WEBVTT - Faith for Your Future, Part 3 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.559 Even if you're just a cop out, Christ will give 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.240 you a bailout so you can break out and carry 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:12.720 out his purposes for your life, for his glory. Jesus 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.880 will supply all of our needs according to his riches 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:18.520 in glory. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.840 Welcome to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.600 junior senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:32.680 I'm Steve Hillard. Glad you're with us. As today we 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.000 continue our message, Faith for your future. And pastor, we've 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.680 been talking a little bit about how we can kind 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.559 of discern what God has for us, how we, you know, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.560 can know what promises are ours to claim and what 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.640 are not. Um, I just hear you said, you know, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.280 even if you're just a cop out, Christ will give 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.480 you a bailout so you can break out and carry 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.240 out his purposes for his glory. It's kind of a 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.160 little bit like what we were talking about yesterday. It 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.880 sounds like it's all coming down to fulfilling Christ's purposes 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.040 and bringing him glory. 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.319 Of course. And if you want to think of someone 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.600 who was at first a cop out and then got 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.200 a bailout so that they could carry out his purposes, 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.920 think of Jonah. You know, God told Jonah, Jonah, go 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.160 to Nineveh, which was 500 miles to the east. He 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.119 chose to go to Tarshish, which is in Spain, which 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.720 is a little over 2000 miles. So he went three 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.760 times or four times the distance to get out of 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.040 the will of God, as he did to be in 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.320 the will of God. But yet what did God do? 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.000 God sent a storm. Yeah. Then we find him in 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.720 chapter three. Uh, he's ready now. He. He had an 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.560 Uber ride, uh, to Nineveh, and God picked up the 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:52.320 fare for him. And what did God say? And the 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.880 word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.360 Go to Nineveh and preach against that great city. Here's 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.160 what I notice. Chapter one go to Nineveh. The message 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.480 didn't change. Yeah, he just had to get the messenger 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.519 where he was willing to obey. What? He didn't want 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.680 to obey? Yeah. For God. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.679 Yeah, well, and very often God allows those difficult circumstances 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.400 in our lives, I think, to get us to pay 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.200 attention to him, to begin to recognize his voice. Because 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.120 when things are going along swimmingly, it can be very 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.120 easy to think, I'm just going to go about my 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.480 own business. And so often it's in those tough times 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.200 that God will reorient what we want and what we're doing. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.919 We're going to look at that today from Philippians chapter one. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:38.840 So I hope you open your Bible. Join us there 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.560 as we continue the message Faith for your future. Here's 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:43.480 Pastor Ford. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.679 See, you know, the nightingale is called the nightingale because 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.280 it sings the sweetest song in the darkness. Other birds 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.760 sing when the sun comes up. Huh? We got any 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.440 robins in here that sing in the morning when the 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.150 sun rises. Yeah, I'm blessed. 0:03:01.150 --> 0:03:04.550 And highly favored of the Lord. He got me the job. 0:03:04.750 --> 0:03:07.630 I got my house. I got my car. 0:03:09.470 --> 0:03:11.990 But the nightingale sings best. 0:03:11.990 --> 0:03:12.510 In the. 0:03:12.510 --> 0:03:13.429 Darkness. 0:03:13.790 --> 0:03:15.070 Of the night. 0:03:15.070 --> 0:03:18.190 When the night is the darkest, it sings the best. 0:03:18.190 --> 0:03:23.029 And I want to tell you I know Jesus has 0:03:23.030 --> 0:03:26.070 some nightingale. Christians up in. 0:03:26.070 --> 0:03:26.470 Here. 0:03:26.750 --> 0:03:29.910 Up in here. You done been through some stuff, but 0:03:29.910 --> 0:03:32.390 you were singing in the midst of it. You done 0:03:32.389 --> 0:03:35.270 been through some stuff, but you giving God the glory 0:03:35.310 --> 0:03:38.070 even in spite of it. You done been through the stuff, 0:03:38.070 --> 0:03:40.470 and people are looking at you and wondering how in 0:03:40.470 --> 0:03:43.310 the world can you go through that? And you just 0:03:43.310 --> 0:03:47.790 sing the praises of Jesus. You sing the glory of God. 0:03:47.790 --> 0:03:51.190 You sing about the power of the Holy Spirit. I 0:03:51.230 --> 0:03:53.750 can take it and I can make it. I don't 0:03:53.750 --> 0:03:59.030 have to fake it because I've got God in my life. Mm, 0:04:00.390 --> 0:04:02.510 I I'll tell you. I'll tell you. Yeah. And then. 0:04:02.510 --> 0:04:04.790 And then you gotta apply God's word to your life. 0:04:05.110 --> 0:04:08.150 You gotta apply it. See? See, he's aware of it, 0:04:08.150 --> 0:04:10.910 but he's applying it. What's he saying? I'm in jail 0:04:10.910 --> 0:04:15.190 right now, but I'm not going to be for long. Amen. Hey. Oh, 0:04:15.190 --> 0:04:17.029 I didn't bring my phone. I was going to have 0:04:17.029 --> 0:04:19.670 everybody take your phone out. Take your phone out. Take 0:04:19.670 --> 0:04:25.229 your phone out. All right, put it on camera. Put 0:04:25.230 --> 0:04:30.589 your phone on camera. Thank you. Now take a selfie. 