WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.759 Welcome to Pinoy Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose of inspiring, 2 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:11.599 heartfelt tagalog. 3 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.519 Sermons from different pastors and speakers all over the Philippines. 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.359 We hope that this podcast finds you in good shape. 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:23.960 And now here's your message. Together, do we see this 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:24.960 thing accomplished? 7 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:29.120 Prayerfully as a church and we as family and the 8 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:33.399 Body of Christ all over work together in unison. That 9 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:38.000 we pray together in unity, and that we just cooperate 10 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:41.079 in unison with our leaders and those that are giving 11 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:46.880 us direction, and we will see this plague begin to subside. 12 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:52.520 I said, we will see this plague begin to subside. 13 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:54.039 So thank you for. 14 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:58.880 Being connected and listen, please stay connected. We want to 15 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:02.079 be connected to you, not only through this venue, but 16 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.280 emails and phone calls and text messages. We need each 17 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:09.239 other more than ever before. Now, if you would get 18 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.799 a paper and pen, and I want you to take 19 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.280 some notes as I share this morning. Also, if you 20 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:18.079 don't get my email and brother don maybe mention of 21 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:21.719 that earlier, please call the church tomorrow and give us 22 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:25.239 your email because I'm going to email the notes out 23 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:29.040 before every Sunday's message, so you have it already and 24 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:32.560 you can follow along and even be more acquainted with it. 25 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:39.680 If you haven't noticed, fear is everywhere right now, maybe 26 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:43.120 you've witnessed it firstthand I know some in our staff 27 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:47.359 have witnessed it out in the store's firsthand. Emotions are 28 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:53.719 flying very high, opinions, speculations. Everywhere you turn, someone has 29 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.439 something to say in regards to this. And we, as 30 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:02.120 the Body of Christ, we as believer, must get to 31 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.560 a place of balance and rest. I'll say it again, 32 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:10.000 we must get to a place of balance and rest. 33 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:16.120 We are witnessing firsthand the rapid shutdown of large gatherings, 34 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:23.840 sporting events, colleges, schools, anything where people would be grouped 35 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:29.560 together in any type of number whatsoever. Unfortunately, it hinders 36 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:32.080 the Body of Christ at Victory, as well as all 37 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:35.439 the other churches and our region, and our state and 38 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.919 our whole nation right now from gathering to limit the 39 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:42.199 transfer of any type of disease. I saw a really 40 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:44.759 neat posts this week that someone sent in a picture. 41 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:48.719 It says where two, but no more than ten are 42 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.120 gathered in his name. You know you've got to find 43 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:54.560 humor where you can, so make sure you are laughing 44 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:57.759 through this. Have you ever lived in anything quite like 45 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:02.680 this before. Never in my lifetime have I seen our 46 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:07.479 whole nation brought to a standstill and have something of 47 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.719 this type of invasion in our land. This is not 48 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:15.000 an invasion of a foreign government coming in with violence 49 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.879 and trying to destroy your life or your family. This 50 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:23.400 is not a literal war with weapons, but a pestilence 51 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:28.560 that's causing much fear, much concern, and it's unable to 52 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.599 be detected by the naked eye, you. 53 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:32.639 Know, if you think with me. 54 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:37.199 Besides nine to eleven and some other terrorist attacks upon 55 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:41.439 our land, we've not had to deal with much opposition 56 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:48.919 within our borders until now, I said, until now, Well 57 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:52.759 it's here, and what will we each do? What will 58 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:55.479 we do as the body of Christ. So let me 59 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.400 begin by saying we must cooperate with our leaders. They 60 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:03.120 need our prayers. It's scripture that we pray for those 61 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.639 that are authority because they're thinking of our well being 62 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:10.240 and how to secure our safety and our health. So 63 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:12.680 let me show you a few scriptures that will remind 64 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:16.680 us of our responsibility. Tied Us three one and two 65 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:21.680 remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities. 