Will the Real Christian Please Stand Up!, Part 1

The new listeners and welcome to the sound of a shower not and I'm delighted you joined us today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

The message you will hear today's one I preached at Faith Tabernacle Church under a stirring and compelling anointing. It's entitled will the real Christian.

Please stand with God because he had the great salvation the reason why had a great salvation is because we were such great sinners and great sinners require a great Savior great require a great salvation. Amen. And the only one that could fill the bill was the only begotten son of God: grace and truth adversities feel more in every way. Amen to be our Savior. That is why there is no other name given underhanded whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus. Why the devil hates the name of Jesus Christ and all those who proclaim his name and live his word. You are a target. The devil is after you.

Amen. But you can be victorious and live a godly Christian life that will glorify our Savior and that's my desire. What about you. Amen.

If you have your Bibles were there to begin in Luke the 13th chapter, you might want to wet your forefinger and your thumb will be real good and quick as we go to the Scriptures. As you know I like to give you a lot of verses and sometimes I paraphrase what the sake of time, but sometimes I just want you to see it in the word and even though I know you know when you've heard it. I don't know about you but when I read something I get more than what I just hear someone reading it to me. Everyone learns differently but for me, I'll see something of work will jump off the page and I'll get hung up on that word and then the little Tommy something show me something I never saw before. And that's why you never can get bored with the word of God, because it's line upon line and precept upon precept and its truth upon truth, and the more you search the Scriptures. The morning will testify in Jesus. John 539 says he's a search the Scriptures diligently, gently, no right to say I only the Bible God that with that said, I think until they search the Scriptures diligently, you have searched the Scriptures diligently talking about Genesis 11 to Revelation 2221 you come and tell me your objection and will have a dialogue.

But until you search the Scriptures diligently, you don't have any business saying oh I don't believe that. Amen. He said, but if you will search the Scriptures diligently they testify of me and you will find a man eternal life. Amen. And so were going to begin in Luke the 13th chapter, and I know you're going to get nervous right away you're going to get nervous. The old my don't know why I came but just, you know, just give me a little time to get started and I promise you, you know you'll feel better as time goes on.

But Luke the 13th chapter verse 22 and he went through the cities be in Jesus and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem then said one under him. We don't know who this is, we don't know what person, this was someone out there in the great audience said to Jesus, Lord, are there few that the state and he said unto them, that is Jesus answered him, strive to enter in at the strait gate for many, I say unto you, will sit to enter in, and shall not be able when once the Master of the house is risen up and had shut the door and you begin to stand without a knock at the door saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us, he shall answer and say unto you know you not whence you are, then shall you begin to say, but we had eaten and drunk in my presence, and thou hast taught in our streets but he shall say I tell you I know you not whence ER depart from me all you workers of iniquity. Now let's see what's happening here Jesus being I'm not an evangelist and traveling from town to town and city to city was preaching and teaching and someone asking this question and said, Lord, are there few that piece say I don't know about you but I wonder this a lot of times I mean I look around some that they Lord of the few that's going to be saying you can't live in this perverse ungodly Christ dating world wonder Lord to be saying amen. How many Christians are there in your world. Think about your world.

Think about your family, think about where you work, that when you go to school. Think about your neighborhood.

You may think to yourself and wonder Lord there few that would be saying. But now this Jesus answer even bother to answer the guys question the continental whether there be few Savior. Not that God will strive to enter in.

He basically said when you're worried about the numbers for why worried about how many will be saved or not you will be say what you all the way when entering the now here he uses the word Mehdi, which is the exact opposite of a few he said you will try to enter in, and they shall not be able to go now is that God's up there shut the door and say no to you and I don't choose you know they won't be able to work will means to be strong paren and there are people that do not have spiritual fortitude. They don't have the spiritual strength and they're not going to go all the way. Amen. What Jesus was saying is don't worry about the rest. But you if you will enter in your going this dry. You know what the word strive means in the Greek it means the Greek word… My go I know it sounds real, you know, fancy but it comes Frank H. Reagan and English language. We don't even bother to change it with another. Were we to write out a great point in English is agony agonize.

That's what it is and you know what denies me the Marine one time of submarine denies the I like another Scripture words used in first Timothy 612, the same Greek word is used in their time. It is translated by company like that person. The good fight of faith, you're not going to work your way to making this mentioned by the grace of God through God your way so big hairy that when you got you last with all the people. Socialism, The Enemy. Amen. Because Let Me Tell You the Reason Why Your Knee Is Because the Day Is Straight Somebody Say Is Straight and You Know What That Word Means It Is in the GH Another Street Great Writers like Roe by Sprinkling and Sometimes You Feel like Picture Being Constricted Feel Pressure on the Left and on the Right Feel Pressure in the Front and on the Back Pressure on the Field Sometimes. But Jesus Made It Clear You Will If You Will Go All the Way You You Will Be Able to Find When You Do Not You, Not the Weakness We Will Come Back down so Easily Be You Know Where You Put It down in the Holy Spirit You Put It at the Moment Only You Will Believe It Will Be Because You Because You Describe Some of the Lord and Say Lord, and the Most Words Ever Be Spoken.

