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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We can look back on Adam and Eve and say, man,
that was dumb. The only thing you had to do
is not eat the apple. I know that it wasn't
an apple tree. God says, don't eat the apple. Eat
the pear, Eat the peach, Eat the orange, eat the pomegranate,
Eat the cocanut, Eat the watermelon, Eat the lemon, the lime,
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eat anything but the apple. What is it about this
apple He's trying to keep me from. We are going.
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We are child.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's time for Sunday Supper and time to feast on
God's words. Sunday Supper is a ministry of christ Church
for the End Times. Christ Church for the End Times
is a non denominational teaching church which ministry. Our mission
is to help prepare God's people for life and ministry
during the times in which we live. Join us on
Wednesdays at six thirty pm for a dynamic, practical, engaging,
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and life changing Bible study and on Sunday mornings at
ten thirty am for a weekly church service. But for now,
let's feast at the Lord's table. Here's today's message, already
in progress, one.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Life. We amen. Pra Scott, from whom all blessings flow.
Our message today is going to be kind of simple
and straightforward. You know that's going to be a challenge
for Pastor Benner. Right at the title of our message
is the simple Things. The simple things are those things
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that are easily understood. They're easily done. They're not difficult.
They're basic. They're not too complicated in form of nature, origin,
or design, what have you. They're just simple. A lot
of times we make the things of God much more
complicated and complex than they really need to be. The
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Bible says that the way is so plain, it is
so simple that even a fool can air therein. When
I look at the scriptures and so forth, I find
that God just give it to us plain by almost
any measure, where God wants a require of us is
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given to us in simple form. It's not complex, it's
not complicated. There's nothing hard. There's nothing too difficult to understand,
nothing too sophisticated, nothing too teching. You know, some of
us when we see a computer, Oh it's a computer.
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You can get the Bible on app but you can
read it on paper. You can even read it on
parchment if you want to do so. If you don't
want to read it now, it'll just speak to you why.
It's simple. God wants to give us the simple things
so that we can be confident enough that we can
do what he's instructing or asking or requiring us to do.
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One of the things that God does. Also, in addition
to giving us the simple things, he empowers us to
do what He has instructed us to do. Therefore, none
of us would have any excuse of standing before God
and saying, Lord, I really would have, but it was
just too hard. You ever asked him whe to do
something and they say, oh, that's just too hard. Not
the simple things. The simple things are easy. They're straightforward.
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Why because they're simple, nothing too complex about them, nothing
too difficult or hard. And Isaiah chapter one, in verse nineteen.
I love this scripture. It talks about the simple things
that God gives us, and it monishes us in some ways.
He said, if you're willing and obedient, you shall eat
the good of the land. It's easy for us to
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do and to receive the reward of doing the simple things.
And Proverbs are going to read a couple of scriptures
for you. One is Proverbs thirteen and nineteen, and others
Matthew eleven twenty eight through thirty. Proverbs thirteen and fifteen says,
good understanding giveth favor, but the way of the transgressor
is hard. The simple things become more challenging and more
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difficult when we don't want to do them. But by
their nature, the simple things are simple. They're easy, they're straightforward.
Our challenge is that many times we don't want to
do the simple things. And Matthew eleven and twenty eight
it says, come unto me, all ye that labor and
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my
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yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I meet
and lowly in heart, and you this is your reward.
Shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy,
and my burden they're light. They're simple. Nothing too hard
about the burdens of the Lord, nothing too complex or complicated.
He will even help you to bear him. Why because
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He always gives us the simple things. Isn't that great?
Isn't it good to know that everything that God instructs
or tells us to do, we can do it. And
to ensure that we can do it, he empowers us
with his strength, his grace, which is his empowerment also,
so that we can do them. Even when you're going
through some of the challenges of life, God empowers us.
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When Paul was going through his throwing in the flesh,
as we read in scripture, he sought the Lord three times.
He sought the Lord, say, Lord, heal me, deliver me.
Whatever did I need, Give it to me. And God
responds to him, Paul, my grace is enough for you.
My strength. It's made complete perfect in your weakness. Why
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because He gives us the simple things. When the Lord
gave me this, I was thinking about Adam, and I
was thinking about Eve in the garden. You know, you
look from Genesis to Revelation, and you'll see how people
just messed up, mess up their lives, messed up other
people's lives, and so forth. And one of the things
that you will see is that when they messed up,
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it wasn't because of anything too hard, anything too difficult.
It was always because they elected not to do the
simple things. Look at your name and tell him you
gotta do the simple stuff. God does whatever he do
or to us in ways that are so simple that
even a fool can't mess it up unless they just
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elect to do. So. You know, one of the things
I did when just kind of studying a little bit
on the Scripture, I looked up the word simple. Every
time it presented itself in the Bible, pretty much without exception,
it always talk about the simple tons, the ones that
the Bible equate to fools, those that do stupid stuff.
