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0:00[Music]
0:00foreign
0:00[Music]
0:04we thank you for what you're going to do
0:06tonight we give you an advanced praise
0:09for the miracle science and wonders that
0:12will happen to God if you believe he's
0:14going to do a work why don't we give him
0:15a great big hand clap of praise
0:19[Music]
0:31foreign
0:33[Music]
0:39[Music]
0:41[Applause]
0:43[Music]
0:46[Applause]
0:49[Music]
0:55[Music]
0:56spent with you
1:03here I am
1:06here I am
1:09[Music]
1:11have to say that you're my God
1:16Lord all together
1:20all together Worthy
1:24all together
1:38[Music]
1:43[Music]
1:45you're all together
1:48[Music]
1:52all together
2:08[Music]
2:14[Music]
2:16you came to the Earth together
2:22[Music]
2:33[Music]
2:44[Music]
3:06[Music]
3:13all together
3:27[Music]
3:29[Applause]
3:30exhausted
3:37glorious in heaven
3:42everybody
3:50[Music]
3:55[Music]
4:00two words
4:20[Music]
4:30[Music]
4:34here I am to say that you're my God
4:41you're all together Worthy
4:44[Music]
4:48all together
5:27know
5:28how much it cost to see my things
5:56Here I Am to Worship here I am
6:02here I am
6:05oh my God
6:09together
6:33see myself
7:07[Music]
7:19my God
7:21[Music]
7:24here I am
7:28here I am
7:30here I am
7:32[Music]
7:52I wonder if you can worship with me
7:54[Music]
8:07we're just lifting up Praises To The
8:10King
8:19[Applause]
8:20[Music]
8:28[Music]
8:41I wonder if we can lift our voice
8:43[Music]
8:49of Jesus
8:56[Music]
9:04say to worship you
9:08are here
9:10[Music]
9:19[Music]
9:28worship you
9:30[Music]
9:32teach yourself
9:43[Music]
9:45tonight
9:50[Music]
10:17downtown
10:22[Music]
10:39[Music]
10:47who are you
10:49doing
10:57[Music]
11:10then one more time
11:13[Music]
11:22[Music]
11:31to worship you I live
11:39all across this congregation
11:54[Music]
11:58Hallelujah
12:00[Music]
12:12the Bible says the Lord inhabits the
12:14Praises of his people how many of you
12:16have come to give him praise tonight how
12:19many of you need him to meet you here
12:20tonight why don't we clap our hands into
12:23the Lord
12:24oh you're worthy Jesus
12:27your worthy Jesus
12:29for all the glory and honor Jesus we
12:31bless your name
12:32[Music]
12:44[Music]
12:54[Music]
13:16things
13:18he's died
13:23[Music]
13:46[Music]
13:55[Music]
14:02his glory and his name is
14:12[Music]
14:31he's good
14:34he's
14:38goodbye the Lord we sing these words
14:41right across the world
14:47let us exalties
15:05[Music]
15:47don't make me
15:51feel that way
15:55[Music]
16:04today
16:10[Music]
16:26[Music]
16:33[Music]
16:54Sanctuary thank you Jesus
17:00oh
17:02my God
17:09well there's nothing that will lift up
17:12your spirit like expressing gratitude to
17:16the Lord for all of his blessings he's
17:20been better to us than what we deserve
17:22the scripture said he daily loads us up
17:25with benefits and every person in this
17:28Sanctuary has got a whole lot to be
17:30thankful for
17:31why don't we take a minute why don't you
17:33tell
17:36just tell someone you got something be
17:39thankful for it Go greet somebody meet
17:42somebody great big welcome to the house
17:45of the Lord tonight
17:46so glad to see everyone here
17:49[Music]
18:10thank you
18:13foreign
18:17[Music]
18:47praise the Lord
18:50you'll make your way back to your seeds
18:53a couple announcements
18:57so good to be in the house of God isn't
18:59it
19:00love his presence
19:02ultimate leadership Conflict Management
19:05part two will be Monday night November
19:078th at 7 pm in the lobby this class is
19:11open to all who hold a scheduled
19:13position on PCO you can RSVP on the
19:17church app
19:18the elective series will examine how to
19:21discern the root cause of the conflict
19:23the value of a conflict your conflict
19:27style and proven strategies for
19:30resolving Church conflicts
19:33and our second announcement the table
19:36how many have enjoyed the table it's
19:38just an awesome time to be able to eat
19:41great food and have Fellowship well join
19:44us in the lobby this Sunday following
19:46the evening service for a time of
19:48quality food and fellowship chili which
19:51is a good time it's starting to get cold
19:53outside so I'm looking forward to Chile
19:54and cornbread which will be served a
19:57drink and dessert is included and it's
20:00ten dollars per adult ticket and five
20:02dollars per child ticket and you can
20:05purchase your tickets in advance on the
20:07church app thank you
20:10[Music]
20:12thank you
20:15well lots of good stuff happening around
20:18here and I'm looking forward to this
20:20weekend and
20:22have a good time in the Lord
20:25I'll try to be back in the pulpit and
20:28have the mind of the Lord and do a
20:30little preaching right here Sunday
20:34I have certainly enjoyed
20:37just the sweet Liberty
20:40has been in this Pulpit the last several
20:42months it's like it's like something's
20:44shifted for the positive it is uh it's
20:48been so easy to express the word of God
20:50I guess that's an indicator people
20:53coming with a Hungry Heart to hear the
20:55word of the lord well this past week
20:58this church showered my wife and
21:01daughter and I with kindness the pastor
21:03appreciation celebration
21:06man I'm just be honest and overwhelmed
21:10but you guys is kindness and generosity
21:13thank you for everyone that had a part
21:16in that I love you guys y'all just just
21:21good people thank you for it and we
21:25Rejoice over this year to date we have
21:28uh we've had 47 people receive the Holy
21:31Ghost
21:3231 baptized
21:36building fund offering this past week
21:39was 3130.69
21:44and due to your generosity we have been
21:47able to
21:48make some major Headway
21:51paying down the mortgage of this church
21:53now I'm going to teach a Bible lesson in
21:55just a minute but I'm going to take a
21:57couple of minutes tonight to talk about
22:00our Thanksgiving offering
22:03for the past several years
22:06we dedicate the Sunday morning
22:09before Thanksgiving as a Mourning that
22:13we focus on giving
22:15now in this church we do not as a
22:20general rule we do not take up special
22:22offerings anytime during the whole year
22:24every Sunday that you can know the drill
22:27will talk a little bit about tithes and
22:30offerings just as a regular giving
22:33if we have a missionary come
22:35we'll do an offering for Missions but as
22:38far as
22:39coming to this Pulpit to receive a
22:43offering for this and that we just don't
22:45do that I always like when I say this I
22:48always like to
22:49leave room that if the Lord would
22:52spontaneously or in some special way
22:54lead us to do that then then we would do
22:58it but as a general rule the one time a
23:01year that we focus on giving a special
23:04offering is for our Thanksgiving
23:06offering the Sunday before Thanksgiving
