Sister Teri Sunday School 5/3/15

Sister Teri Sunday School 5/3/15

Coram Deo – before the face of God, under the authority of God, in the presence of God.

God is everywhere present and is aware of everything that is going on.  There is comfort in that.  God is all-powerful, and is ultimately in control; He is able to work even bad events to His glory.  God is aware, he is in control, and He has a purpose in everything that is going on.

God’s vision is for the spiritual and for the eternal.  We may have visions working toward retirement, or a new house, or other things that are temporal.  We want our vision to be on the things that are eternal and not let the things of life cloud our vision on things that are eternal.

The Christian that compartmentalizes his life into two sections, temporal and spiritual, has failed to grasp the idea of Coram Deo.  All of life or none of life is spiritual. 

Jesus was every bit the son of God when he worked the carpenter’s shop as he was when He healed people.  Coram Deo is a pattern of life that functions the same in church as out of church.  All that is done is as to the Lord. 

We realize that all aspects of our life, our relationships, our activities, our responsibilities are a part of our field of labor for God.  God has placed us in a field of labor and has put these people in our lives.  We want to keep that present in our mind and realize that every moment of our life is to be lived Coram Deo.

We trust, He will lead, and we follow; He will guide and we follow under the spirits influence, He will equip us with all we need.

Mat 6:19  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Mat 6:20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Mat 6:21  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Mat 6:22  The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Mat 6:23  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

It has to do with vision.  Our eye needs to be single, our vision needs to be focused on things spiritual.  It needs to be all of God, not compartmentalized, single which means undivided.

Mat 6:25  Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Mat 6:26  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Let’s not let our thoughts be consumed by the things that are temporal

Mat 6:31  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Mat 6:32  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Mat 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Since He repeated it, he wants us to get it.  He must know that it is something that we will struggle with.  We must focus our mind with the help of the Spirit of God. 

The Father knows.  He is present.

After these things the gentiles seek.  The gentiles spend their time craving things that satisfy the flesh. 

Seek first the kingdom of God.  Take therefore no thought for the morrow.

Plan as God would lead, but dwell in the present.  We can’t do a lot of the past, but live this day for the glory of God in the presence of God under His leading and for His glory.

Luk 12:35  Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

Luk 12:36  And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

Luk 12:37  Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

Luk 12:38  And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Luk 12:39  And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Luk 12:40  Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

The thief comes in a time when we are not watching or aware.  He comes to rob us of what God’s purpose and vision is.  He comes to get us distracted and sidelined.  The son of man also comes at an hour when we think not.

God comes and visits souls when we are not expecting it.  We are a part of His hand extended.  We are a part of the harvest.  When He is working with a soul, then He will come when we are not expecting it.  We need to have our lives in order in such a way that we are not consumed with the things of life.  We want to be available.

God wants us ready and willing to work when He comes.  Are we going to be ready, willing, and able to be a part of the great work that God has planned for the souls of God?

Luk 12:41  Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

Luk 12:42  And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

Luk 12:43  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Luk 12:44  Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

Luk 12:45  But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

Luk 12:46  The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

I’ve wondered about a servant of God beginning to eat the menservants and the maidservants.  But he thought, “My lord delays his coming…”  we’ve always been told that the Lord would return and we should live separate from the world but then we don’t see His moving and we begin to wonder, “Is this really necessary?” 

Soon they begin to bring things into their life, “That is not necessary.” Then soon they go out and take up a religious profession. 

We need to hold what we know.  God knows all about what has gone on and happened.  There will be a definite time when He will come and deal with souls strongly and I want to be a part of that.

Those that have gone off; their heart is divided.  They think they are ok. 

I worked for Tiara glassware, a company like Pampered Chef, there was a jewelry company coming that kept coming to steal their salesmen and women.  Those that were at the top wouldn’t let them do it, “How can you devote your time and attention to tiara Glassware if you are also selling Jewelry?” 

It is the same in the kingdom of God.  We don’t want to have our attention divided; some on the things of the world and others on serving God. 

The world will get consumed with the things of the world.  We cannot operate the same way or we will not be successful on what God wants us to do. 

Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Eph 1:19  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

We are to be His body.  He is the head.  He is directing our every move.  In our body, the head directs the hand to take the food.  The head directs for the temporal needs of the body.  We want the body, the church, us, to be in this way.  We are responsible for our body but we want it yielded and fully given to God.

Heb 11:24  By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

Heb 11:25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

Moses’ vision was eternal.  It was lined up Coram Deo, in the presence of God, for the glory, and under the authority of God.  That is why he forsook the things Egypt had to offer.

We need to also forsake what the world has to offer. 

Joh 12:23  And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

Joh 12:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Joh 12:25  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Joh 12:26  If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

Joh 12:27  Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.

Joh 12:28  Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Jesus was struggling with the flesh, but He was saying, for the fruit and the harvest to come, that corn must fall in the ground and die.  If we want to see a harvest, we need to die to the flesh.  We all have a purpose, God has a purpose for us.  Let’s have our vision focused on what God has for us.

Heb 12:1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

What is that sin that is so easily besetting?  The demands of the flesh and of the world.  It is always trying to come upon us and take our time. 

Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Heb 12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Heb 12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

God has purposes that He is working in our lives.  Our current job, relationships … how are they working toward God’s remote purpose?  How are we influencing people in these realms according to God’s purposes? 

How is God using changes in our life, or persecution, for His purposes?  Think about these things as we go through our days.  God has a plan and we want to not miss it.