Latest / The BLAZE (Bible Study) / What's Your Problem? [Morning Devo]
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Morning Fan, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
- 0:05Speaker 1: the Morning DeVos you pro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam
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- 1:23Speaker 1: email list. So I'm excited about that as well. Today
- 1:27Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about what's your problem? And when I
- 1:31Speaker 1: say what's your problem, I'm talking to myself too. Amen.
- 1:35Speaker 1: A lot of you that followed me know that I
- 1:37Speaker 1: took a week off amen, for sabbatical, to rest, to think,
- 1:41Speaker 1: to pray, amen, and to get some celebrity and some
- 1:45Speaker 1: things that I've been thinking about lately. Amen. And honestly,
- 1:48Speaker 1: I think I need more time off, Amen. But I said,
- 1:51Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna just trust the process here
- 1:55Speaker 1: and you go live, Amen, because I one because I
- 1:58Speaker 1: missed going live and I missed the peace people that
- 2:00Speaker 1: I connect with in the groups that I connect with. Amen.
- 2:03Speaker 1: And secondly, trust to God. I don't want to be
- 2:07Speaker 1: too much of my feelings, Amen, because feelings, well, at
- 2:11Speaker 1: least in my life, my feelings tend to take me
- 2:15Speaker 1: off course. Amen. So I'm going to continue to move
- 2:18Speaker 1: by faith, not by feelings, if that makes any sense
- 2:21Speaker 1: to people out there. Amen. You know I'm edgy. You
- 2:25Speaker 1: know I was a little cranky edgy, and you know
- 2:30Speaker 1: something needs to be worked on in my heart and
- 2:33Speaker 1: my life. Amen, what about you? So I decided to
- 2:37Speaker 1: confront myself, Amen, with the question, what's your problem? So,
- 2:41Speaker 1: Humanity's problem is sin? Period. Humanity's problem, my problem, Your
- 2:47Speaker 1: problem is sin. Ignorance or important imperfection is secondary. So
- 2:54Speaker 1: I didn't know, saying I didn't know all about the Lord.
- 2:57Speaker 1: I didn't know about this, I didn't know about that.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Ignorance and imperfection, ah Man, I messed up. I was
- 3:03Speaker 1: trying to do this right and I messed up. Those
- 3:06Speaker 1: are all secondary things. Humanity's main problem and issue is sin.
- 3:11Speaker 1: But thank you Jesus, Amen, that he has overcome sin.
- 3:16Speaker 1: He paid the sin debt with his own blood. And
- 3:20Speaker 1: if you're in Christ, Amen, if you gave your life
- 3:22Speaker 1: to him, if you trust him right, if you follow him,
- 3:26Speaker 1: if you have his Holy Spirit living within you, sin
- 3:29Speaker 1: is really not the issue anymore. But that's deeper and
- 3:33Speaker 1: later our discussion. But in general, humanity's problem when you
- 3:39Speaker 1: ask yourself what's my problem? Sin is the problem? Amen,
- 3:43Speaker 1: Sisters Joanne, I see you good. Morning, God bless you.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning. Dem with my sister, my friend.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Today is my sister Charmagne's birthday. She is with the Lord. Oh,
- 3:55Speaker 1: praise the Lord. So we celebrate just to Charbad Amen,
- 3:59Speaker 1: heavenly birthday now and when you're in glory. Amen. I
- 4:04Speaker 1: don't know how the time is going to be in glory, Amen,
- 4:07Speaker 1: but I know we remember our family members. We remember
- 4:11Speaker 1: our brothers and sisters, siblings, you know our family member
- 4:16Speaker 1: and meet. We honor people that are in our family. Amen.
- 4:19Speaker 1: So we honor Schamain. Thank you, sister Joinne for sharing that. Amen.
