In this sermon, the speaker shares a personal story about a doctor receiving good news about a patient's health. The speaker emphasizes the importance of believing in God's word and not forgetting His works. They highlight that God is not looking for highly educated individuals or mega churches, but for a people who will be His greatest evangelistic tool. The sermon emphasizes the need for believers to trust in God and come into a perfect rest in Him, free from anxiety and fear. The story of Daniel in the lions' den is used as an example of someone who held fast to their faith and impacted the world as a result.

This message is one of the Times Square Church Pulpit Series. It was recorded in the Sanctuary of Times Square Church in Manhattan, New York City. Other tapes are available by writing WORLDCHALLENGE P.O. BOX 260 LINDELL, TEXAS 75771 or calling 903-963-8626. None of these messages are copyrighted and you are welcome to make copies for free distribution to friends. My message this morning, doubt the sin God hates most. Doubt the sin God hates most. Go to Psalm 106 if you will please. Psalm 106. Hello to all of our friends in the annex. Sorry you couldn't be in this place but you get a bigger image than they do here. You can see us three times bigger than they can on those screens. So God bless you. Delighted to have you. We're visiting from all over the world. Psalm 106 verses 6 and 7 if you will please. We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We've done wickedly. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt. They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea. Our fathers understood not, verse 7, our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt. They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies but provoked him at the sea. And these words are powerful, even at the Red Sea. Lord I thank you for the word. I thank you Lord for your power. And now Lord I need a special touch from you. Lord there are people here that are visiting and there are people that have been coming to this church for quite a while and a part of the body here. But Lord Jesus we don't take your word for granted. We honor your word. We thank you for the word. It is life. It is our strength. It is our hope. Now Lord minister to me as I preach this. I need to hear this. Lord don't let it just go through my mouth and through my heart without having a place and without affecting me eternally I pray. Lord help me to practice what I'm preaching this morning. Help me to live what I'm hearing from you in the Holy Ghost. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Doubt, the sin God hates the most. Of all sins God makes it clear in the word doubt is the most hated by the Lord. In fact he said it grieves him. The Bible says that it gives him pain. And the Lord himself said it provokes him. If you want to provoke God clearly this is the sin that provokes him the most. Now here in Psalm 106 and verse 5 we read we have sinned. We've committed iniquity. We've done wickedly. Now what is this iniquity? What is this sin? What is this grieving of God? How did these people provoke him? Doubting God at the sea even at the Red Sea. And what the writer is saying can you believe what happened here? Can you believe that in the face of one of the greatest miracles man has ever seen, the opening of the Red Sea, that God's people doubted him even in the face of that miracle? Can you believe the wickedness in us? Can you believe the how we provoked Almighty God? He has just performed for us the greatest miracle we have ever seen or the world could have ever seen. It is one of the greatest miracles in the history of mankind. And even in the face of that witnessing it we doubted him. We mistrusted him. We provoked him. Now he's talking about the miracle that happened on the deliverance side. We provoke the Lord after witnessing the greatest miracle. Now we know what happened on the other side. Now I preached a message here a number of years ago called write song wrong side. They began to sing and dance on the victory side when all their enemies were drowned in the sea. When Pharaoh's army was gone they yes they could shout because they already had a good report. But they didn't shout. They didn't bless God and trust him on the other side on the testing side of the Red Sea. We know the terrible doubt that came. The Bible says they understood not the wonders in Egypt. They remembered not the multitude of his mercies. Now it seems to me that when they witnessed these 10 signs and wonders that God performed bringing judgment on Egypt it's very clear that they thought that these were just natural happenstances. That this was just nature out of control. They didn't understand it at all. Even though Moses was trying to tell them this is the hand of God. He's going to deliver you through these miracles. They were called wonders by the prophets by the prophet Moses. But you know these people didn't understand it. They took it for granted. This was just something of nature. Look at this people camped at the sea. The Lord led them into a situation and the place that he led them here to means the entrance to a precipitous cliff. It also means on the edge of a crisis. The edge of a crisis. That's the name of the place God led them to in Hebrew. He delivers them mightily. He delivers them with silver and with gold. They went out with silver and gold the Bible said. They went out without a feeble person among them. There was supernatural power given to them. God had made all provisions for what was to take place. No there were no grocery stores. There were no malls. There were no shopping centers. There were no guards. There were no wells. But God had a plan. Every contingency was planned for. God made provision. There was even a cloud