23:10and a lot of the reason that we're able
23:13to be in this building today is that
23:16over the years
23:18we have raised several several hundred
23:20thousand dollars uh in this time of
23:24giving this past year uh over two
23:27hundred and sixty thousand dollars come
23:29in in that one offering and which is
23:31incredible for this size of a
23:33congregation absolutely incredible
23:36and so here's kind of where we're at I
23:39want to talk to you about
23:41um
23:42where we are as a church we were able to
23:45expand our Sanctuary starting this past
23:48January and we added I don't know 130
23:52140 seats and we can get more in if we
23:55need to
23:56and that give us some growing rooms so
23:58we have room to continue to reach more
24:01souls and for this congregation to grow
24:03in the sanctuary but part of expanding
24:08the sanctuary means that we lost some of
24:11the storage in the classrooms and Office
24:13Space
24:14and so we're down right now we have four
24:17classrooms
24:18and in a lot of our meetings that we do
24:22like entree life like our leadership
24:25stuff we've been doing them over in the
24:27connect room but we have outgrown those
24:29connect rooms we're not able to do it so
24:32this past Monday night we did our
24:34leadership meeting in the main lobby and
24:37it would have been very difficult to
24:38cram everybody back in those connect
24:40rooms and so all of this put together
24:43and and an Apostolic Church are always
24:46growing and we're always reaching more
24:48people and we've got the vision to do it
24:50which means we got to be thinking ahead
24:52Beyond where we're at right now and so
24:56this means that we're soon to be
25:00in a time where we need to get serious
25:03about getting started on building phase
25:06two building which would be out on this
25:08side of the sanctuary
25:10and we'll need to add space to be able
25:14to expand the ministry for not only what
25:17is going on now but for the stuff
25:19that'll be getting started in the next
25:22two or three or four years so I want to
25:24give you just a very rough concept of
25:29what this might look at like now this
25:32has not went through Architectural
25:33Review and Planning Commission and City
25:36and so forth right now on the left
25:40you're looking at the current floor
25:42print
25:43as of this church as it was first built
25:46and so the idea would be going out on
25:48this west side and building a very large
25:51Breezeway uh right right here where it
25:55says coffee shop and this would be a
25:58space where we could put a cafe in there
26:00and also possibly open this up to the
26:04public and this would be a place where
26:07uh
26:08well I Envision this thing being packed
26:10out every single morning of the week
26:12I went down to a one of the Big Chain
26:15coffee shops just south of the freeway
26:18here this morning and it's pig slop
26:21and it's horrible it doesn't even
26:23deserve to be called coughing they're
26:24backed up all the way down the driveway
26:27and and those people ought to be coming
26:29into a Pentecostal Church to get their
26:31coffee and so every morning and uh so
26:36this could double this space could
26:38double them thinking somewhere around
26:39four thousand feet or so this could
26:42double for having meetings and classes
26:45and get-togethers it could be an
26:47entrance and out in the front we cover
26:50it with concrete nice Shrubbery and have
26:53a big patio and have seating out there
26:56and tables and it'd be a great
26:58congregating place when the weather is
26:59nice
27:00and between this current building
27:05and out towards the freeway but kind of
27:08tucked in this
27:09space right here where it says
27:11playground uh the idea is make that a
27:14very nice area put down that rubber
27:16surface and make that a great Clean safe
27:21playground for our kids and over here on
27:26this side build an Annex Building and
27:28the Annex Building would
27:30need to cover several things do it need
27:32to be room for additional classrooms
27:35storage and we need a big multi-purpose
27:40room for the kind of stuff that we're
27:42doing out in the lobby of this church
27:44right now and I'm envisioning this room
27:47to be children's worship space I'd like
27:50for it to be able to accommodate about
27:51150 people which would be very doable
27:54and depending on where our budget can
27:57wind up and the square footage that we
27:59can afford to build potentially build a
28:02gymnasium over there and so there's a
28:04lot of possibilities and and this is
28:07something that we're going to need to do
28:08and need to tackle and I feel very good
28:13about it and I think we're at a point
28:14right now that we need to sit down with
28:18the architect and the local engineers
28:21and start having a very serious
28:23discussion about getting the conceptual
28:26plans drawn up and at least get the the
28:31process started to bring it before the
28:33city and make sure we're getting their
28:35blessing which I don't foresee that
28:36being a problem we already got back when
28:40we bought the property in 2012 we
28:43already had it approved for the uses
28:46that we're going to be proposing right
28:48here so it'd be a lot of good things for
28:50us to do I talked to the uh
28:53contractor that built our church a
28:56couple of weeks ago kind of told him the
28:59general concept I said look I know
29:01building materials have been going up
29:03since uh the post-covered era so what
29:07are we looking at he said right now to
29:09build this kind of a facility we're
29:11looking at roughly 140 dollars a foot
29:14and of course I imagine that'll
29:17change incrementally every few months
29:21but that's roughly where we're at right
29:23now
29:24so what we have to think about is what
29:27is our path
29:28to be able to get to where we're ready
29:31to jump into this expansion and that's
29:33what brings us to the task at hand for
29:37this year's Thanksgiving offering in
29:39order for us to expand our path to get
29:42there
29:43I mean
29:46go to slide number three so our current
29:50debt on this facility is 1.5 million
29:54fourteen thousand seven hundred and
29:57seventy one dollars
29:58now for perspective when we started our
30:02loan uh it was 2.4 million dollars and
30:06we've built in this building for less
30:07than three years and we have been able
30:09to significantly pay down the principal
30:13on this loan
30:14and right now we're making uh several
30:18thousand dollars each month additional
30:20principal payment in in in addition to
30:24the regular monthly payment and so
30:28uh I kind of sketched out today the best
30:31I could of what it would look like on
30:35the current trajectory that we're on
30:37to pay this building off how long are we
