September 23, 2018 - Pastor Carter Conlon - Is This Your First or Last Year?

there are a lot of preachers today that won't preach a message like I'm going to speak to you this morning mostly because they want to be admired and they want your affection and they want your money but we have never shunned in this house from declaring the full council of God there are blessings of the Lord and there are warnings of the Lord as well and both are equally applicable I am more aware now that I'm turned 65 am more aware that I'm going to stand before God one day in the not-too-distant future and I will give an account for you for every name for every person those online those that are here in the main sanctuary in the annex in North Jersey I will give an account for you and God forbid that at that day that you would not be at the throne of heaven god forbid that you sat under the sound of my voice and the word that God gave to me and somehow it failed to find route in your life and didn't produce the fruit of God and allowed you to develop a false comfort that's not offered by the scriptures I pray with all my heart that if you should miss heaven for eternity that your blood will never be on my hands that I will have delivered you the full counsel of God you will have had a clear choice to make and the promises and the provision of God to make that choice will have been given you very clearly there's a promise of blessing when we turn to God it's a promise of strength and great grace and I pray with all my heart that that would become yours today I'm going to speak to you today from Luke chapter 13 the title my message is is this your first or your last year is this your first or is it your last year father I thank you with all my heart God for the touch of heaven I thank you Lord for your mercy I thank you Lord for your care and your compassion towards your people thank you Lord that you know every heart you know every practice in this sanctuary you know things Lord that are leading people into deeper darkness and you know those who are moving towards light your love is such Lord that you will send your word to heal us you will send your word to guide us you will show us the way to walk this is what your word tells us and so help us God as your word says to us if we can hear your voice may we not harden our hearts this day I bless you and I praise You God for this congregation I would ask you Lord as you also asked your father that not one in the center would be missing except for those who make a willful choice to walk in evil but O God for any person here can hear truth and turn let them turn towards you especially now and I thank you for it in Jesus name Luke chapter 13 beginning at verse 1 there were present at that season some who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices and jesus answered and said to them do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered such things I tell you no but unless you repent you will all likewise perish or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them do you think they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem I tell you no but unless you repent you will all likewise perish he also spoke this parable a certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he came seeking fruit on it and found none then he said to the keeper of his vineyard look for these for three years I've come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none cut it down why does it use up the ground but he answered and said to him sir let it alone this year also until I dig around it and fertilize it and if it bears fruit well but if not after that you can cut it down you know Jesus is talking to his disciples and to everyone who's gathered around to hear him it's talking about two things in particular in the beginning he's talking about people whose blood they were asking him was mingled with their sacrifices so obviously these people were in a place where they're offering some kind of a religious observance it was a sacrifice and obviously some form I suppose of worship and a sudden just judgment came on them a sudden violence came on them and their their place that they had chosen to worship at was proven to be insufficient and they put it that way to save them from the judgment that came on them and there were some others who were in a tower and a tower is traditionally a place of safety the tower in a besieged city of that time would be the last place that everyone would gather - they would go up into the tower they would close the doors and they would hope that that tower which they had built as a place of personal safety would protect them in other words the people that we're discussing or Jesus is talking about were in a place that they thought was safe and they were offering up some kind of a religious sacrifice when sudden judgment came upon them and Jesus said these people were not more evil than the other people of their society and unless you repent unless you turn unless you turn from living in a place that's not a place of truth offering up a sacrifice that truly does not represent Christ unless you turn from seeking security in something that God himself has not offered through his son he says you will likewise perish your place of worship if it's not true will not protect you in the coming days the place of comfort that you have chosen to build in your own heart and maybe in your own mind into which you think you're going to find safety will not protect you in the coming days in this world and this is really the lesson he's trying to teach them unless you repent unless unless there's a change of heart unless there's a change of direction a change of behavior unless there's something come into your life that bears fruit that can only come from the inward dwelling presence of God it can't come through human sacrifice it can't come through pretended religious observance it does not come by crafting a place of safety in our own minds which we think will protect us it comes from a deliberate turning