Sister Alice Sunday School 9/25/11
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Mat 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Don’t let your love wax cold. Stir up your minds…
Love God with all your heart. It is easy to love the saints because they reach out to you. If we don’t have a real love for God we will pick and choose those we love with the saints.
Mat 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
If we love God with all our heart and mind then we will have no reservations. Some like horses are just as sweet as can be but if you want to train them then comes the rub.
The cloud for the Children of Israel was light to them but dark on the other side. We want to live so that we are not behind the cloud or ahead of it but right where God wants us to be.
2Jn 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2Jn 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
2Jn 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
2Jn 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
2Jn 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
This is love that we walk after His commandments, not that we just know the doctrines but that we abide in them. Receiving the full reward is in enduring to the end.
1Jn 2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Not only are we to abide in God but the word abide in us, this is a threefold cord that is not quickly broken.
He that doeth the will of God: it is not enough to know it or to know about it we must do it.
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Joh 10:30 I and my Father are one.
Are you feeling pretty secure this morning? We are in God’s hands and nobody is going to pluck us out of that hand. We can fail to remain there but no one and nothing can pluck us out.
There will be no one to blame at the Judgment if we fail because nothing can remove us from the Hand of God but our own disobedience.
Jud 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Jud 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jud 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
I want my joy to be bubbling and full toward the Master. We must pray in the Spirit. It takes time, there is clarity and never confusion in praying in the Spirit. God is not the God of confusion, it is always black and white, A, B, and C and right down the line. There is no confusion in praying in the Holy Ghost. When people pray in other tongues there is confusion this shows us that that doesn’t come from God.
The name Josiah means a foundation, our foundation is on the Word of God and on Jesus. Anything that is other must be torn down. Josiah lived in a time that was very wicked and cruel. People were sacrificing their children to their gods. God is not this way.
Josiah walked in the ways of David his father and turned not to the right hand nor the left. He walked according to the rule. He had a heart to clean out the temple and sent money and the men were faithful and there was no need of an accounting of the money. We will never be the only one serving God or last one. God will always have a people and we need to encourage our hearts.
They found the book of the Law and it was read to the king. Not just given to the king to read at his leisure, but they read it to him. When the king read it he rent his garments and was humble and then he acted on it. It is not enough to know what we need to do or have the word of God, we must act on it.
2Ki 22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
2Ki 22:13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
He sent seven people, he wanted a sure report. He told them to enquire of the Lord. It is wonderful to have a good pastor that is not hid behind a screen but is available to us.
Jer 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Unless you’ve ever sat under a pastor that held you in bondage and didn’t allow you to grow then you will never understand how wonderful it is that you have a pastor that loves you and gives of himself for us. We have a pastor that loves every one of us. He is due our respect and honor. We could give this whole lesson on enquiring and seeking counsel, there is safety in counsel. We are privileged that it is available to us.
2Ki 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
2Ki 22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
2Ki 22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
2Ki 22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
2Ki 22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
2Ki 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
2Ki 22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
Does God allow women to be prophet or teachers? He does, there is neither male nor female Greek or Jew. There is no difference with God.
In order for God to hear us we must be of a contrite heart. If so He will hear us.
2Ki 23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2Ki 23:2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
2Ki 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
This was in the 18th year of the reign of the King. He was growing up and seeking God in the meantime. As soon as he reached this place he acted right away. He sent and gathered all the elders and they went up into the house of the Lord. There were both small and great, he didn’t want any absent.
He wanted a huge reformation so he didn’t leave it to anyone else, he read the Law. He wanted all the elders to know the word of God.
He commanded the people; he didn’t leave it to choice to obey the Word of God. He stood by a pillar; there is a strength in standing by the pillar. The pillar is the Word of God and the Covenant.
Jer 33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jer 33:21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
As long as there is night and day, God will keep His promises. He will keep His covenant.
Is Christ reigning on the throne of each one this morning? If the son of David is still on our throne then this covenant is still alive today.
Jer 50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Perpetual means continual. We covenant by communing with Him that we will serve God over and over each day.
2Ch 34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
2Ch 34:32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
2Ch 34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
Right after they made the covenant, Josiah began to clean house. He didn’t leave it just to the workers, He did it himself. He did a complete cleaning. He cleaned Judah and a lot of Israel too. His cleaning went beyond their boundaries. He was so enthusiastic and strong that this reformation went far. He cleared out all the abominations.
To keep the abominations away is to keep the good. You cannot just empty out from the bad, you must fill up with the good. In chapter 35 it tells that they kept the Passover. They set up the good and kept the good, remembering that the blood is what cleanses them.
Some of us will lose our employment if we go with God all the way. God wants His servants to be employed in good things.
2Ki 23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
2Ki 23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
2Ki 23:17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
This was speaking of 350 years earlier. He is a complete God He will bring things to completion every time. If it doesn’t happen tomorrow, don’t worry, it will happen every time.
1Ki 13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
2Ki 23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
2Ki 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
This was because he was totally consecrated to God.
Act 19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
Act 19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
Act 19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
Act 19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Act 19:17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
Act 19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
Act 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Act 19:20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
They were playing around with this to see how it would go. If we mess around with any of that stuff we will end up naked and wounded. After that total house cleaning there was a renewal of the Word of God. The way to keep our hearts totally clean from that is to exercise the Joy of the Lord.
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