God Sees: Faithful Service and the Lessons of Jonah

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do [Music] do do [Music] so [Music] greetings to your brothers and sisters all the song that i would like to invite you to sing from the bottom of your heart all the glory is for him because everything that we have is from him and for him in his glory let's raise up on our finger and praise our lord [Music] [Music] you [Music] christa [Music] me [Music] so [Music] those are so slow [Music] my [Music] me [Music] [Music] let's all say praise be to the lord this past sunday this past week a lot of things happen and we came into god's house today and the word of god reminds us that we should enter his gates with thanksgiving and as we just sang this beautiful song that all the glory is to him yeah it is the atmosphere that the holy spirit is present in the name of jesus the son of god is glorified and i would like to remind us about the passage from the word of god in the book of luke [Music] thought that jesus is traveling with one of the family members somewhere in the they realize jesus is not with them jerusalem started looking for him asking around where his might be and then he came this thought came to come into the temple three days have passed and after third days they found him in the temple court sitting among the teachers listening to them and asking them questions everyone who was listening to him were surprised with his answers when his parents saw him they were astonished his mother said to him son why have you treated us like this your father and i have been anxious searching for you jesus lift up his eyes looks at them didn't you know i had to be in my father's house in the king james translation it says then you know that i should be doing business of my father yesterday i ask yourself a question when sunday comes morning christianity where believers should be huh temple here god's house church jesus says i need to be in the house of my father you know the parent says we were anxious and then here he replies it talks about some other father secretary the heavenly father who sent him praise be to him christianity on the first day of the week which is sunday we will always find a self in god's house where is my son where is my wife where are my relatives where are they going to be on sunday sir clear they're going to be in god's house i mean amen but the james chris christopher's because on this day jesus has resurrected you let's praise him and and give thanks to him foreign [Music] i have to find you somewhere else because i can find you here [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] [Music] foreign dear heavenly father we come before you today we worship you we give you praise and honor for everything that you have done for us we thank you for the opportunity that we have that we could gather today in your name we thank you for that we thank you that your holy spirit is present here today we ask you to bless every soul every heart that's here today that you may open their hearts to receive what you have planned to hear for us today we thank you holy spirit that you're here today we thank you that you're coming we thank you for your mercy and your grace we thank you for the love that we have we thank you for the unity we have for the blood of jesus we ask you to open our hearts open our minds to receive bless those who are here bless those who are not here to those who those who are in need those who are looking for an answer we ask you that your light may come in their lives that they might be renewed that they might be strengthened in your name we thank you we praise your name we thank you for the opportunity that we have gathered today we thank you for the mercies and grace that we show that was shown on the cross for us we thank you we bow down and give you praise and honor thank you jesus we ask you to come today fill our hearts fill his mind with your love and your light in jesus name we pray amen [Music] m [Music] foreign [Music] my [Music] [Music] be [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] i mean greetings to you my brothers and sisters yesterday it's beautiful to be in god's house today because number one you know it is so special when there's people around you just like [Music] amen i mean and let's tune our hearts today is to listen not what one or another brother might say but what god has prepared and he would like to tell you and me individually i would like for us to open up the word of god that is written in book of job chapter 1 verse 8. then the lord said to satan have you considered my servant job there is no one on earth like him he is blameless and upright a man who fears god and shuns evil absolutely let's also also open up the word of god that is written in the book of mark chapter 12 verse 41 and through 44. [Music] jesus said down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched and crowd putting their money into the temple treasury mainly rich people through in large amounts but a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins with only a fraction of a penny calling his disciples to him jesus said i tell you the truth this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all others they all gave out of their wealth but she out of her poverty put in everything all she had to live on one is passage i would like to read from the book of proverbs chapter 15 verse 3. [Music] the eyes of the lord are everywhere keeping watch on wicked and the good news the topic of my sermon today god sees uh we read a passage about job mr we know he was a righteous man his name is stumble private nicholas we know that he loved the lord muslim stone lobel