Good morning everyone from Hilo, Hawaii, to all the places of the world. We are to welcome you all The Church Ministries 76th Sunday Sermon, we welcome you all with a clean heart of love and to worship our Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. We are here to touch thousands of lives, to bring the good news to a land that still many worship 12 other gods (Hawaii). So in turn I came here as a missionary to preach the love and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and in turn I hope to capture the audience of the locals and the world, also our entire congregation throughout all the different countries and to all the friends and members we have in India and Africa. We also welcome all visitors and return visitors, welcome everyone. I am here to show and explain the mystery of God through the Holy Spirit that enters into my heart and then I must try to open others hearts to the same spirit of God even though I am up against evil and ignorance. We must open others hearts to the power of The Holy Spirit so people will find the good news as a reality. In other words we must take them by the hand and guide them with love and truth so the mystery of God becomes understandable. It is very simple, what must be done, but how do I preach when I have such pain from where I speak. I can only put it down on the paper and ink. So the Lord is set in glory and people understand what Christ has done for us all. We have many unbelievers that either refuse to accept it, or they choose to ignore it, or just have not heard the good news. Many hear it, but many just think it is some kind of fantasy.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You Lord for another week of health, Lord we need to have perfect faith but sometimes we all struggle with doubt coming from the world. We ask these things at this time that you help us with any unbelief. Please increase our faith and teach us to do our parts so we can do your wishes and join hands with you so our faith can be perfected day by day through love. Lord we thank You for all Your precious promises. Help us all to pray inwardly for the promises so we can be better people. Lord thank You that You are faithful to all Your promises, Lord sometimes we just don’t understand why You allow us to go through all these tests and trials, We know they are to make us better people and stronger within. Please help us as we walk in and out of the fire and up and down the valleys and to the mountain tops. We are here to worship You in truth and in spirit, we Praise Your Name, we Love you Father and we love You Jesus, Holy Spirit please we welcome You to this gathering place please enrich our souls and anoint us with full hearts of peace, we love You, please stay amongst us all. In Jesus Name, Amen.
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.1Cor.1:20-25 NIV
We are here to build up the Church of Jesus Christ. We can not use faulty materials or mess with the foundation. We want this church to be built on Jesus Christ no other person or principle. In the end all our work will be evaluated and tested by fire, we need to have The Church Ministries stand. We have our love and sincerity to be judged on judgment day. We do not want anyone to take pride in what I am doing, that is why I need to be led by The Holy Spirit. I will be taking on some assistants because the church has grown and maybe it is a lot for me to do everything, but if I have not followed the Lords instructions to the letter The Church Ministries will be disconnected and the work will burned up. Still then again I am not looking for rewards, but I do not want to escape just barely from the fires of Hades. My attitude is to be at one with Christ and God, they are the builders, and they are the foundation that is why we can not focus on our own ambition but on our relationship with the Lord and helping others. We cannot do anything to gain our salvation we are saved by grace, but our works, basically are for added rewards which I am not really looking for. I just want to heal people and save them and comfort them with what ever they need. That is why I need the mission building so much and I believe that is coming. I can only hope in God, I came here to build and save souls through The Holy Spirit, and have a place to go to worship for all and get a meal for all, and a shower for all, and clean clothes and a place to find Christian fellowship any time of the day or night. There are not many places like that where you can go. I will accomplish, here, what I was sent to do. God did not send me five thousand miles to lie on a couch. I have built a better relationship and learned more about life during these two years than all the rest of my life put together. God does work in mysterious ways. The only thing in life is Christ. The Jews in history pictured Christ differently, they considered the message to be foolish, they pictured the Messiah as conceited king, to take over like David and restore the thrown as a king, with the showing of all kinds of signs and wonders and all sorts of miracles. But that just did not happen, they just could not understand even though they pointed the way to his execution and made Him to be a criminal, then they just could not understand how Jesus let everything happen the way it did. How can a criminal be a Savior?
Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things and the things that are not to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord." 1Corth. 1:26-31 NIV
Jesus was following the Fathers direction, which no one understood, a man of God who is God to let Himself be King on that cross to die. Still today, people miss the message of the good news. The Greeks did also; they thought the message of The Christ was also foolish. They were comparing Jesus with their mythological gods and their so called powers. They also did not think the Son Of God would be crucified. Those both groups, thought death was defeat, not a victory, but when Our Lord rose out of the grave the way the scriptures were foretold, it changed everything, many did not believe in the resurrection, but now, who were the foolish ones. Today the good news of Jesus Christ still sounds foolish to so many. Our society is run by the evil one, and has turned into worshiping all the wrong things, money, power, prestige, possessions and accomplishments. Many miss the point Jesus came as a humble servant, poor to the eyes of men, but He came to offer an eternal kingdom to all those who have faith. Many today are trying to do all kinds of good deeds to earn salvation. This too is also foolishness. The only way is to know Christ is our only means of salvation. The secret to all life is in the relationship to know Christ personally, which is the greatest achievement of this entire world.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Eph 2:8-10NIV
What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe--and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James 2:14-26 KJV
We know we are saved by grace and the biggest controversy is the battle between Eph 2:8-9 & James 2:14-26. Many miss the point our works are our fruit. How can we make an example of our selves to let others notice what we have done? So people want to have what we have, our attitude or giving our loving, our taking time for others and doing for others. I remember the day I picked up food in my truck to give out to the poor on the way to the food bank, I was anointed with the Holy Spirit and tears of joy would run down my face and felt that anointing almost half the way there. My fellow brother and partner in Christ did not believe in any supernatural reactions like being slain by the Spirit of God in my truck and it was so beautiful to me to feel the essence of God with no one laying hands on me, not in a church building, but me, so excited about getting good food for the poor, just made me feel so glad to be there. I worked that volunteer job for about two years using my truck every Thursday, and then packing the truck, picking healthy food in all ways. Then going back to the church unloading my truck then the big truck with cans and other things on pallets came, we both stacked and put every piece of food in its proper place. I indulged on a piece of pie or a jar of good peanut butter or some other choice food. I to was poor, going to ministry school, but I was surely blessed to be able to help those worse off than I and the real miracle was that the old truck is still here with me and came over the ocean a little roughed up, but the insurance listened to my story and ended up paying for the full charge of shipping it here. It was an awful lot of money. God does work in mysterious ways. Hopefully I will be strong enough again soon to start another food bank here on the Island, they really need help in that area, strictly on a volunteer basis. So if we talk about works it will not give us salvation but it will bring us more to do in the kingdom as far as rewards. We realize nothing that we do as far as work can earn us salvation. Salvation is a work of grace. So, by our works we cannot enhance anything that Christ has already done on the cross. The thing is by what we do on this earth will establish our works in Heaven. We know about the four crowns life, glory, righteousness, exultation, but we do not know how rewards will be administered. The anointing I received was enough and the few goodies we ate unpacking and storing the food was quite enough for me. The truck is holy; the truck fed over a hundred people a week for about two years, so the Lord blessed it. I did pray for the windows to work because they are locked shut, and will cost 250.00 to get new motors put in, but The Lord will provide. I know and have the faith just like all of us. We need to ask and hope, God understands. We have to ask, how else will we know.
"Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." Matt 18:19-20 KJV
So Jesus answered and said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, "Be removed and be cast into the sea,' it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Matt. 21:21-22 KJV
"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!" Luke 11:9-13 KJV
"But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given. Luke 12:48 NIV
"But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you. "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. “Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys. "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:31-34 NASB
Because of God's special favor to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful. For no one can lay any other foundation than the one we already have--Jesus Christ. Now anyone who builds on that foundation may use gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. But there is going to come a time of testing at the judgment day to see what kind of work each builder has done. Everyone's work will be put through the fire to see whether or not it keeps its value. If the work survives the fire, that builder will receive a reward. But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builders themselves will be saved, but like someone escaping through a wall of flames. 1Cor.3:10-15
As we talked about in our introduction about the building on the right foundation in 1Cor. 3:10-15 we have two builders, one will get rewards and one will barely escape the fire depending on their work, so where and how will the rewards be given and we know there will be a reward on the basis of works . I feel the rewards will be an added responsibility not a gift or a privilege or a metal, remember about the three servants in Matt. 25:14-30.
