We have been considering in these days what
true spirituality is.
Through His power, this is what it means
to build with gold, silver.
He does not give up the will of
God.
He does not seek the will of God
in every area.
He does not seek for God's power.
He can be defeated in His light, and
yet full of activity, religious activity, defeated by
Satan.
But He doesn't desert it, because maybe He
sacrifices.
And He does not think primarily of allowing
God to let God's light flow through Him
to others.
He engages in religious activity to ease His
conscience, to get others' satisfaction.
And today we want to consider.
First of all, we saw, today
we want to see.
When Jesus
was exposing Him, He
said, when you do good, don't let others
even know about it.
He said, don't let your left hand know.
For people to obey that command.
You see how He gives
so much of His honey, not for the
glory of God.
There is no force for it.
Anything that is done, however good it
is, your arms must be in secret, so
that your father, who sees in secret, will
reap it.
When I look at the amount of activity
done by Christians in so many places, one
wonders why God doesn't bless and reward them
abundantly.
Many people give money to ease their conscience.
It's always the principle of the Lord, or
offering us a reward.
And whenever I do a work, if for
example, a preacher tells me, that if you
don't give your life to God, be careful,
you may have to spend it.
Or if a preacher says, God will bless
you, you'll get a hundredfold back.
And he gives it.
But he is doing this.
There is no force for it.
These are the activities of a religious person.
Everything he does, whether it's giving money, or
praying, or reading the Bible, is always with,
what can I get out of it?
Can I be protected from judgment?
Will it bless my family?
Will my children be blessed if I give
something to God?
There is no difference between a Christian giving
like that to God, and a heathen, who
also goes to his temple or his church,
is one who seeks the glory of God,
in everything that he does, of our life,
that determines whether we are spiritual or religious.
You see, it's not the external, all of
us being the same external actor, but
however wrong you may hear me preach, you
can never know.
It's not the words I speak, the fluency
of the speech, as far as God is
concerned, He searches the heart.
A person can preach, and may not be
a spiritual man, but his motive, we
have a lot of music cassettes now.
I wonder how many of those songs have
been sung.
Younger people get some tremendous surprises.
He said to them, when you pray, for
example, he said, don't be like the heathen.
They pray in the synagogues, by man.
And they have that reward.
Your brain must be in secret.
So that, your father, verse 6, who sees
in secret, will repay you.
Now, here is an area where we can
also prove, very probably, exactly ourselves, most of
us, and if we were to answer ourselves,
whether we pray in secret, in the same
way as we pray, whether we are the
same person before God, whether we pray for
the same subject as we pray for, that's
what Jesus taught the heathens.
When he prays, he
is seeking the glory of God in everything.
When he fasts, and yet I have discovered
that right up until the depiction of brothers
and sisters, motive determines everything as far as
two people can do exactly the same, one
may be a disciple, that's
the thing.
It's not a question of when
we are born again, but we are still
seeking our own, when God gives us life,
one who
examines everything he knows, in the light of
this commandment, if there is some self-seeking
in this, in 2 Corinthians 7, let us
pledge, both men and women, 50
years of the pledge, relates to a lot
of things, 50
years in the family, and he saw me,
there were people who had to, these
people, he helped them, selling these dogs and
sheep right there, they were not allowed to
have the Roman, so here were people who
were offering, they
wanted a commission of it, they didn't do
it without a commission, if
you want to earn your living, you better
go to the market, when you come to
serve me, you cannot serve me, as a
professional, you cannot serve me, says the Lord,
in order to earn your living, Jesus did
not call Peter and James and John to
serve him, to earn their living, he asked
them to give up that, and to trust
him, and it is because those who trusted
him, followed the Lord, without any promise of
reaction, God
supported them, 100% through the years, Christian
service has been corrupted, exactly like those money
changers in the temple, we have now, all
types of people, and it's become, it's a
means of earning a living, it's a salary
profession, to people who are serving, and
when they become rich, they have to justify
their wealth, by saying that when we honour
God, and if
Jesus were to come into our church, what
is the motive, that is the important question,
brothers and sisters, we cannot serve God, if
our motive is not His motive, whether we
are full time workers, or, cycle workers, it
doesn't matter who we are, if the motive,
that infures, if
we are to be effective, who
seek to judge themselves, make the challenge, there
is no, limit, in the way God commands
us to follow, for any
motive, in any area of my life, other
than the glory of God, I believe, Jesus
said for example, take one area, these
words, in my whole life, I've never heard
anybody say, no servant, can serve two mothers,
and love the other, or even hold the
one, and despise the other, and
he, he was an atheist, these
Christians all said, they all did it, think
of Dubai, is there a difference in the
motive, the
difference is only in the little, take
the decision, any
day, any day, before God, and yet this
person, who has got the right doctrine in
baptism, may become God, and
the real issue, this
is the truth, I
don't believe those things, my doctrine of baptism,
he's not believing the glory of God, you
see how silly it is, I'm
not just speaking that to you, think of
what God said, co
-workers, they
had the right form of baptism, verse 19
says, I hope in the Lord Jesus, the
sanctity will be given shortly, so that I
may be encouraged, then he says in verse
20, of the same spirit, what
is the mark of a religious person, as
it was to a spiritual person, he's got
all his doctrines right, what is the mark
of a spiritual person, fundamentally, that he does
not seek his own interest, the glory of
God, the kingdom of God, first, in everything,
every decision, every decision of his is determined
by, that's his spirituality, let's never fool ourselves,
that spirituality, is based on, that's how many
believers fool themselves, that's why there's so much
of deadness, it's
amazing, he didn't say that
doctrines were wrong, he didn't say that you've
got this doctrine wrong, that doctrine wrong, when,
how, what will I get out of it,
becomes the motivating factor of their life, and
not, what will God get out of it,
I believe these are, words, do
you think we can sit down today and
say, well, I'm like him, whatever
my doctrine may be, and the other person
who's got half his doctrines wrong, by
giving a little more money for God, seeking
my own interest, or
giving time for God's work, the Lord Jesus
Christ came to her, and in all the
50 years that I was a believer, if
he didn't change my body, if when I
was born again, you
are right, I am right, my heart is
filled with desire for truth, you
are justified, seek
your own interest, do your business,
don't pause, when it comes to a verse
like this, why did we spend so many
hours, studying about baptism, so many hours studying
about, speaking in tongues, and something far more
important, which
may, and there God sees in us, when
a person, sit
away and speak to us, if
I love
money Lord, when
I have an opportunity to cleanse myself, then
I need to go another one job, he
can be a baptist, every man who's pure,
when I discover I'm not loyal, I need
to purify myself, I need to cleanse myself,
Lord, that's wrong, let
me tell you the words of Jesus Christ,
chapter 6 again, verse 7,
if you have not been faithful, in the
youth of unrighteous man, who will entrust, what
is the true religion, what is the true
religion, the nature of God, revelation,
the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and
here it says, if you are not faithful,
with unrighteous man, get
the best education, and get the best job,
but then, so, when
God gives us, unrighteous man, who I am,
and I'm not faithful, when I'm being faithful,
it does not mean, how much,
when I look around, and I look around
so many, when
I see such a, he's
not seeking the glory of God, in
everything, pray
that prayer of Moses, it's not 90 verse
12, humor,
people, who
judge, I
want to seek your glory, in everything I
do, that
is the final day, the Lord loves me,
for the rightful, and I won't be able
to give him a right answer,