Bro Gyme Sunday Evening 7/31/11

Bro Gyme Sunday Evening 7/31/11

1Ti 4:1  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Expressly means distinctly.  The Spirit is very clear and distinct in what it wants to say.  It spoke clearly to Paul that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.  People smarter than I and more gifted than I have departed from the faith. 

Giving heed means to hold the mind to and adhere to.  We need to be careful to not allow the enemy to introduce seducing, deceiving, or misleading thoughts in our mind. 

2Co 11:1  Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

2Co 11:2  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2Co 11:3  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Simplicity means singleness.  We need to have a singleness of mind and purpose that comes from Christ.  Christ was single in mind and in purpose.

2Co 11:4  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

2Co 11:13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

2Co 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

We need to be careful that we are not seduced by anything contrary to the word of God.

1Ti 4:2  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

God help me to keep my conscience tender.  If we give into a seducing spirit and don’t let God help us than we will believe a lie.  This is a sobering thought.

1Ti 4:3  Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

1Ti 4:4  For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

The Jews in general were some of the most superstitious people known to man.  There were sects that forbid their members to marry.  Carnal men get an idea and start teaching it as doctrine.  They say that “If you don’t do this than you are not a part of us and you are not saved.”

Personal convictions are good but be sure that you keep them personal.  Matt 18:3 teaches us to become as little children.  This gives us the sense of being humble.  Children are like sponges; they want to know.  They want to know about the Bible; they want to know about God.  They have a hunger for truth and the things of God.  We must be this way.  They hunger in a simplistic way.  They have no agenda of what they want to know it for, they just want to know.

1Ti 6:3  If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

1Ti 6:4  He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

1Ti 6:5  Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

1Ti 6:6  But godliness with contentment is great gain.

We want Godliness that comes from the Word of God.

1Ti 4:6  If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

1Ti 4:7  But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

1Ti 4:8  For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Refuse those things that don’t come from the Bible.  Have a standard against those things.

2 Tim 2:15. Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be despised rightly dividing the word of truth.

Exercise means to train, practice.  We want to train ourselves in the Word of God, to practice Godliness.  Godliness is what we want to exercise ourselves in.  We want to train ourselves in holiness. 1Pe 1:16

Profit means advantageous.  This exercise will not only profit us in the life now but also in eternity.

Jer 29:8  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

Jer 29:9  For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.

Jer 29:10  For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

God has thoughts of peace, thoughts for our overall well being, God wants us to be happy and have peace.   He wants us to not only have profit in our spiritual lives but in every part of our life, in our minds and our overall well being.  He wants us to be safe, to be happy, to have health, and to have peace.

1Ti 4:9  This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

1Ti 4:10  For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

God sends rain on the just and on the unjust.  When we are cast down we often think that we are the only ones that suffer in that way.  This is not true.  You can see the lives and the fruit of what sin produces and it is not “great, great, great” as they’d like you to think.  Good things happen to bad people and bad things may happen to good people. 

We have a God that is interested in every part of our being.  He is interested in us having perfect peace.  People of the world don’t have peace.  I remember when I was there; I had no peace because of sin.  There were times that I couldn’t sleep.

1Ti 4:11  These things command and teach.

1Ti 4:12  Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

This scripture is not just for the young.  The scripture, “Though our outward man perish the inward man is renewed day by day” helps us to know that this scripture is for all of us.

Be thou an example of the believers.  Be an example in word, in the doctrine.  The doctrine is important.  Be an example in conversation, in all of your conduct.  Be an example in charity, in your love to God and to man.  It is easy to love those that are lovable.  We need to love even those that are not loveable.  Be an example in spirit, in faith, in purity.  God help us to be a pure people.  “Be ye holy for I am holy.”
1Pe 1:16

1Ti 4:13  Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

This is important God wouldn’t have written it if it weren’t.

1Ti 4:14  Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

1Ti 4:15  Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

Meditate means we fix our position and get violent with the enemy.  Violence is an action; it is a force.  We must be forceful sometimes.  We need to know what we believe and fix our position there and not be moved.   

The enemy is violent.  If you don’t meet that force with the same then you will be moved. 

We need to meditate on what the bible teaches, fix our position and not move.  The enemy would like to move us by what is happening in the world today.  He’d like to get us to fix our attention on what is going on.  The world is out of course; this thing is going to end.  God has given us His word.  We need to fix our position. 

