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- 0:03Good morning, morning family, God, Welcome back to the morning Devo.
- 0:06It's your bro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam Rock. So Winners with a z
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- 0:24two thousand and eight, doing different things and continuing to strive to reach the
- 0:29most amount of people that we can reach in our lifetime. Right, a
- 0:34man and Lord willing. After I'm done here, a man and the Lord
- 0:37calls me home, maybe one of my children or a good friend or someone
- 0:42will take over the ministry right and continue moving with it until Jesus comes.
- 0:46Right, that's the plan that I have in my mind. A man with
- 0:49a bout you. When you have something so incredibly important in your hands,
- 0:55what do you do? Right? You cherish it, you protect it,
- 0:58you guard it, you guide it a man, and you give it all
- 1:00that you have, and then trust in God to do the rest. Whatever
- 1:04I can't do, I know for sure God could do. Amen. So
- 1:07it's a win win situation when you're spreading the Gospel of the Lord Jesus.
- 1:12But after you do what you do right, and after you go and you
- 1:17go to your source, which is the scripture, the Bible, people will
- 1:21always ask you, but is it true? But is it true? But
- 1:25is it true? Sam? Is it true? Is it true? Is
- 1:27the Bible reliable? Is God real? Amen? And to me those are
- 1:32legitimate questions. I used to ask them, What about you? I used
- 1:36to ask, if God is real, why is this happening? And why
- 1:38is that happening? Right? And people are still asking those questions. And
- 1:42to me, they're legit questions. They deserve answers, right, And sometimes
- 1:49God will answer, I say, Sometimes God is not obey This is what
- 1:52I learned. God is not obligated to answer any one of our questions.
- 1:57But He loves us so much that he would give us relation and the reality
- 2:01through his Scripture, through his word, through his profits, through people that
- 2:06he sends in our direction. Amen. And he would answer according to his
- 2:09purpose and plan for your life and for my life individually and corporately as well.
- 2:15So today we're calling this morning devote But is it true? How do
- 2:21we know the Bible is God's word? Like? Literally? How do we
- 2:24know that. How do we know that. Are we just having faith that
- 2:30the Bible is true without even investigating the claims of the scriptures. Are we
- 2:36just listening to other people? Like, are you just listening to me and
- 2:39taking my word for it? Or you're going to the scriptures for yourself for
- 2:43evidence? You're going to people outside the scripture for evidence. Amen. You're
- 2:46looking at how the archaeologists are finding things that are going with the scriptures,
- 2:53not against but with the scriptures. Right. You see creation every day,
- 2:57So you gotta think, man, who create all this? A man?
- 3:00If you're into the big bank theory, Amen, that's all on you.
- 3:04But I just know who banged Who banged it? Amen? The big bang?
- 3:08It was the God of heaven and earth, the creator God. Amen.
- 3:14Because everything had to come in existence at once, not all on explosion.
- 3:20Then everything had to come in existence at once, right if you believe
- 3:24that. But God's good? How do we know that the Bible is God's
- 3:29word? And I always say this, and I learned this. The Bible
- 3:32doesn't just contain the word of God. The Bible is the word of God.
- 3:37Once you get that perspective, you'd be like, Okay, let me
- 3:40see what's in this Bible. Let me see what's in this word for myself.
- 3:46And I'm real, real pointed out on that want everybody to look into
- 3:51scriptures for themselves. Amen. And you won't regret looking into the scriptures.
- 3:54The scripture is not gonna hurt you a man, and scriptures are there to
- 3:58help you live this life and the life and abundance that Jesus promised us.
- 4:03Amen. Sis Juanne, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
- 4:06the morning. Devo's good to see my friend and my sister. So today
- 4:10we're gonna be in John chapter number seventeen, verse seventeen. That's the main
- 4:15part of the scripture. I'm gonna read a little bit more. You'll see
- 4:17when I get into the scripture. But John seventeen seventeen. I want you
- 4:20to keep that in your mind. Amen. But we're gonna read a little
- 4:25bit more of the John chapter seventeen scriptures. Amen. So let's do this.
