Thou art worthy, thou art worthy, thou art
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor
and power.
For thou art worthy, O Lord, for thou
hast created all things, hast created, thou hast
created all things, and for thy pleasure they
are and were created, for thou art worthy,
O Lord.
I am missionary Richard Yerby in Japan, calling
on Japanese Buddhists to repent of and to
forsake their satanic idols and to turn to
the one true living God who created them
and then to live the remainder of their
lives on earth to give glory and honor
and power to their creator because he is
most worthy and deserving of the greatest glory.
Also, he himself is all-powerful and he
is soon to draw them before his judgment
bar to judge them according to his righteous
standard.
My friend, listen to me now.
God is soon to bring you and me
before his judgment bar in like manner.
He warns us all in his holy Bible
that it is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God.
He more fearfully warns us that our God
who created us is a consuming fire and
he solemnly calls upon us to prepare to
meet our God in judgment.
The title of this sermon is Almighty God's
Pleasure.
I just sang the scripture that is in
Revelation chapter 4, verse 11, which reads, Thou
art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and
honor and power, for thou has created all
things and for thy pleasure they are and
were created.
Each and every person on earth should voice
the following prayer to our almighty God creator.
Almighty God in heaven, my creator and my
soon coming judge, right now, please instill within
me complete knowledge and full belief that thou
dost most certainly exist and that thou didst
create all things that are and were created,
the entire universe.
Please give me full understanding of thy pleasure
in creating me individually, personally, for thy pleasure.
Please assure me that the way for me
to bring pleasure to thee is by repenting
to God in heaven and trusting in God
the Son, Jesus Christ, the divine savior unto
mankind to save me eternally from thy holy
wrath that is upon my sins.
Guide me to diligently study thy holy Bible
and obey it fully, loving thee with all
my heart and loving other people as I
love my own self.
Amen.
Because I am preaching on God's pleasure, first,
please think with me on pleasure in the
broadest realm, looking at holy scriptures that teach
us spiritual truths concerning pleasure that each of
us should seriously consider.
Hebrews chapter 11, speaking of Moses, records the
following words in verse 25, choosing rather to
suffer affliction with the people of God than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a
season.
The next verse, 26, says of Moses, esteeming
the reproach of Christ, greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt, glory, for he had respect
unto the recompense of the reward.
Thus, the Bible teaches us that there are
pleasures of sin, a truth that we readily
know, and that is likely the main motive
for the entire human race willfully sinning to
derive those pleasures.
Another common motive for sinning is attempting to
cover up a sin or sins already committed
by lying, denying having committed a sinful act,
or by murdering a witness to the awful
sin already committed.
If you are a Christ rejecter who is
living to enjoy the pleasures of sin, then
please think ever so seriously on the eternal
truth that they endure only for a season.
As Hebrews 11, 25 proclaims to you personally,
if you are a fellow Christian believer, it
behooves you to constantly, daily, bear in mind
that you are duty-bound to God, your
Creator, your Savior, and your soon-coming Judge,
to be a watchman to the lost and
perishing souls around you, to constantly warn them
to flee God's wrath to come.
God forbid that we neglect this crucial, eternal,
life-saving duty and glorious privilege.
Please invite everyone that you can to listen
to this sermon on my website listed as
number 2026-2 under Radio Sermons Audio.
My website URL is christisall.us. Separate those
three words with two dashes, christ-is-all
.us. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.
Christ's rejecting friend, were you to live past
90 years of age in health sufficiently good
enough to still be enjoying your favorite sins
to that age, 90 years of enjoying those
vain pleasures cannot begin to compare with a
never-ending eternity of weeping and gnashing your
teeth in hell's flaming torment, totally void of
any hope of ever being released or ever
freed from that torment.
Get some spiritual sense into your head and
repent now while it is the day of
salvation.
The wages of sin is death, the Bible
clearly warns us, that second death is an
eternal death of torments in hell fire.
Right now, you Christ rejecter can turn to
life everlasting and pleasures forevermore if only you
will choose to do so.
Listen to what David proclaimed to God in
Psalm 16, verse 11, thou will show me
the path of life, in thy presence is
fullness of joy, at thy right hand there
are pleasures forevermore.
Lost friend, listen to me right now, please
sincerely pray the following prayer.
Christian friend, listening on the radio right now,
please quickly intercede for the salvation of each
precious lost soul who is also listening.
Pray, my creator God, please draw me unto
thee to enable me to sincerely turn unto
thee to be saved to the utmost eternally,
enable me to fully forsake the ways of
death and to embrace the path of life
everlasting, the fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore.
Amen.
Listen as I now read Psalms 36, verses
7 through 9, verse 7, how excellent is
thy lovingkindness O God, therefore the children of
men put their trust under the shadow of
thy wings.
Verse 8, they shall be abundantly satisfied with
the fatness of thy house and thou shalt
make them drink of the rivers of thy
pleasures.
