Remember and Recommit | Joshua 24:1-14 | Pastor Diego Mesa

Amen.

Hey, it's great to see everybody on our midweek service

or Wednesday night. How many of you like Wednesday is

kind of the day you come to church because you

work on the weekend or Saturday or Sunday.

Is there anybody.

Who'd like to Yeah, there's look at that. That's pretty awesome.

Thank you so much for coming to church. We all

have busy lives, and I just am grateful that people

don't use the excuse, well, I work on weekends, That's

why I don't come. They found a way to come

to church on Wednesday and get fed. So I really

really appreciate that.

You know.

It was Gabe gave the announcements today, and I was

just so overwhelmed that Gabe has grown up in the church.

Great Gabe went off to Bible schools within this church

he started, and he still works over in children's church.

He brought a character called Zay and this surfer kid

that he changes into and teaches the kids the Memory Verse.

And it's so wonderful to see a generational church that

will continue to make an impact and be healthy in

the next generation, in the next generation, in the next generation.

I don't know if you've noticed I've got gray hair,

and Pastor Garfield he's got gray hair. And Pastor Garfield

was for many, many years our children's pastor, and then

when he got gray hair, we had to say, oh no,

we got to move you to somewhere else. But it's

just so wonderful to see generations being impact. I can't

wait to see your children and your teenagers should they

want to walk in the vocation of a preacher, a pastor, teacher, evangelists,

or whatever they might do. I'm looking for the next

generation of Diego's that are hearing the call of God

at seventeen years old, telling all their high school friends

that I'm going to be a preacher one day, and

giving God their twenties, their thirties, their forties, their fifties.

And their sixties.

How many of you know God can do it. It

usually starts off with one intercessor that was too deep

for you to handle. It's more than an interest. It's

an intercessor that usually births that and praise that into

the life of somebody. And I would not be here

because behind me are a thousand intercessors that have allowed

this to happen.

We're going to go to the Book of Joshua.

And as you recognize, we are in chapter twenty four,

and if you been on this journey all year long,

we started in chapter one and now we're in chapter

twenty four, which is the last one. And I imagine

the next message will be the final message of Joshua.

Twenty four. We're going to read about fourteen verses.

I think it's important to read through these fourteen verses

just to lay the foundation of what we're going to

talk about out.

How many of you value the word of God.

If you talk to somebody who doesn't come to church,

non Christian or of another faith, they'll always ask you,

what's up with the Bible? Why is the Bible so

important to you? Why do you talk your people the

church talk from the Bible. What do you think you

would tell them? If someone asked you an atheist, why

do you learn or they teach you in church through

the Bible?

What would you tell them?

So I could see that we're going to have to

teach you apologetics, which means how to defend the Gospel,

because you do want to be good at answering these

kinds of questions. Now you don't have to be deep

and be a seminary graduate. You know why we use

the Bible because it's God's word. It's God's word, and

we don't value anything more than what comes from the

lips of God, which is God's word. This magnificent Bible

made up a sixty six books written over sixteen hundred

year period on three different continents, with forty authors, and

yet the theme of the one book is Jesus and

he's the one that saves all mankind. Now you go

figure that one out and you try to define that.

That's why we believe in the Bible. You tell me

what book is written over sixteen hundred years. You tell

me what book is written by forty different authors on

three different continents and in several languages, but has a

continuity of unity with one message Jesus and Jesus him alone.

It's more than enough for me to believe in the book.

Here we go, stand on our feet. Let's read a

little bit together. In Joshua, chapter twenty four and verse one,

Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shisham, summoned

Israel's elders, leaders, judges, officers, and they presented themselves before

the Lord Joshua said to all the people, this is

what the Lord, the God of Israel, said. Long ago,

your ancestors, including Tarah, the father of Abram at Nahor,

lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods. But

I noticed that I took your father Abraham from the

region beyond the Euphrates River and led him throughout the

land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants. I gave Isaac,

and to Isaac, I gave Jacob and Esau. And I

gave the hill country of Seir to Esau as a possession.

