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Gods Big If

byFrances Hunter

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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture

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he word if is also used in

on-untion with the urses that Godsas will ha''en to ou if oudont do what %e wants ou to do" Idont want to reeive the urses, soIm not going to fall under that IF"

In the 2.th ha'ter of/euteronom, God gives us fivesim'le onditions we must fulfill ifwe want to reeive %is blessings"

In the first verse, %e sas a lot0

8Now it shall come to pass, 27 oudiligentl o'e the *oice of the .ord

our 9od, to o'ser*e carefull all

1is commandments which 2

command ou toda, that the .ord

our 9od will set ou high a'o*e allnations of the earth

he first ondition sas 8; 2fou diligentl o'e the *oice of the

.ord our 9od3 the seondondition is 8to o'ser*e and dothem

umber three is in verse whereit sas, 8he .ord will esta'lish ouas a hol people to 1imself,

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9od and walk in 1is was 82n other

words, 1e tells us to walk in 1iswas=

In verse 1+, %e tells us that thefourth ondition is, 8So ou shall notturn aside from an of the words

which 2 command ou this da, tothe right hand or to the left, to go

after other gods to ser*e them 81e

tells us to hang in there and go right

straight down the line and we will 'e

'lessed=he fifth ondition sas God will

bless ou if ou do not go after othergods" he biggest idol that 'eo'le goafter in the world toda in the idol of

self" I want to do m own thing!atan had the same 'roblem!%e wanted to be li&e God"%e didnt want to serve God"%e didnt want to wal& in Gods

was"%e didnt want to listen

diligentl to God"%e wanted to do his own thing"$hat ha''ened as a result was

that atan was thrown out of heaven

li&e a bolt of lightning, and the same

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onditions that aused him to be

thrown out of heaven a''l in ourown lives toda"

God 'romises to bless us if welisten to %im diligentl" 5ften we areso involved in gimme, gimme,

gimme, gimme that we dont ta&etime out to let God tal&" 6nd %e tellsus not onl to listen, but to listendiligentl, whih means with all ourmind, our heart, our bod and our

soul" hat means to give %im ourundivided attention if ou want toreeive all the blessings whih %e'romises in the verses that follow" Inother words, give %im everthing

ouve got!/ont be a half7wa 8hristian!/ont be a lu&ewarm 8hristian!/ont be a middle7of7the7road

8hristian!If ou are going to go for )esus,

go all the wa, beause God li&esfanatis!

5bserve and do all %isommandments! /ont -ust sit thereand be a hearer onl"

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he (ible tells us to be a doer of

the word" :ou an sit and absorbeverthing that ever 'reaher has totell ou about what the (ible sasbut if ou dont get out and do whatGod tells ou to do, our life is not

going to be the abundant, vitoriouslife that )esus 8hrist wants it to be"

6nother ondition is to wal& in%is was" #an have said, Its hardto live a 8hristian life" he (ible

sas the wa of the transgressor ishard, not the wa of the 8hristian"he 8hristians life is eas! 6ll ouhave to do is do what God tells outo do, dont do what %e tells ou not

to do, and &ee' wal&ing down thatstraight and narrow road" hats allthere is to it!

Its so eas to obe God" It isver hard to disobe"

/o ou &now wh we run intomiser in our 8hristian life; (eausewe get off the straight and narrow that I ould give to God!

hats of the devil" he deviltem'ts ou to do the things that aredishonest" In the months 'rior tofiling inome ta= returns, more8hristians are tem'ted than at another time beause the are tem'tedto heat on their inome ta= return"

he devil ma&es it so interesting"

%e sas, 5h, the government gets

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too muh of our mone anwa so

wh dont ou -ust heat a little bit"$h dont ou sa that ou gaveA9,>>> to %unter #inistries lastear; 6ll ou reall gave was A3"+4,but wh dont ou heat; he

government doesnt ome and he&u' on ou and ou &now 8harles andFranes" )ust go u' to them and sa,BI 'ut A9,>>> ash in the offering, butI didnt get a reei't for it, would

ou give me a reei't;omeone might thin& that

8harles and Franes would do that,but the dont &now us! 8harles is a8C6 and he sas, )esus signature

overlas ours" God is honest and ifwe are reated in %is image, we willbe honest, too" /o ou see how thedevil tem'ts 'eo'le; Demember, thedevil tem'ts" God 'romises!

