Brother Gary Sunday Morning 6/21/15

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 6/21/15

2Sa 7:1  And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;

2Sa 7:2  That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

2Sa 7:3  And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.

“The ark of God dwelleth within curtains.”  The very first thing that was put into the Tabernacle was the ark of God.  The final thing reaching the Holiest of Holies, it is that which God had in mind for Moses and for us, as far as salvation and sanctification.

David said, “I would rather be a door keeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”

I would like to look at what was in the ark of God.  There were the Ten Commandments, the pot of manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded. 

In the beginning of time, when Adam and Eve were created and in the Garden of Eden.  Even before Adam and Eve, God had it in His mind to dwell with His people.

We all that have reached the age of accountability understand sin.  There was that nature to sin that led us abroad early in our life.  It is wonderful that God always deals with the problem.  He doesn’t give a Band-aide, He gives a cure.

God designed that mankind would serve Him.  God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.

We will all meet, as we travel the journey of life, individuals that have their own doctrine: “It doesn’t matter who or what you worship as long as you worship.”  That is heresy.  We must worship the true God in Spirit and in truth. 

These truths affect children, young people, and adults.  As Athol is getting ready for their youth outreach we need to pray that the young people would come under the influence of the almighty making an appeal to their soul that their mind would go to spiritual things. 

The effect of worshipping God in spirit and in truth is that individuals are changed.  Every one of us comes into this world with a clean slate and because of our own sin we gain a record in heaven of our committed sin until we confess, repent, and get saved.

The design of the Word of God is that we are changed by the Spirit of the Lord.  We have all experienced the pleasures of life, our own desires, the will of man, ideas that people would give to instruct you as to what you ought to do…  I want to help you this morning.  There is one marvelous thing about the plan of God.  It is one of the many things about the plan of God.  His plan is that you worship Him in Spirit and in truth. 

2Co 3:17  Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2Co 3:18  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

I often awake in the morning and feel my desperate need to be changed by the Spirit of the Lord.  It doesn’t mean that I went away from God in the night.  It means that there is something in us that if we try to direct our own pathways we will make shipwreck every time.  We have the marvelous opportunity to be changed by the Word and Spirit of God.

If you are in sin this morning, you are blessed, there has been a supreme sacrifice made that all your sin could be forgiven.  You don’t get partially saved.  You may have been cleaning up your language and books and measuring here and there.  That is to be appreciated.  There is something that takes place when you realize that on a hill called Mount Calvary the blood of the Lamb was slain that you could be forgiven and washed. 

I was thinking of the personal affect it has on me when I think of the sacrifice that was made that I could be saved.  It brings such a reverence to me to think that the holy Lamb of God died one day on a hill called Mount Calvary a price was made that I could be forgiven of my committed and inherited sin.

There is the laver, a place to wash.  After you are saved, there is a place to go back and begin to worship, “God I want to be washed of anything that displeases you.”  The children have been playing in the garden, weeding, and watering.  Someway they became dirty.  There is water to cleanse.

God says, even after some would say we have been saved a long time, “I want to wash you.”  We say, “I want to be washed.”  God always convicts us according to the Word of God.  When there is something in the inner man, the soul, that needs to be washed, He comes with His precious Word.  It is a law of liberty.  His washing frees us.  It especially frees us from our self.

If you have some hang ups, I will not be able to unhang you, but if you will worship then God can cleanse you at the laver.

Jesus is the door.  It is wonderful that there is a way into His church.  All that come, come the same way: through His door.  As you enter in, it is wonderful what He has prepared for you.

There is a candlestick that shines light on your pathway.  “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet.”  There is not one here that will not be making decisions.  Some have very important decisions to make.  His Word is a light to our feet.  It will be a lamp unto our path.

God knows what lies ahead.  I can fill you with fears and precautions; I could tell you about all the snares that are out there for these children and young people.  There is one thing that is so much better and that is to take the candlestick of the Word of God and let it search your soul and have the attitude, “I want you to shine the light on my path, enlighten my steps, and show me the snares.”

There is also a table of shew bread.  Every Sabbath there was 12 loaves of fresh bread put upon the table.  Every day God has fresh bread for your soul.

