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- 0:00Speaker 1: Morning, Good morning family, God bless you. Welcome back to
- 0:03Speaker 1: the Morning DeVos. Your bro Sam Lopez akadj Sam rock
- 0:07Speaker 1: So winners with a z Org, the Lea Valley's number
- 0:10Speaker 1: one urban gospel music station online since two thousand and eight.
- 0:14Speaker 1: It's the Cell Out Radio Network. Amen, Sala pause. What
- 0:17Speaker 1: do you think about that radio network? That's what that
- 0:19Speaker 1: all is about. Amen. So we're here a new day,
- 0:23Speaker 1: a new morning. Amen, and let's celebrate grace. Bet you
- 0:27Speaker 1: never heard that kind of celebration, but we're gonna celebrate
- 0:29Speaker 1: grace today on the Morning Devo. Since the Johanne, I
- 0:33Speaker 1: see you, good morning. I celebrate you. Amen. During this
- 0:35Speaker 1: holiday season for showing up and for being who you
- 0:38Speaker 1: are in Christ, my sister in Christ. Amen, thank you
- 0:42Speaker 1: so much for coming through. Embrace Embrace it. Amen. Sometimes
- 0:47Speaker 1: we just have to hug the joy and freedom that
- 0:51Speaker 1: comes from knowing you are fully and loved by God.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Embrace the joy of freedom, knowing that you are fully
- 1:01Speaker 1: forgiven and loved by God, loved by God. Telling you, man,
- 1:09Speaker 1: this is good stuff, this is good stuff. It's worth
- 1:13Speaker 1: more than the entrance fee to come in here. Right. Freedom, freedom,
- 1:20Speaker 1: and knowing that you are fully loved and fully forgiven.
- 1:25Speaker 1: We're going to be in two scriptures today because I
- 1:27Speaker 1: want to package these together with Ephesians chapter two, verses
- 1:31Speaker 1: eight and nine and Titus chapter two, verse number eleven
- 1:36Speaker 1: A man, So we're going to be in those two
- 1:37Speaker 1: scriptures today. You are alive in Christ. You are alive
- 1:41Speaker 1: because He lives. Holy Spirit lives inside of us by
- 1:45Speaker 1: way of Holy Spirit. Is the way a save person moves,
- 1:49Speaker 1: the way we are guided, the way we know truth,
- 1:52Speaker 1: the way we understand God's word, move by the Holy Spirit,
- 1:56Speaker 1: feeled by the Holy Spirit. So we are able to
- 1:59Speaker 1: celebrate doing these holiday seasons. But we gotta celebrate grace. Amen.
- 2:03Speaker 1: That's God's riches at Christ's expense. How's that for an acronym?
- 2:10Speaker 1: But Amen, So let's go for it. Let's celebrate grace.
- 2:14Speaker 1: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or any prayer requests,
- 2:18Speaker 1: don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat. That's
- 2:20Speaker 1: what we're here for. Amen. That's how we do it
- 2:22Speaker 1: over here as so winners. Let me just make sure
- 2:25Speaker 1: everything is running. Amen. Hopefully this sound is okay. I've
- 2:30Speaker 1: turned on the mic a little late, but looks like
- 2:32Speaker 1: everything's running. So let's go for it. We're gonna pray first.
- 2:35Speaker 1: After we pray, we'll share this out for like sixty
- 2:37Speaker 1: to help me share this out to as many people
- 2:39Speaker 1: as you know. On your social media platforms, you can
- 2:42Speaker 1: even send the links, So winners with a z dot
- 2:44Speaker 1: org to somebody could text somebody, you can email somebody,
- 2:48Speaker 1: a man, you can connect however you want to connect.
- 2:50Speaker 1: You could send a Soul winners link. Also, we're live
- 2:53Speaker 1: at live. That's so winners with a z dot org
- 2:56Speaker 1: over there, that's the Commist website. You will ever be
- 2:58Speaker 1: on a commons platform ever be on a man. I
- 3:01Speaker 1: really was intentional of making sure there's really no distractions
- 3:05Speaker 1: over there. Over there live that soul's with the zee.
