following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church know me i'm a bible guy so don't get mad that i didn't pull the size act exactly on the bible you forgive me i was not prepared to look all the passages up for this is their fault i didn't see it if i want to seen the list and if i want to look at the thing to come up with all the verses but we'll see when how much you know your bible and times like these you need a savior what times all on you guys you were exposed to say that you're supposed to say when it's tough times and as you say you were wrong because as to be all the time so when when it when is jesus need to be my savior all the time yes rod there's a message in that you don't get to choose what is your savior you know what these are going good so i don't need you to save me for any things don't need you as my savior i'm sure are selfish it isn't that way i'm sure god does say well you don't need me to save you the days  have salvation ourselves a shit is an up and down so today i'm saved tomorrow i'm not that anybody if you're bold enough to ration was anybody taht entered in a congregation a church that taught yourself is up and down up and down up and down you lose it one day you lose it one day you get it back you lose it one day you get it back no if he's my savior i need him every day to save me and as he is the one that saves me not works my obedience don't save me he saves me does that mean i shouldn't do the work of the kingdom no we're not talking about them is in times like these you need a savior in times like these you need unless you want to hold that motor and go around in circles over and over again to tie up your lines what do you use an anchor and no matter how much that current is going but if you're a good upside is that lived in alaska in the kenai peninsula and there is th until i went there and met up with him and found out that he did because he was on a boat ok so i don't know i have to find out maybe thirty nine years later i can find out if there's a different story maybe it was a guy that came off a boat handed to him and then he told me that  i wasn't there i was working at the time but you anchor up it says here be very sure be very sure your anchor holds the grips the solid rock which your  trusting in that anchor of his job to be there but there's rumors there's talk there's thinking about concern if that job's going to go away because the company may go away that's his aim or fit financially but if that's his anchor financially and that's all it is and he's not trusting god spirit to work and move you know it can happen that job goes away because the company shuts down and that job goes away and he gets depressed it goes right back into drugs and everything else because as a core is what in a job that can go away when you're anchors in things that can go way that that's dangerous if your trust in his oh you know what i'm good as long as my spouse loves me i do good  spouse may love you but they may not show love to you all the time and i will tell you some pride sometimes a spouse does not like you there's times that they don't like you you don't like them and the key has to be you love them even when you don't like them and there's times we don't like what god is doing but if we love god we love him in spite of what he may be doing because how many know that at times god brings a storm into our life he brings it not the devil he brings the storm now sometimes he sits back and lets the devil bring the storm and if he's an all powerful all mighty god in the storm you comes away he's allowed any lauzon for what reason so that we can learn to trust him as a solid rock you see if life was easy all the time anybody could trust in jesus but what about when life is going floating you know why why maybe the rope was a long enough so i didn't hit the shore or didn't hit the ground right the bottom of the lake has to grab hold of something and by the way i would suggest that your anchor is big or a bigger anchor is easier to grip something but it says the grip and so you have an acre and it and it you throw it out and it is suddenly catches something you know what we need to grip we need to catch something we need to catch jesus we need to hold on type we need a grip on de him and that he is my only substance as he is the one i depend upon and that means that we do it when it's not going good when it's tough when it's really tough that we have to turn around and when i wonder so this this does touch of that divorce and remarriage thing for just a  the bible says is there certain things don't happen you're not to get divorced is if you do you commit adultery if you get married again it says if you could do good biblical divorce you're committing adultery if you marry somebody else and we'll cover more what that means but if it says that will you grip on to jesus and stay in that marriage that you don't have a biblical reason to divorce them and when you think about this whatever whatever it is that you're going through your man in a marriage and you know a biblical grounds that we'll talk some time apart what all that means but just whatever it is and you know in your heart you're not supposed to get married divorced but your flesh is saying something else where you keep on to jesus then we get punished is say jesus carry me through this tough marriage or where you turn around and run how we know that we have to check our heart with a check where we're at