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  BELIEVING IN THE HEART
  by Randy Krahn
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of not only confessing
with our mouths but also believing in our hearts, highlighting the need
for genuine faith and obedience to the Word of God. It discusses the
significance of suffering with Christ, being refined by fire, and
walking in righteousness. The message stresses the need to apply the
blood of Jesus in our lives, to endure trials with faith, and to build
our lives on the foundation of Christ through obedience and genuine
belief.

Topics: "Genuine Faith", "Endurance in Trials"
Scripture References: Romans 10:9, 2 Thessalonians 1:5, 1 Corinthians 3:11, 1 Peter 4:17, 2 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Peter 4:12, Colossians 1:10, 1 John 1:9

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of not only confessing with our
mouths but also believing in our hearts, highlighting the need for
genuine faith and obedience to the Word of God. It discusses the
significance of suffering with Christ, being refined by fire, and
walking in righteousness. The message stresses the need to apply the
blood of Jesus in our lives, to endure trials with faith, and to build
our lives on the foundation of Christ through obedience and genuine
belief.

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Morning seems as though fall set in, but though our seasons change, he's
still the same. Let's pray, Lord Jesus. I just pray you would open up
the Scriptures to us, Lord, that each of us would be able to take
something from the Word, that you would speak to us, not by man, not by
the will of man, but by the will of God through your Spirit, that we
would receive the Word by faith that it would germinate and produce, in
Jesus' name, amen.

Brother shared about overcoming by the blood of the Lamb and by the Word
of our testimony, and he shared the emphasis of confessing with the
mouth, and I want to share the emphasis of believing in the heart. It's
one thing to confess, but it's another thing to believe in the heart,
and we need both. It's like a train traveling on two tracks.

We have to worship in spirit and in the truth, so the spirit testifies
that it's a finished work in Christ, but the truth of the matter is, is
it real in your life? Have you received it by faith? We go up to the
creek, and there's countless guys that confess the blood of Jesus with
their mouth, but it's not real in their life, because their life does
not testify or confess. It says everyone who comes confessing Jesus
Christ has come in the flesh of God, and we can confess with our mouth,
but the other part of confession is believing in the heart by faith, and
so the word confession is to speak the same as Jesus. It says they are
of the world, therefore they speak as the world, or they confess just
like the world, but we're of God, and therefore we confess Jesus Christ
is coming in the flesh.

Can you say that as he is, so are we in this world? Can you say that's
real? Can you confess that's real in your life? As he is, so are we in
this world. If we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus, then we have to
say, as he is, so are we in this world. Anyone who desires to come after
Jesus must also confess just as he confessed, walk just as Jesus walked.

So the truth is that Jesus paid the penalty for sin, and the shed blood
of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin, but now has it become real for
you? Are you washed in the blood? Can you testify? Can you testify? And
they overcame him, who, the devil, by the blood of the lamb and the word
of our testimony. Can you testify it's real in your life? This is also a
big part of knowing him, to know him, the power of his resurrection, and
as Brother David shared, the fellowship of his sufferings. Did you know
that it's a righteous thing that God would afflict us with sufferings?
There's a treasure in sufferings.

When Jesus was going to go to the cross, these two brothers came to
Jesus with the mother and said, can you grant that my brothers, my sons,
would sit one on the left hand and one on the right hand in your
kingdom? And he said, it's not for me to give these things. But he said,
are you prepared to drink the cup? When Jesus shed his blood for our
sins, he also made it a mandatory requirement that we would also suffer
with him. Anyone who desires to live godly in Christ Jesus is going to
suffer persecution.

Now there's different levels of persecution. You're going to be rejected
at your job but chosen by God and precious, not because you're
rebellious to your boss, but because you believe in Jesus and you stand
for the word of God. You're going to be rejected by the world when
you're at your workplace because they're going out partying, they're
going out on the weekend, they want you to come for drinks, and you're
being set apart and you'll be spoken of, gossiped about, talked about.

You'll be peculiar, a peculiar people, like a speckled bird that is
pecked on by the other birds because you're different. Are you willing
to drink the cup? Yes, we're willing to drink the cup. He said, you will
drink the cup, but to sit on my right and my left is not for me to
grant.

It's for those for whom it is prepared. Do you have a desire to sit at
the Lord's right hand or at his left? Do you want to be so close to
Jesus? Then you have to be prepared to drink the cup of suffering. If we
suffer with him, what does the word of God say? We're going to reign
with him.