Jacob and his sons, however, went down to Egypt. I

sent Moses and Aaron, and I defeated Egypt by what

I did within it. And afterwards I brought you out.

When I you brought your ancestors out of Egypt and

reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued your ancestors with

chariots and horsemen as far as the sea.

Your ancestors cried out to the Lord.

So he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and

brought you brought the sea over.

Them, engulfing them.

Your own eyes saw saw what I did to Egypt.

After that you lived in the wilderness.

A long time later, I brought you to the land

of the Amorites, who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought

against you, but I handed them over to you. You

possessed their land, and I annihilated them before you. Barak,

the son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent out to

fight against Israel. He sent Balem, son of Bora, to

curse you, but I would not listen to Batim. Instead,

he repeatedly blessed you, and I rescued you from him.

You then crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. Jericho's citizens,

as well as the Amorits, Parasite, Canaanites, Hithites, Gergisites, Hippites,

and Jebisides, fought against you, but I handed them over

to you. I sent hornets ahead of you, and they

drove out the two Amorit kings before you, and I

was not, And it.

Was not by your sword or bo.

I gave you a land you did not labor for

cities you did not build, though you live in them.

You are eating from vineyards and olive groves you did

not plant.

Therefore, here we go last verse.

Let's say it together Therefore, fear the Lord, Worship him

in sincerity and truth, get rid of the gods of

your ancestors. Worship beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt,

and worship the Lord.

You may be seated.

Good job you read fourteen verses. How masterful is that.

I know we read them fast and there was a

lot to be said, But I want to just smise

what we're about ready to talk about today by reading

from my notes today. The thought is this, when we

remember right, we will reaffirm our commitment to God and

not repeat our mistakes and not replace God in our lives.

That's the summation of what you just read right there.

If you and I do not remember God in everything

that God's done for us, and we will replace God

in our lives.

But if you remember God that.

It was in your goodness, your righteousness, it was in

your strength that has gotten you where you are today,

but nothing but God, then I will always affirm God.

I will always honor God, and I will always rely

upon God.

Do you have a good memory? Let me ask you

a question.

Can you remember things pretty good? Or do you have

spiritual amnesia? Do you have spiritual dementia or spiritual insanity.

Sometimes we do. I could be guilty of that, and

you could be guilty of that. Because the noise of

the hardship is so overwhelming it makes me forget about

God's past goodness in my life that happens in the

present prosperity and luxury and pleasure that I'm living in.

Sometimes that could drown out and make me forget God

in the midst of my luxury and in the midst

of my prosperity. But we must not forget God the

same way that a little child does not forget their banky.

And if they don't have a banky, you parents are

in trouble. You better search high and low for that blanket.

They know it's missing. I better know when I'm missing

God in my life. I remember at our old property

in Unica, I went to a meeting one night and Adam,

a pastor. Adam wanted to come with me. And so

you're just a little guy's probably about seven years old.

And I went to this meeting and then I finished

the meeting, and halfway home to South Ridge, Fontana, I

realized I forgot Adam at church, and I had to

turn around and go back and get him. I never

told Lovely Cindy that or she would remember that till

the day I died. So many of us have forgotten God.

In the midst of our hardships, we forget God, in

the midst of our prosperity, we forget about God. This

chapter is all about challenging us not to forget about God.

So here's the first point. The importance of all and

not some. Notice what Joshua told them. You'll see him

on the state. You'll see him on the screen night.

Now he called for all twelve tribes to be represented.

He said, I want Reuben.

Are you here, all the tribe, all the people, Reuben,

the Ruben Knightes, all the sons of Simon, all the

children grandchildren Simon, Are you here, Levi, Judah, Dan Nephtalah,

Dad Asher, Ishaikar, Zebelon, Joseph and Benjamin.

