Keith Moore Seeing Jesus Pt 3 John 1

[Applause] we sure appreciate it it's wonderful to have good singing in it and playing we're so blessed we could still be singing by track or something right but and the Lord's given us given us this we're thankful you know everybody should use their talent to serve the Lord and let me encourage you we have many service teams in the church and if you really consider yourself a part of the church you should be serious about serving the Lord not just attending but surfing and you heard the testimony about the folks that got involved with the cleaning team and and the Lord dealt with them to get involved but they they drug around and waited but what they they did is they postponed their blessing by their slowness to respond and you know we could we'll have the bases covered without you but you'll be the one that's missing out you know what I'm saying so what are you doing for the kingdom of God not just what you're doing in life well I'm working at my job I'm I'm raising my family well that's good that's good but I said what are you doing for the kingdom of God specific service that you're rendering for the kingdom you need to be involved and these teams are wonderful these teams take care of their own is that right and you think well I don't need anything yeah well life ain't over everybody needs some help and support sometimes and you you'll be so glad if you got in a service team and you become a part of that family and you're there to help them when somebody else needs help they'll be there they'll rally around you I'm telling you they'll visit you they'll feed you they'll pray for you am i telling the truth teams huh I'm telling you this is important but if you don't so your service you'll miss out so pray about it look at the different service teams and see what the Lord said to you about it and just do what he says that's all I'm suggesting just do what he says go with me if you would to John the 14th chapter this morning John 14 we begin a few weeks ago and we were out last week I know Dave and Mike then everybody took care of you real well right what did I say I was trying to say Rick and anyway we appreciate that we were in a warmer temperature enjoyed a few days of vacation I highly recommend it you ought to do it because I can't afford it we just got the talking for an hour about you watching your mouth am I gonna have to start over now now seriously I want you to treat that word AFF Ord I want you to treat it like a cuss word I'm serious I want you to treat it like a four-letter cuss word don't you talk it I got people looking at me funny you must not understand what I'm saying this is the difference between you getting blessings are not getting them when you say I can't afford them we can't do that we can't afford it you are saying I can't have it cuz I don't I can't see how to make it happen I can't produce it and you might as well go on and say and I'm not gonna walk my faith I just live by what I can see and if I can't see how to do it I'm not gonna expect it to happen I'm not gonna believe it it is so easy for God to do things for us I mean he can move millions and not make a phone call it's easy if you can believe for it you know when it comes to your vision list if you can see how to make it happen and bring it to pass then you face not really stretching it needs to be something you can't see how this is ever gonna happen for you but you can leave it I said you can believe God can do it a way you don't know how claim one put it on there some of these stuff you don't even need to look at the sticker you don't even need to know how much it cost it'll just mess with your head I've had fellas before tell me oh no certainly she we have some owner vision is and I start to tell her how much it cut and she says don't tell me don't tell me why she don't want that in her head she just gonna believe she's getting one and we have we've gotten thing that the thing it will put on our vision list and you know some of the things we didn't have to pay what it cost some of the things we paid half of it some of the things we paid nothing for it well what if you'd have been hung up on the price you're not gonna believe for it because of the price and you it all been for nothing because you ain't gonna pay for it anyway if I got about anybody with me this morning is this true or not don't get hung up on the price don't don't look at what you make to determine what you can have don't look at your last year's income to determine what kind of house you can have and what kind of car you can have just breathe for one put it do you like it you like it then put it on your list and go I'm gonna claim one don't you know how much I don't tell me just don't even tell me because I may not be paying for it anyway or I might just pay has for right God has many many ways of doing things if he finds people that will believe him John 14 are you there you can also find first John three we'll go from one to the other I think John 14 and first John 3 John 14:21 Jesus said verse 21 he that has my Commandments and keeps them he it is that loves me and he that loves me shall be loved of my father and I will love him and will manifest myself to him you know this is the law of sowing and reaping right here if you manifest love for God by obeying him he's able to manifest his love to you it gives him a right it gives him an open door if you don't demonstrate love for him by doing what he says then the door is closed to him he's limited in to how much he can demonstrate his love to you well I don't like that well that's the next verse verse 22 Judas said to him not Judas Iscariot different Judas Lord how is it that you'll manifest yourself to us and not to the world jesus answered and said to him if a man love me he will keep my words