Labor of Love - Keeping Love - Part 4 - with Pastor Marci Glisson

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Now enjoy this message. I have a great word that I felt

the lord gave us verts and I and you know but we want to move

with him. We want to do exactly what he

Wants to do and I had sensed in my spirit that he may have

wanted to do something a little different tonight because just

because it's Wednesday, don't mean, he can't move.

Hey, men. And if there's ever a day that

we need him to move, I believe it's on a Wednesday.

We need to just be led by him and let him refresh us and do

whatever he needs to do. Amen.

Because he knows what we need, most of all, and when we come to

the house of the Lord, because you're committed and submitted

to the leadership and pastors and you know, teachers and

Apostle, you know, Pastor Earle is an apostle, you know, then

you know, the holy It is going to use these five, fold

Ministries gifts to be able to equip the Saints, but not only

equip. The Saints feed the Saints.

What they need? Amen, give them exactly what

they need. You know, the scripture says

that he was looking for Shepherds after his own heart,

that would feed his sheep. Feed his sheep.

So that means those Shepherds have to know what season of food

and what type of food people need, you know, and Being

refreshed in the Holy Ghost is part of his food.

Amen. It's part of his food and we

need it. Amen.

Hallelujah. We need it.

And we need it even more in these days and not only that,

it's equipping, the Saints. So what does that mean?

Equipping the Saints on how to release and practice and

activate the gift within It right?

It's not just about, you know, the preaching of the word.

Of course, the word has to come in line moment, right?

And the alignment was, is the kingdom of God is not just

eating and drinking, but what righteousness, peace and joy,

where joy in your self-care joy in your vacation joy.

In the massage, joy in whatever it is.

No joy in the Holy Ghost. Ghost, this is true.

Joy. This is joy unspeakable, joy.

Come on and full of Glory. So This Joy the world can't give

it to you, you know, there's a song.

This joy that I have the world, come on, sing it.

Y'all are sounded good like a choir.

Can it take it away? You can give it to him.

Right. So coming in sometimes we just

need to practice it so that when you're out and about in your

everyday, walk with the Lord, you know, how to tap into it and

I just we just showed you how to tap into it.

Amen. And the thing about it is is you

don't need the band to help you tap into it.

Because you can open up your mouth and begin to sing a new

song. A song in the spirit Colossians

says write a melody in your heart whatever and then you can

begin to release the tongues the Heavenly language.

Come on, that gift to be able to then continue to feel you and

give you exactly what you need through the day.

So that nothing has to steal your joy.

Nothing Has to steal it. Amen.

Because we, you know, we believe that the devil, you know, you

need to say, he can't steal from me any longer.

He can't steal from my family. He can't steal from my kids.

He can't come on. He can't still love from my

heart. He can't still Joy from me.

He can't. We've got to say that and

believe it in these circumstances and situations

that are arising in our everyday lives.

Amen, hallelujah. Well, I just, we'll just have a

little bit of time left tonight, but I do want to minister what I

felt. The lord gave me to share on and

I don't know what direction it will go since.

It's all into all kinds of directions tonight.

So you know, the last time I ministered, I ministered at a

Jude 120. Through 21 and we said this.

But you beloved building. Yourselves up on your Most, Holy

Faith. Praying in the Holy Ghost, isn't

that something? So we talked about building our

self up on our Most. Holy Faith.

First comes from the word of God, right?

Because faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of

God. So, the first way we build

ourselves, Is up on our faith is being in the word.

Reading, the word meditating in the word, right?

Making sure that we're having our daily bread that intake of

the word of God. But then he goes on to say.

What did we just do praying in the holy spirit.

So just as we exercise tonight, as we began to pray in the

spirit. What happened?

You began to get what built up. Did you feel a release?

Right. Did you feel, you know, Joy did

you feel full of the spirit and like, okay, I'm alive.

Yeah, cuz you came in probably dead from work or whatever.

The case may be, you know, right?

Tired, you know whatever you may have got bad news on your way in

the door you know whatever the situation may be.

