River of Life Christian Fellowship
RLCF Praise Live — February 4, 2024 February 10, 2024 · 1h 0m
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River of Life Christian Fellowship
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Loveland, Colorado - 80537, USA
Summary The message emphasizes the depth of praise due to Jesus, noting that human praise is insufficient compared to His majesty. The core teaching focuses on Jesus' example as our guide, highlighting that He lived a life of obedience, drawing strength from the Father, and modeling perfect discipleship. Believers are encouraged to follow His footsteps in all aspects of life, trusting in His unchanging nature.
Transcript 0:01 [Music] I was thinking just a few minutes ago as we were thinking about singing and offering this time of praise to the Lord uh I wonder for all of us dear 0:21 brothers and dear sisters dear children how much do you think Jesus is worth that we should sing to him how should we sing what does he deserve there's nothing we can give that's worthy of him no matter how loud or how well we 0:40 sing it's never going to be enough compared to his great Majesty but he he wants us to sing and if you had one last time to sing for him on this Earth how would you sing this was the last time you get to do this on this Earth and then you get 0:59 to do it in heaven Heaven that's wonderful that we can do it in heaven but there's something different about doing it here on this Earth we haven't seen him with our eyes we hav haven't heard him with our physical ears but we know 1:13 him we've tasted his goodness he's done so much for us he's worthy to be praised and so let's sing from the bottom of our heart let's sing in sincerity children you too sing from your heart if you can develop this habit 1:30 when you're young children it will save you a lot of the Hang-Ups that adults deal with with being self-conscious or thinking about what are others thinking you can sing freely there's an innocence that you have when you're a child and you can 1:49 learn how to sing and become and remain free from that self-consciousness where you can see Jesus yourself and sing to him from the bottom of your heart and it doesn't matter who's listening who's around you sing that way let's all sing that 2:09 way so maybe we can all lift our hands together children you two encourage you to lift your hands together let's sing this song this course I exalt thee I exalt thee I 2:27 exalt the [Music] I exalt thee oh Lord I 2:49 exalt thee receive our praise oh Lord I exalt thee I [Music] exalt thee 3:10 Oh Lord let's sing it again and keep your hands lifted up a little lower I exalt thee I ex exalt 3:28 thee I exalt [Music] 3:46 the I exalt thee I exalt the [Music] 4:00 [Applause] I oh Lord yes we do Lord that's why we 4:20 sing Mighty most holy God Faithful Through the Ages Almighty most holy 4:35 God glorious all Mighty God the beasts of the field the birds of the air are silent to call out your name the Earth has no voice and I have 4:54 no choice but to magnify God unashamed let the Rocks be kep silent for one more day let the whole world sing out let the people say Alm 5:13 Mighty most holy God faithful through the oh mighty most holy God glorious Almighty might y 5:31 God Time Marches on with the Innocence gone and a Darkness has covered the Earth but his Spirit dwells he speaks it his well and the hopess still offer New 5:50 Birth he will break the least of death it will have no let the prisoner Go free join the dance and sing Almighty most holy 6:08 God Faithful Through the Ages Alm Mighty L holy God glorious Alm Mighty God oh mighty most holy 6:28 God faith Through the Ages Alm Mighty most holy God glorious almighty God glorious almighty 6:47 God glorious almighty God the God we serve is the same yesterday today and forever oh how sweet the Glorious message Faith 7:07 Mayim yesterday today forever Jesus is the same still he loves to save the sinful heal the sick and lame cheer the morning still The Tempest 7:25 glory to his name yes today today forever Jesus is the same all may change but Jesus never glory to his name glory to his 7:45 name glory to his name all may change but Jesus never glory to his name 8:00 he who paron daring Peter never needs th fear he that came to faithless Thomas all thy doubts will clear he who L the love disciple on his 8:18 bosom rest f with love as tender Le upon his bre yesterday today forever Jesus is the 8:34 same all may change but Jesus never glory to his name glory to his name glory to his name all may change my Jesus 8:53 never glory to his name he who was a friend of siners seeks the lost one now Sinners come and at his foot penitently 9:12 bow he who said I not condemn thee go and sin no more speak to thee that word a part and as in days of your yesterday today 9:29 forever Jesus is the same all change but Jesus never glory to his name glory to his name glory to his 9:47 name all may change but Jesus never glory to his name as of old he walked to mayus with them to 10:04 abide so through all life way he walkth ever near side soon again shall we be hold him Hast Lord the day much will still be this Jesus as he 10:23 went away yesterday today for ever Jesus is the same all may change but Jesus never glory to his name glory to his 10:43 name glory to his name all may change but Jesus never glory to his name yesterday today forever Jesus is the 11:01 same all may change but Jesus never glory to his name glory to his name glory to his 11:15 name all they change but Jesus never glory to his name isn't it wonderful to trust an unchanging God who loved us and he who 11:34 gave his own son who delivered him up freely for us he didn't charge us for it he freely gave up his own son how much more will he not give us all that we need today so trust him today he's the same think about the father and all the 