The risk of taking God at His Word. There's a lot of things that are not
God's ... I'll tell you that. Another thing I'm concerned when I do a message like that
is people you know, I'm gonna have people ... say to other people's say,
I'm stepping out. You're to marry me. And that's not what this is. It's not about
what you want. It's about what God's calling you for your life.
That's what's gonna have the blessing. The holy risk that God honors. The risk
of taking God at His Word. Even though it's more comfortable not ... just keep
doing your life. But the Bible says this. Take him at his word. They're ...
you know, God honors that again and again. ... Lord God, you said this and I'm
standing on it. God honors that. Not that you get everything you want but
that God will bless your life if you take him seriously. Lord, you said this so
I am taking it for real. I've seen people again and again do this and how God so
blesses them. I can tell you one, many of you take the risk of sharing the Gospel.
There are those people who need the Gospel and you're afraid to share it.
And you're still afraid. So God says you're the one... that's what you have to step out.
Step out. Take the chance. What's the worst thing that's gonna happen? They reject
you? You jump for joy. Think about it. Think about it. You cannot lose. I mean,
here's the risk. If they reject the Gospel you jump for joy. And you're
blessed, for blessed are you. If they accept the Gospel, they get saved and
you're still blessed. You cannot lose. There's very few things
where you can't lose. You know risk, this is a risk where you have to win.
But step out. Some things you will never see until you step out with God. And there
are things that I don't even have to tell you ... because there are things
already that you're afraid of in God and those are the things you have to do.
And there are things that God has said and you know you're not doing it. Step out.
That's where the blessing will be. Step out in His will. And usually the greatest
things that God has called you to do usually involves overcoming fear.
I mean, look at all the prophets. You know it's this pattern you see again and again.
God calls Moses. I can't do it. God calls Jeremiah. I can't
do it. God calls Isaiah. I'm too sinful. God calls Peter. I'm too sinful. All these
people. They ... they always say, I can't do it. Gideon. I can't.
But God then shows it. But He requires you to step out guys. Moses you're gonna
have to go if you're gonna see what I have for you. And for your people.
And Gideon you're gonna have to step out. Every one of them had to move. Every one
of them had to move against their fear and do
what they had to do. Richard Wurmbrand who ministered the Gospel as a pastor
in communist Romania was sitting in a large gathering that the communists had called
for all the religions to give praise to Stalin. To say, well we have freedom and
our point is to praise the communist state. And so he had all these people
you know, bishops and all these people praising the communists. And his wife
turns to him and says go up to that microphone and wipe this stain from
the face of Christ. And he says to her, if I do that you will lose your husband.
And she says I don't need to be married to a coward. So he goes up and he speaks
the truth. It was on the radio. And as he does it the whole place goes crazy. They cut
the radio because he speaks the truth. We are not here to praise man. We're here to
praise God. And this is all .... Soon after that he's walking along
the road to do a wedding, perform a wedding. A car pulls up next to him. Men in black
get out. Push him in the car. Take him away. Put him in an underground cell.
He never sees anybody for years. You think well, wow. Here, here he stepped out,
did the right thing. Well, yeah. But what happened to him in that cell is that
God fulfilled his calling. He became the person he was always called to be.
And he ended up starting ministering, which is to this day, ministers
to all the the persecuted believers of the world. It would never have happened
if he didn't step out and say yes when his wife said go up there. There are
risks. In the end your calling is dependent on stepping out on God.
God requires it. There are risks of any ... there's a risk of, where
you don't want to forgive somebody. There's a risk. Step out. Because you're
afraid of doing it. You're afraid of ... your pride. Step out. That's what
you have to do. There's a risk of, of going up to somebody and saying what God
says you have to say, or asking for forgiveness. You need to do that. God has it ...
God has it. Always He has a way, but you have to step out. You are
children in the Spirit. Whether you're whatever you're born as, you are a child
of Abraham in the Spirit. You have to step out. The Bible says those who live
in the Spirit are walking in the newness of life. That means everything's new.
But how do you walk in it? But we, we tend to want the old. We like the rut. But God.
in order to walk in the new you have to always step out of the rut.
Don't let your life get, become a rut and a routine but dare to step out in God. It may be
something that just, it takes a risk because you're so ingrained in habit
but just to change something today, change what you're gonna do tonight
that's a whole big thing. Do it. If it's of God. To go for a dynamic prayer life.
To, to spend time with God, more than you've ... To spend time in his Word.
To step out. Go for a walk with God. Even a little thing. Take the gamble,
of forgiveness. Break the wall down with that person. Sometimes you're in
a relationship with people and they're, they've got a wall up and you're just
accepting the wall. Joshua didn't accept the wall. Sometimes you have to do things
just to break that wall open. To take a risk.
Step out. Step out of the normal thing that you would ... normally react ...
and do something different. Take a risk. Say something else.
Break the coldness. Whatever you have to do. Break the ice. Whatever you have to do.
Reach out to somebody. Now, after the service reach out to people that you wouldn't...
Express love to that hard to love person. Reach out. Rock the boat,
if it's for God. If it's for God. God wants to make a difference in this world and
he wants to do it through you. Your calling is to make a difference
in this world. Messiah God took a big risk for you.
He gave His life. He didn't just risk His life, He gave his life. For you. Why?
Not so you would live the same and not so you would live safely. He didn't live safely.
He did everything for you. So therefore how does that power come in when you do
the same thing for Him? Lord I'm gonna, you stepped out for me. The least
I can do is step out for you. The least thing. Take a risk because when you do it
for God you cannot lose, if you're following God. You cannot lose. It doesn't
matter if people like it or don't like it. If they like it that's extra.
That's icing on the cake. But if they get, reject you, good for them. ...good for you.
because you are blessed. There's a risk in doing what's right. There's a risk
in standing up for what's right. Don't beat around the bush when someone asks you if
if you're a believer, or what you feel about an issue. Just say the truth! Because
sometimes, because you're hiding it and you don't want to hurt people, or rather
you don't wanna be rejected, what's happening is you're hiding salvation.
And you're not letting, sometimes you need to have, there needs to be
a conflict for salvation to come. If you're not hitting a rock you're not hitting
anything. Sometimes you have to do that. and the more that you kind of, well I
don't want to deal with it. I don't want the rejection. I want ... You're stopping
things from happening. You know there's a woman who, who was Jewish and she would
speak on the phone. She became a believer to her friend who was a believer and her
Jewish husband was so furious. One day he just took the phone and ripped it off
the wall. And that man was Moi ... Moishe Rosen who became the founder of Jews for
Jesus. If he did not get mad he probably wouldn't have gotten saved. We don't want to
live, you don't want to live your life regretting that you didn't do what God
called you to do. It's better to have tried to walk on
the water and fallen than never having walked at all. Rather, do the thing. Do ...
you're going in this world once. Do what you need to do.
God wants us so sure of Him that we can take any risk for Him. To find out how
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