away from that which the Word of God says is wrong a turning towards what he says is right and trusting God for the strength to perform it not doing it to human effort but trusting God to perform it now in the second part of what he's talking to his disciples about on the same theme he said a certain man planted a fig tree in his vineyard and came seeking fruit on it and found none then he said to the keeper of his vineyard for three years I've come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none cut it down why does it use up the ground in other words for three years the Lord says concerning this particular tree I've come searching for fruit not religion not a made-up safety but for fruit that can only be borne by the Spirit of God genuine conversion a change of heart change of mind the change of direction isn't that what God promises us through Christ he promises a new heart he promises a new mind he promises a new spirit he told us in the New Testament that if Christ is in us we become new creations the old things in our life pass away and all things become new I'm concerned today I'm concerned in the Church of Jesus Christ in our generation that many people are bypassing holy and trying to get too happy too soon want to come to the house of God and just want to be happy want to be told how blessed we are want to hear again all the promises of God but all the while bypassing wholly to get to happy it's it's a sacrifice that doesn't protect it's a tower that will not keep you in the days ahead that all of us are going to have to face three years three years the Lord says I've come to you somebody here today somebody somebody you've been here at least three years and the Lord says three years I've come looking for fruit in you three years I've come looking for that which only can be borne by the Spirit of God three years I've come searching for an evidence of Christ in you which is the hope of glory resurrection life I've been searching for it and seemingly you have you've built an altar and you're sacrificing at this altar and you've crafted a tower of protection in your own mind but it hasn't affected your behavior you're still doing what you used to do you you're covering it all up with religion now you're covering it all up with fig leaves but there's no fruit that can only be borne by the Spirit of God in three years three years I've been looking for fruit and I find none cut it down cut it down says the master of the vineyard but the person who has given the charge of keeping that vineyard perhaps as I am today interceded for that particular tree that particular planting of the Lord he said sir let it alone for one more year and I will dig around it and fertilize it and if it bears fruit well but if not after that you can cut it down please God have mercy please lord have mercy and by your grace God I will try the best that I can to to dig around that tree to get down to the roots of what it's drawing its life source from to try to help but to understand what you want to do in that particular life god I'm asking you have mercy and I pray that for this congregation constantly because I am personally aware of a lot of mixture in this congregation people are living in adultery people are living together outside of marriage and fornication going on all over the place and other things like it and somehow people come to this house and craft a sacrifice and craft a tower in their own mind that's not going to keep them in the coming days there will be no protection of God it is it's strictly an illusion it will not take you to the throne of God you will not dwell with Christ forever and ever and by God's grace I'm going to go after that in this church with everything the Holy Spirit gives me I'm gonna go after it because I care if I didn't care I wouldn't go after it if I didn't care about you I'd tell you how blessed you are I'll tell you a wonderful you are I tell you about the great destiny that's ahead if I tell you everything to shut your ears close your eyes and let you live and die in your own delusion if I didn't care but I do care I do care that when I get to the throne you are there with me I do care that you don't miss heaven and end up in hell hell is a very real place and it's a very long time to be there for eternity I do care because there is a cross there is a savior there is a salvation there is forgiveness the newness of life there is a promise of eternity Jesus himself said I came to give you life and to give it to you more abundantly I came to wash away the stain of sin that's against you and I came to put a new spirit inside of you I came so that my life might be lived and borne within yours and you might become everything that I've destined you to be that you could never be in your own strength you could never accomplish this build whatever tower you want in your mind you will never find what God alone is able to give you and where he's able to take you now in order to bear fruit you must begin to see sin in your life the way God sees it it's not just a weakness it's not just well that's just me you've got to be able to see sin the way God sees it let me read this to you from proverbs chapter 6 these six things the Lord hates yes seven are an abomination to him a proud look a lying tongue hands that shed innocent blood the Bible says whoever hates his brother is a murderer and no murderer has eternal life in him you justify it any way you want you point your finger at anybody you want to point your finger to you become part of this present divided devouring vilifying crowd if you want to but the Bible tells me clearly that if I hate my brother I am a murderer and I have no eternal life living inside of me a heart that devises wicked plans feet that are Swift and running to evil a false witness who speaks lies and one who sews division among brethren these are the seven things that God hates on October 31st in the year 1517 Martin Luther was a professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg in Germany he nailed list of