Happy Sunday friends!
Another week just flew by and here we are at Sunday again, and that means I’ve got another great Gospel message for you today.
As we often like to do, we go to our good friend Pastor Robb for this one:
Today’s message is titled:
“Rolling Your Cares Onto Jesus.”This message will really show and teach how to have the fruit of Humility in your life. Today we will look at how the Word teaches us about being humble before the Lord.
It’s better if we humble ourselves rather than having God Himself humble us. Trust me, this is far better than having the Lord humble us under His mighty hand. Yes indeed. No doubt about that.
I pray that you will learn so much about God’s love and grace as He teaches you about ways.
Holy Spirit, have your way with your people that you love and bless! Yes, Amen.
Pastor Robb Goodman
Sr Pastor of Zion Freedom Fellowship USA
Please enjoy:
TRANSCRIPT:
Pastor Robb Goodman: Good morning, everyone. Today is Sunday, August the 31st. Holy smoke—can you believe it? You know, I just marvel at how fast the summer flew by. Monday will be Labor Day. I can’t believe it. I just—it just astounds me. It truly astounds me.
But you know what? The Lord is the author and the finisher of our faith. And He is in control of our days from sunup till sundown and through the night. Blessed be His holy name. I’ve got a wonderful message for you. Before I share the title of it, I am going to pray. Amen. Join me in prayer in the mighty name of Jesus.
Father, we come before Your presence boldly, carefree. We come honestly, Lord, in Your presence, and we say that we are in need of Your grace every minute of every day. Lord, let Your Spirit flow out of me this day. I yield my mind, my thoughts, my tongue, my lips to You, Lord. Let my tongue be the pen of a ready writer, giving glory and honor to Your name.
Lord, You are the God of Israel. You’re the God of the whole universe. And Lord, we worship You and we praise You because You are our Father and You are our God. Lord, we worship You today in Jesus’ name. Father, as we go through this message, I ask that You will speak to the hearts of all who are watching—whether it’s right now, today, or whether it’s off in the future.
Lord, let Your name be honored and glorified. Let people’s lives be changed and touched by the authority and the power of the spoken and written Word of God. Let Your Word be triumphant in everybody’s lives. Lord, I ask You to speak to pastors. I ask You to speak to laypeople. Lord, I ask You to speak to Your body, because You, Father, are a wonderful God.
You love us. You care for us. You’ve got a plan laid out for our lives. And according to Jeremiah 29:11, You know the thoughts that You have toward us—thoughts of good and not evil—to give us a hope and an expected outcome. Lord, let Your name be glorified through this spoken word today that You have given unto me.
Father, I ask that everywhere this word goes, it would be received in a spirit of humility, that people would be blessed and touched in Jesus’ name. In the mighty name of Jesus we pray. Amen and amen. Well, I’ve got a wonderful topic for everyone today. Amen. The name of my message for this particular Sunday is: Rolling Your Cares onto Jesus. Rolling your cares onto Jesus.
So, how do we as believers in Jesus live a carefree life in this day and age? Is it truly possible? Let’s find out what the Word of God teaches us. Okay, let’s go to 1 Peter chapter 5. I’m going to start reading at verse 1. I’m reading out of the New King James Version, from 1 Peter 5:1–9. “The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed.” Isn’t that a wonderful promise? We are partakers of the glory that will be revealed.
I believe with all my heart. My wife and I were just praying—had a glorious prayer time before filming this message. I’m filming this on a Saturday; you’re receiving it on Sunday morning. Praise be to God. And the Lord moved mightily. The Lord is doing great things all over the earth. And God is going to use all of us because great revival is about to happen—the glory that will be revealed.
And then Peter speaks and he says, “Shepherd the flock of God which is among you.” Remember what Jesus said to him on the shore that one day, after Jesus was raised from the dead: “If you love Me, feed My sheep.” Wow. Isn’t that amazing? “Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly, nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.”
Now, think about Peter. This amazes me about this man. We often think of Peter in the Gospels—he denied Jesus. Jesus said, before the rooster crows in the morning, “You will have denied Me three times.” Peter’s like, “No, no.” But Peter wasn’t born again yet. He was not filled with the Holy Spirit. And he did fail. He failed Jesus. And we all fail Him. Our religious ways will not please God in the least. They will not.
