The Scriptures are able to make you wise unto salvation.
Because the word "salvation" includes healing.
It even includes, listen, wholeness,
and nothing lacking in your life.
I'm telling you, Christians, listen.
You are people with creative, inspired ideas.
When you go to work, amen, go to work with
the attitude of like, you know:
"I'm here, alright, to make my company successful."
Do you know that is the Christian position at work?
Amen.
And by doing so you are in a position to be able to share
the gospel or even shine for the gospel.
The gospel can be preached with words and without.
It's preached
with your life.
So much so that your Pharaoh (your boss) will look
at you and see that the Lord is with you.
And whatever Sarah
touches, prospers.
Your boss will be able to see that the Lord is
with you.
But if you have the attitude that: "I'm working for a
non-Christian boss and I just do my bare minimum."
No, Jesus says go
the extra mile!
Amen.
Be the person in your company that thinks through
problems, prays true problems, and finds the solution.
Don't apple polish your boss, not with the intention.
The Bible says:
"Do everything as unto the Lord, not for eye service."
Eye service
means you do things only when your boss is watching.
"but unto the
Lord, knowing" You see, "knowing that of the Lord, you shall receive
the reward of the inheritance."
Amen.
Others might not see, your boss might not see, someone else might
be trying to play office politics.
The Lord sees and the Lord is able
to promote you.
Don't forget, Joseph had so much favor.
He was
lied about, he went to the dungeon.
From there, he prospered even in
the dungeon and went even higher after that.
Amen.
So look forward to Monday, okay?
"Praise God that it is a work day."
"I'm going to glorify the Lord in my work."
Amen.
I'm going to have
ideas, witty ideas that other people don't have.
The devil has succeeded down through the years in making the
church appear like old, foggy people, you know.
Like boring, you
know, just like—all the music here is organ music, you know, as if the
modern inventions of music and all that.
Hey, who knows David might be
the first one to invent the guitar.
He played the lyre and the—and the
harp, excuse me.
I need help.
Amen.
And then the Bible says he played skillfully on the string
instruments.
Amen.
So I believe that all these ideas are from God
but the devil is always trying to make the church appear—no, the
church is not a building.
So whenever people change, right, they
gear to the times but are anchored to the Rock.
Alright?
When people
try to change that, but they say that you got to be old-fashioned
and all that kind of thing.
Now, I'm not talking about fashion in
the sense of dressing and all that, but in the way of thinking.
He (the
devil) managed to keep the church at bay, with no impact.
Amen.
You
see, I always thought like this.
Jesus says: "Be careful of wolves
that come to you in sheep's clothing."
Remember that?
In the
sermon on the Mount.
"Beware of wolves that come to you in sheep's
clothing."
How about we send some people into the world?
Alright,
sheep in wolve's clothing.
Okay nevermind, alright?
Nowhere does it say it is forbidden.
Amen.
After all, the
tribe of Benjamin, the animal that marks them on their banner is a
wolf.
Alright, so the end-time generation is a Wolverine.
Haha.
Alright.
You just got to be careful that you don't devour the sheep
around you.
The Benjamin generation.
They are marked by the
wolf.
Okay.
And so I think that we need to be wise.
Amen.
We don't
compromise the core fundamentals of the Word of God, especially the
gospel of Jesus Christ.
The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus
Christ.
Amen.
Well, some people will just say: "Well you know, this
is an evil thing.
This is bad and this is bad.
This is evil, this is
from Satan, this is from Satan, everything is from Satan.
Don't
watch TV, it is from Satan."
Satan says: "Thank you very much.
I'll
put my shows on it."
Amen.
If the Christian goes on television and
all that: "Oh, we got to watch out, the devil will make sure that he's
attacked."
When actually the idea came from God, for the purpose of
the gospel.
Come on, Church.
Come on.
Airplane.
The airplane was
invented by who?
Two young men, brothers.
What were their names?
Orville and Wilbur Wright.
Do you know they are sons of preachers?
Do
you know their generation?
Their father is a preacher.
Amen.
They
are both Christians.
How many Christians have impacted history?
Amen.
With their ideas, inventions creation.
Amen.
Recently, even
modern times, the one that, the first man, the first scientist to
successfully name all the genomes, our genes.
Amen.
He's a strong
believer in Christ.
And he received a lot of flag because he's a believer.
You have
access to the One who is the source of all wisdom.
Who gave Solomon
wisdom.
