I am the Lord that Heals You by Carter Conlon

started last week with the word for 2009 in the word for 2009 was go forward and for those that didn't hear that I would encourage you perhaps if this is your home church to get a copy of that so you understand exactly where it is it we're going today I'd like you to turn to Exodus chapter 15 please in the Old Testament message title as I am the Lord that healeth II thank you Father God I praise you for the anointing of the Holy Spirit I thank you that you will overshadow the frailty of this vessel and God you will give me the ability to convey your heart to your people in this church at this hour I thank you Lord that the desires of your heart would be satisfied I thank you God that you will quicken your word give me the ability to say it's simply and that it may be understood by every hearer father I thank you God that you have a word for your people in these days we give you praise and glory for it in Jesus name Exodus chapter 15 beginning at verse 21 now remember this is just after they had come through the Red Sea and Miriam answered them singing to the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider have he thrown into the sea so Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea and they went out into the wilderness of Shur and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water and when they came to Mara that's verse 23 of Exodus 15 they could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were bitter therefore the name of it was called Mara and the people murmured against Moses saying what shall we drink and he cried unto the Lord and the Lord showed him a tree which when he had cast into the waters the waters were made sweet there he made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them and he said if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God and we'll do that which is right in his sight and we'll give ear to His commandments and keep all his statutes I will put none of these diseases upon thee which I've brought upon the Egyptians for I am the Lord that healeth thee and they came to Elam where were twelve walls of water and threescore and ten palm trees and they encamped there by the waters now beginning of verse 21 after the children of Israel had come through a place of impossibility and seemingly passed through death itself into life this is where this song of Miriam she said sing to the Lord for his triumph gloriously the horse and the rider he's thrown into the sea did you remember that first love song when you came to Christ and you begin and you first realized and I first realized that my sins are washed away not by any work of my own goodness but because of God's mercy when he poured his wrath out on his own son on Calvary I had entered into everlasting life I had passed through an impossible place where no amount of human effort could ever take me and I had come in and you had come into the life of God and you came into a sanctuary like this and you began to sing these incredible songs of Zion of victory and deliverance and you wonder in your heart can it get any better than this can you imagine now that after having seen the waters divided on both sides going through this place looking at all of their enemies drowned by the hand of God in the sea behind them they begin to worship God they begin to sing and it just looked like this is never-ending glory is ahead of them well it is but there's a journey involved in it and only three days later they find themselves in a wilderness place it's the new Christian who starts to walk out I remember when I got saved I thought everybody's going to be so excited about what I had found three days later I found out they're not as excited about what I had found as I was I thought my family would be happy they weren't very happy at all I thought my friends at work would be happy they weren't very happy it comes to a point where you're looking around wondering if anybody but yourself is actually happy about what's happened to you first time in your life you feel like telling the truth and you don't feel like beating people up when they get in your way and all of everything around you has changed and you've got this incredible song but then you come into this place and begin to realize that there's a journey between Earth and heaven there's a pathway that you and I have to walk in for some people it's a wilderness remember that the call of God was to come out of Egypt and to go and sacrifice to God in the wilderness a lot of people missed that part of the story just focus as it is on coming out of Egypt going through the Red Sea and worshiping forever not realizing that the worship is in the wilderness and I know that many of you here today you're living in that wilderness right now and it was to the point where they didn't know what to drink and they came to Moses and said look there's nothing here that seems to satisfy I thought this was supposed to be all happiness and cheesecake and it was going to be just incredibly wonderful this whole journey and some people do come to Christ under that kind of a message only to face reality very shortly after the moment they've had their sins washed away and Moses showed them or the Lord showed Moses a tree and when that tree was thrown into the water these bitter places these difficult scriptures these things that are hard for the natural mind to understand let alone do were made sweet and that tree is a type of the cross of Jesus Christ it's a type of when you and I come to the understanding that God I have been called to be an extension of your goodness to this world that you came and gave your life for you did it as one man in one place but remember Jesus said I'm gonna do there's going to be a season of greater works and I wasn't talking about more astounding miracles what more can you do but raise the dead and stop the wind in the sea no he was talking about I'm gonna the fact that he was going to have a body and he