Zion Church | Keep Going Pt. 2 | Pastor Keith Battle

will you love God with all your heart, and will you follow him even when it hurts. Oh, that's so good right there. That's so good right I love it because it doesn't ask the passive questions. It doesn't say, based on the profession of your faith, will you accept this free gift of salvation? First of all, if you're getting baptized, you've already accepted the gift of salvation. You don't get baptized to get saved. You get baptized because you are saved and you're publicly declaring what has already happened in your life. So we don't need to go backwards. We need to know now, not did you put faith in Jesus, that's the profession of your faith. Did you put faith in Jesus? Now we need to know, can Jesus put faith in you? [00:18:46] (34 seconds)  #LoveGodAllIn

but now he has been elevated to the throne. He's seated at the right hand of God. And he says, as Christians, now it is our job to make sure we don't dethrone him and put our lives on the throne, we should be bearing the cross. That's that's because as the his work on the cross was his work for us as savior, but his seat on the throne is his position in our life as lord of our life. [00:05:51] (29 seconds)  #PutChristOnThrone

How can you stay the course in a world and in a in an environment where people are walking away from Jesus? Some of them because they fell in love with the world, the lust of the world, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. Some of them because they said they got hurt at church. I'm saying if being hurt at church made you walk away from Jesus, you had your eyes on the wrong thing. [00:03:30] (21 seconds)  #EyesOnJesusNotWorld

Where did Jesus How did he handle how did he handle the cross? The first thing Jesus did when he got on the cross, he says, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. How did what? The people who are hurting when you can forgive people who have hurt you, you're walking under the cross now. He didn't just forgive them, he prayed for them. That's another level. When the last time you prayed for somebody that hurt you? [00:24:41] (27 seconds)  #ForgiveLikeJesus

Well, wish you all read the bible. I lay it down on myself. I got the power to lay it down and the power to take it back up again. And you have no power over me except what God gives you. You need to be able to say to your haters, you ain't got no you can't do nothing to me that God don't let you do. So I ain't going on live and fighting with you. I ain't rolling into the comments and trying to argue with you about I don't even know you. [00:22:42] (25 seconds)  #GodIsMyAuthority

cannot follow him. Now when he said that in Luke nine twenty three, everybody in his audience knew exactly what he meant because everybody then knew that a cross represented the death penalty. We have we have commercialized crosses now to where we put them on and they're, you know, a fashion statement. There is bling. But a cross is no different than having a electric chair hanging around your neck or a gas chamber. [00:11:34] (27 seconds)  #CrossIsSacrifice

Do you know on a cruise ship, once a cruise ship is off, it has these instruments to show it which direction to go. If it's leaving a port, if it's leaving Baltimore, if it's leaving Florida or wherever, they have instruments to show this, you gotta be on this, you gotta on this, you gotta be on this because we're going to Cancun or whatever. I don't know. This is where we're going. If that sucker goes like this, this is where we're supposed to be going and it's going like this. [00:14:20] (23 seconds)  #StayOnGodsCourse

When you when you picked up a cross in the bible, that was it. You were walking to your demise. You never returned in the state you left in. You were your life had come to an end. So they knew that it meant to lay down your life. To pick up your cross daily means every day, God, I'm rechecking in to make sure I'm under your agenda and not my own. [00:12:01] (22 seconds)  #DailyCrossCheck