Participants: Pr. Richard Daly (Host), Pr. John Lomacang
Series Code: 16LON
Program Code: 16LON000007A
00:10 I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
00:13 Whom shall I send, 00:14 and who will go for us? 00:17 Then I said, Here am I, 00:19 send me! 00:34 Three Angels Broadcasting Network 00:36 and the South England Conference 00:38 present London 2016. 00:46 Pastor John Lomacang has been speaking here each night. 00:52 I don't know if any of you have attended 00:56 each night's meetings 00:57 but can I just see show off hands 01:00 of those of you who appreciated the messages 01:03 that have been coming through God's man servant, 01:05 just raise your hands to God be the glory. 01:08 Pastor John Lomacang, 01:10 just to say a few more things about him, 01:16 currently serves as the Thompsonville 01:19 Adventist Church pastor, 01:21 which is located at 01:22 the Three Angels Broadcasting Network Centre in Illinois. 01:27 He's in his 30th year of pastoral ministry. 01:31 So he obviously started young. 01:35 Thirty three years to his wife Angela. 01:38 Angela, good to have you with us again. 01:43 Recently he has been appointed 01:46 Director of World Evangelism for 3ABN 01:51 and we're honored that 01:53 this is his first assignment 01:55 under that directorship, here in London. 02:00 Pastor John Lomacang has been a professional Christian singer 02:04 for more than 30 years, 02:06 and many of you would have known him 02:09 for his singing before his preaching. 02:13 But he sang with the Heritage Singers for many years. 02:16 He has sung for many of the ministries included, 02:20 including, It Is Written, 02:23 Amazing Facts and the Voice of Prophecy. 02:27 Pastor Lomacang's life story is an interesting one 02:31 and I'm sure we will hear more about that 02:34 in the second week of our meetings, 02:37 but he is featured in a Pacific Press book entitled, 02:41 Abandoned but not Alone. 02:45 Are we glad to know that we serve a Savior 02:48 who never abandons us? 02:50 Who always draws near to us 02:52 and seeks and designs to save us. 02:56 And so this morning we, 02:58 we thank God for Pastor Lomacang 02:59 for his ministry here in Croydon Church 03:02 and for his wife as well together as a team. 03:05 And we pray that God will truly inspire him 03:08 as he speaks to us on the topic, 03:11 God's perfect law. 03:20 Good morning church. 03:21 Good morning. 03:23 Happy Sabbath, everyone. 03:24 Happy Sabbath. 03:25 So glad to see that you're here this morning. 03:28 It's good to be a part of a... 03:32 A place where ministry is going forward 03:34 where God is being praised, 03:36 and this morning we desire nothing more than 03:38 to give God the glory that He alone is due. 03:42 This morning I want to take and use the time 03:44 that I have as efficiently as I can 03:47 so bow your heads with me. 03:50 Loving Father, this is Your opportunity, 03:52 may You be praised in Jesus' name, amen. 03:59 The scripture reading this morning, 04:00 I'd like to encourage you 04:01 to read it again with me John 14:15, 04:05 let's read that together with some energy. 04:07 Are you ready? Here we go, 04:08 "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 04:13 There was a war that began 04:15 thousands of years ago in heaven. 04:18 A war that then transferred to this earth, 04:21 where every one of us knows in a very real way 04:24 that imperfection has reigned 04:26 since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. 04:29 The simple equation is 04:32 our world is a continual representation 04:38 of what our world would be 04:40 if Satan had the unhindered opportunity 04:44 to run a government. 04:46 What we see in our world today, the rise in incarceration, 04:49 the fear of terrorism, rampant theft, 04:52 indefensible murder, failing marriages, 04:55 international conflict, 04:57 perpetual war are all symptoms 05:00 of the rejection of God's perfect law. 05:05 Isaiah 24:5, reminds us this way. 05:09 "The earth is also," what is the next word? 05:13 Defiled under its inhabitants," why? 05:16 "Because they have done" what? 05:18 Transgress the laws, Changed the ordinance, 05:22 and Broken the everlasting covenant." 05:26 God made an agreement with every one of us 05:29 that if we do what He asks us to do, 05:32 He can do what He promises to do. 05:35 The conditions that we see in the world 05:37 are a continual reminder 05:39 that what Adam passed on to us 05:42 continues to exist until this day. 05:46 But as we learned earlier this week, 05:49 the nature that Adam transferred to us is a nature 05:52 that can't do anything but sin. 05:56 Let me say that again, 05:57 because this morning I'm gonna approach 05:59 the commandments of God 06:00 from a completely different perspective. 06:01 I'm coming around the back way. 06:04 We know about the commandments of God, 06:05 we've seen them, we've read them, 06:07 we've heard about them, 06:08 but what we know is 06:10 we struggle every day to live in harmony 06:13 with the commandments of God, the question is why? 06:16 The question is why? 06:18 Because Adam gave us a bad tree 06:21 and bad trees produce bad fruit. 06:26 So if you have a bad attitude, 06:28 you're connected to a bad tree, 06:29 come on somebody talk to me. 06:31 If you have a bad relationship, 06:33 it's because we're connected to a bad tree. 06:36 You see the sin nature that we inherited 06:40 can produce all kind of sin whatever man can conceive, 06:45 man can accomplish sinfully. 06:49 To get a glimpse of how dark sin can get, 06:51 we need only look back at an antediluvian society 06:55 as Genesis 6:5 reminds us 06:58 of the Noah generation that had become indescribably evil 07:03 like our world today. 07:05 Genesis 6:5, the Bible tells us. 07:08 "And the Lord saw that" the what of man? 07:11 "The wickedness of man." 07:13 Is the world wicked today? 07:15 "The wickedness of man was" what? 07:18 "Great in the earth." 07:20 And this is why we have all these devices 07:22 that are continually in our heads. 07:25 This is what Satan is seeking to accomplish, 07:27 you can listen to the text. 07:29 "And that every intent of the thoughts of his heart 07:34 were only" what? 07:35 "Evil continually." 07:37 Let me make a very important point. 07:39 If you put corrupt music in your mind all day 07:43 and watch corrupt movies and corrupt entertainment 07:45 and go to corrupt places, 07:47 and have company that is corrupt, 07:49 you will be corrupt. 07:51 But even deeper than that 07:52 until we get rid of that nature that Adam gave to us, 07:56 we can't do anything but be corrupt. 07:59 So you can't even blame your surroundings. 