NO NEUTRAL SOURCE

Resurrection and Life (John 11:25)

We want to welcome you to the living church of the Living God, the Spirit Life Centre for All Nations. Allowing ourselves to be influenced by Jehovah God through His Holy Spirit is the most valuable and very important influence we can ever get. Because it has good benefits for both our physical and spiritual lives. So we want to advise you, please, allow God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ to influence you every day by His Holy Spirit. Why? Because we must be under the influence of either the evil spirit or the Holy Spirit each day and night. It’s either that your day was influenced by the Holy Spirit or by an evil spirit. There is no escape from this spiritual influence for anyone. All of us must be influenced to do something or to say something by either the Holy Spirit or an evil spirit. The choice is yours as to which one you would always allow to influence your words and your actions daily. And the fruit of what you always allow to influence you daily will be seen in your life. Because our life always reveals what influences it. If Christ is your daily influence, your life will show it every day.

Life is warfare. In that warfare, there are many battles to fight, and only the serious-minded are victorious. When you look at every one of us today, you will see that some are battling with their bills, some with sickness, while some are fighting to make it in life. It takes the grace of Jehovah God to realize that the way you fight these battles determines who you are before Jehovah God. Many people today are ready to do anything and come against anyone to get what they want. For example, if they want money, they are ready to steal, to cheat, and lie for it. If they want a particular position, they are ready to blackmail an innocent person or kill them for that position. They want to become great at any price, but in all this, there is something we must know: just as there are two sides to a coin, so also there are two sources in this world we live in: Jehovah God and satan. Whether you believe it or not, there is no neutral source because there is no neutral life and no spiritual kingdom. You can become great in life, in terms of position, money, and fame, but the source of your greatness will be either Jehovah God or satan. This will lead us to the title of today’s message: ‘NO NEUTRAL SOURCE.’

There are two kinds of greatness: Greatness born of Jehovah God or greatness born of satan. To be great born of Jehovah God is to get your resources from HIM, while to be great born of satan is to get your resources from satan. I will take you to the Book of Genesis 14:14-16 & 21-23. This is all about Father Abraham and his determination to make Jehovah God Almighty his only source. “When Abram heard that his nephew Lot had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men who had been born into his household. Then he pursued Kedorlaomer’s army until he caught up with them at Dan. There, he divided his men and attacked during the night. Kedorlaomer’s army fled, but Abram chased them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. Abram recovered all the goods that had been taken, and he brought back his nephew Lot with his possessions and all the women and other captives.” “The king of Sodom said to Abram, ‘Give me back my people who were captured. But you may keep for yourself all the goods you have recovered.’ Abram replied to the king of Sodom, ‘I have solemnly sworn to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of Heaven and Earth, that I will not take so much as a single thread or sandal thong from what belongs to you. Otherwise, you might say, I am the one who made Abram rich.”

The first thing that strikes my mind in this scripture is how it could be possible for Abram and his 318 servants to fight against a vast army of five kingdoms joined together and defeat them? Humanly speaking, this is impossible, but with Jehovah God, all things are possible. This shows that when Jehovah God is the source of your strength, no one can be against you and succeed. When Jehovah God Almighty is the source of your strength, you and He are the majority. So Abram, with the help of Jehovah God, was able to defeat his enemies and recover all the goods and set the captives free. Now, considering the great number of plunders, what do you think made Abram reject the goods? An ordinary man would say, “Give me my plunder! I deserve all these goods!” An ordinary man would see those plunders as a blessing, but not

Abram! Do you know why? Because Abram knew what it takes to get one’s resources from the Almighty God. Abram knew that to live the good life, you must drink at the good fountain. That is why when the king of Sodom said to him “Give me the people and take the goods for yourself, Abram replied, I have raised my hand to the Lord and have taken an oath, that I will accept nothing belonging to you, because Jesus is my Provider, Jesus is my Partner, Jesus is my Friend in life, Jesus is my Healer, Jesus is my Deliverer, Jesus is my only Source! I am what God says I am, I am who God says I am, I am where God says I am, I can do what God says I can do, I have what God says I have.

Many today spend their life looking for blessings, but it is not every blessing will be of benefit to you. The blessing Jehovah God gives is for all good. That is, everything about it is good. Whereas, the blessing given by the world concerns only the body and time. You say that you are blessed. The question is: Are you really blessed? Blessing with tension and pressure, blessing with sickness, blessing without peace of mind; what kind of blessing is that? This is the problem many of us are facing today. This is why Jesus said in John 14:27, “My peace I give to you; not as the world gives…” in the same way, “My joy I give to you; not as the world gives”, “My blessing I give to you; not as the world gives”. It means that satan, too, can bless you. satan too can give you peace. satan, too, can make you great. The only difference is that when satan gives you something that gives you apparent peace with the right hand, he takes from you something your life depends on with the left hand. This is what we call the devil’s sacrifice. One thing you always need to remember is that satan’s greatest interest is to overthrow your relationship with Jehovah God as your Father. To do that, satan always uses your situation. This is why you should not be misled by your situation. Your situation could be poverty or sickness. Outward affliction and poverty are the great arguments satan uses to disturb the children of the Father up in Heaven. At the point of sickness or poverty, many begin to question their sonship: “I’m a child of God, why is this happening to me? Why did Jehovah God allow this or that to happen to me and my family?” and then they begin to look for alternatives outside the church. Little did they know that when Jehovah God’s blessings are about to come, satan will quickly bring his own, only to destroy them with it. They forget that there is God’s appointed time for everything. In an attempt to beat God’s appointed time, many are pulled back, many are pulled down, and many pay dearly with their own life.

Children of the Father up in Heaven, anything that started dubiously will surely end dubiously. Therefore, as children of God, it is better to live poorly on the fruits of God’s goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin. It is better to suffer in the hands of obedience than to enjoy in the hands of disobedience. Remember that everything big starts with little. If anything big starts big, it calls for concern. Those who fail to take these tiny steps to greatness born of Jehovah God cannot trust Jehovah God or understand the basic truth about faith.

May God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit bless His Word in the midst of your heart and give you the grace to make Jesus Christ your only Source, in Jesus Christ’s Name.

Thank you very much for joining us at the Spirit Life Centre for All Nations to praise and worship the only God who is Alive, Active, and Powerful today as in Bible days. May this Living God help you to live in Him and His words to live in you. We advise you to please keep your faith in the Lord, for one day it will pay you off.

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REMEMBER: ‘LOVE’ IS THE GREATEST, NOT MONEY.