But we just exercised how you can also build yourself up and

that is praying in the spirit. Amen.

Praying in the spirit anyway. So in verse 21 we really focused

on this. Keeping yourself in the love of

God. Waiting anxiously for the mercy

of the Lord Jesus Christ to eternal glory, keeping yourself

in the love of God. So we came out of this scripture

talking about in the last days you know there's going to be all

kinds of people. There's going to be all kinds of

things happening but he lets us know.

As Believers, we are going to have to be people that are going

to keep ourselves in the love of God, right?

And we talked about that last Last Wednesday night that we are

responsible for putting love on putting Love On, We're

responsible for that. And before that we talked about

loving the Lord, with all of our heart, making sure that our

passion for him is still there. You know that we're passionate

in love with him, right? Because if we are, then we are

going to be people that will keep ourselves in the love of

God. And this is important in the

last days. but as I was looking at this, Because, you know, that

Wednesday night, I kind of tapped into faith and love Faith

and love. And so, I want to go towards

faith and love again tonight, but in a different direction.

Okay, Faith and love, you know, we said that Let's go to

Galatians 3:11. Now that, no one is justified by

Galatians 3:11

the law before. God is evident for the righteous

man. What shall live by faith?

Is there any righteous in here? That means you're born.

Again, you've been made the righteousness of God in Christ.

Raise your hand, if you're born again your righteous, that's

what he calls you. So now, he lets, you know how

you are. To live and you are to live by

faith your to live by faith. This is not just faith in God or

that. I believe there's a God no as a

Believer now that I have faith in God and that he's given me,

the god kind of Faith. Now he expects that Faith to be

what lived out. Lived out in our life every day

and we live by that Faith. What is we live by that firm

persuasion? We live by that conviction of

faith in Christ that we believe we live by it.

We make our decisions by it right.

Whatever he says in his word determines the decisions that we

should be living by, right? So if he says, you know that You

know, you shouldn't be shacked up together, right?

Then as a Believer, what he expects is that to live by

faith. Meaning.

I'm not gonna do what his word tells me not to do because if I

don't, I'm not living by faith. I'm not living by what I

believe, right? So we so, you see, he expects us

to be living this thing out every single day.

Every Every decision that we make everything that we do, we

should be what living by faith. We should be asking the Lord

every decision that we're making.

What is it that you want us to do?

Lord, I want to be in faith in this situation, right?

I want to be in faith in every decision that I'm making, right?

So it's not just, there's a God and we have faith in a god, you

understand. This is to be lived out every

day in our life. So, Hebrews 10:38 and 39 says

Hebrews 10:38

this, but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks

back, my soul has no pleasure in him.

But we are not those who will shrink back to destruction, but

of those who have faith to persevering of the Soul, you see

that? So he's letting us know.

That we are to live by faith, but if we shrink back then, are

that he's going to have no pleasure in it.

No pleasure in it so we can't be people.

And what happened? We said that in the last days,

many are going to what fall away from the faith.

And so this means that just because you may have been in

faith in one season of your life, does it mean that you

could be in it in the next season?

You could have shrunk back from it?

So we need to be people that are always asking.

Sales. Okay, am I in faith in this

right, am I in faith? You know, it's just like Pastor

Earle has mentioned, you know, when it came to this mall, you

know, everybody. Oh yeah, pastor, we can do it.

We can get it that it added, ah, but he had to go find for

himself. Am I in faith?

Right? I meant Faith but I am I in

faith for this project you see what I'm saying?

So everything that you're doing, are you being a person?

That's actively asking the Lord. Okay, am I in faith in this

situation or that scenario because we are to what live by

it. Now we said this, I quoted it in

one of our other Wednesday night.

So I want to reiterate it Galatians 5:6.

Galatians 5:6

It says this, for if, in Christ Jesus, there's neither

circumcision. Nor uncircumcision means

anything. But what faith?

Working by love Faith working by love.

So faith and love are inseparable.

They're Inseparable, they cannot be separated and a part of each

other. They're Inseparable.

We can't look at them as two different things.

