Weeping Will Not Save You But Faith in Jesus Will

Pastor S. N. Etukudo

Sunday, July 26, 202642:143 Listens

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Thank you for making difficult for us to gather and hear you talk to us. Word of Life before we participate in the Holy Communion that is scheduled for today, there is a message God has sent to every one of us. And the top of the message says, weeping will not save you and faith in Jesus win. Weeping will not save you and faith in Jesus win.

Love in Christ. It is common for an offender to weep today in order to carry favor even when there is no genuine repentance. You see people weeping, they know them fully well. They have not given repentance from their hearts.

At times the offended or the judge may forgive due to the fake display of emotion. And one thing is sure, God's judgment is not as a result of emotional display. It is rooted from the salvation that comes from our faith in Jesus Christ. Our faith in Jesus Christ.

Hence the message says, weeping will not save you, but faith will give us a will. Hebrews 12, verse 14 to 17. Hebrews 12 verse 14. 12 From verse 14.

17 to 17 follow peace with all men and holiness without which no one shall see the Lord looking diligently lest any man fell on the grace of God, lest any room fruit of bitterness spring up, trouble you thereby many in fact, lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Es who for one mus of meat sold his bread. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with stairs. Though he sought it carefully with stairs. Here is assuring that has been told us time without number concerning Esau, who sold a birthright through greed, though not caring about the importance of what betrayed is.

Many of us today are children of God by faith, by our Savior Jesus Christ. That is our day, right? But we can sell it when we do not follow the instruction that is given from the Holy book of God. Here we are told that we should follow peace with all men with that which no one shall see the Lord.

When all men is mentioned, it includes husband, wife, children, neighbors. Anybody you come across, you have to follow peace with us. Some families are not enjoying this peace between husband and wife, between their fellow congregants and their neighbors. Also they are colleagues in the office where they are doing their business.

That the Word of God says, if you are not following peace with everyone, you will not see the Lord, you will not see the Lord. This is a command from Command from. A commandment from God. There is no other constitution we are going to use.

I am very wise Even though I don't care to make peace with him or hell, even though I have decided to follow my path and let him follow his own path, I'll still go to heaven. You don't go to heaven because you desire to go. You go to heaven because God has seen that you believe in him and that you have honored Him. Then looking diligently, diligently, lest any man fall of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up, trouble you and there by name.

B5 said we should look diligently, look at it very seriously so that you will not fall out from the grace, the grace of God that has made us children of God today. And that grace is Jesus Christ. That grace was manifested when he was hung on the cross and he shedded his blood for the forgiveness of our sins and reconciliation. That is the price that was paid for us to become children of God and a people that are Yemen for eternal salvation.

But if we fall short of the instruction he is giving us after he has winked at all our wrongdoings in the past, then we will have ourselves to blame. He said we should also be very careful that we will not be defiled by any root of bitterness springing out from any, whether from our husband, from our wife, from our children, from anybody. Be very careful how you support a wrongdoer so that you will not fall into the same condemnation he himself is falling into. Be mindful of your judgment.

Whenever anything happens. Don't judge because that thing, that person is related to you, you misjudged. You don't want to show the person the right track to follow. If you do so, your eternal salvation is at stake.

And that is why we are being warned to be very careful. Unless there be any fornicator or profane person, assistant who for one morsel of meat. So is that right? Yeah.

Any fornicator in the house? Yeah. Adulterer in the house of God. Be very mindful of what he agreed between.

Don't hide that. Confess it. Confess it and return from following that track. Because weeping will not save you.

Here. We could see, he said, for we know that how, that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance, though he started carefully with the tears. A time came when Isaac, their father, was to bless them.

Jacob wants to bless them. And he was told. He told his son, Esau, look, I want to bless you. Go and look for venison and bring to me.

Let me bless you. And his mother overheard when that statement was made. He himself and Jacob also abh. When the father made that statement, they quickly went in a very subtle way and did something on the body of Jacob.

And then the mother prepared the dish and he brought the leads to the father. And the Father blessed him. Bless Jacob in the seat of Esau. The reason being that he was not supposed to have that blessing as the first son having shown his birthright.

Today, anytime we commit sin, anytime we tell lies, we commit fornication, adultery, we go into drunkenness, we extort people, money, wrongly do things that is against the word of God. We are selling our bedright. Because you cannot without attribute. You call yourself a child of God.

A child of God cannot realize. A child of God cannot sin. A child of God will be very careful on what he does. So whenever you find yourself doing a different thing, you are selling your bed, right?

