Latest / The BLAZE (Bible Study) / Authentic Imitationology #79 [Morning Devo]
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- 0:03And their family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the
- 0:05Morning Devo. It's your brother Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam Rock and you're listening
- 0:10or watching to the Blaze Barber Study and it's the Morning Devo. Addition,
- 0:15but on Fridays we get into Authentic Imitationology season. So this is episode actually
- 0:22this is episode number seventy nine. We're getting close to that one hundred mark,
- 0:25Man Lord willing if we ever get to that one hundred mark of authentic
- 0:30invitation Imitationology sessions, Amen, I want to do something. I want to
- 0:34celebrate God's faithfulness, Amen, his word. I want to celebrate your life.
- 0:39Amen for connecting with us over here on these Morning DeVos. So thank
- 0:43you so much for connecting on Friday's. Friday is to me is the start
- 0:47of a weekend. So anytime there's a difference in dates or difference in time
- 0:52that we're getting into something different. Amen, I like to concentrate on the
- 0:56fact that we could imitate God, Amen, through what Jesus has done,
- 1:00what He's doing through us by way of Holy Spirit, by way of his
- 1:03word. So authentic Imitationology is basically really encouraging each other, Amen, to
- 1:10follow and to imitate the most successful person who has ever lived on his whole,
- 1:15entire plan. And his name is the Lord Jesus, the Christ of
- 1:18Nazareth. Amen. And him and his power, his love, is Grace's
- 1:22mercy, his authority, all of it, man deserves honor and praise.
- 1:26All of it, all of it deserves honor and praise. So today we're
- 1:29talking about he is coming back. He is coming back. That's the title.
- 1:34What troubles you the most in this world? Right? And this world
- 1:40is many things that could trouble you and could worry you. But what is
- 1:44it that troubles you the most in this world? And does knowing Jesus?
- 1:49Knowing that Jesus is coming back, does that help you? Amen? And
- 1:53it helps me because I'm like, Lord, comes soon, Come very soon,
- 1:57come today. But not really. If you know my story, you
- 2:00know my background, you know that I don't really necessarily want Jesus to come
- 2:05back right now, Amen, because there's certain individuals that I know, Amen,
- 2:08that need him in their lives to be saved, to make things right,
- 2:13to reconcile, make things right with the Lord before he returns. Because
- 2:16if you know the scriptures, you know when he returns. Is not to
- 2:20sing kumba yas, not to do a worship service or delivering service is to
- 2:24judge whoever's left. Amen, here and we're coming with him, as the
- 2:30saints and the children of God would come with them. Amen. Let me
- 2:32just check the audio here, make sure everything's good. Seems to be okay.
- 2:37Amen. So to some that's an awesome day, and to others that's
- 2:40an awful day when Jesus comes back, and a lot of people just say,
- 2:45Ah, he's never coming back anyway, So it doesn't matter, Sam,
- 2:47He's not coming back. If God promised a thing, it is a
- 2:52thing. If God says he's going to do something in your life and in
- 2:54my life, or if he himself is going to do something, bank on
- 2:59a trust that he's coming back. Amen. That's the title of today's morning
- 3:04devo. How do I know? Oh, you just have faith. That's
- 3:07how you know. That's how you think Jesus coming back, saying because you
- 3:09just have faith. No, it's not only that I have faith. Is
- 3:13that his promises that I experienced from the Lord Amen came to pass. So
- 3:17why wouldn't the big promises that he promised to the whole entire world come to
- 3:22pass, no one special. Amen. He calls me holy, he calls
- 3:28me righteous, and he calls you holy. He calls you righteous. So
- 3:30I guess to him and his eyes, we are all special where image bearers
- 3:36of God. But I put it like this, if he answers some of
- 3:39my prayers, Amen, and came through with promises that he had in my
- 3:44life, why wouldn't he come through with the promise for the whole entire world,
- 3:47for every individual who put his put their whole faith and trust in him.
- 3:53Why wouldn't he come through? Amen? It seems like a long time,
- 3:55right since he says he's coming back. But God's time in our time.
- 4:00I know, you know different. Amen. The Bible says to God,
- 4:04one day's like a thousand years. To us man, a thousand years.
