Brother Gary Sunday Morning 1/26/14

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 1/26/14

Deu 32:1  Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deu 32:2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Deu 32:3  Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

Deu 32:4  He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

‘Just’ is a short and a powerful word.  Life is not just; all from probably before school-age experience the injustice of life.  There is however the justice of God.

Moses was 120 years old when God inspired him with this song.  He was near the end of his life.  He was moved upon and said, “Let heaven and let earth grasp what I am going to say.”  He dealt with the Word of God: that which God had given and that which He would give.  He dealt with it as the dew of heaven.

There will never be dew during a storm.  We have all needed the dew of heaven to distill upon our individual lives.  Nothing will do for a plant, not even irrigation, what dew does.  The same as what the dew of heaven will do for us if it forms upon our life and our spiritual leaves.  Nothing will do for us as the dew of heaven will.

Moses went on to instruct us to ascribe greatness unto God.  It is good for us every day of our life, for every testimony meeting, when we have experienced a miracle or need one to ascribe greatness unto God.  It is good for us when we are in the valley of decision or have come out of the valley:  Ascribe ye greatness unto God.

God is able to meet every need of every individual, in every walk of life, with however much understanding or lack of understanding. 

The greatness of God:  God spoke to my father one morning, March 19, 1949, when he was making shavings to build a fire.  He said, “You need to go to the barn to pray.” 

My father thought it was necessary to build the fire before he went because he knew that my mother would be getting up to cook breakfast.  God said, “You need to go now.”  The greatness of God to place a necessity, and place the thought, “This is something that needs to be taken care of right now.”

God could speak to anyone in this audience; it will be according to His justice.  The Justice of God in helping my dad to know that he needed to pray:  My dad was an adult and sin had worked in his life yet God in his justice let him know that he needed to go pray.

Songs have been written about the greatness of God:  “Look at the faithfulness of God”, “How great thou art”.  We will probably say as the Queen of Sheba when we are on the other side, “The half has never yet been told.

He is the rock.  We are blessed to know some things this morning.  I am totally lost when it comes to modern technology.  My mind is not able to change from paper and pencil when it comes to modern technology and communication. 

God is the Rock.  This is a thought that is large, consuming, and powerful.  He is the foundation of all good things. 

There are many things that are built upon the whims of people’s minds and introduced into this world.  Unfortunately but true there are things that are trying to be introduced into the bible that are not in the bible.

God’s work is perfect.  In creation God’s work is perfect.  It is perfect how God has worked with everyone in this audience. 

People may be judgmental in themselves, “I didn’t do this right.”  Others may think, “This wasn’t done how I would have done it.”  God works in a perfect way.  He is a God of perfect judgment. 

God’s Word and Gods Spirit gives a verdict.  All of us in this audience that have been saved a while have experienced being visited by a thought, “I don’t feel well so I wonder if something is wrong spiritually.”  That is the enemy working because you can count on this:  God is a God of judgment; He is not a God only of feeling. 

You can tell the wind is there when you feel it.  When there is no wind, you may question if God is there.  It is when it is calm that the dew comes.  There are times when there are no feelings or emotions. 

There are times when the feeling of an emotional love and attachment ebbs away because one is leaving the world.  I want to be able to tell all the saints and my children and grandchildren that I love them at that time.  Not because I have great feeling, but because of the love of God in my heart; it allows us to love one another.

I wish we could grasp our daily dependence upon the love of the saints.  I know that the saints pray for me every day.  Every day we experience the benefit of the love of God and the saints of God.

God is a God that gives a verdict; that is what Judgment means.  You may be wondering about this or that and we serve a God that gives a verdict.  We must have an unbiased attitude toward God if we are to receive a verdict.  We cannot tamper with the jury: with God, or with our own conscience. 

In order to get an answer from God we must be in a position, “Dear heavenly Father, I want your judgment, your verdict; I want what is right.  Because you are the foundation of all good things, you are a just God to all mankind.”

It is wonderful that we serve a God of truth.  It is wonderful to know truth this morning.  It is wonderful to know that this Word of God has the answer for every life.  It has an answer for the children in the nursery.  It has the answer for the unborn.  The Word of God has the answers for young people.  He is the God of absolute truth.  I am so blessed and you are so blessed to know what it requires to have a clear conscience and a new life.

