the truth is they are their own lord they run their life he said why do you call me lord but you don't do what i i tell you to he said whoever comes to me and hears my sayings and what and what does them i'll show you to whom he's like he's like a man which built a house and dig deep and laid the foundation on a rock and when the flood arose and the stream beat vehemently upon that house it could not shake it for it was founded upon a rock let's just stop right here many christians if you ask them in this story what's the rock they'll say jesus and that's not accurate y'all listening what puts you on the rock not not even just believing in jesus what puts you on the rock you did what he told you to do that's what puts you on the rock is everybody listening you see how subtle religious error is the enemy's always trying to shade and twist things so that you can shout about it but you do nothing you know you can read books you can have conferences you can take notes but when the service is over that's the end of it until the next meeting or the next service but everything we hear from him requires a response right everything we see that he tells us we're actually supposed to he expects us to do it do it act on it make a change in your life he goes on to say he that hears and what verse 49 does it not he's like a man that without a foundation built a house upon the earth against which the stream did beat vehement vehemently and immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great didn't say the man didn't believe in jesus or the woman wasn't a christian come on can you see this people well that's just for unbelievers it did not say that what puts you on the rock doing somebody say doing doing doing what he said that's what puts you on the rock what left you on the sand you heard it but you didn't do it you heard it but you didn't do it knowing isn't doing intending isn't obeying is it it's something you got to watch out for yeah i know that i know that yeah but have you done it the lord has dealt with us you know we're like your pastors and you've got some great pastors here i guess you know that right thank god for them they are gifts from god to you that is no exaggeration they are gifts from god to you phyllis and i we we're uh head pastors over two churches too and um something the lord has dealt with us some years ago that he reminds us to from time to time when people get into difficulties and they have issues in life and they're part of the church we're endeavoring to help them the lord has dealt with us don't just tell them something seek me get from me first and so a lot of times we won't meet with people immediately even though they may feel like they're in a big crisis why because they don't need to hear from me are y'all with me friends or if we if we do we'll tell them you know we're believing we we're praying but you know until we get something from him we don't want to sit down and talk for an hour about how bad it is that helps nobody now people want you to do that but it's a mistake and the lord is faithful again and again people that have been really hooked and people that have you know done what they need to do the lord will give leaders answers for them he'll do it but when he does if you know they still are dealing with this problem sometime later and want to talk again the lord dealt with us the first thing you ask them have you done what the lord gave us to tell you to do have you done it and again and again they have not and if they have not there doesn't need to be any more counseling or any more talking you all understand now a lot of folks don't like it like this they want somebody that'll you know cry with them and baby with them and you know pretend nobody knows what's wrong for years but if you do that it will wear you down and you won't be in a decent shape to minister to other people yourself and it also is misrepresenting the lord when he tells you something to do though you may ignore it for 20 years he will never change amen and when you if you'll come back to him and say please god what to do you know what he'll say what i told you 20 years ago what are you going to do when are you going to do something with that what are you going to do about that we need to hold ourselves honestly against the light of his revealed word and will and not pretend like we don't know because it does you know good to talk and talk and talk and no change and no results or to keep praying about something you already know the answer to there's too much playing church and it can be avoided if we'll be honest about what we know to do how many believe what jesus said if you will pay attention to what he tells you to do and then you will immediately put it into practice and do it no matter how bad the storm is huh no matter how hard the wind blows and how high the water gets will you will your house stand he said it would he said it would and what if it's you're a child of god but it just gets washed away whatever the problem is well you didn't do what he told you to do because it's his will to sustain us all all the time all of us have come short in these areas but let's quit playing around and procrastinating and when we know what to do hmm go to the book of john are y'all okay john 2 there are answers here child of god their answers do you remember the first miracle that happened in jesus ministry when he was on earth here what was it it was the turning of water into one it's recorded right here in john 2 do you remember how it happened john 2 jesus and his mother and the disciples were at this marriage feast they ran out of wine jesus verse 3 chapter 2 verse 3 turn his mother turned to him and said they have no wine they have run out of wine and jesus said woman now this was a respectful term it was the king j between the english and the king james it doesn't sound right to us woman but if you look at the original language it's respectful term what have i to do with you now that sounds this whole phrase it's um it's a translation deal one literal translation says you can sit like this what what to me and to you is a literal translation what to me and to you what does that mean we might say like this what is that to us their party supplies what is that to us you might they will does that sound like jesus if you know him well enough it does and there's a real revelation here there's a lot of stuff in life and with other people that's none of your business there's a lot of stuff you do not need to be sticking your nose in you do not need to be trying to change you don't need to try to you don't need to be trying to use your faith to believe for it a lot of times they never asked you i had to learn this in the early days of of my