Verse 9, for with thee is the river
of life, in thy light shall we see
light.
Lost friend without Christ, please make the following
prayer, your heart cry to your almighty creator
right now, almighty God, right now, please make
me fully knowledgeable of the excellency of thy
lovingkindness unto me personally.
Enable me to put my trust under the
shadow of thy wings.
Please abundantly satisfy me with the fatness of
thy house and make me to drink of
the rivers of thy pleasures.
I confess that with thee is the river
of life.
Please cause me to drink of the water
of life.
Help me to walk in thy divine light
so that I will see light.
Enlighten my darkened heart, I pray, amen.
Listen now to Ezekiel chapter 33, verse 11.
Say unto them, as I live, saith the
Lord God, I have no pleasure in the
death of the wicked, but that the wicked
turn from his way and live.
Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways,
for why will you die, O house of
Israel?
Also Proverbs chapter 9, verse 6, forsake the
foolish and live.
Go and go in the way of understanding.
Earnestly pray the following prayer, please.
Lord Jesus Christ, thou didst love me personally
with the greatest love there is, in that
you laid down your life on the cross
to take the punishment of my sin, the
punishment of death in my place, eternal death
in hell.
Please enable me to fathom the depth of
that love, and that thou hast no desire
to send me to those eternal flames of
hell fire, but rather loves me and desires
that I repent and turn from my evil
ways in order to avoid that never-ending
death of torment.
Please enable me to utterly forsake the foolish
and to live, live forever in pleasure and
to go in the way of understanding.
Amen.
Oh, our Lord's great compassion and mercy and
grace toward us.
Listen to it again in Luke chapter 12,
verse 32.
As Christ is speaking to his disciples, he
says to them, Fear not, little flock, for
it is your father's good pleasure to give
you the kingdom.
You pray now, please.
Almighty God, the Father in heaven, please take
me unto thee.
Make me thine own child to give me
the kingdom of God in heaven, a home
in thy glorious heaven and pleasures forevermore.
Amen.
The scripture in Proverbs chapter 21, verse 17,
speaks of the pleasure of the world and
the pleasure of sin when it reads, He
that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.
1 Timothy 5, 6 is similar as it
reads, But she that liveth in pleasure is
dead while she liveth.
And 2 Timothy chapter 3, verse 4 speaks
of people who are, quoting now, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God.
Referring to people who love the pleasures of
sin and of the world more than they
love God.
Would you pray now, Lord Jesus Christ, God's
savior unto mankind, please save me from loving
sinful and worldly pleasures.
Please save me from living in sin and
worldly pleasures.
Please help me to love my creator God
with all my heart and to shun sinful
and worldly pleasures.
Amen.
James chapter 5 in the New Testament, toward
the end of the New Testament, chapter 5
and verse 5 of James, the book of
James, reads like this, You have lived in
pleasure on the earth and have been wantom.
Ye have nourished your hearts as in a
day of slaughter.
Please pray, my creator God, please convince me
that sinful and worldly pleasures cannot satisfy my
soul, but that they do the exact opposite
of satisfying.
They leave a wantom, lacking feeling in one's
soul.
Please cause me to seriously consider the diminishing
returns that harmful vices give with continued use,
tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and such, lose their ability
to stimulate and satisfy and bring pleasure.
No longer do they feel pleasant, but rather
need to be consumed simply to stave off
the horrible pains of withdrawal.
Amen.
In the gospel of John chapter 4, verse
13, Jesus told the woman of Samaria who
came to the well to draw water, Whosoever
drinketh of this water shall thirst again.
That natural water in that earthy well is
a type of the water of the world.
Which is sinful and worldly pleasures.
It does not satisfy the human soul.
Soon after drinking it, thirst rises again.
And each successive drink gives less and less
satisfaction drinking of the water of the world.
That leads to burnout.
By that, I mean no satisfaction is found
in life.
And too often that totally empty, void soul
sees no profit in continuing to live that
wantom, hollow, meaningless, unfulfilled life and tragically thereby
commit suicide.
In the early 1980s, in an extremely rich
affluent suburb of a large renowned U.S.
city, a high school teenager committed suicide.
Shock and deep grief throughout the community.
But in a few days, a second teen
took their own life.
And a third precious young soul soon did
likewise.
Parents and teachers assembled at student body together
in a desperate meeting, demanding that the kids
fess up to those adults in charge of
their lives.
Just exactly what those kids were up to.
Soon, sheepish, timid confession came forth.
A few of us made a suicide pact.
Those parents figuratively and likely literally threw up
their hands in desperate, shocked unbelief.
Why, they exclaimed, we gave you everything.
And right there was the very cause of
those teens ending their own young lives.
Their parents drowned them in the deadly waters
of the world.
They drank of practically every possible worldly pleasure
available to them.