You Don't Know You Was Raised in Church. The Church Wednesday Friday Sundays Sunday Sunday All Based on Communion Every First Sunday in My Church.

I Did All of These Things, You Know What Is Going to Say I Don't Know You Depart from Me, You Workers of Iniquity. The Saddest Words You Could Ever Hear Is for Jesus to Say I Don't Know You, You Can't Enter into My Heaven and We Are Not Talking about People That Never Ever Heard the Gospel Were Talking about People Who Claim to Be Christians and to Know the Lord. I Tell You What I Feel Such a Burning Anointing on Me.

I'm Not Even I'm Not Even into the Message. Really yet All I Can Say Is Put on Your Seatbelt Because I Feel Something Here This Morning.

There's a Spirit of Burning and Holiness. You May Not like Me, You May Not like My Style of Preaching. You May Think That's Not the Way out. Don't Worry.

Just Forget about Me in Moscow. I Am Who I Am and God Uses Donkeys He Can Use Me If I Say Something That's on Your Toes.

You Know, Don't Get Mad at Me Just Take It up with the Lord God Is Going to Talk to Us This Morning and before I Get Too Wound up As I've Already Feel Wound up. I Went up Take A Lot Moment Just to the Tag about Something You're Gonna Remember This When I Was a Kid Growing up and There Was A Lot Of Game Shows on TV and One of Them Was Called Truth or Consequences, and One of Them Was Called to Tell the Truth How Many Remember That Now the One to Tell the Truth Advise I Can Remember It. It Was a Game Show Where They Had a Host Going Almost All Game Shows Have Host.

Obviously, in This One Had a Panel of Four Judges They Were When Every Game Show That Same Panel of Judges Was on Every Show They Had Three New Contested. These Were Unknown People. These Were Just People like You and Me.

They Weren't Celebrities and the House That Three Contestants Would Come out and Stand on. You Know Next Each Other While the Host Would Read the Bio Biography Event That You Know Which It Was. Now Let's Just Pretend Let's Pretend That I Was One of Those up There He Was, Read My Bio so He Would.

It Would Read like This. I Was Born and Raised in Baltimore Maryland I Graduate from Southern High School Night. The Nine My Father Was the Pastor of an Independent Pentecostal Church I Served in Ministry with Him on Someone the Choir off Taught Sunday School I Preached in the Pulpit on the Managing Editor of Faith Is Action Magazine at the Hospital Magazine We Published on Unmarried on the Mother of Three Children and Grandmother to Children What Is My Name.

The Host Would Read That and Here We Thought These Three Ladies Standing up There in the First One Would Say My Name Is Sharon Knox. Second One Would Say My Name Is Sharon Knox and the Would Say My Name Is Sharon Knox. Now They Can All 3B Sharon Knox Only One of Them Is Sharon Not and They Don't Recognize These People Because They're Just Normal Average People. Amen. So Then the Three Sharon Knox's Will Go Sit down While the Four Judges on the Panel. Each Get a Turn to Ask Them Questions and the Idea Being That They Want to Try to Ask Questions That They Will Divulge Information and They Can Try to Ascertain Which of These Seems to Really Answer the Questions More Satisfactorily Because There Probably the Real Sharon Knox and That Would Be the Ideal. Each One of Those Judges Would Get a Chance to That Now. The Idea Was That the Contestants Should Be Able to Answer so Cleverly That They Could Throw the Judges off That Someone He Wasn't Sure Not to Make the Judge.

Think in the Person Who Was Sharon Not Maybe Be Kind of Vague so As Not to Not Lie to Tell the Truth. Amen. But the Big Problem and so Now after Each One, of Course, the Judges Would Make Notes and and You Know They Will Be Able to Go against a Good Question. I Now Think about This at the End of It All. When the Time Was They Each Had That Each Judge Had to Say.

Well I Think It's Number One Reader to Whoever I Think They're the Real Sharon Not and When All That Was Done in the House to Ask Them Who You Think the Real Sharon Knox Is a Course. It Was Fun to See Because You See You Know You're Playing along with Them and Possibly You've Already Made a Decision Who You Think the Sharon Knox's Amen and Finally, the Host Was Say Now. Will the Real Sharon Knox Please Stand up and You Know Sometimes That Saves the Real One Was Number Two. But You Know Sometimes Number One Act like They're Getting Ready to Stand up and Sit Back down and Then All Of A Sudden Number Two Stands up and Says My Name Is Sharon Knox and so It Was Fun to See Which One Was the Real Sharon Knox.

Amen.