30:40looking at and if we just keep doing our
30:43monthly payments with the extra
30:44principal I think we can easily take
30:48care of just over half a million dollars
30:51in the next three and a half years
30:54with regular payments and if now this is
30:59an if but if we are able
31:02to duplicate what we did last year in
31:06our Thanksgiving offering and maybe even
31:08go beyond that
31:09we'll be able to in the next three and a
31:12half years raise a million dollars or
31:14more
31:15just in these
31:17including this year the next four
31:20uh Thanksgiving offerings and so as you
31:24can see what was a 25-year loan we're
31:27looking at having this thing completely
31:29knocked out in around six years which I
31:33think is absolutely incredible
31:36[Music]
31:38and so
31:40what I would like to talk to this church
31:42about tonight and go to the next slide
31:44is to prayerfully consider
31:47making a sacrificial
31:49offering into the future of this church
31:53through the Thanksgiving offering this
31:55year and so what we've done in past
31:58years it's worked well
32:00we'll start talking about it
32:02for the rest of this month and this is
32:05something to pray about this is
32:07something to talk to your spouse about
32:09if you're married and I think giving
32:12should be purposeful it should be
32:14planned
32:15and it may be a deal where you got
32:18something sitting around you don't need
32:19you could just sell it
32:21we we got ways of we got ways of coming
32:24up with stuff if we need to come up with
32:26it and I can't think of a better cause
32:30than to give towards getting this phase
32:33two started up and so the idea will be
32:36to take 250
32:38000 put on the debt and then if we could
32:43hit a goal of 300 000 that gives us some
32:47money where we can go to the architect
32:49and the engineers and we can go ahead
32:52and start getting our plans drawn while
32:55we're finishing paying this off and I
32:57think if we'll pull together uh we'll
32:59just be absolutely amazed at what we can
33:01do if we join together in unity and
33:05something else I believe will happen
33:07I don't know that this will happen but I
33:09kind of think it might I kind of think
33:11when we're doing everything we can to
33:14take care of this and this is Ultimate
33:15this is God's church this is God's
33:18business this is not my debt it's not
33:20really your debt it's God's debt
33:22and I think if we're doing what we can
33:25to take care of it I wouldn't be
33:28surprised what God doesn't let some
33:31windfall blessings start coming along to
33:35some of the good people that's sitting
33:36in this room and some of us are going to
33:39be anointed to write those big checks
33:42where we may expedite the process in
33:45what looks like three and a half years
33:46right now we may shrink that down to
33:49three and a half months you just never
33:51know you just never know I want to be
33:53one of those people that God uses and I
33:55want to make myself open to be used of
33:57God and I think if if we can do that
34:00it's going to be so good it's going to
34:03be so wonderful and isn't it going to
34:06feel good to have a mortgage burning on
34:09this sanctuary
34:10I think it's going to feel good to do
34:12that
34:13I can't wait for that moment to come
34:16and the bankers called us a number of
34:19times and said look you guys are doing
34:22so good and like I told you the other
34:24day we we give the financials to the
34:27banker and she's flipping through it she
34:29just kept saying over and over pastor
34:31this is nothing but God pastor this has
34:34got to be God she works in a lot of
34:36churches and she said you know that and
34:38during covet this is not what's
34:40happening in most churches most churches
34:41are financially they're going down but
34:44we had the best year we ever had and
34:46that was last year and this year's
34:48looking to be even better last year and
34:50so God is helping the church but the
34:54reason God's helping is because we got a
34:56lot of people that's been willing to be
34:57used of God and so we're going to pull
34:59together we're going to make this happen
35:01but as I was starting to say I don't
35:04think our answers to always go borrow
35:06more and more money at some point good
35:09stewardship said let's take care of the
35:11business at hand before we tackle uh the
35:15new business and we do that I think it's
35:17practical I think it's what's right it's
35:19what we need to do okay you ready to
35:21hear the word of the Lord
35:23before we do that why don't we just pray
35:25over this Thanksgiving offering and
35:28here's how this works when you're
35:30praying about a special offering
35:34most of the time if you're you very
35:37seriously pray about giving
35:42three amounts of money will ultimately
35:45get suggested to your mind
35:47when you first pray about it you go with
35:50a open and honest heart
35:52typically the first voice and the first
35:55amount that you hear is going to be the
35:58voice of the Holy Ghost
36:00the second amount that comes to your
36:02mind will be your flesh and if you
36:04ponder it for long enough there's going
36:06to be a really reduced amount somewhere
36:09down the long line that is the voice of
36:11the adversary and so why don't we just
36:14make a commitment we're going to let the
36:15spirit of the Lord deal with us and God
36:17knows where everyone's at and as I've
36:20always said every year there's no
36:21pressure If you're in a position in life
36:24and some of you may quite frankly be
36:27there where you're not able to give I
36:28understand that or you may not be able
36:30to give as much as you want to but I
36:32just think this needs to be a happy time
36:34where we all do what we can I've called
36:37brother Marty Varnell I said whatever
36:39you preach last year
36:41really work good
36:44you need to come back and preach that
36:46same sermon
36:48this year and so he agreed to do that so
36:51brother Barnell be here to challenge us
36:54Sunday morning why don't we pray
36:56together God we thank you for your
36:58goodness I'm asking you Lord to speak to
37:00us we bring this project we bring our
37:03dreams and our aspirations to the altar
37:06right now God I'm asking you to speak to
37:09this church speak to our hearts Lord and
37:13I'm asking you to let this month be a
37:15month of blessing and a month of Plenty
37:18Empower your people so that they can
37:22rise to the occasion and to meet this
37:24need and to pay for this Vision in Jesus
37:27name we pray and everybody said amen
37:30well if you have your Bibles with you
37:32we're going to go to two verses of
37:34scripture tonight the first one will be
37:37in the book of Lamentations chapter 3
37:40and verse number 22 and our second text
37:44will be First Corinthians chapter 4.
