Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 10/24/12

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 10/24/12

Rev 7:12  Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

If my mother were exhorting tonight, she would tell us that Thanksgiving should be every day.  Tonight it is really important that we are thankful.  I have been so convicted in my own personal life that just because we hope for whatever it might be, that doesn’t mean that they will just fall into our lap because we think they will be nice.

Sometimes we have to put things in their rightful place so that we realize just how much we have to be thankful for.  We live in a world that is self destructing because they are not thankful.  If you every find yourself in a spot where you are not thankful then you are on your way to the broad way and the broad way takes you down really fast.

Rev 7:1  And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

Rev 7:2  And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

Rev 7:3  Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

Rev 7:4  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Rev 7:5  Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.

Rev 7:6  Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.

Rev 7:7  Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.

Rev 7:8  Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

Rev 7:9  After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

Rev 7:10  And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

Rev 7:11  And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,

Rev 7:12  Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

The great multitude of all nations! This is a great consolation to us.  We serve such a mighty God that His Word and His Spirit deal with every people of every nation. 

Of everyone that was sealed of the 144,000; of all the great multitude that was standing before the throne; they are able to be there because of Salvation.  Without Jesus Christ there is no way to be before the throne. 

No one can reject Jesus Christ and be saved.  It is a wonderful thing that people that are really saved want to exalt the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.  They will not try to exalt some man.  They understand that salvation comes only from God.

We see them falling before the throne worshipping God: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God forever.

Everything that we have comes from God.  This is true in the literal and the spiritual.  The fullness of the earth belongs to God.  Everything spiritual that we have is a direct result of the fullness of Christ.  Sometimes we have a violent attack on us that tries to get us just to feel like not thanking, praising, or worshipping God.

This is the reason that there are scriptures that have the wording of ‘overcoming’ and ‘victory’.  It is our choice to overcome.  It is a part of life to feel down sometimes.  This is why we need the Word of God.  We need to take a hold of our self when this happens and say, “I am going to triumph.” 

When you don’t feel like praising God, then praise God anyway.  Say “Blessed be God” as Brother Figeroa had all say in Carmichael this year.  When everything else is fading out of sight and we’ve had our last glimpse of this earth, there will still be God.

Everyone that is here has come through some real battles.  You have a right to say, “Blessed be God.”  If someone just got saved yesterday they have a lot to be praising and thanking God for: to be saved and to stay saved.  It will help us to stay saved to say, “Blessed be to God.”

Rev 7:13  And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?

Rev 7:14  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

We don’t want any wrinkles or spots in our life.  We can get before God and be washed by His Word.

Rev 7:15  Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

Rev 7:16  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

I’m so thankful to be satisfied with Jesus.  If you hold things lightly then you will not be caught up with the vanity of this world.  When people make an idol of something and it doesn’t yield what they expected then it becomes vanity to them.  If you make an idol of something then it will become sour. 

May God help us to hold things lightly and yet to take care of what God has given us.  When we do things as unto the Lord, then that thing will be in its proper position and it is not our God.  We are going to leave everything behind, but we want to do our best while we are here.

Rev 7:17  For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

It is wonderful to wake up hungry.  I’m going to look up some scriptures when I get up tomorrow morning.  I’m looking forward to being fed from His Word. 

God will take care of us and give us just the amount of sun that we need to grow.  We need the sun to live and too much can be a killer.

You may be broken hearted but stay true to God and God Himself will wipe away the tears.