The Cannot's || Pastor Diego Mesa

Welcome to the ALSS Podcast. Here at ALC we seek the loss, teach

the found, and send the disciples. We truly hope you're encouraged by this

week's message. Father, thank you for the next few moments. May we

dive into your word and get really excited about being fed today through your Holy

Word, grow us, stretch us, inspire us, confront us, and

make us better witness for you in Jesus name. Amen. Jeremiah thirty two

readsist Our Lord God, Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth

by your great power. See that word great power. That word great power

speaks of God's omnipotent power. Great word God is an omnipotent God, which

basically means all powerful God. That's what it's saying. There. By your

great power and your stretch arms, there is nothing too hard for you.

You may be seated. I want to just if you play a little bit

of music, I'm gonna take you back to thirty five years ago or so,

when I was in the church. I heard music something like this.

Go ahead and play it. My God. It is so big, so

strong, and so mighty. That's nothing, my God, care, my

God, it's so big so strong and so mighty. There's nothing my God

here, not two songs My God is so big, there's nothing he can

do, and the next song which talks about that God can do anything but

fail, he could save, he could heal, and it goes on like

that. I want to talk a little bit about the can notts and I'm

gonna rip through these very very quickly. So if you're taking notes, you're

reving your pin today. If you're on, gonna text it today, and

you're gonna rev it today, because I'm gonna give you a close look at

Jesus. If you don't know nothing about Jesus, know nothing about the word,

you consider yourself an outsider, a guest, or you consider yourself a

novice, or you consider yourself a baby in the Lord that doesn't know much

about anything. To all of a sudden being someone that's strong in faith and

maturing, this message, I think is gonna minister to you greatly. But

for young believers, they are in people that don't know that they have a

falsehood about who God is. And maybe the Church hasn't done a great job

in describing that, or Christians have not lived the witness. But here today

You're gonna get a close look at understanding who God is. It's like a

close photograph of who he is. And I bet you that some of your

questions and answers you need about the Bible or about who God is is about

ready to be addressed. But here's a reality is how can an omnipotent God,

which means what a powerful God? How can I'm omniscient God, which

means what all knowing? And how can an omnipresent God, which means what

he's everywhere or every present place? How can this God limit himself or restrain

himself with restrictions. You have to take a look at Jesus, because Jesus

is the example of what I'm talking about. In the Bible says that he

was one hundred percent God. This month will be celebrating em Manuel God with

us, but yet one hundred percent man. And Philippians tells us that he

emptied himself and became subject unto man, and the Bible says he learned obedience.

How can God learn something? Stay with me. I'm gonna challenge your

theology, teach you today to get a close look at God, to break

down some misunderstandings that people don't that people have about who God is. Then

the Bible says, when he was a little kid, around twelve years old,

for his bar mitzvah, he subjected himself to his parents. How can

God subject himself to someone that's lower than him? The image that I could

give you the best, like if you were like twelve years old, not

to belittle you. Is the image of Superman? Is Superman Clark Kent?

The answer is yes, Is Clark Kent Superman? The answer is yes,

Who is Superman? Who is Clark Kent? Both Jesus operated as when he

was on this earth Clark kent't, but he's always Superman. But he chooses

when he walked this earth two thousand years ago for thirty three years not to

tap into his deity. Big word deity is everything that makes up God.

What are the three words we just said today, omnipotent, all powerful,

omnicient, what an omnipresent? He put a hold on that and he depended

upon the Holy Spirit to operate in his ministry. So then it helps us

to understand a little bit about what we're going to talk about in a few

minutes. And these cannots where we will will reveal God's beauty and magnificent.

These cannots will reveal God's heart and his mind. With that in mind,

let's go through him. Thirteen Thirteen things that God cannot do, even though

even though he's omnipotent, I probably lost you already based upon your silence today.