- 4:23Speaker 1: So listen, let's go ahead and move forward. Amen, And
- 4:29Speaker 1: pray for me and I can see to pray for you,
- 4:31Speaker 1: pray for me my family, and I can see to
- 4:33Speaker 1: pray for you and your family. I know this much
- 4:35Speaker 1: prayer needed in our lives, amen, in our world and
- 4:39Speaker 1: our families, with our finances, relationships, everything. Amen. So I'm
- 4:44Speaker 1: gonna just put my head down right. In other words,
- 4:48Speaker 1: work harder, try harder to be on time, amen, not
- 4:54Speaker 1: try harder to be a Christian. That doesn't make any sense.
- 4:57Speaker 1: And I'm gonna follow the Lord deeper than before because
- 5:02Speaker 1: it's by faith that I should be moving. It's not
- 5:05Speaker 1: by my feelings that I should be moving. My feelings
- 5:07Speaker 1: will always get in touch with the flesh, and when
- 5:10Speaker 1: the flesh and the feelings come together, that's going to
- 5:12Speaker 1: be a bad situation. So I'd rather let my faith
- 5:16Speaker 1: in my new heart and my new mind move me forward. Amen,
- 5:20Speaker 1: and leave my family and try to lead them well, Amen,
- 5:22Speaker 1: regardless of who's with it or not. Right, my position
- 5:28Speaker 1: as the priest king prophet of my home still stands
- 5:31Speaker 1: regardless of who doesn't agree or not. And I try
- 5:35Speaker 1: to try my best to humble myself. Amen. And sometimes
- 5:38Speaker 1: I get it wrong. Sometimes I mess up. What about you?
- 5:41Speaker 1: So let's go. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
- 5:44Speaker 1: prayer requests, or anything along those lines, please don't hesitate
- 5:47Speaker 1: to leaving on a live chat. That's what we're here for. Also,
- 5:51Speaker 1: we're gonna pray first. After we pray, we share this
- 5:54Speaker 1: out for like sixty seconds, and then on the other
- 5:56Speaker 1: side of those sixty seconds, you know, the drill will
- 5:58Speaker 1: get right into it. I almost didn't have my slides
- 6:01Speaker 1: show already because the website was having issues with how
- 6:05Speaker 1: I share my website, how I share the slides, but
- 6:09Speaker 1: then it started working. Praise God. So let's go for it.
- 6:12Speaker 1: Let's pray. Father. I thank you for right now. Thank
- 6:15Speaker 1: you for the time off. Thank you for keeping me safe,
- 6:18Speaker 1: keeping me alive, even though my mindset and my prayer
- 6:23Speaker 1: life and my leadership of my family amen needs help
- 6:28Speaker 1: and direction. Amen, I thank you regardless of that. I
- 6:32Speaker 1: thank you that you are patient with me, that you
- 6:34Speaker 1: are kind, that you are gentle, that you continue to
- 6:37Speaker 1: fill me with your word and your love, your grace
- 6:39Speaker 1: and your mercy, and that you would do the same
- 6:41Speaker 1: for every single person on the other side of the
- 6:43Speaker 1: screen and on the other side of this mic. I
- 6:46Speaker 1: thank you, Love God, that we are able to know
- 6:49Speaker 1: what the problem is, and we are able to know
- 6:53Speaker 1: who is the answer to our problems. And the answer
- 6:57Speaker 1: is Jesus Yeshi Wahamashia. Thank you, Love God for settling
- 7:02Speaker 1: our human issues by shedding your blood on the cross
- 7:08Speaker 1: of cavalry. Thank you, Lord God for your sacrifice. Thank you,
- 7:12Speaker 1: Lord God for your perfect life. Thank you, Lord God
- 7:14Speaker 1: for your demonstration of your own love. Thank you Lord
- 7:17Speaker 1: Jesus for rescuing and saving and healing and providing and
- 7:23Speaker 1: moving us forward in victory by faith. Thank you Father
- 7:27Speaker 1: for sending yourself in the form of the name of
- 7:30Speaker 1: Jesus in the form of a man. Thank you Holy
- 7:32Speaker 1: Spirit for living within every single one of us, whosoevers
- 7:37Speaker 1: who call upon your name to be saved, and that
- 7:40Speaker 1: you're leading us by faith. You're leading us with your spirit.
