Are You Being Prepared?

The recently fact was that the GC at the General Conference of Elvis says, if one is not teachable, one is not truly converted. And it made me think. It really made me think, because that's an interesting statement. And when we think about the Beatitudes, you know, in Matthew 5, it talks about being humble and mourn that's being repentant and being meep, which is being teachable.

And then it's progressive from there. You seek God's righteousness and all the way after being a peacemaker. So it does. It is an interesting concept. I want you to turn with me to Jeremiah 18, please. Jeremiah 18. Jeremiah 18. We're going to start in verse 1. Jeremiah 18 verse 1. And this section is, you're probably familiar with it, because it's a section about God is the Master Potter and we are the clay. And you probably read, so I don't have to read the whole story to you. But it's basically saying, God is the Master Potter and this nation, these people, are just continuously doing evil.

They're not being malleable, teachable to God's instructions. And then it says, yeah, in, for instance, in verse 10, if it does evil in my sight so that it does not obey my voice, then I will relent concerning the good, which I said I would benefit it. In other words, if they don't repent and if they continue doing evil, in other words, if they're not malleable and teaching and change, I will stop blessing them. And I think you can see our country as well, you know, it's not repenting.

And God is going to say, well, I'm going to have to stop blessing you. He says, now therefore, verse 11, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in other words, to mankind, to people, saying, thus says the Lord, Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. God is saying, all right, you're not repentant. Therefore, I'm planning to bring you into a situation that is going to be a difficult situation, which he calls it a disaster and a plan against you.

But I don't want to do that. So he says, return now everyone from his evil way and make your wise and you're doing good. In other words, change, be teachable, be malleable, be malleable, because I don't want to punish you. But if you don't repent, like a father or a parent to a child, which is disobedient, you will have to bring some discipline to put the child in the right place.

You see this wall today, people are, they resist correction. You will see it everywhere. The wall is like this and unfortunately affects the church. There are people in the church that are not changing, not being malleable. But we have a work to do. Look at the last book of the Old Testament in Malachi chapter 4. Write the last verses in Malachi chapter 4 verse 5 and 6. It says, Malachi chapter 4 verse 5 and 6 says, Behold, I'll send you Elijah the prophet. God is saying, He's going to send to us a work, Elijah the prophet work, before the great and grateful day of the Lord, before the punishment on earth comes.

And He will turn the horse of the fathers to the children, the horse of the children to their fathers. This work is going to be one that is going to make an effort to bring families together. And we can see that's one of the things we've been trying to do in the church. And it says, Lest I come and strike to earth with a curse, with judgment, with punishment. The Elijah type work is being done today, brethren. Is being done today.

And you and I have a responsibility and a job and a mission to help in that work. The thing is, the work will be done, because it's God's work and it will be done. The question is, are we preparing ourselves to do it and to be involved in it by doing it more and more?

Are we going to do it? Or are we going to look at ourselves and say, I didn't do it. I should have done it. Shame on us if we don't do our personal responsibility that God's given us. The church has a great mission. You and I know, Matthew 24, 14, and the Gospel of the King will be preached unto all world as a witness and in the end we'll come. We'll be preached unto the whole world as a witness and then the end will come.

Brethren, before the First World War, before the Second World War, this work was not done. But now the work is being done. The Gospel is being preached to the world as a witness. So that means when this Third World War will come, that's it. That is it. This is the end. But the question is, what's our role? Are we all to be preachers? Are we all to be mouths, mouthpieces? Well, now the body has got many pieces.

It's got hands, fingers, nails, ears. They all support the work of the body, but we all have a role to help in the body. So what is our role? What is our individual role? Then we look at Matthew 28, 18 and 19. Christ says, All authority and power has been given to me. All power is given to me. But He says, Go out and make disciples. So the work has to preach the Gospels as a witness. Those that reply and respond, our responsibility is to help them to become followers of Christ. So we all have a responsibility.

And one of the responsibilities in there is ourselves to be a disciple. It's not just making others. The church, the body is making disciples. Our job is, am I individually being molded to be a disciple? Am I indeed being a disciple?

So what is our individual role? Now you look for instance at the sermon on a mount. And the sermon on a mount in verses 14 and 15 says, Be you a light. And if you put how light you, put it on top of a hill and you can't hide it. You can't hide it in a bushel. Now, you and I ought to be a light. Now a light does not make a lot of noise.

