“A Savior Has Come” By Brother Parrish Lee December 3rd,
2017 Was
it wonderful to give a praise unto God? Was it wonderful just to lift
His name? I give honor to that same God. Giving honor to
Him, Who is the
maker of our souls, Who is the Creator of our very being, Who is the
fortifier,
and the mercy-giver, and the grace-giver for our souls and our lives,
Who is the
sustainer of all that we have, Who is the answer for us, our light in
darkness,
our bridge over troubled waters, strength when we are weak, power when
we have
none, and an answer when we don't even know the question. Giving honor
to Him.
And, giving honor to all those who have come, and gone on before us.
For those
who were in the Word, who held the blood-stained banner, looking for
that
blessed hope and the glorious appearing. For those who have kept the
Word down
through the ages. For those who were here in this ministry, our
founding
pastor, our pastor, those who have stood in the gap to make up the
hedge.
Giving honor to all of those who helped pave the way. And, giving honor
to all
of y’all who present yourselves and say “Lord, I am yours, and you are
mine. I
ask, as I present myself before You today, that You come and feed me.”
Giving
honor to all of y’all. We've taken—We had a wonderful month last month.
We had a
wonderful month last month, a month of Thanksgiving. And, it's
wonderful. We
give thanks all the time, anyway. But, it's wonderful when everybody
else has
to say, “Oh, well, I can't hide it this time, because this is
Thanksgiving
month, so I can't ostracize somebody who does give Thanksgiving.” But,
that
spirit of Thanksgiving is such a wonderful thing, and it's something
that the
Lord has commanded for us to do. It's wonderful to celebrate
Thanksgiving, but
we celebrate it every day, among the other things. And, it's wonderful
now for
us to have this month, which the world calls the Christmas month, even
though
we celebrate His birth every day. Every day we celebrate His birth, but
it's
wonderful to have this month that we can set aside, that we could say,
“This is
the month that we celebrate the birth of our Savior.” And, with that, we have our Scripture theme for
the month. And, with
that, I'm going to ask Brother Phil Russell, if he would come to read
from the
book of Isaiah, chapter nine, and verse number six: Isaiah
9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us
a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and
his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, Thank you, Brother Phil. If we could bow our
heads for just a
moment. Almighty God, what do we say when we come into Your presence?
Because,
God, You, God, are high above everything else that we could even form
our mind
to, or just imagine in our own hearts. And, yet, Lord, You have saw fit
to
bless us, Your people, all over the world, those who come and submit
unto You,
the great Wonder of the creation. Lord, we ask at this time, we want to
continue to always bless Your name, but, we present ourselves to You,
God, that
You would minister to us this time in Word, as You ministered to us in
song,
minister to us in Word, and have it that, Lord, as You said in Your
Word, it
would not return unto You void, but, it would surely accomplish that to
which
You sent it. And, Lord, we lay ourselves before You, and ask for Your
blessing
on us, as we present ourselves at this time. And, this we pray in
Jesus’ name,
and everyone said, amen. Amen. He rules the world. I'm not even going to start
on the message. Give
me a couple of minutes, here. But, He rules the world with truth and
grace, and
the wonders of His love. How can I stop from singing? And, like a
flood, His
mercy reigns. My God, my Savior has ransomed me. How great is our God?
Name
above all names. Your presence, Your presence is Heaven to me. Our
Scripture theme, as Brother Phil just read: Isaiah
9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us
a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and
his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, Really popular Scripture, really popular
Scripture. It's known all
over the world. People are still looking for it, some of the Jews who
are
waiting for the Messiah still to come, they are waiting for it, and
this is one
of the Scriptures that they hold to. But, it's a Scripture that comes
up at
Christmas time. But, I want to share a brief testimony, why, why
this sets itself
apart. For me, I'd heard this Scripture on TV, and I watched the
Christmas
cartoons. But, I wasn't raised to know what the Lord Jesus Christ is,
what He's
like, what He came to do. I was raised, honestly, to fight against you
people.
I was raised that you people are the enemy, and, it was my job to tell
you that
the God that you serve and claim is no God, and my mission was to tear
it out
of your life in the name of Allah, and it was instructed, we were
fortified,
we'd go out in mass. We loved it when we'd find some evangelists that
were out
there in the street talking; we loved it. Now, I don't know where you
were when
the Lord found you, but I was in the United States Navy. And, I take my
hat and
tilt it. Could I ask all of our service members who came out today to
worship?
