Keith Moore Growing Up Pt 7 Childish Ways 3

hallelujah how would you know if you were in faith about your finances your life and you get do you have any excitement what if you don't what if you just aggravated and frustrated thought the offering went way too long and you're not excited at all [Laughter] then you just think the long offering was was a problem you got other problems that you're not acknowledging and dealing with what time we normally get out around here huh and this was like you knew it already but we don't observe the traditional noon release so don't just don't don't even be thinking about I mean if it happened to work out that way one time then praise the Lord but no turn with me if you would please to the book of Ephesians this morning thanks guys for that good singing and playing like always they do a fine job we've been on this for some weeks now and we want to continue Ephesians four and if you didn't bring a Bible with you our Usher's have extra Bibles there and then I'll raise your hand and they'll pass one two you take the time to turn in the Bible let your eyes rest on these words reminding yourself that these are the words not of men but of the Lord Ephesians 4 eleven he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers did you know that apostle shouldn't sound any stranger to us than pastor prophet shouldn't sound any stranger to us than teacher and yet it does so I said something about a modern-day apostle and folk immediately look at it sideways and think it sounds or who do they think they are an apostle it'd be just like saying well who do they think they are saying their pastor it's supposed to be exactly the same and the problem is that through the generations we had as a church have lost some things but God never changed apostle just simply means one who is sent a lot of our modern modern-day missionaries who are truly sent to a country or to a place they are apostles they are sent ones Phyllis and I are sent ones to Branson hmm was not our idea God sent us here to minister right doesn't mean your apostle to the whole world you're an apostle to that particular whatever God sent you to do a prophet is one who sees and one who speaks for God this is still going on today evangelists you know every one of these ministry gifts are for today and were we supposed to be seeing them oh and we are sometimes people just not calling them by the same names the bible does verse 12 why were these given for the perfecting of the saints will do the Saints need to be perfected are you a saint do you need to be perfected some more huh how much perfection have you gotten over the last year are you the same as you were last year spiritually or have you are you being perfected and what did God give us to help us get perfected apostles prophets right evangelist pastors teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of a ministry for the edifying or building up of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man what kind of man what does this word perfect mean so we just got through seeing for the perfect dean of the saints till we come to a perfect man let me remind you what it doesn't mean in this context and this Bible word does not mean flawless when we say perfect in modern vernacular that's a lot of times what we mean flawless that's not what this means it means it helped me out with it some of you remember it means brought to its end to its finish it means this one of the best words I've seen complete complete one definition is lacking nothing necessary to completeness so when they a child grows up courting this was when they when they grow up to perfection what does that mean they have come to their full development they have reached the end of their development in physical growth or whatever you're talking about well he said till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ that we hits forth be no more children so it's obvious what he's talking about isn't it is he talking about growing up he's still not developing perfecting growing up to a perfect man being no more children children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of man and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive children are easily duped easily deceived easily misled and children are always changing their their ready to ride whatever is new coming down the pike to and fro up and down in and out verse 15 but speaking the truth in love may grow up everybody say may grow up say it again may grow up look at your neighbor tell them grow up grow up grow up now tell them back okay okay I am I'm I'm growing up do you need to grow up just ask you family just ask you friends do I need to grow up anymore yes some people a whole Lord I'm serious some people are pitiful 50 years old 50 years old and they just act like a baby all the time it's pitiful and it just causes untold problems you know Phyllis and I you've heard us talk about some of our troubles we had in marriage in the first several years of our marriage and one of the biggest things that helped us is just growing up but see you don't have to grow up just because you get older it is not automatic you can be 75 and be one of the biggest babies around and that's what's confusing to some people when they're looking at somebody and they're in a 70 year old body but inside their spiritual infant that can be confusing to people and just because you were born again 40 years ago does not mean you've grown up either growth is not automatic by reason of time the Bible said is newborn babes so you're not born a fully developed adult spiritually you're born a baby just like in the natural but as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby you got to be fed properly to grow spiritually and I don't mean with hamburgers and hot dogs you got to be fed the Word of God you got to be nourished up in the words of faith and it can't just be that you go to church and all you hear about is politics and social reform you got to hear something else if you're gonna grow up spiritually you got to hear some words and not just somebody quoting scriptures in a dead fashion it has to be words of faith anointed words Oh hallelujah and that's why God gave us apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers and anointed them and empowered them and gave them revelation why because that's spiritual food that's gonna feed your spirit and if you'll feed your spirit on a regular basis and then if you'll exercise it by doing what that word says right if it says word says pray you pray word says give you give word says you walk in love you walk in love if you'll feed and do eat and do eat and do you will grow up can you say Amen and it's happening right here in the faith life family other places too but it's happening right here the Lord told us right off he said I'm growing this church up quickly and he has any is how many believe that we as a church have a job to do in this planet he know we're not the only part of the body of Christ we're not the most important part of the body of Christ no no there's a big body of Christ there's a lot of people doing a lot of wonderful things in the kingdom but we got our part and we can do something we can make a difference right we can make a difference and you know feeding people in the natural is a good thing but our first job is to feed