FIGHTTHEGOODFIGHT FINAL1

Jesus was three years, at least, on this earth.

Right? and He was walking.

Still, Jesus had only 12 disciples.

If I ask you now if you would follow Him,

would you follow Him if He was here?

You would go to Him, right?

"Wherever You go, I go."

You would say.

"I don't care about my job", you would say.

"I don't care about my house, my family."

"I don't care if they will follow You or not."

"Me, I will follow You."
That's what you would say?

Let me tell you,

you would not do that. You would say,

"Tomorrow what will I eat?"

You would worry about tomorrow.

Are you ready to die for Him?

If you are ready to live for Him,

and He deserves to deliver your life to Him,

so, He deserves to die for Him.

Do you know that there is someone that died for you,

in your place?

Even though He was God, sitting on His throne,

still, He came.

Still, they embarrassed Him,

they spit on Him, they punched Him,

they put a bag on His face,

on His head,

and they were punching Him, and saying to Him:

"Prophesy! Who hit You?"

He was receiving humiliation, He was receiving-

we are talking about God, now.

I want to remind you.

You, if you receive humiliation,

your pride would talk:

"Who are you to talk to me like that?"

Imagine, our pride.

Someone is doing something to us
that is very wrong,

and we are thinking how we will take revenge.

How?

If all of this happened to God,

What race do you run today?

If the relationship you keep with
God is not great,

you will never do great things.
It's impossible.

You need the help of the Holy Spirit to do His will.

Otherwise, it's impossible.

Today, there are Christians

that think they do His will.

You're not serious with God.

Instead of you to say,

"In the mighty name of Jesus,"

"Anything that is not of Jesus in my life, out!"

"In Jesus' mighty name."

To pray, to fight the good fight.

This is the fight we are talking about here.

This is the fight you should give
every single day.

Whatever you see, it's a sin.

Whatever you see in this world, it's dirty and sin.

Whatever you see.

Did you know that when you sin,

you have pain and discomfort in

areas of your life?

You have pain and discomfort
because of your sin.

Did you know that?

You created this problem.

It's not that God created it or that God is testing you.

You did it. You created it by yourself.

If now, you go and beat this man,

break his nose,

you kill him.

"Oh, God is testing me to go to jail now."

"It's a test, I'm going to jail."

"It's a test."
Which test are you talking about?

You just created your situation, here.

And if you create your situation,

and you find yourself

in a place that you should not be,

God is not with you.

Because God didn't send you there.

This is why the seven sons of Sceva,

God was not with them. Even though

they were saying, "in the name of Jesus that Paul preached,

I command you, evil spirit,

come out of the person."

And the evil spirit said to them,

"Sorry, Paul I know. Jesus I know. who are you?"

That means, God is not with you.

He's not supporting your position.

Whatever you do, you are doing it by yourself.

You don't have the Lord in your life.

"Come here!",

and he beat them. The seven of them.

So, if God is not with you,

then everything can be against you,

everybody can destroy you, steal from you.

Today you have money in your pocket,

and tomorrow it disappears.

You say, "What happened? How'd I spend my money?"

"Where did it go? What is happening?"

"Why?!"

Do you know how? You will go,

you will go to a store,

"Wow, they have nice food."

"Let's go and eat with your friends."

Right away, someone is telling you,

"Pay for everything!" You pay for everything.

You give $200, $300,

and then you go to your house.

Your friends have money to spend,

but you don't have.

You don't have money to pay your rent,

You don't have money to buy something that

you really need. You say,

"Where is my money? Where is my money?"

Your money, someone stole from you without you understanding.

You see what I'm telling you?

That you should have a great relationship with God,

so you can stop the destruction in your life.

Are you ready to fight the good fight?

This is the title of today's message.

Are you fighting the good fight?

Our battle is not against flesh and blood.

It's against evil spirits, my friends.

Are you fighting evil spirits?

What are you doing? You're fighting with your neighbor?

Where is your fight?

Let me tell you,

nobody can convince you that you're not a child of God.

Remember that for the rest of your life.

If someone comes to you and tells you

that you're not a child of God,

he's such a liar. The greatest liar of all.

Let's open our Bibles

1 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 24.

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run,

but one receives the prize?"

Oh my God, what is the word of God saying here?

They all run! Be careful.

They are all Christians, and they run.

But what? It says only one will receive the prize.

Can you imagine how well you should run?

"Run in such a way that you may obtain it."

"And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things."

Temperate in all things means:

I'm an athlete, I have to,

you know, to hold myself.

I should not eat the cake.

The other people, they will pass me. For a Christian, it says:

"The other people,

they might be lying,

no problem, but me,

I want to win the prize, I will not lie."

Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown,

but we for an imperishable crown."

"Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty.

Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.

But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest,

when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified."

Let's see what it also says in 2 Timothy, chapter 4, verse 6.

"For I am already being poured out as a drink offering,

and the time of my departure is at hand."

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race,

I have kept the faith."

What is the title of today's message?

Fight the Good FIght.

Fight against principalities of darkness.

This is your fight today!

When you don't have a job, what are you saying?

Are you saying, thank you Jesus,

for the job that you gave me?

Can you hear yourself what you're saying, brother?

You said, "thank you Jesus,

for the job You gave me?"

You said that you don't have a job.

When you are sick, are you saying

thank you Jesus for my health?

This is how you keep your faith.

Did you know that?

Let the weak say, i'm strong.

This is a good confession.

There is a fight you have to give.

If you fight the good fight,

you will have good results.

If you fight the evil fight,

you will find yourself outside
of the will of God.

Today, you want good results,

but you are not fighting the good fight.

You will say to 10 different people

that you are looking for a job,

but you will never say to God

10 times that you need a job.

You will tell Him only one time.

But you have the time to talk to the people.

So again, where are we going?

To the great relationship that you must have with God. Again, we go there.

Then you don't find, and nobody wants you in their job.

And then you start changing your confession:

"I will never find a job."

"I will never succeed."

"You will never have this."

Someone is talking to you.

"You will never this, you will never that."

Do you know which God you serve?

The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.

The God of Moses.

This God, we are talking about here.

The God of the impossible.

If your situation is impossible,

This is exactly the God you need in your life.

The God of the impossible.

And let me tell you something:

by the time you will have hope in the reliability of God,

you will receive the impossible.

By the time you will have hope, to where?

To the reliability of God Almighty,

at the same time, at this appointed time,

you will receive the impossible.

For you to fight Satan, you need the invisible God,

because Satan is invisible.

You cannot see him.

This is why you say, "What is happening?"

"I don't understand."
You don't understand

because you cannot see what is happening.

You need God's eyes to see what is happening.

Do you know what is the name of God's eyes?

Faith.

You need faith.

Faith is that God, for sure,

He will do what He promised.

That's faith.

Are you going to fight now the good fight?

Forget about what the other people do.

What matters is your relationship that you keep with God.

This is why I told you, forget about what the people are doing.

Do you know that when you are in front of Him,

when you are about to be in front of Him,

He will tell you, "come here."

"You won the race."

What can stop you?

What can stop you to receive the medal?

Yourself only!

I want to tell you that satan cannot stop you.

I'm telling you now. Satan,

your enemies, cannot stop you.

An angel from Heaven cannot stop you.

The only person that can stop you

from receiving the medal of honor, is yourself!