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.