- 3:08Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right now. There's a live chat.
- 3:10Speaker 1: There's a Bible interact or Bible right there on that website. Amen.
- 3:15Speaker 1: And there's a way you can connect with me through
- 3:16Speaker 1: my YouTube, my podcast, my social media platforms. You could
- 3:20Speaker 1: go to the website as well. You can see what
- 3:23Speaker 1: we're all about. Amen, is a menu on top. So
- 3:26Speaker 1: let's go forward. Let's pray. After we pray sixty seconds,
- 3:29Speaker 1: we share this out and then on the other side
- 3:31Speaker 1: of those sixty seconds, we're gonna start to celebrate grace
- 3:35Speaker 1: here in the morning. Devo you ready, Father, in the
- 3:37Speaker 1: name of Jesus, I thank you for every single person
- 3:40Speaker 1: that continues to connect or listen or watch as they can.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Whether we are live together, Lord God, we're live together
- 3:49Speaker 1: or not. I pray a blessing and I speak life,
- 3:52Speaker 1: and I pray, Lord God, that you will have your
- 3:54Speaker 1: moments right now with us, and you will help us
- 3:57Speaker 1: embrace your joy and embrace your freedom. That we know
- 4:00Speaker 1: that we are fully loved, fully forgiven by holy, loving,
- 4:04Speaker 1: righteous Father who loves us so much. That you, Lord God,
- 4:09Speaker 1: sense your only begotten son on a rescue mission, and
- 4:14Speaker 1: that mission was completed. All we have to do, all
- 4:18Speaker 1: we had to do was call upon the name of
- 4:20Speaker 1: Yashia and we will be saved. And that's what happened
- 4:23Speaker 1: in my life and in so many people's lives out there.
- 4:26Speaker 1: So I speak life, I speak salvation, I speak protection.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Thank you, Log God for your protection, your love, your strength,
- 4:33Speaker 1: your grace, your mercy. Thank you for protecting us, guiding
- 4:36Speaker 1: us and giving health to our body and strength to
- 4:38Speaker 1: our bones so we could live another day and full
- 4:41Speaker 1: abundant like your promise, says and full abundance. So I speak,
- 4:46Speaker 1: Lord God, your word as I read your word in
- 4:49Speaker 1: a little bit, that you will low God anoint this message.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Anoint this morning Devo with your love, your grace, your mercy,
- 4:56Speaker 1: your power, your authority, and your word that will come alive.
- 5:00Speaker 1: And every single heart that is willing to receive this
- 5:03Speaker 1: devotion today in Jesus Holy Name of praise by faith
- 5:07Speaker 1: and all the saints and brothers and sisters, say amen
- 5:10Speaker 1: to the amen. Let's go for it. Help me shut
- 5:13Speaker 1: this out. Sixty seconds. When we come back, we'll get
- 5:15Speaker 1: right into celebrate grace today on the morning Devo, I'll
- 5:18Speaker 1: write back you man, you met, We're back. We're back. Wow.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Those thirty sixty seconds go by our real fast. Well
- 7:06Speaker 1: we're here back in the building, a man in the studio,
- 7:09Speaker 1: back with you. So listen, let's celebrate. It's the time
- 7:13Speaker 1: to celebrate, right. It's a time to last, it's the
- 7:15Speaker 1: time to cry. It is the time to live. There's
- 7:17Speaker 1: a time to die. There's a time for peace, it's
- 7:19Speaker 1: the time for war. The Bible says, there's nothing new
- 7:22Speaker 1: under the heavens right according to the word of God.
- 7:25Speaker 1: But when we have time to celebrate. Let's celebrate. Let's
- 7:28Speaker 1: embrace everything that God has given us. Let's celebrate his grace.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Let's celebrate his grace. Because without his grace, where would
- 7:35Speaker 1: we be? Where would I be? If it wasn't for
- 7:37Speaker 1: God's grace and his mercy right and his forgiveness and
- 7:41Speaker 1: It's salvation, I'll still be lost in and saw us
- 7:44Speaker 1: somewhere right. But we are here because God wanted us
- 7:48Speaker 1: to be here. We are here because God is not
- 7:50Speaker 1: done with us yet. We are here because we are
- 7:52Speaker 1: able to reach somebody with the love of God, with
- 7:55Speaker 1: the Gospel of God, and with the good News, which
- 7:58Speaker 1: is the Gospel of God. Man the Lord Jesus, Good morning,
- 8:02Speaker 1: by the frank. Good morning God, bless you amen as well.
