23-1006A_INVESTMENTS PT-3 (INVESTING YOUR LIFE'S JOURNEY)

Mat 19:16  And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? 

Mat 19:17  And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 

Mat 19:18  He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, 

Mat 19:19  Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

Mat 19:20  The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? 

Mat 5:3  Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

Mat 5:4  Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 

Mat 5:5  Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 

Mat 5:6  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 

Mat 5:7  Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 

Mat 5:8  Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. 

Mat 5:9  Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 

Mat 5:10  Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

Mat 5:11  Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 

Mat 5:12  Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. 

Mat 5:13  Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 

Pro 15:16  Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

 

Pro 15:17  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

1Ti 6:7  For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 

1Ti 6:8  And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 

*YOU'RE HOLDING TO SOMETHING MORE OF A TREASURE THAN INVESTING YOUR LIFE'S JOURNEY IN JESUS CHRIST.

70    But it don't altogether mean money. There's just a lot more things that we hold to us, just as much as a idol, as that young man held to that money; popularity, denominational difference, fashions, lust of the world, idols, everything. There is so many things that--that men, today, instead of being rich, holding to things, they of money, they--they hold to different things like that, just as tight as that young man, because they're not interested in the investment that Christ is offering them.

71    It might mean that Christ would call you out of the group that you're in. Christ might call you out from the card party that you have in your church, the bunko game, the society that you belong to. As you hold to that, you're--you're just as much making a rashal mistake as this young rich man did. See? You're holding to something more of a treasure than investing your life's journey in Jesus Christ.
 
*WE LET OTHER THINGS SLIP IN TO US, AND WIND US FROM THAT REAL SINCERITY IN THE WORD.

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  72      Now, this may not have a shouting background to it, but it's got a Gospel background to it, of Word. See? It's the thing that... The children laugh, and dance, and rejoice, and so forth. But you got to know what you're doing this about; if you don't, that becomes idolatry to you, see, just becomes idol. And if we look, and notice at--at the conditions that we're winding into! It comes so sneaking.

73    It's just like a man, a tree, standing on a--a highway. And a little vine rises up, a wild vine, and begins to wrap around that tree. The tree wants to grow straight, but that vine finally gets a hold of that tree in such a way until it's forced to move the other way. So do we get in those kind of places, where we let other things slip in to us, and wind us from that real sincerity in the Word.
 
*WE'VE GOT TO COME DEEPLY AND SINCERELY TO THE WORD OF THE PROMISE

78    Be careful, Pentecost. Your sacrifices and rejoicing will become a stink in the nostrils of Jehovah, if it isn't entered with deepness of sincerity. We, we must come deadly sincere, not just laughing, and rejoicing, and rallying around. We've got to come deeply and sincerely to the Word of the promise. There, take a hold of the altar, stay there until something happens, till we thoroughly die out, till we are making an--an investment in the Kingdom of God and Jesus Christ. Then we're on... No matter how fundamentally. We can be fundamentally, yet you got to come under sincerity.
 
PUT YOUR LIFE, YOUR TIME, YOUR MONEY, YOUR TALENT, PUT EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT IN CHRIST.

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E-63    Didn't the Bible say, "Thou art rich and increased in goods (to this age), but don't know that you're naked, miserable, poor, wretched, blind, and don't even know it." What a miserable condition. Men and brethren, don't make an investment in something like that. It's bound to perish. Why not make an investment in something that's proved down through the Bible? And you know, with the--the texts that I got written here, we could be here tonight, still on these texts proving through the Bible those who made that and who turned it down.

I am showing you a real investment to make. Put your life, your time, your money, your talent, put everything you've got in Christ. God guaranteed it to us by raising Him up again. We'll rise in the last days. He promised it. What more could you look forward to? Tell me any investment you could make would pay off like that.

Tell me what you could invest in this morning and make ten million dollars, and tomorrow be a corpse? What good would it do you? What profit a man if he gained the whole world and lose his soul? What if you're popular, and called So-and-so, and Deacon, Presbyter Dr., Bishop, Elder, Pope, or whatever you might be called? That's praises of men.

I'd rather be called a holy-roller by the people, and had be a son of God in my heart, with the new birth and the Spirit of Christ dwelling in me, and Him proving it by the vindication of His Word and making me live. "The life that I once lived I don't live no more," Paul said. And yet he was a teacher and a scholar. But he changed his life, when he met Christ, and made his investment in Christ. He was a different man from then on.
 
*YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE A DIME, BUT YET YOU DO HOLD THINGS, THAT, IT'S WORLDLY POSSESSION.

