WEBVTT - Takers, Part 9 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.740 So faith believes the Word of God, and it activates 0:00:03.740 --> 0:00:06.890 the promise for what it cannot see is rewarded by 0:00:06.890 --> 0:00:10.879 seeing what is believed. So faith sees the invisible, believes 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.980 the unbelievable, does the impossible, complies with the incomprehensible, and 0:00:15.980 --> 0:00:18.200 accepts the intangible. 0:00:24.650 --> 0:00:27.620 This is treasure truth. With pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:27.620 --> 0:00:30.740 junior senior pastor of Christ Bible Church in Chicago. I'm 0:00:30.740 --> 0:00:33.739 Steve Hiller and glad that you're with us. We've been 0:00:33.740 --> 0:00:37.040 taking a look at Joshua chapter one and how God 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.100 had told the nation of Israel and Joshua to go 0:00:40.100 --> 0:00:42.979 take the land. Our message is entitled takers, and we've 0:00:43.010 --> 0:00:47.240 been looking at Scripture, seeing promises that are ours to 0:00:47.270 --> 0:00:50.960 take and the faith that's required for us to take them. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.500 But sometimes Pastor God says this is a promise that 0:00:54.500 --> 0:00:57.710 I have for my people. This is a promise that 0:00:57.710 --> 0:01:00.350 I may have for you, but he doesn't grant that 0:01:00.350 --> 0:01:04.060 right away. How do we keep our faith strong in 0:01:04.060 --> 0:01:05.440 those periods of waiting? 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:11.290 Wow. Well, listen to what Hebrews 11 one says. Faith 0:01:11.290 --> 0:01:15.009 is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of 0:01:15.010 --> 0:01:19.959 things not seen. Man, I'll tell you what's really powerful 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:26.830 to me. Take Noah 120 years you have loved being 0:01:26.830 --> 0:01:31.000 in his church. His. His sermon was. It's going to 0:01:31.030 --> 0:01:33.700 rain for words. Okay, let's take the offering and we'll 0:01:33.700 --> 0:01:37.120 see you next Sunday. Same time next Sunday. It's going 0:01:37.150 --> 0:01:42.490 to rain. And for 120 years he preached this as 0:01:42.490 --> 0:01:46.750 he built the boat. Now my question is this. And 0:01:46.750 --> 0:01:49.240 it floored me. I was in a devotional time and 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:54.640 I'm reading a Hebrew scholar, and he says that the 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.360 stem of what God said to him, it would be 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.580 like in the Greek it would be called Eris. Heiress. 0:02:00.610 --> 0:02:04.900 Past tense. Here it is. Bottom line. How many times 0:02:04.900 --> 0:02:11.200 did God tell Noah it's going to rain in 120 years? 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:17.890 One time. So for 120 years, he held on to 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:23.860 one word that God said. Question. How long have you waited? 0:02:25.570 --> 0:02:27.070 Oh, all right, that's convicting. 0:02:27.100 --> 0:02:32.470 Surely not 120 years. Abraham receives a word from God, 0:02:32.470 --> 0:02:36.160 holds on for 16 years, and then messes up and 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:40.419 has an Ishmael. And then God fulfills his word in 0:02:40.419 --> 0:02:46.810 25 years total. You know, the children of Israel, you know, 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:54.519 in Egypt, in bondage. And for 430 years they waited. And, 0:02:54.550 --> 0:02:56.950 you know, really, you see, people don't see the humor 0:02:56.980 --> 0:03:00.309 in the Bible. I do. Humor is all over the Bible. 0:03:00.550 --> 0:03:05.800 It says in Exodus it says, And God remembered his children. 