people spiritually and if we're not doing that then no matter how much natural feeding we're doing we're not doing our job so we must do it I know when I wrote my first partner letter the Lord dealt with me you're going to have to have partners to do what I've called you to do and it's my plan and the first thing you're to do is to be a good partner and so faithful partnership so Phyllis and I talked about it we increased our partnership I mean it wasn't that didn't sound like much at the time but we were doing like 20 dollars a month and we bumped it up to $50 a month on some things and we begin to do some more than one partnership for ministries and the main thing is we purposed we're gonna be faithful every month that $20 is gonna be there every month and then we claimed partners for this ministry and the numbers wasn't that big at first we claimed 25 and then we claimed fifty and a hundred and two hundred and then into the thousands now but when when you do that the Lord dealt with me is right a partner letter and when I sit down to write it I thought I don't want to ask for money I'm not gonna ask for money well then why am I writing this letter I'm not gonna I'm not gonna tell about the big needs and I'm not gonna you know Lord you got to help me with this what what I what I say and then I thought all I want to give I don't want to ask for something I want to give and the Lord spoke to me and it's been one of the cornerstone things of our our ministry and to this day he said well son the most precious thing you have to give is the revelation of the word I give you and you can give that and that's when we started sending the free cassette anybody giving you those free cassettes man everywhere I go people tell me they got a they got some of those cassettes well that's a seed and so we've continued to do that and in so doing we're so in a spiritual meal right aren't we showing a spiritual meal and it has happened thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of times that people say man that was just what I need when it came it was just what they were hungry they were needing something and it cost him nothing well that's part of us that's a big big part of our job right so that the Saints would be matured so they would be fed so they would develop so they would grow up can you say Amen speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ said out loud I'm growing up in the Lord now go to first Corinthians please the thirteenth chapter we've been on this for a couple of weeks now and I want us to look at it some more first Corinthians 13 first Corinthians thirteen and eleven when I was a child I spoke as a child what's one of the first indicators that somebody is not developed very much what comes out of their mouth right out of the abundance of the heart the mouth leak is comes out where the poor the people mean to it mean for it to or not it comes out when I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child so as we grow up are there going to be changes hmm is there a difference between the way a child talks and the way an adult talks yes or the difference between the way a child thinks and the way an adult thinks or understands big difference and that will be evidenced in you and in me if we're really growing up spiritually we're going to be talking differently you won't be talking your problems like Phyllis was saying earlier you'll be talking faith you won't be talking about other people and judging them you'll be talking love you'll be talking about little piddly insignificant and trivial things you'll be talking about weighty things about the kingdom of God and important things right you won't fall on the floor and pitch a fit because you didn't get the toy that you wanted huh you'll go into depression the rest of the day because your balloon popped are you dropped your ice cream right you will think differently you'll understand differently you'll talk differently he said but when I became a man what happened well another way of saying that is when I grew up when I grew up what happened I put away childish ways and childish things I put them behind me I laid them aside I put away childish things say that out loud I put away childish things sent two more times I put away childish things again I put away childish things have you ever seen a 50 year old act childish oh yeah it is what you see more than the other you see that much more than you do somebody acting like a spiritual adult it's just far too common that adults are really inside children and so they act like I'm to my spiritual children and they act like spiritual children they get their feelings hurt over nothing they get aggravated mad over nothing they pout I'm talking about some till about 40 year olds sixty year olds right they pout and they go into depression and they do things to get attention huh children spiritual children how many know you cannot do you can't get the work of God done you can't get the plan of God done with the church full of kids church full of children children are not up for the job children are just too engrossed and obsessed in their own little petty world and sadly that's what you have in many churches and the sadder than that is that's how most of morning to stay oh they wouldn't put up with somebody like me right oh man that fire me right it replaced me no they want somebody little coddle them and let them be a child for the next 50 years right and don't expect anything of me right don't tell me I have any responsibility that's what you know people you know millions of Christians think they like what I call no-fault religion no matter what happens it's not our fault no matter what doesn't happen it's not our fault it's just God in His mysterious ways we don't know why it doesn't happen more why did that but it's not our fault we got nothing to do with it we just come to church sometime and you just ought to be glad that we came well tell that to the Lord tell him he ought to be glad you came see how it goes over no he has a job for us to do and in order for us to do this job we must grow up we must grow up to be full-grown men and women of God that can handle stuff that can deal with stuff right that can get up early and stay up late and go as far as it takes and endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ right and then be willing to lay it all on the line right and may the Lord's disciple and pay whatever price it costs right and get this thing done we have a job this every church does and now we have a commission on us and a directive illness we're only four years old as a church but time is short so I believe God's got us on an accelerated development program and how many have a desire that that you and I this church family we could we could be used of God we could be used of God to get a lot of people into the kingdom of God a lot of people born again a lot of people restored the fellowship with a lot of people fill with the spirit full of power in the gifts of the Spirit healed and delivered Millions one that millions why not why not why couldn't God use us well it won't happen all of us sitting around sucking her thumb mad cuz somebody didn't do something for us huh can't happen it won't happen like that he said when I became a man when I grew up I put away childish things now now we looked at this last time but