66 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.199 So I'm reminding the people. I'm reminding you as Victory 67 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:28.240 and others that are watching, to be obedient, to be 68 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:32.759 ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, 69 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:37.720 to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle 70 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:42.519 toward everyone. Jeanette has noticed this week when she's been 71 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.160 out at the store, how people have been helping and 72 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.680 been considering and helping reach to help people out that 73 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:53.800 need assistance. That is so good as inconvenient as this is, 74 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.800 and maybe the restriction scene right now, we're not being 75 00:04:57.959 --> 00:04:59.560 asked to deny Christ. 76 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.319 Are you with me? We're not being. 77 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.600 Asked to do something horrible like go have an abortion 78 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:10.160 or deny scripture. We're being asked to limit our personal 79 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:18.040 in person connections right now. Social distancing. That's the word, 80 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.000 or that's the phrase that's being used. 81 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:21.000 So that's what. 82 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.959 We're going to do. We're going to cooperate. Hebrews thirteen, 83 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:29.800 verse seventeen brings up something else. Have confidence in your leaders. 84 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:32.560 So we need to have confidence in those that are 85 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:36.240 trying to help us and submit to their authority because 86 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:40.560 they keep watch over you. They're keeping watch over you. 87 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:44.319 If we cooperate, is those who must give an account 88 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:45.959 do this so that. 89 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.240 Their work will be a joy, not a burden. 90 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:52.079 And let me assure you our leaders locally, state and national, 91 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:54.680 they are under a burden, so they need our prayers 92 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.839 and support for that would be of no profit to you. 93 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:00.839 So we need to be profitable. Well, So we're going 94 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:04.560 to cooperate in Jesus' name, Amen, I want us to 95 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.319 be a witness that makes our leader's responsibility in all 96 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:14.639 capacities easy because I cooperate and I pray for them, 97 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.759 and I help them, and I don't slander in any way. 98 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:23.279 Hysteria and pandemonium right now just feel right beyond the 99 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.279 shadows of our life. So many don't know what to do, 100 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:29.839 what they're going to do next, their food, their work, 101 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.600 their finances, their business, on and on. If you had 102 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:37.160 any type of plans of travel, of anything that was 103 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.319 going to be of expansion beyond this point, they've been 104 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:44.040 brought to a halt. So we're all facing this. So 105 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:46.600 let me as your pastor. I just want to have 106 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:50.360 a conversation with you today. I know you can't talk back, 107 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:52.839 but you can cheer me on from your house. Okay, 108 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:55.680 I'm going to give you some points and some sub 109 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:56.800 points under it. 110 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.360 It'll move real quick. But take note of this and 111 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:02.040 write it down. Number one. 112 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:09.560 Intelligent caution is healthy. I said, intelligent caution is healthy. 113 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:14.240 A point under that common sense, that's point number A. 114 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.519 Examples those of you that are familiar with the area. 115 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.879 We have one main road, Highway twenty seven. I know 116 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:25.000 better than to try to cross the road blindfolded. 117 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.759 That's intelligent caution. It's healthy. 118 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:32.199 I know better than to drive my vehicle one hundred 119 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.600 miles per hour in a forty five mile per hour 120 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:40.680 speed zone. Foolishness and presumption are not examples of faith. 121 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:44.839 They're not God has st laws in motion, which Satan, 122 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:48.959 the god little g of this world in second Corinthians 123 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:55.000 four to four, has corrupted. Point B under intelligent caution 124 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:08.120 is healthy. Sin, disease, bondage, depression, deception, and other hosts 125 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:13.519 of melodies are the result of Satan's rule over the earth. 126 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:19.560 Because Satan is operating right now on the earth. Jesus 127 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:21.920 dealt with this through his whole ministry. 128 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:23.279 This is what he did. 129 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:25.920 Let me read the story of the Ladies set free 130 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:30.759 from the spirit of infirmity in Luke, chapter thirteen. On 131 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:34.840 a sabbath, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 132 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.080 and a woman was there who had been crippled by 133 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.960 a spirit for eighteen years. Now, I'm not implying that 134 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:46.200 every sickness is demonic from a spirit, but we know 135 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.080 disease as a whole is not God's plan. So we 136 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.000 do walk through this, whether it's just something our bodi's facing, 137 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.240 or we've not been a good steward of our health. 