Could we ask you guys to stand please? We thank you for your service,
and you
took out time for worship. Our prayer is that God be with you in your
entire
career and your entire life. Wherever you go, there is nothing too hard
for Him
in you, thank you very much. And, for any other visitors here, do we
have any
other visitors here? Yes? If we have any visitors here, could you
stand? We’d
like to welcome you to worship with us. Or, if you're shy? If you're
shy,
that's okay, we welcome you to worship with us. It's wonderful to have
you, and
we hope you enjoy the service today. But, I want to tell you that it
was my
mission to rip that Lord Jesus out of your life. So, why me? This is
just a
little bit of a testimony; I'm going to keep it pretty quick. Why me?
I'm not
one of those people that deserved being saved. I’m not one of those
people who
were holy and righteous, not one of those people that did good things.
So, why?
The Bible says that He rewardeth us not as our sins deserve. And, then
it says,
if He were to mark iniquity, who could stand? The mercy, the mercy of
God. And,
yet, God saw fit in His infinite mercy and that marvelous grace—I don't
know
where you were when the Lord found you; I was in a little barracks room
praying,
when God first spoke to me. And, then, after the seasoning of my
heart—Now I
just want to take you back—after the seasoning of my heart, it took me
two and
a half years for God to get me soft enough just to hear just the
minutest...
Maybe you heard it and received it immediately, I don't know. But,
wherever you
were when God found you, aren't you glad He found you? Wherever you
were,
whatever we were doing. And, if you're a person here, that maybe says,
“Well, I
haven't made up my mind yet. I haven't found the Lord yet,” I’ll tell
you this:
You're not waiting on Him, He is waiting on you. And, what He has
for you
is over and above everything, according to the Bible, we could even ask
or even
think. That Great God and Savior. So, now, that was my testimony that I
wanted
to share. Wherever we were when God found us, it's a precious thing. So, the Scripture says, “For unto us a child is
born, unto us a
Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His
name shall
be called Wonderful…” yes, yes, yes, “...Wonderful, Counselor, The
mighty God,
The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” All of which we will be
the
talking about this month, but, for this part of the Scripture, we only
know
that, when it was shared with Isaiah, it was shared to be a hope and a
fulfillment that God's promises, they would come to pass, sometime. It
is
shared, honestly, on TV sometimes, and sometimes you'll hear it shared
in Children's
Church, and it’s a wonderful Scripture to share in Children’s Church;
children
can hear this Scripture verse, and they can feel, “Oh, that same God
that all the
big people have over there in big church, He can relate to me, because
He came
as a child like me. Oh, I can relate to that.” Yeah, this Scripture’s
shared
all across because He came for everybody. And, then the children would
also
know that He's not that fearful God that you've got to be cringing in
fear
about. But, He is a God who will minister to you, Who will love you,
Who will
be right beside you, and be with you every step of the way. I'd like to talk to you, a little bit, just for
a moment, about,
“...a child is born…” For the Scripture says, “...a child is born…”
This
is from the book of Isaiah, and the prophet Isaiah, he was a prophet
during the
time of the Kings, and, specifically, this one was when King Hezekiah
was
around, and so it was over eight centuries before the birth of Christ
that he
spoke this prophecy. It was at a time when Israel was back and
forth,
they were righteous and unrighteous, they would do good and then they
would do
bad, and Isaiah spoke this. And, come at the time, you would think,
“Oh, Isaiah
spoke this to the Jews.” But, they
didn't understand, and, if they could know the depths of Isaiah as he
shared God’s
promise, they would know that that Savior that he talked about, that
Child that
he talked about, was going to be greater than anything that they could
imagine.
He didn't just come to save little old Israel, and little old Judah. He
came to
be the Savior for the world. He came to save those who had gone
on before
that trusted him. He came to save those who were there at the time that
trusted
him. He came to save those that would come in the future that trusted
him.
That's how great this Child would be. A Savior for all. And, He didn't
come –we
notice that the Scripture says, “For unto us…” For unto. Unto is kind
of an old
word, you would almost say, “For to us, for to us, to us a child is
born.” A
Child—it didn't come—if you're—I’m a fan—I used to look at comic books
when I
was young—I can't say used to, I still do sometimes. But, there's a
whole big
thing now, that they've got those superhero movies out, you see them,
and they’re
the heroes, and they vanquish these big villains. There are heroes that
jump
and boom, and there are heroes that are real strong, and there are
heroes that
throw things, they throw shields and hammers, and they are fast, and
all these
heroes, they have something great to look at, you know, but that's not
the way
that the Savior came. He came as a Child, the very same way we came.