and my trust in jesus or not trust in jesus i have this future decision to make i'm a going to trust jesus that he's going to lead and guide me along the way or am i going to go to maybe you know maybe i'll go to a medium i'll go to a spirit guide you know maybe i'll go to i'll go to that fortune teller i never go to fortune tellers but this time i'll go to a fortune teller because i don't know where things are adding my life i know what i'll do i'll go to the horoscopes and see what it says for me today is anybody here live by the horse scope do you really you go you get your newspaper say what does today going to turn out to be in the horoscope tells you you're a scorpio so this is what's going to happen is be so would you do if you lived your life to do what is said this is you're going to find an amazing friend today you know you do you look around for that amazing friend all day long and then all of a sudden they just show up  all wow i could trust or scope now no i want to trust in jesus and him alone i want to make sure he's the rock that i'm trusting in and i want to make sure that i'm holdin on i'm gripping on to jesus in the times like these verse two in times like these you need the bible while that's prophetic and to i was like today you need the bible in times like today if you listen to the talking heads on the radio and the t v if you listen to the talking heads of the politicians if you listen to what facebook has to say if you look at a it mamie you know to maim is a mame is the little day there's a saying if you trust is the maim is the truth you're in trouble because guess what right now i can go on my facebook page and i can write the stars are falling and i can put a little color background with that with flashing lights and everything and post it and somebody a post that i believe it because pastor rich said the stars are fallen so it must be true because it's on his facebook page and he would put in the middle is a true you can't trust in the days of this road you have to be at a place where you realize i need the bible to lead me in guide me and direct me is times like these oh be not idle in times like these don't be idle it's interest is says that we need to buy a boat not be idle how many people i know because of not reading the bible think about that is says that we need the bible and these are times we should not be there witnessing is sharing the gospel to other people you read your bible you see that when there is need that you go and you help in the time of need when you read your bible you realize that you shouldn't listen to certain people because you're not being led by the spirit of god when you breach your bible you will be active a walking out your of time on their hands guess what normally happens they go back to what they last knew but what about us i'm not idle i'm very busy i'm very busy i watch t lot i'm not idle i spent a lot of time on facebook i'm not idle i turn around and whatever it may be i'm not idle but are you doing that things that god has you to do are you participating in god's work and god wants you to do in times like these i have a savior in times like these i have a savior so the question is do you have a savior and what's his name is named jesus i don't know no i have a savior you know what i do i know who takes it the people who run the show ok what about when they go to the temples and they go to the temples they take all their food to buddha they bring in all kinds of food and offerings who gets th or that your trust in well you know my savior is you know it's it's church is my savior i'm ok if i go to church that sounds good don't it i'm ok church is my savior i go to church i'm doing good so what are you going to do when there's no church oh yeah we only have services twice a week i don't know what you're doing in between if the church is your savior so i know you do some people i know they have every church service there is they go to every meeting there is so there's a guy i have to really be nice sometimes it's hard for me to be nice that's what the trust of my bible to be nice so this guy has a meeting is for every speaker you can possibly think of very prophetic speak touch of jesus share that with somebody else so i said you know and so i sometimes when i not nice and now i'm nice i dis say how many more mean is the have to go to and they say well you know it's to build our spirits up in the lift us up and and you know to get us closer to jesus ok that's great but then what do you do with that how close are with jesus and me and my wife we go to meeting we sit home or closer it is a piece that together but how does that affect the  but maybe it keeps you away from the world maybe it's a good thing i don't know all you got to stay at your house and not maybe go out into the world i don't know but someplace that has to be that you get the touch of jesus and you share that with somebody else and so i get built up i come to church i come to bible study to come christ do you know that you and jesus are united as one or do you walk around with a lot of guilt a lot of shame you walk around a lot of guilt and shame can i tell you something you're probably doing something that gives you shame and g the bible talks about a peace that passes understanding i say that says a peace that passes understand nurses surpasses understanding it's a peace that you don't understand so what kind of gone good in my church what about my my family's having