- 7:43Speaker 1: You're leading us into all truth. And I thank you,
- 7:46Speaker 1: Lord God for that as well. So I speak life
- 7:49Speaker 1: concerning all things living. I speak over marriages, I speak
- 7:51Speaker 1: over children, I speak over siblings, I speak over parents.
- 7:56Speaker 1: By the powerful name of Jesus, that we will be protected,
- 7:59Speaker 1: guided and guarded by your arq weeen Angel's Lord, and
- 8:02Speaker 1: that you would sin and dispatch arq ween angels right
- 8:04Speaker 1: now to annihilate the tactics of the enemy. Who is
- 8:07Speaker 1: trying to disrupt, who is trying to separate, discourage, who
- 8:11Speaker 1: is trying to cause people to give up. We come
- 8:15Speaker 1: against those things in a powerful name of Jesus. And
- 8:17Speaker 1: we thank you for our helpers that come in the
- 8:20Speaker 1: form of angels. And I thank you look God today
- 8:22Speaker 1: for victory and Jesus Holy name. My prayer is by faith,
- 8:26Speaker 1: and all those who agree with this prayer we say
- 8:28Speaker 1: amen to the Amen, help me share this Soule family,
- 8:31Speaker 1: and when we get back, we'll get right into today's
- 8:33Speaker 1: morning devo. Today I'm calling this and the form of
- 8:36Speaker 1: a question is called watch your problem. I'll be right back.
- 9:56Speaker 1: Thank you so much for helping me shut us out,
- 9:58Speaker 1: and thank you for all those who come to visit
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- 10:04Speaker 1: to see what this ministry is really all about, what
- 10:08Speaker 1: SO Winners is trying to do according to the purpose
- 10:11Speaker 1: and plan that God has us here for. Amen, So
- 10:15Speaker 1: thank you for visiting the page, reading up on what
- 10:17Speaker 1: the mission and vision is of our ministry here celebrated
- 10:21Speaker 1: on Network SO Winners, Inc. Amen, So thank you so
- 10:23Speaker 1: much for that. Thank you for your prayers, for all
- 10:25Speaker 1: those who pray for me. I'm during my time off.
- 10:28Speaker 1: Thank you for the messages and the concern of where
- 10:30Speaker 1: I've been and what's happening and what's going on. I'm
- 10:33Speaker 1: really grateful for that. Amen. People think, oh, man, he's
- 10:36Speaker 1: on social media all the time, he's this, he's that.
- 10:39Speaker 1: So he's surrounded by a whole bunch of people, And
- 10:41Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is, I'm grateful for the
- 10:44Speaker 1: people who connect with me, Amen. But I'm not surrounded
- 10:47Speaker 1: by a whole bunch of people. Amen. I'm connected to
- 10:49Speaker 1: people who love me absolutely, but it's not a whole
- 10:52Speaker 1: bunch of people. So when you connect and when you
- 10:57Speaker 1: ask questions, when you say, hey, I'm praying for you,
- 10:59Speaker 1: or when you're concerned about why I'm not doing lives, Amen,
- 11:03Speaker 1: I'm really grateful. And it reminds me that we're considering
- 11:07Speaker 1: each other, Amen, and we're holding each other up, and
- 11:10Speaker 1: we're just being family, the family of God. And even
- 11:14Speaker 1: if people don't believe in the Lord Jesus and you
- 11:16Speaker 1: reach out, Amen, you want to know what's going on.
