Responding to God's Love Rev Jeremiah Nhyirah 9.2.25

Further in the name of your son Jesus, we give

you thanks bless your holiday. Thank you for the privilege

you have given on to us this morning to be

guarded under your feet.

That you speak onto us for our more time.

Give onto us the bread of life, the manner that

proceeds out of heaven. Father, quench our text by your

word this morning, satisfy our anger of God by your word.

Direct us by your word.

Kind us, by your word, Father, that our lives should

never be the same way as we have come in

the name of the Lord Jesus. We come against every

assignment of the enemy, manipulations, calculations, time sensitive projections, against

the people of God, and against the word of God.

Father will declare and degree that the word of God

will have a few comes amount us in the name

of the Lord Jesus. And it shall be like the

word that proceeds out of your mouth. It will not

return onto you for it. But this shall accomplish whatever

is mandated to accomplish in our lives.

In the name of Jesus.

Father, will thank you that you take away every stony health,

if it's a heart of flesh, that we will not

doubt your way but you receive your way in faith.

This we have asked in the name of your son Jesus,

and we all will respond. Amen, oh Amen, oh Amen, halleluyah.

It's a blessing to be in the house of the

Lord and to see all of you are more time.

Oh to your neighbor, and tell the person, I'm so

happy to see you. Tell the person I'm so happy

to see you, Oh say, I'm so excited seeing you

one more time. Tell the person that I don't know

what is happening, but it looks like God keeps blessing

and blessing you.

Oh.

Tell the person you look better than I saw you

the last time. Hallelujah, And asks the person, please, may

I know your secrets? Hallelijah. I don't know about you,

but for me the secret to Jesus. Do you want

to tell the person why the secret is de secret

to Jesus?

Hallelujah. Amen. Wow, it's a blessing.

To know that we have a father, Oh, I said,

It's a blessing to know that we have a father,

and not just that, but one who lads us so much.

And so this morning, I'm.

Glad that I have the opportunity to honor him and

thank God for his life. Whilse he's still alive. Hello,

we are not those that will wait for somebody to

be taken away by God. Then that is when you

are going to thank God for his life. You are

praising him. No, no, you go to full loss and

you hear the praises, you know the acknowledgements, and sometimes

those things are not true, they are lies. This man

he did well, he was a good father, that he

was a good as bad. He did that, he did that.

But what's they are just open sea all the things

the person did. But we are privileged to have our

father who is impacting lives, paching life ten nations, who

has been a blessing to us. So we want to

thank God and celebrate him. Why is he still alive?

Let's celebrate our father, his eminence, the act Bishop Nicholas

don't Coan Williams.

Oh, it's that a person can't do.

If you're coplay, your house crabby, well, if you're shouting shouting.

To well, how they do? Yeah? Amen.

We are also privileged to have our global lead pastor,

our leader and our pastor in the person of Bishop

Joel Duncan Williams and man by whose leader said, if

I had this opportunity to be here, Oh, let's appreciate

and celebrate our leader. Amen, and celebrate yourself my time, God,

bless you. Please, you may take your seat. God about

how tire Ah, it's a blessing to be here. The

atmosphere is charged by the instruction of our global lead.

Faster.

We are still loving God. You're still loving God. And

this morning, I just want to teach on something brief

and responding to god love, responding to God's love, responding

to God's love, and by the grace of God, if

I'm privileged to teach also O preach on next week,

I'll do it a second part and a responding to

God's love.

See, what we need to.

Understand is that God's love is the investment of himself

in our lives. You know, so God's love towards us.

The Bible said that the love of God has been

shared abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. No,

so that is God's investment of himself. Gods God's love,

it's himself. Because the Bible said that God is loved.

God doesn't have love. Understand, God doesn't have love. We

have love He is love, So love is God himself.

So God's love for you and I towards you and

I is an investment of himself in our lives. And

every investor or every business person is always seeking for

something profect or returns. I've not met any good business

man or somebody that is business minded who does not

talk about profit or returns. So whilst they are investing,

they are also looking up to something in return.

Yeah.

Profits. That's as I have invested the one hundred thousand cities.

By the next three months there should be this profit,

so that by the six months.

I should be getting ready to break even. You know.

So God is a businessman. Say God is a businessman.

