Bro Gary Wednesday Evening 8/24/11

Bro Gary Wednesday Evening 8/24/11

Heb 9:1  Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

Heb 9:2  For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

Heb 9:3  And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

Heb 9:4  Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

The Old Testament is a shadow of what God has for us in the New Testament.  Once you have the possession of what is the new covenant, it is wonderful to look at what God had planned in the old covenant.

God told Moses to get up early in the morning and go up to the mountain with the tables of stone.  He told him to position yourself so that you don’t see people, work, or prosperity.  He told Moses that He would meet with him there. 

The tables of the covenant represent the tables of the new heart that we get.  God told Jeremiah that He would put His law in their inward parts and write it in their heart and that He’d be their God.  It is wonderful to know the true God.  It would not matter if the people of India had millions of Gods if they don’t have the true God. 

It is wonderful to have a new heart.  God writes his law on that heart.  Ezekiel 36:25 says that the days will come that He would sprinkle them with clean water.  The clean water is the word of God.  He said that He’d save them from their idols.  People can make an idol of anything.  One of the worst is when they are worshipers of themselves.

Eze 36:25  Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

Eze 36:26  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

When we were in sin, we partook of things that were filthy, filthy mind and tongue.  God said that he’d cleanse us.  God gives us a new heart.  We’re not hard hearted any more, the new heart is tender.  We want to please God more than anything else.

Eze 36:27  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Eze 36:28  And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Eze 36:29  I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

God has a wonderful plan to use His word to quicken us in our heart and spirit and of writing that word on our heart.

The Psalmist David said, “Thy word have I hid in my heart…”  There is something about having the Word of God written on the tables of our heart.

Heb 10:16  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Heb 10:17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

God loved man so much that He had a plan and design that we could get right with God and so that we could have direction in our life.  When people don’t have God then they wander.  Having God in our heart gives us directions in our thoughts, our hearts, our attitudes, and in our relationships.

The word of God in our heart causes us to love one another, to love our children and to love our enemies.

Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Take care of your faith.  Faith has been under attack for however long.  Jesus said, “I couldn’t do many mighty works because of their unbelief.”

Without faith it is impossible to please God… They that come to God must believe that He is.

Heb 11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Heb 10:23  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

If you know that you have repented of your sin, then you know that God has forgiven you and your name is written in the Lambs Book of Life.

Heb 10:24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

God help us to encourage each other to do our best for God.

Heb 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

There is something about coming together that is very prosperous for the soul.  Our hand cannot do anything by itself.  We need the whole body and the whole body needs each one.

Heb 10:35  Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Lay hold on the promises of God.  If you make a promise to a child, they come back with what you said.  “Mom or Dad, you said…”  Keep your word.

What God has promised you, you can go back and say, “My heavenly father, I’m not thinking that you’re forgetting, but it does me good to think that you remember…”  God is not going to fail.

Heb 10:36  For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Heb 10:37  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

When we are in the battle, it sometimes seems to be an eternity of waiting on God.  God will keep His promise.

Heb 10:38  Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

There will be times that you will have no feeling; God will be the same if you have feeling or if you don’t have feeling. 

Heb 11:1  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

We are not of them that draw back.  We want to bring pleasure to God. 

It is wonderful to have faith in God and lay hold of help on one that is mighty.