No faith in love only operate together, only operate together

so you can say you're in faith but not be walking in love with

someone. And guess what?

Not going to work your faith. It's not gonna work because they

work together simultaneously. They work together, period.

You cannot separate the two. Many people try to separate it.

Many people say they're in faith about a lot of things, but yet,

we know, they have aught in their heart, towards their

Brethren, or they have some type of something going on and

they're not in a place of love. And this is his kind of love.

His definition of love, not, love is love.

No, his love is pure, his love is Holy, come on, his love is

not selfish. Right?

It's who he is. God is love.

So you can't even separate love from God because God is love.

It is who he is. It's the essence of who he is.

It's his very nature, right? So if you say you have faith in

God and he is love. Then you must recognize.

That is why I'm saying it's inseparable.

It's Inseparable, so you can't separate the two.

Now it says faith working through, love it's operative.

That's what that means. When he says faith working

working through, love it is operative.

Okay, that's what that means. It means ones activity and it

shows one self operative. That means basically that's how

it operates it's going to operate through love.

Okay, so when he says it worketh it worketh through love.

It worketh through love. That's how Faith operates.

It's not just a firm persuasion of a conviction, a belief, no,

it is faith. That is inseparable from Love

and it will all rework through it will only be operative

through that love You see that through that love, that's the

only way it can operate. It can operate on the three

principles of faith. Outside of love because it

doesn't work. It's Inseparable.

So you have to recognize that if we are going to be people that

are full of faith and stay in a position of Faith than we must

be people. As we said in the past,

Wednesday's that keep ourselves in love guard.

Our hearts, with all diligence protect ourselves right from You

know, what's going on in the world and what people are

slandering you about, and what people are talking about, you've

got to guard your heart, with all diligence, you've got to be

the person that's going to keep yourself in Love, no matter

what, because your faith will be hindered.

Your faith will be hindered. And a lot of people are not

going to see the fullness of all that God has for them.

And they're not going to see the promises of God, that that he

has for them. If they have things going on in

their heart, that is not the gods type of love.

There has to be a heart of forgiveness flowing.

There has to be a heart of Purity flowing and Holiness

flowing, right with nothing because he says you can speak to

the mountain and Have Nots. Love.

Right? So you can act like you're in

faith, but you have not love, it's not going to work.

It's a gonging, clanging cymbal. He says it's not going to work,

okay? So at work, if through loves, so

we need to make sure that we are people that are once again,

keeping our hearts pure and keeping ourselves in a position

of not allowing anything in these last days to hinder our

love walk. Now, I want to read that

Galatians 5:6 out of the passion.

Galatians 5:6

Relation and Galatians 5 leads up to Galatians 6, where he

talks about what the fruits of the spirit is, and what's the

first fruit love, right? Lovejoy patience.

Kindness goodness, gentleness self-control, right?

All of these are the fruits of the spirit and even in

Galatians. He lets us know that we are to

walk by the spirit. So if we're going to walk by the

spirit, we've got to be people that are allowing the love of

God. Right?

The fruit of God's love to be operative in our lives and that

is the way to. Then we can know that we are

walking by faith living by faith.

But anyway, I want to read this out of the passion.

It says this when you're joined to the anointed one, is anyone

joined to the anointed one circumcision and religious

obligations can benefit you nothing?

All that matters. Now say all that matters now Is

living in the faith. That works and expresses itself

through love. Expresses itself through love.

So this Faith Works and expresses itself through love.

Amen. So everybody likes to talk about

faith being demonstrated by, you know, our confession and Faith

being demonstrated by, you know, maybe are giving and Faith being

demonstrated by, you know, maybe coming up here and, you know,

having hands laid on you But how about this one?

Faith expressing itself through love.

Through love. So faith, if you're truly a

person that's in faith, the first and number one expression

that should be demonstrated is love.

Is love. So that means your first

response in how you deal with people and how you come across

people. Whatever the scenario, maybe is

how does this affect my love walk?