The word of God said, be very careful when he saw Billy. And then in the time of blessing, he wanted that blessing. He was not he was denied that blessing. It will be the same thing with everyone today that we said he made right because of one thing or the other.

Maybe you needed a food, maybe you needed a tie. Maybe you needed to just satisfy your audience. Whatever that led you to sell your birthright. Regret will be more than that thing you are handling.

When we sell our bed rights like Esau. Weeping will not save us. Weeping will not save us. It cannot restore impact us that faith in Jesus win.

Faith in Jesus win. Let's discover that in the Scripture. Genesis 27, verse 30 to 38, Genesis 27,. Genesis 27, from verse 30 to 38, to 38.

And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob. And Jacob was yet cast on out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother, came in from his aunt, and he also had made sovereign it, and brought it unto his Father, and said unto his Father, let my father arise and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac his father said unto me, go art thou. And he said, I am thy son, my firstborn Esau.

And Isaac trembled Verizon in me and said, who there is he that hath taken venison and brought it, and brought it me. And I have eaten of all the Father tenets, and have blessed him, Yea, and he shall bless. And when Esau heard the word of his Father, he cried with a grace and a seeming bitter cry, and said unto his Father, bless me, heal me also, O my Father. And he said, my brother came with subtility and have taken away thy blessing.

And he said, is it not? He writes me them to Jacob, for he hath supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. And behold, now he had taken away my blessing.

And he said, art thou not reserved a blessing for me? And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, behold, I have made him thy Lord. And all his brethren have I given to him in thy sacrifice. And with form and mine have I sustained him.

And what shall I do now unto thee, my son? And Esau said unto his father. But. One person, my father, bless me.

Even me also. Oh, my father. And Esau lifted his voice and isolated. His voice and words.

You have followed his story. You have heard how it is. Esau started by selling one spec rights. Isaac was to bless his first son.

By this time, the eye of Isaac was dim. He couldn't recognize who is Isaac, who is Jacob. But he could only recognize the voice. But the mother did something.

They took the skin because this body was discovered skin, you know, like a good skin or whatever. So it was well covered. And then the voice was still the voice. Because there's no way you can mimic anything.

You can't mimic another person's voice. Yeah, he just like some people who try to mimic the voice of white men. Later on sometime you will. They will speak like African person because it wasn't the original.

You know phonetic, you know language, you see. So when the mother and the Jacob had that ISRA was to be blessed, they did something speculate. And then Esau brought Jacob brought the baby his father needed to bless, to bless Esau to him. And he felt his body and said, ah, where the skin is the skin of Esau.

But the voice is the voice of Jacob. How managed Jacob kept quiet. The aroma of the village was already in his nose. And he cannot afford to keep it away.

He had to take it and bless Jacob in the steel of Esau. He blessed him, making all his brothers to be a servant under him, blessing him with all the good things of life. Then after that, he saw return. I needed blessing.

The father said, ah, who did that person I have blessed. Your brother came and I have blessed him. And he shall be blessed. That blessing can never be withdrawn from him.

He shall be blessed. He pleaded with his fire. Is it only one blessing you have? Bless me.

I beg of you, bless me. He started crying, weeping. The father said, well, I have already made him your lord. You'll be his servants.

And all others will also be servants. What Led to that, the most important thing is that he sold his birthright. They cry. Believers will cry after the rapture will be much more than the cry of Esau.

As Esau was not forgiven, as Esau was not shown any other kindness, so shall it be to anyone that will cry after the rapture. That is why we need to revive our faith in the Lord. We need to revive our spiritual lives, life of holiness and righteousness. Our faith in Christ Jesus.

Many today have shivered their faith because of one thing or the other. What is that thing that has made you to weaken your faith in the Lord? You see lack of food, lack of husband, lack of blood, lack of job opportunity. Whatever it is God has spoken today in a language that that is good enough for you to adjust.

Otherwise women will not save you. But F in Jesus will. Jeremiah 4, verse 1 and 2. Let's see what God wants us to do.

Jeremiah chapter 4 from verse 1 to 2. Here you will see and that no nationality or human logic can restore us to God. Except human repentance. Except human repentance and our faith in the resurrected Jesus.

That is the only thing that can restore all back. Yes. Go ahead. Yes.

Jeremiah chapter 4, verse 1 to 2. If thou w return, O Israel, return unto me. And if thou wilt put away thy abominations out of my sight, then shall thou must reward. And thou shalt sway the worldly flesh in truths, in judgment and righteousness.

