1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,400 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:16,640 Good morning, Life House. 3 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:17,640 Good morning. 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,680 Turn to someone give them a high five. 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,600 Tell them it's good to be in God's house this morning. 6 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:23,600 Amen. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:24,600 Amen. 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:25,940 Listen, that was great worship. 9 00:00:25,940 --> 00:00:27,280 You were worshiping the Lord. 10 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:28,780 We felt God's presence. 11 00:00:28,780 --> 00:00:33,160 So if the preaching stinks, you can say it was good being God's house this morning. 12 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:34,160 Right. 13 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:38,560 Yeah, we've just we've just seen that rise in the last several weeks here at the church, 14 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:39,560 man. 15 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,480 We just feel God's presence just flood the place when worship is taking place. 16 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:45,320 And that's because you're coming in with expectation, right? 17 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,320 You come in ready to worship the king. 18 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,960 And that's God inhabits all that. 19 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:55,600 So just thank you for coming with hearts and minds ready to go, ready to worship the Lord 20 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:56,880 this morning. 21 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,700 And I also want to say good morning to each shore. 22 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:04,220 And if you're listening to us online this morning and I just want to encourage you, 23 00:01:04,220 --> 00:01:09,760 if you've not been water baptized, if that's not something you've engaged in and you've 24 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:14,320 come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior of your life, it is the next step. 25 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:16,280 It's what you should do. 26 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,200 And we'd love to talk to you about that. 27 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,340 Or even I get asked this all the time. 28 00:01:20,340 --> 00:01:24,600 Maybe you walked away from God for a period of time and you feel like you need to get 29 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,040 baptized again. 30 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:27,680 We're all about that. 31 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,800 Maybe you were baptized as a child and didn't really know what you were doing. 32 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:31,800 And you want it. 33 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,780 You want to do it with the full knowledge of what it's all about. 34 00:01:34,780 --> 00:01:35,780 We want to talk to you. 35 00:01:35,780 --> 00:01:39,200 We want to want you to get involved and we want you to be baptized because Jesus said 36 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,380 to do this right. 37 00:01:40,380 --> 00:01:41,380 He showed us. 38 00:01:41,380 --> 00:01:43,200 He set the example in God's word. 39 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,360 And it's super important and we love it. 40 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:46,680 It's a celebration. 41 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:48,280 So just be encouraged. 42 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,200 We want you to do that this morning. 43 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,880 I was going to read even a verse out of Acts chapter two said. 44 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,880 And Peter said to them, repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus 45 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:00,480 Christ for the remission of your sin. 46 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,320 And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 47 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:03,720 You can see it in that one verse. 48 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:04,720 Right. 49 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:06,960 Repentance, water baptism and the Holy Spirit. 50 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:07,960 All of it. 51 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:09,200 So it's the next step. 52 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,560 If you haven't been baptized, get involved, find out about it. 53 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,680 If you want more information, we want to get in touch with you. 54 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:17,680 Get registered online. 55 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:18,680 Amen. 56 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:19,680 I'm Rob. 57 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:20,680 Done with my commercial. 58 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:21,680 I promise. 59 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:22,680 All right. 60 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:23,680 I love baptism. 61 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:24,680 All right. 62 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:29,080 So most of the messages that you've heard over the last month, month and a half have 63 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,920 been geared around the kingdom of God. 64 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:37,080 And you might say, well, isn't every message kind of about the kingdom of God? 65 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,080 Right. 66 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,440 Isn't that kind of a generic thing? 67 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,000 Well, these messages have been specific. 68 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,520 They've been about how it works in the kingdom or how it doesn't work in the kingdom of God. 69 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:52,000 And we understand that we need to know that because the kingdom we live in currently is 70 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,640 not fully the kingdom of God. 71 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:54,640 Right. 72 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:57,760 You know, sir, not but you live in a physical kingdom. 73 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:58,760 Right. 74 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,440 You live on planet Earth. 75 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,200 Tell somebody right now I live on planet Earth. 76 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:03,200 Come on. 77 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,200 Tell them right now. 78 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,200 Inform. 79 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:06,200 All right. 80 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:07,200 You live on planet. 81 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:08,200 How many don't live on planet Earth? 82 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:09,200 That's what I want to know. 83 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:10,200 Here's why we got one. 84 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,480 OK, we got an alien among us. 85 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:12,480 All right. 86 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:13,480 We live on planet Earth. 87 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:18,840 We're in this physical kingdom and there's the kingdom of God, which if you're saved, 88 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,320 the kingdom of God is in you. 89 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,360 But we're not fully there yet. 90 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,360 We're not in God's presence yet. 91 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,160 And sometimes it's a little hard to navigate between two kingdoms. 92 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,600 It's a little hard to think about. 93 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:35,080 I remember when years ago, two decades ago now, the first time I went to Mexico City, 94 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,080 Mexico, I remember flying in. 95 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,080 Right. 96 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:39,380 And I'm just soaking it all in. 97 00:03:39,380 --> 00:03:40,520 I'm looking out the plane. 