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Help us continue to 27 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 4: share the message of hope with those all over the world. 28 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 4: Visit Joelostin dot com slash give Hope to give a 29 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 4: gift today. 30 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 5: You know, I pray for people all the time and 31 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 5: they want to know the will of God for their life. 32 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 5: You know, they're really looking to find their assignments from God. 33 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 5: And I think that's a good prayer to pray because 34 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 5: that means God is drawing you and he's working with you, 35 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 5: and he wants you to follow him. You know, we 36 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 5: all want to know the will of God for our life. God, 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 5: what's my assignment? But can I tell you this, God 38 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 5: is already laid out your assignment for you. He's laid 39 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 5: it out, He's pre arranged your assignments. God is already 40 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,959 Speaker 5: working in you. We can't wait around for our assignment 41 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 5: to find us. We have to move out in our 42 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 5: assignments that are laid out for us today. See, God 43 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 5: has plans and purposes for each one of our life. 44 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,119 Speaker 5: In fact, He is working those plans and purposes out 45 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 5: in us. Listen to what Ephesians two says. It says 46 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 5: that we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to 47 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 5: do good works. See, we are God's handiwork. He is 48 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 5: making us. He is molding us where we're created to 49 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 5: do good works. It goes on to say, which we're 50 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 5: already prepared in advance for us to do. You See, 51 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 5: God is working through us in our good works. You see, 52 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 5: sometimes I think that we think good works is kind 53 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 5: of like good deeds. We think, well, when I held 54 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 5: the door open for this stranger, that was nice, Or 55 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 5: we think, you know what, my husband has been driving 56 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 5: me crazy lately, but I haven't yelled at him even 57 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 5: though he deserves it. You know, those are nice things. 58 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 5: And I think sometimes which are good deeds, and they 59 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 5: are good works in a sense because something is working 60 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 5: in you when you do that. But I don't want 61 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 5: us to think that these good works are something that 62 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 5: God's gonna love me more. God, do you see what 63 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 5: I've been doing for you? Have you ever felt fallen 64 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 5: in that train of thought? I mean, I'll raise my hand, Okay, 65 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 5: I'll be the first one in the here. I know 66 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 5: nobody else is gonna raise their hands. But you know what, 67 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 5: sometimes you think, God, I am doing all this good stuff, 68 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 5: where's my blessing? You know what, Lord, they're not as 69 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 5: nice as me, but you're blessing them, you see. I 70 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 5: want us to not look at these good works as 71 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 5: our Christian duty. Because we're Christians, we have to do 72 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 5: these good works. Now, first, let me say this. God 73 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 5: is a blessing God. He blesses obedience. He's a rewarder 74 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 5: of those who seek after him. I am not really 75 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 5: talking about the blessing. I'm talking about the good works. 76 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 5: And I don't want us to fall into the trap 77 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 5: of if we do good works, God's gonna bless us. 78 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 5: I think he will reward us, But don't do good 79 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 5: works to get the blessing. You see, you can't even 80 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 5: get saved by good works. The Bible says that we 81 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 5: are saved by grace through faith. It is not of ourself. 82 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 5: It is a free gift. It's free. You can't be 83 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 5: good enough to get saved. You can't be rich enough 84 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 5: to purchase your salvation. It's free. But I think sometimes 85 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 5: we you fall into this trap that I'm gonna do 86 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 5: good works God, so that you will bless me. You see, 87 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 5: God created us to do good works. So if God 88 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 5: created us to do good works, we know exactly what 89 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:19,679 Speaker 5: we're supposed to do. We know that we will walk 90 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 5: in our assignment when we do the good works. What 91 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 5: is a good work? A good work is when you're patient, 92 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 5: that's a good work. A good work is when you 93 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 5: choose joy, when you choose peace, when you choose long suffering, 94 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 5: when you're a mother serving your children, when you're a 95 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 5: husband going out every day to work. Those are good 96 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 5: works because within those good works, God is working something 97 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 5: in you. Those good works, God is working in you. 98 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 5: When you come up against a challenge, a person that's 99 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 5: trying to put you down, guess what, there's a good 100 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 5: work to be done right there when you get to 101 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 5: choose it. But sometimes we run into these challenges and 102 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:09,119 Speaker 5: we're miserable. We think, God, why why? You know why? 103 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 5: Because God is saying, I've already put the DNA in you. 104 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 5: You are predisposed to be able to push through and 105 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 5: let the good work work in you. The good work 106 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 5: is working in you. See, you're made to do good works, 107 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 5: and those good works, they're making you. They're building your character, 108 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 5: your morality value. See, there is nothing better than to 109 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 5: come up against a challenge