Which throne are you approaching

Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.

You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.

We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the

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Appreciate these songs. This morning I got a message on

that I started to preach today. That's a very song.

I'll finish it later. Hey man, I got another one.

Do you know it was prophesied that there was a savior coming

in Malachi that had healing Ware in his wings.

Jesus wore a rabbi coat because he was Jewish, right?

He wore a robe that had the tassels on it were called wings

in the Hebrew and the Greek. And I believe the lady with the

issue of blood knew that she had heard that when my little cow

prophesied there's healing in his wings.

Can I tell you it's still there this morning?

Amen. It's still there this morning.

Have your Bibles. Good to see everybody.

We survived the holidays. Hebrews chapter 4.

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God woke up in the wee hours of the morning with these words and

just built a message. You know, when the Lord wakes

you up, I figure He wants you to preach on it.

So I don't know. I can't tell you I got it

figured out. Still figuring, I guess, but I

try to let out what's in me is all I can say.

But let's stand the reading of the Word in Hebrews chapter 4.

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The Bible is full of. Thrones.

Mentions the throne room. Of heaven it mentions a throne

that Jesus sets up, it mentions 12/12 Thrones which the

disciples will set up on and judge the 12 tribes of Israel

and. Every time I think about all of

those. Thrones, you know I.

I think about it and I think about one of those Thrones would

have. Probably had Judas's name on it.

But he messed up, but yet there was something significant about

how he messed up because the Bible is full of people that

messed up, but some overcame, some didn't, right?

We've all messed up, but some of us has overcome and we're going

to overcome and some of us aren't, right.

And I want to, I want you to get that in your mind today.

I want to teach you how to overcome today.

But to overcome you have to learn this one thing in life is

you will approach your throne. I'm going to mention to you

several Thrones today, but the the greatest throne that you can

ever approach is, is the one with the king setting up on it,

Amen. The throne that the writer of

Hebrews says here in Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 14, it says

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seeing then that we have a great high priest, how many know who

that's talking about? It's not a cardinal, it's not

some priest that's over in the Roman Catholic Church, it's the

high priest, Amen. He said we have a high and a

great high priest, he said, who has passed through the heavens,

Jesus, the Son of God, who let us hold fast the confession for

we do not have a high priest. Well, I love that right there.

I'm not serving someone today that did not walk this earth and

go through everything that I'm going through and you're going

through today. But he walked this earth and he

can sympathize with your weakness.

Boy, that should get you going this morning.

Maybe you ain't got a weakness. I got them can sympathize with

our weaknesses plural, but was in all points tempted as we are

yet say that with me yet without sin.

So what what that so that's what leads us to verse 16.

So let us therefore, and I want you to focus on this word.

Come boldly. I'm going to be back to that

word many times during this message.

Therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may

obtain mercy. Well, we need mercy this.

Morning and find. Grace to help.

In our time of need. Father, we thank you for your

word this morning. We thank you for a great high

priest named Jesus Christ. We thank you for a throne that

we can approach with boldness today and find.

Mercy in our time. Of need.

Father, we thank you for that today.

We thank you for Jesus Christ that made the preaching of this

gospel possible and the the redemption of our sin so real in

our life and ultimately ends us at a home in heaven, a home in

glory, where we will see these Thrones.

That is in the very throne room where you're seated at the

right. Hand of the Father, right?

Now interceding for each and every.

One of us. We ask for the anointing to

receive and to preach this gospel as never before in 2026.

It's in your son's name. We.

Ask and pray. Amen.

So we read, we have a high priest, we have a great.

Throne. But see, there's a problem

there, because it's hard for some people to approach

something with boldness when they haven't accepted what he

did. And he who sets up on the

throne, Can I get a witness? But when you accept it, you can

approach that throne of grace with some boldness.

We read in Second Corinthians chapter 5 and 10 and Romans 14

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and 10. It speaks of a judgement seat of

Christ or the bema seat of Christ.

And he will be setting up on a throne and we're all believers

will appear before Christ and give an account.

