Stop, look, listen and Live!
How many of us, have ever said these words to our parents, You Were Right, I Should Have Listened!
I don't know anyone who can say or admit, that those words have never came out of their mouths.
Galatians 3:2,3,13,14 NKJ
2. This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3. Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Everyone wants to receive what God has for them in their lives.
Here, we find the key, on how we can and do, receive everything that God has for us in our lives, that is assuming we have asked Jesus to be our Lord and Saviour.
Having faith in Jesus, is the key!
Vs. 13,14
3. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)
14. that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The only way we can receive Jesus, or what God has in store for us, or anything for that matter, is by faith.
Romans 10:17 NKJ
17. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Redemption is only found by our faith in Jesus!
Healing is only found by our faith in Jesus!
Prosperity, righteousness, our whole walk…is found, by our faith in Jesus!
and our faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Ill. There once was a young man, back in the late 1,800 hundreds, who wanted to be a telegraph operator and he went to apply for a job.
The applicants were so many that day and there was standing room only in the waiting area,
The interviewing was to have started earlier in the day and the man had been held up and was late arriving,
Thinking his chances were slim to none with so many fighting for an opportunity, he sat down still willing to wait for his turn.
He noticed, that all of the applicants were complaining about how it was taking to long and didn’t they know how hot it was in there.
About two minutes after arriving, he got up and went over and opened the door to the mans office, who was going to do the interviewing,
Everyone there, thought who does that guy think he is?
Paying all of them no attention, he walked through the door and closed it and as soon as he did, the gentlemen inside said, what do you want?
And the young man said, there was a message that i heard in the waiting area,
and it told me to come in here, that I had the job if I wanted it.
Welcome, I’ve been expecting you, you've got the job.
He went on to tell him, that the whole day, the time everyone had been waiting in that waiting room, a telegraph had been taping out the message he had heard repeatedly;
“if you want the job, come into my office you’ve got the job”
TBS. to him who has ears, let him hear! Have you heard that one before?
That’s something that God wanted us to know, that exact phrase is mentioned some 51 times in the bible.
Its like He was and is still saying to all of us, “HELLO,” can you here me now!
TBS. that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Spoken words, faith released and action applied, produces answers and our needs met! (Repeat)
Anything that Jesus states in the Bible, is a promise to him who believes, Praise God!
Listen up church, “to him who has ears, let him hear”
There’s a lot of people, waiting on an answer and a need to be met, just like in the story, in the waiting room of life!
Most are complaining, maybe not outwardly, but certainly inwardly, about how long it is taking,
All the while they need to just stop what their doing looking to themselves, look to Jesus and listen to what He has already said He would do and start living!
All of the promises to us in the bible, comes by hearing and receiving them by faith, that has already been measured and given to you! (Rpt)
Whether or not you are receiving them, doesn’t change the fact that they are available to you!
You see, so many have it in their mind, that’s just not the way I was brought up to believe.
Let me tell you;
*Your birthright
*Your upbringing
*Where you attended school or church growing up for that matter,
has nothing to do with and does not change the availability you have to the goodness and promises of God!
Gal. 4:4-10 NKJ
4. But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5. to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
7. Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8. But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. (the world)
9. But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
10. You observe days and months and seasons and years.
There are a lot of people who have been set free by Jesus Grace that He gave us all at Calvary.
But far to many are still convinced that their not worthy of it and chose to live their lives,
If not all, at least partially condemned still by the law, Jesus abolished so long ago!
This is one of those moments, I believe the Lord would have me say to you, Listen up church, “to him who has ears, let him hear”
All of the promises to us in the bible, comes by hearing and receiving them by faith, that has already been measured and given to you!
How do you determine a measure?
A measure is determined by the way you hear it and the way that you receive it, into your life.
Ill. There was a famous golfer who had been invited by the king of Saudi Arabia to play in a tournament.
He accepted and was flown there by the King in his own private jet. They played golf, had a good time and the golfer went home.
But before he left, the king offered the golfer anything he wanted because he had made the time so special.
The man was polite and said nothing except that he'd also had a wonderful time himself and that the King didn’t owe him anything.
But the king was persistent and insisted, so the man said "Fine, I collect golf clubs. Why don't you give me a golf club?"
So the man got on the plane and went home.
The golfer was trying to picture the new club for his collection,
Would it be a driver, or a putter, he imagined it would probably be solid gold, or a sand wedge studded with diamonds,
One thing he was sure of, that it would definitely be a great gift, after all it would be from an oil-rich king from Saudi Arabia.
The man waited and every day looked forward to the mail, but no golf club.
Several weeks went by when he got a certified letter from the king—-odd he thought—but where's my golf club?
To the man's surprise when he opened the letter, inside was a deed to a five-hundred acre golf course--a "club"--in America.
TBS. Seek ye first, the Kingdom Of God and all these things will be added unto you!
Would you agree with me this morning. That the word “all” encompasses a lot of things?
God has given us all, the measure with which to believe, How much are you believing for today?
Matthew 13:23 NKJ
Talking about the parable of the sower here
23. But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”
Which number do you hear, God pouring out a blessing in your life?
30, 60 or a 100?
And if your hearing it this morning, what are you hearing?
30 what, 60 what, 100 what?
Coffee cups, or dump trucks?
Lake Shafer, or Lake Michigan?
You know what, God wants that number to be a 100 for you, He has more than enough resources to make it happen in not only your life,
but the life of every believer who is willing to step out in faith and believe Him for it!
Say, “I have ears, let me hear Lord” begin to make proclamation in and over your life!
Remember, Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God!
“I have what Gods word says I have, I can do what Gods word says I can do, I’m an heir to His throne, Praise God!
As your thinking about receiving from God, start to think about giving the same way
2 Corinthians 9:6-11 MSG.
6-7. Remember: A stingy planter gets a stingy crop; a lavish planter gets a lavish crop. I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over, and make up your own mind what you will give. That will protect you against sob stories and arm-twisting. God loves it when the giver delights in the giving.
8-11. God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. As one psalmist puts it,
He throws caution to the winds,
giving to the needy in reckless abandon.
His right-living, right-giving ways
never run out, never wear out.
This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God.
And that’s what it is truly all about, sharing what we have been given, in the end, it’s the only thing that is going to matter!
Galatians 3:26-29 NKJ
26. For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
If we believe, that were truly heirs according to the promise,
isn’t about time we started to lay hold and believe the promises that Jesus went to the cross to obtain for us?
John 10:10 NKJ
10. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
If were not walking in the abundant life relationship that Jesus has provided for us.
The good news today is, that its not to late to start!
Salvation was never meant to be a life insurance policy in the end,
but only the beginning to a beautiful relationship and walk with the Lord, in the abundant life He has promised to us, all along the way throughout all eternity
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Amen? amen
