Brother Gary Sunday Morning 10/6/13

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 10/6/13

1Ch 29:10  Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

1Ch 29:11  Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

1Ch 29:12  Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

1Ch 29:13  Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

All greatness belongs to God.  The power of God is a marvelous study.  May God help me to encourage everyone in this audience concerning the power of God.  It is real, ready, works, and is alive today. 

Thine is the glory.  This is the burden of my heart.  I hope that God will help me to preach it in clarity this morning.  The glory is His and He desires for His glory to be in each life.  The majesty is His.

We all are very needy people.  This is how life is.  God has ordained that through His greatness all our needs be supplied.

His power is eternal.  The glory of God: sometimes when the glory of God is mentioned in the Old Testament people are left without thought pattern of what the glory of God is.  It is the unseen ornament of the presence of God that brings the reality that God is alive and present.

We live in a world that is empty.  There are empty churches and other things.  Every day when we leave our homes we see empty lives.  Many times individuals recognize that they are empty and need something desperately from God. 

It is not sinful to be empty.  If someone that is saved finds them self empty or needy, you are not damned in that thought.  We need this glory that is God’s as an unseen ornament of the presence of God in our lives.  If we have it then our lives will take on a whole different atmosphere.

The glory of God is full of beauty.  People will allow the world to oppress them in the thought, “I am so different because of my apparel, because I don’t wine and dine, because I march to a different band.”  I’m not going to downplay the difference.  If we possess the unseen ornament of the glory of God then we will not look upon ourselves as empty but rather possessed with a blessing and look at the world as empty.

The glory of God brings conviction and rest.  The glory of God also brings the majesty, beauty, and excellence of God. 

The majesty is the beauty.  I think of what I know from this audience from what you have taught me.  There are seasons in life. I would say that as we are born, life should be full of many beautiful seasons.  David became acquainted with the glory of God very early in his life. 

It is believed that David may have been as young as 10 years old when God chose him.  God loves to speak to children and to visit with children.  David was chosen of God.  Children, you are blessed this morning.  You have one thing that you need to thank God for and that is parents that help you to be here. 

God speaks to children at a very young age and it is vital that children learn in their mind that God speaking to them is the most important thing in their life.

Saul failed God.  I want to tell you children how it is.  There is a whole world out here that is failing God.  That doesn’t mean that God has changed.  God is looking for young men, young women, school teachers and others that will not fail God and will serve Him.

Saul made an extremely bad choice.  When God tells you something to do and how to do it there is no talking back to God. 

Samuel mourned.  You and I will mourn when individuals fail God.  Saul had failed God and God told Samuel, “I want you to go to this certain place, and there I want you to anoint one of Jesse’s sons to become king.” 

The name of the father was Jesse.  Samuel had concerns he knew that Saul would destroy him if he knew what he was doing.  Remember that God will take care of you when you do what God tells you to do.

He made the journey and made an expression to Jesse.  Every one of you fathers plays a vital role in the lives of your children and in the lives of other children.  The enemy wants to get fathers and mothers out in some other lulu land whatever lulu is. 

God help us as fathers and grandfathers to be men 2013 with an identity with the glory of God and have an identity with the presence of God in our lives and that we value it more than what the world has to offer.

Samuel told Jesse what he was to do and Jesse brought out his sons.  He brought out the first, the second, the third, the forth and so on and God said, “Not him.” 

Don’t run ahead of God.  Allow Him to work.  I think of the tragedies that have happened when the old pastor died in history and in haste someone picked someone else and put them in place instead of letting God work. 

I wish I had a picture of what happened in Plains when they stopped letting God choose the pastor and instead let the movement send them a pastor.  When it comes to spiritual things, wait on God.  When it comes to making a decision that will affect you spiritually then wait on God. 

They brought seven young men and Samuel asked, “Is this all?  Is there another?”  Jesse said, “Yes he is with the sheep.”  Samuel said, bring him.  We will not even sit down until he comes.” 

Samuel was dedicated to his job.  God sits to skim off the dross.  He sits there and works and works as Brother Kale said.

1Sa 16:13  Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

There are many vital things that you need in your life.  These school age children need an education.  The brothers that are here need a job.  But what is vital is to have the Spirit of God come into our life.  I am not just preaching this for something to say.  In our lives we need the glory and the ornament of the unseen presence of God in our life.

Five emphasis concerning David:  He was just a child.  He was not very old.  May God help me and everyone here this morning to grasp:  at a young age it is vital that you begin turning your heart to God.  Remember that as parents.  May God bless you this morning. 

It has been a few years since Karen and I had little girls.  Times are tougher now.  But God is just the same.  That ornament of the unseen presence of God in your life will equip you to be a parent.  You have something better than all the gold and the wealth in Switzerland.  If you will live your life with an ornament of the unseen presence of God in your life, you will be giving your children the very best that you can give them.

If you get lopsided and think that your children need everything that your neighbors have…, no they don’t the neighbor’s children may not have the most important thing which is the ornament of the unseen presence of God.  Having God in your life is the most important. 

That which is destructive is all over the world.  The uniqueness of the ornament of the unseen presence in our life gives us that which is unvalued in our life.  It totally delivers us from trying to make an impression on someone.  All we want is God in our lives.

A child must be taught and trained, see his parents worshiping, and be employed.  David was a child.  It was not very long and he was employed.  We don’t want our minds filled with entertainment.  A little relaxation is not bad but to get under a spirit of play is another thing.