and be able to make 110 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 5: it through because you chose the right thing. You allowed 111 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 5: that pre arranged, pre determine good work to work in you. 112 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 5: You see, I think the greatest gift in the world 113 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 5: that God could ever give us is a strong and 114 00:06:55,839 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 5: fortified life living for Him wholeheartedly. Do you know those 115 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 5: good works that are working in you will make you 116 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 5: more obedient. That obedience will then trigger the blessing of God. 117 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 5: So I just want us to look a little differently 118 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 5: today at good works when you're pressed, when you're up 119 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 5: against a challenge. Listen, the Bible says it like this, 120 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 5: that He will set a table before the presence of 121 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 5: your enemy, before any situation. God is already pre arranged 122 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 5: the good choice for you. He's already made a way 123 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 5: of escape. You know, we need to know that God 124 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 5: intended these good works to work in us so that 125 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 5: we could fulfill our destiny, that we could walk in 126 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 5: these assignments every single day. You see. It's not one 127 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 5: thing that's gonna make your calling. It's an every day 128 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 5: walking out these good works that's gonna lead you, guide 129 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 5: you to open doors to places of influence, to supernatural opportunities. 130 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 5: Because let me tell you something, God's not gonna give 131 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 5: you anything you're gonna fail at. He's not gonna open 132 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 5: a door that you're not ready for. So let these 133 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 5: good works work in you. No, hey, I'm challenged. This 134 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 5: thing is happening over here. I have a choice. I 135 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 5: can choose to do the good work. You know, it's 136 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 5: a good work for a reason. Is it a bad work? 137 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 5: God doesn't want it to be a hard work. He 138 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 5: wants it to be a good work. Think about that 139 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 5: just a minute. What is good? It's pleasing, it's honorable 140 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 5: in God's sight, it's pleasant. It's a good work when 141 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 5: you work it with God. It's something he's doing in 142 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 5: you to set you up for greater things. Set you 143 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 5: up for greater things. So let's put down the struggle. 144 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 5: Let's put down the fact that somebody's trying to get 145 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 5: to us, or or are trying to get in our 146 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 5: place or get ahead of us. We don't have to 147 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 5: do it like the world does it. We have a 148 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 5: buffet table laid out for us. It's interesting because in 149 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 5: Romans twelve two, it says this. It says, don't let 150 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 5: evil defeat you, but defeat evil with what good, with 151 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 5: what with good, with pleasant, pleasing, honorable things. In the 152 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 5: sight of God, you can overcome when you're willing to 153 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 5: do the good work, the good work. You know, sometimes 154 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 5: we think our life is so simple. We think, you know, 155 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 5: where is that big thing? But can I encourage you 156 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 5: that your simple things, your simple good works, are so 157 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 5: making you and accomplishing you that you're gonna look up 158 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 5: and you're gonna think, God, how did I get where 159 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 5: I am? God? How did you set me up for 160 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 5: such an amazing thing? God? Look at this family that 161 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 5: I've produced because I've been patient, I've been a servant, 162 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 5: I've long suffered, I've warked through the good things. So 163 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 5: I've produced something good in my life. You see anything good, 164 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 5: it's going to take our time and attention. I think 165 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 5: about the first telephone. When Alexander Graham Bell invented that telephone. 166 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 5: It was such an amazing thing. You could literally talk 167 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 5: to someone that wasn't in the room. You could talk 168 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 5: to another person at another number on the other end 169 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 5: of another telephone. That's pretty crazy, isn't it not? These days, 170 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,719 Speaker 5: why he thought it was amazing. He didn't know where 171 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 5: it was going to go. But today we're not stuck 172 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 5: to the wall. We have our telephone in our pockets. 173 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 5: We can take pictures with our phone. We can send 174 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 5: messages with our phone. We can get on the internet 175 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 5: and learn anything we want with our phone. Can you 176 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 5: imagine if Alexander Graham Bell realized what his simple invention did, 177 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 5: he would be astonished. It would be unbelievable to him. 178 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 5: But it was a simple invention that accomplished great things. 179 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 5: And in the same way, your simple works, good works 180 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 5: are going to accomplish unbelievable things on this earth. You 181 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 5: can't see it now, you think it's simple. God, where 182 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 5: is it leading me? Where is it taking me? For 183 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 5: guy says, I want to make you unbelievable. I want 184 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 5: your reach to be further than you could ever think possible. 185 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 5: So next time you're saying, God, what do you want 186 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 5: me to do? What's my calling? What's my assignment? Remember this. 187 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 5: You were walking into it. You were walking into it 188 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 5: because those good works that you were made to do 189 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 5: are making you and God will fulfill everything that he's 190 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 5: ever promised you. Amen. 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