5ne of the big ifs that 'eo'lesa and I have heard this over andover again is the one that sas, Iwould go out and be suh a witnessIF God would -ust heal me" :ourIF invalidates the 'romise of God"

In other words, ou are saing to

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God that ou will do it on our own

terms and onditions" $hat ou arein effet saing is, I am not going total& about :ou unless :ou heal me!

5ne time I thought God wasgoing to heal me before I went to the

hos'ital, but %e didnt" %owever, Ilove %im -ust as muh toda as if %ehad reahed down and said, ?etthere be new legs on that girl!Going to the hos'ital didnt shut m

mouth!I have news for ou! :ou will

never witness for God after %e doessomething for ou if ou ma&e that aondition of our salvation or our

witnessing" Im going to o'en mmouth and tal& about )esus all of thetime" I am never going to shut it, nomatter what ha''ens!

/euteronom 2. lists more thantwent7one blessings that will omeu'on ou and overta&e ou IF ouwill -ust do these five little things0

1" ?isten diligentl"2" 5bserve and do"3" $al& in %is was"

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+" /ont go to the right or to the

left"*" /ont go after other gods"/id ou notie that three of these

things tell ou what to do, and twotell ou what not to do!

?oo& at some of the blessingsGod 'romises in -ust that oneha'ter" If ou meet %is onditions,God will set ou high above all thenations of the earth! Glor!

God said %e would bless ou inthe it" $hat if ou dont live in theit; /o ou &now where our itis; :our it is where ou live" Ifou own a home, that is our it" If

ou live in an a'artment, that is ourit" If ou live on a big farm, that isour it!

:ou will be blessed in the field"(ut what if ou are not a farmer andou do not have a field; /o ou&now what our field is; If ou arein the insurane business, our fieldis insurane" God will bless ou in7that field" If ou are a seretar, thatis our field and God will bless ou

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in that field" If ou are a homema&er,

God will bless ou in that field!:our field is whatever ou7

'ation ou have! If ou are in theonstrution business, or ou areselling houses, that is our field, and

if ou do those things Godommanded in /euteronom 2., ouare going to be blessed in our field":ou will 'robabl build and sellmore houses than anone else in the

onstrution field!$hatever our field is, God is

going to bless ou in that field, IFou obe all of %is ommandments"hat means wherever ou are

em'loed, God is going to bless ouIF ou meet the onditions"%e said ou are going to have

'erfet offs'ring" $hen ou havefulfilled the onditions, ou aregoing to have 'erfet offs'ring"ow, ou an loo& at our hildrenand sa, :ou ma not loo& ver'erfet to me, but Gods word sasthat ou are 'erfet" herefore, Ihave 'erfet offs'ring!

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he ne=t time our hild

disobes, sa to him, on, ou are a'erfet offs'ring" :ou ma not beating li&e it right now, but ou are a'erfet offs'ring" If an of ourhildren get out of line, sa to them,

:ou are a 'erfet offs'ring beauseI have fulfilled the word of God"hat is -ust one of the blessings God'romises!

It sas that our ro's will

inrease" If ou are not a farmer,what is our ro'; hat is the salarou are going to get for the wor& oudo"

:our bas&et and our storehouse

will be full of good things" I haveheard 'eo'le sa, Go out and storeu' a whole bunh of sobeansbeause theres going to be a bigfamine oming" I am not worriedabout that beause of what God sas"%is word sas that m bas&et isgoing to be filled as long as I obethat big IF and I do what %e tellsme to do" Im not going to worrabout m storehouse ever being

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em't beause Gods word sas that

I am blessed in all that I underta&e!erse 9 tells us that ou will

have om'lete vitor over ourenemies" /id ou ever have anenem; /id the enem tr to steal

our -o or 'eae! It is so muh funto have vitor over our enemies!6nd to &now in advane that ourea winner!

