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Some kind of excuse as to why we won't do
But God has called this well. I had to build
the pay I had that to do well. I had
to do this. I had to cook, I had to cling,
I had to go to work. I had to do this.
I had to kick the children. I had to put
in the sleep, I had to wake them up. I
had to trust, I had to trust myself. All kind
of excuses not to do the simple things, not realizing
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the side effects of not doing the simple things. We
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are going.
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We are It's time for Sunday Supper and time to
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let's feast at the Lord's table. Here's today's message, already
in progress.
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What he said He said on your life night. Peter said, well, Lord,
if it is you, let me come on the water
with you. And then 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
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to look at the circumstances. I don't suppose to be
doing this, those winds still going. What in the world
have I gotten myself into? And as he began to
look at the circumstances, he began to sing. And then
what Peter says, Lord help me, and guess what, The
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Lord is right there to 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 it seems that
you're sinking. Let's call on the Lord. He'll help you
out there. You know one thing he never told Peter.
Why didn't you wait and stay in the boat? Never
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told Peter that you know what he told Peter? Why
did you doubt? 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
which was doing? Guess what you were doing it it
just don't give up. But what we do many times,
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just like Peter, we'll step out there, Oh I can
do that. I got the idea for a business, I
got this idea 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 Bestess. Then all of
a sudden the circumstances knock you slap in the face,
and we began to break down, capitulate under the weight
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of all the circumstances because we departed from that simple
little thing that says I can do it. The Bible says,
if we just acknowledge the Lord in all of our ways,
he will establish our thoughts and the past that we
to go down to. But we many times we will
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forsake them, we'll abandon them, and then we'll make thee
mistake of never asking God for help. How many times
have we gotten into situations, circumstances in our lives and
we feel the weight of that burden, But we never
crowd to God. We crowd to the doctor, We crowd
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to our lawyers, were crowd to our best friends, we
crowd to our parents. Well crowd to everyone, and we
never think about crying out to God. We forget that
one simple thing, and that one simple thing can be
key to the outcomes of our lives. But let's get
back on track to obey. It's better than sacrifice. That's
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what Samuel told Saul. God told Saul to do one
simple thing, kill and break stuff. I heard somebody tell
the story about men, the difference in men and women,
and said, you're not gonna get a man like women.
Women are get out. But we're gonna go out. We're
gonna go to the park. We're gonna go out there
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and we're just gonna talk and were just gonna have
nice stuff and what have you. We're just gonna spend
some girly times just to ourselves. Guys, don't do that.
If you went to a guy just I might be
messing up a little bit. But just the way the
story goes, you take a guy and said, let's go
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out for the woods and let's just chill out, you know,
just have some time. Guys ain't gonna want to just
go there and chill out and talk whatever. But he said,
let's go out to the woods, let's chill out, let's
get out good unless you dear guys. Okay, let's go. Yeah,
missed it, Okay, talking to too many girls. Bad pastor
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bad pastor just kidding the simple stuff and just trying
to give you a simple little nugget. Guys like to
kill and break things. So that's what Okay, follow along
with me. This is what God told Saul. Read the story.
Just read the entire fifteenth chapter of for Samuel. You
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see that God told Saul to go out there. These
folks were doing some horrific things, and Saul was God's
instruments of correcting things, and he told them, don't don't
leave nothing a lot, burn it all down. Saul went
out there. He almost did everything except for one little
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simple thing, actually a few. He told him to kill
the king. He kept the king alive. He told them
to take everything they kept the best stuff, those big
angle's cow and stuff like that, all these steaks and
pork or they didn he poor, but anyway, we got
to have some. That's realizing what we're gonna keep the
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best stuff. And so Samuel came to him and said,
did you do what the Lord tell you to do?
Guess what Saul said, Of course we did. We did
everything the Lord told us to do. And then Samuel said, well,
why do I hear the beating of the sheep? What's
that noise? I hear? Are those sheep? Well? You know,
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the people wanted to keep some of the good things
that we can sacrifice for the Lord? Is it sacrifice
for the Lord? God gave you one simple thing to do,
get rid of all of it, and you didn't do that.
The first Samuel fifteen and twenty two, and Samuel said,
have the Lord as great delight and burnt offerings and sacrifices,
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as in obeying the voice of the Lord, behold to
obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the
fat of rams. Saul was really putting up excuse, just
like Am and Eve did, Just like we do. When
we don't do what God instructures that tells us to do,
We're going to come up with some reason. We're not
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going to just stand it. Well, I decided not to
do that. No one says that we're gonna always get
some kind of excuse as to why we won't do
what God has called us to do. Well, I had
to build the pay I had that to do well.