don't you look at it again and gone to another area Luke 2 we saw this with Jesus and he is our perfect example and the Bible said John said by the spirit that he supposed that if everything Jesus said and did was recorded that not even the world itself could contain the books that would be rich should be written so we have a really really small portion recorded of what Jesus said and did which it calls us to realize all the more how important these things are out of all the hominid believed that Jesus did not say a bunch of unnecessary superfluous stuff everything he said was important and so if we've got a very tiny tiny portion of what he said recorded here this was chosen out of all the important things he said and did for all men for all time in Luke to look at the significance of this Luke to Jesus the Bible said in verse 42 when he was what 12 years old everybody say 12 years old 12 years old why did it tell us how old he was hmm significant is there a change happening in his life at this particular time in his life at 12 years old we ought to take note of that age since the Bible tells us about it both naturally and spiritually when a young one has been alive on the earth for 12 years and then when somebody has been born again for 12 years did you see this should something be happening in somebody by the time they've been in the kingdom of God for 12 years huh should they add still having been born again 12 years 15 years 20 years should they still be dependent on other people to do all their praying for all their believing for him no no what was the turn the change that we see in Jesus at this age you know the story when they went to go back home he didn't go he stayed back where at the temple well what did he do the year before he went home and near before that and the year before that right in the year before that what's different about this year he's different right something's changed in his what was he doing the last trip they made instead of sitting in Temple talking about the word what was he doing he was with the other kids right whatever they were doing some people don't like to look at that but that's exactly what was going on but this year somebody say this year oh and that's a prophetic word this year this is a year that dreams come true hey glory to God [Applause] [Music] this is a year that dreams come true this is a year the changes occur this is a year we grow up we late child --is-- things behind right something happened in Jesus this year when he was 12 years old you know I'm convinced Phyllis and I have talked about this numerous times people expect too little of their children they treat children like they don't know anything and they know a lot they treat children like they can't conceive and understand anything they can understand a lot particularly by the time they're this age by the time one is 12 years old they're able to handle adult things did you hear me they're able to begin to conceive spiritual adult vision oh did you get this and you'll find a lot of you can testify this many many times during this age 10 11 12 13 14 is when people have had visitations of the Lord not unless then they had to have a vision but I mean the Lord ministered to them and they realized something about their life and about a call and about a purpose and it's sad that a lot of them that's not nourished it's not nurtured and they get away from it and they get cold and they go to the College and act like the devil did you hear me and get all messed up and waste half their life where if fetter laid hold of that and I mean if they had jumped on that with both feet and embraced it when they were 11 and 12 and 13 and never got away from it then where would they have been when they're 40 years old then oh where they're supposed to be right well if you messed up or some of us messed up let's work on it that our children don't do that let's teach them right and one way you'll do it is by expecting more of them like this hmm it's not okay your daughter your son's 15 years old and all they care about is sitting on the couch and playing video games all day long that is unacceptable well they're just a kid I just want them to grow up no no they're not just a kid in generations past a boy at 16 had armor on it was fighting in battles a girl of 14 was married are you listening now society and generations have changed but the true nature of human beings is not changed and people's ability and capacity has not changed we are this generation is requiring far too little of its children the treatment children like they don't know anything and can't do anything and then when they hit 18 now they're supposed to be an adult and they hadn't been developing no no 12 years old he's asking these ministers that have extensive education questions that's making them scratch their head people someone yeah but brother Keith that's Jesus yeah but he did it as a man with no unfair advantage over us if not then why he would have been in there when he was three he was born and operated in omniscience but the Bible said he grew he grew and developed he was growing he was developing and at this point an age of his life he was more interested in this than in kickball he was more interested in the Bible than he was in chasing a rabbit or in playing tic-tac-toe or going swimming right this what not to say he didn't enjoy that anymore but this had it had his attention more than anything else this had his focus his focus more than anything else and when his parents finally found him they said son what did you would you do this to us and he said didn't you know you didn't know where I'd be I had to be about my father's business is this a mark of growing up means this is a mark of growing up so we got we got all kind of Christians all kind of Christians in Branson and Missouri and Arkansas and all over they're not here this morning if all of our people who claim this is their church came we couldn't get a third of them in the building well where are they there's a handful of them that the Lord's got doing something else today and it's legitimate and there's 95 percent of them that's just too childish and other things are more important to them and they come once in a while when they feel like it hmm well time is short I said time is short how many weeks do we have to blow how many months do we have to waste no how can you tell you're growing up you know when it's time to play and when it's not time to play right children don't know this but adults do right now you need some recreation you need some fun God believes in vacations but not every week right it's all right to have a hobby it's all right to enjoy something but not all the time and not when it's time to do Kingdom business right we have to have things our priorities right go with me if you would to the book of Hebrews the book of Hebrews the eleventh chapter well you know one good thing years ago you did probably still in have been in the bed some of y'all but you're not here you are got your Bible in your lap thinking about the kingdom of God right what does that mean you've grown up so right from where you were hallelujah those will be watching by TV it's not too late for you to grow up praise the Lord just smile and say praise the Lord all of us have a lot more growing up to do all of us all of us and one big way that's