That is why when you study all the parables concerning

the Kingdom of God, they are all talking about certain

business principles that is supposed to bring about profits or returns.

If you talk about the parable of the talents, he

gave one, five, he gave another, two, he gave another

also one according to their several abilities, and the Bible

said they were supposed to trade with it, work with it,

and to bring about profit, to multiply it. When the

Master came and they were supposed to give an account

of how they had invested the talents or the money.

The five was able to produce five more. The two

produced to the last one. He did not invest the money.

He didn't work with the money. Bab said. He wanted

to take the ground and he hit the talent, and

when the master came he was very angry with him.

Do you get it?

So God is a business person, his business minded. So

anything God passed into you and I, God expected returns.

Hello.

So God's love is an investment of himself, his essences,

nature is attribute everything, his totality that he has prouding

you and I, and God expects returns or profits. Likewise,

our parents, our pastors, our leaders, our gods, they are

investing so much into our lives, taking care of you,

providing for you, paying your fees. It's an investment they're

making into your life, and they expect that as you're

also going to school, you do what it is required

and expected of you. They are paying for your fees.

They're paying your fees. They are not supposed to study

for you. It's your responsibility to study to make sure

that at least you pass and pass well, and you

make them proud and you make yourself proud so that

in the future they can say that we're tens of

their investment in you becoming somebody great that they have desired.

Or are you here with me? So?

Can you imagine, after everything, all the moneys, your parents

are paying, all the sacrifices you don't, and are becoming

what you're supposed to become.

How do you think they'll feel? Or are you here

with me?

The honest, how do you think they'll feel? Very disappointed?

They will not become proud parents. They do not become

proud parents. And in the same way, God is expecting

us that, having poured him to us so much of

his love, will be able to respond.

In a way.

That will make him happy as a father, so that

he will know that his effort, his investment, has not

been in vain. Responding to God's love, the first question

is how do you respond to God's love? Do you

respond to it in a positive way or in a

negative way?

You know?

Second Chronicles thirty two twenty five.

Let's see, yes, you know?

How many of you have heard about King Hezekiah? King

Hezekiah good? At least if you don't know anything about Hezekiah,

you should know that he was the king that prophet

Isaiah came to prophesied to that God says, put hers

in order, you're going to die.

The Bible says, he's a career.

After hearing the prophecy, turned his face to the war,

went into prayer, prayed and asked God to have mercy

and to remember all his services in God's house and sacrifices.

That is Isaiah that it, and the Bible says that

God had messy on him and told Isaiah go and

tell Hezekiah that he's not going to die, but I

have added fifty more years to his life to continue

to live on the edge, you know.

So the Bible says.

That when God has done this, God was expecting a

certain kind of response that is in proportion to the

kind of love and mercy you are true. See, what

you need to understand is that when it comes to

God's love for salvation, all of must have it in

the same measure and proportion. Like titles to these leven

talks about the grace of God that brings salvation, which

has appeared to all men. All of us have it

in proportions that is the salvation grace. But when it

comes to our work with God and our different confidence

we have pertending to our purpose and assignments. God gives

other measures of grace and ability to different individuals and

different people. God shows different kind of favor and messy

to different people, different individuals at different times.

Are you here, Oh, you have gone back?

So what that means is that, like the Bad Way says,

to whom march is giving, march is required or expected.

What that means is that God is not explaining all

of us to respond in the same measure to him

when it comes to his mercy, grace and love towards us,

because his mercies, grace, and love towards us are not

at the same level, not resulting need to understand. Solomon

was talking about his father David, and he used the

website God, I know that you have shown my father

David create messy great mercy. Looking at what David used

to be as a shepherd boy, God by pass all

the other people that look fat for the throne, brought

in this shepherd boy, gave him the throne of his master.

So and God reminded David when he went Rayah and

took Basheba.

God was reminding him that you were a shepherd.

Boy, and I did this all that for you even

if the wives were not enough. If you have asked me,

I would have added more. Why did you go and

kill you Rayah? And he took his wife. You know,

I'm trying to hit on something and get it. So

when it comes to God's love, his grace, his messes,

they are in different dimensions when they comes to our

experience and our work with Him.

So what that means is that.

