Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, May 29, 2022
Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, May 29, 2022
This sermon talks about the only true God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
You say: “How about God?” He is God. The word God is just simply something for us to talk about. The real thing is the Lord Jesus Christ. But He has to use that term in the Bible; that’s one term as “The God”.
The word “God” is a generic term. Different religions and churches will say that they are praying to God. However, the real eternal God that we must deal with is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 9: 6 identifies this real God: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Ecclesiastes 12: 7: “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”
It means there is no one in the cemetery because your real personality, your spirit, has returned unto God who gave it.
If you were cremated, it means you are not in those ashes, because your real personality, your spirit, has returned unto God who gave it.
John 1: 9 – 10: “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”
It means each person, since the time of Adam, is given a chance for salvation, whether through their conscience (Romans 2: 14 – 15) or hearing the gospel preached unto them (Ephesians 1: 13 – 14) because the Lord “lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
We are now ambassadors for Christ to preach the gospel and let others know that the Lord is not imputing their trespasses unto them (2 Corinthians 5: 18 – 20). However, you must accept this offer of salvation; you must believe that the Lord Jesus took away your sins.
John 3: 15: “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
You can believe what you read in the Bible because you have the eye of faith, you live by the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ (Galatians 2: 20).
You can believe eternal things because you have eternal life.
What a blessedness to know you now have eternal life and you will be living in eternity with the Almighty God, our Lord Jesus Christ. He is coming soon for us.
You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas
Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, May 29, 2022
We listened to a sermon titled “The Eye of Faith”, CD # 984A, preached by Brother Neal Frisby on 3/27/83 (PM).
In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:
The eye of faith: You can visualize in your mind, funnel it into your heart and you have the manifestation of the power of God on your hand.
Hebrews 11: 1: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” It is really real.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, but it is the evidence of things not seen; you visualize it in your mind. Allow it to become in your heart and you begin to believe.
As you begin to believe the Lord in your heart, things become a reality.
That means that you are believing in something that is real, and it will produce your faith, that is what cause the eye of faith, reaching in and seeing the unseen.
Your faith will begin to grow. It will remind you of the greatness of the Lord and it reminds you of the power of the Lord. Faith is the evidence of things not seen.
If you believe the Bible, the descriptions in the Bible will cause your faith to grow.
Everything is like a photograph in that Bible. Every depiction is so real and so anointed by the power of God that is absolutely like a photograph, like a photographic mind.
If you catch it in the mind’s eyes, believe it in the heart, you are healed and that is the way He heals you.
He spoke by the power walking on the water and the storm ceased. He just muzzled it, in the Greek, He just muzzle it up, blowed it away, glory to God, go somewhere else; wherever He wanted to. And they said, “What manner of man is this?” God/man; He had control over the elements; He had power over the sea, power over the boat, power over the disciples, power over all things. He is the great One; none is greater than Him.
You say: “How about God?” He is God. The word God is just simply something for us to talk about. The real thing is the Lord Jesus Christ. But He has to use that term in the Bible; that’s one term as “The God”.
It is the vision of faith that reaches the heart; the eye of faith that begins to move.
One time I was praying. I said: “Lord, what is unbelief besides sin?” He said: “Death”. Riding on the pale horse, Revelation 6. All of the unbelief going to Armageddon, to doom.
Faith is life and faith is wonderful.
Faith is powerful; Isn’t it? It will just cause a fire in your body, to light up by the Holy Spirit, driving out the pestilence and the diseases and the plague, whatsoever’s got hold of you. All diseases are healed by the power of God.
These signs shall follow them that believe.
The eye of faith; the evidence of things not seen in your heart.
Anytime you are reading the Bible, try to in your heart, whether in the New Testament, when Jesus is healing the sick, He will help you and the Holy Spirit will help you and your faith. You might want Him to heal you or do something for you, and begin to visualize that, and He will help you; begin to get your mind in there.
That is another form of faith. And you can believe and He will bless your heart.
The eye of faith; the evidence of things not seen. You have them, in the eye, in the mind, bring it into the heart and hold with it.
Visualize the miracles of the Lord in your heart:
Feeding the multitude (Matthew 14: 13 – 21)
The Legion coming to the Lord Jesus (Mark 5: 1 – 20)
The Lord saw the faith of those who brought the person who was sick of the palsy through the roof (Mark 2: 1 – 12)
The woman at the well (John 4: 4 – 42)
We also have in the Bible:
John saw the Lord sitting on the throne (Revelation 4: 1 – 6)
Daniel saw the Lord’s hair as wool (Daniel 7: 9)
The pillar of fire at night (Exodus 13: 21)
The burning bush (Exodus 3: 1 – 6)
I started the sermon:
You say: “How about God?” He is God. The word God is just simply something for us to talk about. The real thing is the Lord Jesus Christ. But He has to use that term in the Bible; that’s one term as “The God”.