And, all
of that is for a reason. He came being born. He didn't come just
leaping down
from Heaven with a great sword, and on a horse, and making a whole lot
of
noise. He didn't come in a palace where it was so rich, and so high
above where
all of us could be. He came on a level that everybody identifies with.
He came
to let everybody know, “I come for you. And, there's no separation
between us.
I come to take care of everything that you will go through. Yes, yes,
even in
birth. If you're having a problem, even in the womb, I know what it's
like, pray
to me; I can help you there. Even in Birth, pray to me, I can help you
there.
Even as a child, as a little baby, pray to me; I can help you there.”
He came
as a child, a child was born. And, it's important, also, to know that He came
to us. It wasn't
us going to him; it was Him coming to us. It was His decision to come
to us, to
save us. Part 2:
His Name Is
Wonderful His name is Wonderful. Wonderful is a word that,
nowadays, we don't
use it a ton, but when we use it, it's diminished. This word actually,
here,
you'll notice that in the Scripture, it's capitalized. This word, here,
actually comes from a Hebrew word, meaning Pele’, Pele’ (peh-leh). And,
normally,
I don't get into the Hebrew words, but this is not a normal word, this
is,
actually, it means extraordinary. this word even means, it's separate
in glory.
This Wonderful, this word means surpassing, difficult to understand,
and to
comprehend. It even means to be too high, too high to attain too.
That's what
this word means. It means to be marvelous, and, even miraculous.
Wonderful,
wonderful, miraculous, marvelous, too high. His name is too high for us
to just
brag on our own. We call Him Wonderful. We call Him Wonderful when we
say, “Lord,
everything about you is higher than anything that I have to go
through.” We
call Him Wonderful when we say, “It’s a wonder, Lord, how You can
relate—You,
who are so high up, can relate to us, in everything we go through. It's
a
wonder, Lord, when we see the joy you bring, the peace you bring, the
love that
you bring. All of those things are boundless, God. All that you bring,
we can't
find the end of it all. In fact, Job said, in the Book of Job, chapter
nine,
and verse number ten, Job said, when he was talking about this, he said: Job
9:10
Which doeth great things past
finding out [Past
finding out]; yea, and wonders without number. And, in the Book of Romans, it talks about the
same thing. From
The Book of Romans, chapter eleven, and verse thirty-three, it says: Romans
11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom
and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways
past
finding out! Yes, even His name, even the name is marvelous.
So, miraculous, we
can't figure it out, and, yet, that's why He had to reveal it to us. We
couldn’t figure it out, He had to reveal it to us. And, thank You,
Lord, for
that Mercy that revealed it to us. Part 3:
A Savior Has Come Since the garden, since back in the garden, man
has been familiar
with the concept of a Savior, has been familiar with the concept of
deliverance
coming. Since the garden, man has been familiar with this concept of
there is
something coming that can redeem you from where you are. From The Book
of
Genesis, chapter three, and verse fifteen: Genesis
3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and
the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head,
and
thou shalt bruise his heel. So, the Lord told the serpent that there was
going to be enmity
between the two, but He told the serpent that, from the seed of the
woman is
coming something that all your power won't be able to stand up to. The
head,
the strongest, the mightiest, the most brilliant part of you, won’t be
able to
stand to the might of His power. This Seed from a woman, this Child
that will
come, this Being, this Something that was coming. And, then, the
serpent would
know, the serpent would know that, oh, his days are numbered, even from
then,
his days are numbered. Now we need to know, we need to know that this
Savior that
was coming is going to give us purpose. We need to know that the
meaning behind
what we are, whatever we’re doing, whatever is going on, there is a
meaning
behind it that we can find out. We need to know that, out of all the
ways
presented unto us in this life, that is the greatest way, and the
greatest
truth, and the greatest life. We need to know that when we say Savior,
it isn't
in a limited capacity. We need to know that when we say saved, there
aren't asterisks
up there; saved from depression, saved from obsession, saved from
futility.