:our land will be abundantl

fertile and 'rodutive! :ou will beestablished as a hol 'erson to God!:ou are going to be an e=am'le andwitness to all of the 'eo'le of theearth" If ou reall love God, ou are

going to be an automati witness":ou are not going to be able to &ee'our mouth shut" :ou are -ust goingto tal&, tal&, tal& to everone aboutthe ?ord )esus 8hrist" hat is one ofthe blessings that omes u'on ou" Itsas that all the 'eo'le of the earthwill be afraid of ou" $hen 'eo'lerealie that God is on our side, thedont want to mess with ou"

:ou will be 'ros'erous in goods

and hildren, in sto&, and in ro's"

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he ?ord will o'en to ou %is

good treasur" $ow! %is resouresare unlimited and %es o'ening themto me!

6 blan&, unlimited he&ingaount with God is better than a

million dollars in the ban&""""o,IF:ou have been 'lanting seed to

rea' a finanial harvest, but nothingis returning to ou! 6re ou seeding

to be debt free; If our return is lean,he& out the IFs in our life"1>>H is eas, H bad" E=am'le0disobediene, unforgiveness, sins,dirt language, om'laining and not

obeing 'arents"he ?ord will give ou rain indue season"

he ?ord will bless the wor& ofour hands! Cut our hands out infront of ou right now and sa, #hands are blessed beause God isblessing m wor&" $hatever I 'utthese hands to is going to 'ros'erbeause the (ible sas so"

hen it sas that ou are going to

be 'ros'erous enough to lend to

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man nations but ou are not going

to need to borrow from an of them!Glor to God! It 'romises that

the ?ord is going to ma&e ou thehead, and not the tail"

hen it 'romises that ou will be

above all men and not beneath them"hat is one of the blessings whihomes when ou ta&e the big IF ofGod! IF ou will listen diligentlto the voie of the ?ord our God"

he word IF goes all the wathrough the (ible" :ou might sa,$ell, that is in the 5ld estament"Isnt there anthing in the ewestament; $e dont have to obe

the 5ld estament" $e live undergrae and not under law" God 'utthose laws down to &ee' us on thestraight and narrow" )esus ame tofulfill the law" hat is wh we donthave to be legalisti and sa, IF ousli' out of fellowshi' with God forone minute, that is it! :ou have hadit! :ou are going right straight tohell! o, the (ible sas, IF, IF, IF, 82f we confess our sins, 1e is

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sins and to cleanse us from all

unrighteousnessI )ohn 10 J"%ere is a real good IF" In

#atthew 1402+, and this is under thenew ovenant, )esus said to %isdisi'les, 827 there is that big IF

againJ anone desires to come after>e, let him den himself, and take

up his cross, and follow >e, #an'eo'le are under the wrongim'ression as to what 'i&ing u'

our own ross means" Ive heardman sa, $ell, I have this thorn inm flesh li&e Caul did" I guess mross is that I must be si& all of mlife" hat is devil tal&" hat is not

God tal&!# unsaved husband is mross to bear" I have to get u' evermorning and I am so miserablebeause I have that old unsaved devilfor a husband" al& li&e that andou will never get him saved"

/o ou reall &now what theword means when it sas, Ci& u'our ross and follow me; It meansto die to self!

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$h did )esus 'i& u' %is ross;

o die! hat is what we need to do"$e need to die to ourselves so thethings of the world will not hurt us"$e annot get mad beausesomebod said something that hurt

m feelings< the offended me" hatis another lie of the devil" If we aredead to self, we annot be offended!o sto' having 'it 'arties forourself"

6nother good (ible stor aboutthe IF of the devil is in #atthew+0371>" 8Now when the temptercame to him, he said, 2f ?ou are the

Son of 9od, /o ou see the devils

IF;J command that these stones'ecome 'read /o ou see how thedevil as tem'ting )esus; )esus hadbeen on a fast for fort das" /o oubelieve that ou would be hungrafter fort das; /o ou thin& ourstomah would be growling afterfort das; /o ou believe that)esus, while %e was divine was alsoman, and so %e suffered the samehunger 'angs that we do; I imagine

in )esus mind there instantl flashed

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a 'iture of beautiful hot homemade

bread, brown on the to' with butter-ust ooing off all over the 'lae"

he devil said, 5h, ome on,ou have the 'ower to do it" :ou ando it! 8ome on, do it! %e was

tem'ting )esus in an area where %ewas wea& beause of fasting, andthats what the devil does to all of us"%e tem'ts us in the area where weare the wea&est!

