Well, praise Jesus everyone. I just have a short message that is on my heart that I want to share. I would like you to imagine something with me, if you will.
Imagine that god called you to be a movie actor and god told you to go into Hollywood and to get famous. And so with all of your might, you went to Hollywood. You did everything you needed to do to become famous. And through your career, you became popular, more famous. You acted in movies. A lot of people looked up to you. They even worshiped you.
Now imagine with me that at some point during your career of movie acting, you start to get dementia. You start to lose your mind. Maybe it's Alzheimer's or something like that. And then you pray and you say, “god, please help me keep my mind. Help me be able to memorize my lines so that I can continue to be in Hollywood and continue to be famous.” But you hear no answer. And so you pray to your god again and no answer. And then you realize your god rejected you. How would that make you feel?
Again, take this example with me. Imagine that god calls you to be a musician. And so with all of your heart, you pursue being a musician, and you compose and you become a famous composer, maybe like Mozart or Beethoven or someone like that. And then you start to lose your hearing and you go deaf. And then you go and you pray and you say, “god, please give me my hearing back so that I can compose music and write more music for you and compel more people into this kingdom.” And you hear that god has rejected you. And because you have failed as a musician, because you lost your ears, you are no longer needed. You are no longer accepted. And you have no value to god.
Imagine with me again. Your god calls you to be a famous athlete, maybe a snowboarder, maybe a BMX or downhill mountain biker, and you put all your effort forward to go full throttle with your sport. And as you get famous in your sport, you get hundreds of thousands of views, millions of views on YouTube. Everyone loves you. Everyone shares your videos. They think you're crazy because you have so much passion for your sport like no one else does. Then imagine you break your neck. Imagine you get injured and you no longer can do your sport. And so then you pray to your god, and you hear nothing from your god. And you say, “god, help me. Let me be able to walk on my legs again. Let me be able to use my arms again. Let me be able to use my muscles again.” And your god says, “No, I have rejected you. You are trash to me. You're no longer valuable to me because you cannot do your duty which I called you to do.” Imagine that.
That is exactly what the god of this world does to us. If we serve Satan and Satan calls us into whatever lust we wanted to give our life to—whether that was a hobby, whether that was music, whatever we used our talent for, but not for the kingdom of heaven, but for the kingdom of Satan—eventually when we lose that skill, because all of us one day will lose our talent, so whatever our ability is, our physical strength, one day that will be lost because all of us are physical beings on this earth. And when that is lost, we no longer have any value to Satan. That is why you see people only for a time climb the ladder and only for a time are popular, and then Satan ends their life. He reaps their souls and he takes them straight to hell. That is the god of this world.
Praise Jesus everyone that we as Christians do not serve Satan. We don't serve the god of this world or the principalities of the air. We serve a God who loves and cares for us because he made us. And just as God is Father, Son, and Spirit, he created us in his image to have a physicality. We have a physical body. So we are like God in that we are three in one. We have a spirit. We have a mind. And we have physical flesh. But all of us—our mind, our body, our spirit—we have to put in submission to the one true God.
And instead of buying Satan's lie that we can follow our lust and dedicate everything to our lust, instead we need to cast our crown before the one true living God and say, “Lord, use me for your heavenly purpose that has value beyond this earth.” And that way when you get old and your physical muscles can no longer climb the mountain or ride in the halfpipe on your skateboard or your mountain bike, then you will still have value because God cherishes you because He made you. Satan did not make you. The devil did not create you. We have a creator in heaven and we were created in God's image.
We're not monkeys. We're not cats. We're not the creation of the earth. Animals belong to the earth and their spirit belongs to this earth. When an animal dies, its flesh rots in the ground and its spirit belongs to the earth. But when a human dies, our flesh goes into the grave, but our spirit goes to be with the Spirit of God. That is if we had our faith in Jesus and if we dedicated our spirit to the Spirit of life.
Sadly, most people are dedicating their life to Satan, and they will be rejected by Satan in the end because Satan hates you. He hates me. He hates people that worship him. It doesn't matter how loyal you are to Satan. It doesn't matter how good-looking you are. It doesn't matter how much you shed innocent blood for Satan. He will continue to hate you no matter how evil or how good you are. It is difficult to serve a god that hates your guts.