0:04:31.350 --> 0:04:35.670 Take a selfie. Come on, take a selfie. Take a selfie. Okay, now, 0:04:35.670 --> 0:04:37.630 if you go on social media, here's what I want 0:04:37.630 --> 0:04:41.150 you to do. Take a selfie, put it on Facebook 0:04:41.150 --> 0:04:43.590 or whatever your social media is and then put this 0:04:43.589 --> 0:04:47.230 under it. Everybody put this under it. Look at me 0:04:47.550 --> 0:04:50.870 right now because it's the last time you're going to 0:04:50.870 --> 0:04:55.110 see me like this. I'm going somewhere. Come on, come on, 0:04:55.910 --> 0:04:57.710 take that selfie. Put it on, put it on. Look 0:04:57.710 --> 0:05:00.830 at me right now. This is the last time you're 0:05:00.830 --> 0:05:04.029 going to see me like this because I'm going somewhere. 0:05:05.310 --> 0:05:09.869 Come on. Put it on Facebook. Put on. Let everybody know. Yeah. 0:05:09.870 --> 0:05:12.150 That's right. Do you believe? God, I don't know what 0:05:12.150 --> 0:05:14.550 you believe in God for, but do you believe him 0:05:14.550 --> 0:05:20.669 for something? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Then proclaim it. Stand on it. 0:05:20.670 --> 0:05:23.349 Come hell or high water. This is where I'm going. 0:05:23.390 --> 0:05:25.550 I don't care what kind of opposition comes my way. 0:05:25.550 --> 0:05:28.110 This is where I'm going. This is where I'm headed. 0:05:28.110 --> 0:05:30.589 And nobody and nothing can stop me. You want to 0:05:30.630 --> 0:05:32.950 know how I know? Because God done already told me 0:05:32.950 --> 0:05:38.550 where I'm going. Amen. Amen. Yeah. That's it, that's it, 0:05:38.550 --> 0:05:41.230 that's it. Okay, now you ain't put it on there 0:05:41.230 --> 0:05:47.830 by now. You slow. Paul had a word from God 0:05:47.830 --> 0:05:52.390 that his work was not done. Now, you know, we 0:05:52.390 --> 0:05:56.110 talk about all the time. Uh, James was beheaded. Peter 0:05:56.110 --> 0:05:58.350 was not. Two reasons. I'm going to give you both 0:05:58.350 --> 0:06:03.350 of them today. Here's the first reason. John 2118 Jesus 0:06:03.350 --> 0:06:04.750 told him, I'm going to read it to you. I'm 0:06:04.750 --> 0:06:07.229 going to read it to you. John 2118. He's talking 0:06:07.230 --> 0:06:10.630 to Peter. He said to him, Peter, feed my sheep, 0:06:10.630 --> 0:06:13.589 feed my sheep, feed my lambs. Verse 18, verily, verily, 0:06:13.589 --> 0:06:16.670 I say unto you, when you were young, you gird yourself, 0:06:16.670 --> 0:06:19.710 you clothe yourself, you walk wherever you would. But when 0:06:19.710 --> 0:06:22.789 you are old, you will stretch forth your hands, and 0:06:22.790 --> 0:06:26.030 another shall gird thee, and carry thee where you would 0:06:26.029 --> 0:06:29.430 not go. This he spake, signifying the death he would die. 0:06:29.630 --> 0:06:31.830 Do you see that in there? When Peter's in prison, 0:06:31.830 --> 0:06:37.070 he's somewhere between 33 and 36 years old. And guess what? 0:06:37.430 --> 0:06:39.710 Jesus told him he wasn't going to die until he 0:06:39.710 --> 0:06:42.830 became an old man. So when he was in prison, 0:06:42.830 --> 0:06:45.430 one of the reasons why he knew that he was 0:06:45.430 --> 0:06:48.430 going to get out was because God had already told 0:06:48.430 --> 0:06:50.870 him he was going to live to be an old man. 0:06:50.910 --> 0:06:54.110 So he knew even though Herod had beheaded James, he 0:06:54.110 --> 0:06:57.750 couldn't behead him because he had a word from God. Amen. 0:06:58.190 --> 0:06:59.950 Do you got a word? Do you got a word 0:06:59.950 --> 0:07:03.350 from God. You need to get a word from God. 0:07:03.390 --> 0:07:07.070 Job said in job 2312 I have esteemed the words 0:07:07.070 --> 0:07:10.390 of thy mouth more than my necessary food. Matthew chapter four. 0:07:10.430 --> 0:07:12.550 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every 0:07:12.550 --> 0:07:15.310 word that comes from the mouth of God. Psalm one. 0:07:15.310 --> 0:07:17.309 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel 0:07:17.310 --> 0:07:19.390 of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, 0:07:19.430 --> 0:07:21.590 nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his 0:07:21.590 --> 0:07:23.750 delight is in the law of the Lord, and in 0:07:23.750 --> 0:07:26.750 his law he doth meditate day and night. So the 0:07:26.750 --> 0:07:30.910 question on the floor is not, do you own a Bible? 