Summary: We don’t find Jesus He finds us!

ONCE JESUS FINDS US!!

TITUS 3:3-8

At the beginning of our lives we were all

disobedient to God!!

We knew how God wanted us to live didn’t we?

We knew his commandments, and

we knew his laws.

But we rejected all the above, AMEN

And all sin is against God.

We disobeyed God!!!!

But we have the opportunity to

get it right with Him!!!

And once we get it right, Sin will have

no dominion over us!!!!

Jesus had no sin because his heart was

right toward God!!!

He was in God’s perfect will!!!!

John 8:36 says:

If The Son therefore shall make you free

ye shall be free indeed!!!

How many of us tonight, are actually living

like we are really free???

With Jesus Christ living in your heart

You are as free as free can be!!!!!!AMEN

Don’t get me wrong now I ain’t saying

that we’re all perfect!!!

But we have to strive to be perfect!!

We all make mistakes, and sometimes

they’re worthy of severe punishment.

But God forgives us and loves us for who

and what we are!!!!AMEN

And the Apostle Paul had this same problem

dealing with sin.

Romans 7:14 says

For we know that the law is spiritual

but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death

but the gift of God is eternal life

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Apostle wasn’t just talking about

the way he used to be so sinful,

persecuting Christians and so on

and then finally accepting the Lord Jesus

Christ as his personal Savior.

He was just admitting that he was weak

and gave into sin, just like you and I do daily.

And Paul even seemed to condemn himself

in Romans 7:25 it says:

O wretched man that I am!

Who shall deliver me from the body of

this death!!

People Jesus Christ is the only one who

can deliver us from this sinful body!!!

And not to mention this sinful world!!!

The Bible says:

For all have sinned and come short of

the Glory of God!!!

How many times a week could you just kick

yourself for failing.

You try to be patient with your kids, or your

spouse, or your parents.

And just in a split second we lash out,

and our words and our actions, become

sin.

And BAM the damage is done!!!!

You thought you were prayed up

and you thought that you had broken

that nasty habit of sin.

But we allow the devil to slip right

in the back door!!!

Romans 3:10 says:

There is none righteous, no, not one!!!

Way too often we listen to that little devil

voice when it says.

It’ll be ok just this once!!!!!

And then you feel like a failure.

And the Holy Ghost is convicting you,

And He is guiding you

right back into repentance!!!!!

Thousands of times daily and weekly

we fail in a thousand different ways.

We try to live by the standards that

we know is right.

We try not to sin and all the time we know better.

And you feel dumb and un-loved, when you do.

And sometimes you may feel like you have

lost your joy of your Christian Walk!!!!

But right behind those gray, dark clouds

is clear blue sky!!!!!

When everything seems to be going wrong

get your seatbelt on because there’s a blessing

just on the horizon!!!

So many people think they have to wait to

get their problems ironed out before they

can serve the Lord!!!

But sinners listen, When I got right with God

The sin question was settled.

You begin to think of that home that’s on

the rocks.

When Jean and I gave our lives to God

We stopped drinking the alcohol.

We stopped spending Friday and Saturday

nights at the bars and clubs playing devil music.

Our arguing and fighting stopped.

We gave up our worldly things

We begin to serve God.

We started getting up on Sunday morning.

and we Go now to worship God instead

of the devil.

Once you whole heartedly begin to serve God

The troubles begin to be ironed out.

Once you start to pay your tithes,.

Your financial problems begin to work out.

And the next thing you know, you have

found happiness.

And all you want to do is work harder

for the Lord!!!!.

And The Closer you get to God

The better you feel!!!!!!!

We have to realize that we are guilty of

these sins of the flesh.

We are still flesh.

And we’re far from perfect.

Only Jesus Christ was perfect.

But we will be perfect one day,

when we receive that glorified body.

But until the rapture, we’ll be fighting sin.

Like adultery, drinking, cheating, fornication

gambling, smoking, lusting after the flesh

and money, and the list goes on and on.

These are the sins you can see, and touch.

Today America is broken down with all these

sins, Our country is filled with discount liquor

and beer stores and tobacco marts.

And bars, and clubs and honky tonks,

and strip joints and pornographic movie stores,

And gay bars and this list goes on and on.

These sins have already ruined many a good

person in the past and there’s many to be

ruined in the days to come if the Lord tarries!!!!!

There’s so many of us that haven’t got a grip

on the meaning of God’s Love, and Mercy, and grace.

We haven’t accepted his grace in our lives’

And in our reading tonight Paul is pointing

out to us our spiritual condition, before

we accepted Jesus Christ in our Hearts.

He calls us foolish, disobedient

deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures

hateful, hating one another.

Its so true that we continue to commit sins

after we have accepted Jesus but

we are no longer condemned for our sins.

Ephesians 2:1 says:

And you hath he quickened who were

dead in trespasses and sins.

Paul told us that we were formerly dead

or in other words Hell Bound People.

Eternal death.