- 4:31Let's pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for like
- 4:33sixty seconds. But of course, if you have any comments, questions,
- 4:38concerns, pray requests, or anything like that, don't hesitate to leave it
- 4:42on the live chat or on the podcast or on soone is with isz dot
- 4:46org or live that's so one is with isz dot org. Wherever you're at,
- 4:48it should be a way for us to connect. Good Morning System,
- 4:51mind Jealous, It is good to see Mary Yellis. It's good to see
- 4:55you. Good morning, God bless you. Joanne says. I know a
- 4:58lot of people don't believe God, but I believe in God a lot and
- 5:02went through so much. And you know that Sam and he and the church
- 5:06knows that. All my sisters and brothers there know what I've been through and
- 5:14what I'm still going through. And I'm never gonna give up on him because
- 5:18He's been there from day one for me. He is so good with me
- 5:24and my husband. I love him so much. There's not one day that
- 5:28I do not wake up and thank God for another day that he gives me.
- 5:32Just look at everything that is going on in this world. And if
- 5:36a lot of people do not believe in Him, I don't know where they're
- 5:41going to be at. But one day he God got to come, and
- 5:47I hope he comes soon and open up them skies and everything will be so
- 5:55beautiful. Amen. Yes, you're right. Go through so much, but
- 5:59we have this hope right that God is coming back one day. The Lord
- 6:02is coming back one day. Amen. And the thing is that we believe
- 6:09in something that's incredible. I admit that, right. We believe in a
- 6:14God who creates, a guy who loves, a God who saves, a
- 6:16God who redeems and restores, a God who is real. A lot of
- 6:19people don't believe it because they rather look at the circumstances. They rather look
- 6:24at their life and say, this is it. This is all I have.
- 6:27When I die, it's over. We have a hope, right,
- 6:30this is Joan. We have a hope. And when you hope and trust
- 6:32in God, he will never disappoint you. Amen. Thank you so much
- 6:36for sharing that comment. And my beautiful wife is with us. Morning.
- 6:41Blessings to everyone, she says you. And Lopez is with us. God,
- 6:44bless you, baby, love you. So let's go for it.
- 6:47Pray first. We'll pray first, and after we praise, sixty seconds will
- 6:50share this out a man, I'm mappling this out of my mind. And
- 6:54then on the other side of the sixty seconds will be in John chapter seventeen,
- 7:00and we'll get a concentrate on verse seventeen, but we're gonna read a
- 7:01little bit more. You'll understand when I get there. So, Lord Jesus,
- 7:04thank you so much for your incredible, amazing faith faithfulness to us.
- 7:11Thank you, Lord God for creating us. Thank you, Love God for
- 7:14these times that you have put us in. Because there's a purpose and a
- 7:16plan and a reason why you put us and this time according to your power,
- 7:23your providence, and your scripture and your word and your promises, all
- 7:26of it fall into play as we are your children. So I speak life,
- 7:30Lord God, I speak Love God, the truth that you allow me
- 7:33to speak. According to your word. I repeat the truth when I read
- 7:38the truth, and your word is true. Thank you, Love God for
- 7:41allowing us to do and to be. Thank you, Lok God for allowing
- 7:45us to come together. Love God and guiding and guarding and protecting us.
- 7:48Thank you, Lord God for health to the body, strength to the bones.
- 7:53And Jesus' name over every single person in my household and my family in
- 7:58Jesus name me, myself and those representing their families, representing their families and
- 8:03their household. On the other side of the screen and on the other side
- 8:05of this might. I pray peace, be still, and know that God
- 8:09is real, and know that God is with him and God's with us.