boga we know that everything in his life he was extremely careful to make sure that he does the right thing always on his mind he wanted to make sure example of that [Music] premiere when he would bring sacrifices for his children because he was saying in his heart but what if they sinned i want to make sure that i bring sacrifices for their sins with [Music] he wanted to make sure that in every detail of his life he pleases the lord on on on [Music] the entire chapter he list a line by line item by item the things that he did before the lord to make sure that he does the right thing [Music] and he says i have a comedy with my eyes not to look lastly at the moment he says i always look after the weirdos and orphans you have materials of the voice he says that i never put a trust in gold [Music] he says i never rejoice from the wealth that i have and in verse 33 and 34 it's very interesting i never pay attention to that and he says i never hate my transgressions i never hide it ion of and then he continues he says i did not pay attention to the crowd that's what the english translation says and it was never his focus but here's what he says it's going to be job 31. he says he asked a question listing all these different things before the what he did to be righteous in god's eyes and then he asked does he not see my ways and count my every step that i did initially so he tried everything in his life to do everything for the lord he did not care what peop how people see things the only thing he cared and we know based on this passage he basically talking to god and he says he's telling people didn't he see why he did not notice all those things that i was doing because every time in my mind i was doing it because i know god is watching me at home he saw everything on video but yet job he was feeling like god did not see what i did he got so discouraged like god why you didn't see it but i tried i did everything because i know you are watching me from above sports and for those of you today when you're walking before the lord the holy spirit goes for them there is many things that we try because we want to please our lord but things around us or maybe what we do people don't see value in that [Music] you only see the importance in this but no one else does [Music] he puts the uh he evaluates everything that's taking place he won't we know prior to this he was talking about the pharisees uh [Music] not governor prior to this story jesus was talking earlier about pharisees because they would like to do good things to show off what they are doing so people pay attention uh foreign it was so important to know what what the people around so they would they want to have this confirmation they want to they want to think their focus was only people at all times and he told him something he wants to james gazelle he says in other words you see those people they're giving a lot with your physical eyes you might be evaluating and you're putting a your own price and you see oh it's little or it's a lot exception you might be saying it is important you see in your eyes and this is not important bible says he was sitting on the side of biblionas rania and then he tells the disciple disciples the following he says you might see with your eyes that they give a lot more videos but i want to tell you something that they don't yes and this woman in your eyes might look like she only gave a little but i want to tell you something that in my eyes she gave the most out of all these people this is how god is watching sports how many times in our life we look at certain things with our own eyes and we see this important this is not important is going to be benefit and this is not going to bring benefit to me but the word of god is reminding us that god is watching that and this is why you and me this is the focus we need to have but always keep it in mind that god is watching and he sees certain things completely different than we do but how many times we do exactly what disciples did the reason i would like for all of you some people maybe do not find value going to service on wednesday maybe somebody doesn't see a value why i'm gonna waste guests maybe coming all the way from saint pete or to a church in tarpon springs for fellowship with me my or maybe somebody is thinking sitting home doing something else and thinking you know what i'm not going to go into church today because i'm going to do something more productive at home or maybe i'm not going to go to church because i'm going to take a little bit of overtime or extra work for because of i need a little bit more money [Music] and what happens in our life we see things are in our own way [Music] [Music] it is a waste of time i would like to ask for open up in before we do that remember david he wanted to build a uh altar but he needed some land to do that [Music] so came to this man to around he says listen i would like to pay money for this field so i can do and bring sacrifice to the lord and he says don't worry about it i'll give it to you for free i'll also give you the sacrifice so you can just bring everything before the lord [Music] and would the david reply he says i will not sacrifice to the lord that cost me nothing. why david is saying this but you moved because on the surface it looks like everything's good we have the field you have the sacrifice everything's all set up everything's ready yes yes yes he knows how much it cost me owns nights he knows me did is it an actual sacrifice that cost me nothing when you stole it remember what jesus was saying you're bringing those things that are leftovers that are not needed and you just bring all the crippled stuff that's what you would