He Left The 99 Just For Me - Elder Maverick Liburd

 In “He Left The 99 Just For Me,” Elder Maverick Liburd shares a powerful message about God’s relentless love for the individual soul. Drawing from the parable of the lost sheep, he explains how Christ willingly leaves the ninety-nine to seek the one who is lost, broken, or far from Him. This message reminds listeners that no matter how far they’ve wandered, God’s grace is personal, pursuing, and always reaching to bring them back into His fold. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Out of all his trouble. I said it before, and I said it. I'll say it again this morning. We were talking in Sunday school. And the Sunday school teacher was going on to, as she was explaining to us, but a hearing that sometimes we see ourselves as nothing, Sister Sandra. There's a song that said, I'm just a nobody. Trying to tell somebody, everybody, about somebody who can save anybody. I'm glad that we serve a savior that is not like men. Kohel Hamudi, if God was like men, maybe if you didn't pay him correctly, he might not have healed you. Maybe, sister, if you didn't have an offering to put in, you will still be sitting and couldn't stand. But because God is like not like men, he looked beyond our faults and he sees and meet all of our needs. The Bible says, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission, excuse me, of sin. If God did not die on the cross, there would be no abundant life available to us. Abundant life I'm talking about, just not the life you live here on earth, but life beyond earth. Satan's plan was and still is to destroy mankind by trying to interrupt the communication and the relationship that God had desire with us. That's his plan. We look back in the in the garden of Adam and Eve, where God he had a relationship with him. And every time he would come and meet him, Brother Kenny, and all of a sudden, no, Adam was not there. He was not at the usual spot. So God said, Adam, where thou? God knew where Adam was. Adam said, God, I'm hiding. How did he, why did he hide? Adam hide because there was an interruption with the relationship that Adam had with God. God desire is for an intimate relationship with him. The goal that he wants to come in, God wants to have a relationship with us. He wants us to be intimate. God wants to dry our tears. When you see individuals that have hurt you, He wants to be the one that heals you from that. He wants to have an intimate relationship more deeper than the love that you have for your husband. The love that you have for your wife. Any love that you have, God wants an intimate relationship that's deeper than everything. A Sunday morning relationship alone will not keep you safe. We're living in a day now that everywhere you turn, the enemy is. What's wrong? All of a sudden she saw me. My mind was worrying that if I'm gonna run out of gas before we reach where we were. I'm just going and I'm saying, God, I just need you to take me there. The red light has been on for a while, and I don't know when the truck is just gonna stop. I remember just praying within my mind, God, you gotta see me true. I can't really tell my family because all it's gonna do is gonna get them pan, they're gonna panic. I'm already on the edge, Ella Moody. There's no need for me to bring them on the edge, also. So all I'm all I'm saying within my mind, God, I need you to take me there. What are you saying, um, Ella Libart, Brother Merrick? You see, some of us we are driving around, and the the red light is already on, and we keep on driving, and we know we're supposed to get into the house of God where we can be refueled. You see, this Holy Ghost that you have is a unique thing, it will take you, it will lead you into all truth. That's why it's important for us to have the Holy Ghost. God wants a relationship. Deuteronomy chapter 4, verse 24 said, For the Lord our God is a consuming fire and a jealous God.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

God is jealous.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

Let me tell you something. Whatever you put before God, it ain't gonna prosper. I'll say it again. Whatever you put before God, you can guarantee it, it's gonna fail. Business, money, house, wife, husband, whatever you put before God.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

He must be first.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

Listen here. Life throws curveballs at us during this journey on earth. If you're a Christian and you believe, hey, I got saved, and so I'm on the good good ship lollipop. I'm I'm here to tell you it doesn't work that way. Sometimes when it seems like we're in a good season. Have you ever felt like you were in a good season? Anything you touch, prosper, go healing, then anything you touch, it flourish. You're in a good season. There are times that comes that you're in a good season, and then all of a sudden, challenges out of nowhere appear. Some of us are going through them challenges time right now. We can cut, hey, just a colour. We can come up in church and you have it all together. We know we're going through them challenging times. The school teacher said this morning, a storm is coming. If the storm hasn't reached you yet, trust me, it's coming. I was sitting in the car this morning, and Ella Moody was giving me his testimony. I said, Man, I said, God, help me to stir up my prayer, my fasting, like this guy did, and put it up in the bank. What God did for him was not just nothing was not just a yesterday prayer. The healing God did in his body was not just yesterday, it's not as laying down to sleep. The healing that God did for him was a prayer service that he had deposited into a bank. So when he needed it, he could have withdrawing the days you came and you were serving God, and there was nobody else, and you felt like giving up when it was time for you to come. This old man cried, this poor man cried. God know the clock of his shape. You see, you think God, you think God ain't seeing your work? You think he's not seeing what you're doing? You think it's a sandwich. He don't see how you employ people of church. You think he's not seeing it challenges raising the just and the unjust listen here. However, it's important that we understand that not every challenge that happens in life comes from the enemy.