Are you ready for that? A lot of people, a lot of

preachers says we don't have to answer what's all under the

blood, but but Second Corinthians 5 and 10, in Romans

14 and 10, it's where all believers will be before Christ

and give an account of their earthly lives, not to be

condemned. Salvation is sealed.

You're in Christ Jesus at this point, but he's going to

evaluate and reward us based upon our deeds.

The Bible says that some will be as wood and some will be as hay

and some will be as straw. I think of a lot of church folks

when I read that Scripture, Amen.

They have good intentions. They want to help somebody but

they never follow through. Can I get a witness?

I think of a lot of folk like that.

But he said yet there's going to be some that's going to be

tested. Y'all ain't preaching with me.

And that's going to be tested as far as silver and as gold.

And we will be rewarded that day revealing what was done in the

body, whether good or bad. See, God knows the intention.

But yes, in this life, we will approach the throne of grace to

make it to the judgement of Christ, right to the judgement

seat to the bima. We will stand before Christ.

But changes a lot of the way we think, a lot of the way we act,

a lot of the way. We live a lot of the places we

go. A.

Lot of the things we say and take in every day.

When you think about that, you will give an account.

I'll never forget when I was trying to figure out how to live

a Christian life, I heard the. The very, the the voice of.

God and speaking to me said if I was right there with you, would

you do it? Because I.

Am it changed my life because he's always with us.

He says I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you.

It doesn't matter what you're going through.

This morning I came by to tell you he has not left, but you

will approach the throne of grace at some point.

Some people don't, but I like to think that everybody has the

chance, right? See the judgment seat of Christ.

It's for those that have approached the throne of grace

with boldness. Ask for forgiveness, right and.

Accepted Jesus as their personal savior.

Yes, that's what it's for. And in the afterlife we will

approach a throne with a savior setting up on it.

How many is ready for that day? That's why it's very important

to know which throne you're approaching, right?

We have to know this for those that refuse to approach the

throne of grace. With boldness.

I I just wonder why it says that word.

Boldness. Somebody explain that here in a

minute. My opinion on it, but it's

important to approach the throne.

Of grace with boldness. That we're talking about in

Hebrews 4 because there is also called a great White Throne.

Judgment right in Revelations chapter. 20 We read of this.

Let's go to Revelations 20 and verses 1111 through 15.

John the Revelator says, Then I saw a great white throne, and

him who said on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens

had fled away, and there was found no.

Place for them, boy. And I saw the dead, the small,

and the great standing before God, and the books were opened,

and another book was opened. This is a very important book.

Can I get a witness which is the book of life?

And it was open, and it says, And the dead were judged

according to the works by the things which were written in the

books. The sea gave up the dead that

were in it, and death in Hades delivered up the dead that were

in it, and there were, and they were judged.

Nobody's escaping judgment. Nobody.

Well, what if they died in the ocean?

Just said they the ocean give it up.

He put the pieces back together right and we will be judged each

one according here it is again. But we seem to live in the in

the church age and as forgot about works, Amen.

We say that there's no way to get to heaven.

I don't have to do works. I don't do well.

What did James say? He said faith without works is

dead, right? So if you don't have works, your

faith is dead this morning. And he says, you show me your

works and I'll show you your faith.

Amen. We're judged according to what

our works, not what we've said, but our work.

See, when you confess Jesus as Lord, there's going to be a work

that's done in your life and, and you're going to notice the

difference when you walk around in the flesh, right?

Because it's the finished work at Calvary, Amen.

If you're still living like the world, the finished work of

Calvary has not manifested in your earthly body and you have

not been transformed. Maybe you had a little bit of

the renewing of the mind, but inside you have not been

transformed into the likeness of Christ.

Somebody abortion with me this morning and it goes on to say,

and they were judged, each one according to his works.

Verse 14. Then death and Hades were cast

into the lake of fire. The final judgment.

This is the second death and anyone not found.

What a day that's going to be written in the Book of Life.

Was. Cast into the Lake of Fire.

Which throne are you approaching this morning?

See, Jesus will set up on here on this throne, and he will be

the. Presiding Judge.

And justice will be served. That day and that.

Going to be cool. Nobody's going to get away with

it. We're not.