37:52the book of Lamentations was written
37:54by the Prophet Jeremiah
37:58and he said in verse 22 of chapter 3 it
38:00is of the Lord's mercies that we are not
38:03consumed
38:05because his compassions
38:08fail not
38:10they are new
38:12every morning
38:14aren't you glad that God's Mercy is new
38:17every morning
38:19why does God need to give you new Mercy
38:22every day
38:24that will imply to me that you may have
38:27used up
38:28a bunch of it yesterday
38:31and so you needed a new Supply they are
38:33new every morning
38:35but let's key in on those last words
38:38here great
38:40is thy faithfulness
38:45great
38:47is thy faithfulness
38:50and then we're going to read one or the
38:51verse from the Apostle Paul he wrote to
38:54the Corinthian Church
38:56in chapter 4
38:59of First Corinthians and verse number
39:01two
39:02Paul makes a very strong statement
39:05he said moreover it is required
39:09in stewards that a man be found
39:14faithful
39:16it is required
39:18in stewards that a man be found
39:22faithful
39:24and from these readings I'm going to
39:26talk to you about faithful Saints in an
39:30Unfaithful World faithful Saints
39:34in an Unfaithful world
39:36we're going to turn our attention this
39:39evening and we're going to talk about a
39:40subject that don't get talked a lot
39:42about in our society and that's the
39:44subject of faithfulness
39:46so I want to take a moment to Define
39:48what the word faithful means as it is
39:52found in the Bible
39:55the definition of faithfulness
39:58is the state of being steadfast
40:02trustworthy
40:04morally true
40:06established
40:08the trait of sincere and steadfast
40:12fixity of purpose
40:15so when we say that someone is faithful
40:19we're saying that that person is
40:21dependable
40:22that that person is going to be
40:25what they
40:27profess to be that they're going to keep
40:30their commitments they're going to honor
40:32their word and if they're supposed to be
40:35on a certain post of Duty they're going
40:37to be there
40:38it is required
40:41of a steward that a man be found
40:43faithful if you gave a little bit of
40:46money to a money manager
40:48uh perhaps you take your retirement fund
40:51and you give it to somebody to handle it
40:53you don't want someone that's just
40:55playing on the computer
40:57at work
40:59you don't want somebody that's taking a
41:01vacation every other week you want
41:04somebody that you know they're on their
41:05post to duty that are working the job
41:08that they said that they would work on
41:11your behalf you want your Steward to be
41:14faithful now faithfulness for us means
41:18that
41:20we're going to be loyal we're going to
41:22be loyal to God we're going to be loyal
41:24to the truth even when being loyal comes
41:29at a great price
41:32sometimes telling the truth is going to
41:34cost you something
41:36sometimes doing the right thing
41:38will not be popular it'll it'll arouse
41:43the scorn of your co-workers and and
41:47your family may not always understand
41:49why you're absolutely set on doing
41:52what's right but faithful Saints are
41:55committed to doing the right thing
41:58and I am convinced that in a world where
42:01commitment is shallow and loyalty does
42:05not tend to run deep as God is raising
42:09up people in this congregation in this
42:12city people who have a very strong
42:15commitment to faithfulness I believe
42:18it's going to cause our testimony to
42:20shine so bright people are going to
42:24watch our lives and over a course of
42:26time they're going to come to respect us
42:30as people and the respect us as a church
42:33because we are committed to the value of
42:37faithfulness and so I want to preach
42:39about being faithful for just a few
42:40minutes tonight but before I can talk
42:43about
42:45our faithfulness to God
42:48I have to start this by talking to you
42:51about the faithfulness of God to us and
42:55there are two unconditional
42:57truths about faithfulness here that we
43:00need to grasp the first one
43:02is that God has
43:05unconditional faithfulness towards us
43:09everyone see unconditional
43:11unconditional means that God is going to
43:14keep his end of the bargain
43:16regardless of what we do with our end of
43:20the bargain God loves unconditionally
43:24there is nothing you can do to make God
43:27quit loving you
43:30someone says well brother Adams I'm not
43:32sure God loves me because I've been bad
43:36well one thing I've got to get through
43:38to you tonight from the Bible
43:40is God's love is not conditioned on your
43:44performance
43:46God doesn't say boy you is a bad girl
43:49yesterday I don't love you very much
43:52you as a fact you was a bad boy all last
43:55week and so I think I might hate you
43:59you'd be surprised at how many people
44:01sit in a church on a weekly basis
44:03that in their heart they actually wonder
44:06if God hates them
44:08no God doesn't hate you
44:11even when your behavior is wrong God May
44:15disapprove of the behavior and he does
44:17if it's sinful but just because God
44:20disapproves of your sin and is even
44:22willing to punish your sin does not
44:25indicate that he doesn't love you God's
44:28love is unwavering and it's not based on
44:32any condition of human existence his
44:35love is an entirely predicated on who he
44:39is God is love and for God to stop
44:43loving he'd have to stop being God and
44:46he can't stop being God so therefore he
44:49can't stop loving you
44:53I think somebody just needs to know that
44:55God loves you
44:56God is faithful to keep his word if the
45:00Lord says he's going to do something
45:01he's going to do it
45:03if it's in this Bible it's true and it's
45:06right
45:07if God gives you a promise God's
45:10promises are good
45:11he's willing to do everything he said he
45:15would do
45:16God is also faithful to forgive first
45:18John chapter 1 and verse 9 said that if
45:21we confess our sins
45:23he is faithful and just to forgive us
45:26our sins and to cleanse us from all
45:29unrighteousness
45:31I'm so glad that he's a faithful God
45:34now I'm not planning on sinning tonight