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Look at the name of Ask them, do you do
stupid stuff? Ask them? Come on, you got to be honest,
ask them, how often do you do stupid stuff? See,
that's what simple tons do. Sometimes in mental health, in
the mental health sense, it talks about being simple as
those that don't have all the marbles up there, a
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few fries short of a small fry, you know, the
happiness without the happy you know. Oh, but that's not
what we want to talk about today. If that's where
you are, just tolerate us. We know you can't really
kind of get it, but we understand. But we still
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going to try our best to keep it simple, just
for you and for me too. The simple things you
see in the garden of eating, God brought you know,
Adam or eat. There wasn't created in the garden. Sometimes
we read the script you would think they were creating
in the garden. But they wasn't. God literally planted the garden,
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put everything in there for them, everything they could have wanted,
even some things that they didn't even know they wanted
to need it. And God told them something simple, here's
the garden till it. Just go out there and enjoy yourself.
Eat anything that you come along, anything you want to eat,
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eat it, except for one simple thing that there's a
tree in the middle of the garden. Don't eat it.
Isn't that simple, straightforward, nothing difficult, nothing too hard to understand,
nothing too complicated or complex, nothing secret to it. It
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is plain and what simple. Guess what those rascals did.
They did exactly what God told them not to do.
They did not. It's not that they could not. They
did not do what the simple thing, and we're all
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paying the price for it until this very day. Why
because they did not do what the simple thing, just
one simple thing they had to do, and for some reason,
it's not that they couldn't do it. Because God will
never tell you to do something that you can't do.
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He also will not tell you to do something that
He will not empower you to do. So it comes
back to what the Scripture was talking about in Isaiah
one in nineteen. It is a matter of whether we
are not only willing. Some of us we are willing.
That does not matter. Also whether or not we are obedient.
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Jesus told the disciples when he was in the garden
of Gathsemone to do something simple. Pray for me, Pray
with me, watch him pray. Nothing too hard about that.
You walked with Jesus for three years. You saw him pray.
You asked him to teach you to pray, and he
taught you to pray. He told you not to pray
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like the Schrist and the Pharisees. So no form nor fashion.
You don't have to dress, no funny kind of way
in order to pray. You just got to go down
and say our Father, pray to your Heaven and Father.
The simple stuff. Tell God what's on your heart, tell
him what's on your mind, Tell him what you need.
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Jesus said, Pray with me, Pray for me. Why so
you won't enter into temptation. The simple thing. What did
those rascals do. Jesus leave to go pray a little
bit beyond them, left them, told them to pray. What
did they do? Went to sleep, the scripture says, because
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they will sleepy sometimes sleep, other things, busyness, All these
things interfere with some of the simple things that God
instructs us to do. You ever had that thing that
it's really just kind of easy, straight forward, but you
just didn't feel like doing it, and it was the
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hardest thing to do. So the simple things can be
very very important things, not just for us, but also
for those whom our lives will impact and influence. You see,
simple things many times will conflict with our will, our desires,
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and whatever. Again, willingness is one of the first steps.
You gotta be willing. But next thing is and this
is the thing that gets most of us in trouble.
This is where we diverge from the things of God.
As Isaiah said, you're willing, but you also has to
be obedient. The obedient part of that is where we
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have a tendency to run into loggerheads when it comes
to God. We want to do what the simple thing says,
don't do. It's not that the simple thing it may
or may not say don't do it, but to do
it will conflict with what the simple thing is telling
us to do. And so with us. We just bent
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on doing what we want to do, and therefore we
mess everything up. And again that's where we're here today.
You know what I'm saying. We I'm talking about humanity, mankind.
You see and look back on Adam and Eve and say, man,
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that was dumb. The only thing you had to do
is not eat the apple. I know that it wasn't
an apple tree, and the Bible didn't say the apple
tree the tree of nod is a good and evil.
But just go along with me. God says, don't eat
the apple, eat the peer, eat the peach, eat the orange,
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eat the pomegranate, Eat the coconnut, eat the watermelon, eat
the lemon, the lime, eat anything but the apple. And
in our heart, I mind, why don't you want me
to eat the apple? What is it about this apple?
He's trying to keep me from see? What we don't
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understand is that we have that tendency to want to
override the will of God. Can I tell you a
little secret. You're not big enough, you're not strung, you're
not bad enough. You're not smart enough to out smart
outdo God. If God tells you not to eat a
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simple thing, do yourself and all of us are favor.
Don't eat the simple thing. Do what God tells you
to do. Sometimes that means telling yourself no. Sometimes it
means you know, I don't want to do it, but
I want to do it anyway. You don't have any excuse.
Put yourself in Adam in the east place. God tell you
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to do something straightforward and simple, right, you can do it.