Thirteen things that God cannot do, the Bible says, if we'll look

at the first one. The Bible says in Hebrews that by two immunable things

in which it's impossible for God to what to lie, we might have a

strong consolation who have fled from refuge to lay hold of the hope set before

us my covenant. I will not break nor alter the words that have gone

out of my lips. The first point is understanding the picture of God,

the heart and mind of God, is the fact that God cannot lie.

God cannot lie. How many of you know that sometimes we lie about our

age? Don't raise your hand? How many sometimes we lie about our way

eat? Sometimes men lie about their height as they shrink as they get older.

We quickly do that. But God will tell you his age. If

you ask him, God would tell you his height. If you ask him,

God would tell you his weight. So what God cannot do is he

cannot lie. There's no falsehoods, there's no FIBs, there's no breaking oaths,

and there's no error within him. His word is absolute, his word

abites forever, and his word is unceaseen. He cannot lie about his plans,

he cannot lie about his purposes, and he can't lie about his promises.

They shall and they will come to pass. In a world where nothing

is really guaranteed for long or something it has a limited warranty. God cannot

lie what he promised to you in the Bible, in the screen sure has

a guarantee to it. And not only has not only has an earth and

warranty, it has a lifetime warranty, has an eternal warranty to it.

You can bank on what God has to say. The second thing in Melachi

three six, the Bible says that God cannot change. I'm the Lord,

and I change not. The second thing is is that cannot change, which

makes him totally reliable, totally dependable, totally faithful, and totally trustworthy.

God can't change his love for you can't change. Pastor Kenny talks about over

forty years ago being saved. God can't change from the fact that you are

saved. He's not going to take that salvation back from you. If He

forgave you, then you are forgiven. He's not gonna take that back from

you. He called us the gifts and callings of God or without repentance.

Whether I sin, whether I mess up, God still has a calling on

my life and a mission and a purpose that I am to fulfill. But

it's my choice whether I will do it or not. But God does not

change in our world and with us we are double minded, we are fickle,

we are flaky. That God can never be confused, and God is

never unknowing. God is never moody. God has never maybe God has never

might be. He is unchanging in his mind, He's unchanging in his thoughts,

he's unchanging in his character. A few years ago, there was a

Laker Pasekin. He would remember this basketball player by the name of Ron Our

Tests. But Ron changed his name to Meta sand Afford our Tests. Then

he didn't like that name, so he went with Meta World Peace. God's

not gonna change his name. God's not gonna change his character. He's not

gonna tell you one thing and then aka something else. The art is formally

known as God the faithful, the loyal, the dependable, not anymore.

He doesn't change to the culture of the world. He doesn't change to who's

in the White House, Republican or Democrat are independent. The third thing,

as I'm enjoyed this message and I could see that you're warming up, Isaiah

says this, for our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify

against you. For our transgressions are with us. As for our iniquoities,

iniquities we know them. And then so the thought here that I want to

share with you is this, God cannot stand sin. God cannot stand sin.

God doesn't ignore sin. God doesn't accept sin, and God doesn't tolerate

sin. And God hates sin, and God abhors sins, and God it

displeases in and he despises sin. And that's why he'll judge sin. We've

heard it. It's true that God loves the sinner, but he hates the

sin. My challenge today is that we have a grace doctrine that is extended

beyond its limitations and has got very liberal that now preaches that God loves sinners

and he also loves sin and tolerates it. But that's not true. That's

not true. So we recognize that God cannot stand sin. That's why he

is a righteous savior. That's why he's a righteous judge. He's a righteous

mediator, he was a righteous sacrifice, he's a right tel substitution, he's

a righteous mediator, and he's a righteous propitiation of our sin. One of

the most powerful verses, I don't have it on your screen, but you

could write it down. One of the most powerful verses in the Bible might

be John three sixteen, but there's another verse called in Second Corinthians five twenty

one that is a very powerful verse. I could get up here for fifty

two Sundays and preach something about John three p. Sixteen and not duplicate myself.

I can also do that with Second Corinthians five twenty one. That he

was made sin, who knew no sin, that you and I might be

made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Because God will judge sin.