indictments to the door of the dominant search of his day and he charged it that it's practices and its theology had so deviated from the Word of God that it not only offered the people of false salvation but also rendered them powerless to gain victory over the opposing force of sin that was coming against humanity matter of fact the church at that time so knew that they were burying people who had no victory or obvious open sinners that they created a place between Heaven and Hell where there was just a temporary time of punishment to justify calling people righteous who were obviously unrighteous and had obviously died in their sin and then they took it a step further and they told people if your loved one is in this middle ground between heaven and hell just being temporarily punished you can shorten the time by buying their way out you can you can pay the church and actually buy your loved ones out of this place and hasten their journey to heaven Martin Luther started studying the scriptures and he stumbled upon this great truth the just shall live by faith he stumbled on salvation through faith in the finished work of Christ alone and he realized how corrupt the religion of his day had become and so with a bold move he walked up to the door of a particular church which was considered technically the bulletin board of that day and nailed his indictment on to the door against the Church of his day that had so corrupted itself that it no longer had any bearing whatsoever or resemblance to the original church and this is exactly what we are capable of doing as people we can craft religious practices that let us get away with certain things and we realized that while maybe I'm not quite in line with truth and maybe maybe God is displeased with me and we craft all these ways that we can buy ourselves out from under conviction we can be just as corrupt as the Church of that day have become galatians chapter 2 and verses 20 and 21 Paul says I have been crucified with Christ it's no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me I do not set aside the grace of God for if right or right standing righteousness comes through the law in other words of right standing with God could come through human effort then Christ died in vain now here's the point just as Martin Luther began what's known as the Reformation bringing much of the known Western world at that time out of darkness and back into the light of Scripture by nailing an indictment to the door of the dominant church of his day with a list of aberrations may I call it that are places where they had deviated from truth to the point where it was no longer recognizable as the Church of Jesus Christ even though it's altered offered forgiveness to the people and there was no forgiveness there its buildings suggested there was shelter when there was no shelter just like the people that Pilate mingled the were mingled with the blood of their sacrifices and those on whom the Tower of Siloam fell just as Martin Luther nailed this list to the door in a similar a similar way hear me on this we must indict ourselves you must indict yourself I must indictment there's a point where we come to the knowledge that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God there's no one righteous not even one there's a point where we must hate in our lives what God hates the pride of the human heart the lying of the human tongue the feet that are Swift to run to mischief hands that shed innocent blood we must learn to hate the sowing of division among the brothers and sisters in Christ we must learn to hate it we must learn to hate the racism and division in our day let the world speak about it let it not be found in the Church of Jesus Christ we must not be found at that altar we must learn to hate and say God just the way that Luther came and he nailed this indictment to the door of the church and thank God he did because it brought about the Protestant Reformation in the known world of that particular time and because of that reverent Reformation we were brought back to the truth of the word of God brought back to what I'm talking to you about today thank God for the courage of one man to indict the whole system but do we have enough courage today to nail to the cross in a sense an indictment of our own lives to nail our tongues to the cross the nail our hands to the cross and to identify with the death of Jesus Christ that like Paul says I am crucified with Christ I'm convinced it in me dwells no oh good thing we have to get to that point of saying God Almighty all right nail myself to the cross and that really just means I realize I needed a savior I cannot save myself I cannot change myself I cannot change my own behavior I cannot change my own human heart I can't even do good for any great length of time because I'm so vent on corruption inside this earthen vessel I take this whole being and I nail it to the cross and recognize that Jesus Christ bore my sin on the three and I record myself dead with him I deserve to die but he took my place on that cross we cannot get there we cannot bear fruit the fruit of God by pretence or human effort the fruit of God can only be born by God you understand that you can't bear it by human effort you can't bear it by human sacrifice you can't bear the fruit of God by building your own Tower it can only be borne by God and that's what the Holy Spirit is looking for in every life the fruit that only God can bear now you can fake it in church and you can put on your suit and put on your nice dress and change your conversation pick up your big Bible and bring it with you the church but it means nothing in the sight of a holy God he looks beyond all of that and he looks at the heart he looks at the life what kind of fruit is being born in this tree we find ourselves as Paul was nailed to the cross with Christ needing a Savior knowing full well that without the power of his resurrection life within us our only future is to be cut down and become prisoners of hopelessness Paul said I've been crucified