- 8:06Speaker 1: I hope you all got to have a great day today. Amen,
- 8:08Speaker 1: as you are blessing others and you're already blessed. Thank
- 8:11Speaker 1: you so much for coming through, by the Frank. So
- 8:13Speaker 1: let's go forward. I'm gonna put the scripture on the screen. Amen.
- 8:17Speaker 1: For those who are listening on the Radio's all good.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Obviously you only hear an audio, and I love audio.
- 8:24Speaker 1: If it was up to me, I would never do video.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I would do audio only, but I understand that video
- 8:30Speaker 1: is a move, Amen, is a wave. But audio came first,
- 8:34Speaker 1: and audio is here to stay, and audio will be
- 8:37Speaker 1: here until the Lord Jesus comes back. Amen. I think
- 8:40Speaker 1: after that we'll still have audio for all eternity. But
- 8:42Speaker 1: of course video is good, Amen. So I'm just going
- 8:46Speaker 1: along where people are at, trying to reach and become
- 8:50Speaker 1: all things to all men. So that way some people
- 8:53Speaker 1: might get saved, Amen, whether they want to watch a
- 8:56Speaker 1: live stream or listen to an audio and I'm gain
- 9:01Speaker 1: for both. I'm gained for both. My favorite is audio, Amen,
- 9:05Speaker 1: My favorite is audio. So let's go for it. Let
- 9:07Speaker 1: me get this on the screen for you, so that
- 9:09Speaker 1: way you can see what's going on with what we
- 9:12Speaker 1: have today. Amen. And there you go celebrate grace, trying
- 9:17Speaker 1: to make it festive. Amen. So the first scripture we
- 9:20Speaker 1: have today is Ephesians. Like, ooh, I think I left
- 9:26Speaker 1: the wrong reference. You know it's right, Ephesians chapter two,
- 9:30Speaker 1: verses eight and nine. Thank you Jesus. I thought I
- 9:34Speaker 1: left the other scripture from the other day. For it
- 9:36Speaker 1: is by what ladies and gentlemen? Is it by something
- 9:40Speaker 1: you did? Something I did? Is it something that God
- 9:43Speaker 1: you know, had to do. No, for it is by
- 9:46Speaker 1: God's grace, God's remarkable compassion and favor drawing you and
- 9:54Speaker 1: me to Christ, that you have been saved, actually delivered
- 9:59Speaker 1: from judgment and given eternal life through faith. So we
- 10:05Speaker 1: are what. It's by God's grace that we are delivered
- 10:11Speaker 1: from judgment and given eternal life. You know what, The
- 10:15Speaker 1: judgment was right, The judgment is death. The judgment is
- 10:19Speaker 1: since we sinned against the Holy righteous God. The wrath
- 10:23Speaker 1: of God was upon us before Christ Jesus saved you
- 10:27Speaker 1: and saved me. Yeah, the wrath of God. But now
- 10:31Speaker 1: we're saved, We're delivered from judgment and we're given eternal life.
- 10:37Speaker 1: We live in Christ through faith. And this salvation is
- 10:43Speaker 1: not of yourselves, not through your own effort, but it
- 10:49Speaker 1: is the undeserved, gracious gift of God, not as a
- 10:55Speaker 1: result of your works, you know, your attempts to keep
- 11:00Speaker 1: the law so that no one will be able to
- 11:05Speaker 1: boast or take credit in any way for his salvation.