That's why he needed a sacrifice for sin. That's why he sent his son

to take the penalty and the judgment of our sin. So the reality is

again because of this He is a holy God, and he's a pure God,

and he's an absolute clean God. That's who God is. You know

what we talk about one hundred percent pure, well, that's one hundred percent

pure gold, that's one hundred percent pure alcohol. God is the only one

that's one hundred percent pure. Because of who he is, he cannot stand

sand sin. The fourth thing is in Hebrews eleven and verse number six.

Without faith, it's impossible to please God. For he that coming to God

must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently

seek him. God cannot be pleased without faith. God cannot be pleased without

faith. Everything that's done must be done in faith, through faith, and

because of faith, and the reality of what I'm trying to tell you is

this. All sacrifices that we do as Christians, all works that we do

as Christians, are good deeds that we do as Christians, all services that

we do as Christians, all prayers that we do as Christians, all ceremonialism

or ritualism that we do as Christians, or anything or any devotion that we

do for Christ. All must be done by faith and in faith and through

faith, which is a strong belief, a strong trust, and a strong

confidence that God is who he said he is, that God knows everything,

that God sees everything, and that God hears everything. And putting my absolute

trust and my absolute confidence and belief in the word of God to be true.

That's what faith looks like. I want you to recognize. Faith moves

God. Faith is received by God. Faith is required by God, and

faith places a manned on God. It's not good enough just to believe in

God. You've got to put your faith in God. The woman with the

issue of blood was healed by faith. The crippled man was healed by faith.

The man born blind was healed by faith. The centurion servant was healed

by faith. The Seraphenician daughter was healed by faith. The Book of Hebrews

gives the w eleventh chapter to everybody in the Bible there was that lived a

life of faith. And if you're gonna relate to God, and you're gonna

serve God, and you're gonna get close to God, then you've got to

have faith in God. At the end of the day. One John one

point nine speaks of forgiveness. If we confess our sins. He's faithful and

just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all on righteousness. The

sacrifices of God Psalms fifty one. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit

and a broken and contrite heart. These, o, God, you will

not despise. Listen to this one. God cannot reject a repentive heart,

a heart that confesses its sins, a heart that is sorrowful and broken over

its sin, and a heart that's willing to change from its sins. We

live in a generation today in our faith in Christianity, where people are sorry

for their sins. God never asked you to be sorry for your sins.

God asked you to repent of your sins. Sorry means oops, I'm busted,

and now you know what, I'm sorry that I got busted. There

are too many examples in the Bible of individuals like that. Judas was never

repentive for what he did. David was absolutely broken in a contrite heart over

the adultery and the murder that he had committed. And so this is something

that I can't judge, and you can't judge, or any other man can

judge, but God can judge the heart whether it is truly sorrowful and grieving

and broken, and it's willing to confess it unto God and willing to change

its behavior toward God. That's the picture of Jonah. Jonah had a repentive

heart, the prodigal had a repentive heart, the thief on the cross had

a repentive heart. And Peter, after he had denied the Lord, had

a repentive heart. I'm so grateful that the Lord doesn't have a three strike

law. I'm so grateful that God doesn't count your sins and say, oh,

one too many, if you did one less, I could have forgiven

you. I want you to recognize that's the way God is. He looks

toward the repentive heart. There's nothing that you and I could ever do that

God cannot forgive. I don't care what it is, the worst of the

worst, the most wicked of the most wicked. I'm not gonna say it,

but you can imagine what that can be. There's absolutely nothing, because

they're all these sins that mankind could ever can ever commit that deal with regret.

Shame, condemnation, remorse are all fit are all in our Bible,

and most of all, they're not only in our Bible, they're they're they're

part of our family heritage. Everybody in the Bible was not perfect. There's

only a few individuals that were perfect, and only one person that was perfect.

But there were some that were blameless. But everyone else, who do

you want to talk about? I just told you about one of our heroes

in the church, David, here's a murderer. How about Abraham who denies

the Lord. How about Moses who's got an anger problem? How about Samson

that sleeps around? How have you hear what I'm talking about? How about

Adam and Eve? And we could go on and on and on and on.