From The Book of John, chapter fourteen, and verse number six, a
popular
Scripture, but it's so powerful when we just think that this is what
the Savior
said to us He came to do. The Lord said: John
14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. From The Book of Matthew, chapter eleven, and
verse twenty-eight,
the Bible says: Matthew
11:28 Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. He is the way, the truth, and the life, He will
give us rest;
there is nothing too hard for our God. We need to know, we need to know
that
the one we work for, Our Savior, that His Rewards are Everlasting and
better
than any other Rewards that are going on down here, any rewards that we
could
be enticed by, any other rewards that anybody could offer. We need to
know, we
need to know that's the way it is. I remember when I was younger, and I used to go
to amusement
parks, back in the day, those roller coasters didn't scare me. I
remember going
to amusement parks, and they’d have these little stands, you know, and
the
little thing where you could, you know, toss the ring out. The one that
I liked
was the one with the balloons, because it looked so easy to do, but,
I'm not
real good at darts, and it's all about depth perception. All those
games are
rigged, I'll just say that. Anyway, I used to just try to throw the
darts, you
know, you'd pay, what, fifty cents for three darts, back in the day,
you would,
and you would play, you’d try to pop so many balloons, and once you pop
them,
you get a little reward, you get a little prize, but, if you paid fifty
cents,
or if you took a chance, and it was a dollar, or however much you paid,
whatever that reward was, what that prize was, it was never worth what
you paid
to throw those three darts. If it was fifty cents, the prize was
probably worth
twenty cents. It was just a little dinky thing, you know? And, we need
to know
that the rewards that the Savior has, that the Child who was born and
given to
us, that one, that the rewards that He has for us are better than
anything
else. That's what we need to know. They're not cheap, they're not
plastic, they
won't break before you get them home. The rewards that the Lord has for
us are everlasting.
That’s what we need to know. From the Book of First Peter, chapter one, and
verse number three.
I'm going to ask Brother Ed, if he would come up and read, First Peter,
chapter
one, and verse number three. We need to know that His Rewards go deep,
and they
supersede, they supersede everything else that we have come in contact
with.
From the Book of First Peter, chapter one, verses three and four: 1
Peter 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us
again unto
a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an
inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in
heaven for you, Thank you, Brother Ed. Verse four, well, verse
three: Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His
abundant
Mercy hath begotten us unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from
the dead, to, to, to an inheritance incorruptible, an inheritance.
That's a
promise. That's a reward worth working for. That is worth putting all
your
marbles on one number. Undefiled and that fadeth not away. Not a
temporary
thing, but it's something that God gives that stays. Reserved in heaven
for us.
Reserved, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. God gives us prizes all along the
way. He
rewards us every day, every day. If you got up this morning, and you
had
something to eat, and you put clothes on your back, and you had
electricity in
your house, and it was warm, if you got in a car, if you drove, you've
been
rewarded this morning. You could say that God has taken care of you
this
morning. If you are able to open your mouth and sing, or talk, if your
eyes
have vision, if you aren’t blind, and you're able to shake somebody's
hand,
you've been rewarded today. God has blessed you. If you've got a hope
eternal,
it don't matter what the situation that you might be facing, and, you
know
what, that's something that we all go through it, but it has to, it has
to make
sure—and that's why we have Fellowship. But, whenever Christians allow
themselves to be overcome, and think that, “I'm just going to give up,
turn my back,
because it's not working for me.” You just want to go up there and bop,
bop, bop,
bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, do a Three Stooges slap on them, and say,
“God
ain't finished this thing yet. Don't you know that this is part of the
process?
God wants to deliver you. He wants—the Bible says that if we suffer
with Him,
we can reign with him. Don't you know that God has got this in control?
Watch,
watch. If He delivered them when there was no path, and He made a path
in the
Red Sea…” He said, “Stand ye still, and watch the salvation of the
Lord.” God
has got it under control, it’s just, we wait on Him, and He waits on
us. He
waits on us to hit our knees, and say, “God, I trust you, whatever you
do.” And,
then we wait on Him to see what he's going to do. Hallelujah for that. You know, this is a room full of those people.
This is a room full
of people who know the Deliverance of God. This is a room full of them.
