What really Matters in Life - Randy Skeete latest Sermon 2021

unto me behold i have put my words in my mouth favor number two i want you to think as you listen isaiah 1 18 come now let us reason together set the lord and i ordinarily ask for a third favor which has turned phones off but i won't do that now because you're all at home and you need to use your phones and that's fine i imagine let's borrow our heads now and let us pray father in heaven thank you thank god for this glorious privilege to worship you via technology it is a skill you've given to men and women and we thank you for it i ask you to god to cleanse my heart from sin put your words literally in my mind and mouth father i offer myself to you for service let your spirit control me their god 100 i offer no resistance bless all those who are joining wherever they are blessed and father with saving truth and bless them in all other areas of their lives provide the material needs protect them from the coronavirus they god but in all these difficult times let their faith in you grow now speak to me clearly i pray and let the words of truth convict the hearts of those who are listening in jesus name amen let us go to genesis chapter 2 we shall read verse 9 and then 16 and 17. genesis 2 verse 9 then 16 and 17 and the lord god and out of the ground made the lord god to grow every tree that's pleasant to the site and good for food the tree of life also the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil in verse 9 of genesis 2 which told that god provided food of course back then it was plant-based diet there was no killing of animals for food and out of the ground made the lord god to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food god provides this is physical food and we're told early that it is essential even for sinless beings to eat it is by god's desire that we must eat in verse 8 the bible says and the lord god planted the garden eastward in eden and there he put the man whom he formed we're told very early that sinless beings in a sinless world need homes in which to live adam had his home a home for him and for his wife eve these are material things a home is a material thing the food in our kitchens on our plates these are material things material things are absolutely essential to our daily lives i repeat that material things are essential to our daily lives all of physical creation was material when god made the land he made the water he made the trees on the third day of the grass he made the sun moon and stars they're all physical material on day five you made the birds and the fish material on day six you made land animals and of course you made human beings we live on a material world by god's arrangement now let's go down to verse 16 of chapter 2 and see something spiritual and the lord god commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the dear thou eaters thereof thou shalt surely die the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was also a full tree it was something material god gave adam and eve a test the test was based on something material but the test was spiritual of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die this was a command that's the word used in verse 16 and the lord god commanded the man that command was spiritual now we have a spiritual command and something material and adam and eve had to choose between faithfulness to the spiritual command or attach themselves to the material thing had its place in their lives and i need to repeat that material things are necessary by god's arrangement out of the bond made the lord god to grow every tree that's pleasant to the sight and good for food food was a life-saving necessity even before sin now god gives them a spiritual reality which was a command here's the command here's the spiritual reality both came from god but god tells adam and eve if you violate this command you will die they had a choice to choose the spiritual above the physical or to place the physical of the material above the spiritual this is common to us today in this time of corona coronavirus corvette 19 lockdowns you cannot travel to supermarkets or other places and in some countries the lot that is very severe i i've seen videos of people being beaten with sticks in the lovely country of kenya people locked up people stopped by police in the united states a few days ago a lady was uh arrested and put in jail people have been arrested on beaches because they have been protesting the lockdowns are quite severe in some countries the lockdown does not inhibit access to spiritual things because you and i are engaging in something spiritual the lockdown does not prevent a person from reading the bible the lockdown does not prevent someone from reciting a verse in the head and excuse me meditating on that first the lockdown has affected mainly the material side of our lives and the material side has its place and i must continue to stress that but god said of every tree of the garden thou must freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die if you place the material above the spiritual you will die this was taught to us in the garden of eden even before sin entered the world with disobedience of adam and eve this habit of placing material above spiritual has persisted from adam and eve down to the day let us go to genesis 25 we will look at a very very well known example of the material being placed above the spiritual but before i get to genesis 25 let's borrow heads and let me pray again father in heaven as i continue with this message i ask in the name of jesus who calls himself the truth the bible says the holy spirit is truth father you are truth in the name of jesus and as the spirit leads me and i say pray to the father all three are