Pastor Loran Livingston 🔥The Mystery Hidden In Celebrating The Savior Revealed At Last

I want to show you a beautiful picture of our camp this week. All these children and workers. [applause] Sandra and I went down Thursday night.

Boy, it was hot and humid and all the kids didn't take a bath and the food But praise God for that experience there. And I want to thank Miss Adah and Mr. Ben and all of the volunteers that did so much to make this happen for these children.

It will make a difference for the rest of their lives. Give them a hand. [applause] I'd like for you now to take those or at least take one of those hands and extend it toward me.

because I am constantly aware that preaching is a supernatural thing done on earth and it has to be done in the power of the Holy Spirit or the words fall to the ground. Would you just right now ask the Lord to touch the preacher? [clears throat] [snorts] And Lord, I receive every prayer that was prayed to you on behalf of this pulpit in your word today in Jesus name.

May we all be different as a result of this word of God. Everybody said, "Amen." >> Amen. >> You can go ahead and be seated.

[clears throat] You've read the Bible enough to know that a number of times the word mystery is used. In fact, I've counted 11 times that the Bible refers to a mystery. A mystery is a secret that God had hidden in his own being, but then made known to prophets and apostles and now to us.

Divine hidden secrets revealed to believers. For example, there's the mystery of iniquity in second Thessalonians. What is that?

Where did sin come from? It came from Satan out of Satan's heart. And it will climax with Satan's man, the the Antichrist at the end of the tribulation.

We know that the world doesn't get that. Then there's what the Bible calls the mystery of the blindness of Israel in Romans 11. That blindness has temporarily come upon Israel so that Gentiles, you and me, non-Jews, could come to the saving faith of Jesus Christ.

The mystery has been revealed. Then there's the mystery of God's will. Ephesians 1 verse 9 that all things one of these days all things will be gathered together in Jesus Christ.

He will be all in all over all forever. Then there's the mystery of the kingdom of God. Mark chapter 4, Jesus said, "The kingdom is a mystery, a secret that the father has hidden in his heart until now." Jesus said, "I'm about to reveal it." Then there's the mystery that the Gentiles in Ephesians chapter 3 would become fellows, equal hes with the Jews in salvation.

Then there's the mystery of the church. The church is a mysterious thing to the unseen world and it certainly is to this unbelieving world. Then there's the mystery of marriage.

Ephesians chapter 5 that Paul extensively talked about the love a man has for a woman and how they are committed to each other and unselfishly live for each other. And he said, "It's a mystery, but I'm talking about Christ and the church." Then first Timothy, he talks about the mystery of godliness. And Revelation 17, you're familiar with that one.

the mystery of Babylon that this whole world since the fall of man has been under the control of dark forces and that those dark forces control religion and commerce and that's what has driven the world ever since Adam fell in the garden. It's a mystery but we know about it. 1 Corinthians 15 talks about the mystery of the rapture and the resurrection.

Hey, the disciples didn't understand that. The Old Testament prophets didn't understand the rapture and the resurrection. Paul says, "Behold, I show you a mystery or I'm showing you a secret.

God wants me to reveal it to you that one day we will all put on different bodies. The dead in Christ will rise first. Those who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and we will always be with the Lord.

The mystery I want to talk about, I keep saying talk. I don't talk, I preach. The mystery I want to preach about this morning is in Colossians chapter 1 verses 26 and 27.

I think it's on the screen there. The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to his saints. That's you and me.

To them God will to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery, this secret among the Gentiles, which is, drum roll, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. That's a secret that nobody in the Old Testament understood. By the way, the apostles didn't even get it un until God revealed it to Paul and then he dispersed this.

They learned through Paul and his evangelism that Gentiles were coming to faith along with them and that in Christ there is no such thing as a Jew and a Gentile anymore because Christ is in all of us who believe. What a secret. What a mystery.

And I think that we read over it and it doesn't stir us to think that you're sitting here today and Christ abides in you. If you abide in me and if I abide in you, you can ask what you will and it shall be done unto you. that Christ would make the decision before the foundation of the world not to just inhabit the heavens or sit on the circle of the earth or on a throne in Jerusalem, but that he would say, "My father and I will come and make our dwelling place with you.

If you love my father and keep his commandments, listen, my father and I will come and live inside of you. So here we sit. Here we are.

