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you can still trust in him

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  1. He is an awesome God worthy of all the praise

  2. and all the glory. Amen. First like to say that, God,

  3. we thank you for yet another gathering as the church

  4. to expound on your word, God, that we may learn

  5. more of you, because you know all about us. So

  6. we thank you Lord for this privileged opportunity that we

  7. can stand here in your holy house, on your holy grounds,

  8. in your holy presence. Amen. Let us pray. Father. We

  9. want to thank you God in the name of Jesus, first,

  10. for forgiving us God, if we went any other way

  11. but yours. If we came out of character, Please forgive us, Lord,

  12. but give us in the name of Jesus Christ. If

  13. we spoke anything, said, anything thought, anything I acted in

  14. any way it was out of character of our Lord

  15. and Savior, Jesus Christ, who is by far our example

  16. in which way to walk in Thy sight. We thank

  17. you Lord for that, and that the Holy Spirit will

  18. continue to help us to walk in that way of

  19. example that he showed us to walk, as your word

  20. teaches us continually, God, how to walk and how to

  21. keep your character. In the name of Jesus, Thank you Father.

  22. We're open God, We're open to you. Lord. We're open

  23. to you. God. We're learning more and more God to

  24. lift our hands up and not be holding our hands out. Yes, Father,

  25. in the name of Jesus, we thank you God for

  26. this word today that shall not come back void, but

  27. it shall come what you set it out to do

  28. this morning, in the name of Jesus. Touch every heart

  29. in his place, everyone listening on the airways, in the

  30. name of Jesus, and touch that sinner's heart. Touch it God,

  31. if you have to touch it twice, Touch it twice,

  32. as you did the blind man's eyes. That you touch

  33. it the first time, he can see, but he's not focused.

  34. Touch it again to bring him in the focus. God,

  35. in the name of Jesus. Touch that backslider who's turned

  36. away from you, who have been seduced, hood, wicked, and

  37. out foxed to believe the lie. Turn his heart back

  38. around God and come back to his first love. In

  39. the name of Jesus. And God, look and continue to

  40. help the saints today that are holding on. Help them

  41. to hold on with a mighty grip. God, because we're

  42. living in some dangerous times, we're living in some wicked times,

  43. and we're living in the end of it all. And

  44. we want to hold on God until the end. When

  45. we hear you say well done, well done, and we

  46. live in the paradise you meant for us in the

  47. beginning in Jesus' name, I pray thank God in the church.

  48. Say Amen, Amen, and amen. I want to read for

  49. your hearing in the Book of Matthews. Go quickly to

  50. chapter six and verse twenty four. When you get there,

  51. say a man sounds like everybody is in Matthews, Chapter six,

  52. verse twenty four. I see, I see one page, two

  53. pages still turning, and give you just if I want

  54. everybody to see this. Always amen. I don't make up this,

  55. It's already made up. In the Book of Matthews, chapter

  56. six and verse twenty four, Jesus says here for our

  57. hearing that no man, So I don't know who you

  58. think you are, what title you hold, and I don't

  59. know how important you may believe that you are. But

  60. my Lord and Savior said, no man. None can serve

  61. two masters, for either he will hate the one and

  62. love the other, or else he will hold to the one,

  63. which means be lawyer to that one and despise the other.

  64. Ye cannot serve God and matter riches. Jesus said that, therefore,

  65. I say unto you, take no thought for your life.

  66. Don't worry about it. Do not worry about your life

  67. what ye shall eat. Don't worry about what you're gonna eat,

  68. or what ye shall drink. Nought yet for what your

  69. body not yet, nor yet for your body what ye

  70. shall put on is not the life more than food

  71. or meat, and the body than the arraiment clothes. Behold,

  72. he says, take note of the fowls of the air,

  73. the birds, how they fly freely, For they sore not,

  74. for they sow not. They ain't sol nothing, They just

  75. flying around free. Neither do they reap nor gather into barns.

  76. They ain't trying to save up nothing. Yet your heavenly

  77. Father feed it. You see what I'm saying, feed it.

  78. He always feeds them, continually feeding them. They ain't worried

  79. about it. They know they gonna get some food somewhere somehow,

  80. Are you not much better than they? Which of you,

  81. by taking thought can add one cubic unto his statue?

  82. What can you add to your life by wearing? And

  83. why take ye thought for raiment? You're worried about clothes

  84. for consider the lilies of the field, how they grow

  85. and grow and grow? He said, they toil. Not they

  86. ain't spinning around where it trying to figure it out.