0:03:06.010 --> 0:03:10.540 After 400 years, about time, you know. But God has 0:03:10.540 --> 0:03:14.169 a plan. And here's something that I don't think we 0:03:14.169 --> 0:03:19.090 preach enough. It has to do with God's purpose more 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:24.220 than my pleasure or provision. That if his purpose is 0:03:24.220 --> 0:03:30.489 not realized, forget about my pleasure, my provision, everything else, power, 0:03:30.490 --> 0:03:35.170 anything that that God makes sure that he's the one 0:03:35.170 --> 0:03:38.560 that's going to be glorified in this. And so we 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.190 acknowledge that that's the Romans 828. We know that all 0:03:42.190 --> 0:03:46.120 things work together for good to those who love the 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:51.850 Lord and are called according to his purpose. So then 0:03:51.850 --> 0:03:55.029 when I'm called according to his purpose, what can happen 0:03:55.030 --> 0:03:57.580 to me that would cause me to turn my back 0:03:57.580 --> 0:04:04.550 on God? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Why? Because I belong 0:04:04.580 --> 0:04:09.800 to him. Lock, stock and barrel. And whatever he does 0:04:09.830 --> 0:04:12.860 is good. Mm. 0:04:13.010 --> 0:04:16.070 That's the right perspective for all of us to have. 0:04:16.100 --> 0:04:18.650 We may struggle in the midst of that. And that's 0:04:18.650 --> 0:04:22.340 where knowing what those promises are, claiming those taking those 0:04:22.339 --> 0:04:24.229 are so important. And that's what our series has been 0:04:24.230 --> 0:04:26.570 all about. That's what we're looking at today from the 0:04:26.570 --> 0:04:30.500 book of Joshua. So join us there as we continue takers. 0:04:30.529 --> 0:04:31.940 Here's Pastor Ford. 0:04:32.300 --> 0:04:34.460 The power to perform. 0:04:34.460 --> 0:04:35.000 Is. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.260 In the promise proclaimed. It's inherent in the word that 0:04:39.260 --> 0:04:44.420 he's given to us. Our faith activates the power. Now, 0:04:44.450 --> 0:04:45.920 we ain't got to go through that. We always talk 0:04:45.950 --> 0:04:50.150 about jerry curls. You had to have the activator. And 0:04:50.150 --> 0:04:53.359 faith is the activator that activates the word of God. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:58.940 So what did he do? He. He. Rose became a taker. Now, 0:04:58.970 --> 0:05:01.830 here's here's what I would have done. if I'd been 0:05:01.830 --> 0:05:03.540 laying on that pallet for 38 years. I don't want 0:05:03.540 --> 0:05:06.780 anything to do with that pallet, am I? Am I 0:05:06.810 --> 0:05:10.200 right about it? Sister? Wife? Yeah. Look, look, I just 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.419 had this thing. I'm sick of it. I haven't had 0:05:12.420 --> 0:05:15.060 the new model. And, you know, I don't want this 0:05:15.060 --> 0:05:18.720 thing anymore. So. Jesus, why don't you tell me to 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:24.990 take it? Because everybody knows that for 38 years, the 0:05:24.990 --> 0:05:29.520 pallet been carrying you. Now I want you to show 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:34.170 them that when you get a promise from God, you 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:39.660 now carry what was carrying you. You got victory over 0:05:39.660 --> 0:05:43.440 what had you conquered. You pick up your pallet so 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.370 everybody can see that you're more than a conqueror through 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.460 him that loves you. That when you got a promise 0:05:50.460 --> 0:05:55.290 from God, it doesn't matter what your circumstances are. Because 0:05:55.320 --> 0:06:00.450 now God gives you sovereignty over your circumstances so that 0:06:00.460 --> 0:06:04.839 now he doesn't always change the circumstances, the palette, but 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.080 he always changes you. So you're able to pick up 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.469 that palette, pick it up. Come on, tell somebody. Pick 0:06:11.470 --> 0:06:15.640 