truth put the words of truth in my mouth they god and grant to my listening friends an increasing appetite for truth in jesus name i pray amen before i go to genesis 25 i feel led to go to matthew 4. let's go to matthew chapter 4 gospel number one book number 40. matthew 4 we'll read from verse 1. matthew chapter 4 reading from verse 1. the bible says then was jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights he was afterward and hungered now this is a reaction to a need for something material something spiritual jesus christ who was both human and divine in his humanity he hungered when you festive 40 days and 40 nights he was unhungered and when the tempter came to him he said if thou be the son of god command that these stones be made bread now we have an invitation from the enemy to do something which would lead to sin if jesus had done it the enemy said turn these stones to bread provide your material needs provide your physical needs but if christ had done that he would have sinned and the plan of salvation would have collapsed because we cannot have a savior who has sinned jesus replied in verse 4 of matthew 4 but he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god now this is the same jesus who created the tree in matthew chapter two verse nine this was the same jesus who said of every tree of the garden thou made free eat of course he wasn't called jesus then just the second member of the godhead but this is the same person who said let they be light and he tells the enemy and by speaking to the devil the words are also for us man shall not live by bread alone there is more to your life than that which is spiritual but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god there is more to life than the material even though the material has its place and this was arranged by god listen to jesus christ on the sermon on the mount in matthew 5 at chapter 6 we shall read for verse 25 therefore i say unto you take no thought for your life what you shall eat what you shall drink not yet for your body what you shall put on is material is not the life more than meat and body than raymond what does christ say there is something more to life something more significant than the material let me repeat at risk of being tedious even though the material has its place and this is by god's arrangement jesus said in matthew 4 verse 4 man shall not live by bread alone but by every word bread has its place he did not say man shall not live by bread at all he said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word there's something higher than physical bread there's something more important than physical food and that is the spiritual and in matthew 6 he says is not the life more than meat and the body than raymond isn't there something more to life than the food need isn't there something more to life than the clothes we wear the car as we drive the degrees we pursue the jobs we treasure so highly is there not something more to life than these things which all have the place and are essential the answer is yes there is something more to life than the material and that is the spiritual and so jesus said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word a few days ago there was a protest in the state capital of my state of michigan a lot of the men were carrying rifles and guns because in my stay you are legally allowed to carry firearms and you can carry them alternate the policemen won't stop you because the law allows you to do that so some of them carry their rifles into the state house and the policemen right there could do nothing about it and there's a picture of a man shouting in the face of two policemen now he wasn't shouting open the churches rioting the churches no he was shouting so that his place of work might reopen and that is fine god invented work there have been protests why people want to go back to work and i must repeat that is fine but i have not yet seen a protest people shouting in the face of policemen to reopen churches we are protesting for the reopening of the workplace because the workplace provides what we need so much and that is the material things which i say again have the place what is the point i'm trying to make all our lives should have priorities in this trying time the world is in because of the coronavirus perhaps our faith is being tested what do i value more the material or the spiritual am i willing to sacrifice the spiritual in order to preserve the material it could be that the faith of many people are being tested right now how truly do i believe in god is god really first and when adam and eve chose the material about the spiritual they effectively put the material ahead of god now let us go to genesis 25 and look at the story i hinted at earlier which is well known to all bible believing people genesis 25 will read from verse 29 this is an incident in the lives of esau and jacob the sons of isaac and becca verse 29 of genesis 25 the bible says and jacob sod pottage that's material and esau came from the field and he was faint he was hungry that's material that's a physical reaction and esau said to jacob feed me i pray thee with that same red pottage for i am fate therefore was his name called edom the pottage was red idon means red the reddish esau in a physical state of hunger his material self yearn for food which is the way god made us there is nothing sinful about hunger there is nothing illegitimate or unrighteous about desiring food nothing at all and jacob said sell me this day thy birth right now that's spiritual it had material blessings too but it was essentially spiritual jacob said i will give you something physical if you give up something spiritual here you are in the office of a potential employer he will give you something