(exciting music) - Praise God everybody,
Dr. Mark Barclay here. I'm calling you
blessed in Jesus name, healed, strong,
prosperous, happy, full of God, because that's
what God does in our life. If you don't know my
Jesus give up right now. Just invite him into your heart, he turns nobody down and
he will not turn you down, and it's just a beginning
but it's a great beginning to a great life. And God'll just keep
blessing you and blessing you and blessing you. I'm excited about
the broadcast today. It's gonna be awesome. I know what I'm preaching, and it's gonna help
you, I'll guarantee you. I'm holding in my
hand Seven Golden Keys That Cause A Good Life, and so if you call the
number on your screen. They'll tell you
how to get this, they'll tell you
the price of it. We take care of all the
stuff for your taxes and the government and all that. But we just want you to have it, and we priced it where
it'll be good and easy for you to get it. You got to have it. I recommend anybody breathing
air gets this series, because we got to boost you
up to get you living higher and better because
believe it or not, that's the will of
God for your life, and no one's ever gonna
convince me different. Get on your phone, text
somebody, call somebody. Tell them the station we're on, tell them to get hooked
up with us right now, because today's message is
going to be life changing. Grab your Bible, we're
headed to the sanctuary. It is gonna be
awesome, guarantee you. Did you bring a Bible today? - [Congregation Member} Oh Yeah. - Well I brought one
because I'm a Bible man. (congregation members praising) And you are Bible people. So turn to Isaiah,
chapter one, amen. The great prophet Isaiah, we'll
study a few minutes today, Isaiah, chapter one, praise God for the Bible. I'm so glad we have a Bible. I don't know about all the
lunatics telling you not to read it and not to study it and
that it's not God's word, but it is God's word, and it is already established
and settled in Heaven, let alone the earth, that it is God's Holy word. It's done me good,
I'll tell you that. It's done nothing but
bless me and guide me and keep me so I'm just
gonna keep preaching it and teaching it and
living by it myself, amen. We're teaching a series,
Seven Golden Keys That Cause A Good Life. Seven Golden Keys That
Cause A Good Life. This is number four already. And today I wanna talk
to you about obedience to the call of God and
obedience to your God. Obedience is an extremely
important matter to the heavenly father. Now you and I, we have
a handicap in our life. There's a flaw in our life
that we must overcome daily, it's called the flesh. There's different ways to
say the word the flesh. Maybe we just wanna
say our stubbornness, our will for our own lives. Maybe a word could be a
little bit of selfishness. That we want what we want. A lot of people, even
Christians I think, they plan their whole life
and hardly ever present it to God, and sometimes I think some
people plan their whole life, get it all planned out,
this is what I'm gonna do, this is what I wanna be, and then go take it to God
and ask him to bless it, without any input
from him whatsoever. This is important because
of several factors that I'm gonna read in my verse. One, you got to
understand that it's God who requires obedience. Not the church and
not the pastor. We only put obedience
in front of you because God demands obedience and as a pastor, I'm
the mouthpiece of God. I'm the oracle of God. So whatever God says to you, that's what I try to say to you. So we have to be obedience
'cause it's what God demands us to be. We do, two, you don't wanna be
the children of disobedience. - [Congregation Members] No. - [Mark] Go read in your Bible
what happens to those people. So we don't want that. Three, we wanna be
obedient to our life and to our call
and to our master, because that's what puts you
in the position for blessing. We also want to be obedient
because it blocks Satan. When you're obedient
you're in the will of God, and when you're not obedient, you're out of the will of God. Being out of the will of God, the Bible's pretty
clear on that. That is a bad place to be, amen. And so we understand that
that old nature wants to climb up inside
and take control. Remember our famous
poem around here. There are two natures
within my chest. One is cursed. - [Congregation
Member} One is blessed. - One is blessed, the one I love, the other I? - [Congregation Member} Hate. - But the one I feed.
