Creating the Example || Fathers of the Faith Pt.2 || Pastor Diego Mesa

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

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

week's message. Well, I count it an honor now to share the Gospel

with you. Father, Thank you for the next few moments that we can

venture into the Word of God. People have not come to hear the lectures,

nor the philosophy, nor the opinion of a man. A man can

help us God, but only through the invasion of the Holy Spirit in the

secret places of our lives, uncovering things. Oh God, will that word

minister to us today. May it be a raima word God, man,

be a logos word that's spoken, But may it be a revelation to us,

Oh God. And I just thank you that we honor you ahead of

time. In Jesus name a man. Look at somebody and tell somebody you

look good this morning. Tell him I know you didn't wake up looking this

good, but thank you for putting yourself together. We are in a series

in the month of June, because like the month of May, we celebrated

mothers and we preached on women of wonder, and now we're in Fathers with

Father's Day coming up next week, and we have an amazing little message and

then a panel of men that are going to be up here and when to

talk from the heart. And so today, as we've been doing, we're

talking about fathers of faith, fathers of faith, and we're gonna be talking

about an amazing individualist name is Abraham. Now it's impossible for me in thirty

five minutes to talk to you about a man that's written over three hundred times

in the Bible. He is. He is called the Father of faith.

All the three major religions have their connection to Abraham. The Jewish nation does,

the Jewish religion does, Christianity does, and Islam does. So he's

a massive hero. He is like the goat, the greatest of all time

outside of Jesus. He is the premier of faith. He inspires, he

gives courage, and he challenges us to grow in this realm of faith.

And he is going to exemplify to me what true masculinity is in a society

that wants to redefine it. He defines to me what true manhood looks like

when society wants to redefine it. Because he is rugged and he is a

tough man, and there's a offer. That doesn't mean that he doesn't show

emotions and he's not tender, but he really takes on the challenges of life.

When I talk about manhood, there's an amazing thing that I'm gonna put

on the screen, and I'm doing it a little bit different than I did

yesterday. William and Mary not that William and Mary is a college in seventeen

forty four that reached out to six Native American tribes to want to educate their

young men. In seventeen forty four, the College of William and Mary sent

a letter to six Native American chiefs offering a free education to twelve of their

young braves. The chiefs politely declined the offer with the following reply, Several

of our young people were formerly brought up at the College of the Northern Providence.

They were instructed in all your science, but when they came back to

us, they were bad runners, ignorant in every means of living in the

woods, unable to bear cold or hunger, and knew neither how to build

a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language

imperfectly, and were for neither fit for hunters, warriors, or counselors.

They were totally good for nothing. The chiefs then made an offer to their

own If the gentleman of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons,

we will take care of their education and instruct them on and to make men

out of them. I think there's a lot of truth in that statement.

Would you stand for the reading of God's word today as we discover the life

of Abraham. God called Abraham to travel to another place that he promised to

give him. Abraham didn't know where that other place was, but he obeyed

God and started traveling because he had faith. Abraham lived in the country that

God promised to give him. He lived like a visitor who did not belong

like you and I in this world, but not of this world. He

did this because he had faith. He lived in tents like this, like

the Bible says, our body is with Isaac and Jacob, who also received

the same promise from God. Abraham was waiting for the city like you and

I, that has real foundations called Heaven. He was waiting for the city

that has planned and built by God. All the symbolisms are here. God

tested Abraham's faith. God has a right to test our faith. God told

him to offer up Isaac, the most precious thing to you and I,

as a sacrifice. Abraham obeyed because he had faith. He already had the

promise from God. And if God had already said to him, it is

through Isaac that your descendants will come. But Abraham was ready to offer his

