The Blessings You Know Not Of | Jonathan Cahn Sermon

Jonathan Cahn shares about the blessings you know not of – how God calls you and where He places you with a purpose. There are the most beautiful promises Jesus the Messiah has for you that go beyond anything you’ve known before!

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And don’t think it cannot come to America. It’s already coming.
Even in such time here, Jeremiah’s imprint in for his faith, and yet god says now I have something good for you.
A little while back, I was coming off of a plane, uh, in Nashville, Tennessee to Newark Airport.
When I got out of the bridge onto the into the gate into into the airport.
A man was standing waiting to speak to me, and he said, you probably don’t recognize me.
Then he tells me his name.
He was the man, the first pastor I had as a young man in that first church.
I hadn’t seen him in ages. I knew him when he was here in a pastor.
In fact, in fact, he was the one when I’ve told you that I went to Washington once years ago when there was a gathering of believers from all over the country, which literally I saw changed history, he was the one who organized that he was now an old man.
I hadn’t seen him again in decades since I first came to the lord, and I’d always wanted to.
I always wanted to to come back to see him.
Now he knew what happens with me, the congregation, the books, everything that happened.
In fact, he was on the plane because he was at the event where I was speaking, and he was trying to get to me, but he couldn’t get to me.
And I I I found out it’s like the lord I found out since then he went to be with the lord, but the lord gave us the chance to meet before that, before that.
And I thought about how it was back then when I first came to the lord, I’m 1st in this church, and and and I was a new believer having no idea.
I could never have imagined what god would do. I could not imagine it.
In high school, I had to be the least likely person to be standing here.
If you had a vote in high school, who’s the least likely person to follow god how to be me.
And and only I was an atheist at one point.
Only by the grace of god did I come to know him?
And even after I believed that the lord was real, when I knew he was real, I fought him.
I fought his call for 6 years because I didn’t wanna come to him.
I didn’t wanna give up I was doing, I didn’t wanna give up the rock band.
I didn’t wanna give up the way I was living.
I didn’t wanna give it a I thought when you give it up, you give up the good things.
You give up the bad things. He gives you the good things, but I didn’t know that.
And the only reason I did come is as you, many of you know, is because I was hit by a train and came within a inches of being killed.
And after that, even after that, I never imagined I’d ever be teaching the word of god and how that happened wasn’t because I planted In my first year of coming to the lord, I became part of a bible study of young people led by a pastor.
And after a number of weeks, the pastor said I can’t do it anymore. We’ll have to end this.
And the people of bible study came to me and said, we will you lead it?
Because if if you don’t, we gotta stop it. Will you lead it? That’s how I said, alright.
So that’s how it started. Another thing I never could have imagined.
And one day, um, during that time, I was kinda I had come to the lord, but I didn’t know where he was what what was gonna happen.
I went into a little church in the middle of the week, and they had this special guest person there.
It was a, uh, it was a former prostitute. Uh, she was a madam, actually, and she got saved.
And she had a gift of the spirit of knowledge, and the middle of the service or at the end.
She points to me in the in the current and calls me up.
And I was, you know, you know, I was, uh, Again, I’m in college now.
I don’t know where it’s going. I’m gonna be graduating college soon.
And so I had to decide what to do, and she starts speaking over me and saying things that have come true now.
Back then. Well, I graduated college, and I didn’t know what Okay. Lord, I don’t call for ministry.
What ministry I went down? I talked with Jews for Jesus.
They put me on the streets immediately handing out trash I got hit the guy hit me with that.
I said, I don’t think so. I don’t think this is it.
I checked out another ministry, chosen people, but I, you know, I all good ministries.
I felt that’s not the thing. Finally, I prayed just give me a job that you would do.
He ended up giving me a job working with disabled children, and that is what he would do.
He said, as you’ve done it to these, you’ve done it to me.
It was one of my major preparations for ministry.
God said you gotta be humble, and you gotta be a servant, and you gotta serve people’s needs.
And you gotta be patient. And that’s what he would taught me there.
I continued leading the bible study during that time, not knowing what the ministry would be.
I ministered to the city. They were homeless people all over New York City at that time.
Still are, but there were a lot that we started ministering giving them bibles, giving them food.
Uh, now Now when I came to the lord in college, I was working as a security guard at night.
Night watching. I do my homework at at the security desk, you know.
And the company decided to put me in a factory in Backwood Suburban Country Road in New York State.
And it was while working there that I came to the lord and then and next door to the factory in the middle of nowhere was this other building, an office building in which there was a ministry and every day I come and go, I see the sign, and the sign said American board of missions to the Jews.
And here I am a Jewish person coming to the lord, I never bothered to even go next door.
They would later change the name of their ministry to chosen people ministries.
It was one of the the 2 largest ministries specifically giving the gospel to the Jewish people in the entire world.