Because if I'm going to be in faith and I need to make sure

that that expression of Love is Flowing because outside of it,

it's not going to flow. Outside of Love, expressing

itself. Faith is not going to work.

You see that? That's what that's translation.

Says it expresses itself through love.

So faith is not just about believing God for the jet or

believe in God for the house or believing God for the business

or Billy. How about faith?

Expressing itself through, love to your spouse.

Forgiveness, come on to your children.

Forgiving them loving them. Anyway, that's not acceptance,

but that is truly saying, if I'm really going to believe, God,

that so-and-so can turn around and have faith that that can

happen and intercede and pray that I've got to make sure that

my love is Flowing there, That my love is Flowing there, right?

Because Faith isn't going to work unless the love flows and

left the love flows. So faith and love work together.

Let me say this and faith and love, always requires a

demonstration or action faith. We always talk about this Faith,

you know, demands an action, right?

That if you're really in faith and what a brother Hagin said,

you know a sick man doesn't lay in the bed all day if you really

believe and have faith, come on that you're healed.

Then what will you do? There is an action required,

you'll get up out of the bed and you'll begin to, what do

whatever it is? He tells you to do so, Faith

demands action, faith and love will always written.

Love is It as an action as well. We know that when we read First

Corinthians you know 14 13 13 13 1 through 8.

First Corinthians 1 through 8, love is patient.

Love is kind, right? All those things that love is,

we know that they are action words action.

So faith and love working together, activates activates

what it is that you need to receive by Faith from God?

If the love is not flowing, then guess what?

Faith is not working period? Because they're Inseparable and

you can say you're in faith all day long, but if there is stuff

in your heart towards your spouse, if there's all, if

there's all As a things going on, it's not working.

And you wonder why, you know, things are happening and

different things like that and because there's no peace and

agreement, you're not in agreement.

You're not in agreement. Right.

You're not at agreement. Once here and once here and it

and for to to come together and be one and be in faith about a

situation, then they have to be working their love and faith.

It's both required. Both required.

Faith Works. You see that what he said?

Faith worketh by love. Faith Works.

Faith Works. Faith Works.

We are not working out our salvation, but we are to work

out our faith. Live it out, Faith, work.

Kiss worketh by love. So there's some things that we

have to work by faith and love. If we're going to see the

evidence of what it is, that we're believing God for you.

Can't just say, I remember one time back over 20 years ago, You

know, when we were youth pastoring or whatever in Ramah,

I can't remember exactly what but it was a long time ago.

Anyway, you know, there was this just gentleman that said he

would. He believed he came up to us and

said he had been believed that he was called to the ministry

and you know was supposed to do this and do that but he never

seemed to do it. Oh, I know I believe in God.

I believe in God and my husband, let him say, you can believe God

all day long but unless you get out there and do it, unless I

would have picked myself up from Oklahoma and move with no money

and three kids and no job and started the church it was going

to happen. Faith Works.

Faith Works. That means you've got to get up

and work your faith. That means, whatever he tells

you to do, because action is required.

We have to get up and we have to work it.

We have to do what it is that he's telling us to do.

Amen. Because Faith Works, Hallelujah.

And I like to say this love laborers, Faith Works, but love

laborers. Faith Works.

But love laborers. Let me read this scripture to

you. First Thessalonians.

1 Thessalonians 1 · chapter mention

Chapter 1. One through five.

And the reason why I'm going here, Is because in

Thessalonians at the beginning of the year, Pastor talked about

this is a year to what as this body to excel still more and as

I was meditating on these scriptures about faith and love

working together and Faith Works and love Labor's.

I realized that as I began reading in Thessalonians,

chapter 2 Three and four. There is a vein of what Paul is

talking about and he's talking about us working out our faith.

Bye. Love, let's read here in 1st,

Thessalonians chapter, 1, 1 through 5, Paul, and Timothy to

the Church of Thessaloniki Thessalonians in God, the father

of the Lord Jesus Christ, grace to you and peace from the, from

our God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to God. Always for you all making

mention of you in our prayers. Always making mention of you in

our prayers verse 3, red. Remembering without ceasing your

work of faith and labor of love. Your work of faith and labor of

love. Here it is again.

