Set Apart For Glory Pt 3 - Joe Sweet

this is week number three the teaching series i'm calling it set apart for glory the bible says in second thessalonians uh chapter 2 verse 13 and 14 we are bound to give thanks to god always for you brethren beloved by the lord because god from the beginning chose you for salvation word salvation doesn't just mean praying a prayer and having your sins forgiven that's the first step of our salvation it's called justification but there's an ongoing process of the saving of the soul that process we call sanctification where our soul is saved when we receive christ as our savior we're saved from the penalty of sin but the process of sanctification saves us from the power of sin you can receive jesus as your lord and savior and your you can miss hell but you can still be bound by lust anger selfish ambition impatience and greed right so sanctification delivers us it's the saving of the soul from the power of sin unto the image of jesus so he said you've been chosen for this from the beginning from the beginning when the bible says from the beginning it means before the foundation of the world before you were born god said it to jeremiah before you were born i knew you god knew you before you were born psalm 139 says all your days were written in a book before there were any of them god chose you what he choose you for salvation to be forgiven transformed into the image of christ and filled with glory theologians and the bible proves it out they tell us that salvation has three parts justified sanctified glorified to the pro to the degree the process of sanctification is occurring to that degree in this life the glory starts to fill us we were made to be vessels of glory okay so he said he chose you for salvation through sanctification by the spirit and belief in the truth that's how we're transformed the holy spirit does the sanctifying we do the believing we apply the truth and god does the work even if we read the bible and memorize a scripture and try our best to apply it we still won't be sanctified the holy spirit has to do the work amen so he he's called you this salvation where the word salvation put in justified sanctified glorified god's called you to be justified sanctified and a carrier of glory through the process of being sanctified by the spirit and believing in the truth now here it is now that process to which he called you by our gospel for the obtaining of the glory of the lord jesus christ that's in the bible we need more than a revival we need a reformation a reforming of the understanding and the expression of the church in the earth we need another reformation we're not just to be saved and be in church we're to be sanctified unto glory to be manifesting the life the presence the power and the glory of god that's why we were chosen that's why we were put on earth right now that's why so if we would yield to god he would work in us unto glory we'll define what that is so he so it's to which he called you by our gospel for the obtaining of the glory of the lord jesus christ we are living in the days of darkness covering the earth isaiah 61 and 2 gross darkness covering the people and it's now time for us his body to rise and shine and that's what's happening right now if you're listening to these messages if you're applying them diligently you will experience without a doubt an increase of the presence of god in your life you'll you'll if you're applying these messages the last couple months especially the last few weeks if we're applying these you will experience more of god's abiding presence and we continue in his word jesus said in john chapter 8 he said if you continue in my word then you're my disciples indeed and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free free from what sin sin is what brings death we get free unto the glory of god so that's what we're talking about we're talking about being sanctified unto glory now i want to share i'm going to skip ahead in my notes here to where uh i want us to see something that i learned years ago from the prophet who's now in heaven with the lord where is it i know it's in my notes it's in john chapter 17. if i can't find it print here i'll just turn to it well here it is i want us to understand something when we talk about the glory what is the glory it's the manifested presence love love and power and dominion of the lord jesus christ filling a person that's the glory realm the glory realm is the realm of the dominion of god it's the manifestation of his love of his purity his presence and his power this is what the church is called to walk in and to manifest now bob had an experience years ago where he was taken up to heaven and he said he's standing there with the lord and he said the atmosphere of heaven he said it was like there was this mist and he said it felt so good it was awesome i was breathing the atmosphere of heaven was glorious and he said everything around just felt good he said lord what is this it's like the air was tangible and it was indescribably wonderful he said lord what is this he said it's my glory he said lord it's your glory he said yes it's my love now watch he said my love is my glory then he told him from the word he said your love is your glory he said yes and i'll read it to you he said it's in john 17 verses 22 and 23. listen carefully jesus prayed and the glory father which you gave me i have given them then the next verse he said that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that you have sent me and you have to love them as you have loved me the lord quoted those two verses to them it said the glory you gave me i gave them the love you loved me with you love them the lord said see there it is in my word my love is my glory now understand