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>> Psalm 50:15 says, "Call on me when you are in trouble and I
will rescue you, and you will give me glory." Matthew 11:28.
"Are you tired? Are you worn out? Burned out on religion?
Come to me. Get away with me. And you'll recover your life."
James 5:15. "The prayer of faith will save the sick person and
the Lord will restore him to health." God will rescue,
recover, and restore.
>>BRIAN: Hello and welcome to the FAITH ALIVE SHOW. My name is
Brian and I'll be your host. We're so glad you can join us on
today's episode. Have you ever worked on a large puzzle that
took you hours to finish? And usually partway through, it's
tough to tell what it's supposed to be but then as you glance
over at the picture on the box, you're reminded of what it's
supposed to be. Well, our lives are very similar to that large
puzzle. God has a masterplan for our lives and as we walk in His
ways, He will slowly put the pieces of the puzzle together,
revealing His masterpiece. On today's episode, we'll hear a
sermon from Mike Wilson as he discusses how we can take steps
to revealing God's masterplan for our lives. We'll also hear
some great testimonies of the good things God is doing in
people's lives. Let's go now and listen to our youth leader, Mike
Wilson as he talks about God's plan for our lives.
♪ [Segment Music] ♪
>>MIKE WILSON: God made us so unique and different, we are
made with extraordinary skill and you are the best that He's
created. There's no other you better than you and you may not
feel like you're the best and that's okay because guess what?
God sees your end. He sees your future. He knows the best that's
in you. He created you. He may see you now but He sees your
future. He sees your end and He says, "Man, I created that guy.
The best. You are my best piece of work." Say you're the best
piece of work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You know, every
artist is extremely proud of their masterpiece and it is of
course, their best piece of work and that's how God, the Father
sees us. He sees us as the best piece of work through Christ. So
when you think about it, every piece of artwork is supposed to,
every piece, every artwork, every painting reflects the
image that the artist imagined or envisioned. Right? I'm
painting this painting and I'm envisioning a sunset. Now I'm
gonna paint it and this painting's gonna reflect what
I'm seeing. So when He made us, when He created us, you know,
the best piece of artwork, He envisioned us and He made us who
we are and that is who we have to reflect. We have to reflect
what He sees. So our end result has to reflect what God created
us to be in the first place. We need to get to that place where
we reflect what He's called us to be. That is good. We were
created to do good works. We were created to do good works.
That God has already planned in advance for us to do. Like I
said, we've figured it out. We are to reflect God's glory here
on earth. We are His masterpieces set apart for the
world to see. That the good works that He has ordained for
us, that we would do them, that we are walking them but you say,
"How do we do these good works? How do we know what good works
are?" Good question. Good question. Let's go to
Philippians 2:12-16. "Therefore, my dear friends, as you have
always obeyed-not only in my presence, but now much more in
my absence-continue to work out your salvation with fear and
trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act
in according to his good purpose. Do everything without
complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and
pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved
generation. In which you shine like stars in the universe as
you hold out the word of life." See, we are called to shine like
stars reflecting the glory of God here on earth. To glorify
our Father. By being blameless and pure children of God,
fulfilling His good purpose. His good works that He's already
laid out for us that we must walk in them. And it says,
"Continue." Continue to work out your own salvation. This is your
life. This is your salvation. This is not, my salvation is
different than your salvation. You have to workout your own
salvation, right? You have to work out your own life. You must
take responsibility for it. And in the end, we will all be
accountable for the life that we lived here on earth. You know,
whether we accomplish and did the good works that we were
supposed to do. Whether we walk those things out, you know, we
will be given account and it's kind of a scary thought but it's
also a sobering though, you know? That God already ordained
stuff. I mean, and when we go and we meet Jesus face to face
at the end of our life, you know, did we live up to the
standard? You know, did we live up to the expectation that He
created us for?