Mat 11:12  And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

1Ti 4:16  Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

Bro Gary Sunday Morning 7/31/11

Bro Gary Sunday Morning 7/31/11

Isa 26:1  In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

Isa 26:2  Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

Isa 26:3  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Isa 26:4  Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

Thoughts of the Mind:  Having our mind stayed on Him.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.  There are many things in the world today that will rob you of your peace.  He will keep us in perfect peace.

Php 4:8  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Paul had been in the ministry about 20 years when he wrote this epistle to those at Philippi.

Whatsoever things are true, think on these things.  This morning I want to deal with some of the aspects of things that are true so we will know what to think on to bring peace.  Faith brings peace.

Moses wrote in his last song:

Deu 32:3  Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

Deu 32:4  He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

He is the Rock.  There is something to build on this morning.  His work is perfect…He is a God of truth.  We need to think on spiritual things that are true that will be of a definite value to us.

We have a great treasure in the Word of God.  The 84^th Psalm was written for the sons of Korah.  They were blessed to be alive.  They had been involved in a rebellion and the earth opened up and swallowed some.  God in His mercy allowed them to come around the temple and perhaps they sang around the temple. 

God told Moses how to build the tabernacle.  He told him to place a brazen altar there and the fire was to never go out.  There were to be offerings in the morning and the evening.  In the Gospel Day the brazen altar represents Jesus Christ. 

I cannot talk about Him enough this morning.  One day on a hill called Mount Calvary, he hung between heaven and earth on a cross.  He was suspended from his hands and his feet about a foot off of the ground.  As he was hanging there, a soldier came by and pierced his side with a spear.  Out of that wound there came water and blood.  This was a fulfilling of the prophecy of a fountain being opened in that day for the cleansing of sin and uncleanness.

Zec 13:1  In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

Each time I go through the tabernacle worship in my devotions, I cannot even get to the golden altar without praising God.  We know how to call Him our Father because He taught us to, we know how to ask in Jesus name because Jesus taught us.  The brazen altar is symbolic it represents that which is done but is still alive today.

The next piece of furniture in the tabernacle is the laver.  We are blessed to have a Bible.  When you open up the Word of God it washes you.  If there is something in our mind that is displeasing to God, if there is an attitude, a hurt, a disgust, a trespass, if someone has trespassed you, you can go to God and He says, “Let me just wash you of that.” 

Not everything works out the way we had planned. “We had hoped…”  God wants to wash you of that disappointment.

The son’s of Korah were told to sing this Psalm.  How beautiful is the brazen altar.  They had something to be excited about, to thank God for.  The earth had swallowed some of them up; those that were left had escaped.  We all have much to be thankful for.  God has saved us by the blood of his precious son. 

Psa 84:1  To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

Psa 84:2  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Men ought always to pray and not to faint.  To faint means to lose our way.  We all have things that we really want to accomplish.  I really wanted to clean the garage; I accomplished some things but I don’t want you to see it.  I got distracted. 

We really need God in our soul, in our mind, in our body, in our natural appetites and desires; we need God in everything.  Our heart and our flesh need to cry out for the living God.

Psa 84:3  Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Everything that God created has its place.  May God help us to realize that our soul and our body have their place in worshipping God.

Psa 84:4  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

We really have something to praise God for.  Sin had its bid in for each of us.  When we think of where sin would have taken us!  When it was pulling on us we didn’t see down the road to the reaping.  God in his mercy helped us to reach the place where we decided that “I’m going to seek God.” 

When I see where sin has taken men that had much more talent and education than I yet they made the wrong choices.  A friend of mine excelled in the government, was in charge of security of the US Presidents, and yet he made a wrong choice.  He tried to come back to his roots and brought lots of money with him.  I crossed paths with him in a home visit to a woman and she told me who he was.  

As I visited with him, I found out that he didn’t know how to deal with heartache, he chose alcohol.  Each time I visited him he said that he had everything he needed.  The last time I saw him, his mother led me back to his room.  There he lay, gasping for breath, a death sweat on his brow. 

Dear ones that could have been me.  If we don’t serve God we have no protection.  When it comes to God we cannot win and rebel against God.  It is the goodness of God that leads us to repentance.  There is no way that we can escape and not come to repentance.  There is no way we can escape without giving everything back to God. 

