Life More Abundantly (part one)

Jesus has come that we might have life and live it more abundantly through him.  There is no better life that anyone can live, that is better or more rewarding, than the abundant life which we can live through Christ Jesus.

Transcript

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 0:03

So many times, a lot of us we know that we are we are living this life. But the Spirit of God has revealed to me that a lot of us are not really living as He wants us to live. And when I say that, I'm talking about understanding and realizing that Jesus not only wants us to live life, but He wants us to see it in a manner where we can live it more abundantly. And that abundant life can only come through Him. So many of us, our lives have been tainted, so many of us our lives have been hindered, and we have been wounded in life, and we have had trials and tribulations that have affected our life in some way, manner, or another. And it would seem, if you remember me talking a few Sundays back, where I talked about, we was I was talking about, even though we are alive, we can go through some death-like situations. And those death-like situations can tend to draw life from us. Some of us we walk around, we live them, but we just there's no enthusiasm. There is no gumption about life, about living because we have been kicked around, we have been wounded, and we have gone through so much that life doesn't seem like life itself. And we find ourselves just going through the motions. We find ourselves just existing or just getting up in your humdrum today. But I'm here to tell you that Jesus wants us to realize that He wants us to live life more abundantly. But in order to understand this abundant life that I want to talk about this morning, we got to also understand what it is and who it is that's been attacking our lives and causing us not to see life the way the Lord wants us to see life. We have an enemy. And this enemy that travel takes us, he's a thief. And he set out to do uh several things in our lives before he completed to try to destroy us and to kill us. He wants to steal a lot of things out of our lives. Well, you used to smile all the time. You'd be surprised some people don't even smile, they ain't happy, they don't have no joy, they don't have nothing because somewhere along the line, the enemy has stolen it out of us. But I'm gonna want you to remember something when I get to the script this morning. I want you to remember Jesus is gonna tell us something, and he's gonna remember these words. He's gonna tell you, but I am come. I want you to remember that. What you done missed it, go think about what you done went through, what you done suffered. But remember what Jesus said. Above all that, he's gonna say, I am come. And now that he's here, he's gonna fix it. If you let him fix it, and bring our lives back to where it ought to be. Life more abundantly, what we're gonna talk about today. Listen to the word of God. Jesus is talking this morning. He said, The thief, he teaches Jesus just flat-out called him what he is. He's a thief. He's trying to steal our lives. He don't, he wants us to go through all these years we've been living, he wants us to live most of those those years unproductive, unhappy, with miserable, and everything else. Because he's a thief, because see, what he what it takes to cause our life to be what it needs to be, he don't want us to have that. To do everything he can to keep you from ever recognizing or coming to the knowledge of who Jesus is. He doesn't want you to know Jesus because with Jesus, don't come in abundant life, with Jesus don't come happening, with Jesus don't come to equip you what you need to resist what he's trying to steal from. He's had the thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. Destroy who our lives. The devil wanted us to destroy it. Come on, y'all. We got to understand something. This life that was given the life was given to us by God. When he blew breath into man's body, God meant for us to leave. But we have an enemy, he wants to destroy that because he can't stand the fact that God done give us something that is more precious than what he got. Because what's waiting on him ain't it ain't gonna be worth living. He knows that. And he's mad at God, but he can't do nothing to God. But he won't attack God's children and make us think we don't have we ain't got nothing worth living for. We don't deserve to be happy, we don't deserve the abundant life. But the devil not only is a thief, he's a liar too. He got a thief coming, but