Living In The Plains - Pastor Greg Jones

It's not about what I think and it's not about my ideals. It's already written in the word. You're not gonna tempt the lord thy god. Can't tempt god. We should never try to tempt god. I've seen people try to tempt god. Amen. We can't be doing that. We gotta we gotta know that it's written. Amen. We gotta realize that every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god is what feeds us. Amen. Every word, not just one or two and the good, the bad ones we don't like. Every word is for us. I gotta make sure that I'm overcoming. [00:27:27] (55 seconds)  #WordIsAuthority

Because temptation is just that but it's when you act on that temptation. We discussed this couple weeks ago. He had a friend that was arguing with him about temptation is a sin. No, it's not. It's what you do with the temptation. That can become the sin. But if you do things right with the temptation, you use the word and get it out of your life. That's why Paul, I know this going turn into a Bible study but it's good anyhow. That's why the apostle Paul made the statement. He said, he said, we are washed, not washed. We're washed by the word. It washes us. It cleanses us. [00:31:21] (45 seconds)  #WashedByTheWord

The plains represent good fertile ground for planting and harvesting great crops. God made it that way. Amen. And I've had people tell me, brother Jones, you're in a burnt over field in Stroud. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. I've had people say, you'll never build a church there. Burn over. Nothing will ever grow there. That's not what god said. Matter of fact, sometimes burning helps the ground Matter of fact, you can drive in any direction from this town and see where little fires were. And guess what's greenest right now? Is those burnt places. They're really green. [00:35:24] (67 seconds)  #BurnedToBloom

I've seen a lot of miracles happen in our church but what I want to preach about right now is that he is not done. There's another alcoholic going to walk in. Whoo. Gonna walk through those doors one day and god's going to sober him up and fill him with the holy ghost. Amen. By the lord's help, I won two of the biggest druggies in Stroud. One sitting back there on the back row. Another one's in church in Bristol this morning. Amen. There's another one in town somewhere. I don't know who they are but god's going to help us and we're going to win them. [00:52:22] (49 seconds)  #WinningTheLost

This happened in every one of them. There was a temptation that preceded the blessings. A temptation. Bible declares every man is tempted. Every man. And that included Jesus. Everybody is tempted in your life. And as lord really begin to deal with me about this because one of the temptations of today is to is is is to compromise. It's a huge temptation in the church to compromise the the doctrines and the truths of the word of god. We can't compromise anything. Amen. [00:19:30] (53 seconds)  #StandAgainstCompromise

By this word I gotta make sure that that word destroys every temptation in my life. This word takes care of all the all the things in my life that hinder me and mess with me. This word, this word is what it's all about. Amen. Everybody's tempted but we gotta we gotta put our nose in this. And not only our nose, we gotta put our brain in this. Not only our brain, we gotta put our heart in that and we gotta make sure just like David, thy word have I hid in my heart. Why? That I might not sin against thee. Whoo. [00:30:25] (55 seconds)  #WordInMyHeart

God didn't place us in a burnover field He wants us to look past the junk and look unto the fields and man, did god slam me about He said, I placed you in a field but I want you to look at the fields fields and they really got on to me. He said, quit looking at the mountains While the plane is a place of food and harvest the blessings of god, the commerce of god, the everything about god was done in the plains. [00:36:32] (46 seconds)  #FieldsNotMountains

God told me that long time ago, what about 20%? What if I want more than 10? Sitting there weeping at my desk just. God said, you're going to see your vision happen. I've always thought. It's it's always been my thought that I might see half of that. I want to give it to him but always figured whoever the next pastor is would be the one that causes church to blow up and grow. It's always been my thought and god said, told me yesterday, quit thinking that way. Quit thinking that. You're living in the plains. Look on the fields. They're ripe. They're ready to harvest. There's people begging us to invite them to church. People begging us I will see this church full. [00:45:41] (70 seconds)  #ChurchReadyToHarvest