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going on a trip. He called together his servants and gave them money to invest for him while he was gone. He gave five bags of gold to one, two bags of gold to another, and one bag of gold to the last--dividing it in proportion to their abilities--and then left on his trip. The servant who received the five bags of gold began immediately to invest the money and soon doubled it. The servant with two bags of gold also went right to work and doubled the money. But the servant who received the one bag of gold dug a hole in the ground and hid the master's money for safekeeping. "After a long time their master returned from his trip and called them to give an account of how they had used his money. The servant to whom he had entrusted the five bags of gold said, `Sir, you gave me five bags of gold to invest, and I have doubled the amount.' The master was full of praise. `Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let's celebrate together!' "Next came the servant who had received the two bags of gold, with the report, `Sir, you gave me two bags of gold to invest, and I have doubled the amount.' The master said, `Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let's celebrate together!' "Then the servant with the one bag of gold came and said, `Sir, I know you are a hard man, harvesting crops you didn't plant and gathering crops you didn't cultivate. I was afraid I would lose your money, so I hid it in the earth and here it is.' "But the master replied, `You wicked and lazy servant! You think I'm a hard man, do you, harvesting crops I didn't plant and gathering crops I didn't cultivate? Well, you should at least have put my money into the bank so I could have some interest. Take the money from this servant and give it to the one with the ten bags of gold. To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who are unfaithful, even what little they have will be taken away. Now throw this useless servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' Matt. 25:14-30 NLT
The bags of silver represent any talent ,gift or ability or resource that God has given us. God gives us the things with in adequate time according to our character and strength, talent and abilities. He expects us to utilize these gifts to further the kingdom or to help others until He returns. We have a responsibility to use what he has been given us for good. The main point is to use what we have, not with how much we have. We know Jesus is coming back, we just don’t give up our lives and wait for Him, no we have to use the time the gifts the talents and treasures for the service of our Lord and His children. Some of us had to change our whole outlook on life and careers. Me I was a famous Chef, very well off, but I was serving the rich and making the rich richer. Then something clicked in my mind, so I gave up everything went back to school and after all I was waiting for the doorway to leave this rich area and go someplace I haven’t been to serve, so I packed up and put what I could in boxes and gave a lot away, sold a few things and went to a far away place on an island in the middle of the pacific ocean. I knew when I came here there were many in the town of Hilo Hawaii, that needed help, plus I came to a place were white people are a minority. I am an outcast here in this land. I am lesser of the ethnic backgrounds. Maybe that is why God sent me here, it is going to be hard, but that is why He chose me.
We all have to remember, our time our gifts our treasures abilities talents money are not ours in the first place. We are the caretakers not owners. If we just sit and watch the ballgame and we ignore what God has given us and do not use it to keep others we become rebellious against God, whether we know it or not we deserve to be punished or disciplined. So you see in verse 21 if we utilize what God has given us and go to other lands and serve God, we will be rewarded.
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Matt. 25:21 KJV
We have to bear much fruit and God rewards faithfulness. I feel; sorry for the people who just stay in the same place and talk to the same people about the same things and do not bear much fruit for Gods Kingdom, those that faithful to the callings The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few! Mat: 9:37
Jesus traveled through all the cities and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And wherever he went, he healed people of every sort of disease and illness. He felt great pity for the crowds that came, because their problems were so great and they didn't know where to go for help. They were like sheep without a shepherd. He said to his disciples, "The harvest is so great, but the workers are so few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send out more workers for his fields." Matt. 9:35-38 NIV
So our rewards in this scripture above in verse 21. So the servant did well, that is all I ever wanted is to look at the Master of the universe and have him tell me.
Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Then all life as I have known it will be blessed to me. I know I am still a sinner but to please God with what He has given me is the ultimate reward of all things that alone I could survive on in full happiness and comfort and peace.