God is not expecting all of us to respond in

the same measure to him. And that is why you

cannot be comparing yourself to address when it comes to

worshiping and serving God. So when others are playing with

their way of service and worship to God, when they

come to church, you are worshiping God. They are standing,

they won't sing, they won't cb their hands, they are

some way in the house of God. They are not

committed in the house of God. You cannot compare yourself

to them. Maybe God has shown you some messy that

he has.

Not shown there.

Hello, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Maybe you God has given

you some kind of deliverance that he has not giving

to others. So when God excites you to come man

testify about it. And because the friends are sitting down,

you also sit down God to not be happy with you. Yeah,

because you see, all of us have not been privileged

at the same level when even it comes to life.

I'm telling you.

Some of you since God said that they be like

like always says, you have never been certain public transport before.

Every day you're in an a conditioning car. Somebody is

driving you to school to church. You've never known anything

God hungered before.

But what is hunger? What is hunger like like I'm hungry? No.

See, so our privileges are not the same. That does

not make you fascier than others.

Do you get it?

By what I'm saying that it is grace and messing.

God has shown you that the grace is showed your

parents who have become a beneficiary of it, and so

God will expect that you also show back as a

Nutley's law of motion will say, for every action, there's

words an equal but opposite reaction.

Take me back to you, there's a nickles.

So after God has shown as the kaya search mercy,

you are supposed to die.

You didn't die. Let's see what he a Caya did.

But he's a caya randered not again according to the

benefit down onto.

Him, for his heart was lifted down.

Therefore there was wrath upon him and upon Dida and Jerusalem.

Give me an ivy okay. But Hezekiah's heart.

Was frown and he did not work was sworn to

the kindness shown him. Therefore the last word on him

was on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.

You know. So after God having shown him such.

Kindness of adding fifteen more years, God was expecting Hezekiah

to be sworn in a certain way.

But this is what he did. He threw a.

Party, called all his acquaintances, his friends, and he started

displaying his wealth.

Then even opened the House of God.

That was an abomination for the hidden kings to come

and see all the things they turn Since the verses

in the Hearts of God, God said, how can you

do that?

Hello? Are you here with me? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.

Let's go to Isaiah chapter five. In Isaiah chapter five,

the people of Israel had given God a brooking hat. Yes, yes, yes,

they are giving God the brooking hat. Ask somebody for me,

have you given God a brooking hat before?

Oh?

As I as I'm telling that apart with all your respects?

Have you given God a broken head before.

The layer? So is Ih had broken the heart of God, and.

Isaiah had composed a song for God, Hadlijah.

And it's amazing.

So say that I would sing for the love I

was saying, for the one I love, a song about

his vineyard. My loved one had a vineyard on the

further his side.

Continue.

He dug it up and cleared it of stones, and

planted it with the choice set vines. He built a

watchtower in it, and cut out a wine press as well.

Then he looked for a crop of good grips. Say

crop of good grips, Say crop of good grapes.

But it's you that only bad fruit.

Now, you dwellers in jail and men of Judah jade

between me and my vineyard. Continue, What more could have

been done for my vine yard than I have done

for it? When I look for good grams, why did

it yield only bad? Now I will tell you what

I'm going to do to my vineyard. I will take

away its head and it will be destroyed. I will

break down its warm and it will be trampled. I'll

make it a wasteland. Neither run nor cultivated, and brice

of tongs who go there, I will command the clouds

not to rain on it. The vineyard of the Lord

Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of

Judah are the garden of his delight. And he looked

for justice, but s Blad said for righteousness. But head

cries of distress. You know.

In theology cast something typology.

So this is Isaiah expressing the heart bit of God

about God's disappointments about Israel. And it is also a

type of the church in a way represent the church

now where we find ourselves. So God had a broken heart,

and Isaiah is s telling us about what happened. So

God said he had a vineyard, and God is s

telling us the kind of sacrifices he made concerning the vineyard.

It is so heartbroken and disheartening when you so love

somebody and you're making a lot of sacrifices. You're doing

so much for the person, and you are expecting certain

kinds of response, but you're not getting those response or

those answers.

Have you been there before?