no longer be limited by one human vessel that the the man Jesus Christ but God was going to have a body and this body would be in all the world all nations all tongues all cultures and this message of the gospel would be preached in all the world in every generation as much as people are obedient to the call of Christ upon their lives and when the cross becomes a central focus of why we live on this earth as Christians then all the bitter places are made sweet when I begin to understand and you begin to understand that the Christian life is not a picnic the Christian life can be a hard life many places of the world when people come to Christ I think of Vietnam to several years ago when men would come to Christ they begin to preach the gospel and their families have be taken away the children would be put into a forced school system where the those who had Authority would try to teach them that what their father believed that their mother believed was a fallacy and there was no true real or living God they were forced into the jungles in many cases and had to live daily on the provision of God there's been hardship all over the world now we've been blessed as a nation we've known seasons where Christianity has had relatively good acceptance among the populace but folks there can be times that are hard there can be seasons that are bitter there can be a time where it's not favorable anymore to live for Christ or to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ but if you and I understand that as Christ was given for the sin of this world we ought to be given as well by the power of God within us that men and women may come to know that there's a Savior who loves them and died for them then even the bitter places will become sweet it's that if the central focus of our being as it is as Christians is to live for others and not for ourselves to live to see people come to the knowledge of Christ to live to see they naked clothes and the unsound with a sound mind and the captive set free and the wounded and bruised in heart healed by the power of God if you and I begin to move in that direction and were abandoned to that purpose then every bitter thing in this Bible and every bit of thing we'll ever face as Christians can become sweet because we know we are living for a higher purpose than ourselves we're living the Christ might be glorified in us and he might be understood by the ignorant masses who are without God in every generation in verse 26 he says these incredible words and he said if you'll diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God and will do that which is right in his sight and will give ear to His commandments and keep all of his statutes I'll put none of these diseases upon you which I brought upon the Egyptians for I am the Lord that healeth thee if you diligently hearken if you do what is right if you give ear to what God has spoken and you keep on doing what God is speaking not enough just to live in the past not enough to say I obeyed God 25 years ago this is it every day all day every week all week every month all month walk with God it's a walk of obedience it's a walk where our instructions come from the Word of God and from the Holy Spirit within us and you and I begin to live as Paul said and move and have our being in Jesus Christ he says I'll put none of these diseases upon you now this has been so misused there's there's I've heard messages on this and people have taken this into extremes where they say that all sicknesses of the devil and nobody's to be sick anymore I've seen it to the point where people with cancer have had to put a sign on the door no Christians allowed these are Christian people in the hospital because of misguided people and just simply a lack of study a lack of understanding what does the scripture really say none of these diseases now this is also translated in various other translations of the Bible these ways I'll put upon you none of these sufferings I'll put upon you none of these planes I'll put upon you none of the evils that your eyes have seen in the Knox translation says it this way never shall they fall on thee the many woes and so folks this verse is not just speaking about physical affliction it's the accumulation of all that comes into any society any people who arrogantly and stubbornly resist the word in the will of God what God was saying through Moses to the people you have seen what happened to Egypt you have seen all that came upon this society it we're not talking just physical affliction here all the walls all the sufferings all the ills that they endured the Lord says if you will listen to me if you will follow me I will not put these things on you for example in Exodus chapter 5 and verse 2 Pharaoh said who is the Lord that I should obey his voice that's a stubbornness there was an inherent stubbornness in that society from the top to the bottom they had cast away all folks if ever there's a people that should have been living in the fear of God it was that moment in time in history it was that society but they had cast away the fear of the Lord and they said who is who is the Lord that's that very statement comes right from Eden itself when Satan came down into Adam and says listen you don't have to obey everything God says you can take things into your own hands you can chart your own course and you can do things that God doesn't want you to do and you will become as God you can you can decide yourself what is right and what is wrong and what is good and what is evil and you can make your own standards of of righteousness and things that are good and things that are not that's the very spirit that was upon Pharaoh and subsequently on many of the people not all thank God but many in this nation who is the Lord that I should obey his voice god help us if we get to that point in this country god help us if we get to the point of saying these words who is the Lord that we should obey his voice Peter the Apostle in 2nd