God Is Not Partial, Part 1: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:01 We found today, we’re going to find that there is no partiality with God. God does not favor one above another. Absolutely no favoritism, no respect or persons with God. If God did things with Abraham, he will do things with us. Abraham’s faith works. But we got to get away from the faith that America is preaching to us and get back to the faith that Abraham had. Sometimes we think that some people are just made different. That’s why they’re better than us, and, and you know, they attain more than us. Sometimes we think other people are more gifted than us, and we excuse ourselves from obtaining these things. Sometimes we think we’re just too bad to be changed. God just can’t do it, we’re just too bad, we’ve been too bad. And I’ve showed you over and over that the unpardonable sin was forgiven by the blood of Christ, and so anything can be forgiven, and any of us can be forgiven. Amen.

▶ 1:30 Sometimes we think we’re uneducated. You know, some of us could have sought a better education, but it’s not secular education that gets this stuff done, it’s spiritual education, and all of us can get spiritual education. Amen. We don’t have to be a doctor, a lawyer or a PhD. And sometimes we think God just favors other people, and uh, he’s just special because God just favored him, and that’s why the other people make great Christians and I will barely make it into heaven, if at all. That’s a lot of mentality out there, and we got to drop that and remember that God is not partial. He doesn’t come to one above another. He offers us all the same thing. Could that be true? It’s what we do with the offer that makes the difference. And hopefully today we can see that this faith of Abraham is the ingredient that all of us can have to get these promises.

▶ 2:45 Remember the faith of Abraham. Romans 4:21: Abraham was fully persuaded. He had full faith that what God God promised, God was able to perform, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Now, if you want to be righteous before you ever obtain living a life of righteousness, then the key here is you got to believe like Abraham did, that God has the power to perform what he promised us. And I may not see the result in my life yet, but I see that God has the power to do for me what he promised to do, and that makes me righteous. Hallelujah. Besides the blood of Christ making me righteous, my faith, that’s the kind of faith I have in that blood, that blood has made me righteous, and I am being shaped and formed into living and speaking rightly, correct. And so that can give us great confidence. See, so God is not partial. If it worked for Abraham, it would work for you. And I, could that be a great amen?

▶ 4:26 Now, this is important stuff. This is your foundational stuff to grow and mature in God and never quit and never give up. This is the real deal, and it’s that simple. It’s not this faith that they’re promoting, and all these preachers, they said, “Well, if you believe, God will do this for you.” You know, God did a lot of things for people that did not believe. See, our faith has to rise above their lack of faith, or else we just give an excuse: “Well, you know, you didn’t get your healing because you didn’t believe.” Well, that’s a great excuse, but it’s not Bible. God doesn’t have to heal everybody. God does what he wants in heaven and earth, but he will heal, he will do things. Amen. And so these preachers of this kind of faith, they always have an outlet: it’s your fault because you didn’t believe. But in the Bible there is no excuse. If you have the faith of Abraham, God will give you the promise, and it’s not the minister, now, it is God who has the power to do what he said he would do. Did that make sense to you?

▶ 5:59 See, in America our eyes are on the mighty man and the mighty woman of God. Our eyes are on somebody that has this thing with God, that if they pray for us and they do something for us, then man, my life will be changed. But in the Bible our eyes must be on Jesus, who has the power to perform what he promised. Amen. Now that’s the faith of Abraham, and we are reminded of that. And like the boy’s father, the father who came to Jesus and wanted Jesus to heal his son of a demon, and Jesus said, “I can, if you believe,” and he said, “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.” Boy, I can identify with that one. I believe that book, but there’s some doubt. Will he do it? And Jesus what overcome his unbelief and healed the son. So see, if you got belief and some doubt, that’s no problem with him. He will help if you say, “Help, Lord, my unbelief.” He will still do what he promised to do. Isn’t that beautiful? Allelujah. So, you know, don’t exempt yourself because you got some doubt. Just say, “Lord, I believe,” like this guy did, “help my unbelief.” Amen. and And Jesus is faithful.

▶ 7:31 Now we got to remember God promises to bless those that have the faith of Abraham. Okay, he promises to bless those, they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. A great name, a great nation, he blesses us, we are a blessing to others, we will have troubles. He wants to birth Christ in us, not Isaac but Christ in us. He wants to multiply us as the stars of heaven, as a church, and he will protect us. Those were the promises given to Abraham, and he said if you have the faith of Abraham, then you will be blessed with faithful Abraham. “I will make you a great name.” How many would like a good name? Yeah. People say, okay. How many would like to see the church become a great kingdom in the earth? Yes. See, how many would like to see the church multiply and increase, not through men’s techniques but the Bible’s? Allelujah. You see, and if we have the faith of Abraham, then we will be blessed with the same promises that Abraham had, and God is not what? Partial. Hallelujah. He’s not going to favor one church above another, one believer above another.

