R1318 I Will Raise It Up

Currency word for you would be today. The Bible-based teaching Dr. Don Wilton message: I will raise as we study the word of God together. Let's connect online as well. GW online.org much buzz about 31 days of prayer for husbands and wives online@twonline.org. You know those of us who know and love the Lord Jesus, we know that he's alive. Do you know that he's alive. Just think about all the people around the world on a day like this, different time zones all celebrating who Jesus is and that's why we hear today. You know, when God speaks to you.

Don't concern yourself with being able to unravel the door. Just let God deal with you late let him say what he needs to say, his timing is always perfect, but I knew that the Lord was speaking to me in gradually and regularly came to understand that was the case with many people who love the Lord. Hundreds and thousands are worshiping with us today would identify with it a lot of good reasons for it to. I you know, I became increasingly concerned about myself.

You might say to me will pasta that's a interesting statement. I am a Christian man. I've given my heart to Jesus and I've tried very hard to follow the Lord for the better part of my life and I like you I have a taste of money, but I I just want my life to count and I want my life to count in the way in which life really matters. You know I'm a I'm a pasta I'm a friend of a lot of people in a posturing. I'm a grandfather and a dad and a husband and so on. But I've I've watched a lot of people come to the end of their lives and have gained a lot but they've accomplished very little and watch people some people who accumulate a lot of things and I'm not picking on things because there's nothing wrong with things but the whole life is vested in what they have and they get to the end of their life and their life is somewhat black and empty TV. You're a broken TV with the plug pulled out it just fizzles, and there is nothing of real substance and I just decided that if God would be so kind to me that I didn't want my life to be like that.

I want to have real purpose in my heart, not in terms of anything magnificent in in man's eyes, all those things have their place. We will have our accomplishments and accomplishments of very wonderful things I've written books you not put my name on on books and and I'm very privileged to be a posturing, not an old lease they wonderful thing.

I don't intend to stop but in the here I want that real reality to reside in my heart and in my life and I know that that comes from the Lord Jesus. So it was about me. Then I looked around and I and our soul. This incredible nation. I really love America. I'm an adopted son. I'm one of those that was born on the other side of the world and I've been here for decades and people tell me you know I was born in the wrong place.

I should've been born in America and all those things and I'm very I'm so proud to be an American, but I become very concerned about this nation that I love so much and I'm not willing to just stand there and watch it sink I'm I'm not willing to do that and we we've got a very serious problem in America today. I watched how when we face 9/11, everybody goes to church and within a few weeks off to that nobody wants to go to church. We Americans are so good at masquerading, our religion, we actually have even become a nation that we really believe that we are a Christian nation, we really do and when not in the day. Everything is becoming acceptable. It doesn't matter how people behave as long as it's politically expedient will do in the bottom line for us is the market in the manner with which we can line our pockets and whether or not we can get that extra Hoberman always of the blessings and our nation is divided so I was signed. Lord, what can we do lately is the world Judah. We live in this world and the world's in Emmaus. So God began to speak to my heart.

Have you noticed our leaders in America, the more stress we find the latest. They seem to be turning to God. Just like second verse, same as the first evangelical Christian is nowhere to be found in America we been responding to silence we so afraid of the court of public opinion. We dare not say anything, and Hezekiah rose up a man after God's heart and he called everybody to the temple, declared the time of prayer and fasting. And God moved in and what I love about the story about his Akai when you get to the end of it.

The Bible say is they brought the gifts they ties in their offerings.

They worship the Lord and they offered themselves to him and he prospered them and something's been going on I can't describe. And God is speaking to our hearts, and you are listening today. And deep down in your own heart you know you looking you searching and many of you do not know the Lord Jesus, and it begins with you giving your life to Christ now want you to open your Bible to John chapter 2. You see John chapter 2 has one of the most powerful statements about the resurrection end and I'm not going to read to you this whole passage today I want to just show you the most important verse in this passage John chapter 2 in verse 21 John chapter 2 in verse 21 but Jesus, but Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body. But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body. This is what happened. Let me explain to you just in a nutshell, the Jews were about to celebrate the Passover feast and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem this passage tells us, and he went into the temple just want you to just picture somewhat like this somewhat in the hangar as people worship just picked your church went into the synagogue went into the temple. Jesus went into the temple and when he walked into the temple he sold a whole lot of things and activities that evidently absolutely was not willing to tolerate.