- 8:13In Jesus' name, I pray, Lord God, that you will continue to
- 8:16amplify your love, your grace, and your mercy throughout the atmosphere, throughout
- 8:20the world, throughout the nations, and that one day every need will bow
- 8:26and every time will confess that you are a Lord. But in the meantime,
- 8:28I pray that your open hearts, open eyes, open ears right now
- 8:31by way of your Holy Spirit, so that way when we do meet you
- 8:35in the air, we are ready. When you do crack the skuys open,
- 8:39we are ready for the return of the King of Kings and the Lord
- 8:43of Lords. I pray this with enthusiasm, knowing that one day you are
- 8:46coming back. But in the meantime we are to be playing the seeds of
- 8:50eternal life over here on earth until that day that we call the day of
- 8:54the Lord, when you come back for your church. In Jesus' name,
- 8:58we pray this by faith, Amen and amen. So let's go for it.
- 9:01Sixty seconds. Share this out, help me share this out. When
- 9:05we come back, we'll get right into Today's Morning Devo. But is it
- 9:09true. That's the name of it, that's the question, and that's the
- 9:11title. I'll be right back. H m. Amen. Amen, God
- 10:31is good, welcome back. Let's go for it. Since Joanne says yes,
- 10:35when he comes and cracks and open, sky is open, that is
- 10:39gonna be so beautiful. Yeah, it's gonna beautiful. It's gonna be beautiful
- 10:45to us, but it's gonna be horrible for those who rejected him now because
- 10:48I know for sure, if you don't want God now, you're not gonna
- 10:52want God in all eternity, right. So God doesn't force you to believe
- 10:56in him. What God does, he offers his love and his raised,
- 11:00his mercy to every single person who's willing to listen to the gospel, who's
- 11:03willing to look at his words, look for truth. Anybody who's seeking truth,
- 11:09right, they're gonna find the Lord. God is the truth. Jesus
- 11:13is the truth, Amen, the way in the life. So it's exciting
- 11:16for believers. And that's why we're always saying Jesus is coming back, because
- 11:20we're just counting on his promise and people are making fun of us and saying,
- 11:24ah, you Christian's been saying that the lawyer has been coming back for
- 11:28so many years, and they don't realize that a thousand years to the lawyers
- 11:33like a day, Amen, because he sits outside of time. He's not
- 11:35looking at our Grigorian calendar or a lunar calendar or even the Hebrew calendar.
- 11:41He sits outside of time. Amen. So when he comes, it's going
- 11:46to be at the perfect time, and we're gonna all see him at once,
- 11:50the Bible says, and we all going to see his glory, majesty's
- 11:56power. But for those who rejected him until that day, they're not gonna
- 12:01want God. God's not coming to force them at that very day either to
- 12:07believe in them. But God, officers salvation. Today is the day of
- 12:09salvation, Amen. So take it. Take advantage of the time that we
- 12:13have to right now and give God glory, honor, worship, and praise
- 12:18because one day you're gonna do it. Anyway, everythings what the Word says.
- 12:20I'm just repeating what the word says. So let's go for it.
- 12:24But is it true? John seventeen and seventeen. Amen, Let me just
- 12:31hide this cursor because that'll be too distracted. Amen. Let's see the scripture.
- 12:39Remember, I'm gonna be a little bit more than just seventeen seventeen.
- 12:45Amen. So in John seventeen seventeen, it says, sanctify them in the
- 12:50truth. Your word is truth. Let's read. I believe I did take
- 12:56this out of the amplify it. Sanctify them in the truth. Set them
- 13:01apart for your purposes. So when you hear the word sanctify, that means
- 13:07that God is setting us apart for his purposes. Make them holy. You're
- 13:16holy. Yeah I am. You're perfect. Yeah I am in Christ.
- 13:22I'm perfect. In Christ, You're perfect. So be careful when somebody says
- 13:28far from perfect, you're saying you're far from God. Right. I know
- 13:33it's a you know, play on words sometimes, And I know I'm not
- 13:37perfect when it comes to my experiencing on the earth and my you know,
- 13:41my flesh. But in Christ I'm perfect, and in Christ You're perfect.
- 13:46Set them apart for your purpose purposes. Make them holy. Your word is
- 13:52truth. Just as You commissioned and sent me into the world, I also
- 13:58have come missioned and sent them believers into the world. Jesus was sent,
- 14:07the Father, sent the Son, and the Son commissioned us to go.