Okay. And patience of Hope in our Lord

Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father knowing beloved

Brethren your election by God. For our gospel, did not come to

you in word only, right? But also in power.

One translation says in demonstrations.

Right? We sing a song that we're not

just believing but we're praying for what demonstrations, right.

So he says I didn't just come to you with the word, he didn't

just come and preach, but he also came in the power of God or

the demonstration of God, you see that and then he goes on to

say and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance Do you know

what kind of men we are among you for your sake.

So here he highlights that he remembers without ceasing their

work of Faith, say work of faith and labor of love.

So that's the title of this message.

The labor of love. Not keeping love but the labor

of love, right? The labor of love because love

is labor us. If anyone has any Encounter of

truly allowing the agape love of God, to reign in your life.

There is a labor to love like God loves Now he says it's easy,

his yoke is easy and his burdens are light, but that doesn't mean

why, because you're doing it up underneath the grace that he

gives us, but that doesn't mean that there's not going to be

some labor, there's going to be some grief, there's going to be

some pain in, loving the unlovable, and loving people,

and forgiving, people of things, you think that you shouldn't

have to do. It's a labor, right?

So Faith. Works love laborers.

Now, let's go to 1st Thessalonians.

And verse 3 and read it out of the passion.

It says for, we remember before our God and Father, how you put

your faith into practice and how your love motivates you here it

is to serve others. When you are really a person in

faith, living by faith, allowing the faith of God to be operative

in your life. You will be motivated.

By the love of God to serve. Period.

So faith is not just for believing God for this and be

believing God for my business and believing God for more money

or a bigger house or whatever. No.

Faith is there so that you can be motivated by God's love

working through God's love, laboring God's love to serve

others. So people that just come to

church. yeah, I'm going to be Mama here, people that just come

to church. That's all you going to get.

No. And you can say you're in faith

all day long, but your faith will be demonstrated by love and

serving others period. Love always demonstrates.

Why do we know this? Because our God, right?

Demonstrated his love, before we were even right, while yet,

while we were sinners. He demonstrated his great love

and how did he demonstrate it by an action of going to the cross

and obeying the father and made it operable so that his blood

could be shed? So that his back could be

scourged, right? So that we could then receive of

this so that we could walk by faith.

Come on, Andre participate with him in this love this.

Great love just like Pastor. Earle was talking about on

Sunday. Everybody wants to say, they

love God, but how do we know you love God?

Because you keep his word. What does that mean you

demonstrate? You keep it.

You do it, right? So how do we truly know a person

is really in a position of Faith than guess what?

They'll be motivated by love to serve others.

They'll be motivated by love to serve the body of Christ.

They'll be motivated by love to be doing something and not just

attending church. Love.

Always motivates a person to serve just as he did.

Demonstrates your service unto the Lord, right?

This is how we know a person is truly activating.

Now you can have faith. In God.

But it's there. It's not activated.

How is it activated working through love, through action of

service, serving, his body, serving his body, his body, his

body. Who does he say?

His body is the church, the church.

So every person should be, and this is something that I've been

praying that I want every person in our congregation serving in

this. Church serving in this church.

Putting their hand to something, right?

Putting their hand to something because you are doing it unto

the Lord, right? And this is how you work out

your faith and work that love, and be a person that's

demonstrating it by serving his people.

Hallelujah. Because there's a lot to do for

the kingdom of God. Is a lot to do for the kingdom

of God. A lot to do so.

You know, if you say you're in faith then why don't we get in

faith that we can actually serve the body?

Because you're motivated by love.

That you could serve the body because his love is motivating.

You to do it right serving the body.

Hallelujah. Nobody's taught.

Are y'all tired? Be ready to go?

We can I'll just read one more scripture and we can go.

Let's see. Serving.

Why? Because there's a lot.

Do you know that we have been for the last two months know,

you don't know. You don't know what goes on

behind the scenes, you don't know.