0:07:30.910 --> 0:07:35.390 But does the Bible own you? Let me say that again. 0:07:36.030 --> 0:07:38.510 It's not whether you own a Bible, but does the 0:07:38.510 --> 0:07:42.070 Bible own you? So we are to listen to it eagerly. 0:07:42.070 --> 0:07:44.950 We're to look to it expectantly. We are to learn 0:07:44.950 --> 0:07:49.070 from it enthusiastically. We're to languish in it entirely. We're 0:07:49.070 --> 0:07:51.590 to let it work in us effectively, and we're to 0:07:51.630 --> 0:07:56.830 love it eternally. Amen. Hmm. See, what we need to 0:07:56.830 --> 0:07:59.989 be is Bible holics. You know that? What do you mean? 0:08:00.110 --> 0:08:01.910 God's word is what we need. See if you got 0:08:01.910 --> 0:08:04.429 a headache. You take a Tylenol pill. If you have 0:08:04.430 --> 0:08:06.950 acid indigestion, you take a Rolaids pill. If you have 0:08:06.950 --> 0:08:14.510 a heartache, you take a pill. Yeah. Secondly, secondly, secondly, 0:08:14.510 --> 0:08:17.390 let me hasten. Secondly, second thing you. Well, how do 0:08:17.390 --> 0:08:19.350 you get faith for the future? Uh, you have to 0:08:19.350 --> 0:08:25.550 be enlightened, uh, by Christ's purpose for your life. Secondly, 0:08:25.550 --> 0:08:28.830 you have to be emboldened by Christ's people's prayer to 0:08:28.830 --> 0:08:31.750 your life. Listen to what he says. He says, listen 0:08:31.750 --> 0:08:36.150 through your prayers. And here's what we need to understand 0:08:36.150 --> 0:08:38.309 why I try to get you to come to prayer meeting. 0:08:38.309 --> 0:08:43.589 Because prayer is boring. Prayer. No. Prayer is power. Listen, listen. 0:08:43.710 --> 0:08:45.510 If you're taking notes, I'm just going to say em. 0:08:45.510 --> 0:08:49.829 Second Corinthians one five verses eight through 11 God incorporated 0:08:49.830 --> 0:08:56.070 human prayer in the heavenly plan Romans 1530, first Thessalonians 525, 0:08:56.070 --> 0:09:00.030 and second Thessalonians three one James 516. Be it says, 0:09:00.030 --> 0:09:03.100 the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man or woman 0:09:03.100 --> 0:09:14.380 availeth much. Abraham prayed for lot. Genesis 19. Lot was delivered. 0:09:15.620 --> 0:09:17.900 If he hadn't prayed for him, he wouldn't have been 0:09:17.900 --> 0:09:21.500 delivered with his backslidden self. You know, I remember I 0:09:21.500 --> 0:09:26.460 used to be a sanitation engineer at Pittsburgh National Airport. Uh, 0:09:26.460 --> 0:09:29.300 for those of you who who are challenged, I used 0:09:29.300 --> 0:09:33.580 to be a janitor. So I was sanitation engineer. I 0:09:33.580 --> 0:09:37.180 had the night shift. So one night and every morning, 0:09:37.179 --> 0:09:39.699 it was, like, rough because I wasn't a night shift person. 0:09:40.340 --> 0:09:43.420 Some of you who work night shift know, man. It's like, man, 0:09:43.460 --> 0:09:46.980 you know it. It's rough shift. So I'm on my 0:09:46.980 --> 0:09:49.780 way home, and every night I, you know, I have 0:09:49.780 --> 0:09:51.540 to keep my windows down so I don't fall asleep. 0:09:51.540 --> 0:09:54.620 But this night, I had worked real hard, and I'm nodding. 0:09:54.620 --> 0:09:57.940 I got the windows down. It's 530 in the morning. 0:09:57.940 --> 0:10:00.939 I'm coming from the expressway on my way home. 35 0:10:00.940 --> 0:10:03.940 miles one way. And I'm nodding and I got the 0:10:03.940 --> 0:10:07.460 windows down. Next thing I know, I done fell asleep 0:10:07.460 --> 0:10:11.500 at the wheel. And I hear, wake up. I woke 0:10:11.500 --> 0:10:16.780 up and I had crossed the median. And Pittsburgh is hilly. 