We are the residence of Jesus in this world. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit in this world. It doesn't feel like it.

In fact, most of our days are seemingly like everybody else's days. Yeah, even the unbelievers. But I'll get to that in just a moment.

Right now, I want to make sure that you understand that everything I just said to you this morning, all the secrets and all the mysteries are about Jesus Christ. If you were to take a picture of a triangle and at its base it's the widest and as you move to the apex it gets narrower and narrower. That's kind of a picture I have in my mind of God's word and the revelations and secrets from God's heart.

We have the Old Testament, the broad base that includes man's creation and fall and man's demise and man's uh worldly horrible wicked ways. And we know about the flood and the judges and the kings and the sins of Israel. That's a broad base.

And then as you move towards the gospels, it gets narrower and narrower until Paul comes and he tells us these very secrets and these very mysteries are about the risen Lord Jesus Christ. I said I don't know how many months ago it was. It might have been years.

When you get this age, you don't really know the difference between months and years anymore. Sometimes night or day. But I remember telling you that the scripture touched me so deeply where Paul said, "Christ is the end of the law." We're in the Old Testament now.

We're in that broad base. And the law is a condemning document from God to Moses to the people that they could not keep. And God said, "If you don't keep it, you're doomed.

They knew they could not do it, but they did their very best to do it." God sent that law knowing that the people could never keep that law showing the people that without help from God they are doomed eternally. So Paul comes and he starts to tell the people folks that day is over. Christ is the fulfillment of the law.

Every commandment in the Old Testament, Jesus kept. Every requirement God gave, Jesus kept it. So if you want to know what the fulfillment of God's law in the Old Testament is, look at Jesus.

But if you look at Jesus, the law is over. You are no longer under the obligations. You are no longer under the requirements.

All you have is Jesus. Sweet blessed Jesus. the end of the law, but he's also the end of the Sabbath.

When Jesus rose from the dead, that that night he was betrayed. In fact, it says, "Now it was the end of the Sabbath." That's why we don't worship on Saturday. That's why there are no Sabbath laws to the church.

We are not under any obligation to worship on any certain day because Christ is our Sabbath. And in Christ, we have found eternal rest. Jesus walked out of the tomb on the first day of the week, Sunday.

Jesus didn't even honor the Sabbath by being raised from the dead. The apostles worshiped on the first day of the week. So the Bible says very plainly, don't you let anybody put you back under the bondage of the Sabbath because the Sabbath is met and fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Christ is the end of the temple. There's no temple in Jerusalem. When it was destroyed in 70 AD, it hasn't been rebuilt.

Why? BECAUSE CHRIST IS THE END OF going to a place. It's it's the end of bricks and mortar.

Now the temple is living, walking, breathing people like you and me. Let me say it again. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and God dwells within us.

THE TEMPLE IS OVER. The one you can see, the one you can build. BUT THE TEMPLE of living stones IS VERY MUCH ALIVE TODAY.

Praise God. IN THE TEMPLE FOR THE TEMPLE, he said the priesthood is over. If you remember that passage in Matthew, it says that the high priest rent his garment.

That was God's way of saying priesthood is over. You no longer go to a man so the man can talk to God for you. You no longer are required to go to a priest and tell the priest to tell something to God for you.

You don't go to a priest and get forgiveness. No sir, you have become the priest. We believe in the priesthood of all believers.

I can walk into the HOLY OF HOLIES. I CAN APPROACH GOD FOR MYSELF and ask anything in his name. The priesthood of the Old Testament is over, but the New Testament PRIESTHOOD IS ALIVE AND IT'S WORKING AND IT'S WELL.

[applause] All the feasts and festivals of the Old Testament are over. I don't know why the church Christians get so amped up about the feasts of the Jews. It's over.

Why? Because they're all fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Passover, unleaven bread, first fruits, Pentecost, uh tabernacles, atonement, uh trumpets.

Oh, don't you know what it is, pastor, on the Jewish calendar? No, I don't know what it is. I don't even know what's on my Gentile calendar.

All I WAIT FOR IS SANDRA TO TEXT me and say, "You are late. You were supposed TO BE HERE." I DON'T WATCH THOSE THINGS. WHEN SHE WALKS in the room and she doesn't look right, I go, "Uh-oh.

What anniversary is it? Whose birthday is it? WHAT HAVE I DONE?" NO, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DATE IS ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR.