material a job if you give up something spiritual the sabbath and i pause for that to sink in jacob said to esau sell me this day thy birthright you give me something spiritual i will give you something physical now to understand the severity of this offer that jacob made what jacob offered esau would satisfy him for one day perhaps half a day what esau would sacrifice to jacob contain blessings that would last forever because the birthright also suggested the plan of salvation coming through the person who had the birthright and including of course eternal life through jesus christ that is eternal its unending is everlasting esau gave up something with everlasting blessings in order to acquire something which provided temporary relief i repeat material things have their place we were made to need material things we are physically material an offer was made to esau to give up the spiritual for the sake of the material esau valued the material of the spiritual now i'm not glorifying jacob jacob appreciated the value of the birthright but he went about it the wrong way so i'm not glorifying his deceit or his theft i am simply emphasizing a fact that the spiritual and the physical must be kept in the proper place each one has its place but the material must never take the place of the of the the spiritual in a person's life we must have priorities and our priority list must begin number one the spiritual on number one god on number one the word of truth which is the word of life which contains the very life of god this must always be number one in the life of the believer that's why jesus said when the devil said turn these stones to bread and fulfill your material needs and jesus a genuine material need he was hungry there may be someone listening to me you have a genuine material need you've got three children you're out of work you're being offered a job but you must work on sabbath there may be someone listening to me you've been single you're 35 you're a lady here's a man desiring to marry you but he's not the faith what do you do you follow excuse me the council of jesus christ who died this is your savior speaking when he said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god there's something beneficial about hard times hard times reveal who is really on the lord's side and who is not hard times reveal how deep the roots of our faith go down in the soil of truth hard times reveal who is willing to suffer for god and give up the pleasures of this life hard times bring us face to face with who we really are in the context of our relationship with god christ came to die for us that's why he came the bible said in 3 16 for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son but do not believe by the bible saying god gave him that god threw him out of heaven or god shoved him jesus agreed to come he came willingly was no obligation on christ to come he came out of love for us and for the father he came willingly to save you and me it is this jesus that says put the spiritual above the physical it is this jesus who said there is more to life than your job even though the very first person in the bible to work is god this is the same jesus who had one outfit one quote one suit one nothing wrong with the physical or the material but he says to us is not the life more than meat isn't there something we need to stand up for even at the risk of losing a material the answer is yes what is that thing truth we see that in the life of daniel daniel was willing to face hungry lions in order not to pray to a man because commandment 2 says thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is an earth beneath thou shalt not bow down to thyself to them nor serve them if he had prayed to darius even in the privacy of his room he would have been bowing to darius and daniel placed faithfulness to god above his very life is this not what daniel also did in chapter one of the book of daniel when nebuchadnezzar prescribed a certain diet and daniel said no the three hebrew boys said no at the risk of their lives because the bible prescribed there's some things we must not eat is not this the risk the three hebrew boys took in daniel 3 when they said we're not bowing to the buccaneers image when they were given a second chance they said no many of us are continually harassed by the devil because the devil does not a determination to stand for the truth he knows we're easy targets and so he comes or he sends his agents and they come and they come but if we would take a position the way ruth took a position regarding her mother-in-law in ruth chapter 1 from verse 16 and treat me not to leave thee or to return from falling after thee for with our goest i will go with our largest i will launch thy people will be my people thy god my god without dies i will die and there will i be buried ruth made it 100 clear to know me that she was determined to follow naomi the bible says when naomi saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her she left her alone we must let our friends know our employers know our family members know we are stead fastly minded to place the spiritual above the physical to place thus set the lord above work clothes food promotion all the material things which in the in the have their own place they're all legitimate in their own right but must never take priority over the spiritual what am i trying to tell you in this time of coronavirus it's a crisis for the world and people are protesting to go back to violent protests what has this shown you and me regarding our connection to god our faith in god our determination to serve god at the cost or at the loss of the physical and the material jesus said and i'm coming to the close what is a man profited if he gain the whole world that's