  87. Neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you

  88. that even Solomon, who was the richest man, head it

  89. off and all of his glory, was not a rag

  90. like one of these. He wasn't even clothed like the

  91. lilies of the field. Wherefore, if God so clothed the

  92. grass of the field, If God clothing the grass of

  93. the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into

  94. the oven, shall he not much more clothed you, oh

  95. ye of little faith, therefore taking no thought wearing saying

  96. what shall we eat? Or what shall we drink? Or

  97. whether shall we be clothed? Now see, I only see

  98. you're saying that, making those statements because you're trying to

  99. choose between what you really already got. Amen, Somebody see

  100. I leave here every Sunday saying what shall we eat?

  101. Not because I'm worried about getting food. I'm just trying

  102. to pick the place I'm going because I'm already I've

  103. already been supplied. You understand, I got a hamburger set

  104. now steak set now, cheeseburger seting now, some fish here

  105. and some meat, bottles of spaghetti there. I'm only saying

  106. what shall I eat? Because I'm trying to figure out

  107. which one I want? What shall I wear out? Because

  108. I'm in the closet trying to figure out what I

  109. fit to put on? What shall I drink? Because I'm

  110. looking at my refrigerator. And then I got juice, and

  111. I got milk, and I got tea, and I got

  112. fruit punch. Because God did already supplied all my needs.

  113. I'm not worried about it. I'm just trying to see

  114. which one I want right now. For after all these things,

  115. do the gentile seek for your heavenly Father know it.

  116. He knows that you have need of all these things.

  117. He know you got need of food and clothes. He

  118. know you got need of drink. But what he wants

  119. you to do is verse thirty three. He said, but

  120. seek Eve first the Kingdom of God. Keep your mind

  121. on the spiritual things of Me and my righteousness. And

  122. when you do that, you ain't got to worry about

  123. all that stuff, because he says, and all these things

  124. shall be added unto you. Take that for no thought tomorrow,

  125. for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

  126. Sufficient into the day is the evil there are. Don't

  127. worry about tomorrow. Man got his own problems. You gonna

  128. get there. If you get there, just take thought about

  129. what you're doing right now. Don't worry about tomorrow because

  130. the mow might not even come. But if it do come,

  131. he got his own problems. You're wearing too much and

  132. you're going too far, ay Man, But I'm gonna talk

  133. to you today about you can still trust him. You

  134. can still trust him. I see what the world is

  135. throwing at you. You can still trust him that these

  136. folks talking about they running out of food and you

  137. can still trusting stores cloth closing and they got clothes

  138. for you to wear, and stores closing, they got food

  139. and drink for you. But you can still trusting. You

  140. can still trust him. Don't worry about the terrorists. God

  141. put a percentage on can't nobody take off? And his

  142. percentage to you and me is zero percent. Because he

  143. gonna supply, because he promised, aymen, and if he promised,

  144. he still trustworthy. You can trust him. You don't have

  145. to wear it. You may be seated in the House

  146. of the Lord because God got your back, hey man.

  147. And if God got your back, I said, if God

  148. got your back, then he's the only master you can trust.

  149. You can't serve two masters. See that other person that

  150. you serve, he ain't trustworthy. He's a liar, he's a thief,

  151. a robber, and a killer. He's a misappropriator. He'll guide

  152. you in the wrong direction. But the Lord and Savior

  153. that I serve, oh yeah, you can trust him. And

  154. he's the only one that I trust. Hey man, somebody

  155. said something to me. I think it hurt they feeling

  156. when they say, well, you can trust me, and I say,

  157. I don't trust you. You don't trust me, brother, I said, no, sir,

  158. how long you been knowing me? I said, man, I've

  159. been knowing you, but I don't really know you. But

  160. I know him. It ain't no fault in him, no failure.

  161. And I don't even say yet because it ain't gonna

  162. never be a yet. You See, when you're trying to

  163. trust two masters, to be sick, to be seek to

  164. be perfectly honest with you, you're only trusting one. See,

  165. you can't really serve two masters. You're really only serving one.

  166. But when you think you are. This kind of spiritual

  167. double vision causes one to believe he can serve two masters.

  168. But total loyalty to God cannot be divided. It can't

  169. be divided between God and loyal to your material possessions.