SPEAKER_02 13:56

I was listening to this on the school class this morning again. Sometimes the challenges that we are going through in life, sometimes we bring them on ourselves. No, we don't want to hear it sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 14:21

Sometimes we bring these challenges on ourselves. However, there are other challenges that God set us up for. Sometimes we sing these songs and we say these things, God, I will do whatever you want me to do. I will go wherever you want me to go. I will A B C all the way down to Z when everything is okay. Jeremiah.

SPEAKER_02 15:36

Weeping profit they call Jeremiah.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

Jeremiah wasn't weeping because something he did. Jeremy might have challenged it. It was his own insecurity. Have you ever felt insecure? Have you ever went around some people and you know they looking down at you? They know you know they think you're less than. And there you go, you you tripped up. Sometimes the challenges that that that that that that that we go to is sometimes it's inwards. Sometimes there are challenges that God has set up for growth. If you're gonna grow in God, you better be ready to go to challenges. If you're gonna cry and the God is gonna hear you, get ready before you get an answer. There are gonna be challenges. Sometimes God plans for us call for challenge, challenges to be a part of his victory for to be a part of victory within our life. Everybody wants victory, but nobody wants to fight. You ain't going through nothing and you want victory. Man, you're lazy. That ain't no victory.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

You want a head out.

SPEAKER_00 17:57

Sometimes God takes us through these challenges because he needs to get our attention back. Sometimes what we focus in has derailed us from being on the track to glory, and he needs to align us back to what he wants us to do.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

Challenges.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

What do you do when you pray? And it's not being answered, and God has told you that He was on your side. What do you do when challenges after challenges seem to find you? And there seems to be no resence of it. There is no silver light here, and you're feeling that you're about to go under. What do you do? It was David who said, He prepared a table for me in the midst of my enemy. He anointed my head with oil, my cup run it over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

What do we do?