You don't know the calls. We get of people begging for

help because churches aren't doing anything today.

Well, I don't know about you but I didn't join a religious group.

I joined the the church. The Living God that he says is

the hope of the world. And I'm going to keep my faith

active and I'm going to work it. Because love motivates me.

Love motivates me to serve his body.

Faith in action, we for, for several months, we have been

doing our Polly Maneri. You know, looking at a

initiative by Governor DeSantis has wife.

What was her name? Casey DeSantis put in initiative

this last year on families count families count, and they're

looking for churches to host. Families that are in situations

where their children have been taken away from them, or maybe

they're on the verge of being taken away from them.

And so, what they wanted to do is get churches involved to be

able to do a to be able to do like a court-mandated,

Counseling, but it's not counseling.

It's a program, a court mandated program, you know, how they go

to light Bridge or whatever and they have to go through programs

and stuff. Well she saw the desire that the

really the churches need to be involved in this, right?

And so for months we've been doing research on how we can

make this happen. But do you know what that's

going to take? People serving because not only

do you host them and and and and have them go through a program

at your church. And what is the goal?

What is the goal to reach this generation that is broken to

reach these families that are in destruction and if they could

come to the church every day and there's a group of people that

Would be willing to serve them. By not only having the program

available but it requires they require you to feed them a meal.

Every time they come they require you to pick them up.

We need bus drivers, we need a bus.

We need Vans, this is an opportunity that is handed to

the church, but if people won't get off their butts, And get out

of religion, then we are going to see another generation taken

out by the devil. That's just the honest truth.

When they, they are asking for the church's help.

They're asking for the church has helped to help these

families, feed him a meal. Let him go through the program,

then not only that have a family Mentor, like another good solid

family. Are we good solid families?

In this church, or do we still have dysfunctions and problems?

We ought to be good strong. Believers living out the word of

God, Everyday by faith, working it through the love of God, so

that we can serve so that we can serve.

So that we ourselves can be hold, and healed, and taken

another family, and Mentor them and pick them up, bring them to

the program. And then come together and have

a meal planned out for him for six weeks.

But do you know that that requires a lot of work that

we're doing in the background that you have no clue of?

But then not only that they wanted us to start this in

September and we've been looking at this for months and Pastor

Angie and some others had went to the program itself, but you

know what? We said we're not going to do it

unless the court mandates it Because I want to know that

they're made to come because if they have a choice guess what?

but I'm not going to put all this together and then hope one

family shows up especially when we're trying to pull for people

to just get involved and just start serving and come on and

say look at the opportunities that this church has been given.

What about West Augustine? That's getting ready to open

back up in August the the coaches wanting to the person

that started the thing or whatever is over, the thing he

wants to relinquish it and give it to us.

Well guess what? If we don't have people that are

willing to serve then we can't do it.

So guess what my prayer has been every person that comes to this

church is going to be actively serving in some type of

capacity. That is My Confession.

It's My Confession over this body because they're ours, we

are in a prime time. of where we are at in the world today, and

the church is being asked Come on.

Faith. Worketh And love laborers.

Love Labour's, love laborers, and is motivated to serve

others. Amen.

Hallelujah. So let's get motivated.

Amen. Believe God with me, that every

person in this body over 700 people say, this is their

Church. But every given Sunday, you see

the result? We need people that are all in

all in all in in everything and anything we should not be people

that aren't doing. More for the Lord.

I'm sorry. I don't see it in Scripture.

That you can retire or that you've done enough or you don't

have to do as much. No, he says, he increases your

capacity and gives Grace upon Grace heaped, upon heaped, upon

Grace, to empower you to be able to do more for the kingdom of

God, to be able to do all that you need to do in 24 hours, and

to also be able to do all that he needs you to do in that 24

hours. That's the way I believe that's

the way I know. It scripture reads.

Amen. So let's look at 1st

Thessalonians. Again.

Pastor read this to us at the beginning of the year and then

maybe we'll close 1st Thessalonians. 4 one said this?