- 11:19Speaker 1: I'm grateful for that too, Amen. So that way we
- 11:21Speaker 1: could keep the dialogue and the conversation open. No one's
- 11:24Speaker 1: perfect accept the Lord Jesus, but he's perfecting us by
- 11:28Speaker 1: way of his Holy Spirit, and his word will transform
- 11:31Speaker 1: our lives. He's worried transformed my life. His world will
- 11:34Speaker 1: continue to transform your life as well. Sister Joanne says,
- 11:38Speaker 1: I was wondering where you were and what was going on.
- 11:41Speaker 1: I have text you but didn't get no response. I
- 11:44Speaker 1: did response to your sister, Joan, and you're one of
- 11:47Speaker 1: the people who reached out and I did respond to you.
- 11:51Speaker 1: I hope you're okay. God is good. God is with me.
- 11:54Speaker 1: God bless you and your family and be with you always. Amen. Amen,
- 11:58Speaker 1: thank you so much for the blessing checking messages. Of
- 12:01Speaker 1: course I got back to you. Amen. I saw your
- 12:03Speaker 1: message last week, but I just I needed some time off,
- 12:10Speaker 1: and that's what I said on the message. Amen. And
- 12:13Speaker 1: also I put some social media posts out there of
- 12:16Speaker 1: what was going on a week off to restore, to pray, amen,
- 12:20Speaker 1: to try to settle things in my mind. Amen. And honestly,
- 12:24Speaker 1: I really think I need some more time. But let's
- 12:26Speaker 1: see what happens. Let's see what the Lord takes us, Amen,
- 12:29Speaker 1: from this time forward. So let's go forward. Let's get
- 12:31Speaker 1: into the word. Amen. What's your problem is a question, Amen. Amen,
- 12:38Speaker 1: I'm just letting you in on a conversation. But I
- 12:40Speaker 1: believe we all have the same problem, Amen. And I'm
- 12:44Speaker 1: going to try to prove that through the scriptures real quickly. Amen.
- 12:48Speaker 1: This is a devotion, so I can't really get too
- 12:50Speaker 1: deep into these issues. What I'm trying to do is
- 12:54Speaker 1: encourage you to get into the Word of God for yourself.
- 12:56Speaker 1: I'm trying to inspire you. I'm trying to provoke you
- 13:00Speaker 1: to get into God's word for yourself, so that way
- 13:02Speaker 1: you can get the whole context of what we're saying
- 13:05Speaker 1: and what we're looking at in the scriptures. Amen, that's
- 13:07Speaker 1: my goal. I'm trying to Now. I can't force people, obviously,
- 13:12Speaker 1: but I could lead people too who Jesus is. And
- 13:15Speaker 1: then you do your due diligence, and if you want
- 13:18Speaker 1: to investigate the claims of the Lord and Savior, the
- 13:21Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, Amen, scriptures are always available to you. Isaiah
- 13:26Speaker 1: chapter fifty nine, verse number two says it like this,
- 13:29Speaker 1: the prophet said, but your wickedness has separated you from
- 13:34Speaker 1: your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you,
- 13:39Speaker 1: so that he does not hear. We went over the
- 13:42Speaker 1: scripture before, but I wanted to start again from Isaiah
- 13:46Speaker 1: the prophet fifty nine and two to remind us that
- 13:49Speaker 1: it's not God who's looking at us and saying, no,
- 13:52Speaker 1: I don't want to be with you. It's our wickedness
- 13:55Speaker 1: that separates us from our God. Right sins have hidden
- 14:01Speaker 1: his face from us, and because of that, he doesn't
- 14:05Speaker 1: hear us. He doesn't hear us because we're not being genuine.
- 14:10Speaker 1: A lot of people are going around saying I'm born again,
- 14:12Speaker 1: I'm a Christian, and they're living apart from the Holy Word.
- 14:16Speaker 1: They're living opposing the Holy Word. It's not lining up,
- 14:20Speaker 1: their lifestyle is not lining up, and it's hypocrisy a man,
- 14:23Speaker 1: And to be honest, I see it a lot, and
- 14:26Speaker 1: it started messing with my mindset, like what's going on here?
