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The Power of the Gospel 0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multi site, multi generation community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:13 I've got 7 points that I wanna share, and the 7 points is basically the gospel. We're living in a day that we need to preach the gospel like we've never preached it before. Amen?0:26 What's desperately needed in our society is not religion, it's the gospel. The gospel is the power of God and it's able to change people's lives. A pole watched0:38 down the streets of Rome, Rome that was known for its knowledge and intelligence, and he said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that0:50 believes, the Jew first and also to the Greek. I do not blush. I'm not shy concerning the gospel. What is the gospel? The gospel is in Corinthians. Jesus Christ died for our1:01 sins. According to the scriptures, was buried, rose again on the third day according to the scriptures, and was seen alive. The gospel is good news. Amen?1:13 And so we're gonna share 7 quick points. My main emphasis will be on 0.7. The things that I've written here are 7 things that Jesus can do for you. Now, ofForgiveness and Cleansing 1:25 course, Jesus can do more than 7 things. The Bible says he's able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we even ask or think.1:37 The Lord can do great things for you. Amen? But these 7 things I want to mention to you because they have to do with the gospel, and they also have to do with gospel, and they also have to do with some of us as1:48 believers. The first 1 is you need to know that Jesus can forgive you. The Bible says that he says, I, even I, am he who blots out your2:00 transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. Now forgiveness is very important. The the walk with the Lord begins with repentance,2:11 but we must experience forgiveness. Why must we be forgiven? Why must we know that Jesus can forgive us? It's because we have violated his word, because we've been2:23 disobedient, because we've been stiff necked and walked our own ways, because we would not bow the knee and listen to him, and we've done our own thing.2:35 And because of that, we need to know that the Bible says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. There's not 1 righteous, nay not 1. You see, God has2:47 created us for his glory. In Isaiah 43 verse 7, he says, I have created you for my glory right from the very beginning. God's plan and purpose for for the man and and the2:59 woman that he created was that they would glorify him. But the glory departed when they were put out of the Garden of Eden, and sin caused that. But now God is doing a3:11 fresh new thing in the lives of men and women, and he's making it possible for us to be once again bring glory and honor to his name. But we have to be forgiven. We have to come3:23 to a place in our lives and we have to say, Lord, forgive me for all my sin. Forgive me for everything that I've done wrong. Forgive me for my disobedience. And what we will experience is a3:34 wonderful release, a wonderful forgiveness that comes from a God who never goes back on his word. When God forgives you, he forgives you. And when God forgives you, he forgets.3:46 Amen? And so we need to receive that forgiveness. We need to understand no matter what you've done, no matter what you've said, no matter where you've been, Jesus is able to forgive you today3:58 and never to remember your sins again. Now there are some of us who are believers. Some of us have already put our faith and trust in Christ, but we still have unforgiveness4:11 in our hearts. I spoke this morning the first service and a man came to me and he said, please pray for me. I run a small group. I've been a Christian for many years, but I've got terrible hatred in my heart.4:23 And he mentioned the individual who he has it for. And I said, brother, I'm gonna pray for you right now, and Jesus is going to deliver you when you talk, when you turn around and walk out, you walk out in the4:34 deliverance of the name of Jesus. You must be free from this. If you're not free from from if you are there this morning, and you have bitterness in your heart and unforgiveness in your heart, it's going4:46 to bind you. It's gonna hold you captive. You are not going to enjoy the blessing of the Lord. You are not going to be an individual that God can use for his glory because you are4:58 going to be bound by that unforgiveness. And so this morning, the Lord is here and he's able to deliver you, he's able to change you, he's able to forgive you so that you in turn can5:10 forgive others. There are people today who, have done us harm and they got things against us and we know it. There are people that want to forgive me and I know it. And5:22 that that is a terrible thing to know that people, that won't forgive you. It it brings also brings bondage, puts them in bondage and you in bondage. And so we need to always trust the Lord, for5:33 forgiveness that we are people that easily forgive. Don't hold grudges. Be free and enjoy what the Lord has for you. Amen. And so this morning, the very first thing that5:45 Jesus can do for you right here today is he can forgive you of everything that you've done wrong, of everything that is in your heart, and you can walk away knowing that he will never5:57 hold that against you, that he will never bring it up again, that his forgiveness is