All the tribes were there.

And then he goes on and he says that the

elders were there, the leaders were there, the judges were there,

the officers were there. The importance of all being where

they should be, rather than some. What am I trying

to tell you? Are you with the people that God

has called you to. Are you in the place that

God has called you to? Are you living out the

plan that God has called you to? Are you living

to the purpose God has called you to? Because God

required all of them to be present, not absent, not busy,

not distracted.

Excuse me, I can't make it.

Everybody was in that place at that particular time. And

there's an assigned place that God has us with, the

assigned people that God has has us go to or

live with, to be with, and he has assigned purpose

for our lives. And you've got to understand that my

life is not an accident. My life is not a mystery.

My life is not a happenstance. God has a plan

for my life, with a purpose for my life in

the place God has me. And therefore I got to

be moved if I am not where I should be.

And so the reality was is that that all of

them were there, And that to me is the power

of being present versus being absent.

It's the power of being present.

Like when you were a little kid going through school,

they call it your name and you have to say present,

and if you didn't say present, they mark you absent.

Where and when does God say your name, and you're

supposed to say, present, what.

Does that look like? You will never grow in faith

and mature if you cannot define that.

You have to understand where am I supposed to be present?

And I cannot afford to be absent in that place.

If you know a little about your Bible, Jesus after

the resurrection was seen by five hundred, more than five

hundred individuals. In other words, they would have seen him

on Sunday when he died suspended between in heaven for

six hours, they would have saw him. They saw him

on Friday, they saw him on Sunday, and then after

the resurrection, after three days, they would have saw him again.

Five hundred people, five hundred witnesses song on the day

of Pentecost, which would have been forty days after his resurrection.

One hundred and twenty of them were present in the

upper room. Where were the other three hundred and eighty.

You just saw the resurrect of Jesus.

You just saw him die, and now you see him

walk in the streets, and he says, Terry and Jerusalem,

wait in that upper room. You're not present, You're not there.

Here's a great scripture in John I'll read it to you.

It speaks a little bit about Thomas having said this,

he showed them their hands and his side. So disciples

rejoiced when they saw the Lord, but Thomas called the twin.

One of the twelve was not with them when Jesus came. Absent, absent, absent, absent,

not present, not present, not where he should be. They

gotta tell him what happened that he doesn't know for himself.

Please go on, Please, please go on. No, Okay, we

can't go on. Let's see if I can find it.

I'm sorry. No, I guess that's all I'm gonna get. Huh,

Only that's it.

Anyway, So I apologize.

So basically, what that's saying is is that Jesus showed

up to show his resurrected body. All ten of them

were there, Judas had already died. The only one missing

was Thomas. Thomas wasn't where he should have been. And

so I want you to wreck the power of being present.

The second thing is the power of unity versus disunity,

the power of togetherness versus non togetherness, the power of

agreement versus disagreement, the power of oneness versus being divided,

the power of fellowship versus non fellowship, the power of

community versus non community. They were all unified by being together.

There was a sense of unity as Joshua, this old commander,

this old general, this one that started as a young

man as a servant of mo. Why was he chosen?

Why was not Aaron chosen as the leader? Why was

not Miriam chosen? Why was not or chosen? Why was

it him that was chosen? And now he's an old man,

And so we see here as he calls for everybody

because he wants unity. God wants unity in our homes.

God wants unity in our marriage. God wants unity in

our nation. God wants unity in our church, and we

need to strive for unity.

Unity is always the place of power.

There will never be no power of God in our

lives where there's disunity. I remember early in my marriage,

I told my wife we will not always agree on everything,

but we must walk in unity. I'll share my opinion,

you share your opinion. I'm not going to change your opinion.