As I've mentioned before, if this lamp started to make a noise, I'm going to take it off and put another one in there. And so you and I ought to be an example. We ought to be a light as a disciple, as how we follow Christ. And so that others may look at the light and be motivated. And as such, while we do that, we support the work. We put the shoulders, our shoulders behind the wheel and help the work to be done.

And yes, we got to... how do we do a work? Through an organization. And we got to support the organization to do the work. But brethren, the soul process involves us being malleable, teachable, working with God, so we can grow. But there is an enemy. There is an enemy. And you know, there is an enemy that is continuously trying to trip us. Which you and I know, it's Satan. And he wants us to just get distracted, just to go in the wrong direction, just to go and be confused. He will just try and deceive us in whatever way. You know, divide and conquer. I usually say divide, conquer and then eliminate.

And you know, either divide and conquer and then start target shooting and wiping those out, those few ones that are there. And that's been his tactic. I mean, you look at it. What is the first lie? Deception is nothing else but lying, right? What is the first lie? What is the first sin?

Well, look with me in Genesis chapter 3. Genesis chapter 3. We know very well what was the first sin. Look at in verse, Genesis 3 verse 3.

Genesis 3 verse 3 says, But of the fruit of the tree, which is in the middle of the garden, God said, You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.

Even you very well were not to touch it or not to eat it, lest you die. It doesn't say die immediately. It's not zap, boom, gone, but there'll be a time that you will die.

But look at Satan's subtleness. He says, The serpent said to the woman, What? You shall not die.

That is the first lie. That's the first deception. You will not die.

And then he continues, For God knows that in the day that you eat over it, your eyes will be open, and it will be like God, knowing good and evil.

And then he starts distorting the understanding about who God is.

Because is God just knowledge? Is God just being super intelligent, knowing all the things, having all the knowledge?

Sure, God knows everything.

But God is love.

You see, so Yah is a subtlety, ever so subtle about understanding who God is, because God is love. That's why it says, grow in grace and knowledge. Not just in knowledge, but in the grace, graciousness of how you apply that.

So that's how what it does. It creates deception.

What is the basic tenet of practically, I'm not saying all, because there's bound to be some that does not have that, but practically every religion in the world today. What is the basic tenet?

Immortality of the soul.

Which means, thou shalt not die. Practically every religion out there, not even just Christians, but even other religions, have this concept of the immortality of the soul.

But you and I know, the soul that sins, it shall die. The wages of sin is death.

It doesn't say the wages of sin is in mortal life, in hell.

It doesn't say that. The wages of sin is death.

And so, Satan has created this whole concept of distorted understanding of the truth and of God, such as the Trinity.

It's a distorted understanding of who God is.

And in fact, one of the big things in the world today is what?

Evolution. Isn't it? Evolution. Basically, what evolution is saying? Well, things just evolved, it was not created. So it's denying the Creator.

Or some people say, yes, but there was creation, but it's an evolving creation. So they have different twists to it.

I would say, it takes more faith to believe in evolution than to believe in a Creator.

It really does. So, people then get confused. And people start asking questions. Why? Why? Why this? Why that? Why the other? The world is full of questions. Why? Because people are confused. Because Satan has confused us. Confused us about...

Are we going to die or not die? Or do we have an immortal soul? Who is God? Does God exist? Is evolution not evolution? And so, there are certain basic questions that we need to know. Why am I here?

We've got a booklet, a study guide, that says, Why are we born? It is important for us to understand that God has predestined us. Yes, God has predestined us to be His children.

But it's up to us to make a choice to go that path or not. But He has predestined us for that reason.

And it's also important for us to understand who is God. Is He a closed entity or is He creating a family?

That is important for us to understand. And if that is the case, what is the purpose? What is the plan? How does that work out?

And so, Satan does everything to destroy that plan. For instance, all you need to do is believe in Christ. And you will be saved. Or just give your heart to the Lord. And you are saved.

Brethren, we do have to give our heart to God. But we have to change. We have to repent.

We have to be malleable and teachable and be converted.

And so, people get confused with all these things. Like for instance, well, God is one. Therefore, Christ is a force.

I have heard that. I have heard that. Christ is idolatry. I have heard that.

Because people don't understand what you mean by one. You know, in Genesis, while we are in Genesis chapter 2 verse 24, it says, Genesis 2 verse 24, it says, And therefore man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

So, when I got married to my wife, we ceased to be two different human beings. We just won.

