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we’re in week 4 of a series that we’ve
been doing called grace like a flood and
a lot of people don’t understand why we
would spend this much time on a series
of grace there’s a lot sexy or sermon
series I could do like I could do a
series called breakthrough everybody
would love that cuz it means like I’m
about to break through and I’m about to
go I could do a series called momentum
like getting up to the speed of God or I
could do a serious light no haters and
everybody will I ain’t not yeah a good
path like no hater like you would do
that Jack
but I’ve been stuck on this message of
grace because I feel like it’s one of
the least understood messages in the
body of Christ we have two extremes you
either have people that like you don’t
have to do anything don’t believe don’t
say don’t do nothing Jesus has done it
all just live stays the same and that’s
this extreme version agree and then you
have this other side are you chewing
bubblegum Hale is that earrings you’re
going to Hale is that lipstick tail are
you eating chick-fil-a pale like it’s
like these two extreme and so the church
stays silent because they don’t want to
offend either side they want people in
the pews they need money I don’t care
about that I care about you getting the
truth of God’s Word and anytime you need
a defining line of what the truth should
be you go to God’s Word and God is so
clear about it but many of us don’t have
any understanding number one because
many of our churches we didn’t grow up
hearing about this and number two a lot
of us don’t study to show ourselves
approved and so it’s one of those things
that the church is like do not in this
church we’re gonna be maturing believers
not perfect but maturing we got to keep
growing and so this series is slated to
have a couple more weeks and I said
slate it because I’ve been studying some
new stuff
and we might roll this series all the
way into the summer because I’m telling
you if you get this it changes
everything last week we talked about how
how God in His amazing grace has saved
all of us but we have a part to play in
it so we are saved by grace through
faith like and I want everybody to write
that down and everybody to understand
that because you got to know that God is
doing the saving but you got to put your
faith in Him and and and and that is the
cornerstone of the entire message now I
didn’t say you have to put your faith in
Him and then change everything and start
working and start doing all this other
stuff I didn’t say all that man says
that religion says that and they’re
saying that you can’t get the love of
God without doing all these things no
God loves you and and and and always
cares for you and is always there for
you no matter what but faith in Him
allows you to receive the grace of God
and that’s good news because the grace
of God is the unmerited unearned and
undeserved favor and kindness of God and
I don’t know about you but I have not
done everything perfect and God
I need his grace and many of us don’t
know that and many of us don’t think
that and many of us think that we got
here by ourselves and somehow you think
well I earn that degree and I’m how did
you wake up this morning no no no no
tell me how did you start your heart how
did you tell your feet to get out the
bed how how did the millions of organs
on the inside of you start functioning
properly and you had to pee when you
woke up this morning see everything is
being held up and sustained by the grace
of God
and the problem is that’s the truth but
we don’t recognize it that’s the truth
but we don’t live like it and so today I
want to take us further into this and I
want you to turn to a pretty famous
passage of scripture in Romans 10:13 but
this is where we’re gonna go impart kind
of today and allow you to see some truth
in God’s Word this scripture says for
whoever somebody say whoever that
includes the people you don’t like say
whoever again that includes the people
who do you wrong say whoever one more
time that includes the people that
you’ve hated I love the Bible because it
doesn’t exclude based on my preferences
and opinion and this is where religion
comes in because we want to exclude
people based on our preferences and our
opinions so we don’t like people that do
this let’s create a religion that keeps
them out we don’t like people who do
this let’s create a religion or a
denomination that celebrates the thing
that they are not like and God said
everybody just one more time say whoever
look what it says whoever calls on the
name of the Lord shall be saved
that’s the drug addict
that’s the prideful didn’t it say
whoever that’s the self-righteous person
that’s the abusive alcoholic family
member
whoever calls on the name of the Lord
shall be saved today my message is very
simple but really D and the title is so
simple for really really deep write this
down I am saved
that’s the title of today’s message I am
saved uh I want you to say it with me
everybody say I am saved duh I need you
to put the exclamation on the edie let’s
do it one more time say it loud I am
saying yeah somebody got spit on right
there there was somebody got spit on
this is what I need everybody to know
that this word saved up is past tense
it’s telling us something that has been
done and so I want to look at this word
saved in the Greek and the word is SoDo
and it’s spelled so0 but it’s kind of
spelled like soda like sodas though okay
let me tell you some of the definitions
of salsa or being saved to save to keep
safe and sound to rescue from danger or
destruction to save a suffering one from