it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick up 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:21.700 that palette. Get up off of it. Pick it up now. 0:06:21.700 --> 0:06:24.130 Now I want you to notice something. Because when you 0:06:24.130 --> 0:06:28.450 look at this thing, it's really powerful. Not because he says, 0:06:28.450 --> 0:06:31.450 here's what I want you to do. I want you 0:06:31.450 --> 0:06:34.540 to believe the promise. I say it all the time, 0:06:34.540 --> 0:06:37.360 but let me say it again. Don't put a question 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.800 mark where God has put a period. Don't do that. No, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.990 don't put a question mark where God has put a period. 0:06:44.020 --> 0:06:46.930 It is, it is. There's three tenses of the promise here. 0:06:47.110 --> 0:06:51.580 Because this past promise that's given in the present about 0:06:51.580 --> 0:06:54.640 his future. Now, here's what you do. It's a past promise. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.400 But here's what you gotta do. You gotta personalize it. 0:06:57.850 --> 0:07:00.890 You gotta personalize it. What's he telling them to do? 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:07.130 Claim this promise for yourself, Joshua and the children of Israel. 0:07:07.130 --> 0:07:10.220 I've given it to you. Now all you have to 0:07:10.220 --> 0:07:14.360 do is claim it. See, the first generation didn't believe it. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.970 And so let me show you. Let me show you 0:07:16.970 --> 0:07:21.170 my grandson. Uh, my my next to my youngest grandson. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.650 His name is Jaden Ford. Uh, now, Jaden is a 0:07:24.650 --> 0:07:29.420 young scholar. Every year he gets 10 or 12 awards 0:07:29.420 --> 0:07:32.420 and have been getting them since he's been at Dixon 0:07:32.420 --> 0:07:36.350 School in pre-K. He's in fourth grade now. Every year 0:07:36.350 --> 0:07:40.670 he gets these awards. Well, this year, here's what happened. Uh, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.340 three years in a row, he won student of the year. 0:07:43.340 --> 0:07:48.980 And that's from pre-K to sixth grade. Student of the year. And, uh, 0:07:48.980 --> 0:07:52.670 this year they said, okay, we're going to award our 0:07:52.670 --> 0:07:54.860 trophy for student of the year. Now, the student of 0:07:54.860 --> 0:07:58.190 the year gets special things. Uh, they get they got a, uh, 0:07:58.190 --> 0:08:01.140 he got a, uh, the the reader thing. Where's the 0:08:01.140 --> 0:08:05.970 reader thing? Kindle fire, Kindle fire, he got a Kindle Fire, 0:08:05.970 --> 0:08:08.460 and he and he got the opportunity to bring his 0:08:08.460 --> 0:08:11.280 family and they ate with the principal. Now he's done 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:12.660 that three years in a row. So they got up 0:08:12.660 --> 0:08:16.230 and they said, okay, we're going to announce the student 0:08:16.230 --> 0:08:18.900 of the year. And before the teacher could announce it, 0:08:18.900 --> 0:08:24.540 the whole student body said Jaden Ford. And she said, 0:08:24.540 --> 0:08:29.370 that's right, Jaden Ford. Now, he has never been late 0:08:29.370 --> 0:08:33.600 or missed a day of school from pre-K, and he 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.870 gets that award for never missing class and never being 0:08:36.870 --> 0:08:41.400 late every year. So this is what happened last week. 0:08:41.429 --> 0:08:45.059 My son got a flat tire and so he was 0:08:45.150 --> 0:08:47.940 on his way to school and his dad got a 0:08:47.940 --> 0:08:51.120 flat tire. He went into the trunk and the spare 0:08:51.150 --> 0:08:55.800 was flat. Jaden is in the back. He starts crying, oh, dad, 0:08:55.890 --> 0:08:59.280 I'm going to be late. I'm never been late. You're 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.680 going to make me late. I knew I should have 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:06.060 