IT'S BEEN FULFILLED. ALL THE FEASTS WERE FULFILLED IN JESUS CHRIST. HE'S OUR PASSOVER.

HE'S OUR UNLEAVENED BREAD. HE'S OUR FIRST FRUITS RAISED FROM THE DEAD. HE'S OUR PENTECOST HOLY GHOST BAPTIZER.

HE'S OUR ATONEMENT. HE HAS FORGIVEN US. HE IS OUR TABERNACLE.

HE'S COME TO DWELL WITH US ALL IN JESUS CHRIST. [applause] And all of those beautiful narratives in the Old Testament, I tell you, I could read them over and over and it's always like the first time. Those beautiful stories are about Jesus.

That whole thing ABOUT JOSEPH, THAT'S NOT just about a a young guy who had a family problem and they got rid of him. They kicked him out. THAT'S ABOUT THE SALVATION that comes to us through our Lord Jesus Christ.

How he was rejected by his own brethren and God let him suffer and God let HIM BE IMPRISONED BUT at the right TIME AT THE APPOINTED TIME IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME GOD BROUGHT HIM OUT AND MADE A KING OUT OF HIM. THAT'S ABOUT JESUS. That whole beautiful thing about David and Goliath, folks, that's not a a a cute little story to read to kids, that's about our savior facing the greatest giant that the human race has ever known, the the giant of sin AND DEATH.

BUT HE ALONE DEFEATED BOTH. >> And praise God, we're alive today because of it. The beautiful story of Ruth, it's about Jesus.

All that about Esther, it's about Jesus. All these things is what the Bible calls types and foreshadows, illustrations, examples. Those were given because they did not yet have the secret of Jesus revealed.

Did you hear WHAT I SAID? ALL of those were a smoky representation of the real thing because the real revelation had not been made yet. God had an appointed time for that.

He was going to show it to the apostles. The resurrection of Jesus proved that he was the son of God. Hallelujah.

So all of those things, those representations, when you read scripture, it finally dawns on you that's about Jesus. It just kind of looks like everything is about Jesus. Now, I just told you the Bible's not about Old Testament tradition.

People try to make it that. People specialize in it. They write books about it.

They know about all the vestures of the priests and again the feast days and the holy days and the tabernacle and what went on and what was stored in the storage rooms around the tabernacle. But the Bible is not about Old Testament tradition. Neither is the Bible about gifts of the spirit.

Okay. I just told you four times the Old Testament is fulfilled in Christ Jesus. [snorts] Judaism is dead.

Anybody practicing any form of Judaism is lost. How does that make you feel? Anybody who has never discovered the revelation of Jesus is lost.

And anybody who is still trying to be found through the Old Testament ways is lost. Judaism is dead. Jesus is alive.

>> Okay. All religions are dead. Every religion on this planet is a dead, dark, damnable religion.

Because life alone is in Jesus, not in dead works or efforts. Hear it. Hear me now and listen carefully.

Your salvation is not in your church attendance. Your salvation is not in your church membership either or your church involvement. Salvation alone is in the living Lord Jesus.

I've said this before. It needs to be said often. You need to know it.

I don't walk to this pulpit without the elders of this church laying their hands on me right back there in that in my study. Never do I come here unless I've been prayed over. It's it's very important to me that I make a big deal out of Jesus every time I walk up here.

There is nothing else more important than Yeshua, Jesus, the son of God. Nothing else is to be made much of except Jesus. So there's danger when I say dead religions.

We know that if it's not about Jesus, it's dead. But one of the dangers we face today is that in charismatic churches more is made of miracles, signs, wonders, prophecies, healings, [snorts] the supernatural visions than is made of the crucified and risen savior Jesus Christ. If you're a preacher listening to me and [clears throat] you're known for your laying on of hands and the visions you have and the dreams you share, if you're listening to me and you go to one of those churches where every time you gather, you expect miracles to fall out and and people themselves fall out.

I'm telling you right now, that's dead religion. But pastor, it's the gifts of the spirit. You don't make more of the gifts of the spirit than you do of the gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ.

[applause] The gifts have their place, but they will never supersede the glory of Jesus. Amen. >> All of the gifts were given so that we could know Jesus better, so that we could help others know Jesus better.