♪ [Segment Music] ♪
>>JACK ZIMMERMAN: Shalom,
everyone. This is rabbi Jack Zimmerman, staff evangelist for
Jewish Voice Ministries International. Work out your own
salvation. Indeed, work out your salvation with fear and
trembling. What does that mean? I'm so glad I can be talking to
you and with you about this because I know that at one part
of my life, it meant one thing but now, and for the last 30
years, it's meant another. You know, growing up Jewish, the
idea of working out your salvation is a concept whereby
we as Jews believed that if we did more good works than bad, in
other words, if the scale tipped in a favorable way rather than
in an unfavorable way that essentially, that's how we were
saved or our definition of saved meant that that's how we were
getting into heaven. By working out our salvation by doing
works. But of course when you come to know Jesus as a
believer, everything changes, and you realize that concept of
working for your salvation never really had anything to do with
salvation in the first place. In fact, in Ephesians 2:8-9, Paul
says, "It is by grace that you are saved, not by your works."
Nothing that you can do. It doesn't have anything to do with
scales. And that way, no one can boast about it. And so, if it
doesn't have anything to do with works, if our salvation doesn't
have anything anymore with working towards salvation, then
what do we make of this particular verse that we just
heard about? Working toward your salvation? Well, what it really
means is this. It means faith without works is dead. When you
are a believer and a child of God, you desire to do good
deeds. You desire to work and obey God's commandments. It's
not something that you feel obligated to do. It's something
that you want to do because you love the Lord God, for example,
with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind and
strength just as Jesus told us. So I wanna make that point
clear. Our salvation doesn't come from trying to work at it
and earn it. Our salvation comes because of the grace of Jesus.
But indeed, when we are saved, we desire to make an effort each
and every day to do a better job and a better work at glorifying
Him, loving Him, and making Him the Lord of our lives.
♪ [Segment Music] ♪
>>MIKE: You know, God is asking us, He's knocking. But do we
respond to Him? Do we respond? We have to pay attention to His
voice. We have to pay attention to His leading. We can't just
sit and relax and watch life go by because He's gonna ask us at
the end of our life, "Did you pay attention, you know. You
could have been like this. You could have done this. You know,
I gave you all the opportunities. I gave you the
spirit of God dwelling inside of you. What did you do with it?"
Right? So He says continue. Ongoing. Continue this thing
out. Continue. Ongoing. It's never ending. It's something we
ought to do all the time. It's not just, "I'm saved." You know,
I'm a Christian. I'm safe now. I got my ticket to paradise. I'm
done. I can live how I want now. No. No, no, no, no, no, no. We
must continue on working this thing out. Clearly, Paul tells
us here, "Continue working out your salvation." It's ours. It's
our everyday life. It's our everyday job. Things that we're
supposed to do in our workplace, in our homes, in our jobs. We're
supposed to work this thing out. We're supposed to grind it out.
It's not like a grind, right? Grinding it out. You know,
sometimes, it's not always easy. Working out takes energy. It
takes action. It's something that is required on our behalf.
You don't become who God's called you to be by not doing
anything. Like I said before, we are to reflect the artist who
made us. We're supposed to reflect God's glory and it
doesn't happen by just doing nothing. We have to work it out.
We have to become more like God, reflecting His image more and
more every day. Every day reflecting it. You know, have
you ever worked out before? Literally. Yes, some people.
Some people. Working out is hard. Let me tell you. You know,
you have to sweat and it's stinky afterwards, right? You
know, sometimes you have to take a shower. If you're doing it
right, you should probably take a shower after you work out. And
that's probably why so many people quit because it's hard.
You know, working out and eating, you know, healthy, it's
supposed to be a lifestyle, not a two-week stint. Right? It's
supposed to be something you do all the time. It takes work. It
takes effort. It takes energy. It takes time. But you don't
become those buff, strong looking, six-pack guys in the
movies and magazines by not doing anything. You know,
Captain America or what's this guy's name, Thor, you don't
become those six-pack guys by not doing anything, by just
imagining, by just thinking about it, right? Who would wanna
look like that anyway? Gross. You know, yeah, right, we're all
jealous, right? You know, it's funny, we have an image in our
mind of what we look like, right? We have this image in our
mind of what we look like, and then we go to the mirror and
we're like, "Woah, where did that come from?" Right?