not to but to steal, go to steal the truth from me. He wants to see what God not told you in his world. He don't want you to, he wants you to believe a lie. He wants to kill you. Say what you want to say. You can be walking around here in life, but dead on the inside. Because something done killed, something in you is come on, y'all. A lot of us have some of the we don't a lot of us have mentioned and say we ain't just been born. A lot of us done existed that we have experienced a lot of things, and experiences done killed a lot of things in us. And the only one that can bring that back alive in us is Jesus Christ. But we got to yield ourselves to him. But the enemy don't want to try to steal, and now that he done stole, and now that he done killed your spirit, the ultimate thing he wants to do is destroy you. And he's he'll say about it, he wants to destroy you before you give your life to the Lord. Because if he can destroy you without you making Jesus your personal Lord and Savior, he got your soul. He'll cause your soul to be terminated like his life is gonna be terminated. But that's the right he'll lie. Remember, I told you that Jesus is gonna tell you something, he'll say, But I am coming. Remember that. The thief's coming up but for us to steal, kill, and to destroy. It was his Jesus. He said, I am come. He him. I am come that they might have life. You trying to take life, but I come to give it to them. You come to kill them, but I come to restore them. You come to destroy them, but I come to give them life eternal. Don't y'all know I'm teaching about Jesus. He's trying to tell us what if you just do your trust me with your life, whoever gives their life to the Lord need to understand this one truth. That your life in Jesus cannot be ever be destroyed. Your life in Jesus cannot cease to even be, because Jesus is forever. God is forever. And if your lives get hidden, if your life get connected in him, you will not, I don't care what this body goes to, your true existence will forever be with the Lord. I am come that they may have life. They who? They that the devil's trying to kill, they that the devil done stole from, they that the devil trying to destroy, I am come to give them life. I'm gonna restore it back to them. And that they might have it more abundantly. We have no reason to walk around. I was sitting up here early this morning thinking, I saw a lot of us going how we complaining about this. And I heard the Holy Ghost say, He said, you know, we ain't supposed to even be complaining about how the gas prices are. I said, Oh Lord, uh-uh. Yeah, I said, Lord, I don't know if I've been complaining about it, but I know I have talked about it. But if we take a chance, because see, here's God trying to get us to understand. No matter what happens in this world, no matter what happens in your life, am I not able to sustain life? Even if it goes ten dollars a gallon. That means God just got to pull somebody the hat we ain't never seen before. But can you trust him on that level? Can you wait on him on that left? Can you not allow fear or be frustrated to sneak into your mind and your your mental cabinet uh to go to wondering and worrying about what the grossest shelves are getting empty? So what? Can you trust God that he's able? But one thing I have learned through the word of God, and I realize no matter what happens, he does not ever tolerate murmuring and complaining. Now you find that all through the Bible. And if the God we share, and we know him to be the same God that was back then, the same God, he still don't like it. What he wants us to do is trust him. See, when you complain about the situation, that means you're focusing on the situation and not focusing on God. But if you keep your focus on God, your focus on God will tell you, my God is able. My God has always come through. From when has God not ever come through? But gas ain't just not God's high. Grossers ain't just not God's high. But have God ceased to be. He also reminded me, he said, You remember when I said to Malachi that I am the Lord thy God, I change not. He cannot change. If his hand, if his mighty outstretched hand was powerful in the biblical days, his mighty outstretched hand is powerful in our day. We just need to believe and trust him. Because I've been telling you, do y'all know God knows stuff we don't know? God see things we don't see. But no matter what happens or what goes on, God is gonna remain God. And if he remains God, that means he's gonna remain God for his people, his children. The beginning of this receiving a