No. We're still two human beings, but we're supposed to be one.

So, what do you mean one? One flesh. Because we are to be working together as husband and wife, as one in the spirit of unity.

You know, you read in John 10 verse 30, My father and I are one. John 10 30, Christ said, My father and I are one.

God the Father and Jesus Christ are one. Does it mean that only one person? No. But they are one.

And then we read about the church. We read that the church has many members, but we're supposed to be one body.

Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 2 Corinthians chapter 12. It's talking about the body, comparing it to the church, which is the body of Christ.

And then in chapter 12 verse 12, it says, For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body. So you and I are all individual people, but we make up one body, spiritually speaking, the body of Christ.

It does not mean that you and I cease to be people, individuals, that now we become just one blob.

No, we're individuals, but we're still one. So this concept of being one can have a meaning besides one person. You see, so for this continue on verse 13, for by one Spirit, that's by God's Spirit, we are all baptized into one body.

We're baptized into the body of Christ, into the spiritual body of Christ, which is the church of God.

So whether you are whatever nationality, Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, we all have been made to drink into that one Spirit, to be of that one body. Look at verse 15, then it continues. If the foot should say, because I'm not a hand, I'm not of the body, or if the year 16 says, because I'm not an eye, I'm not of the body, and verse 17, if the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing?

And if the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But we all, you and I, we all have a function in the body, which is the church of God, that we need to support.

Because if my body, if my hand, if I burn my hand in oil, in olive oil, and it's burning, I probably can't be speaking too well while my hand is burning.

If I am injured and I stop my little toe, my little toe, my little insignificant little toe, but it is significant.

When that is so, I can't speak properly. We all support the body. We all have a function to support the body.

Verse 18, But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he pleased. God decided to put you exactly where you and I are. That's his choice. He's the master potter with the clay. He decides with the clay to make a vase, or with the clay to make a plate. But he decides what to make. He's the potter. That's his decision.

Look at the continue there in verse 25.

We all add different parts, and we all need to, so that there should be no schism in the body.

But that the members should have the same care for one another.

If my little toe has been stopped, I am going to care for it. My whole body is going to focus on that toe to look after it. If my hand is burnt in olive oil and it's hot, I'm going to do things. I'm going to put ice. I'm going to do whatever it is. But my whole body is going to focus on that.

So, if you and I as individual members are sick and we're draining from the energy of the body, the body might not be able to do the work that is destined to do it. We all have to do our part. We all have to do our part, so there will be no division.

And look at it in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 4 and 5. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 4 and 5.

I'm talking to the church, yeah? In Ephesians chapter 4 verse 4 and 5, it says, There is one body and one Spirit which is recalled into one hope and one calling, one Lord, one fife, one baptism. One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and you all.

So, we all are one in one body. That is the great truth. We are one. And you and I as one have a responsibility to do a work of God.

Just like Christ had a responsibility to do the work of God.

But you know, how do you hinder somebody from doing work?

One of the ways is by creating doubts. Oh, I'm nobody. I don't count. I don't value. I know my part, my job is not important. No, I'm not.

Brethren, you are destined to be a son of God, a daughter of God. No doubt. God wants you there. He's going to do everything to be there. He doesn't want you to fail. He wants you to succeed. He wants you to be there.

And how is he making it possible? He's making it possible through this birth process. You know, a begettle and birth process that we can be children of God. This begettle and birth process is an amazing process. Think about it.

Through the begettle and birth process, you and I were born, and we matured till we were born. Through the begettle, we were born, and we continue growing and maturing.

But it's easy to create doubts. Easy to create doubts. You think about it. You think about it. How did Satan first challenge Christ after his baptism? You remember? He was baptized. John the Baptist came out there, baptized him. And there was a voice that says, This is my son I'm well pleased with him. Remember that? This is my beloved son I'm well pleased with him. Right. So now you turn the next chapter. And by the Spirit, he was taken for 40 days and 40 nights to be fasting. And then Satan came and tempted him. What was the first question Satan asked? If you are the son of God.

And then turn this into bread or whatever. And then it was the next one and says, If you are the son of God, he's questioning the very plan of God of us to be children of God.

It's amazing. It's amazing.