bring before me jesus you know this is i don't need this it's called maybe it's not nobody's going to use it that you know when we do and we serve our lord was not just a medieval gospel we could get discouraged and disciples of jesus christ in matthew 19 27. peter said the following words to jesus peter we left everything music and you know why he when they said those words it was because there was a rich man rich young man who came to jesus and he said the following words what should i do to inherit the kingdom of god jesus said follow all the commandments he says already doing that since i was young [Music] because bible he found value in those things on nashua he saw those things are important in his own eyes and this is why disciples based on their story at that moment it looks like you maybe made a wrong decision for them for disciples it might look like they made the wrong decision and it doesn't stop there it doesn't have to be sit down and it says plus it plus eternal life so this is how god sees things vodka you know in our life this is we need to have this mindset god i do this because you see things very differently than maybe the situation tells me he has put some very different value on different things this man he wouldn't let go he thought listen people say that i'm crazy to give everything that i have that that that's why disciples when they look at him it's like listen maybe we should have done just like this man we should have been much smarter about it [Music] but jesus says you don't see things the way i see it you did not lose it you gained it not only that you gained it but you want to gain the eternal life which is precious [Music] every little detail that you do in your life are important in god's eyes the situation the people around you might tell you no that's not important maybe somebody else is putting their focus on something else but you are one and only doing something different you may ask yourself a question am i doing the right thing or i should maybe go with the crowd where everybody else is going because it's the rest of us all other people are doing something different but jesus is telling you you and me today don't get discouraged another passage i'd like to read is going to be in galatians chapter 6 verse 7 through 10. sigmoid galatians chapter 6 verse 7 through 10. do not be deceived god cannot be mocked a man reaps what he says the one who sews to please his sinful nature from that nature will reap the destruction and the one who sows to please the spirit from the spirit will reap eternal life let us not become weary in doing good for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we therefore as we have opportunity let us do good to all people especially to those who belong to the family of believers in verse 9 and it says do not get discouraged doing good idea because it happens when we do good but when we do what is right when we do those things the moment comes in our life we will have those moments where we're going to get discouraged because the situation around us the people around us do not see the same way that we see certain things you know when we are sowing something into the ground we do that we throw it on but the time from sowing until the moment we get the harvest there was that long waiting period [Music] but dear brothers and sisters the only time that we will find out if you did the right thing or not yet this is why the word of god is telling us do not get discouraged maybe you're doing something for the lord and you are questioning yourself why is it me why am i the only one who cares do i always worry about this and i want this but nobody else wants this but the word of god continues to remind us that god sees it and he will reward us he won was dust i know the many of you yes he is you spend your time in the prayer closet and what did jesus say about the prayer closet what do you do is secret right when nobody else sees it but who sees it the question who sees it god books your video do not be asking lord where are you miss prasha tagasport lord i want to see those different things in my life he is watching how you spend time with your family you know sometimes you personally i wanted to sometimes kind of encourage let's say for example families and i and i tried to say it kind of and i'm thinking you know how do i get them to kind of uh see the importance in things yes and sometimes um here's what i did and i think i'm i'm wrong doing that i say hey you have little children do it for them do it because you know when they grow up obviously you want you want the best for them but then i was thinking about it and i i believe the holy spirit convicted me sister we should be doing not because of children not because we're gonna get something from the lord but we need to do everything for the lord we need to do everything because he sees everything because this is exactly what job's wife did job's wife this is how she was thinking she was thinking you know we do we serve the lord because he wanted us to bless us and then when that did not happen and what did you reply for the video are we going to receive from god only good things we're not going to receive bad things anybody in policy this may this be encouragement for all of you that when we serve the lord he sees everything this is another side to what god sees and it's maybe not a pleasant one because bible says he watches over good but um and he watches over wicked he's uh he's islam i just believe you don't have any of those around here today but let this word of encouragement today we would serve our lord amen i mean praise god their church i hope we have listened what god had said to us today let's take