- 14:31Speaker 1: You know, God is beautiful, the Lord Jesus is a
- 14:33Speaker 1: beautiful a person. His love, his grace, and his mercy
- 14:39Speaker 1: is more than enough for us. And I'm thinking, well,
- 14:42Speaker 1: before I get into my feelings about hypocrisy, makes I
- 14:45Speaker 1: want to make sure I'm not being a hypocrite. So
- 14:48Speaker 1: I said, I have a problem, and the problem is
- 14:52Speaker 1: going to be everybody else's problem. And that problem was
- 14:55Speaker 1: already satisfied. There's still a problem, though, A man, if
- 14:59Speaker 1: I'm not careful, I tend to go different directions than
- 15:03Speaker 1: what I know where to go. What about you? So like,
- 15:06Speaker 1: if I'm too hungry, I'm too angry, If I'm too lonely,
- 15:10Speaker 1: I'm too tired. I can't be making decisions based on that.
- 15:13Speaker 1: I shouldn't be speaking based on those things. When I'm
- 15:16Speaker 1: in those areas and when I'm in those feelings right,
- 15:19Speaker 1: because I get into trouble and man, and I think that,
- 15:22Speaker 1: to be honest, I think anybody people, when they're operating
- 15:26Speaker 1: according to their feelings, that that's for everybody. You know, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers.
- 15:34Speaker 1: We could all get into those areas of our flesh
- 15:38Speaker 1: and have problems with that. And we don't need those
- 15:41Speaker 1: type of problems. There's enough going on in the world
- 15:44Speaker 1: for us to start causing our own issues or letting
- 15:49Speaker 1: our flesh guide and lead us when we have Holy
- 15:53Speaker 1: Spirit leading us into all truth. And it's not hard.
- 15:56Speaker 1: Everybody's going around or a lot of people, I scratch everybody.
- 16:00Speaker 1: I don't like saying everybody in all. There's many people
- 16:03Speaker 1: out there, especially on social media, that saying it's so
- 16:06Speaker 1: hard to be a Christian, and I don't know what
- 16:08Speaker 1: that means anymore. It's not hard to follow the Lord Jesus.
- 16:11Speaker 1: It says his burdens are light, his yoke is easy. Amen.
- 16:16Speaker 1: What's going on and I'll say this over and over again,
- 16:19Speaker 1: even wrote a book about it, is that the flesh
- 16:21Speaker 1: is a monster. The flesh will want to tell us
- 16:25Speaker 1: that we can't follow a holy, righteous, loving God because
- 16:29Speaker 1: we're far from that, and that's a lie. I learned
- 16:34Speaker 1: to repeat what the Lord says about me in my life. Amen.
- 16:39Speaker 1: You should learn the same thing. People will have this
- 16:42Speaker 1: habit of saying I'm nobody. Well, Jesus didn't die for
- 16:45Speaker 1: a bunch of nobodies. Jesus died for you and me.
- 16:48Speaker 1: We are somebody. Amen. It's okay to admit that we
- 16:52Speaker 1: have a purpose. It's okay to admit that we're walking
- 16:55Speaker 1: in victory. It's okay to admit that we're a royal priesthoot.
- 16:58Speaker 1: It's okay to admit that we're already see didn't have
- 17:00Speaker 1: a new places. I know it sounds arrogant to a
- 17:03Speaker 1: lot of people, but I'm just quoting the scriptures. Amen.
- 17:06Speaker 1: The Lord Jesus never calls us a sinner after we're saved.
- 17:09Speaker 1: The disciples never called us sinners after we're born again.
