Come To Jesus

Pastor S. N. Etukudo

Sunday, June 7, 202648:111 Listen

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“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭11‬:‭28‬-‭29‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

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And what he says to every one of us, all manner of many things that we should come unto him. It is an open call from our Lord Jesus Christ for all manner of persons. The righteous and the unrighteous, the rich and the poor, the weary and the strong, the burden and those who are passing through one problem or the other their lives. The depressed are also invited to come unto Jesus.

They discourage the sinful and those who need all kinds of things in their life. You are given an open call to come to Jesus Christ not to come and fix your problem by yourself. He is calling you to fix those problems that seems to be higher than you. Matthew chapter 11, verse 28 to 30.

8:30 Come unto me all leaders and I am giving you rest. Take my name upon you and learn of him. For I am weak and lowly in heart and and you shall find rest upon your soul. For my love is easy and my body lives.

Beloved Christ. This is a direct statement from Jesus Christ. It is a mirror call to all manner of persons. He said, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy learned.

And I will give you praise and I will give you rest. Jesus Christ has the capacity to be blessed. He has the capacity to lift that burden of yours from you. He has the capacity to carry away all burdens.

There's some we used to see burdens are lifted at Calvary. The Lord of Calvary, Jesus Christ. That was where he was crucified. Not because he was a nurse battle because he was there.

You take away your body and today he says come unto me. He is not talking as world politicians today politicians can tell. You look good for me all this good and very retirement. In fact you have night 24 hours a day.

In fact all your children will go to school free. No payment from nursery to the ma. All these things can be a mere statement of the mass intended to get your goods and then go in there and amass well for himself and members of his family. But that is also with our Lord Jesus Christ.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is sincere even on the cross. He speaks the truth. We did not come to heal, can never feel disappointed. Whatever comes to him has never been rejected.

Say take my yoke upon you and then of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto God. So what is the yoke of God? His precepts, his rules death that rules of evil follow his precepts as you come to him. And then he said, you will find rest for your soul.

Loving Christ. God intended to give the children of Israel rest. And that was in the land of Canaan. Then God will assure you that they did not enjoy any rest.

And that is why race is reserved for the children of God in his eternal kingdom. If they want to enjoy this rich today somebody will say, when I have a lot of money, so I'm at peace. Go and find out those who have a lot of money, whether they are doing at peace. They are not at peace.

Complete peace, absolute peace is enjoying when you are in heaven. What is that volume of yours belong in Christ? Is it how to overcome sin? Is it fear?

Fear of death, fear of sickness, fear of disappointment, fear of unanswered prayers? Jesus has a message for those who are in fear. Read for us in Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 14 to 18. Hebrews 2, verse 14 to 18.

Read the book of Hebrew, chapter 2, verses 14 to 18. Hebrew 2, verse 14. For as small said as the children are of flesh and love, he also himself manifesting part of himself that through death human destroying him that harm the power of death, that is the devil and delivered them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to the bondage PR he took forth on him the pleasure of angels, but he took on him the seed of Therefore wherefore in all things is beyond him to be men like also his bre that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Verse 15.

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted he able to succour them that are tempted not in Christ, For. Verily he took not sorry. Verse one is for as much them as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself that took apart took part of the same that through this party that had the power of death, that is the devil, that is the devil before now it was the devil that had power over death. Can kill you.

He can, you know, keep away from you. But Jesus Christ did not come as an angel. There was nothing wrong for God to have said, okay, this is going to come as an angel. But for him the sin in the same way and manner that we have.

Jesus was born and bred by a woman no man you know in her name too well. Mary that was the earthly mother of Jesus Christ. And he was through man's awareness of progression, the Holy Spirit gave the Lord and Jesus Christ was and more so that he will be able to die, so that he able to resurrect and have the power to resurrect all that may die believing. And it was not only that the word of God says he died so that he will be able to save J Rule that liberty get off that poor a living in fear of death.

Because in Christ, if you believe in Jesus Christ, death has no power over you. Yours is transition to glory. Even though when the moment a loved one dies is a transition to glory called to glory. That are called to glory.

Some are called to eternal song. Some are called to glory. There is a thing that they live according to the directing of the gospel. When you believe according to the word of God.

Even when you are no more as a believer. And each time you call it your analysis. I don't know whether every time you call them, you are calling them as they if they are still alive. The reason is that they are not there.

That they are transiting to a place that better than the President and deliver the good news here of this were all their lifetime subject to damage. For me, he do not he the picture of angels. Then they took a hip the seed of Abraham. The seed of the seed of Abraham wool flesh and blood.