11:49 pain he suffered when he saw his son beaten whipped tortured and hung to die and dying even out of love for you love for me he loves us so much there's nothing that we need nothing that will uh accomplish his 12:08 purpose that he won't provide for us he will he will indeed as we've been hearing even this last week Jesus is our Forerunner it's a truth that the devil has hidden from so many Jesus is your Forerunner and he's giving you an example the reason he 12:23 didn't just come and die on the cross immediately he lived for 33 and A2 years here on this Earth to set an example to set you 2-year-old footsteps that you could follow four-year-old footsteps that you could follow 8-year-old 12:35 12-year-old teenage footsteps 20-some footsteps 30s something footsteps footsteps as an adult Footsteps in every situation in your life that you could follow just your size he had to be made like his brethren in all things so that 12:50 he could be a faithful high priest a wonderful compassionate sympathizing high priest he was tempted in all points as we are yet without sin and this Forerunner who never sinned once in his life is your older brother it's not some 13:07 Far Away God he's your older brother you can talk to him like you would to your own older brother or older sister he's your older brother come and talk to him and say Lord Jesus how did you do it how did you walk how did you live so free 13:20 from the opinions of people will you show me today as well Lord and I will follow you that's what we're going to sing in this song A soul who would be like his master must follow his example and his word we look at different circumstances 13:35 in Jesus life how he didn't seek the Applause that came from man he knew what was in man and so he didn't entrust himself to any man he entrusted himself only to his father and the father Vindicated him a soul would be like the 13:57 master must he his example and word the father's good pleasure was our 14:12 him through fear were his prayers always heard he Faithfully preach Heaven [Music] kingom the prin 14:29 of sin were set free all sickness and need had to vanish when Jesus the master passed by when all went their way and were 14:54 seeping he went to the mountain to pray and there he receed from his father the strength that he needed each 15:15 day so mighty and clear was his message things happened just as he would say 15:30 the Sea and the wind were both silent the moment he B them to stay he saw not app Applause from the 15:50 massage but Hearts broken contrite and G he t them the way of life's wisdom their sickness and pain he yes he 16:09 is the same today he wept for mankind with compassion and suffered unspeakable grief is 16:26 all all for he gave all his soul he poured out unto death yet no judgment no judgement he made from a the spirit in many 16:53 deser no friend in the flesh did he f [Music] he spared not relationships B in weakness he came to 17:12 [Music] Perfection from Lion a land he became in silence and patience he followed to calary and shame this is why he's given 17:35 us a body as well to follow a body for me thou prepare a will to be offer complete a COR of weat made to be 17:57 bued thy will oh my father my me so poor and so weak it was planted in power and might it 18:20 arose with shame and Repro it was covered in glory mesty [Music] 18:37 in this is the secret to the triumphant overcoming Secret Life a life surrendered Jesus said un less a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die it remains alone if there's a loneliness in your life a loneliness that's comes from 18:55 looking to things of this Earth or because you have not Fallen into the ground and died die with him this is how Jesus won US his body his bride through death through going into the ground and dying like a grain of wheat seek this 19:11 way dear friends dear brothers and sisters and as we spend a few minutes in prayer and Consecration and surrender yes you have needs the Lord knows them yes there is a long way to go for you to be conformed Into His Image 19:24 the Lord knows that too but he loves you today with an everlasting love and he's committed to fulfilling that purpose in your life if you have faith so be gone unbelief my savior is near be gone unbelief my savior is near and for my 19:39 relief will soon appear he will give you Grace so run to the throne of grace for help in time of need you will receive mercy and you will find Grace there and come to that throne of grace AR fresh this morning come without any Hang-Ups 19:55 come without looking back forgetting what lies behind kind forgetting even what this morning's been like or last week or last month or last year and pressing forward to what lies ahead there's a reason that Jesus laid a hold 20:07 of you and may you lay a hold of that may we all lay a hold of that and be a church that testifies to that we're learning we're we're experiencing and we're growing in knowing why Jesus would love a Wretch like Me thank you Heavenly 20:22 Father we praise you and exalt you like we Sayang already You Are An Almighty most holy God the Beast of the field the birds of the air they're all belong to you you created them and they sing your praises and they don't even have eternal 20:34 life in them but you've put your eternal life within us and how much more do we not owe it to you Lord to sing from that eternal life because we have hope we're not just going to perish like dust back to the dust Lord Jesus you put within us 20:47 our bodies will perish but you put within us an eternal life that's rising out triumphant that's that's coming alive that's becoming stronger every day even though our outer man decays so we praise you Lord we have every reason to 21:00 lift our hands to you to lift our heads up to lift our voices to you and to say glory be to you blessed be your name we exalt