08:03 You're bad tree until Jesus changes our standing with Him. 08:07 To add insult to injury, 08:09 what happened in Noah's day is being reproduced in our day. 08:13 The Bible said just before Jesus comes, 08:16 our world is going to be just like 08:18 the world was in the days of Noah. 08:20 Luke 17:26, 08:24 "And as it was in the days of Noah, 08:26 so it will be also in the days of the" what? 08:29 "Son of Man:" 08:31 The fact is, hear me carefully, 08:33 it is impossible. 08:36 What word that I just used. 08:38 It is together, 08:40 impossible for sin to exist without a law. 08:46 It is impossible to go to jail unless you've broken some law. 08:52 It's impossible to be pulled over for speeding 08:54 unless there's a law against speeding, 08:56 I know that. 09:00 It is impossible to go against the courts of the land 09:05 unless the courts of the land are replete with laws. 09:10 Now not all the laws are in our favor, 09:11 we know that men make laws and men break laws, 09:14 but when it comes to God's law, 09:16 it is impossible for sin to exist in the world 09:19 unless God has a law. 09:22 But let's go even farther back than that. 09:25 The Bible says in Romans 5:13, 09:27 "Sin is not imputed where there is no law." 09:31 In other words, you cannot be a sinner if there is no law. 09:35 You cannot be guilty of breaking any, 09:37 violating any commandment 09:39 except there is the commandments of God. 09:42 Adam could not have sinned had there been no law. 09:46 Satan could not have begun a rebellion in heaven 09:48 unless there was a law he violated, 09:50 because God's government was a perfect government 09:53 with a perfect law and Satan, 09:56 called Lucifer at the time rose up in rebellion, 10:00 disagreed with God's prerequisites 10:02 and decided he was gonna begin a rebellion 10:04 but the good news is today one third got kicked out, 10:08 two thirds remained. 10:11 They that be with us are more than they that be with them. 10:14 But before Adam sinned, 10:16 Satan was a murderer before Cain even killed Abel. 10:21 John 8:44 tells us this very clearly. 10:25 "You are of your father the devil, 10:28 and the desires of your father you want to do." 10:31 That's what the nature does, it makes us want to do it. 10:35 "He was a murderer from the" when? 10:37 "Beginning, and does not stand in the truth..." 10:41 When people don't want the truth, 10:42 they've got their father's nature, 10:44 they got Satan's nature. 10:47 And the Bible says, 10:48 "Because there is no truth in him. 10:50 When he speaks of a lie, he speaks from his" what? 10:54 "Own resources, 10:55 for he is together a liar and" what? 10:58 "The father of it." 11:00 You see when God warned Adam and Eve 11:02 of the dangers of death. 11:03 He was saying to them that any departure 11:06 from his law can only result in death. 11:12 I want you to get that very carefully this morning. 11:14 When God said to Adam and Eve, 11:16 "You shall surely die." 11:17 It is not possible that 11:20 death could not have possibly occurred unless there is a law. 11:25 If there was no law in the Garden of Eden, 11:27 if there was no law, 11:28 if God's government had no law, 11:29 Adam and Eve could not be in danger of death, why? 11:33 Roman 6:23, look at, look at what the Bible says, 11:36 "For the wages of sin is" what? 11:38 "Death." 11:40 It doesn't stop there. 11:41 Look at 1 John 3:4, "Sin is the" what? 11:45 "Transgression of the law." 11:47 So where there is no law, there is no sin. 11:50 It's not possible. 11:52 If I was speeding through Germany on the autobahn, 11:54 I could smile at a police officer 11:57 as I blow past him, 11:59 because there is no law against speed on the autobahn, 12:03 but there is a law against speed in London, 12:06 there is one in Southern Illinois. 12:08 I know that for a fact. 12:10 I got stopped a number of times by the local police officers 12:12 but they said, you know, 12:14 it's amazing how God extends grace to us 12:16 even though we are sinners, come on somebody say, amen. 12:17 Amen. 12:19 God sees us in our sin 12:20 and there are moments that God says, 12:21 "I know your foot was heavier than your mind," 12:25 and so I've been pulled over by police officers 12:27 that have said to me, "What? 12:29 What do you do?" 12:30 And I said, "I'm a preacher." 12:32 They said, "Where are you going?" 12:33 I said, "I'm going to Thompsonville." 12:35 "What do you do out there?" 12:36 See my, my skin complexion is not prevalent 12:39 in Thompsonville. 12:41 God's got a sense of humor 12:42 where the Ku Klux Klan used to reign supremely, 12:45 I'm a pastor in that kind of community, 12:46 amen somebody. 12:48 Amen. 12:49 God's got a way of changing things around. 12:51 He fits the impossible into the possible. 12:53 He fits the possible into the impossible. 12:55 He allows His presence to be manifested 12:59 where men don't want His presence to be, 13:01 so the police officer said to me, 13:03 "I tell you what. 13:05 Just keep it down and have a good evening." 13:07 Amen, somebody. Amen. 13:09 I was on my way to New York City, 13:10 driving to go bury my dad, 13:12 and I was passing through a state called Indiana 13:15 and that's before I bought a GPS 13:17 to put on my dashboard 13:18 so I was busy looking down at my, 13:20 at my dashboard and I was turning a corner, 13:25 and as I made it around the corner 13:26 there was a highway patrolman, 13:28 he clocked me going 87 miles an hour. 13:31 He pulled me over and says, 13:32 "License and registration please!" 13:34 I gave it to him and he came back to me, he says, 13:38 "Could you tell me why you were speeding." 13:41 You know there are times you just have to tell the truth, 13:44 I said, "Officer being honest with you, 13:45 I really wasn't paying attention. 13:48 I was speeding, I really was." 13:51 He said, "I'll tell you what? 13:53 You slow it down and we can call it the good evening, 13:56 is that all right?" 13:57 He could have given me, 13:59 he could have given me a ticket over $300, 14:01 he could have taken my license. 14:02 When you go beyond a certain limit, 14:04 they've got the right to do 14:05 whatever the law requires them to do. 14:07 In the same way when we go beyond the limits of God's law, 14:11 He has the right to do what the law says He can do. 14:16 It is only by God's grace that we are saved through faith. 14:19 Amen. 14:20 We are sinners. 14:22 Without Jesus we are hopelessly lost, 14:26 but that's not the end of my sermon. 14:29 You see since the entrance of sin, 14:31 every effort on the part of humanity 14:33 to live in harmony with God's law 14:36 has fallen short of fulfilling God's ideal. 14:39 Look at what Paul says, Romans 3:23, 14:43 the Bible says, together, "For" What? 14:46 "All have sinned and" what else? 14:48 "Fall short of the glory of God." 14:52 But listen carefully, 14:53 God's law is perfect but human nature is imperfect. 14:59 Perfect law, imperfect humanity. 15:02 And the problem is not God's law, 15:03 the problem is man's nature. 