You won't change my opinion. I'll value all respect. But

we must remain in unity and not allow any strife

or any division, or any discord to divide us and

if that means spending all night talking through why we

believe what we believe or why we want to do

what we do, then we're going to do that. And

that has been the success of next month, forty two

years of marriage. Is the unity that we possess. That's

why me and lovely Cindy that devil hates us very

powerful when we get together and pray God, here's our prayers.

Because you recognize because Matthew eighteen eighteen says there's power

in agreement through prayer. So I want you to recognize

that the Bible talks about being put together, joined together,

built together, members together, airs together, fitted together, held together.

And brought up together.

The Bible has everything to do with us being together

as the body of Christ. The hand is not separated

from the arm, the foot is not separated from the leg,

the eye is not separated from the face. You cannot

be separated from your brothers and sisters. Conania is required,

Fellowship is required, serving together is required, responsibility and that's

what he's calling them to here. And the third thing

is the power of equals. Sacrifice breeds trusting relationships. Too

many times we have some people sacrificing in other people

can and back and watching. And when there's equal sacrifice,

then you and I start trusting one another.

I love the church.

I've been part of the church for many, many years,

but I recognize that sometimes we don't do things right

within the church. I'm talking about the family of God,

the Body of Christ, and oftentimes we don't have trusted

relationships with one another, and we literally don't trust one

another because we don't have equal sacrifice. We're not pulling

our load. I'm working and you're watching, or you're working

and I'm watching. You're given and I'm not given. You're

praying and I'm not praying. So there will never be

trusting relationships. So to get all these people here is

the fact that everybody equally sacrifices. Wherever God tells us

a sacrifice, we're going to sacrifice, and our prayers, We're

to sacrifice as men of God to stay married to

the white of our youth. And though that gets difficult

sometimes and marriage is hard, I'm gonna stay married no

matter what it takes. And if I endure and I

and I hole fast, There'll come a time when I'll

enjoy the harvest of that, but people don't think that way,

and so you and I have to get to the

point where we recognize there has to be equal sacrifice

in our lives. Again, that Dodger game in the World Series,

Game three, that took eighteen innings, six hours and thirty

five minutes, went through ten pictures. Tyler Glaslow was the

starting pitcher, but nine other pictures came after him. That

game was won by ten pictures, not one picture, every

one of them. When the call came, get out there,

you're ready to get out there?

I'm ready, I'm shit. They can't shut up and get

out there.

I know that's a little too hard, But when when

the manager Jesus looks at you and say you're up,

you got again. Took ten pictures. Equal sacrifice. Nobody's gonna

pull my load. Nobody had listen. I'm a man.

Ain't nobody gonna hold my hand.

As for me and my house, we will serve lower.

I'll raise my kids, all love, my wife all tied.

I'll volunteer, I'll work. It's equal sacrifice. Equal sacrifice is

the key here. I don't know if you've ever seen

geese find I just love the unity and the formation

I'll just stand up, and I mean so, I'll just

look up and just enjoy the v formation of how

they absolutely work together. The second thing is the importance

of remembering and revisiting Shesham. This is where this meaning

is gonna take place. It's going to take place in Shesham.

It's literally in a valley. It's in a valley where

this is taking place. But I'm going to take you

to ask you where is your Shesham.

And why she Sham? Why did he call him to

this location? Why? Okay, well, we're gonna find out.

I got to take you six hundred years before what

you're about ready to see. See, they've already inherited the

promises of God. They've already defeated everything, all the heights,

they defer, all the Canaan Knites, they defeated.

Okay, but I got to take.

You six hundred years earlier, and we'll go to Genesis twelve,

and I want to read this scripture to you. Abraham

passed through the land to the site of Shesham, Oh

my God, at the Oka Moraah, at the time the

Canaan Knites were in the land. The Lord appeared to

Abraham where in Shesham and said to your offspring, what

I will give this land that Joshua's inheriting a six

hundred year prophecy is being fulfilled. So he built an

altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him

at Shesham. We're a generation that have lost all traditions.

