Sister Dorothy Sunday School 12/14/14

Sister Dorothy Sunday School 12/14/14

Temptations come to all of us.  The enemy will tempt us one way and if it doesn’t work then he will flip it around and try it another way.  God’s plan is that we be as He created Adam and Eve.  He is not willing that any perish, but that we be lined up with His plan.

Temptations means the test of an alien personality of the possessions held by another personality.

This week the enemy tempted me this way, I was thinking of the lesson and all at once my mind went to, “this is so simple, all the saints know this.”  You see how he works?  Then a scripture came to me:

2Pe 3:17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

Beware.  Ye know these things.  You know that the enemy is a tempter; he will work on you.  Once you are saved, you have great possessions.  Possessions are something that we hold.  If we treasure a possession, we are very careful with it.  We put it where it will not be broken and kind of hide it in a way because it is so precious to us.

These treasures that the Lord has given us through salvation and sanctification are so precious that I cannot be persuaded to lose them.  The one that found the treasure in the field sold everything they had, they sold out, to buy this beautiful treasure.

There are two cleansings that we must come to realize.  We first of all repent, have godly sorrow.  We become justified, our sins are forgiven.

The second cleansing is that we get rid of our self and commit everything to Him so that He can come and cleans out that adamic nature that we were born with.  He cleanses it out and makes us just how Adam and Eve were created.

First in justification we need to realize that we are a sinner.  Some will say, “I am a good person.”  All have sinned.  (When we get saved it doesn’t mean that we keep on sinning, that is just an excuse.)

Godly sorrow works carefulness, clearing of ourselves, indignation, fear, vehement desire, repentance, peace…

We will carefully clear our self, carefully have indignation, carefully fear, and carefully repent.

Zeal means heat, ardor, jealousy, emulate – stimulate and work alongside to jealousy.

This is not carnal jealousy.  It is to be fervent.  Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything.  Fervency, earnestness, enthusiasm.

After justification, what we didn’t once care for or failed to do, all at once we want to do it.

Ecc 9:10  Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Rom 12:11  Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

1Co 14:12  Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

Psa 119:139  My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

Joh 4:35  Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

This ought to give us a zeal.  Souls are lost.  I went to a funeral the other day and was so sad.  Honest seeking souls are lost, led astray.

In Justification:

1.      Rom 10:1  Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

We desire all men to be saved. 

Rom 11:14  If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

2.      Godly sorrow works peace. 

Rom 5:1  Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

There is nothing like it when you get saved, repent, and have that godly sorrow that breaks you up in there and you know that your sins are forgiven, what peace!  The angel said, “Peace on earth, good will to men.”  Not only in our heart, but there is peace with our fellow man. 

There is not all that jangling, the things that go on and agitate, there is peace.

3.      We become fruitful. 

Mat 12:33  Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

Mat 12:34  O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Mat 12:35  A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Mat 12:36  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Mat 12:37  For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

We want to be fruitful.  When we are saved, we do become fruitful.  An abundance comes out and no corruption comes out.  It is good fruit.  God wants us to be good fruit bearers.

We are all producing fruit.  “By their fruit you shall know them.”  No matter who you come in contact with, test their fruit.  God gives us so many natural things that come right over into our spiritual understanding.  It is wonderful how He takes our simple minds and brings it over into what we can understand.

4.      Love for the Lord and Neighbor:

Luk 10:27  And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

There is something about when we get saved, the love for God and our neighbor.

5.      There is no more condemnation

Rom 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Condemnation is not fun.  It is very taxing.  Isn’t it wonderful that there is no condemnation?  It is where the peace comes in.

Joh 5:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

Act 24:16  And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

It is such a privilege we have when we get our sins forgiven.  Hove our conscience void of offence.

6.      Our names are written in heaven

Luk 10:20  Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Written in heaven:  there is a new name written down in glory and it is mine. 

7.      New born babes desire nourishment. 

1Pe 2:2  As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

The first thing a new babe wants is to suckle.  It is born in them.  When we get saved it is the same.  “I am the bread of life.”  He is where we get the nourishment.

Sister Teri: when I first desired to get saved, I started to read the bible but didn’t get anything from it so I stopped reading it.  After I got saved, it was hard to stop reading it, God opened my understanding and there was a hunger to know.  There is a vast difference when we are saved, there is an automatic hunger that way.  We get nourishment and it is not an empty thing that we are feeding on.  It satisfies our soul and provides nourishment. 

Brother Bill: The key is for people to get saved.  Sometimes people have the attitude, “I can never go that way because I could never live that, my desire is too much to this or that worldly thing.”  If any be in Christ He is a new creature, old things pass away and all things become new.  Even our desire changes.  The things that we used to give into before we don’t have to strive and struggle with it.  He changes our desire. 

Mar 4:26  And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

Mar 4:27  And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

The kingdom of God is set up where we can let God do the changes in our heart.  It is not a struggle anymore.  We have the responsibility to take care of our soul. But God will help us.  The key is for people to just do the first step and then God will help us with the other stuff.  We are a different person.  If we are not, then something is wrong and we need to seek until we become a different person in Jesus.  He made us so that we could be come in His image and could be made again in His image.  Which is sinless.

8.      Birth – life bringing into life.  A dead mother cannot bring forth life.  Life brings forth life. 

A new birth – bringing into life from God.  It must come from God.  We can try to make our self over, and many do, but it just doesn’t accomplish that new birth.  It must come from God.

1Jn 5:11  And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1Jn 5:12  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

Bringing into life from God.

Joh 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemas had no understanding, “How can a man be born again?  I am a full grown man, how can this happen?”  It is not a fleshly thing, it must be done from God.

Verse 6:  When the Spirit of God breaths upon our soul it restores life.  We were dead in our trespasses and sins.

Sanctification:

1Th 4:3  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

We must realize that we need to be sanctified once we are saved.  It takes a definite dealing with our heart to realize that there is something missing.  “I am thankful that I have all these possessions that I have through justification, but there is something not quite satisfied.” 

If you were saved and sanctified and then lost out with God and let the tempter take all your possessions, then you lose all your possessions.  It shouldn’t take long until you realize that you need God to have those possessions.

Col 3:10  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Put on the new man that is renewed in knowledge.  God gives us knowledge.  That is the Spirit of God.  He works that way.  The world is saying, “We are created in the image of God.”  Adam was, but we are not born into that image, we are born into the image of Adam. 

We must realize that, we must face reality.  There is a separation between the spiritual and the natural things of life.  We can understand something naturally but when the Spirit brings it then we realize it more than just naturally.

Eph 2:3  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

We have to realize that our nature was fulfilling all these things of the flesh.  We have to realize, “No more, this is not God’s will; this is not how we should live.”  By being nourished by the spirit and wanting to grow, we find a scripture like this and it helps us to realize that we need to go on and have that cleansed out.

The Holy Spirit of Promise seals us.  It protects us.  Just like with the canning process so that things don’t spoil.  Sanctification helps us to be sealed so that we don’t go back.

Heat is important in the canning process.  God wants to preserve and keep us.  We have to let Him put the heat on.

To completely give up the right to myself.  Adam and Eve didn’t even think about themselves.  They were going on day to day, walking with God and having communion with God.  They didn’t think, “I have some rights here.”  Until the enemy came along.  The enemy was able to cause Eve to feel that she had a right to the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

We have to give up the rights of our self up to God:  Thinking that we have a right to do or be as we are needs to be given up to God.