15:07 The nature that man gave, 15:08 the man that we... 15:10 The nature that we received from our father Adam, 15:12 he passed on defective genetics. 15:15 We've got the DNA of sin all through us. 15:19 Even on Sabbath morning. 15:22 But Paul made it clear, 15:23 the problem is not God's law, 15:25 Romans 7:14, he says, 15:29 "For we know that the law is" what? 15:32 "Spiritual, but I am" what? 15:34 "Carnal, sold under sin." 15:38 That's that slavery language if you could look at yourself, 15:41 if you could look at yourself the way that God sees us 15:43 when we are born. 15:45 We are shackled to a nature that refuses to let us alone 15:49 until Jesus comes and breaks the cord. 15:54 Romans 7:12, 15:55 Paul reiterates, "Therefore the law is" what? 15:59 "Holy, and the commandment is" what? 16:01 Together "holy" and what else "just" 16:04 and what else "good." 16:05 This is the very same chapter where this Paul, 16:09 this newborn Paul said, 16:14 "What I want to do, I can't do it. 16:17 What I don't like to do, that's what I keep doing. 16:21 What I hate, that's what I perform. 16:24 What I want to perform, I can't do it." 16:26 And then he says, "Oh, wretched man that I am. 16:29 Who will deliver me from the body of this death?" 16:33 He wanted deliverance just like you need deliverance, 16:35 come on say amen. 16:37 Amen. 16:38 Just like we all want deliverance, 16:40 Paul thirsted for this deliverance, 16:42 and Romans 7 is not before he was born again, 16:45 Romans 7 was written after he was born again. 16:49 You see Paul, before he became converted, 16:54 he knew God's law was there 16:56 but he had no desire to keep it. 16:59 Then he, then he says, 17:00 "When the law revive when I, when I looked at the law 17:04 sin revived in me and I died." 17:07 In other words, when I saw 17:08 how ugly I look in the morning. 17:11 When I finally bought a mirror, 17:16 when I thought my teeth were clean. 17:18 Somebody said, "Look in the mirror." 17:21 When I thought my tie was straight, 17:22 somebody said, "Did you look in the mirror lately." 17:25 When I thought my suit was without wrinkle, they said, 17:27 "Look in the mirror, before you go out there." 17:31 You see the law of God is a mirror. 17:33 It is a what? 17:35 It shows us our condition, 17:37 but the law of God cannot change our condition. 17:41 It continually reminds us of our condition. 17:44 You see when you got a bad heart, 17:46 when you have a tooth ache, when you have arthritis, 17:49 whatever disease you may struggle with, 17:51 you know, your condition 17:53 but you've got to find somebody 17:54 that can remedy that condition. 17:57 The law's the same way. 17:58 It shows us who we are. 17:59 It shows us how much we need Jesus. 18:01 It says, "You are a sinner in violation 18:03 of all ten of these commandments." 18:08 In other words, a sinful nature 18:09 cannot live in harmony with God's perfect law 18:12 and God's perfect law, hear me carefully, 18:14 this is powerful, 18:16 God's perfect law is the product 18:18 of His divine nature. 18:22 What kind of nature did I say? 18:23 His divine nature, 18:25 so God's law is a divine law. 18:29 But here's the question, 18:30 the scripture reading troubles me. 18:32 He says, "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 18:35 When Jesus said that, 18:36 was He requesting some kind of divine impossibility? 18:42 Was this a divine hoax? 18:44 "If you love Me, keep My commandments, 18:47 but you can't do it." 18:50 That's troubling to me. 18:52 But you know, you know we like to repeat that 18:54 text to people that don't keep the commandments. 18:57 Folk that don't honor the Sabbath, 18:58 we say, "If you love me, keep my commandments." 19:00 Then you're lying 19:02 and you've broken the other nine, 19:04 but I'm gonna give you courage this morning. 19:06 If you may have forgotten the purpose of this message 19:08 is to say to you whether you're an Adventist 19:11 or another Christian or not even a Christian at all, 19:14 the Lord came that each one of us 19:16 might find the hope 19:17 that every one of us could live by His grace 19:21 in harmony with His perfect law. 19:25 "If you love Me, keep My commandments" 19:27 was his request, some kind of divine hoax. 19:30 I would say nay. 19:32 You see Jesus knew 19:35 that in order my brother to keep His law, 19:39 to keep His law, we had to have His nature. 19:45 The seed of Adam is a corrupt seed 19:49 capable of producing nothing but corrupt behavior. 19:54 That's why when I see people 19:55 that are involved in whatever the sin may be. 19:58 Let me encourage you this morning. 20:00 It doesn't matter what the sin is. 20:03 It could be little, 20:04 it could be big in the eyes of man 20:06 but whatever it is, 20:08 any sin at all condemns us to death. 20:12 Some people say, "Oh, I didn't, 20:14 look at what he did, look at what she did. 20:18 Doesn't matter how big the sin is 20:20 or how small it is, 20:21 the wages of sin period is death. 20:24 The seed of Adam is a corrupt seeds 20:26 capable of producing nothing but corrupt behavior. 20:29 In other words, Adam seed could never empower 20:33 or enable us to keep God's perfect law. 20:37 So here's the problem. 20:39 It's a problem here. 20:41 One of the problems about finding about a God, 20:43 one of the problems of finding out about 20:46 God's perfect law is having an imperfect nature. 20:50 I'm gonna milk this for all I can. 20:53 We see a law, this perfect law 20:58 and here is the quandary. 21:00 We know that Satan and his angels 21:02 got kicked out, 21:03 because they violated that law, 21:05 and let me make a point very clear, 21:07 we ain't getting in, in violation of God's law. 21:10 The angels as it were are looking at us intently 21:14 and they are saying, 21:15 "Father, are you sure you want them to come up here. 21:20 We had one, but if you would allow these 21:23 millions of sinners to come up here 21:26 what would happen if Satan alone rebelled. 21:29 What would happen Father 21:31 if all of these folks got up here?" 21:34 And you know what Jesus said, "I ain't done with them yet." 21:40 It has not yet been revealed what we shall be. 21:45 But we do know that 21:46 when He is revealed, we shall be, 21:48 come on say it, "Like Him for we shall see Him as He is." 21:52 That's why my favorite text has become 21:53 over the last year and a half, 21:55 "Behold what manner of love the Father 21:57 has bestowed on us, 21:59 that we should be called the children of God." 22:02 Beloved now are we the children of God. 22:05 We're not gonna become the children of God. 22:07 We are children of God now. 22:10 When you give your life to Jesus 22:12 and are born again, 22:13 young man you instantly 22:15 at that moment are no longer the son of Adam, 22:18 you're the son of God, can you say amen. 22:21 And Adam in that corrupt nature, 22:23 Satan stands back and says, 22:28 "Oh, another one got away." 22:33 We are told by inspiration that 22:34 whenever one is being rescued from the jaws of sin, 22:37 the angels, the evil angels double 22:39 and triple their efforts. 