Bro Gary Sunday Morning Service 8/28/11

Bro Gary Sunday Morning Service 8/28/11

Isa 2:1  The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

Isa 2:2  And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

Isa 2:3  And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isa 2:4  And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isa 2:5  O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

From the days of Jesus Christ to the end of the world are the last days. 

The mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains:  God has always had a plan though we may not always understand what God is doing.  In this last day there are many old religions that are alive and other people are choosing to serve new Gods.  There are also countries that are leaving God out to their government such as Canada and Australia. 

God knew that there would be people that once loved and served God that would choose to apostasize and leave the old paths.  He knew that there would be those that would say that they are Christ.  He knew that some would say that the Bible was outdated and they had a new word.

God knew that man would fall into sin and need a savior.  Isaiah prophesied of Christ; see Isaiah 53.  God is still on the throne, Hi son is Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is still convicting and convincing men and women of sin.

God has established Jerusalem in the top of the hills.  People claim to have another way but Christ says I am the way.

The Lord adds to the church such as should be saved.  When someone gets saved they are added to God’s house. 

Verse 3: There is a marvelous invitation sent by God to come.  This ‘come ye’ is “Let us go to the mountain of the Lord and He will teach us His ways.”

Sis Brenda sings, “Deep within my heart there is a longing.”  Sis Davis wrote a song, “I have a longing in my heart for Jesus.”  Someone wrote, “ My soul searched for more than I found in organized religion.”

They wanted to get to where God was; they were not interested in influential speakers or great preachers that are highly educated.  They hungered for God and His word.

We are born with a hunger for God.  “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst.”

There is something within us that hungers for God, for his presence, and for what His Word has to say. 

We like to hear from an authority on a subject.  God designed that we buy the truth and sell it not.

My parents hungered for God.  My dad got saved in a barn.  They got married 80 years ago; as great as this day was to my father and mother, the day that he went to the barn to pray and recognized that He needed a savior was greater.  His testimony was that he was a drunken lumberjack.  He could hardly read or write, but he had a hunger for God.

One of his favorite scriptures was, “Stand in the way and ask for the old paths…”

DS Warner knew that he was saved and had confessed and repented of his sin, but he had a hunger for more God.  He wanted to hear more than the doctrinal issues and catechism of the people he was with.  God did not fail him.  If you are hungry, God will feed you.

There is a place where God teaches his ways.  I can preach my heart out to try to teach you something, but when the Spirit of God shows you something in His word, then no one can take it away from you.

God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, the finger of God wrote on the tables of Stone.  When God teaches His word, then the finger of God writes it on our heart.  We remember when we got saved; we remember when God forgave us of our sin.  When God writes on our heart we remember.  We remember what God says.

The Word comes from Jerusalem.  In the gospel day, the New Jerusalem is the Church, the spiritual Jerusalem where God dwells.

God ordained that all judgment be through Jesus Christ.  When He brings judgment close to us, He tells us what is right and what is wrong.

God corrects us, there is chastening and there is scourging.  All have sinned and all must be saved as the Bible teaches.  When we get saved we enter into walking by His ways.  If we don’t then He corrects us.  We say, “Thank you for correcting me.”  And then we follow on His way. 

God taught me to talk differently when I got saved.  He taught me that all that slang that I was using was just short for curse words.  He corrected me. 

If you don’t get it all together when He corrects you, then He will scourge you.  Scourging is uncomfortable.  In the bible day it was 39 stripes.  If you find yourself in this position, learn the lesson and go on. 

God only corrects His children, so if you find yourself being corrected then be encouraged.

They will beat their swords into plowshares.  In sin there was a warlike nature, when you get saved then God changes that warlike nature into the desire to plow the soil of your heart and of others.

Pruning shears means cutting away the dross in your life. 

Come ye:  We are blessed to be invited to come.

Heb 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

You may have gotten saved in a barn or in a denomination, and all that is fine, but God wants you to come to Mt Zion.  It is a city inspired by God and for God.  There is nothing like being where God is, being where people have sought God for songs, Sunday school lessons, the message, testimonies.

This is the reason why when men and women are inspired by God everything is decent and in order.  God never inspires people to be unseeming or indecent.

God has an army.  When we heard of a danger in Paradise, all the members began to pray.  When one has a heavy burden we carry the burden.  When one has a battle with accusations then we carry the burden.

Zion is God’s church established in the top of the mountains.  There are many churches with many names and this can be confusing until you have tasted of the real and realize that this is God’s church on earth.

Without God in our midst then we are sounding brass and tinkling symbol just going through the form.  Every God called worker is not to get our orders from some type of earthly headquarters; we are to go to the head.  The man that wrote the beautiful song, “Near to the heart of God” also wrote the song entitled, “The royal telephone.”  Before Telegraph or the telephone, God was sending messages. 

Central’s never busy, always on the line
 You can hear from heaven almost any time.

God’s people can have a message from God when the lights are out and the electricity is off.  God is still on the throne when whatever you are hooked into is turned off.

God sends messages that are line upon line and precept upon precept.  He sends messages that are in the Bible and are truth.

The heavenly Jerusalem:  We can have heaven on earth.

We are come to an innumerable company of angels.  I’ve never seen an angel, but how many times they have protected us.  God’s protected our children many times.  When Sister Alice was out hunting and someone had her in their scope.  Bro Hayen wrecked on black ice and He’s bright and good looking. 

How many in this audience was passing through the shadow of death and cried out to God, “God, I have a few things I need to do.”  What a mighty God we serve.  I believe in angels. 

Altmiller’s son had a massive bleed on the brain.  The bleed scabbed over and if it had broken he would be a vegetable.  Today he is a parent of children.  I believe in an innumerable company of angels.  Expect an angel to show. 

We are come to the general assembly and the church of the first born.  Each one that gets saved has their name written down in the Lamb’s Book of Life.  This is the record of God’s church in heaven and on earth.   Your name being written in some church record means nothing if your name is not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.  When people get saved, their sin is ripped from the record book and removed from them as far as the east is from the west never to be remembered against them again. 

Many people cannot be just in anything and are always faultfinding you and everyone else.  There is a balance and it is in the Word of God.  God is the judge.  When there is something that is wrong, He says, “Son or daughter take care of this.”  We say ok.  He doesn’t magnify what is wrong.

We’ve come to spirits of just men made perfect.  We’ve come to Mt Zion and we find there others that have come to Mt Zion the same way we have and have measured to God’s word just like we need to.

Isa 1:18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

When Noah built the ark, God said, “Come.”  I love invitations don’t you? 

Matt 11:29 Come all that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

When they’d been out fishing and they’d caught fish (Jn 21:12), Jesus said, “come and dine.”

In Revelations: the spirit and the bride say come

Jesus said in the 20^th verse of the same chapter “behold I come quickly.”  Every day be expecting: for He will come. 

The last verse of the same chapter in Revelations, “even so come.”

One of these days all our time will be used up.  Take heed to what the Spirit says to us and take care of all that He wants us to do spiritually and do as He instructs so that we can say, “Even so come Lord Jesus.