Peter chapter 3 verses 5 to 7 speaks of an incredible scoffing and spiritual ignorance that will grip mankind just before the final judgment of the world as you and I know it today there'll be a scoffing is that all let's talk about the Lord's coming all this talk about God and God's will God's ways and they will scoff his coming and put far away the day of the Lord Peter says for this they are willingly ignorant of that by the Word of God the heavens were evolved in the earth standing out of the water and in the water whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished but the heavens and the earth which are now by the same word a kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men Peter said in the day in those days they looked they saw dry land they saw the boundaries of the water and in their natural mind they said well surely the water can't come any higher than this point but they were an ignorant of one thing that the world that then was overflowed with water and everyone in it in the day of Noah perished and Peter says but the heavens and the earth which are now are kept by the same word of God reserved for a day of fire against the judgment and perdition of ungodly men now Paul says in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 you might want to turn there in your Bibles 1st Corinthians chapter 6 now remember at the beginning of this message the Lord said if you diligently hearken if you do that which is right if you give ear to my sayings and my statutes and keep on doing them the none of these wars sufferings plagues diseases evils none of them shall come upon you look at the Bible in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verses 9 to 11 here's what Paul says know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be not deceived neither fornicators says people who are given to immorality nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God Paul says now listen no matter what anybody tells you in this last generation let me set the record straight if anyone in any pulpit anywhere tells you you can continue on living these kind of lifestyles and somehow inherit the kingdom of God you have been deceived for those who come to Christ must put away iniquity those who come to Christ make a decision I'm going with God what God says that's what I'm going to allow God to do in my life I know I can't do it in my own strength that's why the Holy Spirit has been given to me that as I read this word the Holy Spirit of God will make it a living reality within my life praise be to God I'm not going to walk among those who are scoffing the Justice of God scoffing this incredible mercy that has allowed us the season to come into his presence and to begin to walk with his very life being lived out within us and Paul goes on and says and such were some of you but you are washed you are sanctified you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God Paul is speaking to the Corinthian church says you were this and that's the testimony of the true Church of Jesus Christ everyone in the true body of Christ was something that they are not today praise be to God I'm being continuously changed from image to image and glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord now if folks were not perfect in ourselves and all of us have struggles but there is change as we diligently listen as we hearken to the things that God has spoken to us as we allow the life of Christ to be lived out within us and through us our hearts begin to change as God said to Ezekiel we are given a new mind we're given a new spirit we are born-again by the power of God we become a new creation on the earth the sole and exclusive purpose is to show forth the praises of him who has called us out of darkness and into his marvelous light we stand as lights in the darkened generation where among those that Isaiah said in chapter 60 when girls darkness rolls over the earth he said arise shine for your light has come for this will be on the earth and gross darkness on the people but the Lord shall be seen upon you and his light shall be within you praise be to God remember if we do these things if we walk with God if we allow God to be God within us if we allow to lead us into a life of being given for other people folks that's where the church went astray in every generation is when the focus turned from what is in the heart of God the mission of God through Jesus Christ when the focus turned inward that is always the formula for deception and turning astray from what we're called to be in Jesus Christ now look at the plagues that came upon I just want to go through them very very quickly with you in Exodus chapter 7 and verse 17 the first woe let me just call them wolves is that water was turned to blood there was a thirst came into the land the first wall a thirst comes and nobody can find anything to satisfy that thirst contrast this to John 6:35 where Jesus said he that believes on me shall never thirst there's a thirst when men have done despite to the blood of Jesus Christ there's a thirst in our land today there's a thirst in our churches there's a thirst and many Christians hearts in spite of the fact that Jesus said - if you believe on me you will never thirst but if we're not doing righteousness - the blood of Jesus Christ if we're doing despite - the blood of Christ if we're not walking it away that is pleasing to God there is an incredible thirst comes into the heart just like those who are unsatisfied in the nation all around us Exodus chapter 8 verses 1 to 4 a plague of frogs came into the nation now these frogs you can I can see them in my mind hopping up the steps every house climbing up the walls going Moses said they're gonna be in your bed they're gonna be in your living room they're gonna be in your oven the frogs are going to be everywhere and what it speaks about is unrestrained access by demonic ours revelation 16 let me read it to you verses 13 and 14 this is what John said