You know, if the glove don't quit that fit, there ain't going

to be no acquittal and all this crazy stuff that we hear in

courtrooms. Amen.

Justice will be served. You know, I live a life in peace

knowing that if I do what God's called me to do, I will stand

before a just God and I'm going to get what's coming to me.

Amen. You're going to get what's

coming to you. That's a cool deal because in

this life we are not treated that way.

It's unjustice in this life many times.

But let's look at these Thrones. How many how many Thrones do we

approach? There's so many Thrones we read

in the Bible that we were created what in the image of

God, not Satan, but in the garden.

Because sin entered in disobedience said it really

wasn't a bad sin. I mean, there wasn't no adultery

committed. There wasn't a grade of sin

here. It was just the one sin that we

all commit called disobedience, right?

But because of that, sin was committed.

It was placed upon us this term that the wages of sin is death

as we walk through this life. So what really happens to a

human as I begin to look at this and pray and study it, What

happens to a human if we were created in the image of God?

Why don't we act like God? We accept Jesus, we pray the

sinner's prayer. Why don't we act like God?

Why aren't we? Why don't we?

Jesus said greater things than than he did on this earth.

We can do, but yet we're not doing them right.

So let's look at this this morning because the wages of sin

is death. So as we walk through this life,

what really happens is, and I believe this is so true, is we

lose our identity. We lose who we identify as a

child of God. We're still God still created us

in his image, but we have lost the identity.

What did the one prayer that Jesus prayed upon this earth?

What was he trying to do? He said die Kingdom come, let it

be on earth as it is in heaven. So ever since the fall of man,

Christ came to try to get the dominion that was in heaven and

our place of dominion to put us back into our place of dominion,

not take us out of something. You know, I see a lot of

Christian folk, they think God's trying to take him out of

something. No, He's trying to put you back

in the place that he meant for you to be.

He's trying to put you back in the place of dominion and cannot

tell you where God put us to, to have domain.

It was a great place. There was no kucka birds.

There was no weeds, there was no sickness, there was no sorrow.

There was no work and sweat of the brow and all those things

went on. There was no lust.

There was no greed. There was no poverty.

It was a great place to to to have as a dominion place, right?

But we lose our identity as a child of God, but yet we were

created in him. We identify ourselves in our

mind as a fallen sinful person and that's the truth.

That is a truth. I cannot come to you today and

tell you that you have never sinned because the Bible says we

say we have not sinned that we're a liar and the truth is

not in US, right? But see, we can't, we have to

approach this throne. So how do I approach it?

How do I approach a savior? How do I do this with boldness?

But see, we identify ourselves as unworthy as unworthy and, and

we walk through life identifying ourself like that.

So how do we approach it? If I ask you, how do you

approach the throne? How do you pray?

Man, I bet if I, I give this mic to so many people, their prayers

start like God, I need this God. Would you Amen.

We do. We're guilty all at all times.

We have to stop and, and thank him, you know, and, and thank

him for for health is the very first thing because without it,

we're nothing right? And we overlook it so many

times. We have people ingesting things

all into their body. I, I talked to a friend of mine

the other day and he, he went to prison when he was young for

drugs and selling drugs. And he told me, he said I had a

friend call me. He said I've been off of that

stuff for years. He said, I did my time, I've

sold them, I've done them, but I no longer do those things.

But I have people call me and say, hey, that my, my child is

addicted to this thing. And, and he said, well, where

did he get it? What is it?

He said, you're asking the wrong person.

I don't identify as that anymore, But yet he was wanting

to know. And he said, where'd he get it?

He said, you can get it in any gas station.

It's a pandemic and I can't even call the name of it.

But I've had people that have done all kinds of, of things to

their body and they say this stuff that you can buy over the

counter that's got in the it's in the vape shops, It's

everywhere. He said when mixed and done with

the right things, they said it's worth in anything you could ever

do to your body and it'll give you a high like you've never

had. And it's right over the counter,

right over the counter. I'm not going to go into all the

names. I'll mess it up.

But see, we don't have to. Go very far to find that we're

fallen. That we're in need of a savior.

How do you approach a throne? With a great high priest.

How do we do this with the only begotten Son that God?