▶ 9:16 Now, let’s look at scriptures to see if other people were blessed when they used Abraham’s faith. Okay, let’s just look at some examples. Hannah. Hannah was married to a man, and she didn’t have any children, and Hannah went to the house of God consistently and prayed consistently. She was a good believer, but she didn’t have children, just like Sarah didn’t have a child, and she had an adversary that provoked her painfully, even to the place where it made her fret because she had no child. This verbal attack, this verbal abuse, it affected her eating habits. The Bible says she couldn’t eat. It was affecting her so much. You see, she had her troubles to go through. How many are finding out that troubles is part of the Christian life? Yeah, it’s no big deal, it comes with the package. That’s part of the blessing of Abraham. “Is you’re going to have troubles.” in this world You will have what? Tribulation. “Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” Your troubles may come physically, uh, it may come mentally, it may come emotionally, it may come in your marriage, it may come in your family, your kids may hate you, finances may just seem to, you know, flee from you, but you just hang tight, God God will get you through those troubles. Amen. “There is no temptation come up man that is not common to man, and God will” what? Make a way of escape, that we can what? Bear up under it. We can handle this.

▶ 11:18 Hallelujah. And you’re going to see every one of these people with problems, and you’ll see every one of them with success. And that that’s unlike the faith in America. The faith in America says if you believe, no problems. That is not Bible. Adam and Eve still had the problem of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That was a problem. They only [unclear] commandment, and it troubled them, it caused him trouble, and I can go on and on and on. Uh, Hannah went to the house of God this year. She she went up every you know, but this time she went up and she did the same thing she always did. She went and prayed, and for you silent prayers, Hannah is probably the only example in the Bible where she didn’t make any noise, she just moved her mouth, she just moved her lips, praying silently between her and God. But this time God heard and gave her a child, and gave her several more. Allelujah. See, she won over the troubles. She did get blessed by God, but she was consistent in her serving God. Are you with me?

▶ 12:52 So did Elizabeth. Remember in the New Testament, Elizabeth was old and she was barren, but she believed that God had the power to perform what he spoke, and when that angel said, “You’re going to have a child,” she had no problem saying, “Okay, Lord, let there let there be a performance.” 1st Samuel 18:30: “David behaved himself wisely, more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.” Okay, David had a name, a great name. People, at the name of David, people just honored David. He had a good name. Hallelujah. But David had problems. His wife divorced him. He had to live in the desert in caves and so forth, running for his life as a fugitive, because Saul wanted to kill him, and this went on for years until God came and fulfilled the promise to David to make him a king and bless him. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We don’t know how many years Hannah went through her problem, but we know David went through about 13 years. How many you’re in your seventh year or 10th year or of problems? Hallelujah. Nobody’s raising their hand. It does come to pass. It does come to pass.

▶ 14:39 Now remember this child being born is really an illustration of Christ being formed in us. Galatians 4:19: “I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,” Paul said. “We have this treasure in earthen vessels.” The church was first called Christians at Antioch. Why? Because people could see Christ in their life. This is the way Jesus lived, this is the way Jesus talked. Christians, you know, like Christ, from Christ. Hallelujah. Christian today is just a word that means we believe in Christ. In the Bible it was different. See, that word meant they lived like Christ lived, they imitated Christ. Today we call ourselves Christians and we imitate whatever. Amen.

▶ 15:35 Now let’s go on, Asa, in 2 Chronicles 14:7. He said, “Let us build cities because we have sought the Lord,” so they build and prosper. Before this, the highways were empty, there was trouble in Israel, the economy was down, but when they begin to seek God, things changed. And I’ll tell you, that’s something that our Congress needs to get. They’re trying to figure out everything, but they won’t kneel down and just humble them themselves before God. He can change the economy overnight. Uh, our forefathers did that. our Our founding constitutional people that signed the Constitution prayed in every session. I mean prayed. They would pray, not for five minutes, this went on for a while, sometimes it lasted over an hour, weeping before God. You need to read those things. But our Congress, oh no, they want to get God In Trust” out now and and so forth. But Asa was different. He got the people to seek God, God came, but Asa had problems. 1 million plus Ethiopian army came against him. He was outnumbered over 2 to one, and he called on God. See, he had his troubles, and God came and got him through the trouble.

▶ 17:16 Uh, in 2 Chronicles 32:30, Hezekiah prospered in all his works. We have to apply ourself. We can’t just sit and pray and fast and do nothing. If you want financial prosperity, you got to learn a job skill, you got to go to college, you got to go to tech school, you got to do something, you got to apply yourself. Could that be an amen? You know, and that’s another problem with the faith camp: you just name it, claim it, believe it, receive it. It doesn’t work that way. If you don’t plant a field, nothing will grow. A’t that right? And so Hezekiah, and everything he applied himself to, he what? Prospered. He was successful. You see, God blessed him with success, and he had his problems. He got sick and was going to die, and the prophet come and told him, “You’re going to die.” And Hezekiah said, “Lord, I have served you, you know, I want you to heal me and give me life.” And God turned the prophet around, who hadn’t even got out of the castle yet, send him back in and said, “God’s going to give you 15 more years.” See, it pray it pays to be persistent. Don’t give up, even if a prophet comes and tells you it’s over. Man, fight to the end. Go to your God. He’s bigger.