going to be indicated is our priorities are going to change right our priorities change our interests change can you say Amen look at this this is such a good word along this line Hebrews chapter 11 chapter 11 and verse 23 by faith Moses when he was born was hid three months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the Kings commandment when you're in faith you are not afraid even if it seems like you've got a lot to be afraid of and funer and faith you're not afraid by faith Moses what's that next phrase when he was come to years I'll get this when he was come to years what does that mean lot of your translations say that don't they when when he was grown when he grew up what happened he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter now that was a big deal in the country that was prestige that was money you could live the rowdy playboy life indefinitely hmm you could do what you wanted when you wanted how you wanted but something happened in him now what was he doing the year before that or the year before there was some years right he grew up in the palace he grew up with the money he grew up with and these guys I'm understand in Pharaoh's Palace they weren't having prayer services every day to God there was some stuff going on in their ungodly he was surrounded by it they did stuff that you and I'd gasp it they thought was just normal that's how he lived until he grew up there's a lot of folks you know that are in livin terrible lifestyles and people want to talk to them and just condemn them about their sin but that won't help them at all they just need to grow up and as you grow up some of these things will just fall off filthy you'll just leave them without a lot of effort as you grow up right I mean there was a time when I'd spend all day on the bank of the pond with my little homemade boat and and spend hours and hours with the thing tied to a string out there wishing for a gust of wind huh I'll spend the whole day missing the little piece of cloth trying to fix the little boat I just do you know swinging from the trees I thought I was Tarzan I thought I was Tarzan I had the yell down I could do it man I'd spend you know half a day looking for the right vine then I could swing from one place to another I thought I was tired that I don't do that anymore [Applause] you do that all day and all week you know how much to say when it comes service time right when I became a man he said when I grew up what happened I put away childish things and childish ways he brews are you there by faith Moses how did he do this he's this an element in us growing up buck by faith should you be believing that you're growing up hmm put your words on it by faith Moses when he was come to years he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season there was a time when he didn't see that he thought it was just the thing to party all day he ran with the elite in Egypt they had the fastest chariots they had the best drugs yeah they had all kind of drugs they they went to the the best parties that was their life but something happened to him I said something happened to him he grew up in that and I get this he grew up in that and the Hebrew people are slaves and they're being oppressed and when he's five and he's six and he's ten he probably didn't know that they exist right and he's 13 and 14 or whatever you know he might not even care and he saw Hebrews being mistreated and he saw this and that but one day when he was come to years he saw it really for the first time it had been there all along but he saw it and instead of just thinking it's somebody else's problem or did you get this instead of just thinking it's somebody else's problem deal with it came on his heart to help them right and it got to the place where he was willing to chuck everything his prestige his money his fashionable parties and friends he in fact he refused there came a time when he said I don't want you to call me that anymore don't call me that anymore I'm of the people of God and I would rather suffer with them then party with you that's growing up I said that's growing up I'd rather suffer with them then party with you why I keep reading keep reading verse 26 see children don't see this but spiritual adults do is stealing the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt he had respect unto the recompense of the reward he could see that in a few days there's going to be no reward for the partiers in Egypt they're all gonna die it's all gonna be over oh but for those that obey God those that did the will of Jehovah it's going to be eternal kingdom ruling and reigning so when he grew up he said I'll take the pressure I'll take the pain now for the reward later so take my name off the Royal roster take my name off all the party less mm-hmm when did this happen when he grew up when did this happen when our people today gonna begin to put aside things lay em aside quit playing video games all day long hmm quit you know having the most important part of their day be when we gonna eat there's a lot of adults a lot of adults from the time they get to work what they're thinking about every couple of minutes this wins break time don't call break time break time when we don't get break time when we're gonna get break time break time and then when you break time what are they thinking about lunch Oh how much longer till lunch how much longer till lunch and after lunch were you thinking about break time when we're gonna get break time break time after break down what are you thinking about supper we're gonna have a supper Oh supper the Bible said in the script New Testament says there are people whose God is their belly that's a poor God your God is your belly your stomach it's childish that all you think about Seton it's childish all you think about when I'm gonna get to play it's childish we can grow up I said we can grow up and we can think about something else we can think about somebody else our priorities change our our interest change our focus changes let me read some scriptures to you why don't you turn with them if you if you are able to hear Philippians the second chapter I don't think I'll be much longer Philippians chapter 2 everybody say when he was come to years when he was grown up hallelujah when he grown up things changed glory to God I'll read this text of this to you I didn't read it while you're turning there it said concerning Moses the child grew they brought him to Pharaoh's daughter he became her son verse 11 it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown he went out to his brethren and looked on their burdens and you know the story things were set in motion where he eventually had to leave the country and then God brought him back in anointing and God used him to deliver that whole nation it wouldn't happened if he hadn't got grown up and got passed just wanting a party all day and all night and ramble and race chariots and write I want you to think about what was Moses doing two years before this huh what was he doing they were racing chariots huh they were chasing pretty girls they were doing drugs they were staying up all night they were you know but thank God hmm aren't you glad we don't have something about Moses getting high when he was 80 in Egypt missed the whole call of God on his life where's Moses I know you know he