this if we're called to walk in his glory and you are there's a growing rising remnant all over the earth this coming out of status quo there's a people who god's awakened something in their heart and they know innately they maybe can't put it into words they know i'm made for more than what i'm walking it yes they know in their heart maybe can't describe it there's got to be more with of my walk with god there's got to be more of the kingdom how many know what i'm talking about that's deep calling unto deep respond to that don't don't ignore it don't overlook it don't talk it away that's the lord calling us to come forth and that's to walk in the glory realm not only are we supposed to walk in the glory realm we must walk in the glory realm of the realm of abiding in christ to where an ever present ongoing increasing of his presence is manifesting in our life now god is holy isn't he he said i must be regarded as holy by those who draw near me we're told in first peter chapter 1 god says be ye holy for i am holy says the lord in hebrews 12 14 god says pursue holiness without it no one will see god so what is holiness holiness is perfected love i'll give you the verse for it first thessalonians 3 verse 12 and 13. paul prays this may the lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all just as we do to you that's the prayer by the way this is also a prophetic a promise any prayer that's recorded in the bible we know it's god's will first john tells us if we pray anything according to his will he hears us and if he hears us we have it so this is one of the exceedingly precious promises that peter writes about in second peter chapter 1 that by these promises we become a partaker of the divine nature here's the promise from god if we will believe this word this is part of the sanctifying by the word and believing the truth the lord make you increase the lord make you abound in love to one another and to all just as we do to you so that he may establish your hearts here it is blameless in holiness before our god and father at the coming of our lord jesus christ with all his saints so holiness can be defined as increasing and overflowing in love to all men when that's going on in our life we're walking in the beauty of holiness now now love and holiness is the glory realm that's the realm that god wants to fill all of us with we cannot stay where we're at if i'm talking about the church in general believers we cannot stay where we're at the level the church in general is at cannot answer the darkness cannot deliver the darkness cannot overcome we must rise up that's why it says in isaiah 60 to the church arise shine it's a command arise shine your light has come he said the glory is risen the glory doesn't fall from the sky is christ in you the glory rises upon you as we yield to love as we allow the word to sanctify us the glory inside us rises so he said rise shine and his glory will be visible seen on you that is the realm we must walk in now not six months from now now's the time amen and and don't imagine that if we stay where we're at that someday something's going to pour out from heaven and just take us there the command is rise and shine now god will give impartations and and outpourings along the way boosting us but we have to respond now so the glory realm is the love realm and the love realm is what holiness is i love the definition of perfection that i read in the journals of john wesley who's one of my all-time heroes in church history he if you read about john wesley he was full of the holy spirit and uh everything about his life was love he believed in in total sanctification by grace through faith and he walked in it he demonstrated it when he preached they would uh i mean the power of god would just flow and in uh nations were changed he went through uh the uk and scotland all the your nations around there they were all changed by the ministry of john wesley and he set up small groups we would call them house churches today but he called them holy clubs and he came and affected the united states of america he affected europe that one man sold out to god filled with the holy spirit had a massive impact on on the nations and uh john wesley wrote a definition of perfection he believed and i believe it too that we can be perfect in christ and not only we can we're commanded to he believed that now let's first define what perfection is jesus himself in matthew 5 48 said be ye perfect that's a command he said now what does that mean jesus defined it for us he said even as your father in heaven is perfect now here's what john wessey said he said perfection does not mean that we never make a mistake in judgment he said to do that we would have to be god and have all knowledge he said but before god perfection is when every motion of the heart springs from love he said that's a perfect man or a perfect woman and we can walk in that do you believe that does it mean we never make mistakes or make poor choices or wrong decisions it means that god is so working in us that every motive of our heart comes from love for god love for our neighbor when we walk in that before god he calls us perfect and we're commanded to be that that's the glory realm i read about i don't know if i told you this last week or not if i did i'll repeat it but i read about george whitefield who was a contemporary of john wesley's they were friends and and john wesley when they would preach in massive outdoor gatherings uh sometimes crowds would be five and ten thousand fifteen twenty thousand people no pa system everyone would hush quiet and they'd preach the gospel so much power and anointing was on their preaching that uh i know this of george whitefield and it was very similar with wesley as soon as wesley