If you have a saved companion, you are so blessed.  If you have children, you are blessed.  You fathers, you are blessed to be able to get before the golden altar and pour your heart out to God.  Pray as Hannah prayed and pour your heart out to God.  Daddies let your children hear you pray.  Mothers, Grandmas, let your children hear you pray.  Don’t be afraid to let others know that you love them and are praying for them. 

You can never get to the golden altar unless you come by the brazen altar and the laver.  We are never too old to be washed.  Paul said, “This one thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind, and reaching forward to those things that are before, I press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” 

God if I have something in my mind or heart that you are not pleased with, wash me.  If I’m distracted or too material minded, wash me. 

The shew bread in the sanctuary: I like to eat and I like to enjoy eating.  Sit and enjoy the good things of God, eat it. 

The candle in the sanctuary: it is Jesus that lit us, the word is a lamp.

The golden altar is designed for prayer.  Practice praying.  Make it a practice to pray.  The golden altar is designed to praise.  Life has many challenges but we have much to praise God for.  If you are mobile, have your mind, or have someone to care and share, you have much to praise God for.

You may not have the love of your daughter or son, don’t spoil your prayer by murmuring or complaining.  You have the love of the family of God.  You have much to praise God for. 

If you get saved, there will be someone that doesn’t like it.  In our families we have some nice people.  I’ve heard you talk about what fine people some of my family is, yet some have given me attitudes to fight.  When I come about they give me the elbow and they have a tongue that will surpass any Gillette ever made.  God can wash and help me forgive. 

We have a wonderful opportunity to be washed and come through the door.  Jesus said, “I am the door and by me if any will enter in they shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.”

Son’s of Korah you are blessed to be able to dwell in the house of God.

Psa 84:5  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

Psa 84:6  Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

Baca means weeping.  It is ok to cry and to be heartbroken, to feel that your heart is broken in a million pieces.  God has designed in the valley of weeping to give you the treasures of the darkness.  There have been many things learned in the valley of weeping. 

“God I know you are righteous, I know you don’t willing to afflict your people.  I’m hurting, teach me.”  He knows how to teach and comfort you so that when you come upon another that is hurting, you may not have been in their situation, but you can tell them of the help God gave you and that “God always comes through.”

There is a source of strength: they go from strength to strength.  There is a sure way to have strength in your soul, your body and your mind.  God wants you to have strength in your mind.  You go through worship at the brazen altar, you thank God for it and if you need to be saved, you repent.  You go to the laver, and are washed.  You go through the door; you go to the shew bread and dip it in the oil that has been flavored by the herbs.  Then you go on to the candlestick and ask God to take the searchlight, to show you what you need to know and direct you. 

Then you get to the golden altar and you give your praise there, give your all.  You present your body a living sacrifice and lay aside every weight.  (Romans 12 and Hebrews 12.)  “You see the carnal nature that I’ve tried to get the victory over in myself.  I plead that the fire will help me clean it out.”  Right there you say, “God I’m yours” and you experience perfect love.  You love God with all your heart and He cleanses you. 

God told Moses that He would commune with him at the golden altar.  Let us be at the golden altar praying that God will give strength to each of His people.  Some are going to a funeral of one that committed suicide.  Some are waiting for a child to be born and are so burdened down by the needs of the situation. 

Let’s go to the golden altar.  There you can present yourself and pray God through the cords of love to draw the needy ones to the place of strength. 

Many here have burdens that are so heavy this morning.  Where can you go?  Is there a book that you can buy?  Would it be nice to take over ice-cream? 

There is a place to go.  Some are standing in the gap pleading for their brothers, their daughters or sons, where can they go to carry this?  You go to the golden altar and there is perfect love. 

Yes Jesus Took My Burden I could no longer bear. 
Yes Jesus took my burden in answer to my prayer. 
My anxious fears subsided, my spirit was made strong. 
When Jesus took my burdens and left me with a song.

Get to the golden altar and while you are there take care of everything.  How beautiful are His tabernacles!

I remember when I was so lost in sin.  Sin knows no barriers; it would have destroyed me.  Because Jesus drew on my heart and the saints were before the golden altar praying, I came to God. 

Sister Karen Sunday School 7/31/11

Sister Karen Sunday School 7/31/11

The Grace of God: Titus 2:11-14

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Tit 2:13  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Appeared translated is ‘as the sun that shines’.  As the sun shines to all the world, so the grace of God appears to all men. 