and my father will love him and will come to him and make our abode with him he that loves me not keeps not my sayings and the word which you hear is not mine but the fathers which has sent me saying you love the Lord is not enough saying you love the Lord loudly and repeatedly does not prove that you do this has been a confusion for many they think well you know the greatest expression of loving the Lord is saying Lord I love you I love the Lord I love the look you can said all day and night but if you don't do what he tells you to do he said you don't love him they say we don't in our modern society doesn't doesn't like that at all that is politically incorrect hmm people don't like performance demonstrated love they like unconditional love and they like their version of unconditional love you love me no matter what I do or what I don't do and just know that I love you no matter what I do or don't do that means the people that think that's big that's Christianity oh yeah that's what you're supposed to do check up on assumptions I you know so many in even in Christendom and I say preachers do and that's I saw preacher being interviewed a while back and the interviewer said will you know Jesus he taught this and he did that and the pastor said yeah and I thought no no you need to speak up he didn't but he agreed with this unbeliever that that's what Jesus taught in did you hear this all the time well now Jesus taught acceptance he taught unconditional acceptance of everybody he did not no he did not he taught repentance did you hear me we are to love everybody we are not to accept their ungodly ways we are not to accept our condolences somebody's is what Jesus taught this doesn't mean that he did examine it look at it and this thing with love people are confused about well the Lord knows I love him I mean dear me I know like it but he knows my heart and he knows that deep down no let me tell you what he knows what he said yeah it's what he knows and if you if you and I do what he tells us to do we love him if we don't do what he tells us to do we love something else more than we love him were proven it by doing something else instead of doing what he told us to do and you can say I love the Lord night and day and it won't change that the reality is if you do love him you're gonna quit doing what you want to do and you're gonna do what he says that proves you love him it demonstrates it and here's the wonderful news when you do that when you love him enough to lay aside what you and others want you to do and do what he tells you to do he said I am going to manifest myself to that 100 glory to God there provide says I'm on I'm gonna show myself to them I'm gonna make myself real to them no friend there's nothing more precious in this whole big world and life than the reality of God God being real to you you know in him you seeing him in experiencing him by faith nothing more important than that that's what the world is starving for they don't want Church entity they don't want religious tradition they don't want to go through regimens and rituals and routines they want to know if God's real or not they want to see they want to hear they want to know now he's not he's told us we got to walk by faith but that doesn't mean God can't be real to us God can be as real to you as this seat you're sitting on he can be more real to you than any human person you meet day in and day out you can communicate with him either talking about hearing voices I'm not talking about seeing things he may grant that but he can be so real to you inside your spirit making known to you by the witness of the Spirit he can be led in the small things of life as well as the big but you have to make the decision I'm gonna do what he tells me to do go to first John there first John three please if you say you love him but you don't do what he tells you to do what's the truth truth is you don't really love him you say you do but you don't then let's see if we can get that a little clearer first John 2 and verse 3 chapter 2 I know I said 3 but we'll get to three I think hereby we do know this is chapter 2 verse 3 of first John hereby we do know that we know him how do we know that we know him if we keep his Commandments he that says I know him and keeps not his Commandments is a liar that's plain and the truth is not in him plain but whoso keeps his word in him verily is the love of God perfected you could say no no this you could sit like this the love for God perfected you have to look at these words close to seeing the original what it's emphasizing and this is what its emphasis it's obvious from the previous verse he's told my loving God and the love for God is manifested and developed when you show that you keep his words here by this we know that we are in him down in the third chapter the third chapter and the 18th verse my little children let us not love in Word neither in tongue but what in deed and in truth why you're here let's just back up to that second chapter again before we get away from it why would somebody that is a believer that is a Christian not obey him this is happening by the millions why it's because you love something else more than you do him ah John three don't turn there but just listen John 3:19 this is the condemnation that lights come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil they loved what they loved darkness more than light is that true that there are many people that love darkness more than light if you love the light you'd leave the darkness and come to the light but if you love the darkness you don't want the light you want to stay with it in first John right here the second chapter look at the fifteenth verse first John 2 and 15 what does it say love not the world neither the things that are in the world now that doesn't