98 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:42,400 I want to see, you know, the landscape. 99 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:43,400 What's different? 100 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,520 Because I had not I'm not real well traveled. 101 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,800 And it was one of my first times going out of the country. 102 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,520 And I remember flying into Mexico City, Mexico. 103 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:52,720 And I'm thinking this is going to be great. 104 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:53,720 It's going to be awesome. 105 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:58,960 So we got off the plane and we went across in this hallway heading towards customs. 106 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,960 And I realized really quickly that I was in a different kingdom because, you know, in 107 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,680 the United States, you just go to baggage, you go to customs, whatever. 108 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,760 Well, when I got off, there was a guy that was in riot gear and he had what looked like 109 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:10,760 an AK 47. 110 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,800 And he just stared me down the hallway. 111 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,480 And I'm like, I am not in Kansas anymore. 112 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:16,480 All right. 113 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:17,920 I am in a different kingdom. 114 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:19,120 And I remember that clearly. 115 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:20,240 Now, it's not like that. 116 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,760 Now, when you go, I've been there since. 117 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:23,760 But I remember that. 118 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:24,760 And it's a different world. 119 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:25,760 Right. 120 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,200 When you when you go there, it seems like you're in a different kingdom. 121 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,200 It's a different language. 122 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,000 A lot of times there's different customs. 123 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,800 A lot of times there's different laws that apply a lot of different times. 124 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,480 And there's a learning curve when you go into a different country, you should investigate 125 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:38,480 before you go. 126 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,800 And then you learn as you're there that things aren't the same. 127 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,800 Well, if you're saved and you know, Jesus is Lord and Savior. 128 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:47,680 You belong to two kingdoms. 129 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:48,680 You've got dual citizenship. 130 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:49,680 All right. 131 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,040 You are in this physical kingdom, but you're also in the kingdom of God. 132 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:55,600 And I'm a citizen here. 133 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,400 And I understand a little bit how it runs here. 134 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:58,400 Right. 135 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,160 Here on planet Earth and all the crazy struggles and challenges that go along with that. 136 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,920 But because I'm in Jesus, I'm currently right. 137 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,040 A spiritual citizen of the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven. 138 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,080 And it's a kind of something with the kingdom without end. 139 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:13,080 Right. 140 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,080 A kingdom whose builder and maker is God. 141 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,640 And I've not fully experienced that kingdom yet. 142 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,480 I am in a spiritual sense. 143 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,720 But one day I'm going to be there with God himself. 144 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:23,720 Right. 145 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,560 And I can tell you that everything I've experienced in the kingdom of God to date is seriously 146 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,040 better than the physical kingdom that I live in on planet Earth here. 147 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:32,040 Right. 148 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:33,040 There are gifts in the kingdom. 149 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,160 There are God moves in the kingdom. 150 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,040 There is life in the kingdom. 151 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,320 Everything on this earth that you experience is either in a state of decay or is heading 152 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:41,320 towards death. 153 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:42,320 I don't know if you know that or not. 154 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,760 I know that's not such good news. 155 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:44,760 Right. 156 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:45,760 But it's true. 157 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:51,480 So the journey through the last few weeks over the last month and a half has been discovering 158 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,680 more about how it works in the kingdom of God versus the kingdom of man. 159 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:56,680 Right. 160 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:57,840 And we've learned some things along the way. 161 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:02,660 We learned that miracles happen in the kingdom of God when we take what's in our hand. 162 00:06:02,660 --> 00:06:04,400 We place it into God's hand. 163 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:05,480 He blesses it. 164 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,480 He breaks it. 165 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,480 Right. 166 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,400 And then he multiplies it, which blows our minds. 167 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,640 We we get all excited because that's a miracle. 168 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,360 And God's like, well, that always happens with anything. 169 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:16,360 It's in my hands. 170 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:17,960 Anything that goes in his hands. 171 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:22,440 We learned that we learned that that unbelief can keep you from God's preferred future for 172 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:23,640 you. 173 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:27,000 We learned that as you come into the kingdom of God, you got to approach the kingdom of 174 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,600 God just like a child. 175 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:29,600 Right. 176 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:30,800 All in arms open. 177 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,040 We learned that bad and good both come into the kingdom of God. 178 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,740 A matter of fact, it's not about whether you're bad or whether you're good. 179 00:06:37,740 --> 00:06:39,640 It's about the proposal that God makes. 180 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,200 And today we're going to learn one more thing about the kingdom of God. 181 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,160 So if you got your Bible, I want you to turn to Hebrews chapter 11. 182 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:47,920 We're going to start off verse one. 183 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,040 Hebrews chapter 11 verse one is your turn. 184 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,480 I'm going to pray this morning over the reading of God's word. 185 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:53,880 Lord, we're grateful for this day. 186 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,040 I thank you, Lord, for all God that you speak into our lives. 187 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,960 We thank you for your presence, God, that we felt so strongly this morning. 