likes to smoke his dope he's probably not just don't him don't even sound right but it's because he grew up he grew up if he grew up you can grow up I said you can grow up you can grow up I can grow up it's okay for us to have hobbies it's okay for us to have recreation it's okay for us to have things we enjoy hmm but it's not okay first to have our mind on that only all day and all night and miss church because of it not ever be available to serve the Lord because of it right no it's not okay not okay let's get it in this place some things shouldn't even have a place they're just childish we got no more room for him anymore hmm you know when I was a boy I had trucks and stuff that I pushed around in the dirt and I had GI Joes especially had that guy that with parachutes GI Joe oh man we figured out ways to shoot him even higher and higher bottle rockets he was GI rocket Joe kids can figure out some stuff but I can't even find my GI Joes now I don't I don't have a single truck I don't know where it is right why I grew up it was okay for the time but hmm I've got other things that occupy my time now head of the things that occupy my mind right other things that are priorities to me and focus to me and you right let's read this these great truths in the scripture to remind ourselves too are you there Philippians 2 and verse 3 let nothing be done through strife or vainglory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves verse 4 let each of you esteem and look upon and be concerned for not merely his own interests but also each for the interests of others is that a sign of growing up that you don't think about your stuff all the time you're thinking about somebody else hmm instead of thinking about what they can do for you you're thinking about what can I do for them he said in verse 20 concerning his helper here Philippians 2:20 he said I have no one like him he's told my Timothy wouldn't he have nobody like him no one of so kindred a spirit who will be so genuinely interested in your welfare and devoted to your interests for the others all seek to advance their own interests and not those of Jesus Christ the Messiah the new living says all the others care only for themselves and not what matters to Jesus the the English says everyone else is concerned only with his own affairs and not with the cause of Jesus Christ we live in a world that is obsessed with this that's why people will run over you in the store and I didn't see one because they're only thinking about what they are doing and what they want to do and and and for is their thinking is concerned it's like there's nobody else in the world but them that's completely immature right and you know in in ministry as the years have gone by and things the job has gotten bigger and there's more and more and more that has to be done we have to have people that are able to serve in the church and in the ministry never area.this not just here to see if they can get a special word or I'll get ministered to or if we can go to lunch did you hear me you've got people all over the place and they want to try to get in or try to get close but it's a pulling draining thing spiritually because they're always wanting something ministered to me minister demand help me counsel with me talk to me well that's thinking about yourself right if somebody's a baby that got saved last week we need to help them right they don't know any better this is where they are oh but we got to have solid people around us around the staff here at the church right around around the associates around everybody the team leaders that don't show up there just so you minister to them they come bringing something right they're not even thinking about yourself they're come thinking how can I help you how can I assist you what can I do that signs of maturity that signs of growing up can you say Amen he said everybody's six after their own things everybody and not the things that are Jesus Christ but that's not us can you save me go ahead stand on your feet if you would let me read you two others while you're standing here Jesus said in Matthew 16:24 just listen he said if anyone desires to be my disciple let him do what let him deny himself disregard lose sight of forget himself and his own interests and take up his cross and follow me the Bible said in Romans 15 3 Christ did not please himself he gave no thought to his own interests but as it is written the reproaches and abuses of those who reproach an abuse Jew fell on me Galatians 6 says bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ pray it outloud father God I thank you that you are my father I am your child and you have ordained that I grow up and be a mature one thank you for gracing me feeding me helping me I'm changing in how I speak I'm changing in how I understand and think I'm changing no more a child selfish self-interested self-absorbed self-centered no more but by your grace help me to see others how to help them see others be aware of their situation what they need what could help them I'm growing up in Jesus name hallelujah glory to God let's praise him for a little bit just lift up your hands or father we thank you all this praise him some go ahead by faith thank him that you're growing up I'm growing up lord thank you that I'm growing up thank you that I'm growing up thank you you're growing us up quickly thank you oh thank you oh thank you [Music] thank you Lord come on don't don't be in too big of a hurry just thank you lift up your voice lift up your hands Lord we bless you Lord we thank you praise you praise you oh we thank you thank you praise you hallelujah thank you lord thank you lord thank you Lord hallelujah pray this out loud Oh Lord set a watch at the door of my mouth show me what is childish and I'll put it away show me what is childish thinking childish priorities childish involvement childish interests show me and by your grace I'll put it away I'll put it away and grow up in you hallelujah well he'll he'll answer that for us he'll do it throughout today tonight tomorrow next week just be ready watch for it he'll put his finger on something you'll say something and he'll put he'll put his finger he'll say that's childish you go hmm that's childish so don't say it anymore right be seated for just a moment please further close your eyes if you would father we thank you for meeting us this morning helping us so graciously so wonderfully I pray for every man every woman every young person every child here in this room or anywhere by the internet or TV that does not know you or that's not right with you I pray that you'd draw them powerfully right now open their eyes and help them to see those that have not received you help them to see that they are lost they are not okay help them to realize it going up a Christian home doesn't save you even going to church even joining the church in and of itself does not save you jesus said you must be born again and if you have been you know it if you don't know it you need to make a move right now this morning Lord deal with everybody that needs to make a move that needs to respond to you help them to see the price has already been paid all they need do you're not mad at them you're not against them all they need to do is come and believe on you and receive you and have every sin washed away and be gloriously