more abundant life, let us hear intently that Jesus has said that I am come. If Jesus is here and you trust and know that he's here, you don't have nothing to worry about. I am come. And one of my reasons for coming is that you have a more abundant life. Jesus knows the devil for years and played kickball with our lives, and he comes to rectify that thing. But we must trust and supply the faith and believing and trusting that the land here, the devil, you can no longer steal from my life, no longer. You can no longer try to kill my spirit because my spirit has been made alive by him who is the resurrection. And if my life be hidden in him, it is safe in the hands of God. I mean the word of God saying that we're in the Lord's hands. Who can take us out of the hand of God? Nobody. Now among you, that you might have the life restored unto you. So many lives, so many of us, uh not necessarily people that's sitting right here, but so many of us are alive, human beings, mankind's lives, you'd be surprised what a lot of people don't went through the devastation, the abuse, the hatred, the persecution that so many people's lives have gone through. And the Lord is here to restore what was killed in us and bring that back to life. He's come to heal what was broken. I'm gonna read you something Ezekiel said. Let me just read something Ezekiel said right quick. The Lord spoke to Ezekiel and said, He said, I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and strengthen that which was sick. Thanks for God. I'm convinced that our Lord, our God, wants us to live lives in spite of what's going on in the world, in spite of what we may have gone on in our past. God wants us to see Jesus. And it's the reason why the word of God keeps telling us to look to Jesus. Because as long as your eyes are on Jesus, you're gonna see your life in his hand, you're gonna see your needs being met, you're gonna see uh the attacks of the enemy resisted by the power of God. God has always wanted us to understand that he is on our side and he's for us. But we have not sufficiently supplied the faith of the trust in order to believe what he's doing in our lives. But that needs to cease, and we need to come to terms with that and understand and live and repent and say, Lord, I trust you. No matter what comes or goes, I'm gonna stand on your faith, my faith in you, even though some of our lives have felt as if we were already dead. Some of us don't experience what that is, and they'll leave us almost a shell of who we was, and it'd be almost like a death, like I tell you, a death-like experience. But you need to come back alive, you need to live again, you need to live again, and don't let the enemy have that victory over you. Don't let the enemy have that, consider that a win for him. Because I'm gonna tell you, God has sent his lonely begotten son, our Lord and Savior, to show them that he has lost because he cannot win with him with Jesus in our lives. But it feels like we did Jesus is come to vindicate divine truth. See, the truth of God's words brings life. When we know what that word has said about our lives, the truth of that word will bring life, restore life back to us. Because when you hear what God does say about your life, when you hear what God says about us, and you believe that, it will bring life. Because it is in a divine truth, that He is the way, the truth, and the life. I'm your life. You didn't, I know, I know. You thought because you was you came in this world to your mama's womb that that gave you life. I gave you life. I am the life. There is no life without me. And if you would just focus on what I've told you in my word, that I'm the way, I'm the truth, and I'm the life. That truth will sustain you, and you can use that when anything comes up against your life. You would say, No, my life, you can't take my life, but my life belongs to Jesus. My life was given to me by Jesus, my life is sustained in me by Jesus. Y'all know I always often tell you about when Jesus went to Mary Martha's house after Lazarus had died. But it's another part in there I need to say. Because I often focus on the fact that he he lets know I'm the resurrection. Well, isn't that this? Jesus said unto her, he talked to Martha, I am the resurrection, but he didn't just say the resurrection, he said, I'm the resurrection and the life. I am the resurrection and the life. He that believed in me, though he were dead, even though the devil inside the key, even though the devil done tried to destroy you, if you can just muster up the faith to believe, I can restore