Bro Gary Sunday Morning 9/25/11
Isa 28:29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
God is wonderful. He has led us to where we are this morning. It is the Lord of hosts: this means God and His innumerable angels. When God chooses to use the angels it is all for His honor and glory. We can expect God to work in a wonderful way in counsel using His saints, using His ministry, and using His angels.
Each in this audience needs answers. There is no question that God has the answer. If we get it from God it will be the right answer.
Isa 28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
We always need the mercies of God. This is just the way life is. We wake up every day needing the mercies and the presence of God. This is the crown of glory.
When God comes He always comes with His word and His Spirit. There is nothing more beautiful than this.
When God comes to convict us or judge us, He doesn’t come to condemn but to show us our need and back up the need with “This is the answer for that need.”
Isa 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
I’m really impressed with God. When God comes He shows us what He wants us to do. People may be queasy about judgment but God is the God of judgment in that He shows us the better way. He shows us the right way. “Stand in the ways and ask for the old paths… Hear a voice saying this is the way…”
He comes to us to correct, to direct, and to show us His will and His way and the path He wants us to take. He also comes to strengthen us and to turn the battle to the gate. God has a way of shielding us. Many times our mind is targeted by the many voices that are in the world. It is targeted by the news, the reality that we are getting old and many other things. There are many things that will target our mind, but we are blessed this morning. “The eternal God will be thy shield” was the last words of Moses.
You may be going through a time of being targeted and not knowing what you should do or how you should handle things. Look up to God and ask Him to speak to you and be your shield.
Isa 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isa 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
It was a sad day in that day and it is a sad day today; people get drunk on many things. People can get drunk on pleasure, on fashion, on wanting to please people, on the lust of the flesh, on the pride of life, and on success. Whenever you get drunk on anything then you will not be able to make a good judgment.
Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Who will know the truth and who will understand the doctrine? Those that are growing spiritually. Wherever we were yesterday, a year ago, a month ago, we are not being condemned because of where we were. God is challenging us to hunger to have a knowledge of God and His word.
It matters to God what we believe. If any will do the will of the Father, he shall know the doctrine. Doctrine is important.
Not only those that start in the race: Each that has confessed, repented and turned from their sin have started in the race. We are always happy for each one that has made a start. Before I got saved I wasn’t desiring very much of God. My desires were the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. What was attractive to me was success and pleasure.
When we get saved then we receive a new appetite. We are to desire the sincere milk of the word. Our focus should be the Bible. There is nothing wrong with a devotional but we need to desire the Word of God. The Word of God is forever settled in heaven.
You may wonder where to start reading. When someone is trying to get right with God I always tell them to read Psalms 51 where David repented of His sin. The bible will tell us what to do. Jesus taught us after we get saved to hunger and thirst after righteousness. I remember the early days when I was converted. I wanted to be genuine. Way back in time until this time there have been hypocrites and professors. God changes lives.
God wants us to hunger and thirst after righteousness and the presence of God and to draw near to God.
Who will understand doctrine? Those that will grow spiritually. The way to grow is to follow the truths that God brings to you; God is faithful. He comes to us and tells us that He wants us to pray. He gives us the desire to pray before we go to school or work or start our day, He gives us the desire to pray throughout the day.
David desired to pray three times daily. Joshua led the people of God into Canaan where they had rest from their enemies and in their soul. Let us desire to grow, to serve one another, and serve God very well.
May God help us to have the heart of a servant to give our self totally to God. He will shed light on our path through the reading and study of the Word of God and he will edify us through the song, the testimony, and the word brought by the saints.
God will use the entire Bible from Genesis through Revelations to help you grow.
Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
A babe in Christ can be thrilled with Revelations:
Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Rev 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Those things that you once stumbled over and brought you bad attitudes, you can have victory over. You can have the knowledge that wherever you are you can offer up spiritual sacrifice: thanking and praising God for all He’s done.