And I'm Using This Analogy Because Sometimes We Hear A Lot Of People Say I'm a Real Christian. We Hear A Lot Of People Name the Name of Christ. Name the Name of the Lord and the People That Say I'm a Christian. Amen When You Listen to the Way They Talk and You Watch the Way They Walk and You Listen the Music They Listen to the Things That They Do Is Real Christian What Time It Starts to Take This. I Want to Know You a Real Christian Prince Said He Knew What Your Denomination Is Not Your Denomination or Baptist about Orrick Real Okay That Sgt. God in Christ. I Don't I Know This Okay Moment Problems. A Lot Of Times with the Many the People Charge People to Slow and You Know Why Because Titles Equal Entitlements Entitled Have a Tendency to Make People Think They're Entitled, I'm Entitled Had the Best Seat I'm Entitled This Honor. I'm Entitled to Do This. I'm Entitled to Do If Somebody Says to Me Sister Sharon Get up in Front of the Line. I'll Get up in Front of the Line but Hey I Want to Get in Front of the Line. I'm Sr. Sharon. I Get in the Back. I Go Jesus That Don't like You Are Invited for Dinner and Then Go in the Back Seat Because Guess What, the Host May Come and Say Excuse Me but That Was for Someone Else and Then You Got to Get up in Front of Everybody and Go Sit in the Lower Seat and Be Embarrassed. You See Titles, Cause People to Feel Entitled, and That the Problem Is Made and Wounded Will Need Attention. The Sick and the Bruising Your Aim and You Know the Best Example Is When James and John and Their Mother and Said Master. I Want to Do Something for Me Okay Hard to Say No to a Mother Can My Son on the Left and the Right When Your Kingdom and Jesus Said the First Ball the Authority to Make That Decision. But You Know You Little Warning Here. You Know What You're Talking to James and John, Do You Know What You're Asking for.

Because I Want to Be Back with the Baptism One Talk about the Holy Ghost Speaking in Tongues Talk about the Baptism of Suffering That I Drink, and You Know That Being Young and Green and Zealous. Yes, Lord.

They Found out That Night. James Was the First One That Was Killed. Herod Beheaded John That We Need Probably to Be 100.

He Was Boiled in Oil. He Was Thrown When Rocky Allapattah School of Snakes and Reptiles. They Learned They Definitely Drink of the Cup. But in That Same Scenario. Here's the Thing. This Is When We Get Back to My Point Here When the Other 10 Disciples Heard That the Bible Says They Were Moved with Indignation and This Is in Matthew 20.

You Have To Go There but You Can Write It down If You Want to Read Later That This Word Indignation in the Greek Means Was out Loud Now and Verbal. Another Words That Quaked the Other 10 Disciples Began to Our and Should Be Able to Sit There While You You Can Imagine How Very Loud and What Did Jesus Not Recall the 10 over with James and John, the Mother and This Is What He Said to Them, I Am Wondering That What He Said and When the 10 Heard It, They Were Moved with Indignation against the Two Brethren but Jesus Called Them and Said, You Know That the Princes of the Gentiles Exercise Dominion over Them, and They Are Great Exercise Authority upon Them. You Know the Great Ones Exercise Authority over the Little Guys Listen to This Body Shall Not Be so among You, Whosoever Will Be Great among You, Let Him Be Your Minister and Whosoever Will Be Chief among You, Let Him Be Your Servant. I Am Very Happy Just to Be Called Minister. I Don't Need to Be Called Rev. Were Prophetess or Anything Else.

Minister Sharon Not Is Fine with Me. And You Know What I Was Doing This Message Just to Sell Something I Never Saw before Considering the Way Minister Is Spelled MINI Mini Mini Minimize Me and Magnify and It Always Amazes Me That Jesus Moments Moment Slips Only Moments Away from His Hour of Agony in Gethsemane, Followed by the Crucifixion. The Last Thing You Do with His Disciples Is Teach Them a Lesson about Humility and Get down and Wash Their Feet and Say Now This Is This I Want You to Remember. Remember This Night.

Remember St. It's Time to Lay down Your Titles and Pick up Your Towel and Start Walking, the Feet on This. Amen. Because People Need to See a Real Christian, and Will Turn People All Sinners and Nonbelievers More Than Some. Self-Righteous You Know Person with the Bible. Shaking It in Their Face and Beat Him over the Head.

You're Not Good When Anybody Jesus Doing That and You Can Preach the Truth That They Feel the Coals of Fire on Their Feet and Still Speak the Truth in Love, Because Jesus Did It All the Time. He Put Them under so Much Conviction They Speak Anymore. And yet the Rope in the Bruise. The Ones Needed Healing Love and Assurance from Jesus Hung on Every Word. So I Ask You Today, Are You the Real Christian. Amen. What a Sin Busting Devil Chasing Message. Will the Real Christian Please Stand up. It's Time for Everyone Who Names the Name of the Lord to Depart from Iniquity. If You're Not Living Right. Don't Call Yourself a Christian and Get Out Of the Church to You're Ready to Walk the Talk. It's Time for Christian Celebrities to Lay down Their Titles and Take up Their Towels of Humility and Wash the Feet of the Saints, That Is, Serve the Body of Christ. It's Time for the Righteous of This Generation Who Stand in God's Holy Hill behind the Pulpits and Lecterns of Christianity to Purify Their Hearts and Cleanse Their Hands and It's Time for All of Us to Prepare Ourselves for the Onslaught of Religious, Especially Anti-Christian Persecution That Is Being Unleashed in Our Nation. With Increase As Perilous Times Are Here. If You Are Stirred by This Clarion Call of the Holy Spirit and You Want to Hear This Message Again or Share It with Others.

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