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Well, praise Jesus, everyone. It truly is a blessing to be able to serve a living God and to be his ambassador. Wherever we go. There are pretty poor ambassadors for some countries that make their country just not look good. And there are also Christians representing the Kingdom of Heaven, and they don't make the Kingdom of Heaven look very good. In fact, they turn a lot of people away from Jesus Christ. Because the world says, if that's what a Christians like, I don't want to be anything like that. And I don't want to know that God. I don't want I don't want to know that Jesus. But we are called to be royal ambassadors to the Kingdom of God, representing the Kingdom of Heaven. I remember back, when I was in church, we would always go on mission trips. And as a kid in high school or in college, it kind of got into mind that we were only missionaries when we were on a mission trip. And you put on your best act when you're around those orphans or around those people that you're helping in Guatemala or in Africa, or wherever you go. But then when you come back, you know, you forget to be a missionary where you are in your hometown. But after Jesus called me to leave the organized Church, he called me to be a missionary where I go, not to be like the paid pastors who are always asking for money, or starting a big church or a big organization, nothing like that. I didn't really know what I was going to do, but I knew in my heart that I was to preach the Gospel, to spread the word of God, to share the things of the Kingdom of Heaven, that the Holy Spirit was putting on my heart to share. And it is really empowering when the Lord Jesus gives us a mission beyond ourselves, when he fills us with his Holy Spirit, and he calls us to do something that's not selfish, but it's about the good of the Kingdom of God. It's good to be a child of God and about our father's business. But many people, they live their life one day to the next, all about their own business. They are not the children of God. They are not about the kingdom of heaven, but they're about the kingdoms of this Earth. They think life is all about just making money or getting popular or famous or becoming something in this world. But Jesus doesn't call us to be anything in the world. He doesn't call us to be well respected among men. He calls us to be his humble brother and his servants who will serve him with our life and to the very death. And if we're dedicated to that purpose for Jesus Christ, then he will continue to give us the words to speak to encourage others. If we're dedicated to the Lord, he will call us to be his disciples, but to also make disciples. People are always saying, I can't hear God. Well, number one, if you haven't repented of your sin and you're still living in sin, then you're not going to hear from Jesus very clearly. But secondly, if you're seeking after your own interests all the time, and you're not worried about the Kingdom of God, but about the lusts of this world, then you won't hear from God very clearly, and you won't be on that straight, narrow path. You won't have anything to show us as ambassador for the Kingdom of God, because you don't know anything about that kingdom. And an ambassador for a certain country, they have to know about the kingdom they represent. And if you don't know anything about that kingdom you represent, then how can you be loyal to that kingdom, or represent that kingdom at all? But wherever we go, we have to be as missionaries. It's not about collecting support from people to go to Uganda or Japan. It's about serving God right where you are. Are you serving Him in the small things, every little choice and big choice in your life? Are you living free of hypocrisy? How Jesus saved you from your sins and purified you from unrighteousness? And if you have, and if you're on that straight and narrow path, then wherever you are, you're a missionary, and you're shining the light of Jesus. As Jesus said, you are the light of the world. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven. If we really are the children of God, we make people wonder because we're of a different nationality. They don't recognize our tongue. Everyone understands bad language, vulgarness, the humor of this world, but they don't understand our tongue. If we’ve received that new tongue from the Holy Spirit. They can't understand our speech. Just as Jesus said to the Pharisees, you can't understand my speech because I don't remember exactly what he said, but because you are of your father, the Devil, the Pharisees and the Jews couldn't understand Jesus' tongue, because Jesus' tongue was of the Holy Spirit, and the Pharisees was of their father satan. And most people, they've received the Devil s tongue, they haven't been born again. Their mind hasn't been renewed. They speak with the Devil s tongue, and they're always making misjudgements of people. They're quick to judge, quick to become angry, quick to hate people, quick to slander others, quick to mock God. And what they do is shameful. They represent the Kingdom of Satan.