188 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:04,680 God, we ask, Lord, that this word would penetrate our hearts and our minds and God, it would 189 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:10,280 guide us and direct us to grow closer to you and Lord, to learn more about the kingdom 190 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:11,280 of God. 191 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:12,280 In Jesus name. 192 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:13,280 Amen. 193 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:14,280 Amen. 194 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:15,280 All right. 195 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:21,240 Hebrews 11 says this, now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things 196 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,600 not seen for by it, the elders obtained a good testimony. 197 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,280 How did the elders get a good testimony by what? 198 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,000 Faith, right? 199 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,280 Verse three says by faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God 200 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:40,680 so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. 201 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:47,320 These first two verses give us critical information of how faith in God and in the kingdom of 202 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,520 God works, right? 203 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:58,200 Faith in God in the kingdom of God is a result of what I understand about God. 204 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:04,880 If I understand the right things about God, if I understand the truth about God, if I 205 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:10,520 really start to grasp and get my head around who God is and the things of God in this at 206 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,320 tributes, my faith in God rises. 207 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,960 My faith in God will actually be full. 208 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:18,600 It will be complete. 209 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:26,760 And this is important because a lot of people think that faith in God is a crazy thing. 210 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,840 If you go talk to people in the world and somebody that doesn't know Jesus, they kind 211 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:32,400 of look at Christians as fools. 212 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:33,880 They'll say you're foolish. 213 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,360 They'll say you just got this blind belief system and a supernatural thing that's out 214 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,800 there somewhere in the cosmos, right? 215 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:47,860 Some people think that for Christians it's just a mental escape mechanism for life, right? 216 00:08:47,860 --> 00:08:54,080 They believe it's a fairy tale and we tell ourselves the fairy tale just to soothe our 217 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:55,440 troubled souls. 218 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,640 That's how some people look at Christians in the world. 219 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:03,440 That somehow Christians are just people who are looking for something to believe in, right? 220 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,440 Something that's going to give us abundant life that's out there somewhere that sounds 221 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,560 like a good idea. 222 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:09,900 So we talk about it. 223 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:11,000 We preach about it. 224 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,360 We sing about it, right? 225 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:19,080 My faith in God is somehow this happy pie in the sky idea that I'm hoping for abundant 226 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:20,080 life in. 227 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:21,080 That it's right. 228 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,880 That it's not well placed, right? 229 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,120 It's I wish I may. 230 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:26,120 I wish I might. 231 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,320 Is that the right phrase? 232 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,120 Isn't that right? 233 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,000 It's not a well placed notion. 234 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:39,080 It's in some random force, some light, some life, some orb, some energy that's out there, 235 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,080 right? 236 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,080 May the force be with you, right? 237 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,480 That kind of thing. 238 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:44,560 That's what they believe. 239 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:46,120 It's a blind hope. 240 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,260 Faith is not, my faith in God is not based on some fantasy. 241 00:09:51,260 --> 00:09:54,520 It's not based on some random idea, right? 242 00:09:54,520 --> 00:10:00,600 My faith in God is based on who I know and what I know about God. 243 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:05,040 It's based on, if you get to a place where you start to understand that the things that 244 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:10,240 are visible were made by a God who we cannot see at the moment, but when you start to understand 245 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,640 who He is, your faith begins to rise. 246 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,840 The last thing that it is based on is fantasy. 247 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,960 The last thing it's based on is just some random idea or something that I do just to 248 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:22,960 soothe myself. 249 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,640 Because you've got to understand some things about God. 250 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,320 God is infinite. 251 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,160 Say infinite. 252 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,960 He is self-existing. 253 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,400 He is without origin. 254 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,800 He's without a beginning. 255 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,120 He's without an end, right? 256 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,920 I almost said orange there. 257 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:41,800 He's without an origin. 258 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,480 He doesn't have a beginning and He doesn't have an end. 259 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:45,840 He always was. 260 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,040 He always is and He always will be. 261 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:50,640 We can't name one thing. 262 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:54,840 You couldn't come up with one thing you could name on this earth that always was, always 263 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,800 is and always will be, right? 264 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:03,080 Anything here in the house, anything of the shore, anything you come up with online, all 265 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,400 you do has a beginning and an end, right? 266 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,320 How many in the house have a birthday? 267 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:10,320 Raise your hand. 268 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,520 I've got people who are not raising their hands. 269 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,080 You have a birthday. 270 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,920 You've got a point of origin. 271 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:24,760 You were born and you was, you is right now. 272 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:25,920 That's why you're here. 273 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:26,920 You is. 274 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,600 Some day you will be but some day you won't be. 275 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:30,600 Amen? 276 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:31,600 It's true. 277 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:32,600 You've got a point of origin. 