So you did it anyway. You did the opposite of
what God told you to do. Now you get called
on the carpet, what are you gonna say, Well, Lord,
I couldn't do it. You're not that simple, right? No,
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what within human nature for us us to do? We
kind of like the scarecrow and the Wizard of Ours
was the scarecrow when it's trying to get direction which
way to go? He said that way, and then it's
that way. We want to point the finger of blame
against everybody else, but confessing that I did it. The
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Bible says, if we confess our sins, he's faithful, and
he's faithful to forgive us of our sins. But what
we do is that woman you gave me. If it
wasn't for her, I would have never eaten of that
tree maybe not see a lot of times we don't
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realize a lot of times the guests that God gives
us will be so important to us that we will
replace God with them. We reject God because we like
the thing that God gave us. Unfortunately, that's what we
failed far too many times to do. So what I
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want to encourage all of us to do is to
do the simple things. That's what God wants to encourage
us to do, the simple things. But there will be
things that you want that will impose themselves upon you
so that you won't do what God has instructed you
to do. Sometimes I wonder how, not only how we
would be, but how Adam and Eve would be. What
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would we know all those things that we fail to
know and understand because Adam and Eve decided that they
did not want to do that one simple thing. What
about your life? What about my life? What about our lives?
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How would our world be today if we just simply
did the simple things. Look at the problems of the world.
When you look at them in reality, they're not too
big to solve. Tell me one problem murder? Is it
an impossibility not to murder someone? You just choose not
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to do so guess what it ceased? Just like that? Why?
Because it's simple, vowels shall not kill? What's hard about that?
The question that we can ask ourselves is that would
you want someone to kill you? Now we know that
some people these days, they become so weary that they
may want someone to do that, But not if you're
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healthy mentally, physically, what have you? The simple thing? Would
it be as many sickness and diseases? If we just
did the simple thing, love your neighbor as you love yourself,
you won't be creating drugs that would take people out
because they're looking for hope and you're giving them a
false hope. Oh it'll kill to us, but it's gonna
make you worse on this. You ever seen some of
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these drug commercials. Oh, it'll take away your headache, watch
out for death, kill murderer, might cost you great, suicide,
all these other kind of things for I head itch
the simple things. See, if you love your neighbor as
you love yourself, you would say no, I think we
need to work on this one a little while longer,
until we eliminate the side effects. You gotta watch out
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for those side effects. See it's the side effects of
eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil that got us all into trouble.
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The side of facts. Look at you, they've been telling you.
You gotta watch out for those side effects. They will
mess you up. So it's important for us to be willing,
but it's also important for us to be obedient.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And the Bible says, God says, just like he told
Adam and Eve, the same he's told everybody else. He's
telling us, we will eat the good of the land. Now,
if you had to choose between not eating the good
of the land, the best that the world has to offer,
and eating the best that the world has to offer,
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and the only thing you had to do is the
simple things. You got to be willing to do what
God tells you to do, and then you got to
do it just that simple. But for the life of me,
most of us, yeah, I think not, and we won't
do it. Sometime we set up, we listen to sermons
and all the other good stuff, and then he's, oh,
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that was a good message, and we do what we're
going to do anyway. Why because we reject the simple
things of God. And really that's the only reason why
the preachers are preaching anyway supposedly, we know nowadays people
don't do that simple thing of just sharing with God
tells them with the people. They come up with stuff
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on their own. Why because what God says isn't as
entertaining enough. People won't listen, people won't tolerate it. Whatever,
So we come up with our own way of doing things. Okay,
if you want to do that, you gotta understand that
when you do, there's a side effect. And we see
that side effect playing out throughout our society today. Why
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because people elect they choose on their own accord, of
their own volition, not to do the simple things. Looking
at your neighbor and tell them, whisper in the ear,
You don't have to get close to him, but tell
them you got to do the simple things. You gotta
do the simple things. Thinks there will be no excuses,
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There will be no finger pointing excuses. Didn't work for
Adam and Eve. It doesn't matter. Say well the woman
you gave me did doesn't But well the serving it
doesn't matter. You know what matters is whether or not
you did the simple thing. Simply put, what the God
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tell you too a not to do you always tell
us to do the simple things. If he says, the
love your Lord, the Lord your God, with all your heart, mind,
sould in scrimth, guess what, simple and straight forward. Guess
what you gotta do. Love the Lord your God with
all your heart, mind, sould in spirit, and he says,
you love me, You're gonna do the simple thing. You're
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gonna do what I tell you. So if you live
your life in disobedience to God, in God's mind's eye,
you don't love him. But we will say, yes, I
love you. God is saying, but do are you doing
what I'm asking you to do? Nobody? I still love you. No, no, no, no,
no no no, because our sin separates us from God,
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and you don't want to be separated from those whom
you love, So you can't be separated from me and
love me too well. I love you from a distance.
No no, no, no no no no no. There's just
too much room. There's too much place for something or
someone to come in between us. This is why you
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got to love him with all your heart, with all
your mind, with all your heart, with all your soul,
with everything that you have. In order to do that,
you got to do the simple things simply put, you
gotta do with God tell you to do, and He's
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His yoke is easy, His burdens alike, and he will
empower you, even assist you in carrying them if it
becomes too difficult for you. In second and first SEMy
chapter fifteen, I love verse twenty two, one of my
favorite verses in the Bible. Saul was the first king
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of Israel, and he was an interesting little character. He
had an inferiority complex. God told him that call him out.