only son. He did this, and we'll sit down, because he had

faith. You know, Theodore Teddy Roosevelt was our twenty sixth president, but

if you look at him, he truly was a man's man. He went

on African safaris, He scaled the Mattahorn, went through the Amazon. He

had a boxing ring in the White House, and he challenged anybody to spar

with him when he gave a speech. One time before he stepped on a

stage, an assassin came with a thirty two caliber gun shot him in the

chest. He went on the stage and delivered a fifty three minute speech standing

in his own blood. There's a monument, and I'm not going to read

the whole monument, but it talks a little bit about manhood, and I'm

just gonna read the beginning. A man's usefulness depends upon him is living up

to his ideals. I'll skip next. All daring and courageous manhood only those

only those are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none

are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty

of life. Abraham's epitome of that. But there's even one greater than him,

called Jesus, that was one hundred percent man and totally masculine. Let

me put in perspective of this man's man called Jesus. He was whipped thirty

nine times his back and all his skin was ripped off of him, blood

spilled everywhere. A possible three hundred, three hundred and fifty pound cross was

thrust on that bleeding back. Now, some of you would say, Pastor,

i's he this much And it wasn't the total cross. It was the

crossbar that he carried. You're probably right. How much do you think the

crossbar weighs? If the total cross weighs three hundred and fifty pounds, could

we say half of that? Could we say half of that? So here's

a man that has not eaten and not drinking for several hours, has his

beard pulled out of him, spit upon a crown put on him. He

is whipped, he is marred, and he's beaten. And now he will

walk down the Via della Rosa, which is six hundred and fifty yards over

six football fields, with a hundred and fifty pound crossbar. He will be

nailed to that cross and for six hours he will stay alive and be suspended

between Earth and Heaven. He is a man's man. And this world is

crying out, and the Kingdom of God is crying out, and our marriages

and our society is trying out, and our churches is crying out for men

to take their rightful place and to reject the philosophy of this world's system.

When I talk about the world's system, I'm not talking about a place.

I'm talking about an attitude. And the world system has a culture, and

the world system has a belief and you and I have to learn how to

reject that worldly culture. So as last week, I talked about three entrees

that I would give you before execing me three appetizers before I bring the entree

like I did with Noah, here are my three entry points with Abraham.

All of you like your Calamari, So here we go with your appetizer.

So Abraham de hearted as the Lord that's spoken to him, and Lot went

with him, and Abram was hal was Abram. Do you believe seventy five

is old? Does anybody want to have the courage to raise their hand?

Who is seventy five and older in this room? There? Thank you,

sir for me. There's a few more. You are never. Here's my

first principle. You are It is just a number. Age is just a

number. I want you to refuse to get old. But many people,

not in this church, but in other churches, are old. His life

begins at seventy five years old. His call begins, his assignment begins,

his job begins, his work begins, his ministry begins. You are still

productive at seventy five years old. You still have something to contribute as you

get older. We need to stop excusing old people for feeling sorry for themselves

and start rising up. If you've got breath and you got the faculty of

your limbs, you need to be productive. And I believe in the church

they're the most untapped generation that exists. I promise you should I live to

be ninety five years old. I double dog dare you to hang with me.

I double dog dare you to keep up with me. The reason why

I eat, the reason why I exercise, the reason why I do is

because I'm only two thirds into my ministry. I'm living now into the one

third of my ministry. And I know many good hearted people, after hearing

a few weeks ago, have come up to me and say, what are

you gonna do for your retirement? Please don't ask me that question. I

am retiring from the lead pastor of Abundant Living, but I am not retiring

from ministry and usefulness and contributing. That's why I'm involved in a nonprofit organization

called Healing Strong. That's why I'm about ready to be a sheriff. What

am I about ready to be a chaplain in the sheriff department? I'm about

ready to be a sworning. This has nothing to do in ministry. That's

why whenever I travel, I get on an uber so I can preach the

Gospel and I could pray with those people. I'm gonna stay active, not

only in this church, but outside the church. I double dog dare old

people. I'm not moving to Florida, and I'm not gonna play golf every

day. That's not my dream. Let me move on while you're still like

me. You could get old if you want. You have the right to

get old. I won't get old. Here's the second principle. And the

king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Chevelle. And

this is the king's valley. After he returned from the defeat of Big Big

Word Chad Dora Lemura. The king who were with him then mount this is

sorry about Abram. Then Malkisedek, king of Salem, who brought out bread

and wine. He was a priest of God most High, and he blessed

him. That's Abram, and said to him, blessed be Abraham, Abram

of God most High, possessor of heaven and an earth. And he blessed,

blessed be God most High, who has delivered your enemies. He just

came back from a battle. He won that battle. Who delivered you from

your enemies into your hand? And he gave him upon hearing that, Abram

gave this king and priest called maul Kissedak a tithe ten percent of the wealth

in his life. Now, the King of Sodom said to Abraham, give

me this person and take all the goods for yourself. Here's the second principle.

