Brother Gary Sunday Morning 9/21/14

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 9/21/14

Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I trust God will help His Word and His Spirit to be as real and beneficial as it is this morning.  We are blessed to have the Bible and to know that this is the Word of God.  We are blessed to be taught, study together, and hear the Word of God preached and taught upon.

Rom 6:1  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Rom 6:2  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

We are thankful for all that were baptized Sunday.  It is the designed will of God that we walk in newness of life. 

Rom 6:5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

We thank God for the total plan of redemption, the plan of salvation, sanctification and the plan of walking in newness of life.  The old man, the old life, the one before bible Salvation: we can walk in newness of life and have the witness that by the help and grace of God I will not walk in that old life again.

Rom 6:7  For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Rom 6:8  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Rom 6:9  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

Rom 6:10  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:12  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Isn’t this beautiful instruction to us?  Don’t let sin control your life.

Rom 6:13  Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Yield yourselves unto God.  It has become real to me how blessed we are to understand the message of submission.  Most of us understand being submitted to God.  How beautiful submission and yielding to God are!  How much liberty is given to us by yielding to God!

There is nothing worse than being controlled by self, or being controlled by someone that we feel like, “I have to know what they are doing, or I want them to know what I’m doing.”  There is nothing worse than being in this bondage frame of mind.

God never intended it.  The whole plan of God, if you and I could look down time and look back in time and be able to put on those glasses Sister Timberly mentioned and see the plan of God from the time that we were born until this day, God’s way was always right.  Whether you or I chose it or not, it was right.

We rebelled against God and we needed a savior.  If we could look back to the young ages of our life we would say, “God had such a better plan for me.”  We look to the day of our conversion and say, “I am so glad that from that day that I confessed turned and repented from my sin I began to have the attitude: ‘I want to yield my soul unto thee.’”

How blessed is the soul daily, monthly, yearly that yields to God in every way. 

Especially the children and the young people will feel pressure from maybe their band teacher or others.  If you are to learn an instrument then you have to have a teacher, but there is a battle that goes on in the control of your life.

It is not just the children or the young people.  There is that battle that goes on in this world where men and women want to make subjects of others.  Then they put the predicate in there and they want to control individual’s lives.

There have always been people that have control issues and wanted to control other’s lives.  Jesus came and delivered us from the power of Satan.

Rom 6:13  Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Parents and children, grandchildren and grandparents, be challenged by the Word of God, “I am going to yield to God.” 

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

If you and I today could taste just a sip of the cup of regrets that men and women have, not even drink, just taste a sip of the cup of regret because men and women have yielded to sin and yielded to sin…  There is no way to yield to sin without it coming back to haunt you.  It produces a terrible cup of heartache and sorrow, of regret and hopelessness. 

Many of them become demon possessed or vexed.  Many of them are driven and driven and driven.  We are blessed to have the opportunity and privilege of yielding ourselves to God.

Rom 6:15  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Yielding to God as His servants brings us to being obedient to God.  Everyone can make your own life crowded and overcrowded and full of stress, because the demands on everyone of us.  Let me help you with the real secret.  God already took care of all of that, if you will first yield yourself unto God.  Say, “God first I am yours.”

I thought of the song, and maybe some of you will sing it, “Thou shalt be first.”  When we yield to God we say, “God, Thou shalt be first.  I yield everything to you.”  Another terminology in the New Testament is “I submit to God.”

We’ve all heard teaching to whatever degree on submission.  How wonderful it is to submit to God and to submit to brothers and sisters in Christ that are submitted to God.  How wonderful for a wife to submit to a husband that is submitted to God, for a congregation to submit to a pastor that is submitted to GOD. 

How dangerous it is for people to take the message of submission out of context and a husband being a tyrant over the wife.  For children to submit to a parent that is being controlled by the lust of the flesh and the … it is a vicious circle. 

When we are submitted to God then there is a balance in our life.  We need to know how to be strict and how to be loving, how to work and how to have fun. 

We need to have a balance.  If we don’t then we will shop so much that we are not of any use to God.  Or play so much that we are not any use to God.  Submit to God.  “God I am giving my all to you.”

Rom 6:17  But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

That doctrine was repent and be baptized.

Rom 6:18  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Rom 6:19  I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Iniquity unto iniquity:  In sin it was just a continual growing thing.  We all know that.  When someone leaves God and goes into sin, they are just going to do a little here and a little there.  Then it just becomes more and more.

Now that we are saved and submitting to God, we yield yourselves as servants of righteousness.  It is wonderful to be a servant of righteousness and for it to grow and to grow.

We yielded to unrighteousness and then iniquity and iniquity.  When we get saved and that ceases, we yield to righteousness and that produces holiness.

The fruits of sin bring shame.  That is written and will never be retracted.  Sin brings shame.

Rom 6:20  For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

Rom 6:21  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Rom 6:22  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Repentance and forgiveness produces a servant with fruit.  That fruit is the fruit of holiness and is life.

Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We receive instruction to walk in newness of life and yield ourselves to God.  We emphasize and know that the wages of sin produces shame and death.

The enemy has certain things that he writes across someone’s vision toward the things of God. 