- 14:13So we're commissioned, and we're sent. We're believers right into this world for
- 14:18their sake, sanctified myself to do your will, so that they also may
- 14:24be sanctified, set apart, dedicated, made holy right in your truth.
- 14:33Quote. I do not pray for these alone. It is not for their
- 14:37sake only that I make this request, but also for all those who will
- 14:45ever believe and trust in me through their message, that they all may be
- 14:52one, just as You, Father are in me and I in You,
- 14:58that they are also may be one in us. Be that so that the
- 15:05world may believe without any doubt that you sent me. So here we have
- 15:13a powerful scripture. All the Word of God is powerful. Focusing on the
- 15:18scriptures that you need today is powerful. And I believe, once we know
- 15:24these scriptures to be true, we know that the whole Bible is true.
- 15:28We know the whole Word of God is true. In the beginning, God
- 15:31created the heavens and the earth. If you could believe that, you have
- 15:33no problem believing in a resurrected life and a resurrected person and God Jesus coming
- 15:41back to life from the dead, you have no problem with creation. You
- 15:43have no problem with people having eternal life. You have no problem with the
- 15:50promises of God. Because if you believe the one part and then the prophecies
- 15:54that's all in the scriptures that actually come to pass perfectly, you will have
- 16:00no problem believing that this is true, this word is true. Amen,
- 16:06you will have no problem. But you have to go and investigate for yourself.
- 16:11Investigate the Word of God for yourself, the claims of Jesus. Look
- 16:14at what the prophets say and the Old Covenant. Look at what went on
- 16:18from Genesis to Revelation. Look at the Old Covenant, look at the New
- 16:22Covenant, look at the Law of Moses, and look at the Law of
- 16:25the Lord. Amen, and you have it all right there. We have
- 16:29access to the scriptures. Can you believe that? And now it's free.
- 16:33Just download the Bible app and now you have a whole bunch of different translations,
- 16:38Bible study tools. You have everything at your disposal. Use it.
- 16:44Don't be what I call a lazy Christian that you just rely on the teachings
- 16:49of others and you never go to the Word yourself. That's like having a
- 16:55relationship with someone but you never see them the man. You want to see
- 16:59God, you go to see Him through his word. Amen. I'm just
- 17:02here to steer you back to the scriptures. Amen. Morning Devo is a
- 17:06conversation between me and God, and I'm letting you in on it. Amen.
- 17:08And I'm also talking to somebody and that gave me his shirt. Well
- 17:12where it goes somebody that gave me his shirt. Amen. This is literally
- 17:15a conversation that I wish I could have done when in earlier in my life
- 17:22and his life as well. Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ here evangelist
- 17:27your sea hanif thank you for coming through God bless you. Welcome to the
- 17:32Morning Devo. So how do we know if we can trust the Bible.
- 17:37Well, one of the ways I trust the Bible and I know I could
- 17:40trust the Bible is testing the word of God for myself, Amen, and
- 17:47looking at everything the Word says that I could see and test it myself.
- 17:52Why wouldn't you want to test this word that claims to be eternal, this
- 17:56word that claims to be the written word of God. A man the Bible,
- 18:00like I say, not a book that contains the word of God.