The word “God” is a generic term. Different religions and churches will say that they are praying to God. However, the real eternal God that we must deal with is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Psalm 90: 1 – 4: “LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.”
This Scripture is referring to a specific person. It states: “from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God”. It means there was never a time that this person was not God.
Psalm 102: 25 – 27: “Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.”
This Scripture is also referring to a specific person. It states: “thou” hast laid the foundation of the earth; “thou shalt endure”; “thou” shalt change the earth and the heavens; “thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.”
Isaiah 45: 21 – 22: “Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”
It means the real God is a just God, a Saviour and there is no other God besides Him.
Isaiah 9: 6 identifies this real God: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
The real God is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is “The mighty God”. There is no other God besides Him.
Ecclesiastes 12: 7: “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”
When someone passes on, the body, the dust returns to the earth, but the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
It means there is no one in the cemetery because your real personality, your spirit, has returned unto God who gave it.
If you were cremated, it means you are not in those ashes, because your real personality, your spirit, has returned unto God who gave it.
Luke 16: 19 – 31: “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”
Both the rich man and Lazarus died, but neither of them was in the grave.
The rich man was told: “remember that thou in thy lifetime”, thereby separating the time he was alive on earth from the time that he is now deceased.
For each person that is deceased, you are either now in hell, waiting for God’s final judgement, if you did not come to know the true God for salvation (Revelation 20: 11 – 15) or you are now in the third heaven, waiting for our final home in the holy city, if you came to know the true God for salvation (2 Corinthians 12: 1 – 4).
John 1: 9 – 10: “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”
It means each person, since the time of Adam, is given a chance for salvation, whether through their conscience (Romans 2: 14 – 15) or hearing the gospel preached unto them (Ephesians 1: 13 – 14) because the Lord “lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
Hebrews 2: 9: “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”
It means the Lord Jesus has tasted “death for every man.” There is no one that the Lord Jesus did not die for his or her sins.
1 Peter 4: 6: “For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.”
The Lord Jesus was talking to the woman at the well, and this is what He told her in John 4: 10: “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.”
The gift of God is eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal God, who paid the price for our sins.
Romans 6: 23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Mark 8: 36 – 37: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
What shall it profit anyone if he or she does not accept the offer of salvation.
Acts 4: 12: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
2 Corinthians 5: 18 – 20: “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.”
Psalm 103: 3: “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases”.
We can witness to anyone to let him or her know that the Lord Jesus has forgiven all of us of our sins, He is not imputing our trespasses unto us, because He has already tasted death for every man. We are ambassadors for Christ. However, you must accept this offer of salvation; you must believe that the Lord Jesus took away your sins.
John 3: 15: “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Faith goes beyond time.
Your salvation requires faith.
Ephesians 2: 8: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God”.
You can believe what you read in the Bible because you have the eye of faith, you live by the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal God, who is the Word of God.
Galatians 2: 20: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
You can believe eternal things because you have eternal life. You will believe what you read about the holy city, our eternal home in heaven.
Revelation 21: 1 – 3: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.”
I read from Scroll # 244:
BEAUTIFUL CITIES – Jesus, you are more than this who created all the beauty around us and the awesome heavens, universes and stars! One day beside the Holy City we will see beautiful cities and places of such wonder of thy creation! Besides the stars and heavens you have created magnificent things that we have not seen! “Beautiful colors of icy wonder like, of spiritual fires and lights of such beauty, and creatures likewise of such formation that we will be amazed and startled by such a creator of so many more things that can not be mentioned and are without number! Such glorious spiritual colors never seen or beheld by man’s eyes!” – Surely and definitely many marvelous mysteries await us that love Him! Literally more than trillions of creations will He unveil to His chosen! – After this was revealed to me I wondered how to unveil it and then I remembered God’s Word that could have to do with the millennium. (Luke 19: 16-19) But also may involve what was told. Nevertheless the elect are in for many surprises that eye hath not seen!
Hereafter, we will see not only the Holy City, but we will see other beautiful cities and places of such wonder of God’s creation. We will see trillions of God’s other creations.
What a blessedness to know you now have eternal life and you will be living in eternity with the Almighty God, our Lord Jesus Christ. He is coming soon for us.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas