======================================================================== DO YOU REMEMBER by Keith Daniel ======================================================================== Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of being real and maintaining a close relationship with God, highlighting God's jealousy for His people and the need to keep oneself unspotted from the world. It calls for a return to genuine devotion, prayer, and immersion in the Bible to guard against spiritual decline and the schemes of the devil. Topics: "Authenticity in Faith", "Spiritual Vigilance" Scripture References: James 4:5, James 1:27, James 4:4, Psalm 17:8, James 4:8, Psalm 119:11, Hebrews 4:12, 1 Peter 5:8, Psalm 119:105 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This sermon emphasizes the importance of being real and maintaining a close relationship with God, highlighting God's jealousy for His people and the need to keep oneself unspotted from the world. It calls for a return to genuine devotion, prayer, and immersion in the Bible to guard against spiritual decline and the schemes of the devil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ James asked in chapter 4 verse 5, Do ye think the scriptures sayeth in vain that spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? Do you think the scriptures say in vain that the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost that God has put in you is jealous? Do you think God says that in vain in the book? The Holy Spirit that God has put in you is jealous? He's jealous. In chapter 1 verse 27 he says, Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the Fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Oh, God is jealous of us. God is jealous of us and to those of us who have not kept ourselves unspotted from the world. James cries out in chapter 4 verse 4, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, lo, ye not of the center of the world, if there be any with God? Ye become unfaithful to God. For do you sit here tonight and your peace with God has become spotted by the world, your testimony has become spotted. Oh, the devil enticed you as he saw you there when you were vitally real. He trembled, he trembled. Do you remember when you were real? Do you remember when you were real? When you did more damage to Satan than a man with degrees behind his name because all that he knew was all up here, not yet. The little you had was here and every step you took you did more damage to Satan. He trembled, he saw what you were dreaming for the kingdom. Reality is all that matters in this religion, sir. Reality and Satan trembled. Do you remember when you were real? Do you remember when your quiet times were real? Can every one of you please remember when nothing would keep you from prayer? Nothing would keep you from the Bible, no television, nothing, not even church activities. Nothing would keep you from God. Nothing would make you a good God. Do you remember when you were real? Do you remember when you used to take the pen, sir? God remembers. Do you remember when you used to mock? Oh, you used to mock as you took the date. This is just coincidence, God speaking to me. This book becomes a living miracle, God speaking to me. He mocked and he mocked all the verses as they burn into your soul and you become conscious of God, God communing with me, God literally speaking to me. And suddenly you look back and you realize every single verse you'd marked on the whole page, the whole Bible, everything was swapping. Do you remember when you were real with God? Do you remember? Do you remember? God remembers. God remembers. He's jealous. You are the apple of God's eye. You're the treasure of this God of mine. You filled heaven with such joy that if you just knew, all of us would burst into worship, joining them at what is happening right now in the heart of God and the angels. Don't doubt that. You're so much to God. Go now in the love of Christ and never let it happen again. He gives you the grace. He'll give you all the grace you need to walk with God through this world to your last step. If you never neglect the quiet time now, that's gonna guard what you found here again tonight. The devil won't ever be able to take this away from you if you never neglect the quiet time. The quiet time? Soak yourself in the Bible. Soak yourself in the Bible. Soak yourself in the Bible. Soak yourself in the Bible. Soak yourself in the Bible. Soak yourself in the Bible. ======================================================================== Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/DZlcd2BT4OI.mp4 Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/keith-daniel/do-you-remember/ ========================================================================