You know, Christ was the first begotten. The first begotten. We're reading in John 1 verse 18. It was the first begotten. What does it mean? It was the first that was begotten that way. Because you and I were begotten as human children through our physical dead.

But Christ was begotten through the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb. So it was the only begotten that way. Yes, the only begotten. But he was the first born after that from the dead. What do you mean? That he went into this process and through that he had to die.

And through that he had to resurrect. And he was the first born from the dead. And you and I had to follow him. So this begetal and birth process, begetal, birth process and dying and then being resurrected, which represents the whole growth process, is a promise from God to us.

God planned this from the beginning to bring many sons and daughters into his kingdom. God planned from the beginning. So this birth process requires what? Requires growth. I mean, when the baby is begotten in the mother's womb, there's a growth process over a time period, till it matures enough as a baby to be born. We ourselves, when we receive God's Holy Spirit through the incorruptible seed, which is God's Holy Spirit, as it says in Peter, when we first did it, when we received the seed from the incorruptible seed, we are now really sons of God, because we are begotten again, now, a second time, by the Father. Now we've got to grow and mature.

And then, just like the seed that is going to go in the ground, and then come back and resurrect it, like Christ had to be resurrected, we become children of God. And that's why Christ told us, follow me. Christ told us, follow me. I am the way. I am the life. We have to follow him. Look at John 12. He says, follow me. Let's turn to John 12, verse 23 through 26.

John 12. John 12. 23 through 26. He says, But Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most surely I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls in the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces more grain. He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Brethren, we have to follow him, to follow his example, and to be prepared to live like he did. If anyone serves me, says verse 26, Let him follow me, and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, him my father will honor.

We're going to follow Christ. So this process of growth, this begettle and birth process, requires growth, growth to maturity. Like parents, educating children. So, growth requires sometimes to do a wrong thing. Yeah? Like our children sometimes do a wrong thing. And what is required from the parents? Forgiveness and mercy and guidance for them to do the right thing. So, yeah, we have a situation that we gotta be like Christ.

We gotta learn, we gotta be molded, we gotta be teachable, we gotta be changing our ways. We gotta be servants like Christ was. Look at John 13. That's the end of the foot washing ceremony. Look at verse 15 says, For I've given you example that you should do as I've done. Quite often we think, oh well, this is obviously talking about the foot washing, and we gotta do foot washing like he did. But he was talking not just about the foot washing. He was talking about a whole attitude and way of life that he's done of service to us.

That we are to do the same thing. You're reading Philippians 2. It says, Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus, who being in a form of God, did not think it usurping or denying or taking it from God, but he humbled himself and became in a form of man. He emptied himself of being equal to God and he became a human being. That is the mind that we have. That's why Christ says that you should do as I've done to you.

What has he done for us? He was prepared to empty himself of all his glory, of all his of mankind, of people looking to him as being the one through whom the Father created everything. He took that out and came to us as somebody that people did not know who he was. I'll give you the example, like I said. It's like being a general or a man from a police officer.

You could walk down the street with all these credentials that says, I'm this person, but what he comes? He comes as a civilian. He takes all those credentials out, all that glory out, and he comes just as a plain, plain John the citizen. So nobody knows who he is. That's what Christ did. He emptied himself of his glory, came as a civilian, as a human being, and he died for us. Because if had it come with all his glory, they wouldn't have killed him. But he had to empty himself so that nobody knew who he was, so they killed him. And because of that, and because he kept quiet, he didn't say who he was, because had he spoken, they would have not killed him.

Because of that, he opened the way of salvation for us. And he says, yeah, that he should do as I've done to you. An attitude of humility, an attitude of service, an attitude of love and of concern for one another. That's what we need to do. Is it? No. Nobody said it's easy. He says the road is narrow, the gate is straight. And say it's easy. Many will not follow it, few will follow it. But it's the way we gotta go. The way we gotta go. Look at verse 16.