And they just decide they actually birth Jews for Jesus and they decided just for that period of time.
They moved their world headquarters right next door, the middle of nowhere, next to the factory where I was working.
Now I still never went there. I had no intention to go in there.
But god had a different intention.
At 1 you know, and and at one point, the factory even rented part of that building, not patrolling that building.
I never even checked it out. So one day, I go to a church service, which about 30 minutes away.
It was the church of the house of ream with Charlie Rizzo in New Jersey, and after the service, they had fellowship.
A woman came in just from somewhere else. She’s a visitor. She’s, oh, you’re Jewish.
She said they’re starting something up called a messianic congregation. Uh, let me give you the phone number.
I just happen to have the phone number of the guy. And what are the odds of that?
She have the and so I called the guy. He says, come on down. He gives me directions.
The next Friday night I set out, I’m not a year old in the lord yet.
That’s gonna be the first time I’m setting foot in a messianic ministry. I’m following his directions.
The direction takes me to the building that’s next door where I work every day.
He gave me a different route, so I didn’t realize. So I got there.
It’s like, I had to go 30 minutes to New Jersey in order to go next door.
You know, I go into a room. My first mess in a congregation had about eight people.
And and yet it was god’s appointed plan and purpose because there was someone else.
1 of the 8 was someone who he stood out right away.
You could not hide this man, stood out no matter where he was, but he had just gotten saved a little while back, and he was going there to be in to help with ministry.
His name was Gary Selman.
He played guitar led worship there, and I he said, oh, well, you play guitar. Bring it.
So here, we’re playing. We’re playing all that together.
It was god’s plan because later on, one day he would say help me start another congregation called Beth Israel.
And it was he was the one who had asked me to go into ministry, but he was god had us next door for a year and then had it bring us.
It was all there. In fact, it was not only all there. It’s like, right?
You know, some of the answers in our life often they’re right there. We don’t see them.
But not only that, when I realized when I got saved, I got saved on a mountain top.
I gave my life to the lord on a mountain top, and I looked at it and you could look down and you could see where It was over the over the village of Gary Selman.
He already had everything planned out from my life. And so I said, okay.
You know, so so you know, when he asked, well, actually, but when he so I said I’ll help you.
But the lord called me into ministry, and so I’ll help you with this ministry.
But one day, I’m gonna have to leave when the lord calls you to full time ministry.
So I helped out. You know, I wasn’t I was, like, one of the three leaders there.
They had about at the peak, maybe thirty people, I helped for a few years while I was doing the Bible study while I was doing the ministry of the city while I was doing all.
And one day, the leader of the congregation left.
And so now Gary someone calls me to a diner in New Jersey and says, okay, I’m asking you to lead Beth Israel.
And I said, Gary, I said, I I said I help you for a little bit.
Uh, this is the meantime. The it’s the, you know, the lord called me for a ministry.
When you asked me this, he said, maybe it is the ministry. I said, I don’t know.
He said, if you don’t say yes, we have to close it down. So I said, alright, lord.
I said, I don’t know about this because that wasn’t my plan.
If you want me to say yes, I know I’m you’re gonna make it real clear.
I know I’m not supposed to they tell me you’re not supposed to give a fleece to the lord.
I don’t actually, the Bible doesn’t say you can’t do that, but the point is I said, but I’m I’m gonna give you 6 leases.
And you have to do them all by the end of the month.
If you want me to say yes, by the end of the month, every single one. He did.
One of them was we’re in we’re in the meeting in this church. We had no place.
I said, lord, There’s a building in the back. There’s a little building in the back of the church.
I said, have them offer us that building so we can have a place of our own.
So right after that, after years, they decide they offer us the building. I said, alright, lord.
And when I said yes to the calling, they withdrew the offer. I said, lord, you tricked me.
And I got for the spirit saying, well, you you said have them offer it.
You didn’t say you’re gonna get it. You say to have them offer.
I said, lord, you got me on a technicality.
See, he’s been in the business a lot longer than I have. So I reluctantly said, yes.
I went into full time. Anyway, not because I planned it that way, but the same way I came to the lord.
You’re not planning, but Every step was that way. Every step I didn’t plan. I didn’t imagine. I didn’t fathom.
And it’s not that we don’t plan.
Things, but the ultimate course of our life has gotta be his plan, not yours. It’s better.
And and we started when we started the congregation, we had to reopen it, closed down.
We reopened it and was on a Friday night, and it was a blizzard. We had to cancel the serve.
Then another blizzard and another blizzard. I said, lord, what do you what would you I said, yes.
What’s going on here? And that’s when the lord gave me a word way back then.
And and when we had just a few people. And I shared that word.
I believe it was the 3rd service that I ever shared a word as the leader, and I preached this, and the word would sum up everything that in my life, what he had done, but what he was going to do.
