Brother Gary Sunday Evening 10/14/12

Brother Gary Sunday Evening 10/14/12

Psa 24:1  A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Joh 1:15  John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

Joh 1:16  And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

We see in the Psalm that the earth and its fullness belong to God.  In John we read that we have received of the fullness of Jesus.  There is a fullness of Christ and we have the opportunity to receive it. 

We have been blessed to receive the fullness of God’s earth.  We have full cellars and full deepfreezes.  We are blessed to be able to move and things like that.  We are blessed.

This goes to another realm.  It goes to what Jesus brought to us.  Our lives are blessed but we live below our privileges.  As I worked on this lesson I saw clearly that the greatness of the fullness of Christ is designed for us to have and to enjoy. 

There are hounds that would bark and make us feel that we are unqualified.  Our flesh will hound us out of praying if it can.  It will hound us out of getting good from the scriptures and will run us ragged, but this is not God’s fault, it is ours.

Joh 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus said explicitly, there is no question, “I am the way.”  There is a highway, “I’m traveling a highway, a beautiful road, it leads up to heaven…” 

There is also another way: “there is a way that seems right to man.”  There are millions that are walking that way that seems right and if we don’t pray and do right spiritually then we will be traveling our own way. 

We can know that we are traveling The Way because the Spirit of God witnesses to our heart.  There is absolute truth.  Anything that goes contrary to the teachings of the Word of God is wrong. 

We strive to be politically correct and I’m not sure why.  The world is not that way in any way so I don’t know why we have to try to be.  The world will say anything, be flippant, loose and so on, but if you say anything then they are immediately offended.

There is absolute truth.  Jesus has given to us of His fullness so that we could live in absolute truth.  Absolute truth helps us to know where we came from and where we are and where we are headed.  Absolute truth gives us liberty, power, and direction.  It is a marvelous thing. 

We have the Word, 66 books, and the Holy Spirit that always witnesses to truth.  Jesus gave us this Word so that we can have life.  We can have enough life to bring our flesh into subjection and say, “I’m going to read and pray.”  We can have life and spiritual life; His fullness will put us all the way into serving God.

Eph 1:1  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Eph 1:2  Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Paul in exhorting the Ephesians said, “Grace and Peace.  God has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings…”

God has blessed us with all the fullness.  Let’s get rightly related to Christ, get our minds working right, read and pray and get this body into subjection so that we can receive all of the fullness of Christ.  Be blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.

Pro 8:21  That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

Of the fullness of Christ have we all received.  The way to receive these things is to be broken, contrite, and teachable.  You are immediately disqualified if you know everything. 

If you humble yourself before God and say, “I need to be filled with thy treasures.”  He has the wisdom, He has the treasures, He has the balance, and He can fill us with all His fullness. 

Don’t waste your time, your mind, God’s time, don’t set around until you become so solitary that you only have things from videos, TV, internet.  He wants to fill your treasures.  Real character is built from you seeking God with all your heart. 

God wants to fill our mind.  Your mind is a treasure.  You want that mind filled with the right things.  You want to keep that mind learning and active.  Your heart is like a vault.  You want to keep it filled full of good things.  If you let the enemy fill your heart with bad things, then it won’t be long until there is a room with a door and a padlock and you hold the key. 

God wants to fill our treasures.  For these parents, God wants to fill the treasures of your hearts, your minds, and your lives with how to be good parents. 

For those that are caring for their elder parents, these are bad times.  There are people out there waiting to take advantage of whomever that they can.  When people are independent and make their own moves here, there, and somewhere else, it isn’t so bad that they lose their wealth it is what it does to them. 

When people try to con someone, they become secretive and often don’t take counsel.  Then when people lose whatever money that they have, and they have been independent and ugly about it, then the pain.  They are hurting inside and they have been ripped off.  The answer: God wants to fill their treasures. 

When we are in difficult situations, they happen to us all, there is only one thing to do and that is to get before God and stay there and pray and pray until you get your mind out of it and the hounds quieted.  God says, “Keep yourself pure and do all you can to help that little child.” 

His fullness, his wisdom, His grace, His strength, His love and His power are there for us, we don’t have to take it but it is available.