The definition of Grace :

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1.   The influence of the Divine upon the soul and its reflection in the life

2.       Unmerited favor of God 

3.       Gift

4.       Gratitude

5.       Gracious

6.       Joy liberality

7.       Thankfulness

8.       Pleasure

9.       Benefit- takes in the beneficence of God.

10.   Acceptable

The first week we studied of the unmerited favor of God, this takes in salvation. 

The grace of God brought us the wonderful gift of salvation; we couldn’t merit it or in any way earn it.  This wonderful gift should produce in our heart an attitude of such care and appreciation that we take care of this gift. 

Ungodliness is anything that is unlike God, contrary to His commands and will lead us to doubt His being, His attributes, His providence, and His governance of the world.  Anything that is opposed to true worship is ungodly.

Worldly lust, drunkenness, revenge, immoderate appetite… all of these are ungodly.

Soberly means to live with a sound mind, avoiding the use of anything that would intoxicate us personally.   It means having every temper, appetite and desire under the government of reason. 

It means we live soberly; this is doing right by ourselves, having a sound mind.  This is a benefit for us.  It also means we live righteously is in our reactions with others and that we live godly which deals with our relationship with God.

Righteous, right, righteously, righteousness – all mean equitable which means justice according to natural law or right, impartiality

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Just is the same Greek word as right.  Having a basis or confirmed according to fact or reason. 

-          Equitable, innocent, holy and righteous

-          Equity of character or act, specifically justification.

Righteousness comes from ‘right wiseness’ which combines justice and right and the word, to know.  The righteous man knew justice and right and acted according to their dictates.  ‘The righteous man is he who knows most and acts best.’ 

Righteousness is: The acts of distributing to each man his due and living a holy life.

Luk 1:74  That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

Luk 1:75  In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

This is one of the reasons that Jesus came that we might serve Him with holiness and righteousness.  It signifies a holy life, liberality, alms giving.  We are only stewards ofGod’s bounty.  Take heed that you do not your alms or righteousness before men.

Rom 3:5  But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

Rom 3:6  God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

2Co 9:10  Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

2Co 9:9  (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

He provides for everything for the seed to grow, the oxygen, the water, the light, everything.

2Co 9:8  And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

2Co 9:11  Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

Righteousness signifies the whole collection of graces that constitute the Christian character.

Mat 5:6  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Those that hunger desire their righteousness to far exceed self righteousness.  Seek the kingdom of God first and His righteousness. 

Heb 11:7  By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Righteousness signifies faith in God and submission to His will exemplified by obedience to God.  So with us, we need to have the desire to hear and obey the word of God.  We need to hear and read, and be prepared to reach out to others.  To be moved by God with the fear of God puts a carefulness in us.

It becomes us to fulfill all righteousness.  We can only do this following salvation. 

Righteousness signifies the favor or pardoning of God.

Rom 4:6  Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

Rom 4:7  Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

Rom 4:8  Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Rom 4:9  Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Rom 4:10  How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

Rom 4:11  And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

Rom 4:12  And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

Rom 4:13  For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Rom 4:14  For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

Rom 4:15  Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Rom 4:16  Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

We cannot become righteous without being saved.  It is not of ourselves or our works.  Without getting saved, doing the works will not make us righteous.  After repenting of our sins, out of a heart of love to others that wants to help others, out of a heart that once was selfish, we can do the works.  Once the selfish heart is changed we are concerned about the needs of others. 

Abraham’s righteousness came by obedience and faith and not the works of circumcision.  After circumcision came, he was required to be circumcised.  It in its self was never intended to bring salvation but the representation of the separation of the filth of the flesh.  They twisted this and made it a way to salvation. 

That we might become the righteousness of God.

Rendering to each what they are due is a part of righteousness.

Mat 22:17  Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?

Mat 22:18  But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

Mat 22:19  Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.

Mat 22:20  And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?

Mat 22:21  They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

Rom 13:7  Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Mat 7:7  Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Mat 7:8  For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Mat 7:9  Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

Mat 7:10  Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

Mat 7:11  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Mat 7:12  Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

If we will do this we will harm no one in their body, their possessions, or their property.  How do I want to be treated in the rest home?  How would I want to be talked to? How would I want to be handled?   Righteousness causes us to treat others like we would want to be treated.  If we do this, we will please God and do that which is right.