- Will dominate. - Will dominate, so
any time you want to, any time I want to, I can slowly cool off,
give up the Bible. Give up the Christian lifestyle, and I can slowly cool off, even live like the world, start skipping prayer,
skipping church, skipping Bible reading. Get a little harder
to forgive people. You know, using my
money for other things. All of the sudden the
words in my mouth change. Listen, Mark Barclay,
including you. Raise your hand, say me. - [Congregation Member} Me. - [Mark] At any given time, Mark Barclay could make a
decision to turn away from the life that God chose for me. Now, many are called,
few are chosen. God's calling everyone, and wishes that all
men, all humans, would come to repentance, because that way thy can start
the process to escape hell. But few are chosen. You were chosen
when you said yes. And once you were chosen, God said I got a
plan for your life. I got a plan for you'd life. I been, you know, I been
pastoring here a long time. I just, I don't say a lot, 'cause I try to be careful
not to just pick out one or two people of
what they've done and then not everybody else because we're a
kind of church men, between our partners at large, the ones that don't
attend here regularly, and you are our church family, it takes everybody. Every one of us are
special and important. That's why the devil
wants you out of here. But I was thinking
the other day, I was reading through my
magazine, our magazine, for the ministry. And I got praying
for Thai Smith, Thai's back here today. I could not tell you, I don't, maybe he could. I could not tell you, Thai's a powerful
artist and such and you know, I
watched him grow up with my kids, him and Jason, and Gary and Susan's
kids, Thai's there son. I couldn't tell you how
much money Thai has saved this ministry and I know
even when he charges us to do things, 'cause he does a lot of stuff, it isn't what he would
charge somebody else, and many times he does stuff, I know he does, he
does it for free, he does it after hours, and he's one, I got to
thinking about it this morning. He's one of the reasons we
all look so good around here. And our mailings look
good, and our magazines, and our artwork,
and so I don't know, give Thai a good
hand clap, will you? Praise God, thank you Thai,
I love you, praise God. And give Tracy a good hand clap 'cause she let's him do
all that, amen, amen, amen. Grow up in church, find the
will of God for your life and be obedient to it, that's what this
young man has done. And look how it's
blessed the ministry of the prophet of God and
blessed our church altogether. Amen, so with all
that on your mind, obedience, to obey God,
obey God at all costs. Obey God at all costs. Don't listen to that
old flesh in there. The old fallen nature of Adam. Listen, you are a partaker
of his divine nature, his divine nature. Did you find Isaiah one yet? - [Congregation Member] Oh yeah. - Now don't freak out, that
wasn't all introduction. It was all part of
what I wanted to say. Isaiah one, we look at verse 19. This is one of my favorite, this is one of Vicki's
favorite verses as well. If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the
good of the land. I like that verse man. I got it highlighted
in my Bible. If I could put flashing
light right there, I'd do it, so whenever, I'd
just see it flashing, like read this verse again. If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good
of the land, verse 20. But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be
devoured with a sword for the mouth of
the Lord has spoken. Really, wow, well I know
this is a prophet of old. You got to understand though, some people think that
everything in your Bible from Genesis to the
first word in Matthew, you know, all of what we
call the Old Testament, a lot of people don't, they call all that the law. That's under the law because
the New Testament starts in the Book of Matthew, no, wait a minute, the law is only listed
in about a book and a 1/2 of your entire Old
Testament collection. For example, the
books of wisdom, are not defining the law. They're defining a wisdom
of how to walk with God, and wisdom of how
to walk with man. So if you read the
Book of Proverbs, you'll find wisdom
of how to walk with mankind, other people, your soul, this life. If you live in the
Book of Psalms, you'll find the wisdom
of how to walk with God. Amen, and they're not,
that's not part of the law that God gave Moses. Those were written way after
Moses was dead and gone and the law was
already given, right? Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon,
but these prophets also. Isaiah didn't live
in the time of Moses. He's not prophesying the law, he's defining the heart of God. This is why that Old