a material and lose his soul what sense does it make to gain something that is severely temporary and lose something that extends forever it makes no sense how can you be a graduate of the university and make that kind of senseless choice and then declare yourself to be intelligent what is a man profited and this is god asking how do you gain what's the sense what's the point if you gain the whole world and lose his soul jesus did not say don't gain the world he said don't gain it at the loss of your soul i ask you with respect and directness is matthew chapter 4 verse 4 a theme in your life man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god even in the time of the coronavirus it's matthew 6 25 a theme in your life therefore i say unto you take no thought for your life what you shall eat then what you shall drink now what you shall put on take no thought for your life this is this physical that he's talking about always take thought to the spiritual never relax your thought for the spiritual you may relax your fault for the material and sometimes that's necessary never relax your fault for the spiritual jesus says take no thought for your life the physical what you shall eat or what you shall drink oh yes for your body what you shall put on do not allow the material to dominate your thinking is not the life more than need you answer that isn't there more to this body than clothes isn't there more to my life than what i have that are three-dimensional metaphysical there's more to life than that and that is to have a relationship with god that supersedes and stands above and beyond every other consideration in the life if adam had adopted that attitude we would not be living in a world today this world of sin and so god said to adam and i am coming to the close in genesis 3 verse 17 and unto adam he said because i was heartened unto the voice of thy wife what did the voice say eat the fruit spiritual because you went after something material at the recommendation of someone the other else someone else cursed is the ground for your sake does god want you fed yes he made food does not want you clothed yes he made an original garment of light sin came the light went he provided skin he wants a slow does god want you with roof under your head over your head yes he made a home for adam genesis 2 8 does he want you to be well fed yes he provided food genesis 2 9. does he want you to have companionship yes he give that to adam but none of that must take the place of obedience to god and so i recite for the final time and the lord god commanded the man saying genesis 2 16 17 of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it that was a command for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die if you place the material above god the physical above god although they have their place you will die eternally you will die well dressed you'll die well employed you'll die your beautiful home you'll die with a bank account the size of mount rushmore or kilimanjaro you will die with these things you can be saved with them if you put the spiritual first what is your choice put god first the coronavirus crisis may be seen as the wilderness for many of us but remember in the wilderness god provided food in the wilderness he provided water in the wilderness of desert he provided cooling at night during the day when it's burning hot and warmth at night when it's freezing called god demonstrated i can take care of you in times of crisis the bible says there was not one feeble person among their tribes psalm 105 verse 37 not one feeble person my friends i call upon you in the name of jesus review your relationship with god put him first and live by the counsel of the theme given to you by the jesus you love man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god god wants to take care of you he is responsible for those who are his children not simply those who say lord lord those who are these children to total surrender god wants to take care of you he wants to protect you he wants to guide you but it must be done his way with him at the helm of your life why does god want to be one because it is the only position from which he can save you he cannot save you from position two may the lord bless you guide you grant you that wisdom from above to put god first and to live with the understanding which brings peace that when you are right with god and that's only possible with this first you cannot be right with god if he is the first to be right with god means god is first if he is first he'll take care of you in crisis of crisis and as you keep the spiritual above the material one day and one day soon jesus christ will come to give you the reward for your spiritual faithfulness not your reward for the material your reward for the spiritual faithless you've demonstrated may the lord bless you as you recommit yourself to place the spiritual god above the material let's pray father in heaven in order to place the spiritual above the material we need the power of the holy spirit he brings the very life of christ who said in john 8 29 and he that have sent me is with me the father hath not left me alone for i do always those things that please him let this be our desire to do always those things that please you bless all those who connect to their god i mean father bless them beyond the expectation bless him as families bless them as individuals father take care of them bless them to such a degree that they will conclude this is god moving in my life put a double blessing on their children father and save every one of them without losing one in jesus name i pray amen

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Length: 30min 55sec (1855 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 23 2021