These are our heroes of faith, and God puts them there as an

example to us that if you have a repentive heart, no matter what you've

done, from the worst of the worst, breaking all ten commandments, which

Moses is the only one that has Moses the only one that has done that.

I can see that went right over your head, Lord Jesus. He

got him, and he slammed them on the ground and whosh rough crowd tonight.

That's the amazing thing about God. He will God will never turn away

from you. But he will turn his back on you when he took those

thirty nine stripes on his back. He will never turn away from you.

But it was a play on words. It's just I can't win the night

Lord Matthew sixteen and verse number eighteen. Matthew sixteen and verse number eighteen.

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock,

the rock of Revelation, not the person. I will build my church,

and the gates of hell will not prevail. The next one is this,

God's Church cannot be destroyed. And we're not talking about the building or

talking about the people, those of us that are called Christians his body.

The purpose of the church. People want to know the purpose of the church.

The purpose of the church is for worship and fellowship and service and ministry

and good works. The purpose of the church is for us to be evangelized

and disciple and to pray. That's the purpose of the church. And God

is saying the purpose of the Church can never ever be destroyed. Because here's

the reality. If you are a historian buff and you know a little bit

about history, and you study the history of the Christian Church and how it

has been persecuted throughout the years, then you will begin to underfold to you,

and you will begin to understand that when the church is tortured or silenced,

or persecuted or confined or killed or beaten or with outlawed, or whatever

it might be, it seems to increase, and it seems to grow,

and it seems to multiply. Prior to nineteen fifty in China, when it

was legal to preach the Gospel and be a Christian, it's estimated there were

four million Christians in China, but after the nineteen fifties when it was outlawed

to be a Christian. Today there are nearly forty four to fifteen million Christians,

and the fastest growing group is in China. How is that possible?

When you confine me, you threaten me, you persecute me, You could

even try to destroy me, silence me, take away my bibles. Say

it's illegal, But yet there's increase and there's growth. Because the gates of

Hell cannot prevail against the Church. Watches over the church. God will protect

the church, and God will preserve that church. He is a watchful guardian,

watchful guardian. How many of you have ever had a beautiful dog that

was you're a watch dog. I mean, if somebody was at the gate,

he'd bark. If somebody got next you, he'd growl. I mean,

even he sensed danger and got in between you, or like Lassie warned

you and barked. God is the supreme guardian of the church. I don't

I don't care what witchcraft, what demon, what weird person? You You

cannot destroy the church. I wish they come. You know you're wasting all

you know, you're wasting all that time. It's like Mount Carmel. You're

burning yourself. You're cutting yourself. Tell calling your God to come consume,

consume the sacrifice. It won't happen here. God is on the pot taking

a you know what, because that's what the bibles. I'm not making up.

Read your Bible. That's what it said in Revelations. I'm enjoying this.

I nobody else's The four living creatures, each having six wings full of

eyes around and within, and they did not rest night and day, saying

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God, Olmi. This a created angel called

the Seraphim, that are innumerable that worship God. Twenty four to seven.

God cannot be worshiped enough or too much for who he is and for what

he's done. There's depths, heights withs and lengthsen God ready to be discovered

and ready to be revealed. It's all about doing it for our joy and

our love and our gratitude and our deadness, not out of duty or not

out of drudgery. You and I should never say when it comes to worship,

that's enough or that's not necessary. Is we judge someone else who's radically

praising God greater than us? And the reality is is that nobody should and

nobody can praise God for you because nobody knows what God has done for you.