And it’s a word that I got again last night for you.
And it’s this Jeremiah 33 verse 3.
Call to me and I will answer you.
And I will show you great and mighty things you know not of. Oh, yes.
Everything that though that god did was that.
And everything he was gonna do when a little group of people, when I shared that word to them, little bit before everything he did with us, before the books, before everything got it, did all these things, He said, I’m gonna show you great and mighty things you know not of.
And on Friday night, this Friday night, I ended as I was speaking of Paul on Mars Hill, speaking of the unknown god, the altar of the unknown god.
I spoke of that thing, the unknown, the the the importance of what we don’t know.
What we don’t know is bigger than what we do know. Yes.
And so he says He says the unknown god be opened says the unknown god, I’m gonna make it.
That’s what it says on Mars Hill.
And then and now here he says, I will show you what you don’t know.
What you what you know not.
Now you’ve heard this scripture before, but you may never have had it opened up.
And I want I’m led to because I believe this is god now for you for you to open it up.
Even the context, the context Well, let me put it this way. Here’s how it starts.
It says this. Then the word of the lord came to Jeremiah the second time, While he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying now first thing is he’s in prison.
Jeremiah is in prison. Because the king and the government and the culture are all against him.
And he’s preaching the word of god. They don’t wanna hear it. They don’t wanna hear the truth.
You know, he’s the opposite of Jonah. Because Jonah is the is the most successful evangelist in world history.
Everybody got saved, and he was miserable because he didn’t wanna do it.
Jeremiah is faithful doing the work of the lord. He doesn’t see anybody get saved. Yet he was faithful.
It’s not about the results. It’s about faithfulness to god. You do what god said. Very much.
You know, they don’t wanna hear the word of god. They put him in prison.
It’s very much like what’s happening today and where it’s going. Just in very recent times.
We’ve been witnessing a new phenomenon in the west in Europe, in in Canada, in the west, where believers Christians are being put in prison did on the street for preaching the word of god.
Britain, England. A woman in Finland last year was because she posted a scripture on her site like Facebook, she was put to trial for the for the on on the punishment of 2 years in prison.
This is a middle aged woman member of parliament.
Christian put a scripture like 10 years before, and she was put on trial.
Just this past week, it came out in Europe, Malta.
A Christian man was interviewed on television, gave his testimony He said he was saved from a same sex lifestyle by the power of Jesus.
He is now on trial for saying that and facing imprisonment.
And don’t think it cannot come to America. It’s already coming.
Even in such time here, Jeremiah is in prison for his faith, and yet god says now I have something good for you.
Even in troubles and persecution problems in your life doesn’t change at any way in any form of the promises of god.
Jeremiah could have been real discouraged, probably was. You know, nobody’s listening. Nobody got saved.
Now I’m in prison. I could be killed, and god says, Jeremiah, I’ve got a word for you in prison.
You don’t have to be in the temple. You don’t have to be. I can speak to you.
This is just as holy in your prison. Wherever you are, it doesn’t matter. Don’t focus on where you are.
Focus on who’s with you. Yes. God speaks to people in prison. God spoke to Paul in prison.
Spoke to Peter in prison. Does great things in prison.
And so how much more, no matter what you’re going through, he will speak to you.
And his promises don’t lessen at all because you’re going through something.
Get into the new and the known what you don’t. What I mean is this.
When you first came to the lord, I’m sure most of you, you were an open book.
You were an open slave. You were open lord. I don’t know this. All this thing is new to me.
Like, teach me this. Show me this. Wow. This. This. This.
And a lot of times you prayed and like that, god answered. You know? Yeah. You were a newborn.
You know, when you’re a newborn, you don’t wanna keep your baby waiting for a long time when they need something.
You’re older. You think I don’t get that all the it’s okay. God, you’re older.
God wants to teach you some things to about faith.
But you had an op there’s something about being open that opens the door for those things.
That you knew that you knew that when you came to god, you knew that you didn’t know.
You most of it, you didn’t know. You know, and now we think, okay. Well, most of it I know.
Know because how big is god? God is infinite.
So even if you’ve known him for 40 years, you still most of it is what you don’t know.
That hasn’t changed. Know that there’s more to god. Why have I I’ve said this.
Why do you think why do we have eternity? Why is heaven eternal? Why is it forever?
Because forever is the exact length of time it takes to know god.
Forever, So if you want, the life comes by by knowing, like, lord, more, I want it. I want it.
You want it seek to if you wanna live a heavenly life, seek the new lord.
Seek seek the lord. I need to know more of you. That’s all I want. Get into it, lord.
I want that. I want new intimacy with you. New revelation in you, new joy in you.
I want I want. That’s okay. That’s a good one.
And lastly, open your heart and your life and your and your schedule and your routine for change.