He was chasing donkeys trying to find his dad's donkeys,
and destiny caught up with him. God had a plan
for his life. Why because he was the perfect one
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for the job. Always remember also that God, if God
calls you to do anything, you're the perfect one for
the job. Never compare yourself to someone else. Never look
at history and see what they've done in history and
how great there were, and you want to be as
good or better than they are, and whatever doesn't matter.
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Always know that when it comes to what God has
called you to do, you are the very best person
on the planet to do the job. God knows everyone
that lives on the earth presently pass or will live,
and God knows that you're the best one to do
what he's called you to do. So you got and
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what he calls you do may just be plain and simple,
but guess what, You're the best one to do it,
and what he calls you to do is important. It
is key. It could be small in your eyes, it
could be great in your eyes. Well it's small or great.
You got to understand that it's important, it's key. No
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one can do that job as well as you. Saul
Inferiordic complex call him to be the king, forwarded for
him kind of soorter to be the king. They got
ready to coordinate. This rascal and this a tall guy big.
The only thing he had to do is one simple thing,
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that one simple thing says, here am I, and guess what.
That rascal was nowhere to be found. They said he
was hiding among the stuff. That rascal was hiding behind
the luggage because he was scared to do the job.
Because a lot of times we look at something new,
I've never done it before. Look at the things around
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you that was never done before someone decided to say
I can do it. You gotta understand we are always
engaging in something new and different. But a lot of
times we engage in those new and different things, hiding
behind something else just in case they don't turn out right.
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But when all that is script away, and you gotta
stand at the fore and you gotta and you gotta
come fast that I can do it, that's when we
start getting weakened. The knees but start shaking and so forth,
because we are self focused, self conscious and what have you.
But you got to take a simple approach to this thing.
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We gotta look at us through the eyes of God.
We got to begin to say, if God told me
to do it, and if there's eight billion people on
the planet, he knows every eight billion of them, one
by one everything there is about them, and he knows
the abilities, their capabilities, and so forth, and out of
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eight billion people, he choose you to do this one thing,
and this one thing is key to his will, planning purpose.
He will always choose his best. He choose his best
because he loved everyone that's going to be impacted by
the things that he calls you to do. And so therefore,
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when we call to the forefront, we need to look
at who we are in God, not who we are
in the flesh. The Bible says, judge no man according
to the flesh, that includes yourself. Don't even judge you
according to your flesh. Well, I'm not smart enough, I'm
not wise enough, i don't speak right. I'm too dark,
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I'm too light, I'm too skinny, I'm too fat. I'm
to this, I'm to that. You're gonna always come up
with excuses, they say, what you're not good enough to do?
You know why you're trying to talk yourself out of it?
What will our life look like if we talked ourselves
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into some things that we've been talking ourselves out of.
That's why it's so important for us to step out
there and try. I'm reminder of Peter when he, you know,
the other disciple was on the boat and the winds
and the waves was more stressed, and they saw Jesus
walking on the water. And then Peter said, well, Lord,
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if it is you, let me come on the water.
What's your Jesus? Okay, come on. Peter got out of
the boat and he started walking on the water, and
he was doing a great job until he began to
look at the circumstances. I don't supposed to be doing this.
Those winnows are doll going. What in the world have
I gotten myself into? And as he began to look
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at the circumstances, he began to sing. Peter says, Lord,
help me, and guess what The Lord is right there
help him. The same thing would happen in your life.
If God has instructed you to do something, do it.
If you get in the midst of it, all of
a sudden, seem that you're sinking. It's call on the Lord.
He'll help you out there. You know one thing he
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never told Peter. Why didn't you wait and stay in
the boat? You know what he told Peter? Why did
you doubt yourself? Why did you look at the circumstances.
Why didn't you keep your eyes on me? Why didn't
you just continue on doing what you was doing? Guess
what you were doing it? They just don't give up.
But what we do many times, just like Peter, we'll
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step out there. Oh I can do that. I got
this idea for a business, I got this ideas for
a family, I got this idea for this and that
and whatever. I'm going to be the best. I'm going
to be bestiness. Then all of a sudden, the circumstances
not going to slap in the face, and we began
to break down capitulate under the weight of all the
circumstances because we departed from that simple little thing.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
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and be gracious into you. The Lord lift up his
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richest blessing always be upon you.
We can look back on Adam and Eve and say, man,
that was dumb. The only thing you had to do
is not eat the apple. I know that it wasn't
an apple tree. God says, don't eat the apple. Eat
the pear, Eat the peach, Eat the orange, eat the pomegranate,
Eat the cocanut, Eat the watermelon, Eat the lemon, the lime,
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eat anything but the apple. What is it about this
apple He's trying to keep me from. We are going.