The second principle we read about Abraham is Abraham gave ten percent of his

income his tithe to a king and a priest. Nobody operates in both offices.

There's only two people in the entire Bible that operate as a king and

a priest, Malkizedek and Jesus. And Malkizedek is a type in shadow of

Jesus that you and I are to give our tithe to as an example of

what Abraham did to Malkizedek the day he came back. So let's talk about

it, because there's people here that are new in their faith and they don't

understand a tithe. And there are people have been safe forever and they act

like they don't know what the tithe is. And there's some of you that

think you know your Bible and would try to rise up and say, the

tithe is under the law, and we are not under the law. Well,

the law has not been written still for four hundred years. This is

before the law four hundred years before Leviticus twenty seven thirty commanded every Jew to

tithe. What do you do about it? Because in Hebrews a seventh chapter,

he will share the story again, Why would he share a story of

something that has is obsolete? Concerning the tithe? If it's founded Hebrews,

which is in the New Testament, you tithe after a victory. You tithe

because you're successful. Abram recognized only God could have won this battle for me.

And why would I withhold ten percent? He didn't ask for one hundred

percent, He didn't ask for fifty percent. God just said give me ten

percent. So the tithe is something you do. The tie. There's something

you initiate. It's not now Kissdak didn't come with a gun and say I

demand that you give me that tiether, I'll kill you. God is not

going to come to you and threaten you. It's something you initiate as worship

to him. Anybody hear what I'm talking about. And now, Abraham,

you got to realize is the wealthiest man on the planet. And I'll share

with you a little bit more in a few moments. It's very wealthy man.

He's not a stupid man. He's not ignorant man. Well, you

give you ten percent of your money to God, you must be stupid and

ignorant. No, I'm smart. I'm smart because I come into the place

of my life and recognize I'm a pretty bad dude by the name of Abraham.

But I just met somebody who's a batterer dude than me, and I

want this dude in my corner. And now I'm the lesser and I honor

the greater. And that's what the tithe is. The tithe humbles you to

become the lesser, and you give it to the greater one, which is

called Jesus Christ. Scientifically, you could study it, you could look it

up. There's a dopamine release that's chemically done in your brain when you give.

That's why you and I have feelings when it comes to money. Don't

act like you ain't got no feelings when it comes to money. You do.

How many of you like the feeling when you have money? Okay,

half of you are not telling the truth. When you got a little sum

some here, a little sum some here, little sum how many of you

know there'll sum some here, they'll sum under your match, there'll sum in

the bank, they'll How do you feel is there it's a feeling? Don't

act like that. How many of you when you go shopping, there's a

feeling, ladies, an adrenaline rush that takes when you know there's a sale.

Shoot, I'm exciting for the doors. There's a feeling when you spend

money. There's a feeling when you invest or you save money, there's an

emotion and feeling. But here's the problem. Most of you don't know the

feeling when it comes to giving. You've experienced the dopamine rush through spending it.

You spent the dopamine rush through investing it. But ninety percent of this

church, and I'm talking because I know it, does not know the experience

and the joy of when you give to the king and priest called Jesus Christ.

And that's why there's joy and giving and we want you. Here's the

third principle. The third principle was Sarah lived to be one twenty seven years

old. Excuse me, these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Abraham again took a wife. Her name was Katura, and she bore him

big names zim Ron, Jock, Shan Midden, Median, Midian, Ishbak,

and Shua. Okay, here's my last principle. Before I go and

give you the entree right now. Abraham remarries after the death of the love

of his life named Sarah. It's okay to remarry. We don't talk about

this much, but it's in your Bible right there. He loves Sarah,

but Sarah died, but the dude wanted to get married again, and that's

okay. But many people feel some level of negativity, whether it's shame or

regret or remorse, or I'm disrespecting my spouse. Let me tell you something.