mean you can't enjoy things in life the world doesn't just mean in fact if you study the scriptures there's a difference between world and earth God made the earth right nothing wrong with appreciating what God made and all the great things that come out of the earth but the world is the world system the ungodly God godless world world without God a way of life a way of sin without God don't love that if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him you know Paul talked about people that even helped him he said demas has forsaken me a man who was helping having loved this present world think about that now somebody that had served with Paul had been seen the miracles had heard the amazing teachings had been a part of that but then afterward decides I'm going to Vegas someone wants a Vegas they call themselves Sin City right man I wouldn't call myself that that's like painting a bull's-eye on your head I know I understand you must not believe in God to talk like this but God is real demons left Paul and saw how much sin you could go into you remember Lot's wife the place is being destroyed as they're running away God in His great mercy at the last second is getting them out of there they shouldn't have been there to start with right how many understand if you can move to Sodom and Gomorrah and enjoy living there something's wrong with you you are not okay and the Bible said lot vexed his righteous salt it did bother him but apparently it didn't bother his wife or his kids and apparently he let them sway him and override him and it was vexing him but they want to in fact his wife loved it so much that as they're being delivered from it as it's being destroyed she looks back longingly I don't want to leave Sodom I'm a part of the Sodom Country Club I'm part of the gomorrah garden group and she became a pillar of salt she didn't want to leave sodom she didn't a lot of times people get their wish i don't want to leave it i don't want to leave it i don't want to leave these drugs i don't want to leave this life well you can die in it you can stay there forever what gives you the power to break free from the sin that grips most of the world here's one of the biggies you've got to love something else more you got to love somebody else you got to love something else more than you do drinking long as you love drinking more than you love god you gonna drink and get drunk every day did you hear me you wanted to people so many times people think well bless their hearts they just need deliverance know one of the first things people need is to want to be free people are you can I get somebody set free and they love it I don't care how much you pray there's got to come a change to where they want to be free they got to be willing What did he say don't love the world don't love the things that are in the world If any man love the world the love of the father is not in him for all that's in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world and the world is passing away and the lust thereof I'm gonna know this whole thing is passing away quickly you're foolish if you cling to what's going on right now you cling to your little sin you're clinging to this junk it's momentary it's a flash in the pan it's a brief vapor right hold to his unchanging hand lay hold to him love him somebody say love him love God with all your heart all your soul all your mind all your strength if you do and he says quit that what's going to happen well what if you don't quit then you are proving you can say whatever you want to but you're proving you love that more than you love him talk all you want to but that's what that's that's what how it really is you mean all of us do we love God how about you know no need looking back can't change the past I said you can't change the past forgetting those things that are behind let's press let's reach far forward let's press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus maybe I didn't love God like you should have in old five our old six or seven or eight but you're not living there anymore you're living here and in 2009 we can love God all the time Riley we can love God more than we love everything we can put God first this year can't we we can do it by His grace we can love him so much that anything he says that's it we're gonna do it right we're gonna prove that we love him if he says I want you to do this we're gonna do it if he says stop doing that we gonna stop it by His grace cuz we want to please him more than we want to please ourselves we care more about what he knows and thinks then what other people know and think right we love him somebody said out loud I love him come on you need to sell out enough you can hear with your own ears say I love the Lord more than anything else more than anybody else more than my own life I love the Lord now how are we gonna know that's true by what you and I do in response to what he has said so go with me to the book of John we said as the Lord would help us and lead us what we want to do is look at his words and all of this book are the words of God but if we did a seminar on that we'd be nine days into the Millennium for the second part so we are going to as the Lord will help us and direct us look at Jesus specific words as recorded in the book of John and we're going to ask ourselves three questions every time we see something are you going to John John chapter 1 anybody remember what three questions we're going to ask ourselves hadn't been going that long have we brought it up I'll remind you number one we're going to ask ourselves do we know who said this do we realize who said this we're going to look at red letters tell me who said these things Jesus did he really say it did was he really born did he really live did he really say these things is he really alive today