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We are child.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's time for Sunday Supper and time to feast on
God's words. Sunday Supper is a ministry of christ Church
for the End Times. Christ Church for the End Times
is a non denominational teaching church which ministry. Our mission
is to help prepare God's people for life and ministry
during the times in which we live. Join us on
Wednesdays at six thirty pm for a dynamic, practical, engaging,
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and life changing Bible study and on Sunday mornings at
ten thirty am for a weekly church service. But for now,
let's feast at the Lord's table. Here's today's message, already
in progress, one.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Life. We amen. Pra Scott, from whom all blessings flow.
Our message today is going to be kind of simple
and straightforward. You know that's going to be a challenge
for Pastor Benner. Right at the title of our message
is the simple Things. The simple things are those things
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that are easily understood. They're easily done. They're not difficult.
They're basic. They're not too complicated in form of nature, origin,
or design, what have you. They're just simple. A lot
of times we make the things of God much more
complicated and complex than they really need to be. The
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Bible says that the way is so plain, it is
so simple that even a fool can air therein. When
I look at the scriptures and so forth, I find
that God just give it to us plain by almost
any measure, where God wants a require of us is
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given to us in simple form. It's not complex, it's
not complicated. There's nothing hard. There's nothing too difficult to understand,
nothing too sophisticated, nothing too teching. You know, some of
us when we see a computer, Oh it's a computer.
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You can get the Bible on app but you can
read it on paper. You can even read it on
parchment if you want to do so. If you don't
want to read it now, it'll just speak to you why.
It's simple. God wants to give us the simple things
so that we can be confident enough that we can
do what he's instructing or asking or requiring us to do.
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One of the things that God does. Also, in addition
to giving us the simple things, he empowers us to
do what He has instructed us to do. Therefore, none
of us would have any excuse of standing before God
and saying, Lord, I really would have, but it was
just too hard. You ever asked him whe to do
something and they say, oh, that's just too hard. Not
the simple things. The simple things are easy. They're straightforward.
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Why because they're simple, nothing too complex about them, nothing
too difficult or hard. And Isaiah chapter one, in verse nineteen.
I love this scripture. It talks about the simple things
that God gives us, and it monishes us in some ways.
He said, if you're willing and obedient, you shall eat
the good of the land. It's easy for us to
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do and to receive the reward of doing the simple things.
And Proverbs are going to read a couple of scriptures
for you. One is Proverbs thirteen and nineteen, and others
Matthew eleven twenty eight through thirty. Proverbs thirteen and fifteen says,
good understanding giveth favor, but the way of the transgressor
is hard. The simple things become more challenging and more
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difficult when we don't want to do them. But by
their nature, the simple things are simple. They're easy, they're straightforward.
Our challenge is that many times we don't want to
do the simple things. And Matthew eleven and twenty eight
it says, come unto me, all ye that labor and
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my
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yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I meet
and lowly in heart, and you this is your reward.
Shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy,
and my burden they're light. They're simple. Nothing too hard
about the burdens of the Lord, nothing too complex or complicated.
He will even help you to bear him. Why because
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He always gives us the simple things. Isn't that great?
Isn't it good to know that everything that God instructs
or tells us to do, we can do it. And
to ensure that we can do it, he empowers us
with his strength, his grace, which is his empowerment also,
so that we can do them. Even when you're going
through some of the challenges of life, God empowers us.
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When Paul was going through his throwing in the flesh,
as we read in scripture, he sought the Lord three times.
He sought the Lord, say, Lord, heal me, deliver me.
Whatever did I need, Give it to me. And God
responds to him, Paul, my grace is enough for you.
My strength. It's made complete perfect in your weakness. Why
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because He gives us the simple things. When the Lord
gave me this, I was thinking about Adam, and I
was thinking about Eve in the garden. You know, you
look from Genesis to Revelation, and you'll see how people
just messed up, mess up their lives, messed up other
people's lives, and so forth. And one of the things
that you will see is that when they messed up,
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it wasn't because of anything too hard, anything too difficult.
It was always because they elected not to do the
simple things. Look at your name and tell him you
gotta do the simple stuff. God does whatever he do
or to us in ways that are so simple that
even a fool can't mess it up unless they just
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elect to do. So. You know, one of the things
I did when just kind of studying a little bit
on the Scripture, I looked up the word simple. Every
time it presented itself in the Bible, pretty much without exception,
it always talk about the simple tons, the ones that
the Bible equate to fools, those that do stupid stuff.