45:38I'm not planning to commit a sin
45:41this week or next week
45:45fact I wish I could tell you from
45:48standing in this place that I've never
45:50commit another sin again but I know
45:52that's probably not right
45:54because I'm very human
45:56and I have a fallen nature and as much
45:59as I don't want to sin like Paul I
46:02identify that with the heart I desire to
46:05live right but there's another law
46:07that's warning in my members the law of
46:10sin and death and so sometimes when I
46:12want to do what's good I find myself
46:14doing what is evil but this scripture
46:18gives me hope this scripture lets me
46:21know that if first chance I get caught
46:24up in a sinful Behavior he is a faithful
46:28God and I can come back to an altar to a
46:32place of repentance and I can say Jesus
46:35I have messed up and Lord I am so sorry
46:39I did what I did please wash me in your
46:43blood please cleanse me please make me
46:46new again please give me a clean heart
46:49in the right spirit and this scripture
46:51lets me know that he is faithful to
46:54forgive me I can depend on the fact that
46:57he is a God God who is willing to
47:00forgive me
47:03God is constantly steady
47:06he's not like a thermometer up and down
47:09hot and cold he's he's a steady God he's
47:12a faithful God
47:15's faithfulness is not contingent on our
47:18performance
47:21I want to hit this again because as
47:23Pentecostal people a lot of times I
47:25think we we have very much
47:29we've gotten the performance-based
47:31theology
47:33through
47:35well-intended statements and
47:37misinterpreted scripture
47:39and there's a lot of people that sit on
47:41Pentecostal pews that believe that God
47:44is going to be faithful as long as they
47:47are trying really really hard to be good
47:51but that's not what the Bible teaches
47:54the Bible teaches that God is faithful
47:57in spite of our performance
48:00let's look at second Timothy chapter 2.
48:04Paul said if we believe not
48:07yet he abideth faithful
48:12he cannot deny himself
48:17wait a minute
48:20I thought you have to believe to be
48:21saved you do
48:24you you I'm not preaching that
48:26everybody's going to be saved regardless
48:27of how they live but I am preaching that
48:30God's faithfulness and willingness to
48:33love and forgive and pardon it is
48:36constant no matter what
48:38even if you find yourself in the
48:42position of an unbeliever he is still a
48:45faithful God he still loves you and he
48:48is still willing to forgive you if
48:51you'll just turn in Repentance
48:53[Applause]
48:55if we believe not yet he abideth
48:58faithful
49:00someone might be thinking well brother
49:02Adams I'm afraid if what you're
49:04preaching is true it'll make people want
49:06to live a sinful life if they just know
49:08that they can always fall back on the
49:10Forgiveness of God well you don't
49:12understand Grace
49:14Paul said just the fact that Grace
49:16abounds does that mean that we continue
49:18and Sid God forbid
49:20when you really know how much God loves
49:23you
49:24when you have a revelation of his
49:26faithfulness the only appropriate
49:30response left to give back to God for
49:33his unconditional faithfulness is the
49:35life of holiness
49:38the fact that I he I know he loves me no
49:40matter what it does not make me want to
49:43go sin and violate his word it makes me
49:46want to love him back fervently
49:48we love him because he first loved us
49:52there's something about it when you know
49:55how much he loves you
49:57how much he wants to forgive you and how
50:00kind he is
50:03the understanding of that in your heart
50:06it produces this feeling that says you
50:08know what
50:09God has been so good to me
50:12I really need to
50:14do what I can to be good to him
50:17the faithfulness of God
50:19is important but another aspect of
50:22faithfulness that you got to understand
50:24before you can live Faithful is you've
50:26got to know your purpose remember to be
50:29faithful means you have fixity of
50:30purpose if you don't have a sense that
50:32you're going somewhere in life and that
50:34there's a purpose for you in the Kingdom
50:36you're not going to be faithful
50:38if you don't feel like you belong in the
50:40church you're probably not going to be
50:42faithful to the church
50:43you don't feel like God has a particular
50:46role for you to feel as a member of the
50:49body of Christ it's going to be hard to
50:51be faithful and so it's important that
50:54we have a lot of preaching and teaching
50:55and emphasis on praying to find your
50:59place in the body and when God starts
51:02giving you
51:04understanding of where you fit and what
51:06you need to do you need to get busy and
51:08start doing what God is calling you to
51:11do
51:12and when you're in your place it's easy
51:15to be faithful
51:17so let's talk about a life of
51:19faithfulness here
51:20I'm going to talk about three areas
51:22where people need to be faithful and I'm
51:24not going to be long first of all
51:27we need to be the kind of Christians
51:29that are faithful to live for God
51:32everywhere
51:34someone say everywhere
51:36live for God no matter where you're at
51:39do what is right
51:42you know my concern
51:45is that we get a culture started
51:48sometimes in the church and
51:49like to think it's not this way now but
51:51it's to be honest it's been this way in
51:53the past
51:55well you got a lot of people that come
51:56to church they were
51:58they wear their Sunday best
52:00we sing the songs we amen the preaching
52:03we pray at the altar
52:05and maybe even speak in tongues a little
52:07bit
52:09but our social media account
52:13reflects something very different than
52:17the values
52:19that we Embrace at church
52:22it's like
52:23Sunday we see you and we think you're
52:26one thing
52:27but if we look at your Facebook
52:31we start thinking something altogether
52:33different
52:35there are people
52:38that will
52:39talk good and appropriate at church
52:43but when they're at school and work
52:46they'll do everything but costs