- 17:14Speaker 1: But we have some kind of notion or idea to say, Man,
- 17:19Speaker 1: I'm nobody, i'm nothing, i'm dirt, I'm still a sinner. Well,
- 17:23Speaker 1: then read the scriptures and prove to me or where
- 17:28Speaker 1: you're saying that about yourself, that's no longer true. Now,
- 17:32Speaker 1: if you're saying we were, absolutely I agree. One you
- 17:34Speaker 1: were saying we were this, we were that, we were
- 17:37Speaker 1: the bottom of this and the bottom of that. We
- 17:39Speaker 1: were nobody. We were in darkness. But we're no longer
- 17:42Speaker 1: in darkness. So anyway, I don't know why I went
- 17:45Speaker 1: down that road. Humanity's problem is sin. It's not ignorance
- 17:50Speaker 1: or in perfection. I know some perfectionists. I used to
- 17:54Speaker 1: have a touch of perfectionism. Amen, And I said it
- 17:58Speaker 1: that real quick. I said, yeah, I make mistakes. I'm
- 18:00Speaker 1: not perfect, so this is not going to work out.
- 18:02Speaker 1: And if I don't do everything correctly one hundred percent
- 18:05Speaker 1: all the time, Amen, it's okay. It just proves that
- 18:07Speaker 1: I'm in need of a holy, loving, righteous God, Romans
- 18:11Speaker 1: chapter three, twenty three. We'll all all have sin and
- 18:17Speaker 1: fall short of the glory of God. So that's a
- 18:21Speaker 1: humbling scripture, and we all are qualified to be part
- 18:25Speaker 1: of that scripture. As a human. Our greatest need isn't
- 18:30Speaker 1: more education, isn't more wealth or even morality. Its forgiveness
- 18:36Speaker 1: and reconciliation with God. The wages of sin is death,
- 18:41Speaker 1: Romans six twenty three. So if the wages of sin
- 18:44Speaker 1: is deaf and we all fall short of the glory
- 18:46Speaker 1: of God. The scriptures, the Word of God apostle upon
- 18:50Speaker 1: inspired by Holy Spirit, is letting us know, listen, we
- 18:52Speaker 1: can't do this on our own. We need a savior,
- 18:55Speaker 1: We need a redeemer. We need a life changing experience
- 18:58Speaker 1: and counter with the Lord g Jesus. We need Holy
- 19:01Speaker 1: Spirit of God operating in our lives to overcome the
- 19:06Speaker 1: sin problem. Sin is a spiritual disease that separates every
- 19:14Speaker 1: one of us from a holy God. The prophet Isaiah
- 19:19Speaker 1: was inspired to write that to the people that he
- 19:22Speaker 1: was speaking to at the time. And because God's word
- 19:25Speaker 1: is eternal, Amen, we could speak about it towards one
- 19:29Speaker 1: another as well. When a prophet speaks, Amen, that prophet,
- 19:34Speaker 1: that prophecy will come to pass. So even though he's
- 19:40Speaker 1: not telling people you're all going to hell, right, you
- 19:45Speaker 1: have to read the whole chapter Isaiah, chapter fifty nine.
- 19:48Speaker 1: But this is the reality of what the prophet was saying.
- 19:52Speaker 1: He's saying, it's not God's fault that all this evil,
- 19:56Speaker 1: all this destruction, all this hypocrisy, all of this is
- 20:01Speaker 1: going on. It's not God's fault. God is not creating
- 20:04Speaker 1: us evil as evil people. God is not promoting us
- 20:08Speaker 1: or provoking us to do evil. It's our own evil,
- 20:12Speaker 1: sinful desires a man that separates us from a loving, holy,
- 20:16Speaker 1: righteous God. You know, there's no other religion, there's no
- 20:20Speaker 1: other philosophy, There's no type of effort that we could
- 20:26Speaker 1: do on our end that could remove sin. Did you
- 20:29Speaker 1: know that. I know a lot of people out there
- 20:32Speaker 1: think that, you know, oh, I don't sin, I'm not
- 20:34Speaker 1: a sinner, and speak just because like I said before,
- 20:38Speaker 1: it's ignorance, imperfection, and man, they're using that as a
- 20:42Speaker 1: way of saying, yeah, I don't sin, so therefore violence sin,
- 20:46Speaker 1: I don't have to abide by your Bible. A lot
- 20:49Speaker 1: of people say that, but that's it doesn't stand up
- 20:54Speaker 1: in real life, that type of thinking. We all know
- 20:57Speaker 1: we have issues, we all know we fall short of
- 20:59Speaker 1: the glories standards of God. We all know that the
- 21:01Speaker 1: wages of sin is death. Because those who are not,
- 21:04Speaker 1: who are not even saved, when the consequences of their
- 21:07Speaker 1: sin starts popping up and they come to reality like WHOA,
- 21:11Speaker 1: I'm in need of a helper, I need help, they're
- 21:16Speaker 1: not necessarily not knowing that they need to be saved.
