Which God Do You Serve?

I want to say that again. "Compromise with the world is treason in the courts of heaven". The church in America is not developing recruits into disciplined soldiers of the cross. If discipline is necessary in arts and athletics, how can we expect to be conquering Christians without spiritual discipline enough to obey the Word of God? Ephesians 6 states we are to be the church triumphant. "We are to take a stand". We are to fight the good fight. We are to endure to the end, to love not our life unto the death. The victory is ours through Christ the Lord! Give the Lord praise in the house!

The fourth evidence that you know God: when you know God, you serve him with a passion. Jeremiah said, "It was like a fire shut up in my bones". King David says, "As the heart," that's a deer. "As the deer pants after water, so my heart longs for you, o God". That's passion. Jesus was passionate about his faith. He said, "If your eye offends you and will keep you out of the Kingdom of God, pluck it out. If your hand would keep you from getting to heaven, cut it off". That's passion. It's better to go to heaven without a hand than to go to hell with a whole body. To know Christ, means to be intimate. Are you passionate about your relationship with Jesus Christ? Do you love him above all else? Or he is something that you have compartmentalized over in the corner of your life that only gets out of the box on Sunday? Is this world your God?

Or is this world, as Paul said, "A dung heap," and you're working to get the mansion? You don't have to be an investment genius to know which of those is the best. The story is told of a fabulously wealthy multimillionaire. He had no heirs. He left no will with his attorney. His wife had died, and his only son has lived until a teenager as a crippled, nursed by the housemaid. His attorney summons the family for a reading of the will. And the room was packed with those who were ready to get rich. The housemaid also attended. Sitting on a table was the picture of the millionaire's only son. And the housemaid asked the attorney, "May I have this"? And the attorney asked the relatives, "Do any of you want this picture"? There was a chorus of NO's. "We don't want the picture". She took the picture. She went home.

There was a bulge in the back of the picture. She opened it. It was the will of the millionaire. It simply said, "To the one who loves my son enough to want this picture goes all that I own". She was instantly a multi, multimillionaire. The point is, God the Father, who owns heaven and earth, is saying to every person in this room and those of you who are watching television across America and around the world, "To those who love my son, I will give you everything I own. And heaven is yours for the asking". Do you love the Lord? Let's pray.

Father, help us today to know you. Help us today to walk in paths of righteousness. Let us experience you today, in Jesus' name. Lord, for those who are reading this and do not know you, reveal yourself to them in a new way today. Show them your glory, Father. Let the grace of God Almighty visit each and every one of these who are here reading this today. In Jesus name I pray and ask it in faith believing and expecting! Amen and amen!!!