And then Peter said—and think about how Peter was, and think about Peter right now as he’s writing this—a completely different man. His life has been changed. He’s ministering to people everywhere he goes. And he’s bearing the sufferings of Jesus Christ; not running away from it, not denying it, but literally coming under God’s mighty hand. “And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.”
“Likewise, you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility. For ‘God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’ Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.”
“But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.” Praise be to God. What a glorious, glorious word that Peter teaches us.
All right, let’s talk about the word “humble.” The word “humble” means to be low to the ground. Jesus is the most humble man that ever walked the face of the earth. What does “humble” mean in Greek? It’s the word tapeinoō—to humble, to bring low, to abase oneself. Now, this message that I’m going to share with you might feel a little bit uncomfortable, but I’m asking you to bear with me to the very end, because we must allow God to humble us.
It is better that we allow God to humble us than to have to submit to being forced to be humble—and we’re going to talk about those two different steps. This is a verb. Tapeinoō again, a little deeper—the meaning is to abase, bring low, humble oneself. Humbled, humbles, humble, brought low—get low. Humble means humbling. Wow. Are we humbling ourselves before the Lord? And we’re going to talk about what that exactly means.
How do we humble ourselves before the Lord? I’m going to talk about that in great detail. As we humble ourselves under God’s mighty hand, He Himself will exalt us in His own due time. That’s what He promises. It is better that we humble ourselves rather than God Himself forcing us to be humbled. It is less painful to bring oneself under God’s mighty hand rather than His heavy hand bearing down on us as His children.
Think about that. One way, we submit to God—we allow what God is doing and we submit in a humble fashion to the Lord; we don’t fight against it. “This ain’t right. What’s happening to me ain’t right. I’m not dealing with this. I’m not standing for this.” Well, it may not be right, but why is God allowing you to go through this circumstance and situation? Think about it. Even what Satan does to us, God uses for His good and for His purpose in our lives, according to Romans 8:28.
What are the things that God uses to humble us? Humility is a fine-tuned character trait of Jesus. Humility—I’ll say that again—is a fine-tuned character trait of Jesus. Jesus was the most humble man that ever walked the face of the earth. And we look at Him—and we’re going to look at some scriptures in a few minutes as well. “Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God” is an expression that entails submitting, in a spirit of humility, to God’s sovereign dealings in our life. I’m going to repeat that.
“Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God” is an expression that entails submitting, in a spirit of humility, to God’s sovereign dealings in our life. It means trusting and accepting His will no matter what hardships He may allow. Ooh, I felt that one. I know it hurts. I know it isn’t comfortable to hear this. It is not comfortable, but it is necessary for God to mature us as His sons and His daughters—that we become the spotless bride without spot or wrinkle when we one day stand before the Lord Jesus as His bride. Wow.
So He often uses hardships to bring humility into our character. In verse 5, Peter quotes Proverbs 3:34: “Surely He”—God—“scorns the scornful, but gives grace to those who are humble.” God scorns the scornful, but He gives grace to the humble. Wow, that’s amazing. The sin of pride is linked with rebellion against God. Let’s look at Ezekiel 28, beginning at verse 12.
“Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God.’” He’s talking about Satan himself here. “Every precious stone was your covering: the sardius, topaz, and diamond; beryl, onyx, and jasper; sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created.” Satan was the chief musician in Heaven—he was.
And he uses music to ensnare the souls of men and women and young children today. If you don’t teach your children what’s right and what is wrong with music today, they’re going to get caught up in it. And you know, when you’re singing those same songs over and over again, it gets into you, and it will help to formulate a bad character in you. Now, you might say, “Oh, Pastor Rob, you’re going a little on the deep end there.” No, what I’m saying is the truth. I know what I’m talking about.
“You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you. By the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within, and you sinned; therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God; and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones.”
“Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, that they might gaze at you. You defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trading; therefore I brought fire from your midst; it devoured you, and I turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw you.” He literally traded the honor and the glory that he had for pride and arrogance and thought that he could overthrow God on His throne. That was insanity. Pride was found in him.
“All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you; you have become a horror, and shall be no more forever.” Wow. Isn’t that amazing? Absolutely amazing. A proud person sets himself against God, causing God in turn to set Himself against the proud. We must cast down our pride and our arrogance. We must. It is a necessary humbling step, and we must submit to the will of God.