Testament was preserved fro you and me, so we can know the heart of God. The New Testament defines
a lot of church stuff, and church rules,
thus the Epistles. How to live in the New
Testament, what to do, what not to do, how
to run your churches. He even deals with the
gifts of the spirit, let, he gives a number. Let this many prophesy,
the most three, and let the, you know. So there's all kind
of instructions, but it's very hard to
find the full heart of God by reading only
the New Testament. That's why these were
preserved for us. So God said, it's pretty clear, God said, Mark Barclay, if
you are willing and obedient, you know to him, and the style of
life he has for us, and the call on our life. You're not all called to
be a voice to the nations, like I am, but you're called to help me
be a voice to the nations, so therefor, in that sense, you're a voice to the nations, we're getting the job done. Listen to me just a minute, I know a lot of people but I'm gonna pick
on me for a minute, so make it easier
for you to listen. If Mark Barclay said,
well I'm willing Lord, I'm willing to do
anything you say, go where you tell me to go, do what you tell me to do,
say what you want me to say. I'm willing Lord, I'm
so willing, praise God. I'm willing, I'm
willing, I'm willing. But then the Lord tells me
what to do and I don't do it. I wasn't obedient,
I didn't obey. I didn't obey. You know, there's this passage
of scripture we probably should preach from
a little more often. It's in the Pentateuch, the
first five books of the Bible, and it talks about that
death was coming throughout the city to kill the first born, and God said, everybody say God. - [Congregation Member} God. - See, God's always
looking at for his people. God said take a lamb,
unblemished, best one you got. And it's something that
God always wants the best, and the first. That's our God. He said take that
lamb, and sacrifice it. And take the blood and
paint it on the door posts. Just slop blood on the
door post, go inside, and eat the whole lamb. Now there's a lot of that lamb
that's not so good eating. (congregation praising) Now, I like a good lamb
chop once in a while, maybe you don't. You don't seem real
excited about it. Americans I think are mostly
chicken and beef eaters, but yeah, I hear some
amens on that, amen. Eat the whole lamb. Now if you bring that, I'm not trying to
stretch anything, if you bring that into that
into the New Testament, you see this obedience than. God said if you kill
that lamb put the blood, he didn't stop there, put the blood, he
didn't stop there. Put the blood in the door post, he didn't stop there. He said there's something you
got to do besides the blood. - [Congregation Member} Drink. - Get yourself in that house
and you and your family devour that lamb, eat that whole lamb. And the spirit of
death will pass you by. I know a lot of Christians, I could, if I wanted to do
it I could do it myself. I could start picking
and choosing what part of the new Testament, what part of Christianity
do I really like? And what part don't I? What part do I really like? If I'm gonna eat the lamb, the whole lamb of Jesus Christ, then I gotta to
eat the whole lamb, I got to take on
the whole package. I can't just take on the I'm
saved and going to heaven, let's go get a beer package. I got to not only
claim the blood and let the blood of
Jesus be painted on the door of my heart, but I got to eat the whole lamb. Whatever the lamb of
God says is required. Not what I say is required. Now what you say is required. Whatever the lamb of God says, this is how you live now
that you're blood washed, in order to have death, and
decay, and deterioration, and depression, and all
these other Ds, you know, taken away from you,
eat the whole lamb. Take the whole package
of Jesus Christ. Everybody shout I will. - [Congregation Member} I will. - [Mark] Clap once if
you receive it from me. I will take the whole
lamb, praise God. Now back to willing,
I can say I'm willing. I'm willing to do anything
you tell me to do. But then I don't do it. There's the other
kind of person. They're obedient, but
they're not willing. I'm blessed, God, I'm doing it, God told me to do it,
and I'm just gonna do it, get out of my way, I'm gonna obey God, I don't wanna obey God,
I hate obeying God, I wish God would've never
gave me this assignment. I use this verse a lot when
I help other preachers. And other pastors
who wanna quit. To say, you're
gonna disobey God? He assigns you to do
this, this, and that, you're just gonna disobey him? Oh no, I'm gonna do it. Well, you're not willing. I don't understand why
things aren't better for me. Willing and obedient? You can't just be willing, and then don't obey
the scriptures, and then, but a lot of
people, they're like, the letter to the law, man. I mean, they're gonna obey, but they're grumbling