- 4:09We won't even see a thousand years physically, but spiritually we will see
- 4:13ternity if well on both ends. Whether or not you believe in Jesus or
- 4:17not, the Bible is clear. Some people's destination for all eternity won't be
- 4:21heaven, so it will be opposite of heaven. It will be a place
- 4:26called hell, a place that was not even designed for human beings. It
- 4:30was designed for or created for the devil and his fallen angels. But as
- 4:34human beings, you know how we get nosy a man. So we found
- 4:38a way to get in there. And I hope that's not you, and
- 4:42I hope I know that's not me. Amen. So he's coming back today
- 4:46on the Authentic Comentationology, the Morning DeVos Session on Fridays, Amen, episode
- 4:51number seventy nine. We're gonna be in John chapter fourteen versus one to three.
- 4:56We're gonna start there John chapter fourteen versus one three, Amen. And
- 5:00John's the Book of John man his tremendous revelation of who Jesus is, what
- 5:06he's doing, what he has done, that he's the love of our soul.
- 5:10Amen. And it's a great book to start if you're just getting into
- 5:14your walk with Christ. I suggest, and a lot of people agree with
- 5:18me, that you start with the Book of John. Amen. Is so
- 5:21much there about Jesus, his love, his deities, forgiveness is salvation.
- 5:26Amen. Is an amazing book. All the books of the Bible are amazing.
- 5:30But I must admit I don't read all the books of the Bible all
- 5:33the time. Amen. What about you are you being honest, do you
- 5:38read all the books of the Bible all the time, like Habit Cook and
- 5:42some script some books high guy, Habit Cook and you know those those books
- 5:47in the Old Covenant, Amen, that you probably just turn the pages right
- 5:51by them. And man, I'm guilty of that. But I'm trying,
- 5:56Amen, and trying to get into the word. I'm trying to make sure
- 5:59the word is in me so that I could get the word out of me.
- 6:02Amen, and speak his word, and everything else will just fall flat
- 6:06on his face. The Word of God is active, alive, living,
- 6:10and when you speak the Word of God, it not only elevates you,
- 6:13it elevates others, Amen, It lifts other spirit Amen, and encourages others.
- 6:17It wakes people up to the fact that God's word is true. So
- 6:21let's go forward. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, any
- 6:25prayer requests along these lines, a man, don't hesitate to leave it on
- 6:29a live chat. That's what we're here for. And also, you know,
- 6:32anything, even when I'm not live and you watch this or you listen
- 6:36to this on the replay, something comes to your heart and mind, don't
- 6:40hesitate to share it. That's what we're here for man. I'll get back
- 6:43to you as soon as I see I promise. And also after we pray,
- 6:46we'll share this out for like sixty seconds, and on the other side
- 6:49of those sixty seconds we'll get right into what we have today. He's coming
- 6:54back. It's a promise. Jesus is coming back. Amen. So,
- 6:59knowing that there's a lot, a lot of troubles in this world, the
- 7:01fact that he's coming back should change some things in your mind and your life.
- 7:05I know it does for me. So let's pray. Father. I
- 7:09thank you that your promises are all true and every single time, and that
- 7:13you remind us of your return should be encouraging to those who are in you
- 7:17in Christ, because we know in you we have peace, and you have
- 7:21power, and you have love. In you, we have forgiveness. In
- 7:26you, we have eternal life. Outside of you, Low God, I
- 7:29pray for all those people who are outside of your will, all those people
- 7:32who are rejecting the gospel, all those people who are rejecting your love,
- 7:35your grace, and your mercy. All the people who are ignoring your call,
- 7:40ignoring your signs, wonders, miracles, ignoring the prophecies that are found
- 7:45in the scriptures for our time. I pray for their souls to you or
- 7:48awaken them, Low God, that you would touch their hearts and minds,
- 7:51that they softened their heart, and that they would know that there is a
- 7:55God who loves them. There is a God who wants to give them eternal
- 7:59life. There is a guy who say there is a God who forgives.