with Christ it's no longer I who live its Christ who lives within me the book of Romans chapter 8 beginning at verse 9 Paul says but you are not in the flesh but in the spirit if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ he is not his and if Christ is in you the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness but if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you therefore brethren we are not we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh if you live according to the flesh you die but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live for as many as are led by the Spirit of God these are the sons of God now I've heard that verse quoted many times as many as are led by the Spirit of God they're the sons of God but you got a quoted in context of how it's being spoken it's it's been used and I've heard it for years it's the leading is always too large ministry it's always to do something in the supernatural and in some measure I suppose there's a measure of truth to that but the context of being led by the Spirit of God and becoming a son or daughter of God is that by the spirit we're being led by God to put to death the deeds of the body that's how you know you're a son or daughter of God the Holy Spirit is moving you away from an old way of living into the way that God has for your life that's how you know that's how you know and all along that journey it says for you did not receive the spirit of bondage verse 15 again to fear but you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba Father and the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God there's an inner knowledge that I belong to God and God belongs to me there's an inner desire in the heart of the true believer to move away from that which hinders and move towards that which is going to glorify Christ all we don't always do it right we make mistakes but there's a and there's a covering for those moments of frailty but God ultimately there's that cry comes back in the heart father father we want to keep moving closer and closer and closer towards God when we're not interested in building a false altar we're not interested in giving a false sacrifice to God we're not interested in building a false tower of our own protection and our own making we want the of God we want the dwelling place of God we want the protection of God we want the life of God we want the fruit of God we want that in our lives which only God can bear only God only God religion can't produce this human effort can't produce him only God and it involves a change of heart a change of mind change of life a change of pursue to change the direction unless you repent you shall also likewise perish your alter won't sustain you in the time of trouble your tower will protect you in a time of trouble unless you have that turning in your heart you see you can't bypass wholly to get to happy you can't the happiest Christians I know are holy there's a true happiness there's a true peace there's a true protection there's a true confidence that only comes from the presence of God inside a human life you ought to be able to say I am so changing by the Spirit of God within me that it's amazing what God's doing in my heart he's changing my attitudes he's putting things in my life that weren't there before this is the kind of person I was but this is the kind of person by faith that I'm now becoming by the Spirit of God by the Spirit of God and so the keeper of the vineyard said let it alone for one more year and I'll dig around it and I'll fertilize it in other words I'll not only expose its roots but I'll put something there to encourage it to grow to encourage it to bear true fruit that can only come from God I I will not just expose it because it'd be pointless if all I did was peel off the layers of the onion of every life here and you just were laid bare and you just said God you got me you got me I'm a total fraud I'm in that I'm in the house of God but as Solomon once said I was in total ruin in the midst of the congregation the and Assembly I've hated instruction I've crafted my own religion I'm charting my own course I'm determining my own direction I'm creating my own system the truth and it's building a tower that I believed or believed that was going to hold me but suddenly it's all coming crashing down around me if all I did was do that then there would be such a hopelessness here today but not only does the roots need to be exposed but the the ability that God gives to grow is added now this this fertilizer as he says I'll dig it round it and I'll fertilize it I will I will give it the full counsel of God this particular fig tree I will I will show it its inconsistency and why it's such a fruitless tree and then I will put everything around the roots that is necessary for it to lay hold of and begin to grow and begin to produce fruit that that can't be produced without the help of God in its life and if it bears fruit he says well but if not after that you can cut it down and so here's my question to you one year from today are you willing to have somebody else sitting in your seat and you're gone are you willing are you willing because there's a point you see it is not your choice there's a point where God says I'm sorry this person can't be reached anymore and you you come out from under conviction the joy of the Lord escapes you and just thoughts come into your mind to just go wholeheartedly into your pursuit whatever that is and you vacate your seat and somebody else sits here a year from now so this could either be the first year this could be your last year of sitting in the house of God or it could be the first year of coming under the conviction of the Holy Spirit entering into the fullness of what God has for your life and becoming the person you could be so transformed a year from now that you'd be up and shouting on your feet and clapping your hands and talking about what God has done you could be so transformed if you'd make the choice this day God Almighty nobody's taking