a moment to remember memorial day for those who died for this country but also most important the one who died for us in our salvation [Music] uh sunday uh prayer starts at 10 uh 10 30 in the morning in the conference room conference and service starts eleven offering i want to say a couple words um as we heard god god sees not just how we um um not just what we do but how we give back and personally my life god has proved me more more than once that if you're faithful god will never be in debt yes what god has done already for us there's nothing we could do in our lives so please let us open our hearts and i'm sorry one more thing i'm coming event is june 5th we want let's prepare our hearts for communion we thank you for everything that you've given us we thank you for the country that we're able to live we thank you for the salvation you've given us through christ we bow down we give you honor and praise we ask you to open our hearts to our minds we thank you that everything that you have said today that you remind us of your glory and your mercy towards us everything you have given us we thank you for that and let us be able to be faithful in everything that you've given us to show our gratitude to give back to you not just our finest but also our lives and our hearts and our minds everything for you and your glory in jesus name we [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] system [Music] you [Music] me [Music] is [Music] sweet [Music] hey [Music] is [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] be [Music] sunday school it is a next generation that will take the uh the flame of faith and will lead classes it is wonderful to be in the presence of the children of god and these brothers that just sing about 30 years ago um actually when his um their father first found the lord he was he was a musician and he was he was coming from the club but when he um repented he did know how to play on the guitar and the first service that we um led outside he was always with his guitar and always with the music therefore i'm glad that his children are here serving the lord and they're still preaching the word our evangelist and they're still in the service of in the with the lord it's very wonderful to see me i'm denise yeah and it's wonderful to see that our children and our grandchildren are serving the lord it's a wonder it's a great happiness an apostle paul said that the greatest joy is to see that his children or the children in um the spirit are serving the lord and i would like to say the sermon today called um the lessons of learned from the from jonah last night [Music] yonah the first lesson that we can learn from jonah was that jonah was a prophet of the lord god had a purpose and mission for his life and the first lesson that we can learn from this is do not ever run away from the um from god's will because you cannot run away from god speaks about how great the lord is [Music] that the lord's spirit is everywhere it does not matter does not matter where you are god still sees everything am i only working because my boss can look what i'm doing or do i do it from a sincere heart sometimes it may be dark in the in this building or wherever you are but still and it feels like the lord is not there but he still is just watching this and that's the win the most crime or things that are you do things that you're not supposed to is when it's dark outside people feel that in the light that people can see them but in the darkness no one sees what they're doing and the first lesson we can learn is do not run away from god and he was supposed to say to the to the people um what the lord had put on his heart and he was the voice of god to the people the voice of yeah for the god to the people that the people of nineveh had 120 000 people living there in the place where i grew up where the brothers are from there was the most was 68 000 people in that city and we can see that god had a plan for the those people that they would um be saved not perish and god sent his prophet so that he would fulfill this mission and in the word of god in romans it says how can people repent if they do not believe yeah how are they going to hear the word of god if they don't have a preacher preach it to them and that's why it says in the word of god blessed is the man who proclaims the word of god and blessed are those who are in the service of the lord and does what the will of god is and in this lesson we can learn that do not run away from the services what happened to jonah when he started to run away he was going in one direction and he gets a ticket wastes a lot of money and goes to tarshish which is the opposite direction and what we can notice is that when you start to run away from god's will you start to lose money and that's the question why does this happen to us maybe we're not in the will of god maybe we're running away and that's why there's no blessing because god has a direct um will he did not they started to take the things that were on the ship and throw it overboard hoping that it would save their lives perhaps we sometimes come to a place where we start to throw away the things that we used to hold dear to us but still sometimes we start to throw those things away but we still don't turn to god's will and i would like to turn our attention to the next lesson but first let me finish this one that god gave to each one of us a good although in proverbs it does say that the righteous man when they sleep god gives them good dreams and others when they are not in the will of god they have bad dreams or they can't sleep well but whenever but he says the will of god kind of went to the bottom of the ship and he just