I've told you, I've said this story a few times. But in

nineteen eighty five and Pomona Fairgrounds, I went and saw this preacher, an

old time preacher by the name of our W. Sjambach, And I'll never

forget that. I sat right there with that lady's sating right there in the

second in the second row, in the first seat, and in the first

chair here during the praise and worship, this guy was out of his chair

and he was just I can't even describe to you what he's doing, and

I'm not doing it enough. He was like he did it for thirty minutes

straight. Thirty minutes. First I noticed him and kept my holy hands up

and reverence to God, having my own praise and worship. Then every once

in a while I look over there and say, oh, dear Lord,

he'll be going on. I say, who's he doing that for? Just

none? Shoot? My hands went from here. He had none, but

show what the heck? You know it? Don't take all that and all

that well? Then R. W. Shamback got on the stage and he

went like this. I'll never forget it. He went like this. In

my arrogance, I thought he was pointing at me. Oh, Brother Shambac

wants me to come forward, wants to acknowledge me. But it was the

guy that was dancing all crazy for the last thirty minutes. I don't remember

his name. I'm just gonna make it up, said brother Smith. Look

at you, brothers, Hey, everybody, I want you to know this

brother Smith man about twenty years ago, twenty five years ago, he was

in a healing service with me and Brother aa Allan, and he was in

a wheelchair, was born with cerebral palsy and God healed him. You don't

know how that made me feel I said, I will never judge anybody in

their praise and worship to God because I don't know what God has done for

them. True story, true story. The next point I want you to

recognize is found in Jeremiah. It says the Lord has appeared of old to

me, saying, yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love.

Therefore, with loving kindness I have drawn you. God cannot stop loving you.

God cannot love you more or less. Listen to what I'm saying,

because we don't understand this. God cannot stop loving you. God cannot love

you more or less than he loves you right now. Just do more,

do more, do more, and I'll love you more. You know what

you are just no good and you've wandered away from me. His love stays

the same. It stays absolutely the same. Nothing you can do to make

God stop loving you. He will love you even when He allows you to

go to Hell, or allows someone to go to hell because they rejected Jesus

Christ. Just because people go to hell doesn't mean he ever stop loving you.

That's why I believe one of the personal conviction is that that's one of

the toughest days was yes, Jesus dying on the crost, suffering from mankind.

But I think it's the future too, when he sees his creation go

to Hell who rejected him, and he knows what's gonna go on in Hell.

I gotta think that that's gonna break the heart of God when that thing

takes place. We think that God loves us more than he loves the pedophilest

sinner, the homosexual center, the murder, the liar, the gossiper,

ciner. He doesn't. He loves you just as much as he loves them,

and he loves them the same way he loves you. Because God's love

four big words are without hesitation, reservation, compensation, or consideration. We

love people on hesitation, reservation, consideration, and compensation, but God's love

is unceasing. God can love you anymore than Jesus. I'll say that in

a moment, God loves you just as much as he loves Jesus. Do

you think God loves Jesus? If you could ever get that abround your head

that he loves you just as much as he loves his son Jesus, you

won't be so insecure, have a low self esteem. Woe is me?

I'm a worm, I'm a nothing, and He loves you enough to give

you, Jesus the best gift he could have ever given you, in the

best sacrifice. We're moving on five minutes. There is neither salvation in any

other name, for there is no other name under Heaven given among men where

we must be saved. John three point sixteen through eighteen bears that out,

for God so loved the world, and that if we confess with our mouth

the Lord Jesus, believe in our heart, God raise him from the dead,

thou shalt be saved. God cannot save outside of Jesus. There are

not many ways, and there are not other roads. God cannot forgive you,

and I cannot escape Hell, and we cannot go to Heaven outside of

Christ. That's the means of salvation. The Father and the gardens said,

Lord, if you allow this cup to pass over me, it'd be very

nice if you would do that. Nevertheless, not my will, and God

said, you're the only means of salvation, sir. If there was another

mean, I'd let the cup, the cup of suffering, pass over you.

