Sis Dorothy Sunday School 2/26/12

Sis Dorothy Sunday School 2/26/12

When Adam and Eve lost their communion with God through their sin, it was a loss of great magnitude.  When Jesus paid the price to restore that communion it again is of magnitude.  He paid the price of redemption for all.  In the heart garden once again God communes with man.  Once again we can become one with the wonderful Spirit of God.  In the church, the King’s Garden: “I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people.”

The King rules in Holiness and supplies in every heart the needs that are there.  Some needs supplied are water light, companionship, substance, and a foundation.

Our hymnal is a poetic book of the experiences that God has given His people.  It is beautiful.  I love to see the pictures of their experience in my mind through the poetry that is written by them.

The winepress was put in the King’s garden so each of us has to go through it.  I don’t want to be just a lump; I want to become a part of the Body of Christ.  This is what the winepress does for us; it makes us become a part of the body.  We no longer see just individuals we see the body of Christ working and doing all that it should.

Isa 27:2  In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

 Isa 27:3  I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

Isa 27:4  Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Isa 27:5  Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

Isa 27:6  He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

There is no sleeping or weariness of God portrayed in these verses.  He keeps it night and day.  He purges His vineyard.  We want this beautiful garden/vineyard that He has planted.

Isa 5:1  Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Isa 5:2  And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Mat 21:33  Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

The similarity of these two scriptures was astounding to me.  We find it in the Old and the New Testament. 

In Isaiah it speaks of the vineyard bringing forth wild grapes and in the New, we see that they mistreated the messengers that were sent and then mistreated the son.

Mat 21:40  When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

Mat 21:41  They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

We want to bring forth fruit.  God had the best expectations for His vineyard, but it brought forth wild grapes.  The husbandman did everything right.  The fruit was hard small and bitter when He expected large, soft, and sweet grapes.

Wild fruit comes from a corrupt root.  He didn’t plan on having a vine that produced this wild fruit in the soil that He had prepared so carefully.  Carnality is a horrible thing and produces wild grapes.  If we don’t have the right root then we cannot bear good fruit.  This fruit comes from the wrong root, the root of bitterness.

The act of removing the carnal nature: John said, “Bring forth fruit to repentance.”  This repentance removes the root and we become a new creature in Christ Jesus.  Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation.  This repentance brings us forward to the place that God wants us.

The receiving of the seed depends on the receiver.  Bad soil doesn’t bring forth much fruit but good soil brings forth plentifully.  If we don’t prepare the soil and put the right things into it then it will not bring forth fruit.

That there are three bad types of soil and one good kind shows us that there will be more bad soil than good.  Many hear the word and few bring forth fruit. 

Don’t be discouraged:

1Co 15:58  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

There is much rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repents.  We will rejoice when Bro Bill tells us his mom got saved.  My burden this year is for a specific soul to get saved; I pray that he will see his need and repent.   

It is a simple thing but because of the simplicity many miss it.  Each of you is holding on to God for some soul to be saved. 

The King’s Garden is the Lord’s vineyard. 

Psa 127:1  A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Except the Lord keeps this vineyard we are helpless.  He built it, he will keep it.

Heb 11:10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Heb 11:16  But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Heb 11:22  By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

This is not written in future tense: He has prepared for them a city.

Mat 5:14  Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

It is visible; they will see the light. 

As in our heart garden this garden must be conditioned and prepared to bring forth fruit. 

1.        There must be light: the glory of God did lighten it and the lamb is the light thereof.

Paul saw a great light even above the brightness of the sun.  Only Paul heard the voice.  His heart was prepared to hear.  God was working on Paul’s heart and shined the light upon Him.  God wanted him to get a vision in the heart of the greatness of God.

2.      We must have the substance to bear fruit. 

Col 1:6  Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

Col 1:10  That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

This substance: faith, love, and hope, causes us to bring forth fruit, walk worthy of the Lord, and increase in knowledge.  God can work with us if there is something to work with.

In this garden, the rocks and the thorns are removed and He doesn’t allow us to destruct on these types of soil.  He plants and prepares so that it will bring forth 100%.  My soil was not good when I got saved, neither was yours. 

God worked with my soil and helped me to see where I should go to church when I got saved.  My soil had become wayside.  I was considering staying with the people that I grew up with even though I knew that they had compromised their beliefs.  I had close ties there; I still do.  Yet I was being pulled to where my soul was being fed and watered. 

That fowl almost came and plucked that seed out of my heart garden.  Because God spoke the word and showed me that this is the way, walk in it.  Right then my garden started to change and then He transplanted me from that wayside soil into the beautiful King’s Garden.  There were those that were there that nourished this little transplant.  I’m so grateful.

3.        We also need the foundation. 

Eph 2:20  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

Eph 2:21  In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

Eph 2:22  In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Jesus is the chief corner stone and existed way before the foundation; He has stood the test of time.  The prophets were way back in the Old Testament.  The Apostles are in the Gospel day.  What a foundation!

Heb 12:1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Lay aside every weight:  There are things that we don’t want to bring on our foundation.  We gather out the stones:  wrong teachings, family ties, possessions, and anything else that would weigh us down.  Get rid of them. 

When the plow man plows, we may feel a little nudge.  If we don’t right then start digging and seeking “Why was there a little lump there?”  If we don’t dig out the lump when it first appears then a year down the road the lump will have grown.  If we let it remain it gets greater and greater.  If we really have the desire to serve God then we will dig it out. 

These rocks or stones become gall stones.  Gall is bitterness.  If we would have dug out that first little lump it wouldn’t have grown into bitterness.  It pays to heed the plowman and the Word that is working in our hearts.  There is no cure for gall stones other than divine healing.  You must have a surgery.

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.

We want to get rid of all the stones and let Him put His laws in our heart.