In life we may find our self in a situation that we would be better if we were not in either through ignorance or being hasty. God wants us to always be a king, reigning over sin and bad attitudes.
We live in a world where there will be oppressing spirits, accusing spirits, and other spirits that will present them self to us. We need to grow so that we know how to be a king and reign in this life.
When you feel something coming that will take away your joy and peace, you need to stop right there and realize that that is not coming from God.
Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Every truth in the Old Testament is also revealed in the New Testament. And each truth in the New Testament is revealed in the Old Testament. If one comes claiming to have new light than you know that they are wrong.
We are not going to be taught just by our self or by only one person. God will choose to use different people at different times to teach us what He wants us to know.
God help us to know how to not put a cover over the plate that God has for us. It is sad when people are given a meal to eat and refuse to eat it.
Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
It is alright to be weary and worn out. It is all right to be exhausted and to have poured out yourself until there is nothing left. Know where to go to be refreshed: The Word of God.
There will be those that will not hear. When God sends His word it opens a door to a highway and a way. When we reject it, it opens a door for us to fall backwards.
People may say, “I don’t know how I ended up there.” When you fall backwards you don’t know where you will end up.
The fool says that they are not worried about hell or conviction. They think that nothing can get to them, they have their refuge.
Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isa 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
Isa 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Foolish people think that hell will not be that bad. In the accounts we have, those in hell are begging for a drop of water.
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Because people make unwise statements about their covenant with death, their separation from God, Jesus came.
It is wonderful that Jesus came. He is a precious corner stone. Isaac, who may be the youngest here, and all little children can build all their life from the precious corner stone. Children need to be taught to build on the sure foundation. All the foundations of the world are out of course.
He that believes and knows that Jesus is the only foundation to build upon and that He is the corner stone to build from will not be looking for something else to satisfy. He will have found something solid to build upon. “On Christ, the Solid Rock, I stand; all other ground is sinking sand.”
People everywhere are searching for something that will satisfy and something that they can turn to that will satisfy them even when they are old. There is a sure foundation and a precious cornerstone that you can build upon and you will realize that you don’t need to try sin, to see if it will satisfy.
“Can a bird drink up the ocean thirsting still from shore to shore or the God of my salvation leave my soul yet wanting more?”
He is a God that will saturate the soul leaving the soul so full of the goodness of God that not only would he give a good measure, but a measure pressed down full and running over. We are blessed to know that there is something to build upon.
God is wonderful in counsel. Build upon Jesus the solid rock. He is excellent in working. When you go to prayer and pray, “Our father who art in heaven…” immediately the Father comes, the son comes, the Holy Spirit comes and probably an innumerable company of angels.
You come to God and say, “God I want to please you. Help me to be a good father, mother, grandparent, or child.” When you begin to pray there is a line that comes from heaven to earth. This plum line is the Word of God and the Spirit of God.
We come before Him and say, “God I want to please you and do your will.” God responds by sending the plum line from heaven that will give you what you need.
All of us have things that we’ve put in our minds that need to be swept away. When we say, “God I want to know the truth.” God says, “I want you to know the truth and I’ll not give you senior algebra when you’re in first grade.” He takes his plum line and says, “This is the line that I want you to step to.”
He is no respecter of persons, He is God. He takes the Word and Spirit of God and puts it on our mind and shows us the line, He sheds his Word upon our pathway and helps us to walk it. We say, “We’ll measure.” He tells us that doing that will take care of everything else.
There would be those that we pray for that don’t plan to be convicted. God has a way of causing the bed to become too short and the cover to be too small. Your family may be belligerent but God says, “Just keep praying because I know how to shorten the bed.”
People may have lots of coverings and they’ve found fault here or there and the only one that they don’t find fault with is them self. God has a way to get a hold on them. Soon the fighting way begins to show. It is a vexation and conviction from God. It is there when they go to bed and when they get up in the morning.
Isa 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Isa 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Isa 28:19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Isa 28:20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
God knows How to work. He is God.
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