perishing to preserve one who is in
danger of destruction to deliver from
the penalties of the judgment to make
one whole spirit soul and body save
today I only have two points but I
really only have one burden and this is
my one birding so basically I’m gonna
give you one point and then the next
point is so what do we do now okay my
only point for today is salvation its
eternal past present and future
salvation is eternal past present and
future
look what Romans 6:23 says it says for
the wages of sin is death now everybody
know that we’d be using that all people
you’ve seen it you just you just out
here the but you know the wages of sin
and we use that all the time to try to
fear people in to doing the right thing
I want to help everybody fear never
keeps anybody in a relationship
never that’s an abusive relationship and
what the church has done has tried to
make
scared of hail and tried to sail people
like you sinning you know the wages of
sin is death read the rest of the verse
cuz we’re trying to sell people on the
bad part of the verse or the consequence
part of everything that happens instead
of the good things when the last time
you bought some cuz they sold you on the
bad parts of it they’ll sell you a car
based on what could happen like if you
don’t get this car today it could burn
up and it could they show you all the
features and they tell you everything
that’s good would that read the rest of
the verse for the wages of sin is death
but the gift of God another translation
says the free gift of God which is grace
is eternal life in Christ Jesus
sometimes I wish I could just flip
verses so you see the good part first
like like why can’t we tell people yo
there is an amazing gift for you called
eternal life like and if you just put
your faith in Jesus Christ if you
believe in him you get to live for I
know you get them if I know it’s crazy I
know but the owner of this whole thing
came up with this plan that if we put
our faith in Jesus that everything gets
changed like the attitude that you can’t
change the habits that you can’t change
that custom habit that just keeps like
it’s like a team and like you said it
like you yo all of that is included and
and check me out this is why this deal
is so good because the wages of your sin
or the payment for your sin is dead that
sounds so much more appealing when we
present people with the gospel I need
everybody to know what gospel actually
means it’s not a Fred Hammond or a Kurt
Franklin song that’s not gospel that’s
just a type of music like like gospel
means good news and we as a church have
been trying to sell people on the bad
news you’re going to hell no let’s sell
them on the good news you’ve been
redeemed you’ve been
saved you’ve been healed you’ve been
justified there’s more for your life
than what you’re living right now if you
believe in him and so when I look at
this I get a burden because I need
people to know that when you put your
faith in Christ you are saved past
present and future it is eternal because
we serve an eternal God and I know some
of y’all are looking at me like what are
you saying past I’m like we gonna go to
the scriptures today is a lot of Bible
cuz because if you get a lot of me
you’re gonna think I came up with this I
want you to see that this is all in the
Word of God first John 2:25 it says and
this is the promise that he Jesus has
promised us eternal life John 5:13 and I
love this scripture
these things I have written to you who
believe everybody say believe in the
name of the Son of God that you may know
that you have eternal life I love this
because it doesn’t say that we may hope
we have eternal life a lot of people are
living like their salvation is a gamble
like yeah I said the prayer and I know
Jesus but I don’t I don’t know like oh
you know I’m saying we’re gonna get
there one day and they just gonna be
like access denied like I don’t know and
that’s how we live you may not say that
but you’re always on the fence this
scripture is saying when you put your
faith and you believe in Jesus Christ
not what your head but with your heart
like when you really do this thing you
can know that you were say can I be very
frank with you 28 years of my life I
used to think like if the rapture
happened when I had a bad moment I was
doomed I don’t know about you but I had
a real experience like this I came into
the house one day and every who you had
it – I came into the house one day I was
living kind of wild I wasn’t doing
everything right I put my faith in
Christ but you know I still have my
slip-ups and I just thought if he
cracked the sky at the wrong moment
come on somebody else sitting here just
like that right now see like me right
here please and so I came into the house
one night and I was standing at my
parents house and literally every body
was gone
water was running door was open
y’all frigerator was open I don’t know
if I ever seen the movie left behind but
then my everybody gone planes crashing
stuff happened I came in and you know
you’re like stop playing hello hello I
was wrong man
I went outside ran to see if anybody was
outside that was still cars moving I
said they got left behind – I said that
y’all I was freaking out
what did I do I came in the house I
turned all the TVs on the TV in I turned
them all maybe he’s running back around
maybe this is the first strip maybe they
gotta make one more stop imma catch the
second come on
but I just start like if I had a bad day
or if I messed up or if I missed it but
what God’s trying to let us know is that
when we believe in him that we are not
temporarily saved we are saved uh like
this wasn’t a moment this not because