138 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:59.639 But for this woman, it was a demon. She has 139 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:04.039 been old and could not straighten up at all. When 140 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:07.840 Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, woman, 141 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:13.960 you are set free from your infirmity. Then he put 142 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.799 his hands on her. They didn't have social distancing at 143 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:23.720 this point, okay, And immediately she straightened up and praised God. 144 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:33.000 Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue 145 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:36.639 leader said to the people, there are six days for work, 146 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:40.679 so come and be healed on those days, not on 147 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:41.480 the Sabbath. 148 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:45.879 The Lord answered him, you hypocrites. 149 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:49.200 Don't each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox 150 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:52.559 or donkey from the stall and lead it out to 151 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:57.279 give it water. Then should not this woman, a daughter 152 00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:04.240 of Abraham whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, 153 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:06.240 be set free on the Sabbath day. 154 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:07.960 For what bound her. 155 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:12.240 Jesus said, Satan has bound this daughter of Abraham for 156 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:16.919 eighteen long years. It is Satan who comes to steal, 157 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:21.600 kill and destroy. But Jesus said in John ten, I've 158 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:23.840 come to give you life, and give it to you 159 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:30.080 more abundantly or to the full. Point c under intelligent caution. 160 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:36.799 And then there's a practical way we need to avoid corrupted, 161 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:43.399 polluted atmospheres here on Earth, wherever it crosses our path 162 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:47.559 or my path. I am not ignorant, and you aren't either. 163 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:52.799 Germs are real and how they can travel. We need 164 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:57.440 to use intelligent caution. If you had a big dumpster 165 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:01.120 in your neighborhood and it was full of breathe and 166 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:05.120 garbage and flies were everywhere, and suddenly you saw all 167 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.240 your children and neighborhood children climbing into that thing thinking 168 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.000 that was fun, you would immediately go and reprimand them, 169 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:18.120 correct them, clean them, bathe them, sanitize them. That is 170 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:22.360 healthy caution. And this is what our leaders are trying 171 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.840 to do, is keep us from spreading anything that would 172 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:32.480 hinder or hurt Point Number two irrational fear is unhealthy. 173 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:39.559 Intelligent caution is good, but irrational fear is unhealthy. So 174 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.080 a point under that point, aim, as long as I'm 175 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:48.559 doing my best to avoid contact with disease, with demons, 176 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:56.279 with disaster, with depressive alignments of thought in my head, 177 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:57.639 and that's the whole subject. 178 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:59.000 We will get on eventually. 179 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:04.120 I've got tolloid depressive alignments of thought in my head, 180 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:12.000 living obedient to authorities. Listen, I have nothing to fear, 181 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:17.360 and you have nothing to fear as long as you 182 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:23.759 do this example, Paul, he was caught in a violent storm. 183 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.679 Let's call it a hurricane, because that's what it was. 184 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:29.679 And they're in that thing for two weeks. It had 185 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:31.840 to be one of those storms that just stalled, and 186 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.480 there they were in it. And if you're prone to 187 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:39.879 motion sickness, can you imagine the agony the people were having. 188 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.039 Now listen what he told the other two hundred and 189 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:48.919 seventy five passengers and Acts twenty seven. We're going to 190 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.000 start in verse twenty two. But now I urge you 191 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:59.440 to keep up your courage. I want to urge you, family, 192 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:05.679 body of Christ, those watching today, keep up your courage, 193 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:07.879 because not one of you will be lost. 194 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.200 Only the ship will be destroyed. 195 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:14.639 Last night, an angel of the God to whom I 196 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:19.799 belong and whom I serve, stood beside me and said, 197 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.559 do not be afraid. 