I had to do this. I had cook, I had
to cling, I had to go to work, I had
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to do this. I had to keep the children. I
had to put him to sleep, I had to wake
them up. I had to trust them. I had to
trust myself. I had all kind of excuses not to
do the simple things, not realizing the side effects of
not doing the simple things. And so what Samuel is saying, oh,
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being God is better than offering God sacrifices, and many
of us we would do almost anything except obey God,
and we don't realize the sacrifice that we are paying
in the process. I come to realize that when if
maybe I should say, if you get a little smarter
than God, then we can correct God when it comes
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to what he should and should not do. That's kind
of sort of what got Job into a little bit
of trouble. Job knew that he didn't do anything wrong,
and what have you. Job concluded that there's no reason
why I should be this sick. Rich makes a little sense,
because if the wages are sinners deaf, if I'm not sinning,
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then why should I die? Actually, God says that, and
so why should I be going through this? I did
nothing to bring this on me, why am I doing this?
And so Job became so irate that he not only
challenged his friend, he challenged God. And this is why
I love the latter portions of the Book of Job.
And God began to answer Job out of the whirldwin,
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and he began to ask them some questions. Where were
you when I laid out the foundations of the world
of the earth? Where were you? Uh? Where were we?
Do you know the Lebiathan to kill him? Can you
do this? Can you? And so all of these profundities,
all these questions. When we get out of let me
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just give it to this this way. Sometimes God has
to give us a perspective through questioning that would get
us to think and see things different. And in order
to do that, he has to get us to see
ourselves in this thing and then see Him in this fame.
A lot of times we don't realize it, but ourselves
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we get in the way to such an extent that
we don't even see God in the midst of it all.
That's what happened with Moses. God told Moses, I want
you to go and tell Pharaoh to let my people go.
Simple thing. The only thing Moses had to do is
go to Pharaoh and say, let my people go. Moses
came to God, But who am I to go to Pharaoh?
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That's not the question. I just want you to go,
but I can't talk. Who made man's mouth? See what
God is trying to do with Moses is to give
you a perspective. You're so focused on yourself. You're so
focused on your inabilities or your abilities, what you have,
what you don't have, what you gotta do, and all
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this other kind of stuff that you don't see God
in the midst of it all. And so there, God
has to give you a perspective because as long as
you look at yourself, you're gonna that's let me put
it this way. That's where the enemy wants you. The
enemy wants you to be focused on yourself. This is
what he did with Adam and Eve, primarily Eve. He
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got Eve to get her attention off of what God says,
onto what he is saying in order for him to
get her to focus on herself. And when he started
telling her, you know this, God knows that this tree
would make you wise, It would do this for you,
It would do that for you, It would do this
for you. All of a sudden, he said, he's gonna
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do all that for me. Sure, the only thing you
gotta do is the opposite of what God told you
to do. That's all as simple. And guess what she did.
She took it, and the Bible says she did eat.
And that's the same thing we do. The enemy get
us to become so focused on ourselves, what we gotta do,
what we want and whatever. We don't realize that, but
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we missed God in the process. Why because we choose
not to do the simple things. God just tell us
something simpler to do, and we decide that we don't
want to do it. Don't forget to do the simple things.
I'm gonna give you another little story that I thought
was just kind of interesting, found in the Second King
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chapter five. Only want to read verse nine through sixteen
for you. There was this general that he was, oh, well,
you're talking about campaigns. He would win whatever, was a
great general. But he had one problem. He was a leper.
In spite of his successes and so forth, it mattered
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nothing because he was inflicted with this disease called leprosy.
He went on a campaign overthrow I think was Samaria,
and there was this little girl. You see a lot
of times we think we're not old enough to do things,
or we are too old to do things, and what
have you. You kind of understand when it comes to God,
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it don't matter. God will empower you to do what
he tells you to do. Not only that, God will
put you in the place where you need to be
in order for you to do what He's called you
to do. So he had this little girl, brought her
to s Mary I believe it was Ceceiria, wherever it was.
She was the servant of the wife of this general,
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and she was waiting on her lady. And one day
she said, you know what, I was noticing your husband.
He was just full of leprosy. If he was in Israel,
he won't have to worry about that, because there's a
prophet in Israel that would heal him. That word came
to the king, and the king loved his general, and
then the prophet heard that the king rent his clothes,
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and the prophet said, have him to come to me.
The Lord knows how to do things, And so that's
what the king did. So Naielman came with him his
horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door
of the house of Elisha, and Elijha sent a messenger
unto him, saying, go and wash in the Jordan seven times,
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and that flesh shall come again to thee, and thou
shalt be clean. This is an interesting story when you
really look at it. This man comes to Elijah, comes
to the prophet of the Most High God to be healed,
and the prophet don't even come to the door to
greet him. The prophet sends his servant, don't invite him
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into the house. The prophet tells him to go to
the Jordan and go dip seven times. Now, if you
was this general, you came all the way from you
came from where you came from, and you came here
in order to get healed, and then this guy didn't
even give you the courtesy of saying hello, How would
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you feel when you focus on yourself. You're so important
the nerve of that god. Let's see what naming did.