And and you better be careful because there is a great emphasis these days on people having dreams and going to heaven and meeting with Jesus and Jesus walking into their home. I've told you all this before. I won't stop telling you about this because it is a it's tragically infiltrating the church and people will run to that church because they give out prophecies.

Let me tell you something. I didn't just let me go ahead and say it. The stat the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Revelation chapter 20. If you're trying to get a prophecy about yourself or your job or your children or your anything, you are doing the wrong thing. Prophecy is about declaring Jesus.

I just quoted it to you. The spirit of prophecy is the spirit OF JESUS, THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS. YOU WANT REAL PROPHECY IN YOUR LIFE?

LET SOMEBODY TELL YOU more about Jesus. Walk in the spirit. Live in the word.

You'll know what the miraculous is all about. >> That didn't go over too well, did it? We've actually had people leave this church and go to a church because they have prophetic utterances there.

Uh, well, I I I love this church and I love you, pastor, and my goodness, I love the choir, but I need to get to a church where the spirit is moving. The pastor can prophesy at that church. He has dreams and visions, and what they're looking for is something other than Jesus.

So, all of a sudden, you're back into dead works again. They don't mean a thing because until Jesus is glorified and magnified in everything, the spirit of Jesus is not there. >> So, it's not about Old Testament tradition and it's not about the gifts of the spirit today and it's not about Israel.

You know, the Bible has a lot to say about Israel and Jews. None of us would be here today if it hadn't been for Abraham and Israel. Our savior was a Jewish carpenter.

The apostles were Jewish. The Bible's written by Jewish people mostly except for Luke and one or two others. We we owe a great debt to the nation of Israel, the people of Israel.

We appreci appreciate them more than they appreciate themselves. We have salvation from the Jews and the son of David whose name is Jesus. [clears throat] But let me just tell you something about this whole Jewish thing.

And we have Jews sitting here. So they're going, "All right, yeah, let's hear this now." Okay. I I really get disturbed when I see people like you and people like you online trying to revert to Jewish practices, uh, blowing a chauffear, wearing the, uh, talit prayer prayer cloth, the yamas, and I've even had some guys try to grow their hair in little uh, curly locks.

And what's the deal? Well, Jewish. I'm Jewish.

What's so special about being Jewish? Ask a Jew if it's special to be a Jew. There's nothing special about being Jewish.

You see, we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. >> So there there's nothing super special about being a Jew. You still need Jesus.

Jesus said to a Jew named Nicodemus, "You must be born again." So what is the deal? We know that Abraham had two sons. One was Isaac and the other was Ishmael.

Paul says very plainly that Ishmael was born of the flesh. It was a a biological child from his flesh, from his own desire. And he had another son, Isaac, who was a son of promise.

God said, "Through you and through him, through Isaac shall your seed be called." So you've got two strains. You've got the fleshly and you've got the line of the promise, the fleshly and the spiritual. So you can be a biological Jew and die and go to hell.

Then you can be a spiritual Jew. And that's the kind of Jew Abraham was. And that's the only kind of Jew that's going to make it to heaven.

The Jew that says, "I believe Jesus Christ is the Messiah." You are not going to heaven because you are Jewish. There is no special covenant that God has made about salvation. His covenant was made to Israel for a land and God is going to give them that land one of these days and multiply it.

Now, I know that stirs up controversy and people like me are called Zionists because we believe that God really did promise Israel that land and they say, "You mean those people over there that are attacking everybody?" They're not attacking everybody. They're defending themselves. God made a promise with those people.

Even though they are in darkness right now, they are in blindness. They don't know the truth right now. THEY ARE AN AGNOSTIC, atheistic nation right now.

But in that little nation, in that egg of a people, God has a seed. God has a remnant. And during the great tribulation, when many of the Jews are going to pledge their allegiance to the Antichrist and receive the mark of THE BEAST AND SIGN A covenant with the man of sin, THERE WILL BE A REMNANT, A remnant of Jews who will say, "No, sir." And God will have moved on them, 12,000 from 12 tribes.

That's 144,000 evangelists that will say, "We finally see who the Messiah is. We pierced him. We crucified him.

And he WAS OUR BROTHER AND OUR SAVIOR ALL ALONG. BUT NOW WE RECOGNIZE HIM. AND WE WILL DECLARE HIM THROUGHOUT this world.