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Look at the name of Ask them, do you do
stupid stuff? Ask them? Come on, you got to be honest,
ask them, how often do you do stupid stuff? See,
that's what simple tons do. Sometimes in mental health, in
the mental health sense, it talks about being simple as
those that don't have all the marbles up there, a
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few fries short of a small fry, you know, the
happiness without the happy you know. Oh, but that's not
what we want to talk about today. If that's where
you are, just tolerate us. We know you can't really
kind of get it, but we understand. But we still
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going to try our best to keep it simple, just
for you and for me too. The simple things you
see in the garden of eating, God brought you know,
Adam or eat. There wasn't created in the garden. Sometimes
we read the script you would think they were creating
in the garden. But they wasn't. God literally planted the garden,
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put everything in there for them, everything they could have wanted,
even some things that they didn't even know they wanted
to need it. And God told them something simple, here's
the garden till it. Just go out there and enjoy yourself.
Eat anything that you come along, anything you want to eat,
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eat it, except for one simple thing that there's a
tree in the middle of the garden. Don't eat it.
Isn't that simple, straightforward, nothing difficult, nothing too hard to understand,
nothing too complicated or complex, nothing secret to it. It
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is plain and what simple. Guess what those rascals did.
They did exactly what God told them not to do.
They did not. It's not that they could not. They
did not do what the simple thing, and we're all
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paying the price for it until this very day. Why
because they did not do what the simple thing, just
one simple thing they had to do, and for some reason,
it's not that they couldn't do it. Because God will
never tell you to do something that you can't do.
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He also will not tell you to do something that
He will not empower you to do. So it comes
back to what the Scripture was talking about in Isaiah
one in nineteen. It is a matter of whether we
are not only willing. Some of us we are willing.
That does not matter. Also whether or not we are obedient.
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Jesus told the disciples when he was in the garden
of Gathsemone to do something simple. Pray for me, Pray
with me, watch him pray. Nothing too hard about that.
You walked with Jesus for three years. You saw him pray.
You asked him to teach you to pray, and he
taught you to pray. He told you not to pray
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like the Schrist and the Pharisees. So no form nor fashion.
You don't have to dress, no funny kind of way
in order to pray. You just got to go down
and say our Father, pray to your Heaven and Father.
The simple stuff. Tell God what's on your heart, tell
him what's on your mind, Tell him what you need.
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Jesus said, Pray with me, Pray for me. Why so
you won't enter into temptation. The simple thing. What did
those rascals do. Jesus leave to go pray a little
bit beyond them, left them, told them to pray. What
did they do? Went to sleep, the scripture says, because
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they will sleepy sometimes sleep, other things, busyness, All these
things interfere with some of the simple things that God
instructs us to do. You ever had that thing that
it's really just kind of easy, straight forward, but you
just didn't feel like doing it, and it was the
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hardest thing to do. So the simple things can be
very very important things, not just for us, but also
for those whom our lives will impact and influence. You see,
simple things many times will conflict with our will, our desires,
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and whatever. Again, willingness is one of the first steps.
You gotta be willing. But next thing is and this
is the thing that gets most of us in trouble.
This is where we diverge from the things of God.
As Isaiah said, you're willing, but you also has to
be obedient. The obedient part of that is where we
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have a tendency to run into loggerheads when it comes
to God. We want to do what the simple thing says,
don't do. It's not that the simple thing it may
or may not say don't do it, but to do
it will conflict with what the simple thing is telling
us to do. And so with us. We just bent
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on doing what we want to do, and therefore we
mess everything up. And again that's where we're here today.
You know what I'm saying. We I'm talking about humanity, mankind.
You see and look back on Adam and Eve and say, man,
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that was dumb. The only thing you had to do
is not eat the apple. I know that it wasn't
an apple tree, and the Bible didn't say the apple
tree the tree of nod is a good and evil.
But just go along with me. God says, don't eat
the apple, eat the peer, eat the peach, eat the orange,
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eat the pomegranate, Eat the coconnut, eat the watermelon, eat
the lemon, the lime, eat anything but the apple. And
in our heart, I mind, why don't you want me
to eat the apple? What is it about this apple?
He's trying to keep me from see? What we don't
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understand is that we have that tendency to want to
override the will of God. Can I tell you a
little secret. You're not big enough, you're not strung, you're
not bad enough. You're not smart enough to out smart
outdo God. If God tells you not to eat a
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simple thing, do yourself and all of us are favor.
Don't eat the simple thing. Do what God tells you
to do. Sometimes that means telling yourself no. Sometimes it
means you know, I don't want to do it, but
I want to do it anyway. You don't have any excuse.
Put yourself in Adam in the east place. God tell you
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to do something straightforward and simple, right, you can do it.