Oh see this your holier dandald attitude. You're sitting here, Elijah,

I have been there before. You're powering so much into

somebody in a relationship. Okay, if I say a relationship

that you're understand in a relationship, you know you mean

well for the person you're making sacrifices. And because I

also have an expectation, oh that after praying for you,

you know, being there for you, supporting you, at least

you also respond back in a positive way. You give

back some positive energy. But when the person keeps giving

you negative response, you know that it looks like telling

all the investments you are making, take me back to

the best one so they'll find your God says that

it was on the hill God had to dig the

stones out in order to plant. See, it's telling us

that kind of sacrifice, the kind of work God had

to come about in order to plant the bunyard. Then

God said, after that, I make sure that there was protection.

I made a hedge, I set up a tower. Go said,

I did everything possible to make sure that it will

produce good fruits or good.

Cross, only to find out.

That it has yielded bad foods. Why then, he said,

just between me and my find what else could I

have done that I didn't do? And God is asking

us this morning, and some of you, God is I

see what what?

What else should I have done that I have not done? That?

You still don't obey me? What? What else?

Because as far as God is concerned, everything that you

needed to be fruitful and to produce that good food,

he has giving it to you.

Hello, oh are you here? Yeah?

God said, because you've decided not to produce the fruits

I like, then whatever I give to you, I'll take

it back. Three weeks ago, as in Facebook, a gentleman

had broken into a lady's room his beloved, his girlfriend,

who was a nurse, And I said, after paying her fees,

taking care of her, doing everything she has, now going

to take another boy. So he said, whatever I'll bought

for you, I'm taking it back. So he was there

with three of his friends. So one was videoing every

accident that was going on. They were saying that about

the time you come, you would not see the fan,

the fishure micro with everything.

Yeah, you took everything.

I said, Wow, the guy was for filling scripture because

I was an effect when God's hat was working. God

took everything. Yeah, God tickets, yeah, God tickets. He said,

I'll take away my head I'll take it away. I'll

make sure that it doesn't ruin on you again. Yeah, yeah,

God tickets. The guy took everything from the including the

carpet to the carpet on the floor. They pack it

into a car and then they left. Hello. Yeah, And

all of us said that here they're setting crops God

is expecting from you. Are you burying or are you

yielding those crops? Or you are yielding some opposite crop?

Some I want that fruits. So God, how it was working,

you know. So I want you to understand this morning

that God has made so much investment into your life,

and God is expecting you to respond in a way

that will bring him joy.

Take me to the book Jesus.

Look chapter seventeen. Let's let's go to seven before look

chapter seven thirty six.

Let's go to seven. We'll come back to the seventeen.

And this account talks about Jesus going into the house

of a pharasee, you know, to go ahead and have dinner.

The Bible talks about a simple woman, a simful woman Bible.

His servians believed that she was a prostitute. Her life

was nothing to write them about, and this woman had

encountered Jesus, and Jesus.

Had had mercy on her.

I let's believe that she was the woman that was

caught in her daughter. How does I think that maybe

Mary mc danny home seven demons were cast out of her.

But whoever it is, it's not our focus now. But

what she did, Okay, at least you know that she

was a sainful woman. So this woman, the Bible said,

when she heard so, Now, one of the Pharasees invited

Jesus to have.

Dinner with him.

So he went to the Pharisees house and reclined at

the table. When a woman who had lived a selful

life she had lived, it means that at that time

she was no more in it, because she had encounted

Jesus in that town land. That Jesus was eating at

the Pharacis house, she brought an alabastaja of perfume, and

as she stood behind him at his feet, wheeping, she

began to wet his feet with her tears.

Then she wiped.

Them with her hair, kissed them, and poured perfume on them.

When the Pharaosee who had invited him so this, he

said to himself, if this man were a prophet, he

would know who is starting him and what kind of

woman she is that she is a sinner. Jesus answered him, Simon,

I have something to tell you. Tell me, teacher, He said,

two men owe money to as certain money lender. One

old him five hundred denary and the other fifty. Neither

of them had the money to pay him back, so

he canceled the depth of both.

Now which of them will love him more?

Simon replied, I suppose the one who had the bigger

debt canceled.

You have judged correctly, Jesus said.

Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simoon,

do you see this woman I came into your house.