If you’re gonna be open to what is new, you want better, you want, then you have to be open to what you don’t have.
You have to be open to what you don’t know.
What is new, then you also have to be open to change because newness produces change.
If god’s gonna show you when you first found salvation, What did it do?
It changed your life. When you know something new, every new thing you know, it has produced change.
It has to produce change if it’s from god.
So if you want god to show you something great, you have to say, lord, I am willing to be changed.
Change me. I’m willing to grow.
I’m willing to get out of my what I’m comfortable with because that’s I want more.
Faith leads to action to change. That’s change. Fate new faith leads to new change and new action.
Greater faith leads to greater change. Be open to change. Lord, I’ll I’m willing to give this up.
I’m willing to take this on. I’m willing to change my schedule.
I’m willing to change, um, to the way I think. I’m willing to change change me lord. Into your image.
The vessel that will receive from god, great and mighty things is the vessel that is open to god.
To be open to god means lord, whatever I’m going.
God has done great and mighty things we have known not. I still remember.
I still remember preaching that word, again, to thirty people, snow days, blizzards, and we have we had no reason god just gave that.
God has done it beyond what I could have ever imagined.
And god is giving a promise now to you. A word to you here now.
There is a condition on it, though. He didn’t just say I’m gonna do it.
He said if you call to me, if you seek me, if you search me, if you take this seriously, take it apart, Take them up on it because everything you need comes from god and everything that that is better is gonna be new to you.
Take it. You know, you can stay with what you know and what and and what will he show you?
Nothing. But if you go with what you don’t know, What will he show you great and mighty things you know not now?
Do not be limited by what you know. Don’t be limited by what you have known.
Don’t be limited by your record or your past how you’ve been in the lord. Don’t be limited.
That’s not god. If you’ve been limited because you didn’t do well, you’re that’s not god.
God isn’t what you don’t know. God is unlimited. Become unlimited. Lord, um, I believe.
What exactly does he have for us in the days ahead?
What does exactly does he have for me? I don’t know.
But that’s the cool thing because that’s all I need. I need. I don’t know.
When I get I don’t know. I’m open. I don’t know.
That means I’m open to find them because what’s inside of, I don’t know, great and mighty things.
He said, you know not. Great and mighty things. You know not.
So the, I don’t know, that’s got you got great and mighty things.
Yeah.
That’s where it’s gonna be. So, lord, I don’t know, but I’m open. I don’t know what you have.
I know it’s good. I know I know. I that’s what I thought. But See, not knowing is very powerful.
You can go real far in the lord if you don’t know what you’re doing as long as you’re open to him who does.
Because that’s where it is. It says we who have been saved been saved to what?
Walk in the newness of life. God, your god is the god of surprises. Really? Really?
That’s what he does because if it’s not surprised that it’s the old thing. He’s not the old thing.
He’s the new thing. He’s everything that’s not what you’ve seen. He’s beyond everything. He loves to surprise.
That’s that’s what he does. And that’s where, you know, CS Lewis wrote a his his his autobiography was called Surprise by joy.
God surprise me. How many people were surprised? I mean, you know, I’ll put it the other way.
How many people plan to be saved? You didn’t plan.
How many people plan that you’d ever think you’d be here You’re at your here because god surprised you. Yeah.
Yeah. Moses, eighty year old guy. His life is pretty much over as you think about it.
He’s getting ready to go to retirement, move to Miami, but no.
He’s out in the middle of the wilderness, and he hears somebody say Moses. He looks up.
It’s a bush talking to him. Surprise.
He he could have had a heart attack with that, but he did.
God knew it. The Hebrews are hungry. We want this. We want this.
They say, look up at a dinner coming down surprise. From heaven.
Mary has never known a man. You know, Joseph surprised. She’s pregnant.
They run to a tomb and the tomb is empty. He got up. Surprise.
The Holy Spirit of God comes on them, and they start speaking in tongues. They never did.
This has never happened before. Surprise from god. God is the god of surprises.
He surprises his people. He that’s what he does.
You know, and and and that’s why we got saved because he surprised us.
He’s not supposed you’re not supposed to have that end. He’s not supposed to stop surprising you.
God is always surprising. You know, you know, that’s when that’s when those churches grow dead when they stop.
There’s nothing to surprise them anymore. They got it all down. They have everything in a box. Yeah.
It’s not gonna be god. You stop being surprised. You stop knowing god.
How do you know god by being surprised? God wants to surprise you this year. Thank you.
He wants to surprise us. He wants to surprise you.
He wants to show you what you don’t know, what you didn’t expect. Open up your life.
Prepare the way. It says, prepare the way for the lord. Make his path rate.
Prepare the way for the lord. Open the gates. Open the door.
Open the windows of your life of your heart.
Enlarge the place of your heart, enlarge the place of your life, let it go open to have a god has.
He’s got something new for you.
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