and fighting and nasty and all of the way
through the thing. If you wanna eat, I'm a witness to this, if you wanna eat the
best of the lamb, now the best of the
lamb to me is healing, better than healing is health
and never need healing. If you want a healthy body, you wanna live long, and you wanna live strong, that's the good of the land. You wanna wife, hey,
my wife of 47 years, I dated her for five. That's a long time for
two people to walk it out. 47 years and she wasn't lying, she was grateful. She stood up before you today, we laugh a lot, if
you weren't secure, you can't tease a little bit. If you're marriage is rocky
you don't stand up in front of the whole world and
tease a little bit, but I don't think Vicki
was teasing when she said, I'm grateful that I married you. You listening, one of
the best things I think, the good of the land, is to be happily married, to have someone to hold you
and talk to you and love you and put up with you, and tolerate you and endure you, and help you walk
through the battle, so you don't have to walk
though it by yourself. One puts a thousand at flight, but two, 10,000. The Bible says, how can
one in the bed be warm? It takes two. And I, you know,
on goes the story. And so this is the
best of the land. Is to not lose your mind. The best of the land, to eat the best of the
land you don't have some, you don't live in
ulcers and worry and nervous breakdown. To eat the best of the land
your children serve God, and they make your
heavenly father happy. To eat the bets of the
land you got a couple of bucks in your pocket. You're not so far in
debt they're ready to come and arrest you,
especially the IRS. I'm talking about living
the best of the land. I think about this
guy downtown here. They were at a
restaurant, a big circle, I guess they're all
businessman to some degree, and this guy, I just
happened to go in there, they had a guest speaker there. So I went to pick him up, and I heard this
guy say my name, and so I stopped a minute, yeah, that Mark Barclay out
there, he's on television, flies an airplane, he's
just like a cult leader. That don't bother me. Puking people puke,
just get out of the way. You can't go up and
stop a sour belly, I hope you learned that by now, just get out of the spray zone. So, that part don't bother me. But I thought, well,
I just kind of step in to see what he's got to say, and you know, it's just
natural for people. I stepped in the circle
and they enlarged the main spot for me. I'm now part of the circle. And I'm just kind of
looking around a little bit, and this guy's the bad mouth, and this guy says, oh my God, it's Barclay, yeah. I said I heard what
you said about me, sir. He goes well, yeah,
well, you know, well you know you got to
admit you're a little weird. I said I'm not
weird, you're weird. - [Congregation Member} Amen. - What do you mean by that? You're weird, you know,
weird, you're weird man. You think I'm weird,
let's compare notes. I'm healthy, that
cough of yours tells me you're dying soon. I'm free, you're smoking. I have no hangovers,
I think you do. You don't look so good,
you look a little green, you been drinking haven't you? Well, yeah, I'm a drinker. My kids are in church, I noticed last night
yours got arrested, or not last night, in the newspaper
yours got arrested. And so I live in peace. You seem to live in turmoil. I don't have any
odd against anybody. You seem to have odd against me, you're never shaking my hand, never stepped in my church. I'm free from lying,
you're a lying fool. Listen to what you just said. - [Congregation Member} Come on. - In front of all your friends. Well you know, they're, that
circle's getting bigger, they're spacing
out a little bit. I said you're driven by demons, I'm driven by God. I'm going to heaven forever. You're going to hell forever. Let me get this straight. I'm the weird one? I live in joy and peace,
I'm happily married, you're on your third wife. I went down the list. I said wait a minute, I'm weird? I'm not weird man, I'm blessed. I'm living good. Things are good for me. You are miserable, hungover,
and coughing 1/2 to death, and your family's falling apart, and you think I'm the weird guy? No, I obey God, you're
the child of disobedience. I said you know the Bible says
children who are disobedience are gonna be damned. Gonna be damned. Yo should go find out
what damned means. Oh it was quieter in the
circle than it was in here, but y'all kind of quiet. You wanna eat the
best of the land, don't fool around with God, you wanna eat the
best of the land, just do what the
Bible tells you to do. How many times have I told
this as we studied together, this is the textbook for living on this planet if
you're a human. - That's right.