DURING THIS GREAT TRIBULATION, WE WILL TELL THEM THERE IS ONLY ONE SAVIOR, only one Lord. HIS NAME IS JESUS CHRIST. And [applause] and you understand, don't you, that we will already be in heaven.

I'd love to preach this. I just can't preach it enough. Today in Christ, there is no Jew.

You're not a Jew anymore, Ken. Huh? Hey, he just did it.

Can you believe that? I don't know if Tracy's up there OR NOT. TRACE, YOU'RE NOT A JEW.

YOU MAY HAVE BEEN BORN BIOLOGICALLY as a Jew, BUT YOU GOT BORN AGAIN. AND NOW YOU'RE BORN OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD. AND NOW YOU'RE TRULY THE SEED OF ABRAHAM SPIRITUALLY.

In fact, I want to read something to you. Is this offending anybody? Oh, I don't care.

I just want you to know this. Listen. HERE'S WHAT THE APOSTLE PAUL HERE'S WHAT THE ULTIMATE JEW SAID.

He said, "HE IS NOT A JEW who is one outwardly, NOR IS CIRCUMCISION THAT WHICH IS outward in the flesh, BUT HE is a Jew who is one inwardly. AND CIRCUMCISION IS THAT OF THE HEART IN THE SPIRIT, NOT IN THE LETTER OF THE LAW, WHOSE PRAISE IS NOT FROM MEN, BUT FROM GOD." SEE, THAT MAKES ME A JEW. I'M OF THE SEED OF ABRAHAM BECAUSE I'M WALKING BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT.

I PUT MY FAITH IN SOMETHING I CANNOT EVEN SEE YET. THAT'S THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM. ABRAHAM WENT OUT NOT KNOWING WHERE HE WAS GOING, BUT HE WAS LOOKING FOR A CITY THAT HAD FOUNDATIONS WHOSE BUILDER AND MAKER WAS GOD.

>> [applause] >> What does what does and you you you just need to keep this in mind too. Paul throws this little verse of scripture in in Romans. The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

Did you hear that? When God gives you a gift, he does not revoke it. When God calls you to do something, he does not uncall you.

The gifts and calling of God, old King James says, are without repentance. Meaning God will not change his mind. The New King James, the Young King James, AND ALL THE others say irrevocable.

Once it's done, it's done. Now, if I weren't proper and if I weren't professional, I WOULD DANCE AN OUTER JIG RIGHT NOW BECAUSE PRAISE GOD FOREVER. I'VE BEEN BOUGHT [screaming] WITH BLOOD AND SANCTIFIED BY THE SPIRIT AND I BELONG TO GOD AND HE BOUGHT ME AND HE CALLED ME AND IT'S IRREVOCABLE.

>> I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE NOT PRAISING GOD THIS MORNING. >> [applause] >> So here's how Paul said it to the Philippians. Philippians chapter 3.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you was not tedious, but for you it is safe. Beware of dogs.

People get on me all the time for calling names from the pullpit. They say, "I'm casting as aspersions and I'm being disrespectful." Paul said, "Beware of dogs." He called those Judaizers dogs. People going into the congregation of the righteous and saying, "Sure, Jesus is Messiah, but you still got to keep the law.

You still have to do the legal stuff." He said, "That's they're they're dogs. Beware of evil workers. They're there.

Beware of the mutilation. Beware of people coming in and telling the men, "You must be circumcised or you cannot be saved." Here's how Paul said it. We are the circumcision.

That means we are Jews. I wish God had chosen some different uh language, but he didn't. We are the circumcision who now this this is what makes an Abrahamic Jew out of you.

A spiritual Jew. We worship God in the spirit. We rejoice in Jesus Christ and we have no confidence in the flesh.

That's it. We worship God in the spirit. That means with joy and energy.

That means we are aggressive and hungry. IT MEANS WE ARE EXCITED AND WE'RE not ashamed of it. We worship God IN THE SPIRIT.

>> THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP HIM IN spirit and in truth. Then he said, "We rejoice in Jesus Christ. WE GET HAPPY about Jesus.

LET HIM THAT GLORIES glory in the Lord. I WILL MAKE MY BOAST IN THE LORD. I'M HAPPY BECAUSE OF WHAT JESUS DID.

MY SOUL IS FULL. MY CUP IS RUNNING OVER BECAUSE OF WHO JESUS IS IN MY LIFE. I'M FULL OF JESUS AND JESUS is all over me.