Your spouse doesn't care. Hopefully your spouse is in heaven and they ain't

thinking about you. They're thinking about Jesus and the rewards and the experience of

heaven. I'm just gonna leave it at that. It's okay to re marry

and start a new family and start a new life. It doesn't mean that

Abram didn't love Sarah, but he didn't want to be alone. He wanted

a companion, and he just simply remarriage. So take away the guilt,

take away the condemnation, because in Matthew, the Bible says there's no taking

and giving in marriage in heaven. So when you get to heaven, your

mate is not going to scold you and say you no good. When I

died, you married that hussy and brought her into my home. It's a

worldly thing. There's no interaction there. Okay, now we're going to go

into the meat of the message. Let's take up another offering right now in

Jesus name three ws, and we're gonna be done very quickly. The first

thing we recognize is that Abram was a warrior. Watched this now. Now.

When Abram heard that his brother, which is really his nephew, Lot,

has been taken captive, he was armed with three hundred and eighteen trained

servants. So Abram I told you, as a wealthy man, he had

three hundred and eighteen employees that work for him. You figure out how much

money he had to make, and eighteen hundred trained servants who were born in

his own house, and went in and pursued them as far as Dan.

He divided his force. He's a strategic thinker, he's a militant man.

This is probably not his first battle against them. By night and his servants

attacked them and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is north of Damascus,

and he brought back all the goods, and he brought back Lot.

This is a bad boy. What you've stolen one of my fa family members.

My job, and Abraham's job, and every man's job is to protect

his family, defend his family, fight for his family, and any intruder

that comes and threatens the livelihood of my household, my children, my grandchildren,

my spouse. I will fight to the point of death to defend them

and protect them. So he goes after them, he defeats them, and

he brings Bex's his family into the safety of his home. Beautiful stories.

A warrior. So first thing, he's a warrior. We learned that Abraham

is a warrior. Now in Genesis six, Tamago really fast. Genesis twelve,

we get introduced to Abraham and we recognize that Abraham left er of the

Chaldeans or er the Chaldeans in Mesopotamia formerly known as Babylon. You've heard of

the Tower of Babylah, which is in the modern day city of Iraq.

That's where the brother lived. And in Joshua, Joshua tells us who Abram

was before he met God and who his daddy was, and Joshua tells us

that they were pagan idol worshipers. So the challenges I need you to leave

your er to follow me if you believe that I'm God. ER represents your

family, er represents your security, er represents your possessions, ER represents your

identity, ER represents your reputation. Here's a man that was willing to follow

God, not knowing where God would take him, but he believed that God

was real, and he left his er. And that's what a warrior will.

He doesn't keep ear in his back pocket while following God. He recognizes

what's harmful and what's the abductive to my relationship with God and my manhood and

my family. And I'll walk away from that alcohol, and I'll walk away

from that woman is and I'll walk away from that line and cheating. But

warriors can't walk away. And so here is the statement. It'll be on

your screen. You can't have a Canaan land because that's where he was leading

him to, the Canaan land of promise. With er in your hip pocket,

say this with me, go like this, like this, go late

this er. I'm just trying to tell you there's nothing good and err and

it's going to cause you a lot of ern if you're trying to take it

with you The next warrior picture is this. The man is seventy five years

old, and God tells him, I need you to circumcise yourself and all

the men of your household. Okay, I know. Is there anybody that

would that seventy five years that would like to raise their hand again? You

brother, you raise their first time? Raise it? Okay? All the

men go like this as they fold their legs. Right now, God said,

whip it out, get a knife and chop it. Now. The

New Testament tells us that circumcision has no relevance. But back there it was

instituted. It was to mark them. It was a symbolism of marking.

But also it was a sign of cutting away of the flesh. It was

a place of vulnerability. It was a place of bloodshed. It was a

place of hurt in their lives. It was a place of suffering. And

warriors are willing to suffer for the Kingdom of God. Warriors are willing to

bleed for the Kingdom of God. Warriors are willing to separate themselves from the

sins of this world to live a mark life for God. So the warrior

was able to cut himself and he bled because he was a warrior. He

was absolutely able to do that. There's an individual maybe you've heard of her.