Look at verse ten. But name one was wroth. He
was upset, he was angry, he was furious. He was
wroth and went away and said, behold, I thought he
would surely come out to me and stand and call
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on the name of the Lord his God, and strike
his hand over the place and recover my leoprosy. It
is kind of funny how we determine how God should
do things. We have his soul orchestrated in our minds,
how God should do this, how God should do that,
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how God should do the other, and then God blindsizes us.
God decided to do something totally different. You see, Naelman
was used to the religious approach to healing and all this,
all the stuff that the priests and the prophets and
all that would do in order to accomplish certain things,
and most of the time it was just an exercise
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of futility. But that is what Nailman was expecting. And
guess what he didn't do. He didn't get any of that.
You know what God gave him. God gave him one
simple thing to do. I gave him something simple. First
go to the Jordan. Then what just dipping in seven times?
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Isn't that simple? And said he got upset, he got mad,
he's complaining about what the prophet didn't do. And then
he goes on in verse twelve that says, are not
a banner and fell five rivers of Damascus better than
all of the waters of Israel, may I not wash
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in them? Isn't that something you're telling God what river
to wash in? Doesn't God knows what river he wants
you to wash in. May I not watch in them
and be clean? So he turned and went away in raged.
Look at verse thirteen, and the servant came. Now, don't
you like when people that really care about you give
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you a certain perspective? This is what about to happen
to nailmen. Your servant came near and spake unto him
and said, my father, Oh, come on, chill out. If
the prophet had bid thee do some great things, wouldst
thou not have done it? Because you got to eat
our egos and at work, we want to do all
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these great mighty things. See, that's why religion is so
prominent these days. Religions will always tell you something to do.
You gotta fast forty days and forty nine. You gotta
beat yourself to your bleed. You gotta go on a pilgrimage.
You gotta go on this, and you gotta do this
in order to get closer to God. Guess what. Exercise
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and futilities. More time than not, God will always tell
us to do something simple. It's the simple self. It's
so simple even a fool can't get it wrong. But
somehow we manage it. We managed to do what even
the fool can't do. Let's go on, look at verse fourteen.
If he told you to do something great things, wouldn't
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you do that? How much? Rather than when Hal said
to thee wash and be clean. Look how simple as
that is. Just go there and wash into Jordan and
you be clean. When't that's simple, straight forward? Why did
you come to me? Anyway? And sometimes people will do that.
They will come to you for advice and counsel, and
they want the advice and counsel given in the way
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that they prescribe it to be given. They don't want
advice and counsel. What they really want is affirmation. They
want normalcy. Verse fourteen says, then went he down and
dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying
of the Man of God, and his flesh came again,
likened to the flesh of a little child, and he
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was clean. Guess what wasn't that just so plain and simple?
Look at all the stuff he went through in order
to do that one simple thing. If he would have
not gotten angry. He would just went and just did
exactly what the prophet told him to do. He would
have saved himself, for he would got cleaned a whole
lot quicker, a whole lot easier. Same thing hold true
when it comes to our lives. A lot of times
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we reject the advice and the council, and we go
through a whole lot of things that we don't have
to go through. Why because we choose to do it
our way. We have a way that we prescribe the
answer should come, and because it doesn't come in that way,
we rejected, not realizing that our lives continue to stay
the way that there is, and what happens meantime it
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get worse. Verse fifteen says and he returned to the
Man of God and all his company, and came and
stood before him, and he said, behold, now I know
that there is no God in all of the earth,
but in Israel. Now therefore I pray THEE take a
blessing of that servant. But he said, as the Lord
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lives talking about the prophet before whom I stand, I
will receive none. I want nothing from you. And he
urged him to take it, but he refused. For many
of us, if God told us to do something hard,
you'll be happy to do. But God told me to
do this. I gotta do this to God. But God
tells us do something easy, plain and simple. Guess what,
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I gotta be more than that. But God wants us
to do the simple things. But we many times we
refuse to do the simple things. What kind of advice?
What kind of counsel have God given us? But we
refuse it because it didn't come in the package that
we wanted to come and it wasn't presented to us
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by the one that we think it should have come.
God gives you something plain and simple, and it didn't
come in the package that you wanted. Are the way
that you wanted to come in? Therefore you rejected, and
then you wonder why your life isn't changed. And some
of us said, well, God doesn't do nothing for me.
Is that true? Or is it because God told you
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to do something simple and you've rejected to the point
that you even forgot what God told you to do
because you went on with your life. And you wonder
why your life has unfolding the way that it's unfolding.
Why because you refuse to do the simple thing. How
many simple things have God told us to do, told
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you to do, told me to do that, we refuse
to do it, And now we wonder why our lives
are the way that it is. I can tell you,
I can tell you with impunity, with total certainty, is
because you didn't do the simple things. David defeated the Philistines,
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and the Philistines got mad because in the defeat they
burned their gods and what have you. So they went back.