And then he dropped down when he read this 2 verses 9 and 10 as

well. But we're going to read one

because you can see the theme as I was saying about what Paul was

talking about here in chapter 1, he's talking about putting your

faith into practice and being motivated by love, but now let's

look in the fourth chapter, it's the same theme.

It says this finally brethren, we request and exhort you in the

Lord Jesus Christ that as you have received.

From us instruction as how you ought to walk.

And please God. So this has to do with what

without faith. It's in to, okay?

How you ought to walk. And please God, just, as you

actually do walk, he's saying, hey, you're walking out your

pleasing. God, you're walking in faith,

but then he goes on to say that you Excel still more.

So he's saying they're still more, there's still more that

you can excel in for him. There's still more that you can

grow in for him. There's still more that you can

do, Hallelujah. All I know is I want my life

being poured out like a drink offering.

I don't want to leave nothing on the table.

Because when I stand before the Lord, I want to know that I've

done. I mean, you know, done

everything that I was supposed to do for the Lord, right?

So let's read on down to verse 9 and 10.

It says, now as to the love of the brethren, Here's the theme,

see it. You have no need for anyone to

write to you for. You yourselves are taught by God

to love one another for indeed, you do practice it towards all

the Brethren who are in Macedonia.

But we urge you Brethren to what Excel, still more.

He's saying you're walking in, love, you're practicing.

You're doing these things. But he's saying, listen, there's

still some more that you can excel in.

There's, I know I've done my time, you know, here are there.

I don't have to serve any more, I mean, you know.

No, he's saying, listen, you're doing well and you're being

pleasing unto God, but they're still excelling something.

There's still some more that you can excel in.

There are still some more that you can do.

For the Lord that you can actually walk into amen.

Hallelujah. Glory to God.

My husband always says this pastor Earle.

He didn't just save us so that when we die, we get to go to

heaven. He actually saved us.

To accomplish his purpose and plan in the Earth.

Hebrews 9:14 says this. How much more shall the blood of

Hebrews 9:14

Christ? Let's think about his blood

because we always want to talk about it when we just want his

grace, and to be saved. Who through the eternal spirit

offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your car, your

conscience from dead Works to what?

Oh, just so that. When you die, you get to go to

heaven so that you can make sure you escape hell so that, you

know, you can have a prosperous and long living life on the

earth and you're not a wretched sinner anymore.

No. so that you could actually what serve the Living God, Serve

the Living God. Serve the Living God and how do

you serve the Living God? You serve his body?

His body, who is the church? That's how you serve the Living.

God. You obviously Walk It Out by

faith, you walk by faith, right? But one way you demonstrate Is

by serving the body of Christ because love will motivate you.

Love will motivate you. So I have to ask myself a lot of

times are people really in faith when they don't want to do

anything at the church, when it's pulling teeth, are they

even in faith? I mean, are they when you're

having to beg people to help No, because Faith Works by love and

if love if you're in faith, that love is the thing that's going

to make you want to serve and have you be a person that's

always willing to be able to do whatever the Lord needs you to

do? We should always be willing and

have a willing heart to say, Lord, whatever you need me to

do. Right now, I'm not saying, you

know, you know, you have some people that just get overboard

and they're doing, but I mean, I would like to see that I've not

ever seen that little bit more could happen, right?

Kind of like when he said, you know, in the Old Testament when

they were to build the Tabernacle and he said, bring

the all the gold and the silver everybody, bring your offering

your offering and everything. And What happened?

There was two so much. There was more than enough that

he said we don't need anymore. How about there's so many people

ready to serve and willing to serve that hard off?

We don't need anymore. Because everybody is serving in

some capacity in the body of Christ.

Do you know how much we could actually get done?

If everybody was putting their hand to something?

Putting their hand to something. And it can go back to actually

if a man don't work a man, don't now that could be in the natural

but it also could be in the spirit.

You're not going to get all you need to eat if you're not

willing to serve. There could be so much more that

God would want to download a food into your little Spirit

man. Right?

If we just had a willing heart to serve the Lord.

Amen. Hallelujah, I'll let you go.