my seat nobody's singing my song nobody's taking my place you're not gonna have to look for another here am I send me that's what Isaiah said he felt on Dandi felt unworthy but he was touched by the mercy of God and he heard the voice of God that he was the first one to raise his hand there was all kinds of heavenly beings all around him that really didn't have the sin problem he had but he suddenly his heart was touched he recognized grace he was touched by the mercy of God and when he heard the voice of God his hand was the first to be raised and here am I send me in the rest is history and we know the marvelous influence that Isaiah had not only on his generation but on our generation he had a panoramic view of history he saw clearly the Messiah that was coming into this world he understood mysteries and things that nobody else understood but it started at a place of feeling undone it started in a place of recognizing when he was without the mercy of God it started at a place of realizing that God if you're not sending me I can't go but if you are what a day this could be there has to be something to come into your heart that says nobody is taking my place nobody what I'm called to do what God's called me to do God's going to do that through my life but I'm not yielding it up for a false altar in a false tower I'm going to the altar of God I'm going to that real place that God has ordained for me in Jesus Christ and I'm going into that place of safety the God has promised me through his son where my life will bear fruit for the kingdom of God and it will be born God's Way for God's purpose and for God's glory I plead with you today that one year from today one year from today that your song will be look what the Lord has done look what the Lord has done I let him I let him expose the roots of my life I loved him I let him reveal the shallowness of my profession of being a Christian but then I let him put in all the promises and all vision and everything that was necessary for me partnering with Christ who lives in me to become everything that he has destined me to be praise be to God now if you're not interested in this you're in the wrong place tell you that straight out say hey look I just want to be happy I don't want be holy you know then there's a lot of happy happy churches just go find one this is the wrong church for you in this church you're going to walk with God are you going to get very very uncomfortable [Applause] you won't regret it you won't regret it in the early years of my life with Christ I remember I said to my my wife pastor Teresa said if this thing is real I want the whole package and if it is no one none of it and yes I had to get through a lot of stuff matter of fact if you do get that book it's time to pray it's all in there I call the whole journey that the good the bad and the ugly may I put it that way it's all in there if you want everyone a dirt on me just get a hold of that book it's all in there even the author was helping me with the book he looked at me more than once said are you sure you want to write this he said yes I want the truth told the God doesn't take perfect vessels he takes struggling vessels who have an honest heart takes us with all our our warps and our roof and all of our struggles and all our trials not our failings and all our mistakes and all our stupidity and digs down and gives us promises and promises we will change and become the man or woman that he has destined us to be those who are led by the Spirit of God they are the children of God those who will let God do his work inside their lives so this might be the year this might be the year this might be the moment now you'll either over the next 12 months get extremely spiritually dull bored and just can't wait to get out of here or you're going to be moving to what God has for you you're going to be telling everybody in your neighborhood you're going to be telling your family your family are going to see the change in your life your coworkers are gonna see it you're gonna be moving towards what God has for you and just like I say you're gonna be saying here am I send me if nobody else will go god I will go let them let me tell them who you are let me tell them what you look like let me tell them what you can do with a flawed broken shallow vessel when I just made the choice god I'm gonna go with you and I don't know what that's gonna mean in your life and frankly neither do you but I know it will lead to something that will produce a song Oh Lord God that will produce a song inside of you this world knows nothing about this the song can't produce it can't produce it calm let us reason together cotton come come come let us reason together even Jesus the last day the great day of the feast people had been celebrating and building altars and reading scriptures and he stood up on the last day and it says he cried he cried this is a cry in the heart of God this was the most religious crowd in the face of the earth and they were sincere to a point but many were crafting their own righteousness their crafting your own altars and crafting their own Towers and Jesus stood and cried if anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink he that believes on me as the scripture has said out of his inner part out of his belly will flow rivers of living water I will do for you in other words what you could never do for yourself no amount of religion can produce this no amount of trying to prop yourself up can produce this it can only come from the Spirit of God if you're tired if you want a living relationship with God if you truly want to walk with Him he said come to me come to me and so here's my altar call today Lord I want this to be my first year my first year of a new journey my first year of letting you go after everything in my life that's hindering your presence in me I wanted to be my first year of the tearing down of the old and the building up of the new I want to be at a real altar I want to be in a real tower both of which you promised to provide