But we don't want to suffer. Flesh does not want to suffer. We want to
relax.

We want things to go smooth. We don't want everything to break down. We
don't want people to accuse us or mock us or make fun of us or beat us
up or cast us out.

He said, the time is coming when you're going to be in a fellowship
gathering and they're going to cast you out of their church because
you're a genuine believer. Because you believe not only in confessing
the blood of Jesus, but actually having the blood applied in your life,
as Brother Lean shared. When the blood is applied, you're whiter than
snow.

Having it sitting in the basin, if it's not dipped in the lowly hyssop
and applied in your life, that blood does you no good. The blood is
enough, but it must be applied. To confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus
and to believe in our heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall
be saved.

For with the mouth confession is made. I believe in Jesus and it is with
the heart one believes under righteousness. This faith has to have legs.

We have to be able to walk worthy of the calling to which we've been
called. I want to read something in 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 2
Thessalonians, starting in verse 3. 2 Thessalonians 1 verse 3, we are
bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your
faith grows exceedingly and the love for everyone, every one of you all
abounds towards each other. Can we say that? If the blood of Jesus is
applied in your life, your faith in Jesus Christ is going to grow
exceedingly because you are receiving your life from Emmanuel's veins.

His blood flows through you. And so you are becoming more and more like
him. You are growing in grace and in knowledge of Jesus and that faith
that you walk in is becoming more and more evident.

And the love is becoming more and more evident. As you're growing in
faith, you're growing in love for Jesus and you're growing in love for
people. Are you growing in faith and are you growing in love? This is a
test.

This is what brother Paul shares. He says your faith grows exceedingly
and the love for everyone of the brethren abounds abundantly. The
scripture also says that you'll know that you're Christians.

People will know those are Christians because of their love that they
have one for another. This is how the world is going to know that we're
different. We're not going to have camaraderie like the firemen do with
firemen or the policeman with the policeman or the people who are part
of a gang or a club have loyalty to one another.

Our love for the brethren has to grow exceedingly and our faith has to
grow in the Lord Jesus Christ. And it needs to abound and people need to
be able to see this testimony in your life so that we ourselves, most of
you, Paul is saying, I'm so encouraged of this church in Thessalonica
because their love for one another is growing and their faith is
manifesting. It's growing.

It's growing legs. I can see them growing and becoming strong trees and
pillars. He says, we're boasting among you, among all the other
churches, because you have endurance.

You have patience, patient endurance, your faith in all persecution and
tribulation that you're enduring for. What does it say? It is manifest
evidence of the righteous judgment of God that you may be counted worthy
of the kingdom of God for which you suffer. If you are walking in the in
the faith and the blood is applied in your life, then you can say with
confidence that everyone who confesses Jesus is coming in the flesh of
God.

If we suffer with him, we shall also reign with him. If we endure. And
so if you're in Christ, you're a new creation, all things are passing
away and everything's becoming new.

And now you are a speckled bird in the kingdom of God and you have to
count it worthy to suffer because God says it's a worthy thing to repay
or to pay us with tribulation and sufferings. Because if we don't suffer
with him, we're not going to be glorified with Jesus. It is important
that we become glorified.

This is the mystery of the gospel, to be glorified with Jesus Christ in
you, the hope of glory. Last week there was a new guest that came and
all of a sudden she made this comment, you're radiant, you are glowing.
When Sean saw my brother Jason coming from the hospital and came into
the room, he said, you are glowing, you are radiant.

Our faces ought to be radiant and not ashamed. The world ought to see
Jesus on our faces. This is Christ in you, the hope of glory, that
people can see Jesus on our faces.

That in the midst of sufferings, we don't have the long faces, that
after we suffer for a while, he strengthens us, establishes us, settles
us, perfects us in him. And don't think it's strange, it says in 1 Peter
4 in verse 12, concerning the fiery trials that come to try you, as
though some strange thing or event is happening to you as believers.
Don't let the flesh deceive you, but this is the normal Christian life.

Because if we don't suffer now, then what will be the end of those? If
the righteous are scarcely saved, how are they saved? Through the fire.
We are saved through the fire. It says, 8 were saved through water, a
type of baptism, in which the divine long-suffering waited for them to
suffer with building this boat.

And now he said there's a type of baptism which now saves us. This type
of water baptism, but he talks about a greater baptism than the water
baptism. There's one baptism with two parts, is being saved so as
through fire.