Because he was crying out to his father, is this the only way

to save mankind? And he didn't hear nothing. Father was silent because in

his silence he was saying, you're the only means of salvation. But inevitably

somebody wants to argue, or somebody has a great question. And I love

that because young gen zs and millennials want to go to the extreme and say,

Okay, I appreciate that, but what about a person who's living in

a village on the backside of nowhere that has never heard the Gospel through shortway,

through the radio, through a Bible, through a labor anyway. You're

you telling me that they're gonna go to hell. How many of you want

to answer that question. How many of you would like to know the answer

to that question? Only one of you. So we'll go on to the

next point. Since you theologians already know the next the answer, I'm gonna

go to James One. No, I'll go back now. I already know

how what blanket you are tonight, So I'll just be merciful. I'm gonna

show you an image on the screen. Here's my image. I'm gonna show

you today. This is found. I'm not gonna quote it. You have

to read Romans one and Romans two. If you want to know the answer,

Jesus is the bullseye. Okay, But Romans one and Romans two talks

about the law, the laws written in the heart of man. Then the

Bible talks about the consciousness of a man that he will have to give an

account or his consciousness speaks to him. And then he talks about creation.

So for the extremist, not anyone in this room, probably not anybody in

a modern nation can use that. But for the ones that we're talking about,

the extremists that are on the back side of nowhere, where nobody has

reached him. Then God says this, I will judge them according to the

law. I will judge them according to their conscience, and I will judge

them according to creation. Because Jesus is found in the law, Jesus is

found in the consciousness of a man, and Jesus is found in creation.

God isn't just God. So for all those people there, he's unjust because

you're gonna say no, no, no, no, Because here's the reality.

I'm a village person, whatever that looks like, on the back side

of nowhere. And I look up and I said, in my own tongue,

look at those stars. Look at those planets. This world is so

much bigger than me. Who am I in my sins? Okay, there

you go. You just did it. How did you do that? Because

God rightes himself and the consciousness. It's when you ignore the Jesus conscious it's

when you ignore You have nations that don't declare or organizations that don't declare Jesus's

Lord, but they have laws that say you cannot kill. Where did that

come from? You don't believe in the Bible, you don't practice the Bible.

Where does that come from? So I hope that helps somebody. And

I'm gonna move on very very quickly because we've got to finish now. Let

no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God. For

God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone. And then

the Bible says, the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy.

God cannot be tempted with evil, cannot be tempted with evil. God does

not partner with the devil to teach you things, nor to train you in

things, nor to chasten you in anything. God may test our heart,

but God doesn't tempt our lives. People have choices, and people have decisions

whether they're going to follow God or they're not going to follow God. But

God does not tempt anyone. When I was a young Christian, I'm talking

six months saved, I'm just seventeen years old. Under an older classman is

a Christian, and I go to him and I say, Alex Man,

I just God saved and the Lord is blessing me. He says, what

do you mean, diego? I said, you know, the Lord doesn't

want me to fornicate. You know, he doesn't want me to fornicate,

live a holy life and all that, and so he allows me to have

sex partners in my dreams and I have sex with them. So when I

wake up, I feel fulfilled and I don't have to live out my intentions.

He said, brother, that ain't the God. That's the devil.

In my young mind, I thought that way. The Bible's clear. The

enemy is a thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy. And

I probably could do a better job and explain that if I had more time.

In Hebrews thirteen and verse five, God will never leave us or forsake

us. God cannot leave you or forsake you. He's with you, he's

in you, and he's for you. If you're a Christian who's accepted Jesus

Christ, that's the way it is. He'll never abandon you, and he'll

never ditch you. He goes with you. God is never scared of your

circumstances. He's never intimidated by sickness, and he's never threatened by the odds

that are against you. He will never leave you or forsake you. It

has nothing to do with you being perfect, righteous or holy. In your

most difficult time and you're in adverse time when people are to walk out on

you, God stays there and he'll be your doctor, he'll be your coach,

he'll be your therapist, or whatever thing that you're going through. To

last God First, John, I think I got one more Yeah, for

in our hearts condemn us. God is greater than our hearts and knows all

things. God cannot increase or God cannot decrease or diminish. He's all powerful,

almighty, all strengthful of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. He is always

