Sermon Tone Analysis

According to the grace of God, which is given to me, like, a wise master builder, I laid a foundation and another built on it, but each man must be careful how we build on it for no man can lay a foundation other than that, which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Now, if any man builds on that front foundation with gold, silver and precious stones would hay or straw.

Each man's work will become evident for the day will show up because it will be revealed with fire.

And the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.

If any man's work, which he has built upon remains, he will receive a reward.

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved us through the fire.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God in the spirit of God dwells in you?

If any man destroys that Temple?

God will destroy him for the temple of God is Holy and that which is the that is what you are.

Let's pray.

Are the only father.

Thank you, Lord for this day.

Thank you.

God for this opportunity to share your truth and your word.

I just bring you to open our hearts are ears.

And Lord, that we would hear what the spirit of saying today.

Father, let us just Lord, if we need to be reprimanded reprimand to Scott, if we need to be corrected practice, God put us on your track and help us to Follow that, the Mandate that you have laid out for our lives.

May I ask this in your name Amen.

So, I believe it's critical to have insights to look Beyond ourselves.

What are we building for future Generations?

And are we allowing others to build in our place?

and when we look at the current state of affairs, doing survey carried out in 2022 by Angus Reid and it says, the following, A surveyor's found at corner of prairie residents were spiritually committed, meaning, that they were likely to belong to a community of worship, I believe in the afterlife and a deity or deities in your to routinely practice their religion.

So you can kind of see that map up there.

It's it's a little hard to see.

But this is the number that kind of Stands out to me, Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba rank the highest in religious committed around 25%. Don't understand that this that includes every religion.

Okay, so this is not talking about Christianity.

This is talking about every person who has a religious inclination.

25%.

And where the highest?

Considering that just a few Generations ago.

Those who claim to be Christians and attended church regularly with 78%.

Is the church in Decline.

In North America?

Yes there's no denying that you'll look at covid and with the shutdown of the church, The pastor's I'll talk to you in a post with the district and they're saying the same Trend that is about two-thirds of their people have left the church.

We've seen about a 66% decline since 2 years ago.

It's not a good thing.

What is an eye-opening thing?

Because what I believe is, we have to start doing things differently.

You see, I am and I'll get into this.

So I'm not saying we don't do Sunday morning anymore, okay?

I just think Sunday Morning has to be a celebration of what we've been doing during the week.

Get that.

Sunday morning needs to be a celebration of what we've been doing during the week.

at the first shift in thinking, We got to be doing the god things throughout our week, throughout our circles.

So that when we come together on Sunday, we can celebrate together over at

see, we have a promise from God and filled in the Book of Matthew, Matthew 16:17 in the 19 and she used it to him.

Blessed, are you Simon bar-jonah?

Because the Flesh and Blood did not reveal this to you, but my heavenly father who is in heaven.

And I also say that you are Peter and Upon This Rock.

I will build my church and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatever you bind on Earth, shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on Earth.

Shall be loosed on heaven.

See God gave the keys to his church.

And to be honest, the church has failed miserably many times over the last two Millennia in using these keys to unlock the treasures of Heaven.

It's interesting because we went through the Vatican.

We toured it.

I'm not my main reason why I wanted to tour.

The Vatican is I know that they have a lot of great art when you go through the two or they don't show you that art, Big Brother all locked up somewhere else.

You just get to go through and see all these weird things and in the individual leading us through.

The store said, one thing she was don't think of the Vatican as a religious Institution.

Think of it as a political institution, if you do that, all of this makes more sense.

And I'm like, okay, she has a point, right?

The basis of.

Why Rome is considered to be so important.

In the Roman Catholic Church is this verse?

Because God, Jesus told Peter Upon This Rock, I will build my church.

I'll give you the keys.

So they said, well Peter, well, he's the First bishop, he's the first pope, he's the first one and, and where did Peter go?

Peter went to Rome.

So, they're saying, well, as room, we are the epitome of it.

We are the focus of it.

We are all of it because Peter was the first one and he's the one that Jesus said is going to build his church.

So that's where that came from.

I kind of have a different understanding of that scripture, but that's okay.

So God gave the keys to his church.

And it's up to us to use those keys to unlock God's plans and God's purposes on the Earth.

So let's get back to our original question.

How did the church go from being persecuted to the point of death to be being declared the world religion and Roman Empire and only a few hundred years?

Well today we can get the ball rolling by bringing the love, the faith.

And hope that the world is that is lost and dying.

We are the hope of the world and you say what is in Jesus the hope of the world.

Yes Jesus is open the world but she's just also said you just told us we We are the light Jesus.

The light.

Yes.

Uses the light but you also said you are the light

It is up to us.

The beetle of the Hulk.

And the faith that this world needs.

I'm going to change this this mindset and this has been kind of a lifelong message for me and it's just great to see that I could see it starting to happen.

We got to start rearranging, how we? Operate the church.

What do I mean by that?

As Pastor my job is not to do the ministry.

My job is to train and equip you to do the ministry.

That's basic the scripture that something has been distorted over time, right?

We've been called pastors ministers.

What were the equipass?

It's our job to equip you so you can do the ministry.

When we look at the Poinsett which God has set forward for the church to grow and expand and showing us the model of the early church.

We can look at that and say okay.

Did the early church focus on having a great impressive building?

No, that wasn't what they wanted to do.