he’s an eternal God and I know we don’t
understand the concept of eternity
because when we think eternal we think
from where we are to the future and
beyond but eternal means God stands
outside of time like he doesn’t have a
reference for time except what we have
created on this earth and because all of
us have a start date and an ending date
we don’t understand eternal that means
that he was before that’s it before what
Pastor Mike
before like do you understand what I’m
saying and I know that’s a hard concept
for us to understand and Moses had the
same problem because God was talking to
Moses in the Old Testament and he said I
want you to go tell Pharaoh to let my
people go
and Moses I got you you know I have a
speak I can’t talk good and you want me
to walk up to the highest power up in
here and and be able to tell him to let
my people go nope this is what the Bible
says
he said I’ll send Aaron with you and he
can speak for you but go tell tell
Pharaoh let my people go okay who who
who should I tell them told me to do
this tell them I am since you I am what
because I’m eternal I can’t say I am
anything cuz I was before that so tell
them I am that I am
come on let’s tell them that the one who
stands outside of time and looks at your
situation tell them the one who created
them and get see this should be
encouragement to somebody cuz your
situation is not new to God he stands
outside of time and he says tell them I
am since you and this is the concept of
eternal salvation is that God when he
saves you
he doesn’t just save you from where you
are to the future he goes back and he
washes your past and most of us don’t
live our life washed and cleansed from
our past so we’re messing up our present
guilty about the path
and negating our future because we don’t
realize that we are saved God is trying
to tell all of you that I’m not a
temporary fix I was I am and I am to
come you you know that that’s a popular
phrase in church the God who is who was
and who is to come
but John wrote that and it’s five times
in Revelations and I want to show them
to you so you can know that God is
eternal he’s outside of all of this
which affects our salvation
revelations one for it says grace to you
and peace from who from him who is and
who was and who is to come okay
look at revelations 1:8 jesus said this
one he said I am the Alpha and Omega do
you know what that is it’s the Alpha the
beginning the Omega the end he clarifies
it he said cuz y’all don’t understand
eternity so I’m gonna make this real
plain for you
I’m the beginning and the end he says
who is and who was and who is to come
the Almighty revelations 4:8 the four
living creatures each having six wings
were full of eyes around and within and
they do not rest day and night singing
this is the song by the way that we’re
gonna sing in heaven forever
so you might want to study it right now
so you don’t have to look at the screens
in heaven okay we’re gonna sing holy
holy holy Lord God Almighty who was and
is and is to come
revelations 11 17 we give you thanks O
Lord God Almighty the one who is and who
was and who is to come revelation 16 5
and I heard the angels of the water
saying you are righteous O Lord the one
who is and who was and who is to be
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday today
and forever more somebody to give God
praise right there
Pastor Mike why am i excited about that
cuz when you get saved he’s not just
saving your present when you put your
faith and belief in Jesus because he’s
eternal you are experienced salvation
past present and future and until you
realize this you do not live your best
life so let me help you let’s talk about
salvation for a minute okay and this
changed my life and I believe it’s gonna
change yours okay so we said the God who
was who is and is to come
modern day turns he’s the God of your
past he’s the God of your present and he
is the God of your future okay so we got
it now it said that he’s the God who was
he’s the God who y’all help me we in
class today was is an is to come okay
now now now I want you to understand
this because when you get this picture
it changes how you look at salvation so
when you believe you let’s say like this
have been saved okay you are being every
day every moment every time you step you
are being saved all of it and I will be
let this sink in like like like as
salvation when I put my faith in Jesus
Christ he’s not the god of just my
present he’s the god of my past my
present and my future he’s the God who
was who
is and it’s to come he’s the God that
has allowed me to know that I have been
saved I am being saved and I will be
saved
let me take it one step further because
some of you are like okay I’m really
trying to understand all of the
extrapolations of what you were saying
Pastor Mike but break it down just a
little further I got you when you put
your faith in Jesus what Christ did is
save you from the penalty of sin and
what you deserved
he took and now every day through the
power of the Holy Spirit you were being
saved from the power of sin and one day
when we get our glorified bodies and
were in heaven with him we will be saved
from the presence of sin cuz in heaven
there will be no more sin if you get
this it changes everything so so at the
moment in my present when I say father
God I believe you lived and you died
just for me I believe that that you have
risen with all power and that you can
overcome the sin and hurt in my life God
does not just say okay from here on I
got you I don’t know if you’ve ever had
a contract or somebody to pay you money
but but if you were doing a service for
a longer time than they were paying you