52:51talk and laugh at risque jokes
52:55cheat people
52:57cut corners
52:59falsify informational reports
53:02and they live a double life
53:06looking at vile things on the computer
53:10their mind in the gutter
53:13but come back to church and profess
53:15godliness
53:17that is an Unfaithful saint of God
53:21but when you really have the Holy Ghost
53:24you don't just have the Holy Ghost on
53:27Sunday you have the Holy Ghost all week
53:29long too
53:30and when you're on social media social
53:33media needs to reflect the fact that you
53:36have the Holy Ghost when you're doing an
53:38internet search your internet search
53:40needs to reflect the fact that you have
53:42the Holy Ghost you need to be faithful
53:44there needs to be something in you that
53:46says I'm going to live for God and I'm
53:49going to live a holy and a Godly life in
53:51my private time and where when I work
53:53friends and my school friends just like
53:56I do at church it not ever be where
53:59we're one thing at church is something
54:01else out of church
54:03we need to be faithful all the time
54:06so I want to tell you God is watching
54:09your life
54:11God is taking notes and he takes good
54:13notes I think of Daniel in Babylon
54:18Daniel was taken away from all of his
54:22kin folks and put in Babylon and they he
54:24was in a world they was trying to get
54:26him to compromise his values but the
54:28Bible says that Daniel purposed in his
54:31heart
54:32that he would not defile himself while
54:35it was in Babylon
54:36but people around Daniel started looking
54:40at him trying to find a fault
54:43I promised you when people know you're
54:45Pentecostal they're watching
54:50they'll hope you drink something you
54:52shouldn't drink
54:55they'll tell jokes in your proximity and
54:59out of the corner of their eyes they're
55:01going to watch your reaction
55:04they're looking
55:05they're trying to find fault is what
55:06happened to Daniel in chapter 6 verse 4
55:08the Bible said the presidents and
55:10princes sought to find occasion against
55:12Daniel concerning the kingdom but they
55:15could not find
55:17any occasion or fault for as much as he
55:21was faithful neither was there any error
55:24or fault found in him
55:27now Daniel got short-term opposition
55:31from the people he lived around they
55:33persecuted him but when he kept on
55:36living right everywhere he was no matter
55:39what ultimately he got promoted and
55:43rewarded now I know some of you might
55:46lose a job
55:47for your choice to be faithful to what
55:49is right it's possible
55:51some of you may find yourself in
55:54incredibly hard decisions where your
55:59your people and your your family and
56:03your co-workers are pushing you to to
56:06say one thing and do one thing but in
56:09your heart you know you can't do it
56:11because to do it would be to violate
56:13what the word of God teaches and you
56:16might suffer some short-term
56:18consequences but let me tell you
56:19something about God he takes good notes
56:22and when you live for him everywhere and
56:25you're doing what is right everywhere
56:27God is going to take note of that and I
56:30promise you there will be a reward not
56:33just in the life to come but in this
56:35life God will see to it that you were
56:37rewarded for being faithful
56:41I want to be a faithful person
56:43faithful I don't want to be a
56:46a different person when you see me out
56:48in public
56:49I want to be I want to be the same
56:52character as what I am right here in
56:54church
56:56got to be faithful everywhere but
56:59another area of faithfulness
57:01you've got to be faithful to tell the
57:03truth
57:04no matter what
57:07no matter what tell the truth
57:10tell the truth even if it gets you in
57:11trouble
57:13tell the truth even if
57:17it's unpopular
57:19tell the truth even if everybody else is
57:21saying something different
57:23tell the truth tell the truth
57:26now sometimes
57:29you don't need to speak the truth some
57:31truth needs to be left unspoken
57:33like
57:37when your classmate wears something it
57:39looks just awful
57:42you don't have to tell them how awful
57:43they look
57:45that be an unspoken truth but don't tell
57:48them a lie
57:50don't say oh I love it where did you buy
57:52that I want one
57:54that's dishonest
57:57some truth can remain in the realm of
57:59silence and it's okay
58:01but when it's coming out of your mouth
58:03it needs to be truth
58:05we need to be the kind of people that we
58:07are known in our communities
58:10that we are people who will not lie
58:17a faithful witness Proverbs 14 and 5
58:20said a faithful witness will not lie
58:25but a false witness will utter lies
58:28don't lie on job applications
58:32do not lie on college applications
58:36do not lie on your
58:38tax return
58:41be honest
58:44go through your life
58:46be an honest about your business and you
58:49don't have nothing to hide
58:51you don't have to look over your
58:53shoulder and worry about who's going to
58:54catch you and who's going to find you
58:56out if you just live a life of honesty
58:58and transparency
59:02good preaching brother Adams good
59:04preaching
59:05thank you for this Bible study
59:07[Applause]
59:12I can't tell you how many times I've
59:14been around
59:17church people and
59:19find out that in some of their dealings
59:23in public they call what they just call
59:25little lie
59:27we call it a fib like a fib is something
59:30a little better than a lie it's not
59:33and I always feel this heart and I think
59:35man we're supposed to be honest people
59:38we're supposed to tell truth
59:41but
59:43let's face it lying
59:46is something that goes along with our
59:49fallen nature
59:51one scripture said all men are liars
59:57someone ever says well I might be a lot
1:00:00of things I'm not a liar
1:00:03they're telling you one right then
1:00:04because the Bible says all men are liars
1:00:08so what that means we've also lies I've
1:00:10told lies and you have two so you better
1:00:12not be harsh on me because
1:00:15this works both ways okay
1:00:18but one of the works of the Holy Ghost
