Bro Gary Sunday Morning 1/8/12

Bro Gary Sunday Morning 1/8/12

Moses at the end of his journey: Moses never forgot his people.  He was a child found by one of Pharaoh’s daughters and in all that he acquired and could have acquired, he never forgot his people.  He was used of God to lead about 2,000,000 people out of Egypt.  He was a very humble man, one of the most humble.

A caravan, a crowd moving that stretched 20 miles in length, was delivered by his hand from the Egyptians.  It was because God was in it that they were able to leave. 

At the end of his journey he made a worthwhile statement, “I want God to know what I am telling the children of Israel and I want all earth, the creation of God to hear what I have to say.”  He knew that he was responsible before God.

God gave the doctrine and he took it as his own.

Deu 32:1  Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deu 32:2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

In a world that is so dry and will leave you windblown needing a drop of water, needing dew from heaven.  Before time God knew that we would be here and that we would need the dew from heaven. 

Deu 32:3  Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

Every man and woman that knows God has a deep burden to worship and honor God. 

Mr. Mock took each of his sons to the ranch before he died and pointed to the sign that said, “The Mock Ranch” and told them that they would carry that name all their life and that they should honor it.

Moses allotted the goodness as coming from God.  He said he’d exalt the name of the Lord and ascribe greatness to God.  He said he’d magnify God.  He lifted up the name of God with honor and respect.

Deu 32:4  He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

We all have an identity with eternity but not everyone acknowledges their identity with eternity.  Moses had heard God speak directly to him.  He’d seen God move hardened men.  He’d seen that hardened man soften and then harden back again.  He kept his focus because he had an identity with the Rock.

The idea of a Rock goes back to the original in eternity.  God is the beginner of the whole picture.  I don’t like the word stage, we are not performers or entertainers, yet I realize that we are on the stage of life.  God is the beginning of the whole picture, the originator in eternity.

God is the foundation that cannot be moved.  God created the world.  He is the rock of our salvation, the foundation, and His Son is the cornerstone. 

We have an anchor; an anchor must have something on the end of it.  When they anchor a boat or ship there must be something that the anchor can hang on to that has some weight.  God is the eternal rock that will never pass away and will be forever.  We need to anchor to this Rock.

His work is perfect.  He is perfect in attitude toward all mankind.  We live in a world where children don’t live very long without being exposed to good attitudes and bad attitudes.  It is wonderful that we can have the exposure to the eternal God and His right attitude toward mankind.  They may not have a good attitude toward Him, but He always has a good attitude toward mankind.

God is the master architect of lives.  God spoke to Jeremiah, “I know the plans that I think toward you.”  God is perfect in His plans towards individuals.  God allows us to be individuals and yet we are collectively the Body of Christ: “No man lives to himself and no man dies to himself.”

As individuals, God’s plan is perfect.  I wouldn’t know how to supply the needs of this audience this morning.  As I worshipped God this morning I recognized my responsibility as a minister.  When I think of eternity, I think of my responsibility as a husband. 

I think of the parents of the young children that are here this morning.  God is perfect in His plan.  The events of life may have left you without a husband or wife.  God is perfect in His plans.  He is perfect in His plans for families. 

Many do not have little children in their home anymore and may feel that they are not so responsible.  But we are even of a greater responsibility.  We have a family and an extended family that has grown from singular to plural.  There are other little souls.  How precious souls are!

I’m not just talking of that new baby that is in Clark Fork Valley Hospital this morning.  All souls are precious to God.  You and I have a definite place in God’s plan in helping souls. 

You cannot help all souls in the thought of providing for all their needs and ministering to all of them.  This eternal God has a perfect plan in moving just the right ones into your life.

He is the rock for eternity.  He is the sure foundation that we can build upon. 

God’s plan for nations: We look on the world and all of their complex problems that ordinary people like myself cannot grasp at all.  We can know that God has a perfect plan.

The events of life may have placed you where you would not have chosen to be.  God has a perfect plan for you right there.  It is difficult and God knew that it would be.  That is where the dew of heaven comes in.

God created the earth for time.  Men have tried to figure out how to protect the earth for time.  God made a way for the earth to reclaim itself.  God sent the seasons and in Montana it brings all those things that die in the cold to a death and they bring a fertilization to the ground.  It may be in February that the buttercups are found or it may snow in February.  God will take care of it all.

God made a plan to take care of the physical body.  He has a plan.  He has kept everyone of us here to this present time.  He has a perfect plan.  This is just for time.  The message goes way past this.  Most of us will die before 100 years.

God created us with a body and a soul.  God has a perfect plan for our soul.  He designed that this soul within us would have all its needs supplied.  The soul has the ability to hunger and thirst.  It hungers to worship, to fellowship, to see someone saved and to see someone sanctified, to see the broken heart healed.  The 

creation of the soul is a marvelous creation.

God’s plan to redeem us is perfect.  When I think of the reality that we were Gentiles lost and without God having no hope.  This great and eternal God made a plan that whosoever will can be saved.  It is wonderful!

