Brother Gary Sunday Morning 12/28/14

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 12/28/14

Psa 80:17  Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

Psa 80:18  So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

Psa 80:19  Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

In the Gospel Day, the thought is given to us: The hand of God being upon His Son Jesus whom He ordained would have strength.  It is wonderful that when we get a vision of Jesus in the Gospel Day it causes everything else to be substandard and encourages us that there is nothing impossible with God.

God moved upon Solomon to tell of the Messiah that was to come.

Pro 8:27  When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

Jesus was there when God ordained that there would be a compass.  Into every soul that has ever been born, they come into the world with a compass and a desire for the living God. 

Jesus was there way back in creation when God ordained there to be poles that would pull toward the north and the south.  Jesus has designed the soul to pull towards God.  If you want joy, peace, and happiness, there is one way to find it and it is to allow the compass in your soul to lead you to Jesus. 

Jesus was there in creation when he made the clouds.

Pro 8:28  When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

Pro 8:29  When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Pro 8:30  Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

Pro 8:31  Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

This audience can identify with the beautiful relationship between a father and a son, a mother and a daughter, a grandparent and grandchildren.  How they delight in them and take pleasure in their growth! 

As we see them maturing and see their manners grow, there is nothing like hearing a grandchild pray.  I remember hearing my daughters pray when I was so sick.  It is a treasure that I will never forget.  We got to hear our grandchildren pray this last week.

“I was daily His delights.”  Parents, love your children.  Grandparents, love your children.  Don’t push them aside.  There is not enough money in Brother Jason’s bank to even consider neglecting children.

I thought this morning, “Oh God, help me to know how to love all the children.”  I was a little frazzled this Christmas week and I knew it.  I prayed, “God help me with the children.” 

My daddy left me with the testimony of an aunt in West Virginia and there was something in her personality that she was not nice to my daddy.  My dad was hurt, he became bitter, and it went to hatred.  Before he could ever get saved, he had to get rid of that bitterness and hatred.

There is everything we need from Him.  This Jesus was with the Father, brought up by Him and was daily His delight.  Always rejoicing before Him. 

Those children at our house were just playing, and playing, and playing with those toys at our house.  It didn’t matter if anyone was playing with them or not. 

Jesus had a wonderful time before He came here.  He was the father’s delight.  But there was something in Jesus, it was ordained of God, part of the compass that God ordained that He have:  He was rejoicing in the inhabitable parts of the earth, and “His delights were with the sons of men.”

This Jesus had all heaven to enjoy and was the delight of the Father.  Yet His delights were with the sons of men.  He was there with the Father when the earth was created, yet He identifies with your burden and your concern for your brother and sister and for yourself.  “I don’t want to spend my life just going around and around, there is a highway to travel.”

Mal 4:2  But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Jesus is still asking the question, “Will you be whole?”  Those rays and beams of the Sun of Righteousness reach out to every spot on this literal earth. 

On the morning of December 28^th the literal sun’s rays reached Switzerland.  These rays from the Son of God reach out to men and women with the realization, “There needs to be changes in my life that have not been made by my being just religious.” 

When you get Jesus Christ on the inside, everything changes, your dress changes, your talk changes, and your very set of heart changes.

We live in a very sad world.  People are so empty, empty of God, of life, of the Love of God.  Religious people are so empty. 

“To them that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings.”  It is whatever kind of healing that people need, emotional healing, physical healing, and spiritual healing.

Mal 3:16  Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

One thing that we really want to talk about is God: the goodness of God, what God has done, is doing and will do.  We are blessed to know about God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit of God.  We are not in competition with one another.  We are interested in building people up and strengthened. 

Mal 3:17  And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

Mal 3:18  Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

How beautiful, the Lord hearkened, and heard it.  The result of those that fear God is that God hearkens.  He hearkens to our every word.  That means feeding one another with good spiritual food.  That means the saints feel the weight of one another’s burdens.  They don’t make a big deal of it, but they let you know, “I am praying for you and carrying your burden.”

God said, “We need to make a book of remembrances.  Those saints encouraged one another.”  God said, “I want it written down.” 

There was brother by the name of Brother Lawson.  He had a love for God.  He would go into the movement churches and at the first service the place would be packed.  The second there would be only a handful.  He went right on preaching and hitting the chart. 

Sister Stewart felt called to go as far east as she could and get on a boat and go to the first island.  There were very few that encouraged her.  She went right on believing God.

Isaiah 59: there were a lot of things wrong in the day that Isaiah prophesied.  It would remind you of today.  God moved and told Isaiah, “There is one thing that I cannot see among everything down there; there is no intercessor.”

You and I are in a specific position this morning to choose to be unaffected in the thought of jumping on the band stand and talking of everything that is going wrong in our world, but to choose to be an intercessor.

Luk 2:40  And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

The awesome thing about Jesus is this:  At the age of 12, Jesus increased in wisdom and He was growing.  He increased in stature, and in favor with God. 

Jesus wants to really know you children this morning.  He wants to work on your personality, your thoughts, and your ambitions.  We as a church are behind you but it is God that knows how to place His hand on you children.

If you serve God, those hearts that are hungry for God will want to know what you have on the inside that causes you to weather the storms.

Jesus taught us how to pray.  You children need to know how to pray.

Luk 18:1  And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Learn to pray as a child, then when you become a young man or woman, when things get rough instead of losing your way, God wants you to follow His steps.  Jesus said to Peter, Satan has desired to have you but I have prayed for you.

Jesus prayed for his own when He was here on earth. 

Joh 17:18  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

Joh 17:19  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

Joh 17:20  Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

Joh 17:21  That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Joh 17:22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

Joh 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Jesus had the ultimate of trials.  He was in the garden praying.  There will be times when you need to shut the door on everything and pray.  Jesus had a time in His life when He desperately needed divine intervention from Almighty God.  He was in the garden praying and an angel came and strengthened Him.

You will come to the place in your life when you feel, “This is too big for me.”  That is how life is.  It is how life is for me.  It is how life is for a lot of you out there.  Jesus had that same experience.  It seemed that He was all alone during that experience. 

Sometimes it seems that no one understands.  It doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t understand if they knew, but we think, “God can I burden anyone with this burden?” 

Some of you know your children better than they know themselves.  Some of you know your husbands or wives better than they know themselves. 

Sometimes you feel like, “No one knows.”  It is not that you couldn’t tell anyone, but when you find yourself, “I don’t know if I can tell anyone.”  Jesus was there and He knew what to do, He prayed to God.  And an angel came and strengthened Him.

Remember that when things are such that the hour is not comfortable to call someone else, you can call on Him with such faith and fervency that God himself will dispatch an angel strengthening you.

Jesus is sitting on the right hand of the Father ever making intercession for us.  We are never alone.

Rom 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Rom 8:36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I will never conquer without God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit of God.  One of these days we will come to the river of death.  We want to have it settled now so that if it happens today, no matter what kind of a death, it will not separate us.

Life can be tough.  There is pain and heartache.  I won’t tell you what kinds of losses there will be in 2015, but there will be losses.  Life will bring losses.

There will be things stacked against us in 2015.  We all saw it with Brother Bill this last year, we all thought he was a goner in Plains High School.  You may have things stacked against you but thank God you can be more than a conqueror.

People may disdain you and look down upon you.  Don’t let it separate you.  Don’t let them agitate, irritate, or provoke you.  Go right on serving God. 

Don’t let things to come separate you.  We don’t know what is coming, but we know that we can trust God.  Go right on serving God.