and forever eternally saved John I ask right now and for every person that has known you but for whatever reasons yielded to their flesh and it just followed every childish fleshly carnal pursuit and it took them away from you and they're cold and they're not right help them to see how cold they really are how far off from you they really are that they're not ok they're not ready to meet you they're not ready for you coming you return and draw them back to yourself this morning help them to see you love them still you'll forgive them you'll cleanse emit can be better than it ever was if they're just come back but they must come back draw them right now I pray in Jesus name with eyes closed please nobody looking around friend if I was praying for you and God is dealing with you would you respond to him this morning they'll not be a better time than right now to make this right and get it right if you say yes brother Keith I I don't know about my situation if I died I don't know what had happened to me you should not leave here like this or you say I know I'm not right I know I'm not safe would you lift your hand and let me pray for you before you get away today you can leave knowing you can leave sure would you lift your hand or watching my TV or Internet would you just raise up your hand and say brother Keith y'all pray for me I need to make a move I know I'm not right with God yes yes others did say pray for me brother Keith I need to make a move maybe you hadn't wanted to admit it but you hadn't been living right at all I don't mean you made a mistake in independent you just left the Lord and you need to come back you need to get it right with him would you raise your hand and say pray for me too brother Keith I need to come back home I need to get back to the Lord yes I'm through playing around and living like this I'm coming back yes others that had joined these would you raise your hand and say brother Keith pray for me there will not be a better time than right now this is this why you're here this morning if God's dealing with you don't put him off don't say well maybe next Sunday you don't know you'll be here next Sunday this is serious he could come before then serious right now right now if you don't know that you know that you're saved or right with God would you raise your hand if you haven't done so already raise your hand say brother key pray for me I'm coming or I'm coming back God sees your hand watching by TV or Internet I'm gonna pray for you but here's something else you might say brother Keith I'm a Christian but I've never been filled with the Holy Spirit and power like I hear you all talking about I don't speak with tongues like I hear you all do well you can it belongs to you it belongs to every believer no matter what you may have heard contrary to it it belongs to every Christian if you say I want this I want to be filled I want to speak in tongues I want to be full of power and be a powerful witness for the Lord Jesus would you raise your hand if that you you say brother Keith pray for me I believe in this I want to be filled I was a Christian for some years who did not speak with tongues and hadn't been failed I've been a Christian now many years after that that have with is much better much much yes yes good now listen carefully Jesus said if you're ashamed of me and my words before men I'll be ashamed of you before the father Paul said if we deny him he'll deny us strong words he said but if you'll confess me before men in front of men I'll confess you before the Father and his angels so it's not okay to be a closeted Christian and say well I just I believe in the Lord privately in my own way now it ain't okay you've got to be willing to stand up in front of people here at home on the job at school and don't care who sees or knows that you are a believer you got to be willing to do that and if you hadn't done that right now is the time nobody's gonna think ill of you here we just cash out with you when you when you respond so if you raised your hand on any invitation or you should have I want you to be bold and unashamed I want you to stand up right now showing that the devil is not your boss showing that you are not ashamed of the Lord if he lifted your hand or you should have stand please right now stand up if you lifted your hand or you should have please stand up right now to give you heart to the Lord to come back home to the Lord to come and get fair with the spirit show the Lord you're not ashamed of him show the devil he's not your boss oh good good good watching by TV internet stand up I know you're not in this room but God sees you stand up and say that I'm gonna give my life to Jesus or I'm gonna come back home to Jesus I'm gonna come get through with the spirit you stand up to if you raised your hand those of you standing would you open your eyes look at me I'm so glad you're not ashamed would you be bolder yet would you get in there and come meet me face to face let me pray with you personally like I said would you come right now as they say oh come on don't delay come to Jesus or whatever [Music] hallelujah come on right now so much culture so glad you got me so glad you come to see me come on we'll wait for you [Music] Hollander would you reach your hands out toward these folks in love and faith guys I'm so glad you've come you will not regret this I want you to just close your eyes up here and forget about everything and everybody else except you in the Lord he is he's real and he's here and the more you focus on him and believe in him the more real he'll make himself to you right now just expect him to do what I'm gonna ask him to do in this prayer and that's faith what he's done for millions he'll do for you father god I pray for these like we said we would how you love them how precious they are to you and to us you said those that come to you like this no way would you refuse them or reject them so because they come drawn of your spirit they come believing on you we have your word for it that they are accepted in the beloved well you said those that come like this and would confess Jesus is Lord and believe in their heart that you raised him from the dead would be saved so we act on this right now everybody said out loud either affirm or reaffirm your faith said out loud father God I believe in you I believe in your son Jesus that he died on the cross paid the full price for all my sins I believe you've raised him from the dead he's alive right now King of Kings Lord of lords soon to come again Jesus you are my lord you are my Savior thank you for washing me of all sin setting me free as you help me I will follow you and serve you all my days oh thank you lord oh thank you lord oh thank you lord thank you lord let's lift up our hands and begin to thank him for doing that you just believed that he did that right now and that is faith all thank you Lord for washing away all the sin every stain the guilt the condemnation thank you thank you thank you glory to God amen look at me if you would friends now listen that is done never let anybody who knows you including your own memories make you feel bad or guilty or ashamed or even embarrassed about anything that you've ever said or done before today because according to the word it's gone it's why Jesus paid such a terrible price on the cross you stand here