ministry when i first began in the ministry i thought through hearing other preachers talk that i'm a servant of the people and basically i should endeavor to do what anybody would ask me to do if they want a counsel then i counsel if they want me to visit then i visit and man i just about you know made myself sick going and doing and one day i was at the hospital to visit somebody because somebody asked me to and i walked up to the door and stuck my head around said hi they said who are you i said i'm i'm keith moore i'm such and such i don't believe in that junk uh and i thought well you know your sister asked me i don't care what she said blankety blank get get the black out of here okay and as i'm walking down the hall the lord brought to my remembrance is there any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church then let them pray he said they didn't call you they don't believe in this didn't give you any opportunity or any access a lot of things even though we might care it might touch us a lot of things are just nothing to us unless the lord says something to us about it specifically and if p people have to give you access and a right to believe and pray for them concerning some things or that's why you're just you know you're posing something god it doesn't override people's will and you can't and if you keep trying to you're just going to frustrate yourself and wear yourself out and this can be heartbreaking i know because you you want to see things happen for people and maybe you know what they need but they're not open you're getting a taste of what the father is dealing with in the whole earth he cares about people he wants to help them but if they don't want him he's not going to make them receive anything and so the lord looked at her and said what what's that to us but by the spirit of god she wisely turned to to the the servants verse 5. now this this is not the disciples this is the people who were serving at the party she turns to them she says come here come here yes ma'am sorry we're out of wine i know i know whatever he tells you to do do it why is this in the bible child of god is this truly a big key to miracles huh how do you get a miracle how did the first miracle this is significant the first miracle in the ministry of jesus how did it happen the stage was set when she turned and primed them to do what obey is that right she primed them she'd been around and heard enough to see and know a few things and she primed them get ready and whatever no matter you know i'm i'm filling in now but no matter how strange it may sound no matter what may what you may say just whatever he says to you do it do it and uh obviously the father said something to him because then he gave them the instructions about filling the water pots and then bringing and serving them in the party and in the transition miracle happened the water was turned into wine glory to god but it wasn't all up to god there was a human involvement god wants us involved in things he wants us involved in our miracle the one we need he wants us involved and you know for him to do some spectacular thing for us that he didn't do for other millions of people on the planet how's he fair in doing that what would give him the right to do that and not do it for everybody it would be because different from most of the people on the planet you you paid attention to listen to him you asked him what you should do you sought his counsel and his will and different from most of people on the planet when you heard from him you just did it huh prayed about it huh you what you counseled about it huh you studied about it there are so many substitutes for obedience because it takes faith to obey do you remember there's a famous phrase and you can go back there and look at it if you want to i'll read it to you either way but what happened with saul back years ago first samuel 15. do you got do you have a few more minutes tonight well if you've had enough we can stop right here i mean if you say no i'm done i'm done i mean we don't do this all the time so right you came out you combed your hair and everything you might as well just get the whole thing just load up is that right load up load up why would the lord have us minister on this what's going on does he want you to see more have more experience more do more right then you need to get primed huh just like his mother i'm here tonight waving my hands going whatever he says to you huh get ready get ready he's going to show you some things he's going to tell you some things and whatever he says to you do it do it do it do it not talk about it not pray about it not study about it not counsel about it do do not not tweet about it post about it no see there are these myriad of substitutes for obedience so that you can feel like you're doing something without actually doing what he told you to do and that's what happened with saul and that's where this phrase came from that most christians or many christians are familiar with the lord told saul to go on a mission and defend and defeat an army and told him exactly how to do it and very detailed instructions and he didn't do it he spared the livestock and and the king when the lord told him to to get rid of all of it and then when samuel came to meet him saul leads with saying i've done it i've done it i have done the commandment of the lord and samuel said what's these cows i hear and i hear sheep and i hear i hear goats and what's these things i keep hearing and he said well i i did it first samuel 15 20. he said i i've obeyed the voice of the lord and i've gone the way the lord sent me but i brought a gag you know i saved him and the people took the spoil and the sheep and the oxen and the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed but they did it to sacrifice to the lord did he do what the lord told him to do why he had a better idea this is a lot of good livestock here and we we will sacrifice it to the lord who big offering and that's when the lord said through samuel in in first samuel 15 22 has the lord is great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken or pay attention listen and do than the fat of rams he goes on to say other things but why is this such a deal there are so many people the lord asked them for their time and they give money because they don't have time he asked him to do this and they do something else as an act that i'm doing something for god but that's not what he asked you to do you know what he told you to do and people are willing to make extreme acts and indications that they're doing something for god and all the time they know that's not what he asked for that's not what he said he's a very exacting god very precise right and