Do not give me any water for my feet, but

she worked my feet with her tears and wiped them

with her hair. You did not give me a kiss,

but this woman, from the time I entered, has not

stopped kissing my feet. You did not put aar on

my head, but she has brought per fume on my feet. Therefore,

I tell you her many sins have been forgiven, for

she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little

loves little. You know, so, as I said earlier, on

this woman out of appreciation for the love Jessa has

shown her. See, God's expression of his love is manifested

in different ways, in his mercy, in his kindness, in

his deliverance, in his provision. Oh, all these things an

expression of God's love to us. So this woman, out

of appreciation for what Jesus had done, we respund that

to the live shown here in the way that people

were blown away. She was kissing Jesus his feet white,

paying his feet that dust in those days palace, in

those days that dust even now was a desert place.

The court out there was that before you enter some

with this room, the servant to be there, there will

be a bucket filled with water, the servant to come

and wash your feet and dry it. It was aware

of were coming or showing hospitality. It's also so that

you don't enter their room with your your with your dust.

Jesus went to the parases house. They didn't do that

for him. And the woman, out of the love Jesus

has shown her, rewounded. And Jesus telling us that she

did that because her many since had been forgiven and

because of that she loved match. So like me whose

mandaycens have been forgiven. I love God.

Match.

Maybe you it's just a well, no, two sins that

have been forgiven. That's why you don't love God. Match

you love God?

Little?

So Jesus said that he that has been forgiven match laughs, Match,

he does been forgiving little laughs little, So you must

analyze yourself. Have I been forgiven?

Match?

So that you respond according to how much God has

shown you that love.

Hello.

So for me, if people say they will love God

later love, I look at myself. I know where God

picked me, from where He has brought me. Now, I

know the kind of sacrifices and love God has shown

in my life, so that I respond according me.

Hello, are you here?

He says, said that this woman loves much because how

many says I have been forgiven. Let me give you

some few points, as the time will allow us. Why

some of the reasons, okay, why we don't respond to

God's love as we are supposed to.

The Number one.

Is in gratitude. In gratitude, be reading. I'll just give you.

The scripture looks after seventeen eleven nineteen. It talks about

the Leopos, the turen Lepers, the ten Lepers that the

Bible said, they were staying at the asket of the town.

They could not enter the town because it was an

abomination to do that. For the custom of those days,

if you were a leper, you were called on clean,

and anybody that was on clean, you were not allowed

to come among people because the moment you come and

you establish contact with anybody, the people will also become

on clean. How are you following me? So you can

imagine that that kind of humiliation. These people were marginalized

in the society. How would you feel that you can't

come among people and they have to come with small

small bells attached to their clothes that will be hitting

against each other, will be making noise to allerge people

that an unclean person is coming. And not just that

you have to be sounding on clean, on clean. When

you are personal, you'll be sting on clean. You have

to allerge people that you are clean, because if you

don't know it, wan't touch anybody. They will become unclean

and they who stown you to death. So these people

were just sideline in the society. They could not come

among the rest of the people in the society. Decents

met them, brother said one day saw decerp from my

far off. It means that they couldn't come close. They

sold decer for my father. They said, Master, I have

missed your nurse.

Help us.

They decais to them, go and show yourselves to the priests,

because at that time it was the priests that will

examine you and to certify that indeed you have been

cleansed of that leprosy, so you can come among people.

Bible was the worst. They were going on their way.

They realized that their leprosy was right, was gone. He

certainly they were cleansed. What do you think they should

have done first? The Bible said one of them. Why

did he realized that he had been killed?

Then? He said, no, I cannot be ungrateful.

I have to go back to Jesus, the one who

healed me at the to say thank you.

The Bible said. He came back. He fell.

Before Jesus and said, Master, thank you. And Thisesus became concerned.

Why do you think this is acts? Where the rest

of the nine way? Because thisus was expecting that after

they've been here, they will come back and say thank you.

So God is always expecting that we will come and

say thank you. When he blesses us, sir, where they're

not done?

Please? But where are the ny? Where are the ny?

Where are the ning?

I can imagine what the nine were. Certainly that girl

I proposed to you, that that denied and declined my

proposer because I was a leper. I wurn't sore to

her that me I'm clean, say, oh, the pleasing. These

people couldn't go because they were restricted. They said, now

I have the liberty to have their freedom. All the

things they couldn't do, those are the things they started

thinking about first hm, but not to go and respond

to their love. Thisuys how shown them?

Hello? Are you here?

