Equality With The Father John 5

``When you open up your bible, and I pray and I hope that you do it often, I pray that as you have the pages before you, that first before you even read one word, one sentence that you go to god and ask his spirit to open up your eyes to his truth to teach you. Lord, mold me and shape me by your word that I might be more like Jesus. Open up the mysteries of heaven to me, oh lord, and let me not insert into this word what I want it to say, but teach me, oh lord, what you have said in it. [01:07:30] (36 seconds)  #OpenBiblePrayer

You see, Jehovah God did something that's inconceivable that I have no concept of how I could ever done it. We get a glimpse of it in the story of Abraham and Isaac, but it's inconceivable what he did, that his only son that he brought to this earth to show us the way to heaven, that he allowed him to take on the heavy load of all the sins of mankind. He allowed him to to be tortured and beaten brutally for us. [01:18:59] (41 seconds)  #ChristPaidItAll

So I ask you this morning, do you believe? Have you trusted the lord Jesus Christ for your lord and savior? Do you really believe? Have you allowed the spirit of God to mold you and transform you and to actually say, yeah, I'm born again? I'm not the same man I used to be. I'm not the man I wanna be, but god is doing a work in me because I'm going to him every day, trusting in him to help me grow and mature as a Christian. Have you placed your eternity in the hands of god and the love of of Jesus Christ. For again, eternity is a long, long time. Amen? [01:21:34] (52 seconds)  #TrustInJesus

It's like the potters. Working on the potter's wheel, they got the clay and it's spinning around and they're molding it. And the pieces of clay they didn't want there, it's flying off there until they molded something they want it to look like. We don't wanna be like that evil king Jehoiachim of the Old Testament we read about. In the book of Jeremiah, this guy was a bad dude. In verse chapter 36, there's a time where this guy had the he got to read the the word of god to him, this guy named Yehudi. And here's Yehudi, and he's listening to the word of god, and Yehudi is reading the word of god. Jehoiakim takes out his knife, I don't like that, and tosses in the fire. Jehoiakim reads a little bit more. Nope. Don't like that either. Takes that off, throws that into the fire. Verse after verse, no. I don't think that's gonna work for me either. Throws it into the fire. [01:05:23] (61 seconds)  #NoCherryPicking

And then there's something called spiritual death that happened in the Garden of Eden as well. It speaks of the status of every human being. Our spiritual status before we come to faith in Jesus Christ that we were dead men walking. Until Jesus takes those holy spirit, defibrillator paddles and gets us unclogged from all the sin when we bow the knee before him and put our faith into him, and then our spirits are born again. But until then, that's spiritual death. [01:16:22] (36 seconds)  #BornAgainLife

And how we need to get hold of that truth. I cannot be a Christian. I don't have enough good in me. I cannot open up this bible and solve the read all the imperatives and all the things that God would ask me to do and of my own strength. I don't think any of you can do. You can do it a little bit. You can give money to the poor and seem really nice to the homeless or do something nice. But to be truly to truly to truly walk in the spirit, we need to be filled with the spirit and every single day to call upon him. Every single day to rely on the holy spirit to guide us and to fill us. [00:56:38] (52 seconds)  #DailyHolySpirit

And people do that today. We do it in a really subtle way sometimes. Well, I'm not comfortable with revelation. Well, I'm not comfortable with what Ezekiel said. Well, I don't like that verse there where it talks about marriage. I don't like this and that. And sadly, we have whole denominations that are doing that today. That's a horrible way to approach scripture because it is if it's it really has to be God's word or it's not God's word. If you cannot trust the for the right inspiration of God in the books of Ezekiel, How can you trust it where Jesus said, for god so loved the world? Maybe god didn't love the world if you cannot trust god's scripture. When we approach the word of god, we have to come before humbly and teachable. You have to be teachable or you will never become a mature Christian. [01:06:25] (65 seconds)  #TrustAllScripture

And Jesus is proclaiming. He's asserting. He's insisting that we take hold of the fact that the only way to escape that judgment is in believing in him. The assertion that the hour is coming and now is points to a specific time in god's plan later on when all who will hear the voice of god. And you read about it in the books of Thessalonians, and we won't get into it now. But it reflects not only the future event, but a present reality reminding us that Jesus is actively seeking those who would come to him that he might give them life to those who are spiritually dead. [01:17:31] (46 seconds)  #JesusGivesLife