22:41 They make sure that your phone rings 22:43 when you want to have Bible studies 22:45 or your corrupt friends 22:46 come on and say let's go out to a party, 22:48 but I just got baptized. 22:49 Ah, one more partying ain't gonna hurt you. 22:51 I was there, when I gave Jesus my life, 22:54 I had many, many months 22:55 where I still went out and disc jockeyed 22:57 because I kept saying, 22:58 "Well, just one more party or just one more time" 23:02 because I didn't understand that 23:04 in order to remain in that perfect relationship with God, 23:07 I had to decide that dying once is not enough, 23:12 I had to die every day. 23:14 Amen. 23:19 But now let's fast forward to a text 23:20 that seems to present a twist, 23:23 Revelation 14:12. 23:24 If it were not for this text, I would be very discouraged. 23:28 This text seems to present a twist, 23:30 look at it together. 23:31 You know what? 23:33 Maybe let's read it together, Revelation 14:12, 23:34 the Bible says, are you ready? 23:36 "Here is the patience of the" what "Saints, 23:39 here are those who do" what? 23:41 "Keep the commandments of God and the" what else? 23:45 "Faith of Jesus." 23:47 Whenever I meet people that say, 23:48 the commandments of God can't be kept, 23:49 I said read, read this text 23:51 and tell me what it says. 23:53 Who keep, who do what? 23:55 Who keep, 23:57 but you notice the text identifies 23:59 who they are. 24:00 It didn't say, 24:02 here is the patience of the sinners. 24:04 It says here is the patience of the what? 24:05 Saints. 24:07 Jesus by His righteousness 24:09 not only changes our nature but changes our standing. 24:13 We're no longer sinners in Jesus. 24:16 We're saints in Jesus, and then He begins a process, 24:20 it's called sanctification. 24:21 He begins to change us a room at a time 24:24 as long as we wake up in the morning and say, 24:26 "Father, I still have some housecleaning to do, 24:29 I'm gonna die again." 24:30 You see this daily death is imperative to daily growth. 24:36 And some of you know it. 24:37 When you wake up in the morning and fail to read your Bible. 24:40 Fail to pray, 24:41 fail to live with the whole armor of God, 24:43 you go to work and tell somebody off. 24:46 But let me encourage you, 24:47 the Lord knew you would do that. 24:50 The Lord didn't say, you know what? 24:53 I can't... 24:55 You can't be my child. 24:56 The beauty of the gospel of God is He says, 25:00 "If anyone sins, 25:04 he has an advocate with the Father, 25:06 Jesus Christ, the what? 25:08 The righteous." 25:09 So He sees us, He knows that in the process 25:13 we are still saints in the body of a sinner. 25:20 This is deep, 25:22 because our nature is going to be changed. 25:27 I'm kind of going go ahead of myself 25:28 but I'm gonna give you a text in a moment. 25:29 Our nature by Jesus' righteousness gets changed. 25:34 Then we begin a sanctified growth process 25:41 that says to the world, 25:45 it is possible to have a defective body 25:50 but a righteous life. 25:54 Let's look at this. 25:56 You see in order to eliminate that corrupt behavior. 26:00 We needed a seed that is not corrupt. 26:05 That's where the new birth became necessary 1 Peter 1:23, 26:10 notice how the Bible describes this. 26:14 This is about the new birth, "Having been born" how? 26:19 "Again, not of corruptible seed..." 26:22 The seed that Adam gave us, 26:24 but what kind of seed? 26:25 "incorruptible, through the word of God 26:28 which does" what? "Lives and abides forever." 26:32 That's why when you study your Bible, 26:34 Paul the Apostle says, 26:35 "The word of God effectively works in those who believe." 26:40 This is a living, the book that breeds 26:42 but it's more than that. 26:45 That's why whenever Satan came to Jesus in the garden. 26:47 What did Jesus say, it is what? 26:48 It is what? 26:50 It is what? 26:51 Every time Jesus didn't say to the devil, 26:54 do you know who I am? 26:57 Get out of my face. 26:59 He didn't say, He said, "It's written," 27:02 because He knew as a human. 27:06 He knew as a one who had taken on our flesh. 27:11 Who had become sin for us. 27:13 He demonstrated to Satan exactly 27:17 what He wants us to do in times of temptation. 27:21 The word of God, 27:22 the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword. 27:26 Only the word of God 27:28 can be your defense in times of temptation. 27:30 That's why David said, "Thy word have I done what? 27:33 Hide in my heart that I might not what? 27:35 That I might not sin against thee." 27:36 Don't think of the word of God 27:38 is just a good book to have Bible studies. 27:40 It is a breeding book, it is a living book. 27:42 It is spiritually nourishing, 27:44 and only the power found in it 27:47 can connect to the nature that we accept from Christ, 27:51 and then the process takes to get. 27:52 It's like, it's like super charged vitamins. 27:56 You know here in London 27:57 you can buy vitamin B 27:59 that you could just inject directly into your veins, 28:02 can't buy that in the States. 28:04 In Australia you can buy vitamin B. 28:06 that you can just give yourself a shot of vitamin B. 28:09 I always see people that are just hyper never tired 28:12 and I said, "What have you taken?" 28:14 They said, "I took my shot of vitamin B." 28:17 I want to tell you the righteousness of Jesus 28:19 is more powerful than vitamin B. 28:20 Somebody ought to say amen. 28:22 But let's continue. 28:24 So in this new birth, 28:25 we have a, what kind of seed? 28:27 An incorruptible, say that word, 28:29 an incorruptible seed. 28:30 So since the corruptible seed has been replaced 28:33 with an incorruptible seed, 28:37 the corrupt behavior has been replaced 28:41 with incorrupt behavior. 28:43 You see there are some people that you see that 28:45 you've known for a while 28:46 and then you notice the changes in their lives 28:49 and then you say, 28:52 "Under normal circumstances brother 28:53 so and so would have told me off already." 29:01 And there's some people that are like wounded puppies, 29:03 they remember what happened in their last confrontation 29:06 with sister so and so, 29:09 but all of a sudden this time she says, 29:11 "It's all right, don't worry about it." 29:14 And you walk away almost like you're expecting 29:17 something to happen because, you know, 29:18 now how is that possible that sister 29:21 so and so could be so nice when a few months ago, 29:24 boy, she almost took my head off in church." 29:26 It's the transforming indwelling power 29:29 of the Spirit of Christ. 29:31 There's a powerful text 29:32 that shows us how this happens. 29:33 This is amazing. 