- 21:20Speaker 1: Some people do wake up to that. I woke up
- 21:22Speaker 1: to that in two thousand and one. But people do
- 21:25Speaker 1: know that they're going in the wrong direction when the
- 21:27Speaker 1: consequences of their prior decisions is causing sickness, disease, violence,
- 21:37Speaker 1: all kind of stuff that's not good. Evil shows up
- 21:42Speaker 1: as a consequence of evil desires. You're not gonna get
- 21:47Speaker 1: good when you're doing evil. Evil promotes evil. So on
- 21:53Speaker 1: the other end of that, good promotes good, and only
- 21:56Speaker 1: one who is good. The only one who is good
- 21:58Speaker 1: is God. There's no other religion, philosophy, or effort that
- 22:03Speaker 1: can remove sin. See. Religion could teach morality and change
- 22:10Speaker 1: our direction and ideas, but it doesn't transform our hearts
- 22:15Speaker 1: and minds. Religion is okay, but it's more than religion
- 22:19Speaker 1: that we should be thinking about morality. Of course, what's
- 22:24Speaker 1: right and what's wrong. People say, well, we have to
- 22:27Speaker 1: look at the society, and whatever society says is right
- 22:30Speaker 1: and what's wrong will go that way. But the scripture
- 22:33Speaker 1: says the only one that is the moral head, the
- 22:37Speaker 1: one who says what's right and what's wrong, is the
- 22:39Speaker 1: Lord himself. But morality can't clean your heart right. Morality
- 22:45Speaker 1: can change your behavior, but morality cannot clean your heart
- 22:50Speaker 1: and transform your heart. Only a sinless savior, listen closely.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Only a sinless savior could pay the price of sin
- 23:02Speaker 1: and restore, reconcile, reconcile and restore our relation with God.
- 23:08Speaker 1: We're the only ones and the only scriptures that we have.
- 23:12Speaker 1: We're the only ones who have the scriptures of a redeemer. Amen.
- 23:16Speaker 1: Other religions they have prophets, they have deities, they have this,
- 23:20Speaker 1: that and the third, but none of the other religions
- 23:23Speaker 1: have the redemption story that we have. Amen. Only Jesus
- 23:30Speaker 1: is known for living a sin less life, and that's
- 23:36Speaker 1: hard for a lot of people to believe. They said,
- 23:38Speaker 1: who is this Jesus? And you Christians are idolizing Jesus Christ. Right,
- 23:44Speaker 1: we have some religions that accuse us of making Jesus
- 23:49Speaker 1: our idol that's just because they're not understanding who Jesus is.
- 23:56Speaker 1: And at that point we have to respect that. I
- 23:59Speaker 1: didn't understand who you. I heard the story of the
- 24:02Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. I would want to say over one
- 24:05Speaker 1: hundred times before I got saved, because I couldn't. I
- 24:09Speaker 1: couldn't I didn't think that what he did on that
- 24:15Speaker 1: cross was for me. I thought it was for every
- 24:18Speaker 1: single other person. Accept me. You see how the devil
- 24:22Speaker 1: is alive. The devil was saying, now, that's good for them,
- 24:26Speaker 1: the people that go to church. That's good for those
- 24:27Speaker 1: people over there. You know, he died for Jewish people along.