rode to school with mom. I told you we should 0:09:06.059 --> 0:09:09.030 leave early in case anything happened. Then we could get 0:09:09.059 --> 0:09:12.780 on the bus. So my son said. He said, you know, 0:09:12.809 --> 0:09:15.720 I've been sharing with my children how God just changed me, 0:09:15.750 --> 0:09:18.569 turned me around, and now I have this job. My 0:09:18.570 --> 0:09:20.250 son works for the railroad. He said, I have this 0:09:20.250 --> 0:09:23.130 job and I'm so blessed. And so I told him, 0:09:23.130 --> 0:09:25.740 you know how when you give God what he wants, 0:09:25.740 --> 0:09:28.050 he gives you what you want, and until you give 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.420 God what he wants, he's not giving you what you want. 0:09:30.450 --> 0:09:32.069 So he said he wanted my life, but I didn't 0:09:32.070 --> 0:09:34.080 want to give it to him. And I tried everything 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.570 in my own power, my own way to make it. 0:09:36.570 --> 0:09:38.070 And I never made it. But as soon as I 0:09:38.070 --> 0:09:40.290 turned my life over to him, he opened up doors 0:09:40.290 --> 0:09:43.410 I never could see and look where I am now. 0:09:43.410 --> 0:09:45.960 And so Jaden said, but how is that going to 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.980 help me get to school on time? And my son said, 0:09:49.980 --> 0:09:54.030 do you believe in Jesus Christ? Yes, I do, daddy. Uh, 0:09:54.030 --> 0:09:56.280 don't you believe that he could get you on school 0:09:56.309 --> 0:09:59.910 on time? You believe that? Yes, sir, I believe it, 0:09:59.920 --> 0:10:04.059 but I'm riding with you and not with Jesus in a. 0:10:04.300 --> 0:10:07.630 He's very practical. He's very practical, pastor. He's very practical. 0:10:07.630 --> 0:10:10.720 And so he said he said he said, well, then 0:10:10.870 --> 0:10:13.300 do you know how to pray? And he said, yes, 0:10:13.300 --> 0:10:15.460 I know how to pray. He said, well, pray and 0:10:15.460 --> 0:10:19.480 ask him because this is something that is good and 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.060 he will do it for you. But we're going to 0:10:22.059 --> 0:10:25.690 be late. You're on a flat tire. And he said, well, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.630 are you going to believe God or what? And so 0:10:28.630 --> 0:10:34.000 Jaden prayed, Lord, you know, I've never been late. And 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.400 now because I chose to go with my daddy and 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:42.160 not my mommy, I'm going to be late. Please help 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.720 us get to school on time. My son said he 0:10:46.750 --> 0:10:49.810 he hit the gas and that and that tire hit 0:10:49.809 --> 0:10:53.500 the rim. And the tire came off and the rim 0:10:53.500 --> 0:10:56.410 was rolling. And then the rim started sparking and the 0:10:56.410 --> 0:10:59.800 car starts smoking. And he stopped. The car grabbed his 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.990 son and they ran the rest of the way, he 0:11:02.990 --> 0:11:07.580 said as the last child was going in. Jaden went in, 0:11:07.580 --> 0:11:10.400 joined in the back, got in his room, sat in 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:15.290 his chair and the bell rang and the bell rang 0:11:15.350 --> 0:11:18.110 and he showed him. All you had to do was 0:11:18.110 --> 0:11:21.470 personalize it. And he was telling me about his thanksgiving prayer, 0:11:21.470 --> 0:11:23.719 and that he talked about it all day in school. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.050 Jesus got me here on time. Jesus got me here 0:11:27.050 --> 0:11:30.590 on time. Jesus got. I prayed and Jesus got me 0:11:30.590 --> 0:11:33.350 here on time. Jesus. And so my son had me 0:11:33.380 --> 0:11:35.959 cracking up. If you don't know my youngest son, all 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:37.850 the four men got a little sense of humor. I 0:11:37.850 --> 0:11:39.080 don't know where they get it from, but they all 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.450 got it. And so and so I said, what did 0:11:41.450 --> 0:11:46.040 you do, son? He said, I said, Lord Jesus, you're 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.810 a will worker. You've been will to me. Because where 0:11:50.809 --> 0:11:55.010 there's a will, there's a way. So then he went 0:11:55.010 --> 0:11:58.070 and he and he, he went to, uh, right down here, um, where, 0:11:58.070 --> 0:12:00.780 where the brothers do the to tires, he said. He 0:12:00.780 --> 0:12:02.940 rolls up and they had to give him a tire 0:12:02.940 --> 0:12:07.140 and a rim. And they said to him, man. He said, man, 0:12:07.170 --> 0:12:10.170 you're lucky you made it here. And he said, uh, 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:21.479 I'm not lucky. I'm blessed. I'm real blessed. Oh, me. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.880 That's what I said. He said he got it on 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.880 and said Amen. And so you see what he's doing. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.620 You have to personalize. You know what I do? Here's 0:12:28.620 --> 0:12:30.600 what I do all the time. And now unto him 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.170 who's able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that pastor 0:12:34.170 --> 0:12:37.260 Forward could ask or think. Uh, I am pastor Ford 0:12:37.260 --> 0:12:40.500 is more than a conqueror through him that loved him. Uh, 0:12:40.530 --> 0:12:43.350 Pastor Ford has never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed. 0:12:43.380 --> 0:12:47.939 I put my name in the promise. I personalize it, 0:12:47.940 --> 0:12:52.530 remember Caleb and Joshua 14. Uh, they're shooting dice now 0:12:52.530 --> 0:12:54.720 in the Bible. It's legal. So don't be running out 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.210 here talking about, you know, pastor said it's alright to 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.699 shoot some dice because the Israelites, they shot dice. It 0:13:00.700 --> 0:13:04.690 was called casting lots. And that's how they they divided 0:13:04.690 --> 0:13:08.079 the land. Caleb comes up and says, uh uh, no, no, no, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.040 we don't shoot dice. Cast lots from Give Me My Mountain, 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.080 which the Lord promised me. And here's what it says 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.859 in Joshua 1445 years ago. How long have you been 0:13:17.860 --> 0:13:21.220 holding on to the promise that God gave you? So now, 0:13:21.250 --> 0:13:24.730 if 45 years later I'm laying claim on it, it's 0:13:24.730 --> 0:13:28.420 mine and I want what's mine, I'm taking what's mine. 0:13:28.450 --> 0:13:31.030 And he said, the Anakin up there, that's the Giants. 0:13:31.059 --> 0:13:32.800 Those are the guys that are just a little taller 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.740 than Shaq. And he said, that's alright. God gave it 0:13:35.740 --> 0:13:37.929 to me. So then I gotta take it. And he 0:13:37.929 --> 0:13:40.809 goes up there and he takes his land because it's 0:13:40.809 --> 0:13:43.329 his possession. And I want to tell you something. The 0:13:43.330 --> 0:13:46.420 Bible says the wealth of the wicked is stored up 0:13:46.420 --> 0:13:48.940 for the righteous. When are we going to start taking it? 0:13:48.940 --> 0:13:52.510 The Bible tells us that this community belongs to us 0:13:52.510 --> 0:13:55.540 because we're a lighthouse on this corner. When are we 0:13:55.570 --> 0:13:57.550 going to start taking it? When are we going to 0:13:57.550 --> 0:14:00.320 take back what the devil has stolen. 