0:10:16.820 --> 0:10:19.700 Y'all don't know what hills are here. And I'm on 0:10:19.700 --> 0:10:23.140 my way over in the other lane and over across 0:10:23.140 --> 0:10:28.140 an embankment. I hit the brakes and the car spins 0:10:28.140 --> 0:10:32.699 and it turns. And after a little while, you just boom. 0:10:32.940 --> 0:10:35.260 About a quarter of a mile maybe, I don't know. 0:10:35.300 --> 0:10:39.500 It stops. I'm looking around. I'm thanking God that nobody 0:10:39.500 --> 0:10:42.540 was on the road but me. I'm thanking God that 0:10:42.540 --> 0:10:44.700 whatever it was that woke me up, woke me up. 0:10:44.700 --> 0:10:48.100 So I get home and my wife is up and 0:10:48.780 --> 0:10:50.740 I said, what are you doing up this early in 0:10:50.740 --> 0:10:52.420 the morning? Cause she don't get up until her in 0:10:52.420 --> 0:10:57.060 the morning. And she said, God woke me up about 0:10:57.059 --> 0:11:00.380 530 and told me to pray for you. I said, no. 0:11:00.660 --> 0:11:02.940 She said, yeah. And so I just started praying. I 0:11:02.940 --> 0:11:04.900 didn't know what was anything wrong with her, you know. 0:11:04.940 --> 0:11:06.820 I didn't know, I just said, God told me to 0:11:06.820 --> 0:11:10.340 pray for my husband. I'm praying for my husband. I said, girlfriend, 0:11:10.380 --> 0:11:13.100 you better be glad you prayed for your husband, because 0:11:13.100 --> 0:11:17.340 I heard about 530 when I had fallen asleep behind 0:11:17.340 --> 0:11:21.740 the wheel. Somebody say wake up! So God took your prayer, 0:11:22.020 --> 0:11:27.220 translated it into something I would understand you screaming at me. 0:11:35.220 --> 0:11:43.340 And saved my life. Yes. Yes. Peter. James. Yeah. Because 0:11:43.340 --> 0:11:45.980 of the precept that God gave him. But remember the 0:11:45.980 --> 0:11:49.580 other thing. Why was Peter saved? Because the church prayed 0:11:49.580 --> 0:11:52.540 for him. We just said it Wednesday night. The angel 0:11:52.580 --> 0:11:56.580 fetched Peter out of prison. But it was prayer that 0:11:56.580 --> 0:12:01.700 fetched the angel. Listen, if we're going to take this 0:12:01.700 --> 0:12:04.900 community and we are, we're not going to do it 0:12:04.900 --> 0:12:10.740 without prayer. Amen. Corporate prayer. Listen, 1 in 2 marriages 0:12:10.740 --> 0:12:13.940 end in divorce. That's 50%. Now, if you Google it, 0:12:13.940 --> 0:12:18.660 it'll say 44%. But that's because millennials aren't getting married as, as, 0:12:18.700 --> 0:12:21.540 as often as the previous generations. You want to know 0:12:21.540 --> 0:12:23.740 why they said they look at our marriages and say, 0:12:23.780 --> 0:12:26.700 uh uh uh uh, I ain't doing this. I ain't 0:12:26.700 --> 0:12:29.900 doing this. Uh, but it's still one and two. But 0:12:29.900 --> 0:12:32.770 if you add prayer, it goes from one and 2 0:12:32.770 --> 0:12:35.540 to 1 in 1500. 0:12:40.179 --> 0:12:42.460 If you're married, I hope that's given you something to 0:12:42.500 --> 0:12:46.500 think about. And encouragement, motivation to be in prayer with 0:12:46.500 --> 0:12:49.980 your spouse. You're listening to Treasure Truth with Pastor Ford, 0:12:49.980 --> 0:12:52.500 a message called Faith for Your Future. And if you're 0:12:52.500 --> 0:12:54.380 ever on the go and you want to make sure 0:12:54.380 --> 0:12:56.580 that you don't miss this broadcast, I hope you'll go 0:12:56.580 --> 0:12:59.220 get the Moody Radio app. You'll find it at your 0:12:59.220 --> 0:13:02.380 favorite app store, like iTunes or Google Play, or link 0:13:02.380 --> 0:13:04.540 you to it when you come to treasure Truth Radio. 0:13:06.140 --> 0:13:08.740 Let's get back to the message once again. Here is 0:13:08.740 --> 0:13:09.620 Pastor Ford. 0:13:10.300 --> 0:13:13.020 You see what prayer does because it's so hard to 0:13:13.020 --> 0:13:17.020 pray for somebody and be arguing with them at the 0:13:17.020 --> 0:13:21.459 same time. Pray for somebody. Can you imagine? You know, 0:13:21.620 --> 0:13:23.820 you both down there praying. If you prayed every night, 0:13:23.820 --> 0:13:26.780 like my wife and I try to do every night. Lord, 0:13:26.780 --> 0:13:28.820 would you do something to her? Would you tell your 0:13:28.820 --> 0:13:32.140 servant you know to get right? 