So in gratitude have Father will always tell you that

gratitude helps you to appreciate. They said, gratitude, We'll let

you have more, but in gratitude cut your shots. So

it's one of the reasons we are not able to

respond to God's love in the way you are supposed

to ingratitude. And this one it even affects our relationship

with others inven our parents. Yeah, yeah, in gratitude with

our neighbors. In gratitude, and that is what is I added.

And when you study the life of the people of Israel,

carefully you realize this spirit of ingratitude amongst them. God

brings the people of Israel out from captivity with a

mighty hand, with ten powerful plagues that we all know,

one that size.

On the way they are closed the nor out.

What kind of america is that their clothes didn't wear out,

their shoes didn't wear out. Said that was non feeble

amongst them means that nobody became ill on the way.

Can you imagine working on the desert for forty years.

God is giving them manner to eat. The Bible says

in the day God will come and lead them, come

amongst them in the pillar of words crowd. And what

that did for them was that it created an air

condition at Mussum, so that they were.

Not scratched by the sun. And in the night.

God will come amongst them, lead them in the pillar

of fire. And that fire also give creator some kind

of warm apart from giving them directions.

So look at what kind of provision God is giving

to these people.

So don't you think it is fair that God will

expect that these people will respond to this great love

in a positive way. In Exodus Statitude vers one, and

to pay God back this is what they did. They

can't be reading it for the sake of time. Just

summarizes so these people, they said, Mosses are gone to

be with God. He had not returned at the time,

and they said, this crib, we don't know what has

happened to him. We don't know when he's going to

come back. Make us a God. We need a God.

We need a God. We need a God. Make us

God that shall go before us. For as for this, Moses,

can you imagine see how they are referring to their leader.

I ask for this, Moses, ask for this. Moses, and

a lot of you that help see you respond, and

you treat your leaders in a certain way, you describe

them in certain ways. How can you say this about

your leader? Ask for that Moses, with no respect and

reverence attached the man who brought us at Bat of

the end of Egypt. We do not to know what

has become of you. So give us gods. Continue turn

the two to too. Sorry. Then around two said okay,

bring all your ear rings, your necklaces, anything good and

very in mind. These necklaces and gold and ear rings

and these things they had. It was God that gave

them favor before the Egyptians, before they left, God said,

I'll give you favor. Go to your masters whatever you

ask that would said. Because of that favor, the Egyptians

give them everything, and they left Egypt bankrupt. So the

God that God gave them bless them with. They're now

coming to use the gold to create a God and

so many of us. That is what is happening in

our lives. The blessing God give to us. They not

begin to compete with God. God gives you a job,

then the job starts competing with God that has tied.

Then I said that, oh, half a Sunday. Sunday, we'll

go to work.

Oh yeah, he Now because of that job, we don't

even have time for prayer. Some of it becomes of

some relationship you're in. You're always busy when you're supposed

to do something for God.

Oh I have a date.

Oh this time I won't be available. Hey, the same

good God gave them, they turn it into God continued,

So he brought it to error.

Let's go to four. Okay.

So and he received the good from their hands, and

he fashioned it with an engraving you and made a

more dead cow. Then they said, this is your God,

Oh Israel, that did what? That brought you out of

the land of Egypt? Hey, are they telling the truth

of their lying? Oh all of us? Are they telling

the truth of their lie? Who brought them out of Egypt?

Oh?

Who brought them out of Egypt? Can you imagine how

God failed? When God will be there and I'll just

curse some God and they will be saying that, oh,

you are the one who brought us out of Egypt,

can you imagine in gratitude. Maybe I'll just end here

on this point. Let us read Exodus Exodus twenty verse

to the journey five very six. See, God knew that

this thing was happening, So when God was giving them

the commandments, God emphasized on it.

God rep rep.

Letting them know that I am the one who brought

you out of where Egypt? God said, I am the

lordyer of God who brought you out of the land

of where Egypt? Did journal mean five six? I'm the

lordyer of God who brought you out of the land

of After everything got still to them in thirty two,

as we read, they still were able to make a calf,

and they said, this is our God who brought us

out of the land of Egypt. Yeah, yeah, and you

might be looking at it is the people of Israel

is before they were ungrateful. Are you not doing the same?