And the nations shall bless themselves in him. And in him shall be glorified, beloved in Christ. From generation to generation God has been very merciful to his children. He has never thrown his children away uprightly.

He has always been giving his children room for repentance and restoration. The children of Israel went into abominable life by worshipping idol. And I was shaking themselves all manner of sins. God avows what they were doing.

Because at all the time God is not friendly with sin. May be a friend with a sinner, but he can never be friendly with sin. He now invited them back. That return means repent.

Say if thou will return. Oh he bright send the love return unto me. And if thou will put away thine abomination out of my sight, then shall thou not remove. Then shall thou not remove.

I will not remove you. And this is the right time for us to do that. After the rapture God is going to remove anyone that has not given to this instruction. Say, and thou shalt sway.

The Lord liveth in truth, in judgment and in righteousness. And in righteousness. And the nation shall bless themselves. In him and in him shall they glory.

In him shall they glory. You see what was common in the days of Israel. Any statement they will make, whether falsehood or in truth, they will say, the Lord liveth, I didn't do this thing. The Lord liveth, they must live it.

Just as somebody will say today, God understand heaven and Abe understand that I did not do this thing I did not do. But his conscience will tell him, my friend, you did this thing, you did it. And the record will be there saying that you did it. Then somebody can swear.

Swear to the sand that was used in creating it. Swear to every tree in the entire world, swear to every rivers that is flowing in the earth. But yet they threw the n. You did it. Because whatever we are saying, if we are not saying the truth, India comes record.

And that record will be open on that very day. Those who have tears will weep. And the word of God says there will be weeping and gnashing of teaching that you have teeth or you don't have teeth. God will give you teeth or not.

And that is why it'll be good to n our teeth today. We weep today so that we not weep that day. Don't hide anything. Don't hide anything, you know.

And when that day shall come, you will not be able to stand. I watched one video the other day where somebody reported a requirement to someone and the person called police. And the police went into the compound. When this man came out, he was calling the police, what are these kidnappers doing?

They said, we are not kidding aas, we are police. We are from the CID department. He came to search him. When they forced himself, forced themselves into the house, he came, he took them.

They said, show us all your room. We want to save them. When they try to go into the inner room where he has his workshop, he said, don't force it, don't force it, don't force it. The people force him.

He go and they look like a small child inside Ghana must go back for meeting money. For meeting money. Look at all the things he used to do. Then they ask him, where is that, that lady you collected last night?

Where is that lady? He wanted to deny it initially they beat him up. He took them up. When he took them up, look at.

They saw a snake on the the b. They asked me, what is this snake doing here? Say it is that lady. The lady that he turned to this snake.

They shouted and the lady was vomiting money, vomiting dollar, not dollar. They brought. He brought the snake down with the police. They asked me, look, you must Turn this lady back.

Say he cannot come. They didn't do it by himself. There is somebody that used to join him to do this thing. They asked him to call him.

They called the man. The man didn't know what was happening. He said, there's a surprise I want to show you. Come, come.

From the man came. When the man came, they beat him up, ask him to turn the baby, to turn the snake. To that lady said, it is too late except you kill me. That's when this, this leg will become that any.

But if don't kill me, he will still remain in a safe form. He cannot come back. Cuz it has become late. Cuz people have started seeing now it was no longer something secret.

They can't do it, you see. But then when that thing was not, they say everybody in the environment was hailing the man as a big man in the society, a businessman and so on. That is how some people hide their sins today. But in the day of judgment, if there is a camera that can come and identify what happened in a place even when the camera was not there, how much must God's camera?

God is picturing everything we are doing. It doesn't matter who we are, pastors, members, whatever religion we belong to. In that very day we will see all that will be, except the sins we confess. Those ones are blotted out.

The blood of Jesus has washed them away. But if we try to do funny things and say, let me hide, so that people will not know I'm a wicked person. People will not know I did this, I did that. Brothers and sisters, you are just wasting your time in the church.

You are going nowhere. Your place is eternally consigned. And that is why we have a place like this to come and watch ourselves play. By the hearing of the word of God and repentance.

Those who reject God's call today shall we profusely sleep when we still be rejected by Christ. In the day of reckoning. In the day of reckoning, we and we and we. When the door is closed, is closed.

Therefore, if we had to serve ourselves is today Luke 13, 28 and 29. Luke chapter 13, verse 28 and 29. Luke chapter 13. From verse 28 to 29.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. When you shall see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all the prophets in the kingdom of God. You yourselves lost house. And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

Love in Christ. What would happen for somebody who was in the church. What will happen for somebody whose people knew that he was a believer to be trust us. Whereas Abraham, Isaac, we have already seen now that they are names.