1:00:21in our life is the convictus of telling
1:00:23lies
1:00:25the spirit of God just ought to make you
1:00:27feel a little sick in your heart
1:00:29if you get tempted to go tell a lie
1:00:32and God forbid but if any of us if I
1:00:35would or if you would
1:00:37in a moment of weakness this week catch
1:00:39ourselves lying to someone
1:00:42the right thing to do is go back to him
1:00:44and say look I need I need to confess
1:00:47something to you when I said such and
1:00:49such and such and such I wasn't honest
1:00:52please forgive me
1:00:54and sometimes a good confession and
1:00:56apology
1:00:58when you didn't get caught you just
1:01:00chose to bring it out and open sometimes
1:01:02that'll do more to win respect than
1:01:05anything you could think about
1:01:07so we got to be faithful faithful person
1:01:09who lives for God all the time a
1:01:11faithful person will not tell a lie
1:01:14we just don't do it
1:01:18now I don't want to get derailed here
1:01:22but someone says well brother Adams I've
1:01:24had this asset what about if
1:01:27I know somebody thinks something that is
1:01:30not right I know they believe
1:01:33such and such and my actions led them to
1:01:35believe that is that lion no it's not
1:01:38Jesus did that
1:01:42one place the Bible talks about him
1:01:44walking towards I believe it was
1:01:45Jerusalem and road to Emmaus the Bible
1:01:47said he made as though he would have
1:01:50went further
1:01:52in other words he led them to believe
1:01:54that he was going to go further than
1:01:56what he really intended to go he didn't
1:01:57say that
1:01:59Jesus was the truth of God incarnate but
1:02:02he made as though he was going to go
1:02:04further so just fact somebody believes
1:02:07something ain't right don't mean you
1:02:08always got to go correct that
1:02:10sometimes it's better off just not to go
1:02:13dabbling trouble that don't belong to
1:02:15you you're not a liar because you let
1:02:18something stand but you are a liar if
1:02:20you actively say something to
1:02:24that isn't right we don't need to do
1:02:26that let's be honest honest in our lives
1:02:29and our dealings faithfulness
1:02:32we got to be faithful
1:02:33Ness our
1:02:37a faithful man does what he says he will
1:02:41do
1:02:42he's steadfast
1:02:44he's a person that has fixity of purpose
1:02:47if he makes a commitment he does it
1:02:51Psalm chapter 15 describes the kind of
1:02:54person that God will bless
1:02:56and one of the qualities here
1:02:59is the person that gets blessed is the
1:03:01person in whose eyes a vile person is
1:03:03condemned in other words when we look at
1:03:05people doing evil things we don't
1:03:06gleefully enjoy it
1:03:10he honors them that fear the Lords if
1:03:12you want to be blessed honor God-fearing
1:03:15people show respect be respectful to
1:03:18people
1:03:19watch this now
1:03:21he that sweareth to his own hurt
1:03:26and changes not
1:03:30what this means is if you start making a
1:03:32deal
1:03:34with someone
1:03:36and after you make the deal you realize
1:03:39that due to your ignorance and going
1:03:41into the deal you've made it a bad deal
1:03:43so for example if I got a if I'm going
1:03:46to sell you my truck so brother Andre
1:03:50suppose you come to me and say Pastor
1:03:53want to buy you truck it's a good truck
1:03:55because it's Chevy
1:04:00and I said boy brother Andre needs a
1:04:02truck you know I don't know how much
1:04:03that truck's worth me you know what
1:04:04brother I'll tell you what I'll I'll
1:04:06sell you that truck for fifteen thousand
1:04:07dollars if you know what's good for you
1:04:10you're gonna shake on that real quick
1:04:13deal deal okay
1:04:15then I go look it up on the internet and
1:04:17find out the blue book says boy it's
1:04:19worth thirty thousand
1:04:23oh
1:04:25uh oh
1:04:27what'd I just do
1:04:30I just made a commitment
1:04:34that I would sell it for such and such
1:04:37but now I find out that if I do that I'm
1:04:40going to be selling it for way less than
1:04:44it's worth
1:04:45I could get more if I would sell it
1:04:47elsewhere
1:04:49if I'm going to be a faithful man I've
1:04:52got to be willing to swear to my own
1:04:54hurt
1:04:56that means if I said I would do it
1:04:59I need to do it even if it means I take
1:05:01a loss
1:05:04so I'll tell you what I could do I could
1:05:05go back and say bro um about that truck
1:05:08uh you know uh
1:05:10I know we talked about that so but you
1:05:13know what um yeah oh yeah
1:05:19oh you know how drill works
1:05:22and I crawl fish out of it
1:05:26because boy I'll save for make a few
1:05:28dollars
1:05:30I'm not willing to lose my testimony
1:05:34over a few dollars
1:05:36because God takes good notes
1:05:40I'd rather God see me keeping my word
1:05:43even when keeping my word doesn't always
1:05:47go in my favor in the short term because
1:05:49in the long term if I keep my word I'm a
1:05:53man that honors my commitments he's
1:05:55going to take note of that and I happen
1:05:58to believe he's going to bless me with
1:06:00situations there's going to be a whole
1:06:02lot more valuable than whatever I lost
1:06:03it on
1:06:05and my truck's not for sale
1:06:12faithful
1:06:13when you sign up to do something at
1:06:16church you need to do it
1:06:21a faithful man doesn't say oh Pastor I
1:06:23just feel led to worship God the night
1:06:25I'm not going to serve
1:06:29foreign
1:06:31what if we all had that kind of
1:06:33spiritual work ethic
1:06:35what if all the singers just wanted to
1:06:37sit in the Pew and worship tonight and
1:06:38we had no singing
1:06:40what of all the musicians said I'm not
1:06:42feeling so good I'm just in a bad mood
1:06:44and been fussing with people today and I
1:06:46just don't want to feel like playing
1:06:47I'll hit the decline button I just don't
1:06:49want to be there
1:06:50I need to get spiritual refreshed and
1:06:52none the musicians played
1:06:54what if the Pastor said you know what I
1:06:56just ain't feeling it tonight I just I'm
1:06:58on the decline and
1:07:01sit out there with you
1:07:03what kind of church would we have we
