Scooby Doo Birthday Sermon - Living Your Life on the Line | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. All of

you who have been following me closely, one thing is for sure, you'd

have known that I'm a big time Scooby Doo fan. Okay, I'm into

two international book of records for my Scooby Doo, my Manabelia and different endeavors

that I do. Uh. I use Scooby Doo as one of my tools

and my you know, ministry and all of the different things. That's that's

being a part and parcel of my life. And that's that's something that I

use, you know, like somebody is uh, you know, gifted in

sports, they use something like a sports ministry. Somebody is into coffee,

they do a coffee ministry. Into books they do a book club and book

club ministry, or you know, different things like that. And the Lord

was putting in my heart. You know, you love Scooby Doo and there

they're literally thousands and thousands of Scooby Doo fans and fan clubs and fan groups

and fan bases and communities around the world. Why didn't you use that for

the extension of God's kingdom? And you know that's something that I'm so grateful,

Like even today, one of the reasons I wanted to speak from this

line is that, you know, today being the fifty fourth birthday of Scooby

Doo, you know this this has been something like, uh, you know,

it's something people may say, and that's something weird, John. You

know, ever since I was young, people always start that was crazy.

I was stupid, you know, like Scooby Doo. When I'm getting over

it, and but at the same time, you know, that is something.

When I was young, I was always called as the Scooby Doo guy,

and as time progress, people started calling me the Scooby Doo pastor or

Scooby Pastor, and I was featured in different newspapers and different media outlets all

around. And when I got into those book of records, two international books

of records actually, so you know, all of these things, you know,

added credibility to you know, my say as a Scooby pastor, you

know what I mean. Uh, And it's amazing, you know, like

a lot of times, you know, Scooby Doo has been one of the

ways I'm able to reach people. I'm able to you know, uh,

break some barriers, you know, and and have conversations and you know,

and and eventually share something, share the light of God's word and you know,

and I want to just tell you guys, one thing, you know,

when I was thinking about Scooby Doo, one thing that just came to

my mind is, you know, when you think of the usual things with

Scooby Doo, of course there are so many different series and variations. Uh,

Scooby Doo has been making history in itself. You know, It's in

the Guinness World Records for the most episodes any animated cartoons comedy show has ever

had. So it's Scooby Doo is history in itself. But but for the

most part. If you look at Scooby Doo, what happens Scooby Doo in

the gang, come to know there is some ghosts, there's some kind of

a foul play, there's some kind of a negative thing happening. They don't

have to be there. They can just go walk away. They can just

you know, say you know what, it's not my problem, wash off,

and then just run away. But but you know they stand there,

they say, you know what, They risk their lives sometimes they you know,

Daphne gets kidnapped. You know, their lives are at stake. They

if you look at it in a little sense, right, I mean,

I know it's cartoon, but but I want you guys understand the context.

I'm trying to say. You know, they risk everything for the sake of

something somebody else, for the sake of truth and righteousness, for the sake

of you know, somebody else being exploited, somebody else getting kidnapped, or

something else unfair and something bad it's happening for the sake of that. They

risk everything, They put themselves on the line, and what happens. They're

going and solving the mystery. Right, nobody is asking it when to do

it. They don't get any rewards for it as well. But they're just

doing it for somebody else. They're doing it for where they are there,

for the community. For like maybe if it's something bad happening in an amusement

park, you know, they just solve the mystery. Maybe it happens somebody

else, somebody else gets kidnapped, they go in, you know, whatever

it is. They're doing it for others, not for themselves. And isn't

that like what Jesus did? You know, he died for us, even

though he didn't have to do it. He could have just washed his hands

off and say, you know what, they made the decision. Why should

I suffer for them? You know a lot of people today are living a

life where, you know what, it's all about themselves. But you see

here like the Scubby Doo and the gang, or a picture of what Jesus,

you know, is living for other people. Now, I'm not please

don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to compare and say Jesus and Scooby

Doo as the same. I'm not saying that. But I'm just trying to

use this as a tool to share this word with you guys. That you

know, Yes, God can use anybody anything to share this and and I'm

going to share this with you guys today. A lesson and I always got

back to when it comes to Scooby Doo is the way they they're putting themselves

on the line for the sake of others. You know. I want to

share a couple of scriptures with you guys, and I want to encourage you

today. And this is what it says. In one John three sixteen.

It says, we know love by this, that he laid down his life

for us, that we or to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But whoever has the world's goods and sees his brother in need and closes his

heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Here

is a word which says, you know, Jesus, just exactly what I'm

saying. You know, Jesus, they lay down his life for us.

You know, when you look at scrimpin In again, they put themselves on

the line. They risk everything, not for themselves, but for others.

And that's exactly what Jesus is asking us today. Are you living a life

like that where you're living for others? You know, another thing. If

you look at Luke nine twenty three, or even if you look at Market

thirty four, it says Jesus was saying to them, if anybody wishes to

come after me, he must deny himself and take up the cross daily and

follow me. And whoever wishes to save his life will lose it. But

whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. I want to ask

you this question today. Are you taking up your cross and following Jesus?

Are you kidding to that place of saying, you know what, I'm going

to deny myself. I'm going to deny you know, the benefits that I

can live, you know, living a normal, mediocal life, you know,

where it's all about myself, just for myself, my own bills,

my own you know, it's very easy to live a life like that,

just for yourself. But today I'm challenging each one of us to live a

life that we are called to live according to scripture. Not a selfish life,

not just for playing it safe, but a life where we say,

you know what, I want to put myself on the line if that is

what I'm called to do. You know, when you look at the apostles

except for John, all the other apostles were killed. Now, I'm not

saying that you go and expect to be killed. I'm not saying that.

But what I'm saying is some people are so scared to even open the word

Jesus. Their schools so scared to just what if you know there's a government

which wants to persecute you, don't preach, don't you know? You know

so many times I've heard all these kind of things for me. You know,

don't preach, don't close down your ministry. There is so many things

happening and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But you know what,

I can't be scared to preach the word that God has called me to,

even if it means putting myself on the line. That's exactly what Jesus did

for us, right he died for us. Scrutineo with the gang always put

themselves on the line. They risk everything, even though they don't have to

do it. They do it because it's the right thing to do. Today,

I'm asking you, are you living a life like that where you're putting

everything and saying, you know what I'm going to do this because this is

the right thing for me to do. This is the right thing for you

to do, because I can't tolerate in just but I need to stand up

and expose the truth, and I need to do it, even if it's

like a sense of a self sacrifice. It's like a sense of, you

know, putting yourself in a harm's way for the sake of others. Amen.

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