Seems as though a generation has come and gone, and

you and I have to fight for traditions places where

we're going to build solemn memories for our children and

our grandchildren to remind them and to rehearse God's goodness

in our lives and who we are as a people,

in the patriarchs and the matriarchs of our families that

have built us. Go back to your Shesham. I can

remember my Shesham. When I think of my spiritual life

in Shesham, I think of the fact that in nineteen

ninety four, in January, at big old time, I was

sitting there and I had this little book from a

place called Harrison House. Don't even know if Harrison House

exists anymore, and I was thumbing through it as I

was just buying time, says before the internet, a cell

phone or anything like that, waiting for the tires to

go on. And I saw this scripture in Isaiah forty three,

eighteen and ninety. Maybe I've read it before, maybe not,

But it was like I was hearing God, behold, I

will do a new thing, saith the Lord. I'll make

away in your wilderness and rivers in your deserts. I've

called you to be a senior pastor. That's what I

heard in my spirit. That was a Sheesha moment. It

was a visitation from God. It was giving me divine direction.

Little did I know in three months I would birth.

We would birth by the spirit of God, Abundant Living

Family Church in South Ridge, Fontana, in my home. I'll

never forget it. I'll never forget be a big old tire.

I'll never forget it. And you and I have to

remember these moments when God came with vision in us.

God came to birth direction in us. God came with

a visitation in us. Shesham is the place where I

met God. It's the place where God gave me a promise.

And Sheisham is the place where God fulfilled his word

to me. That's what Shesham met to them as they

sat there and said, our great grandfather, whoever it might

be Abraham was here one day he built this altar,

and God told him that we would inherit the land

six hundred years ago.

And look what the Lord has done. We have inherited

the land.

Wow, what a reason to praise God at that particular point.

The importance of reflection over your life from beginning till now,

that's what they were doing since. Because as you go

through this text here, I'm going to try to do

this very very quickly. He rehearses their history for them,

just in case they forgot, or if they didn't forget,

they needed to be reminded.

So he is going to take them down a road from.

The fact that where they began to where they are now.

He said, I want to take you back to the

beginning of Tara.

Tarah was a pagan idol.

Worshiper who didn't know me, and I saved his son Abraham,

and I birthed a nation and you people from him.

Today. I want to remind you of that, your beginnings.

So I want to talk to you about he says,

I want to name Tara Abram, Isaac Jacob, isa isa Isa.

I want to talk to you about Egypt, Moses Aaron.

I defeated Egypt. I brought you out of the Red

Sea Egyptian Sherits. I destroyed the darkness between you and them.

I drowned people in the Red Sea. I brought you

through the wilderness. We defeated the Amorits Balak Balem, and

you were blessed. And then you went through the Jordan,

and then you conquered the Jericho and the Parasites, Canaanites,

the Hivites, the Gergisites, the Hivites, the Jebusites. All this

I did for you. Don't forget it. Absolutely, don't forget

my goodness to you. Don't forget my mercy to you,

and don't forget my loving kindness to you. And I

was with you after event after event after event, stage

after stage after stage, episode after episode.

In your life.

Seventy one times. In the Book of Psalms, you'll see

this word see law. The word selah means to pause

for reflection and give honor and praise to God.

We need to.

Have more sela moments in our lives that just stop

and say, look what the Lord has done. I was

a Mexican from Mantaballo that had a one point eight

GPA so much issues in my life, and I'm not

here today because of my intellect, my looks, or any skill.

I'm here by the providence of God. I'm here that

God orchestrated in my life. The hand of God is

on me. And I never ever want to take glory.

I never want to take honor, and I never want to.

Take praise for it. I always want to give it back.

Is there anybody like me in this room? That's what

he's doing. He reminding them of the South Central days.

He's reminding them of the prison days, the drug days,

the alcoholic days, the promiscuity days, El Central days. That's

what I was thinking of. El Central, South Central, Al

Central doesn't matter. He's reminding you of the immigrant and

you used to be. And nobody in your family had

an education, nobody's owned their own home, nobody graduated from college.