would start preaching people would start falling to the ground and manifesting and demons would come out of them people start following the ground flopping and demons coming out people get the power of god would just come while they preach george whitefield had to they said when he would preach in open meetings that people would climb up sometimes it'd be a hundred yards back and they wanted they want to see so they would climb up in trees to so they could hear and he said he would send runners back to them he said i won't start preaching until everyone gets out of the trees because when he did they would be knocked out by the power of god come on we need the glory realm and we can all walk in it and we all should be pressing for it and we're going to talk about it because that's what god wants so if we've been chosen for salvation through sanctification by the spirit and beliefing in the truth to which he called us for the obtaining of the glory of the lord jesus christ see i i just wonder if some of us have a stronghold in our mind and think that's not for today that can't be for me that's a those thoughts are demonic strongholds this bible is the truth anything contrary to this has to come down we've been called to salvation so we can obtain the glory of the lord jesus christ all have sinned and fallen short of the glory our salvation should bring us back to the glory now love is the glory realm romans 13 10 love does no harm to a neighbor love is therefore the fulfillment of the law so we're going to talk about this now the last couple weeks we talked about the sanctification of the tongue and if we're diligently applying the scriptures you all got a handout and if you're watching this online you want to hand out you can write to our office we'll send you one by email or you can download it from our website but as as we apply the scripture to sanctify our tongue john 17 17 jesus prayed father sanctify them by the truth your word is truth that's what paul wrote to the thessalonians he said he's chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the spirit and believing the truth so the ephesians 5 says as we apply the washing of the water the word it sanctifies us it breaks the power of sin so we talked about the tongue how many have been on that and i'm not going to go over that message but it's so important because as our tongue is sanctified will be filled with his presence more and more god cannot and will not anoint us and fill us on a on an abiding in an abiding way if our tongue is loose if god allows us to carry an abiding presence whatever we say comes to pass so he he throttles down his presence it's very very little in most of us until our tongue gets sanctified when we learn to only say what god tells us to say we only say what's of love and grace and kindness and truth and mercy our tongue is used to build up not to tear down when our tongue is sanctified god can fill us and if you're experiencing the sanctification of the tongue i promise you i know you are you're experiencing a greater lightness and a buoyancy in your spirit and more of his presence anybody sensing that it's the truth so we talked about repeating things criticism passing judgment giving our opinion debating gossiping slander complaining all of those things will cause you to lose the anointing of the holy spirit they'll displease god so we talked about that today then we talked about the positive things what what should we say you remember this the kingdom of god luke 17 is within us christ is in us his kingdom is there to the degree that he's ruling that he's having his way in us to that degree his presence and power bites our mouth we're made in the image of god our mouth should be a flow of kingdom life not anything else god how did god create everything words let there be light let there be let there be he just said and it came to pass we're supposed to be walking in that lord amen so the kingdom's in us out of our mouth come life truth grace mercy kindness forgiveness building up not tearing down praying for instead of criticizing giving thanks instead of complaining so the things we're to do is we're to rejoice always to pray constantly to give thanks in all circumstances to cultivate this to sing songs and make melody in our heart right where am i did i so there's the positive of of what should be coming out of our mouth and as we cultivate this as we cultivate the positive for the presence of god increases i love this isaiah 50 verse 4 the lord has given me the tongue of the lord he s that i should know how to speak a word and season to him who's weary he awakens me morning by morning he awakens my ear to hear so instead of complaining criticizing backbiting or whatever we should pray and say god teach me how to speak words of encouragement amen make it part of our daily prayer life lord let me edify somebody today let me build somebody up today that's the kingdom let me encourage somebody today instead of criticizing let me pray for them instead of be bitter let me ask for mercy to come on them that's the kingdom and when we start walking in that his presence starts increasing god is more eager to fill every one of us to overflowing with his presence than we are to receive it he's only waiting for us to yield to him i promise you as we yield he fills amen so we talked about that this is all introduction i'm going to get to today's message in a minute all right we're going to go further we're talking about sanctification god said be holy for i'm holy didn't he say that he said pursue love first corinthians 14 pursue it now to pursue it means intentionally go after it and as we as we pursue love we're growing in holiness as we do that the presence of god becomes more abiding first timothy 1 5. now the goal