0:13:33.380 --> 0:13:36.180 And, Lord, would you tell your servant to get right? 0:13:36.179 --> 0:13:37.980 And he's supposed to be a preacher? 0:13:40.500 --> 0:13:42.179 No, it don't work that way. Let me tell you 0:13:42.179 --> 0:13:44.579 how it works. When we first started doing it, I 0:13:44.620 --> 0:13:47.020 didn't know what I was doing because I would be 0:13:47.020 --> 0:13:49.580 mad at her and I'd get down to pray and 0:13:49.580 --> 0:13:52.660 in my mind would be racing. And finally, the Holy 0:13:52.660 --> 0:13:55.740 Spirit would convict me and tears would come down my eyes. 0:13:55.860 --> 0:13:58.860 And even though I knew I was right, I found 0:13:58.860 --> 0:14:02.819 myself saying, please forgive me. Yes, because whatever we're arguing about, 0:14:02.820 --> 0:14:06.460 it ain't worth our relationship. Baby forget. Then she start crying, 0:14:06.500 --> 0:14:08.860 you know, and then. And it's like. It's like we 0:14:08.860 --> 0:14:12.620 can't go to bed angry now. Like I told you, 0:14:12.660 --> 0:14:15.820 we done been up 2 or 3 weeks, but we 0:14:15.820 --> 0:14:20.100 don't let the sun go down upon our wrath. And 0:14:20.100 --> 0:14:23.580 so here it is. Here it is. Jesus prayed. Uh, 0:14:23.580 --> 0:14:28.020 is recorded 15 times in the Gospels. 11 are in 0:14:28.020 --> 0:14:32.020 the Gospel of Luke. Luke tells us about the prayer life. 0:14:32.060 --> 0:14:34.380 Now wait a minute. Jesus is God in the flesh. 0:14:34.580 --> 0:14:42.980 If he had to have a prayer life. Preaching, huh? 0:14:43.620 --> 0:14:48.260 Here it is a private prayer. Life is the secret 0:14:48.260 --> 0:14:55.100 of a powerful public life. Yeah. Huh. Prayer is paramount, 0:14:55.140 --> 0:14:59.620 not peripheral. It's essential. Not an option. Here it is. 0:14:59.690 --> 0:15:02.770 Here's the last one. You've been so gracious. He said, 0:15:02.770 --> 0:15:05.930 you gotta be empowered by the provision of Christ. Notice 0:15:05.930 --> 0:15:09.330 what he says. This is so powerful. It's rich. It's 0:15:09.330 --> 0:15:11.370 a rich verse, isn't it? For I know that this 0:15:11.370 --> 0:15:13.970 shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the 0:15:13.970 --> 0:15:20.130 supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. The supply of 0:15:20.130 --> 0:15:23.650 the Spirit of Jesus Christ. He's saying, you gotta be 0:15:23.650 --> 0:15:29.450 empowered by the provision of Jesus Christ. See, I don't 0:15:29.450 --> 0:15:33.570 know how, but I do know who. I don't know when, 0:15:33.570 --> 0:15:36.370 but I do know who I know. It's Jesus Christ 0:15:36.370 --> 0:15:38.250 in chapter four. Here's what he does. Let me just 0:15:38.250 --> 0:15:40.450 run it down for you real quick, because it talks 0:15:40.450 --> 0:15:42.970 about the sufficiency of Christ in chapter four. Here's what 0:15:42.970 --> 0:15:45.730 he says. Here's how sufficient he is in chapter four 0:15:45.770 --> 0:15:48.370 one through three. He has the power to unify, and 0:15:48.370 --> 0:15:52.250 four through seven fortify and eight and nine purify in 0:15:52.250 --> 0:15:56.770 ten through 16, satisfy in seven, two, 19 supply and 0:15:56.770 --> 0:16:00.250 in 20 and 21 glorify. He says, here it is 0:16:00.250 --> 0:16:03.530 that we need to understand. He provides for us. He 0:16:03.570 --> 0:16:06.650 supplies it. The word is carajo. How many were here 0:16:06.650 --> 0:16:09.850 at the Bible study on Wednesday morning when we studied 0:16:09.850 --> 0:16:12.970 the word carajo? Remember that we studied the word carajo. 0:16:13.010 --> 0:16:16.210 It's the word from which we get chorus or choir. 