Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 10/10/12
Paul had a history that was not a good history. He was a law-keeper. He didn’t believe that Jesus was the messiah
and had persecuted the Jews that did. Paul had been injurious but here he
brought the thought that the grace of the Lord was exceeding abundant.
1Ti 1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding
abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti 1:15 This is
a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
1Ti 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that
in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to
them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
1Ti 1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal,
invisible, the only wise God, be honour
and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
We don’t know everything about grace. The grace of God has appeared to all
men. God knows each man and He knows
each need. God has a way of breaking
people. If they allow the breaking to
affect them in a right way then they will be a very blessed individual.
God is a God of abundance.
I want to encourage your faith tonight.
This eternal God is abundant in faith.
If you find yourself being rubbed by someone, this same God is abundant
in love.
Everyone that has been on our prayer request list for the
last fifty years, (it doesn’t matter how far in sin they have gone), God is
able to save them.
Paul said that he was the chief of sinners. This guy that was persecuting the followers
of Jesus, the very disciples of Christ, (he was consenting to Stephen’s death
so to whatever degree he was a murderer.), God was longsuffering. God suffers a long time to bring an
individual to Bible Salvation.
How good God is to protect us, to provide for us, to shed
light on our pathway! How merciful God
is! We are praying for people that are many
of them like the 10 lepers, they want their need met but they never come back
and thank God for meeting their need. We
need to thank God for His wonderful goodness.
Why do false religions oppose the thought that Jesus Christ
resurrected? They hope they will not
have to give an account for the way that they have lived. We are all going to go to the judgment. We can look forward to the day when we cross
the Jordan and stand in the Judgment.
There are principals in this Kingdom that are so right. Many in the USA have wrong principals. Our country was established on right
principals with checks and balances.
Because of evil people in our country they have sought out evil
inventions and corrupted things.
This King is immortal.
He went to the cross and then arose to never die again. He is even now sitting at the right hand of
the Father making intercession for us.
He is invisible. The
reason that we are here tonight is because the invisible God had mercy on
us. We can thank God that there is a
true God that is invisible. He protects
us on the roads. Something could go
wrong in our wiring and our house could catch fire. I have some good electrician friends, but I
have a good friend that is invisible.
Thank God for the warning that comes from the invisible
God. He is invisible and his spirit is
invisible. Thank God for protecting us
from barking hounds: barking unbelief, barking fear, barking worry and all
sorts of things. There is an invisible
God that sees those hounds.
I read the other day that the heart of God spoke. It is a marvelous thing when the heart of God
speaks to our heart and says, “Son or daughter, watch and pray. Be before God asking Him to search you. He is invisible and sees what you and I might
not be able to see.
He is the only wise God.
You can trust Jesus. We all have
our flesh and our humanity to deal with and the way we think we like
things. Submit things to God and if
things don’t go the way that you want them to go then you won’t hear the self
pity dog barking here.
1Ti 1:18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy,
according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them
mightest war a good warfare;
1Ti 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which
some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
Something that we want to hold onto is faith and a good
conscience. People had leaned to their
own understanding, had become carnal and had made shipwreck. When people make shipwreck then they are
backslidden. We are to have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.
There are bad spirits out there, when men and women leave
good conscience and make shipwreck then they have a bad spirit.
1Ti 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I
have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Paul was bold and said it like it was.
1Ti 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
giving of thanks, be made for all men;
Supplication is praying that evil spirits be held at
bay. I pray this way especially for the
children and for the aged. It seems that
they are especially a target of the enemy.
I pray that way for myself too and for all the saints. If we open ourselves to evil then we bring
the whole congregation with us. No man
lives to himself and no man dies to himself.
Prayer is engaging ourselves with God, praising God and
saying, “God I want to before you with clean hands, clean heart, and clean
mind.”
Intercessions: people on our prayer request list are in a
position where they need intercession.
To intercede is to ask God to help us feel that we are there with the
need. God, I want to intercede.
Giving of thanks, I am so convicted; it would take all
eternity for us to thank God enough.
Don’t wait until you get to heaven to thank God.
1Ti 2:2 For kings, and for
all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all
godliness and honesty.
1Ti 2:3 For this is
good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
God has an appreciation for right principals. He appreciates us to live in a world that
belongs to Him. This world doesn’t
belong to us; it belongs to Him. Every
soul in the world belongs to God; the air that they breathe and the land that
they stand on is all God’s. This is the
will of God that we live a quiet and peaceful life.
1Ti 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to
come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Ti 2:5 For there is
one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1Ti 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be
testified in due time.
Because men love darkness, they love that which is wrong in
the eyes of God, and then it keeps people from being saved.
1Ti 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an
apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and
lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
1Ti 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where,
lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
The events of life will make you full of wrath. People will do you wrong and it is just a
normal thing for the majority of people to say, “That is not right.” The only thing to do is to forgive. People will lie on you. There is only one thing to do and that is to
forgive them and pray for them.
Injustices at school, at work, from family members, even well
meaning saints may do an injustice to you.
The only thing to do is to forgive them.
The scripture says, “Without wrath.” You and I have to have holy hands without
wrath. People take all they can get from
you and then when you ask them to help you, they have plans. Two weeks later or the next day they want
your help again. Forgive them; we must
pray without wrath.
Without doubting: the hounds of unbelief, unbelief put Adam
and Eve out of the Garden of Eden.
Unbelief has robbed so many souls of so many blessings. Unbelief has caused souls that could have
been mightily used of God to just settle down in the rocking chair and see what
others would do.
How many today are sick because of unbelief? Or have no fire
in their soul because of unbelief? Everything
that happens to you and to me we can turn by faith to help us climb the
mountain through faith.
Paul said, “I was a bad man but abundant faith through love
and grace did its work on me.”
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