Entree: Message 8 "Don't Count Anyone Out"

MSG 8: “Don’t Count Anyone Out” - Resurrection Sunday Altar Call Message

Opening:
i. Approximately five to six weeks ago, The Spirit of the Lord spoke to me regarding some pains and problems of people, “Don’t Count Anyone Out.” Meaning, toran, you are not to ever give up or quit on someone. God said, “I did not make you that way, despite what others may do or called to, you can not be that way.”

Prayer:
Let us pray…,

Introduction:
1. He knows my name by Israel Houghton lyrics state this:

I am not Forgotten
I am not Forgotten
God knows my name

I am not Forgotten
I am not Forgotten

I am not Forgotten
I am not Forgotten


I will praise you
I will praise you
Yes, I will worship you

For I am fearfully and wonderfully made
He knows my name
He knows my every thought
He sees each tear that falls
He hears me when I call

Zeph 3:17 NIV
17 The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing."

2. splash-in.com has been about getting into God, being committed to Christ as He has sacrificed Himself for us, about going further and deeper in our relationship with God. And basically, it deals with having to start from somewhere or possibly having to start back somewhere.

a. From the very first message it has been about Love at First Sight. We followed that message with the very moving message to Make your life Count. Then our brother and Administrative Leader shared last week for this week to come “Returning to our First Love.”

b. I whimpered myself last night after calling out to God in broken prayer, Lord the only thing that satisfies me completely is my First Love, You, Your Word, Your Comfort, Your Acceptance, and How you delight in me, and I can Count on Your Love for me without conditions.

3. On Resurrection Sunday Celebration

“Don’t Count Anyone Out”

a. Jesus Raised from the dead 2000 years ago because today He does not want anyone to be counted out, nor Forgotten, because while He does not count anyone out, no matter what we have done are what is being done to us, we can Count on Christ Jesus in our life!

b. And He is our First Love…
1 John 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us.

Rev 2:4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.


Content:
I. Biblical Characters who dealt with being Counted Out and Forgotten

A. Cain- Gen 4:4-7
5 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

6 So the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."

B. Leah and Rachel; and Hannah
Gen 29:16-17
16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah , and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah's eyes were delicate, but Rachel was beautiful of form and appearance.

C. Naomi
Ruth 1:20-21
20 But she said to them, "Do not call me Naomi ; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi , since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"

D. David-

E. Paul
Acts 14:19-20
Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. 20 However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

F. Nicolotians

II. Contemporary People not to Count out

A. 70’s people were Jimmied
B. 90’s people were Michaeled
C. 2000’s people are dismayed, disappointed, and disrupted by Presidents and preachers- spoken of impurities, deceit, deceiving, and even denying God.
D. We now have Corporations, Economy, Medical, and even Golfing has been distraught, nothing seems to be counted on.
E. We must not forget them, nor not count on anything because of disappointments, hurts, pains, and problems they may have caused.
F. Thursday I experienced a very depraved witnessing that discouraged me as a pastor, and person of in this age…
G. But the Ultimate Servant Savior not to Count Out- but those of his day did

Jesus The Resurrection
Acts 3:13-19
the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. 14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. 16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

17 "Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18 But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Acts 13:26-35
26 "Men and brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation has been sent. 27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled them in condemning Him. 28 And though they found no cause for death in Him, they asked Pilate that He should be put to death. 29 Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb. 30 But God raised Him from the dead. 31 He was seen for many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people. 32 And we declare to you glad tidings — that promise which was made to the fathers. 33 God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm:

'You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.'

34 And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus:

'I will give you the sure mercies of David.'

35 Therefore He also says in another Psalm:

'You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.'

III. I.E.- our personal lives feeling like we are counted out and forgotten:

A. our jobs
B. at school
C. on our sports teams
D. in our families
E. husbands with their wives,
F. and certainly wives with their husbands
G. and even often times with God our suppose to be Father
H. forgotten in health, illnesses, prayers, our needs, our hopes…things do not seem to get any better,

IV. Today I believe in my heart God wants you to know, “you are not forgotten, overlooked, or missed, He knows:

A. your name
B. your number
C. your need

V. Jesus will not count anyone out nor Allow me to give up, quit, or count you out.

A. Because the true testimony is that, and I am speaking to us all, I began to remember how I lived in sin after having known the Lord well, and I can not imagine from both sides please do not give up on me and yet years mounted up that is a long time to be clearly away from God…Mercy!
B. My heart inner heart does not do it, even though even our patience gets weary and effort seems fruitless,
C. Jesus Christ certainly does not Count you Out neither ever will you ever be Forgotten
D. BCC’s motto is every1one is significant and Loved by God. Which suitably evolved from where everyone is a necessary member…
E. Therefore, this church and body of believers will not be Count you out, and even at our best we may seem like we forget you, but Jesus Christ never does…

Close:
A) A Peace of Cloth

John 20:5-9
5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. 9 For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

B) Ezek 47:12
12 Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine."


Altar Call:
· mission statement, John 10:10AMP The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may HAVE and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
· Remember last night I was praying…God told me to read pages 7-9 in Joseph Princes book… The River of God is Here to give you a Hope and a Future. Splash-in and receive Life and Healing today Return to your First Love, He Loves you