His countenance was ruddy.  He was out there with the sheep and with nature and with God.  He was probably fine to look at.  You as children and young people are blessed to have a countenance that is undefiled by sin.  You that are saved are blessed to have a countenance, “Yes I went out into sin but I can have a countenance that I am forgiven.”

One of the greatest things that I have learned is the perfect law of submission.  David was submissive.  Suppose that God would move on any in this audience this morning and you know that it is God.  David in the presence of his brethren was anointed by Samuel.

We live in a society where the carnal man and the spirit of independence of people don’t want to be told anything by anyone.  To be told, God is going to use whomever he chooses to use.  When we want help bad enough and want to please God enough and reach the place where we say, “God I want the presence of God in my life so much that I will let that brother, that sister, or whomever tell me what I need to hear.”

What you don’t want to hear may be what you need to hear.

The brethren witnessed, “What is going on?  Here came the old prophet, we all went before him yet there was this young one out herding sheep and he is the one that was chosen.” 

Samuel was in mourning because of Saul’s failure.  We don’t want to spend much time thinking of the failure of those that we know.  If we go down that road it will just churn more and more.  God told Samuel, “Quit mourning for him, he is gone.” 

We’d do anything to help souls.  Talking about failure will do nothing but bind us.  Quit mourning, Saul is done and has made his choice.  There is not one that you and I know have failed that will go to hell because I want them to.  But we must quit talking of their failure.

God told Samuel, “Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.”  If God tells you to leave something alone and quit talking about it then do because that will captivate you and it will be all you think about.

1Sa 15:23  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Saul failed and God rejected him from being king.  The glory of God belongs to each one of us that is saved.

David submitted to God.  Samuel anointed him and the glory of God came into his life.  The glory of God is the unseen presence.  It brings the presence of God in our life.  We can struggle with accusations and with foolish and unlearned questions; they will do nothing for you. 

The glory of God brings reality of God, earnestness, conviction, and reverence into our life.

Saul disobeyed God and the spirit of the Lord departed and another came to trouble him.  The most dangerous thing you can do is to try to get along without God.

Joh 10:10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

For everyone that has failed God, what is going on in their life is that the enemy is come to steal.  It will take their mind.  This is beyond just concern.  Individuals can reach that place where they don’t hunger for God anymore. 

Lasciviousness is more than bad lust.  It is mixed with spirits that speak, control, drive, reason and make prisoners of men and women.  Either be full of the presence of God or lasciviousness is there to fill the individual that is walking naked before God.

The thief comes to steal.  I think of the beauty that God has ordained in our lives.  The beauty of the mothers that have carried children:  “I am carrying a life.”  The enemy steals that away.  I am not going to tell you how many abortions there were last week but it is terrible. 

Right along with that is those children that don’t have anyone caring if there is supper for them when they come home from school or anything else.

The ornament of the unseen presence of God causes moms to be good moms, dad to be good dads, men to be good men.

To steal: think of a child having a parent.  For the enemy to come and steal them away from loving the gift that heaven gave them.  I will take the ornament of the presence of God in my life any day to being a rock star, or a part of the mafia. 

Men that have amassed great wealth have nothing.

The thief comes to kill and to destroy.  Jesus came that we could have life and have it more abundantly.

What will bring the unique ornament of the presence of God in my life?

Eph 6:1

Parents:  in America today one of the targeted positions is parents.  Children obey your parents in the Lord.   If you will learn obedience and submission to your parents as a child there will be an ornament of the presence of God in your life.

The devil will have a tool at school to tell you that you don’t have to obey your parents.  Before you take that counsel check what it will cost you if you don’t obey your parents.  We are heavily burdened for a young man named Thad.  What put him where he is, is sin.  There was one thing that he wanted and that was his own way.

This was the problem with Saul.  He wanted his own way.  He had everything that he needed without having Aggag or any of the riches.  God said to destroy them.

Submission to God and to the saints of God:  I don’t have to browbeat any sheep with pastoral authority.  I am not looking to be a dictator.  I don’t want to be one.  The bible teaches to submit to God and then to submit to one another.  Let the body of Christ do their work. 

The one thing that messed Saul up was that he lost his humility.  When you were little in your own eyes...  How we need God!  How we need each other and our brothers and sisters in Christ!  We need the younger ones and the older ones.  We need the little ones even though they sometimes disrupt the service.  (Sometimes the older ones do too.  They go to sleep.)

If we want the ornament of the presence of God in our lives we must be small in our own eyes.

Jesus came a thousand years after Saul failed God and asked the question, “What will a man give in exchange for his soul?”  What will you exchange for the glory of God?

I wouldn’t advise sowing a few wild oats. 

The Lord says: The glory is mine and I want to give to you that unseen ornament of my presence to make of you a unique servant that has the glory of God in their life.  To you it will mean being a good son, a good daughter, a good mother, a good grandmother, a sister helping a sister. 

The thought of being a servant is not just behind the pulpit.  It is the thought of being one that God can use in whatever capacity that He chooses.

Blessed be God.  I borrow from Sister Davis’ words:  “How is it with you this morning?  Are you filled with the presence of God? 

If you risk not being filled, then your spiritual nakedness will attract rebellion.  May this congregation be filled with the presence of God.