And look at verse 34, then he says, and you come on when I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you. You see, it's not all just in the mind. Yes, it is a battle of the mind, but it's not all just in the mind. It's in the heart too. Because, he says, that to love one another, when you're accused unjustly, you don't eat back. Is that easy? No. But that's what it is. To love one another as I have loved you, that you may also love one another. And it's a higher standard than the commandment, or each of the commandment that says, love others as you love yourself. Because some people may love themselves very little. They love themselves so little, they even commit suicide. But we have to love much more than we love ourselves. We have to love like Christ loved us. So that's what it is. So then, a little bit further, in John 14, verse 6 says, Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. That's it! There's no other way. There's no other way. So you and I have to follow Christ. We have to be disciples of Christ. Look at verse 10 of John 14. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? That does not mean they won being, but they won. The words that I speak to you, I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father dwells in me, there's the words. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me, just like Christ needs to be in us. We've got to live in us, or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves. We've got to be like children. We must follow. We must be able to be taught. We must be teachable. We must be converted. And following Him means we've got to be teachable and converted. So the human process of birth and begettle and growth, it's an amazing process that can teach us as many lessons. Indeed, you and I were born through this physical process, but through this physical process there's a wonderful analogy of how you and I will be born into the family of God. You know, we talked as God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son of God.

But you know, that was a relationship with that title, Father and Son, that only happened when God begot Christ. Because before that, there were co-eternal, co-equal of the same essence, but one was not the Father and the other one was not the Son. Only when the Father begot Christ the Thee become the Father and Christ became the Son. Look at Psalm 2 verse 7. Psalm 2 verse 7. Psalm 2 verse 7. I will declare the decree, The Lord has said to me, You are my Son, today I have begotten you.

Today I have begotten you. So there was a day in which the Father begot the Son. You read the same thing in Hebrews. Turn with me to Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 1, I think it is. Let's just go there.

Hebrews chapter 1. Hebrews chapter 1 and says, look in verse 5, starting in verse 5. For to each of the angels did he ever say, You are my Son, today I have begotten you.

And I will be to him a Father. So there was a day in which he wasn't yet a Father, but he will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son. But when he again brings the firstborn into the world, he says, Let all the angels of God worship him, and of the angels he says, who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire. But to the Son, that's the Father speaking to the Son, he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness, the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Therefore, God, that's Jesus Christ, your God, that's the Father, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions.

And in verse 10, You, Lord, that's Jesus Christ, in the beginning lay the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands, of Christ. And they will perish, but you will remain, and they will all grow old like a garment, like a cloak. You will fold them up, and they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will not fail.

You see, so God the Father begot the Son. Before, one was God and the other one was the Word. And then it was a time when the Father begot the Son. And then they changed the relationship, not just as being two co-equals, one in higher authority than the other, and co-eternal, but now one became the Father and the other the Son. Why? To open the way for us to follow Christ, so that we could be part of that same family, of that same kingdom of God. We are to be part of the same kingdom of God. Quite often, you and I think the kingdom of God is as a government, and that's correct. That's incorrect, and the government ruling on earth. But the kingdom of God is a ruling family. It's a ruling family. Just like the British royal kingdom, it's a royal family, a ruling family. So you and I are to be of that ruling family, of that glory, of that family. Not we all in the same authority, but of that royal family, the family of God. So, Christ was the firstborn as a son of God by the resurrection from the dead. He was the firstborn as the son of God, which means before that he wasn't. Look at in Colossians chapter 1 verse 18. Colossians chapter 1 verse 18. He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. He was the firstborn from the dead.

Look at Revelation 1 verse 5. Revelation 1 verse 5. Revelation 1 verse 5. And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead. Christ was the firstborn from the dead. Look at Romans 1. Romans 1 chapter 1 verse 1 through 4. Romans 1. Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God, which he promised before through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures. This gospel is that what? That we are going to be of the family of God, concerning his son Jesus Christ, our Lord, who was born of the seed of David. So this begettle process that he was born of the seed of David, according to the flesh, and declared to be the son of God with power, according to the spirit of allliness, by the resurrection from the dead. He was declared to be the son of God. So yes, in Old Testament there are references pointing to one like the son of God, but it was prophetically looking to a time in the future that will be the son of God. But it was pointing to a relationship that was prophetic, still to happen. And therefore, look in Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8 verse 17. A wonderful, such an encouraging scripture. Romans chapter 8 verse 17 says, if children, well, look at verse 17, the spirit itself is witness of our spirit. It was God's only spirit, but it's witness of our spirit, the spirit of man in man. There we are the children of God. Why? Because we receive that spirit, that is the incorruptible seed. And it begot together with our spirit. And if children then, hears, hears of God. We are ears of God. We are ears of God. Read what it says. That's what it is. We are to inherit the kingdom of God, that family of God, that family name. We are to be of that kingdom and joint hairs of Christ. If such a small little word in English. If we suffer. If we grow. If we go through our difficulties and our challenges and our maturing process as growing children through this birthing process, just like a little embryo in a mother's womb has got to grow, for we in our growth as children grow to maturity. And what is it? It happens. We got to grow. We got to learn through our trials. We got to learn through our difficulties. We make mistakes. God forgives us. Provided we walk in the light. Provided we walk in the light.

