Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 10/15/14

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 10/15/14

The Word of God is so wonderful when it is allowed to have liberty in our life.

Isa 55:11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

God has designed and desires that His Word would go forth from His mouth and meet the general challenges of the Church of God here and everywhere else.

There were those that had particular needs in the last week or two that we have heard of tonight and to each one God sent His Word.  The reason that He sent His Word was because there was some soul waiting on His Word.

Oswald Chambers said that when people won’t take some counsel of God, God will not give them new counsel until they take what He has already given them.

God’s Word is designed to go forth and not return void.

We are living day by day and sing the song, “I need thee every hour.”  Karen told me that she was introduced to a song in her early life, “Moment by moment.”  We feel this in everyday life.  “We need you today, God.” 

As the mother of six children wrote, “I need thee every hour.  There are times when we feel, “Moment by moment.  I am in a situation today that is critical.”  It is not only when we deal with someone else.  The temptations, the trials, the accusations, and the mind battle can be moment by moment, “God help me get through these things and put a period at the end and it stop.”

God’s word will accomplish what He pleases.  If we will take His counsel then it will accomplish what He sent it to.  One way that He knows that His word is being received: if we take the counsel and then turn around and give Him praise

Isa 55:12  For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

There are times when we may have in our mind a different answer than God sends.  We have learned, “God’s way is best.”  We take exactly what God sends, know it is right and rejoice in it.

Led forth with peace:  Isn’t it wonderful to not always be in turmoil?  Sister Dorothy has expressed and Brother Jack has told me over and over again how wonderful it is to be away from all that strife and competition.

We have a wonderful shepherd.  He leads us forth into green pastures.  Some of us think, “I cannot accomplish what I used to.”  That doesn’t mean that there is not a pasture for us.  “God help me to be led into the green pasture where I can be renewed and accomplish things for You.”

I thought this week about the myrtle tree and the beauty of a myrtle tree.  There is nothing so beautiful as a life that has been changed by bible salvation, that has spiritual life.  There is nothing so beautiful as a life that has, “I am satisfied in Jesus Christ, I have a peace, a joy, a clear conscience.” 

Isn’t it wonderful to have direction from God in our life, to be in the house of God, to know, “I have a burden for this soul, help me to know how to reach them.”

God gave Isaiah the prophecy that we read about the Gospel Day.  This prophesy that God gave to Amos is also a reality in the Gospel Day.  Sad but true there are people in our region that would actually be in this condition.

Amo 8:11  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

The saddest thing that can transpire in a life is for that life to reject the counsel of God, walk behind light, and go into darkness.

We already know, “If the light becomes darkness, how great is that darkness!”  I think it was Jude that referred to the ‘blackness of darkness’.

Amo 8:12  And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

In the Hebrew dictionary that I looked at ‘they wander’ means that they are vagabonds.  They are bums.  It is a terrible thing to not have any fruit, or spiritual life within us.  It means up and down.  When individuals lose the Word of God out of their life they go first down then up or first up then down.  There is no root. 

It means they are seeking the Word of the Lord but they are not finding it because they already rejected it.  That is so sad.  Brother Ferguson one time told me, “Brother Kelly, when anyone leaves God, I believe that they have to go to the issue right where they left Him and get it right in order to get back.”

In the life of Jacob, he did wrong and then he met God on the hillside and wrestled with God and the angel there.  Many years later God brought him right back to that same place.  What God speaks to me, I want to hear.  I don’t want to put it on the shelf for a more convenient time.  Or take the attitude, “oh well.”

It means no labor.  The design of God is that the fibers of our heart be so knit with each other that we are laborers together.  When one rejoices we all rejoice and when one is burdened we all carry it.

Gospel wandering:

Jud 1:8  Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

Jud 1:10  But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Jud 1:11  Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Jud 1:12  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Jud 1:13  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Wandering stars: one thing about God is that He really gives direction.  I remember before I got saved: the Word of God was very strong to me that I needed to repent and become a new creature.  It wasn’t long after that before God spoke to my heart, “Seek those things that are above.”  It wasn’t long after that that He spoke to me that I needed to be sanctified.

He deals with certainty and not uncertainty.

Wanderers are always looking for the utopia and never finding it.  Always wandering, “We’ll try this.  We’ll try that.  We’ll go here.  We’ll go there.”

A Catholic man told me, “All the priest is talking about is money.”  I said, “That is sad, people need more than that.  God’s ministers preach what they need from God most and that is grace.”  He said, “What is grace?”  I could not believe that he didn’t know.

From what I know of him, he wanders and wanders.  He wants to come to church sometime and bring a friend.  What is grace?  It is sad to be a wanderer.  Nothing satisfies like the truth of God’s Word.

If tomorrow I can wake up and He speaks His Word to me, I will be satisfied.

Imposers:  There is something about wanderers that they are wanting to get something that is not theirs.  The saints are marvelous people.  If someone comes in, there is something in your heart that you want to reach out your hand in fellowship and have them to dinner.  There are strange wanderers that are grasping for something that we cannot give them.

Deceivers misleaders, seducers.

Jude’s inspirational epistle to the sanctified:

Jud 1:1  Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

Jud 1:2  Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

Jud 1:20  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Jud 1:21  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Isn’t it something when you know that someone really cares for you?  Jude really cared.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.  We are all challenged to pray in the Holy Ghost. 

I have on my prayer request list, “Sunday morning revival.”  I am praying that there be real conviction here.  That God will help you and me to have such a burden for souls that in confidence the Sunday school lessons, the songs, the choir, and special singing will be such that souls will be prepared.  Even tonight the souls that we hope will be here Sunday morning that the power of the Holy Ghost will begin working in their life.

Jud 1:22  And of some have compassion, making a difference:

 Jud 1:23  And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Have compassion on souls, not in the thought of leaving them where they are.  When there is sin in their life, when their garments are spotted:  garments cannot be spotted by the flesh long until they lose their relationship with God.

Jud 1:24  Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

We don’t want to lose our way or become a wanderer.

DO Teasley wrote the song, “I believe Jesus saves.”  His testimony is that he allowed something to come between Him and God.

There may be situations that place you where you feel, “I almost feel like the song that “I need thee moment by moment.”  The situation makes me feel that I am walking a tight rope.”  We will be in situations like that in our life.  He is able to present you faultless.  You can handle situations like that with a right attitude.

Jud 1:25  To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.