0:14:01.910 --> 0:14:04.970 Oh, what a challenge from Pastor Ford. As we continue 0:14:04.970 --> 0:14:07.550 this message entitled takers, we're going to get back to 0:14:07.580 --> 0:14:11.480 it in just one moment. Hey, if this Bible teaching, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.969 this study of Joshua one is making a difference in 0:14:13.970 --> 0:14:16.220 your walk with Christ. We'd love to hear about it. 0:14:16.220 --> 0:14:18.200 And also, I want to ask you to consider giving 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.170 a financial gift so we can continue to bring you 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.990 Pastor Ford's teaching each day. We really are a listener 0:14:23.990 --> 0:14:28.130 supported radio production. Give online at Treasure Truth Radio. Org 0:14:28.130 --> 0:14:31.340 and click on the donate button. Back to the message. 0:14:31.340 --> 0:14:32.900 Here is Pastor Ford. 0:14:33.050 --> 0:14:38.030 Notice because not only do we have to personalize it 0:14:38.030 --> 0:14:41.810 this past promise, but we also have to participate in it. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:47.090 Notice what he says. Walk every place the sole of 0:14:47.090 --> 0:14:51.020 your foot touches. Now, I'm not suggesting that we do 0:14:51.020 --> 0:14:54.530 a community walk, even though there's nothing wrong with that 0:14:54.530 --> 0:14:58.850 to show our presence. That doesn't guarantee anything. What's his point? 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:06.710 His point is this that we participate in the promise fulfillment. 0:15:07.250 --> 0:15:11.540 There's something we must do in order to experience the 0:15:11.540 --> 0:15:17.840 manifestation of the revelation. What is it? What is it 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.860 that we must do? Because if we won't do our part, 0:15:21.890 --> 0:15:25.730 God will not do his part. Come on, say it 0:15:25.730 --> 0:15:33.230 with me. Without God, we can. Without us, God won't. 0:15:33.830 --> 0:15:36.979 That's right. And so he says, Joshua, I want you 0:15:36.980 --> 0:15:40.580 to walk. And notice, if you go to chapter 13, 0:15:40.610 --> 0:15:43.550 I call it when I. When I did it, I 0:15:43.580 --> 0:15:47.480 called it the unconquered Territory. Say, what are you talking about? 0:15:47.510 --> 0:15:53.750 Everywhere they walk, they possess. And everything they left became 0:15:53.750 --> 0:15:58.220 a curse to them later on. Which ones did they 0:15:58.220 --> 0:16:09.480 leave alone. Amalekites. Philistines. Jebusites. Who's giving them trouble in 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:16.110 first and second. Samuel. Philistines. Who's giving them trouble in 0:16:16.140 --> 0:16:22.390 first and second Kings. First Chronicles. Second Chronicles. Amalekites. A 0:16:22.390 --> 0:16:28.800 thousand years later under Esther. Who is Haman and Agagite? 0:16:28.830 --> 0:16:37.740 Where do the Agagite come from? Amalekites. Everything you refuse 0:16:37.740 --> 0:16:40.230 to get out of your life and everything you refuse 0:16:40.230 --> 0:16:46.920 to step on. God says I'm waiting on you. I'm 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:52.080 waiting on you. Boy oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:58.380 See you. You gotta believe God's promises. You gotta personalize it. 0:16:58.380 --> 0:17:01.150 You've got to do that. We've got to let people 0:17:01.150 --> 0:17:05.590 know that we are more than conquerors through him that 0:17:05.590 --> 0:17:10.030 loved us. We activate our faith. You say, what's the 0:17:10.030 --> 0:17:12.399 book all about? It's about sanctifying faith. You know the 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.010 difference between justifying faith? Sanctifying faith. Let me give it 0:17:15.010 --> 0:17:17.920 to you real quick. Justifying faith brings you to heaven. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:22.870 Sanctifying faith brings heaven down to you. Uh, justifying faith saves, 0:17:22.869 --> 0:17:27.040 but sanctifying faith sustains. So what does faith do? Faith 0:17:27.070 --> 0:17:32.260 cuts the T's off of Kant and turns them into can. 0:17:33.220 --> 0:17:36.609 Faith helps us face the music even when we don't 0:17:36.609 --> 0:17:40.629 like the tune. Faith not only believes God can, but 0:17:40.630 --> 0:17:43.629 God will. That that faith knows where we are. God 0:17:43.660 --> 0:17:46.449 brought us what we have. God got us what we know. 0:17:46.450 --> 0:17:49.180 God taught us who we are. God wrought in us 0:17:49.180 --> 0:17:52.030 and the battles we won. God fought for us. So 0:17:52.060 --> 0:17:54.790 faith believes the Word of God and it activates the 0:17:54.790 --> 0:17:58.030 promise for what it cannot see is rewarded by seeing 0:17:58.030 --> 0:18:02.210 what is believed. So faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:08.120 does the impossible, complies with the incomprehensible and accepts the intangible. 0:18:08.150 --> 0:18:11.300 I mean, I mean, okay, okay, here it is. So. 0:18:11.300 --> 0:18:14.600 So it is the promise. See, when we got a 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.150 promise from God, all the promises in him are yea 0:18:17.150 --> 0:18:19.700 and Amen. God is not a man that he should lie. 0:18:19.730 --> 0:18:23.300 Faithful is he who has promised. So get this. Okay, 0:18:23.300 --> 0:18:25.760 let's say now. Let's say. Let's say Brother White, you 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.460 don't have a you don't have a ride. And I say, 0:18:28.460 --> 0:18:31.280 Brother White, I'll get ready, man. Imma scoop you for church. 0:18:31.310 --> 0:18:34.160 And you say, okay, now then, Brother Betts, call you 0:18:34.190 --> 0:18:37.280 ten minutes after and say, hey man, uh, Imma scoop 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.620 you for church. What are you going to tell him? 0:18:39.650 --> 0:18:44.540 I already have a ride. Now wait a minute. Does 0:18:44.540 --> 0:18:47.930 he really have a ride? No, he does not. He 0:18:47.930 --> 0:18:51.680 has a promise of a ride. That's all he has. 0:18:51.710 --> 0:18:56.570 And so it depends on. I know what you said to. 0:18:56.570 --> 0:18:58.639 I ain't even have to be over there because I'm 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.910 about to say it right now, he said, I probably 0:19:00.910 --> 0:19:02.739 would have accepted from Brother Betts since he lived on 0:19:02.740 --> 0:19:05.500 the West Side and Pastor Ford live on the South Side. 0:19:05.950 --> 0:19:07.720 But I didn't come all the way to West Side 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.450 and Brother Betts already on the West side. But anyway, anyway, 0:19:11.500 --> 0:19:14.229 I know that was Sister White said that. And, uh, 0:19:14.380 --> 0:19:17.200 and so he has a promise of a ride. But 0:19:17.350 --> 0:19:21.940 my question is this why is he acting like he 0:19:21.940 --> 0:19:28.119 already has arrived? Because he refused another ride. Because he 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:32.140 had the promise of a ride. Well know why? Because 0:19:32.140 --> 0:19:37.300 the person that gave him the promise, he had confidence 0:19:37.300 --> 0:19:41.050 in that he would do what he said. The reason 0:19:41.050 --> 0:19:43.840 why you're not standing on the promises of God is 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.450 because you don't believe that God can do what he 0:19:46.450 --> 0:19:51.040 said he can do. That's why. That's why. And so 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.129 what we need to understand is, I mean, it's like 0:19:54.220 --> 0:19:56.350 I didn't ask. I'm not going to ask you if 0:19:56.380 --> 0:20:01.810 you play now. Anybody ever play bid whist. Hey, I 0:20:01.810 --> 0:20:04.840 was a whist ologist, Jack. And you know what I do. 0:20:05.170 --> 0:20:06.909 You know what I do when I had set book. 0:20:06.940 --> 0:20:09.850 Anybody do this? You lick the card, you put it 0:20:09.910 --> 0:20:12.580 on top of your forehead. You know, you let them 0:20:12.580 --> 0:20:15.220 know this this set book. This is set book right 0:20:15.220 --> 0:20:18.040 here with this set book, go ahead and play. Most 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:19.960 