Are you not doing the same? Ask somebody, are you

not doing the same in gratitude? Do you know what

in gratitude is? It is when you take the credits

that is still God. When you take it, you receive

it for yourself. When the glory that is due to

God you take it in gratitude. You will not be

able to respond to the love of God. When in

gratitude feels your heart.

Hey chelling, you.

Did you know you had a first class Ah, that

doesn't mean I I've been a shack since the hsday too.

Ah.

Everybody or my friends laughter telling me that my head,

my head is good, My head is good.

Then God will be in heaven and watching you. Your

head is good. You will see.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm telling you annoyed you can't sing

Oh for me? I always come from the hazards. You know,

it's in this thing. It's in our blood, and it's

a saying my blood. You know it's not true. My

dad is a great worshipper. See, if you're not careful,

you can easily fall into that travel of ingratitude, taking

the credit that is due goal.

Oh oh you know about this one. It's nothing this

and there is goockle.

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See.

In gratitude will make you feel that you are the

owner and not the steward. Yeah, yeah, in gratitude. Okay,

so oh this is this is the God?

Is this one? Is this one that that brought us

out of Egypt? It's serials show Let me mention the

second point and then number two. Pride. Pride.

Pride, Pride is one of the reasons that we are

not able to respond to God's love in the way

you're supposed to.

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Yeah. Pride makes you feel like yourself made. Yeah yeah,

yourself made, yourself made. The Bible said that pride goes

before a four and also said that God resists the proud,

but gives more grace to the humble. Let's read Acts

chapter twelve, rest twenty. There was a time in the

life of Herald that Herald started accepting and seeing himself

as God.

And this is where we need to be.

Very careful as Christians. Be careful of the praises of people.

Her people can put you in a tight corner before God. There.

If you're not careful, it to attract some rot of

God over your life. It happened to David when the woman.

The woman began to sink, Oh, so has killed his thousands.

David has killed his ten thousands. And so I said

that you have accepted it.

Me and the king.

I've been fighting all these years for my youth. You've

been a suparate boy. You used to kill lions and bears.

You come to kill God. Liar, you're asserting this phrase,

and that began David's troubles, you know, so, Barba said.

Now, Harold had been very angry.

With the people of Tar and Sidom, but they came

to him with one accored and having made blasters the

King's personal ate their friend. They asked for peace because

their country was supplied with food by the King's country.

Worked with me. Let's go.

So on a sad day, Harold, arrayed in royal apparel,

sat on his throne and gave an oration to them,

like he gave a speech, and the people kept something

the voice of God and not a man. So Harold

was even a speech. They were clapping for him, and

then the guy is speaking Ack Obama. This the voice

of God, not man. You know, like those motivational speakers.

It's like they have honey on their lips.

Can be telling you. The Bible says, Then Harold also

saw himself as God. Hi.

Then immediately an injury of the Lord struck him because

he did not want to keep globy to God, and

he was eating by worms and died. So let's be

careful about the praises of men that brings you to

a place where you begin to compete with God. Then

now God killed him. Yes, he got rotten. Immediately, you

got rotten by by wems. He was alive, he was dying,

wems were eating and he died. God said, you have

accepted this glory. That is you mean that you are God.

I'm a few when you're singing, you're singing like an angel.

You're thinking like this, Just just be first. Then give

God back his glory because it's just a thin line.

If you're not careful, you might receive it. Actually I've

done it.

Yeah, yeah, But.

We need to understand that God has invested so much

into us by his love, and God expressed us to

respond in a positive way according to the measure of

the love he has spoiled into her heart.

And I said it differs. So you must be able

to know of how much God.

Has poured his love into you, so that you respond

in an equal measure with your commitments. What's your service

in the house of God. So while your friends are

fooling around and they are not committed, not tell it

for me. I didn't deserve it to by God assumed me, miss,

and therefore have to respond in this way. I pray

for you that you'll not take God's love for granted.

You'll not take the glory that is ill God. You'll

not take the place that belongs to God in your life,

but you respond in a positive way to the love

God has shown you, the messes, the kindness. You will

not be like Hezekiah, but God will be proud of you.

In the name of Jesus, let's rise to our fait.

Why a rise, and we want to pray that pray

Our Lord help me, help me to be able to

respond to your lam.

Help me.

I want to be able to respond to your lave.