A humble person agrees with God and receives His favor and His care. Let’s go to James chapter 4, starting at verse 4. “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” Or do you think the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? “But He gives more grace.” Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.” Praise be to God. So even in the midst of once being wicked people—once being very proud, once carrying a weight of arrogance—if you humble yourself, God has promised that He will lift you up.
True humility brings the favor of the Lord upon our lives. Both Peter and James highlight the difference between God’s dealings with the proud versus the humble. The Lord opposes the proud but raises up the humble person who casts himself entirely on God’s grace. Wow. Peter’s pronouncement echoes the psalmist’s words: “Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.” That is Psalm 55:22. Again: “Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be moved or shaken.” Psalm 55:22.
Often we allow the cares of life to shake us. A great spirit of fear will come upon us and literally make us shake. Have you ever been so scared and worried that you were shaking—you couldn’t sleep? We all know what that’s like, don’t we? We must diligently roll our cares over on the Lord, even in our thinking. I’m going to share an example with you—let me put myself up in this chair here.
How do we do that? I’m going to share a little conversation. Now, there might be something really terrible going on. Maybe you feel like you can’t pay your bills and you’re about to lose your house. You have no food to feed your family. You’re behind on all your bills. And the thought process goes through your mind because Satan is constantly harassing you with these thoughts of what is going to happen. This is what you need to do: you need to say, “Lord Jesus, I roll every care right now over on You. I refuse to even think about these things that are lies from the enemy. You have promised in Your Word that You will take care of me. You will surround me with Your favor and You will place a shield around me.”
“Lord, I know Your Word says, ‘The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and are safe.’ Lord, I refuse right now to think about these bills. I refuse to think about the fact that my job wants to fire me. They are lies from the enemy. And I thank You, Lord. I submit myself to Your favor right now.” Now, every time—because it’ll come back—it’ll come back a couple minutes after you resist it. It will come back. And you must go through that over and over again and continually resist those evil thoughts that Satan is trying to harass you with.
He is trying to bring a spirit of fear on you so that you can’t think about anything else but the things that are wrong; that you can’t even lift your hands and praise. Well, praise will still the avenger. Praise will stop Satan and cause him to cease from harassing you. When you praise God, you choose to set your mind on the King of Glory. You submit your mind to the things that God promises, and you refuse to think about these negative things and the fear that Satan is trying to put on you. He is a dirty, filthy liar, and he has no place in your life. Jesus stripped him of all power and authority. Hallelujah. Amen. Do you believe that? If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be here. God bless you all. Hallelujah.
All right. Although our human tendency may be to react with pride, the Lord calls us to respond with humility to all people and every adversity that we face—yes, every adversity. You know, this message—and studying this message—was a great revelation to me because I was seeing areas in my life where I was not submitting myself to the Lord, where I was taking this care on myself and trying to fix it in my own power. And we can’t do that. We must submit to the righteousness of God and allow God to change us.
He’s doing a work in us. As we submit ourselves to Him, He will in turn exalt us in due time and in due season. Now, think about Paul. After receiving surpassingly great revelations, the Apostle Paul was given a thorn in the flesh. Now, we don’t know what that thorn is. I believe, personally, that it was all the cares of the churches that he was carrying and all the hardships that that man had been through.
Man, I’m telling you, when you read about it in 2 Corinthians chapter 11, it blows my mind—shipwrecked how many times, beaten with rods, stoned and left for dead. Many of us would have given up by that point. But the grace of God was upon the Apostle Paul, and the Lord showed him—the Lord Jesus showed him—the great things that he would suffer for Him. And we’re all called to suffer. It is a path that God allows us to walk through in order to bring about the maturity of the Spirit in our lives and to bear the fruit of the Spirit as well.
It is absolutely necessary, and we must submit ourselves to the righteousness of God. Paul was given a thorn in the flesh to keep him from becoming conceited and a very boastful person. That’s 2 Corinthians 12:7. Peter acknowledged the same principle—that God often allows trouble and adversity to keep us humble and dependent on Him and Him alone. Wow. I know this is hard to listen to, guys, but please bear with me.
To humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God means to trust in the Lord’s power, recognizing that our strength comes from Him and not from ourselves. Woo! Man, that’s powerful right there. We get to choose how we respond to adversity. We can fret and chafe—and that word “chafe” means to rub hard against, to cause damage. Like if you’re rubbing your arm against shingles on a house, it’s going to cause damage to your skin after a while if you continue to rub.