I'm gonna take you back.

To your origin today so that you could see how

far you are and how far I've come in your

life for because of my goodness and my mercy and

my kindness that had did that for you. He takes

them down this journey of the providences in the stages

of God. I don't know about you. You could see him,

but they may not be revealed to you. I could

see the providence of God.

In my life.

I could just see the turns he took me down,

the things. Showing up to be a sheriff, Nope, you're

not going to be a sheriff, don't pass the time.

Show up to be a marine, Nope, you're not going

to be a marine. Shut that thing down. Show up

to be a professional trial, and shut that thing. If

that would have if if that would have went, I

wouldn't have been here, or we would have delayed it,

or I could have died somewhere.

It was the hand of God that shut those doors.

I was supposed to be at UCLA under a running scarp.

God shut that thing down. I had an injury that

ended it. It was I would have never met Cindy.

I would have never done that. The career would have

went a whole different way. I told Cindy when I

dated her, we wanted to go to the mountains together.

I didn't want to go to the mountains. I didn't

want to I didn't want to date this girl. I

wanted to go off the Bible school. I didn't want

nothing to do with her. I kind of got looped

into it. She invited herself to go on vacation with me.

And that's a gospel truth, no matter what she says,

because my mom and dad could verify it because I

lived in their home. And I said, I don't want

to go on. I don't want to go to Big

Bear with this girls. I don't want to go on

with this girl. My dad said, well, you better call

her up right because she's I told her we're.

Gonna go, and so she said, he what are we

gonna eat?

I said, I don't know. She said, why don't I

go to the market and get us some food? And

I said okay, and I hung up the phone. I

hung up the phone and I looked at home. I

don't want to go out with this girl. I don't

know what I'm doing. I don't want her to my life.

He said, you better pick up that.

Phone and call.

Not more than a minute later, I picked up the

phone one ringing, digging to bring in and she didn't

pick up.

If she would have picked up, there would have been

non Nathan, Caleb or Adam. It wouldn't have happened. Can you.

I don't know if you could. Can you see the

destiny of God in your life? Can you see?

Because I could go back and I could tell you

story after story after story after story. You may think

it's happenstance. You may think it's coincidence. I know it's

the divine orchestration of God that has gotten me where

I'm at today. And I want to I'm not gonna

take glory, and I'm not gonna take honor, and I'm

not gonna get praised.

I'm gonna give it all back to God. But because there.

Was nothing but him, he deserves it. And I'm gonna

tell my children, and I'm gonna tell my grandchildren, and

I'm gonna tell my great grandchildren and gonna.

Tell all generations. So you see.

So he says this amazing, and it was highlighted, but

not all of them were highlighted. At least eleven times

he said, I took you, I gave you, I defeated,

I brought, I did, I handed, I annihilated, I would

not allow.

I rescued you, I sent you, I gave you. No

I I ah, there ain't no U.

Wheeze us is in that the only thousands of people

in a valley. He's saying, I want to remind it

was God. God said, I did it. I did it.

I did it. I did it. You didn't do jack

deadly nothing.

I did it. I delivered you.

I healed you, I rescued you, I bless you. I

got that you, I got you that job, I got

you that house.

I healed you, I delivered you. I'm the one who

did it. Now you owe me. You owe me the

rest of your life.

You owe me your praise, your worshipers.

Your heart, your money, your love. I did that for you, God, Satan,

you didn't build that house. I built that. God said.

Everything was by My hand of mercy. That what are

he telling them right there in the valley, all those eyes.

Here's a quote on the screen. When we build our

lives around eyes, we are being influenced and acting like

the devil. When instead of God being the eye, you

start being the eye. Then let me tell you who

you're acting like. In Isaiah, in verse number fourteen, here

we go. You want to see Lucifer. You want to

see the devil before he fell to this earth.