- 24:31Speaker 1: This is what the enemy was telling me. And I
- 24:33Speaker 1: was all up in that, and green with the enemies,
- 24:36Speaker 1: said yeah, you're right, it's not for me. He didn't
- 24:38Speaker 1: die for me. That sacrifice wasn't for me until my
- 24:43Speaker 1: sins and my decision making for my worldly attitude, my
- 24:48Speaker 1: own evil, sinful desires showed up as a lie. Because
- 24:53Speaker 1: the world would tell you, hey, if you drink this,
- 24:56Speaker 1: if you smoke this, if you get with this person,
- 24:58Speaker 1: if you do that, you'll gain wealth, you'll have health,
- 25:04Speaker 1: you'll be happy, and you'll be satisfied. Those were all lies.
- 25:10Speaker 1: Because I did what the world offered, trust me, and
- 25:15Speaker 1: it was a lie. So because it was a lie,
- 25:17Speaker 1: I was like, okay, So if I did all of
- 25:20Speaker 1: this and I still didn't get far in life, and
- 25:27Speaker 1: I definitely wasn't satisfied. Someone lied to me. There has
- 25:30Speaker 1: to be more that's how I started waking up. That's
- 25:33Speaker 1: what the Lord used in my life to start waking
- 25:36Speaker 1: me up my own evil, sinful desires. It's crazy, right,
- 25:40Speaker 1: But God will meet you where you are. It's not
- 25:44Speaker 1: like a special place. I know a lot of people think, oh,
- 25:47Speaker 1: I'm going to go to church because I need God. Okay,
- 25:50Speaker 1: that's cool, But you know He could meet you right
- 25:53Speaker 1: there in your bathroom, right there, in your living room,
- 25:55Speaker 1: right there, at your workplace, right there, at your school,
- 25:57Speaker 1: right there, in the street right there, and your drunken
- 26:00Speaker 1: state or your high state right there while he You know,
- 26:03Speaker 1: God can meet you there right People say, how is
- 26:07Speaker 1: that possible, Sam, don't gotta be clean first. Don't have
- 26:10Speaker 1: to get my life right first. The thing about that,
- 26:14Speaker 1: if you could get your life right, you wouldn't need
- 26:16Speaker 1: someone to save you. If you could do it on
- 26:19Speaker 1: your own, if you could transform your heart, transform your
- 26:21Speaker 1: mind on your own, there will be no need for
- 26:24Speaker 1: a savior in your life. So let's think this clearly,
- 26:28Speaker 1: Jesus is the only one who lived a sinous life.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Every other religious leader, Buddha, Muhammed, Confucius, Gandhi Amen acknowledge
- 26:39Speaker 1: personal imperfection, but Jesus alone lived the perfect sinous life
- 26:45Speaker 1: one Peter chapter two, verse twenty two. He committed no sin,
- 26:50Speaker 1: and no deceit was found in his mouth. And that's amazing.
- 26:55Speaker 1: And if you look up the scriptures and you see
- 26:57Speaker 1: what goes along with that scripture. Before we were saved,
- 27:01Speaker 1: our heart was full of weakness and deceit. And now
- 27:04Speaker 1: the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Yet Jesus
- 27:07Speaker 1: had no deceit in his heart. This is an amazing,
- 27:11Speaker 1: an amazing life that we're living as believers. Amen, get
- 27:15Speaker 1: into your word. We started in the prophet Isaiah chapter
- 27:19Speaker 1: fifty nine, right verse number two. Read the whole chapter
- 27:22Speaker 1: for yourself. I hope you understand what's going on here, Amen,
- 27:26Speaker 1: And I hope I'm being in help and a blessing
- 27:27Speaker 1: to your life. So I'm out of time. So God
- 27:30Speaker 1: bless you all. God keep you all, and remember always
- 27:33Speaker 1: that God is good. Peace.