I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet they are the spirits of Devil's working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the Battle of that great day of God Almighty these are demonic spirits who have unrestrained access gathering the people to fight against God gathering the people to fight against what is holy what is true what is righteous what is proven what God has said and the way he has pronounced that things are to be the third wall is lice take life's just being released fleas really being released throughout the whole nation and I see it being a nun surrendered and unfulfilled ambition in other words an itch that you can't scratch how many people today are running all over society now with an itch that can't be scratched an unfulfilled dream and unfulfilled ambition an unfulfilled vision there's and it doesn't matter what they do doesn't matter what kind of promotion they get doesn't matter how many relationships they have doesn't matter what kind of substance they put into their body it doesn't matter what they listen to or what kind of a positive message they try to build their lives on there's a nun surrendered ambition in them and in its that cannot be scratched contrast this to the life of a Christian a dedicated Christian the Apostle Paul in 2nd Timothy chapter 4 and verse 7 he said I fought a good fight I've finished my course and I've kept the faith there was no one surrender ditch in that man he knew that he had lived a life pleasing to God to the natural eye he had few friends left at the end and he was himself imprisoned and the natural man would look at this and say what a waste of a life but who are those natural men that said these things do you know they are have you ever heard their names but the Apostle Paul for over 2,000 years we've been reading the words that God pens through his hand under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit the man that says no I found what I was looking for in Christ I counted everything in this world that I had achieved and could achieve but dung offscouring refuse worthless that I may win Christ and be found at him Paul said I'm being changed from image to image and glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord Paul said I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me Paul said of God before us who can be against us Paul said I'm persuaded neither Angels nor principalities nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord Paul knew something that you and I would be wise to know today Paul was a given man for the good of other people Paul was willing to walk into an arena and climb out from under a pile of stones and walk into the next town and tell the next group of people about Christ had done what Christ wasn't him and what Christ could do for them praise be to God Paul had an abundant life Paul had the life that you and I longed for Paul was not a man with Unser entered ambition Paul could say at the end of his days though perhaps confined in a room maybe even chained to a Centurion or two I have fought a good fight I have finished what I was called to do I have kept the faith that God entrusted unto me praise be to God Paul could write unto Timothy Timothy God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind therefore be not ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner but be a partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God Timothy I found what life is all about Timothy has been given for the good of other people it's walking through this world not expecting it to be easy not expecting to be loved by every man not expecting that everybody's going to clap their hands and hears you preach some are gonna grind their teeth and others are gonna pick up stones and some are gonna change you and contain you and put you into jail others are gonna mock the very testimony of Christ's life within you but I know what I've been called to be I know what I've been called to do texted to c21 there was a plague of flies that came into all of Egypt now if you know anything about flies the very first evidence you have that they're there there's the noise they make around your head and for whatever reason they seem to like to dominate people's their space around people's heads it's what makes them so annoying that's why you're always swatting at them but you can't get rid of them and it speaks to me about whisperings a plague of whisperings a plague of voices a plague of opinions a plague of directions of a plague of accusations whisperings whisperings whisperings whisperings the inability to put these voices away in the morning the inability to escape them in the daytime the inability to drown them out with alcohol at night going to bed with these whisperings still around your head contrast this to the children of Israel God said I will sever in that day the land of Goshen in which my people dwell and there no swarms of flies shall be there and I will put a division between my people and thy people he said tomorrow this sign will be praise be to God I don't go to bed with whisperings in my head if there is a whispering it's simply this voice saying I love you I'm going to keep you I'll be with you through the night I'll be there when you get up in the morning I will be that voice that says this is the way walk in it I will be the one bringing back to your remembrance all things that you've learned how whispered promises to you throughout the day you'll be strengthened with might by my spirit in your inner man you will have a sore word your steps will be ordered of the Lord you will know which way to go you will know what to say what not to say you'll know what to do what not to do I will be with you I will never leave you nor forsake you praise be to God Exodus 916 next sign is dead cattle all over Egypt the loss of security and provision and folks I think we're living at a moment like this the loss of security a loss of provision a loss of what people felt was going