198 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:26.240 Don't be afraid, Paul. 199 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:32.080 You must stand trial before Caesar, and God has graciously 200 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:36.919 given you the lives of all who sail with you. 201 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:44.799 That is great, great news. Choose to take heart, not fear. 202 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:51.799 You can then hear a word from the Lord in 203 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:52.519 the Word. 204 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.840 If you choose to take heart. 205 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:01.279 Are as you're in the Word, you will receive a 206 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:06.080 revelation in your spirit. Are someone else encouraging you with 207 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:09.559 a revelation from the Lord that God speaks to your 208 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:14.120 heart and you begin to choose that that becomes faith 209 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:17.960 over your fear because all of us are having to 210 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:19.679 make the same choices right now. 211 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.159 Faith over fear. You don't fear. 212 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.919 Your way into courage. You will have to faith your 213 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:30.159 way into courage. If you think courage is going to 214 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.440 come because you keep identifying with fear, you will be 215 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:34.480 stuck right there. 216 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.480 You will be encouraged as you allow your faith to expand. 217 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:45.240 Number two or be people will lose hope with fear 218 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:51.720 when fear becomes your foundation, you begin to picture the worst. 219 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.279 Please hear that if fears your foundation, you will constantly 220 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:00.600 picture the worst. Then a person bound by fear begins 221 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.799 to act irrational, to survive and to make you through 222 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:06.679 the day. And again, maybe you've witnessed that at the 223 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:10.879 stores recently or out in public, when people begin to communicate, 224 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:15.279 Faith doesn't come across fear, a worry, and so forth. 225 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:17.799 Now here's the thought. Listen to this. 226 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:23.840 Fear does not change the situation. It only clouds my 227 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:31.799 path forward. Fear does not change the situation. It only 228 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:37.120 clouds my path forward. Here's a great example. You know what, 229 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:39.039 I believe your Bible reading is going to come alive 230 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:42.240 like never before. If you think about it, when you 231 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:45.440 read the Bible, almost every page is dealing with some 232 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:51.600 world or national or local confusion or conflict or turmoil 233 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:55.600 or disaster going on. We've been so secure in our 234 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:59.919 nation all these years. Now we find ourselves in situations 235 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.000 similar to people in the Body of Christ. Think about 236 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.600 Paul and Silas. You know, poor Paul, he kind of 237 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:09.240 lived from trauma to turmoil, to confusion to this, and 238 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:13.799 he'd always come through triumphantly. But in Acts sixteen he 239 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:18.240 and Silas are in prison and they're facing execution. 240 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:20.480 Okay, they weren't going to be released. 241 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:25.600 This wasn't a temporary don't get around people and stay 242 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:28.440 in your home until we tell you it's safe to 243 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:28.879 come out. 244 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:30.679 They're getting ready to be killed. 245 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:35.120 And about midnight, this is what Paul and Silence were doing. 246 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:39.720 They were praying and singing hymns to God. And it 247 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:42.799 wasn't the hethaw song of woe and agony. It was 248 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:46.440 they were singing praise to God. And the other prisoners 249 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:50.320 weren't listening to them. Listen, people are listening to you. 250 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:54.679 Jenny made mention of it. Your children are listening to you. 251 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.799 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations 252 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:02.519 of the prison were shape at once. All the prison 253 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:08.599 doors flew open, and everyone's chains came loose. Could it 254 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:13.839 be as a body of Christ praise? We continue worshiping, 255 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:19.680 we continue praying that the foundation of this academic going on, 256 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:23.279 this pandemic that's trying to bring havoc in our nation, 257 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:28.160 it's just shaken. It breaks and it's destroyed. And what 258 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:31.680 seemed as bondage it's broken off. 259 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:33.799 So let's continue praying. 260 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.920 Let's continue our praise going forth, we must begin to 261 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:40.960 recognize the lie of fear from the devil and align 262 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:42.640 our heart. 