God’s plan is perfect to redeem us from sin.  There is a way to get out of sin, a way to be free of the carnal man.  There is a plan of God to ‘perfect holiness in the fear of God’.  God has a plan to perfect our spirit and we thank God for that. 

Men and women being drawn away by the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life, is an old story.  But also there is a bible truth that will never pass away and that is that God has a plan to protect you.  There is no temptation taken you but such that is common to man and God is faithful that will not tempt you above what you are able but will with the temptation provide a way of escape. 

God promised that he wouldn’t put on us more than we are able to bear. 

God has a plan to move upon our soul to love righteousness. 

God is perfect in judgment.  There is a final judgment and we will all be there, but God comes to us and says, “Son or daughter you shouldn’t be there, or do this or that.”  God’s plan is perfect and He is just.

Moses said, “God hear me and prepare my heart to hear Thy word.”

Psa 110:3  Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

God has the dew of youth.  Everyone in this audience is getting older.  We don’t want to get old in our spirit or in our love for God.  We don’t want to get old in our love for mankind.  We don’t want to limit how big our love is for mankind as we age.  We don’t want our love to be that we only want to see this or that certain one.  We want to have the dew of youth.

There is a lot more than just love in this ‘dew of youth’, the children are happy to see each other and to see the family of God.  We want to maintain that dew of the youth in our love to God, in our love to each other and in our love to that lost man, woman, boy and girl.

Psa 133:3  As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

This was not the Zion at Jerusalem; this was the Zion at Hermon.  Hermon was another spot.  It was an area that was created by God that received an abundance of dew.  West Virginia is known for dew.  They don’t need to irrigate a garden there.  They get up in the mornings to a season of heavy dew.

In Hermon it was like this.  There was a man that pitched a tent there and in the morning that tent was as wet with dew as if it had rained all night.  This is what David was writing about.

God has ordained that the dew of heaven, the word and the spirit, be sent from above.  “The words that I speak to you they are spirit and they are life.” 

There are ideas on how dew is created and drops to earth.  God made it and it works like God intended it to work.  God ordained that there be dew of heaven in the natural and the spiritual.  The dew of heaven unites us with God in a stronger bond. 

The year 2011, for some of us, was a year of weeping.  We don’t question God, He is Almighty God.  It is just the way it was.  Then in December, it is hard for us to even grasp the reality of December, I know for Sister Alice and maybe for all of us this morning.  Thank God, we would wake up with God there.

The bond with God: sometimes we don’t know how we are going to make it, but there is that phenomenon of almighty God in heaven coming to His servants.  It is a mystery to the world.  We don’t understand it but we receive it, enjoy it, and thank God for it.  It unites us closer to God.

Psa 133:1  A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Psa 133:2  It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

Psa 133:3  As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

This dwelling together, loving and caring for one another, is as the anointing of the precious ointment on Aaron.  When they anointed Aaron they poured that oil on him.  They soaked him with that oil, it went out to his fingertips; it totally encompassed him.

God wants this dew from heaven to take every member of this body from the top of the head clear down to encompass all of them.  I prayed for God to anoint my brain, my ears, my eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet.  Anoint how we care for one another, where we go and how we do.  “If it wasn’t for God we would be 

just like any other man” as Sampson said.

Every one of us will be positioned so that we desperately need one another.  The most evil that the enemy has done to any soul is to lift them up in pride so that they cannot be joined to me and to you.  This dew unites us with one another. 

The dew of heaven is God’s blessing, in a world that will leave you without hope and without direction.  It is a world that takes pleasure in ruining lives, mentally, spiritually, physically, financially, and you name it.

God provided the blessing and promised life forevermore.

The Dew from Heaven:
Unites us with God,
Is designed to cover all the members of our body,
Unites us with one another,
Brings God’s blessing,
Gives everlasting life.

May I challenge myself and you to position ourselves so that we receive much dew from heaven.

There are three necessary things:

Be still before God.  Dew doesn’t come in a storm
Be found in Mount Zion
Stay in Zion until every member of your body is anointed. 

Hos 14:5  I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Jer 31:10  Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

Jer 31:11  For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

Jer 31:12  Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

It is wonderful to have God give us a song.  ‘They shall flow together’: the dew of heaven produces unity.

‘Their soul shall be as a watered garden.’  People love to look at watered gardens.  There is nothing like a soul that has the dew of heaven that causes the fruit of the spirit to grow and multiply.

Jer 31:13  Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Jer 31:14  And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

It is good to have deep spiritual hungers; that is good.  There is a wonderful answer for that hunger.  The dew of heaven will cause your soul to be satisfied.  We are created by God to hunger and thirst after righteousness.

I have a great appreciation for the thought of: my soul craves God.  Can a bird drink Flathead Lake dry and still be thirsty? It won’t happen.

For your hunger and craving after God, I pray: “God help me to crave and hunger for you more.”

The ways of the Lord are right.  Read Hosea chapter 14. 

I knew it when I got saved but the knowledge has grown since. 

“My people shall be satisfied with my goodness.” 

The search is over.  I just want more of what I found. 

The dew of heaven was designed by God for our souls for time and to prepare us for eternity.