- 11:10Speaker 1: In other words, God moved everything and everyone out of
- 11:13Speaker 1: the way and said it was because of Me that
- 11:16Speaker 1: we have life. In other words, God said it's because
- 11:19Speaker 1: of God it's because of Jesus that we can even
- 11:23Speaker 1: be saved, that we could even have eternal life, that
- 11:27Speaker 1: we could even say we are children of God. It
- 11:30Speaker 1: is because of the Lord Jesus, the Christ. None of
- 11:32Speaker 1: us deserve it, but it's an undeserved gift of God.
- 11:36Speaker 1: God gave us this gift. Let's embrace the gift. Let's
- 11:41Speaker 1: celebrate this grace. This grace is amazing grace, This grace
- 11:45Speaker 1: is hyper grace. I used to always be against the
- 11:48Speaker 1: preachers that would say, always talk about grace, grace, grace, grace,
- 11:51Speaker 1: and said, all those are hyper grace preachers. And I'll
- 11:54Speaker 1: come into the understanding as I'm getting more mature in Christ,
- 11:57Speaker 1: that yes, they're right. It is a super hyper grace.
- 12:00Speaker 1: There's nothing like the grace of God. Nothing could compare
- 12:03Speaker 1: to God's grace. Right, So I guess I'm a hyper
- 12:07Speaker 1: super hyper preacher or grace too now because I can't
- 12:12Speaker 1: get over his grace, His mercy is love, all of it.
- 12:17Speaker 1: It is a hyper grace. It's an amazing grace. Hey man,
- 12:21Speaker 1: I don't understand how we've been singing amazing grace all
- 12:23Speaker 1: these years and then when a preacher comes up and
- 12:26Speaker 1: speaks about our preachers about grace, because you could talk
- 12:29Speaker 1: about this every day all day, and then they call
- 12:31Speaker 1: those people hyper grace preachers. Well, listen, I guess I'm
- 12:35Speaker 1: a hyper grace evangelist because I can't get over the
- 12:38Speaker 1: grace of God, the gift of God. It's not a
- 12:41Speaker 1: result of anything I could do, any attempt I could
- 12:45Speaker 1: do to keep the law, nothing like that. No one
- 12:49Speaker 1: will be able to boast or take credit in any
- 12:51Speaker 1: way for God's salvation. Why for it is by grace
- 12:57Speaker 1: that you and me have been saved, delivered from judgment.
- 13:03Speaker 1: And it's through faith and knowing that and through Him. Amen.
- 13:06Speaker 1: Since the joyce, I see you. Good morning, God, bless you.
- 13:09Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning. Do you vote. We're trying
- 13:11Speaker 1: to praise the Lord here, Yes, talking about the grace
- 13:14Speaker 1: of God. Amazing grace, right, and we're gonna celebrate that grace.
- 13:18Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be ashamed of it. We're gonna celebrate
- 13:20Speaker 1: that grace. Second scripture I had that we could put
- 13:25Speaker 1: together with Ephesians is Titus, chapter two, verse number eleven.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Titus two eleven. The Bible says, for the remarkable, undeserved
- 13:38Speaker 1: grace of God, that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Jesus showed up and he represented God's grace. Jesus showed
- 13:51Speaker 1: up and he represented God's reflection. Jesus showed up and
- 13:56Speaker 1: he represented God's kingdom. Jesus showed up and he represented
- 14:02Speaker 1: God's son. Jesus shows up and he represented the God Man.
- 14:07Speaker 1: Jesus shows up in all the remarkable, undeserved grace of
- 14:12Speaker 1: God appeared to all men. Amazing, right, and we're still
- 14:19Speaker 1: talking about it. When Jesus showed up. Let me ask
- 14:22Speaker 1: you a question. Were you there? No? Was I there? No?
- 14:25Speaker 1: Were your ancestors there probably could be, but we weren't there.
- 14:30Speaker 1: So it's by faith that we believe. And it's not
- 14:33Speaker 1: because He hasn't shown up in your life or he
- 14:36Speaker 1: hasn't shown up in my life in incredible remarkable ways.