SPEAKER_00 19:42

God will never give his children more than they can bear. Although it seems like we can't carry it. Have you ever been going through things and you're like, man? Just one more and I'm done. Like this snow, like that snowstorm that came the other day. They couldn't come out, they couldn't get out because the snow had. The snow had blown drifting, so they blocked the door for the door being open. So I came home and I here I here I am going through the snow. Snow was up to my waist. I'm like, man, I'm getting too old for this thinking. I'm just done with the snow suck. One more and I'm done. We got another one. So what I had to do? He readjust myself and get out there and do what I gotta do. Ain't nobody coming to do it. I gotta do it. But sometimes in life, that's how we feel. If I get one more car. But the Bible admonishes us in first Peter chapter 5. and seven it said cast all your care upon him for he careth for you you know the problem sometimes sometimes we have been heard by so many people sometimes we get god mixed up with others let's be honest we get god mixed up here is god telling us cast all your care upon us upon me because I care it for you but you know the last time I I I cast the last time the last time I told that sister what I was going through Tom Dick and Harry knew so no no here we go we come to church and we're so we're saying God said to cast all your kids upon him so no no no here we go we're trying to put God in the same category as I I'm putting brother Elamudian so we don't trust him anymore God God listen to this are you going you you're going through something and all of a sudden you hear the pastor preaching and you be like who told him my business pastor ain't no nothing he don't know my thing all he is doing is following what God told him to do here we go who told him my business what God told him you you got this issue bring it to God you know you got that issue inside deep down inside of you you haven't whispered it to anybody and here it is God is telling you to come cast your care upon him and here I am I don't know let me get back to the man Satan came to kill and to destroy but have come to give life and more life more abundantly it's time for us to cast our worries our burdens our anxiety my disbelief my anxiousness my negative thinking my poverty all on God in the shoulders in the beginning of the carrying name something that God can carry or God can do can you we can't name anything that God can do there's no cry from this poor man that God can answer what is your prayer request what is your situation what is your challenge that he can't answer we're almost there when God created man he placed something inside of us that the world cannot take away regardless to how advanced we may become it's a desire to worship something this day who you want to serve sometimes sometimes I back I back with this in my mind I say um saying should God then give us a choice when it comes to serving him this is just me thinking within my mind because man rather darkness than light and and and sometimes here it is God come to give us life and light more abundantly and if you leave it up to us ourselves we'll choose that and then have the audacity while we're dying to know want to go to heaven David said in Psalms 100 serve the Lord with gladness come before his presence with sing with singing Psalms 95 and 6 say oh come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker listen here when it's all said and done and we have lived our lives to the fullest of our potential all we wanted the degrees the house the cars generational wealth and all that society sees as successful the word of God in the ecclesiastic says vanity of vanity said the preacher all is vanity in other words as I lay in my coffin have what I have succeeded on this earth secure me a place in heaven when I lay in the coffin all my success brother Kenny my education my car the kind of job I had the generational wealth I made so my grandkids Sister Carla can have does that secure me a place in heaven the world see it as success everybody wants to go to heaven but does my life line up with the word of God am I living the life he has called me to live am I living holy the Bible said God is appointed unto man wants to die whether I like it another whether I'm ready another whether I'm rich and poor two shall be working in the field one shall be taken will that one be me working at the nursing home two of us there me and my coworker the trumpet sound who is going trumpet just sounds as Angel you doing here all them people going I see none of my family members not a rapture ain't gone for a moment for a moment for a moment it's Anna was like no I know the rapture ain't gone yeah yes daddy's looking for my gonna be those at the standing back and looking oh look at that people are fly ecclesiastic twelve thirteen say let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter fear God keep his commandment for this is the whole duty of man but can he have a duty to fear God live by his words challenges are going to come and challenges are going to go if you want to grow get ready because challenges are coming but this all poor man cry and the Lord hear him not only did he those of us who got kids we call our kids from time to time when we hear them responding we say you you hear me calling you not only we call God and he hears he answer then why are some of us serving gods that not answering us why why do we have these gods that are not doing anything for us all it's doing is bringing us down down we serve a God that he owns cattle and a thousand healer tell me one thing that God has done that is bad to you somebody what the pilot says I find no fault I find no fault in him everywhere he went he was doing good the same good he did for you sister Sandra he will do for Elamori he will do for you sister Adam it will do you for you Sister Kala he is not respectable person as long as we call him he will answer and deliver us our duties to serve God for God so loved the word that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish God goal for us is to see us all are for to see us all exceed and have eternal life that's why he left glory just so you and I can have a chance God didn't even God was nothing is leaving glory just for old wretch like me who know he know I'm a mess up he know I'm gonna deny him he know I'm gonna fall yet he's still left glory there are those of us who fail feel like they we are a failure to God to themselves there are those of us that feel that we're a failure to all families the cross is for those of us who have messed up we knew better we knew that the wages of sin is dead we knew that shame with sin we got shame Paul says the good that I want to do that is what I don't do and when I try to do what is right evil present itself can I speak to you this morning can I encourage someone who is not at the top of the mountain today you might be here but inside of you you're acting why I'm here you're looking and you're looking good and it seems like you put it all together but inside you lost those who are messed up those who family don't want nothing else to do with them those that they take that they can't take one more thing in life you are here this morning I understand you have your child things are coming to you left and right and you can't take anymore but this morning I'm here to tell you he left the 99 and came here today just for you stand with me this morning the cross is for everyone regardless of where we find ourselves today safe unsave lukewarm or heart God specializes in everything he loves turning imperfection into perfection he will make a way out of nowhere when your back is up against a wall and there's no way out no one to save you no encouraging words from your surroundings because they need encouraging words themselves no extra financial lead on this is where God specializes when the Egyptian was coming after them the Egyptians behind them and the Red Sea before them no way out the kids must be asking mommy and daddy know mom what do we do where do we go ask Daniel in the lion den with a with a lot with a with a den full of lions surrounded by him ask him ask the three evil boys that was thrown in the fire for standing for God God will come to because of the cross he did it before and he will do it again he left the ninety and nine just for me have it all together I'm gonna tell you I don't sometimes there are sins or challenges that's within our closet that are trying to pull us back into our past I'll say it again maybe y'all don't have any closet I got them I try to keep them closed up I try to expose them to God we gotta expose what's in our closet to God I'll say it again we have to expose what's in our closet to God this is what happens you see when I'm frustrated and I just had enough I want to know God all you start to rise up your closet situation that you took you throw it in the back of the closet and you didn't you you you didn't say God hey look man I man God I got this situation it's a challenge to me we throw it in the back and think because we threw it in the back it's all done I have to expose that to God so you see when flesh rise up God will help me to take care of it but if I'm not careful what's the classic sometimes reach out to grab me and pull me back into a life once poor man cry about who's coming coming I know I got soft I I I need sharp never you never find you sharp so much better reason to slip