your name we worship you we praise you and we give you all the glory and honor and may it not just be something 21:13 we do here may it be something we do every moment of Our Lives Lord Jesus our Spirits are constantly towards you seeking to exalt you and praise you so thank you be exalted Lord you you said that we could make a throne for you 21:25 through our praises and I pray that that will be so even this morning as we pray thank you Father for all you've done thank you for Gathering us here it's not us that's here Lord You've drawn our hearts towards you you've drawn our 21:36 hearts towards each other to be knit together in love in this local expression of your body thank you do it Lord I pray that with nothing in us will hinder you from knitting our hearts together no Pride or self-seeking or 21:48 selfish ambition or jealousy but that our hearts will be knit together in in your body because that glorifies you as the head when the body is knit together in unity likewise in our marriages Lord I pray you will knit us as husbands and 22:00 wives together that no coldness will come in between oh strengthen our marriages Lord we know the devil wants to get in there and bring a division or bring a distance even and unite our hearts we pray husbands and wives 22:12 together knit our hearts we pray pray for our children as well that you'll knit our homes together that our children will will be they will have their hearts knit together towards their parents and the parents to the children 22:23 Lord give us Grace as parents to be faithful examples to them that they won't see any laziness or lacad disiness in our hearts Lord but that we will have a zealous attitude towards the kingdom of heaven so that they too will have 22:35 that attitude when they're grown up we know they're watching us Lord so help us to be circumspect to be sober To Be watchful over our lives that we our garments are not soiled by the things of this Earth by the attitudes and the 22:47 Ambitions of this Earth so that our children also can follow that you might be glorified that you look down in our homes and you see Godly homes where the word of God is read where prayer is valued where we sing to you Lord and 22:59 that our thoughts our motives our attitudes our Ambitions how we use our eyes how we use our tongues is glorifying to you please do that Lord we can't do it fill us with your Holy Spirit I pray that us as men as leaders 23:11 of the homes that we will be filled with the Holy Spirit our wives will be filled with the Holy Spirit our marriages will be full of the Holy Spirit our children will be filled with the Holy Spirit you said they would be Lord and they too 23:22 would prophesy your word would be on their tongues do that father I pray in our children and in our homes and in this church a living testimony Lord we don't want a reputation here we don't want to be popular we don't want to be 23:33 liked we don't care what people say about us but Lord we want to be known in heaven and we want to be known in hell where the devil's afraid of us because we have authority we have your name established we honor your name we 23:44 glorify your name and therefore the devil is afraid of us Lord we believe he is and may it be so preserve us Lord as the days get darker as the times get more and more evil before your return we ask that you will preserve us Lord in 23:58 Holiness and Purity not in size or in numbers but in Purity Lord as many as you call into this place let it be Purity that's a that's a testimony of this church preserve us Lord we pray thank you thank you you will help us we 24:12 commit our Earthly needs to you as well Lord our um thank you that you've given us jobs you've given us homes to live in you've given us clothes to wear oh may we never be distracted Lord by the things of this Earth by the Fashions of 24:24 this world or the things of this world or the food of this world or the houses of this world and the Commodities of this world but that we will be taken up with eternity Lord thank you thank you for providing those for us and I pray 24:36 that in everything we will do we we we do we will give it back to you we will honor You by how we use our money we'll honor You by how we use our time and we pray for our bodies also that you that we will honor You by how we use our 24:48 bodies Lord every part of our body from head to toe every moment even our thoughts and our words and our Deeds our actions our motives our attitude udes Lord let it be honoring and glorifying to you and we s we pray Lord with that 25:02 in mind that you will heal our bodies we pray for many who are sick in our midst some who couldn't be here because they're sick others who are here would deal with constant pain and suffering and others who are suffering in other 25:12 ways Lord in their bodies will you this morning lay your hands on them Lord we have no power in ourselves we're weak our bodies are weak even if we think they're strong they're weak Lord but we rely on you we're helpless like the 25:24 branch in the tree touch those who are in need of touch from you a healing touch Lord that will raise them up so that we can serve you with our bodies joyfully and freely Lord unhindered so that we can fulfill your purpose in our lives and knit our 25:39 hearts together in this church in love Lord we don't want a Unity or a uniformity that comes from liking each other or tolerating each other or enjoying common interests Lord we're done with that we don't want anything of 25:51 that we ask for a work of your Holy Spirit knitting our hearts together because we've surrendered Our Lives to you our eyes are on you we fixed our eyes on you and our only ambition is to live lives that are pleasing to you and 26:03 out of that common ambition of pleasing you you knit our hearts together and make us one Lord we don't want to be too