Walking from here to eternity God's way

Thank you Lord for brother Simon. Thank you that you've

said a word that is hot, that's enough to build

us up, to stir us up.

If we are willing.

If we are willing, so Holy Spirit, give us the

willingness to honor your word. The word is living, is

sharper than any two edged sword. Let it pierce the unbelief,

the sickness, the fear, the anguish. Let it pierce it.

Don't hold on repent as the word comes, because through

repentance God can start working in you. Bless Simon as

he brings the word in the name of Jesus.

Amen HOA. So this is the last in the series

of from here to Eternity, And the title that I

decided on this morning was walking from here to Eternity

God's Way. God's been talking to me this week about

how he wants to put this this preach together. So

I've got some scriptures, I've got some notes. But we'll

see if we stick to the scripture. And see we're

stick to the notes. I'm not right sure right now. Well,

this Spirit, we welcome you. Please touch the words I say,

make them life and health the people's hearts. Lord, Amen,

So we all walk don't we everyone knows how to walk.

We were in London yesterday because Jasmin's birthday, so he

booked sometime. We booked a trip to Winners for the Prosecution,

which should like with the Christie play. It was hot

in London yesterday as well. I didn't like it anyway.

Were walking around London and it was heaving. The train

was heaving. That was the first part of the school holidays,

so you got all the kids queuing to go into

Shrek World or water World or this World. On the

embankment it was. It was full of people, full of

people running, walking, cycling. I was just thinking as I

saw the people. Some people were walking very quickly with

their head down. Some people were chilled head back, just

strolling along. Evan has their own gate. Evan has their

own gate as they wander around. Then why am I

they going to London? And it's that I do not know.

But I still I don't like too much heat. So

I said, I'd like to say this in a natural

we learn how to walk. I remember my Auntie telling

me a story when all my family where I come from,

living within about a mile of each other. They don't

travel either, don't leave the place where they were born

more than a mile. And then I used to follow

my dad to the wreck, which is a recreation ground

with those people. That means in the morning with the dog.

And apparently I used to used to walk ahead, and

I used to walk behind him, and I used to

follow his gate and follow is the way he stands.

So it's like a mini dad. And my aunt used

to say, because she just she's been in the same

house for oh, you know, six years. So anyway, I

just said that, said this, that I followed what he

was doing. And we do that with our parents or

those people who bring us up if they haven't got

any parents. Some people don't know them when my dad

ask some people do. But we all learned how to walk.

And what go want to talk to us today is

how we walk with him. We'll get that in a minute,

but just as a bit of context, it's how we

walk with him too. Crinthin's five verse seventeen says there

if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

All things have passed away. Behold all things become new.

It's a very familiar scripture to us to Crinins five

verse seventeen, and the reason why I'm referring to this

scripture is to build a bit of a foundation before

we go into what I think I wants to say. So,

we were all born again. We all came to a

point in our lives where we prayed the prayer. We

didn't know it's called a prayer at the time. Possibly,

Hey God, here I am, help me, use me do

something in my life. And something happened on the inside

of us. Our physical bodies didn't change. I didn't become

six foot four, you know, I didn't get green hair

or whatever. I just stayed the same as I was.

I was the same on the outside. But on the

inside our spirits change. Yeah, they were dead and they

became alive. Ephesians two and verse one says I knew

He made alive who were dead in trespass and sin,

And Roman sixt' eleven says, likewise, you also yourselves be

dead to sin, but to live to God in Christ Jesus.

So the point that we started our journey with the Father,

the Son, and the Holy Spirit, he transformed our lives

from the inside out. He dealt with them with all

our habits straightway. But it's working on our character, is

working in the soul is realm. So let's put this right.

So we're born again. Our spirit is born again, our

spirit is changed, immediately changed, it becomes born again. It's perfect,

it's complete, and that's how we connect with God. But

we have a mind, a will, and emotions. Yeah, the

soul sol this realm, and God develops that realm. He

works in that realm to change us from glory to glory.

Romans twelve and verse two puts it this way. This

is the amplified version. Do not be conformed to this

world any longer with its superficial values and customs, but

be transformed. And there is a like this Scriptures particularly,

it says, and progressively changed as you mature spiritually by

the renewing of your mind, focusing on godly values and

ethical attitudes, so that you may prove for yourselves what

is the will of God, that what is good, and

accept them perfect his plan and purpose for you. So

we are transformed by the reign of a mind. His

spirit's done and dusted at that point in time. But

our mind, our will, and emotions are transformed by the

Word of God. Here. So as we spend time in

the world, we are transformed, we are changed. That take

That is a process which goes on until we leave here,

all right, depending how diligent and consistent you are and

I am, depends how which we are changed, and that

is our choice. God will work with us, and he

will have encounters with us when things need to be changed,

which is like, this is the time for this. And

if you don't do that, you go around a mountain

until you come back to that point, and it's done again,

until that is sorted, and then we go into the

next bit and the next because we're changed from glory

to glory, so we align ourselves at Him so that

this is my body, but it's his life. And the

more I am transponmed a more life you can see

of him, then you can see of me and believe it.

That's a it's a better situation for everybody. So we're

being progressively changed or matured. Okay, two prints in three

and verse eighteen stays that we are being transformed into

the same image from glory to glory, just as by

the spirit of the Lord. So we're being paid christ

like on a journey. So that's just a bit of

an introduction to as a foundation about where we started

and where we need to get to. And maybe that's

a revelation for some of us that that's what that's

the way God does it. And maybe you've been around

that mountain before. A top tip it's better to deal

with it the first time round than the second time round.

I've done that, so I know. So if God brings

something to your attention, it's always a good idea to

deal with it then and there and tick the box

and go into the next thing, because it doesn't let

it slide. Anyway. That wasn't part of my sermon. So

part of the transformation that I've just outlined is learning

how to walk like Jesus did. So we need a

heavenly father to teach us how to walk in the world.

We know how to walk. We know how to run,

you know. We know it's automatic. If a dog starts

chasing you and it's a big dog, you may choose

to run. Simple as that. We all know how to walk.

Some of us walk slowly, some of us walk quickly.

I could tell you some stories about my wife and

her friend, but I won't. They're both here today. But

some of us walk slowly, and some of us walk quickly.

What the Lord wants to get over us today is

how we learn how to walk with him. So we

need to learn how to walk with him, which is

different from just walking. We need to get to the

point where walking with him becomes so instinctive as walking. Normally,

you get out your chair, you go to the kitchen

to make a drink, or you go to get in

your car, or you go to get in the bus.

You don't think about you just get on with it.

What the Lord wants us to learn how to do

is to do that with him, all right. So that's

the essence of this. So the question is how do

we walk? How do we walk? Well, there's some clues

in the Bible Habercat two, four, Romans one seventeen, Galatians

street thirteen, Hebrews ten thirty eight. Anyone know what that is?

Audience participation? Anybody how's behind me? Is it? Okay? You

should have all said that? Then they just shall live

by faith. It's repeated four times in the Bible. They

just shall live by faith. It sounds really good, they

just shall live by faith. But what what does that

really mean? You know? And does it apply when I'm

in church? Does it apply when I'm at work for somebody.

It's a phrase that we hear binded about in church.

But that what's that mean? You know? Oh well, it

means this really okay? Sometimes its not what that means

to us. You know, we're used to focusing on how

we do things we've learned in the world. We used

to because unless you're born again at a very early age,

you learn a pattern which you follow through as you

get older. Yeah, and it's very easy to rely on

that pattern than it is to rely on God's way

of doing things and being right. And God wants to

talk to this morning about how we do it his way,

but consistently doing it his way in essence, we overcome

by faith when we do it God's way. If we

do it our way, we will not overcome. We will

get by by.

What we know.

All right, there's nothing wrong with what we know. But

when we're born again, we can move from here to here,

so we change on the inside, but we don't necessarily

walk the way he wants us to walk. On the inside.

We walk how we used to walk. So we get

to that stage where we can be walking in and out.

We can be walking with God one minute and out

the next it. But he wants us to walk consistently

with him all the time, and that's the rub. So

for me, walking by faith means trust in God applying

his written word and his spoken word. Because sometimes God

will spake a Rhema word to me. That's the word.

It's alive, and it's for the power, and it's simon,

and that is the word I will follow on that

particular instance, and that's the way I'll walk. And sometimes

it's a written word where God amplifies something from the

word that got to me, or I'm in a situation

I pull that word out and I use it. That's

why Dave puts the scriptures are behind us, so that

word becomes finis that in our heart, not just in

our mind. It's a bright bloke. It is it for

a reason. The key thing is to focus on the

bigness of our God, not on the circuences that we see.

Often we can smooth out of where we need to

be because you looking at the circumstances rather than God

what God says and walking by faith is staying aligned

with what God has spoken to you through his word

or what is coaching in terms of a rema world.