I rejoice in Jesus Christ. SOMEBODY SAY AMEN. >> AMEN.

>> THIRD, and we have no confidence in the flesh. Nothing we can do, nothing we have done, no amount of fasting, working, giving or anything else can impress God. We cannot earn anything from God.

So the flesh, anything we do in our own effort, in our own knowledge is zero, nada. WE HAVE NO confidence in the flesh. I HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN ME.

I'VE ALREADY PROVEN to me what I CAN BE. I'VE ALREADY listened to me talk and I've already seen the thoughts that I have. Haven't you?

I'VE ALREADY SAID things I didn't MEAN TO SAY. I'VE ALREADY BEEN UNFAITHFUL ENOUGH THAT GOD SHOULD have kicked ME OUT. THAT'S WHAT I DO IN THE FLESH.

THAT'S WHO I AM IN THE FLESH. I CAN'T LIVE ONE HALF SECOND to the glory of God without the presence OF GOD. SO THERE'S NOTHING TO GLORY IN EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST, THE RISEN SON OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD.

Christ is in me. But it sure doesn't feel like it sometimes, does it? That was preaching.

Now I'm going to start poking. All that's good and we love that kind of preaching, but it doesn't seem like that I have that kind of supernatural inside of me. Is it Is Jesus that silent?

Is this mighty work that he's doing that unnoticeable in me? What about this thing of prayer? I heard my wife talking to somebody.

No, she was texting. No, she was talking on the phone and I knew it was just going on and on. I was sitting there eating something.

She's on the phone and this person was saying, "Everything has gone wrong. [clears throat and cough] This is really bad. This is a hard situation we're in right now.

People that made promises, didn't keep them. Things are just totally all messed up. Anybody say amen?

And I heard Sister Sandra say, "Well, I don't know what to tell you cuz I've sure been praying for you, but it looks like my prayers don't do much. You're just going to stare at me or say, "I know that's right. I've felt that way before." And I thought, "Wow, I've been praying for you, but it doesn't look like my prayers are working that much." I read one of the strangest stories in Second Kings chapter 6.

All I'm going to do is highlight it. Samaria had besieged Israel. I'm sorry.

Syria had besieged Samaria in Israel. You know what it means to lay siege? It means they surrounded them and wouldn't let anybody go in or come out.

They would not let them bring food in or water or anything else. They were going to starve them to death. And in that passage, the king is walking around totally defeated.

Now, I'm going to, you know, abbreviate this. And the prophet Elisha walked up and said, "What the problem?" King said, "What do you mean, what's the problem? Look, here's the problem.

The Bible says, and I don't get this, a donkey's head sold for like, I'm going to make up numbers, like $20. A donkey head. And dove dung was selling for like $6 an ounce.

That's what people were eating. Boiling donkey heads and eating dove dung to stay alive. That's how bad the famine was.

And the prophet comes along and says, "What's the problem? The king said, "You tell me." And the prophet said, "About this time tomorrow, you'll have so much that you won't know what to do with it." And somebody in the background said, "Even if God opened the windows of heaven and poured out everything up there, that could not happen." And Elisha said, "Oh, it'll happen and you'll see it, but you won't get to eat any of it." Did you get that? About this time tomorrow, you'll have so much that you won't know what to do with it.

So, what happened? See, God saw them in their plight. God heard them feeling, "This is as bad as it gets and it won't get any better.

I don't know what to do." And God said, "I do." So God caused the Samarans to hear things that weren't there. I should say the Syrians. He caused them to hear chariots and horses and armies coming.

Not a horse moved, not a man moved, but God caused them to hear great armies coming to defeat them. And what did they do? They ran for their lives.

They left their tents. They left everything in their tents. They left their livestock.

They left their cattle, their horses, their silver, their gold, their clothes. They ran with the clothes on their back. Four lepers were just outside the camp and they looked at each other and said, "What are we doing out here?

If we stay here, we're going to die. Let's just go in and see if the Syrians will let us live. We're going to die either way.