And in their affluence, most any pleasure that
money could buy was available to them.
Upon obtaining a driver's license at age 16
or so, many of those teens could name
the new luxury car they desired to their
parents.
And the parents bought it for them.
Many of the girls wore expensive diamond rings
or such jewelry to school.
They lived in fancy two or three story
houses that had large game room basements.
But they found it strange that drinking to
the full of many such fancy pleasures left
them bored and thirsty.
No satisfaction, no fulfillment.
An affluent childhood turned out to be a
curse to them instead of a blessing.
That is a truth that cannot be escaped.
Some concluded that their lives would never be
any better than the void life they were
now living and opted to end their lives.
On two different occasions, when I was in
the States briefly from Japan and preaching in
churches in that area, I walked those very
neighborhoods in that affluent suburb, leaving a gospel
pamphlet at each door.
I marveled at the grandeur of one after
another, two or three story high palatial palaces
on immensely macucured lawns lining the street.
It looked like paradise on earth.
A far cry from the dilapidated wooden shacks
I grew up in.
Now, my childhood was the exact opposite of
theirs.
The blessing of dire poverty and little boy,
miserable slave labor on a dirt farm.
Our whole family, parents and children, slaving away
at hard manual farm labor, barely eking out
a living.
Much adversity it was, but an amazing thing
was that as I toiled hard during my
childhood and teen years, never once was there
any thoughts of suicide.
Living at the bottom of the totem pole
of life left room for hope, for future
improvement, something better to look forward to, something
brighter to strive diligently for.
Those rich suburbanite teens had it all, but
their young souls still came up empty, causing
some of them to end it all with
suicide.
Philippians 2 verse 13 reads, for it is
God which worketh in you both to will
and to do of his good pleasure.
Rest assured that it is impossible for you
to find sufficient joy, satisfaction and fulfillment in
life unless your creator God worketh in you
both to will, desire to, and to do
of his good pleasure.
Why not pray to him now?
My creator God, please change my selfish heart
into a heart that wholly wills and desires
to do the good pleasure.
Help me to fully yield my heart to
thee right now for the purpose of thee
doing thy good pleasure in me.
Amen.
Listen to 2 Thessalonians 1 11.
Wherefore also we pray always for you that
our God would count you worthy of this
calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of
his goodness and the work of faith with
power.
Christian friend, listen to me now.
Would you please pray that for me?
I sincerely desire God to count me worthy
of his calling to me personally and for
almighty God to fulfill all the good pleasure
of his goodness and the work of faith
and godly Holy Ghost power in my life
of service unto him here in Japan, my
Lord and my all.
2 Corinthians 12 verse 10 always thrills my
soul and challenges me each time I meditate
on it.
It reads, therefore I take pleasure in infirmities,
in approaches, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions,
in distresses for Christ's sake.
For when I am weak, then am I
strong.
The Bible teaches us of a natural man
that is inside each of us.
Our natural man naturally does not desire such
hardship in life, much less take pleasure in
them.
It takes a spiritual man to take pleasure
in such adversity.
Please pray for me to be such a
spiritual man.
Rich worldly parents who take pleasure in heaping
worldly pleasures upon their children to often tragically
see those precious children commit suicide or die
of drug abuse or such before those children
reach 30 years of age.
Ecclesiastes 12, one commands us thus wise.
Remember now thy creator in the days of
thy youth, while the evil days come not,
nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt
say, I have no pleasure in them.
Consider the great extent which people's souls are
not fulfilled, the degree to which many folks
are finding little or no pleasure and satisfaction
in life.
This unpleasant emotion particularly besets elderly folks as
the years draw nigh.
In times past, say 150 years ago, when
most people lived on the land, making their
livelihood off the land as God ordained in
Genesis 3, 23, it was quite common for
three to four family generations to be living
in the same one house or within walking
distance of each other.
The most elderly generation daily receiving God ordained
pleasure, joy, satisfaction and fulfillment from regularly being
with two or three generations of their offspring.
Genesis chapter 50, verse 23, speaks of Joseph
bringing up great grandchildren on his knees.
Of course, he lived to be 110 years
old, but my main point here is that
his third generation of direct descendants live on
his knees.
In the devil's modern world of the day,
it is not rare for the oldest generation
of people in their 80s that all their
descendants live a several hour airplane flight away
or 12 hours or more away by car.
That is regrettable, leaving the elderly generation lonely.
The afflictions and adversities that beset me as
I exalt the Savior, Jesus Christ here in
Japan are ever so light, but the joy
that he bestows upon me for doing so
is joy unspeakable and full of glory.
I am the most blessed soul on the
face of this earth.
My soul is satisfied and fulfilled.
I lack nothing.
Pray for me as I preach to the
Japanese that my preaching will be effective to
win many lost Buddhist souls to the Lord.
God bless you, my Christian friend.