So in the scripture the worker appears to have been given more things to do and to share joy with God! Still we know we are saved by grace. Through all our notes and we are rewarded according to deeds, as we have been doing research we are much at a stand still and this to is only speculations. We know we are saved but we will not know how and the way the rewards will be distributed we know about the four crowns,
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. James 1:12 KJV
And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. 1Pet. 5:4 NASB
in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. 2Tim. 4:8 NASB
'Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. Rev. 2:10 NASB
For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? 1Thes. 2:19 NASB
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. Mark 16:15-20 KJV
But we do not know how they will be distributed or they may be all spiritual in some way, so are we good servants? Are we using our gifts to build up The Body of Christ? We have to remain obedient and faithful to him. I must add are we all doing what Christ asked us to do . I think we as a whole should take or Christianity more seriously, all of us. We know about Christ return, we also understand that Christ has not come back yet because His church, His Body is not yet complete. God commands us to preach the gospel to every creature and we are not listening to the truth and following what He says. So why are we not sending the gospel to every creature, traveling is relatively cheap and fast compared to the first century and still as we are here there is half the human race that have never heard of Christ and we are going to have to answer to that plain and simple. That is why The Church Ministries has been branching out. I myself moved to a central worldly location for the future of the church.
For we speak as messengers who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the one who examines the motives of our hearts. 1Thes. 2:4 NLT
Hawaii is a main point of the world and you can get to many parts of the world from this location and still there are so many others awareness we can take to fulfill the Masters Words, like The Church Ministries which now is world wide. We should be more wide awake in this marching order Jesus left us, some of us have families that live in the same place, generation after generation, which they might have to come up with some answers why know one in their families ever have done their Christian duty. Christ’s body will never be complete until the last of His elect people will be called out. These same elected are called to preach to the rest of the world there are over thousands and thousands and countries that do not have one simple word of scripture we need to get on this Christians! We need to send the gospel to that 10/40 window of the world where people have not heard the word of God or even have a word to listen and read. The thing is everyone should take part in this order, but to many people are concentrating on these house there car payment, and the kids are in school and you are taking care of your own family many of society are trapped, they cannot do what Christ word tells us to do, “go ye” into all the world and preach the gospel. He does not say “send ye” he says “go ye” and all of you are going to have to answer to Christ and still yet you have not gone. He has given us work to do here and most of us are not doing it. He has placed everyone in different positions to start where you are at starting from your own home then branching out to next door then the next town and so on.
So we all should go and why are we not doing what Jesus says, well Satan is controlling the world
Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News that is shining upon them. They don't understand the message we preach about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. 2Cor. 4:4 NLT
You used to live just like the rest of the world, full of sin, obeying Satan, the mighty prince of the power of the air. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God. Eph 2:2 NLT
For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against the evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against those mighty powers of darkness who rule this world, and against wicked spirits in the heavenly realms. Eph. 6:12 NLT
Remember I am not judging anyone but I am trying to get the ball rolling, you have to figure everyone is not supposed to go, they have work to do where they are at. He put you in that exact position to where you are and you have responsibilities to do work where you are at, but any Christian who can go but does not go will have to answer to Christ.
So where do you go? In Acts 1:8 Go where?
But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will receive power and will tell people about me everywhere in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. "Acts 1:8 NLT
Where even the spirit leads you to go. With what? The gospel of course why should I go? Because God commanded you to go. The gospel is the only way to be able to call out his own elect. No one knows who Gods elect are, no one on earth! So they are all spread out this is why we must preach the gospel to every creature, hopefully being able to reach the ones God has marked out of all the creatures of the world. We all need to follow this. If you cannot, do the best you can from where you are at. Get a website build it and start preaching to good news to the world.
Dear Father thank You for a glorious week were we can have fellowship , love an togetherness as we worship You, You are our God an we truly ask for Your forgiveness of all of our sins, Lord we want to thank You for all the blessings You have showered upon us, and we wish to thank You for all the eternal promises that you have in the future for us, we thank You for who we are, and we thank You for all our sufferings and all the pain and misfortunes we have gone through in this life on this planet. You have been so gracious to us, please be with us the rest of the week and please help us run on pure faith as we are guided by the Holy Spirit, We all love You and worship You and Praise You, In the Name above all names Jesus Christ, Amen and amen.
