Follow The Leader Series Pt.2 "The Cost To Move” Series

We are living in a time when people are looking for someone or something to follow, a mission to complete them that will give them hope and reason to dream. Look around you and listen to people they are seeking answers and direction. It doesn’t matter who you are it makes no difference if you are Donald Trump, Bill Gates, or the President of the United States everybody is searching and looking for answers that can lead them and show them a better way.

This series of sermons will take you back to your roots to fall in love again with your “first love”. The first message I shared with you was the “Invitation” there is a call and invitation that God is sending out to His church and to the people of this world for them to come and know Him.

I know this may sound like “Salvation 101” but we got to get back to the basics of who we are and whose we are.

Our walk with God should be much deeper than our wallets. What has happened is our daily lives and our daily walk have become confused with one another; we carry the burdens of our lives into our worship and devotion to God, church is now work, our relationship with God is work! Praising and worshipping the Lord is work, praying is now work, fasting is work. Anything that is to build a relationship is work and imposes on our time. What has happened to this generation, where is the desire?

This Church is not a country club or a social scene where you come to be seen and heard. If you come to church just to be seen you need to go home, if you are here for a shopping buddy or a golfing buddy you came to the wrong place…those may be benefits for coming to church but it should never be the reason, because the only reason why I am here is for Jesus. I came because this is where I can meet with the Master. I followed Him and this is where He stopped. I stopped in cause Jesus came to be in a house that He was welcomed at. When we assembly ourselves together and lift Him up; He is sure to show up and show out. You want to see His Glory you got to invite it in; you want to see great moves of God; invite Him in.

If I step on your toes good, next time come to church with steal toe boots on. This Word His Gospel needs to be preached and sometimes we need reminders of why we come to His house in the first place.

Everyone is searching for answers and follow any ol’ thing, cause people are indecisive, inconsistent, unpredictable, and unsure; they are fickle. Too hot to be cold, too cold to be hot, up so high they can’t come down, so low they can’t get up, to in to be out, to out to be in, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness. I know people in the world are fickle but I am talking about fickle people in the church.

Ask them why they are here and you get a blank stare. Some people been in church so long they forgot why they come. For many it’s just habit. To many times I hear people say, “I got to go to church today” well don’t get so excited about it hold on let me move my table out of the way so you can cut back flips!!! You don’t have to come you still have a choice; trust me with that kind of attitude just stay home, God doesn’t want you to come if you don’t want to.

God is looking for those that have a “whosoever that will” attitude those that come because they love Him because He first loved them!

What’s this got to do with your text you ask? Church the reason why I came to church today is because this is where He led me to. I followed the Leader and this is where He came. I made a choice many years ago to follow. I know that when you read how Jesus called them to be fishers of men your mind takes you to a sermon on witnessing and soul winning, but those verses I read to you tell me that we are on an assignment from the Master to Follow Him.

He is calling us to follow Him, when I was a kid we use to play follow the leader and whatever he did we had to do to. You see where I am going with this. We need to be following Him and doing what He does. I read to you the story of Moses; now when God allowed him to see His back, we know that Moses in his corruptive bodily form could not withstand the awesomeness of a face to face encounter with God, but I believe this story tells of another meaning and that is before we can see His face we must be willing to follow Him.