that life back to you because I hold the keys of life. I hold the keys to resurrection. I know you've been walking around here uh in a shell and just walking around ain't like you're dead on the inside, but I'm here today. I can restore that. You've been working for the last 20 years and looking like you're dead. But I can I can bring life back to you, and folks will recognize who you is for. Because you don't put that faith in me to restore your life. I know the devil tried to kill you and that bad man. I know the devil tried to kill you on that job and co-workers. I know the devil tried to kill you and destroy and still the life, the stuff you have to put up with, the stuff you had to take, but I'm gonna take he that believeth. If you can just find some faith sense of belief, doesn't believe that's a little in me. I can restore that all that life you thought you done lost, all that life you thought was dead. He that believed. If he just believed, I ain't gonna let you believe in anything. I just want to believe in me. The one who is life, the one who is the reason, just believe in me. Because a lot of folks sad to say, a lot of the time we don't let what we have gone through kill the faith in us. Somebody I I I tell people they can go through something, they don't believe in God no more. They've been devastated just that bad, and you got an attitude, and that you can't you can't kick them, you can't rebuke them because until you go through something, I mean something very devastating, you ain't gonna understand the mentality of somebody that can stop believing because when you lose everybody, and your mindset ain't strong as other people's mind, you will venture a bit hole to a place. The enemy wants you to go anyway, and you're almost gonna be on the verge of totally giving up all I don't believe no more, I don't have no faith no more. Well, Jesus says, He that believed, if you just come to me, I got you. If you just got a little, just a little grain of muscle seed face left to believe in me, I can restore and show you life abundantly. Life in me. Because see, what I want to tell you, that was a thief that did what he did. That was the devil that did what he did. That was the gates of hell that did what they did to you. To try to just to steal and kill you and destroy you, so that you wouldn't even be smart enough to get you to a place where it's gonna be hard for you to reach out to God in face again. And you don't ever want to go there. That's why you gotta keep looking to Jesus. That was the book said, looking unto Jesus. Look to Jesus, because he's gonna be the one. He is the resurrection and the life. See, you don't want to get that mindset like Mary Mars that had you been here. Because see, faith, my faith, if your faith will be me, you'll know that I'm already here. I'm already there. Because my life, see, my power don't just exist while I'm in your presence. My power don't just exist uh because uh you on your knees pray, even if you don't see me. Even if I didn't say, I don't even let you know how to come into the room. Even if I said just quietly, just sitting if I'm just crying and sitting besides it. I tell you what, you laying in the hospital bed. Everybody on this right to room. They ain't asking the nurse's bugs or nothing. But you can feel the presence of the Lord. He didn't have to tell me he was there. Let me tell you something about Jesus. Let me tell you about him, who is the resurrection and life. Without him saying anything. And if something is in you that he can come to and just connect to, you can feel his very presence. He got to say his dealer, he gotta say no there. But when he connects to you, you're gonna know that's him. Because there's something that automatically connects us to Jesus. He tried to tell us right here. He that believes. See, if you don't believe, that means you got faith in it. And see, faith is the substance. Faith is the evidence. The devil done trying to kill me. The devil done trying to destroy me. My Lord and Savior, my presence, the presence of Jesus. He said, I am come. And anytime I get in trouble, all I need to know is just see, all I need to hear is rehearse that in my mind and hear what Jesus said. Jesus said, I am come. Another way you can say it is, he's telling you, I am here. I'm right here. But see, the devil because he done took you through this.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Abusive relationships. Financial problem. Family. Friends. Who you thought were friends. Jesus said.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 24:07