to give them a sure tomorrow suddenly in a moment it's gone everything you imagined the people of Egypt rising up in the morning and the cattle are all dead now this is their beef in the in the in the in the kitchen this these are the animals that pull the plow and gave them the ability to make a living it was a status symbol to own cattle in that generation and we're speaking about a loss of security and provision but the children of Israel the scripture says not one of their cattle died all of the cattle God says I will provide I you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you now either that's true or that's not true but you seek first his kingdom and his righteousness Exodus chapter 9 boils broke out upon all of the Egyptians and it speaks of unprecedented weakness and hardship the inability to find a resolution the scripture says the magician's couldn't stand there was nobody found in the nation who had a solution the hardship had come and there were people who had had influence and sway because they were influential speakers and some of them even claimed to speak for God but now the hardship and the weakness was so severe that they couldn't stand and I pray not but it's possible that we're moving into a season like this where there'd be no natural solutions anymore where everything just keeps spinning out more and more and more and more and more society is losing control of its own direction but contrast this to Colossians 1:11 where Paul says I'm strengthened with all might according to his glorious power praise be to God you don't have to live among those who have no solution for tomorrow you have the God who created the universe by the word of his mouth living inside of you you have the one who's already in tomorrow living in you you have the one who already won the victory you are more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ exodus 9 verses 20 and 21 pale came onto the land and this particular judgment speaks of a loss of any fear of God that people were warned in Egypt get your cattle whatever is remaining get it inside your house get your servants inside the house whatever kind of livestock you have remaining get it away because there's going to be hail and thunderstorms like you've never seen but there was a loss of the fear of God in that society and even when his judgments are so clearly evident people left their servants in the field and they left whatever they had left in the field but just as God had said the hail came and there was fire lightning as it was on the ground and everyone who was who had lost the fear of God lost their life that day proverbs 22:3 says a prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself if ever there was a time to get right with God it's now folks not tomorrow not next week not next month now is the time to get right with God if you're in that living right for God now is the time to get right if you are doing things you shouldn't do now is the time to ask God for the strength to turn away from your sin and turn to Him if you're in relationships that you shouldn't be in now is the time to get out if you are doing things financially you shouldn't be doing now is the time to set the record straight folks I'm telling you don't play with this truth that you're hearing today don't play with the mercy of God don't play with these things Exodus chapter 10 now you see the judgments really increasing the last three a plague of locusts Exodus 10 five came into the land and that scripture says the locusts were so thick that they covered all of the earth and it speaks of about a of all hope everything that was or is good is now hidden from the eyes and folks it's happened throughout history it could be happening again in our generation it will happen at one time in the future according to the scriptures that apart from Christ there will be a loss of all hope everything that seems to be good is now hidden from the eyes Exodus chapter 10 verses 21 to 23 a darkness came on the land for three days the Bible says it was so thick it could be felt I believe with all my heart it was a foretaste of Hell a darkness so thick you could touch it a sense of what it's going to be like for many for eternity to live in the absence of God it's amazing whether or not you are living for God today you are living in the presence of God because he is omnipresent in this world it means he's everywhere you have testimony of God every day when the Sun comes up and every night when it goes down when you look and see the stars that have been set in the heavens as signs of the majesty and power of God Paul said in the book of Romans that everyone stands before God one day without excuse because the testimony of his presence and life was everywhere and all a reasonable person had to do was ask and say Lord are you there will you reveal yourself to me and he would have done so I felt darkness and lastly in Exodus chapter 11 verses five and six God passed over the nation and all the firstborn in every house died and in that society had meant a loss of all sense of strength and future because the firstborn was your retirement plan folks the firstborn was quite often given the charge of looking after you when you and I when we would get old the firstborn was the continuation of your name the firstborn was where many men would focus their strength because that was the the man as it is in the case of a man that would carry your name in your strength into the future the firstborn God passed the nation and all hope of the future all sense of strength all sense of a future was gone and that is the end of any person who lives apart from Jesus Christ no matter what anybody tries to tell you if you are not living a life that is surrendered to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior that is your future that is where you're going to go that is where every nation goes that is not living according to the Word of God and has not surrendered their hearts to Christ but