If the individual loves golf, he will dump the bad teacher and find a good one.  If an individual wants to serve God then they may be in a bad situation, but they will say, this place is sour, I’m going to go find someone that believes and teaches the truth. 

The enemy takes advantage of all ages of people.  They have one bad experience.  Even though the children may not have anything to do with their parents choices, God will give them a chance. 

If we are the servants of God then we don’t have to fear anything because our motive and methods are right.  We want to see souls saved and come to the truth.

When people repent they are forgiven and have life.  Instructions to the obedient:  do not go backwards to sin.  But yield, present yourselves to God. 

The school counselors and coaches that I have observed are very partial people.  They pick out one or two and they give them everything.  You have to be lined up right.  That is so grievous to me.  The church is not that way.  Someone comes in and gets saved, they are given every opportunity. 

We want to look at every little child as an opportunity.  We want to teach the children and the adults to love each other.  We want to give them all the same concern.  Make sure if there is a barrier then it is on their part and not on yours.

Do not go back to sin.  Yield, present yourself to God.  You are blessed as students and young people that you can present yourselves to God.  You say, “Here I am and I want to be your servant.”  You become alive spiritually and you become a servant unto righteousness.

You may ask, “Which member should I yield first?”  Jesus was asked the question, “What is the first commandment?”  Matthew and Mark both recorded the first and the second commandment:  thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, thy mind, thy soul, and with all thy strength. 

Love God.  The thought is: yield yourself, your heart and get it right with God.  Your affection: get it right with God.  Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

Brother Paul instructed us:

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

When we get saved, we follow God and say, “God I want to be your servant.  Whatever you want me to do… I am just here presenting myself unto you.”  Paul wrote, “Present your bodies a living sacrifice.”

Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Jas 3:11  Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

Jas 3:12  Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

We have all known people that have professed.  At times they were sweet as honey and sometimes as bitter as gall.  The bible calls that spiritual wickedness in high places. 

We all have bad days.  I don’t wake up every day thinking that everything is perfect and the breakfast is going to be unburned.  Kathy and Kayla will call and everything is right in their lives, my brother will call and everything is right in his life.

I can make my own coffee and it still not be right.  We make that choice: “I’m going to be sweet.”  There are only two in my house way too much of the time.  Karen doesn’t need bitter water coming from me.  Yes, some days I wake up with an ache on this side; other days it is on the other.  That is not a reason to be bitter.  It is a spiritual thing.

You say, “I got so frazzled.”  You did not yield yourself to God or He would have helped you to know, “Unload before you got so frazzled.”

Everyone needs to fish and to hunt that enjoys it.  Yield yourself to God and say, “God help me to get my life so that I really enjoy this and am not so frazzled when I am done.”

We’d like to see our grandchildren every day, but we cannot handle the road trip.  Sister Alice probably wakes-up every morning thinking, “Are those grandchildren ok today?  Where are those grandchildren today?”  We share her burden. 

Sister Julie has a daughter in Missoula going to college.  The Missoulian specializes in bad news.  I don’t know if that town is as bad as the paper says it is.  If so they need to elect a new sheriff and tell Him to clean it up.

Sweet water:  there will be times in our life when the pastor will not tell us what we want to hear.  There will be times when a husband that is submitted and yield to God will say, “Wife I don’t think I can do that.  I don’t think that I can handle it.”  It is part of being saved.  It is a part of life.  We don’t have to let a bad attitude or bitterness spew out of us.

Heb 12:1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

We are headed into the fall season, 2014.  We have a real job to do for God.  It is the most important thing that is going on in fall 2014.  You say, “Do you realize that I have grandchildren, don’t have the wood in, and my house needs painted.” 

Anything that hinders us from being our best for God and keeps us from being our best in every service that we can get into needs to be in its proper place.  Any that realizes what the carnal nature is, says, “I want to be free from that which led me into sin, ruined my life, and kept me from doing right.” 

For anyone that lives long without living for God, I don’t see a tonic that causes them to look like sin is a prosperous thing.  They look haggard.  Anywhere you go you see them and the haggard men look scary.  Sin doesn’t treat them good.

Lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset you.

Jas 3:13  Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

Jas 3:14  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

We have the marvelous privilege of our life being without envy or strife.  Only by pride comes contention.  Strife is a terrible thing, “I want to preach better than these young guys in the congregation.”  Never the thought, “I’m going to pick out this young one in the congregation and pump them up but put that other one down.”  None of that.

This is the total opposite of that man and woman that yield themselves unto God.  When we yield unto God then there is a total change.  He gives us a new heart.

That envy and strife is ugly and leads souls into damnation.

Jas 3:17  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Jas 3:18  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

I love purity.  The pureness of heart produces a pure attitude toward one another, toward our self, toward the lost, toward those that did us wrong, we want them to repent and be baptized.  We say, “That man played games, I chose to serve God.”

Peaceable: let me help you here, the wisdom from above is peaceable.  That doesn’t mean that you just get along with everyone.  When you come up against a dark spirit the Spirit of God will help you to know, that man loves darkness.  You come up against a Babylonian; You can draw a good line.  If you don’t then you will have wars and lots of wars.

Gentle, easily entreated:  yielded to God.  “God if you want to use that brother or that sister, I am yielded to God and easy to be entreated.”

Full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.