And that was when Jesus Christ came in that form so that he could feel the pain. So that he could feel hungry. Jesus feels to be hungry. He feel all manner of sickness.

He has. Really because he did that in order to reduce your own. In order to quench your own soft. That was why all those sicknesses why did not experience sickness is because the body is free of sin in his sickness.

And because Christ was sickness, you are not allowed that he wrote a pain of sickness. He knows how it is for somebody to be sick. And that is why he's able to support them attempted various forms of man love to Christ. We like also to reconcile you to God.

Because all of us here we separated from God because of sin, because of sin. And the death of this Christ made us up reach the G of that celebration now for anybody that believes in him is no longer seen as a sinner before God. The blood of Jesus Christ has rotten away your sins and you are sacrificed before God. The devil has no accusation over you.

And that will only happen if you come to him. If you come to him. He says, come unto me. When Jesus Christ is the one calling you to come, you will walk on top of your problem.

And your problem will not work on top of you enough to try. This is the word of God. And we will prove it in the scripture that anybody that is called by Jesus Christ will not the problem will not you will come under the problem. Let's confirm that in Matthew chapter 14, verse 24 to 29.

Matthew chapter 14, verse 24. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves. But the waves was too cry. And in the first watch of the night, Jesus went over to them walking on the sea.

And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were 12 saying, it is a spirit. And they cry out for fear. But Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be our good shield, it is I be not like. And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou bid me come unto thee on the water.

29 And he said, come. And when Peter was gone now out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind cross, he was afraid and began to sing. He cried, lord, save me.

And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto the order of little great Wherefore the thou doth, Beloved Christ. Here we could see if they are listed very well. Their tempests on the sea were their problem. They were so afraid because they were English sheep.

And the tempest one but curious moving here and there. And then they are all afraid. The day they saw Jesus Christ, they didn't recognize it was Jesus. Because according to the scripture, he said and in the foot watch of the night, Jesus went on to him.

Walking on the sea. Walking on the sea. The foot watch is 3am to 6am you can see if you see somebody walking on top of the sea by 3am in the night, would you be afraid? Would you think that it is a ghost?

That was what happened. They saw someone walking on top of the sea. By 3am in the midnight. Oh, we are finished.

The sea is there a temper and yet the ghost is coming on top of water. That was their problem. And Jesus, when he recognized that they were so afraid, said, don't be afraid, it is I. And Peter to confirm that he was Jesus said, if it are, if you are the person, bid Peter come to you.

And Jesus said, come. Jesus said, come. And Peter work on top of the problem, on top of the thing he was afraid of the wavering sea, the tempesting which was their problem. He had something he can be walking on problems Jesus Christ.

And when he turned away to the temple because the tempest was still there. And he walked on top of it. He walked on top of it. There was no father again.

Meaning if you come to Jesus Christ, your problem will become powerless. Will become powerless. And that will happen today in Jesus name. Amen.

Beloved Christ, if you come to Jesus Christ and your problem want to really save again and you come upon Jesus. The problem will say that you will not have effect on you. That was what happened. That is the lesson you can learn from the experience of Peter.

And another lesson you should learn from the experience of Peter in God. When Peter said come and you happen to hit that course. Continue to have your focus on Jesus. Continue to have your focus on Jesus.

Don't look at your problem. You say to me. The heavy is to look away from you. The ha you used to behave a little time when they suffer headache, they run to pass and the pastor will pray for us.

That that time they will pour you oil. You withdraw from your head down here and you have to think of the oil. I don't know whether somebody has such a serious. You will not even touch the heart.

You can allow it to come from there, you see? And the enemy will give you will go your way. Why so afraid? After all, that is the experience your problem may seem to you.

If you say again, the evidence seems to be double. But in as much as you have come to Jesus, believe that that problem is powerless and he will trouble you in Jesus name. That is why we assure you that if Jesus calls you and you come, you are going to work on your problem. Your problem will not work on top of you.

You will walk on top of that problem and it will happen now. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Because in Christ Jesus is coming to our fox to come to him.

Because he has something very important for us. Yes, somebody may say, how can I come to Jesus? What are the problems I have? My problem is family trouble.

My problem is financial treasures. My problem is loneliness. My problem is how to take this sinful nature that makes me not to humble myself and worship God properly. It should not be your problem.

Come with that problem with Jesus Christ and you never find them again. Jesus Christ is a very wise and understanding priest. It is a priest that understands the feelings of that he can never say. When Jesus Christ approached the family of Nazareth, his friend, people were mourning, people were crying here and there.