- 18:04The Bible for what we know it is is the word of God. So
- 18:08if there's errors, like people say, and I have yet for someone to
- 18:12show me what other than grammatical things like something that's supposed to be singular and
- 18:18it is plural. Remember if you're if you're if you speak English, we
- 18:22are translating. We are reading a translation of a Hebrew Bible Old Covenant that
- 18:30was you know, written in Hebrew and Arab made some parts, and then
- 18:33the New Testament is written in Greek coin a Greek and we're reading it in
- 18:40English. So if you know anything about translators, certain words that are supposed
- 18:47to be translated are not translatable a man. So we take a guess at
- 18:51it happens all the time in my church. Some words in Spanish either don't
- 18:56sound right in English, or vice versus some word words in English as to
- 19:00sound right in Spanish. So somebody sometimes you just have to repeat or use
- 19:04your best guests to say the word. And I think that's what happens with
- 19:10the translation of the scriptures. We don't know the original Amen, We're not
- 19:15gonna know how to translate right the scriptures properly. So I believe what we
- 19:22have in the English version of the Scriptures. I believe it's enough. Amen,
- 19:27It's good enough for us to get into a relationship with the eternal God
- 19:32of heaven and Earth through the Lord Jesus Christ. Good morning, Good morning,
- 19:36God, bless you. Welcome to the morning. Devo. Joeann says,
- 19:38I know we're here talking about God, but is it true that there
- 19:42was a real Santa Clause too? Because God is true? Where did the
- 19:48Bibles and that come from? If God was not okay, if God was
- 19:56not real, God is real. I just had this to ask you because
- 20:00it's on my mind. It was Santa Claus. I believe historically there was
- 20:04a man that was alive that did good around Christmas time, or traditions say
- 20:15or talk about a man. But Santa Claus as being the man in the
- 20:21red suit and you know, flying through the sky with reindeer and all that.
- 20:23That's a made up story, but it has some origin and a true
- 20:29person that lived. And then it was adopted right by people and they changed
- 20:37the story to make it more exciting. Just like I was saying the other
- 20:40day, when you read the scriptures, you don't have to really add to
- 20:42it. A man. Let's take what we have and run with it.
- 20:47But sometimes people in life, they will take a story or they'll take a
- 20:52man or woman in history and then just add to it make this person like
- 20:57supernatural or super human. Amen, so like that. So the Bible is
- 21:03real, and Santa Claus, the way Santa Claus is depicted in America is
- 21:10flying through the sky and dropping down Chimney's and all that. That's not a
- 21:15reality. That's a made up thing that's so popular that we have to sometimes
- 21:21look at our kids when they're young and give them the truth and say,
- 21:23naw, that's not real. We're the ones buying you the Christmas gifts,
- 21:27right. But then it's hard because then they go to you know, a
- 21:32big department stores and they see this man dressed up and red with a hat
- 21:37and talking and saying ho ho and all that stuff. Traditions sometimes becomes so
- 21:42popular that people think they're true. So thank you for the question. I
- 21:45don't know too much about it, but I do know that if you look
- 21:49up on the origin of where Christmas and Santa Claus comes from, there's a
- 21:55real person that they took and they just ran with the story and made it
- 21:59more or super real than what it is. Reading it for myself. Amen,
- 22:06read the scriptures we study to show ourselves approve rightly dividing the word of
- 22:11God and then perss Santa Claus is worldly wisdom. Yeah, made a story.
- 22:18I mean, listen, I watched Marvel, you know, the superheroes,
- 22:22you know, Hulk and the Avengers and the X Men and all those
- 22:26characters in DC comics with Akaman, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, you
- 22:30know, and I don't go to the movie saying is this real? Like
- 22:34when a Black Panther came out, there were some people who thought what Conda
- 22:41was in real place. I mean, it is what it is. People
- 22:44are gonna take what seems to be right in their own understanding and they're gonna
- 22:48run with it. And if anybody says that's not true, they're just without
- 22:52evidence, right, without stuff being credible. They're just gonna run with it.
- 22:56Believers, we don't have to be just running with something that we believe
- 23:00to be true. We could go to the scriptures that claims to be truth
- 23:04and look at it for ourselves and make the decision for yourself. Is the
- 23:08scriptures reliable? Is the Bible relevant? Amen? Is Jesus lying or is
- 23:12he telling the truth. Is God real or not? Well, we could
- 23:15make those decisions. I'm just saying that God is real, regardless if I
- 23:19believe in him or not. Amen, I'm at that point right. Whether
- 23:23or not I would have received the Lord Jesus as my personal Lord's savior or
- 23:27not does not necessarily mean anything. If I say something is true and it
- 23:33is false, and you say something is false, but it's true, the
- 23:36truth will always always overcome a lie. Truth will always set your free.