  170. You can't divide. Either you trust God or you don't.

  171. You can't trust him a little bit here and a

  172. little bit down. You trust them all ways because God claims,

  173. He claims it total lawyers total lordship over his own. See,

  174. when you say you don't give yourself to him, you

  175. belong to him. And when you belong to him, he

  176. claims total total lordship over you. Therefore, Jesus can rightly

  177. be claimed you cannot serve God and Mammy. See, he

  178. can right to claim that when God has toltdal lordship

  179. over you, and when God has told the lordship over you,

  180. ain't no other master for him, ain't man somebody? You

  181. can't serve God in mamony and mamed is a word

  182. derived from the Aromatic term for possessions and materials our wealth. Amen,

  183. but Jesus is not. See Jesus ain't condemning money our possessions. Okay,

  184. let's don't get a twisted, and we say he can't

  185. serve you masters. He ain't condemned it. He's not condemning money,

  186. our possessions, but he is condemning. What he is condemning, Amen,

  187. is the improper attitude of enslavement towards wealth. That's what

  188. he's condemned. That in proper attitude you got towards Hey, man,

  189. it's mine, mine, mine, and you can't have none. But brother,

  190. you got twelve of them. I just want a half

  191. of one. It's mine, mine, mine, and I gotta get

  192. some more. But Jesus not is. He's not condemning. He's

  193. just condemning the improper attitude because possessions have been known

  194. to enslave folks. A lot of folks have been known

  195. to be enslaved towards wealth. Wealth meaning your money, your car,

  196. your clothes. There's people right now out there washing their

  197. car in this Sunday morning. They may it gonna it's

  198. gonna rain again. We're gonna get this off here. You

  199. get well, you're gonna have some dirt on you that

  200. that water can't get off of you. It's gonna take

  201. Jesus better get in, get in the house of God

  202. and get that dirt washed off of you. Because the

  203. soap and water ain't gonna do it. You better leave

  204. that car and come to God. Here, blow on that

  205. car and you won't have it no more, just like that.

  206. But now Jesus goes on to tell us not to worry.

  207. I'll be anxious because when we do this, it means

  208. we are so disturbed about material needs that we distrust God. See,

  209. when you're disturbed about having something, you ain't trusting God,

  210. when you're mind aed at ease about it, knowing that

  211. the truth of the Word says that he shall supply

  212. all of your need. You see, you distrust God when

  213. you become overwhelmed bad, are disturbed by are distracted, hey man,

  214. because that's what happens to you when you get disturved

  215. back you just trust God. You just you just trust God,

  216. and you become distracted from faithful be doing his will.

  217. So we should not worry about what we will eat, drink,

  218. or even what we should put on our bodies because

  219. He promised to take care of us. And God is

  220. not a man that he should lie, but the son

  221. of Man that he's he's not He's not a He's

  222. not a man that he should lie, nor the son

  223. of Man that he should repent. Amen. Amen, my mind

  224. is trying to go into directions here this morning. I'm

  225. gonna have to slow it down. God says, I want

  226. you to teach this thing, and I'm trying to do

  227. them both. But I'm gonna teach this thing because we

  228. need to be taught. Amen. He promised to take care

  229. of us. We cannot be insecure about God's provision. We can't.

  230. We can't be insecure about God's provision for us because

  231. it deprives us of the spiritual blessings of God, Amen,

  232. and the trust that we should have in Him. Look here,

  233. I can't just tell you that God promised these things

  234. just coming out of my mouth. You understand. I want

  235. you to know that God made a promise to each

  236. and every one of us in Philippians chapter four, in

  237. verse nineteen, and God says this, but you don't be

  238. worried about what you drinking, or what you got to

  239. eat or where, because he says, but my God is

  240. he your God shall supply all your need according to

  241. his riches in glory back Christ Jesus. He promised right there.

  242. That's the word of God. He promised to take care

  243. of us, and we cannot be insecure about his provision

  244. for us because if the prizes of the prospiritual blessings

  245. of God. And then Jesus goes on to tell us

  246. how God is the sustainer and creator of nature, and

  247. if he'll take care of them that have no soul,

  248. how much more will God take care of his most

  249. prized creation if he takes care of the lilies of

  250. the field, the files in the air. Heymen, somebody, he's

  251. telling us how he took care of nature, and how

  252. he yet takes care of nature. How much more would

  253. he do for the creation that was most precious to him? Amen?

  254. And what will you gain from worrying about your life?

  255. Accept sickness and death because you know it's a saying.

  256. Gets sick from wearing too much, and you can die

  257. from wearing too much. God don't want you to worry

  258. about what you wear. He clothes nature. He clothes nature,

  259. so he will clothe you, don't you know? Even the

  260. homeiness on the street run up on clothes to wear.

  261. Come on here, the homeless on the street run up

  262. on food to eat. Huh. He'll touch somebody's heart if

  263. they don't give him a couple of dollars. They'll take

  264. them in the restaurant and give them something to eat

  265. and something to drink. He will touch his heart. Sometimes

  266. they'll take the shirt off their back and put it

  267. on them. So worry about it. He gonna clothe you too.