sometimes what they’ll do is they’ll
backdate your payment and they’ll say we
just came into contract right now but
I’m gonna back date and I’m gonna pay
you since you’ve been doing the service
I’m gonna pay you back what God does
this is the only concept I can help us
think is whenever you enter into
salvation at 15 at 23 at 43 at 93 God
says from wherever you are when you put
your faith in me I’m a backdate and I’ma
pay for your sins from the first one you
did to the ones you’re doing right now
and guess what
I’m better than you so imma do the ones
you gonna do too now some of y’all who
act like hell should be praising God
right there because this is good news
that we don’t get saved to the big
didn’t begin earning and paying for
everything we already did and this is
what keeps most of the church paralyzed
is because we get we become a new
creature in Christ but we can’t forget
what we did we’re still dealing with
past hang-ups hobbies
um habits people homies all the H words
you want to put in there we’re still
dealing with those things and it makes
us feel like we haven’t changed and God
said what you gotta realize is you
haven’t changed I changed everything for
you when you put your faith in me I
backdated your salvation and I wasn’t
the God who just is and is to come I’m
the God who was so when you put your
faith in me I wash your sins not the
ones you’re doing now and the ones
you’re gonna commit but I go back and
that molestation that happened and that
hurt that happened and that
unforgiveness that happen and those
pains and those people you hurt and the
things you said I wash all of it see and
I can tell by the clap you still don’t
believe cousin innate in us when we
receive a good gift we feel obligated to
pay the person back come on y’all know
if somebody want them to you right now
and gave you a car the first thing you’d
be like is what’s the catch what do you
want me to do and after you accepted you
like well let me know if you need
anything if you ever need anything if
you ever need anything two o’clock in
the morning three o’clock in the morning
four o’clock you don’t really mean that
but you feel that you’re in debt to that
person and that’s how people serve God
in death and he said how can you be in
debt to something I did for free unless
you put yourself in it
and that’s what we do we get saved but
I’m still not worthy how could God ever
use somebody like me why would God why
not why wouldn’t he
the Bible tells us yeah you got object
up pass and a messed up present but
God’s looking at your future he doesn’t
see you through your situation he sees
you through what he created you to be
and so what God says is he says you know
what yeah I like doing this I was like
taking jacked up things and making them
beautiful I like doing this he says it
like this I use the foolish things you
to confound the wise
I’ll take somebody who didn’t go to
seminary who doesn’t dress in a suit who
had a felony case five years ago and
I’ll raise him up to be a voice to the
nation cuz I like taking foolish things
yeah you’re in the picked it but I did
cuz I am what I’m trying to tell you is
that how you look at you it’s not how
God looks at you and if you could ever
get a visual image of how God at
Salvation watches you not from this
point to that point but for your hope
it’s an eternal salvation and that’s why
you can stand and say I am saved uh
let’s go to English class in English
classes we learned about suffixes okay
and Edie is a suffix that that explains
usually put on a verb that explains that
this was done in the past tense so I can
say I’m I will climb the mountain I
haven’t done it yet that that talks
about that I will I will or I want to do
that but if I tell you I’ve climbed the
mountain you already know that it’s
already happened let me tell you some ad
words that God says about you when you
put your faith in Him he says you’re
saved but that’s not about to be saved
or in the process of saving you are
saved
with me I know it’s a little awkward but
say I am saying done and then it says
stuff like this I’m justified duh
I’m I like this one redeem see see what
you don’t realize is that God is not
calling you these things at a future
more mature politically correct correct
Christian condition I don’t know why I’m
doing this at the moment you put your
faith in Christ he calls you saved uh
just to find redeemed oh I got another
one
except he says we’re accepted into the
beloved did you don’t hear what I’m
saying to you this is this is not this
is one that doesn’t have an IDI but it’s
a past tense for given if you if you
attach this that you have been forgiven
no more sink to find
you’re gonna walk around all week
putting the IDI on everything I’m
telling you you’re gonna say how was
your day today I just I’d worked like
like yeah I’m telling you because once
you get this revelations that I am help
me sing it’s it’s a it’s it’s a work
that God did and it was all in him and
let me tell you why this is so important
because if you realize and today I’m
gonna focus more on the past tense
because I feel like that the present and
the future are important but this is
what most people are struggling with
their past past habits past hobbies past
relationships past broken promises past
and if we can understand what God has
done for us through salvation when we
put our faith in Jesus Christ when we
believe in our past it changes how we
see our present and our future let me
help you because if you understand what
God did at salvation you will have peace
in your present and have faith for your
future that’s if you understand this is
if you understand but what happens if