>>BRENT: Hey, I'm Brent. And I'm your personal trainer.
♪ [Upbeat Music] ♪
>>BRENT: Today's lesson is that physical and spiritual training
are almost mirror images. They both require a lot of time,
practice, and discipline to get strong at. Have you ever watched
a sporting event and saw an athlete perform something that
you thought was totally out of reach or impossible to perform?
Well I'm here to tell you it's not. But what it does take is
discipline. 1 Corinthians 9:24-26 says this. "Do you not
know that those who run in a race all run, but only one
receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone
who competes in the games exercises self-control in all
things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but
we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not
without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air." Do
to what this verse says requires discipline. Without discipline,
we can hope to achieve nothing physically and most importantly,
spiritually. Just like the apostle Paul says in 1
Corinthians, we need to live a disciplined spiritual life so we
can do well in the race that God has given us to run.
♪ [Segment Music] ♪
>>MIKE: We have this image in our mind that we are the great
men and women of God who are like so powerful and fierce and
strong and then we get asked to pray and it's like. Right? Come
on, we gotta be, we gotta self-examine ourselves here. We
gotta be who God's called us to be. We gotta overcome the desire
to do nothing and be lazy. You know, we gotta have some focus
and determination. Some determination to overcome our
selfish desires and our selfishness. When you work out,
it's hard. When I first started working out about a year ago,
steady, right, I started with body weight. Like I started
doing squats and burpees and jumping jacks and pull ups and
push ups. All the stuff, you know, with body weight
resistance, okay. And then, I finally was convincing my wife,
"I need to get some weights. I need to get some weights. I
wanna get some weights." I wanted to workout in my
basement, right. So, I wanna get these weight and I've been
researching. I'm looking for Gigi for a long, long, long time
and then she's like, and then, oh yeah. So we had this big
thing. I was gonna go get these weights. I told the guy I'm
gonna come get them and he was gonna rip me off and my wife's
like, "Don't do it." And I was like I gotta do it and then
she's like, "Why don't you just order new ones?" So then I was
like okay. Yeah, okay. I'll order new ones. So I got these
new ones right and they were really good. They're bumper
plates. They got 10, 25, 35, 45 pounds. I got the bar. You know,
when it first came, I could not wait for them to come. And I'm
waiting for the mail to come. I'm waiting for the mail to
come. Finally, they come and I was like, I had to go away for
the weekend and it was like I could not wait to lift these
things, right, and I had to go away for the weekend. So they
put them in the basement. I'm waiting for them to come back.
Finally, I come back and I get them out of the box and I put
them on and I'm like, I'm ready to do this work out, getting
pumped up. And then I go to lift them and I'm like holy, man,
these things are heavy. You know, I had to take weight off
the bar because I'm like, that is too hard. You know, that is
too heavy. These weights that you're supposed to lift is hard
work. You know, I thought lifting my body weight was hard
but these things are like hard and it's like resistance, right,
but you don't build muscle without resistance. You don't
build muscle or, you know, lose weight without some resistance.
And so, we don't become who God's called us to be by not
pushing through some resistance. By not pushing through some hard
things. Right. We build character that way. We die to
self. It's not always easy and comfortable and convenient and
what you want but what you think you want or what you think you
want. Yeah. We build character. You know, it's necessary for us
to go through these things. It helps us and it benefits going
through a little bit of resistance and we need to get
sometimes in over our heads, putting ourselves in
uncomfortable situations so that we can rely on God. We can let
God mold us and shape us and we can be careful that we don't
turn away from certain situations because God wants us
to go through things to build us up, to build our character, to
shape and mold us. He's called us to go through certain things.