Sent to this Earth to save us. I would say approach it like you

do the things of the world pretty.

I bet it'll work. If you approach the throne of

grace with the boldness that you approach your job every Monday

morning, If you approach the throne of grace like you like

you do retirement, come on, somebody.

If you approach the throne of grace like the almighty dollar

that we think we have to have to survive, if we approach the

throne of grace with that kind of boldness, we're going to get

some results. Amen.

I would say when you approach the throne of grace, want it #1

work for it, strive for it, contend for it.

Amen. Approach the throne of grace

with boldness. We're so good at approaching

Thrones in this life and things that we have set up on a throne

or a pedestal. We're so good at that, right?

At all cost. We're good at attaining the

things that giving. Even if it cost us some family

time, even if it cost us some church time, even whatever it

cost us, we're good at going after the things of the world.

Why don't we get good at going after the things of God and look

at the enemy and say, hey, I'm too busy for the world today.

I'm going to fix my mind on things above and not things on

this earth. What would what results would we

get? I ask you, what a throne are you

approaching? And how do you approach?

It giving up time acknowledging God many people don't even

acknowledge. God because they're too busy.

Or the first little thing comes up and.

We put it before God. Start taking some time out for

God and see what he'll do for you.

We say God do this for me. But yet I believe God screaming.

What have you done for me? I would say approach it like you

do the world. Come on, somebody.

Get too busy for the world? Be about the Father's.

Business. What will it?

Cost. That's the first thing.

We want to know, I promise you will gain 100 more times, he

says. I'll replace it.

Let's go to Matthew 19 and 20. 8 I had a runaway when I read the

scripture. I'm talking it's good y'all

Matthew 19 and 28. You got to get.

This this morning, Jesus was telling his.

Disciples which were doubting. He was trying to tell them

something they didn't get and we still don't get.

With God all things are possible, but in verse 27 I'll

back up and read what Peter. Had asked.

Peter answered. And he said to him, see, we have

left all what sounds like church, folks.

I didn't go to my work thing to come to church.

What you going to do? God, I miss work.

I did this, I did that. Wasn't that what Peter was

doing? Man, we've left all to follow

you. What was Peter really saying?

And we've had to sleep on the ground.

We've been hungry. We've been cold.

We've been that. They don't tell them what they

went through. I'm at Jesus Saint Peter.

I told you that when you struck out with me.

I warned you of that. But hear what Peter said, what

Christians are screaming today, therefore, because I've left all

of this stuff. What can I have?

What? Are you going to give me God?

And then most Christians sit back and wait for God to give.

And depending on what God gives. Is the degree of how they will

worship. It's the degree.

Of what they will give. Back to God.

But see, the problem with that is that's the wrong throne

because that's not the throne that he's sitting on.

That's the throne that you have been taught in this world when

you lost your identity and left your place of dominion because

of the sin in our life, right? So we're not we're not even

looking up the right throne because I'm here to tell you God

does not operate like that. He says you give me your life

and you trust me with your life and I'm going to make it

something beautiful that you could never imagine.

But you're not going to know what it's going to be.

You're not even know what you're going to be doing.

You're probably going to change careers and the destination that

you thought you was going to be. It's probably not going to

happen that way. It could.

But he says give it to me and then I'll show you what I'll do.

But no, we're like Peter, we've left all to follow you.

Therefore, what are you going to give me?

Who? It's the wrong throne.

Can you say, man, it's the wrong throne?

How would you answer? How did Jesus answer that?

He said assuredly. I say to you, he automatically

goes from the here and now to the regeneration to where we're

regenerated to where we're in the in the heavenly Rams.

Jesus never he would take the earth and turn it right around

to his Kingdom, to his throne. He said assuredly.

I say to you that in the regeneration, when the Son of

Man, whoa, that's on his throne, I'm ready.

He sits on the throne of his glory.

You who have followed me, he was looking at the disciples.

You know, you, you have a bunch of old.

I'm not going to call the denominator.

God help me to bite my tongue and not call the denomination,

but they think that the only person Jesus was talking to was

the disciples. Every time there's a worker

every time God's really trying to do something they say wow, he

was talking to the can't do that to me.