(ut )esus said, It is written"$hen the devil tem'ts ou throw averse of sri'ture at him right in hisfae, beause he annot stand theword of God" ell him, /evil, ou

sit down there" :ou sit in that hairover there, beause I am going toread the word of God to ou"

:ou ma not be able to see thedevil in that hair, but I want ou tobelieve that he is there" $e an sae=atl the same thing that )esus did,It is written, B#an shall not live bbread 'hsialJ alone, but b everword that 'roeeds from the mouthof God" hen the devil too& him u'

into the hol it, set %im on the

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'innale of the tem'le, and said to

%im, ee, he is tem'ting )esusagainJ If :ou are the on of God,throw :ourself down" For it iswritten0 the devil &nows the (ible,too!J B%e shall give %is angels

harge over ou, anti, BIn theirhands the shall bear ou u', lestou dash our foot against a stone"

Dight then and there is where)esus ame right ba& to that big

IF and said, It is written again,B:ou shall not tem't the ?ord ourGod"

6gain, the devil too& him u' onan e=eeding high mountain, and

showed him all the &ingdoms of theworld and their glor" 6nd he said to%im, /o ou remember I said thedevils IF is alwas a tem'tation;J6ll these things will I give :ou IF:ou will fall down and worshi' me"

$hat he was reall saing was,#an, ou an have the whole worldIF ou will -ust fall down andworshi' me! his is e=atl whatthe devil does to all of us! %e ma&es

his 'lan so tem'ting"

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I remember a oung ro& and roll

singer who was raised in a Cente7ostal 8hurh" %e had a voie thatthe world will never forget beause ithad a haunting Kualit that will stawith the sinner and the saint ali&e"

hen ame the rossroads in his lifewhere he was singing in aCenteostal 8hurh and not ma&ingmillions of dollars" I dont reall&now of an hurh that 'as a

singer millions of dollars, but thedevil ame to him and said, :ouan &ee' our relationshi' with God,but -ust thin& how man millions of'eo'le are going to be blessed b

that singing voie of ours IF ouwill -ust go into night lubs"he devil said, $here ou are

living in 'overt now, ou will haveour own 'rivate air'lane" :ou willhave a house with .1 rooms" :ouwill have servants all over the 'lae":ou will have 'eo'le who will evenut our food and 'ut it in ourmouth" (ut the devil forgot to tellhim what was on the other side of the

ledger" he devil forgot to tell him

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that the end of all of that was death!

he devil forgot to tell him thatwhen the 'erformed an auto's onhim there would be seven different&inds of drugs found in his veins"hat was a oung man at the ver

'innale of suess, as the worldmeasures suess" I dont believe ansinger has ever sold as man reordsas this man"

his oung man listened to the

devil, beause the devil made itsound so good" he devil said, :ouan have the whole world" :ou aregoing to have so muh mone thatthe whole world is going to env

ou"I remember the night when thisoung singer ame to a it in e=asand too& out a half7million dollars inash for one nights singing" heheadline in the ne=t mornings 'a'ershouted the good news that he got ahalf7million dollars in ash" %ewould ta&e no he&s" he news7'a'er was so e=ited about thetremendous ash he reeived, and I

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imagine this singer reall thought he

was hot stuff!$a down in the orner, in the

ba& 'art of this same 'a'er, therewas an artile about a mone7grabbing evangelist who got suh

big offerings that the re'orter felt hehad robbed these 'oor 'eo'le inhurh" It went on to sa, From thetwo hundred 'lus 'eo'le who were atthis meeting, he got over a thousand

dollars in an offering" 8ondemned!6 minister of the gos'el wantingmone to s'read the gos'el gets'ublil ondemned for reeivingone thousand dollars, but the front

'age stor of the same 'a'erglorified a singer who got a half7million dollars ash from his fans inthe same it" :ou an see that thedevil an ma&e it loo& so interesting,but the wages of sin is death!