never will you and i have a better idea than him never will our modification of his instructions be an improvement never the lord said to me some years ago and i want to share with you briefly it's a whole conference but that many people think diligence is faithfulness the scripture says in corinthians it's it's important that a steward be found faithful and one translation says instead of faithful it says that a servant does exactly what their master tells them to do jesus did this have you read matthew mark look at john he said i come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me he said i do always those things that please him in the moment of trial in the garden what was the prayer he kept repeating not my will but your will be to complete submission complete and total obedience every day every night there's not a better example to follow would you agree this is jesus but the enemy is the opposite he is the rebel he is the rebellious defiant you tell him to go up he's going to go down you tell him to go left he's going to go right you tell him do it he's not going to do it you tell him don't do it he's going to do it but you see him influencing people right and left when god delivered his people out of egyptian bondage you see this very thing he he gave them opportunities to trust him remember when when the manna fell from the sky what did he say he said don't save it so what'd they do they saved it then on the sabbath day he said now you go out and pick it up but on the sabbath day don't go out and get it what'd they do then went out and got it i mean time after time he told them go up and possess the promised land but no they went back to their tents and they cried and said the the giants are too big we can't do it and then he said all right we'll go back into the wilderness they said no now we're going now you're laughing but is humanity that different today why because the bible said in ephesians that the spirit of the of disobedience is over the whole earth it's lying in darkness first john says and you i mean you have to look far is defiance everywhere you look attitude everywhere you look huh it starts young little ones little ones that barely know anything and you don't do what they want to do and they go no no it's bad stuff it's bad stuff and if you don't learn how to resist that it will ruin your life he said to obey is better than to substitute something else people think faithfulness is diligence people think well you know getting up early being willing to stay late working hard doing the very best you know how to do it that's being faithful it is not it is not it's being diligent being faithful is you do exactly what you were told exactly the way you were told to do it now with me friend and will you encounter some opposition when you get down to that because people are always having a better idea yeah i know they said that but you know i've been doing this for 30 years and i know what i'm doing and so this will be all right that's unfaithful god doesn't need people to do some big thing to impress him he needs people that will listen to him and do it exactly the way he says exactly the way and the time and the place say what he said the way he said it and then be quiet do what he said do you see jesus like on those five porches of sick folks he walked out there he ministered healing to one man and then left well did god care about the rest of those folks absolutely why did he do that he said i only do what i hear my father say i only say that only do what i see him do exacting obedience and he was he was obedient all the way to the death of the cross should we follow his great example huh faithful faithful whatever he says to you do it don't add to it don't take from it don't change it don't come up with a better idea hmm what what do it do it do it that's how you get miracles i mean when peter needed tax money huh of all the thousands of things you could have done what did the lord say go go go drop a line first fish you catch check him check his mouth god wants us to have miracles like this he wants us to experience amazing things that nobody could have foretold and it'll only come about when we take those steps and you get up and he deals with you call them uh go go here do this and you don't know why but you take that step and when you get there you find out something else and then it leads you to something else at least so and then a miracle happens and you can't take credit for it because you didn't even know what's going to happen sure didn't know it's going to happen that way but it's a sign it's a witness and how did it happen someone said well faith yeah but faith acts faith follows somebody say i believe it thank you lord thank you lord go to john chapter 14. and i won't hold you too much longer i don't think no guarantees i mean we want to be led right what you want me to do what if whatever he says right that's what we want to do you me all of us every time uh john 14. and 15. this is such a powerful passage of scripture like all the word but it's so so many answers are here what all real christians are hungry for is an experience in the reality of god not theory experience and it's a fact that millions of people living down the earth and never god is never real to them they don't experience him for all all the evidence they think they have there is no god and they don't realize it's their fault they're not experiencing god not god's choice for them jesus right before he left the earth he reveals this in john 14 15 he said i'm reading the amplified he said if you love me you will keep or obey my commands what i direct you to do it's easy to say i love the lord but according to jesus the thing that shows whether you do or you don't is if you do what he tells you to now a lot of folks don't like that they think well no you know me i don't do what he says but you know he knows he knows my heart yeah he does people say that like it's an automatic proof that their heart is perfect and clear he does know your heart and intention is not the same as doing it takes faith to do it takes trust to do and he said he said in verse 21 still in the amplified 14 21 the person who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me and whoever loves me will be loved by my father and i will love him and show myself to him do what do what show myself to him the amplified goes you know amplifies it says i will let myself be clearly seen by him and make myself real to him who is god going to be real to and more real to not people that don't even believe in him and not people that don't care enough about him to do what he tells them to do who is going to who's going to have manifestations of the real presence of god in their