you don’t understand which many of us
don’t we have pressure in our present
and we have fear of the future
God what’s gonna happen I don’t know if
I’ma get this job I don’t know if
they’re gonna accept me into this school
I don’t even know I don’t even know if
I’m gonna get married I don’t even know
if don’t even know that lets me know
that you haven’t really experienced
being saved but the Bible tells us that
he’s Jehovah Jireh he’s our provider it
tells us be anxious for nothing but in
everything in prayer and supplication
make our requests know that we’re
talking to a God who has already known
the plan before you are formed in your
mother’s womb he says the birds don’t
worry about what they’re gonna eat the
lilies don’t get up in what color my
gonna put on the day what clothes him he
says
arrest them how much more for the one
that I call accepted redeemed saved
forgiven sanctified guys when you get
this you stop caring about your
circumstance because if it ain’t good it
ain’t over like like when my face isn’t
God good this is just a test that is
setting me up for a bomb testimony like
this this is just a trial that is gonna
give God glory this is just a mess
that’s gonna turn into my message but
you have to realize that that only comes
when you truly realize what Christ has
done for you
past present and future somebody with
all the faith that you have say I am
saying some of y’all are still you’re
looking at me kind of crazy so we’re
gonna keep going into this see see I
have to help you understand that when
this truth drops in your heart now
you’re not scared of him
now every work that I do is not a dead
work trying to earn my way into God’s
favor I don’t give cuz I’m scared of
something I give because I love God and
because I love him I want to obey Him
and because I obey Him there are
blessings that come tomorrow I’m no
longer and the church has done a
horrible job at this because then it
takes the leaders in the pastor’s out of
control cuz they use hail as the get in
line and get correct heart and so
thousands if not millions of people have
been controlled in denominations and in
churches and all this by men and women
who use hell as the things you do that
you do that you’re going to hell and if
people like I don’t go to hell so might
as well do that you better give are you
going to hell
you better do this so you’re going to
hell and god sitting there oh my gosh
they’re getting the wrong representation
of me that’s why he’s called
transformation Church to re freeze in
like like like I’m trying to tell you
like I had some in love with you that he
made a plan for your eternal salvation
he knew you were gonna mess up so he
sent his son that’s what we talked about
all last week is how Jesus was the
eternal sacrifice for us he became our
high priest forever we don’t need any
goats any lambs anybody sacrifice him
but we don’t need none of that cuz the
lamb that would do y’all hear the words
that they call Jesus the Lamb that was
slain like night like it’s because when
he went to the cross he paid the payment
for every sin you would ever do and the
only thing you have to do to receive
that if somebody say believe and I know
that’s hard to believe
it is like who’s that good like horse
who is nobody except God and that’s why
I’m spending this much time trying to
chisel the way that religion and your
own shame and guilt cuz I can hear some
of you saying Pastor Mike but you don’t
know what I did and you don’t know what
happened to me God did and he sent his
son for that and he didn’t send his son
so you could act like it didn’t happen
he sent his son so he can tell you yeah
it happened but I’ve washed you
that’s another IDI word wash deal deal
hear the language he’s not saying he
will do it he’s saying he’s already done
it but I can’t convince you to believe
what you haven’t received and that’s why
I’m telling you that this message of the
grace of God the unmerited unearned
undeserved favor and kindness that none
of us deserved but God gives freely when
you receive it you don’t just start
being better you give the same duh and
I’m gonna help you with another
scripture oh I just thought of another
IDI word dude it’s my favorite finish is
that right finished when he climbed up
on the cross his last oh my god
his last words just humanity was it is
finished I’m trying to tell you that God
did not come to do our hats work he came
and he died and he said it is finished
somebody give God a shout of praise in
this place thank you Father
so at 20 when I put my faith in Jesus
Christ and I believed I was saved uh and
then I got justified redeemed accepted
forgiven sanctified
all of that happen not in my works it
happened in my belief what you gotta
understand is the world wants you to
work for what God is freely giving you
they want you to prove to them you’ve
changed you better watch who your Lord
is cuz you’ll be doing edie words trying
to prove it to somebody else who can’t
change nothing in your life will prove
to me you’ve changed I don’t baby cuz
God said I’m sanctified I’m redeemed
I’m except you don’t want me but I’m
accepted I’m adopted that’s another easy
word adopted into the family I’m gonna
be finding edie words all week cuz when
you get that you stop working for what
you already have some of y’all been
working for acceptance your whole life
and when you got saved God said you’re
accepted why don’t feel worth it I feel
used of I feel ya but when I sent my son
and you put your faith in me you were
redeemed I brought you back to a greater
form than what you thought you was going
to be look at Ephesians 1:3 and I want