Father, we thank you so much for your word.

We thank you, Father, that you're stirring us up.

Teaching us what faith really looks like.

That faith cannot be separated from the love of God.

And that love does labor. Love does labor?

and father, I thank you that you are speaking to each and every

heart asking are they in a place of Faith to be able to be In a

place of service unto you to serve your body.

So that we can be people that are truly living by faith in

everything that we're doing. Father, I thank you for your

word that it's living and active sharper than any two-edged

sword, able to penetrate between Soul and Spirit joints, and

Marrow, even to the dividing of the intentions of one's heart.

So, I thank you Father, that you'll divide, you'll divide

those intentions of one's heart tonight to divide between,

Whether they are really in faith and motivated to serve the body.

Father, we know that time is Drawing Near and that there's

many people that need to hear about your freedom, about your

love and about your forgiveness. And so father, I thank you that

you'll continue to stir up within us a heart.

Have compassion to say Lord, what else can I do?

What else can I do to be of service to you, stir, those

thoughts up. And father, I thank you that

people are going to rise up and yield and work their faith.

Work their faith by laboring in the love of God.

Hallelujah. Glory to God.

We thank you Father. For your anointing tonight.

We thank you for your refreshing.

We thank you Father. That that that Grace is upon us

in the midst of anything. You're asking us to do that.

If we would just tap into the grace that you would Empower us

to be able to serve to do, you would Quicken our mortal bodies,

you would do whatever we ask, so that we can run our race and not

grow weary. Hallelujah, and we give you

glory and honor, there's one scripture that I was reminded

that I had in here. And I believe that I read it

several times at the beginning of the year as well, but I want

to close on this positive scripture.

It says this. Let me see Hebrews.

Hebrews 10 6, 10 and 12. So it was a little bit further.

It says, this for God is Not unjust to forget your work and

labor of love, which you have shown towards his name in that,

you have ministered to the Saints, and do Minister.

And we desire that each one of you show the same Diligence to

the full Assurance of Hope until the end.

So we know the draw then the day is drawing near, the end is

Drawing Near and we need to be completely diligent.

In still doing what it is that we've been doing to serve and

minister to his people because he says this, he is not unjust

to forget it. If you have done it unto the

Lord, anything you're doing and serving any capacity, if you are

doing it unto the Lord, he is not unjust to forget your labor.

That's what the scripture says. He's not unjust and it says in

verse 12 that you do not become sluggish.

I don't want to do that anymore. I mean, I've done that for years

and then you start pulling back and you you know, all this

thing. So he says don't become sluggish

but imitators. Those here.

It is through faith and patience who inherit the promises if you

get. Guess, guess what?

You're not going to inherit some promises that he has for you and

so he lets, you know, listen, don't think that God does not

see, he is not a God, that does not see your labor unto the body

of Christ. Amen.

He sees it, let me read that out of the passion for God.

The faithful one is not unfair. How can he forget the beautiful

work? Work.

Oh, there's that word work. Oh, I don't have to do anything,

you know, I'm under grace. I don't have to work.

I don't have to do anything. You're not working out your

salvation but you do have to work your faith because James

says, what faith without works is dead.

Faith without works is dead. So don't say you have faith, if

you have no works, Works are demonstrations of his love and

faith throat flowing through your life anyway he says it's

not forget the beautiful work you have done for him.

Are you doing it for him that he's not going to forget it.

He remembers the love you demonstrate as you continually

serve his beloved ones for the glory of his name but we long to

see you, passionately advance until the end and you find your

happy Fulfilled. So don't allow your hearts to

grow dull or lose your enthusiasm.

But follow the example of those who fully receive, what God has

promised, because of their strong faith and patience

endurance. Amen.

He is not unjust. He does not forget the work that

we do for him. If we're doing it with the right

Heart, full of Faith, we're not doing it to please, man.

We're not doing it to try to get people's attention.

We're not doing it for any other reason.

Other than he says that we are to do it by faith and labors of

Love serving and ministering to his people, his body.

Amen. Thank you so much for listening

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