contrast this now to the children of Israel they had light in their dwellings Exodus 10 23 says and all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings Exodus chapter 12 verses 2 & 3 the Bible tells us that they had a lamb for every house there was provisions and I want to tell you something today there is still a lamb for every house John the Baptist saw this provision of God then when he said behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world there's a lamb for your house there is provision for whatever situation you and I find ourselves in today or tomorrow there is a provision Exodus 12 verses 2 & 3 he said this month shall be unto you the beginning of months it shall be the first month of the year to you speak to all the congregation of Israel saying in the tenth day of this month they shall take to every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers a lamb for a house there shall be protection Exodus 12 7 and 1213 in chapter 12 verse 7 it says they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts in the upper doorpost of the houses wherein they shall eat it and in verse 13 and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are and when I see the Blood I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt God said there's provision for your house there's blood that was shed on Calvary 2,000 years ago to cover all sin to cancel the power of hell and death and when I pass over the nation when the judgments begin to increase and you begin to see and terror starts to strike the heart of every man woman and child that's living apart from the glorious covering and grace of God Almighty through Jesus Christ when I see the Blood I will pass over you you will not lose your strength you will not have your provision taken away you will not have your future gone you will not be plagued with itches that you cannot scratch and boils that cannot give you that cause you not to be able to rise again when I see the blood that will pass over you in Fabri there was a time to come to Christ folks it's now in this generation if ever there was a time to live a surrendered life to the will of God it's now Exodus 12 2 he said this month shall be unto you the beginning of months it shall be the first month of the year unto you in Christ no matter how dark it is every day is a new beginning every day is another place where impossibility becomes possible every door is a new door that if God opens that I can go through it and I can do what God calls me to do and I can be what God calls me to be every day in Christ is a new beginning every day when I get out of bed I am not governed by what's on CNN or MSNBC or in The New York Times or any other news source I'm not governed by these reports I have another report the God speaks into my heart every day I have another voice that is guiding my life I have another set of values that is governing my heart praise be to God there is light in my house there's provision in my house and there's an extended family in my house it was spoken and said listen if the household verse 4 is too little for the lamb let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of souls every man according to his eating you shall make your count for the lamb I have an extended family in this house alone family comes from over 104 Nations I have an extended family they are invited into my life and I'm invited into theirs we share the lamb together praise God and when death is passing over this world as we know it we are sitting at a table we are feasting at the provision of God we are glorying in the fact that we're not going we're not going down with what whoever is without God we're going forward in God we're moving into a place of promise we have a hope we have a future praise be to God Exodus 12:11 he says and thus shall you eat it with your loins girded your shoes on your feet your staff in your hand you shall eat it in haste it is the Lord's Passover you shall eat this feast with your loins go to the meat you shall inwardly embrace the truth you are hearing gird up your loins the Apostle Paul says put truth in your heart read this book and let it get into you let the Holy Spirit quicken these words and let them be a reality gird up your loins with truth get in the Bible like you've never been in it before claim every promise in the New Testament as a promise of God for your own heart read songs read proverbs pray God let this word live in me let this word flow through me let this word guide me let this word move me let this word mould me let this word take me let this word make me let this word be my life in my heart and he says eating with shoes on your feet because it's not idleness in the house of God God says everyone else around you it's just going to be howling their losses but that's not where you and I are going to live I've got a journey I'm taking you on you're gonna leave where you are you're gonna walk through a wilderness and in that place I'm gonna guide you to a place of eternal life an eternal promise praise God God says I'll not fail you I'll rain bread on you from heaven I'll provide for you I'll be your glory I'll be the lifter of your head I'll be your supply and your source everything you need will be found in me and bring your put your staff in your hand because all of this is going to be accomplished because of the cross of Jesus Christ because the victory was won for you only one firstborn son will have died in your house and that's the Son of God and through his death you've been brought to life [Applause] and he says make haste and do it now eat it in haste in other words don't delay there's a season and we're living I believe in one like it right now don't put off till tomorrow what you know you should be doing today get ready you don't know what tomorrow is going to bring but I know you can know this if God is in it and if God is in you no matter what tomorrow brings you are securing it you're not going to lose your light you're not