you to find all the past tense in this
scripture Ephesians 1:3 it says blessed
be the God and father of our Lord Jesus
Christ who has blessed us did he say
will bless us it says it’s all has
blessed us that that’s past tense he’s
blessed us with every spiritual blessing
in the heavenly places in Christ just as
he chose us is
choose us he’s already it’s past tense
so I want you to understand this that
God chose us and look it’s the biggest
past tense there ever is look what it
says before the foundations of the world
you can’t get more past tense than that
he decided to bless you to choose you
you know before the foundations of the
world let’s just before they were formed
in their mother’s womb let’s go back
before that because we like to quote
Jeremiah 29:11
but God was thinking about you before
that before he ever said ocean before he
ever said earth before he ever says
space & Kosmos you were on his mind and
when he said that he said he chose that
he was going to make you blessed when
you believe and he was going to do
something in your life that you couldn’t
undo you’ve been all gods my sum you
don’t need to walk around and just say
I’m God’s favorite like even thinking
about me for a long time he’d been on my
jock he understand what I’m saying he
wants me see you don’t even you don’t
even think like that you think he’s
after you to harm you he’s been thinking
about you before the worlds were formed
it says that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love now how
could we be holy and without blame
except through the blood of Jesus that’s
why he sent him having predestined now a
lot of people get caught up on this but
be predestined just means to have a
predetermined destiny and can I tell you
that God has a pre detest in pre-pre he
has a predestined destiny for every
person a good destiny for every person
who will receive it and I’m telling you
that’s where Jeremiah 29:11 comes in and
says I have plans for you
playing surprise for you and he because
he knows how I guess not the truth he
says not to harm you to give you a hope
and a future
like that’s what he wants for all of us
he said he has adopted us adoption as
sons by Jesus Christ to himself
according to good the good pleasure of
his will verse six to the praise of the
glory of His grace by which he made us
accepted into the Belov
will we be accepted or are we accepted
it says he already did it and that
brings another scripture to mine where
it where it just begins to talk about
how we’re not even our own that we’re
we’re gods and he’s brought us with the
price see this is this is the thing that
you have to understand that this is not
just about your past but I’ve got to
focus here because your present and your
future are impacted by you understanding
what God has done for you like like yes
in our present we need to grow as
believers in our present we need to we
need to allow God to continue to change
us from the inside out so that our
future can go to a whole nother level
and be able to be so um yeah we gotta
keep growing I’m not saying stop here
God forgive me for all my past I’m just
gonna sit here no no no we don’t stay at
that place when you realize how good
God’s been to you you want to move
forward you want to progress you want to
go to another level and that’s what I’m
saying that we have to understand what
God has done
jump down to Ephesians 1 verse 11 it
says in him also we have obtained and I
love that because have you ever seen
those infomercials where they were like
you and wait there’s more like this is
this is what if the first part wasn’t a
good enough this is the end wait there’s
more in him we also obtained will we one
day obtain or have we obtained this past
tense and inheritance we’ve obtained an
inheritance now I don’t know about you
but I would change my last name to gates
in a heartbeat
if I got an inheritance Bill Gates if I
could be a part of his inheritance maybe
Todd would be gone in a second you would
be Natalie gates okay look if you could
be engrafted into an inheritance
what you not doing and God says when you
put your faith in Jesus
you now have been given you’ve obtained
done that means you have it and
inheritance and I don’t even got time to
go into all of the things that come in
the inheritance of God but one thing
that I feel very strongly to say is that
you know that part of our inheritance as
believers when we are saved is that we
don’t have to deal with sickness and we
can be healed
oh there’s another edie word healed by
pitch we that’s not we will be by His
stripes we were healed
oh my y’all and you don’t believe it
cuz you’ll pop an aspirin before you ask
God to heal you I believe in
conventional medicine
I believe that’s God using man and all
that other stuff but I’m trying to say
if God told us that we can be healed
done and it was part of our inheritance
when he was taking those lashes he had
your cost your disease your tumor on his
my he said keep hitting me because
somebody in 2018 it’s all y’all better
hear me keep on going till somebody is
going to need to be healed
these aren’t future things these are
things he’s already done when we believe
and we experience the salvation of God
so it goes on and say we’ve received an
inheritance being predestined according
to the purpose of him who works all
things according to the counsel of his
will that we who first trusted we
trusted in Christ should be to the
praise of his glory verse 13 in him you
have also trusted he’s talking to the
church of Ephesians but he’s talking to
us see when you have trusted or put your
faith in him after you heard the word of
truth the gospel of your salvation and