- 8:01There is a God who rescues. There is a God who we could hope
- 8:05for, trust in and obey, and it's not a God who is not
- 8:11hard to follow. I thank you, Lord God that in this world you
- 8:15said we will have troubles, but you have come to overcome this world and
- 8:18its system and everything that this world is trying to do to us by the
- 8:24fact that you're coming back, and I thank you, Lord God for your
- 8:26promise. I pray a head of protection over myself physically, emotionally and spiritually,
- 8:31over my family, my immediate family, my whole entire bloodline, my
- 8:35wife, our children, every single one who's connected to us. In Jesus'
- 8:39name, I pray that for every single family represented on the other side of
- 8:43the screen and on the other side of this MC, the power of Holy
- 8:46Spirit God to move in their hearts and their minds. Protect God and God,
- 8:50Lord God, as we serve you with all that we have in Jesus
- 8:52name. I pray it is by faith, and all those who agree say
- 8:54Amen and Amen. Help me share this out. Sixty seconds, share it
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- 9:24on the website. So I suggest you go over there if you want a
- 9:28quiet place to study the scriptures. Amen. Live do so Winners with a
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- 9:35seconds help me share, and when we come back, we'll get right into
- 9:39John chapter number fourteen, verses one to three. He's coming back. That's
- 9:43the title for today. Since the joys God bless you good morning. It's
- 9:46good to see you on the morning. Devo. I'll be right back.
- 11:43You know, man, that's a lot of sharing. Man, I got
- 11:45a lot of groups to share on. If you know about app that you
- 11:48could share it to all of your groups at once on social media. Let
- 11:52a brother know, because that's a lot of sharing and sixty seconds runs quick,
- 11:56so let's get into it. Amen, he's coming back. That should
- 12:01excite you again. It's awesome to those that are in Christ to know that
- 12:05he's coming back, but it's actually awful for those who reject God, who
- 12:11reject Christ, that day is not going to be a good day for them.
- 12:16But it's an awesome day or incredible day for us. Amen. And
- 12:22our souls are saved already, right. Jesus came to save our soul.
- 12:26Our spirit belongs to the Lord. Amen. But for those who reject Jesus,
- 12:31there are still in their sin. They're dying in their sin. The
- 12:35soul is not saved and his spirit is in another place. So man,
- 12:41think about it. Investigate the claims of the Lord. Amen for yourself,
- 12:46and stop listening to people who just hate on all Christians and hate Jesus and
- 12:52they're not doing you any service or any justice. Sister Joey, and good
- 12:54morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the morning Devo. So let's
- 12:58see imitation, knowlogy. I try to do this every Friday, right five
- 13:03point thirty am. And we try to focus on the Lord Jesus and what
- 13:07he's saying and what he's speaking to us, and how we could imitate and
- 13:11how we could follow him in a great way. Amen, and trust him.
- 13:16He is coming back. Amen. John Chapter fourteen, verses one to
- 13:20three, Jesus says, let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God,
- 13:26believe also in me. It's saying, if you believe God, you
- 13:31believe Jesus. If you believe in Jesus, you believe in God. In
- 13:35my father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I
- 13:41have told you that I go to prepare a place for you. Think about
- 13:46it. If it was not true, he would not told us. Amen
- 13:50to me, he's letting us know trust me. That's another word for trust
- 13:56me. If it wasn't so, I would not have told you that I
- 14:00go to prepare a place for you. What have I told you? It's
- 14:03a question. I'm sorry. Let me emphasis emphasize that it's a question.
- 14:07What have I told you that I go to prepare a place for you,
- 14:13And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again
- 14:20and will take you to myself. That where I am, you may also
- 14:26be, or you may be also. Listen. That's why I tell people
- 14:31God came to where I was when I was broke, busted, disgusted in
- 14:35sin. But that called out to him though, in that situation, in
- 14:39that condition. So I tell people he came to where I was to take
- 14:43me to where he is, and He'll do the same for every single person
- 14:48that you're down and out. You need God, and you know it.