  268. He gonna feed you. Nature he feeds and clothes, and

  269. he'll feed you too. He provides everything that nature needs.

  270. The dirt, the soil, the rain, the sun. He provides

  271. all that for him. The wind, the rain, the wind

  272. to blow the leaves off the tree when it's time.

  273. Put him to sleep in the winter when it's time,

  274. wake him up again in the summer, and he'll do

  275. the same for you and me. Don't stop trusting him.

  276. He's still trustworthy. But all he wants us to do

  277. is to understand he is the father. And when you

  278. understand that he's the father of us, all that seek

  279. him and trust him. And that's why he says, take

  280. no thought about what you need, because he knows what

  281. we need even before we ask him. Don't worry about

  282. what you're going to put on, don't worry about what

  283. you're going to eat, don't worry about how you have

  284. gas money to make it to work the rest of

  285. the week. Don't worry about lunch, don't worry about any

  286. of that stuff. A man somebody, because you can still

  287. trust in him. Don't worry about what the media is saying,

  288. what the news is projecting in this wicked times. It

  289. don't matter what they projected. You can still trust him.

  290. You see. Father, he birth us into this new family,

  291. and then he becomes daddy because he takes care of us.

  292. He's a real daddy all the time. He don't pick

  293. and choose. No matter what you do, He's still daddy.

  294. A man. We're not to be worried about all these

  295. all these trivial things, not even about where you're gonna

  296. lay your head. For the Father knows all things. He

  297. knows your need and your wonts, not just your need

  298. but also your won't you know you you know back

  299. in the day the parents said, boy, I'm gonna get

  300. you what you need. He ain't always get what you want,

  301. but that ain't God Daddy say I'm gonna give you

  302. what you need and what you want. Because he said

  303. I'm gonna supply all of your needs. And then he

  304. backs up and said, I'm your shepherd, and you shall

  305. not want, so he gonna take care of you on

  306. both ends. You don't hear what I'm saying even before

  307. you ask, because he knows your thoughts before you think him.

  308. Hey man, But he simply says, put these things in order,

  309. put things order. And I hear you ask, what is

  310. that order that orders? With God spoke to you to

  311. seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.

  312. That's the order. Our order is to seek first the

  313. Kingdom of God and his righteousness. And then somebody say,

  314. and then all of these things? What are these things?

  315. All of these things our material things, because he knows

  316. we live in a material world. So we got to

  317. have a place to lay our head because we live

  318. in a material world. We've got to have food to eat. Amen.

  319. Because we live in a material world. We can't walk

  320. around buck nickd. We got to have clothes to wear

  321. because we live in a material world. And we just

  322. got to have things that money can be. And that

  323. means we got to have a job to get the

  324. money to buy. And let's God bless somebody to give

  325. it to us who also had to have money to buy. Amen.

  326. And the fact that you got a job. To do

  327. these things, you gotta have a way to get to

  328. the job. He know you're gonna need a car, or

  329. you might even need a uber or you might even

  330. need a bus, Amen, somebody, or you might even need

  331. a pot now with a right, But God go supply

  332. a way to get to work. Amen. He gonna get

  333. that transportation to you. You see, Jesus said, your father

  334. knows everything you have need of, and all you've got

  335. to do is do is don't spend your life seeking

  336. after thieves, folks spending their life seeking things instead of

  337. his face. Amen.

  338. But all he told us to do was seek first

  339. the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. Seek first the

  340. Kingdom of God and his righteousness.

  341. I need y'all to say that with me one, two three,

  342. Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. One

  343. more time. Seek first the Kingdom of God one more time.

  344. What's gonna happen after that? And all things are gonna

  345. be added unto thee. Somebody say, all things are gonna

  346. be added unto THEE. Who is THEE? Say me? Say me?

  347. And you all you got to do is seek first

  348. the Kingdom of God, and then all those things, all

  349. those material things will be added unto you, because Jesus said,

  350. I didn't say the preacher said all this, Bishop of

  351. Prophet said, I said, Jesus said that your father, your daddy,

  352. knows everything you have need of. And all you gotta

  353. do is don't spend your life seeking after things. But

  354. if we would just seek first the kingdom of God

  355. and his righteousness and trust him, hey man, then all

  356. the things will be added unto us. And you will

  357. seek him, the Father. And when you seek him, you'll

  358. recognize that one of the one of the words that

  359. describe a father. When you seek him and seek him

  360. like he says, he'll add all things to you, because

  361. when you're seeking him, you'll find out Father turns to Daddy.