I am a friend that will sit closer. Now you would think family should be the closest.

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You see, Jesus had family.

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He had a mother. And a lot of people talk about it when he had a lot of brothers and sisters. Because Joseph and Mary had a lot of children after Jesus. Jesus was just the firstborn. He had Joseph. He had a brother named James. He had sisters.

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How do you call the name Sal? But even Jesus said, Who is?

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They even told him get your folks out here. What do you say? Who is? See, there is family. But then that's a whole nother category that God considers family. And Jesus considered, he said, them that do it the will of my father. You're talking about the greatest family that will ever exist is those that have come together in the body of Christ and connected themselves to the family that is called the sons and daughters of God. It is those who have been through things. Come on now. It is those that can get testimony that can tell you some stuff. But they also gonna tell you through it all. When the devil thought he had me, when the devil tried to destroy me, when the devil thought he was trying to kill me, when he when he had, I told y'all, see, some of the things ain't experienced yet, what the Bible called trouble on every side. Everybody ain't done that yet. We got trouble on a couple of sides. But when you experience trouble on every side, and here comes Jesus, this is what Jesus is gonna tell you. The world first don't say, because he gotta realize the enemy makes enemies of people around you. The enemy will work through other people to accomplish what he has been trying to plot and plan against you. Hearing you, some people sometimes closest to you, that you would think would do that. And and and see, here comes Jesus. He said, I'm come. He still said, I'm come. I'm here. Because see, when those that thought they had you or thought they was finna mess your life up and thought they got the best of you in the midst of a fire, you're gonna look around in the midst of the fire, Jesus is gonna be standing right there with me. Because what they throw you, they throw in Jesus because he's gonna be right there. Because he's gonna be the one that brings you out. See, we gotta stop looking for uh what we need to go come. We certainly come from other people. Oh, y'all need to stop there. It might not come through people. See, our greatest, the greatest thing that we ever gonna need is this, it's gonna come from a place that ain't from here. It's gonna come from a place that our Lord and Savior abides. It's gonna come from a place that don't exist, uh tangible place. It's gonna be a spiritual place because that's because see what's got to be restored. See what I told you, when you experience some deathlight situations because they deathlight situations because what has died in you has not been something that's died naturally, but they have killed something spiritually in you. Anyone know something? Don't have somebody kill something in you spiritually. You used to have life in you, you used to have joy in you, but you walk around here and don't realize you got your countenance has changed. You don't realize that your mannerism has changed, your your behavior has changed. Somebody has a point up, you know, you used to laugh more than you used to laugh. And it ain't it ain't strict, oh Lord. You you hadn't even realized just how much the enemy has killed and destroyed. And the enemy, because he's so subtle. You know what the Bible said in Genesis when he got Eve? Say he was the most subtle. He's very subtle and crafted. Okay, he can have he can drain us. I don't pray nobody do this. Don't you ever get get bit by a leech? Don't don't go on the don't be no place to get, but they can suck the blood out you. You losing blood, but if you don't watch a leech search in the line, they getting saddled. Because they sucking the blood out of you. Do you not know life, our life consists in the blood in our body? Lose the blood out your body now. See what happened. Okay, he's saying body though. But those of us who live spiritual life, the blood of Jesus that gives us life. See, when his blood covers, when his blood, see, that's nothing on this earth, that's nothing that exists that can drain the blood of Jesus when the blood covers, when his blood is upon us. Tell me what can move that blood. There's nothing that's more power because the blood not only has life, but the blood has power. And the devil don't have no power with the blood of Jesus. Hallelujah. He tried to tell Mary Martha, he said, I am the resurrection, and so our lives need to be resurrected. I know we're coming up on the holiday eastern when Jesus rose from the dead, but he wasn't doing that for him. Jesus didn't need to be resurrected, but he needed to become the resurrection for us. So when you when we when you saw Jesus, when the Bible teaches us why he rose from the dead, that was us. Because he was fixing it now, that through him, now those that were dead, those that have been destroyed, those that have been killed by him, can now be resurrected. Because he is the resurrection. He told I'm the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he was dead, and some of them have been dead. I'm sure some of the stuff we done went through, it's not like the chill, the life by the way. We don't been dead. We ain't been naturally dead. Well, we don't have some dead stuff then. We go through something now. Like I told you. And it's almost like, and you know, some of us can go through something so extreme, you you can feel your life change. You can feel the devastation upon your life that you're not the way you used to be. We cannot, y'all, let the devil have that victory. We cannot let the devil continue to hold us back. And I'm fearful that some of us have been dead so long we have become used to it. And you don't want to get used to what the place where the devil takes you. You don't want to get used to that. Because you got to snap out of it. Life in Jesus is the gateway to abundant, eternal life, and fellowship with God.

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Jesus wants us to receive. Excuse me.

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Jesus wants to revive our dying and destroy souls. He wants to revive all of that. Because if we once had a zeal that the Holy Ghost placed in us, we had a zeal for the Lord. And that zeal threatened the devil and his kingdom. Because that zeal was a holy zeal. That zeal was a godly zeal. And you was excited and on fire for the Lord. But the devil conspired. I got to kill that. I got to put a stop to that because my elf ain't gonna be able to do nothing in their life. My other demons ain't gonna be able to do nothing in their life. I got to destroy that zeal. So let me try to cause something to kill it. Let me try to cause something to steal it out of them. Because see a wounded saint. A wounded child of God.

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See?