to cover them in that hot sun in the wilderness beating down in the hot sun. A cloud covering the whole camp. The cloud didn't cover just the tabernacle. It covered the whole camp. You could look out in the distance and you could see the sun blaring down but here they were under the shadow of that cloud the whole time. There was a fire at night. A fiery pillar and that was to heat them because in the desert it got very cold at night and it was also that comforting glow. The darkness of that wilderness being lit. God made provision. He knew where the water was. He knew how he was going to feed them. Angels food falling from heaven. Every provision was made. There were no danger. There was no danger whatsoever. God had planned this but he was going to test them. Folks, faith is not built on miracles. Faith is not founded on miracles. They saw 10 great miracles, 10 great signs and wonders and wound up without an ounce of faith. Full of doubt and unbelief. Why is God taking this people out of Israel and putting them into a promised land? Now the Bible says very clearly and you remember the history of it. He said this is the smallest nation, most insignificant of all nations and people. They're just a small handful and God chooses them. Now why is he bringing them here to a testing place and why is he going to take them into the land of Canaan? Is it because he just wants to give them new houses and he's got a special people he wants to just bless and they're going to inherit vineyards and milk and honey and they're going to be able to sit idle in pleasure and they're going to just be able to sit there and praise and worship God and offer sacrifices from generation to generation. No, no, no, no, no. You see God loves the world, the Bible says, and God loved the world just as much then as he loves him now, as much as the world now. Those heathen nations, God was yearning after them. He yearned after them just as much. We think that only in the day of grace did God have love. No, God was love from the beginning. He loved the Canaanites. He loved all of those nations even though they sinned. There was a heart of love for them. The Bible says that prophetically all the prophets knew that the law would go out from Jerusalem, that God was trying to raise up missionaries with a testimony. He was trying to build an army that he could use, that his truth could go out through the whole then known world. They were not going into Canaan land just for their own comfort. They weren't going there so that all of the goodness and grace of God could be absorbed in themselves. Not at all. That's not why God saved you and that's not why he saved me. He didn't save us just to sit in this church and absorb all his glory and his grace and his goodness and his mercy. God is out always searching and looking for an army, looking for a people that are tested and tried and have proven him faithful, because it's not just going out and preaching an unproven gospel. If you don't, if you haven't proved the gospel, you can't believe the gospel you preach. I hear people talk about belonging to faith movements, but how can you be a faith preacher? How can you go to a faith church and not allow the testing to produce faith? God is trying to produce something in these people. God wanted them, they're standing on the brink of a catastrophe. They're standing on the brink of a disaster, a crisis like they'd ever known. You say, well, does God expect these people to trust him when the army is coming down and everything looks impossible? God expects them to trust and believe him and not doubt their situation? Yes, absolutely. For without faith it's impossible to please him. And they believe, that come to believe, must believe that he is, that he's a reward of those who diligently seek him. God is trying to produce a people with faith and confidence in him to become messengers, tested and tried. But you see, God can't do anything where there is no faith, where there is all doubt. God in flesh couldn't do it and wouldn't do it. Jesus couldn't do mighty miracles there because of their doubt and their unbelief. He rebuked the Red Sea, the scripture says in verses 9 and 12, 9 to 12, and it was dried up and he saved them. He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. Then believed they his words. Then sang they his praises. You see, after you get a good report and after you've got victory and after you've seen deliverance, anybody can sing. Be a fool if you didn't. I mean, I can't understand how anybody wouldn't say wonderful. I remember Debbie telling me when Roger, doctor called Roger, got the good word that the cancer had spread to the spine in Tiffany. I heard he yelled, yes, yes, yes. Debbie said, what's going on? Had a good report. And we all do that. I'm going to tell you what I did when I heard it. There was a rejoicing in my heart. As you see, we're on the victory side. Bible said, then they believed his words. The folks, these folks miserably failed because the very next verse reads, they soon forgot his works and waited not for his counsel. They despised the pleasant land. They believed not his word. Oh, folks, I believe God is still searching for that people, that people who will be his greatest evangelistic tool. You see, God's not looking for some highly educated seminarian to take the gospel to the world. He's not looking for mega churches with multiplied thousands of people who've never been tested and tried. Because those same people, I don't care if you have 50,000 in your church, those people, if they've not been tested, if all they see is that everything is rosy and they can't see anything coming. Folks, when people ignore that and they don't look at reality, and then when the hard times come, when the testing times come, there are no