life who's going to experience not just talk about experience god people that really love him who are those people not everybody that says lord lord we just got through reading that right not everybody that says oh i love the lord i love the lord i love the lord with all my heart all of my heart he knows i do he knows i do and then he tells you to do something ah well you know it's just so hard and and you don't love him like you think you do it's talk these are not my words these are his words right who loves him according to him those who do what he tells them to do that is the proof that they love him and he goes on to say judas this puzzled him he said lord how are you going to do that that you're going to reveal yourself to us but not to people around us not to the world around us how is it that we're going to experience your love and your presence and your reality and people around us won't and he basically told him the same thing verse 23 jesus said if a person loves me he'll do what he will keep my word this is the amplified he'll do what i tell him and my father will love him he just got through saying this and we will come to him and make our home our abode with him and anyone who does not love me does not observe and obey my teaching and the teaching or words which you hear in heat it's not mine it comes from the father who sent me oh friend hear the word of the lord so many pine to experience more of god and he didn't say the one that prays long enough or fasts long enough our studies long enough these are efforts of people to make extreme sacrifice rather than obey all of us have made mistakes in these areas sometimes just out of ignorance but he didn't say those who pray the most i'll manifest myself to or those that can quote the most scripture or those that fast the most are those that give the most to the poor are y'all listening amen do we need to stay with what jesus said what causes the difference between a person to whom god is not real at all they never sense his presence there's no reality of god to them in their life and the person who god is so real to them he's more real to them than human people that they're around and in the morning when they open their eyes and they say morning lord and he says morning child and it's real to them and they sense his power and they're filled with his spirit and they experience miracles in their life tell me the difference one thing one did what he said and he he showed up and revealed himself the others for whatever reason they put it off they waited procrastinated months turned into years forgot about it and their life is dull and empty and fleshy they believe in god but it just seems like there should be more that's because there is we all are intimately aware of this already we know it experientially what do you mean when a lost person hears the gospel was this you one day was this me one day a lost person heard the gospel saw your lost condition realized your need for jesus realized that what he had done for you and the spirit of god told you to do something is that right what did he tell you to do respond is that right receive jesus confess him as lord you could do it at home you could get up and walk the aisle in the service there are different ways you could do it but he prompted you to do something is that right and there any other people that were unsaved in that same situation he was dealing with them too you can count on it and when you responded and you acted on that you you prayed the prayer you lifted your hand you walked the eye whatever you did when you did that did jesus manifest himself to you oh you know he did did he make himself real to you did you experience him and the love of god shed abroad in your heart oh hallelujah that's how this whole thing got started it wasn't supposed to stop there it's the beginning of a life of faith the just shall live by faith the just shall walk by faith and faith is dead unless there's an action the bible uses a term in the new testament more than once the obedience of faith we're not supposed to then just hold on till we die and go to heaven and look back longingly at that salvation experience that we had or same thing happen to many times when people receive the holy spirit or and you'll look at every time whether it was a healing or some kind of manifestation it's because god dealt with you to do something and you did it you acted on it and when you did the power of god manifested he revealed himself he made himself real and there were other people who heard what you heard and god dealt with him to move too and they didn't so what didn't happen for them they didn't experience what you experienced they didn't experience the real presence of the lord they didn't experience the love of god being shed abroad in their heart and it wasn't because it was not god's will it's because they chose not to obey god's not unfair it's not true that for some reason he has favorite uh children that he just lavishes so much revelation and blessing on and uses them and other people we don't know why but it seems like he is ordained that they just be broke and miserable and and just you know barely survive in life it is not true i said it is not true i don't care where you are where you started you can be in the worst place on the planet you can be living in a cardboard box you can be in a ditch starving and if you will look up from where you are and call on the lord he will prompt you to do something huh it can be as simple as confessing jesus is lord to start he will prompt you to do something and that is the moment of truth then he's not going to make you do it it'll be you deserve whether you do it or not oh but if you're smart you will do it and when you do it and take that step the bible said he takes people from the dung heap that's the garbage pile and sits them with princes he delights in in showing mercy he delights in doing things like this and it's sad but most of the planet will not listen to him they won't they won't listen to him but those that will he will never forget it amen hallelujah he will never forget it and those who will every day be willing to say lord i'm yours i am yours to command everything i have everything under my hand your will what do you want me to do now if you if you really say that you get ready because he will tell you some things and he will do some things and the further you go the bigger the steps are the more faith it takes oh but the greater the miracles that result when you do can you say glory to god do i have anybody in here that loves the lord loves the lord how do we know you really love the lord because you will do whatever he tells you to do you

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