So why would we serve Satan? One day we will lose our physical capability. We will not be able to rely on the arm of our flesh. And at that moment, if we were not serving God, we will realize that our God despised us and hated us and rejected us long ago. And we have no hope. The sons and the daughters of this world have no hope. They put their hope in the arm of the flesh, they put their hope in their sports, their education. They put their hope in physical money, in the banks. They put their hope in their family that can't save them in the end either. All of their hopes are in things that are vanishing, like vapor. They put their hope in chasing after a rainbow, and they never get there. All the hopes of this world are vanishing.
But guess what? We know the end of the story if we've read the Bible. We know that our God wins. We know Jehovah God wins. We know that the serpent may bruise our heel, but we crush his head. That is, if we're with Jesus. Jesus crushes the head of the serpent. In the end, Jesus wins. The devil doesn't win, but he will take many Christians to hell who had their faith in the arm of the flesh, who trusted in their own riches, who trusted in their own might, who are trying to pull themselves up by the laces of their own bootstraps.
Is our trust really in Jesus, or have we put our trust in the arm of the flesh? I hope this message can encourage someone to not serve the god of the world, but put their faith in the God of the universe—the God that created you, me, and every single person; who created us in his image; and who loves us unconditionally because we are his most cherished creation. Satan didn't create you. Satan didn't create me. Evolution didn't create us. We're not here by chance. We have a creator who created us and who loves us and will love us even to the end.
But we do have to trust him and obey him. Cast our crowns before him. And everything we do, we have to do for the glory of God. It reminds me of that parable of the men that were given talents. And the one that was given more talents, he gained even more talents with that. But the one fellow who only had one talent, he thought he would play it safe. And he took his one talent and he buried it in the ground. And he said, “I'm going to play it safe.” And when my master returns, I will just give this one talent back to him. But when the master came and asked for the talent, this lazy servant had nothing to give except the one talent back. And the master said, “Take from what is his and give it to the one that has 10 talents and cast him out into outer darkness where there’s weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
We cannot play it safe. God hasn’t called us to just hide our talents and use it for our own ability but rather to call people into the marvelous light. Remember the Great Commission, which sometimes is referred to as the Great Commission is to call all people, nations, and tongues to put their faith in Jesus Christ.
We want people to follow Jesus because all power and all authority has been given to him. Therefore, we want to go out and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that Jesus says—not the way of church, not the way of Christian Bible study or Christian religion or their tradition. A lot of Christians are following the way of their fathers that never heard from Jesus. They’re following their traditions. But we want to teach people to trust and obey Jesus so that they will have life, that more may hear the master’s voice, be his sheep, and enter into his kingdom.
In this world, everyone thinks it’s cool to be a wolf. They look down on sheep. But little do they know that the wolf—the leader of the wolves, the pack leader—hates them just as much as he hates the sheep. He hates the wolf, and he takes both sheep and wolves to hell that will follow him.
Follow the one that loves you and cares for your soul. Follow the one who we already know wins in the end. His name is Jesus. He loves you. He cares for you. And if you have a desire to go the right direction, then pray to Jesus. Ask him to cleanse you from unrighteousness. Ask him to help you repent of your sins, that you can confess your sins and do a 180 and then follow him with all of your heart.
So I want to pray for those of you that want an ear to hear and eyes to see so that we won’t be deceived by Satan, the god of this world, who only “loves" people—“loves” people—as long as they look like they're doing good for him.
So Lord Jesus, I pray for those who have an ear to hear and eyes to see today. I pray for someone who may hear this message and wants to get rid of their demons, who wants to cast evil out of their life, who wants to bind Satan as the strong man and be able to attack and take back what is theirs—taking back our faith, taking back our relationship with you, taking back a sound mind, taking back our peace, all of the things that Satan steals when we give our life over to the bondage of sin.
I pray that someone hearing this message today could renounce evil, could renounce their addictions, could renounce sin and come into your marvelous light. I pray for those that want an ear to hear, that want eyes to see, that want restoration with you, Lord Jesus. I pray that you can come and touch their heart, purify them from unrighteousness, and lead them and guide them into everlasting life. I pray that we can hear your voice, be your sheep, and that we would eat your flesh and drink your blood and not be a part of the harlot church system or dead religion or things that draw our hearts away from your kingdom. I pray this in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen.