whom also having believed
so are two things we have to trust and
believe it said y’all y’all experiences
after you trusted and you believed then
this is my favorite one when you do that
it says you were sealed
I think prophet Stevie Wonder said it
best that you have been signed sealed
and delivered
god I’m Yours this is what you have to
understand when you put your faith in
God you can lick it and stick it you
have been everybody say sealed that
means that unless you stop believing
nothing can take I’m gonna say some
controversial stuff right here okay so
put your religious seatbelt on but you
don’t go to hell for sin Jesus has
already paid for them you go to hell for
unbelief so what are you saying Pastor
Mike don’t stop believing I think
journey said it don’t stop believe
that’s what I came to tell you keep
messin up but don’t stop believin I know
you go to the alcohol to try to figure
out how you’re gonna find peace but if
you stay in this long enough if you keep
coming with your drunk breath if you get
in the community still smoking weed and
you don’t stop believing God said I’m
the one that does transformation you’re
the one that has information but
information won’t change transformation
power comes through it the blood of
Jesus did for every one of us and he
says your promise is the Holy Spirit so
don’t stop believe it I’m about to I’m
about to become a rockstar
why are you saying that because too many
of the church is telling people go get
straight then come back fix yourself
that what this is the hospital for
Humanity if you got any belief in you
just get around some people and don’t
stop believing yeah you still messed up
but don’t stop believe it yeah you still
got that issue that you deal with every
third Saturday at 2:00 a.m. in the
morning cuz you know the enemy works in
cycles and just when you think you good
then it just comes he’s not omnipresent
he can’t be everywhere at the same time
so he sets traps that he knows you’ll
keep walking into this ain’t part of my
message but you’ve been in 17
relationships and they’re different
phases but the same person Ricky Dillon
Trayvon like it’s a sick because he just
said cycles but what you have to realize
is even with the cycle once you put your
faith in Jesus you are save past present
and future and when you get that
revelation then everything starts chain
hold on I’m not gonna waste my time
thinking like hopefully I don’t mess up
can you go ahead and write it in your
journal you’re gonna mess up take that
take that out of your mind you’re gonna
mess up but the Bible tells us very
clearly what you have to do every time
you mess up repent and all that word
means turn like you did it this way
you knew that was a sin it costs you to
earn you tried it that way you messed up
it didn’t make sense don’t stay there
don’t wallow in it don’t oh my god and I
just got
that shows a sign of immaturity because
kids stop in town when they mess up and
get this stuff wrong an adult says okay
what do I need to do I need to assess
the situation that don’t work I need to
get up and I need to turn and that’s
what God is saying to all of us
Church just come to me repent turn but
once you put your belief in me when you
trust it when you believed you can stand
confidently in the middle of the best
days of your life and at your worst
moment and stamp Olli and say I know I
messed up right now but I am saved and I
know some of y’all this is just like cuz
it’s chiseling out your religion he said
this has been 38 years 90 years 52 years
of being judged on your works and so you
now you don’t want it for somebody else
because number one you can put in all
this hard work and they just get to walk
into this is the truth has been there
the whole time
now it’s revelation it’s revealed true
and what I’m saying is we should want
this for everybody for them to know that
if they put their faith in Jesus help me
say it they are safe okay look at this
last verse and verse 14 it says who is
the guarantee it’s talking about the
Holy Spirit is the guarantee of our
inheritance until the redemption of the
purchased or purchased possession to the
praise of the glory first Corinthians
6:20 it says it like this you were
bought with a price you you’re not even
your own you were purchased and so all
I’m saying to us is that everything God
has done he sanctified us 1st
Corinthians 11 I’ll just show it to you
in the word and such there’s literally a
passage in 1st Corinthians and it lists
all these sins
all these sinners and for the sake of
time I’m not gonna go through them but
take my word for it you’re in there okay
I promise you
it got you okay and look what it says
and it says and such were that’s past
tense some of you but you were washed
but you were sanctified but you were
justified done in the name of the Lord
Jesus and by the spirit of God you were
washed sanctified justified you are
saved I know it sounds redundant I need
you to get it so the question is what do
I do now what do I do now look at Luke
15 4 and I love how when people ask
Jesus a question he just went into
telling stories well Jesus what do you
do about this there once was a man like
I love that and this is what we’re gonna
pick up right now a story it says what
man of you having a hundred sheep if he
loses one of them does not leave the
ninety-nine in the wilderness and go
after one which is lost until he finds
it and when he’s found it he lays it on
his shoulder everybody say rejoicing and
when he comes home he calls together all
his friends and neighbors say y’all I
found my sheep Luke I found them rejoice
with me for I found the sheep which was
lost I say to you that likewise there