going to lose your heart you're not going to lose your direction you're not going to lose your strength you're not going to lose your substance you're not going to lose your hope you're not going to lose your vision you're not going to lose a purpose for living you're not gonna lose your family you are going home to be with God you're going to live for God on this side of eternity the scripture says make haste and do it now praise God this is so burned within me this week make haste eat it in haste do it now if you need to get right with God get right with God now if the devil's got his foot in the door of your life slammed that door on his foot and get him out get right with God walk with God turn from what you know is wrong and turn to what you know is right the promises of God are incredible but not given to those who live in wilful sin not given to those who live in known disobedience to God when they understand and clearly have a revelation that there is a way out praise God do it in haste now no matter what the future brings you and I have a hope and if this society gets to the point when it seems to be a loss of light and the loss of hope it is the church's greatest opportunity to be the testimony of a God who loves every man and every woman so much that he became a man walked this earth for 33 years and died for them you and I are called to be I suppose the only Bible that this generation will ever read if we will let God be God in us if we will let our hands be reached reach out in the power of God to a very needy generation if we will be given for other people even though they may not give anything back if we would be satisfied as the psalmist David said I'll be satisfied when I awake with your likeness Oh God I'll be satisfied to know that the Christ that I love is living in me and through me make haste to get right with God I'm going to give an altar call this morning here in the main sanctuary and in the education annex to as well the annex you could rise in stand between the screens in the sanctuary in a moment those who want to respond can make your way to this altar balcony good either exit make your way downstairs it's very simple get right with God you can't go forward if you're not living right you can't go forward if you have undealt with sin in your life get right with God now I don't have to go down the line into every role and explain it to every heart you've heard you already know you've sat in the presence of God and you know if you're not living right if there are areas in your heart that need to be dealt with areas of practice in your life that you need to put away don't find yourself locked out of what God is about to do in this generation get right with God I plead with you get right with God put away sin if you're hooked on pornography for example make your way to this altar and let the Lord break that chain we'll pray you have to have in your heart the desire and God will set you free if you are in the relationships you shouldn't be in if you are stealing from your company or your government you steal from the government when you don't pay your taxes or you fraudulently write out a report saying I've earned this much when you know that's not true that's theft you call it whatever you want the Bible calls it theft and the scripture says no thief will dwell in that eternal City you have to live a righteous life and as much as as possible you have to obey all authority according to the scriptures and I'm just throwing out these illustrations as God speaking them into my heart live is a righteous citizen live live as as much as you wanted you think that every person around you should live you live that way and you do it by the power of God with an honest heart and we're going to stand it as we do if the Holy Spirit is speaking to your heart and you want to start this year by getting right with God some area in your life that you know has got to change I invite you to come and worship with us for the next few minutes let's stand please you [Music] now the Bible says if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness now not only does when we come before God with an honest heart not only does he cleanse us or forgive us rather but he cleanses us of the very roots that caused the son holiness to be made manifest in our life all he ever required was an honest heart praise God there are honest people at this altar today I know that you want to live a life that's going to bring glory to God the Lord says to you today I'm going to bring my own name to glory through you I'm going to give you power that you don't have I'm going to make it what you can't be I'm going to take you where you could never go and when you get there you're going to turn back and just shout only God could do this only God could do this praise be to God Lord we pray today and break the chains of sin God thank you that you are preparing the people for this hour and this time I thank you Lord that you did found this house on the gospel of truth of Correction and of mercy Lord lift up your voice would you please pray with me Lord Jesus forgive me for the way I have lived and the things that I have done I have no desire to continue this course in my life any longer I give to you the rights to my life and the rights to these areas of struggle in my heart you are promised that you would cleanse me and give me power in the Holy Spirit to be a living testimony of what the blood of Jesus did for me 2,000 years ago God helped me now to live a clean life a righteous life and to be given in the power of the Holy Spirit to other people that they too might know that we have a God who is willing to heal us and to forgive us and to give us hope in a darkened time I yield my life to this purpose I do it willfully today I do it joyfully because of Jesus amen and amen praise God [Applause]

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Length: 49min 2sec (2942 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 16 2015