You go to the golden altar, you offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and praise, but it is deeper than that, we offer ourselves, a living sacrifice: holy and acceptable to God.

People would like you to first of all look out for yourselves.  If you want your life to reach the Holiest of Holies and have the blessings of the Ark of the Covenant, you must present your body a living sacrifice. 

It means, “Dear God, I am yours every day, 365 days a year.”  Paul was inspired of God to say, “It is your reasonable service.”  When God asks a living sacrifice He is doing us a favor.  The way to the Holiest of Holies is a living sacrifice. 

When we say, “Not my will.”  They are easy words to say, but we throw our plans aside and give Him a fresh sheet and say, “You fill it with the Love of God.”

He says when we give Him that blank sheet, “I will cleanse you and give you the comforter.”  You enter into the Holiest of Holies. 

Just the words, “The Holy of Holies” brings a reverence to my soul.  I hope God will reveal to you what He has in store for every one that is in the Holy of Holies.

Psa 138:2  I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

In this ark, the ark of God, was placed the Word of God.  Whether you are the age of the youngest that would feel they could present their body a living sacrifice, or whether you are the eldest.  It is a marvelous thing for you and me to be able to enter the Holiest of Holies and have that relationship with God, “There is no reservation in my life.” 

To every one of us, the ark of God contains the greatest blessings that heaven or earth could ever give: It was in the ark of God that the Word of God was kept.  His wonderful Word that He magnifies above His name was written on the fleshly tables of our heart. 

He has the very best for you, for me, for our children, the best we can give family, friends, or the mission world is that which is of an eternal value, the Word of God.

Think of the Holiest of Holies and it gives you a respect and an anointing, “This is the place that my soul longs for.”  I stand here in awe of Him.

Among the contents of the ark was the manna.  You and I know a little about manna.  God sent the manna in the days of Moses in the wilderness.  It was gathered every morning.  It was bread from heaven. 

There is a place where there is manna, bread from heaven, for you.  There is nothing as good for your soul, for your prayer life, for your personality, there is nothing so good for you in the home relationship, or the fellowship relationship with the Body of Christ.  For you that are in difficult situations of your life, there is nothing so wonderful as going into the Holiest of Holies and there being imparted the bread of heaven.

The manna is described as angel food.  It means that you feel when you are there in the Holiest of Holies worshipping God, and every voice is quiet, that you are partaking of angel bread.  The cares of life are real, they are as real to Karen and I as to anyone in this audience, but there is a place in the Holiest of Holies that the cares of life cannot speak for you are eating angel food.

In the ark was Aaron’s rod that budded.  It represents Jesus Christ.  He is the High Priest forever settled at the right hand of God making intercession for us.  From Him comes fruit unto eternal life.  The mercy of God has provided for all our needs.

If you are here this morning and you need to be saved, it starts right at the altar where the Blood of Christ made an atonement for our sin.  If you have been saved, don’t stop there.  If the light has shown on your path way, don’t stop there.

Everyone here can say, “If it hadn’t been for Jesus where would I be?”  But we cannot stop there.  We cannot stop with just eating a little bread of the Word of God. 

We go on to the Candlestick.  We appreciate God.  There are those that are endeavoring to serve God.  They worship God until they have the witness that they are saved, that is good, but don’t stop there, go on to perfection until you know that you are totally sold out to God and until you know that all is on the altar.

If you have inherited a few hundred thousand dollars, there is only one thing to do with it and that is to put it back on the altar.  One thing I know, those that held on to inheritances lost it.  Give it to God and you will gain great treasure in heaven. 

If you have gotten married, then get your spouse on the altar.  If you have inherited lots of grandchildren, get them all on the altar or you will be torn up the rest of your life. 

There are those that have heartaches that we won’t talk about.  You say, “What can I do with this heartache?”  The only thing to do is put it all on the altar.

We live in a very sad religious, hard economic, and immoral day.  There is only one thing to do with that sadness, “Lord I am still on the altar; I give myself.”  It is wonderful thing that there is a place to put all that sadness. 