before the Lord as innocent as a little baby that never made a mistake if you mess up tomorrow next week just admit it and ask God to forgive you and you'll stand up again just like you all right now this is not all some of you came to be filled with the spirit all of you need to be full of power speaking in tongues just as wide-eyed as excited as all of us and you will be this is so important we don't want it rushed I got a place of prayer and ministry just a few steps around the corner and people trained a touch base with you answer your questions give you some things in your hand would you take just a minute won't take too long would you turn to your right everybody that pick would you turn to your right see these folks are the pearsons would you follow them right now to the place of ministry and get the rest of what you come for won't take long with everybody stand up and thank God for these courage and faith oh thank you lord oh thank you lord oh thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord oh thank you lord thank you lord father we pray for these help the prayer room minister ministry room workers to minister to them powerfully in love and faith effectually guidon grayson and lord thank you your holy spirits already been given help them to receive him and yield him fully and just do for him beyond what they thought deliver them from hindrances and habits and things that have held them back add to them supernatural equipment for what you've called him to do and we pronounce according to the unfailing Word of God they have been delivered out of all the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's dear son and they'll never be the same again after today hallelujah Oh hallelujah oh ho teach name aid aid way means day-old on phone or on t RM Brasa r de Bracy rejoice rejoice and be glad for now you grow up rejoice for now you come up now you're able to see what you did not see and hear what you had not heard and understand what you had not understood by the engine and auto phone re off Labine ions day but also in these days I'll begin to require more of you I'll begin to ask more of you and require more of you don't miss the time of your visitation don't miss your opportunity to minister and serve and do the work of the Most High Mandela Otzi Elif Liban ahd often do banker impress i for the child does not enjoy the full inheritance the child does not operate in the full privilege oh but you'll begin to you'll begin to walk into and enter in and be bold and see results and lay hold and move up and move forward no more a child but a mature one a son of the Most High God Oh hallelujah let's praise him some more oh ho praise him in the spirit praise him in a new tongue on de mano so de ávila blame AC : an event Oh Oh vana mend Oh brave Oh Amanda Levin anando sort of around a old cello cello [Music] halleluyah halleluyah [Music] how many are serious about serving the Lord let me see your hand you're serious do you know what that means it means it's gonna cost you time right it's gonna take your time it's gonna take your energy it's gonna take you money it's gonna take your stuff right it's not always gonna be convenient for you it's gonna get into your life right did you hear what the what the word was just there the Lord's going to begin to require more of us well you know you do you expect more of a fifteen-year-old than you do a three-year-old don't you and you expect even more of a twenty-year-old well the Lord is going to he is beginning to expect and require more of us so have your ears open be attuned don't think anything's too small or too little or too beneath you and watch out watch these words I wish I could but I'm too busy I wish I could but I I just I can't I don't have the time I can't do it watch out watch out watch those words are you with me the Lord deals with you to be at a meeting I don't care what you have to do you be at that meeting if you have to walk there are you listening that the Lord is with you to help somebody you do whatever it takes you get that done too many folks letting too many little petty things knock them out knock him out no not us say it say that loud not me not us not us when the Lord calls we answer right he says go we go he says stay we stay he says do it we do it thank you lord you got talking then you got doing right Oh hallelujah let's praise him a little bit more oh thank you lord oh thank you lord or thank you lord oh thank you Lord my my my my my my my my my ocean on cordial daily go there for mommy and they may extend if Oh Byron bren's ninja is she she she Thiele hallelujah some folks have already missed it hallelujah don't miss it again don't miss it again they were you're called on and you were just too busy with your life you just had too much going on and you just couldn't do it and you weren't available and you just were too busy and didn't realize you thought you were telling that to a man or a woman and you the Lord took it personally he took it personally so it's going to have other opportunities thank God for His grace and mercy you're going to have other opportunities but he's going to require more as well I'm retired what does that mean yeah you got more time should mean you got more time and resources right huh you don't retire from serving the Lord till you're out of here no well you know I like to do this a certain way and I like to do this and to always do this on Tuesdays and and I always do this on furniture it may be time for you to make some radical changes in your schedule right let's not miss it let's not miss it I'm not just holding you just to be holding you do you understand that there's something here that is important that if we don't make some changes some people are going to miss God and they're gonna miss some opportunities they're not going to be used and then they go under why later I know a man called me one time and there's no doubt in my mind no doubt in my mind God ordained him to help me and I needed his help there was a time in the ministry oh I needed yourself and when I met him he and I the first time I thought that is the man I have been looking for I've been praying for and there is and he helped me about three times and then he wanted to run stuff and he wanted me to turn everything over to him and let him do it me not even ask any question about some things I couldn't do that and he wanted you know me to actually be under him in some ways God's given me a job for the ministry I my responsibility I couldn't do that but he wound up not helping me and leaving and doing something else and I was without you know people getting out of their place can cost other people there's been several times in our life it cost us it was rough having to make it they left to hold and we had to believe God and leave God and leave God to get past it in the making well several years later he wanted to go out to eat so I did and he's mad won't know why I didn't use him well I didn't mince words with him I put my fort day I said you didn't respect the ministry you didn't respect the things of God you're the one made to join I said what he's realizing he has missed out on all kinds of things he should have been a part of for years and that's not just something that he didn't help me with that is eternity that's reward he will not get in eternity and he's mad at me