- 14:41Speaker 1: It's because we have faith in a living God. I'm
- 14:45Speaker 1: pretty sure if you're like me, you searched out other deities,
- 14:48Speaker 1: you searched out other religions, you searched out other ways
- 14:51Speaker 1: to get this life going. But then you realized that
- 14:55Speaker 1: there was only one name that you called upon to
- 14:58Speaker 1: be saved. Rescue transfer renewed redeemed, restored, and was the
- 15:02Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. For the remarkable, undeserved grace of God that
- 15:07Speaker 1: brings salvation has appeared to all men. So we're gonna
- 15:12Speaker 1: celebrate that. We're gonna celebrate the grace. We're gonna celebrate
- 15:15Speaker 1: the mercy. We're gonna celebrate during this holiday season, Christmas season,
- 15:20Speaker 1: what have you. Amen, We're gonna celebrate grace and it's good.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Don't be ashamed to celebrate what God wants us to celebrate.
- 15:27Speaker 1: We're gonna embrace this grace. Amen. Well, why that rhymes
- 15:31Speaker 1: embrace this grace. I'm gonna write that down so that
- 15:33Speaker 1: way when I do another rap, so I'll put that
- 15:36Speaker 1: up in there. Amen, that was good. Embrace his grace.
- 15:40Speaker 1: So embrace the joy of freedom that comes from knowing
- 15:44Speaker 1: that you're fully forgiven and love by God. Christmas is
- 15:49Speaker 1: a reminder of the grace that has been lavished upon
- 15:56Speaker 1: us through the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, My Lord
- 16:00Speaker 1: and Savior Jesus Christ. So when you look at Christmas,
- 16:03Speaker 1: you look at the ornaments, you look at the decorations,
- 16:06Speaker 1: you go to the Christmas parties, Christmas celebrations, Amen, remember
- 16:11Speaker 1: the grace of God. Remember the love of God. It's
- 16:14Speaker 1: a reminder of the grace that has been lavished upon
- 16:21Speaker 1: us a man. God loves to lavish his children with gifts,
- 16:28Speaker 1: especially grace and mercy. It seems like though, and this
- 16:33Speaker 1: is just me, you know, on the outside looking in,
- 16:37Speaker 1: when people seem to be taking advantage of His grace. Amen.
- 16:42Speaker 1: And sometimes I could be guilty of that too. What
- 16:44Speaker 1: about you? Sometimes I find myself asking God, how can
- 16:49Speaker 1: you know do something about it? He is doing something
- 16:51Speaker 1: about it. Amen. One day for me to be enough
- 16:59Speaker 1: to lose the grace, in other words, on one bad
- 17:05Speaker 1: decision away of breaking disgrace. Amen, that's for me. I
- 17:13Speaker 1: keep me keep that thought in my mind. That's just
- 17:16Speaker 1: for me. I always try to remind myself Listen, if
- 17:19Speaker 1: you do something crazy, you're not going to be in
- 17:22Speaker 1: good standing with the Lord. Amen. And I could be
- 17:25Speaker 1: one decision, one bad decision away. Some people will be like, oh,
- 17:29Speaker 1: I don't worry about it. I'll do this that and
- 17:31Speaker 1: the third Monday through Saturday, and then when I get
- 17:36Speaker 1: back in church, I'll get back into right graces with God.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Some people live that way, Amen. I never suggest that way.
- 17:42Speaker 1: I think that's plain spiritual Russian roulette. You know, no pressure,
- 17:48Speaker 1: though I don't want to put no pressure on nobody.
- 17:50Speaker 1: This is not a legalistic devotion, Amen. And this is
- 17:56Speaker 1: a devotion of freedom. But in me, my mindset, I
- 17:59Speaker 1: have to keep that of mind. Amen. The grace of
- 18:02Speaker 1: God cannot be taken advantage of. I used to always
- 18:05Speaker 1: think that people were able to take advantage of God's grace,
- 18:10Speaker 1: But as I get older in Christ, more mature in Christ,
- 18:13Speaker 1: I realize that's not so. The Bible says, do not
- 18:16Speaker 1: be deceived. God is not mocked, whether a man or woman.