There are people already emerged for the kingdom of God. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the race of the heroes and the ruin as mentioned in Luke 11. You see a long list. People used to say, no, no.

The word of God said, no righteous man. No righteous man. But read the Bible. You see, God said Job was a righteous person.

Noah was a righteous person. Joseph of Ariman, Arimathea, a righteous person. A lot of people. A lot of people.

And the word of God says anybody that exercise faith on God is a a righteous person. Therefore, if you allow somebody to indoctrinate you to go into sin. After all, nobody's righteous repentance is important. There are many people today in the church that will be thrust out.

But Abraham and Isaac and Jacob will not be thrust out. Why? Because they exercise faith on God. They live according to the directives of God.

Therefore, we should be very careful. Those who claim they are enjoying their life today in sin will show their lives. They will bring it to the detriment of their soul. To the detriment of their soul.

After all, that is what is in God. The world is, you know, changing. I have to change. I have to behave like the world.

What the world says, there's another. He says, after all, even you are in room. You must behave as a romance. God is not coming to take rumors.

He's coming to take believers. It is believers that will hear the trumpet sound. Are you behaving like the Romans? You have yourself to blame.

Let all of us behave as believers. Let us not worship God in vain. Because that day will be a very terrible one. Not in Christ.

We want to confirm again in Luke 6. 25 Luke chapter 6, verse 25 Luke. Chapter 6, verse 25Luke chapter 6, verse 25. Woe unto you that are full for years are hunger.

Woe unto you that love now for years are more. Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn and live. What is he saying here?

Those that feel that life should be thrown into the world. The way is pleasing to the body. To their body. They seem to be full today.

They seem to enjoy today. And when you look at them, you see there's nothing wrong with them. They may still be making money. They may still be building houses here and there, having cars, having estate, having a lot of things.

But living Is it the living easy words? The word of God directly from Jesus said Woe unto you that are full for each hunger for each other hunger. Remember that rich man and Lazarus. That man was cool.

He had all it takes life. It takes to make life meaningful. He was always raising obvious apparel. But he would not allow Lazarus to conveniently eat from the crumbs that fall from his devil.

So that at least he will not eat from you know, the stew that may touch the crumbs. And he always lose his dog. He'll go out and make Lazarus saw so that he speed up the time of death. Lateral died the earlier came and to soul to heaven.

The rich man died and was buried found in the Edes that he was full here on earth. That he was able to eat all the sweet deliveries was not enough to keep him away from particular suffering in the G. Many people are going there today. Many people will continue to grow. We should be very careful that we do not allow worldliness.

Anybody that lives according to the rudiment of the world to be our role model. Let Jesus Christ be our role model. Let those who did well in the scripture be our role model. Let those who are doing well today in the sight of God be our role model.

Many people today, even in churches, Jezebel is their role model. Many people today in The House of God 45 wife is their role model. Many people today will not allow Joseph to be their role model. And don't do it well in their own time.

But it should not be you. It should not be me. Because weeping will not sing. Faith in Jesus will.

Let us listen to the only solution. That is the thing that will make us to enjoy eternal salvation. Let us release. If we know how to sing, we will sing it after.

But let us reading in FDX 651 FDX 651. We know it. We know it actually for you, okay? It.

Will us. Jesus lives and die for him. Lo. Jesus.

Here we could see that there is nothing whatsoever a man can do to save me. Except faith in Jesus Christ. Here we could see wicked and also work. I knew how to work.

I work for God. I'll carry blood. I'll carry cement. I'll carry this and that says work will not save you.

God will not save you. I go to church every day. I go to church every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and so on. Yet you are not doing the will of God.

Satan will not save you. Waiting will not save you. Faith in Jesus will. Faith in Jesus.

No matter the condition, no matter the trials. And temptation we are passing through. Do not allow anybody to shift you away from exercising faith in the Lord Jesus. He is the one who came to die for us on the cross of Calvary and the Word of God says that Jesus Christ came to die so that whosoever believed in him will never be that was born out of the love of God.

Therefore let your faith continue to anchor on God what you don't have today God will give you tomorrow tomorrow please that it will be better than today. Allow you to begin to think that as people can set freely carry favor that you be done so before God. No weeping will not save you but faith in Jesus. The Lord and his angels bless you in Jesus name.

Amen. Go to God in prayer thanking him for the good, asking for grace to be able to adopt to the sight and good enough to serve us. Let us pray. I might break.

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