Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 1/16/13
The desire to be kept:
Studying of Solomon, his life, and the Proverbs, There are
those that believe that the Proverbs were a lifelong work of Solomon. In Proverbs chapter one Solomon had a desire
to be kept. A desire is good and important
but we must have more than a desire. People
will tell you that some day they are going to get saved. It is important that they get saved.
Pro 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David,
king of Israel;
Pro 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive
the words of understanding;
Pro 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom,
justice, and judgment, and equity;
Pro 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young
man knowledge and discretion.
It was his desire to be able to teach wisdom, instruction and
understanding to those that didn’t have it.
Solomon started out right. Having
lived a while, this brings a seriousness to my soul. You and I know that a lot of people have made
a good start and have had good desires. We
must go past the start and the desires.
In order to be kept there are some things that wisdom, prudence,
and understanding will tell us to stay away from. There have been many good brothers and sisters
that were spiritually and scripturally sound until they allowed an individual
to plant seeds into their mind and they began to investigate and allow seeds to
grow in their mind. With every heresy is
a false spirit.
My thought is that I want to be kept. If I was half my age I would want to be kept
and if I was in grade school with Madison I would want to be kept.
Solomon wanted to know wisdom, to have the words from God,
and to know understanding. He wanted to
grasp justice and equity. Equity means
that there are not several standards for different people. He wanted to have the attitude that this man
can have God the same as that man. (That
man is worthy to have an understanding of the things of God as well as this
man.)
He had a desire to teach young men about knowledge and
discretion. I like to read songs from
the hymnal. They speak to me. I often read the songs of D.O. Teasley. I am warned by his songs. In His songs you can often sense a hunger for
God and God working with him to try to build a defense against him being led
away from God. He wrote the song, “I
will praise Him halleluiah.”
You and I know that when he wrote this song as a brother, he
had come to a crossroad and had decided that he was going to praise God. I believe that Solomon was warned and chose
right over and over again. These young
children sense that in their flesh that would draw them away and come to the altar
over and over again. They have a desire
to serve God.
Solomon had a desire to receive knowledge and
discretion. Solomon may have been born
about a thousand years before Christ. He
had a desire to be kept and the desire to see lives not ruined by sin. “A wise man will hear and increase learning.”
Pro 1:5 A wise man
will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain
unto wise counsels:
Pro 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my
commandments with thee.
Pro 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as
the apple of thine eye.
“Keep my commandments and live and my law as the apple of
thine eye.” I had read this scripture
before but never had seen it. Solomon
knew the power of the Word of God. It
doesn’t have any power unless we put it in its rightful place in our
lives. “Keep my commands and my law as
the apple of thine eye.”
The inner part of the eye is back a ways; it is covered with
the eye lid, the eyelashes, and the eyebrow.
The eye is made so that if anything comes close it closes just like
that. God’s Word will keep us and it is
only God that will keep us.
It was not just Solomon that was led astray. Men that knew God, walked with God,
understood the Revelation message; men who God anointed and they preached the
heavens opened have been led astray.
If we don’t labor to be kept, the enemy knows the ways to
work on us.
Pro 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon
the table of thine heart.
Pro 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Pro 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange
woman, from the stranger which
flattereth with her words.
If you mess with Babylon you will get tainted. The spirit of the strange religious woman,
Babylon, will do anything it can from flattery, division, hypocrisy, to pray
spirits on you until you wonder “Where did this thing come from?” We want to stay pure and we want to stay
kept.
Pro 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of
it are the issues of life.
We can choose to keep our heart full of praise and thanksgiving
or we can choose to be sad all the time.
There is not one here that would not have trespasses, bruises, or disappointments
that wouldn’t keep them sad the rest of their life. But we can choose to have Jesus and have our
soul saturated with God.
We could be the most unhappy individual in the world
contemplating suicide because life hasn’t gone the way that they thought it
would go. Many have financial, physical,
or emotional needs or are reaping for sin and want to get away from it
all.
People don’t have to be in that shape, “Keep your heart with
all diligence.”
Pro 4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and
perverse lips put far from thee.
Pro 4:25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine
eyelids look straight before thee.
Here I see God speaking to Solomon and to me. Let your eyes look right on and your eyelids
look straight before you.
Pro 4:26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy
ways be established.
God spoke to him yet in the process of time he built places
for idols to be worshipped. I want to
tell you, I want to be kept. I want to
go out a bright light serving God.
They tell us that John the Beloved was 90 or 100 and they
packed him into church but he had something to say, “Love one another and love God.”
Keep your eyes on Jesus, don’t be distracted, know what God
wants you to do and know your place in the body. I want to get back praying on this thought, “God
give me another precept; I want another row of building blocks on my building
in 2013.”
I don’t want to as Cade does: the quicker the taller the
better. I am not interested in being
tall quick. I want another round of
building blocks. “Ponder the path of your
feet,” don’t get off here or there.
We’ve all had the experience of going to a funeral or a wedding
at Babylon, when you show up sometimes they flatter you. Know where you came from and know where you
are going.
Pro 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left:
remove thy foot from evil.
I had an experience Monday: I was shocked to see this man
that has bad spirits show up. He was
probably shocked to see me too. He began
to tell me some of the things that he could do.
He basically said, “I’d give you a gift certificate if you’ll take it.” He put out the invitation to so-to-speak buy
me.
That guy has messed up at least one life that I know of. He has messed up his children, his
grandchildren, and yet he is wondering if I am for sale? There is not enough money in the state of Montana,
there are not enough gifts.
There is nothing like purity and holiness. Karen showed me an article that stated that
the problem in Connecticut was that God was left out. He has been left out of way too many things way
too long. That is the problem.
Dear God keep me. It doesn’t
matter what is offered or who from, if it opens the door to an evil spirit, I
don’t want it. I don’t want to be rude
or obnoxious but there is too much at stake, and God will give us everything
that we need.
Psa 17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me
under the shadow of thy wings,
Psa 17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
David was in a difficult situation. There are times when all you can do is lift
up your eyes and say “Keep me as the apple of your eye.” One picture that I see is God’s hand covering
us as the apple of His eye and the other is David crying out and saying, “Let
me hide under the shadow of your wings.”
Stay free, don’t open the door to oppression, know your God,
square your shoulders, and know what you came from and what you’ve come to. Stand on the sea of glass.
Jud 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and
brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved
in Jesus Christ, and called:
I’m so glad that we can be rid of the carnal nature. This is to those that are sanctified,
preserved, and called.
Jud 1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be
multiplied.
Jud 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and
exhort you that ye should earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jud 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares,
who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the
grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our
Lord Jesus Christ.
This is an old story.
It didn’t happen just once in the world.
Jude wrote about it in AD 66.
Jud 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on
your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Jud 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
This is a wonderful privilege.
Jud 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a
difference:
Jud 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh.
Anyone that you can help God wants you to help them.
Jud 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from
falling, and to present you faultless
before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Keep your eyes on Jesus. You don’t have to walk through this world
afraid of falling. He is able to keep
you from falling he is able to keep you faultless.
Jud 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both
now and ever. Amen.
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