- 18:20Speaker 1: So so shall they weep? You reap what you soul.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Eventually everything that's done in the dark will come into
- 18:28Speaker 1: the light. I can't hide anything. You can't hide anything,
- 18:32Speaker 1: and why should we. Amen. Let's love one another, forgive
- 18:35Speaker 1: one another, Let's encourage one another. Amen. And let's show
- 18:40Speaker 1: off Jesus and our hearts and our minds. Let's embrace
- 18:43Speaker 1: and celebrate His grace. Amen. It's okay to celebrate what
- 18:47Speaker 1: God wants us to embrace. His remarkable, undeserved, unmerited favor
- 18:53Speaker 1: belongs to his children, and we are his children. Sister
- 18:56Speaker 1: Neilsa God bless you. Amen. God bless you. Welcome to
- 19:00Speaker 1: the morning DeVos go to see you, my system, my friend.
- 19:02Speaker 1: So listen, we have an incredible opportunity to celebrate during
- 19:08Speaker 1: the Christmas season New Year's season. Amen. As a matter
- 19:11Speaker 1: of fact, I like when the new year starts. A man.
- 19:15Speaker 1: If I'm here by God's grace in twenty twenty five
- 19:18Speaker 1: and I'm still around, Amen, I want to do something new.
- 19:21Speaker 1: This is a new year, so let's do new things. Amen.
- 19:25Speaker 1: Let's challenge ourselves to be more loving, more full of grace,
- 19:28Speaker 1: more full of mercy. Amen, to read his word, more
- 19:32Speaker 1: to apply his word in our lives, a man, to
- 19:34Speaker 1: be a listening ear for those who are hurt and
- 19:36Speaker 1: broken hearted. Let's be those people. Let's be what the
- 19:40Speaker 1: world says we are right because they know it's going
- 19:43Speaker 1: to be difference. The world knows, godless nations know that
- 19:48Speaker 1: we're supposed to be different. So let's be the difference.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Let's be what Jesus calls us, the assaults and light
- 19:54Speaker 1: of the world. Amen. And it's okay to celebrate what
- 19:57Speaker 1: God wants us to celebrate. Witness, friends, you guys, don't
- 20:01Speaker 1: celebrate nothing that's on y'all. Amen. God wants us to
- 20:05Speaker 1: have the joy of the Lord. God wants us to
- 20:07Speaker 1: laugh and celebrate. Amen. He doesn't want us to be
- 20:10Speaker 1: so strict and just legalistic and following just like the Father,
- 20:16Speaker 1: only without following the Lord and taking. Trying to take
- 20:20Speaker 1: the deity away from Jesus is blasphemy. Be careful, come
- 20:25Speaker 1: out of that religion, come out of that cult in
- 20:27Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. That's for you, my Jehovah Witness friend. Amen.
- 20:31Speaker 1: I say it in love. I know you could take
- 20:32Speaker 1: it as an attack, but it's not. It's the grace
- 20:35Speaker 1: of God over your life and the grace of God
- 20:37Speaker 1: over my life. Amen. And the amazing thing is we
- 20:42Speaker 1: could pray for one another. If you think Christians born
- 20:47Speaker 1: again believers are wrong by believing that the Lord Jesus
- 20:50Speaker 1: Christ is God, pray for us. I know you don't
- 20:54Speaker 1: because you think we're infidels, but we pray for you.
- 20:57Speaker 1: I know a lot of people that pray for Jeovah Witness,
- 21:00Speaker 1: and I know a couple personally that got out of
- 21:03Speaker 1: the cult of Jovah Witness. Amen. I don't know why
- 21:06Speaker 1: I went down that road. Holy Spirit is unctioned in me. Amen.
- 21:10Speaker 1: That's for you. Amen. God loves you. He wants you
- 21:13Speaker 1: to celebrate his grace. You didn't deserve it. I didn't
- 21:17Speaker 1: deserve it. Amen. Where did the grace of God comes from?