The remnant of them went back, got some other countries
and they were gonna come at David again. When David
went up the first time, the Lord he asked the
lord ship to go. The Lord say go, and he
went come time for the second go round, saying people
got David asked him shall I go up? And God says,
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no way. Wait until you see the ruffling in the
top of the mall bear trees. So you know what
David did. It was something simple as waiting until you
look up and see the rustling on the top of
the trees. Guess what David did. He did the simple thing.
He waited, and he waited, and he waited and he waited,
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and all of a sudden, David looked and he see
the rustling in the top of the mall bear trees,
and then he went forth. Why because God told him
to do that one simple thing, and he did it.
And what was resulted from that is that he received
the victory. Why because he did the simple thing. What
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we have to learn as people of God is to
do with God tells us to do. If you do
what God instructs you to do, if it is indeed
the word of God, you can be assured of the victory.
But what we do we put self interest above God's interests.
What we have to understand is that it is God's interests.
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He's the King of King, he's the Lord of Lord,
He's a god of all creation. His interest is really
what matters, not yours. It's not that you're not that
unimportant in reality, you are. Why because your interest is
God's interests, but not yours alone. If there's over eight
billion people on the planet, guess what. God has eight
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billion people that he's interested in, and you're just one
of the eight billion. But it's not that you're any
less important, are more important than the eight He loves
us all and he sees us all as one, and
he wants to do that which is necessary that's going
to benefit the hold, not just one. See, with us,
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we're not concerned about what eight billion people need. We're
concerned about what I need. I need to eat, I
need to pay my bills, I need to accomplish this.
I need to get my degree. I need to find
a job. I need to just this. I need to this,
I need to do this. Heck with those other seven
million dollars whatever, we're not coming. Be honest with yourself.
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You're not concerned about those other seven point nine nine
nine billion people, are you? No, you're concerned about you.
Let me tell you a secret. That's where our problems lie.
Because we're concerned about ourselves and we are concerned not
concerned enough about others. And when we do that, we
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don't realize that we break one of the two simplest
things that God instructs us to do. First simple thing,
love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and script.
Next simple thing, love your neighbor as you love yourself.
So if you put yourself at four, what you want,
what I want? This is my routine or whatever, and
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you're not thinking about the impact that that would have
on the other individual. You don't realize it, but you
broke that second commandments. But then you would say, oh,
I'm obedient to God? Are you really? Are you certain
about that? Look at the simple things that you refuse
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to do. In John chapter two and verse five, this
in scripture, by some accounts, it's the first miracle that's
recorded that Jesus did. They went to this wedding feast
and they ran out of wine. Mary, was there any
good Catholic would know? If you want the son to
do something you ask is mama, and what Mama tell
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you to do? Hey? Do it? Louis side John chapter
two and verse five says this, and his mother said,
unto the servant, whatever he says, unto you, do it.
Times that come to doing just that one simple thing.
Whatever God tells you to do, guess what you do it?
Whatever that is, whatever the Lord tells you to do,
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guess what that's what you did the same way, in
the same way, in the same manner. What have you.
That's the instruction for us today. Whatever he says to do,
guess what do it? Do? The simple thing and what
Jesus told the servant to do is that fill the
pails the buckets with water, and leave the rest of
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it up to me. And guess what they did. They
did exactly what Mary says to do. What did Mary
say to do? Whatever he says to do, do it,
And that's what they did. And the water turned to
wine because they did that one simple thing. There's a term,
and you know I have to. I don't say I
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have to, but I am. You know, I have the
tendency to uh spread the little political things, you know,
on a few things might as well do when it
comes to the simple thing, and this one is primary
for knowledge and information. We know that that in the
news recently that our present president of Joe Biden is
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commuting sentences and giving pardonings and so forth. A lot
of people have some issues with President Biden's approach to
commutations and pardonings, but I think that that's appropriate to
what we're talking about today concerning the simple things. Commutations,
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commutations in the simplest format, And the reason why I'm
putting in because I think it's important for us as
people of God and just as citizens in general, to
know what these terms mean. And so a commutation is
reduction in a sentence so if you're on death roll,
instead of being on death row, you get life sentenced.
Your sentence have been reduced, the severity of the sentence
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have been lessened. Sometimes they say well time served, meaning
you serve whatever amount of time long a little what
have you? You get out whatever your sentence have been commuted.
And so that is what happens with a commutation. You
got a death sentence. Now you hey, you got life,
you got freedom, you get out. It's not that you
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didn't commit the crime. It's just that someone with the
authority have commuted your sentence. I mentioned that because that's
what God did for us when it came to Jesus Christ.
We don't realize it, but we all was on death row,
and what God did is commuted our sentence. John three
sixteen says, for God soul loved the world that he
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gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him
should not perish but have everlasting life. The most quote
is scripture in the Bible. But what doesn't mean. It
means that God didn't send his son into the world
to condemn you. He sent his son into the world
to save you one simple thing, not to condemn you,
but you was already look to say.
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Some kind of excuse as to why we won't do
But God has called this well. I had to build
the pay I had that to do well. I had
to do this. I had to cook, I had to cling,
I had to go to work. I had to do this.
