Principles For Prayer pt 5-Really Trusting In God's Care, Rather Than Saying We Do & Doing The Opposite -Kevin Williams

Quote from this sermon:
"When we don’t fully trust in God to take care of us, what we're doing, we're announcing to the world that God doesn’t take care of us, and that is a bad witness. That is blasphemy. And Jesus said, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal” and you have Christians with all sorts of life assurance, and rainy day funds, and huge savings accounts. There are churches with thousands and thousands of pounds just sitting in the bank for a rainy day. I mean, not only is that a direct violation of Jesus’ command. But what they are really saying there is “But Lord, we don’t really trust you to take care of us. And so we have to take action ourselves, just in case your shepherding is not up to scratch sometime in the future.” And they wonder why the Spirit of God doesn’t come down.

I mean, it amazes me, that people read, these radical instructions of Jesus. I mean they are radical. And then they turn to the Book of Acts, and what do you find in the Book of Acts? You find people being wise men who built their house upon the rock, and putting these sayings and radical teachings of Jesus into action. In Acts 2:44 it says "And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need." And people read that today, and then they look at their big extravagant houses, and their big cars, and their big salaries and their big extravagant lifestyles, and then say, “Oh that was just for then. Acts is a transitional phase, it’s not for today." They say “They wasn’t commanded to do that, they just gave willingly out of their own hearts.” Yes, they gave cheerfully from their hearts, and believed Jesus’ radical teachings, they took them, His teachings at face value, and put them into action, because that’s what converted hearts do".

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Matt 6:7-13 (5) - Principles For Prayer pt 5-Really Trusting In God's Care, Rather Than Saying We Do & Doing The Opposite -Kevin Williams - 42 min

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