And Mary said, oh, if you are in here, my brother will not die. Jesus said, your brother will live again. Who is the resurrection of life. Jesus Christ was standing before them.

He if Jesus Christ stand before you say come as he said, today belong Christ a dead man in Jesus name. Amen. That was what happened. His Lord said, where was the Mary?

Since you said that he had been alive and buried your name before dead, he must have account very seriously showing a place where we Went there, there was interest. Oh, when they wanted to go and you know, consume Jesus. But the king that he was killing his death. But behold, Jesus Christ ordered cast the stone away.

Cast the stone away. Because we cried to so many believers they are placed across their problem. And that is the cause of baby s instance, the solution to your problem. Your story.

Fearfulness. No faith in you. When you are still fearful as you claim to believe in Jesus Christ, you cannot receive the result. But if you certainly try it.

I used to tell a little story many, many years ago. When I was still a young man. I came across a legal book Deliverance from the powers of Darkness by somebody who converted to Jesus Christ. The way he uplifted the name of Jesus Christ was so powerful.

He said, there is nothing you can use this name to command. I was not me to have lying down on the floor before you know that I was ready. The comrades came I with speed. I said, let me try this thing.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to stand the con St still. I used my hand and pushed the concept of. I said, in the name of Jesus Christ. I was afraid.

I started to reject and begin to ask myself what is happening. Hebrew chapter 4 and verse 15 . We have not a high grace which cannot be touched with the use of infirmities, but was in our world tempted like as we are, yet without sin. So we have an high priest and that is Jesus Christ, which cannot be touched, although which can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities that was in all point tempted like as we are, and yet without a sin.

When Jesus Christ was here on earth, he was tempted all manner of temptation. We still remember after his baptism by John to him the wilderness where he fasted 40 days and 40 night, after which the devil came and said, if they are clean, the Son of God now that he command this stone to become bread. Jesus said, he's written, man shall not live by bread of God. As he took him up to a very high mountain, said, fall down from there.

After all, it has been rigid that he will send a savior to take charm of over you so that you not, you know, break your feet against his throat. Jesus knew very well if he will obey him, he will not be using him. At one point say no, because he knew that you should not get a lot of your power. Even after that he took him to the dinner of the temple and show him all the riches of the whole world.

God has made you dead go into the world to fit for money trying to belong to any kind of thing. Jesus said, okay, let me tell you. And that is not the way I came that it is you that should bow down for me. She's not without bowing down for you.

She was tempted a everywhere. Is it the lawyers, is it all manner of tempted Jesus Christ, but he never committed any I of sin. Of course, that is why he is able to know the pains of being tempted. Are you tempted today in any way?

Is it in financial? Is it family problems? Whatever it is, marital problems? The intention of temptation, son, is to make you to sin and denounce God.

To make you to sin and denounce God. But if you call upon God, if you call come to Jesus Christ, he will rescue you. He the rescuer of his people from all manner of temptation. From all manner of temptation.

He know how to heal your loneliness. When Jesus Christ was on the cross, probably his heavenly father must have died before that time. Mary was moving about here, close to the cross. He saw Mary.

He saw the loneliness in her eye. What did he do so that for you to know that when he first loneliness in you, he will not just leave you, provided you are a believer. Let's see what happened to his mother. and plenty 7 .

To 27 the book of John, chapter 19, verses 25 through 27. Now that stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother sister Mary, the wife of Clovas and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother and disciples standing back whom he loved, he said unto his mother, woman, behold thy son. Then sent thee to the disciples before thy mother.

And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. Beloved in Christ Jesus was on the cross. And from there he looked down and sawing mother. When the feeling of loneliness said, Mother, behold your son.

Son, behold your mother said. From that moment John the beloved took his mother home, took care of her as his own mother. The loneliness was healed. And he suffering from loneliness as a sphinxer, as a bino, as a widow man.

Any type of message you have turn to Jesus Christ. Just come to him. You will hear that loneliness in Jesus name, love in Christ. Are you also testing if you are thirsty?

The only one that can give your destiny thirst is Jesus Christ. Jesus, when he was here on earth, he cried for those who are destined to come to him. Even as he had already put the sheephood in the mouth of prophet Isaiah to call on those that are thirsty and come and they dream you will see the miracle God is going to perform in your life. Before they read Your loss in .

Oh, everyone that tasted come to the waters. And ye that have no money, can you buy and eat? Yeah, Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Plus three.

Therefore do you spend more than for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not hacking thee faith unto me and it ye that which is good and let your soul divide itself in fatness. Loving Christ. I don't know your days here. The water that is prepared to in the Word of God.