will be more joy in heaven over one
sinner who repents what does what hit me
turn there will be so much joy over one
sinner who turns than over ninety-nine
just persons who need no repentance
that’s the Word of God and some and when
he told this story people was looking at
him kind of like y’all looking at me so
when we need they don’t get it he just
goes into another story oh there was a
woman look at it having ten silver coins
if she loses one coin you know the
ladies need their coins and if she loses
one coin does not light a lamp sweep the
house
search carefully until she finds it and
when she has found it she calls up her
friends and her neighbors Tricia I found
my car girl rejoice with me turn up with
me
bless the Lord with me for I have found
the peace which I lost likewise I say to
you there is joy in the presence of the
angels of God over one sinner who
repents
that’s good Bible and some of y’all are
mad but this is Scripture okay so the
question is what do you do if you find
something you lost according to Luke 15
you rejoice you tell everybody you
celebrate I found what was lost and
right after this the people still don’t
understand so he goes into the parable
about the prodigal son three examples
trying to give us a picture y’all when
lost people get saved rejoice when you
find out you’re saved
rejoice turn up because God is excited
over your salvation but let me ask this
question maybe let me be a little more
specific what’s the first thing you do
when you found something that you’ve
lost you stop looking and so many people
stand in worship services looking for
the favor of God looking to know that
they’re not gonna end up in hell and
that they’re saved and a lot of people
even in this room didn’t participate in
the worship because they were looking
for something that if you’ve put your
belief in Jesus Christ you already have
who who finds what they looking for and
keeps looking girl I’m looking for my
teeth they’re in your hand I know but
I’m just still looking
and then we say little stupid sayings
like this like they’ll be it’ll be in
the last place I find them or it’ll be
in the last place I look for them duh
because that’s where you’re gonna find
stop looking for what at salvation is
already yours what do you do now you
stop looking even though you mess up you
stand in this this place lifting up holy
hands and say father God forgive me
it’s me Oh Lord like David said it like
this
father God created me a clean heart
renewing me father a right spirit I know
I messed up objectively I gave him my
neck this week at work Lord and I sent a
nasty email aunt but here I am I’m
repenting I’m here for you to be Lord of
my life and see some of y’all don’t know
about landlords or somebody who’s a lord
over but if you’ve ever had a landlord
they give you certain rules and
regulations and things abide by like
don’t paint this wall and make sure this
happens and put a faucet drip your
faucet so this won’t happen if they do
that to keep your house safe and but the
thing is that they’re responsible if
anything breaks so if anything goes
wrong if anything goes off they have to
come be responsible the thing that a lot
of us haven’t do is we haven’t believed
in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior
we have not tied the two because the
things that he tells us to do is to keep
us safe
but the other part of that is when
anything breaks in our life he’s the one
that fixes it when he becomes Lord when
something’s going wrong I say daddy
Jesus super fix-it man come get this
situation and you will get a response
but you only get that if he’s your Lord
and Savior cannot be very honest with
you a lot of us have been in here
yelling I am save for death but you’re
not because the Bible tells clearly that
it’s not being saved in our mind
it has to drop to our heart and when
something’s in your heart it changes our
actions like like I’m not saying perfect
I’m saying that you start trying to do
it a different way because you’re no
longer the lord of your life and if you
haven’t started trying to do it God’s
Way but you’re still in control and you
still make all the final decisions and
it doesn’t matter what the Bible say
this is what I believe these are my
convictions cool but when it goes wrong
you gotta fix it and this is what most
of people’s existence are is them trying
to fix their own humanity let me help
you you’ll never be able to do it nobody
has but Jesus came so that we may have
direct access to the one who can fix
everything and I want to be very clear
and I’m sober when I say this cuz this
is not my desire for anybody but I need
to be very clear if you do not believe
in the finished work of Jesus Christ and
put your faith in Him and it’s at a
heart level you’re on your way to hell
and I don’t say that because I want you
to go there I say that cuz I don’t want
you to go there I’m saying that with
every because I was on that path I was
self-righteous I was judgmental I knew
church I could play Church I could do it
but they hadn’t hid in my heart it
hadn’t made me stopped just using people
and manipulating females and doing it
mate I was still doing my own thing in
church and that means that I really
didn’t believe or how Ephesians said I
had didn’t trust members have believed
trusted oh and today I want every person
under the sound of my voice to with your
mistakes with your imperfections with
your life trials to be able to go to
sleep and wake up every morning and be
able to say with confidence no matter
what comes no matter what goes I have
put my faith in Jesus Christ and I am
help me save done can we give God some
praise right