He didn't accommodate them.

He threw them out and when he did that the group of people who were inside the church in the temple crew so the indignation of the son of God concerning the actions and activities as part of the house of God said what are we going to just calling him I'm going to paraphrase these people look to Jesus and said okay so you don't want us to place any kind of spiritual significance on our sacrifices and our rituals and own brands of spirituality, because that's exactly what Jesus did.

Jesus looked at them and he said to them, you all are coming into church you all claim to have a relationship with God Jehovah and you brought your own brand of spirituality to the table and I do not accept the way you are trying to approach me. That's why part of the reason why the church in America is disintegrating because it is filled with people like you and me who are standing up in the face of God and saying this is what I am going to bring before the Lord Jesus walked in.

Man said I don't care what you decided you going to bring take it out here. I do not accept those things and so these people look at him like many of us do, and they said okay so you're Jesus all you will.

If in fact you are who you say you are why you show some kind of Sino-American bring it to the table. There was almost a sarcasm in their voice. If you not going to accept what we decide we want to bring to you, then why don't you show us something special.

Jesus looked at them and he said okay I tell you what, I'll show you a miracle destroy this temple and in three days I will booted up in the these people, these citizens of that nation. These Jewish people looked at each other. I can only imagine the raucous lofted that went up the walk the jeer. Can you believe this man. We always thought he was in the left field. He doesn't even understand what it takes to build something like this. It's taken us 46 years. He obviously knows nothing about building and construction an engineering look at the size of the stones. How can you just rebuild something in three days and I walked to and that's when Jesus looked at them and he said to them, you have all got it wrong.

It's about the resurrection. It's about my body. It's about me. I'm talking about me. You can destroy this temple, and by the power of God in three days. God by his power will raise me up, and when he raises me up. It is in me that you will live and move and have no being because I am the only one who can conquer about seven and the gray and the Lord God TV show about Sir forgive the eruption will be back in just a moment for today's great teaching. The doctor done once me to remind you we are here for you 24 hours a day as a matter fact at 866899 word that's 866899673 ever connecting keyboard to keyboard on her website as well.

I TW online.org that's TW online.org about today's great teaching with Dr. Don and so they began to scamper around with one another and many of them said well I told you so not told you so not told you so.

And Jesus did not commit himself to them because they could've said I told you so, until the cows came home. But the Bible says in verse 23 verse 24, 25 that Jesus is the son of God knew what was in man. He knew the heart of man, just as he knows your heart and he knows my heart. During these days of prayer and fostering been asking the Lord to show me the truth of my heart. You see, man can only look on the outward appearance, but God looks upon the heart and then in John chapter 3, which we all know about. There was a wonderful illustration. This man's name was Nicodemus.

By the way, Nicodemus was probably the top man he was chairman of the board. He was the posture of the congregation. He was the Bishop coming. This was a conversation with the Pope in their time. If anybody had done it, according to the right way to do it. Nicodemus had he paid these Jews and already that year preventing was a very good man came to Jesus.

He was one of them. He realized what Jesus did in the temple was that Jesus had just thrown him out and say to them you need to get your heart right with me and he looked at Nicodemus.

This man imminently qualified me sick.

Tim Nicodemus, unless you are born-again you will never enter the kingdom of heaven to see what he was telling Nicodemus was that in order for Nicodemus to be changed and to live a changed life and to have a full and meaningful life. You had to be changed from inside out. It will never happen from outside in all across America today. We've come to write our own Constitution for a personal relationship with God and he's throwing it out. He said you got it wrong. It has to do with me. It's got to do with the fact that I'm the son of God unless I live in reside in your heart to the point at which you all body is the temple of the living God.

You will never amount to anything in my sight. You will never have eternal life. These people in the temple in Jesus day. They believe that they would change because they could begin outside they could begin with all the rituals and they good works and their right standing and their citizenship in which group I belong to and whether they will with in the in crowd where they belong to the outside. It didn't matter that began outside and believe whatever it was that they did outside would change them inside Jesus said there's not a single thing outside little ever-changing inside because I am God alone and I'm sober and my spirit will work in your heart to you into the heart of God will convince you of sin and of righteousness and of judgment grappled with these things but I love about Easter Sunday is that's exactly what the Lord Jesus did. He pointed to his body. He said look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me. You see the tomb is empty.