God, that was for the disciples. You ever been told I just want

to back just shake them and wake them.

OK, but let's get real. He was talking to the disciples

right here. He said in the regeneration when

the son. Of man sits.

On the throne of his. Glory.

He looked at them, he said. You who?

Have followed Me will also set on the 12 Thrones judging the 12

tribe. He was looking at 12.

He called the 12 and that is true.

But let's look on a little bit farther.

Thank God he wasn't just talking to the disciples.

Look what he said here, He said. And everyone who has left his

house or his brothers or his sister, come on, Holy Ghost,

help me this morning. Or his father, or his mother, or

his wife, or his children, or his land, for my name's sake

shall receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life.

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be

first. I want to be one that follows

him, Amen. I want to be something that

gives up something in this life for Jesus Christ, because he

said I'm going to replace it a hundredfold, Amen.

He wasn't just talking to the disciples that day.

We go to Revelations 3 and 21. It says to him who overcomes, I

will grant to sit with me when I read that this morning, then

we're going to be granted to set with him when we overcome.

He said on my throne as I also overcame and sat down with my

father on his throne. Which throne are you

approaching? A lot of Christians never even

think about the Thrones. Revelations chapter 4 you can go

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home and read. I'm not going to read it all

Nine and 10 speaks of 24 elders on the Thrones around God's

throne and describes the throne room of heaven.

You can go home and read it in Revelations 4 about the throne

room of heaven. Look at your neighbors.

Say I'm about to approach a throne of grace.

That's the one group, one throne we got.

We can't see the throne room of heaven, but I can see the throne

room of. Grace, how about you?

I'm going to approach the throne.

Of grace with boldness. How do I do it for summits like

this? They think they're bold for

confessing all the sin they committed.

Hello, we come before God. We have to tell him everything.

He already knows summits like this.

Lord, I I know that I'm just an old Sinner.

Boy, it gets real dignified in some churches.

I've been. I'm just an old Sinner saved by

grace. I can't do nothing.

Else. And I struggle every day.

I'm on sin every day and I'm going to come back and I'm going

to cry. My prayers that's about to

extend them is asking God to forgive me.

Hello, y'all been there? I've been there, but I ain't

there no more. I learned to approach it with

boldness. I didn't like coming up with a

whoopin. I'd done taking, oh God forgive

me, and crying and snotting and figuring out that it really

didn't move God much. He says go back and do your

first works over again and get it right, and then come up here

and we'll talk about it. I still love you, but you can't

have none of this thrown until you realize where you're at.

The throne's up, we're down. So how do we approach it?

So when we beg, we're not really.

Approaching with boldness, right?

But remember this, and this is the most important thing if

you're trying to approach the throne this morning, most of

all, remember this. Write this down.

Do not let your sin and condemn, condemnation and your guilt keep

you from approaching the throne because we've all sinned.

We've all had condemnation, We've all had these things.

But don't let it stop you from approaching your throne because

that's the easiest plan of the enemy.

If he can get you to stop approaching the throne because

you feel guilty of something you already did, well, guess what,

devil? That's what the blood is for.

Hey, man, so I can approach the throne of grace with boldness,

even when I've fallen, even when I'm tempted, even when I'm weak.

That's what he, that's what he means here in Hebrews.

Approach that throne of grace with boldness and say, God, I

know I messed up. Don't make an excuse for your

mess up. That's the worst thing you can

do. God, I messed up, but don't let

your sin, your guilt, your condemnation keep you.

This will change your life because that's what happens.

We let our sin, oh, I've been doing this this week.

I can't go to church. That's why you need to go to

church. I can't do this.

I can't pray. That's why you need to pray.

Hey, man, you need to approach with some boldness and say, God,

I need this out of my life to where I can communicate with you

and get back on the heavenly stage.

Amen. Keep approaching.

Look at your neighbor. Say keep approaching.

Don't let your sin, your car. I got to back up and teach this.

You ready? Don't let your sin, your

condemnation, your guilt keep you from approaching the throne.

Bring it all. Keep approaching.

Aren't you glad you kept approaching when the enemy told

you you was down to your last leg?

