Please allow me to get right into this message by telling you that the first thing that God wants you to know; THAT YOU ARE SAVED! 1John 5:11&12 This is the record (The good news, the good report!) we must trust, accept and believe the report as being true! The Romans road says (Romans 10:9&10) the word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach! ⁹That if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. ¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. Not everyone is willing to confess Jesus Christ yes, they believe but, so do all the devils, they believe and tremble in the presence of almighty God! Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our report?

  What is the record again? That God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his son. He that hath the son hath life, and (in conjunction with that, he that hath not the Son of God hath not life but, the curse of death abides upon him!

  God wants you to know that you are saved, even though the devil would say, “you don’t really believe you are saved, do you? You are the same person that were before, aren’t you? Besides, how can anyone know for sure they are saved? That’s his job, to tempt you into doubting your salvation and to discourage you so you will give up! He will try and make you believe the evil report! Our job (As it were) is to resist the devil that he may flee (Runaway) from us! Never give him place to work, and never give up! Be not weary in well doing, for we shall reap, if (A pivotal word that usually hinges on a condition) we faint not, in other words if we never give up!

  Satan is known as the accuser of the brethren, he accuses us before God day and night! Where do you get that from Brother Gibson, you may ask? (Rev. 12:10) He never ceases his whining, murmuring and complaining about us. I believe that is why it is a sin to do so; God hears enough of it from the devil. We don’t need to do the same thing the devils do! (Read God doesn’t like crybabies!) He was a murderer from the beginning, a slanderer who has never been able to abide in the truth! The Father of all lies, God hates liars and that is why all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire that burns with fire and brimstone! He is miserable and his kind of misery loves whatever kind of company it can keep! He loves confusion! If you are confused about your salvation, I want you to know that it is a work of the enemy of your soul! God is not the author of confusion. Satan wants to discourage us, because discouragement brings on depression and ask any kind of health specialist you want to and they will tell you; that depression is the leading cause of all forms illness! Confusion produces doubt, worry and brings on fear and fear has torment! O’ but honey God has not given us a spirit of fear (fear is bondage) we have been made free, whom the Son has set free, he is free indeed!  There is no fear in love; but perfect love will cast out fear. He that has fear is not made perfect in love. God has given us power over all the powers of the enemy! There is nothing that can sit on you to hurt you! He told us we could tread upon scorpions, which is exactly where that devil belongs, under your feet! God has also given us a spirit of love, because love covers a multitude of sin, and a sound mind! All of this of course could be a whole different message. These things I’ve just mentioned however are the tools we need to defeat Satan and overcome the fear he would try to put upon us! Which leads me into the second thing God wants you to know.

2.) You Can Overcome Temptation 1Cor. 10:13 “there is no temptation taken you (None that have taken you by surprise) but, such is common to man. (This is to say that temptation is a common thing and that all men are commonly tempted, even Christ himself was tempted yet without sin!) These common temptations God has said are of the world, “the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye and the pride of life” these three things are of the world (we are in the world but, not of the world) therefore if any man love the world and the things that are of the world then the love of the Father is not in him! James 1:13-16; Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt any man, But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed (Seduced or trapped). Then when lust hath conceived, (Sin is a seed just as the word of God is a seed, it is a living organism, once it is planted it germinates and will bring forth fruit, just as a woman who is pregnant, that embryo will eventually come forth) it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren. (In other words don’t go wrong in believing this because it is part of the report!) Make sure that your sins will find you out! You can hide your sin from your parents, and you might be able to hide them from your preacher, your spouse, or even your children but, one of these days that sin will be brought out into the light and everyone will know! Something that is very noteworthy should be added right here, it is not a sin to be tempted.  Temptation becomes sin when we yield to it, drawn away from God by our own lusts. That is why we must follow after the Spirit, that we may not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. (Again another sermon!) But, leads us into the third thing God wants us to know.

3.) God is Faithful 1John1: 9 if we do commit sin (a commitment to sin means that you have given place to the devil, we then open ourselves up for slavery to the wiles of the god of this world! When we resist the will of God for our lives the protective hedge comes down (Psalms 34:7), and the ways of a transgressor becomes very hard!