29:35 Look at 1 John 3:9, this text may... 29:37 This text might hit you right between the eyes, 29:39 but I'm gonna break it down in just a moment. 29:41 Are you ready? Here we go. 29:42 1 John 3:9, look at what happens 29:44 when that seed comes in. 29:46 This is amazing text. 29:48 The Bible says, "Whoever has been" what? 29:51 "Born of God does not" what?" 29:59 "For his seed remains in him, and he cannot sin, 30:03 because he has been born of God." 30:04 I got to ask you a serious question. 30:07 Is God a sinner? 30:08 No. 30:10 So if we have the seed of God in us, 30:15 is it possible that this verse can become 30:19 a reality in our lives. 30:22 We're gonna go even deeper than that. 30:25 You see being born again is not a modification of our behavior. 30:29 Being born again is not a second chance. 30:31 You don't, you don't overcome sin by saying, 30:34 "Okay, I will not tell a lie. 30:36 I will not tell a lie. 30:38 I will not tell a lie." 30:41 It's not positive thinking, 30:43 it is a transformation of that 30:45 old character into a new character. 30:48 So when you go to a good tree looking for bad fruit, 30:51 you look around and say 30:52 but I thought this was a bad tree, 30:54 somebody say, "No, the bad tree is over there. 30:56 This is the good tree." 30:57 Amen somebody? 30:59 You see a bad tree cannot produce good fruit 31:01 and a good tree cannot produce what kind of fruit? 31:04 Bad fruit. 31:05 Why? 31:07 Because the difference is the seed. 31:10 So Jesus doesn't just modify our behavior. 31:13 The new behavior is possible only through the new seed. 31:17 Jesus removed the seed of Adam and planted his seed in us. 31:22 Now ladies you ought to understand this 31:23 if you have children. 31:26 Some of your children coming out looking like 31:28 you all look like your husband. 31:30 And sometimes, 31:32 you could walk in church and say, 31:33 "That's got to be Brother Johnson's son. 31:35 Looks just like him." 31:39 You know you have your mother's head. 31:43 I got my family's ears, come on help me out. 31:46 Can't get rid of them, inherited these ears. 31:49 I'm gonna have them until I get a new head. 31:53 You might be able to recognize me in heaven, there he is. 31:58 We take on a genetic property of our mother or our father. 32:04 Got his father's eyes, 32:05 you look more like your mother than your dad. 32:07 When we are born of the seed of God, 32:10 when we are born of the seed of Jesus, 32:12 we start looking like our father, 32:15 talking like our father. 32:16 Come on, forgiving like our father. 32:20 Being patient like our father, because the Bible says, 32:23 "The fruit of the spirit is what? 32:25 Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, 32:29 meekness, patience." 32:31 And why does God do that? 32:32 Because He wants to save the world 32:34 but He's got to give the world a sample 32:37 of what it means to not be of the world. 32:41 Here's my point. 32:42 If the world looks just like you 32:46 and you look just like the world, 32:48 they don't need what you have 32:50 ''cause they ain't doing nothing for you. 32:52 So often we preach doctrines. 32:54 The greatest doctrine that you can preach 32:57 is the transforming of a corrupt character 32:59 into a character like the character of Jesus. 33:03 I love prophecy in Revelation. 33:05 I could spend my life on that 33:07 but I've discovered lately as an evangelist, 33:09 I discovered Pastor John, 33:11 don't begin a message with Daniel 2, 33:14 that's prophecy and nobody could argue with that, 33:18 so you got all these people 33:19 that are prophetically informed 33:22 but spiritually corrupt. 33:25 We talk about the coming of Jesus 33:26 but I'm not even ready for it. 33:29 So I said, "Father, what should I do?" 33:30 He said, "Tell them about Jesus." 33:33 Tell them about the one that came to change their standing, 33:36 their nature, to empower them 33:37 to reflect their light. 33:39 Why would Jesus say, "I am the light of the world." 33:41 And then He says, "Let your light so shine. 33:44 If he's telling you go borrow somebody else's light." 33:47 He says, "Ye are the light of the world. 33:50 You follow me shall not walk in darkness 33:53 but have the light of life." 33:55 What I love about this sermon is this. 33:59 In the Garden of Eden, 34:01 when Adam and Eve fell into sin. 34:03 Jesus predicted, He said to Adam, 34:07 you really messed up. 34:09 You really messed up. 34:10 Could I mess with you, 34:12 He said, Adam you really, you are... 34:15 You shouldn't have done it. 34:17 You really messed up. 34:18 But I can't leave you in this garden. 34:19 Now, by the way I'm gonna change your address. 34:22 You are not going back to live by the tree of life. 34:26 That's your choice. 34:28 And Eve, you gonna have pain all the rest of your life, 34:32 and Adam you're going to sweat 34:34 as long as you work in the garden 34:35 until the day you return to the dust. 34:36 That was your choice, 34:38 but Adam I got to give you some good news. 34:40 Here it is in Genesis 3:15, 34:42 I will tell you that 34:43 what you did I am going to reverse. 34:46 Genesis 3:15, look what the Bible says. 34:49 Jesus said in that garden that fateful day, He said, 34:52 "I will put enmity Between you and the woman, 34:57 And between your seed..." 34:59 He's looking at the serpent. 35:00 He's looking at Satan saying, 35:01 "I will put enmity Between you and the woman, 35:05 between your seed and her Seed, 35:07 He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel." 35:12 He's using the word seed. 35:14 See, now that the seed has come into the world, 35:16 I've got to do something about this seed. 35:19 The word enmity is discomfort. 35:21 That's why whenever we sin, 35:22 there's a discomfort that comes with it. 35:25 There's a discomfort that comes with it, 35:26 but the Lord didn't just talk about discomfort. 35:28 He was talking about the ultimate victory 35:31 over the seed of Adam, 35:33 which is through the seed of Christ. 35:34 Somebody ought to say amen. 35:37 You see the new birth produces in us 35:40 through the seed of Christ, 35:42 this new birth is transformed, 35:43 this is a divine transaction now. 35:47 Jesus placed within us a new seed, 35:50 a what, church? 35:52 That now empowers us to accomplish 35:54 what we could not have accomplished 35:56 with Adam's nature. 35:58 Look at the transaction. 36:00 2 Peter 1:4, 2 Peter 1:4, 36:05 well, how beautiful this text is, 36:07 "By which have been given to us" 36:11 what's the next word? 36:12 "Exceedingly great and precious promises, 36:16 that through these, 36:18 that is through these promises, you may be partakers of..." 36:22 Here it is, are you ready. 36:24 Here it is, what is it? 36:25 "The divine nature, having escaped to the" what? 36:30 "Corruption that is in the world through lust." 36:34 The Lord says, this corruption that Adam brought, 36:37 the only way that you gonna escape 36:38 it is through a divine nature. 