perfect. Hallelujah. We thank him for that. Amen. Secondly, he can cleanse you.6:10 The Bible says if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with 1 another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. Oftentimes, people have said6:22 we we come to him with our righteousness is like filthy rags. But Jesus can cleanse us. He can wash us clean. He can wash us whiter than the snow.6:34 Every single person is born God conscience. And sooner or later, conscience is awakened to a strange sense of right and wrong, crying for the changed way of life. Many, many people today in the6:46 churches and all around the world, deep down, they are crying for a changed way of life. It is only 1 solution. There's only 1 remedy, and that is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. What can wash6:58 away my sin? Nothing but the blood of the Lord Jesus. There's power, wonder working power in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank God we're not ashamed of the7:09 blood of Jesus. He shed his blood so that we may be pure. He shed his blood that we may be cleansed. He shed his blood that you and I may come into a right relationship with God and have7:21 eternal life. So So no matter what you've done, no matter how you you are staying this morning because of your sin, there's tremendous power in the blood of Jesus, and he can cleanse you today and wash you7:33 whiter than snow. The third thing is he can change you. Corinthians says if a man or a woman is in Christ, they are new creatures. All the old things pass away and everythingTransformation and Preservation 7:45 becomes new. Everything becomes new. He changes your life. That's 1 of the great evidences of salvation, great evidences of a man or a woman being born again. My friend,7:57 if you say you're born again and you're saved and you're still living the old life, something's wrong somewhere because the power of the Lord Jesus and the power of the gospel will bring change in your life. Now8:08 when Nicodemus came, he was a religious man, he was a good man, and he and he asked Jesus about eternal life. And Jesus said, Nicodemus, except a man be born again, he cannot enter into8:20 the kingdom of God. Jesus explained something to him which is very important for you and I today. He said, Nicodemus, except the man be born again,8:32 he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is flesh is flesh, but that which is spirit is spirit. So every 1 of us is born first our first birth is born with the flesh, but there8:44 is a spiritual birth birth that we experience when we surrender our lives to the lord Jesus Christ. When you when the holy spirit comes and he convicts us of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and we8:56 know there's an emptiness in our lives, we know that there's something missing, and we surrender to to the lord Jesus, then he comes and he changes our lives, and we become new creatures.9:08 Now it is a supernatural experience because he said that which is the flesh is flesh, but that which is of the spirit is spirit. Thank god there are many, many new9:20 creatures sitting in this house this morning, and those new creatures are not just new creatures. God has a new nation on the face of the earth. That new nation is the church of Jesus9:32 Christ. He says give no offense to to to to the Jew, no offense to to the others, and he says and they'll give no offense to the church of God. He puts it together in 1 verse of scripture with all9:44 the other nations in the world, the Jews, the Gentile, and the church of God. So there's a new nation on the face of the earth and are those people that have been born again, not only of the flesh, but also of9:56 the spirit of God. And so he can change your life. How wonderful it is to know that our God is a powerful God, that the gospel is so powerful it can take a man who who10:07 sunk into the deepest of sin and in a twinkling of eye change his life and turn him around. And he can do that for you today. Jesus can change your life today. Not tomorrow, not next month, not10:19 next year, not when you've bettered yourself right now just as you are. He's here, he's present, and his power is available to change you today.10:31 The fourth thing, only does he change us, but he keeps us. Then a lot of people that say, well, how are you doing? Well, under under the circumstances. No. He doesn't want you to be under the circumstances. He wants to10:42 protect you in the circumstances. Amen? And it says there, now unto him was able to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory. He10:54 is able to save us, but he's also able to keep us. Once you give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, life does not become a bed of roses. Life becomes stuff because11:06 hell is mad. Hell is mad that you've made a decision for Jesus. Hell is mad that you've changed the king of your life. Hell is mad because you've got a new Master controlling you, leading you, and you're walking11:18 in His ways, and He will do everything in His power to come and deceive you, to try to draw you back. But thanks be to God this morning, we know that we are in the hand of the Lord. We are kept by11:30 him, and 1 day he will present us faultless before the presence of his glory with everlasting shouts of joy. When you walk through the fire, you will not burn. When you go through this the waters, you will11:41 not drown because Jesus is the fourth man in the fiery furnace. He's