Standing Steadfast in Christ - Part 2

That's the work and call of the Holy Spirit. That wasn't done just in a committee meeting. That was done because God laid it on the hearts of the pastors.

And that's call. And folks, there has to be a purpose to it. Out of it has to come a new burden for lost souls.

And that hunger for the Word and the addiction to this Word of God should ultimately produce in me and in you a new, fresh burden for the lost. That's what I'm crying for and praying that my last days would be mightily used to win the lost. That I won't just curl up in this Bible and not see the need.

But when I open this, I'll let the Holy Spirit show me what he's saying about feeding. Lord, thank you for your presence this morning. Lord, thank you that you will be here all day speaking from this pulpit, speaking the Word.

But Lord, let us take this to heart. Every one of us say, I will have my own experience. I'm not going to give up the battle.

I'm not going to just depend on what happens in this auditorium. But I'm going to seek God at my own and ask him to open my eyes. Lord, make us soul winners.

Make this one of the greatest soul winning churches in America. Make it one of the greatest soul winning churches so that everyone in this house can say, I have reached somebody. I have not been thinking and talking about my own problems.

Now, I turn that all over to Jesus. Folks, I'm not going to preach my sermon over. I just want to give you an invitation to, if God has spoken to you in any way, you say, Pastor David, I need fresh fire.

I need a fresh anointing. I don't know if you've discouraged. Maybe you haven't given up, but you've come to a place where the enemy has, you've just opened up your mind to a lot of doubts, a lot of fear.

And you want God to just encapsulate your mind, so to speak. And put you back in the spiritual warfare. You can come and I'll pray for you.

We'll believe the Lord to touch you in the first way. God bless you. In the annex, if you just move in between the screens, you can move forward and stand between the screens.

And I'll pray for you and the church will pray for you. We'll believe the Lord to do a fresh work in your heart this morning. While they sing, you can gather.

Apostle Paul said, examine yourselves, whether you'd be in the faith, prove yourselves. No, you're not your own selves. How the Christ is in you except to be reprobates.

He's not accusing being reprobates at all. He's saying, you know, your heart. He said, just examine it.

You know it. You know that Christ lives in you. You know that Christ does not manage you.

You know that Christ is alive in you. Now, folks, I preach about the law of nature. Illustrating the law of the spirit.

But you see, we as free moral agents, we cannot produce the resources. We cannot produce the water. That's the word.

We cannot produce the sun. That's God's part. Our part is to open up.

Just open up. He said, I will keep you. I'm reading from Psalm 121.

Lift up your eyes to the hills and whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved.

He that keeps you will not slumber. He that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper.

The Lord is thy shade from the right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil.

He will preserve your soul. The Lord shall preserve your going out, your coming in, from this time forth even forevermore. Do you believe that? I will keep you.

I will preserve you. And I'll make you fruitful is what Jesus said. I'll make you fruitful.

Accept the love of Christ. Accept his loving tap on your shoulder. And he said, just one thing by the way, remember this.

You need my resources. Don't neglect going to the source. Don't neglect that.

And don't think that just being saved is enough. Just being safe is not enough. Can you remember that? Being safe is not enough.

Being fruitful. Safe and fruitful. Bearing fruit.

That's the feeding of the sheep. Can I pray for you? Lord, we thank you for these that have come. I promise to pray for them.

We do right now in faith. And those in the annex gathered between the screens. Holy Spirit, thank you.

That we can live without fear. We don't have to doubt the day that we're going to stand before you. But Lord, we want to stand before you bringing with our sheaves with us.

Bringing our fruit to lay at your feet. Lord Jesus, by an act of faith, we turn over every care. You said, cast your cares on me because I care for you.

Lord, by an act of faith right now, let us cast. Just throw your feet and say, here are my financial problems. Here is my relationship problem.

Here is my marriage problem. Here is my pain. Lord, take it.

Lord, I'm going to trust you. You promised to preserve me and keep me. Keep my feet from falling.

And Lord, we're going to stand on that promise now and believe you and accept it. Raise your hands and begin to thank Jesus for his promise to keep you from falling. Present you faultless before the throne of God.

Hallelujah.