But all along, we learning, we being teachable, we being moulded by the master potter to become who He wants us to be in His body. Yes, some will be a ear, some will be a toe, some will be a thong. But we're all part of supporting the body. That's why we got to grow. And that's why in 1 Peter 1, verse 16, it says, turn with me to 1 Peter 1, verse 16. 1 Peter 1, verse 16. Because it's written, Be holy, for I am holy.

Are we holy? No, we're far from it. But it's a maturing process. It's a growing process. It's becoming better and better. Well, when it comes to the end, the end, we die, come back with a new body, and then God will make up the difference. But then we've learned to decide and to want to do the right thing. And look at verse 17, if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay in fear. So while we live on this physical body, we're going to conduct ourselves fear, knowing that you are not redeemed of corruptible things like silver, gold, or any aimless conduct received by tradition from the Fathers. So you and I are not brought back. Our life is not brought back from the dead by some tradition or by ritual of sacrifices. We're not brought back by having a lot of money.

But, verse 19, with the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot. For he indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, the Word, and God the Father, the God the Highest, the Word, and Amad agreed this plan right from the foundation of the world.

But this was only revealed, made manifest, in these lost times for you, when God begot him as a son and made this process possible. Who through him believed in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. He gave him glory so that you and I can be part of the same glory.

Since you have been purified, you have purified your souls, you know, by the truth, through the Spirit in sincere love of brethren. Love one another fervently with a pure heart.

Having been begotten again, as it should be, not of corruptible seed, not of a human seed from our human father, but through God's Word, God's Word, God said that this would happen.

And it has happened, which obviously is through the incorruptible seed, but incorruptible, which is God's Holy Spirit, through the Word of God, because God said he would give us the Spirit, and his promise is faithful, he's done it, which lives and abides forever.

Therefore, all flesh is grass, and all the glory of man is the flower of the grass, the grass withers and his flower of faith falls away, but the war of the eternal endures forever. Now, this is the word by which the gospel was preached to you, which is the word that you and I are going to be children of God.

So, we have to grow. We must not be deceived. Are we preparing ourselves? Are we working on ourselves? Or are we getting tagged away by twigs and little ideas and things like that? Are we becoming lukewarm? Are we becoming like, like, at the days of, well, I'll go, yeah, I'll go there. I'll just watch from home. I don't have to come to church. I'll just watch from home. Are we becoming lukewarm? Are we becoming like, loud asian? Or are we being committed?

Are we being committed? Are we convicted by God's Holy Spirit? Because I can't convince you. Only God's Holy Spirit and God's Word can convict you. Are you convicted by God's Word? And are we committed to do the work?

Look at 1 Timothy 6. 1 Timothy 6, verse 20. 1 Timothy 6, verse 20.

Oh, Timothy, God, what was committed to your trust? Brethren, it's not just a Timothy, it's to us. What was committed to our trust?

First, what is God committed to us and trust us? Now, this is God trusting us, so it's a sacred trust. God has given us a commitment in a holy, godly trust.

To do what? To preach the gospel unto all as a witness and to be His disciples. That is our job.

Are we supporting that work? Are we actively supporting to it? Or are we loud asian and look warm?

Because if you and I are loud asian, it says, God will vomit us out of His mouth. Revelation 3, verse 14 through 19.

Brethren, we have to be courageous. We have to go forwards and be committed and do the work. Are we preparing ourselves for the bigger job that you and I will have in the world tomorrow?

But in the meantime, to prepare ourselves, we've got to be doing it so that we are actually qualified to do the bigger one that's coming in the world tomorrow. Or we say, oh well, in the world tomorrow we'll do this. But if you and I are not preparing ourselves now, how can God trust us with bigger tomorrow?

So, brethren, it's our responsibility to be preparing ourselves now. It's our responsibility to really set on fire our light as an example.

It's our responsibility to have the guts and to boldly live the Word of God as a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Shame on us if we don't do it.