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  79      Now, this young Jew was just as sincere as he could be, in what he was doing. But when the--the time come to change his creed, then that's where the trouble come.

80    I wonder if the same God isn't just as able today to rise us up an Isaiah, to rise us up somebody that can tell us that our solemn feasts becomes a stink. We should be ready for the Rapture, at this time of the age. Look where we're at. There is something needed, and, that's, back to the Word. We're promised over in Malachi that we would be brought back to the Word, the original Faith, and so let's remember that now.

81    But the--the price that this young fellow was asked to pay was too great. He had to sell out all of his worldly possessions, in order to have this Eternal Life.

82    You might not have a dime, but yet you do hold things, that, it's worldly possession.
 
*THIS LAODICEAN PENTECOSTAL AGE, THE SAME OPPORTUNITY THAT THIS RICH MAN DID, THE SAME ONE.

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  112      Now notice, now, the rich Laodicean church. Jesus reveals, in Revelations 3, gives this age, this Laodicean Pentecostal age, the same opportunity that this rich man did, the same one. Cause, Laodicea, "Knocked at the door," showed that our organized life had put Christ outside. Because, Christ is the Word, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God," and the Word is still God. And the Word was put outside, for our organizational system.

113    That's why I'm here with these Business Men. God help them, that they'll never organize. But you're not far from it. You just remember that. I love you, and you're giving me a spot, and this has been a place for my ministry. But I foresee it coming. The handwriting is on the wall. Now, don't do that. You'll take the same chaos the rest of them did. The Devil has been trying to kill your leader for a long time. If he can get rid of him, something will take place. It's just men. They have to have their own ideas of it. You put a charter here not long ago in your paper. Shouldn't have done that. That identifies you as an organization. We, we're a group of brethren, who, no matter what the man believes, we're fellowshipping, trying to get him. Let--let your Light shine. He'll see the light.
 
*AND LAODICEA PUT HIM OUT BECAUSE THAT THEY--THEY WERE RICH.

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  118      Now, we find, this young fellow, given this opportunity to do this. And he--and he... He turned it away because there was too much of a price to it.

119    And I--I think that's the same thing today. We, we don't want to, we don't want to admit now, we don't want to say that we don't, but our lives are proving it. That's proving it. That's exactly right.

120    But the--the Laodicean put Him out of the church that He was knocking on, see, trying to get back in. And Laodicea put Him out because that they--they were rich. They had need of nothing. They were just as--just as rich as they could be. And so they said, "We are rich. We have need of nothing."

121    And God said, "You are naked, poor, miserable, blind, don't know it." That's the trouble, when they don't know it.
 
*INSTEAD OF BEING GLAMOR, WE OUGHT TO BE GLOWING..

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  122      If a man is out here on the street, in that condition, naked and blind, well, most anyone that had a human heart would go to that man, say, "Sir, you're naked. You're out here. You're, you're exposed. And come on in."

123    But if the man turned around, said, "Now, you tend to your own business." See? Now, what are you going to do for that fellow?

124    And here, when a church thinks that it's so--it's so clothed, in its... it is, in its self-righteousness, until you--you think... And you go to bring them the Word. You say, "That's contrary to our creed." What? You sold out, then, your birthrights. When, instead of being glamor, we ought to be glowing.

*DON'T--DON'T SHINE. GLOW!

117    When you get glamour, God don't like glamour. Hollywood is full of glamour. Hollywood shines; the Gospel glows. There's a lot of difference between shining and glowing. Hollywood shines with lights and class, and the Gospel glows in humility. Quite a difference. See? See? Now, you must remember that, my brethren and my sisters. Don't--don't shine. Glow!

*THE LORD JESUS WOULD BE SO UPON US UNTIL THE GLOW OF THE LORD WOULD BE IN US.

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  125      Instead of having five hundred or six hundred, ever what it is here at a breakfast... That's all right. I have nothing against it. I'm--I'm just here in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Instead of that, there ought to be a glowing among us, of the Holy Spirit. Maybe there's only a dozen, glowing in the beauty of the Lord, the Lord Jesus would be so upon us until the glow of the Lord would be in us.

126    But we want to shine, more members. See? The church has always counted membership. God counts character, not membership.

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 

1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 

1Jn 2:18  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 

1Jn 2:19  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 

1Jn 2:20  But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 

1Jn 2:21  I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 

1Jn 2:22  Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 

Mat 16:19  And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Mat 16:20  Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.