You'd went through hell on earth, but to come on, somebody

give him praise in the house. You just kept approaching that

one more time and he reached down to where you was at and He

delivered you. We got to keep approaching with

boldness in your time of need. When it seems there's no answer,

keep approaching it. When it seems that God is

adhering, keep approaching. When you want to run, turn to

run to the cross. Just keep approaching because I

can make you this promise He will meet you there.

There ain't nothing he ain't seen before.

Bring it all to the table. Keep.

Keep approaching. And the third thing is this.

Keep approaching because God can fix it.

Isn't that cool? I can't fix it.

You can't fix it. Confessing to a priest?

Sure I ain't going to fix it. I had a buddy come to me one

time. He confessed to a priest.

I know I'm on tape, but I don't care.

He confessed to a priest. A priest used some choice words,

explained this situation. He said, Can you believe my

priest said that? I said, yeah.

I said, because he must think he's God if he thinks he can

confess and talk to him and he can do something about it.

I said, you going to find you can go to that little booth

every day and that situation ain't going to change until you

give it to Jesus. It might help your feelings, it

might make you arise to some level in the church

denomination. But it really ain't going to do.

Nothing in here. I learned a long, a long time

ago, the outside, we can dress it up, we can clean it up.

But what did Jesus say? He said you can wash that old

tomb like they did and you can make it look real good on the

outside. But inside, if you're full of

dead man's bones, there's going to be no life.

A man keep approaching because Jesus can fix it.

I often think of David going through a trial.

My God, if, if David, if I did what David did, I'd have to lay

the. Mic down today.

Hey, man, I, I would, I would have to quit.

I mean, it would be on Facebook. I'd be in jail.

But think of David. He was the king.

I mean, I guess he could pardon himself.

I don't know. But I know one thing he did no

matter what he. Did in his life.

He kept approaching, he kept approaching, he kept

approaching. I think of old Peter, even

though he, even though he was a murderer, had he committed

adultery and lost his child, what did he do?

He kept approaching it. David knew how to overcome the

enemy. That's why I do.

That's why God said he's, he's after my own heart because he

may fall, but he knows how to get up.

Amen. Being a Christian is not just

about falling. It's not just about stay.

It's how many times you get up. I think of Peter warming his

hands by the fire and they said you're that dude that was

hanging with the with the Nazareth, with Jesus and

Nazareth. He said no, it wasn't me.

He even went on to ask again. He said.

I don't. Even know the man you're.

Talking about they said you even talk like him.

We've seen you with no, I don't know the man Peter denied when

they came to Judas and he and he kissed him on the cheek.

What did Judas do? He denied Christ.

Same sin, two different outcomes.

Why? Because Peter, when he's sin, he

went to that throne of grace with boldness.

Amen. And grace hadn't even really hit

yet, but he had heard a little bit about it.

He had heard just a little bit. If you've heard a little bit

about the grace of God, you ought to shout today because

it's enough to pick you up. Just a little bit of it'll pick

you up and it'll carry you from the place you are to where you

thought you never could be. Peter denied Christ, he messed

up, but he continued the ultimate sin, deny and cry.

Do you know I think of Peter when he when he the minute he

said, I don't know the man. Do you think he remembered them

words that Jesus said? Jesus said, if you deny me

before men, I'll deny you before my Father in heaven.

Peter had every reason to say, man, it's over this Christian

life, I can't live it, I'm going to give it up.

It's over. I can't do it God.

But no, Peter had something in him.

He had some boldness. He remembered a few.

Words. That he had heard Jesus.

Say. Approach the throne of grace

with boldness. Are you getting this?

This morning? I also think of Judas.

What did he do? He went out and took matters.

Into his own hands, that's what we do.

We don't hang ourselves. But we do it with.

Drugs. Alcohol.

Lustful things of the world. We we do.

We do. Those things right?

What a millionaire's do they go buy something else they think

will he'll that'll that'll. Release the endorphins.

Is that the right word? Or whatever it is that causes

the good. Feeling so they go buy something

else only to find the next day or two they're down again and

going to buy something else. But see Judas, he comes to mind

because he did the same thing that Peter had.