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But I still watch this stuff on TV. These battles, these army pitches, sometimes. They quickly try to get the wounded off the battlefield till they can get they quickly. I heard I heard something once y'all watching, soon as the man got shot, mad at the call pit. You try to get to them quick. Because wounded on the battlefield, you're not gonna be 100% what you need to be. Because we're in the midst of a body. You got to get patched up quick or get moved to the infirm of where they take you if you need longer healing. And a wounded saint, a wounded child of God. If we sit up and keep letting the devil, see what the Bible said if you ever read Ephesians, that's why we got to have the shield of faith. Now, who my Bible said me, he said so that we can quench the fiery darts of the devil. I know we're gonna talk about the days. The devil took dark, dark, the word dark means arrows. And here watch a lot of those medieval times, they would dip the arrow, the tip, and taw and light it and shoot that a flame and arrow. And the devil tried to shoot those flame and darts and those flame and arrows at our lives to wound us. But the shield of faith will protect us if our faith is in God, if our faith is in the Lord, we can withstand whatever the enemy is trying to do against us. Those of us that would live through Jesus Christ can no longer cease to just exist on a day-to-day, going through the motions, going through routine, going through rituals. We must let the world know we're living for the Lord. Once we have believed on him who is Jesus, the resurrection, our lives will be abundantly lived through him. See, sin wants to destroy our lives before we come to this truth. But before sin, we need to understand something. Before there was ever sin, that was Jesus. See, that's why the Bible, you read the Bible, that's why the Bible says in the last days, iniquity shall abound. That means it's gonna get worse. But if you keep reading, he's gonna say, he said, but God's grace did much more about God ain't finna let the devil and sin in their nails outdo him. Before there was sin, that was Jesus. Before there was sin, that was God. And all power is in his hand.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Sadly, too many of us have become more trying to read my right now.

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Too many of us have become more accustomed to dying than we have to living. We just say, Keserah Sarah. This is honor, this is life. But we can't just say don't accept that. Because to do that means you just you downplaying what Jesus came for. He said, I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly. Don't just accept this is just it. Know that God got something. Too many of us have trained our thoughts to believe that by and by, Lord, after a while, when we make it to the city. What I'm here to tell you, the Bible teaches that right now, our lives, do you know you can enjoy some of the benefits of heaven right down there? Oh, that's the most the other part we're gonna get to this, but right now, it's some things you can enjoy right now, just simply by the fact that you are. Somebody get your Bible. Give me a scripture. Give me a scripture. I John, give me I John 3, verses 1 and 2. See, if we gotta we gotta see ourselves the way God sees us. God knows we ain't in heaven right now, but that don't stop him from bestowing the blessings of heaven on us right now. I John chapter 3.

SPEAKER_01 39:14

Behold, it says, Behold, what manner of love the father?

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Y'all get that? This this what this ain't that you don't put on yourself. This is what God and how he sees us. Behold, what manner of love? Who done bestowed on us? This time that gone. Ain't that the big elf? Ain't no little elf is it. That's F that's what I mean, God. This is the love, the kind of love God has bestowed on us. She becomes one of his sons and daughters. I can since you my sons and daughters, even though you're on the earth, I can bless you heavenly, even now, even though you ain't in heaven right now. We trying to get on the stand because the love of God is on you. And his love is not just confined to heaven, his love is confined on his people wherever they are. Who's we?

SPEAKER_01 40:08

What's that? He says, Behold, what man of love the Father has bestowed upon us, then we should be called. Wait, who we put it on us? Who is the U?

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Y'all know who Ullah is? His people, those who are called according to his power, his sons and daughters. Come on, we don't care.

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Then we should be called the sons of God.