0:16:16.370 --> 0:16:20.210 And literally what it means is back in the day, 0:16:20.330 --> 0:16:22.210 whenever they would put on a big thing and have 0:16:22.210 --> 0:16:25.570 choirs and entertainers, the person who would pay for it 0:16:25.570 --> 0:16:28.970 was the leader of that carajo. And that person was 0:16:28.970 --> 0:16:32.410 usually rich because nobody would pay them and they wouldn't 0:16:32.410 --> 0:16:36.130 be able to perform. So he supplied everything that they 0:16:36.130 --> 0:16:41.050 needed lavishly. Say, what are you talking about? Pastor 40 saying, listen, 0:16:41.050 --> 0:16:46.130 it's all in God's plan, you know, let me tell 0:16:46.130 --> 0:16:48.890 you something. I've been here 35 years and the first 0:16:48.890 --> 0:16:52.810 30 years of ministry, we never had one page of 0:16:52.810 --> 0:16:57.290 red ink. Not one. And I used to brag about it. 0:16:58.290 --> 0:17:01.770 We ain't never had no red ink. Then in year 31, 0:17:02.770 --> 0:17:08.609 you know what happened? Red ink. I went ballistic. I 0:17:08.609 --> 0:17:13.490 was like, Lord, am I'm faithful. What have I done 0:17:13.490 --> 0:17:20.090 that I don't know about? Been there. God said, oh, no. 0:17:20.690 --> 0:17:25.330 This is by divine design. You need to understand. I'm 0:17:25.369 --> 0:17:27.930 getting ready to take you places where you don't have 0:17:27.930 --> 0:17:30.930 the money. And so I don't want you waiting until 0:17:30.930 --> 0:17:33.690 you do have the money. I want you to step 0:17:33.690 --> 0:17:36.770 out by faith. And trust me that if I called 0:17:36.770 --> 0:17:40.730 you to the responsibility, I'll give you the resources. So I. 0:17:40.770 --> 0:17:42.210 And I just did it. I just did it. I 0:17:42.210 --> 0:17:45.530 just did it, didn't I just did it. Just did 0:17:45.530 --> 0:17:47.570 it again. I should say again. Because I do it 0:17:47.570 --> 0:17:50.449 all the time. Just did it again. Yeah. Got an 0:17:50.450 --> 0:17:54.010 opportunity to go on television. Three broadcasts for the price 0:17:54.010 --> 0:17:57.170 of one. Yeah, I stepped out. I said, I'm going 0:17:57.170 --> 0:18:01.690 to do this. I already did the commercial. undo the commercial? 0:18:03.530 --> 0:18:05.050 I don't even think about it. I should have put 0:18:05.050 --> 0:18:05.929 it on right now. 0:18:05.970 --> 0:18:06.970 Had you play it? 0:18:08.570 --> 0:18:13.290 Yeah, I had a commercial. Yeah. I'm going to believe God. Amen. Why? 0:18:13.330 --> 0:18:16.170 Because he said it is God that worketh in you 0:18:16.170 --> 0:18:19.690 both of his will to goodwill and good pleasure. Get this. 0:18:19.850 --> 0:18:23.450 He said It's God's person. It is God that worketh 0:18:23.450 --> 0:18:27.450 is God's power in you. It's God's parameters. Both is 0:18:27.450 --> 0:18:32.530 God's purposes of his is God's priority, his will, God's plan, 0:18:32.570 --> 0:18:37.609 good pleasure. It's God's pleasure. It's a comprehensive supply where 0:18:37.650 --> 0:18:41.850 God promises that he is going to do everything that's 0:18:41.850 --> 0:18:46.290 necessary for us to accomplish what he wants us to accomplish. 0:18:46.330 --> 0:18:50.290 Is anybody in here like their pastor geek to take 0:18:50.290 --> 0:18:54.050 this community over? Is there anybody in here that feels 0:18:54.050 --> 0:18:58.290 called to do what nobody else has yet done? 0:18:58.490 --> 0:19:01.010 Yes. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. 0:19:01.050 --> 0:19:06.609 Mm. Well, let me close. But I tell you, Romans 0:19:06.609 --> 0:19:09.850 five eight says this. But God commendeth his love toward us, 0:19:09.850 --> 0:19:14.250 in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. See, 0:19:14.290 --> 0:19:18.330 God became one of us, that he might say, all 0:19:18.330 --> 0:19:22.409 of us. Christ was nailed to the cross to bridge 0:19:22.410 --> 0:19:25.810 the gap that take us from sinner to saint, that 0:19:25.810 --> 0:19:29.370 takes us from hell to heaven. He died that we 0:19:29.369 --> 0:19:32.930 might live. He suffered for our sins. That we could 0:19:32.930 --> 0:19:36.970 be forgiven and saved from our sins. Jesus is the 0:19:36.970 --> 0:19:41.210 answer to our agony. He is the balm for our bruises. 