well I didn't I didn't even give him a moment to dwell in that I mean I wanted to say a lot of things I wanted to say you big old baby you left me stranded I had to believe garden do everything I knew to just make it through for the next four or five years till I could get to where I needed to be why you four landed around and messed around but he had other fans he was interested in and did friends don't let that be you we've had several people several people in this church we called on him to do some simple little thing and they were too busy to do it and they couldn't do it and didn't have time to do it and their life is just too full when I told my somebody else the church friends don't miss it because the one thing leads to another oh can you hear this now one thing leads to another if you're faithful doing this thing we know we can trust you doing something else and we know we can trust you doing something else and we know we can trust you doing something else but what if you never do the first thing you'll never find out where it could have led in five years right because you were too busy you didn't have time it's not always fun I mean these guys don't always want to come practice every Thursday the ushers don't always want to do this it's not always fun to stand out in the rain in the parking lot hmm it's not always fun to not be in the service and you're working with the children you know who God uses though the ones that are available the ones that show up and they're the ones going to get the reward and they're the ones that get promoted can you say Amen said out loud I am not too busy to serve the Lord I will be available Lord I'm available to you I'll change my schedule I'll put things aside your kingdom is first to me first to me not playing not recreation not goofing off my family is not first your kingdom is first first first Oh hallelujah listening yes Lord yes oh yes [Music] what's the answer can you come help can you come do this will you go over there and take care of that will you go visit them hmm will you get up late and drive over there huh you get out of bed and go take your money and go take care of that what's the answer tell me what's the answer what is all when the Lord's calling what is always the answer now your flesh will say no I can't I'm sorry I'm I just can't what's the right answer when the Lord calls just before you can figure it out just open your mouth and say yes sure I don't know how many times Phylis tonight something came up we were called upon by our elders or by something else in the kingdom of God and and I and they said can you do this can you be there and I said yes sir right away and then I thought how how are we gonna do this but he always makes away he always works it out he always brings the means and the ability if you're willing if you're willing there is a way tell me what's always the answer tell me the answer here what's huh are you available can you do it will you do it yes my answer will be yes Lord yes everybody Oh [Applause] [Music] hallelujah I believe one reason why this is coming up so strong right now precious things opportunities are coming right now and it's not fair for somebody that wasn't even willing to get such an opportunity and get such a tremendous reward that lasts for eternity you got to qualify and to qualify you got to be willing you got to be willing to do things other people weren't willing to do you got to be available when other people were too busy with their own life to qualify for these precious precious Phylis and I've been in some wonderful places we've been in some services we've seen some miracles I've tagged along behind brother Hagin in a healing line when the glory was so strong I couldn't even see couldn't see couldn't see him for the glory that's a good place to be but it would have been too busy hmm to greet people 20 years before that would have been too busy to clean up a floor and vacuum drive a car and go shop and hold the bag and would I have ever found out about that I would have never known about that never people won't know about that but that's the only time they'd have time for is if we can get caught up in the glory that's not how it works you know who God's gonna visit and who's God's gonna manifest in these special ways it's gonna be people that had time for him when they didn't feel like it but it was early and it was late they didn't have the money but they did it anyway and huh that's the people they're gonna experience hey that's right isn't it that fair that's right did it be those people I say yes Lord yes I will trust you in obeying singing out lies when he speaks to me what your my TV Internet [Music] oh I don't want to drag this out unnecessarily but there are so many people that church is not first the things of God are not first they just do it if it's convenient and if it's not lord have mercy on all our people that have not seen this open their eyes before their life is gone help them to see help us all to see what is important and what is completely unimportant what is priority what is just childish that we be robbed no longer [Music] oh I thank you lord [Music] Oh Lord you know if we if we could fast forward and see the future and how it's going to be did you hear brother Jesse talking about in heaven he saw people that had robes on and their robes had things on them that indicated what they had done in the earth like metals on a generals uniform not just not the same thing but same principle what we do had not fully see what it's going to mean that we are the ones that financed to that project are we are the ones that did that or were involved and help make it go in eternity to come people will see you and there will be something on your robe and they go oh you're part of that project they go yeah go read it God all those people came to the Lord through that yeah we were part of that that is never going away in the ages to come that will always be on your robe [Music] there were some people that stepped up when this church first started us thinking about the Lord brought it to me just like that just a minute ago and I know they didn't have much money but they put ten thousand dollars in this church to help it get started and that was all the money they had and the Lord brought that to me he said I will never forget that there were some other people had the ability to he brought me brought them to my attention they had the ability to they were supposed to have and they didn't do it I know him I could call their name I'll never say a word to him but they missed it and now they will never they won't be able to fix that this church has already started right somebody else came in and helped lay the foundation they missed that's something that will not be on their Road that they should have had part of all but the good news is you're still breathing haha and there's still opportunities right whoa now time is doing something now we talking about just doing what the Lord deals with you to do that's what we're talking about now I'm just doing something to be doing it because he dealt with you to do it yes Lord yes sing it again [Music] yes No let's take it as we go [Music] [Music] [Applause] yes [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you you

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Published: Tue Aug 07 2012