I God took upon myself the sin of the world, but by the power of God. I was raised from the dead. It's in me that you live and move and have your being, and they people all across America today.

Good people, wonderful people, productive people serving people coming up empty because you don't have Jesus living in your heart and in your life and I want to invite you to give your life to Christ.

That's where it begin during these days.

We've seen the power of God come down and begin to sweep across my phones have been ringing off the hook. The emails that I that we are receiving reports of people changed forever.

And in this church are not trusting your church next Sunday we going to have an ingathering why we going to have an ingathering because they did it in the Bible. That's why I am apart from just one posture I've come to understand, I'm I'm not doing it.

According to the Scriptures. I just want to do it the way God sees any and every pap they saw the need in their own lives in their national lives in the world in which they lived like so the burn down dates and the broken walls and I responded to the call of God, and they sink about praying and fostering and developing an intimacy with a holy and righteous God, and God began to move in Jehoshaphat in second Chronicles looked out and he said what look at this great army that is coming against us. There is fear gripping America today you cannot turn on your patient safety is not another shooting and a mugging.

There's not another flab is not another disaster. There are tornadoes and hurricanes there stones there are droughts top God is trying to speak, and don't expect the unbelieving world respond and I will say with the profoundest love in my heart to you today. If there is no stirring in your heart. There's only one reason you don't know the load I want to invite you to give your heart to Jesus. So I'm just telling you that here I come to this incredible time. I've often said to myself, why did Jesus go into the temple and all of a sudden it's become clear to me, but he was speaking about the temple of his body and when therefore he was raised from the dead.

He's disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken on the and there are three expressions through the Bible when you and I encounter the Lord through prayer and fostering and we understand and recognize that the walls are broken down the gates of burned and we cry out to God and we come to know Christ as Savior and those of us who are already believers, we become renewed and strengthened. It's got to go somewhere. The Bible teaches three zones of the expression number one it's gonna compel us to go. I've even written in this thing just probably not. Another 50 examples about you and I can go.

It's the it's the fundamental basis of the Christian life. It's the mission that God calls us to be. It's the great commission of God, and it begins) our own community.

It's the Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the world. It's that the willingness of God's people to say I know that Jesus Christ is the temple.

I know that he is the all sufficient one side of him. We are nothing less. God would come down upon us. We don't do because of that I'm willing to go number two I'm willing to serve. I thank God for countless scores of people not only here in this community but around the nation load known love the Lord Jesus who serve him.

I've often said to myself, I'm not so convinced that this will would get the kind of help they get without Christians you roll up his sleeves and serve.

I've listed probably not.

Another 3040 50 examples of just illustrations of the way in which you serve.

Third, I'm willing to give what is the matter with us Christians. What is the matter with us why you got such a problem with somebody talking about money and the church why you become so self-righteous about what God does. But you willing to say no thousands of dollars to this and thousands of dollars to that with spending money on our clubs and social Lapin and the things that we got the accumulation we got into the house of God, and we hold on to old out brand of sacrifices and traditions. But when it comes to just simply giving to God From some of you may know, willing to stand out on street corners and take up offerings for great courses but when it comes to the house of God, you rise up. And you object how come when it comes to the things that really matter in this world. The Christian community in America is going to sleep. It is that we are so willing to give our money to political Guides and we should do so when it comes to the work that Jesus Christ has called us to do. It's like tapping but from a brick in the Bible is very clear when it comes to the temple of these body near my chapter 10 we will not recite the house of the Lord, giving according to God's word comes in two forms and only into forms the tide which is 10% of your total income goes to your church, why so many of you taking your tithes and giving them to everything else accepting to your church. You being disobedient to God.

And that's one of the reasons God is not blessing us the tab according to the Scripture comes to your church with no strings attached. It's 10% of everything that you learn anything America today, all believers would tie with you and $20,000 or $200,000 a year if every believer in America tied Jesus Christ would right around this world like we've never seen before. But what we decided to do is to stand up and up. Lord, the mega giants about will donate multi-billions to the United Nations and the corporations and also to many wonderful organizations and thing without ever so much as a mention of the church of the living God and Jesus at the chart that he looked at all the sacrifices and he said I want you to focus in on me because I am the resurrection and the life temple of the living God because the son of God and God raised me up from the gray so that you can have life document from the pulpit but now as he steps in the studio.

Open your heart what he wants to see her next. Are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ wanted to pray this prayer with me right now they are gone.

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