278 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,680 You've got a beginning and you've got an end. 279 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:37,920 We don't want to talk about the end stuff, right? 280 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,120 That end date will come and you know that for real, right? 281 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:42,580 I could ask you another question. 282 00:11:42,580 --> 00:11:45,840 How many people in the house here are over 150 years of age? 283 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:46,840 Raise your hand right now. 284 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,640 Oh, right, right. 285 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:49,640 There's living proof, right? 286 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:50,640 There's an end. 287 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,360 There's a beginning and end. 288 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,080 We're finite in everything. 289 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,020 It's not God. 290 00:11:58,020 --> 00:11:59,240 God is infinite. 291 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:00,740 He always was. 292 00:12:00,740 --> 00:12:02,200 He always is. 293 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,120 He always will be. 294 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,120 Always. 295 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:11,200 He's always done things more abundantly because he's always been around. 296 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:16,280 He can do more by himself in a moment than we can do individually or collectively as 297 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,480 humanity in a lifetime. 298 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:20,980 He can do in one minute. 299 00:12:20,980 --> 00:12:21,980 He is. 300 00:12:21,980 --> 00:12:24,240 He's infinite in everything that he does. 301 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,120 He's more powerful than anything that you know or anyone that you know. 302 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:29,360 It is not blind faith. 303 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,680 It's understanding who he is, right? 304 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:33,640 It's understanding what he can do. 305 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,160 I never cease to be amazed by God's infinite power. 306 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:38,160 I really don't. 307 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:42,240 You know, I think sometimes, especially the older I get, you know, it gets to be a little 308 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,720 more of a task to do things in life sometimes, right? 309 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,600 You just trying to get to bed, get a nap for eight hours, right? 310 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,880 I call it the nap you take every day. 311 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,360 You got to get that go to bed and you try to get up in the morning, get yourself moving, 312 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:54,360 right? 313 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:55,360 Look in the mirror, brush your teeth, right? 314 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:59,240 And go out there and try to get a cup of coffee just to get you rolling in the morning. 315 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:04,280 Well, while you were doing all that, God brings the sun up in the sky and you look out the 316 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:08,280 window and He paints a picture every single morning with the sunrise, right? 317 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,560 If it's the winter time, I've come out and He's painted the entire landscape with snow 318 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:19,300 and artists take years studying just to try to duplicate on a piece of canvas, right? 319 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:23,960 Remember a photographer tries to duplicate what God does just automatically. 320 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,280 He's infinite. 321 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:32,360 What you're just trying to get rolling, He's changed the whole world in a moment, man. 322 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:33,980 He's infinite. 323 00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:35,060 He's also immutable. 324 00:13:35,060 --> 00:13:36,060 Say immutable. 325 00:13:36,060 --> 00:13:39,240 Some of you said that, you don't even know what it means. 326 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:40,240 He's immutable. 327 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:41,920 He never changes. 328 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:43,600 He doesn't have to. 329 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,960 He was sheer perfection at the beginning. 330 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:47,560 He still is and He always will be. 331 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:50,000 I mean, no, you don't need to change if you're sheer perfection. 332 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,520 Some of you are like, yep, that's right. 333 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,000 You don't need to change. 334 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 You're not. 335 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,980 But you don't need to change if you're sheer perfection. 336 00:14:01,980 --> 00:14:03,220 We change, right? 337 00:14:03,220 --> 00:14:04,720 We need to change. 338 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:05,720 Amen? 339 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:10,320 Most everything about me falls short of perfect and needs to change. 340 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,520 Honey, thank you for knowing I'm saying amen. 341 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,560 I was waiting for you to say amen, right? 342 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:21,040 And the fact is you're changing for the better at any given moment or you're changing for 343 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:22,520 the worse, right? 344 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,120 You're changing all the time because you need to because you're not in a state of perfection, 345 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,120 right? 346 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,600 You're not immutable like God is. 347 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,800 If you don't believe that, you're over the age of 40, get a photo album out. 348 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:38,240 Check yourself out at age 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, right? 349 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,320 The older you get, you get over 40, you look at those pictures like, I look like that? 350 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:43,320 All right? 351 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,440 Man, some things have changed. 352 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:51,760 Listen, one of the reasons I have faith in God is because he does not change. 353 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:52,760 He's not shifting. 354 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,760 I'm not sure about you, right? 355 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,960 You could change tomorrow about something. 356 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,800 You probably aren't too sure about me because you know I could change something tomorrow, 357 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:01,800 right? 358 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,240 But he never changes. 359 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:04,240 He's immutable. 360 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:08,800 Malachi 3, 6 says this, for I am the Lord, I change not. 361 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,720 Hebrews 13, 7 says, remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken unto you 362 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,720 the word of God whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation, Jesus Christ 363 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:23,560 the same yesterday, today, and say it with me, forever. 364 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:24,560 Forever. 365 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:25,560 He's immutable. 366 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:27,600 He does not change. 367 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,480 You can take it to the bank, you can count on it every single day. 368 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,760 He will not change even if you want him to change. 