But thank God that through the precious

blood of Jesus Christ our sins have been

washed away and we’re clean and spotless

in the eyes of God, If we’ve repented

and accepted Jesus Christ in our hearts.

All the sins that we committed in our

former life are no longer remembered.

We’re no longer working for the devil!!!

Were no longer living with hate and envy

There are so many church members today

that are hating one another, and envying.

And sowing discord, and spreading gossip.

And these aren’t the sins we can see.

These ain’t the sins which hurt one or two people.

These are the ones that hurt whole church

congregations.

And maybe even whole organizations.

These people wouldn’t dare to gamble,

or go to the local bar for a drink.

And wouldn’t even think of going to

a strip joint, or a club.

But when it comes to gossiping and hurting

others and not to mention hating others.

OOOOOOHHHHHH WATCH OUT!!!!!!

These are sins that are just as guilty before

God, as an adulterer or gambler, or Murderer.

The Apostle Paul says these are the

things of the past.

Dis-obedience toward God

and indulging in the sins of the flesh.

These sins were put away in Paul’s life.

HAVE YOU PUT THEM AWAY TONIGHT???

If not then I won’t be looking for you

in Heaven, by the ever flowing river of live.

Nor at the pearly gates, nor on the streets

of Pure GOLD!!!!

Now I know that you’re probably thinking,

just who does this hillbilly dude think he is,

telling me harsh stuff like this????

Well I’ll just let you in on a little secret!!!

When I was a sinner, this kind of message

hit pretty close to home for me too, and

was pretty harsh to me too!!!!

I felt like getting up and walking out sometimes.

But the Holy Ghost made me stay and listen.

If this message is offensive, don’t blame me.

Blame GOD!!!!!!!

Because its straight from the throne of God!!!

People let me tell you something

if you are feeling worthless because you’re

a sinner, Give it to God.

If you feel worthless as a born again Christian,

Give it to God.

We’re all just a bunch of dirty rotten no good

sinners. AMEN

The only difference is some of us are saved

by Gods GRACE!!!!! AMEN

We can be saved by the Grace of God!!!

All we have to do is ask, and we will be

giving you the opportunity shortly!!!

In Verses 4-7 The Apostle Paul talks about

how the Holy Spirit has washed us clean

from our sins.

He tells us that we are not made clean by

anything that we do,

But its by the kindness and the love of God!!

You see God’s love can’t just be earned.

It has to be humbly accepted!!!!!AMEN

Jesus’ Brother James said

you have not because you ask not!!!!

Tonight there’s a 15 second prayer between

everlasting life in that beautiful place called

Heaven, and that terrible place called hell

where the worm dieth not and the fire

is not quenched!!!!

The bible says:

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!!!

Folks we are heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ.

When the Microsoft guy Bill Gates dies He’ll leave

millions to his heirs.

But my God has greater wealth than

anything we can possibly imagine that’s

just waiting for us.

People we are in a world full of terror,

and strife, and sin, and danger.

But God’s Holy Spirit is with us every

step that we make.

Psalm 23 says

yeah though I walk through the valley of the

shadow of death I will fear no evil

for thou art with me.

People God Loves us and He saved us and

has given us eternal life, BUT

we have to accept it tonight.

We can’t slide into heaven on our good works

We can’t slide into heaven on being a good

person.

We can only get there through Jesus Christ.

There’s a profit for us in all this.

In exchange for serving God.

The question is,

Does it pay a man to leave the devil’s

service and line up on God’s side and

SERVE HIM???

YES It Certainly Does!!!!

Every one who has tried it has already

found out that it does pay.

It pays right here and now in this world.

Even if there were no after-life,

No Heaven, No Hell.

It would still pay to be borned again here.

But there is more to it than that

It pays through a long and everlasting

eternity

Surely its good here, All This and Heaven Too!!!

In Closing tonight

There is a good point that can be made from

the prodigal son, From the Book of Luke.

Its true that the prodigal son did eat with

the pigs, But unlike the pigs he chose to

return to his father.

There are some of us who just might be

looking at ourselves tonight.

We might be feeling like those worthless pigs.

We may think we are wallowing in the nastiness

and the Sins of this life.

But We have to remember that we are

the Children of the Heavenly Father, and we

are able to live in the freedom, and forgiveness

of our God’s Arms.

BUT We have to choose to live that freedom.

There’s many I’m sure that’s like the rich man

in hell,

that’s praying and wishing that they

would’ve chose to live that freedom with

Their Heavenly Father.

We’ve been taught about His Love and His grace

But we haven’t taken it to heart!!!!!

We need to realize that God Loves us for who

we are and for what we are!!!!

And without Him we can’t do anything.

We can try to reach our goals in this life

alone and without God in our Live’s.

And we can see ourselves’s fall flat on

our faces.

Listen tonight folks

It’s very true that God hates our sins

But He loves that person that commits them!!!

If you don’t know Jesus Christ tonight

as your Lord and Savior.

I don’t want you to leave this place without HIM>

For you to receive what God has prepared for you,

You have to take that first step, and reach out.

God is offering you this free gift of His

only Son Jesus Christ.