I had to kick the children. I had to put
in the sleep, I had to wake them up. I
had to trust, I had to trust myself. All kind
of excuses not to do the simple things, not realizing
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the side effects of not doing the simple things. We
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are going.
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let's feast at the Lord's table. Here's today's message, already
in progress.
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What he said He said on your life night. Peter said, well, Lord,
if it is you, let me come on the water
with you. And then 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
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to look at the circumstances. I don't suppose to be
doing this, those winds still going. What in the world
have I gotten myself into? And as he began to
look at the circumstances, he began to sing. And then
what Peter says, Lord help me, and guess what, The
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Lord is right there to 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 it seems that
you're sinking. Let's call on the Lord. He'll help you
out there. You know one thing he never told Peter.
Why didn't you wait and stay in the boat? Never
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told Peter that you know what he told Peter? Why
did you doubt? 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
which was doing? Guess what you were doing it it
just don't give up. But what we do many times,
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just like Peter, we'll step out there, Oh I can
do that. I got the idea for a business, I
got this idea 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 Bestess. Then all of
a sudden the circumstances knock you slap in the face,
and we began to break down, capitulate under the weight
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of all the circumstances because we departed from that simple
little thing that says I can do it. The Bible says,
if we just acknowledge the Lord in all of our ways,
he will establish our thoughts and the past that we
to go down to. But we many times we will
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forsake them, we'll abandon them, and then we'll make thee
mistake of never asking God for help. How many times
have we gotten into situations, circumstances in our lives and
we feel the weight of that burden, But we never
crowd to God. We crowd to the doctor, We crowd
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to our lawyers, were crowd to our best friends, we
crowd to our parents. Well crowd to everyone, and we
never think about crying out to God. We forget that
one simple thing, and that one simple thing can be
key to the outcomes of our lives. But let's get
back on track to obey. It's better than sacrifice. That's
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what Samuel told Saul. God told Saul to do one
simple thing, kill and break stuff. I heard somebody tell
the story about men, the difference in men and women,
and said, you're not gonna get a man like women.
Women are get out. But we're gonna go out. We're
gonna go to the park. We're gonna go out there
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and we're just gonna talk and were just gonna have
nice stuff and what have you. We're just gonna spend
some girly times just to ourselves. Guys, don't do that.
If you went to a guy just I might be
messing up a little bit. But just the way the
story goes, you take a guy and said, let's go
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out for the woods and let's just chill out, you know,
just have some time. Guys ain't gonna want to just
go there and chill out and talk whatever. But he said,
let's go out to the woods, let's chill out, let's
get out good unless you dear guys. Okay, let's go. Yeah,
missed it, Okay, talking to too many girls. Bad pastor
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bad pastor just kidding the simple stuff and just trying
to give you a simple little nugget. Guys like to
kill and break things. So that's what Okay, follow along
with me. This is what God told Saul. Read the story.
Just read the entire fifteenth chapter of for Samuel. You
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see that God told Saul to go out there. These
folks were doing some horrific things, and Saul was God's
instruments of correcting things, and he told them, don't don't
leave nothing a lot, burn it all down. Saul went
out there. He almost did everything except for one little
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simple thing, actually a few. He told him to kill
the king. He kept the king alive. He told them
to take everything they kept the best stuff, those big
angle's cow and stuff like that, all these steaks and
pork or they didn he poor, but anyway, we got
to have some. That's realizing what we're gonna keep the
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best stuff. And so Samuel came to him and said,
did you do what the Lord tell you to do?
Guess what Saul said, Of course we did. We did
everything the Lord told us to do. And then Samuel said, well,
why do I hear the beating of the sheep? What's
that noise? I hear? Are those sheep? Well? You know,
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the people wanted to keep some of the good things
that we can sacrifice for the Lord? Is it sacrifice
for the Lord? God gave you one simple thing to do,
get rid of all of it, and you didn't do that.
The first Samuel fifteen and twenty two, and Samuel said,
have the Lord as great delight and burnt offerings and sacrifices,
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as in obeying the voice of the Lord, behold to
obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the
fat of rams. Saul was really putting up excuse, just
like Am and Eve did, Just like we do. When
we don't do what God instructures that tells us to do,
We're going to come up with some reason. We're not
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going to just stand it. Well, I decided not to
do that. No one says that we're gonna always get
some kind of excuse as to why we won't do
what God has called us to do. Well, I had
to build the pay I had that to do well.
I had to do this. I had cook, I had
to cling, I had to go to work, I had
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to do this. I had to keep the children. I
had to put him to sleep, I had to wake
them up. I had to trust them. I had to
trust myself. I had all kind of excuses not to
do the simple things, not realizing the side effects of
not doing the simple things. And so what Samuel is saying, oh,
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being God is better than offering God sacrifices, and many
of us we would do almost anything except obey God,
and we don't realize the sacrifice that we are paying
in the process. I come to realize that when if
maybe I should say, if you get a little smarter
than God, then we can correct God when it comes
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to what he should and should not do. That's kind
of sort of what got Job into a little bit
of trouble. Job knew that he didn't do anything wrong,
and what have you. Job concluded that there's no reason
why I should be this sick. Rich makes a little sense,
because if the wages are sinners deaf, if I'm not sinning,
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then why should I die? Actually, God says that, and
so why should I be going through this? I did
nothing to bring this on me, why am I doing this?