8olossians 1023 ontains that bigword IF and God tells ou somethings to do" %e said, 827 If, if if,if", if!J indeed ou continue in thefaith, grounded and steadfast, and

are not mo*ed awa from the hope

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of the gospel which ou heard,

which was preached to e*ercreature under hea*en, of which 2,

0aul, 'ecame a minister 82f ou

continue in the faith, he goes on to

sa, 8ou are going to know the

mster of the ages, which is @hristin ou, the hope of glor

)esus 8hrist living in and throughou! $hat an the devil 'ossiblgive ou that is an greater than the

&nowledge of the fat that )esus8hrist is living in our heart; 5nein awhile I feel li&e wal&ing downthe treet and saing, %e, antou see )esus; %es in there! I

would -ust love to wal& into asu'ermar&et and sa, %e,everbod, do ou &now what; )esuslives in here" :ou 'robabl thin& %edied 2,>>> ears ago!

$hat greater thing an the devilever give ou; %e ant give ouanthing that an om'are with the&nowledge that )esus 8hrist is livingin our heart< living in and throughou in the 'ower of the %ol 'irit"

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:oung 'eo'le sa, IF it was as

muh fun being a 8hristian as it isbeing a sinner, I would be a8hristian" /id ou ever hear anonesa that; /id ou ever hear anonesa, (eing a 8hristian is a real

fudd7dudd thing! I dont li&e tohave to be a good7good all of thetime" hat is the devil tem'tingou! It is alwas the devil who tellsus to ta&e another 'ath" here is no

life anwhere as e=iting as the8hristian life"

)ohn .031 sas, hen )esus saidto those )ews who believed %im,the were new onvertsJ 82f ou

a'ide in > word, ou are >disciples indeed 6nd here omesthe verse that so man 'eo'le Kuotewithout reading the verse ahead of itJ84nd ou shall know the truth, and

the truth shall make ou free)ohn.032J"

5ver and over again, I hear'eo'le Kuote the verse, :ou shall&now the truth, and the truth shallma&e ou free" hat is onl 'art of

the truth" :ou have to ba& u' and

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listen to the ondition, and the

ondition that goes with ma&ing oufree sas, If ou abide in # word,ou are # disi'les indeed" Ifou ontinue in # word" :ouwont be a disi'le of )esus unless

ou ontinue in %is word"6nd what does ontinue mean;

8ontinue means to read %is word" Itmeans to do %is word" It means tolove %is word" It means to live %is

word" It means to hold onto %isword, and dont let the things of theworld ome in to ta&e it out of ourheart" hen %e sas ou will be %isdisi'le" hen is when %e gives the

'romise, but dont ever forget theondition of God" hen ou shall&now the truth, and the truth shallma&e ou free"

erse 33 sas the answered%im, $e are 6brahams desen7dants, and have never been inbondage to anone" %ow an ousa, B:ou will be made free;

)esus answered them, #ostassuredl, I sa to ou, whosoever

ommits sin is a slave of sin" /id

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ou hear that;J $hosoever ommits

sin is a slave of sin"$ell, God, I am serving ou,

but I -ust dabble in sin a tin littlebit" ot ver muh, -ust a tin, littlebit, God" (ut what does Gods word

sa; It sas that anone whoommits sin is a servant of sin" owloo& at this sri'ture, 6nd a slavedoes not abide in the house forever"he servant of sin does not abide in

the house of God forever, but theon abides forever" 6nd then %egives that wonderful 'romise,herefore if the on ma&es oufree, ou shall be free indeed" (ut

ou annot be a servant of sin and befree indeed, beause the on willonl ma&e those free who are in%im" o we have to &now beond ashadow of a doubt that we are in8hrist )esus" $e have to meet %isIF ondition to be made free" 6ndits so eas"

#atthew *013 sas, 827 the saltloses its fla*or it is then good for

nothing 'ut to 'e thrown out hat

means IF ou have lost our flavor,

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ou have lost our abilit to 'er& u'

something!/o ou use salt in our oo&ing;

/o ou thin& for the most 'art foodtastes 'rett bad if ou dont 'ut saltin it; I do! I thin& it tastes terrible

without salt" alt is what brings outthe flavor" If we 8hristians have lostour abilit to flavor the earth, wehave lost our abilit to have 'eo'leloo& at us and sa, $ow! $hatever

it is that wild woman has, I want it! Idont understand what shes got, butwhatever it is, I want it" I dontunderstand what shes got, butwhatever it is, she loo&s li&e she sure

is ha''! 6nd I am! I am thewildest, ha''iest 'erson in the entireworld" I believe that without a doubtin m heart" I dont have to worr" Ihave vitor over all 'roblems" Ivebeen set free! %allelu-ah!