She's a Muhammad Ali's daughter, Laila Ali. Laila Ali was undefeated as

a woman's champion. She barely beat a particular fighter, and she had a

rematch. She suffered a major cut and was being pulverized in that match.

The commentators and everybody else said, this will probably be her first defeat and

and she'll probably you know, get kolder or lose the fight. But amazingly,

the tide turned and she landed up winning the fight, and they asked

her, how could you come back to win the fight? She said,

it was easy. When I saw my dad come back from getting a beating

from George Foreman and getting a beating from Joe Frazier, and I'm getting beat

from Kenny Norton. I said, I got an example of my father,

and I will fight like my father. And as your father Jesus fought for

you, fought for your salvation, then whatever fight you're in, you're not

going to quit and you're not going to give up because you're a warrior.

The second thing is Abraham was a worshiper. He was a worshiper, and

he built altars to worship God. Very quickly. We go through the Bible

and we'll find out in Genesis twelve, here's the first altar he builds.

The next chapter, we'll see in thirteen he builds his second altar. In

twenty two he builds his third altar, and in thirteen he builds his fourth

altar. This guy is building altars. Why because he's a worshiper of God.

Here's what I'm trying to tell you. The strength of your altar determines

how easy easily you will be altered from your beliefs, from your faith,

and from your Bible. You're only as strong as your altar, or you

will be e altered. Because the altar is the place where you approach God.

The altar is a place where you appreciate God. It's a place where

you appeal to God. It is your praise life, it is your prayer

life, and it is you're reading your word. It is this man that

is leading his family into worship. It's not his wife leading him into worship.

It's this man leading his family into worship. The altar is your familiar

place. The altar is your faithful place. Your altar is your in place

where you get passionate, where you cry, where you weep, where you're

transparent before your God. And your altar is your first place. Before I

do anything, I gotta get on my altar. I gotta get on my

knees. I gotta worship, I gotta read my Bible. That's what I

need to do, because on your altar is where revelation takes place and inspiration

takes place. Let me give you some statistics about men in their altar right

now. When a mother comes to Christ, her family will join her,

will join her at the church only seventeen percent of the time. But when

a father comes to Christ, his family joins him there's a ninety three percent

of the time. Ninety million men are not involved in any kind of discipleship.

Only six million men are involved in discipleship only one out of every eighteen

men. On any given Sunday, there are thirteen million more adult women than

men in American churches. This Sunday, almost twenty five percent of married church

going women will worship without their husbands. Fewer than one percent of church going

men participate in any sort of men's ministry programs as many as seventy percent of

men are actively watching or dealing with pornography. Ninety three percent of all people

incarcerated are exie mean. Nine three percent of all people incarcerated are and eighty

five percent of them have no father figure in their life. Thirty three percent

of the seventy two million children in America will go to bed without their biological

father in the home. Fatherless children are five times as likely to live in

poverty, repeat a grade, and have emotional problems. All these are statistics

that deal with how important we are men, and we really need to be

worshippers of God, and we truly knew need to build our altars very quickly.

Let me give you four names that Abraham was introduced to because he built

his altar up till now. God is not known as Jehovah Gyra. Now

everybody knows him as Jehovah Gyra, But it was Abraham who was the first

one to be introduced to him as Jehovah Gyra, his provider up till then

Al Shahdai, the God that is more than enough, the breasting one,

the all powerful one. But he'll reveal that to a man who's built an

altar. Most high al Ilion is revealed to a man that builds an altar.

Alm the Everlasting God is built to a man that builds an altar.

Polycarp was the disciple of John the Beloved at eighty five years old. He

is captured because he refuses to play pay allegiance to Caesar. He is told

to deny his faith and he will escape the punishment. He refuses to.

They lead him to Smyrna, to a colosseum to be eaten by lions.

Several times, he stole, just recan't that Jesus is not who you say

he is, and pledge allegiance to Caesar, and we will let you go.

Oh, God will forgive me. It's just one time. It's no

big thing. God knows my heart, but he refuses to. He asked

for one thing. May I have one final wish? They granted to him.