- 14:50You're resisting, you're struggling, you're fighting God for whatever reason. There could
- 14:56be one hundreds of reasons. You know. I don't know, but God
- 15:00knows. Call out to him. Call on Jesus, Call on Yeshuah,
- 15:03yah Yashiah, right Yashik, Call on God Almighty, Call on Yahweh caan
- 15:11el Shalom, call on El Shadai. Call on God and he will meet
- 15:16you where you are, to take you to where he is. A man
- 15:22is an incredible thing. How God works in the lives of all those who
- 15:26call upon his name. The Bible says, whosoever calls on the name of
- 15:30the Lord shall be saved. A promise. Grab onto these promises, Man,
- 15:35hold on to God's promise. If he wasn't telling us the truth,
- 15:41Amen, then he would not have told us that he goes to prepare a
- 15:45room for us. That room is an eternal room, that place is an
- 15:48eternal place. That place is amazing. And if I go to prepare a
- 15:54place for you, Jesus says, I will come again and will take you
- 15:58to myself that while I am, you may be also incredible. Promise,
- 16:04Amen, hold on to that promise. All God's promises are what yate and
- 16:10Amen. He is coming back. You could know that, you could rely
- 16:15on that. You could trust that. You can know that that's true.
- 16:18You can know that he's available. You could know that every time the word
- 16:22of God is propped up in your heart, you don't resist it. Embrace
- 16:27the word. Amen, because his word is true. He's coming back.
- 16:33The world is full of trouble. We don't got to argue about that.
- 16:37We all know that it shouldn't surprise you at all, and it shouldn't surprise
- 16:44me at all that when Jesus says in this world we will have troubles,
- 16:48that is true, and I can't I'm still trying to wrap my head around
- 16:53people who say, Jesus, what he said, it was okay, but
- 16:57it's not really all true. And then when he says something so plain,
- 17:03in this world you will have troubles, and they deny it, like,
- 17:07how could you deny that in this world there's going to be trouble? How
- 17:11you know, honestly, be honest with yourself. Amen. I know it's
- 17:14not popular to be a christ follower in the society we live in. I
- 17:18know if you say that you're a Jesus follower that people look at you say,
- 17:22but what about this? And what about that? They start judging you,
- 17:25and then they say, we're the judge. Right. Anyway, it
- 17:29shouldn't surprise us at all that there's troubles in this world. After all,
- 17:33Jesus told us that we have trouble in this world. But he also told
- 17:37us to be of good courage because he has overcome the world. Remember that
- 17:42we studied that we did money DeVos on that John sixteen, verse thirty three.
- 17:49Right, we're struggling and you know there's problems in this world because of
- 17:53this world. It's going to help you to remember that Jesus promised to return
- 17:59for us. And when he returns right the Bible's clear. And when he
- 18:03returns, he will renew and transform this world because he's coming with a new
- 18:10heaven and a new earth. He's not coming with the same old system.
- 18:15Actually, he's restoring what we lost. Remember Genesis Chapter three, Paradise Loss,
- 18:21Revelation twenty one and twenty two Paradise Regained restored, Amen, And Revelation
- 18:29twenty one five. Let me see if I could slide to that real quick.
- 18:33Letting me tap the thing here. Let's see if I could get it,
- 18:37Revelation twenty one five. Amen. Very important scripture is to tie in
- 18:45with today's morning devo. Revelation twenty one five says and he who was seated
- 18:51on the throne set behold, I am making all things new. Also,
- 19:00he said, write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.
- 19:06To write it down, make it plain. You can literally go to the
- 19:08scripture, write it down and hold on to it, bank on it.
- 19:14God said it. You already know it's coming to pass. It's going to
- 19:18happen. It is happening. You can see the prophecies that are in the
- 19:22scripture. Then you look at you protake the Bible on one hand and the
- 19:26newspaper on the other hand, and then you just watch what's happening. They
- 19:30say, Man, the Bible says that this was going to happen, and
- 19:33it's happening in real time. Undeniable people who are denying the facts for whatever
- 19:40reason. They're trying to escape the truth of the Gospel. They're trying to
- 19:45escape the truth of God's word for whatever reason. They might be afraid of
- 19:48the life that they're living that they know it's not aligning up with the Word
- 19:53of God. So therefore they're trying to do escapism, like escape the truth
- 19:57and escape reality and try to create an alternate reality that they could be pretty
- 20:03much their own gods, of their own life, of their own situation.