Done. He denied Christ.

He took. Matters into his own hands.

I challenge you in 2026, quit taking matters into your own

hands. Approach the throne of grace.

I know I've messed up. I know I've done wrong.

We all have. But I got to keep approaching

the throne of grace with boldness.

Why? Because there's help there.

In my time of need. Go to Hebrews chapter 12 and I'm

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going to close Hebrews chapter 12.

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It's good to surround yourself not with just people that live

their own life on a throne and never do any wrong.

It's good to surround yourself with people.

That have been there. Hello I didn't get the.

Privilege of going to seminary and being around all the godly

people that were at seminary. How was that thought?

That was all there for the right motives.

They were all called to preach. I didn't have that opportunity.

I heard the voice of God and told me to tell people about

Jesus and give me a Bible. Put me on the rodeo circuit with

a lot of unbelievers at that time.

I got some real lessons in life on what worked and what didn't,

what run them off and what kept them listening.

Learn a few things the hard. Way.

But I have learned this in Hebrews chapter 12.

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I've learned to surround myself with clouds.

Witnesses not. Witnesses about how they failed

yesterday or today or tomorrow, but those that have failed but

kept getting up and kept going on.

It's always been amazing to me how Jesus did not go to the

synagogue. To pick the 12.

That would spread the gospel. Me, and you said it many times,

give me somebody that's never rode a horse and I can teach

them to ride faster. Than somebody that's got a bunch

of garbage from everybody else that really didn't know what

they were. Doing either and you can teach

that person that much faster. It's no different in the Bible.

You can take someone that don't know anything about this Bible

and just chooses to believe it and ain't got a bunch of old

dumb. Doctrine mixed up in it.

If you think all the churches are right, go leave.

Read the first 3 chapters of Revelations.

Jesus condemned them. We got some stuff messed up if

we ain't going by this, but I challenge you in 20.

Six, Don't take matters into your own hands.

If you don't understand, look around especially.

If you're in the House of God and a Bible, believe in church.

Look around because I know some people.

Here that keep getting up. I know some people here that

keep fighting for the fake Give me somebody that'll fight.

Hey man, give me somebody that'll overcome.

Give me somebody that's striving.

We don't need the perfect if you're perfect, you'll mess it

up. But in Hebrews chapter 12, we

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stand our feet. I want you to get this verse

today. In verse one it says therefore

we. Also, since we are surrounded by

so great a cloud of witness, let us lay aside every weight.

See the Thrones of. This life, the Thrones of this

world, are nothing but weights. And the sin which so easily.

Ensnares us and let. US run with endurance the race.

That is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author.

And the finisher. He didn't just.

Start it he who started a. Work in you is able to bring it

to completion. He's a finisher.

Are you a finisher? What throne are you looking to

of our faith? Who for the joy that was set

before him? And I read that a lot.

I'm like, what? What joy?

There was no joy. In Jesus.

Life really up on this earth I'm sure when he touched those that

were deaf and. And raised the dead that.

Brought some joy to his life, but that's not the joy he was

talking about. It said that this joy was set

before him because it was set. Up in heaven.

And he knew he had to fulfill what was on this earth.

It's no different for you and I. To get to heaven, we had to

fulfill Our Calling upon. This Earth.

Amen. It's not as easy as just praying

a little prayer and living your own life the rest of your life.

I hope it is because I know a lot of folks, that's all.

They do it. I hope it is, but when I read

this Bible, I see that it ain't. We got to finish for he Who for

the. Joy that was set before.

Him endured the. Cross despising the shame, and

has sat down at the right hand of God on the throne of God.

Isn't that awesome? What throne are you aiming for

this morning? You know he can turn your.

As you bow your heads this morning, I want you to know that

he can turn your mess into a message.

He can turn your storm and your. Troubled sea into a calm sea.

But you got to bring it all. I said you got to bring it all

in 26. You got to bring it all.

This could be the year that the Lord returns.

You got to bring it all to the table.

Would you tell the enemy I'm not ashamed of it.

I'm going to bring it all and I'm going to get it out in 26

right now. I'm going to give it to him.

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