- 21:21Speaker 1: Where did the love of God come from? You know
- 21:23Speaker 1: that God, because of his love, wanted to dwell among
- 21:27Speaker 1: his people. He wanted to. He didn't have to because
- 21:30Speaker 1: in the trying you at the Trinity. Amen, I know,
- 21:34Speaker 1: my Jove witness friend, another thing you don't believe in,
- 21:36Speaker 1: but end up trying you. God had you had love,
- 21:42Speaker 1: the loved one and the lover all three and one
- 21:46Speaker 1: did not already had a community going on. God already
- 21:50Speaker 1: had a community Amen, with himself among himself. But then
- 21:54Speaker 1: he said, listen, I love. His love is so much
- 21:57Speaker 1: that created all things. Beginning, God created the heavens and
- 22:01Speaker 1: the earth. In the beginning, God created Amen, the heavens
- 22:05Speaker 1: and the earth. Amen. The earth was void, dark, and
- 22:10Speaker 1: Holy Spirit hovered over the darkness. God said, let that
- 22:13Speaker 1: be light there was You know what I mean, if
- 22:15Speaker 1: you look at Genesis, you cannot tell me that that's
- 22:18Speaker 1: not love. You cannot tell me that that's not awesome grace,
- 22:21Speaker 1: that's awesome mercy. Amen. Why would he stop right and
- 22:26Speaker 1: just create all of this that we see and everything
- 22:29Speaker 1: that we don't see, and then create us and we
- 22:32Speaker 1: mess up. And his grace was shown in Genesis chapter three.
- 22:37Speaker 1: He had grace over Adam and Eve. He could have
- 22:39Speaker 1: annihilated them, but he just kicked them out of the garden, Amen,
- 22:43Speaker 1: which is punishment. He could have annihilated the devil, which
- 22:47Speaker 1: was the serpent they meant. But because of his grace,
- 22:51Speaker 1: the devil is still alive. Adam and Eve lived, We
- 22:55Speaker 1: are alive. Amen. And because of his grace, his promises
- 22:58Speaker 1: are all yea and amen, and he's coming back soon,
- 23:02Speaker 1: by the grace of God. Celebrate, Embrace the grace. Embrace
- 23:07Speaker 1: the fact that we are fully fully forgiven, not halfway forgiven.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Not you know so, and so sometimes God will forgive
- 23:17Speaker 1: me for this. No, we're fully forgiven and we are
- 23:21Speaker 1: loved by God. And it's nothing halfway when it comes
- 23:24Speaker 1: to the Lord Jesus, nothing is halfway. Jesus said it
- 23:29Speaker 1: is finished. To tell us did on the cross, he
- 23:32Speaker 1: said it is finished. He didn't say I am finished.
- 23:37Speaker 1: He said it is finished. The sin that was paid.
- 23:40Speaker 1: There was a transaction on that cross, once for all,
- 23:45Speaker 1: for all my brothers and sisters in Egypt, Africa, Australia,
- 23:50Speaker 1: parts of the world that I never set my foot
- 23:53Speaker 1: on my feet on. He said he did it for
- 23:56Speaker 1: you too. Amen. That's why I could have a brother
- 24:00Speaker 1: or sister in Christ in another part of the world.
- 24:03Speaker 1: And when we come together, we'll be like man. We
- 24:06Speaker 1: have the same Father, so we're related, and we'll start
- 24:09Speaker 1: speaking and encouraging each other. By the word of God.
- 24:12Speaker 1: Even if there's a language barrier, we sense holy Spirit
- 24:15Speaker 1: of God amongst us. Amen. It's an amazing, incredible way
- 24:20Speaker 1: to live, living under the grace and love and forgiveness
- 24:25Speaker 1: of God. If you're not forgiven by God, then I'm
- 24:29Speaker 1: here to tell you that you should get that going asap.
- 24:32Speaker 1: You should ask Jesus to forgive you, Amen. And he
- 24:36Speaker 1: says in his word he will not turn anyone away.