And so Job became so irate that he not only
challenged his friend, he challenged God. And this is why
I love the latter portions of the Book of Job.
And God began to answer Job out of the whirldwin,
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and he began to ask them some questions. Where were
you when I laid out the foundations of the world
of the earth? Where were you? Uh? Where were we?
Do you know the Lebiathan to kill him? Can you
do this? Can you? And so all of these profundities,
all these questions. When we get out of let me
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just give it to this this way. Sometimes God has
to give us a perspective through questioning that would get
us to think and see things different. And in order
to do that, he has to get us to see
ourselves in this thing and then see Him in this fame.
A lot of times we don't realize it, but ourselves
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we get in the way to such an extent that
we don't even see God in the midst of it all.
That's what happened with Moses. God told Moses, I want
you to go and tell Pharaoh to let my people go.
Simple thing. The only thing Moses had to do is
go to Pharaoh and say, let my people go. Moses
came to God, But who am I to go to Pharaoh?
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That's not the question. I just want you to go,
but I can't talk. Who made man's mouth? See what
God is trying to do with Moses is to give
you a perspective. You're so focused on yourself. You're so
focused on your inabilities or your abilities, what you have,
what you don't have, what you gotta do, and all
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this other kind of stuff that you don't see God
in the midst of it all. And so there, God
has to give you a perspective because as long as
you look at yourself, you're gonna that's let me put
it this way. That's where the enemy wants you. The
enemy wants you to be focused on yourself. This is
what he did with Adam and Eve, primarily Eve. He
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got Eve to get her attention off of what God says,
onto what he is saying in order for him to
get her to focus on herself. And when he started
telling her, you know this, God knows that this tree
would make you wise, It would do this for you,
It would do that for you, It would do this
for you. All of a sudden, he said, he's gonna
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do all that for me. Sure, the only thing you
gotta do is the opposite of what God told you
to do. That's all as simple. And guess what she did.
She took it, and the Bible says she did eat.
And that's the same thing we do. The enemy get
us to become so focused on ourselves, what we gotta do,
what we want and whatever. We don't realize that, but
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we missed God in the process. Why because we choose
not to do the simple things. God just tell us
something simpler to do, and we decide that we don't
want to do it. Don't forget to do the simple things.
I'm gonna give you another little story that I thought
was just kind of interesting, found in the Second King
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chapter five. Only want to read verse nine through sixteen
for you. There was this general that he was, oh, well,
you're talking about campaigns. He would win whatever, was a
great general. But he had one problem. He was a leper.
In spite of his successes and so forth, it mattered
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nothing because he was inflicted with this disease called leprosy.
He went on a campaign overthrow I think was Samaria,
and there was this little girl. You see a lot
of times we think we're not old enough to do things,
or we are too old to do things, and what
have you. You kind of understand when it comes to God,
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it don't matter. God will empower you to do what
he tells you to do. Not only that, God will
put you in the place where you need to be
in order for you to do what He's called you
to do. So he had this little girl, brought her
to s Mary I believe it was Ceceiria, wherever it was.
She was the servant of the wife of this general,
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and she was waiting on her lady. And one day
she said, you know what, I was noticing your husband.
He was just full of leprosy. If he was in Israel,
he won't have to worry about that, because there's a
prophet in Israel that would heal him. That word came
to the king, and the king loved his general, and
then the prophet heard that the king rent his clothes,
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and the prophet said, have him to come to me.
The Lord knows how to do things, And so that's
what the king did. So Naielman came with him his
horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door
of the house of Elisha, and Elijha sent a messenger
unto him, saying, go and wash in the Jordan seven times,
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and that flesh shall come again to thee, and thou
shalt be clean. This is an interesting story when you
really look at it. This man comes to Elijah, comes
to the prophet of the Most High God to be healed,
and the prophet don't even come to the door to
greet him. The prophet sends his servant, don't invite him
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into the house. The prophet tells him to go to
the Jordan and go dip seven times. Now, if you
was this general, you came all the way from you
came from where you came from, and you came here
in order to get healed, and then this guy didn't
even give you the courtesy of saying hello, How would
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you feel when you focus on yourself. You're so important
the nerve of that god. Let's see what naming did.
Look at verse ten. But name one was wroth. He
was upset, he was angry, he was furious. He was
wroth and went away and said, behold, I thought he
would surely come out to me and stand and call
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on the name of the Lord his God, and strike
his hand over the place and recover my leoprosy. It
is kind of funny how we determine how God should
do things. We have his soul orchestrated in our minds,
how God should do this, how God should do that,
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how God should do the other, and then God blindsizes us.