369 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,440 Do you ever pray for God to change or change his mind? 370 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,040 He's not going to do it. 371 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,800 He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 372 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,560 He's infinite and he's immutable. 373 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,120 And I'm going to give you just a couple things rapid fire because if I preached on all the 374 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:51,360 things that God is and his attributes, we'd be here until well into the afternoon, right? 375 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,280 But here's some things about God that you need to understand. 376 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,120 And if you understand, you'll get your head around who he is. 377 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,080 I can tell you right now that your faith will begin to rise. 378 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,000 As a matter of fact, it will just explode, right? 379 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,440 Because God is self-sufficient. 380 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:05,720 He doesn't need anyone. 381 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,000 He doesn't need anything on the outside. 382 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,480 He's self-sustaining in every single way, right? 383 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:11,480 He's omnipotent. 384 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:12,480 He has all power. 385 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,400 He has no power shortage in any area of his life. 386 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:16,400 He is omniscient. 387 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:17,400 He is all-knowing. 388 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,400 How many know he never gets stumped with a trivia question? 389 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,800 God's never like, hmm, wonder what the answer to that is, right? 390 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,120 He's omnipresent. 391 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,760 He is always everywhere. 392 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:30,520 Get your head around that, right? 393 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:31,980 He's always everywhere. 394 00:16:31,980 --> 00:16:33,280 He has perfect wisdom. 395 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,760 He is always faithful even when we are not. 396 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:38,200 He is good. 397 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:39,280 All things good. 398 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:40,360 He is just. 399 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:41,960 He always has the right answer. 400 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:48,760 He is merciful, gracious, loving, holy, glorious, and for the icing on the cake, he cannot fail. 401 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,480 It's impossible for God to fail. 402 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:56,000 He has all these things excessively and always, forever. 403 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,760 Now let me ask you something. 404 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,880 How hard is it to have faith in someone like that? 405 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,340 Come on. 406 00:17:03,340 --> 00:17:05,800 He's got it all. 407 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:11,080 And if you begin to understand who God really is, right? 408 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,360 It's pretty hard not to have complete faith in him. 409 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:17,480 If you start to get your head around, I don't know if you know this, but you can know this 410 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:23,640 and experience this in God, that he has all these things, right? 411 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,200 Not everyone else does. 412 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:30,080 Nobody else in your life does. 413 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:37,080 Anybody around you, if you're going to have faith in someone, have faith in God. 414 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,480 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 415 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:42,320 Do you know why that happens? 416 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,840 Because the word of God is all about who God is. 417 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:51,880 When you start understanding who he is, your faith will explode. 418 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,360 It's not a stretch. 419 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:54,820 It's not a fantasy. 420 00:17:54,820 --> 00:17:57,680 It's not a hopeful wish on my side. 421 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,320 It's based on the knowledge of I know who God is, right? 422 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,960 He is God. 423 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:05,960 Have knowledge. 424 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:06,960 Experience Him. 425 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:12,920 If you're going to talk to somebody and you want them to become a person of faith, just 426 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,240 start telling them about who God is. 427 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,400 Just start testifying about what he can do. 428 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:19,760 That's why we testify, right? 429 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:23,880 We tell people what God can do and what he has done. 430 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:28,000 It's because it's true and it's who he is. 431 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Let me read some more. 432 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:36,080 Hebrews 11 says this, by faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, 433 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,680 through which he obtained witness and that he was righteous. 434 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,280 God testifying of his gifts and through it being dead still speaks. 435 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,280 By faith Enoch, say Enoch. 436 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:49,200 Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death and was not found because God had taken 437 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,200 him. 438 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:54,640 For before he was taken, he had this testimony that he pleased God. 439 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,720 But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe 440 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,920 that he is and that he is a reward of those who diligently seek him. 441 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:06,840 Now I really like Enoch because Enoch had so much faith in God, God just snatched him 442 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:08,180 off this earth. 443 00:19:08,180 --> 00:19:09,680 God skipped the whole funeral thing. 444 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,560 He didn't go into the whole drama of drawing his last breath. 445 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:14,560 He didn't do anything. 446 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:15,560 He's like, you know what? 447 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,200 Enoch, you got so much faith, I'm just going to take you. 448 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,640 I'm just going to move you over into the kingdom of God. 449 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:26,080 One of the things we learn from Enoch when you read from this scripture is that the only 450 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:30,560 way to please God is by faith in God. 451 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,600 The only way you can please God is by faith in God. 452 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,000 It's the only way you can please him. 453 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,880 The only thing that brings God pleasure that you can provide is absolute complete faith 454 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:40,980 in him. 455 00:19:40,980 --> 00:19:43,680 God is not like people. 456 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,800 People get pleased in all kinds of ways. 457 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:50,200 If I announced that next week if we put this out publicly and I put it on Facebook and 458 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,400 we put it in the newspaper, nobody reads the newspaper anymore, but if I put it in the 459 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:59,160 newspaper, if I put it online, if we send it out as a flyer somewhere around the neighborhood, 460 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,400 if we said you know what, next week you come into the life house, you get a gift, we're 461 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,720 going to have a crisp $100 bill for everybody in the house. 