Amen.
And best of all, favor.
Your colleagues don't have
favor.
The one that apple polishes, he puts the polished apple for the
boss.
Amen.
The boss eats the apple, right?
Alright, that one
doesn't have favor.
You have favor.
Favor means they can do all kinds
of thing to you and all that but you are like the buoy in the water.
They try to push you down—but it comes up again.
Push you down, no
man can push down what God elevates.
And God promotes you.
The
Bible doesn't say: "Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and
stay there."
It says: "Humble yourself under the mighty hand of
God that He may exalt you in due time."
Your due time is coming,
folks.
Your due time is coming.
Praise the Lord.
Amen.
So whatever job you're
doing, whether you go to work on your work from home, and whatever
you do, right, be fruitful, be productive.
The very first command
is to be fruitful and be productive, amen.
We are not like people of the world who have no hope.
The Scriptures
give us hope.
That in the midst of the last days, and all these
negatives that we see, and all these horrible things that you see,
you can get discouraged.
But before that, God says: "This is what you
do, Child of God."
Instead of going out there, and we might think, get
involved more in service and that kind of thing, God is saying:
"Spend time in the Word."
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God."
Inspiration of
God is just one word in the Greek.
It means: "God-breathed" The very
breath that gave—the breath that gave Adam life.
The breath that
gave you life in your mother's womb is the same breath you breathe in
when you are in the Scriptures.
Amen.
Praise God.
"And it's
profitable for doctrine, for reproof."
Doctrine is teaching,
right?
"Reproof, correction" Reproof is for wrong behaviour.
Correction is for wrong doctrine, amen.
"for instruction in
righteousness, that a man of God may be complete, thoroughly
equipped for every good work."
Now this word "that the man of God may
be complete", this word "complete" is very interesting.
It is the word
"fitted."
If you read carefully, one of the scholars in Greek
defined this word for "complete" as—by spending time in the
Scriptures, what is imparted to you is a special aptitude.
A special
intelligence.
And if you look at the word "aptitude", I looked it up in the
dictionary, I know what it means.
But I want to see what the
dictionary says.
Alright, it even has the meaning of "quickness."
Spending time in the word of God will make your complete.
Complete,
fitted with a special aptitude.
Amen.
You're very quick to see
things happen and have the right interpretation.
I think Joseph had
that.
Daniel had that.
Even the kings of their day do not have
that.
The kings can dream a dream, but only they can interpret the
dream about the future.
Amen.
So I believe that it will come to you a
special aptitude, you're able to see things happen even in your
life, you are able to translate and see things happen.
The picture here is during the time of Paul, when he wrote this.
The
picture is of a vessel that's supposed to go to a foreign land,
alright?
A far, far journey through the ocean.
And it's fully equipped,
which means it has every supply, every cargo, everything that it
needs to make a successful journey.
Enough food, enough water,
everything that you need.
The Bible says the Scripture is able to
completely fit you.
If you lack something, you can get it from the Scriptures, I can't
begin to tell you because I don't want to get personal about this
kind of things.
Or call attention to myself to these kind of thing.
But let me tell you this.
There are times I read the Scriptures, there
is an impartation.
Something was dropped into me that I never had
before.
Now it does not say that a man of God may be complete through
Instagram, thoroughly equipped.
All right, or through social media.
You
must get all the knowledge you have from all this.
All these knowledge
can confuse you and depress you.
It makes you feel out of it and
disconnected.
It's funny, isn't it?
These things are supposed to
connect you and make the world smaller.
But most people who are in it end up with depression of varying
degrees.
Some less depression, some more.
Young people are being
depressed, the more time they spend on social media.
They need to fast
social media for a while and see how wonderful life can be.
You know, the world.
I pity the world.
I pity the
world.
Do you know why?
When the world looks forward, they say: "Oh
man, I'm now 70.
Oh no, I'm now 80.
I'm now 90."
It's like they look
forward with no hope.
No, friend.
Amen.
Your best years are ahead of
you!
And have have a blast in Christ while you're doing this!
Amen.
Have a high adventure in Jesus while you're doing this!
Praise the Lord.
Enjoy every day because you will step into eternity
with more better days.
Amen.
The better world is coming!
Praise God.
Amen!
This same earth.
Praise the Lord.
Jesus is coming to reign on
this earth, and we're coming to reign with Him!
Praise the name of
Jesus.
Amen.
Praise God!
Hallelujah!