constant, and he is always continuous. God never wears out, He never

slows down, he never slumbers. He never rests, He never sleeps,

He never gets tired, weary, drained, lose, or depletes. He

doesn't need to better himself. He doesn't need to improve himself, and he

doesn't need to be more to himself. He is absolute in that. And

here's my thirteenth. I added a thirteenth to this as we thought about and

here's on the screen. I don't even have it in my notes. God

cannot have a new idea, or he didn't know something. He can't have

a new idea. Oh, I have a new way of doing that,

so I have a new thought. I have a new idea. Or then

he's not omniscient, he didn't know everything. I hope today we drew a

picture for you that whatever you walked in of your image with God, we

brought it close to you today. And now I hope, through your life

circumstances, as you will now judge God, that you will look at God

in a whole different light. When you think that God has abandoned you,

or God is not powerful, or God is not real, or how did

this happen or why did this happen? I pray that you measure it over

these strong attributes of who God is, and I pray that they answer.

And I pray that you will be able to defend the faith, because the

Bible says to contend for the faith and be able to share the Gospel in

some form or fashion. That's why it's important to go over these now,

read the scriptures, study them, because I promise you somebody is going to

come up with one of these questions for you. And now you are because

you've heard the word of God, or at least you're ready to be able

to give the answer for the hope of the gospel. Father, I thank

you for the message today, thank you for allowing us to hear your word

and be taught by your word today because there's liberty, there's peace, and

their freedom in the word of God today in Jesus' name. Amen, Hey,

we're going to leave right now. Thank you so much for coming to

church today. But know where in the Bible does say if you go to

church, you go to heaven. Knowing in the Bible does say if you

don't cuss and you don't drink, you go to heaven. Knowing in the

Bible doesn't say if you're a moral person and you do great humanitarian acts of

service, and kindness, you'll go to heaven. Oftentimes people think that way,

but you and I cannot earn our way into heaven, and we cannot

earn our way out of hell. It's Jesus Christ and him alone who paid

the price for us. And the work that God acknowledges in his throne room

is the work that Jesus did on the cross. Don't make yourself any bigger

than Jesus. Don't think that your works are greater than Jesus, because they're

not. Or maybe you're a Christian who loves God, but you're riding the

fenceive compromise in and out, up and down, and maybe you need some

special prayer to rededicate your life to the Lord. Or last of all,

you love God and everything's gone great, but you're not. You're born of

the spirit, but you're not filled with the spirit. If you read the

Bible. After Jesus was resurrected, the Bible says he breathed on them.

When you go into the Greek what basically means they saw Jesus. He had

proved himself that he was resurrected, showing the prince in his hands, and

they saw him and talked to him and felt him. They received him as

their Lord and savior. But he said, now you're to tarry in Jerusalem

until you be filled with the Holy Spirit. Why did he tell them to

be filled with the spirit and tell us that we don't need to be filled

with the spirit after we received Jesus. There's a purpose for that. And

if you're just like me as I was when I was around eighteen years old,

that didn't know nothing about nothing, all I said was this, Lord,

I don't understand this Holy Spirit. I don't know the Bible. I'm

not educated and smart like other people when it comes to this. But if

this Holy Spirit and being filled is of you, I wanted in the innocence

of my heart, with nobody around all by myself, not havnybody buddy to

read to me something, or mentor me in something or guide me in something.

I got filled with the Holy It's hard for you to convince me that

it doesn't exist when it was just me and Jesus and my prayer. It's

for everyone, God's not the respect of persons is what we need to navigate

through life. For any of these three things, you raise your hand right

now and we're going to pray for you one two, one two three.

Raise your hand wherever you are all across this auditorium. Say this, Dear

Jesus, I repent on my sentinence. I need you to be my Lord

and savior. I commit my life or I recommit my life to you tonight,

and I ask you to fill me full of the Holy Spirit. I

pray that when before I leave this place tonight, I will be filled with

the spirit in Jesus' name. We really hope you enjoyed the message, and

if you said yes to Jesus, we just want to say congratulations and give

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