- Amen. - God, the manufacture, the
creator, of all humans, left. Wrote this book and left
this book for you and me, though it's been
attacked and torn apart, and buried times
over generations, it's still comes to the surface. It's the most book read, how many times have
you come to church and had the book read to
you, preached from it, or you read it? This is the most, this book is read more than
anything ever written by man. More copies have been sold
than any book ever written by man, it's in languages
that other books, you can't even get
an encyclopedia, 1/2 the time you can't get a
dictionary in that language, but you can go to Hoogla Boogla, and they'll be a
little Bible there, in Hoogla Boogla language. - Amen.
- Amen, right. - [Mark] This is the
instruction Book of God saying, I want you blessed. And I want you safe. And I want you to
live a good life. Do what I tell you to do, and you will live a good life. Right, so we have to be willing. You got to be willing to
live according to the book. Oh listen, I know
we have to obey God, if he appears in the night. He sends an angel
to talk to you. You have a dream, a
revelation, an inspiration, an illumination, a
divine visitation. Just make sure it's God. - [Congregation
Member} That's right. - But I wouldn't
practice hearing from God on supernatural stuff, I would practice hearing
and obeying God willingly, by going to what is written. And when you can conquer that
book in your everyday life, you're gonna live a
great life of obedience. Can I have an amen? - [Congregation
Member} Amen, yeah. - Amen, so this is easier
lived than what I'm preaching, I know that, to be
willing and obedient. To be willing in
here and just do it. Let's just take it out of
church service for a minute. What about forgiving people? I'll forgive them but I
ain't ever forgetting. Oh, well I'm willing to
forgive them, I really am. I told God I'm willing
to forgive that guy, but only if he comes here and
asks for forgiveness first. No, so you're willing
but you're not obedient. The other guy forgave. He was obedient but
he wasn't willing. Neither one of them are gonna
eat the best of the lamb. Somebody's plate's
gonna get cheated. And there's not gonna be the full portion of
food on your plate, your everyday life. It isn't God's will that
you're rich and sick, it isn't God's will that
you're healthy and poor. It isn't God's will
that you're happy, and lost, it isn't God's
will that you're found, saved, and unhappy. You got to understand. When you read this
Bible, cover to cover, you and I discover that
it's the will of God for you and me to live
the life he planned for all of his children. Healthy, peaceful, joyfully,
prosperous, spiritual, flowing in the power of God. (upbeat music) Praise God, I'm all
fired up about that. It's a powerful message
for such a day as this. Thank God for the Bible. Thank God for you. I hope you're serving God, and hope things are
going good for you. Listen, if you
don't know my Jesus, you need to invite him to
come live in you right now. It's the beginning
of the greatest thing
that'll ever happen in your life. It does change your destiny
from hell to heaven. That's a big, big, big miracle, but it also adds a measure
of greatness to your life that you'll never achieve
without the presence of God in his peace, and his
leadership living on the inside. You can call us,
write us, email us, anytime you want to. People do from around the world. We'll do everything we can to
help you and strengthen you. I'm holding in my hand
a powerful series. I just called it Seven
Golden Keys That Cause A Good Life. They're from the Bible,
and if you can get them, and do them, and get them going in your life, get ready for your
life to increase and be upgraded and
be even stronger than it's ever been before. I sure appreciate you, letting us come
to you like this. We work hard, we pray long. Send us a seed when you can, and put some money into
Mark Barclay Ministries, and into this telecast, and we're just gonna
spend it right. I promise you that. Until the next time, I call you blessed,
healed, strong, and favored by the
most high God, amen.