God decided to do something totally different. You see, Naelman
was used to the religious approach to healing and all this,
all the stuff that the priests and the prophets and
all that would do in order to accomplish certain things,
and most of the time it was just an exercise
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of futility. But that is what Nailman was expecting. And
guess what he didn't do. He didn't get any of that.
You know what God gave him. God gave him one
simple thing to do. I gave him something simple. First
go to the Jordan. Then what just dipping in seven times?
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Isn't that simple? And said he got upset, he got mad,
he's complaining about what the prophet didn't do. And then
he goes on in verse twelve that says, are not
a banner and fell five rivers of Damascus better than
all of the waters of Israel, may I not wash
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in them? Isn't that something you're telling God what river
to wash in? Doesn't God knows what river he wants
you to wash in. May I not watch in them
and be clean? So he turned and went away in raged.
Look at verse thirteen, and the servant came. Now, don't
you like when people that really care about you give
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you a certain perspective? This is what about to happen
to nailmen. Your servant came near and spake unto him
and said, my father, Oh, come on, chill out. If
the prophet had bid thee do some great things, wouldst
thou not have done it? Because you got to eat
our egos and at work, we want to do all
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these great mighty things. See, that's why religion is so
prominent these days. Religions will always tell you something to do.
You gotta fast forty days and forty nine. You gotta
beat yourself to your bleed. You gotta go on a pilgrimage.
You gotta go on this, and you gotta do this
in order to get closer to God. Guess what. Exercise
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and futilities. More time than not, God will always tell
us to do something simple. It's the simple self. It's
so simple even a fool can't get it wrong. But
somehow we manage it. We managed to do what even
the fool can't do. Let's go on, look at verse fourteen.
If he told you to do something great things, wouldn't
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you do that? How much? Rather than when Hal said
to thee wash and be clean. Look how simple as
that is. Just go there and wash into Jordan and
you be clean. When't that's simple, straight forward? Why did
you come to me? Anyway? And sometimes people will do that.
They will come to you for advice and counsel, and
they want the advice and counsel given in the way
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that they prescribe it to be given. They don't want
advice and counsel. What they really want is affirmation. They
want normalcy. Verse fourteen says, then went he down and
dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying
of the Man of God, and his flesh came again,
likened to the flesh of a little child, and he
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was clean. Guess what wasn't that just so plain and simple?
Look at all the stuff he went through in order
to do that one simple thing. If he would have
not gotten angry. He would just went and just did
exactly what the prophet told him to do. He would
have saved himself, for he would got cleaned a whole
lot quicker, a whole lot easier. Same thing hold true
when it comes to our lives. A lot of times
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we reject the advice and the council, and we go
through a whole lot of things that we don't have
to go through. Why because we choose to do it
our way. We have a way that we prescribe the
answer should come, and because it doesn't come in that way,
we rejected, not realizing that our lives continue to stay
the way that there is, and what happens meantime it
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get worse. Verse fifteen says and he returned to the
Man of God and all his company, and came and
stood before him, and he said, behold, now I know
that there is no God in all of the earth,
but in Israel. Now therefore I pray THEE take a
blessing of that servant. But he said, as the Lord
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lives talking about the prophet before whom I stand, I
will receive none. I want nothing from you. And he
urged him to take it, but he refused. For many
of us, if God told us to do something hard,
you'll be happy to do. But God told me to
do this. I gotta do this to God. But God
tells us do something easy, plain and simple. Guess what,
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I gotta be more than that. But God wants us
to do the simple things. But we many times we
refuse to do the simple things. What kind of advice?
What kind of counsel have God given us? But we
refuse it because it didn't come in the package that
we wanted to come and it wasn't presented to us
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by the one that we think it should have come.
God gives you something plain and simple, and it didn't
come in the package that you wanted. Are the way
that you wanted to come in? Therefore you rejected, and
then you wonder why your life isn't changed. And some
of us said, well, God doesn't do nothing for me.
Is that true? Or is it because God told you
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to do something simple and you've rejected to the point
that you even forgot what God told you to do
because you went on with your life. And you wonder
why your life has unfolding the way that it's unfolding.
Why because you refuse to do the simple thing. How
many simple things have God told us to do, told
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you to do, told me to do that, we refuse
to do it, And now we wonder why our lives
are the way that it is. I can tell you,
I can tell you with impunity, with total certainty, is
because you didn't do the simple things. David defeated the Philistines,
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and the Philistines got mad because in the defeat they
burned their gods and what have you. So they went back.
The remnant of them went back, got some other countries
and they were gonna come at David again. When David
went up the first time, the Lord he asked the
lord ship to go. The Lord say go, and he
went come time for the second go round, saying people
got David asked him shall I go up? And God says,
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no way. Wait until you see the ruffling in the
top of the mall bear trees. So you know what
David did. It was something simple as waiting until you
look up and see the rustling on the top of
the trees. Guess what David did. He did the simple thing.