- 24:39Speaker 1: He'll forgive you or your sins. Amen. Believe in your
- 24:44Speaker 1: heart that the Lord is God to Jesus and God
- 24:48Speaker 1: raised Jesus on the third Day. Confessed with your mouth
- 24:51Speaker 1: that Jesus and the Lord and is Lord. And the
- 24:54Speaker 1: Bible says you will be saved. It doesn't say you
- 24:57Speaker 1: might be saved. And let me call an angel to
- 25:00Speaker 1: make sure God got by messing none of that. This
- 25:04Speaker 1: is direct from you to the Lord. Amen. We have
- 25:07Speaker 1: a living God who responds. We have a living God
- 25:10Speaker 1: full of grace and mercy. Grace is God giving us
- 25:16Speaker 1: undeserved favor where we don't deserve. And mercy is holding
- 25:20Speaker 1: is God holding back what we do deserve. Grace is
- 25:23Speaker 1: God's gift. Mercy is God's withdrawal, like holding back of
- 25:28Speaker 1: what we do deserve. So on both ends of the
- 25:31Speaker 1: spectrum we got what God has for us. Amen. Just
- 25:33Speaker 1: looking at the clock there, making sure I'm not running
- 25:37Speaker 1: out of the time where I am. I have a
- 25:38Speaker 1: couple of minutes left. So how amazing is God's grace?
- 25:42Speaker 1: How amazing is knowing that you are fully forgiven, fully forgiven.
- 25:48Speaker 1: Now you can get into a situation with a brother
- 25:51Speaker 1: or sister, on an uncle, mom or dad, a child. Amen.
- 25:57Speaker 1: And when it comes to forgiveness, it's harder for some.
- 26:00Speaker 1: I know I was in a situation where it was
- 26:02Speaker 1: hard for me to forgive someone. It took me literally
- 26:05Speaker 1: a decade to forgive that person in my heart, in
- 26:08Speaker 1: my heart. But thank you Jesus, because of your grace
- 26:12Speaker 1: a man you worked with me. Amen, And God is
- 26:16Speaker 1: still working with me by his grace, and he's working
- 26:19Speaker 1: on you. I believe by his grace. You know the
- 26:22Speaker 1: areas in your life that is, if it wasn't because
- 26:24Speaker 1: of God's grace, what would be of you or what
- 26:27Speaker 1: would be of me? There's areas in our lives that
- 26:29Speaker 1: God continues to show his grace over us and for
- 26:32Speaker 1: our brothers and sisters who seem to be playing around
- 26:35Speaker 1: with the grace game. I call it, amen, I think,
- 26:40Speaker 1: just be honest with yourself and realize that we are
- 26:43Speaker 1: one day closer to the end. We won't be here
- 26:46Speaker 1: on this planet Earth no more. So that spiritual Russian roulette.
- 26:50Speaker 1: You know, I'll just do this. God will forgive me,
- 26:52Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter because God is full of grace.
- 26:55Speaker 1: He has grace over my life. So I'll continue to
- 26:57Speaker 1: do this, X, Y, and Z nobody know. Just be
- 27:01Speaker 1: careful with that. As a matter of fact, there's no
- 27:03Speaker 1: joy in that because you're always looking over your shoulder
- 27:06Speaker 1: to see if anybody saw you, see if anybody knows,
- 27:10Speaker 1: and then you have to lie, and and on top
- 27:12Speaker 1: of that, you have to lie again. That's the worldly
- 27:14Speaker 1: way of thinking, that's the worthly way of living. That's
- 27:17Speaker 1: the flesh trying to take over your situation. Be done
- 27:21Speaker 1: with that, Amen, and live the fullness of God through
- 27:24Speaker 1: his grace. Celebrate grace today in the morning devo today.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Start that as a new holiday, you know, ritual tradition,
- 27:34Speaker 1: how we want to call it, celebrating grace on doing
- 27:37Speaker 1: a Christmas and New Year's season. Amen, it will do
- 27:40Speaker 1: you good. I'm gonna start that, Amen asap. Celebrating God's
- 27:44Speaker 1: grace and boasting about my Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. So
- 27:49Speaker 1: with that said, I took two scriptures. You can read
- 27:52Speaker 1: it for yourself Ephesians chapter two and tie this chapter two.
- 27:55Speaker 1: Read the whole thing for yourself. I'm out of time,
- 27:58Speaker 1: but God bless you all. Gotta keep you all and
- 28:01Speaker 1: remember always that God is good. Peace.