Embracing Divine Expectancy and Our Spiritual Obligations

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I believe everything that happens in the Kingdom has a purpose. I believe in Divine encounters. How many believe in Divine encounters? I believe there are moments in history, church history, that are just ordained of the Lord when the glory comes down, and you can look at church calendars of three and 400 years and see where they just peaked out and entire nations melted under the power of God. [01:00:13]

We must work the works of Him who sent me as long as it is day. Night is coming when no man can work. I'm going to talk about our obligation for the next few minutes to the work of the Lord. Now there are some people in this room that don't know the Lord, and I want to tell you, friend, why you're so miserable. [01:03:19]

You were born to know the Lord. You were born to know your Creator, and as long as you spend your life outside of that relationship, you will be miserable regardless, my friend, of the money you make, of the relationships you have, of the friends that surround you. When you're alone, when you're by yourself, when you turn your head to the pillow, when you shut the door, turn out the light, you're by yourself. [01:04:32]

We are under obligation, friends, first of all, to our Savior Jesus Christ. You better get your priorities right, friend. People ask me all the time how I can keep working the way I work. I don't work for my salvation. That's received. I've received it. I love it. I thank God for it, but I work because I love Him. [01:07:35]

I want to please the Lord. My number one obligation is to My Savior Jesus Christ, and I want to tell you the last thing He said to us before He departed this Earth. He was looking at His disciples. He's looking at everyone in this room. I want you to imagine Jesus pointing His finger in your face and saying this. [01:09:04]

Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel. That's what you do. You understand me, Peter? That's what you do, John. You understand me? By the way, Peter, you're going to die for this cause. They're going to lead you away, Peter. You know, Mark Twain once said, he said, it's not the scriptures that I don't understand in the word that bother me. [01:11:29]

Obligation to my neighbor. I'm talking about the obligation to the work of the Lord. The first one is your obligation to your Savior Jesus Christ for saving you, and then our obligation to our neighbor. Does anyone feel that? Do you feel the burden of the world? Do you feel the pain of the world in these meetings? [01:15:06]

I will stand before the Lord, and I want to love my neighbor, and I want to hear it from Jesus. You loved them as yourself, Steve. You are just as concerned about them as you were your own family, Steve. You took care. I was reading in John Lake's book, a book that your pastor gave me. [01:16:59]

I believe there are crowns. I believe there is a reward. I believe there's coming a day where I will stand before the Lord, and one of the reasons I work so hard is because I'm going to have to face that moment in time. I may be standing in line with a host, I don't know, or it may flash just in an instant, but I will be there. [01:22:12]

I want to see the most precious diamonds and rubies and emeralds and sapphires. I want to see platinum and gold and silver. I want to see the most beautiful crown that was ever created pass into the last Angel's hands and then into the Lord's. Stay with me, friends. I don't want a cardboard Crown. [01:25:57]

Our obligation in the work of the Lord is to Jesus primarily just to bless the Lord. I want Him to look upon us, look upon you in these meetings, look upon you in the days to come, and just be pleased that you're doing His work, and then to your neighbor because you got a genuine burden. [01:30:25]

I want you to experience the power of the Lord just like some of you already doing. You brought me your friends already tonight with joy on your face, man, that here they are. I told you I was going to bring them, and here they are. Could you imagine if everybody took an effort like that, what could happen? [01:31:58]

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