So we get to choose how we respond to adversity. We can fret and chafe, or we can submit under the Lord’s mighty hand; we can accept the test that God sends us. We can trust in His faithfulness, knowing His hand is strong to deliver us. We can offer our worries to Him, knowing He will take care of us. God will give us the grace we need to endure so that His power is made perfect in our weaknesses—and that’s from 2 Corinthians 12:9. Hallelujah.
All right, let’s look at some other Scriptures before we close this message today. Let’s go to Philippians chapter 2, starting at verse 1. “Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.” “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.”
“Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.” And I’ll tell you, this is an area where I have failed in my life, because I’ve been so concerned about this disease process that I’m dealing with in my body that I have failed to recognize the burdens of others, especially my own family—and I repent for that. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”
The same mindset: He cared about others more than Himself. When He was in the Garden of Gethsemane and going through the greatest burden and hardship of His life, submitting to the will of God, He was so severely oppressed and burdened down that when He knelt down to pray, the sweat coming out of His forehead were drops of blood. There’s a name for that medical condition—I’ve talked about it many times in the past—and Jesus was literally at the point of death.
But He had to bear up under that and give Himself over to the grace of God, and then suffer that awful torment that He went through. He did that because of His great love for us. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God”—He was God—“did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.”
“And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow—of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth—and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Folks, I’m telling you, this is something that we need to learn.
We need to be brought into the same place that Jesus was. Now, you might be in an hour in your life where you feel like you’re in the Garden of Gethsemane, but nothing can compare to what Jesus went through. The pressures of life are trying to swallow you up and make you feel like you can’t go on. But what are we called to do? We humble ourselves and our lives to God and trust Him to give us strength to carry on, and wait for His breakthrough.
It will come. Breakthrough is coming. I’m telling you, folks, it is coming. And you know that old saying: it gets darkest before the dawn. So, you might be in the darkest hour of your life right now. Wait on the Lord. Humble yourself under His mighty hand, and He will exalt you in His good time and in His wonderful way that He always, always does. Thank You, Lord.
Let’s go to Ephesians 4:1–4. “I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called.” There’s a lot we can say about this verse. Paul called himself the prisoner, or the bondservant, of Jesus Christ. He literally was that person. He didn’t care about his own life. He would have never gone through all those things if he did really care about his own life. He’d have said, “The heck with this, I’m out of here.”
And do we have that attitude in our lives when we’re going through the hardest times? Do we say, “Man, I’m out of here—I can’t deal with this anymore”? “With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Wow. Thank You, Jesus.
Let’s go to Romans 12:1–4. “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God”—I love how Paul says this. He understood God’s grace. He understood it more than any other person, I believe, during that time—even other apostles who walked and lived with Jesus. Paul never had the privilege of walking with Jesus as one of His disciples, but he knew Jesus in a way that even those who did walk with Him did not know Him.
“I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice—a living sacrifice, a living sacrifice, a living sacrifice—holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” See, part of casting your care on the Lord is part of renewing your mind. “Jesus, I’m going to submit to this even though I’m not happy, even though this hurts, even though I’m not having a wonderful, peaceful time—I am going to submit to You, and I’m going to trust You to deliver me.”
“No matter what comes, no matter what happens, I am rolling every care over on You, Jesus. And I am not going to bounce around in my mind the thoughts and the lies of the devil. I will not.” “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.” “For I say, through the grace given to me”—see, Paul understood this; he knew this because he had a great measure of grace upon his life—“to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.”
“For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.” Wow. “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us…” You see, you may not have the same measure of grace upon your life that I have. I’m not saying it’s better or worse; what I’m trying to say is that you might have grace to deal with other things that I don’t have grace to deal with.
That’s why we need each other. That’s why there should be no schism or disconnect in the body. We must submit ourselves to one another in the fear of the Lord. Amen. Praise be to God. All right, let’s go to 2 Chronicles chapter 7, starting at verse 9. Now, this is just after King Solomon was anointed king, and the Lord was dealing with him and speaking to him.
“And on the eighth day they held a sacred assembly, for they observed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the good that the Lord had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.” “Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king’s house; and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the Lord and in his own house.”
“Then the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: ‘I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.’” Wow. “‘When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people…’” Who’s doing this? “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain.” So, God can shut the heavens sometimes. Sometimes He does that so that He gets our attention.