36:40 The only way out of that 36:41 messed up situation is a divine nature. 36:46 And as long as we remain in that corrupt situation 36:49 and without the divine nature, 36:50 there is no way that 36:51 we can reflect the character of God. 36:53 There is no way that we can reveal it. 36:55 There is no way that 36:56 we can overcome the temptations that come our way. 36:58 There is no way that we can do right 37:00 because there is none that is good, 37:01 no, not one. 37:02 So this divine transaction... 37:04 Now, let me ask a question. 37:06 Can those who partake of a divine nature 37:10 keep a divine law? 37:14 Don't be afraid, it's not a trick question. 37:18 Okay, let me, let me ask it another way. 37:20 Can God be in harmony with His law? 37:23 Yes. 37:24 Why? 37:26 Because He's divine, 37:27 so He looks at us and says, now, 37:28 right now you have Adam's nature, 37:30 but if you're born again, 37:31 I'm gonna give you a different nature. 37:33 I'm going to let you partake of my nature, 37:37 and when you partake of my nature now 37:40 and only now can you live in harmony 37:44 with a divine law. 37:46 So let me ask a question again, not a trick question. 37:48 Can those who partake of His divine nature 37:51 keep His divine law? 37:53 Yes. 37:54 Paul says it this way, Philippians 4:13, you know, 37:56 are you ready. 37:58 "I can do" what? 37:59 "All things through Christ who strengthens me." 38:02 Amen somebody? 38:04 Amen. 38:06 But in your mind you're still troubled. 38:08 In your mind you're still troubled, 38:10 because you're thinking, 38:12 you're thinking, "Okay, you know, 38:13 I really messed up this week. 38:15 Ah, I blew it a number of times." 38:17 So what's he talking about? 38:21 I hear you, I'm not done yet. 38:24 I did messed up a whole lot this week. 38:27 What's he talking about. 38:28 I know this week I lie, I stumbled, 38:32 I did this, I did that 38:35 so where is this divine seed that's gonna help me out. 38:40 I said to you a moment ago and I reiterate. 38:42 You did that, you did what you did 38:45 because you remained alive. 38:48 Did you hear what I just said? 38:51 Paul says, "I die every day." 38:55 He knew that it is not possible elder. 38:58 It's not possible to wake up in the morning 39:00 and keep you alive and live like Jesus. 39:03 Did you get what I said? 39:04 It's not possible to keep you alive 39:07 and live like somebody else. 39:09 You will do what you do 39:11 because Jesus has not been invited in again today. 39:15 Now, let me, let me clear this up, 39:18 because somebody is saying well, 39:19 am I saved today and am I lost? 39:22 Am I lost yesterday and saved tomorrow. 39:24 Do I go through a save and lost relationship, 39:26 that's not what the Bible teaches. 39:29 We are in a sanctifying walk with Christ. 39:32 What kind of walk did I say? 39:34 And the sanctification is a growth process, 39:37 but get this, 39:38 we grow in grace. 39:41 We grow in what? Grace. 39:43 Why do you need grace? 39:44 Because you ain't perfect yet. 39:48 There's something we still possess. 39:51 Pinch it. 39:57 You've been born again 39:58 but you've got something that's still hanging around, 40:00 it's called the flesh. 40:02 Come on, what's it called? 40:03 Flesh. 40:05 Now I don't know about you, 40:06 but there are certain things that are still in my mind. 40:09 See I still know how to dance. 40:10 I'm not gonna do any demonstration. 40:14 Some of you still know how to cuss. 40:20 Don't look around. 40:22 Some of you got wandering eyes still. 40:25 Rushing hands and roaming fingers. 40:28 Some of you still are cheap, 40:29 don't know how to pay an honest tithe. 40:31 I'm looking at the lights by the way. 40:35 And we wonder why is that, 40:37 why do we go down that road? 40:39 Because we have not allowed ourselves. 40:41 Here is where the battle is every day. 40:42 There's a battle between, 40:44 there's something we still have that 40:45 Adam gave us in the very beginning. 40:47 You know what it is? 40:48 The sinful flesh. 40:51 You see we were saved first from the penalty of sin, 40:54 from the watch, church? 40:55 The penalty of sin. 40:57 In other words, God took us off of death row 41:00 and that's through the new birth. 41:03 Every day when we submit ourselves to Christ, 41:06 we are being saved from the power. 41:09 Say that word again, "The power of sin." 41:12 Therefore, that's why Paul says, 41:14 "Don't let sin reign in your mortal body, 41:17 that you should obey it in its lust thereof." 41:19 In other words, when you wake up in the morning 41:21 and you don't put God's word in your mind like David said, 41:24 the only barrier, the only defense 41:26 we have on a day by day basis. 41:27 This is where Bible study come in. 41:29 If you think that your Bible is just something 41:30 you carry on Sabbath, 41:31 you are person that's stumbling all week long. 41:34 David said, "Thy word, have I hit my what? 41:37 Thy word have I hid in my what? 41:39 That I might not what? Sin. 41:41 He knows that unless the word is in there, 41:43 you are going to sin. 41:46 Let me give another example. 41:48 You try to be strong and not... 41:49 Don't eat for four days 41:52 and try to be strong within weekends. 41:54 There was a man in Alaska that had dogs that 41:57 they would fight on the weekends, 41:59 he had huskies and German shepherds 42:01 and every weekend, 42:02 they would fight and people would bet on these dogs. 42:06 And he would always bet on the dog that won, 42:08 and somebody once said, you know, 42:09 "Sir, I got to ask you. 42:11 You have never lost. 42:13 Every time you bet you win. 42:14 How is that possible?" 42:17 He said, "It's simple, 42:19 in order for me to know which dog is going to win, 42:21 I feed one all week long 42:23 and I starve another one all week long." 42:25 And the one I starve is gonna lose, 42:28 the one I feed is going to win." 42:31 If you don't feed yourself on the word that breeds, 42:33 you're gonna lose. 42:34 Come on talk to me. 42:36 The only reason why God has given us 42:38 the word that breeds, 42:40 the book that breeds. 42:42 It is not only a book that breeds, 42:44 it is the incorruptible word of God, 42:46 it is the bread of life, 42:48 "Man shall not live by bread alone 42:51 but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." 42:58 You see, the fact of the matter is, 43:00 through the indwelling word, through the indwelling Christ, 43:03 through the power of the indwelling Spirit, 43:06 we are able to live in harmony with God's perfect law. 43:10 That's why the devil is so upset. 43:13 Look at Revelation 12:17, 43:16 Revelation 12:17, 43:19 the Bible says, "And the dragon was what. 43:21 Wroth with the woman, 43:23 and went to make war with the" what? 43:25 Remnant of her seed," and what did they do? 43:28 "Which keep the commandments of God, 43:31 and have their" what? 43:32 "Testimony of Jesus." 