started sleeping this and whenever all the shipment that we're um starting to pray to their own gods everyone just started to pray whoever knew how to pray or however they knew they did it but the prophet of the lord who knows god's name in speech he's sleeping the ungodly people they're all crying out to any god that would listen to them just so that they can be saved in speech but the man of god instead of praying he's sleeping do you think this is normal it's another one this is not normal the christians were the ones who were leading the people into prayer of repentance so that they can be saved when he was given the opportunity a little life vest and and to get into a life boat someone who he knew that was not saved and that maybe they can give a better opportunity to maybe repent and get saved like for example like we know right now is a war i don't decide to go on a super expensive vacation instead i'm trying to find how i can better use the money to help people yes or if i see an orphan i see i hear this um i cannot stay to the side i cannot sleep soundly knowing that there's a need this is the characteristic of a person of god um so remember that a good dream is in good sleep does not always mean that everything is good and sometimes we are so um spiritually asleep that we need a great awakening one more lesson we can learn from this moment we can see that people are praying are you enough to just speak but jonah's sleeping um there's a prayer service on wednesday and you know in the bible also the apostles they miss the opportunity of prayer because he was sleeping through the time when he should have been praying is the man's ear back and this is the last miracle that he did on earth and that's what happens when we um fall asleep and sleep through prayers we come to work it's a problem and another lesson we can learn from the life of jonah is do not miss out on the prayers um another lesson we can learn is don't play many don't blame anybody if there's problems in the church think about how what you can do to help what you can do to fix it if there's a relationship in families and problems in there like some of these maybe same way just take the take the responsibility on yourself and some the biggest problems that happened in um family conflicts because we asked the question who's at fault and the key is to find out who's at fault when you find out who is the who's the the problem maker then you point fingers this is a problem i'm pointing at the person who's at fault but the three other fingers are pointing back at myself the place where people are they they humble themselves and they take they ask for forgiveness and take the blame that's when the the conflict and remember the story that we heard about one family um he's thinking to himself me and my wife were always arguing we always have issues and i'm always but we're always right and the people here they're they never argue and they are at peace and one time the the man comes from work agency and he's going to start to complain and say why did you put this bucket by the door where you open it and can be spilled and the wife is going to say what did you not see this bucket here why did you spill it but you know it was actually completely different and instead the wife instead starts to clean up and say i'm so sorry i did not know you would come home so soon let me clean this up and he says i'm dear i'm so sorry i i didn't see this here i spilled it let me help you clean this up of gethsemane you know what he said imagine god is um worried about the apostles so that they wouldn't hurt them because it's a young it's me take me you're looking for me you know this is a lesson today for us when jonah goes into the big fish that swallowed him in the second chapter of jonah actually read this at home it's a very interesting prayer that he prays actually i'm going to come back a little bit um he says um take me and throw me into the room and the sea and that's what jonah did he said this was me it was my fault just throw me into the sea people started to praise god and um give promises and give praise to him and later in chapter 2 when jonas praying we see that god hears his prayers [Music] you know when the most fervent prayers are when people are in a problem and really need god's help and sometimes this may be your last thing that you say but it's from the bottom of your heart he was put to it and god hears those prayers and when maybe someone from your family is going into a surgery you pray to god that they make it out of the surgery and you have a very fervent prayer it's very fervent there's no um two-facedness and there's not a lot of words and he was amongst all the things that were inside this fish and you know this is what jonah does he he um calls unto the name of the lord and later he says these words god i praise you because god hears your prayer even if you're praying from inside of big fish praise god the brother in front of before me said that god sees us when we pray in our closets and those who he those things that he hears in secret he will give us in reality in reality we will see miracles therefore pray because god hears [Music] and just through his word um he the repentance came to the whole city um so whenever the people heard the word of god um they went on a three-day fast no the the city was to work three days you have to walk through the city oh you have to walk three days to get to the city and his sermon was not very simple the second time when the lord speaks to him and take and tells him to go to the city there was the next word was very short go and preach for 40 days um or nineveh will be destroyed in 40 days in 40 days nineveh will