“‘If My people who are called by My name will’”—what?—“‘humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.’” Wow. Isn’t that amazing?
“‘As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My judgments, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, “You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.”’” Wow. Well, we know that that did come one day because Jesus would have to be the final ruler over Israel—the King of eternity.
“‘But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.’” Wow. Think about it. God literally got tired of dealing with His people, and He sent Jeremiah the prophet in a day when the kings were no longer obeying the Law and there were idols in the temple. It was terrible.
Think about it. Where do we stand today? Are we willing to submit ourselves under the mighty hand of God? Are we going to fight against it? Are we going to say, “Jesus, I submit to You. Have Your way with my life. You know what this is all about.” Excuse me, guys—something in my eye. “You see things in my life that I do not see. So I choose to humbly submit to You. Have Your way with me, Lord, because what’s on the other side is far greater than I could have ever imagined or even thought.”
“And unto Him who is able—to the King of Glory—who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that I could ever ask or think, according to His power that is working in me right now—Jesus, I submit.” Submit. Submit to His purpose. Submit to His power. Right now, I ask you to submit to Him. Come on, people—submit to Him. You know what you’re going through right now. Listen to me: you know what you’re going through.
You know the battle that’s fighting against you right now. And you might be rebuking it, rejecting it, casting it out, praying every prayer you know to pray—but the circumstance is not changing. Why? Why is that happening? Because God is doing something in your life. He’s working humility, character, and His nature into your life. Submit to Him. Let Him have His way with you. Submit to His Lordship. And do not resist. Do not resist. Amen. Amen. Thank You, Lord. Oh, thank You, Lord. Thank You, Jesus.
Let’s look at Luke 14, verses 7–11. “So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them: ‘When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him; and he who invited you and him come and say to you, “Give place to this man,” and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place.’”
“‘But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place’”—humble yourself, right?—“‘so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, “Friend, go up higher.” Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.’” I’m going to say that last verse again that Jesus said: “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
God’s got a better plan for you, brother and sister. He’s got a far better plan for you. Hallelujah. Let’s go to Micah chapter 6, verse 8. “He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” I’ll read that again: He has shown you what is good—do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God. Wow, that’s amazing, isn’t it?
Last Scripture today is Matthew 11. “But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.” And at that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.” Babes are humble—they’re humble. “Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you…” That yoke may be a heavy trial. That yoke might be something that you just want to resist with every ounce of fortitude in you. “But take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me,”—the most humble man that ever walked the face of the earth—“for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. How do you feel right now? Are you willing to submit your cares and your burdens to the Lord? You may be watching this message right now and your life might be a mess. You go to work every day; everybody looks at you and they think you’ve got your act together—but you know that you are wearing clothes of falsehood, because you’re not willing to reveal your true self to anyone.
You’re so worried and concerned about what others will think. Does it really matter what others think about you? What matters is how the Lord sees you. You may not know the Lord Jesus Christ right now as your Lord and your Savior, but I am inviting you to ask Him into your heart—to confess your sins. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, that God has raised Him from the dead. Confess Him with your mouth, and you will be saved.
Do you know that you’re going to heaven? If you would die today, do you know that you’re going to heaven? The assurance of eternal life is a wonderful thing to have. It’s wonderful. May the Lord have His way with you. Pray this prayer with me: “Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of God. I believe that You came to this earth 2,000 years ago. You were born as a baby in the manger in Bethlehem, and You grew up and became a man. You were tempted in all points as I’ve been tempted, yet You were without sin.”
“And yet You humbled Yourself and became obedient even to the point of death, and You carried that cross. They drove those nails into Your hands and Your feet, and on the third day You were raised from the dead. Jesus, I confess my sin to You. I ask You: come into my heart right now. Come into my heart. I need You, Jesus. I want to be born of Your Spirit. I want to be a new creation in You, Lord Jesus. Let Your way and Your will be done in my life. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen and amen.”
You know, if you prayed that prayer and meant it in your heart, the angels have written your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and all of heaven is rejoicing right now because one person has repented of their sins. That’s what Jesus said—the angels in heaven will rejoice over one sinner that repents.