So you did it anyway. You did the opposite of
what God told you to do. Now you get called
on the carpet, what are you gonna say, Well, Lord,
I couldn't do it. You're not that simple, right? No,
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what within human nature for us us to do? We
kind of like the scarecrow and the Wizard of Ours
was the scarecrow when it's trying to get direction which
way to go? He said that way, and then it's
that way. We want to point the finger of blame
against everybody else, but confessing that I did it. The
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Bible says, if we confess our sins, he's faithful, and
he's faithful to forgive us of our sins. But what
we do is that woman you gave me. If it
wasn't for her, I would have never eaten of that
tree maybe not see a lot of times we don't
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realize a lot of times the guests that God gives
us will be so important to us that we will
replace God with them. We reject God because we like
the thing that God gave us. Unfortunately, that's what we
failed far too many times to do. So what I
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want to encourage all of us to do is to
do the simple things. That's what God wants to encourage
us to do, the simple things. But there will be
things that you want that will impose themselves upon you
so that you won't do what God has instructed you
to do. Sometimes I wonder how, not only how we
would be, but how Adam and Eve would be. What
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would we know all those things that we fail to
know and understand because Adam and Eve decided that they
did not want to do that one simple thing. What
about your life? What about my life? What about our lives?
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How would our world be today if we just simply
did the simple things. Look at the problems of the world.
When you look at them in reality, they're not too
big to solve. Tell me one problem murder? Is it
an impossibility not to murder someone? You just choose not
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to do so guess what it ceased? Just like that? Why?
Because it's simple, vowels shall not kill? What's hard about that?
The question that we can ask ourselves is that would
you want someone to kill you? Now we know that
some people these days, they become so weary that they
may want someone to do that, But not if you're
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healthy mentally, physically, what have you? The simple thing? Would
it be as many sickness and diseases? If we just
did the simple thing, love your neighbor as you love yourself,
you won't be creating drugs that would take people out
because they're looking for hope and you're giving them a
false hope. Oh it'll kill to us, but it's gonna
make you worse on this. You ever seen some of
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these drug commercials. Oh, it'll take away your headache, watch
out for death, kill murderer, might cost you great, suicide,
all these other kind of things for I head itch
the simple things. See, if you love your neighbor as
you love yourself, you would say no, I think we
need to work on this one a little while longer,
until we eliminate the side effects. You gotta watch out
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for those side effects. See it's the side effects of
eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil that got us all into trouble.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
The side of facts. Look at you, they've been telling you.
You gotta watch out for those side effects. They will
mess you up. So it's important for us to be willing,
but it's also important for us to be obedient.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And the Bible says, God says, just like he told
Adam and Eve, the same he's told everybody else. He's
telling us, we will eat the good of the land. Now,
if you had to choose between not eating the good
of the land, the best that the world has to offer,
and eating the best that the world has to offer,
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and the only thing you had to do is the
simple things. You got to be willing to do what
God tells you to do, and then you got to
do it just that simple. But for the life of me,
most of us, yeah, I think not, and we won't
do it. Sometime we set up, we listen to sermons
and all the other good stuff, and then he's, oh,
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that was a good message, and we do what we're
going to do anyway. Why because we reject the simple
things of God. And really that's the only reason why
the preachers are preaching anyway supposedly, we know nowadays people
don't do that simple thing of just sharing with God
tells them with the people. They come up with stuff
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on their own. Why because what God says isn't as
entertaining enough. People won't listen, people won't tolerate it. Whatever,
So we come up with our own way of doing things. Okay,
if you want to do that, you gotta understand that
when you do, there's a side effect. And we see
that side effect playing out throughout our society today. Why
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because people elect they choose on their own accord, of
their own volition, not to do the simple things. Looking
at your neighbor and tell them, whisper in the ear,
You don't have to get close to him, but tell
them you got to do the simple things. You gotta
do the simple things. Thinks there will be no excuses,
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There will be no finger pointing excuses. Didn't work for
Adam and Eve. It doesn't matter. Say well the woman
you gave me did doesn't But well the serving it
doesn't matter. You know what matters is whether or not
you did the simple thing. Simply put, what the God
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tell you too a not to do you always tell
us to do the simple things. If he says, the
love your Lord, the Lord your God, with all your heart, mind,
sould in scrimth, guess what, simple and straight forward. Guess
what you gotta do. Love the Lord your God with
all your heart, mind, sould in spirit, and he says,
you love me, You're gonna do the simple thing. You're
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gonna do what I tell you. So if you live
your life in disobedience to God, in God's mind's eye,
you don't love him. But we will say, yes, I
love you. God is saying, but do are you doing
what I'm asking you to do? Nobody? I still love you. No, no, no, no,
no no no, because our sin separates us from God,
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and you don't want to be separated from those whom
you love, So you can't be separated from me and
love me too well. I love you from a distance.
No no, no, no no no no no. There's just
too much room. There's too much place for something or
someone to come in between us. This is why you
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got to love him with all your heart, with all
your mind, with all your heart, with all your soul,
with everything that you have. In order to do that,
you got to do the simple things simply put, you
gotta do with God tell you to do, and He's
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His yoke is easy, His burdens alike, and he will
empower you, even assist you in carrying them if it
becomes too difficult for you. In second and first SEMy
chapter fifteen, I love verse twenty two, one of my
favorite verses in the Bible. Saul was the first king
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of Israel, and he was an interesting little character. He
had an inferiority complex. God told him that call him out.
