Brother Gary Sunday Evening 7/28/13

Brother Gary Sunday Evening 7/28/13

1Jn 5:1  Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

1Jn 5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

We know that John had reached an age of quite maturity when he wrote this.  Years back we believed this scripture by faith and that faith has become sight.

We know that His ways are right and we are blessed to keep his commandments.  I have been challenged to a deeper depth of consecration and a living sacrifice:  God whatever is your will that is what I want to do.  His commandments are not grievous.

1Jn 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Whosoever is born of God overcomes the world.  I’m glad that we can be overcomers.  The voice of the world and the world may come knocking but we can answer that voice, “No thanks.  I’m glad that I found what really satisfies.”

Keep your faith in God and add to your faith as the scripture teaches.  May God help us that our faith will grow and not diminish.  We don’t have to give into the things that would hinder our faith.

1Jn 5:5  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Believe that Jesus is the son of God.  We are going to be tried and faced with many things that we cannot handle or figure out: answers to needs of family, of our self, of our job.  That is how life is.  Let us remember that through God, His Son, and faith in God there is no mountain that cannot be removed.  God is God.

The man that wrote, “I’d rather have Jesus,” was at the crossroads.  The world was offering him a whole lot of things but a mother prayed in faith believing and that is why we have that beautiful song, “I’d rather have Jesus.”

We have faced those crossroads over and over again and we decided to keep the faith.  Over and over again God has come through.  He will continue to come through.

Jesus was the Son of God that was sent to earth so that every one of our needs can be supplied.  His resources are not limited.  He is just as able today to meet our needs as He was in the day He healed the ten lepers. 

He said, “You have been on your knees; that is good.  Get up and go your way.”  God wants us to worship God, pray and have faith, and then he wants us to arise and do what He wants us to do.

1Jn 5:6  This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

It is wonderful to have the Spirit of God witness to us that God is God and Jesus is Jesus.

1Jn 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

1Jn 5:8  And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

Isn’t it wonderful to first have unity in our hearts, unity with God, the Spirit of God, the Father, and the Son?  Then it is wonderful to have an attitude of unity with everyone that worships the Father.

1Jn 5:9  If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

1Jn 5:10  He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

The reason that we know that we are saved is because we have met bible conditions and have the witness that we are the son of God.

1Jn 5:11  And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Thank God for life and for eternal life.

1Jn 5:12  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

1Jn 5:13  These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

1Jn 5:14  And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

It is a wonderful thing to have confidence.  We are not a bunch of heathens cutting our self and saying over and over again, “Oh God, oh God.”  We came to God and asked Him to forgive us and He forgave is.

We are not out to have our own way.  We’ve seen too much.  Anything that God doesn’t want me to have I don’t want.  Anything that he wants I submit to go. 

There are many things that are His will.  It is His will that we be saved and sanctified, and that we be healed and that He meet our needs.

God has already prepared the answer.  He is just waiting for men and women to get into the position so that He can answer prayer.  He is ready to save, to sanctify, and perform what needs to be.  Until they get to the place where they want His way and are broken.