- 23:41And in the truth of God's word is love right, and love overcomes a
- 23:47multitude of sins, a multitude of disappointments, Amen, And truth will always
- 23:52stand by self. Sanctify us, Sanctify me God right, set me apart
- 23:56for the purposes of God. Sanctify our friends, family for the purposes of
- 24:00God. Right. That's a great prayer. And John seventeen it contains the
- 24:06prayer that the Lord Jesus himself was praying to the Father about us, about
- 24:11him and his relationship with the Father, and about us and our relationship with
- 24:15him. All right, And it's just a beautiful thing. But we see
- 24:19in John seventeen seventeen, sanctify them in the truth, because why your word
- 24:26is truth, Amen, not just true, but truth truth. The Holy
- 24:33Spirit helps us with understanding God's word and will for our lives. God's God's
- 24:40word and will fall life. And you can't separate them if you think about
- 24:42it. God's word is his will. God's will is his word. Can't
- 24:48separate it really if we really think about it. Amen, Let's see what
- 24:52this is with us. Amen. Man. Well, God bless you,
- 24:57my brother. I see you now. I couldn't see you on this side
- 25:02of the chat, so thank you for God bless you. Welcome to the
- 25:04Morning Devo by way of the Blaze Bob and Study, which I privatize.
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- 25:12someone could invite you in because I privatize it. So I really want
- 25:15people to be protected. A lot of people weren't comment thing because it was
- 25:19public and everybody could see their comments. But now that Facebook group, that
- 25:23meta group amen, called the Blaze Bob and Studies is privatized so that where
- 25:27you can feel more comfortable in communicating with the group by itself, Amen,
- 25:32and your whole thing won't be out there you know, publicly, And I
- 25:37respect your privacy. Amen, Please respect my privacy and let's get into his
- 25:41word. Like, personally, right, I'm saved, but publicly I want
- 25:48to let people know about the Lord Jesus. Right. So although the scriptures
- 25:53tell us to go where commissioned, like the scripture said, we read it,
- 25:56we're commissioned to go and preach the God gospel, right, But we're
- 26:00not necessarily commissioned to try to convince someone that God is real. That's the
- 26:07work of the Holy Spirit. So don't put a lot of pressure on yourself.
- 26:10When people reject us and our message, they're not really rejecting us and
- 26:15our message. They're rejecting God and his message, which is the gospel.
- 26:18Right. The world, especially on the Internet, is full of people who
- 26:22claim that Christians believe in a story book rather than a holy book. Oh
- 26:29you believe in a book that was written by men? My goodness, What
- 26:33book have you or I ever read that was not written by a man or
- 26:37woman? Why is that a standing point for a lot of people? Oh,
- 26:41you read a book that's made by man, written by man? Well
- 26:47who else? If I would have told you the aliens wrote them scriptures?
- 26:49Would you believe me more? Now? Of course it was written by men.
- 26:53Men inspired, carried along by way of Holy Spirit. So that's not
- 26:59even a sticky part. I don't know White people think they God, I
- 27:00got you. The Bible is written by man, so how could you believe
- 27:04that? Well, every book you read is written by a human beings too.
- 27:08So Christians counter secular arguments with the truth for the Scripture. They often
- 27:15aren't taken seriously by skeptics, right by atheists and sometimes even people who claim
- 27:22to be Christians. A lot of people don't take the scriptures for what the
- 27:25scriptures say. Hey, man, probably have to get into this more.
- 27:27There's a lot more that I didn't even touch in my notes. But I'm
- 27:30out of time. Saint John seventeen today read the whole chapter. We can't
- 27:34diun of verse number seventeen. But is it true? I believe it's true.
- 27:40But just because I believe something is to be true doesn't make it true.
- 27:42What makes something true is the evidence that you look at and you see
- 27:45for yourself, and then you decide where the evidence leads. Good morning's sister
- 27:49Joyce. I see you, good morning. God bless you, and God
- 27:52keep you. And listen, God bless you all, and God keep you
- 27:56all and remember always that God's good. I see Alicia, God bless you.
- 28:00I'll be back next time. God bless peace.