all kinds of commotion and problems and i still have peace that's peace that passes understanding and there's only one who can give that to you that's god and so there has to be a place where we find that there's this comfort this piece of knowing who christ is and so the question is is are you very sure about your relationship with christ or are you wishy washy have you been taught you know it's about your works so when i do really good works me and g s are good so what happens when you do all these good works and you get a broken leg you get a broken back you get cancer your sit in the house you can't do any more works where your relationship with jesus then if you're in a work story in a church where everything is about works now good you do it all the stuff and things and tragedies come and you can't do your works anymore what happens then well then i just trust in jesus in his mercy why are you need to trust jesus mercy all the time now based upon your works and so there has to be a place we are still a relationship as christ so that when we aren't always there when we're going through our struggles in our trials we still know that god loves us so we didn't cover the topic of divorce and remarriage and we'll get to that if we can go to kid in the book of romans we have to get to a certain later if we can go in for the book of romans but collapsing in everything else does god still love you does he still want the best for you even if you made some very bad choices and decisions maybe you turn around and had nothing to do it divorce or remarriage maybe it had to do with you found yourself back in the midst of addiction maybe you found yourself in a place where you know what you're does better resentful about life you have anger towards somebody does god still love you or do you have to be good enough for him to love you you see if you are sure about yourself  christ you know yourself is solid with him and you're not concerned about all my goodness today am i saved or tomorrow by not saved i don't know some people say that i can walk away from myself nation which i personally believe you can do others don't not going to if your relationship was solid with him so the question is do you have a solid relationship with christ the good news is that jesus is available for every single person and as a v moment they choose to have him to be their savior the moment you call out to god and say deliver me and set me free he shows up he's not dependent upon space time or anything else and so the reality is there could be some in this room this never truly accept a crisis or life and there could be somebody watching our t v show this never accepted jesus christ our lord and savior but if you're ready to accept him he's right there and you know that they'll be somebody that's watching that that show was for them at that moment and that time and they were going through a tough situation a terrible situation and they needed an anchor and they realized that jesus needs to be their anchor the right moment christ comes into our life and takes us on a journey so maybe right now you don't need this message but i guarantee you that every single person in this room every person is watching t v is going to need jesus as an anchor at some point guaranteed if you're on this earth because this earth is made up of fallen people like me and you and a lot of ugly things happen with fallen people and th nothing is secure on this earth whatsoever nothing is secure and this earth was it so ever and some point become a situation where we need jesus is our lord and savior and our deliver and our best friend in our healer and  lover of our soul and the one who sings over me i'm some point going to need jesus who is there in that situation and i don't know what that situation is but he will fill the need whatever it is this close in prayer lord god i'd think you for the promises of your word the bible says that jesus is a solid rock lord god i wanted thank you father god that jesus is not on this on  rockies the anchor of my soul that large he keeps my soul sound that if i put my emotions my will my heart everything into jesus then i to drift into deception i want to drift into turmoil and fear the lord i will stay right where you have me to stay that i will be like a tree this planted the bible says that we are all  righteousness and me look at trees when you plant them they're not like vines they don't grow all over the place where you planted olcott stays and i would pray father god that as we plant ourselves anchor selves to jesus that will never run far from him and that father god will want him to walk with us talked with us and be with us a lot i would pray for anybody who can hear my voice if they have never accepted christ into their life i pray father god that they would make that commitment to jesus christ that they would make a commitment to say jesus i need you is my rock i need you as my foundation i need you as my anchor jesus i need you in you alone and i pray father god that we spend more time in your bible that our time and your word that lord that we would see that your word is an anchor and that we would not large god look to a man look to a person look to a place for answers but that lord we look into your word for door church located in derian committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you to know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you their doors are open to anyone and everyone their