Here you go.

You said to yourself, Ah, I will ascend to the heavens.

This is this is This is Lucifer, Who's Satan?

He said, Ah, I will ascend to the A. I

will set my throne above the stars.

Ah.

I will sit on the mount of God's assembly, in

the remost parts of the north. I I will ascend

above the highest clouds.

I will make myself like the most art You fool,

you fool. That's why he fell. So I was kicked

out of heaven.

And when you and I start taking the eye credit,

you acting like the devil, full of arrogance, full of conceitedness,

and full of pride. I don't want no eyes in me.

All the glory and all the honor goes to him.

Why would I not serve him?

Why would I not give him ten percent of my money?

He could have all of it if he wanted. But

see there's an eye. You won't give him ten percent

as my money, My my mine. Oh oh, let's close

this out while you still like me.

But that's.

He goes through that. The last thing that I think

is pretty important. There's a thought. And maybe you've seen

this before. If you see a turtle on a fence pole,

if you ever see this, know that the turtle didn't

get up there by himself, and we're like that turtle.

God put us on the he elevated us, he promoted.

You couldn't climb that pole if you wanted to. You

couldn't live in that neighborhood if you wanted to. You

couldn't make that money if you wanted. You couldn't have

married that woman that if you want, You couldn't have

those kids if you wanted to.

Knucklehead, that you are fool, that we all are stupid,

that we all.

Are so loving God that reached down to that mire

pit and washed us clean and made us righteous, and

gave us the mind of Christ, gave us a new

heart and put his spirit upon us.

And I never want to forget that. And so the.

Last point is this the importance? He ends with this,

in verse number fourteen. He uses this word therefore, so

he ends with this, in verse fourteen, can you give

me that?

There we go? He says, Therefore, what is there for? There?

For?

He says, because of all that I just said, I

want to bring a conclusion to that. I'm about ready

to drop the mic.

Josh Wa, I say, get ready, I'm about better to

drop the mic, ready to walk off the stage. Get ready,

here we go. Curtain's going to close right now. You know,

porky Pig's going to come out. That's all, folks, that's it,

he said. Here's the inclusion of the matter.

Listen to me. I'm gonna give you the summary. Now

here's the summary.

Guys, Fear the Lord, Honor him, reverence him, love him,

worship him, Serve him.

With sincerity and truth.

Get rid of the gods, get rid of your idols,

get rid of sin, get rid of flesh that your

ancestors worshiped, and worship the Lord. This is the summation

of it. Because God's been so good to you. Will

you fear the Lord because God's been good to you.

Will you worship the Lord because God's been good to you.

Will you get rid of the sin and the idols that.

Are in your life.

Then you'll guarantee a blessed ending and a blessed future.

But he ends with this, he says, but you got

to do it with sincerity and truth, because I can

almost do anything without sincerity. I can I can stay

married to a wife without and without sincerity. I can

kids without sincerity. I could preach without sincerity. You could

go to work without sincerity. But the Bible says, whatsoever

you do, do it as unto the Lord with all

your heart.

So God wants true.

Truth is obedience, he said, I want obedience from you.

I don't want lift service.

Truth is a life of obedience that you obey what

my word says.

But I want sincerity. I want your whole heart given

to me my whole heart.

So in biblical times, and during the time in which

the Bible was written, there were merchants, and merchants would

line in the streets of let's just say Jerusalem, already

major city, and they'd be selling pottery and a lot.

Some of them were not always sincere. Some of them

were insincere. Some of them were like connivers and thieves,

and they wanted to do you over.

And so a good shot when he saw.