▶ 18:43 Like David said, when his child was going to die, David fasted and prayed and sought God until the child died. Why? Because David told his servants, “Who knows? God is a merciful God, and who knows if he will heal my son or not?” So I’m going to seek him. And when the child died, he got up, went on with life, and they [unclear], “Now the child’s dead.” He said, “No, it’s over. The child’s gone.” But we got to fight. Amen. We got to fight this battle and trust our God and and seek him. And then you got Daniel in 6:28: “Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and Cyrus.” prospered. He’s in captivity. He’s being punished for the sins of his fathers. Daniel was a just man. He didn’t have sin, but he had to go into captivity because of the way the forefathers lived, and God said, “I got to correct this.” And so innocent people also got corrected along with the guilty people. And in captivity, Daniel is high in command in the heathen nation. Daniel is well looked up to, and Daniel very prospered. But he had problems. There are some people that didn’t like him, and so they connived to get the king to turn against Daniel, and they threw Daniel in the lions’ den. And some of us feel like we’re thrown in the lions’ den by our friends, our relatives and our opponents.

▶ 20:25 But God sent an angel to shut the mouths of the lions, and Daniel went to sleep, used the lions for a pillow, and come out the next day. And the king, see, Daniel had an effect on the king of Babylon. The king fasted and prayed for Daniel. Are you there? Hallelujah. Powerful. So you never know why your troubles are there. might not only be for your gain and development, it might be for someone else’s. Hallelujah. I want you to understand that problems are part of the package. Don’t get down because you’re going through problems. God’s bigger than these things. Let’s go to the early church. In Acts 3:26, God sent Jesus to bless you and turning all of you from his iniquities. Okay, this is the promise of Abraham, that you will be a blessing to all families of the earth. Jesus came and did that. And how did he bless the world? By coming and turning them from their iniquities. Now folks, if we don’t preach sin and we don’t preach what iniquities are, how are they going to turn?

▶ 21:47 And this thing in the American church is, don’t preach hell, fire and brimstone, and sin, just, you know, flatter the people. That’s not Bible. Jesus taught sin. The apostles taught sin. From Genesis to Revelation the Bible talks about sin. Could that be an amen? And repent from it and turn to do right. And Jesus came to bless us by turning us to right, because wrong, remember, sin will correct you. Sin has a punishment in itself. It’s not even God, it’s just when you do wrong, there’s a price to pay. Correct. So he doesn’t want us hurt, he doesn’t want us to have ruined lives. Now that’s fine for Jesus, but you got to remember the apostles, the early church also took this message and turned people to Christ. In Acts 19:19, I love this: many who practice magic burn their books in the sight of everybody. They went out and preached the gospel. These people were into witchcraft, and books at that time were very expensive because they were handwritten, and they were hard to come by. It wasn’t like you can go down to the local bookstore and buy a book. They had to scribe it for you, they had to write it for you from the original copy. And when God’s word and God’s presence touched these people, they didn’t go to their home and just keep their book. They came out publicly and burn these books. Hallelujah. Could we use a little of that in America?

▶ 23:38 Now folks, that’s the power of the word and the power of his presence. Okay, and you also remember First Corinthians 6:11, when he talks about sexual immorality and adultery and fornication and homosexuality and stealing and drunkenness and [unclear] and extortion and all this stuff. He says, “Of such were some of you.” You see, they preached the word and the word worked. They weren’t homosexuals anymore, they weren’t adulterers anymore, they weren’t thieves anymore, they weren’t drunkards anymore. Why? God changed their life. The blessing of Abraham, and everybody knew it. They never had to go to a recovery program, they never had to go to a psychologist or to a psychiatrist or anything. It was the power of the word and the power of the presence that came and changed these people’s lives. And the early church is a great example of inheriting the blessings of Abraham. And I really believe, and I’ve been preaching it for decades, that instead of going to church growth seminar, we need to get that book open, get on on our knees. That’s the formula, that’s the pattern that worked back then. That pattern has not changed. You can have people in a church, and they may not be born again at all, but when they come through God’s pattern, it’s real and it’s public, and people see the difference. Could that be an amen?

▶ 25:25 These congressmen that say, “Well, you know, I don’t wear God on my sleeve,” well, where do you wear him? In the book. The public knew where you stood. You can’t hide this thing. Are you understanding me? Allelujah. The power of the early church, they were a blessing to the people.