This Word of God teaches us how to be forgiven of our past.  There are people that have been taught, you must give money, or, you must give your children, or give something else to be saved.  The only thing required from heaven is that you must repent. 

The deep hungering to want more of God: it is wonderful to want more of God.  It is wonderful that there is more of God, more of His son, and more of the Holy Spirit available to us.  God has availed himself to those that hunger and thirst for more of God.

God is a God of truth and without iniquity.  It is wonderful that He is a holy God.  There is no sin whatsoever. 

The foundation of justice:  There is something about justice that is beautiful.  It is beautiful in every area of our lives and it is an attribute of God.

He showed great justice before He ever created Adam and Eve.  God knew that He was going to create mankind.  It is wonderful how God did it right.  He spoke first and said, “Let there be light.”  God took care of every detail.  He made everything that would be needed.  All the things that are necessary to life He created before He made Adam and Eve.

Then God created Adam.  This morning the justice of God in how He started everything from creation to the Garden of Eden, to the creation of Adam, placing Adam in the garden, and God saw that it was not good that man should be alone.  He took a rib out of Adam and created Eve.  The justice of God in how he set everything in the beginning.

We realize that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.  No one would be able to say that “From the beginning of my life I have done everything right so I am just this morning.”  When you and I came on the scene, we came on the scene with a nature that led us into sin.

We learned, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Rom 3:23

God in His justice made it real to any that came to the age of accountability.  “I am a sinner and I need to get right with God.”

The justice of God in visiting Adam and Eve:  He created them, placed them in the garden, gave them instruction, and in the cool of the day He came to visit them.  The justice of God in visiting them!  Wasn’t it wonderful?  He visited them.

Precious individuals that have come through the gate and are traveling up the highway of holiness in God’s justice He will visit you.  We heard the message that straight is the gate and narrow is the way.  We took the message and realized that we must leave off sin.  We came to realize that there were things in our life that we were addicted to and needed to leave off.  God visited us in His justice.

 I think of many individuals that started out walking with God.  They could only start from where they were and with the understanding that they had.  Brother Height said, “I got saved among the Methodist and God came to visit with me and I realized that God had more for me than I had.”

My wife told me that a man that had been involved with Pentecostalism came to the end of his journey and said, “I have found something better than Pentecostalism.”

God visited them and showed them, “I am pleased with this and I am unpleased with this.”  God is a God of justice.  You might say, “I feel that I am not even on this third step of this stairway headed to higher things for God.  God in His justice always visits us where we are and always says, “Come up closer.

God in His justice in placing a law in the garden:  There are people that go throughout their entire life that never are obedient.  They rebel against nature, “I wonder if I can drive 100 miles an hour around this corner, if I can jump off this bridge without getting hurt, or if I can play with gas without getting hurt.

God was good to them in this law to Adam and Eve.  “You can have all the fruit of the garden, but the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you cannot touch.” 

God has been good to every one of us, “I will bless this; stay away from that.”  His laws are not injustice, his teachings are right. 

It was God’s justice and he was right when he said, “Adam where art thou?”  I have heard that in my life.  I have heard God speaking to me.  There are times when our flesh or the flesh in someone else influences us.  We can all be stirred up by someone else.  It is a part of life. 

We have had that happen and God has spoken and said, “Gary, why are you here?  This is not where I designed for you to be.”  It is God’s justice.

If there would be one here that feels that God is saying to you, “Where are you in carrying a burden, where are you?”  It is God’s justice that He speaks to us; it is not because He is angry with you.

If God was angry with you and he wanted to exact punishment, he wouldn’t be shouting around, “Where are you?”  That is not how God is.  He is a God that wants to rescue.

You may be in a dilemma of a decision.  You may hear God saying, “Where are you in this decision?”  We want to say, “God I want to answer.  I am coming to you in this decision.”

Adam and Even rebelled.  The justice of God in clothing them: He could have sent them from the garden naked.  He looked down time and wanted us to know in the Gospel Day, not only had He clothed them literally but there had been a blood sacrifice shed for their sin.

God’s justice in His prophecy:  He said, “My seed will bruise Satan’s head.”  I think of the millions that have experienced the justice of their life being blackened by sin, their mind tormented of the past, the fear of tomorrow, and the reality that they would be forever separated from God and then they heard the joyful sound that one day Jesus would come and He would bruise Satan’s head and the plan of salvation would prevail.  Praise Him evermore.