resources. They have nothing to draw on. And God can't use that kind of a people to be a testimony to a lost world. Not at all. He's not looking for that. Gideon had called for the nation to come and fight the Midianites, and many thousands responded to his call. God said to Gideon, he said, the people that are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands. Now proclaim in their ears, whosoever is fearful, afraid, let him go home. Let him go home. We don't want to infect the whole crowd here. We don't want to infect this army. And got it down to 10,000. Lord said, still too many. Got it down finally to 300 tested men. God is not looking for some great powerful religious organization. He's looking for individuals. He's looking for men and women of God who have been through the flood, who've been through the fire, have been tested and have come through with faith, tested as gold, tried in a fire. I would tell you the world is looking. The world is watching for people like that. Not to just throw scriptures around. Not just trying to get everybody to come to their church. But coming on the job when everybody on that job knows that you're going through the trial of your life. You're facing calamity. You're going to work even though you are broken and you have a heart that you can hardly stand the day. You've been rocked by hard times. And the world is watching you. Just as King Darius was watching Daniel. You remember this story. Daniel's a man of prayer and he's one of three presidents and the other two got jealous of him because of God's favor on his life. And they figured out where the favor came from because he prayed so much. So they went to Darius and they flattered him and and deluded him into signing a 30-day ban on prayer. Anyone who prays for the next 30 days to anybody but the king goes to the lion's den. And you can be sure that those men in those 30 days didn't feed those lions. They're going to feed Daniel to those lions and they will make sure they were deathly hungry. The king signs it not knowing about his giving a death sentence to Daniel. He tried desperately to save him. But the kings and the presidents and the whole government staff at that time came to him said it's the law of the weeds and persons you can't change it. He did everything with his power to try to change it. They found Daniel praying. They brought him to the king. And just before he was cast in the lion's den here is what King Darius said. Daniel thy God whom thou service continually he will deliver you. He's going to deliver you because you've served him faithfully he's going to deliver you. Folks, the bible said the king went to his palace and fasted all night. He didn't sleep that night. Don't tell me the world isn't watching. Don't tell me they don't have their eyes on God's people who have boasted of the glory and power of God. You tell the world who Jesus is you tell him that he's your savior and your healer. You tell him your God can do the impossible and now you're in an impossible situation and Darius has believed him. He said I believe your God's going to deliver you. God's going to deliver you. Now folks he didn't deliver him out of the lion's den he delivered him in the lion's den. The king went to his palace and passed the night fasting the scripture says. I read in psalms 31 19. Oh how great is thy goodness which thou has laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of man. He said you trust in me before the sons of men I've laid up something good for you and what is that good thing that he's laid up. I believe it's an impeachable glorious testimony to the world how through the power of the Holy Spirit and through coming into the rest of the Lord Jesus Christ that you can survive any situation and you can come through it as a testimony having a testimony of the whole world not just preaching but having lived it. So Daniel goes into the lion's den. Don't tell me don't try to tell me he slept all night. He watched and prayed all night is what he did. These lions were hungry I'm sure they roared I'm sure they yawned and opened their mouth and he saw the teeth and I bet he quoted scripture all night. I couldn't relate to a man could go into that and sleep all night. That's not that's not human nature when you're face to face with crisis. That's not that that's not the nature man and God doesn't expect you to be unnatural and be some kind of a superman or superwoman trying to brace yourself so you don't have to cry when a crisis comes in. You don't have to give vent to the human nature and the feelings those things are natural they come out. Early in the morning Darius gets up and runs to the lion's den and the bible said he cried with a lament lamentable that's mean a sorrowful grieving voice. Daniel servant of the living God is thy God whom you serve continually able to deliver you from the lion's den. You're still alive Daniel and out comes a voice from the lion's den. King Darius live forever. My God has sent his angel he shut the lion's mouth they have not hurt me. They have not hurt me. Folks this is still the question of the day. Is your God able? Is your God able to sustain you in hard times? That's this cry of human nature and folks if you want to know what the world is looking at Darius is the example. He's looking for in fact he says because one man was faithful. One man believed God through his trial. One man held fast to his faith. The scripture said no matter of hurt was found upon him because he believed in his God and because of that the whole world was impacted. The world was impacted. Darius extolled the God. Daniel 6 you got to see it. Daniel 6. Let me show you what happens when when you hold your faith. Don't doubt God in your difficult times. You don't know it but I'm preaching to myself and maybe