yeah and we know from from the book of John the Bible says if everything that Jesus said indeed had been recorded he said he's supposed even in the world itself couldn't contain everything that could and should be written so Jesus said and did a lot of things that are not recorded which makes these ones that are picked at how many believe everything Jesus said was good everything he said was good and wonderful and to live by but these things that were selected from among all those by the Holy Spirit and recorded in kept forest generation after generation they must be pre-eminently important right so we're going to look at these words and we're going to ask yourself the questions do we realize who said this number one number two do we understand what he said are we understanding what what he meant what he said how it applies to us and number three anybody know what number three is am I doing it am i doing it or if I'm doing it can I do it better can I do it more and then it's time to demonstrate our love for him by doing it John chapter one it begins by saying in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made in him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shined and darkness and the darkness comprehended it not everything that was made and that exists came into being by the word God spoke he said and it is as much as well I thought it was the Big Bang well there may have been a big bang when he spoke there is no contradiction between God and true science true science will always prove what God said or can you know agree with it I should say and science that supposedly contradicts God and this proves the Bible is confused science ignorant science not true science Jesus the word verse 14 was made flesh and dwelt among us we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth as you keep reading in the book John came and introduced Jesus and he when he saw him coming he said behold verse 29 behold the lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world how many believed that he is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world and his disciples so believed what John said that they left John and started following Jesus and in fact so many people left John and started following Jesus that his die-hard followers said man this is not right that's just the Keith Moore paraphrase now they said you know you helped helped him get started you might say what you'd have to be that John was known and popular Jesus was unknown you helped it you introduced him through your ministry you helped him get started and now everybody's leaving you and going to him you know what he said he said that's just exactly how it's supposed to be I must decrease and he must increase this is the way it's supposed to be glory to God and two of them that left him notice we see some of the first were actual words of Jesus down here in verse 35 the next day after John stood and two of his disciples looking upon Jesus as he walked he said behold the lamb of God the two disciples heard him speak and they followed Jesus they just left him and went after Jesus you know we've talked about this in our previous study there there's been error about discipleship and then there's been people that just ignore discipleship altogether and one of the big errors that people got into is making disciples of each other you're my disciples I'm going to disciple you mister what's wrong with that everything since Jesus came on the scene we are all his disciples study the Scriptures see what I mean look at the book of Acts see anywhere where it talks about Paul's disciples or Peters disciples it's not there they're all disciples of the Lord and here he says Jesus turned and saw them following and he's he said what Sikhi talk about red letters are y'all with me now here's the first red letters in the book of John are you excited I don't feel it but I just don't feel your excitement look at me red letters red letters what does that mean Jesus the master the head of the church said something and this is the one by whom everything that is created was created right God said light be and the the way he created the light was by the word who is Jesus and the one who was that is the way by which everything was created he has now opened his mouth and said something else this is this on the caliber of light be it's the same word I said it's the same word it's the same God do we love him do we love him with all our heart soul mind and strength how do we prove it by keeping his words keep first of all means to treasure keep means to value to treasure it also means it's what we think it means keep hold on - which means you remember this after you leave in a few minutes you remember it this afternoon you remember it tomorrow afternoon you remember Tuesday morning you remember what remember what he said and then finally keep means do do practice put into practice operate live live by do here we go red letters are you excited let me look let me look yeah yeah okay Jesus about to say something what do you say what are you looking for mrs. what's so exciting about that do you know who's talking I lost somebody come on now if Jesus was standing in front of you right now instead of me and he looked at you and he said what are you looking for do you care he's the same yesterday today and forever it wouldn't be anymore the words of Jesus than if you saw him saying it today just as much what are you looking for doesn't matter what you're looking for apparently it does or he wasn't it burned it up why in other places we know Jesus said this seek and you shall find what are you gonna find you gonna find what you're looking for spiritual principles are involved when you start looking for something beware of looking for wrong things I had a person some years ago in healing school brother