You need to stick on that line and walk it

every day. It's not based on what we feel, it's

not based on what we think. In essence, it's based

on what the Word of God says. Well, that sounds

very nice, all right, But when you're at work tomorrow,

or what if you're doing tomorrow and the rubber hits

the road, what you're going to do? Yeah, we can

sing and dance and have away of a timing here today,

but when you're out in the world in a pressurized situation,

what are you're going to do? The answer is typically

you'll go back to type. Type means what you know

we need. Type for us needs to be walking closely

with God, not relying on what our natural man tells us. Yeah,

challengers will come and challengers will go. That is life.

Whether you're eight eighty eight or twenty eight. There's challenges.

That is just how it is. The key to overcoming

is how we deal with those challenges, And for a believer,

it's to stay anchored in the Word of God. When

we walk by faith, we see into the invisible, how

we do the impossible, Otherwise it would not be faith.

I could go through Hebrews eleven the Hall the Fame,

and listed out what those people did by faith. I'm

not going to do it because the time. But by

faith the red sea was parted, and they walked over

on dry ground. By faith, they walked around His rights,

walked around the city of Jericho, singing, and then the

worlds fell down. Sometimes God askes us to do things

which don't align with what we've learned in the natural.

The key to walking the way God walks is to

align with his thinking. So to Corinthians five, verse seven says,

for we walk by faith, not by sight. Everyone familiar

that scripture, oh good, So we walk by faith, not

by sight. The word walk there is perry pato In

the Greek. Perry means to walk or around, if you

like around, and peto means to tread or to stomp,

hence the translated walk for those whose people don't speak Greek,

so as who does but I don't. Two Corinthians five

seven of the amplified by Bible says for we walk

by faith. We regulate our eyes and concept ourselves by

our conviction or belief. Respecting man's relationship to God and

divine things, we trust with holy fervor Thus we walk

not by sight or by appearance. So we see into

the invisible and we do the impossible when we walk

by faith, because that is the only way you can operate.

God will ask us to walk by faith. It's something

we can do in our natural ability. If you want

to see a healing for somebody, when you walking by faith,

and when you go and pray somebody, you release your

faith and believe what the Word of God says, and

that person is healed, you believe it, you reve it.

That's how you do it. So we need to focus

on the word of God and not what we see.

And this can be a challenge for us. When stuff happens,

which is I can use the word heavy, the stuff

that happens which is sort of a light touch, it's like, oh,

this is not a big deal. I can handle it.

Then the stuff which is heavy and it's all hangs

with you during the day, it hangs with you at night,

it hangs when you're asleep. You just can't get rid

of it. Yeah, and that's so we need to not

look at our circumstances, but look at the bigness of

our God. If he's in three twenty says the God

is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we

ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

according to the power that works in us. Remember this

is our body, but it's his life, and God's power

is inside each every one of us. The key is

to learn how to walk by faith, renew your natural man,

your mind, your will and emotions, and a line with

God so that power is released. If you're in the flesh,

it isn't going to work. You've got to be in

the spirit. So I recall the time when I was

dealing with some heavy stuff years ago, and the Lord

gave me a word, which is Proverbs three five and six.

Trusting the Lord with all your heart and lean on

your own understanding in all your ways. Acknowledge Him, and

He shall direct made straight and play in your paths.

So wherever when this word was being spoken to me,

or played to me, or even sung to me, and

you know, I struggled at that time with dealing with

what God had said and what the circumstances was saying

to me. I applied God's word, but as a battle

in my mind because mine was not renewed in that area.

So I knew what the Word of God says. And

I kept declaring it over my life, and I knew

the circumstance. And at the end of it, what was

a big deal became nothing for me. But God had

given me a word. I'd applied the word because my

mind wasn't renewed in that area. It was a battle.

I'd say one thing in my mind, let's say something else,

to say one thing. It was like playing tennis. Not

there playing tennis. I watched it on the television when

I have to, But it was like that back back, back,

back back. It's like, goodness, me give it a rest.

But it was a battle. And until I got through it,

until I had the word became a part of me.

This was thirty five years ago, but until the work

became part of me, it was still a battle. So

it's so important that we renew our mind with the

Word of God, so when stuff happens, we're ready for it,

all right. Although I just message with your mind, it's

just tough. Affects your sleep, all that sort of stuff.

And the biggest thing I learned about that is not

to look at my circumstances, but the bigness of my

God Jerema thirty thirty two twenty seven. Behold, I'm the

Lord of God of our flesh. Is anything too hard

for me? Now? Not that? Then it's not time to

get a list and go, oh, here's my list, but

not this lot. You know. It's Behold, I'm the Lord,

Lord of God o flesh. Is it anything too hard

for me? Nothing is too hard for God. The secret

is to recognize that and to roll that care over

on him. Again. It's easy to say, it's not easy

to do. We've got to learn that. And that's part

of the walking experience, all right, that this stuff is

easy because you've got to learn it. Whether whatever age

you are, you've got to learn it. I've got to

tell you about it. How nice. So I'm gonna share

sort of three things. I'm not gonna go through all

the scriptures because of time, but we've talked through what

they are. So looking at Jesus as an example, Luke

for and verse one says, then Jesus, full and controlled

by the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was

led by the Holy Spirit as he went into the wilderness.