you figured it out. Chapter 6 verse 25 beginning to read. Then King Darius wrote unto all people nations and languages that dwell in all the earth. Peace be multiplied unto you. I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble in fear before the God of Daniel for he's the living God and steadfast forever and his kingdom that which and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed and his dominion shall be even unto the end. He delivers and rescues. He works signs and wonders in heaven and earth. Now folks look at me. Yes he sees God as a God of heaven and earth doing signs and wonders in the heaven but that's not really what impacted him. The impact was that one man. In the next word it says who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. This was the testimony. He had to see one man. He had to see one believer who really believed what he preached. Could really come to a place in God. We can face any situation, any trial without bending, without breaking. See God's ultimate desire for all of us as his children is that we come into a perfect rest in him. A perfect rest in him. Now let me tell you something. There is a place in Christ and I want you to listen closely now. There is a place in the Lord where there's no anxiety about the future. There's a place of rest where there's no fear of sudden calamity, no fear of afflictions, no fear of falling, no fear of man, no fear of unemployment, no fear of losing property, no fear of losing health. A place of total confidence in God's faithfulness. There is a place. This place is shown in Hebrews 3 and 4 or 4 and 5 and I'm going to take you to it in just a minute. But folks when the Lord says there was a rest offered to the children of Israel and they refused it because of their unbelief and he said there still remains this place. If they had entered in he would not be offering it now. It would have all been completed. We would have been able to follow them in but he said they didn't go in and I'm still looking I'm still searching for people come into the rest. Now this rest is a promise the Bible says. It's a promise. It's something you can't work up. You have to lay down your own works and those own works are those works of trying to steel yourself waiting for the next shoe to fall so to speak. The new age people call it Nirvana. They say the only way that you can steel yourself and brace yourself for tragedies that are coming in the future. The only way you can do it is to harden your heart. The only way you can do it is to kill your love. In other words if you destroy the love for your son or daughter you can't be hurt. If you learn to hate yourself even it comes to this where where I don't I don't care whether I live or die nothing matters. Just trying to bring myself into a place where I am stupefied. That's not what the Bible is talking about. The Bible is not talking about that at all. It's not talking about bracing yourself. It's not trying to come into some mindset that you say this is not going to bother me and you grit your teeth. No! This is a divine rest that comes by the hand of the Holy Ghost to those who believe God who see it and say I'm going after that. Folks when I read this every time I've read it ever since I was called to preach ever since I've been reading this Bible. Every time I read there remaineth yet a rest of the children of God. That rest where we have complete confidence in the Lord that he does all things well. He's a loving heavenly father and he would never hurt one of his children. I'm a father of four children 11 grandchildren. I can tell you there's never been one moment never thought in my mind to do anything but good for my children. Never have I conceived that I could stand by when they hurt without entering into their suffering and doing everything with my power to heal and deliver. And there remains a rest yet for the children of God. Hebrews 4 9. A place in him in which you're prepared for whatever may come. If you're in this rest you don't panic when you're suddenly hit with unexpected crisis. You won't fall apart. Yes you'll cry you'll hurt you do all of that but you'll have inside in your heart and your soul there will be a permanent rest. Folks I know what I'm talking about. I've been tested and I've been tried. My family's been tested and tried. But folks there's never been a time when was 34 years old when the first cancer came. I was just a young man. Just come to New York working with gangs on the streets. But folks God gave me a rest. I walked these streets preaching through my tears on the streets to gang members. But there was something in my heart God you're faithful. You wouldn't send me out here and preach grace to drug addicts and alcoholics and then abandon me in my house. And the Lord walked with me and he he gave me a peace and a rest that he sustained all through this. I've had it through this time with Tiffany. A rest. I've cried I've screamed at God not not accusing him but just said oh God give me peace give me that rest. And I've entered into it by faith and I'm going to be testing on it in the future no question about it. But you see God's not a liar. He can't lie. He said there's a place of rest. Hard times are coming yes but God wants you to be at peace. He wants you to say that you don't have folks we don't anticipate. You're not to go around anticipating hard times. You're not to go around saying well when's it going to happen to me. No no no. But he said there's a rest. He said let us therefore fear. Bless a promise being left us of entering into that rest. Any of you come short of it. To come short of it means situational faith rather than a lifestyle. God's not interested in giving you faith just over one experience. Where you come through one crisis and you say oh thank God