I don't want to be ungrateful. I don't want to

be ungrateful. I don't want to be ungrateful. Help me,

Oh God, help me, help me pray, pray. Asks a

Lord help you, asks a Lord to help you. The

woman that was forgiving Matt the Bible says she loved match,

she loved mad.

You want to pray, pray? Why not?

The apostles by the name of John, a postal John.

He was known as the aposto or the disciple that

Jesus loved. Among all the disciples. He was one that

was always lying in the bottom of Jesus and all

the other disciples knew that this guy. There was a

special bond between him and Jesus. And because of that,

this guy also responded in the same measion when Jesus

was on the cross, he was the only disciple around.

He was the only disciple around.

He said, if you've been able to show me this loud,

I will not deny him. He was around, and because

of that, Jesus was able to and ask his mother, if.

Help us.

For the love that you showed us their names, We

need to respond the love of may. We'll not forget

my ship. Shout up, We'll not forget to respond back

to you. Some of you that will got a certain

messy and wherever will find our shell. That is do

you for him? Now? Is it's not no well compared nurse? No, no, no, no,

that's appsible doing? Was she any meaning? What's your name?

Your forgo label? Your thans given should be more?

Shake machine can respond back to you the part for

the kindness, change for all the kindness the name Jesus, Lord,

shut up.

The watched the Great.

Dial tank you thank you, watch the Great Man for

again in a show for all the Miracles.

One show labeled ship keep number in the same.

I just read out you you understood or you have

understood the message. One day David was just on his balcony.

There's a.

See me as separate boy, that was nobody. God has

brought me from the backside of the desert, made me

a king, and I have built a house and sitar

and I'm living in and the act of God's intense.

He said, no, I'm just something about that. Right Then

you got Natan. You spoke to him that I want

to build God the house.

Then God said, you are not going to build me

a house, but one that will come up from your

own Seas said, because your hands are staying with black.

But just by having that desire, you will not build

me a house. I will build you a house, a

house that will I'll last you and ever lasting life.

And was talking about the drone of Jesus Christ.

That is why Jesus is in the lineage of David

sitting on the drone of David forever. David would just

look back and he said, what should I do in

response to the love God that shown me? At least

let me do something. If you look into your life

and look at the circus of your parents, your family, school,

academic work, and have I got has brought you?

If you tell you show you something to do. Pray

that God help me to be able to know what

you do to I present you alarm and that MESSI

and I'm massa of what you have sown in reputed

that kind shout hand Jesus. I want to pray for you.

If after the message God has started your heart, you're

not going again. You don't even know Jesus. You want

to give your life to Jesus. That is the first

group of people and the second group of people like

the fine yard God was talking about. God has made

a lot of investment in putting your life. But you yourself,

you realize that the kind of fruit God is expecting

from you, that's not the fruit you have been buried.

Come, I want to pray for you.

You know, I know in your hearts that I'm not

doing what God expects me to do, or even if

I'm doing something for God, I can't do better. Come,

I want to pray for you. You want to give

your life to Jesus. You don't know Jesus. I want

to pray for you.

You are here.

You know that with the kind of love and Mexico

that has shown you by now, you should have been

at a certain level in God doing some things, but

you're not doing I want to pray for you. Please come,

don't be shined. I'm not going to ask you anything

or just come. You have been loved match, but you

look at your life. You are responding in a way

of letter. God bless you because you said if you

don't respond in a way that God expects you, he said,

I'm going to take away my head. I'm going to

take away my rag everything that I did or you.

God said, don ticket yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that

one with the one talent that didn't invested.

The master took it.

See, God can't take it. If you don't know what

I'm telling you, what can't take it? Investor. God is

an investor, He's a business man. This lift up your hands.

Is there any among you who wants to give your

life to Jesus? Those in fact, Father, thank you for

this opportunity with prayer that will give us the grace

and their strengths to respond. And God you to the

measure for which you have shown us. Now that because

you have been forgiven much, you love us.

Father.

If there's anything we need to do from today that

will be able to echo your love, the measure of

your love, your kindness, your faithfulness, your patience, do wars,

ask for the help has to be able to do

it in the name of Jesus. Any fruits that you

are expecting from our lives, Help us to be able

to bear that fruits to your name and to your glory.

This we have asked in the name of Yours Jesus. Amen,