And you can the rest of that scripture for yourself.

Jesus can give us a master class how it's to

walk by faith. He had to learn that as a boy.

You had to learn that as a boy. So there's

three scriptures want to have a look at. So we look.

One is Mark five twenty one, So look at that

one twenty one. So this is the woman is Sue

of Blood. But also it's also Gyrus and his daughter.

I think we're going to look at the daughter a

bit this morning, verse twenty two. And behold, one of

the rulers of the synagogue came Gyrus by name, And

when he saw him, he fell at his feet and

begged him earnestly, saying, my little daughter lies at the

point of death. Come and lay your hands on her,

that she may be healed and she will live. And

Jesus went with him, and the great multitude followed him.

I'm not going to go through all the scriptures because

of time, but Jesus went with Gyrus. It wasn't like, no, may,

I'm busy, says okay, let's go. Oh see. Then the

lady of issue of blood came along. She touched the

hem of his garm or its talad, to be specific,

and heali in virtue went through Jesus' body to her,

and she was healed, And obviously he said, what's going on,

turned around, had a chat. But at the same time,

the clock was ticking for Gyrus and his daughter. So

I jumped down to verse thirty five. It's on there,

maybe it is, which is the sort of key key

Scritch want to highlight. So obviously the lady this hue,

but had been healed. She's then turned his attention back

to his initial action, which is to go with gyro Us.

While they were still speaking, some came from the Ruler

Synagogue's house and said, your daughter is dead. Why trouble

the teacher any further. So that's like the death punch

for that man at that point in time. Your daughter

is dead, noticed Jesus' response. As soon as Jesus heard

the word that was spoken, he said to the ruler Synagogue,

do not be afraid, only believe. Jesus was on point.

He was walking by faith, he was seeing in the invisible,

and he was about to do the impossible. He gave

Jars a word which Jazz hung on too. So all

the distance from where that lady had that miracle, So

when they got to Jesus's house. He's hanging on to

the word that Jesus gave him because that is all

he had, and we know the story. He goes in there,

he removes all the mourners who were wailing and moaning

because they would affect faith to be released. They took

a few pavillion. She has released his faith and that child,

twelve year old child, was healed. What Jesus did there

we can do today if we won't by faith. All right,

that is a stretch. It's happening outside here. I can

give you accounts. People have heard of raised people from

the dead. It's happened out here. But all things are

possible to those who believe. So the key point here

is fear and faith are opposites. If we want to

walk by faith, we must believe God and his word

and not look at our circumstances, but look at the

bigness of our God. Our circumstances will cry out to

us because that's what circumstances do. But we've got to

recognize the bigness of our God. We've got to renew

our minds so it doesn't go into overdrive because that's

the natural tendency. Believe me, I've done it. I'm not

talking from in experience and talking from experience. So for

God that even as a spirit of fear, but a

spirit of power, love and ess our mind two Timothy

one and verse seven. Yeah, we need to know that

on the inside. That needs to be part of us.

Otherwise fear can mess with our minds big time again.

I've been there. Second scripture it's Matthew twenty one. The

scripture is Matthew twenty one eighteen to twenty two, which

is when Jesus speaks to the victory. So I think

it's verse twenty one twenty one. So Jesus answered and

said to them, as surely I say to you, if

you have faith and do not doubt, you will alone

you will not only say you will not only do

what was done to the victory, but also so if

you say to this mountain and be removed and be

casting to see, it will be done. So running back

a bit, Jesus saw victory with leaves on. When you

have a victory victory of leaves on, they're supposed to

have fruit. It didn't. Jesus spoke to the victory, and

the victory withered there and then in Matthea our words,

when we walk in the spirit, carry power. God's word

will not return to void, but to accomplish that which

she pleased, and properly thing went to his center as

our fifty five eleven. Our words carry power. When we're

aligned with God, our words gary power. That's why it's

so important to watch what we come out. So we

say out of our mouth. We can shoot our mouth

off quite easily, but we're supposed to make eye yes, yes,

and no no, no, no, all that sort of stuff.

Jesus spoke the word and it happened because he was

walking by faith. He was aligned with God. He only

did what he saw the Father do. He only spoke

what he heard the Father say. He said that in John.