or the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart everything in this book can be summed up in that what god wants us to learn while we're here on earth is how to forgive how to love how to love he wants to learn that if we don't learn that we miss the whole thing paul says you can prophesy all mysteries you can have faith to move mountains but if you don't learn how to love he said you're nothing he said you can give your body to be burned but if you're not doing it from love it profits you nothing what god's after is love that is the kingdom so here's the encouraging thing i want to say to all of us every every little step every hard choice every decision we make to deny self and choose love results in a greater glory greater presence greater access and communion with this abiding presence which means that every difficult situation that comes our way is a door to another level of his presence if walking in love was easy everybody would be doing it already we'd all be shining like light bulbs in order to do it we have to deny self but we get something far better we get his his presence that's why jesus said you lose your life you'll keep it you try to keep your life you lose it so we lose ours and we get his so we're going to talk about sanctification unto love let me read it again may the lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and all men just as we do to you that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before god and the father the coming of our lord jesus christ now it's interesting how holiness is and and being sanctified and prepared is connected with the coming of the lord jesus you can read it in several other verses first thessalonians 5 23-24 now may the god of peace himself sanctify you completely may your whole body soul and spirit be preserved blameless at the coming of the lord so this is telling us when the lord comes he's going to expect me and you to be blameless not to say well i tried and god understands he knows i'm human he's expecting us to take advantage of the grace of god apply it in his spirit to transform us now when he comes first john 4 16 says god is love he that abides in love abides in god as long as we stay in love we're in god if anything gets us out of that bitterness anger judgment criticism resentment fill in the blank lust selfishness selfish ambition getting offended one of the signs that we're not walking loves when we get offended first uh philippians chapter 1 9 10-11 it says that our love may be sincere and without offense until the day of jesus christ being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by jesus christ so when we're growing in love and we're filled with the fruits of righteousness there's no offense so we're going to look at love sanctified unto love first john 4 16 god is love if we abide in love we abiding in god first john 4 17 love is made perfect in us so that we can have boldness on the day of judgment so you say what's judgment day about it just told us in verse 17 love is made perfect or mature and us lacking nothing so on judgment day we can have boldness so god's going to ask he's going to review all of our lives the secret motives of our heart our intentions all of it it's all laid bare hebrews tells us all things are open and naked before the eyes of him with whom we must give an account what's he looking for pure unselfish love and if that's been established in us we can have boldness on the day of judgment so we want to look at this this i want to just say this one more time if you're hungry i am i believe you are you wouldn't be going to this church if you're hungry for more a closer walk with god more of his presence more of his glory in your life this is the the key amen growing in love so that means we have to study love learn about it and apply it now i want to give us three or four i don't know if i have them numbered three or four steps practically how do we go from where i am to to the love of god filling me i'm going to show you before we close everybody can do it and we can all be growing growing growing i'm going to read from first corinthians 13 verses 4 through 8 we've all heard it we hear it at weddings we hear it they put it on plaques love suffers long and is kind love does not envy love does not parade itself love is not puffed up love does not behave rudely it does not seek its own love is not provoked love thinks no evil now that phrase thinks no evil is also translated love keeps no record or no memory of wrongs done to it love doesn't think evil or it's also love is not resentful it's not bitter it doesn't rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth love bears all things believes all things hopes all things endures all things it never fails the word fail means quit love never gives up it doesn't quit so that's that's what this definition right here this is the glory realm come on somebody this is the glory realm now applying it discipleship is the process of applying the teachings of jesus to our heart in our relationships in our life in our walk i'm not going to go over this whole thing i'm going to i'm going to pick out two of them of the aspects of love love does not seek its own love doesn't insist on its own way it's one translation okay so love is not about me if i'm walking in love it's not about me if someone overlooks me i'm not seeking my own someone mistreats me i'm not seeking my own it's not about me that's why jesus said in luke 14 a big crowd was following him i think he thought to himself maybe they don't understand what i'm teaching he turned around and he said hey unless you forsake all that you have you cannot be my disciple if you love father mother brother sister son or daughter more than me you can't be my disciple unless