Are you being saved so as through fire? Don't think it's strange
concerning these fiery trials that are trying you. The fire is necessary
to test what sort of a Christian you are. You claim the blood applies.

Then the fire has to come to it and see whether it can stand the test of
fire. Or are you one of those fair-weather Christians that as soon as a
fiery trial comes, you fold like a cheap tent. As soon as the fiery
trial comes, your joy goes somewhere.

As soon as sufferings and hard times come, you run for the hills. We
have a better hope than that, brothers. Having done all to stand, what
does it say? Stand therefore.

We're to resist the fiery darts of the enemy holding up the shield of
faith. Let your faith become evident. When the fiery trials come and
people say all kinds of things and brothers say all kinds of things like
Job's friends and others say all kinds of things and some of them even
do you physical harm or financial harm, stand steadfast in the word of
God and prove that you're in the faith.

Prove that the blood is applied. Prove that you're a Christian because
you believe from the heart in the resurrection from the dead. Our hope
is not in the things that we possess in this world.

Our hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ. Why are you discouraged? Why do
you have a long face? Oh, downcast, oh my soul, why are you
disheartened? Put your hope in God. Why are you discouraged? Oh, I don't
have a place to hang my head.

The Son of Man had nowhere to lay his head, yet he had peace and joy.
Can we expect more than him? Foxes have holes, the birds of the air have
nests. I like to have a nest, you like to have a nest.

We want to provide for our family, but in all things to be content, to
learn that brother, as Brother David shared, with much or with little,
contentment with godliness. This is great gain. We came with nothing
into this world and when we check out, we are not leaving with anything.

So a man plans his way, but God orchestrates our steps. So if we set our
hope in this place and seeking to build a kingdom in this place, when
the rug gets pulled out, and it will get pulled out, not just on the
just, but on the unjust alike, where your hope lies, that is where you
will end up. The scripture says, where a tree falls, that's where it
will lie.

And if we are crucified with Christ, then we're in a casket already. And
you know what? We're not going to be moved by such things as this. May
the Lord help us to become strengthened in the inner man, so that we're
not soon shaken in mind or troubled if we think the day of the Lord has
come.

Because it hasn't come unless the falling away comes first and the man
of sin is revealed. Brother, touch briefly on this. Who is this man of
sin? Is it the Lord strong and mighty or is it the flesh? Come on
brothers.

He sits as God in the temple of God and he exalts himself. You know
what? I'm the boss here. I can do what I want.

I'm not going to suffer. You're going to suffer. We're going to get in a
business deal and you know what? I'm going to come out with the last
five cents, not you.

Because it's about principle. You know what? We're going to go in. I'm
going to sell a car to you.

I'm going to come out on top. I'm going to get the best deal, not you.
When you become a Christian, you start to realize that you're always
getting the short end of the stick and God has appointed it for us to
have that now.

So that we learn to be content with Him, not with getting ahead or not
with having the biggest straw, not with getting the best deal and not
with boasting in what the world boasts in. The man of sin has to be
manifested. The lawless one has to be revealed.

Whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and the
brightness of His coming. This is the mystery of lawlessness, which is
already at work and there'll be a fullness of it. But the mystery of
godliness, brothers, Christ in you, the hope of glory.

We don't... We have... Eye hasn't yet seen nor ear heard nor entered
into the heart of man all those riches that are in Christ. The things
that God has prepared for those who love Him. But he said, Paul says,
God hath revealed them to us by His Spirit.

We can know the greater riches that are in Christ. The mystery of the
gospel. Christ in you.

The hope of glory, which is manifest evidence. 2 Thessalonians 1 5 of
the righteous judgment of God that you may be counted worthy of the
kingdom of God for which you suffer. For it is a righteous thing with
God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you and to give you who
are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven
with His mighty angels and flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do
not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

If you're not willing to suffer with Him and you're going to be one of
those who persecutes maybe even in the church, those speckled birds that
sit among you, oh, you think you're holier than the rest of us, huh? Oh,
you think that you're going to attain to some more righteousness? We
have the blood of Jesus. You think you're going to try and work your way
to heaven? We're not saved by works, brother, it's a finished work. And
all of a sudden they're pecking away at the ones that God is allowing to
suffer.

And all of a sudden they are all of a sudden being afflicted. Because
it's a righteous thing with God to afflict those who persecute you. It
happens among brothers, it also happens among unbelievers.

Those who do not know God and those who do not put into practice the
blood of Jesus Christ in their life. Those who do not allow the blood of
Jesus Christ to be applied in their life. Those who do not walk by faith
and persist in the faith.