  362. And since Father turns to Daddy, Father is the source

  363. of all things. Amen. One of the definitions of the

  364. word father is source, Amen, the place where it all

  365. flows from. It all flows from him. If you would

  366. just seek him, all flows from him. The things flow

  367. from him. Amen. When you seek his kingdom, the things

  368. flow from him. Hallelujah, flowy to God. So instead of

  369. you running out the cars and running out the houses,

  370. and running out the jobs and running out the clothes.

  371. If you would just run out the guard and trust him,

  372. just run after him. He is the source of all things.

  373. And once you connect with the source, once you connect

  374. with the source, Amen, this is a disconnection. But when

  375. this switch connects, you got light. When you connect to him,

  376. you got source. Amen, you got source when you connect

  377. to him. When you seek first the Kingdom of God,

  378. he'll send you the house. He'll send you the car,

  379. he'll send you the clothes. He'll send you everything you

  380. need for he is your father, and he's concerned about you,

  381. all of his children. He'll send you the husband. He'll

  382. send you the wife. He'll send you the healing them. Amen, somebody,

  383. he'll send you the deliverance when you seek first him.

  384. He'll send you the peace and the joy when you

  385. seek at the him. And if you seeking after him,

  386. ain't no need to do it. If you can't trust him,

  387. you gotta trust him because God is concerned about his children.

  388. What Dad is not concerned about his children? My children grown,

  389. and I'm still concerned about him. I'll always be concerned

  390. about my children. And I'm glad that I know who

  391. he is. And I'm glad that I have a personal

  392. relationship with him, and so whatever I need, he does

  393. supply my ever need. I'm glad I got a relationship

  394. with him. He is my supplier. He supplies every right

  395. thought I need in my head. Heymen, somebody every right

  396. way I need to go, he supplies. And in my conclusion,

  397. I'm getting ready to conclude all this, and I hope

  398. you got some matter of it. But I want you

  399. to get this, hey man. I want you to I

  400. want you to get this. I want to tell you

  401. something that you need to know. Get in touch with

  402. your father, hey man. Get in touch with your father.

  403. You know why, because he wants to hear from you.

  404. Get in touch with him. He want to hear from you.

  405. His numbers never busy. You might have two ways. He

  406. got eternal way, huh. You may call waiting a call hold.

  407. He got continuation. And you may be able to put

  408. somebody on the party line as much as two or

  409. three or four. But he can put millions on them

  410. and hear them all at the same time. You don't

  411. hear what I'm saying. Get in touch with your father.

  412. He wants to hear from you. He loves you, hey man,

  413. and he wants to do the things for you get

  414. in touch with him. He's waiting to hear from you.

  415. Most folks don't ever talk to him enough. Some only

  416. talk to him when they got their hand out. He

  417. want to hear from you when your hand is out,

  418. but he wanted more hear from you when your hands

  419. are up. Hey man, he wants to hear from you.

  420. Call on him and see when he answer. Because God's

  421. got you back. If you would just trust in him

  422. and in him alone. I didn't say trusting him and

  423. then trusting Pastor Tompkins. I said in him alone. The

  424. only way you can trust in me is if I'm

  425. in him. And the only way you can know if

  426. I'm in him is if you in him, because you're

  427. gonna recognize it. Hey man, somebody, if you would just

  428. trust in him and in him alone, he can do it.

  429. No matter what the world is doing, no matter what

  430. the all the calamity in the world, all the disturbance

  431. in the world, all these things don't do nothing to

  432. come to knock you off the focus of trusting in

  433. your Lord and save it to put you in a panic.

  434. Why should I be in a panic when my God

  435. is in control of everything? Why am I panicking because

  436. an earthquake coming. He got the earthquake under control. Whoever

  437. he gonna receive during an earthquake. On. You ain't running

  438. hiding nowhere, Come on in here. Somebody ain't no need

  439. of frightening dying when some folks live to die. Amen.

  440. And everybody want to get to heaven, but don't nobody

  441. want to die to get there. All you got to

  442. do is trust in Him and you ain't got to

  443. worry about dying because you're gonna live. Amen. Amen. Just

  444. trusting Him and you will live and not die. Amen. Amen.

  445. God is good. Amen. Somebody tell him thank you. Oh,

  446. you can do better than that. Somebody tell him. Somebody's

  447. standing on their feet and tell God thank you. You

  448. know how you do when you at the game. Somebody

  449. tell them, thank you. Oh it's hard when it comes

  450. to God, but it's easy for me. I don't know

  451. about you. They had boots on the ground yesterday. Didn't

  452. nobody have no problem walking through all that mud. They

  453. didn't care about the cars being stuck in the ground.

  454. Some of the cars are still there because they had

  455. to leave them when they left when it was over with.

  456. Because the car is still stuck in the grass,