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Now, who calling you the son of God? Who calling you the sons and daughters of God? It's God calling us that. And if God says that's who you are, you know what is required for you to believe that? You got to have faith. You gotta know that God cannot lie. If God called me his son, call me his daughter, I got to believe that I am that because his word says I am that. And I'm gonna tell you, when you start believing what the word of God is saying for your life, you're gonna start living like you that. You're gonna start carrying yourself like you that. I know I do, because it makes me proud. God call me his son. Because one body had I was struggling with watch the Lord, you wait now. If you call me your son, that means I can walk around here and say I'm the son of God. That's what that book is saying. Now he didn't say you is the only begotten son of God. That's only Jesus. Jesus, he always said Jesus is the only begotten, but you and I are also sons and daughters of God through him, who is the only begotten son of God. And if he calls you there, you know what calls what's gonna make that happen? You gotta believe by faith. That we should be called the what sons of God. What is to say?

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Therefore, the world knoweth us not.

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They're gonna know you. Even with them that's trying to kill you and destroy your lives and do all things, they do because they don't know who you are. They don't know you got power on your side, they don't know you got Jesus on your side, they don't know that Jesus has come in your life. They don't realize that they they they hate you because that spirit in you vexes them, makes them uncomfortable. You got right in you, damn, they full of wrong. They don't know you. Come on, what is that?

SPEAKER_01 42:28

It says because it knew him now.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 42:30

They don't know Jesus. How do you think how you speak you're gonna know? Listen, if the world don't know Jesus, they're not gonna know nobody who got Jesus in them. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Verse 2 says the love.

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I love this hell. Read this slow, but let me let me chew on this while you go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 42:49

Beloved, now are we the sons of God?

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 42:52

We're talking about us now, not the while, now are we the sons of God. Okay, what is that? What is that? And it's telling you about some more the other part of heaven that's gonna come later, but you can have some heaven now. But this other part, this is all excites you to stay with the Lord because something great is coming. What is it saying?

SPEAKER_01 43:10

It says, and it does not yet appear what we shall be.

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It ain't sure what you're gonna be yet, but you're gonna be something, you're gonna be something later. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

It says, But we shall be like him. But we know that this shall be when he that's it, when he gets him, I'm gonna tell y'all when he gets him.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 43:35

It's gonna be something spectacular for those that hold on. It's gonna be something spectacular for those that been allowed to be able to kill their life, but they put their trust in Jesus. We don't know what we're gonna be, but if you just know when he gets here, the book said we're gonna be just like him. See, a lot of people think they know Jesus, but no, you you ain't seen Jesus in his true form. See, the Bible ain't showing us that. See, Jesus came down on earth, he had to give up his, he had to disguise, let me say like this, his true form in a human body. Yeah, a human body was not his true form. See, I think Peter, James, and John saw drugs up on the Mount of Transfiguration, but he told him they can tell the Bible. Don't tell him what about what you just saw. When Moses and Elijah appeared before him. But the Bible says, now wait now, as spectacular as that is, he just said we're gonna be like him. What does he say?

SPEAKER_01 44:41

It says, For we shall see him as he is.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 44:45

You're gonna see him in his true form. See, our job, y'all, we got to hold on. We got to hold on. Brothers and sisters, we got to hold on. I know times is tough. I know you're going through, I know this and that. But see, we got to hold on. That's why it's so valuable and so important that we encourage one another, that we stick to one another, that we lift up one another in prayer. I like that, sister children this morning. Calling everybody's name out in prayer. Because that's what we know, we're gonna have to be what it takes to hold one another up, to encourage one another. Even when you don't know it, I'm praying for you. Even when you don't know it, I'm calling your name. Even when I don't know it, y'all praying for me. And that's what it's gonna take. Because, see, one thing I know about, I'm gonna finish this up tonight, Tuesday night. One thing I know about the Lord is whatever happens with us, he wants us all to do it together. Do you not know that's what other saints got to wait until we can join them? Because the Bible says so we all can be caught up together. They just got to wait patient, but they ain't in no bad place now. They got to be in a good place. What are they waiting at? But the Bible does say he wants all to go together. But see, my thing is this, that's why I stress this, we all got to get together now. There should be no division, there should be no schism, there should be no isms. Not among the true sons and daughters of God, because God with God is unity. That's one thing I know. Unity in the body, unity in the spirit.