263 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:43.839 With faith instead of fear. 264 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.599 It's a choice I have to make, a choice you 265 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.160 have to make. It is a spiritual discipline that requires 266 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.759 personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and allowing the 267 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:01.519 Holy Ghost to walk real close. Jesus is praying for us, 268 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.039 but the Holy Ghost is here on earth wherever he's welcome, 269 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:08.599 and Folks, I need him close right now, I need 270 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:10.160 him right next to me. 271 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:11.200 I want to hug up. 272 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:14.359 Close to the Holy Ghost because I want to hear 273 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:16.799 what he has to say. And when we do that, 274 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:21.519 it causes scripture to come alive, It causes praise to 275 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:25.279 come alive. It causes prayer to be real. Faith in 276 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:29.160 is the substance things hope for the evidence of things 277 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:29.880 not seen. 278 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:32.440 So your faith. 279 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:36.759 Becomes evidence and if you have faith, it will be 280 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:41.039 evident to those you talk with. It becomes something real, 281 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.640 It becomes something secure, which leads us. 282 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:50.519 To the third point. One more point. Faith sees the rescue. 283 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:53.640 Faith sees the rescue. 284 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.000 You might not know when or how, but the faith 285 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:00.799 you are standing on becomes your substance. The Word of 286 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.920 God that you read every day and that you would 287 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:08.960 meditate on and think about, becomes substance. We are believers, 288 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:12.720 which means we allow our faith to be grow and 289 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:16.599 we allow it to be solid. Okay, here's a point 290 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:21.440 under this about faith. Caesar rescue. Paul continued his conversation. 291 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:24.680 He's on the deck of the ship in Acts twenty seven, 292 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:28.720 and he says this Acts twenty seven, verse twenty five. 293 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:31.680 They're going to bring that verse up for me. 294 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:41.759 So keep up your courage, church, believers, family friends, keep 295 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:45.240 up your courage. Keep it up men, because they're all 296 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:48.240 men on this ship for our faith in God that 297 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:53.039 it will happen just as he told me. Nevertheless, we 298 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:56.559 must run aground on some island. In other words, there 299 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:58.799 wore be some obstacles, there would be some things that 300 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:03.480 take place. Paul would have an interruption in his journey. 301 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:06.799 Have you noticed we are all having an interruption right 302 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:08.480 now in our journey. 303 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:09.920 They would not. 304 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:12.920 Reach the destination where they were intended to or thought 305 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:17.039 they would be going, but they would be rescued. And 306 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:20.559 you know what, We're going to be rescued. Now, get this, 307 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:25.079 write it down, think about it. Pray about it. Often 308 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:32.240 the interruption leads to a new appointment. Often your interruption. 309 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:36.079 If you allow the Holy Ghost real close here his voice, 310 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:40.720 it will lead to a new appointment. The rescue led 311 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:46.200 to purpose for Paul Acts twenty eight, verse seven through ten. 312 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:50.079 Now this is after the shipwreck and everybody gets on 313 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:51.079 shore safely. 314 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:53.160 There was an estate nearby. 315 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:56.440 They belonged to a pubulist, the chief official of the island. 316 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.960 He welcomed us into his home and showed us gracious 317 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:06.640 hospitality for three days. His father was sick and dead. Okay, 318 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:10.880 the leader, the fisheral of the island, suffering from fear 319 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:14.200 and dysentery. Now Paul could have just been consumed with 320 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:17.559 his need, the men's need where they were at the moment. 321 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:21.039 But Paul went in to see him, and after prayer, 322 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:24.440 placed his hands on him and healed him. 323 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:26.680 We know he didn't personally do it. God did it 324 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:28.200 because of obedience. 325 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:30.640 When this had happened, the rest of the sick on 326 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.759 the island came and they were cured, so everybody else 327 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:38.039 got a healing. They honored us in many ways, and 328 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:40.440 when we were ready to sell, they furnished us with 329 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:44.559 the supplies we needed. See when you step into purpose 330 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.119 and you're not hiding full of fear. I believe the 331 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:50.200 supplies you need they're going to be there. 332 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:57.240 Point b under this about the rescue. 