Kenneth Hagins ministry and she was fine and healthy but she went to the doctor all the time and got test run and test run and test run and they said you're healthy you're fine you're good she says I know I'm not and so she'd go to another doctor and spend all this money and another doctor and and she didn't really have symptoms and I talked to her she came to healing school she said I got cancer I said how do you know I said are you sick you feel bad no I just know it you got four world renowned doctors and all their battery of tests says she's healthy and clean no but I know I've got it and they just popped out of me I said the scripture says seek and you shall find she said what I said if you keep looking for it you gonna find it and then you'll think you'll so you can say aha I told him all I had it and not realize you're the one that spoke it over yourself until it came to pass when you start looking for something good or bad spiritual laws come into play you're started on the path you should see something that looks I'm getting across the crest red ladders red letters are true no matter what you think jesus said seek and you shall find so you best stop looking for bad stuff right because you'll find it I'm gonna know if you start looking for faults in people but if you start looking for problems in your wife but if you start looking for failures in your husband what if you start looking seek and you shall find sometimes people think it shows how spiritual they are because I think I see things I see if I see all their faults and short it's called fault finding it's not a good thing I'm no fault finding is not what you want fine how about less fine virtue finding huh good quality finding also if you seek you shall find the spiritual person can wade through all the junk part the high grass of all the flesh and problems go look at there there's a diamond in there firstly I don't see it well you're not looking for you have to look for it you know I've seen people in the scripture they read the whole Bible they'll read past prosperity and healing and not even notice it and go whoa whoa whoa unto you all they're looking for is judgment and cursing and that's all they see in the Bible your people say dumb things like I didn't seen healing in there like what I don't see all that prosperity in there you're not looking for it you don't want to see it it's there tell me what you go find help me out what are you gonna find so is that is Jesus asking a very legitimate question here when he says what are you seeking for what are you looking for what are you looking for what are you looking for let's let's back up you're gonna find what you looking for so what do you want to find that's best what you'd be better be looking for come on tell me what you're looking for are you I'm looking for miracles I'm looking in for promotions and I'm looking for advances increases revelation strengthened looking for joy joy joy peace so I don't see it well keep looking for it keep looking for it because when you seek seek and you shall find Jesus said it now let's just stop right here do you love him then what do you want must you do now he said seek and you'll find what should you be do you love him okay how you prove it seek seek him see kids to look for him what are you doing I'm looking for him wait I'm looking for looking for truth looking for healing looking for prosperity I'm looking for light looking for blessings I'm looking for it so yeah but what about all this joking I'm not looking for that nobody's junk everywhere I'm not I don't want that so I'm not looking for it cuz you get what you look for I'm I know it's there but I don't want to see it I know it's there but I'm not looking for that I don't want that I'm looking for this keep reading they said rabbi which used to say master where where do you stay they don't know what to say where are you staying in and his answer is interesting was he saying more red letters here's our next red letters what Jesus say won't you come and find out come on are we excited about red letters do we know who said this do we care if we love him we're gonna put into practice everything that we understand that he said come and see come and see as much they come and see what if you stay away what if you don't seek he he's not telling them the whole story on purpose right they're looking for something they've been following John they're serious people they're committed people they are disciples we spent weeks talking about that they were John's disciples and then they there are right enough that when he says that's him that's the Lamb of God they said really you sure that's him yeah John we love you but bye cuz she said you know I said he is the one he said that's right go boys go they said we love you bye and so their trail along behind Jesus as he's going down the road Jesus look so these guys are following me and they're still there they to go hi he doesn't know them they don't know him they just follow him now are we back to this seeking you shall fight they're looking for some come on guys are y'all with me this one they're looking what are they looking for they're looking for God they're looking for the Messiah they're looking for salvation looking for the Lamb of God they're looking for the fulfillment of Scripture finally he stopped he said what are you looking for what are you seeking what do you want they said where are you going where do you stand and what do you say come on and see how many sin this is not just a simple invitation come see where I live what is this come see where this is going ah come see come and see what the next steps gonna lead to come and see Oh glory to God this is the word for 2009 brother it's what's going on come and see now so many want to wait until they hear about it and then they