there to protect us. He's there to hold us up. Yes. The storms will come. Trouble will come. Difficulties will11:53 come. Things will fall apart. But through it all, he will never leave us nor forsake us. Hallelujah. He will keep you. Number 5, he will deliver you.Empowerment and Usefulness 12:05 Therefore, if the son makes you free, you are free indeed. We need deliverance. Sometimes we we we we carry12:17 on with our counseling, and we counsel people for hours, and it's not counseling. Sometimes it's deliverance. Sometimes it's in the name of Jesus. Sometimes it's in the name of Jesus that people's12:29 things that hold them need to be broken. We can set the captives free. Jesus himself said, the spirit of the lord is upon me. He's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, open the blind eyes,12:40 heal the brokenhearted, and set the captives free. And here it says, he whom the son sets free is free indeed. It doesn't matter how long you've been in that bondage. Controlled12:53 you and manipulated you. It doesn't matter how people have looked upon you and said there's no hope for you. I want to tell you this morning there's power in the name of Jesus and he can deliver you today, and he13:05 can set you free today. He's able to do that. Number 6, he will fill you. He will fill you with his holy spirit. The13:17 third person of the trinity. It's not an in. It it is not a power. It's not a force. It's a person. Do you know you know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit?13:29 And he says you will receive power on the Holy Ghost has come upon you. He promised that on the day of Pentecost to a group of men who were fishermen and carpenters. They were ordinary men, but they'd13:41 experienced all these things we've spoken about this morning and surrendered their lives to Jesus. And Jesus said, to those few men, I'm gonna take you, and I'm gonna turn the world right side up. You are going to13:53 receive a power that's beyond you, a power that comes from God and God alone, and you are going to do wonderful things. He said to them, you shall receive power and you shall be my witnesses,14:04 Judea, Jerusalem, Samaria, and the othermost parts of the world. Now Jesus made a statement, and very few people follow-up on his statement. If you follow-up on his statement, you will see14:16 when those disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, the gospel spread to Judea, the gospel spread to Jerusalem, and the gospel spread spread to Samaria, and the gospel spread to the uttermost parts of the world.14:28 That's why we sit in church this morning, born again of the spirit of God, because in the early church, the power came on those men. They were faithful, and they went, and they spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.14:39 Now he says to us today, we we can have the same power, we can have the same authority, and God can use any 1 of us and all of us to proclaim his word in power with14:51 authority, and we can see great and wonderful things happening. We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit guides us. The Holy Spirit leads us. The Holy Spirit makes Jesus real to us. The Holy15:03 Spirit is the teacher of the word of God. And so it's important for all of God's people to desire to continuously be full of the Holy Spirit every day before we go out.15:15 And we need to say, Lord, won't you fill me today till overflowing? Let me let the Holy Spirit control me today so that the words I speak and the actions I do will bring honor and glory to your name because15:27 you have created me for your glory, and he will give us the holy spirit. Amen. Now the number 7, he will use you. How many people sit in church this morning,15:38 and they look at other people who are very talented, very gifted, people with prominent positions in the body of Christ? And they look and they say, you know, I I will never be able to be like that. God God will never15:50 use me, in a in a in a great capacity. But I wanna tell you today that the Lord can use any 1 of us at any time for great and wonderful things. And so I wanna give a part of my16:02 testimony, and it's not about me. It's just about sharing it because I believe many of us need to hear how God can use us. I was 12 years old, and my mom and dad could no longer look after16:14 me. My father was an alcoholic. He'd lost furniture, house, and everything. And I had to go and stay with my brother-in-law and my sister. My brother-in-law was at that time a preacher already,16:26 but before that, he was an alcoholic. He was a terrible, terrible alcoholic. He was obnoxious. He was rude. He was just a terrible human being. But my sister married him, and she never drank. And16:38 this man drank, drank, drank, and that's all he did. He didn't have anything, didn't possess anything. It was really that everybody said that he's gonna destroy my sister's life. He's a washout and all those kind of16:45 things. And so, washout and all those kind of things. And so this man was a terrible drinker. All the people spoke about him and and and had no consideration. No16:57 no no no respect for him whatsoever. But 1 day, he was sitting in a bar and he was drinking and he looked in the mirror behind where all the bottles are and he looked at himself and he felt a voice say to17:09 him, you don't belong here. You don't belong here. And as he heard heard those those words, as he felt those words were spoken to him, he he got up