people know what they do. Oh I'm set. They throw 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.389 the hand. Ain't used to playing hand. Let's play another hand. Why? 0:20:22.420 --> 0:20:24.460 Because you put up there the set book. And that's 0:20:24.460 --> 0:20:25.899 what you got to do when it comes to the 0:20:25.900 --> 0:20:28.810 promises of God. That God made you a promise. And 0:20:28.810 --> 0:20:31.570 the devil is trying to make you think that God 0:20:31.570 --> 0:20:33.850 is not going to fulfill his promise. And so all 0:20:33.850 --> 0:20:35.950 you do is you put boom, you put it right 0:20:35.950 --> 0:20:38.950 up there. The devil says, I'm more powerful than you. No, no. 0:20:38.950 --> 0:20:41.109 Greater is he in me than in than in me. 0:20:41.109 --> 0:20:44.230 That's in the world. Yeah, but you can't do this. Boom! 0:20:44.260 --> 0:20:47.800 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Yeah, 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.010 but guess what? Guess what? He's left you. He's forsaken you. Boom! 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.219 He never leaves me nor forsake me. You just keep 0:20:54.220 --> 0:20:57.190 putting that trump card up there because you know that 0:20:57.190 --> 0:21:02.320 God come hell or high water will fulfill his promise. 0:21:03.490 --> 0:21:08.050 And the question on the floor is, do you believe him? 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.440 Is there a believer in the house? Is there anybody 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.440 that will stand on the Word of God and say, God, 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.470 I believe you. I don't care what the circumstances tell me. 0:21:17.470 --> 0:21:19.930 I don't care what people say. I don't care what 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:27.430 doubt comes my way. I'm standing on the word. Let 0:21:27.430 --> 0:21:33.760 me close. Deacon Russell on little Frankie. He's Frankie, the fifth. 0:21:34.420 --> 0:21:38.680 Little Frankie. And little Frankie boy. He's perceptive. I think 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:40.989 he helps me to close this thing out. You know 0:21:40.990 --> 0:21:44.770 what he says? Uh, he was acting up, and his 0:21:44.770 --> 0:21:48.490 daddy said he knows he's afraid of pastor lives. So 0:21:48.490 --> 0:21:52.419 he said, you keep acting up, and I'm going to 0:21:52.420 --> 0:21:56.379 tell Pastor Lyles on you. And without missing a beat, 0:21:56.410 --> 0:21:59.780 Deacon Roussin said, and he looked at me and said, 0:21:59.869 --> 0:22:03.530 and if you keep messing with me, I'm telling Pastor 0:22:03.530 --> 0:22:09.260 Ford on you. You see what he did? He trumped him. 0:22:09.350 --> 0:22:13.609 He said, I'm going to appeal to a higher authority 0:22:13.609 --> 0:22:18.260 in this place. You want me to be afraid because 0:22:18.260 --> 0:22:21.980 you got pastor lives? Well, I need you to know 0:22:22.010 --> 0:22:27.740 I got the one who? His his senior pastor. That's 0:22:27.740 --> 0:22:32.209 all we gotta do. Joshua, I'm speaking to you right now, son. 0:22:32.210 --> 0:22:36.199 And I'm telling you, the enemy, the haters. Because the 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:38.810 higher you go, the more haters you get. Do you 0:22:38.810 --> 0:22:42.740 ever find that out? Yeah, yeah. We always say new level. 0:22:42.770 --> 0:22:49.340 New devil actually is new. New level. Stronger devils. More devils. Right. 0:22:49.940 --> 0:22:55.400 But you gotta say I'm a bloom where God planted me. 0:22:55.880 --> 0:23:01.889 And I don't care what anybody else does. I'm standing 0:23:02.220 --> 0:23:05.250 on the promises of God. 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.690 Really? The only safe and secure place to stand. Isn't it? 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:12.659 You're listening to Treasured Truth with Pastor Ford. A message 0:23:12.660 --> 0:23:16.500 from Joshua, chapter one. 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