He was chasing donkeys trying to find his dad's donkeys,
and destiny caught up with him. God had a plan
for his life. Why because he was the perfect one
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for the job. Always remember also that God, if God
calls you to do anything, you're the perfect one for
the job. Never compare yourself to someone else. Never look
at history and see what they've done in history and
how great there were, and you want to be as
good or better than they are, and whatever doesn't matter.
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Always know that when it comes to what God has
called you to do, you are the very best person
on the planet to do the job. God knows everyone
that lives on the earth presently pass or will live,
and God knows that you're the best one to do
what he's called you to do. So you got and
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what he calls you do may just be plain and simple,
but guess what, You're the best one to do it,
and what he calls you to do is important. It
is key. It could be small in your eyes, it
could be great in your eyes. Well it's small or great.
You got to understand that it's important, it's key. No
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one can do that job as well as you. Saul
Inferiordic complex call him to be the king, forwarded for
him kind of soorter to be the king. They got
ready to coordinate. This rascal and this a tall guy big.
The only thing he had to do is one simple thing,
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that one simple thing says, here am I, and guess what.
That rascal was nowhere to be found. They said he
was hiding among the stuff. That rascal was hiding behind
the luggage because he was scared to do the job.
Because a lot of times we look at something new,
I've never done it before. Look at the things around
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you that was never done before someone decided to say
I can do it. You gotta understand we are always
engaging in something new and different. But a lot of
times we engage in those new and different things, hiding
behind something else just in case they don't turn out right.
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But when all that is script away, and you gotta
stand at the fore and you gotta and you gotta
come fast that I can do it, that's when we
start getting weakened. The knees but start shaking and so forth,
because we are self focused, self conscious and what have you.
But you got to take a simple approach to this thing.
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We gotta look at us through the eyes of God.
We got to begin to say, if God told me
to do it, and if there's eight billion people on
the planet, he knows every eight billion of them, one
by one everything there is about them, and he knows
the abilities, their capabilities, and so forth, and out of
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eight billion people, he choose you to do this one thing,
and this one thing is key to his will, planning purpose.
He will always choose his best. He choose his best
because he loved everyone that's going to be impacted by
the things that he calls you to do. And so therefore,
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when we call to the forefront, we need to look
at who we are in God, not who we are
in the flesh. The Bible says, judge no man according
to the flesh, that includes yourself. Don't even judge you
according to your flesh. Well, I'm not smart enough, I'm
not wise enough, i don't speak right. I'm too dark,
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I'm too light, I'm too skinny, I'm too fat. I'm
to this, I'm to that. You're gonna always come up
with excuses, they say, what you're not good enough to do?
You know why you're trying to talk yourself out of it?
What will our life look like if we talked ourselves
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into some things that we've been talking ourselves out of.
That's why it's so important for us to step out
there and try. I'm reminder of Peter when he, you know,
the other disciple was on the boat and the winds
and the waves was more stressed, and they saw Jesus
walking on the water. And then Peter said, well, Lord,
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if it is you, let me come on the water.
What's your Jesus? Okay, come on. Peter got out of
the boat and he started walking on the water, and
he was doing a great job until he began to
look at the circumstances. I don't supposed to be doing this.
Those winnows are doll going. What in the world have
I gotten myself into? And as he began to look
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at the circumstances, he began to sing. Peter says, Lord,
help me, and guess what The Lord is right there
help him. The same thing would happen in your life.
If God has instructed you to do something, do it.
If you get in the midst of it, all of
a sudden, seem that you're sinking. It's call on the Lord.
He'll help you out there. You know one thing he
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never told Peter. Why didn't you wait and stay in
the boat? You know what he told Peter? Why did
you doubt yourself? Why did you look at the circumstances.
Why didn't you keep your eyes on me? Why didn't
you just continue on doing what you was doing? Guess
what you were doing it? They just don't give up.
But what we do many times, just like Peter, we'll
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step out there. Oh I can do that. I got
this idea for a business, I got this ideas for
a family, I got this idea for this and that
and whatever. I'm going to be the best. I'm going
to be bestiness. Then all of a sudden, the circumstances
not going to slap in the face, and we began
to break down capitulate under the weight of all the
circumstances because we departed from that simple little thing.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Thank you for being with us today. I pray that
today's meal was a blessing to you. If you are
a serious Christian looking for a place to worship, fellowship
and fulfill God's call upon your life, consider Christ Church
for the end tat and don't forget to join us
on Wednesday evening at six thirty pm for Bible study
and Sunday mornings at ten thirty am for a weekly
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church service. The church is located at nineteen ten Norwich
Street in Brunswick, Georgia. You can also reach us online
at Sunday's Supper Online dot org. That's Sunday's Supper Online
dot org. You can also tune us in on your
iHeartRadio app. So until next week. The Lord bless you
and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you,
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and be gracious into you. The Lord lift up his
continence upon you and give you peace. And may God's
richest blessing always be upon you.
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