Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 6/13/12

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 6/13/12

Eph 5:1  Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Eph 5:2  And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Only eternity will reveal how men and women have gotten themselves into terrible messes by not following God for whatever reason.  First there must be a good relationship between us and God, we love Him and realize that He loved us first and then have a good relationship and love each other.

Christ loved us so much that he gave himself for us as an offering and as a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.  In the 33 years that Jesus was here, He taught and then gave Himself as an offering.  This offering and sacrifice was a sweet smell coming up before the Father.  He didn’t do this for His benefit; He did it for our benefit.

In Noah’s day things were really bad and God was fed up with conditions.  God said that He would not always strive with man.  He repented that He’d ever made them.  Then God remembered Noah.  God had a plan. 

We may not be sure of what strategy we should have, it is ok to be in this position.  God has a plan.  I know this because of Noah.  We live in a time that is like the days of Noah.  Noah served God, God remembered Noah, and God had a plan.

Thank God there was a man that carried out God’s plan.  May God challenge us and give us an anointing to challenge others that we meet to find the plan that God has for us and the value of the plan.  The plan that God has, has value when we need it. 

Noah needed the value plan.  God gave it and it involved lots of work.  He worked for about 100 years, long and hard.  Most of the encouragement that He received came from God.  One day God said to come into the ark.  It began to rain and there came a day when the ark lifted off of the ground.  It rained forty days and forty nights and the ark was afloat for many days.  Noah sent out a raven that didn’t come back and then a dove that did.  He sent it out several times.

Noah built an altar to the Lord.  Keep your worship up. 

Gen 8:20  And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Gen 8:21  And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Gen 8:22  While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

It wasn’t the smell of food cooking that smelled sweet.  It was the attitude of Noah’s heart. 

In a world that stinks where the name of God is profaned out in public.  People will say anything; they will dress in any way and will talk about anyone.  There is no thing that is sacred.  In this world we can offer up sacrifice to God.  We can present ourselves to God a living sacrifice. 

We believe that we can die daily.  We can come back and say, “Father I want you to know that I have paid the price to be saved and sanctified but I want you to know that I’m paying the price again.  The world doesn’t satisfy.  I know that and I want to give myself to you anew.”

The world is sad, sick and disappointed and they are in such bondage.  May God help us to go back before that throne and offer up praise and sacrifices in such a way that it will go up before heaven as a sweet smelling savor. 

The imagination of the men’s hearts were only evil continually.  Sometimes we shorten things up when we talk about things.  They did this in the scripture too.  This is a terrible condition and America is headed right back to it.  Children are being taught that there isn’t a God and to worship mother nature.  They are taught to worship themselves and their minds are being turned to being only evil continually.

Let’s sew seed.  If we do this then we can believe for a harvest.  There will be summer and winter, day and night.  There will be the seasons and there will be seasons of working for God.

Rev 5:8  And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

I know that I’m late on the scene.  I didn’t live in the 1800’s.  It is wonderful that you and I can still be adding wonderful odors into those Golden vials.  May God help your and my lives to be so in tune with God that we walk, talk, think, pray, meditate, love God and love each other so that when we approach God He can anticipate that there is going to be a wonderful odor coming up that will go into those golden vials that contain odors from the old and new testament.  There are those that come late on the scene that are as enthusiastic as the prophets of the Old Testament and the apostles of the New.