1:07:05have no singer no no music no preaching
1:07:09you would have learned about the work of
1:07:11God
1:07:12about half the time you've got to do
1:07:14what you do
1:07:16without feeling any real
1:07:19strong inspiration
1:07:22I'm fixing to make a confession right
1:07:25out in front of this whole church
1:07:26because it's good for the soul
1:07:29I've had a Sunday or two
1:07:32where I wish it wasn't Sunday
1:07:35because the last thing I want to do is
1:07:37come to church
1:07:43I know none of you have ever felt that
1:07:45way
1:07:47you know like I know you don't feel that
1:07:48way because when you're at the lake
1:07:50fiction you text me that you wish you
1:07:52were here and you're with me in spirit
1:07:53and uh
1:08:03but faithfulness means getting out of
1:08:05bed when you don't want to get out of
1:08:07bed
1:08:08faithfulness sometimes means you put a
1:08:10smile on your face when you don't feel
1:08:11like smile you're on your post of Duty
1:08:14because we have fixity of purpose we
1:08:16understand that we're a part of the
1:08:18kingdom and the church is the greatest
1:08:20thing God's got going and as a person
1:08:22who is Anointed and called to serve in
1:08:25different capacities of the church it
1:08:27takes rolling up our sleeves getting our
1:08:29hands dirty and going to work sometimes
1:08:33we're not appreciate it sometimes we're
1:08:35not noticed sometimes nobody says thank
1:08:38you but I want to remind you he takes
1:08:41good notes he watches faithfulness and
1:08:45one day when we stand before him at the
1:08:47Pearly gate he's going to look at us and
1:08:50say Well done thou good and
1:08:55thou good and
1:08:57faithful servant enter into the joy of
1:09:00the Lord
1:09:04faithfulness always leads to increase
1:09:09I'm done preaching but I want to read
1:09:10one last verse Proverbs 28 20.
1:09:14a faithful man shall abound with
1:09:16blessings
1:09:18the he that maketh of haste to be rich
1:09:21shall not be innocent
1:09:24now I'm not here preaching stewardship
1:09:27stuff but it's a good stewardship verse
1:09:30if there's some job opportunity that
1:09:33promises quick riches
1:09:36with little to no work run from it
1:09:44a member I've bought into a network
1:09:46marketing company years ago 20 years ago
1:09:48it was uh selling prepaid long-distance
1:09:52telephone card just before cell phones
1:09:54was a big deal
1:09:55and for five hundred dollars I gave them
1:09:58five hundred dollars and they gave me a
1:10:00job
1:10:01signing people up to sell first clue you
1:10:05paying money to people for you to work
1:10:07for him that's backwards it's backwards
1:10:11but they told me if I signed up three
1:10:14other people to work
1:10:15I wouldn't have to work anymore because
1:10:17those people go work signing people up
1:10:19and they showed me how I'd be a
1:10:20millionaire in like a couple years
1:10:24and uh part of the deal was if I signed
1:10:27up to work after I signed up the people
1:10:29I had to buy some more than prepaid
1:10:30phone cards so at the end of the year I
1:10:33had a stack of phone cards that I didn't
1:10:36need
1:10:37because I didn't have a girlfriend at
1:10:38the time
1:10:39nobody to call long distance
1:10:42and uh
1:10:45I was several hundred dollars poorer
1:10:48if you're trying to get rich quick
1:10:51you're gonna get in trouble
1:10:52but the best money advice is get on a
1:10:55plan and just do a little something on
1:10:56that plan every single week
1:10:58save a little bit of money every week
1:11:00give some of your money every week work
1:11:03hard week after week and there's
1:11:06something about working saving and
1:11:08giving the cumulative effect of that
1:11:11after just a little while you're gonna
1:11:13look back and say wow
1:11:15wow I'm getting somewhere it's really
1:11:18pretty simple but the scripture said
1:11:20that a faithful man
1:11:22shall abound with blessings
1:11:24and I think that's a principle that
1:11:27applies spiritually and naturally
1:11:28whatever you do and do it Faithfully
1:11:32if you got a job be there on time
1:11:34tomorrow
1:11:37work just a little bit later than they
1:11:39require
1:11:41work about three percent harder than any
1:11:44of your co-workers which won't be much
1:11:47and do it day after day after day and if
1:11:50you're faithful
1:11:51you know what you're gonna get promoted
1:11:54or other opportunities going to open up
1:11:56for you God's going to bless if you're
1:11:57faithful be here praying and praying and
1:11:59praying and praying the cumulative
1:12:01effect of just praying a little bit
1:12:03every day
1:12:04after a while that stuff starts
1:12:06compounding and starts coming back to
1:12:08you
1:12:09I'm trying to lead this church into the
1:12:11blessed life and I'm preaching to you a
1:12:13principle that'll bring the blessings of
1:12:14God on you why don't we stand together
1:12:16and let's just ask the Lord to give us
1:12:18Grace to be faithful God we thank you
1:12:21for your word tonight
1:12:24and Lord we come here and we've got to
1:12:26confess
1:12:27that we have been unfaithful but we know
1:12:30that you're faithful and just to forgive
1:12:32us and we're so grateful for it Lord I'm
1:12:36asking you right now to let these
1:12:38scriptures come alive in our hearts
1:12:41help me to be faithful in my service to
1:12:44you help me God to be faithful to my
1:12:47commitments to others help me God to be
1:12:50faithful to tell the truth no matter
1:12:51what I pray God that the virtue of
1:12:55faithfulness would run thick and deep
1:12:57in the heart of this church help us to
1:12:59be a people that are known all over the
1:13:01Memphis area as faithful people
1:13:03give us Grace and God we're believing
1:13:06your word that you're going to reward
1:13:08our our faithful service in Jesus name
1:13:11we pray and everybody said amen God
1:13:14bless you I love everybody let's get on
1:13:17the phone invite someone to the house of
1:13:19the Lord Sunday we're going to have
1:13:20great service around here this weekend

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