43:34 The devil would not be angry 43:37 if he did not know 43:38 that the commandments of God can be kept. 43:41 He wouldn't be angry, 43:43 but now here is, let's get even deeper. 43:45 To say that we are the commandment keepers of God, 43:48 are you ready, elder? 43:50 To say that we are the church 43:51 that keep the commandments of God, 43:52 yet we have given the world no evidence 43:55 that we live in harmony with it, 43:56 is to say we have no message. 44:03 We love to say to folk, 44:07 why don't you keep the Sabbath? 44:10 Because, see, we think 44:12 that the commandments are just one. 44:16 Now, I don't have the time to do it, 44:18 I'll do it in my sermon this evening, 44:19 I'll walk you through all Ten Commandments 44:21 for the purpose of bringing out one 44:23 and exalt them all. 44:25 Every one of the commandments of God is God's commands, 44:27 amen somebody? 44:29 Amen. 44:30 But we say to folk, 44:32 why don't you keep the Sabbath? 44:34 And what is God's day, it's a sanctify day, you know. 44:38 The Lord said, "That's true" 44:39 but the world needs a visual representation 44:43 of a sanctified Christian. 44:45 Amen. 44:47 You can't keep a sanctified day with an unsanctified life. 44:51 And to keep a day without a sanctified life 44:54 is just to keep the day you have a vacation day. 44:57 But you don't have anything to reflect to the world 44:59 about the character of Jesus, 45:01 and so the Lord comes along, 45:02 Jesus comes along. 45:04 Praise the Lord for that, He comes along, 45:06 enters our lives through the power of His Holy Spirit, 45:09 and then He says, okay, yes, 45:11 you'll not only live in harmony with my law 45:14 but you reflect to the world 45:15 the sanctifying influence and power 45:18 of what it means to be a child of God 45:20 in a corrupt world. 45:23 So the devil says, these folk really trouble me. 45:27 You see the best... 45:30 I've got to say this the right way. 45:35 I can't say this... 45:36 like I don't want to sound like I'm boasting. 45:40 But shouldn't it be true 45:42 that those who keep the commandments of God 45:44 by His grace 45:46 have the best message about the righteousness of Jesus, 45:53 because you can't keep the commands of God 45:54 without the righteousness of Jesus. 45:57 So if I'm gonna preach, keep my commandments, 45:59 I should have the best message about the righteousness 46:04 and sufficiency of the power available only in Jesus 46:09 because I'm saying, 46:11 look what the Lord has done for me. 46:13 I honor the commandments. 46:14 Somebody says, "No, you can't." 46:15 I said, "You're right, I can't." 46:17 When somebody says, 46:18 "Can you keep the commandments?" 46:19 Say, "No, I can't, but in Jesus I can." 46:22 The Israelites made the problem. 46:23 They made a mistake when, 46:25 when Moses showed them the law, 46:26 they said, "Oh, that the Lord has said we will do." 46:29 And they messed up royally. 46:32 When I wake up in the morning, 46:33 I say, Lord Jesus, you know, 46:35 if I start to go out today to pastor, 46:36 or give Bible studies, or visit, 46:39 or whatever I do this day without Your power, 46:41 I am going to mess up royally." 46:43 And you come back in the evening. 46:45 Don't you think that the father says, 46:46 "Okay son, okay daughter, 46:48 I know you asked me to forgive you yesterday, 46:50 and the day before, and the day before, 46:52 and you keep repeating that same old sin. 46:54 Why don't you try something different? 46:56 Why don't you partake of my divine nature, 46:58 so you will discover that I can keep you from falling 47:02 unto Him that is able to keep you from, what? 47:06 Falling and to present you faultless 47:08 before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. 47:12 The joy that comes into our lives 47:14 is when we connect to this undiluted powerful nature 47:17 called the righteousness of Jesus. 47:19 And then through that righteousness, 47:21 we step out in a corrupt world 47:23 and wherever we walk there is a light beaming 47:25 from heaven through our lives to a society 47:27 that needs to see that Christ is the way out. 47:33 The only way out. 47:36 Go down to Psalms 19:7, 47:37 my sister just fast forward to Psalms 19:7. 47:45 The commandments of God are designed 47:47 to accomplish two things in us, 47:49 Psalms 19:7, look at the text. 47:51 The Bible says, "The law of the Lord is? what? 47:54 "Perfect doing" what? 47:56 "Converting the soul, 47:58 The testimony of the Lord is" what? 48:00 "Sure making wise the simple." 48:03 Since we have partaken of a divine nature, 48:08 we don't have to keep the commandments of God 48:10 through stumbling and bumblings and mumblings. 48:13 We don't have to continue to reflect on our weaknesses, 48:16 but don't make the mistake and say to somebody 48:19 that the commandments of God had become a burden to me. 48:23 There are some folk who'd say, 48:24 you're still bound by the commandments, 48:27 you guys keep the commandments, 48:28 isn't that a burden? 48:30 Brother, if I'm free, it can't be a burden. 48:33 If I'm free and happy, if you, if you are, 48:37 if you are happy when you see me coming. 48:43 If you say, "I love working but brother so and so. 48:45 Oh, I love working with sister so and so, why? 48:47 They remind me of Jesus. 48:50 It cannot be a burden. 48:51 1 John 5:3, the Bible says, 48:54 "For this is the love of God, 48:55 for this is what" church? 48:56 "The love of God that we" what? 48:58 "Keep His commandments 49:00 and His commandments are not" what? 49:02 "They are not burdensome." 49:07 How many of you, I need you to respond. 49:09 How many of you 49:12 don't have a mirror in your house? 49:20 Just checking, 49:23 I know you do, because you look good. 49:28 But if you look into the perfect law of liberty 49:32 and continue there in, 49:34 not being just a hearer but a doer of the word. 49:39 The law of liberty, the law of what? 49:42 Liberty. 49:44 You see the beauty of the message 49:45 of salvation is this. 49:47 One day and I'm winding up brother, 49:50 could you play that song you were playing this morning, 49:53 I must tell Jesus. 49:55 You see the beauty of the salvation that 49:57 we find in Jesus is one day 50:01 a whole lot of used to be shaky folk 50:05 are gonna walk through a gate into the New Jerusalem. 50:08 Somebody that used to lie is gonna say wait a minute, 50:11 I'll meet you on the inside 50:12 because they gonna go through the Simeon and Levi gate. 50:18 People who like to fight are gonna go 50:20 through the Simeon and Levi gate. 50:22 These brothers are rough. 50:25 Somebody that likes to eat 50:28 is gonna go through the Asher gate 50:30 'cause God gave them victory over appetite. 50:32 Come on say amen somebody. 