Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 4/29/15

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 4/29/15

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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.

When at the grave side I mentioned how our past life leaves one under condemnation, immediately there were different facial expressions on the people there.  Three of us were saved so there was not the expression of condemnation because we are not under condemnation.  Three that I saw, their facial expression acknowledged, yes, condemnation.

We have such a blessing available to us to be led by the Spirit of God.  We are faced with many decisions every day.  Often our mind is the battle ground.  We wonder, “If I am saved and sanctified why am I tormented by this thought that I don’t want to have?”  That is the battle.  We can either fight the battle, or we can be overcome and we don’t want to do that.

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

The Holy Spirit of God will not be a dictator to anyone of us or hold a whip over us as a mule trainer. 

As many as are led…  My mind and your mind will put us on the run about as fast as we get out of bed in the morning with the pressures of life and the battles that we face as individuals that are saved.  There are pressures on those that are not saved, the wages of sin is death.  Those that are not led by the spirit of God will end up in the wilderness and desert as Deuteronomy says.

Rom 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

To know what it is to be saved and be led by the Spirit is a miracle.  “So laden was I… My sins are not there anymore.”  Many people that are physically ill are physically ill because of the condemnation of unrepented sin. 

We can be free to be led.

Rom 8:3  For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

By the very fact that Jesus was crucified and a sword was thrust into His side, Jesus came to condemn sin.  His message is, “You don’t have to live that way.”  That man holding the sign by the freeway in Missoula, he chose the wrong road and he doesn’t have to live that way.

Rom 8:4  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

“I keep my body under and bring it into subjection.”  One of the greatest victories after salvation and sanctification is keeping our body under, not letting our mind run away, our appetites run away or our flesh force us to do this or that.

Rom 8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

This scripture was good to me concerning the goodness of God that He has wrought for the sons of men.  Every day God has a lot of goodnesses ready for you to be led, guided, and directed.  You and I have a wonderful opportunity to let all these positive things work for us.

We know how the flesh makes demands and controls people.  The lusts of the flesh and the fulfillment thereof comes with a very high price tag.  How many times have you looked at a situation and say, “I wonder if they would do it all over again?”  People that have been in sin a while tell us, “Every day I live with regrets.” 

Isn’t it wonderful that we don’t have to?  You can be led of the Spirit of God every day and free from regret.

Rom 8:6  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Recently I wondered, “How come I am battling these kinds of thoughts?  I have no desire for anything that is not holy.”  It is a battle for our mind.  If the enemy can get your mind to think on something then he can get you going in a different direction.

Rom 8:7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

If we will let fleshly, carnal, human thoughts war in our mind, we will shrivel up until we don’t think we have enough strength in our hands to open the bible or a piece of gum. 

We serve a mighty God.  We don’t need to be overcome with the thought, “I cannot do this or that.”  Through Jesus Christ we can be more than a conqueror.

Our natural carnal mind will war against the things of God, against God being first, against us taking a stand.  It will war and war and war.

The majority of us feels the pressure of our financial times.  It will war on your mind.  But God will take care of His people.  Taxes may go up but God will still take care of His people.

The enemy would like to make us think that no one wants to hear the gospel.  That is a lie out of the pits of hell.  Men and women need to hear the gospel. 

We are living epistles.  When they get around you and me, I personally feel it is unjust for me to let anyone put the damper on me that I cannot say anything about God and truth.  You try to put the damper on them?  If they are democrats or republicans they will preach that stuff 24/7.

People are not all that concerned about what you have to filter out of what they say.  They say just about anything.  You say something about God and your mind begins, “I hope I didn’t offend them.”  Hold on.  You are a creation of God.

God made man of the dust of the ground.  He created the dust.  He breathed into their nostrils and man became a living soul.  God created them. 

As many as are led by the spirit of God they are the sons of God.

Rom 8:8  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Rom 8:10  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

We are blessed to have the quickening of the Holy Spirit of God.  It is the Spirit that quickens.

Rom 8:11  But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Isn’t it wonderful to have something quickening us, quickening a song in our soul?

Rom 8:12  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Rom 8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Dear church in Paradise, we have a full schedule between now and Sunday night.  What will make it all flow smoothly is every individual being led by the Spirit of God.  That will cause everything to work out.