462 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,800 How many know we need some chairs next week? 463 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,360 Because gifts please people. 464 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:14,120 How many like to get a gift? 465 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:15,120 Amen. 466 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:16,840 It pleases people. 467 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,480 Acknowledgement, somebody's contribution, that pleases people. 468 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,800 Serving people sometimes pleases people. 469 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,480 Being served sometimes pleases people. 470 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,880 How many like to be served? 471 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,600 Come on that we won't submit it. 472 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:34,080 I know you all love to serve everybody else and nobody else likes to be served. 473 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,320 But it pleases people. 474 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:39,800 Time you spend, time spent with somebody, sometimes that's pleasing. 475 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,160 Words of affirmation are pleasing to you. 476 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,640 There's all kind of ways to please people. 477 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,400 But there's only one way to please God. 478 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:49,940 God has it all. 479 00:20:49,940 --> 00:20:52,200 He doesn't need words of affirmation for you. 480 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,360 He's self-sustaining, remember? 481 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:57,280 He doesn't need that kind of boost. 482 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,600 He one thing pleases God. 483 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,660 One thing only, faith in Him. 484 00:21:03,660 --> 00:21:07,400 You want God to take notice of you? 485 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,400 Just display faith in Him. 486 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:10,640 Speak faith in Him. 487 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:11,920 Live faith in Him. 488 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,720 Act as if you've got faith in Him. 489 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,960 It pleases God. 490 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:18,800 It's the only thing that pleases Him. 491 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,120 How do you get the guy that has everything something, right? 492 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:22,760 Let's go and please Him. 493 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,160 You have faith in Him. 494 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,280 You have faith in Him. 495 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,800 You have faith in Him. 496 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:35,360 Our work, listen, our work, our tenacity, our heart to serve, all those things should 497 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:36,400 be an outflow. 498 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,880 They should be a result of our faith in God. 499 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,480 We don't do those things to please God, right? 500 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,960 I can't work my way, because you got to be careful with all that, because you can try 501 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,240 to serve your way into heaven, you know that? 502 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,080 You can try to serve your way into God's good graces. 503 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,200 You can try to even pray your way into God's good graces. 504 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,880 And God says without faith, right, the word of God says it clearly, without faith it's 505 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,240 impossible to please God. 506 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,040 Faith has to come first. 507 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,120 Faith's got to be at the forefront. 508 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:09,500 I have faith in God, and because I've got faith in God, then I serve, right? 509 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:10,500 Then I give. 510 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:15,760 Then I do all the things that God wants me to do, but it all begins with faith. 511 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:20,120 It all begins with faith, because that's what pleases God. 512 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:21,120 It's true. 513 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:25,800 I'm going to close this morning by reading just a few more verses from those who had 514 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:26,800 faith. 515 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:30,080 And if you want to, you can go to Hebrews chapter 11, and it just names person after 516 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,040 person after person, and they're all people of faith. 517 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,800 And you'll see God do these great amazing things in our lives, and it's an outflow, 518 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,080 it's a result of their faith in God, right? 519 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,800 Hebrews 11, 7 says, by faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with 520 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:49,680 godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the 521 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,720 world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 522 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:54,720 The boat, right? 523 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,320 The ship, the ark was a result of Noah's faith in God. 524 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,600 It was a result. 525 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,720 Verse 8 says, by faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which 526 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:10,240 would receive his inheritance, and he went out not knowing where he was going. 527 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,400 By faith he dwelt in the land of promises in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with 528 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:18,960 Isaac and Jacob, and heirs with him of the same promise. 529 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:24,720 For he waited for the city which has foundations whose builder and maker is what? 530 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,680 God. 531 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:31,340 He headed out not knowing where he was going or why he was going there necessarily. 532 00:23:31,340 --> 00:23:37,760 He just knew God had a promise, and he had faith in God. 533 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,720 This chapter goes on and on and on. 534 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,720 I'm going to ask if you'd stand this morning. 535 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:49,920 I'll ask if you'd come. 536 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:54,680 This morning is all about faith in God. 537 00:23:54,680 --> 00:24:00,080 And if your faith ever starts to get a little low, I kind of think faith is there or it 538 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,080 isn't. 539 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,360 So I'm just going to say it this way. 540 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:04,360 If your faith isn't there, right? 541 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:08,160 If it dissipates, because how many of you know if you don't have faith you got doubt? 542 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,160 Right? 543 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,160 One or the other. 544 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,160 You either got faith or doubt. 545 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,160 It's kind of light and dark, that kind of thing. 