be destroyed you know this is actually not really good news it's not the um it's not the word of god you will have great blessings that's a little easier to say um and he was for he was preaching the word that in 40 days nineveh will be destroyed the people heard this word even it's and they reacted right away repentance and their um they got into um they threw ashes on themselves and they were praying to god and the word finally even reached the the king or the ruler of that land in nineveh and he also heard this word foreign and you can imagine the king is thinking to himself what is this man he's probably bald because of all the acid and everything in the in the fish's belly he's saying that the that the city where i live will be destroyed in 40 days you know it's not very easy to accept this kind of word and especially to a person who does not look so um but in the word of god it says god that the king took this word very seriously but in humbleness we'll um ask god for salvation for forgiveness for forgiveness and you know what happened god heard their prayers the people um repented but god says to a righteous man that you will inherit the kingdom of heaven well if he thinks that he's safe and he just goes back to his old ways and starts to sin then word of prophecy through jonah to nineveh and everybody understood that if god said this even jonah understood this if god said this this is this is what will happen and we understand that this is god's prophet this is what he said this must happen but this was god's prophet said it through him but it didn't happen you know why because of prayer and this is another lesson that we know if we pray and we fervently ask even god's will can change let god under help us understand and that's why it says in the bible to pray always and do not fall in spiritual of the tree that he that grew and then dried out again but in conclusion the last lesson we can learn before we start to pray that god is merciful god is loving and that's why it's god's will that he wants to use us to help save those who are not here yet today maybe not everyone who hears the word of god will be saved but our mission today is to go and preach i would like to pray today but the loving god still wants us to come back to him maybe we're tired we're burnt out we're thinking we're serving too much and we just kind of are going away from do not be quiet today serve him [Music] foreign foreign foreign foreign [Music] me has come to an end we will have a one last prayer ee god was speaking to us today god was speaking to us in the first sermon that he is looking and he is putting he is evaluating everything you know what god is going to be looking for when we cross and leave this building what are we going to do with the word that we received here today bush god pays a very close attention to what we do with the word that he is sowing into our hearts not to punish or point finger to save us from this destruction and this evil god's heart because we are not careful and not paying attention to his word [Music] first of all will you give praise to the lord for everything he's given us in our life but also we will be bringing our needs before the lord god who also wants to hear it he wants to show us that he cares and provides you know i had this need it was only for a very short period of time it was not actually a second floor but it was a huge boat and it was about the the height of the second floor and this ladder just slipped under me and i fell on two by four with my on my ribs and all i realized that my rib is broken and it probably punctured my lungs the the two by four was sideways and it broke as well and all i was able to say it was just three seconds just say lord please help me okay and at that moment that second this pain completely left i did not even have any bruises left solutions god hears because he is our only hope you know we go with faith especially in a situation like like this who else would we go to the moment this is why we're going to bring those needs before the lord and he will hear and help us we will have those that participate we will have a washing of defeat in this conference room 11 we will start our normal services again it's very difficult language and getting uh situated here that god would provide and take care of them if you need any kind of help don't be shy any advice or any help that you might need a phrase report from brother peter and also a request to pray for children who are going to be traveling from jacksonville the youth and all the children you got to protect it yes she has a prayer my son dennis he is 26 years old that god allowed him to live this far but also pray for him that god would touch his heart and he would come to repentance came to know him personally has a praise report for his family that god is taking care of them and providing is asking for her daughter and her husband allah allah and her husband they are sick they have a coronavirus that god would heal them pediatric he is asking to pray for his mom he's going to be moving here to florida but that also would help and organize the the time here and everything um is asking to pray for church for the parolinka children's home they're in latvia right now but they are having very difficult situation and they really need god to intervene sisters ask cindy is asking for her husband anthony for his salvation we'll definitely pray with that he has helped us this far and we have all praise reports for him but most importantly beside of all the troubles the tribulation we might be going through we remain in god's church we have future and hope i would [Music] 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