This is
a room full of people that say—in fact, if we were to look over our
lives, if somebody
were to be able to rewind the camera, you know, rewind it, and be able
to see
the track of Our Lives, there would be signs all over the place. “Oh, I
delivered him here,” “Oh, I delivered her over here,” and “Yeah, I
delivered
him right there,” and, “I delivered her over there.” There's
Deliverance all
over the way. We should signs of Deliverance all the way to and from
our job.
We see signs of Deliverance, most of us, on our jobs. We see signs of
Deliverance in our refrigerators. We see signs of Deliverance on our
stoves. We
see signs of Deliverance in the mail. And, in the bank. We see signs of
Deliverance of God all over our lives. God delivered, God delivered,
God
delivered, God delivered, a Savior has come. I remember, I remember, in Chicago, I've told
the story once
before, but, several years ago, I believe it was in the 80’s, they were
having
a drought in Chicago several years ago, if anyybody recalls that, we
were
having a drought all around Illinois. And, it was a bad drought, and
they were
wondering how long it's going to be common when we were going to get
rain, and
so they came up with this great idea: well, down Through the Ages
whenever
people dealt with a drought, they didn't send dry ice up into a cloud
or any of
that stuff, you know what they would do? The different peoples, they
would get
together and they would pray. In Chicago, in Chicago, down in Daley
Plaza, I
remember this, I saw the pictures, I wish I would have saved the
article, they
didn't know who to pray to, so they called every single religion they
could
think of. They called the Native Americans, they called all types of
people who
call themselves Christians, they called all types of Jews, they called
the
Hindi, and they called the Muslims, they called religions I'd never
even heard
of, I didn't know what they did, they called them all, and it was an
all-day
prayer thing. If by chance, one of them worships the true God of
Deliverance,
maybe He could lift up the drought from us, and give us some rain,
because, “We
don't know who to follow, we are taking a chance, and throwing a dart
at a
balloon.” I don't know if anybody remembers that. But, that's what they
did.
That's what they did, and, you know, when people don't believe, when
people
don't believe what the Lord can do in their lives, I'm talking about on
a
personal level, when they don't believe what the Lord can do in their
lives,
then they are limiting the Lord. From The Book of Mark, chapter six, and starting
at verse four,
the Bible says: Mark
6:4
But, Jesus said unto them, A
prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his
own kin, [Now, this is the Lord we're
talking about] and in his own
house. This is the water- walking Lord Jesus. This is
the one that they
already knew had healed blinded eyes—opened them up—restored people,
made them
able to walk, and even rose some people from the dead. This is that
Lord Jesus.
But, when He went to His own country, the Bible says in verse number
five: Mark
6:5
And, he could there do no mighty
work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. He couldn't do anything great, and there was a
reason why He
couldn't do the great works. The Bible says in verse number six: Mark 6:6
And, he marveled
[The Lord Jesus marveled]
because of their unbelief. And, he went
round about the villages, teaching. Not even giving the Lord a chance to work for
them. He marveled at
their unbelief, and, He went round about the villages, teaching. That
was it. “I
can't do anything for you, because you won't let me.” And, the
Scripture says
that the Father is looking for the true worshippers to come to Him
(John 4:23).
That's what He’s looking for, He's looking for the true worshippers to
come. Mark, chapter nine, verse number twenty-three.
So, as he's looking
for the true worshippers to worship Him in spirit and in truth, when we
believe,
when we believe the Lord, all things are possible. That's a fact. When
we
believe the Lord, when we believe Him, all things are possible. When we
trust
Him, He will direct our paths. That's a fact. That is a true statement.
If we
believe Him, all things are possible. If we trust Him He will direct
our paths.
From The Book of Mark, chapter nine, verse twenty-three: Mark
9:23
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst
believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. From The Book of Proverbs, chapter three, verses
five and six: Proverbs
3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and
lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him,
and he
shall direct thy paths. When we believe Him, all things are possible.
When we trust Him,
He will direct our paths. He will do it, He will do it, He will do it,
He will
do it, He will do it. Do you want to know, what the Savior has for you? Would you like to know what the Savior has
for you? Do you want to know the direction you should go with in your
life?
Trust the Lord. He'll light it up for you. Do you want to see, and
hear, and
know in your heart what the Savior has for you? Do you want to know
what he's
preparing for you? Even now, already prepared, already waiting. Do you want to know what those things are? All
you have to do is love him. All you have to do is love him. He will
show you,
but it won't be according to your eyes, it won't be according to your
ears, it
won't be according to how you feel. The Bible says it will be revealed
to us by
His Spirit. In First Corinthians, chapter two, and verse number nine
and ten: 1
Corinthians 2:9-10 But, as it
is written, Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the
things
which God hath prepared for them that love him. [Prepared for them that love him.