We cannot shy away from things because they're hard or they're
difficult or we're not called to it. When I first started coming
here, to Faith Alive, after a year or so, you know, I was
attending faithfully and I got asked to go do junior church.
And you know, I said, yeah, sure, I'd love to do junior
church but let me be honest with you, I didn't really wanna do
it. You know, I did not know what I was doing. I didn't think
I could relate to kids. I had no kids of my own. How could I
connect to them? How could I relate to them? What am I gonna
say to them? They're crazy. They're uncontrollable. Right?
How am I gonna do? They're gonna be all over the place. Like I
was scared and terrified and petrified. Right, like, how am I
going to do this? Like, I never talked to kids in my life.
Really, like, small kids, I mean hardly at all. Like I was
scared. Yeah, scared, you know, I was uncomfortable. I did not
know what to do. You know, it was challenging and difficult
but I just did it and I stuck with it and I asked God, "Help
me, Lord. Help me. Please, help me. I need You in this place."
But you know, and I still ask in every time I'm down there.
Please, help me, you know. Help me, God. I need Your help. But,
you know, it's like He takes those situations and those
circumstances that we're uncomfortable with and that
we're afraid of and that we just wanna back away. He takes those
things and those situations and it's like, we are piece of wood
and he's crafting us out like He's carving us, that
workmanship, He's carving us and He's taking sandpaper and He's
rubbing the edges. He's making us smooth. He's molding us.
Right. He's shaping us to be this person that we're called to
be. This great might men that we're supposed to be. He's doing
those things in those situations and He's defining who you are.
So don't shy away from things if they feel like they're over your
head or if you're uncomfortable or if you feel like you're not
called to it. You know, take the opportunity and run and ask God
to define you in those moments. Ask Him to shape you. Ask Him to
help you because you won't get to where you're going by doing
nothing, right?
>> I will not bring You what cost me nothing when you deserve
my everything. I will not offer my heart in pieces when You have
asked for all of me. So I'll give you my worship. I'll pour
it out on You. Let it be beautiful. Let it be costly. Let
it be innocent. Let it be holy. Let it be beautiful. Let it be
costly. Let it be innocent. Let it be holy. Holy like You are. I
will not hold back from giving honor. There is no measure too
extreme. I will not silence this roar within me. The sound of
deep calling to deep. So I'll give You my worship. I'll pour
it out on You. Let it be beautiful. Let it be costly. Let
it be innocent. Let it be holy. Let it be beautiful. Let it be
costly. Let it be innocent. Let it be holy. Let it be beautiful.
Let it be costly. Let it be innocent. Let it be holy. Let
it be beautiful. Let it be costly. Let it be innocent. Let
it be holy. Holy like You are. Holy like You are. Let my
worship be holy. Let my worship be holy. Let my worship be holy.
>> I tell people who you are because I'm sure everyone knows.
