Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 10/1/14

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 10/1/14

The pleasure in the service of the Master:

We are blessed to have our own Bible.  We are blessed to know that the Bible is true.  The Mormons say that they have taken the Bible apart and know that it is not true.  They must have missed some scriptures then, the Bible is forever settled in Heaven.   I know it is true.

Psa 16:11  Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

There is a path of life.  In His presence is fullness of joy.  At His right hand are pleasures forever more.

We are so blessed to be challenged to enjoy serving God.  We are blessed to be challenged by the scriptures and by songs by Brother Warner and by Brother Warren.

I hope that I find some by DO Teasley.  I believe that he was a man of great genius, great intellect, and was mightily used of God.  As great as these men were if they don’t find the pleasure in serving God then they will backslide.  This is what happened to DO Teasley.  We need to keep our values right and know where our joy comes from.  It has to come from God.

I was in a terrible meeting one time and I decided as I flew home that my experience doesn’t rest on people, but on God.  The church of God that I saw in that meeting is not the church that God built.  The church is just as it was; the head is just the same.  I’m glad that God kept me steady.  I could have been as DO Teasley and walked away and never heard from again.

Thou wilt show us the path of life.  We have to let Him show us.  We have to stand in the old ways and ask.  The greatest thing that stands in our way if our self.  If we submit to God then He is always right. 

In thy presence is fullness of joy.  We know that no matter what happens tomorrow, Jesus is going to be the same as He ever was.  Even if our hopes and plans are blown asunder, God is still the same.

The song that we sang, ‘There is a Fountain’, says I will sing and praise God all my days, and when I’m gone from this life, I will sing them with a nobler sweeter tongue. 

If we find ourselves in a situation where we feel unhappy, doomed, and hanging with darkness, drab and everything is down.  Get a hold of the scripture and begin to submit to God.  Say, God help me to find the path. 

Begin to submit to God, “God I am not going to wear this sadness the rest of my days.  I’m going to be like the myrtle tree.” 

There is a lot more to a myrtle tree than I taught.  They are a beautiful tree, beautiful to look upon, always full of leaves and always blossoming.  There are groves of them.  If you go into the grove, there is a sweet aroma and fragrance.

At His right hand are pleasures for ever more.

1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

In the millions of people, God had it so that every one of us here came in contact with someone that knew God. The man that wrote, “Standing on the Promises”, found the people of God after he got saved; we thank God for it.

A royal priesthood: this enables us to offer up sacrifices of praise, prayer, thanksgiving. 

Whenever I think of souls in trouble, “There go I but for the grace of God.”  I think of men in trouble, naturally.  If it were not for God then I would be as bad as or worse than them. 

To think that we could have been saved, sanctified and able to offer up to God sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving and receive back from God manna and a word fitly spoken that is as apples of gold in pictures of silver.

A tongue that has something alive and real from God!  You have to be a royal priesthood to get something real from God.  We have a people that can get a hold of God and get a song and a good Sunday School lesson from God.

You won’t get anything from Bill Gaither or Collingsworth family other than soda crackers.  You need to get real food from God.

We are a purchased possessions.  We are loved that much.  Purchased by one that is holy.  He loved us cared for us, sent his only begotten son that paid the supreme price that all our committed sins could be forgiven.

When we think of what God did for us just in Paradise, we think of what He did for Brother David in Illinois.  Think of what God has done that we should show forth the praises of Him that have called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.

1Pe 2:10  Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

We were not in line to receive anything from God.  We were lost gentiles, heathen until we got saved.  Now we have obtained mercy.

1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

It applies to you.  It was not written in the bible for just the Irish.  It applies to everyone that is here tonight.  Know, “This is where the enemy would work on me.  Abstain from it.  There are some things where we must build good walls and fortifications and keep our body in and our mind in.  We must sometimes straighten others out, “No I cannot do that.”

Abstain from the lusts that war against your soul.

1Pe 2:12  Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1Pe 2:13  Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

1Pe 2:14  Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

1Pe 2:15  For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

1Pe 2:16  As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Our freedom is that we can submit to God.  People that have troubles submitting are always in a battle.  We can submit to God and His will at all times and in all places.

1Pe 2:17  Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

1Pe 2:18  Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

1Pe 2:19  For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

I Love to Serve My Jesus

I love to serve my Jesus, a privilege so sublime,
My life afresh with beauty bright is sparkling all the time;
Mid scenes that are unfading, of rapture and of bliss,
Transported I am soaring in my Saviors righteousness.

I love to serve my Jesus the world I do give up,
I’ll drink with my dear savior from the at bitter, bitter cup;
I know that if I suffer, with him I too shall reign
In life and up in glory bright sweet promise sure I claim.

I love to serve my Jesus and lean upon His arm,
In health or in affliction in the calm or in the storm;
In darkness, clouds, or sunshine, in heat or in the cold,
In poverty or riches, I have peace and joy untold

I love to serve my Jesus for all his tender care,
Oh joy! And what a pleasure in this life we all may share;
Oh depth of great compassion! Tis like a mighty flood,
He gave his pledge of love to us and sealed it what his blood

Chorus:
I love to serve my Jesus, He‘s all in all to me;
He helps me bear each burden, He is my victory.

Difficulties will come; they didn’t only come to the writer of this song.  Enjoy the victory when you have it but the day will come when you will be tried in the furnace of affliction.  If you are not genuine, you will mope around or open the door to self-pity.

You wake up in the morning this fall season and it is still dark.  You have to turn the light on to see if it is raining or snowing. 

I don’t know about tomorrow, we may be poorer the next day, but in it all, serving Jesus can be a pleasure.