He waited, and he waited, and he waited and he waited,
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and all of a sudden, David looked and he see
the rustling in the top of the mall bear trees,
and then he went forth. Why because God told him
to do that one simple thing, and he did it.
And what was resulted from that is that he received
the victory. Why because he did the simple thing. What
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we have to learn as people of God is to
do with God tells us to do. If you do
what God instructs you to do, if it is indeed
the word of God, you can be assured of the victory.
But what we do we put self interest above God's interests.
What we have to understand is that it is God's interests.
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He's the King of King, he's the Lord of Lord,
He's a god of all creation. His interest is really
what matters, not yours. It's not that you're not that
unimportant in reality, you are. Why because your interest is
God's interests, but not yours alone. If there's over eight
billion people on the planet, guess what. God has eight
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billion people that he's interested in, and you're just one
of the eight billion. But it's not that you're any
less important, are more important than the eight He loves
us all and he sees us all as one, and
he wants to do that which is necessary that's going
to benefit the hold, not just one. See, with us,
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we're not concerned about what eight billion people need. We're
concerned about what I need. I need to eat, I
need to pay my bills, I need to accomplish this.
I need to get my degree. I need to find
a job. I need to just this. I need to this,
I need to do this. Heck with those other seven
million dollars whatever, we're not coming. Be honest with yourself.
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You're not concerned about those other seven point nine nine
nine billion people, are you? No, you're concerned about you.
Let me tell you a secret. That's where our problems lie.
Because we're concerned about ourselves and we are concerned not
concerned enough about others. And when we do that, we
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don't realize that we break one of the two simplest
things that God instructs us to do. First simple thing,
love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and script.
Next simple thing, love your neighbor as you love yourself.
So if you put yourself at four, what you want,
what I want? This is my routine or whatever, and
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you're not thinking about the impact that that would have
on the other individual. You don't realize it, but you
broke that second commandments. But then you would say, oh,
I'm obedient to God? Are you really? Are you certain
about that? Look at the simple things that you refuse
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to do. In John chapter two and verse five, this
in scripture, by some accounts, it's the first miracle that's
recorded that Jesus did. They went to this wedding feast
and they ran out of wine. Mary, was there any
good Catholic would know? If you want the son to
do something you ask is mama, and what Mama tell
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you to do? Hey? Do it? Louis side John chapter
two and verse five says this, and his mother said,
unto the servant, whatever he says, unto you, do it.
Times that come to doing just that one simple thing.
Whatever God tells you to do, guess what you do it?
Whatever that is, whatever the Lord tells you to do,
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guess what that's what you did the same way, in
the same way, in the same manner. What have you.
That's the instruction for us today. Whatever he says to do,
guess what do it? Do? The simple thing and what
Jesus told the servant to do is that fill the
pails the buckets with water, and leave the rest of
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it up to me. And guess what they did. They
did exactly what Mary says to do. What did Mary
say to do? Whatever he says to do, do it,
And that's what they did. And the water turned to
wine because they did that one simple thing. There's a term,
and you know I have to. I don't say I
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have to, but I am. You know, I have the
tendency to uh spread the little political things, you know,
on a few things might as well do when it
comes to the simple thing, and this one is primary
for knowledge and information. We know that that in the
news recently that our present president of Joe Biden is
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commuting sentences and giving pardonings and so forth. A lot
of people have some issues with President Biden's approach to
commutations and pardonings, but I think that that's appropriate to
what we're talking about today concerning the simple things. Commutations,
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commutations in the simplest format, And the reason why I'm
putting in because I think it's important for us as
people of God and just as citizens in general, to
know what these terms mean. And so a commutation is
reduction in a sentence so if you're on death roll,
instead of being on death row, you get life sentenced.
Your sentence have been reduced, the severity of the sentence
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have been lessened. Sometimes they say well time served, meaning
you serve whatever amount of time long a little what
have you? You get out whatever your sentence have been commuted.
And so that is what happens with a commutation. You
got a death sentence. Now you hey, you got life,
you got freedom, you get out. It's not that you
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didn't commit the crime. It's just that someone with the
authority have commuted your sentence. I mentioned that because that's
what God did for us when it came to Jesus Christ.
We don't realize it, but we all was on death row,
and what God did is commuted our sentence. John three
sixteen says, for God soul loved the world that he
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gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him
should not perish but have everlasting life. The most quote
is scripture in the Bible. But what doesn't mean. It
means that God didn't send his son into the world
to condemn you. He sent his son into the world
to save you one simple thing, not to condemn you,
but you was already look to say.
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 Times and don't forget to join us
on Wednesday evening at six thirty pm for Bible study
and Sunday mornings at ten thirty am.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
For a weekly church service.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
The church is located at nineteen ten Norwich Street in Brunswick, Georgia.
You can also reach us online at Sunday's Supper Online
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next week. The Lord bless you and keep you. The
Lord make his face shine upon you, and be gracious
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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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