These ones, when they suffer, they're not suffering as Christians,
they're going to suffer because God has afflicted them to suffer. These,
it says in verse 9, shall be punished with everlasting destruction from
the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. I think of two
that got punishment for that, Ananias and Sapphira.

They were two who suffered punishment because they were pretenders. They
were pretenders of being wholehearted, they were pretenders of giving
all, but they were holding back some and they, when the glory of God was
present and the power of God was present, then the judgment was swift.
And you say, well that was for then.

Jesus is the same then as he is now. And if his glory manifests in a
gathering or in a place or among a people, that same glory will result
in the same judgment. It says this, verse 5, for when he comes in that
day to be glorified, where, in his saints and to be admired among all
those who believe among our testimony, among you who believe.

Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you
worthy of this call. Worthy to suffer with Christ. Are you worthy to
suffer with him? Can you drink his cup? Are you prepared to go all the
way with Jesus to enter into the richness of that glory which is to be
revealed, where? In his saints.

That the power, his power and his glory may be manifested in our life.
These are the deeper things of God. Are we prepared to go into the
deeper things of God or are we just happy to camp at Elam where there's,
you know, 12 pools and 70 palms? Brothers, sisters, let's press on.

Let's not stay in the wilderness in a place of comfort and of ease. We
enjoy those times in our life, but yet we keep going because there's
more. God has an inheritance for us.

And it's not just the land that Joshua gave them and where they found
rest, because if Joshua had given them rest, he wouldn't have spoken of
another day saying today, if you hear his voice, then don't harden your
heart. Go through with God, obey the convictions of your conscience,
obey the convictions of the Holy Spirit and enter into the treasure of
suffering with Christ and see what God will do as the glories follow.
The life that's in Jesus is greater riches than all that's in the world.

All that glitters in this world is not gold, brothers, but there's a
glory that is greater than the gold that passes away, that comes through
the testing of fire. It's your faith being much more precious than gold,
which perishes. Let your faith be tested and refined.

Let your faith grow into roots and become a pillar in the church, a
pillar in the faith. Let it become like an oak of Bashan, become like
one of those cedars, strong cedars that can stand the fiercest winds of
life and doesn't buckle and fall over and become disillusioned with the
church and disillusioned with Christ while they lay there in bondage to
sin again. Brothers, we have a better endurance and a better hope than
that.

We are not of them that shrink back to destruction, brothers, but of
them that continue to press on to persevere to the saving of what? The
soul. We shared last week there's a war going on for the soul. The flesh
is lusting and it's battling and it's hostile against the spirit and the
spirit is seeking to overcome the flesh and put him to death.

And so there's this war, this tug of war for the soul. And so brothers,
we have to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. Brothers,
we're not debtors to the flesh in Romans 8, 12, to live according to the
flesh.

We've died. Our life is now hidden with Christ in God and when Christ
who is our life appears, where is he going to appear? In us. Then we
also shall appear with him where? In glory.

In glory. When Christ who is our life appears, we also shall appear with
him in glory. Christ our life, the hope of glory, not glory out there
somewhere, glory here in this tent we groan, being burdened.

Not that we should be unclothed, but further clothed with the
righteousness that is in Christ. There's the blood of Christ that makes
us righteous, but there's a further clothing of the righteousness of
Christ, the sufferings of Christ and the glories that follow. The
treasures of brokenness.

If we look in 1 Peter in chapter 4, verse 17, no flesh wants to suffer.
So we cannot listen to the flesh. The flesh will never want to suffer.

It will always fight you. You'll always have a battle in the flesh. The
flesh will not die.

You need to reckon yourself dead to the flesh and alive to God. In 1
Peter in chapter 4, verse 17, the scripture says this, for now is the
time for judgment to begin at the house of God. And we read this in 1
Thessalonians, that it's a righteous thing that the Lord would grant us
to suffer with him.

It's a righteous thing that if we endure suffering, if we endure
hardship as good soldiers, then he can entrust us with all the riches
that are in Christ. These riches are his special treasure. Those jewels
that he wants to give you for your crown so that you can cast it at
Jesus' feet and boast in Christ and Christ alone.

What does he say here? Verse 16, if anyone suffers as a Christian, let
him not be ashamed. Let him glorify God in this manner. For the time has
come for judgment to begin at the house of God.