  Yet God is faithful and, just to forgive us our sins and, will cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He will not suffer you (Allow you) to be tempted above that ye are able: but will with every temptation also make a way of escape, that you might be able to bear it! (He will show you the way out of your temptation) He’ll bring you out! He will give power to stand the testing of your faith. Every trial can become a blessing, a blessing in disguise! Although Satan says, all right so what if you are a Christian! However you are a defeated Christian and, you will always be, as a matter of fact, there are certain sins in your life, which you will never be able to overcome. (That is only a half-truth, for you see the devil cannot tell the whole truth, which is that by myself I can do nothing, but through faith in Christ I can do all things because he gives me the strength to do so!) Don’t listen to his lies. He is a failure and he wants you to feel completely defeated! The truth is that

We are more than conquerors through him that loved us and, gave him self a ransom for many. We were held hostage by our taskmaster, and the will of our father we obeyed, O’ but child of God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the righteous bought our pardon, straight off of death row! (There I go with yet another message) So Lucifer is a whipped pup he’s such a LOSER, I picture him walking around with an L on his forehead! Christ causes us to triumph and gives us victory over sin! This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. Which leads to a perfect state of maturity.

Romans 5:3-5 we glory in tribulation, knowing (Something that he says we should already realize) tribulation works patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope does not make one ashamed! This hope that we have in Him will never leave us where we would be ashamed, because if we have made our calling and our election sure, we shall never fall! (Never fail to do what God has called us to do). We are running the race with patience laying aside every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us! (Set us back to the point where the devil is able to come along and convince you that you aren’t doing any good at all! You ought to just give up! It’s no use; this Christian walk is just too hard!) We must with a clear conscience serve God; there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus; who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit! It’s all about Love, if you love God you will keep His commandments, in other words you will do those things that please the Father and you’ll do it out of love, not because you have to or that is what a good Christian is supposed to do. Pretty simple really (LOL). Hope does not one ashamed because “The Love Of God” is shed abroad in our hearts! The love you have for God should be enough to keep you from sin! That truly is what the Bible speaks about “Our First Love”

 #4.) God hears and answers prayer John 16:24 part B of this verse tells us that we should A.S.K. James the brother of Jesus said, “you have not because you ask not!” Ask, Seek, and Knock the three-fold promise of God! Three little letters A.S.K. coincidence you ask? I don’t believe so. If you will ask it shall be given unto you, if you seek you shall find, and if you knock it shall be open unto you! That our joy may be full, Jesus said. It is how we are able to stand the fiery trials; THE JOY OF THE LORD is our strength! Would you like to know what else brings me joy? The fact that I have confidence in him, if I ask anything according to His will, then He hears me, and I know that if He hears me, then I have the petition I desire of Him! I challenge you as a Christian, if you would only delight yourself in knowing the will of God, you can ask what you will and He will give you the desires of your heart! Psalms 1 says blessed is the man who delights himself in the law of the Lord, someone who meditates in His law day and night, David said, “that he would be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, (Living water that will flow from the inner most part of your being! From your belly springing up into everlasting life!) That brings forth fruit in its season, his leaf also shall not wither (The gift or calling God has placed in your life will not fade away, you can keep the same anointing that will cause you to bring forth much fruit!) and whatsoever you do God shall cause it to prosper! You will be blessed in your deed because you are a doer of the word and not a hearer only. 

 God’s eyes are over the righteous and His ears are opened unto their cries! He hears and answers prayers! Prayer changes things; it changes people, circumstances, and situations. Prayer is one of the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven!

 Still yet Satan will come to you and tell you that God don’t really care about you, if He did, you wouldn’t be going through all of this! As a matter of fact He is probably concerned about more important things, and just how important can you be that God would answer your prayers?

 Saints of God can I tell you that we have God’s word on it, if He said it, I believe it, and praise the good Lord that settles it! God is not a man that He can lie that is one of the immutable things of God (Things concerning his nature and character) God never changes and God cannot lie if His word says it honey you can believe it! He is a man of His word. Believe it and receive it, doubt it and do without it!  Read Psalms 34:15&16 the righteous cry and the Lord will hear and deliver them out of all their troubles! Thank you dear God!

 Let us review the four things again OK?

1.)    God wants you to know that you are saved

2.)    He wants you to know that you can overcome temptation

3.)    God is faithful to forgive you

4.)    He hears and answers prayer

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