And of course, the Word of God contains all manner of things. When you listen to the Word of God and act accordingly, there is nothing he will not solve for you. The Word of God will give you healing. The Word of God will give you the financial breakthrough.

The Word of God will give you husbands, good wives, children and all that associated with the things of this life. And to top it up, will give you eternal life. And you are expected to come unto him without any charge. You are not expecting to come with money.

People in the world, when they want to contest election, some of them that are poor will sell their father's farmland, will sell their father, will even sell their own building. And talking as there. So I know how some people who want to can take that time as counselor and so on. Used to be here.

Somebody will sell his father's. Sell his father and then come and indicate interest. Officers. I want to contest for this, I want to contest for that.

Then when you list it, they have sold everything. And unfortunately, such person will fail. One person and you fail. If not that because he was so close to the chairman had succeeded.

He was made a supervising council. He was then able to redeem all the bad food and so on. He was able to sell and then build another house. Come back, beloved Christ.

Jesus Christ is calling you to come and abandon yourself in a government that we last 1,000 years under his control. And a covenant that will last forever and ever under the leadership of the Almighty God himself. You are not to say anything. You have to come with your full hands.

Yes, somebody. Even before now there was a people of God who were so concerned when pension is there. Come to God, come to Jesus, come to him. The mighty prophet asked, how do I come to God?

How do I come and let him what you are told to come is Micah 6, 6, 8. Let us hear how he was going to come and how you are today. I asked to come so that you not be Israel. You know, deliver yourself by beginning to think, oh, how I wish I came from a Royal family.

How I wish I am this and that. Hear what the scripture says. Where shall I come before the Lord and humble myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offering, with calves of a year old?

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of grams? Or with 10,000 of livres of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression the fruit of my body for the sins of my soul? He has shown thee, O man, what is good and what does the Lord require of thee but to do justice and to love mercy and to love company thy love.

Beloved Christ, don't forget the top of our message. Come unto me, Come unto me. This is the top of the message. It was a concern so my God in the days of his administration.

And the question came wherewith Shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings with tars of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams? Or with 10,000 of rivers of oil?

Shall I give my my faith bone from my plantation the fruit of my body? For the sake of my soul. For the sake of my soul. Beloved in Christ, if you are to come to God in that day.

How many rams are we eating today? How many cattle do with you today? I believe of us here can provide a car. Is it not Only when somebody, even somebody that was not worth 1000 naira.

In the room. We say 300 million. Now the this person ever since he was born is able to save 1000n but they will ask for 50 million, ask for this and that to the extent they will sell everything save their finance and everything in the sun we bring the person back. And here somebody was asking Is it 10 gallons of oil?

Thousands gallons of oil. My face born my this, my that. The word of God said no. All these things are mentioning.

I don't need them. What I need is this. He has shown me what is good. And what does the Lord require of him is to do justice.

To do justice. Be faith in your justice one towards another. Don't judge out of your volition of your flesh. Don't judge because you hate the person.

Don't judge because you don't know the person. Or don't judge like the person face or the way he walks or talks or behaves. George said we give adjustment because when at the end of your life you also will be judged. And what you are doing today to others shall also be done to you.

Say and God mercy and God bless you in Mexico and honor this pronouncement. Is for every manner of men. Not because the person is basically letting show me. No, it means that your enemy by trying to be mercy even to your enemy.

And he says, he said and to walk humbly with thy God. To walk humbly with thy God. How do we walk humbly with our God? We humble humbly with our Lord when we adhere to his instruction.

No matter what he asked us not to do. And the things what he asked us to do. And the things seem to be very helpful to us. Like here in this church.

He said the Bible says in the Jesus Christ that a man should marry one wife. Maybe somebody married two wife and say no. Remove the power we see in you. That remove Father, that second one.

That second one is living in adultery with you. This woman that is giving, that's giving me peace than my first wife, what do I do? Well, since it is God that is saying, okay, my love, you know I love you. You know I want to make heaven.

I also want you to make heaven. God will give me another husband even better than myself. Please let us stay apart. Why do you do that?

Because of humility. Because of humility. So with other things. So with other things.

Is it drunkenness, worshipping, barnacking, stealing? Our Father removes sinning. That doesn't bring gratification to the flesh. But the humble person will say, for sake of God, I will never commit fornication.

I will never be adultery. I will never tell lies, I will never steal, I will never be wrong. I will live according to the will of God. It is an act of humility.

That is to say, if you are to come to God, you must come by faith. You must come by faith. You must come by humility. You must come by humility and also repentance.