546 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:19,120 But if your faith is gone and you're in the valley of doubt, if you're in a place where 547 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:25,360 you're just not believing God, all you have to do is begin to remind yourself who he is. 548 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:31,000 All you got to do is go back and understand what he can do and the power that he has. 549 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,440 You start to do those kind of things and all of a sudden faith appears. 550 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,960 All of a sudden you have faith in God. 551 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,960 The word of God says, Jesus said this right, as soon as faith appears you can move them 552 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:42,960 out. 553 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,320 You can do things, you can start believing things and God starts doing things because 554 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,760 the only thing that pleases God is what? 555 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:49,760 Faith. 556 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,640 It's the only thing that pleases God. 557 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,840 I remember Pastor Jack Kyler, he's gone on to be with the Lord. 558 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,520 I remember him when I was young in ministry. 559 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,280 He used to come up to me and he'd tell me, Kip, everything's about faith in God. 560 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,440 I'd be like, okay Pastor Kyler. 561 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,960 I think there's a lot of other stuff in the Bible, Pastor Kyler. 562 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,920 He goes, no, it's all about faith. 563 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,600 He said it's all about faith and I'm like, okay Pastor Kyler, but there's a... 564 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:11,600 He goes, no. 565 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:12,600 You don't understand. 566 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:13,600 It's all about faith. 567 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,240 He was right. 568 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,160 It's the only way to please God. 569 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,160 It starts and begins there. 570 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,160 Do you know the... 571 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,400 I'm going to set some of you free right now. 572 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:27,880 Do you know the only one you got to please in life is God? 573 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,000 It's God. 574 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:35,200 So many times we're trying to please everybody else and everything else and the only one 575 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,320 you have to please is God. 576 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,680 If you please God, He will give you favor with others. 577 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,480 I don't know if you know that or not. 578 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,000 We get it all mixed up. 579 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,080 We get it all backwards. 580 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,080 You got to please Him. 581 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,560 You ready to pray this morning? 582 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,400 Now I love this because I'm preaching to a house full of people of faith. 583 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,400 I know that. 584 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:56,880 But I'm going to ask you to do this. 585 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,160 I'm going to ask you to bow your heads. 586 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:05,400 I want to take a moment just in case there's someone in the house who has never heard about 587 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,220 all the attributes of God. 588 00:26:07,220 --> 00:26:09,440 They did not know that He has all power. 589 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:14,120 They did not realize that He knows all things. 590 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:19,000 And I didn't even catch some of the attributes like the whole idea that God has love. 591 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,280 And He not just has love, He is love, the word of God says. 592 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,400 And that He loves you with everlasting love. 593 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:29,600 That one of the things that He did to provide with you is that He sent His only Son to die 594 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:35,320 on a cross so you could be free and so you could come into relationship with a holy God 595 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,480 who has all these characteristics and wants to walk with you. 596 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,360 And if that's you here this morning and you want to know Jesus is Lord and Savior, you 597 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:44,360 can. 598 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,560 The word of God says all you have to do is believe. 599 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,920 That's have faith in Him. 600 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,920 And He comes to be Lord and Savior in your life. 601 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,600 So with every head bowed and every eye closed, if that's you here this morning, I want you 602 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,360 to put your hand up, put it right back down. 603 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:59,560 If you want to, if you're saying today, I want the Lord in my life. 604 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,040 I want, I want, I want to serve this God. 605 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,360 I want to follow this God. 606 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:05,480 I want to be part, put your hand up right now. 607 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:11,200 If you're online, you can type it in the chat this morning and they'll, the host will respond 608 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,960 to you and talk with you about that. 609 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:15,960 Thank you. 610 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,680 Now I'm asked to look back up at me. 611 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,720 I'm asked to do one last thing. 612 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,480 We are a people of faith. 613 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:27,360 If you know Jesus as Lord and Savior of your life, we are people of faith. 614 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:28,640 It's the only thing that pleases God. 615 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:29,640 I want us to come together. 616 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,840 We're going to, we're going to end this by praying and singing together this morning. 617 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:44,120 So if you'd come forward, come up as far as you can to the front. 618 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:45,320 I didn't preach real long. 619 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:53,120 We got a few minutes. 620 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:54,120 Make your way up. 621 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:55,120 Some of you aren't afraid of me. 622 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:59,280 Just come up close. 623 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,280 Pull up as tight as you can. 624 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:12,160 Some people slide in the back. 625 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:19,920 And I feel really pushed in my spirit that somebody does need set free from people pleasing. 626 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,080 Okay. 627 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:28,840 You know, there is such freedom in knowing that the only one that you have to please 628 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,260 is God. 629 00:28:32,260 --> 00:28:36,880 People that get caught in people pleasing, you'll get pulled 45 directions. 630 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,360 You'll wear yourself out. 631 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,360 Right. 632 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,800 And you most of the time, you never please anybody or you only please a few people. 633 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:44,800 And you'll start that. 634 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,560 And then they get unpleased about something and you're starting to cycle all back over 635 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:48,560 again. 