Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 5/22/13

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 5/22/13

We live in perilous times and we have a great responsibility to carry the torch in our hand and to prepare others to carry the torch. 

Isa 6:1  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

Isaiah saw the Lord on His throne high and lifted up.  In our everyday practical living we must keep God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit in His rightful place and then we will be in our rightful place. 

Isa 4:1  And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

This has been true in every age of time.  Individuals, as Cain, have wanted to do it their own way. 

Isa 4:2  In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.

This is the Gospel Age.  The Gospel is designed to make our lives beautiful with the grace and truths of God.  If all you can think about is how hard you have it because you can’t do this or that or go here or there… then, yes, you have it hard. 

The other attitude that we can have is that it is my privilege to bear all the fruits of the Spirit that I can.  God has made all things beautiful in His time.  God ordained that His church be beautiful and have the glory of God.

Isa 4:3  And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:

Isa 4:4  When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Isa 4:5  And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

The Cloud led the Children of Israel all day long and then was a protection to them at night.  It went between them and their enemies.  God has a wonderful way of leading us all day long. 

If you have problems being led by God then get Him in His rightful place: high and lifted up, and you get in your rightful place: saved, sanctified, measured, loving, and doing the Word of God. 

Jude was written around 30 to 35 years after the church was established.  Already things had begun to deteriorate.  I have seen all I can handle and all I need to see to know that, “God, help me to have and keep a vision with Him in His rightful place and me clothed with humility.” 

What is more beautiful than a person clothed with humility and bearing all the fruits of the Spirit?  What a beautiful garden!

‘Holy’ means that which is clean.  The angels described God in Isaiah’s vision, “Holy, Holy, Holy...”

It means clean, pure, undefiled.  No one can get to God and defile Him.  He loves, He cares, and He has an attitude of supplying the very best for us. 

How can we be worthy of His best?  Be in your rightful place and have Him high and lifted up. 

The word ‘Holy’ means sanctified.  God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are totally set apart.  He is not political.  He is not affected by others.  He is God. 

We deal with a God that is undefiled.  You may relive the past, your failures and bad things that have been said.  STOP.  If you have done this for very long then you need to repent.  Why?  Because we need to be thrilled and thankful for what God has done for us and for what He has for us.

‘Holy’ means honest.  He is honest with us.  All we need to do is get Him and get ourselves in our rightful places.  He is true and lovely.

There is a price to pay.  We need to have the attitude: I have measured, and I have my measuring shoes on.  When He draws a line then I will walk right up to it.

God wants to make the very best of every one of our lives.  He had a cloud and a pillar of fire to lead and to protect the Children of Israel.  God has a way of leading and protecting.

How can we have a vision?

Isa 28:9  Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

Isa 28:10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Isa 28:11  For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

It boils down to this: “Grow up.”  Precept must be upon precept. 

Have the attitude: “God you can use the best preacher or that one with a stammer to teach me.  I’m not telling you who to send a message to me.  I’m in my position and I am lifting you way up.  I want to be humble and grow up and put away childish things.” 

God has a way of making our life so that it can produce.  He can make us a vessel of honor meet for the master’s use.