$hen our little granddaughterwas two7and7a7half ears old, shewas sitting on m la' and began'raing in tongues" I listened intentlfor a few minutes, then I said to her,

'ie, are ou 'raing in tongues;

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I wish ou ould have seen the loo&

on her fae when she said, :eah!I as&ed her dadd if he had laid

hands on her for the ba'tism with the%ol 'irit and he said, o, 8haritour granddaughter who was then

five ears oldJ 'robabl did" :ou&now how she 'ras and sings intongues all the time! 6nd donteven mention that ou have a 'ainwhen the are nearb beause oull

have four little 'eanut butter and-ell hands laid on ou so fast it willma&e our head swim!

God is going to raise u' fanatistwo ears old, five ears old, ten

ears old! God is even going to reahold 'eo'le" Im glad God didnt giveu' on old 'eo'le or %e would havegiven u' on me a long, long timeago!

ometimes when we first getsaved, we sit down in our omfort7table little 'ew and sa, $ell, now Ian rest" Im saved! :ou have lostour flavor if ou sa that and dothat" :ou have lost our abilit to

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season the world around ou" :ou

need to remain a fanati all our life"I reentl led a 8atholi girl to

the ?ord and shes going to salther whole hurh" he is realle=ited about )esus" he even gave a

ta'e to the 'riest on how to reeivethe ba'tism with the %ol 'irit!hat is reall 'utting a littleflavoring in the 'ot!

If the salt loses its flavor, then it

is ast out" God sas, If ou havelost our flavor, IF ou forget, IFou are ashamed when ou go toshool or to wor& to tal& about)esus, then God sas %e will throw

ou out" 6nd all beause ou havelost our abilit to flavor the 'eo'learound ou" Id rather be one fanatiin a high shool lass who tal&sabout )esus than to be the 'o'ularone that ou ant tell from a sinner"

I want to be salt wherever I go!hat fanatial husband of mine tal&sabout )esus everwhere we go" %eats li&e the &now what he istal&ing about" %e -ust goes right on

and on" I dont &now of anone who

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leads more 'eo'le to )esus than

8harles" %e hasnt lost his flavor asingle bit! %es saltier toda than hewas the da he got saved! Glor!

hin& for a moment" 6re ou abigger fanati toda than ou were

when ou got saved; %ave ou lost alittle bit of that savor; %ave ou lostour first love Develation 20+J; /oou need to get ba& to the ?ord andsa, I had better get into the word of

God" Id better listen to the word ofGod" Id better do what %e tells meto do" Id better wal& in %is was,and Id better Kuit wal&ing in mown was"

hat is the thing we all need todo" Demember the three tem'tationsof the devil! %e made it sound sogood to )esus" %e said, 5h, ou anbrea& that fast ouve been on,)esus! :ou an brea& that fast" )ustturn those stones into deliious hotbread with fresh ountr butterrunning all over the to'" 5r howabout the world; $orshi' me and Iwill give ou the whole world!

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Demember this0 the devil ant

give ou anthing but trouble sine)esus redeemed us from his ontrol!

5h, if God would -ust heal me,or heal m husband, we would tal&about )esus! If ou dont tal& about

%im before ou get healed, oullnever tal& about %im after ou gethealed" :ou tal& about )esus beauseou love God! hats the thing thatwill ma&e ou tal& about %im IF ou

reall love %im" Id tal& about )esuswhether or not %e had healed mleg"

he Israelites wal&ed fort earsand their an&les never swelled" I

loo&ed down at mine reentl andsaid, 6n&les, ou are not going toswell either" I loo&ed at Csalms thismorning and disovered again itsas, %ow lovel on the mountainare the feet of them that bring Goodews" I loo&ed down and said,%ello, ou beautiful feet! :ourelovel! :ou bring Good ewswhen ou tal& about )esus 8hrist"

hin& about our own world how

man times our life has hinged on

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the word IF" /id our husband

sa, 1E ou would marr me ouwould ma&e me the ha''iest man inthe world; hat was a good IF,wasnt it;