50:34 Somebody that was cheap 50:36 would hardly want to pay God an honest tithe, 50:39 they're gonna go through the Zebulun gate. 50:40 God is gonna loosen their purse. 50:42 One day they're gonna become liberal in Jesus, 50:46 because they gonna be a change individual. 50:50 Somebody's gonna one day go through the Joseph gate. 50:52 Joseph always talked about how nice he was dressed. 50:55 You know, he had a pretty coat you know 50:57 Somebody's going to say, Joseph, 50:58 that ain't about your coat, it's about my coat, 51:00 my righteousness. 51:01 So a whole lot of dressed up 51:03 folk are gonna go through one day that Joseph gate. 51:09 But there's one gate that's not going to be there. 51:12 It's called the Dan gate. 51:14 You know why Dan is not gonna be there? 51:17 You see in the original 49 tribes Dan 51:19 and the original 12 tribes in Genesis 49. 51:22 Dan was mentioned, 51:24 but Dan was that person 51:25 that focused on everybody else's sin except his own. 51:30 And God replaced him with Manassa. 51:32 Dan is not in Revelation Chapter 7. 51:34 He's not there. 51:36 You see brothers and sisters when the Lord says, 51:37 "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 51:39 You know what He's saying to us? 51:41 Stop focus on everybody else's issues 51:43 and focus on your own. 51:45 We are living in the late hour, 51:46 the Lord is saying examine yourself 51:49 to see whether or not you are in the faith. 51:51 Try yourself and accept Christ abides in you, 51:55 you are disqualified, 51:57 or as the King James Version says, 51:58 "We are reprobate, we cannot reflect Jesus." 52:01 So this morning, 52:03 the reality of this message is, 52:06 I want to be a saint that goes through one of those 12 gates. 52:09 What about you? 52:10 I don't care what gate I go through. 52:12 I don't care if I'm going first or going last 52:14 as long as the gate shuts behind me. 52:16 But this morning somebody wants to say to Jesus. 52:20 I must tell you all of my trials, 52:23 I cannot bear these burdens alone. 52:26 This morning, if there's somebody here 52:27 that wants to go through one of those gates, 52:30 that want to say this morning by standing, 52:32 I want to let the world know 52:35 that I am a reflection of who Jesus is. 52:38 If that's your desire this morning 52:40 that you want to reflect that undiluted beautiful, 52:44 loving, character of Jesus. 52:47 If that's your desire this morning, 52:48 I want to you stand with me. 52:49 Praise the Lord, 52:51 somebody stood without even being asked. 52:54 The world needs to see it. 52:56 The world needs to see folk that not just sing songs, 53:00 but live the life, 53:01 not people that just go to church. 53:03 They're not in the church, but the church is in them. 53:07 They're not just talking about Jesus, 53:09 but they're reflecting Him. 53:11 They're revealing Him. 53:13 The Lord wants the world to see young men 53:15 they know how to keep their hands to themselves. 53:20 Young ladies that know 53:22 how to wait till they're married. 53:24 Come on somebody talk to me. 53:26 People that can look at a bottle of alcohol 53:28 and turn around and walk away. 53:30 Only by the indwelling power of Christ 53:32 can that be accomplished. 53:33 So this morning, 53:35 the Lord is not looking for commandment keeper, 53:36 He's looking for people 53:38 that want to accept the righteousness of Jesus, 53:40 the sin pardoning savior, the empowering savior. 53:44 That's who the Lord is looking for this morning. 53:48 Is there somebody here this morning that says, 53:50 "My Heavenly Father knows I'm a sinner." 53:52 But this morning I want him to change 53:54 my standing with heaven. 53:56 So I'm gonna open the doors of the church 53:58 while we're gonna sing the song, 53:59 I must tell Jesus. 54:00 I'm gonna open the doors, 54:02 and I'm gonna be very specifically this morning. 54:03 This is not just a general call for everybody to run on down 54:08 but there is somebody here this morning 54:09 that came here today that says, 54:11 "Heavenly Father, 54:14 I want to leave here this morning 54:16 knowing that when I walk out of here, 54:18 I walk out of here with Jesus inside of me 54:21 to begin a new walk, a new life. 54:24 I want to walk out of here today, 54:26 knowing that if anything occurs in my life, 54:30 I will have the assurance of salvation 54:33 when Jesus comes." 54:34 Is there somebody here today, 54:37 regardless of your category, your age, 54:39 whether you're a visitor or not. 54:40 Jesus came to die and save you. 54:42 He wants your life today 54:44 to be written down in the book of life. 54:47 He wants you to know that you're forgiven, 54:49 but He's come to change the way you walk, 54:51 to change the way you talk, 54:53 to change the way you live. 54:54 He's come to clean your record 54:57 and say to the world, this is my child. 55:00 This is my son. 55:01 This is my daughter. 55:03 If there is somebody here today 55:04 that wants that prayer, 55:06 I want you to come down here and join me. 55:08 I don't want you to think about anybody else but yourself. 55:12 Anybody today wants that righteousness of Jesus. 55:15 Now, you might get this mixed up 55:17 with church membership, 55:18 I told you it ain't about church membership. 55:21 If you get this mixed up with church membership, 55:23 you're in the wrong camp. 55:24 I'm talking about somebody 55:26 who wants the righteousness of Jesus. 55:28 Praise the Lord, sister, anybody else 55:31 who wants the righteousness of Jesus 55:34 to be revealed in his or her life. 55:36 Praise the Lord, is somebody else coming down. 55:39 You want the righteousness of Jesus 55:41 to be revealed in your life. 55:44 Praise the Lord. 55:46 Praise the Lord. 55:48 The ladies got good ears, 55:49 I want to see if there's young men 55:50 that can hear me today. 55:52 This is, is there a young man or man at all that wants to be, 55:54 wants to be the man 55:56 that the world can see Jesus in. 55:58 Somebody here today brave enough 56:00 to come and stand for Jesus. 56:03 Anybody here today. 56:06 I must tell Jesus 56:10 All of my trials 56:14 Put the words if there. 56:16 I cannot bear 56:20 These burdens alone 56:24 Look what He says. 56:26 In my distress 56:31 He kindly will help me 56:34 Why? 56:36 He ever loves and cares for His own 56:43 Let's sing that chorus, 56:45 so what... 56:46 I must tell Jesus 56:51 I must tell Jesus 56:56 I cannot bear 57:00 My burdens alone 57:07 I must tell Jesus 57:12 I must tell Jesus 57:17 Jesus can help me 57:22 Jesus alone 57:26 As the musicians play softly this morning, 57:27 I'm opening the doors of the church. 57:30 You see somebody needs to know that 57:32 new life is available today. 57:34 Today is the day of salvation. 57:37 Today is the acceptable time, 57:38 today is the moment that you need to get things 57:41 right between you and Jesus. |
Revised 2016-12-08