for me you said you were looking for people to worship in spirit and in truth I want to be that kind of a worshiper and I want my life to become everything that you've destined it to be no more games no more games Lord no more games this is life and death this is very very real but I am coming to you and I don't want somebody else in my city here from now matter of fact I want to be in my seat but standing it with my hands raised I want to be praising you don't want to be thanking you I want to thank God thank you you came to me a year ago and you exposed the shallowness of my profession you dug around the roots of my tree and you opened my mind in my heart to your promises and you made me into the person that you've always longed for me to be and oh God you've done such a work that I'm hungry Lord for more I'm whole I want is you all I want is your kingdom all I want is your Holy Spirit all I want is you to illuminate my mind to the truth of your word and O God save me from every false altar that my heart wants to build and every false tower that I want to find comfort in Oh God Almighty God Almighty let it be you and you alone in my life if that's the cry of your heart we're gonna stand in just a moment I'm gonna ask you to make your way to the front of this auditorium and consecrate this next year this next year say Lord I'm putting down all my defenses you speak to me whatever you want to speak when I'm alone when I'm reading your word when I go to church you speak to me Lord you speak to me and I'm asking you to dig down deep I'm asking you to give me faith in my heart and take me to the place that I need to go on this earth and ultimately when it's all over I want to be in a place Lord where I stand at your throne I don't want pastor Carter to be there weeping over my name God Almighty protect me from being the kind of a person who hears and doesn't do now father I thank you lord I have delivered your heart I have spoken for you today I know that with every fiber of my being I plead you for these people Lord I plead there are many here many good people many going into eternity with you but there are some were not and I plead for them Lord I plead for them my God my God my God it's not about numbers in this church is about people individual people that you died for the EULA give courage Lord to the young who need to make the break give courage to the old give courage my god and I thank you for it in Jesus name we're gonna worship just for a moment that the Lord spoke into your heart and you want to make that commitment say this is the first year maybe it's a brand new commitment I don't know what it is but you just say this next year Lord this next year my god go deep in my life and lead me where I need to go if that's the cry of your heart as we stand up and ask you just to come and join with me in prayer and we'll consecrate ourselves to the work of God in the service of God praise God New York City New York City is is really a Corinthian church the potential here for great mixture but there's also a potential for great evangelists pastors teachers because you are so wholeheartedly given to what you're given to and it's now time to make the break from the wrong and break to the right and you watch what God will begin to do you watch where you will go the words you will put in your mouth the healing that will come into your life it'll be something that will astound you when you see and know what only God can do I'd like you to pray this simple prayer with me Lord Jesus Christ without you without your power in my life I am dead all of my religion is dead every attempt I make to be a Christian without your help is also dead and so I repent I make a conscious choice to turn to you as my savior not only to forgive me but to give me the power that I need to live a Christian life help me Lord to bear fruit that can only come from your Holy Spirit inside of my life lead me to the place that you want me to go help me to have courage to go there in every area of my life speak to me along the way give me courage comfort and strength all of which you promised to me in your word I love you Jesus and I want to live a life that will bring honor to you and ultimately when it's all over I want heaven to be my home don't let me settle for a false altar and a wrong tower let me be found at the altar of God and the tower that you have provided for me through Jesus Christ I believe that as Christ was raised from the dead by the power of God so - I will be raised from the power of death into this new life that belongs to me through Jesus Christ so speak to my heart I'm not afraid of your word tell me what I need to know and take me where I need to go and I thank you for this to this end I dedicate the next year of my life in Jesus name Amen [Applause] [Music] Costard patrick said it earlier I had forgotten that this is the year that we flourish this is the year that God begins to do something deep in our hearts deeper than we've ever known before this is the year this is the moment this is the time oh god I'm asking you in Jesus name that righteous holy called men and women of God would be born in this house today into your kingdom I'm asking Lord that it could be written of us you could look down and say these are the sons and daughters of God they are open to the Holy Spirit leading us away from that which is wrong and into that which is right and so God I thank you lord thank you God for the simplicity of Christ and a faith in Christ God you will produced in me what I can't do in myself and you will take me where I can't go and give me what I can't ever earn in my own energy you will make me into what I could never be but my own strength that I'll be found in the real tower and at the real altar and come what may come what may having done all we will stand and be at the throne of God one day and I thank you God with all my heart with all my heart and I thank you in Jesus mighty name amen and amen

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Published: Tue Sep 25 2018