A pot that he wanted, he would lift it up

to the sun and the sun light, the beams of

the sun would shine through the pot, and it would

expose cracks that had been filled by wax. And so

he was selling it off as something that was strong

or whole. But it was insinceos. It was insincere. We

sometimes can cover up our lives with wax. But God

lifts us up in the sun, and he said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no,

You're not going to sell yourself off that way. You

need to repent, you need to get right, You need

to get rid of those things. Don't fake it, don't pretend,

don't try to sell yourself off as not being what

you should be. So he challenges us, and he ends,

live a life of truth and live a life of sincerity. Father,

I thank you for the message today, and I pray

that it resonates in the hearts of every single person

here today. May we not take credit for your goodness

in our life lives. God, it's nothing but your mercy

that we are where we are at today. Maybe not

forget who you are. We could forget in hard times,

we could forget in prosperity times. But we can't take

credit for anything in our lives. The car we drove

up in today God, the clothes that we are wearing God,

the education that we have, the looks that we have,

the possessions we have have called come from the hand

of God. All our victories, all the intersections of our lives.

We recognize You were in charge all the time.

God.

How do we live for a God that's loved us

so great. We just thank you today, Oh God, that

we can I pray that I just end this service

with a special prayer for people that if they have

not seen the providence of God in their lives, the

orchestration of God, would you open their eyes and show

them how you made intersections in their lives and they

made ninety degree turns of God, and you made things

happen in their lives that they could not have done

on their own, so that they could stop for a

moment and have a se law moment where they pause

and reflect, Wow, God has been really really good to me,

and I'm grateful in Jesus' name.

Amen.

As we get ready to leave this church on a

Wednesday service and I turned it over to Gabe, I.

Just want to challenge you today.

Jesus said this, I'm the Way, the truth, and the life.

No man comes to the Father but by me, the

way of the world and the way of religion. Is

this all roads lead to Rome. You guys, believe in

your Jesus. We believe in our Muhammad, we believe in

our Buddha, we believe in our Hadi Krishna.

We believe in our Hindu You know what.

All that matters is that you believe in a higher being,

whatever his name is, All roads lead to the same place. Well,

you know what, That sounds cute, but it's untrue because

Jesus said this, I am the way, not a way.

If he said I'm away, he would have opened the

door for every other little guru, god and theorist out there.

But he was absolute. He said I am the Way,

which meant I am the only way. I'm the only truth,

and I'm the only life. And here's what I know

about mankind. Everybody's trying to figure out the right way

to live. They're trying to figure out who's truth, what

is truth, and they're trying to figure out what's going

to happen after the day they die, And all that.

Is summed up in Jesus.

He's the only one that can guarantee the way, the truth,

and the life in your life. And so today, if

you tried every other means to try to get close

to God or run from God and never really submitted

to who he is, today is your day of submission.

Or say I'm a Christian servant the Lord, but I

feel like something's missing in my life. And you talked

about those five hundred, you talked about the one hundred

and twenty being filled with the Holy Spirit. I want

to get filled with the Holy Spirit. Or you know what,

I've done some things in the last few hours forty

eight hours last week that I need to just repent

from for any of these things. If you raise your hand,

We're going to pray for you right now. Don't be

a shamed one two one two three, raise your hand

all across this auditorium. Just say this prayer. Dear Jesus,

I need you forgive me of my sins, help me

to follow you. I want everything that you have for me.

Change my heart and save me in Jesus' name.

Amen. Amen.

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Amen?

Did you guys have a good time here at church tonight.

All right, we're all gonna leave together right now. Let

me pray for us, and then if you need any

additional prayer or anything like that, we'll have our elders

and deacons and our prayer team up here at the front.

We want to believe God with you. If you need.

Prayer for something you're going through, anything like that, you

need a breakthrough in your life, we're going to be

praying for you up here at the front. If you

need that as well, Let's pray together, and then we're

going to leave together. God, we come before you right now.

We just thank you Lord for bringing us here tonight. God.

We thank you for the word that you had for

us in our hearts. Lord, we pray that we're able

to keep that in our hearts as we leave to

this place in Jesus' name.

Amen. Amen. Hope to see you guys soon.