Bro Bob Sunday School 4/29/12

Bro Bob Sunday School 4/29/12

We are people of choice.  We are where and who we are by the choices we’ve made.  I cannot stress enough the importance of choosing to serve God and go God’s way.  That is life and life more abundantly.  I thank God for saving me from that life of sin and giving me new life. 

We need to choose Jesus as our savior.  It is the best life; it is really life.  Before I got saved, my life was a mess.  I thought I had everything in control.  I was so wrong.  Thank God to be delivered from sin.

Who is your enemy?  There are people that think that we are their enemy.  Saint’s are no man’s enemy.  Jesus said, “Love your enemies.”  Beloved enemy!  Think of that.  We have a real concern for the lost soul that needs to be saved.  We hold no malice toward them even if they hold malice for us.

Choose to serve God and receive the blessings.  God has blessings for us.  Jesus bled and died that we could have blessings.  We will not receive the blessings if we don’t accept the salvation He offers.  We are not all sufficient, we need God’s help.

Rev 3:20  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Joh 10:10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Abundant life for the children of God!  All wisdom is available to those that choose to draw close to God in obedience.  God doesn’t want any rebels; He wants an obedient service.

Every promise in the Bible is ours.  All 66 books in the Bible are for us.

1Co 1:24  But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

God wants us to have wisdom in serving Him.  It is ours for the asking.  Christ in your vessel equals the power and wisdom of God in your vessel.  It is God’s plan that we have this, it is God’s plan that Christ dwell in our hearts.  Christ will not dwell in an unclean vessel. 

Even though the scriptures are brought many times, we cannot wear them out and please don’t let them become common.

Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

This is good and right instruction.  If we will do this, God will bless us and bless our lives.  It is a real pleasure and honor to live for God.  Only a clean vessel will do.

Sister Teri - One of the reasons that so many in the religious world think that there is no living above sin is because they make provision for the flesh.  They put themselves into positions that God would never have led them to.  Because of this they end up sinning.  They put themselves into the position and gave in because they were where they shouldn’t have been.  We need wisdom to stay out of places where we shouldn’t be.

Eph 1:8  Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

Heavenly places are in the church of God.  Manifold means many, multiplied, numerous.  God’s commandments give us wisdom.  They are for us.

When God’s commandments were given to Moses, they were given to the Jews.  Today they are to us.  They are to us because of Christ.  Saints are spiritual Jews. 

Deu 4:10  Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

Deu 4:11  And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

Deu 4:12  And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

Deu 4:13  And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Deu 4:14  And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

Deu 4:20  But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

This what God has done for us.  He has brought us out of the life of bondage.  We know that God spared not them for their rebellion.  Thousands died in the wilderness and never made it to Canaan. 

We are not more special than those rebels that perished.  If we are murmuring and complaining then we will not be spared.  God is not going to change.  Through Jesus Christ we can give God an acceptable service and please Him. 

Heb 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

We are not facing a mountain on fire, smoke, and thundering.  Mt Zion is where the saints dwell, the Church of God.  Most of the church of God is on the other side.  We need to make it to the other side.

Heb 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

We can have our spirits made perfect.  By salvation we can do all we know to do to serve God.  We don’t have to be rebellious or lost in this life.  This life is so short, like a snap of the fingers, as a drop in the bucket as the Bible says.  Eternity is forever.

Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

We’ve come to a new and better way only because Jesus came to deliver us from the prison house of sin.   That is bondage; thank God we can be free.

Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

We need to listen. We need every Word by the Spirit of God.  It is full of dessert, but we need the vegetables too.  The scripture tells us that some will be bitter in our stomach, but we need that too.

Heb 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

Heavenly places are being shaken.  In the congregation where God’s people meet, there is shaking.  We need to adhere to and to hear what God through the Word of God is saying to us so that we are not shaken off.

Heb 12:27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

We remain only because we are diligent and choose what is right and stay on the precious corner stone, Jesus Christ.  We don’t want to ever get lifted up and think that we have all the answers.  This is the way to destruction.

Heb 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

We will never make it without grace.  Serve God acceptably with reverence and Godly fear. 

Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

Give God an acceptable service in love, joy, peace, and righteousness. 

Isa 64:6  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Before I got saved, I thought I was a pretty good person and I couldn’t have been farther from the truth.  I lived a better life than most religious people but I didn’t have the righteousness of God or His grace in my life.