and he walked out of that bar and then he17:20 started searching, searching to find something that will give him peace, something that that will deliver him from, alcoholism and all that stuff. And so he he went and searched in many directions and tried many17:32 things. Nothing seemed to work. And then 1 day, he was in a gospel meeting, and the man was preaching the gospel and made an appeal. And he got up and he went down to the front and he surrendered his life to the17:44 Lord Jesus Christ and he was born again. The moment he was born again, God delivered him, from from alcohol. God delivered him from from everything that was binding him, and he became a brand new creature.17:56 Everybody was shocked. Everybody was marveled that such a change had taken place in this man's life. Then he became, the preacher, and he started working for his father. His father was a Scotchman, and he18:08 owned a business, and he let his son work for him. He started working, getting money together, putting up his house and furniture and so on. But he also then started preaching and became a preacher, and at 1 time he was18:19 also pastoring a church. Then he bought a small holding, and that's where I grew up a couple of years when I was given to them. And and on that small holding, it was like a little farm. He was walking on the field there18:30 1 day, and he felt that the Lord said to him that he must build a gospel drive in. Now there was no other gospel drive in. Nowhere in the world there was no such thing as a gospel drive in. There were a lot of drivings,18:41 but not gospel drivings. And so he started working at it, and he put up his gospel driving. He had the speakers, and, he had the parking for a a large number of cars, a big drive in.18:53 And then he built a massive platform with a big screen in front. And, a big beef and and when he before he shows the film, the screens open up, and with a platform like this, and then we used to sing19:05 there. And he preaches and makes an appeal, leads people to Christ, and then the screens close, and then they show show a gospel film. Now he did that for 18 years and he never collected 1 cent from anyone.19:17 He paid all of that out of his pocket because when God saved him, he became a great giver. He was so grateful for what God had done for him. And so he ran the gospel drive him all the years, paid for it,19:29 and through through the gospel drive him for 18 years. People came from all over to to the gospel drive him. Thousands of people, were saved and gave their lives to the lord Jesus Christ. Now I got saved too. I19:40 at that time, and I was working with him. I worked with him for 12 years, my wife and I. Every Saturday night, we we gave up our Saturday nights to be at the gospel drive in. Many times, I preached there, but I helped19:52 him run the place. And also they have the joy of seeing so many people come, to the lord and their lives being changed. And so he had a tremendous impact upon my life, and,20:04 later on, he led me to the lord and I surrendered my life to Christ. Now I I was living with them and I, at that particular time when I moved in there, but at the age of 14, I became an20:16 alcoholic already. I was a teenage alcoholic. It was in a newspaper about, young boys that were drinking and I I drank a lot. I lived a terrible life, and, 1 time I found myself living in the20:28 streets. I became a washout, and everybody thought I'd fallen through the cracks. There's now hope for me. People turned against me. I lived a terrible wild life. But I20:39 had already been influenced by him in the past. He shared the gospel. And so when I was right down deep in the valley, I I went and spoke to him again, and he led me to the lord Jesus, and I was born again. And20:51 God set me free immediately from alcohol and the things that I was doing. And so I became a new creature, but my life was changed through him. God took a drunkard. God took a man21:03 who was a washout. With people who look down upon and say he was worth nothing, and and and built this thing and reached multitudes of people with the gospel. In fact, they wrote a book about his life. It21:15 was called, it is called you don't belong here, the very words that that were spoken to him or what he thought the Lord was saying to me in the bar. Then they also made a film out of the book. So his21:27 testimony spread far and wide, and he reached multitudes of people. The very man that was right down in the valley in the dark that people said there's no hope for him. The lord saved him and used him21:39 mightily for his glory. Amen? And then he evicted me, and, my life was changed. I was also no I was going nowhere. My, twelfth grade teacher said to me that21:51 I'm gonna go nowhere in life. I'm a washout because I was drinking heavily already. At the age of 15, 16, I was drinking heavily. So I was a teenage alcoholic, and, my brother-in-law had to22:03 ask me to leave the house because he didn't want his children to see the way I behave and so on, and, I did. But I got saved later on. I spoke to him and later on and I got born again. And I also went22:14 into the ministry. I met a girl, a pastor's wife, by the way. I married a pastor's wife. The poor pastor, I think he must have trembled when he saw this guy going out with his daughter because everybody knew about me,22:26 knew how bad I was. I lived on the streets. I was wild. I was always fighting. Always trouble, you know, life like that. But