Now, you may be a believer that has walked with the Lord for many, many years, and yet you find yourself struggling—struggling like you’ve never struggled before. This is a time that’s really, really hard for you. You feel like you’re on the brink of disaster and you can’t handle any more. Pray this prayer with me: “Jesus, I submit myself to You. I humble myself under the mighty hand of God. I commit everything to You. You know every circumstance that I’m going through right now. And I come to You. I commit my life to You, and I thank You, Lord, that You will lead me through. In Jesus’ name, amen.”
Oh, I felt that release. Praise be to God. Thank You, Lord. Oh, thank You, Jesus. Thank You. Thank You, Lord. Oh, what a mighty God He is. Amen. Well, I love you all. I care about you all very much. I pray for my church members and those who follow me around the world. Thank you. Let God’s will be done in your life in the name of Jesus.
May God use these messages to touch millions around the world—even those in China and Russia, Cambodia, Spain, the countries of Africa—in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. I love you all. This is Pastor Rob Goodman of Zion Freedom Fellowship in Maryland, in the good old United States of America. I love you all very much.
Father, bless Your people. Shalom aleichem, in Jesus’ name. I’ll see you all next week. Amen. God bless you all. Love and blessings to everyone. Bye.
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I have been intending to write this article for about a month now, and it’s just never felt right. So it never happened, it kept getting pushed to the back burner. The idea was there, but full inspiration never struck to allow me to put this all down on paper.
And now I know why…
Because if I had written it before today, I would have written it entirely backwards and it wouldn’t have been nearly as good.
But today I came across the missing piece and it totally flipped this article on its head.
Instead of starting where I had planned to start, that will now be the ending and I’m going to start in an entirely different place….but it’s going to be oh so much better!
I should also say this is a very different article from what I normally publish. This is not news-based and I hope this will live online for years and decades to come. Because I think it’s that powerful. Not because of me or anything I am going to write here, but because of the two messages I am going to show you.
So let’s dive right in….
The thing that totally flipped this article was when this rare sermon from Billy Graham suddenly appeared on my YouTube feed today.
I had never heard this before but it absolutely blew me away!
And I think it might radically shift things for you too.
First, let me tell you a little story about why this absolutely jumped off the screen to me….
I started this website back in 2015 with absolutely ZERO experience in journalism and ZERO experience doing anything online.
We had zero readers, zero page views, zero funding. We had no website. We had no technical skills to build a website.
We had absolutely nothing.
But I started this because I had a passion for doing it, and that passion plus our mission of simply telling the truth without censorship led to fast growth. We quickly gathered over 1 million people on Facebook who appreciated the work we were doing, then millions more joined our email newsletter, and now in 2025 we have over 5 million monthly readers and growing fast.
But what I want to talk about is not 2015 or 2025….no, I want to talk about the dash in the middle.
Because when I started this in 2015, it was as a mere hobby. I felt a real purpose in doing it and working on this energized me, so I began to start to spend nights and weekends doing this.
But I also had a job and a career and a profession, so I would do my J-O-B during the day, leaving the house at 8 am, returning at 5:30 or 6:00 pm. And while the job drained me, working on this refilled my cup.
Of course there was also family and friends who were important along the way, but for the purposes of this article I’m focusing only on the work side of things, and the job was sucking life out of me. But whenever I could work on this it was radically different. I had passion and I had purpose.
I was good at the job, and in fact had risen to about the highest level I could reach in that particular work, but it wasn’t satisfying. It didn’t feel like my ultimate purpose. I didn’t want to do it for the next 20 years and then have a “retirement party” where the company brings in a sheet cake and says “thanks for all your years of service, now please leave” and we all eat cake in the break-room making awkward small talk as we always do (how was YOUR weekend?) under fluorescent lighting and white noise office machines in vanilla cubes where the biggest excitement is whether this Friday is “jeans day”! Oh my!
I was always amused by the office small talk, because it seemingly always focused only on three topics: (1) the weather, (2) the weekend, and (3) sports, particularly local college sports.
And regarding “the weekend”, it seemed to me as though the focus was always just on how far away we were from any particular weekend. On Monday, I’d say at least 10% of my work day was responding to people asking “how was your weekend?” Sometimes that would spill over into Tuesday. Wednesday was of course no-mans land, the memory of the prior weekend had faded, but we weren’t quite close enough to begin thinking about the next weekend. Then came Thursday, which started up all the “got any big plans for the weekend?” small talk, which would spill over into Friday, and then Friday afternoon some people would basically say enough is enough and leave early to finally start their weekend.