>> I'm Jamie's husband. So my dad was diagnosed with stage
four rectal cancer in December and it's in an area that they
can't get it unless it shrinks. Right, so they had to start him
on chemo and because of the chemo, you lose your immune
system so he kept getting sick or his blood level wasn't good
enough. And the chemo kept getting pushed back and pushed
back. My sister called me and said, "You know, Dad is really,
he's really depressed today. You should come see him." And I so I
drove up to and I'll just, and so, I went to his apartment and
he was sleeping. And I didn't want to wake him up because he
hurt and my sister said, "You should wake him up. You should
talk to him." So I did. And as soon as he woke up, I started
saying, like, you need to start making a decision. Because I've
been talking to him about God since day one, since the
diagnosis and I said, "You need to decide today because, you
know, it could happen that you close your eyes tonight and when
you wake up, you'll be in hell if you don't accept Christ." And
he hummed about it and then he changed topic. We talked about
other things and I came back to it. I said, like, you need,
like, we need to make a decision right now. Do you wanna do it or
do you not wanna do it? And he said, "Well, I suppose so. It'll
be a good thing." So then I panicked because I didn't have a
prayer ready, right? So, as he's saying, yeah, I'm Googling. I'm
Googling like salvation prayer. Because all the words just left
my brain, right, so I found a good one and I'm like, oh, I can
add some Steve Gray to that. That'd be good. Okay. So. So I
kneel down beside him on the couch and he takes my hand and
I'm leading through this thing and he's repeating me and right
up until we'd said, "Jesus, forgive me of my sins. I accept
you as my Lord and savior." He just broke and he put his hand
on my shoulder and he's crying. He's shaking. And he's like, "I
knew this was gonna happen. I knew it." And he said, "I was
afraid and I didn't know if I wanted it but I knew it was
gonna happen." And so, I talked to him some more and I explain
to him, you know, what he was feeling and that he's a new
creation and he has no fear and if he died today, everything
would be okay, and then I would see him again. And then we
talked a bit more and then I left. Then I phoned my sister on
the way home. I said, "You know, just laying on, I'm leaving
dad's." And she goes, "Yeah, I already know. He called me
already and told me what happened." And I said, "Okay,
great." And then he got the infection. So last Thursday,
when I got the infection, brought him in the hospital. His
blood pressure was like 80/30 and he has sepsis and the doctor
was talking us about the risks of going into, to get this
infection out and I'm like, hold on. Like, do we need to get
people on the phone here. Is this this kind of operation? And
he said absolutely. If you can get people here, they need to be
here. So we're calling people and my sisters were coming and
we said our goodbyes and we took a video for my one sister that
couldn't make it and then he pulled through. He pulled
through the operation and they had him in ICU for a week and
now he's in observation and he's slowly getting better because he
doesn't have an immune system so they're rebuilding it to get him
strong enough to start chemo again. The other day, we were in
observation and I was with him and I showed him the prayer
service. Because he's been knowing the whole time that
everybody here's praying for him and he's really appreciative of
it. And I showed him the prayers from last Sunday morning and
he's got the headphones on so I'm just sitting there watching
him and all of a sudden, he closes his eyes and he reaches
out for my hand and he just sat there for like 10 minutes. He
didn't move. And then he opened his eyes and he goes woah. That
was some kind of power, boy. And I said, "What happened?" And he
goes, "Something touched me right here and it went all the
way down and it was hot." And so I got my voice recorder out and
I started recording it and even 20 minutes later, he just kept
going like I can still feel it. Like, I don't know what that was
but I always thought it was that hocus pocus crap that you were
talking about. But that was, I've never felt anything like
that in my life and then he started crying and he said,
"I've taken so many steps away from God. I've never looked for
Him. I've done everything I could to get away from Him." And
I said, "Well, that's the beautiful thing about God is you
just need to take the one step towards Him and He'll take the
rest." And he said, "Well, a lot of things in my life are gonna
change." So he's got a really good peace about where he is and
if things go bad but we're still believing. We're still believing
for a miracle and his focus right now because he needs to
stay positive when you have this kind of situation. His focus is
to be able to come here and testify to thank everybody for
praying for him. So.
>> Amen.
>> If this program has touched you in some way and you
have never given your life to Jesus or you would like to
recommit your life to him, say this prayer after me. "Lord
Jesus, I give you permission to enter my life. I accept that you
died on the cross for my sins. Please, God, transform my mind
so that I could be more like You. In Jesus' name. Amen."
Isn't that nice to know that God has a masterplan for our lives?
And as we walk in His ways, we can start to reveal more of His
goodness in our lives. We as God's people must learn to help
one another become all that God has destined us to be. Let's
pray together. Father, we're so thankful that You're with us
through every situation. We ask that You'd empower us to become
the people that You've destined us to be. We want to walk in
your ways. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. We wanna thank you
again for join us on the FAITH ALIVE SHOW. If you'd like to see
more episodes or hear more testimonies, you can find us
online at faithalive.tv Well God bless and we'll see you next
time on the FAITH ALIVE SHOW.
>> God will rescue, recover, and restore.
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