you deny yourself and take up your cross you can't be my disciple so what's he saying it's not about us getting our way any time we're miffed about the way we were treated or not getting our way it's a red flag i'm walking in selfishness self-centered and which is so easy because that's how we come into this world we're wired for it one of the very first words we learn as babies after obama is mine isn't that true it's a bit mine we were born in this world bent and fallen but thanks be to god who delivers us through jesus christ so it doesn't seek its own and it thinks no evil it keeps no record of wrong it's not bitter it's not unforgiving because it's not about me see when we understand we've been purchased with a price the blood of jesus we were we're slaves to sin we are not our own anymore we've been bought we're his so if we're if we don't surrender our life we're stealing from him we're robbing god of what he purchased so it's not about us we're now to be vessels filled with his spirit filled with his nature vessels of love and in order for me to love or you to love i can't be focused on me because if i'm focused on me i can't love you i'll be worried about how you treat me but but when you die to that and now it doesn't matter how anybody treats me doesn't matter if they esteem me or hate me doesn't matter it's not about me it's about abiding in christ being filled with his life partaking of his life and being a vessel of his life coming out and as long as i'm thinking about the way i was treated or the way i was mistreated or did i get recognized or did i not get recognized did i get honored or did i enacted on her as long as i'm thinking about that i can't love anybody i can only love the people that totally agree with me and i nurse my my wounds by sharing with my friends and they have similar wounds and we share our self-centeredness together and we commiserate together well that's what it is we love the people that come and commiserate with our selflessness come on let's be honest but a real friend will say get over it get over it you died and your life is hidden with christ listen if we don't start moving into this realm we're not going to walk in the glory realm it can't be about us it can't be about me getting hurt or me not getting my way love does not seek its own love doesn't hold on to wrongs done now we don't want to get the cart before the horse it's not like okay if i if i don't have that negative now i'm full of love it's not quite like that it's like we need to choose to say no to sin and yes to god's will but it really is god fills us with his spirit and then we're able to not be worried about ourself this is the goal of christianity god's going to have a people that love and he'll test all of us listen god's wanting to get us ready to sit with him in the next age is anybody besides me excited about this he's he wants now how many want god to perfect love in you i do too do you know what that means he's going to allow situations to come that are unloved to you so you can practice that's how it works i don't know the selfishness that's in me until something painful comes to me to someone lies about me or hurts me or tries to tear you down or or something happens then you see the ugliness rising in your heart you see oh god i'm just trying to defend myself oh it's my pride only then can you take it to the cross and say lord let it be killed and then god fills us with his spirit to the degree that we die we carry his glory so that's why trials are our friend they really are trials expose our selfishness they expose our impatience and so we we now i want to give us some practical steps we can all do to grow in love i know you want to grow a lot i do too it's the biggest desire of my heart is to let jesus have his way in me and here's what i found out here's what i found out apart from jesus there is no good in us we've underestimated the fall all our righteousness is like filthy rags we need the spirit of god to fill us with his divine love and the good news is he will he does and he will continue to do it it's not about me getting better it's about me getting deader so he could live inside of us now here's what the bible tells you in philippians chapter 2 verse 12 and 13 work out your salvation with fear and trembling because it's god who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure so it is god who sanctifies us but we have to do our part to cooperate with him i can't make myself love more but i can choose love i say lord i want to love i choose love and god can work in us to bring it to pass you understand that so i want to talk to us about some things that we need to do if we want to accelerate our growth in love okay how many want to do it the bible says pursue love but it also says he's our sanctifier number one in in every situation choose love now it doesn't always happen like that because sometimes we get what uh mike bickel calls a pop quiz i may have had a pop quiz before is anybody like me and you fail most of them oh lord i didn't mean to say that but i didn't even mean to think that but the pop quiz has come to pull the veil back and say hey look where you're at so not so we can get under condemnation so we can turn it over to the lord and say lord cleanse me so in every situation relations in every situation this has to be the grid this has to be the filter on our heart choose love choose love just keep choosing love every day just keep choosing it when something painful comes up something difficult do your best to pray god help me choose love number one number two we have to store up the word concerning the love of god study love praise scriptures about love we have to put the word in our heart jesus said in john 17 17 father sanctify them by the