- 20:07That does not work. It's never going to work. You might as well
- 20:11go to the true, living, holy, righteous God, because if you
- 20:14call yourself a God, amen, you already know that's not working out right.
- 20:19You're in the same situation that every human being is. We're all in
- 20:25need, we all needy people, we all need God. We all need
- 20:27Jesus. Amen. So if you're a part of a religion that denies the
- 20:33fact that Jesus is Lord, or denies his deity or whatever, you're being
- 20:37deceived by the enemy. And I'm saying that we love because it's the truth.
- 20:41If I loved you, and I do, why would I tell you
- 20:45anything other than what God has said in his work will benefit me? Nothing
- 20:49will benefit you nothing. That's why I try to steer you back to the
- 20:53scriptures and make what's real back of reality in your life. Take the truth
- 21:00of God's word and apply it to your life. Engage your mind with the
- 21:04mind of God, the mind of God. You want to read the mind
- 21:07of God. Amen, you want to read his mind. You read his
- 21:10word. You want to know the will of God over your life. You
- 21:11read the word of God and apply it to your life, and then you'll
- 21:15see that it's going to be a powerful thing that happens in your life.
- 21:18But the mic, God bless you. It's good to see you on the
- 21:21morning. Evil. So in today's versus, Jesus encouraged his disciples we are
- 21:26his disciples, right by telling them not to worry. He was leaving because
- 21:33he had to leave right. Yeah, obviously he left. In fact,
- 21:37he would be arrested that very night, but it was for their own benefit.
- 21:44Of course, they didn't know what was going on at that time,
- 21:47even though Jesus had spoken to them about it. He prophesied, he told
- 21:51them what was going to happen, but it went right over the head.
- 21:53Because how many people know when you're going through something, It doesn't register right
- 21:59away when you're going through something, when you lose someone you love or someone
- 22:03had told you something before it happened, but when it actually happens, it
- 22:07goes over your head. Anyway, that's what happened to the disciples. Jesus
- 22:11already told them what was going to happen. He told them exactly how it
- 22:15was going to happen, but when it actually happened, they scattered, They
- 22:18ran, They were afraid. They said, I went, sire, our
- 22:22savior, he's on the cross, he's dead. What are we going to
- 22:25do now? Well, they must have forgot everything that Jesus said that was
- 22:27going to happen at that point, So he was leaving them, but it
- 22:33was for their own benefit. He was going to prepare a place for them
- 22:37in his father's house right. In other words, Jesus promised to come back
- 22:44to get us and take us home. Man, that's a great promise.
- 22:48Jesus is telling us that listen. I know you're in a predicament right now.
- 22:52Trust me. I know the finances might not look the way you want
- 22:56them to look. Trust me. I know your relationship that are outside of
- 23:00God are not working. That's because he's making it not work. He's helping
- 23:03us understand that it's not supposed to work. Trust him. He's coming back
- 23:08for us. He's coming back for his church, for his bride. He's
- 23:11coming back for you. He's coming back for me if we put our hope
- 23:15and faith and trust in him. I realized a long time ago as being
- 23:18a Christian. I've been saved since two thousand and one. I realized that
- 23:21I overthink a lot of things. A lot of things are just basic.
- 23:23Sometimes all you have to do to trust God is show up. I'm telling
- 23:29you all. Sometimes all you gotta do is show up, and He makes
- 23:32a way where it seems to be no way. Fight a little bit a
- 23:36man against your sin, against your way of thinking. And that's why the
- 23:38Bible says fight the good fight of faith. It's a good fight. But
- 23:44if you notice, as you get older or more mature in the faith,
- 23:47Amen, you'll be saying, Wow, that's all I had to do,
- 23:51Amen, in this situation. In that situation, it may seem like,
- 23:55oh, there's no way I'm gonna get out of it. But with Christ,
- 23:57he takes care of things instantly, in seconds, he could remove a
- 24:03thing that you've been dealing with for twenty thirty forty years. Amen, I
- 24:07can testify. I know the power of God is amazing. Do I resist?