And round and round that cycle went, week after week after week.
In fact, we spent so much time there, we would put up little pictures of our family, as if to say “I remember these people! I don’t see them very much, so I keep little pictures of them here with me in this vanilla box where I work to remind me of the memory of these people.”
So….for a large part of that 10 year “dash” period of time from 2015 to 2025, I wrestled with whether or not I should leave the job and do this full time.
But as I sought advice and insight from people, I mostly got worry and fear and doubt in response. All very well meaning, but no one really saw the vision. Why would you leave a job where you’ve reached the top and it’s SAFE and SECURE?
What if the website fails?
What if people suddenly stop reading?
What if Trump leaves office? Spoiler alert: he will one day.
What if Biden wins in 2020? Spoiler alert: he did, or at least they said he did.
What if Mark Zuckerberg bans you AGAIN? Spoiler alert: He did. Twice. For no reason.
What if the email companies ban you? Spoiler alert: They have. Many times. For no reason.
So many things to worry about, and yet I knew this was my calling. It was where my passion and my purpose were found.
And it wasn’t just about me, it was about serving all of you! It was about bringing new value to the world. Each day, new creations, new articles that we write, new truth that we help push out there past the censorship.
So despite all the risks and things to worry about, despite all the attacks from Big Tech, we’re still here. We’re still standing. And eventually I made the very scary decision to leave the job to do this full time.
And so it’s with all of that in mind, that I hopefully was able to impart to you even in some small measure, that when this message from Billy Graham popped up in my YouTube feed today I was absolutely blown away!
It felt like all the tough decisions I had wrestled with for the past 10 years were perfectly summed up in one 30 minute video.
Many of the things I had personally felt and said — the things that almost no one else seemed to understand — and suddenly it was Billy Graham saying them back to me! Verbatim!
I never felt like I was made to do that job for my whole life…
Many people told me the job was security. It was safe! It was secure! Don’t be foolish and give away the safe and secure thing, they told me!
They all meant well, and looking at it from the outside-in, that’s good, solid advice.
But it never felt that way to me.
The job never felt secure.
To me, the job felt wildly INsecure. Unsafe. Unreliable.
It always felt to me like I was reliant upon someone else, someone who could cancel that job at any moment’s notice! Maybe the economy takes a turn down, maybe my employer mis-manages the business, maybe a huge market crash happens.
And almost no one who I shared that opinion with understood what I was saying. They just looked back at me with these confused eyes, almost looking at me like they were sad for me and scared for me. Poor Noah, he’s being very foolish! Very risky! Very un-safe!
Even if we stayed in business and I kept the job, I was still entirely reliant upon someone else. “Congratulations Noah! It’s annual review time and we’ve determined we’re going to increase your salary by 3%. Isn’t that amazing?” Uhhh, not really, but thanks I guess? 🤷♂️
But today, for the very first time, I heard someone saying back to me ALL of these things I knew and felt for all these years….and it was Billy Graham of all people!
I will post the full transcript of this message farther down below, but here’s just a portion to give you an idea of what Billy says in this incredibly powerful message, and I think you might just see how this absolutely jumped off the screen to me:
When God made Adam, He didn’t hand him a job application.
He didn’t tell him to go find employment.
He placed him in the Garden of Eden and gave him an assignment.
Work existed before sin.
Work was never meant to be toil, struggle, or survival.
Adam was given dominion, authority, and responsibility.
His role was not to be employed but to be deployed —
to steward, to cultivate, to expand.
And yet look at the world today.
We are told from childhood to go to school, get good grades,
find a stable job, and retire.
But that’s not God’s plan.
God never intended for man to chase a paycheck.
He intended man to chase purpose.
He designed you to be a ruler, not just a worker —
a creator, not just a laborer.
When you realize that your calling is greater than a career,
you begin to walk in your true identity.
The enemy has tricked many into believing that security comes from a paycheck,
that provision is in the hands of an employer.
But the first man was not given a salary —
he was given an assignment.
And that same principle applies today.
God did not send you into this world to be hired.
He sent you to be sent.
You are not meant to look for a job —
you are meant to look for your God-given assignment.
The world has trained people to think that success is tied to employment.
From the time we are children,
we are told to get an education,
find a good job, earn a salary,
and work until retirement.
But that is not the way of the kingdom.
God never said, “look for a job.”