There is plan of God’s justice in laboring in life.  There is justice of God in giving a verdict in Adam and Eve’s disobedience. 

Disobedience of God will receive a verdict.  Their disobedience forced God to drive them from the Garden of Eden.  They had disobeyed.  It was the justice of God in keeping the way of the tree of life. 

God’s justice in keeping the way to the tree of life: the way to it is open this morning. 

After Jesus was born and then crucified, one of his disciples was exiled to the Isle of Patmos; he recorded what was shown to him there.

Rev 22:1  And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

We are blessed to have uncontaminated water to drink.  Pray for the pastor, the teachers, the testifiers, and all the communication that we have with one another.  It is necessary that we communicate with one another.   

May God help all of us ever to take the judgment and the justice of God that we want to drink of the pure water of life and give out the pure water of life.

Rev 22:2  In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

We went from Genesis where Jesus said, “You cannot stay, you have disobeyed and must leave the Garden of Eden.”  Between that time and Revelation, the Lamb of God came and made a just sacrifice on Mt Calvary.  It was a sacrifice for sin so that the way to the tree of life would be made available to all mankind.

Every person that you could think of this morning, that feels the godly sorrow of conviction, the way is open to them to get to the tree of life.

This tree of life is on the time side of life and on the eternal side.  It is what we reach to when we feel our need of a savior.  We had multiple needs when we came to God for salvation.  We needed delivered from our sin.  We needed a heart transplant, new food to eat, and new water to drink.  We needed to be cleansed and healed.  We found that the tree of life was right there on the time side of the river.

After you have been saved for a little while, you find that the tree of life bears fruit every month just as the scripture says.  You go further and you see that there are leaves for the healing.  I think of the sadness of America.  If we are sad how sad is Russia or Africa?  We cannot even go there in our thoughts. 

May God help me to show the justice of God.  The tree of life is on the time side of the river which represents life.  It shows me that the tree of life alone has the power to cancel all the wages of sin which is death. 

There is a song that so well tells the story of a life that was so miserable, so full of death, and then that individual came to Christ and that heartache and death was removed and spiritual life took place.

The tree of life is available in the time world today.  It is available as we enjoy the river of God.  When you get saved, you are so happy to be saved.  I look back to the time of my salvation: I was so happy I got saved.  I could have written the song, it is still true today: “Sweeter gets the journey every day.” 

I have found that the tree of life is not only on the time side and on the eternal side; it is in the middle of the river.  Keep going for the tree of life; keep going out in the deep things of God.  Keep reading the scripture that caused you to get your spiritual teeth growing and keep growing deeper in the river.

There are leaves for the healing.  Beyond a shadow of a doubt we serve a God that divinely heals physically.  I don’t care who comes up with what, you can never destroy the healing that God has done.  Man will never know all the miracles of healing that God has done. 

This healer is not only a physical healer but also a spiritual healer.  One may say, “I have been so beat up by this group or that.”  There are those that are doing everything that they can to spew out bitterness.  It is impossible to come in contact with bitterness and not it try to affect you in some way. 

I think of the individual that says, “I have failed so many times.”  Or the one that says, “Brother I have seen so much.”  They did see it, but there is healing.

Jesus touched the blind man and he said, “I see men walking as trees.”  Jesus said, “Let me touch you again.”  We always need two works.

As you age you need this prescription.  We reach a time in our lives when everything seems so huge.  There is healing.  If you don’t seem to get far enough into the stream then unload.  When God speaks, “Son or daughter come out a little deeper.” You say, “I have to unload this pack sack.”  What about the cart behind that?  We are smiling because we understand.

Mentally, I go to God and say, “God help me to think right.  Help me to be just in my thinking.”

How can we find the tree of life?  It is Jesus; He is here this morning.

You know if you are under conviction and if God spoke to your heart.  You know if that hunger for justice is there.  All of us that came to Jesus Christ repenting, we came so guilty.  We didn’t deserve His mercy, but it is His justice. 

I don’t know why we must feel so humble to come to Him.  There is no greater honor than to come to him for His justice.

There is only one way to find that way back to God and that is through repentance.

Life is full of injustice and the pain of it leaves our minds and hearts in turmoil.  Taste and see that the Lord is good.