And if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not
obey the gospel of God? Now, if the righteous one is scarcely saved, we
said saved so as through fire from 1 Corinthians 3, where will the
ungodly and the sinner appear? Brothers, sisters, don't think it's
strange concerning the trials that come in life. They're not easy. But
if you'll humble yourself and you will allow yourself to be broken
rather than fight against God, allow yourself to become subdued by the
ways of God, then you can become conformed into the image of Christ so
that his glory might be revealed.

If we suffer with him, we're going to reign with him. We want to reign
in righteousness. When are we going to reign in righteousness? We want
to reign with him now.

We don't want to reign in shame. How are we going to reign in shame?
Just claiming the blood of Jesus, just claiming the promises while we're
practicing sin. Oh, I am the righteousness of God, as these guys many
times confess.

They confess with their mouth, Lord Jesus, but they have not followed
the train tracks that say that they believe in their heart that as he
is, so am I in this world. They cannot confess that. They confess as of
the world, they speak as of the world, they practice sin as the world,
yet they claim Jesus is Lord.

You can say Jesus is Lord while you're blue in the face, even the demons
believe and tremble if it's not real in your life. I was always confused
by that. To confess is to speak the same as, do a little study on it, to
speak the same as Jesus.

It's not just enough to honor him with our lips while our hearts are far
from him. Our lips and our hearts have to agree. How can two walk
together with Christ unless they're agreed? With the heart one believes
under righteousness, with the mouth confession is made under salvation,
but our heart has to believe under righteousness.

Means we have to put into practice by faith that we believe what the
word of God says. Let's close by looking at 1 Corinthians in chapter 3.
There's division among the Corinthians because they're carnal. A lot of
people today are carnal Christians.

And if you stay a carnal Christian, you're in big, big trouble. We might
start off carnal, but we can't remain carnal. Just as a babe is carnal
when they come into the world and they have to learn to walk in a manner
pleasing to the Lord and they have to grow up into maturity into the
head, which is Christ, Paul is exhorting these brothers to continue to
press on.

He goes on in verse 11, I'll skip the first part, but he says this. No
other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. And he says in 10, as a wise master builder, Paul says, I laid
the foundation.

Laying that foundation is confessing that Jesus is the Christ. That's
where you start the cornerstone. Jesus is the Christ.

There's no one can be saved but by him. No one can come to the Father
but by Jesus. You have to have this revelation.

It's not by Buddha or Muhammad or some reincarnation. It's not if you're
going to be a good person. It's not if you do lots of works and you
knock on a lot of doors that you're going to become a Christian.

You have to confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus. And so this is the
foundation which is laid. This is the cornerstone that has to come in.

But that's the beginning. That's the beginning of the matter. I laid the
foundation and he says in verse 10, another builds on it.

You are God's building. You are God's field and you are God's house. We
are the house of God.

No longer are we going to worship in temples made with hands. That took
me a while to figure out when they kicked me out of church and I lost my
membership. I was so discouraged.

I says here I've never been more zealous and on fire for Jesus and now I
don't fit in even the church. What hope is there for me? And I laid on
the floor weeping and the spirit said why are you weeping? Get off your
face. You've missed it.

And I said what what what and then the Lord just began to take me
through some scriptures and I began to read some things and some
brothers spoken in my life and I began to embrace this that the church
is the people, church is not the building. Church is not the
denomination. The church is built and centered around Christ.

He's the cornerstone and the capstone and where two or three get
together even David Wilkerson confirmed this in one of his messages that
helped me where two or three get together in my name I am in the midst
and so you can have a one genuine brother, one genuine sister and find
fellowship in Christ. That's the church. Sometimes we've been in a
coffee shop and some of the best fellowship has not been here in this
gathering.

It's been around a coffee or around a time of fellowship with a person
who's hungry for more of Jesus and we need to have this revelation that
you are God's building and you are God's house and when Jesus comes to
set his foot in Jerusalem and they're going to rebuild the temple if
they rebuild that thing with wood and hay and stones and whatever
however they want to build it Jesus isn't coming over there. He's not
coming to a man-made temple anymore. Solomon's temple in all its glory
was not anywhere close to the glory of that temple that was made in
Zechariah's day where he said how does it look now and you're seeing and
he says looks like nothing he said yet the glory of the latter house
shall be greater than the glory of the former house whose house brother
sister you are.

You are that house. He goes on here to confirm it. You are the temple of
the living God.