Few people are representing the Kingdom of God, because they are drenched in the world..They haven't dried off to the things of the world. They haven't come out of that sea of the world in order to crawl up on the dry land. They haven't dried off from sin. They're still addicted to everything that is Godless. And because of that, the judgment of God is coming on the world. But for us who have come out from the world, come out from the sea and come out from bondage, then we can stand to our feet on the solid rock of Jesus Christ and cleansed, powered by his Spirit. We can proclaim the glory of God as his ambassadors and as his royal priesthood. We preach the word of God, in season and out of season, inside and outside, to all creation. And we don't look for feedback. You know what people might think? Not as the world's always looking for feedback, but we're looking just to please our father in heaven. One person said to me, that's not how a business runs. You know, a good pastor or a good person in the world, they're always going to put out a product that people want, otherwise they'll have no product at all. Well, that's exactly how the world operates. The world is always looking for a product that they will be able to buy. But as a child of God, we're not trying to sell anything to the world. We don't work for the world. We're not agents of Satan or agents of people of this world. We're ambassadors to the Kingdom of God and the servants of Jesus Christ. We belong to him. We are not bought off. Remember how Jesus spoke about those people, those Christians and pastors who are bought off.He says, they are hirelings. And when a wolf comes, they'll run away because they're just not invested. But the shepherd will lay his life down for the sheep. The shepherd is Jesus Christ, and he is invested. He is invested in us. He loves us, and he calls us to love others as we love ourselves. So are we realizing that we are the children of God and ambassadors for his kingdom? Are we living for that higher purpose? Or have we not figured out how to hear God? Have we not figured out how to do his work? Man, There's other people in other countries who are children of God, and they would, if they had half as much resource as what we have as Americans, they would be shouting the glory of God on the mountain tops. They would be calling as many people as they could to repent with what they have. Other nations and other tongues would have given everything they had in order to have what we have, in order to proclaim the Gospel that others might come into the Kingdom of God. But many Americans are very lazy. They are spoiled rotten. They don't know what they have. And they don't use what they have for the glory of God. They use it all for their own pleasures. But we really need to start using our talents, our skills, our abilities, the things that the Holy Spirit has blessed us with, whatever that is, whatever our Spiritual strengths and our physical strengths are, for the glory of God. Because the same God that gave us the Spirit also gave us physicality. And both both of those things have to be used for his kingdom. If you have strength, let your strength be for the glory of God, and be his ambassador, his witness, wherever you go. When we remember that we're on a greater mission, that we've been called by Jesus to make disciples just like those early disciples, then wherever we go, we can smile, knowing that we're right with the Lord, that we're on the right track. We're doing our father and heavens work. And it makes me so happy to know that I am right with my father in heaven, and that I'm doing his work, that I'm doing the good work of Jesus Christ, continuing his mission on Earth, that he called us to, you know, those early disciples and acts, they laid down their lives for the Gospel. They were the beginnings of the church. They were told to wait for the Holy Spirit to come, and the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, filling them with the Spirit all throughout the world. During that time, those early Christians started speaking in new tongues, glorifying God, evangelizing, going to different towns, working miracles, but not out of pride, not out of trying to become popular or anything like that, but just because they had the love of Jesus Christ in them. If we have the love of Jesus Christ in us, we will just say, Lord, help me to be your ambassador. Help me to bear good fruit for you. Let me be holy and disconnected from this world and connected to your Spirit, that I may have the words of life in me and speak the words of life so that other people may come to life and be saved. None of us know how much more time we have. The things in this world are shaky, just as it is written,Everything will be shaken, except which is unshakable, and that is Jesus Christ. Everything is going to shake, and everything is going to be burned. We go through the refiners fire, and only the purest metal will be what is left. But all the wood, hay, stubble, all of that will be burnt out of our lives. What will be left of us when we go through the refiners fire? What will be left of you? I want to make sure that everything that I build with is truly backed in the Kingdom of God, not things of this world. Not that doesn't mean that I'm lazy and think, well, I don't have to have a job, don't have to have a car, because that's gonna rust. Don't have to take care of my physical house. Obviously, we have to do all those things. But are we seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness? Are we leading other people into the Kingdom of God? Because we're missionaries every day, Where we are? Are we living as good testimonies, or have we lost our way? Those who are unfruitful are going to be cut off. And there are many Christians who will wake up, dead, and they will say, Lord, didn't we prophesy on your name? Didn't we once live good lives? And he will say, away for me, you who commit iniquity. I don't know you. And many of these Christians truly did repent. They did live good lives at a time. But what they forgot is holiness, and not one sin will take them to hell. They forgot no sins going to enter into God's presence. They forgot about God's holiness. We don't want to forget that God is holy, and that we serve a holy God, and must also be holy. Do we have the love of God in us? And are we holy? And are we as ambassadors of light and truth? Are we missionaries in our own country? Are we missionaries right where we are, or have we lost our way? I hope some of us have some revived light in Jesus and asking to pick us back up, to give us the strength that we need to endure. Because a lot of the true church out there is growing very weary, and they've become lazy and prayer, lazy to care for others, depressed and sad, beaten down, worn down to nothing. And instead of having the love of Jesus in them, encouraging others, they're spending all their time just barely keeping their head above the water. But in Jesus there is great hope and great rest. He gives you peace. He allows you to fly like the wings, like the eagle. And he gives you enough strength that you will be sustained and you will be able to encourage others as well. So pray and seek a revelation from the Lord. Hear him in Spirit and in truth. Jesus is glorified when we praise him all the time, when we're not beaten down, when we don't let the devil discourage us. Jesus is pleased when we're always seeing his praises and dedicating our mind, our heart thoughts to him, and when we are encouraging others in the Lord.
One time, the Lord gave me this revelation where I saw things that I had done in my past and all the things that I did for Jesus..Jesus had his angels seal up all those things that I had done in his name. And God showed me how he was well pleased when we are standing up for him. Whether people reject it or receive it, he is pleased with us. And we need to continue to just be a testimony and encourage other people every day. As We don't know when the end will be, but we do want to stand before our Lord and our God and for him to say, good and well done, my faithful servant, enter into my presence. So Lord Jesus, help us to be able to hear your voice clearly. Help us to honor you and all that we do. Help us to be filled with the fire of your Holy Spirit. And never to listen to the demons and those who try to deceive us and break us down. But let us be fruitful for you every day, and let us hold your hand and endure with you, Lord, and tell the very end of our lives, we love you, Lord Jesus, and want to honor you and please you and everything that we do.
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