he he saved me. And so I went into the ministry. It is a strange way it happened. I22:38 didn't ask to go become a pastor. My my pastor went away, came to United States, and he got involved with some big movement here, came back and told the church he's not gonna be the pastor anymore. And so they asked me22:50 to be the pastor. So I became the pastor. But since then, I've pastored 7 churches, over the years. At the moment, I've been pastoring Norwood Church for 34 years. I've been there a long23:01 time. And, I've done a hundred television programs. I had a radio program. I was the vice president of the Christian Church of23:13 North America, an an Italian born again denomination. I was the vice president, not Italian, but, God used me there, and, God used me mightily. I remember23:25 I was in a place in the building. I was planted. I planted this church, and so I had a big house, and I took all the walls down and and I had a church in there. And there was a guy by the name, I won't23:37 mention his name. He came from England and he was working at this particular city. That's where they make, gas petrol. They make gas there, and they they come from overseas to work then. He was 1 of those people.23:49 But his mother was a witch, and he was a very, very rude young man. He had long hair, and he used to come to the services. He would greet nobody. 1 day, he would only talk to me. 1 day, I tried to introduce him24:01 to somebody, and they said, how how are you doing? And he said, what the hell is he gonna do with you? He just cut him right off. But but this young guy came with a motorbike. He had a big bike, a Triumph bike, and he24:12 would come to the door of this building. The building only had 1 door of you, in or you out. And he would park right in the front while I'm preaching, while we're singing, and he would rev his motorbike. He he was crazy.24:23 This guy was so way out there. But 1 day, and he and he came to church regularly. But 1 day, the Lord took hold of him, and he was born again. His name was24:35 Alan, and his whole life changed. He became a brand new creature, and he started serving in the church and being part of that local church. And when I came to United States, I got a letter from24:46 him asking me for a reference because he was going to Bible school and he was going into the ministry. You see what God can do through us? He took a drunkard, my brother-in-law, and brought24:58 me into the kingdom. And then he took me, and he used me for his glory. I chose pastor Tim Hatch as my youth pastor in Norwood many, many years25:10 ago. And when he became the youth pastor there, the youth grew like a wildfire. But I could see the hand of God upon him, and I knew that Tim was going to be used by God in a wonderful25:22 way. And later on, of course, we planted the church here, and Waters Church has grown not through my ministry, but through the ministry of pastor Tim. But I know that I've had some impact in that.25:33 And so what I'm sharing with you now is not blowing my own trumpet. Everything that I've done, everything that I am is just by the grace of God. I don't come here with a computer. I can't25:45 come here and speak very many clever words. I'm not a clever guy. I'm just an ordinary born again man who loves the Lord and loves the gospel. Amen? And I'd25:57 love to see what God can do in people's lives. And I'm telling you today that my seventh point is he can he can use you. Just surrender your life to him. Be willing to26:09 serve him. Be willing to bow the knee. Be willing to crown him king of your life. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these things shall be added unto you. It doesn't matter who26:21 you are, doesn't matter how deep you've been in the valley, it doesn't matter how up in the top of the mountain you've been. I want to tell you today God is looking for people, people that he can use for his26:33 glory and for his honor. There's a world out here that is hungry and thirsty, a world that is confused, that is lost in darkness, and has lost this way, a world without26:44 hope, a world that is destined for a lost eternity. And the only thing that can save it is not the president or the governments of the world. It is the church of Jesus Christ. And it is men and26:56 women like us, ordinary people, who understand the power of God, who knows that he can take weak and broken vessels and use them mightily for his glory. And my27:08 prayer today is that many of you sitting here, you're gonna change your attitude. You're gonna say, lord, here I am. Use me wherever he put you. In whatever way he wants to use him. Let him do27:20 it. 1 day, we'll stand at the judgment seat of Christ, and we will be able to receive the crowns for what we have done. And he will say to us, well done, thou27:31 good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of the Lord. Amen. And so the gospel is for you, and if you respond to the gospel or you already have,27:43 know that God is waiting for you to be used by him in a mighty way. God bless you.Call to Action 27:52 Thank you for listening to this message from Waters Church. For more information or to visit 1 of our local assemblies, please visit waters church dot org. God bless, and have a great28:04 day.In this video 0:00 The Power of the Gospel1:19 Forgiveness and Cleansing7:35 Transformation and Preservation11:59 Empowerment and Usefulness27:49 Call to Action
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