I had faith I got through it. Yes you got through the first one. That was the first one. That's the Red Sea. And there are others that come behind it. It may not be the same kind of be a different kind of a test. But he's not looking for situational faith. He's looking for a lifestyle. He's looking for hearts that are totally at rest. Come what may my God is faithful. Come what may though he slay me yet will I trust him. For we which do believe enter into rest. You go into rest by simple childlike faith. When you make a commitment to believe God and not doubt him in any situation. There has to come a time when all the why's why God are gone. Until all those questions are gone. You say I have a loving father. I stand here and rest boasting only in the word of God and in his Holy Spirit that he's been faithful to give rest and peace to my soul. For he that has entered into his rest has also ceased from his own works as God did from his. In other words you're not trying to be brave in the face of trouble. You're not trying to pump up some phony acceptance of your trial. No more worry about whether you're going to have strength to endure. Oh folks don't worry about whether when hard times come you're being tested whether you're going to faint or you're going to stand. Don't worry about that. Let me tell you before I close. Let me tell you why I seek God every day diligently in prayer. Let me tell you why I'm into this book every day devouring it. Let me tell you why I fast regularly. Not because I have to preach in this pulpit. Not because I'm a minister called to preach. It's not only for fellowship. It's not only for getting to know his ways. It's beyond that. The reason I go into this book. The reason I seek him in spite of all the victories and deliverance I've seen and the peace and the rest that he's given to me. I know there's a warfare. I know there's a battle. I know the devil's not going to let go. He's not going to rest as long as I'm seeking God. Now if I quit seeking God he'll give me peace. Probably let me alone. But if you're going to seek God you're going to go all the way with the Lord. You're going to be tested. You're going to be tried. You're going to be in a warfare till the day you die. He's going to test and test until you when you stand before Jesus. You're going to shine. Your faith is going to shine like gold. More precious than gold. But the reason I do it because I want to be a prepared soldier. I know I know I know that you don't win the battle on the battlefield. I know that you don't go in unprepared. If you're if you're just a soldier and you haven't been to boot camp and you haven't been tested and tried. If you haven't been put through it and the enemy suddenly pounces on you. You are not ready. There's no ammunition backup. There's no soldiers behind you. You're all alone there because you are not prepared. I go into this book and that's why it's important after every victory that you see in your life. That's the time to press in and get ready. Folks very good report I hear. I go to my face before God. I say oh God I know that when I'm praying. I know that when I'm in your word. I know that when I'm fasting you're giving me spiritual authority over the power of the enemy. And I know that you're building up a reservoir in me of confidence in you. I'm getting to know your ways. I'm getting to know who you are and how you act and what you do. I'm getting to know you. Now I may not feel that I am learning anything. I may not feel that spiritual power. I may not see that reservoir. But folks the next time the enemy comes. The next time I'm in a crisis. The next time I face a calamity. I'm going to have reserves. I'm going to have resources. I can draw one because I have won the battle alone with God. If you don't get anything else out of this message. I'm going to close in just a moment. If you don't get anything else. I'm telling you. You may be sitting here now and you say brother Wilkinson I am so grateful. I'm so thankful that as I sit here. My bills are paid. God's blessed me and I have no tragedy. I have no sickness. No illness. My family everything's fine. That's the time. Not that you anticipate anything coming. Not at all. God doesn't take everybody the same route. Not at all. I've known Christians that have had years and years and years. Their trials have been of a different nature. Trials have been like the dryness we hear. There are many other ways that God can test us. But you never have to fear that God's going to lay his hand on one of your kids. And do anything to that child. Isn't that according to his mind and his will. He's not going to touch your husband or wife. He's not going to throw you out of your job and leave you without resources. He's not going to abandon you. And no matter whatever comes. Please don't tell me that you're making a commitment to faith. Unless you're also making three other commitments. A commitment to this word daily. A commitment to your knees. So that you're not in situational faith at all. But you're developing a relationship. It's a relationship faith. And also you've come to understand how much God loves you. The absolute love of God. Folks, if I didn't know he loved me. I couldn't handle anything. I am so convinced of his love. And you know how I'm convinced of his love? On my knees and in this book. I read of his love. And then the Holy Spirit reveals it to me in the secret closet of prayer. And then when I'm fasting. Oh the spirit of God comes on me. The spirit of God comes on the church when it fasts. The spirit of God comes on individuals. And when you fast in January. And I just have to say this. When you're fasting in January. This church is fasting and praying. God is going to come upon you as an individual. Then suddenly corporately upon