333 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:01.720 Anyone can see the fear. Only those with eyes of 334 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:06.359 faith can see the finish. What do you see fear 335 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:11.759 or the finish? Fear or the finish Second Corinthians four, 336 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.400 verse eighteen. So we fix our eyes not on what 337 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:21.000 is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is 338 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:24.480 seen as temporary. All this that's going right now, please 339 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:27.200 realize it is a temporary situation. We don't know the 340 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:31.200 length of it, but it's temporary. But what is unseen 341 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:36.759 is eternal. Even if all this temporary stuff were solved 342 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:43.599 next week, it's temporary. What's unseen Your faith, your walk 343 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:45.279 with God, that's. 344 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:47.640 Eternal, or it canvy. 345 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:52.599 Hebrews twelve one through three says this. Therefore, since we're 346 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.599 surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, people who 347 00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:59.599 are doing it right, living by faith, family that have 348 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.599 live by faith or with the Lord, people in the 349 00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:05.720 word of God that did it right, let us throw 350 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:10.839 off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. 351 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:11.960 And let me tell you. 352 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.799 If fear becomes your identity, that becomes a sin. Let 353 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:20.279 us run with perseverance. Okay, we're gonna need perseverance through 354 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:25.039 this race. Run with perseverance. The race marked out for us. 355 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:27.200 See right now. We don't know how far we're running. 356 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:29.759 We don't know the length of this marathon. 357 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:31.400 But let's do it. 358 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:38.279 How fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfector 359 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:39.000 of faith. 360 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:42.000 How did he do it? Why did he do it? 361 00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:43.319 This is how we're gonna do it. 362 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:48.599 For the joy set before him, the joy set before you. 363 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:51.359 He endured you and I are gonna endure. 364 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:56.319 He had to endure the cross. We're having to endure inconvenience. 365 00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:01.200 And he was scorning as shame, and he's now setting 366 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:05.599 down at the right hand of the throne of God. Listen, 367 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:09.480 this plague is going to end. I said, it's going 368 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:13.519 to end. We're going to be rescued. God is with us, 369 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:17.720 and you and I we will survive if you do that. 370 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:22.599 Let me say this, Now you're thinking clearly, I said, 371 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:23.960 now you're thinking clearly. 372 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:25.440 Let me give you. 373 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:30.039 Five practical applications as a pastor, as a father, as 374 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:32.160 a grandfather, as a friend. 375 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:32.759 Real quick. 376 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:37.480 Number one, do what the health authorities are advocating. Okay, 377 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:45.240 wash your hands frequently, keep a healthy distance from others 378 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:47.319 if possible. 379 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:50.519 Keep your immunity built up. 380 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:53.079 With the red alert. You say, what in the world 381 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:55.799 is a red alert? Well, you're going to see bring 382 00:24:55.839 --> 00:25:08.079 it up. The red alert, A rest e, exercise, d diet. 383 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:10.319 I'm gonna encourage you when you go to bed at night, 384 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:11.119 say Lord, thank you. 385 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:15.000 My mind's going to stop. I'm going to rest well, exercise. 386 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:15.400 You know what. 387 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:19.000 Many of you have those treadmills and things in your house, 388 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:21.119 stationary bikes, and all you do is you hang your 389 00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:25.400 clothes on them. Okay, dust them off, plug them in, 390 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:27.480 get some exercise. 391 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:28.680 It'll be good for you. 392 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:33.680 And then diet, try to eat healthy appropriately and so forth. 393 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:36.920 If you violate the red alert, you're not taking care 394 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:42.960 of the temple of God. Two cast down thoughts of death, doom, 395 00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:47.759 and the end of the world. We are inconvenience, yes, 396 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:55.039 but we're not incapacitating. We're inconvenience, but we're still functioning 397 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.799 Tewod Corinthians ten three through five. Far though we live 398 00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:02.160 in the world, we do not wage war as the 399 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:05.359 world does the weapons we fight with are not the 400 00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:07.920 weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine 401 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:15.400