want to kind of try to jump in on what's already going you'll miss so much Lord thank you for helping me with this you the flesh wants to understand how it's gonna work out before it starts that way God does not operate that way he is not going to operate that way you can't talk him into it you can't compel him into it no way no how I know when it comes to so many of the things that the Lord has led us in life and ministry we had to take a step not knowing you'd get a little bit of direction and you go what then and you know what he says come and find out you're like we've got a clue where would the money come from how would we do it where would we live how would it work out where will the kids go to school where was this how what about their retirement what about the investment what about this you know what the Lord will say come find out well I can't do that I have to know I got to be able to see step two I got to be able to know where I'm gonna live I got to know how I'm gonna make a living now the truth is you don't have to know you don't if you love him and he says come here you won't ask how why what far you'll just come many have missed God many have missed God because they they're not gonna move it that couldn't see how they couldn't figure it out quote for me what Jesus said right here quote for me come and see come and find out come and discover it come and realize he is a faith Jesus faith pleases him he requires it is not optional if you say I'm put on it that bothers me but please would you sit down here with me with my scheduler and and show me how this is good because it just it give me a lot of satisfaction of mine it would really help me out he's gonna say no you want to find out come and see then I get it they don't know where they're going they don't know if they're gonna eat tonight or not they don't know if they got a place to sleep tonight and I they don't know what's gonna go on in the morning do they but when you love him and you trust him you don't have to know I said you don't have to know you just say okay here we go yeah I wanna see let's go where are we going I don't know we're gonna see it's exciting I said it's exciting it's wonderful we're at that place right now as a church as a ministry we're at that place right now we're not gonna sit down and quit we're not gonna rest on past accomplishments we're not gonna be just happy and satisfied stay where we are we're gonna be thankful but how many believe the Lord saying come here you say where this come this way why come see yes but Lord it's dark up there can't see a thing come on find out what's up there he'll open doors he gave you opportunities you'll look through them and go what's in there what's on the other side come on tell me what will he say because he's the same yesterday today and forever what will he say come on help man come and see and if you love him you'll quit asking questions you'll quit messing around you'll quit waiting year after year and you'll do what you'll truck yourself right over there right you'll get your little self right over there and you'll go yes sir I want to see come on and stop right here did these guys see some things in the next three and a half years Oh where were they what did they see what were they involved in they saw the glory of God they heard the father speak out of heaven they saw Elijah and Moses talking with Jesus they saw the dead raised they saw storms calmed they heard teaching like they'd never imagined what if they'd stopped and said well now you know we'd like a contract you gonna pay us what's our job description what does the Lord say come find out oh I need some assurances I mean I can't move my whole family base don't come and see I mean the electric company don't take come and see you can't pay for your groceries with coming see actually you can I said actually you actually you can be better off than you've ever been ever been if you will come and find out I mean I'm rejoicing the one side on the other side I'm not because there are many people that have not the Lord said come and see and they didn't they're still sitting and waiting sitting them been waiting for years he said come and see they said I'll just wait I'll just wait and see no he didn't say Jesus didn't say wait and see what did Jesus say that's tradition that says wait and see and many have replaced this word with the traditional word wait and say well we'll just wait and see mmm-hmm we'll just wait and just see how all that works out you know don't get excited then oh you don't run off half-cocked you don't know what you doing you got to know Jesus didn't say you got to know what do you say help man red letters somebody say I like these words I love these words these words in my life this is what I live by this is how I live I'm seeking for good things I look for it and I find it come and see glory to God stand on your feet I could go on but stand up glory to God 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 words how many know one word of his to change your life life-changing life-giving Oh hallelujah let's lift up her hands let's praise him for a moment let's give him thanks father we thank you for your precious precious words thank you for Jesus thank you that the word became flesh and dwelt among us every word out of his mouth is life to us tell him that you love his words tell him that they mean everything to you Jesus you're everything to me what you say is life it's truth it's it's the way it's everything to me by your grace I'll I'll demonstrate that I love you by keeping these words everybody said out loud I treasure these words I will hold on to these words and I will do these words hallelujah thank you lord go ahead and sing something for

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Published: Mon Jan 23 2012