even we don't even want to be a 100 we want to be one Lord Jesus will you do that make us one Lord make us one thank 26:16 you you will do that we ask these in Jesus name amen can we sing that chorus I just said make us one Lord make us one Holy Spirit Holy Spirit make us 26:37 one Let Your Love flow let your love flow so the world will know we are one sing it again from your heart make 26:54 us one Lord make us one Lord make us one holy [Music] spir make us one let your life 27:16 flow so the world will know we are [Music] one yes Lord we give our lives to you I 27:34 started for the kingdom my life he [Music] control since I gave my heart to Jesus 27:52 the longer I serve him the sweeter he GR [Music] the longer I serve him the sweeter he 28:06 grow more than I love him more love he beow each days like heaven my heart overflows 28:21 theer I Ser him the sweeter he grows every need he supplying 28:37 plous Grace he bestow every day my way gets brighter the longer I serve him the sweeter he 28:56 goes the longer I serve him the sweeter he rose more that I love him more 29:10 love each days like heaven my heart over flows the longer I serve him the sweeter he 29:25 gos the longer I serve him the sweeter he grows the more that I love him more love him 29:38 his each stays like heaven my heart overflows the longer I serve him the longer I serve him the longer I serve him just 29:58 s he gr singing a long life Road praising the Lord praising the Lord singing I go 30:14 along my for Jesus hased my heart to Jesus things nor any El for more but at the cross of 30:30 Cal praise God for singing I go along my praising the Lord praising the Lord singing I go a 30:46 life for Jesus has lived my Lord the passing days when many car fear not I 31:00 hear and fears are to the bird and S away singing I go along life Road praising the Lord praising the Lord singing I go 31:20 along for Jesus Has Lifted my Lord tells me of my father's love and never sling 31:33 on my Everlasting king of will all my will singing I know along my RO praising the Lord praising the Lord 31:50 singing I go a long L for Jesus has lived in my l to the throne of grace I Fe I find the pr 32:06 true the mighty arms upholding me will bear my burdens to singing I go along life s praising the Lord praising the Lord singing and 32:23 go along let's SW for Jesus singing I go along Road praising the Lord praising the Lord singing I go 32:39 along life Ro for Jesus has lift my Lord thank you may [Music] SE Seven lampstands and Seven Stars which 57:05 are representing the messenger the one in that church to whom God has given the message the messenger the Seven Stars are the Angels of the seven churches and the Seven lampstands are the seven churches so here throughout the New Testament you'll 57:20 see that Jesus is in the midst of his church he's got the lampstands there he's in the midst of them and he's holding these Messengers notice doesn't say that he's holding all the people in the church yes he is but here there's a 57:34 wonderful picture we're given about how those Messengers Those whom God had called Jesus has appointed in the church certain ones to me as Messengers and different gifts he's holding them in his hand this is the picture of authority 57:48 that we're given now it's interesting that to me it's significant that Jesus that God used uses human agents to exercise his authority let's turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 4 you might think well does Jesus really need Apostles prophets evangelists 58:05 pastors teachers probably not God can do anything he doesn't really need us to perfect his work of Salvation And yet he chooses to and before we get proud and thinking well Lord I'm so good of me that you can use me whatever gift it might be even if 58:24 it's being a father father or mother or whatever before we get proud let's remember this 2 Corinthians 4: 7 Paul says we have this treasure This Life of Christ this Authority this calling this purpose that God has called us with this 58:41 treasure is in an earth and vessel in a human body so that not that so that I can get greater glory out of it or feel proud of myself so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves so when you see God using 58:59 human agents whether it's an elder in a church somebody with the gift of being an apostle or uh uh gift of prophet gift of Prophecy the gift of tongues the gift of interpretation of tongues the gift of an evangelist all these gifts when you 59:12 see God using you in whatever capacity's called you to be used you ought to be able to say God picked me to prove how great he was how because I'll say he could use even me horrible me that's what Paul is 59:31 saying that it's almost like I'm going to think of the worst possible thing I could think of to demonstrate my power I'm going to pick Santos do you see yourself that way if God gives you a gift to be a Godly husband or a godly father a Godly mother 59:46 a brother God gives you a gift of an evangelist a prophetic word on your tongue after you share that and somebody says brother thank you for sharing that that's exactly what I needed what should go through your mind I'm such a horrible person God 1:00:00 could still use me he is so great you see how different this is It's the exact opposite of the world where you get preachers who sit there on their Thrones and and act so in their nice suits and all that and are so impressed by they 1:00:12 they love the attention that that they get from people and on TV and they're looking at the camera and all this junk that's going on in Christendom it's a dishonor to the name of Christ and God is looking for those who when when God 1:00:24 is able to use them they want to go down and say Lord I I'm such a horrible person I'm such an earth and vessel and yet
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