0:19:41.290 --> 0:19:44.930 He's the cure for our crisis. He's the deliverance for 0:19:44.930 --> 0:19:49.250 our depravity. Eraser for our heirs. Yes. Guess what? You're 0:19:49.250 --> 0:19:52.210 never too low to be lifted by him. You're never 0:19:52.210 --> 0:19:55.770 too dirty that he can't cleanse you. You're never too broken. 0:19:55.770 --> 0:19:58.610 That he can't fix you. You're never too damaged. That 0:19:58.609 --> 0:20:01.690 he can't redeem you. You're never too sinful that he 0:20:01.690 --> 0:20:04.570 can't save you. You're never too lost that he can't 0:20:04.570 --> 0:20:07.810 find you. You're never too empty. That he can't feel you. 0:20:07.850 --> 0:20:11.610 You're never defective. That he can't restore you. See, it 0:20:11.609 --> 0:20:14.810 doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you've 0:20:14.810 --> 0:20:18.290 been left out, shut out, dropped out, put out, dranked out, 0:20:18.330 --> 0:20:22.169 cracked out, whacked out, smoked out, stepped out, turned out. 0:20:22.210 --> 0:20:25.850 Locked out. Even if you're just a cop out, Christ 0:20:25.850 --> 0:20:29.250 will give you a bailout. So you can break out 0:20:29.250 --> 0:20:34.370 and stand out and carry out his purposes for your life, 0:20:34.369 --> 0:20:39.490 for his glory. Jesus will supply all of our needs 0:20:39.490 --> 0:20:43.930 according to his riches in glory. I wonder today, is 0:20:43.930 --> 0:20:48.649 there anybody who came, who understands what God wants to do, 0:20:48.690 --> 0:20:51.690 why he brought you here this day to hear this message? 0:20:51.730 --> 0:20:53.970 Because he got something for you to do and he 0:20:53.970 --> 0:20:57.410 tired of all the excuses. Jesus died for our sins, 0:20:57.450 --> 0:21:02.320 not for our excuses. Excuses are like noses. Everybody got one. 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.959 But you've got to be able to stand up and say, 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.560 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Now, 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.000 I don't know what it is, but I know that 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.040 it's something that God sent you here for today. And 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.200 if that's you, I don't want to know that you 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.840 came in and you were a little discouraged, but you said, 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:20.440 you know what? I'm going to take this word that 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.440 God has given me, and I'm going to stand out 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.840 for Jesus Christ and stand up for Jesus. I just 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:28.440 want to see who you are. Just stand up. That's 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:30.960 all you gotta do. Just stand up. God ministered to me. 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.520 I'm going to go out. I don't know what it is, pastor. 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.159 You don't know what it is. But I'm going to 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:37.520 do this. I'm going to. It may be education, it 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:39.840 may be a job. It may be a business. I 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.399 don't know what it is. It may be reconciliation. I 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:44.920 don't know what it is, but whatever it is, you're 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:47.960 standing and saying, I'm going to go out here and 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:52.040 I am going to have enlightenment by Christ's purpose. 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