But, there is a ‘but’ there,] But, God
hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all
things,
yea, the deep things of God. Your eyes can't see it your ears can't hear it
and they haven't
even entered into your heart but God reveals them to us by His spirit
when we
love Him, when we love him. And, you know, I found out something else, I
found out that the
savior is not restricted to what my little mind can configure and
think. He's
not restricted by me, that same God. He isn't restricted, Saints, by
any of us,
as far as what God can do. The book of Jeremiah, chapter thirty-two and two
verse number twenty-seven.
I love this verse, I love this verse, because, even when I think, oh,
that will
never work out. We were having a great time at Men's Fellowship
yesterday, and
some of the brothers were talking about the things that the Lord has
worked out
for them. We talked about the issues, I ain't going to say problems,
the issues
that single brothers face. Mmmm-hmmmmmm. And, somebody said, “One of
the things
we face is health, and one of them is employment.” Ooowee. Yes sir.
We're
talking about these things that we face and everything, and as we were
doing
that, I was like, you know, there's a Scripture for all these things
we’re
talking about. I didn't want to tell them yesterday, I had to tell them
another
Scripture, because the Scripture I
wanted to bring out, today. From the book of Jeremiah, chapter
thirty-two, and
verse number twenty-seven: Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, [Behold, the Scripture says,]
I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? Is there anything, anything, too hard for me? We
could take the
rest of the week, and we would hear about how God has been working
things out,
over and over and over and over in our lives. I'm a person, He worked
it out,
before I got saved. He was working things out for me. He works it out
in my
sleep, sometimes. He works it out, I was going down the road didn't
even know I
got saved until I looked in the rearview mirror, and oh, good God
Almighty,
look at what you just did. I dodged a bullet, and didn't even know I
dodged it.
It's just the saving hand of the Lord upon me. Miracle after miracle
after
miracle. He alone is worthy, and He shows it all the time. I am the
Lord, is
there anything - that's a sign. People ought to put that on their
doors. They
ought to put that in their bedroom. They ought to put that in their
bathroom.
They are put it on their TV. They ought to put it all over their books.
They
ought to put it on their car, put it on their job. They ought to put
that
Scripture everywhere. Is there anything too hard for Me? Is there
anything too
hard for Me? Make a list, make a list of what you face, make a list of
what the
devil says, “God ain't never going to be able to work that out.” Make a
list,
and then put this Scripture right underneath of it: is there anything
too hard
for Me? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And, lastly, a Savior came, a Savior came to
save us. A Savior came
to save us. He didn't just come, just because He didn't have nothing
better to
do. He wants to save us. He, His desire is that we would be saved.
That’s what
He loves. Whatever tries to keep you from it, God wants to give us
victory over
that. Whatever wants to try to diminish Him in your life, God wants to
give us
the victory over that. In the Book of John, chapter three, and verse
seventeen. He wants
to save us. From the Book of John, chapter three, and verse number
seventeen: John
3:17
For God sent not his Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be
saved. Sent His Son to save us. God wants to see us
saved. I love that.
How can we stop from singing about that? How can you stop from
rejoicing about
God wanting to save you? “Well God, I had an issue in the faith—we had
one
brother told us that he forgot that he was sick, real tight, and then
he forgot
that he was sick, because God healed him, and it was so smooth, and so
seamless, that he forgot. That's how soothing the awesome power of God
is. One
brother said, “I was facing this obstacle, this problem, this
situation, I
didn't know, but, it was at work, and I was wondering how I was going
to get
over it, and the next thing I knew after we prayed and so forth, I
forgot that
the situation was there, because it just seemed to go away.” And,
somebody else
was telling me, “You know, there's been some problems in the family,
there's
been some problems in the home,” and we have to say it bold, it doesn't
matter
what you face, you know, it don't matter what you face, you don't have
to walk
around in the mullygrubs and put armor on and say please, please,
please,
please, please. It don't matter what you face; He came to save us. The
Lord our
God, whatever it is, take it to the Lord in prayer. Take it to the Lord
in
prayer. Ttake it to the Lord in prayer. Amen. Give the Lord of praise.
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