If you knew that in minutes you would be thrown into a colosseum full

of lions, What is your last request? Be real with me right now?

Well, I think I'd like a PISTROMI from the hat in and out

cheeseburger. I'd love to see my kids, my family, bring them around.

He says, give me an hour or to pray. My last request.

He wants to pray and inspire. I don't know that no matter who,

I don't know, that'd be my last request. Two hours later,

he's still praying. They grab him. They lead him to the coliseum instead

of lions, they decide to burn him. They burn him at the stake,

but they can't kill him because he's protected. They say that there is

a fragrance that is released in the stadium till finally they thrust a spear through

him and finally kill him. He's a man of prayer. He's a man

of prayer who builds an altar. And here's my last point. My last

point is is that Abraham is extremely a hard working man. My last words.

You got to be a warrior, you got to be a worshipper,

and you've got to be a worker responsible for the care of your family.

Here's what the Bible says. I'll read you the example that i'll give here.

Wants to say, this is massive, massive. Why does God choose

to use the people he uses? Why does God bless the people he bless?

Why did God choose Abraham to initiate or be a central figure in these

religions. What is it about this guy that inspires so much? Is it

because he would offer up Isaac? Maybe? Is it because he would leave

or the Chaldeans? Maybe? Is it because he would go after Latt who

was captured with his three I'll tell you why. It's right here, for

I know him, in order that he may command his children and his household

after him, that they keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and

justice, that the Lord may bring to Abram what he has spoken. Can

see him. God couldn't trust so much to him because he would make sure

that his children were raised right. He would make sure his marriage was right.

He was a family man. He put his household in front of his

business, in front of his achievements, in front of his accolades. That's

why God could give him so much. Let's see if he did. Have

you ever heard of Isaac? Did he do anything good? Have you ever

heard of Jacob? Did he do anything good? Have you ever heard of

the twelve sons of Jacob? Did they do anything good? So God must

know what he's talking about. He says, I know Abram, and he

will raise him under the same standards. He will raise Isaac under the same

standards he's lived by, And I know Isaac will raise Jacob the same way.

And the others. We are losing a generation because they don't go to

church, they don't tie, they're not staying faithfully married, they're into all

kinds of stuff, and they're doing it on our watch. I know we

can only do so much, but I think we could do a whole lot

more. And I think it's our passivity that is allowing a lot of this.

So let me share with you how he worked. Number one. Can

you give me five more minutes because I'm zeroed out here we go, okay.

Number one, he had to work on his marriage. He did not

have a perfect marriage. Sarah I before she becomes Sarah Sarah I. Sarah

I means contentious one. That's what it means. She's a contentious woman,

a woman not under authority. It means quarrelsome. I don't know if you've

ever known a woman that's quarrelsome. Don't raise your hand man. She quarrels

with him a lot. Don't you tell me this man didn't have to work

on his marriage. Why? Why is she maybe quarrelsome. I'll tell you

why she's chorlso because two times you denied that I was your wife to save

your own neck. You're ashamed of me. You're embarrassed on me. You

wonder why I'm so contentious, It's because of how you trade me, brother

Abraham, and when I followed you by leaving her of the Chaldeans you.

I never knew that you wouldn't give me a home. If you look at

his trail, he lives seventeen different places, packing up, put packing up,

and moving on to the next, seventeen different cities, seventeen different tents,

seventeen How many of you know a woman will be contentious when you're telling

her to move her home seventeen times? True story. The second thing we

recognized he had to work on his children because there was animosity between Isaac and

Ishmael, and he had to say, Isaac is my promised seed and Ishmil

is a bad influence. So I love you Ishmael, but I'm gonna have

to separate you and send you away. Son. You're gonna you're gonna you're

too cantankerous, and you're gonna infiltrate the beauty of Isaac with your lifestyle.

So let me bless you and tell you go go live with your mama.

Now he ain't telling the woman you take care of the bidden. He's stepping

up as a man, and he is making the tough calls concerning a blend

because he's now dealing with Hagar. Now a blended woman is in there,

but he's the one. Did he feel emotion absolutely? Did he feel hurt?