- 24:11Of course, have a flesh. The flesh always wants to do what
- 24:15the flesh wants to do. The spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.
- 24:18I can't deny that I have a flesh. You shouldn't deny that you
- 24:22have a flesh. And for all those who are going around saying kill yourself,
- 24:26die to yourself, listen, that's morbid, that's anti scriptural. Jesus
- 24:30Christ died so that way we could live live on this side of eternity.
- 24:33You don't have to kill yourself. You don't have to die to self.
- 24:37What you have to do is deny, deny, and deny, deny your
- 24:41flesh. Do not deny your evil, sinful desires. Deny it. Just
- 24:45like when we were in the world, we were denying Christ, we were
- 24:48rejecting God. Now we have the power to reject sin, reject the flesh,
- 24:52deny it. Amen. It's a good fight of faith and we win
- 24:56ultimately. All we have to do sometimes is just show up and leave and
- 25:00trust God. When is Jesus coming back? Yeah, you think I'm gonna
- 25:04tell you that I don't know. No one knows the day, day,
- 25:07or time, time or hour. Amen. The Lord said he didn't even
- 25:11know the time or day. He was letting us know that in his humanity
- 25:15he doesn't have to know. He doesn't know. But in his deity,
- 25:18of course he knows. Amen, he knows the exact time when he's coming
- 25:22back. And Psalm twenty three it says, and I shall dwell in the
- 25:26house of the Lord forever. Amen. That's a prophecy, meaning that wherever
- 25:30the house of the God is, we will be dwelling with him forever.
- 25:34The salmon said it, Jesus is making a place for us, and we'll
- 25:38be able to live with him forever, not die, not die with him
- 25:44forever. We're going to live with him. Forever when I don't know.
- 25:48Jesus told us that no one knows when he will return. You can see
- 25:52that Matthew, Chapter twenty four, verse number thirty six. But it's the
- 25:57fact that he said he is coming back. Amen. I know a lot
- 26:00of people are trying to figure out the calendar of when he's returning. So
- 26:04many prophets have failed already. Ah, he's coming this time and this time,
- 26:08and you know we're still here. No one knows the time of hour.
- 26:15But the Bible does say he's coming back, and he's coming back when
- 26:17we at least expect him. The Bible says he's coming back like a thief
- 26:22in the night. So if you know any thief that's going to call you
- 26:26up and say, hey, I'll be robbing your house at ten thirty tomorrow,
- 26:30that thief is an idiot, because you'll be well prepared Amen for his
- 26:33breaking. But God is coming back. When Jesus comes back, none of
- 26:37us are going to expect it. They'll be doing what we do. Hopefully
- 26:41we won't be sinning. Hopefully we won't be outside of the will of God
- 26:45when he cracks open that sky and comes back for his bride. Amen.
- 26:48That's why I don't play the whole eternal Russian roulette thing that I just sind
- 26:53today. He's not coming back today. I don't know when he's coming back.
- 26:56He could come back right now for all I know. Amen, that's
- 27:00a good thing. Apostle Paul said that the day of the Lord will come
- 27:03like a thief in the night First Thessalonians, Chapter five, verse two.
- 27:07But Paul also told us what we can expect, for the Lord himself will
- 27:11descend from heaven with the cry of a command, with the voice of an
- 27:15archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God, and the dead
- 27:18will rise. The dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are
- 27:25alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the
- 27:29clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be
- 27:33with the Lord. First Thessalonius, Chapter four, sixteen and seventeen. I'm
- 27:37out of time, but there's a lot more here. A man read up
- 27:38about it. We started in John chapter fourteen, verses one to three.
- 27:42But I suggest you read John fourteen today. A man read it, read
- 27:47the whole chapter, so you can understand what God is saying. A man
- 27:49through his spirit through his word, through the power of his love, his
- 27:52grace, and his mercy. So I have a great weekend. I hope
- 27:56this is a good kickstart for kickstart for your weekend. Amen. I bless
- 27:59you all in the name of Jesus. God. Bless you all, God
- 28:03keep you all, and remember always that God is Good. Peace,