Sometimes you will be most disappointed with yourself.  You let molehills be mountains, you let a headache become terminal cancer.  There is only one place to put your heartache and sorrow, that is the altar.

The mercy of God has provided for all our needs.  I don’t take away or shrink your challenge.  I would not try to shrink the season of life that you are in, but I want to emphasize, your all must be on the altar and you must enter into the Holiest of Holies.  The seasons of life are all blessed when we frequent the Holy of Holies. 

I will probably never have the opportunity of asking the brother Nipp that was called to Africa, he experienced the call to be a missionary as a boy.  He had been raised in New Castle Indiana and he worked the strawberry fields there.  He went to camp-meeting with his summer wages in his pocket, $10.  He took all his summer wages and put them into the missionary offering.

Sometimes God speaks to children of His plans.  I don’t know how old he was when he went into the mission field, but he loved the mission field.

The seasons of our life are blessed when we enter the Holiest of Holies.  If you have a father that you are disappointed in, then get it on God.  If you don’t then the enemy will work a bitterness. 

The benefits of the Holiest of Holies:  you will be able to produce the fruits of the Spirit.

Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Gal 5:23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Perfect love is a result of you being in the Holiest of Holies.  It is when someone throws a stone at you, you don’t throw it back.  You can pray with joy.  If you come and go from the Holiest of Holies you will have joy and peace, perfect peace.  Peace, peace, wonderful peace.

Long suffering:  How we need the Holiest of Holies.  A child does not become an adult overnight.  A new convert won’t know what you learned on the journey of five or ten years. 

Long suffering: You say, “I am really disgusted.”  I want to help you, there is a place that deals very well with disgust.  This heavenly father of ours, His Son, and the Holy Spirit of God don’t come to condemn us when we are disgusted, they come to show us that there is a better way in the Holiest of Holies where the high priest that makes intercession in the Gospel Day meets with us.

Oh what a place that is!  God says, “Son, daughter I have in that beautiful place known as the Holiest of Holies the fruit of longsuffering and gentleness.” 

Are you quick to jump on something and say, “I am going to deal with this?”  There is a place to deal with our rashness, it is the Holiest of Holies.  There you are quiet.  God deals with you in the beauty of His workings, of His Spirit, and He deals with you that say, “Work with me, change me, and mold me.”

Goodness:  you will wear out and burn out with the needs of America.  You will tire out with doing and doing.  We have endeavored to teach of the necessity of being thankful and showing gratitude. 

The benefits of the Holiest of Holies: perfect fruit, perfect love, and perfect rest.

You all know that I am in a unique season of my life.  What I want to get done, it is vital that I do.  There is a wonderful consolation to my soul.  In the Holiest of Holies, we find the perfect will of God.

When we see the vision of God toward us in the Holiest of Holies, we like Moses and like David cry out, “Who am I?”

God has created and provided the very best for us.

God spoke to Brother Naylor in the Holiest of Holies, “Yield to the Holy Spirit, He wants His way with thee.”

God has sent the Holy Spirit to our hearts an honored guest,
To deliver us from evil and to bring us peace and rest. 
He has come to work with in us, heavens purposes so blest:
He wants way in thee. 

Yield unto the Holy Spirit. 
Let him have His way with thee;
Be thou ready to obey Him,
He leads to victory.

Let the Spirit do the planning.  Point the way thy feet shall go;
Greater than thine own His wisdom, He the Will of God doth know;
Better wiser than thy choosing is the way that He will show;
He wants His way in thee.

He doth sometimes work in silence, when thou dost not know at all;
He doth sometimes speak so softly Thou must listen for His call. 
But if thou wilt trust Him fully.  He will be thine all in all: 
He wants His way in thee.

All thyself to Him surrender, As He pleases let Him do;
In the paths He leadeth follow, Whether they be old or new. 
When the tasks seem hard before thee, He with power will endue: 
He wants His way in thee.

If you are not at peace with the past and with your brother or sister, it starts right here at the Holiest of Holies.  His way is to Yield unto the Holy Spirit.  “He wants His way in thee.  Be thou ready to obey; He leads to victory.”