Absolutely? But he manned up and he took care of business of strife

and animosity and the raising of his children. See, I know it's you

could tell when it gets good because it gets quiet. He had to deal

with tough situations in his life. And then third was he had to he

had to work. I was giving. He was involved in who Isaac would

marry. Wow, we got parents. Ain't involved in anything. We'll spend

fifty one hundred thousand dollars and we know that our child is not fit to

get married self. Quiet is? I mean? It is like now I'm

not talking about arranged marriages. I was actively involved in all three of my

sons their dating processes, asking questions. I met with the parents, the

fathers, I met with Tom, and I met with Ben Ashley Caleb's Ashley

her she didn't have a father in her life. I sat down with those

guys and I talked to them. I got too much invested in my boys,

just to say, you know, let us get the best of them.

Are the Hawaiian man because they're cute, they're fine. Oh no,

no, no, no no. I'll leave it at that. And the

last thing, here's the last one is just showed on the screen now.

And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. But Abraham gave gifts to

the sons of the Concupines. The last thing a worker does is he makes

sure his household is in order when he dies. Mmmmm, because he knows

his kids are gonna fight for the inheritance. And he says, I gotta

make sure Isaac, he's my favorite one. He's he's he'll take care of

my well. The other ones they'll just squander it. I'm gonna bless him,

you don't. I wish, I wish I didn't have to tell you

how many funerals I've done for people in this church who with a moment that

their body wasn't even cold in the ground, and their children were fighting over

the inheritance, take care of it, have a trust, and let the

trust delegate what your will is for your family. He took care of business.

Watch the screens and we'll pray right now. Watch the screens. What

you just saw. There was a story of Dick Hoitt. He died in

twenty twenty one, but just a few weeks ago his son was cerebral polesy

Rick Hot died on May twenty second, twenty twenty three. They ran over

one thousand, one hundred and third Endurance Racist together, seventy two marathons,

six iron Man Triathlons, thirty two Boston Marathons, two hundred and fifty seven

triathlons, twenty two dual athlons, one hundred and seventy six, five KS,

two hundred nineteen ten ks, ninety seven half marathons, and seven half

marathons. Here's what I'm asking you. Who are you pushing today? Who

are you caring today? Who are you helping to get across their finish line?

Father? I pray for the message today. Let it challenge us today,

the inactivity of our lives today, We could probably all do just a

little bit more. And remember we are here on this earth just for a

short time in this tent, but what we do for you will last for

eternity. Recalibrate, calibrate our life, Oh God that we it has taken

a value in an evident What am I doing? What am I doing with

my life? Every second? Every What am I really doing? In Jesus

name? Amen, you know what we're going to get ready to leave right

now. Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming to church today.

But no where the Bible does say if you go to church, you

go to heaven norhein. The Bible doesn't say if you don't cuss and drink,

you go to heaven norhe The Bible doesn't say if you're a great humanitarian

and you acts of service and kindness, you go to heaven norhein. The

Bible doesn't say if you're a spiritualist you believe in just simply a higher power,

you believe in karma, you believe in religion, you go to heaven.

All those are works, and your works and my works are like filthy

rags. Your works and my works fall short of the glory of God.

And you can't work your way into heaven, and you can't work your way

out of house. It's the thing that separate Christianity from all other religions of

the world. You study it out and you see, if I'm sure or

not. All religions of the world are based upon a work. You have

to do something to appease a higher power or a creator. Christianity is not

based upon works. It's based upon the work of the Cross. Jesus had

to do the work, and now all you have to do is humble yourself

to receive that perfect work that saves you today. So today, if you

can't remember one moment in your life when you've accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord

and savior today as your day said, I need to rededicate my life to

the Lord, then you're going to do that too. I want you right

now, if you're ready to accept the Lord, to rededicate your life.

Don't be ashamed. Jesus wasn't ashamed to die for you. Would you just

simply raise your hand when I count to three one two, one two three,

raise your hand wherever you might be right now, I want to lead

you in a prayer. Shake. Dear Lord Jesus. I'm a sinner and

I need a savior. Thank you for dying for me. I believe that

you're the only means of salvation, and today I am forgiving them my sins.

I'm born again and my child of God. Help me Lord now to

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

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