truth your word is truth ephesians 5 christ loved the church gave himself for her that he might wash her with water by the word that he might present her to himself a glorious church holy without spot or wrinkle how lord how are you going to make us glorious by the washing of the water the word okay i want to tell you this we have to be involved in the process let me encourage you about the word one of the greatest parables in the whole bible mark chapter 4 verse 26 jesus said the kingdom of god is if a man should scatter seed that's the word of god on the ground that's your heart you can go back and read the gospel of mark jesus said the soil is our heart the seed is the word the kingdom of heaven is like a man putting seed the word into his heart and then he should sleep by night and rise by day and the seed sprouts and grows he himself does not even know how that's the kingdom the kingdom is this i'm going to put the word in my heart and keep putting and be patient nobody plants a seed and expects a full-grown plant the next day you put the seed in and water it and you wait and you wait you water it and wait here's he puts the seed in every day put the word in your heart concerning love love is patient love is kind love suffers long love doesn't pursue its own love keeps no record of wrong and then pray it back to the lord where we become partakers of the divine nature second peter chapter one by the exceedingly great and precious promises put the word in your heart then take the promises and pray them to god expecting god to do what he said he would do here's what god said he would do first thessalonians 5 23 and 24 now may the god of peace himself sanctify you completely may your whole body soul and spirit be preserved blameless unto the coming of the lord faithful as he that calls you he will do it may god make you increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men that he may establish your heart blameless in holiness second thessalonians three verse five now may god direct your heart into the love of god and the patience of christ these are promises he said these exceedingly precious promises they're laying on the ground pick them up and use them pick up the promise and say god you said that you would make me perfect in love you said lord that you would make me increase and god i am incapable of forgiving this person right now fill me with your love and he will he will he's our sanctifier lord i'm incapable of going farther lord i'm irritable right now i need help and we pray the promises lord direct my heart second thessalonians 3 5 may the lord this is a prayer it's a promise it's the will of god lord direct my heart into the love of god when you pray that god answers it when you pray it god will do it this is how the church is going to go into the glory realm we're going to come out of the natural realm where it's about me and getting recognized in my way all that stuff is dead and now we're going to get full of the holy spirit and we're going to say jesus make me increase make me abound in love we're going to walk in the kind of love that philippians chapter 1 9 10 11 says may your love be sincere and without offense being filled with the fruits of righteousness that are by jesus christ when that love of god fills us satan will try to get you offended because if you go for the bait he gets you out of the glory realm and when you're out of the glory realm you have no power you can't cast out devils you can't see the kingdom of god but when you live in the love realm we have dominion over darkness that's what we have to do and i learned this in geometry back in sixth grade that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line and the straightest shortest way to grow in the presence and the power and the glory of god is love that's the straight line you can go this way in that way and this way and that doctrine and that theory and that teaching but if we pursue love god will start filling us and if we get love we get it all so number one we have to choose love we have to i hope you're getting this one thing the love realm is the glory realm i heard uh dgs dennica and he had many trips to heaven he said one of his times he met the legendary saint sadhu sundar singh it said to sunnah singh talk to him about walking in love anybody heard of him legendary saint lived in india in the late 1800s and first part of this century i mean of the 1900s he told brother denickon and he said uh god didn't really anoint me with gifts of miracles and healings he said so but when i preached the gospel great crowds would come and they would always bring their sick and ask me to pray for them to be healed and he said i remember saying things like i'm sorry god hasn't given me that gift of working or miracles or healings but they would insist that i pray he said but what god had done is he had filled me with his love and because i was filled with so much love every single person i prayed for was healed he said it wasn't a gift it wasn't working in miracles he said it was the love of god he said so son if you walk in love all the kingdom and all the power will flow isn't that amazing so number one choose love number two be like the man who put the seed in the ground and went to sleep when he woke up he said wow something's changed a plant is growing now here's what it says the earth yields the crops by itself god will make the increase don't stress and start looking to yourself and say oh god i have so far to go i can't do this those are the wrong kind of thoughts we're in christ we're new creations of ephesians 1 verse 3 said he's already blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in christ ii peter said he's already given us everything that pertains to life and god lives god wants