23-1027A_INVESTMENTS PT-6 (Invest Your Life In HIM)

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 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

Mat 19:22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

Mat 19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Mat 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Mat 19:25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

Mat 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Mat 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Mat 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Mat 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

Mat 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

*IF YOU TAKE THE GOSPEL, THEN YOU BECOME PART OF THE GOSPEL.

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92 It's just like a bottle of medicine, a cure. See, not morally cure; it reproduces the Life of Christ. See? If you take the Gospel, then you become part of the Gospel. And if you become a part of it, like Peter, James, and John, and them, did on Pentecost, your life is another living Book of Acts. There is no way out of it. Jesus said, in Mark 16, "These signs shall follow them that believe." But the people will learn, and they go through seminaries and schools, to learn it, but don't want none of it themselves, yet they think that they got it. Yeah. They think that they got it, but the actions speaks louder than all the words. See, your--your life proves it, whatever you are.

*NOW, WHERE IS YOUR TREASURE, ANYHOW?

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116 Now, where is your treasure, anyhow? Is it in your church? Is it in your business? Or, is it in Heaven? "For wherever your treasure is, there your heart will be also." So why not make an investment this morning, of Life? Your business will go to ashes someday.

*AND GOD'S KINGDOM IS NEVER OF THE WORLD… IT'S THE POWER OF GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE HUMAN LIFE.

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132 And God's Kingdom is never of the world, no matter how many intellectual men you can stand up. I'm not condemning those people, but I'm trying to show you a trick that Satan has done. They--they cannot, I don't care how big. You Pentecostals want... You oneness wants all the threeness to unite with you. And you threeness wants all the oneness and church of God, and so forth, unite with your thirty-some odd organizations, become one. You Methodist and Baptist, and so forth, the same way.

134 Jesus said His Kingdom was not of this world. If it was, His Kingdom, His delegates would fight. But said, "My Kingdom is of Above." See? The Kingdom of God is not an organization that can make a great thing. It's the power of God, the Holy Spirit in the human life.

*AND IF THERE IS NO TESTING TIME, THEN YOU HAVEN'T MADE YOUR INVESTMENT YET.

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147 Now, we find out now that Noah was tested when he made his investment.

148 So will you, my brother. And if there is no testing time, then you haven't made your investment yet. Because, your enemy is standing there with the hammer back on his gun, with the bowstring drawed, and he is ready to shoot every poison dart that he can send, every cult, and every little idea, and every intellectual giant like Goliath. He'll send them around there, that looks so taller than the--the brethren that you're associating with, your little, ignorant and unlearned brethren. He'll send such spiritual intellectual giants, and big schools, that can explain the whole thing away from you. But if you have made your investment, and got your policy stamped and sealed by the Holy Spirit, there is nothing going to rub it out.

*SATAN TRIED NOAH, ON HIS--ON HIS INVESTMENT. AND HE--HE TRIED HIM, TO MAKE HIM DOUBT IT.

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150 Notice, Satan tried Noah, on his--on his investment. And he--he tried him, to make him doubt it. The scientists rose up to tell him there is no rain in the skies, and there were scoffers in the days of Noah.

151 Now if there is scoffers in that day, at the in-come, at the end time, rather, on the investments that--that men took in their heart to believe God's Word, there is scoffers today against the Word, because It don't look sensible. But, you see, you're not supposed to use your own sense.

153 No, if you could, then you could explain God. You don't know God by intellectual conception. You know God by faith, is the only way you know how to believe God. Just, you can't explain it. No one can. It's not for you to. No, nobody can explain God. God is without finding out by explanation; you've got to believe Him; it wouldn't be a faith no more. Now you've got to believe it. Now notice.

*NOAH'S GREAT INVESTMENT ONE DAY PAID OFF. WHEN HE STOOD THE PERSECUTION

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154 And, then, Noah's great investment one day paid off. When he stood the persecution, when he stood the scoffers, when he stood against all the things and the policies of the world of that day, and all the religious things that seemed to be against him, it paid off by saving his life. He believed it. His investment paid off.

*DANIEL MADE AN INVESTMENT ONE DAY… HE PURPOSED IN HIS HEART THAT HE WOULDN'T MAR… HE WOULD NOT DEFILE IT BY DISBELIEVING IT.

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155 Now, businessmen, let me say another thing. Daniel made an investment one day. He was taken down into a world that wasn't like the world that he was used to. He was taken among people that didn't believe the same thing he believed. But he made an investment, and look what he done. He purposed in his heart that he wouldn't mar, he wouldn't defile that investment. See? The investment that he had made in God, he purposed in his heart; though it took his life, he would not defile it by disbelieving it.

*WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR INVESTMENT, STAY THERE ON IT… BUT WHEN YOU'RE READY TO LET THE MIND THAT WAS IN CHRIST BE IN YOU!

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156 Don't disbelieve it. When you make your investment, stay there on it. If you're not ready to believe it, then don't make your investment. But when you're ready to let the mind that was in Christ be in you!

You say, "Well, This is that and that."

157 Better watch it. If it isn't in the Word, then leave it alone. The Word is the basic facts and Truth, no personal interpretation. It's writ just the way... If God is going to judge the church by the Bible, then, the Bible, God has watched over It to keep It, and it's written just the way It should be written. No private interpretation! The Methodist interpret It one way, and the Baptist another, and so forth. And then bring it down to the showdown, neither one of them is right. It's man's mind, where they run off.

*I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO INVEST YOUR MONEY… I'M TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THE POLICY OF LIFE. "COME, FOLLOW ME. TAKE UP YOUR CROSS.

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214 That, now, I'm not asking you to in..vest your money. That's up to you, what you do with that, to some missionary society, or whatever it is, to send missionaries. I don't know about that. God will take care of that.

215 I'm talking to you about the policy of Life. "Come, follow Me. Take up your cross. Let everybody call you what they will; but you--you come, follow Me." Now he wasn't quite willing to do this. He made a very rashel thing, just exactly like the people of the Laodicean Age today, in the policy. They are not willing. They don't want to.

*THIS WORD HAS GOT TO BE MY LIFE. THAT'S WHAT YOURS NEED.

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221 And neither can I go without holding the Cross, you see. This Word has got to be my Life. That's what yours need. I--I--I can't--can't speak without this handlebar to guide, this Holy Spirit that moves me and directs me.

223 Now, businessman, don't look here, your business may feel, fail tomorrow, it might fail some other day, but watch the end of the road, and there is where your policy is going to pay off.

*YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO BE SO POOR IN MONEY, WE'LL HAVE TO GET POOR IN SPIRIT.

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224 This young fellow increased in goods, but we find out his finally pay-off day come. His greed, goods so increased till he found that he had to build new barns. Oh, his business kept increasing! He stayed a member of the church. You say, "Yes?" Yes, brother, that's right. He stayed a member of the church. And one night, he got so big, till there was a man that was poor in spirit...

225 You know, we don't have to be so poor in money, we'll have to get poor in spirit. Jesus said, in Matthew 5, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the," not the organization, "the Kingdom."

*AND LAZARUS, A POOR IN SPIRIT, LAY THERE WITH NOT EVEN ENOUGH MEDICINE TO TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF, AND THE DOGS LICKED HIS SORE.

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227 And Lazarus, a poor in spirit, lay there with not even enough medicine to take care of himself, and the dogs licked his sore. But one night, he, they both died. And when they did, the Bible said that the poor in spirit "was carried by Angel pallbearers, to the bosoms of Abraham," the one had invest, made Him his investment in Eternal Life. He didn't live for what he had here. For his popularity, he had none. He was a beggar at the gate. He, he had nothing. He had no money. He had nothing. He had no friends. But, yet, he was a believer. He had made his investment. And he died on the street, with the dogs licking his sores. And the Bible said, that, "Angels packed him into the bosoms of Abraham."

*USING NOT OUR OWN MIND, BUT JUST LETTING HIS MIND, WE ARE PRISONERS…NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS, YOU ARE PRISONED TO THAT WORD.

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241 Oh, businessmen, this morning, I am offering to you, as an agent of Jesus Christ, an Eternal Life, a policy of Eternal Life, that Christ my Lord, and my supreme Boss, for I am dead to the things of the world, to live only to Him. Using not our own mind, but just letting His mind, we are prisoners, as Paul, as Moses. No matter what anyone else says, you are prisoned to that Word. The Holy Spirit leads; He forbids to go places, He forbids to come here, He--He sends you to places you would not go, and keeps you away from places that you would go. Do you want a policy? Do you want to make an investment?

242 …. And if you want to make a confession, and know that you've been wrong, and you'd like to have one of these policies, and would desire. And I hope you don't think now that I... I hope it don't sound sacrilegious when I say, "policies." I'm only making this statement according to my text. And you're... and--and you want to have Eternal Life, and you want to invest your life in Jesus Christ, if you will now, think hard.