As he says here no one builds on this if now if anyone builds on this
foundation this is your life with gold silver precious stones these are
imperishable things that stand the test of fire to be refined in the
fire or if anyone builds in your life with carnal doctrines worldly
teachings doctrines of men wood hay and straw it says each one's work
will become clear because the day will declare it it will be revealed by
fire and the fire will test each one's work the fire is going to test
your life the fire is going to test your faith the fire is going to test
your doctrine to see what sort it is and if anyone's work which he has
built on that house endures he will receive award but if anyone's work
is burned he will suffer loss yet he himself will be saved yet so is
through fire. You can have a genuine brother pastor elder prophet
sharing is very sincere sharing in people's life but having been
misguided with some of the demonic doctrines that coming out of some of
these Bible schools now and the wrong person is going to receive that
and take it that doctrine that damnable eternal security doctrine and
tell people that you're eternally secure the fellow who's ministering
that thing might be all hearted for Jesus but he had this this damnable
doctrine he himself will be saved because he's willing to suffer with
Christ but the people that he's building this doctrine into their lives
are living carnal and worldly and these people are perishing he's going
to suffer tremendous loss even though he himself might be saved because
he's obedient to the word to live according to this book we have to have
the truth brothers sisters because it's the truth that's going to make
us free and the fire is going to test your doctrine it's going to test
your life because if you're living according to the doctrine and you
have liberty and it's in the flesh then you're going to suffer harm
you're going to suffer many things if you love the world and the things
in it but if you have the good doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ and
you're going to be counted worthy to suffer all these things for the
name of Christ blessed are you blessed are you for his hope and his
glory rests upon you may the Lord give you understanding in these things
I see this doctrine everywhere we go oh you can eat of that fruit God
said you can't eat it in his word but you surely shall not die this is
where this dominable doctrine came from you surely shall not die and the
woman received the word and it says in the last days the falling away is
not going to come unless the manner of lawlessness revealed and it says
God will give these people a strong delusion that they should believe
the lie what lie you don't need to obey what God's word says you're
eternally secure you're good doesn't matter what God's word says God is
love God is forgiving God is merciful he'll accept you come as you are
and stay as you are and if perhaps you can change a bit praise God but
never doubt the finished work of Christ never doubt the blood without
telling you that you need to have the blood applied as brother Eileen
shared the blood has to be applied we need to walk worthy of the calling
brothers we need to apply those things that the Word of God has said by
faith and through his spirit otherwise we'll never be Christians we'll
be religious and at the end of it all all everything will be burned up
and what will we have but if we walk according to the Word of God we are
going to have an everlasting entrance for us there'll be a grand
entrance for us a highway of holiness where we have been diligent to add
to our faith virtue knowledge self-control and brotherly kindness and
love and all these things if we add all these things in continuance just
like the the life cycle just like the rain cycle the clouds go up they
rain on the earth they water the earth and they evaporate and they go up
again if you continue to add to your faith virtue you keep applying by
the spirits help those things that you learn then you will become a
vessel of honor sanctified and prepared for the master's use and if you
continue to apply the good teaching of the Word of God in your life and
not be a forgetful here then you're going to see your house becoming
beautiful with gold silver and precious stones and if you will cleanse
yourself from all these foolish and carnal doctrines of the wood and the
hay and the stubble then you become a minister of righteousness meet for
the fast for the master's use prepared for every good work let the Lord
give you understanding in these things may you understand in the heart
those things that are being spoken of so that we don't end up keeping up
for ourselves teachers that give us the pleasure of our itching ear
telling us that we can be worldly we can practice sin we can love life
and see many days and not be obedient to what God's Word says we deceive
ourselves and we are setting ourselves up for the man of lawlessness in
the hour that's coming and we're not going to have the roots to stand
and we're going to give in because of fear God has not given us a spirit
of fear but a power and of love and of a sound mind and if we walk
worthy of that calling then you don't have to fear falling look under
Jesus and be radiant let your face not be ashamed people might mock you
and say all kinds of things don't be ashamed because of that be ashamed
because you've stumbled into sin and you need to repent if we repent we
have an advocate with the Father and one John to repent and call on the
name of the Lord and get your heart right and start to take ground
spiritually and grow in grace and in the knowledge of God and become the
fullness of God in Christ may the Lord Jesus bless you and keep you
encourage you to press on in him and to walk worthy of that calling that
you might fulfill the purpose and the call of God in your life in Jesus
name

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/ScXc6CE3ZFM.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/randy-krahn/believing-in-the-heart/
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