$hen our little granddaughter

was five ears old, she loved to hel'her mother, but one in a while herhel'ing wasnt e=atl hel'ing"5ne da, when her mother wasntloo&ing, 8harit got the &ithen

leanser out whih has a goodbleah in itJ and deided to wash thenew ar'et for her mother" aturall,she made a mess of it! )oan said,$hen our dadd gets home, ou

are going to get a good s'an&ing!8harit said, 8all m dadd"Ive got something to sa to him"

he alled her dadd on the'hone and said, /add, IF oudont s'an& me, I will never do itagain" Ill never do it again!omething 'owerful hung on herword IF"

#an times we ma&e a 'romiseli&e that to God and sa, 5h, God,

IF ou will -ust forgive me this one

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more time, I will never do it again" I

will never do it again! God, IF ouwill forgive me this time, I will neverdo it again" hen, we turn rightaround and brea& the 'romise toGod, but God never brea&s %is

'romises to us"he favorite e=use of man

'eo'le for not attending hurh is, Iwould go to hurh ever unda IFthere werent so man h'orites in

hurh" /o ou see what the aredoing; he are invalidating theword of God" he word sas in%ebrews 1>02* that we are not toforsa&e the assembling of ourselves

together" 6nd that 'erson who sits athome thin&s it is a good e=use tosa, hose h'orites in hurh&ee' me out! (eloved, I have newsfor ou" 6t least the h'orites aredoing something!

%eres another big IF" IF Iould -ust get m bills 'aid, Id giveto the hurh" IF I ould -ust getm finanes straightened out, Idgive to the hurh" hats -ust the

o''osite of what Gods word sas"

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%e sas IF ou want to get our bills

'aid, give first! (ut Franes, thatdoesnt ma&e sense! I didnt sa itmade sense, I -ust said that was whatGods word sas!

%e sas, IF ou give, ou will

get! ?u&e 403. ma&es that verlear" )esus sas, 89i*e, and it shall'e gi*en to ou: good measure,

pressed down, shaken together, and

running o*er will 'e put into our

'osom 7or with the same measurethat ou use, it will 'e measured

'ack to ou

%eres another big IF thatstands in the wa of our being Gods

anointed at all times! I am soworried" I have so man 'roblems"Im so worried about those hildrenof mine" here on drugs and thewant to sin all the time" he dontwant to do the things of God" I antonentrate beause Im so u'set, soI ant read the (ible, but BIF Iould -ust get m famil straightenedout, I would reall serve God and getinto the word!

o, ou wouldnt"

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IF ou want our hildren to get

saved, be a real witness for the ?ord,and get the engrafted word of Godinto our heart, and then see whatha''ens!

$hat does )esus sa about

worr; In #atthew 40173+, %e tellsus not to worr" he heathen worr!)esus tells us not to worr beause%e will ta&e are of us" Chili''ians+01 sas, 84nd m 9od shall suppl

all our need according to 1isriches in glor ' @hrist Jesus=

6nd that inludes the salvation ofour famil! 8/ut seek first thekingdom of 9od and 1is

righteousness, and all these thingsshall 'e added to ou #atthew4033J"

he biggest IF that stands inthe wa of most 'eo'le is a om'leteommitment to the ?ord )esus8hrist" $ell, IF I ould -ust get mlife straightened out, or IF I ould geta better -ob, or IF m husband would-ust get saved, or IF m hildrenwould -ust get straightened out, then

I ould reall serve the ?ord! he

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big IF in this ase is the doubt and

unbelief that the devil gives us"he e=iting and sri'tural wa

to be vitorious in all these things isto reall love )esus and let the lesserthings ome seond to %im in our

life"he thing that is so e=iting

about listening to God is that Gods'romises are all good" Everthingthat God 'romises ou, %e will give

ou" here has not failed one wordof all of %is good 'romises, and %esas, 8! will e*en hasten m word toperform it in our life,)eremiah 1012, 'ara'hrasedJ" $e need to trade

all the big IFs in our lives for theIF of God! 8/ehold, 2 stand at thedoor and knock 27 anone hears >

*oice and opens the door, 2 will

come in to him and dine with him,

and he with >e Develation 302>J"Its sure a lot more fun serving

God than serving the devil"