If they kill us, we die or we're going to die out here." And so they went in and said, "Whoa, there's nobody here." And they started going into tents and looking around and there was food stacked up and there was gold and jewels and their horses tied up and donkeys and they said, "What in the world?" And they started putting things in their pockets and started eating and they'd go, the Bible said they went from one tent to another eating. And then one of them said, "This is not right. A good thing has happened today and we need to go tell the king." So they went and told the king and to make a long beautiful story short the king sent emissaries down there and they came back and said king you won't believe it that whole army is gone and everything they own is scattered from here to the river and when the king told the people they rushed out in a mad mob and they came back carrying so much stuff they had to drag it and make one trip after another Just like the prophet said, by this time tomorrow, YOU'LL HAVE MORE THAN YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH.

I CAME TO TELL SOMEBODY IN 24 HOURS, GOD IS ABLE TO TURN EVERYTHING AROUND. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT GOD IS DOING. YOU HAVE NO IDEA.

[applause] You're looking at it the way it IS NOW, BUT GOD ALREADY KNOWS WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO. I'M NOT saying that everybody in here today is going to see an answer in 24 hours. It didn't work that way always.

I know that Peter was in jail at night. God delivered him AT NIGHT. AND PAUL AND SILAS WERE IN JAIL at night and God delivered them AT NIGHT.

I KNOW JOSEPH WAS IN PRISON FOR about 18 years. I KNOW DANIEL WAS IN A LION'S DEN ALL ALL NIGHT LONG. I DON'T KNOW WHEN GOD WILL DO IT.

WHAT I KNOW IS WHAT GOD LOVES, [screaming] GOD TAKES CARE OF. ALL I KNOW IS WHENEVER THE TIME IS RIGHT, WHEN THE APPOINTED TIME COMES, GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF IT for you. [applause] I should quit right now, but I don't feel like it.

He's still the God that turns sorrow into joy. >> IT LOOKED PRETTY BAD THAT NIGHT IN THE GARDEN, didn't it when Jesus was neglected, rejected by his own? IT LOOKED PRETTY BAD AT THE FOOT OF THE OLD RUGGED cross that day.

If you had stood there with his mother and his disciples and said, "Not looking too good right now, is it?" They said, "NOT RIGHT NOW." BUT GOD ALREADY KNEW THAT IN 72 HOURS THAT SAME CRUCIFIED JESUS WOULD WALK OUT OF A TOMB WITH VICTORY OVER DEATH AND HELL AND THE GRAVE. AND IF GOD COULD DO THAT, HE CAN DO ANYTHING ELSE HE WANTS TO DO IN your life. Stand with me, please.

>> I tell you, I had fun preaching that. I mean, I had fun preaching that. Praise God forever.

I have an impression right now. I want to say to somebody somewhere because you retired. That doesn't mean you're out of the loop.

You may be really sick and can't get out. That doesn't mean you're out of the loop. [snorts] You see, God doesn't just work in you when you are working for him or busy about his business.

God never stops working. And he won't until you stand before him [music] on that day. Praise God.

Does this make any sense to anybody? I know I had a good time, but [applause] I don't know when. I really don't know how, but I know he will.

I felt like pausing right there for a moment because what he does for Pastor Greg's situation may be quicker than what he does for mine. It may and it will totally be in a different way. But Christ in you, do you think that the creator of the universe living inside of you is going to let his work fall short in you?

Do you think he's going to let you be disappointed in what he's doing? Absolutely not. So, you can rejoice in Jesus Christ [music] today as you worship God in the spirit.

>> [snorts] >> You can walk out of this building knowing what God started, God will finish just just because he deserves it. Can we lift our hands and praise this precious Lord Jesus? [music] Thank you Lord.

Praise you Lord. Praise you, Lord. Father, I'm asking now for that person.

And I do believe there's one somewhere saying he read my mind. Pastor read my mind this morning. No, I didn't.

God read your heart. >> Amen. And God put this in my heart to tell you.

He'll do it. What he promised, he will do. If you don't know Jesus, Jesus.

[music] That's all I'm saying. Jesus. I'm not saying if you need a church to join.

I'm just saying [music] if you need your sins forgiven and your life turned around, Jesus is the only one. And as we dismiss this morning, if you come down [music] and want to pray that prayer of repentance toward God, we will stand here and pat you on the back and welcome you to the family of God. Until then, may the Lord make his face shine on you.

May he lift up his countenance on you and [music] give you peace. Walk out of here bravely and boldly because Christ is in you. Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.

Amen. Love you, church. and we'll see you Wednesday night.