You have to come with the repentance. You are also to come to God with absolute surrender of yourself. A true Christian will not always say, I, I, I. He will drop that I because I have to do with flesh.

Is it me that you do this kind of a thing? You will see me. Is it me? Do you know me?

And so on. That is an act of flesh statement. That is from the flesh. Paul will not say that.

After his confession, Paul suffered a lot. Time came when he was through and those who thought he was dead, he abandoned him. And the disciple came and took him up from the ground. He rose up and said, well, that is so much we have to suffer so that you can make it to heaven.

That is a man. If he enters any city, any nation, the whole nation will Shake because a terrorist has come. He didn't know it was a terrorist. He was thinking he was sending up.

But that is a man. When he was speaking, he will rise up. And he never said God will kill you. Holy Ghost will fire him in this and that.

He never said it. Then he was telling the disciples, encouraging them that that is the way through which they can make into the eternal kingdom of God. Therefore, if you have come to him, come to him with absolute surrender on yourself. Let the word of God separate you from the head to the toe.

Yes, people will look at you as a rule. People will look at you as someone who don't know anything. But you yourself will know that it is the spirit of God that is in control of your life. And by spirit meaning you rule and reign with Jesus Christ one day, because you have now surrendered yourself to him.

How do you come to him? Let's say again how we have to come to him. Come now and let us reason together, say the Lord. Though your seeds be as colored, they shall be as white as though they be when thy prison they shall be as wool.

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. But if you refuse thee and rebel, this shall be devoured with the sorrow. For the word of the Lord has spoken it nothing. Christ.

Here is a call for relief of sin. A call for the forgiveness of sin. Come, let us matter together. You don't have to wr with God.

What will you argue with God? The reason we got into arguing with God. Nobody is good enough to argue with him. One thing is sure.

God is assuring you and me that no matter the gravity of your face or sin, when you come to him in humility, confessing your sin and having the willingness not to go back to it again say, no matter how rich your sin was, shall be made of the family. It was so bad. They tell you that nobody you look at your day when you come to him, he will surely forgive you and you will enjoy the fruitness of the earth. He will sustain you.

God will extend your life to live long, to honor sinful nature and to also, you know, per sin per day. Many people always like to push their seed to the devil. Push their seed to another person like a little do I Sometimes one young man used to struggle to have to kill their ass that used to trouble the room. He struggled and struggled and struggled one day to kill his very ass.

If they came, then he was able to kill the ass and the woman sitting in the sh. As he killed the rat. He was holding it by hand to go and show his mother that was downstairs. And as he walking, he was walking majestically to go and show the mother.

He saw a passion with the mother. Said, oh, mother, here they came again. And I struggle to pursue him as I was selfish pursue him. The Lord took him.

The Lord took him. He didn't want to say kill him because the father was there, you see. So the Lord knew. That is how people behaves today.

How to that day you will see that whatever we do today will be for us tomorrow. Nobody will answer for another person then today we can settle that matter. Coming to him, confessing your sins, asking for forgiveness. You'll be forgiven.

Let us hear what Jesus Christ said. Don't worry. Lord said. Let us hear what Jesus Christ said when we come to him.

Because somebody can say, ah, release of you, a person like myself. This is what Jesus Christ is telling us in John baptized the Pakistan John, chapter 6, verse 37. All that the Father given me shall come to me and him that cometh to me and. Christ Jesus is telling you and me that if you are someone that was given to him.

Because nobody can be a believer. Nobody, especially in this narrow week. Nobody that remains here can end his life here or remain here until the right comes. If you were not handed over by God to Jesus Christ, it is God himself that has the capacity to call you.

Some of the children that are old here, some are not worshipping. Why? The reason is that they will not. They will not have thoughts that you are born in.

This truth is not enough for you to say that I am here. You are here because God wants you to be here watching you. You are here because God coming to work in this narrow way. Anybody that comes to me, I will never cast him out.

I will never cast him out. Givers are not related no matter the magnitude of S. No other gods, no other deity can say that other deity have always the God is a me. Why are you lingering? Let us here, let the choir a handle this for us.

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If you come you Jesus Ram sa. To. Sit down beloved in Christ here we will see that Jesus Christ is ready to give us rest. Rest here.

Rest after his eternal love with all the burden that will praise him with all manner of fishes, with all kind of depression. You are asking to. He says you should come to him. When you come to him, you will never be said again.

Walk in Christ this is the message God is giving to everyone today, irrespective of whatever you have. As he goes, man is saying, you covered up today. They say Jesus will never fail. Jesus will never fail.

Like this. We are coming all the seats to the altar of God. And we want the choir master to give us a song from there. Not 193.

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