Brother Gary Sunday Evening 7/1/12

Brother Gary Sunday Evening 7/1/12

1Ch 29:10  Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

1Ch 29:11  Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Before God made the sun, the moon or the stars God created light.  He is Almighty.  He spoke and there was light.  Whoever we might be dealing with, when God speaks, things begin to transpire.  He spoke the world into existence and caused the waters to be gathered together.  He also created the stars. 

He made man in His own image.  He created us with a literal body and with a soul that will live forever.  We lost our connection with God through Adam and Eve’s sin.  We were all born with a nature to sin and all of us have gone into sin after the age of accountability.  God in His mercy made a way for us to be won back to God.  It is a full redemption.  He made a way that we no longer have to battle the nature to sin but it can be moved out. 

The Glory of God is the presence of God.  It is wonderful when God comes near and we feel His presence.  David cried out, “Oh God, when can I appear before God.”  How sad our lives are when we feel that we have displeased God and are under a shadow. 

God’s majesty: The greatness belongs to God.  There is no one great among us.  We will never have any greatness.  Anything that we do that helps another is the greatness of God coming into and flowing through us.

We need lots of miracles in Paradise.  We are facing some real challenges.  Since we know the eternal God that has all power, we are looking for what no man can do but God can do.  The power belongs to God.

Nehemiah said, “The good hand of our God was upon us.”  In Acts it is recorded, “God stretch forth thy hand.”  God stretched forth His hand and performed miracles.  He is just the same today.  We are all facing some things.  It is a wonderful thing that we can have victory up to the day of our death and victory the day we die.

As sad as it was the night that my mother died, when I got there she asked about my wife and little girls and then said, “Bless the Lord oh my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name.”  We can bless the Lord to the last moment of our life.  We don’t want to go out whining and complaining.  No matter what we face, we have individual battles but we can have the victory.

Majesty is the grandeur of God.  As I walked this morning I looked upon this hillside.  Last year there was a fire there that may have been an acre.  I saw the beautiful pines and the beautiful creation of that hillside.  While talking to Gyme he told me that there was a fire that was jumping a thousand feet out maybe in Colorado.  I thought to myself that if there had been a fire that was jumping thousand feet, it wouldn’t take an hour and the whole hillside would be burned.

I enjoy looking at trees and the beautiful creation of God.  That is just a little of the grandeur of God.  The song, “I see Him in a baby smile.”  It is wonderful that God has a way of sending things our way every once in a while that let us know that God is alive and real. 

In a world that is so full of sin and the imaginations are evil.  It was this way in the days of Noah.  It is wonderful that right in the midst of sin and corruption a baby can be born and we see the face of God.  I read of an account of a man that looked into the face of a baby and said, “Baby, tell me all about God before you forget.”

The greatest grandeur of God is not when God created this world.  We plant seeds in our garden and God ordained that another crop would be produced from that crop.  The grandeur of God is that God looks upon humanity and hears their heart cry.  The grandeur of God is right there to help.

I think of individuals that have chosen the broad road of sin.  There is no one that is on that road that isn’t headed for destruction.  If they continue on that road, they will reach a place where they will be faithless and not able to get to God. 

God looks upon souls that we are burdened and praying for, (It is an urgent thing; there is no soul need that is not urgent.)  Those in Afghanistan are in danger and it is urgent. 

When you and I think of the grandeur of God, it is shown when an individual begins to repent and to call out to God and to realize that there needs to be total changes in their life; the pleasure of sin has no longer any thought of any enjoyment.  When they begin to cry out to God then God changes His mind.  In this way, He repents. 

We were all on that road headed to destruction.  We think of the grandeur of God.  People are little, they remember prejudices and things that they should have let go down the stream a long time ago.  God said, “If that individual will repent and turn, then I will have different thoughts.”

Majesty means seven things:  Beauty, let the beauty of the Lord appear to us.  There is such a beauty in the majesty that belongs only to God. 

It is marvelous that He will beautify the meek with salvation.  A life that has been twisted and torn by the mean world that we live in can be made beautiful. 

A mind that has been polluted and deformed by sin and misery can have the blood of Christ applied to their heart, soul, and mind and God begins to take that vessel that was marred and banged up, hurt and abused.  He takes that vessel and that life when they begin to turn and repent of their sin and puts it back on that wheel and begins to make it anew.  You talk about the grandeur and majesty of God! 

When you drop a piece of pottery that has been put through a kiln, the person that made it can do nothing with it.  God is different.  He can take that life that has been so hard and hell bent not wanting to do anything with God or the bible.  The power of God takes that life and starts to add the water of the word and the Spirit of God and the hand of God begins to mold it.

God’s majesty means comeliness.  We find ourselves in awkward situations sometimes.  There is such value to the majesty of God.  It can make us beautiful in awkward situations.  There is a way for us to get before God and have God move in our heart, our soul, and in our attitude toward things.   He can take the awkwardness out of us.  I’m little but God is big.  He has the power to help you to be sweet and unawkward in an awkward situation.

Majesty means excellence.  We can have an excellent spirit as Daniel did.

We will have opportunity between now and Wednesday night to offer ourselves willingly to God.  Everyone has a full schedule.  Who will yield themselves to God?

It takes God to rescue a soul.  To be a parent today, how they need God to help them.  You can have problems with your hot water heater and with a little money they can get it checked out and fix it just right.  But when you deal with souls; it takes God to deal with the soul. 

Parents and grandparents need to hear from God.  We have a God that is up to date in this new day.  Keep it in the imagination of your heart how great God is.  God is greater and of more value than anything that will ever be offered to you. 

Unless we make the choice to have how great God is in our heart, sin can appear as pleasure.  Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.