He said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all these things will be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
There’s a difference between what the world teaches
and what God calls us to do.
The world says find a job to survive.
God says find your purpose to thrive.
The world says you need employment to provide for your needs.
God says, “I am Jehovah Jireh, your provider.”
The world system is built on labor, wages, and effort,
but the kingdom of God is built on faith, calling, and supernatural provision.
Because God never said, “Look for a job.”
He said, “Take dominion.”
And when you do,
you will never lack again.
A job is temporary.
It can be taken away in an instant.
Companies close.
Economies crash.
Positions get eliminated.
People who put their trust in a job
often live in fear —
fear of layoffs, fear of unemployment,
fear of not making ends meet.
But purpose —
purpose is something no one can take from you.
The whole thing is just absolutely incredible.
Please watch below, but then don’t stop there!
This is just “Part 1” of this message.
“Part 2” is down below, and that’s the original message that was intended to be in this article, before I stumbled upon this missing piece of the puzzle today.
Please enjoy (and then keep scrolling down):
Ok, now for the second half of this article.
This “second half” was actually originally intended in my head to be the entire article, but God had other plans and now it’s the closing section to the introduction above.
From Billy we go to Louie….
Louie Giglio is someone I view as the Billy Graham of our day.
Of course the two men lived many years as contemporaries, but Louie is a few decades younger than Billy, and he carries the same kind of mantle, reaching hundreds of thousands of people with very powerful, life-changing messages.
And so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that these two men are almost perfectly in sync on this topic.
I wouldn’t say “Passion and Purpose and Work” were the leading topics for either of these pastors over the course of their careers, but as is evident from this article, it was something they both spoke on from time to time. And when they did speak on this topic, it was powerful!
So now we go to a message that by all accounts has been entirely scrubbed from the Internet. Probably because the Internet, or at least social media, didn’t really exist at the time this was recorded and so it never really got posted.
It’s from the Passion Conference in 2006, Passion06, an annual conference where tens of thousands of (mostly college aged students) show up to each year and pack out stadiums, often bigger and louder and more powerful than any professional sporting event or concert you might ever attend.
That’s exactly what happened at Passion06, held in January 2006 in Nashville, TN.
This was the closing session on January 5th, Session 6, and it was a message from Louie Giglio.
While it’s been scrubbed from the Internet or perhaps never posted at all, the good thing is I was there in person and I still have the CD I purchased! So the message lives on!
As well it should, because it’s one of the most powerful messages on passion and purpose I have ever heard. In fact, that’s was the title of it: “Passion and Purpose”.
It all comes from Colossians 3:17, which reads: “Whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.”
I won’t be able to do it justice writing about it here, but the good news is I have the message for you that you can watch down below.
And I think you’ll see it lines up so powerfully with Billy Graham’s message.
You see, it says “Whatever you do….” and that word “Whatever” is a very powerful word.
Your Passion and your Purpose in the world could be in anything….
For me, I was good at my job, but it wasn’t my Passion or my Purpose in life, so it was taking life away from me.
My Passion and my Purpose, at least partially (there may be other things that emerge over the next 50-60 years) but at least for right now, in the realm of work, my Passion and my Purpose is in running this website and serving all 5 million of you!
Of course I can’t begin to really do that message justice, so I’ll just let you hear it direct from Louie. And see if you aren’t blown away with just how perfectly this compliments Billy Graham’s message above.
This is so good, please enjoy:
Incredible, right?
Make sure you save this article and bookmark it because people need to hear these messages.
Share them with your family and friends.
You may not even realize it, but I guarantee you there is at least one person in your circle of influence that needs to see this right now.
Not necessarily what I’ve written here, but they need to see these two messages.
For someone out there — probably many someones — this will be life-changing, and it will put them on a new path, a new destiny, to find and live out the PASSION and the PURPOSE they were created for.
Does that mean all of you should quit your jobs?
NO!
I didn’t right away, it took me years and years.
Does that mean all of you should go into the Ministry?
NO!
I didn’t.
But it does mean you should find out what Passion and Purpose God created for you to have in life. And then start walking towards that.
I’ll end with a backup of the Billy Graham message in case this is ever needed, as well as a full transcript directly below the video:
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Billy Graham
When God made Adam, He didn’t hand him a job application.
He didn’t tell him to go find employment.
He placed him in the Garden of Eden and gave him an assignment.
Work existed before sin.