you and me to grow and love more than we want to when you say god fill me with love he's going to answer it now sometimes you've got to wait on him you may have a difficult situation you're praying you're choosing love and you're praying to be filled with love but it seems like days and maybe and weeks are going by and you still feel dry and empty it's my understanding sometimes god does it that way just to teach us that when he imparts the love it's him and not us that's what i've learned about waiting on god i prayed and prayed and prayed for things and i'm like oh god you see how weak i am right now help me lord help me and eventually the answer comes and i said in my heart lord why did i have to wait so long and i felt that small whisper say so that you would know it was me and not you god will fill us with love pray the promises be patient just stand on the promise keep choosing love and stand on the promise be patient he'll answer that and he'll transform us that's our inheritance in christ now some people argue about things like they said well your teaching works no it's not works it says work out your salvation with fear and trembling it is god who works in you it would be like this when you want to go get a haircut at the barber shop or ladies you're going to go get your hair done you have to well for my barber you have to call make an appointment right and then so they'll tell you what time to come come tuesday at 3 o'clock so you go down there and you show up at time then when you get to the barber he'll tell you to sit in the chair what if you say i don't feel like it i want to stand you're not getting a haircut when you sit in the chair they put that apron around you and they start then they'll say can you lean your head forward you have to do what he says you put your head like that and they cut the back they don't say now put your head back put your head to the left put your hand you do what he says and when he's all done you look handsome now watch that's what sanctification's like you have to make an appointment with god you've got to put in the time you you've got to put in the time then you've got to sit still and do what he says you're not cutting your hair we're not sanctifying ourself he's doing the work but we have to cooperate when god says sit still sit there be quiet put your head forward put it back do what he says and then when he when we're done we look good and it's not us that did it see that's how that's what it means to work out your salvation it says in hebrews 5 9 that jesus became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him if we're disobedient he can't cut your hair but if we obey he'll do it i heard a story of a man that went into a barber shop he's a christian man and the barber was not a christian and he said he was sharing his faith with the barber after a while when he was almost done cutting his hair the barber said well that's nice for you he said but i don't believe in god he said why don't you believe in god he said well just look at out the world look at all the evil that's in the world if there's a good god how can all this evil be happening in the world the christian man he didn't have an answer for that he got up from the barber chair paid thanked him for his haircut went outside and when he went outside he saw a couple of men with long matted unkempt straggly hair and a straggly beard he went back into the barber and he said i don't believe in barbers he said what do you mean you don't believe in barbers he said i don't believe in barbers he said why are you saying that he said because i've seen people out there with long matted straggly hair if there were barbers why would there be people like that the barber said because they haven't come to me he said now you see why there's evil in the world now you see why people are saved but they're not sanctified we have to come to him we have to sit down we have to do what he says let him do to us whatever he wants that's sanctification so we have to seek the lord so here's the thing choose love as you choose love glory will increase two store up the word in your heart three believe and pray the promises second peter one his divine power has given us everything that pertains to life and godliness and he's given us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature so as we uh believe god's promise we pursue love put the word and we keep believing god god you're going to make me increase romans 5 5 the love of god is poured into our heart by the holy spirit keep believing that press for it in in every relationship just say lord how can i increase in love unselfish holy love and every time we increase the glory realm increases until one day we're going to all be shining with a visible glory and i want to say this i know that god's going to come along with sovereign installments and impartations of the love of god because he's not coming back until he has a church that's glorious without spot or wrinkle or any such thing there's going to be a people on the earth christians that believe this they're going to go along they're going to obey jesus they're going to pursue love god's going to answer their cry he's going to transform them and we're going to have sons and daughters of the most high god walking the earth in the glory realm unoffendable able to overcome darkness in jesus name so we have been set apart from before birth to live today we've been set apart for glory not just church attendance for glory amen that's my story and i'm sticking with it

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Keywords: Joe Sweet, Shekinah Worship Center

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Length: 53min 57sec (3237 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 22 2020