636 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,000 You're not there to cause them pleasure. 637 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,480 Their pleasure should be in the Lord just like yours. 638 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:53,480 Right. 639 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,600 So you start off pleasing God and it's crazy thing happens. 640 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,640 People, God will give you favor with other people. 641 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,240 That's just how it works. 642 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,920 You only got to focus on one thing. 643 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:02,920 Pleasing Him. 644 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:03,920 That's it. 645 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:04,920 That's it. 646 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:05,920 Right. 647 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,880 So all you got to do is have faith in Him. 648 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,640 It pleases God and then God lavishes upon you. 649 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,000 It's just crazy cycle. 650 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,040 It's simple. 651 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,680 We always over complicate God's word and it's so simple. 652 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,960 He made it so simple for us. 653 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,160 Amen. 654 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,960 So if you're here this morning and you know who you are, if you tend to people please. 655 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:25,960 Right. 656 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,760 You're not going to gain the favor of man. 657 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:29,760 Right. 658 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,880 If that's you, I'm here to tell you today, you've only got one to please and that is 659 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,920 the Lord Jesus Christ. 660 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:37,920 Just have faith in Him. 661 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:38,920 It's all it takes. 662 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,720 Father, we come to you today. 663 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,720 God, you know each person in the house. 664 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,760 God, Lord, you know who needs to be free this morning from people pleasing. 665 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,560 Lord, there's not an individual on the face of this planet that can save us. 666 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,560 There's not an individual who can speak to us. 667 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,480 There's not an individual who can carry us. 668 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,520 There's not an individual, God, who can save us from anything. 669 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,920 Lord, it is only you and God, we only need to please you. 670 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:08,240 So Lord, this morning we declare in our prayer and if you're here this morning, pray this. 671 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,680 We declare in our prayer that we have faith in you, Lord, whatever's in front of us, whatever's 672 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,440 behind us, whatever's beside us, whatever's below us and above us. 673 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,840 God, we declare right now in prayer with our own lips. 674 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,280 God, we declare to you, we've got faith in you. 675 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,080 Just say it, church, say it to them. 676 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,460 We've got faith in you. 677 00:30:25,460 --> 00:30:26,920 We've got faith in you, Lord. 678 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,520 God, we're trusting you, Lord. 679 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,200 God, we're gonna quit trying to figure this out on our own. 680 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,720 We're gonna quit worrying about pleasing other people and Lord, we're just gonna listen and 681 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:35,720 look for you. 682 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:40,160 God, in Jesus' name, God, I pray for each person in the house. 683 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,000 God, to a place of freedom. 684 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,560 God, we get balled up, we get messed up, Lord, by the world and God, all the problems that 685 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:52,160 come in when the reality is we just need to please you. 686 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,160 We just need to please you. 687 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,600 God, you can take care of all the rest. 688 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,360 Can you do take care of all the rest? 689 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,880 And Lord, we just thank you, we give you praise. 690 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:07,560 In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, Amen. 691 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,560 Listen, I've watched dear saints of God who have faith in God and it's funny, they'll 692 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,480 get into the deepest mess all going on all around them. 693 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,320 I don't know if you've ever met someone like this but they're in complete peace. 694 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,520 There's this deep strength that's within them and it's because they don't try to please 695 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:23,520 people. 696 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,520 They're just trusting in God. 697 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,120 They'll just say, listen, God's got it, right? 698 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,960 People get all messed up, they're like, you don't understand everything that's going on. 699 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,480 You don't know what's happening, right? 700 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:32,840 The sky is falling all around us. 701 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:34,880 And they're just like, yeah, it's okay, God's got it, right? 702 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,240 It's His guy, right? 703 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,240 He's got all power. 704 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:43,440 And there's this peace that settles upon them. 705 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:44,440 That's us. 706 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,680 It's the people of God. 707 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,280 I get caught in this just like anybody does. 708 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,720 I get looking at the stuff, I get looking at the circumstances, I get looking at the 709 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:55,720 troubles. 710 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,200 I'm just here to please Him. 711 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,200 Amen. 712 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,200 One job. 713 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,200 You got one job. 714 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,200 Say it, I got one job. 715 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,920 I got one job, right? 716 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,320 You got to please Him. 717 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:08,320 Amen. 718 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,320 Turn to somebody and tell them you got one job. 719 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:11,320 One job, one job. 720 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:12,320 God bless you. 721 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,320 We will see you here next week. 722 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,320 Memorial Day weekend. 723 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,480 Good job. 724 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:27,360 Thank you for tuning in to this message from LifeHouse Church. 725 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,440 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 726 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:36,320 If you have been personally affected by 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