the whole body. The fire of the Holy Ghost. With confidence and with faith. Hallelujah. That we have a high priest whose touch with the feeling is of our infirmities. Glory be to God. Don't you know that God through Jesus Christ our high priest is right now touched with everything you're going through. That could stand an amen. If you really believe. Will you stand? Folks listen to me please. Not everybody in this church today has been moving in faith. I'll tell you something I've learned in my 50 years of preaching. Something I've learned. That God doesn't waste his word. He had a reason for bringing this. And he wants to get at the doubt in you. Lovingly and pluck it out. Because he says I've been trying to do a work in you and for you. But I can't do it because of your unbelief and your doubt. I'm going to give an altar call now for everyone. Balcony and the main floor. Doubts have crept in. Some fear has crept in because wherever there's doubt fear is going to trail right in. Doubt and fear are twins. And if you've been doubting God. Maybe you've been praying for something and you haven't seen it happen. But a fear has gotten a hold of you. Some of you that had cancer and that fear are coming back. I would even pray for Debbie and Roger that if there was any fear of that cancer returning. God remove that fear. And God remove all fear from our hearts today. So that tomorrow Christmas and the rest of this day you can rejoice in the faithfulness of the Lord. And come into that rest by faith. Step out of your seat and come here. And we're going to pray and we're going to take authority over that in Jesus name and believe the Lord. Up in the balcony go to the stairs on either side and come down in the aisle. And in the annex I want you to just go forward and stand between the screens. Please don't block the screens. But I'll pray for you. But I'd like you to step out just as a testimony. I want to walk in faith before God. I want to believe God to allow him to work. I don't want to bind the Lord in my life in my home for my unbelief. If you have an unsaved husband or wife or family members and unbelief or fear has gotten a hold of your heart concerning it. I want you to move out. If you're not right with God. If you're not saved. If you don't believe the Lord or you're backslidden. You've run from God. Come follow these that are coming right now. Move in close make room for those that are coming. And I'll pray for you. From the 121st Psalm my help comes from the Lord which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. He will not slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper. He's your shade upon the right hand. The sun will not smite thee by day nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. He's preserved thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth even forevermore. God said I'm your keeper. I'm your preserver. I'll keep you. I'll preserve you. Trust me. Yes trust me before the sons of men. Let me sum up everything I've said. He's looking for those who would trust him before the sons of men. Trusting him on the job. Trusting him before your family. Trusting him before all the powers of hell. Say God I trust you. And before all the witnesses in glory in heaven. Lord help me to trust you. Help my unbelief. Pray this prayer with me right now. Jesus I pray this prayer. Help my unbelief. Take away my doubts. Dissolve my fears. I want to be a man or woman. I want to be a person of trust. I want to trust you in everything that I face. Give me grace Lord. Give me peace. You didn't give me the spirit of fear but love and power a sound mind. Thank you Jesus that you love me. You care about me. So help me to cast all my cares upon you now. I love you Jesus. I praise you. You're faithful. You're loving Father. And you love me. And I receive your love. I want you to raise your hands now while I pray for you. And in the annex raise your hands. Heavenly Father we come as a body to you now and I pray for everyone with raised hands that you would remove from our hearts all doubt and fear and trembling. And Lord Jesus let us come into that rest that you said still is offered to your people. And Lord all we can do is come by simple childlike faith. Not try to figure you out. Not try to figure out what's coming. Not try to figure out what we're in. And just rest and say God you're going to see me through. You'll see my family through. You're going to be faithful because you are loving God. Whenever I need you Lord even though I have to go into lion's den. You're going to protect me in that lion's den. You're going to sustain me. And you're going to bring me out of the trial. You're going to bring me out with victory. You're going to bring me out with a song. And I'll not. Lord I don't want to disappoint you. Let that be the cry. Lord I don't want to provoke you. I will come by faith. Resting in Lord. I take authority over every doubt. Over every fear. And all trembling of our hearts. Lord we face Christmas now with a song in our heart. God is so good. God is so good. Say it right now. Raise your hands and just thank him. God is so good. God is so good. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Blessed be the name of the Lord. So folks this won't be too much longer. You'll be saying happy Christmas day to all your friends and loved ones. But right now you're surrounded by loved ones. By this all men know you're my disciples because what? You have love one for another. You don't have to reach out far. Just look around you. There's brothers and sisters. Want you to hug as many. Now here. No that's it. Men with men. Women with women. You got it right here. All right. In the annex. Come on hug as many. Just say God bless you or God is good. God is good. This is the conclusion of the message.