That's how we operated. They had the scrolls in the synagogue.

We've got the word of God on our phones or

in our handbags or in our whatever. You know, it's

a big handbag, Julia. But the key from this spick

of scriptures. We must walk by faith. We mustn't doubt.

We cannot be in faith one minute and out of

faith the next minute. You can't do the oky coke out,

shake it all about. I think it's something, isn't it.

You've got to be consistent. I've got to be consistent.

I think, what was it, Matthew fourteen. I get my

scriptures open. I think it's Matthew fourteen, verse thirty one.

I think thirty one. I got the wrong scripture. Yeah,

some of that I got the wrong scripture. I related anyway.

So what just thinking about is when Jesus walking on

the water, I was just walking by faith and in Matthew.

He gets up to the boat and all the boys

are in the boat, aren't they. And Peter says to Jesus,

if it's huge, Jesus command me to come to and

get out of the boat and come to you. And

Juda says, come. So Peter being Peter, gets out the

boat and starts walking on the water. And then the

scripture says that he saw the wind, he saw the waves,

and he started to beginning, he started to begin to sink,

and he stretch said, he said, Jesus save me. So

Jus got old of him, and that was it. And

what you just said to him is why did you doubt? Yeah?

Why did you doubt?

Now?

People give people the heart. People give Peter a hard

time that it preached. Oh, you know, Peter, you let

he blew it? Mate, I thought, hang about about the

other the other people let the people in the boat.

Then they got out of the boat. He's only blok.

I got out of the boat. So you know, Peter

got out of the boat. He acted and what Jesus said,

he acted them the spoken word of Jesus, and he

was walking on the water. He's only a mistake was

to look at the circumstances around him rather than the

bigness of his God. So the key phra is at

this point here is to walk consistently and not look

at our circumstances. Yeah, if God says something, we hold

on to that. And the last one is a woman

at the well, which is John fourth, three to forty two.

She's drawing water and she's said to give me a drink.

So he's a Jew. She's a Samaritan woman. It's the

middle of the day, which is unusual time to go

and draw walk but it's too chopping hot, so she

as got some issues anyway by going at that time

of the day and not with the rest of the

women in the morning. But Jesus is walking by faith,

is trogged all day. He hasn't eat any thing. He

sits down by this well and rather going, oh, just

put my feet up and wait for the boys to

come back with some food, he walked by faith. He

made that connection with that woman. I'm not going to

go the rest of it at the time, but he

made the connection with that woman. As a result of

that connection, a result of the ongoing dialogue led by

the Holy Spirit, not only her but the rest of

that town were touched. So the key element there is

faith engages. It's in the now. It's not passive, it's active, right,

Hebrews eleven one says, now faith is the substance of

things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It's

now faith, not tomorrow, not maybe later. Now. So when

we walk by faith, it is now. So the last

thing is, if you walk by faith, you're a candidate

for a miracle. If we step in and out of

walking by faith, then doing our own thing, we're not

going to be successful. We're going to have some success,

but not going to be successful. So what all this

boils down to is consistently walking by faith. God is

encouraging us as a group of people, whether we're online

or in the room he is encouraging us to look

at walking by faith a different way. I think Dave

said this about being deliberate or something of that nature.

What word you use, David, something about about being deliberate?

You know what ourd to say about being making a

quality decision, making the right choices. I've got a big

piece of cake over there. I want to lose weight

making the right choices going eating that cake. That is

not going to wait to go. That's not to get

my waist lined down. It is to walk away and

have a piece of fruit. Fruit, okake, What do you

want to do walking by faith? We've got to make

the right choice. So let me pray. We'll just wrap

this up. Well, Father, we thank you for your word.

I thank you, Lord. Your word does not return to

your void, but accompanies with that which you please, and

profer the thing we're into your Scentire Lord. I pray

this word will not return to your void thought, but

it would have the required effect. Lord. I pray you

speak to everybody in this room, everyone listening online later,

everyone listens on line. Now where they are, I pray

you take them from where they are by faith and

put them where you want them to be as they

talk to you about it, so they can be positioned

to walk by faith. And I pray teach them step

by step and each step up be a miracle. How

to align themselves with your way of walking for them

as an individual, so they walk how you want them

to walk, not just now, but every day. So that

is my prier Jesus, ask it now in the name

of Jesus. Thank you very much, brother Simon.

God bless you for being a hat that receives to

teach us as well. Okay, I can't see time, but

we are drawing to a close, and I hope that

you've been blessed by the word of God. Thank you,

brother Simon, for showing us the way. And I would

also say, create time for God. If we don't create

for time for God,