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University SDA Church of Los Angeles

Randy Skeete

Sue Me

A pleasant Sabbath to all of you who are present in God's house.

I thank him for the privilege of being with you here today and I believe without hesitation that God will bless us because we've come to glorify his name, am I right?

Whenever you honor God, God automatically, instinctively, and Reflexively honors those who honor him so expect a blessing from God because he's generous God prefers to bless than to curse God only curses when he has no choice.

I Always say when God blesses he blesses beyond anything we can ever deserve, if ever we can deserve anything.

But when God punishes, he only punishes so much as is necessary to fit the crime.

But when he blesses, he blesses and he overflows with his blessings.

I'm grateful to him for the invitation to be with you and I want to say publicly that every good thing in my life has come from God.

Every difficulty and problem in my life I brought on myself.

Every good thing and blessing in my life came from God.

All my headaches, hardships, headburn and hemorrhoids and hernia you can think of, I brought on myself.

I have no complaints against God because God is good.

His mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations.

Before I get into the message which is called Sue Me, and in California you know how that is.

Please as a favor to God and to his servant for this hour turn your cell phones off Let me tell you why you should turn them off.

If you put them on vibrate, if it vibrates you will out of curiosity look to see who's calling.

When you look the person next to you will look to see what you're looking at.

So as a mark of respect for God who gave you life today, turn your cell phones off.

While I'm speaking, I'd like you to pray for me and what I want you to say is simply this Lord Put your words in that man's mouth.

Lord put your words in that man's mouth and that is based on Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 9 then the Lord put forth his hand and touch my mouth and the Lord said unto me behold I have put my words in thy mouth If God puts his words in my mouth, you are guaranteed a blessing.

But if all you hear is my opinion and how I feel and what I think, then you have wasted your time.

You pray all during the sermon, Lord put your words in that man's mouth.

And favor number 3, perhaps the most difficult of all, I want you to think.

Thinking is an invitation from God and it is also a capacity from God.

That is what separates us from the animal world.

We can think and reason, make moral choices, make common sense decisions, use that capacity for in thinking you are acting like God.

Our Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ we come.

We come dear God because we have no 1 else to go to.

We come because you've invited us to come boldly to the throne of grace.

And now dear God as we bow in your presence we ask you Father, because you're so gracious and for the sake of Jesus Christ, bless us with the revelation of your will for our individual lives.

Grant us your Holy Spirit, 1 of whose functions is to guide us into truth.

And Father, break down the Jericho walls of stubbornness that surround so many hearts, that the truth may go marching in.

Draw us close to your bosom, dear God, and let this simple truth set us free.

In Jesus' name we pray, let all God's people say, Amen and Amen.

I don't think I need to do ask you for favor number 4 based on my observation of your behavior last night.

I did not observe people talking 1 to another.

So if you will make a gargantuan effort to listen, when I see Muslims worshipping on television in their mosques, I have never seen them talking to each other.

I have never seen 2 Muslims in a mosque when they're worshipping.

And they worship, each individual worships as though the person next to him does not exist.

Adventists can learn a lesson from our Muslim brothers and sisters.

Sumi, there is in the legal language of the United States an expression called an act of God.

An act of God defined is an unusual event that interrupts the normal course of events and which cannot be reasonably anticipated nor prevented.

An act of God as defined in legal terms is and occurs that interrupts the normal course of events and which cannot be reasonably anticipated nor prevented.

Example the earthquake in Haiti earlier this year.

Example a couple of weeks later the earthquake in Chile.

Example of many many years ago a catastrophic earthquake in Los Angeles.

An act of God in legal language is an unusual event that interrupts the normal flow of events.

In other words when a hurricane strikes Florida it interrupts the normal flow of events because stores have to be boarded up, people have to evacuate, it interrupts the normal flow of events because stores have to be boarded up, people have to evacuate.

It interrupts the normal flow of events and it cannot be reasonably anticipated nor prevented.

It is called an act of God, not an act of Satan.

Because God has north, south, east and west in this world a very bad name and God's bad name is not the result of what he has done.

God's bad name is the result of how his so called children live their lives.

When God called Abraham, we read that passage last night, we'll read it again now.

Genesis 12, reading from verse 1, our subject is Sumi.

Genesis 12, reading from verse 1, And I'm reading from the king james version And while you're finding genesis 12, let me welcome those of you who are listening by it is called church pong on the internet those of you who weeks after this service has passed will be downloading some sermon from AudioVerse.

However you are contacting this service we welcome you and we pray that the Spirit of God in this building will also be with you wherever you are.

Genesis 12 reading from verse 1, the Bible says, Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee.

And I will bless thee and make thy name great.

And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee.

And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

But I want to direct your attention to verse 2.

And I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee.

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