Brother Gary Sunday Evening 8/30/15

Brother Gary Sunday Evening 8/30/15

2Ti 2:21  If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.

2Ti 2:22  Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Follow righteousness.  That is where we want to be.  Our minds can get so centered on one thing and distract us from what is really needed.  Follow righteousness.  That is so deep, yet so basic and so profound.

Follow faith.  What saith faith? 

Rom 10:8  But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

Have faith in God.

Mar 11:22  And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

Mar 11:23  For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

The message of faith is an old message as is the message of unbelief.  But it is just as practical today as it ever was.

The white horse rider is written of in Revelations.  It is wonderful to have the white horse rider.  That rider is still going forth today, conquering and still to conquer.  It is just as thrilling today as it was when Brother Lawson was up there preaching and thumping the chart.  

The white horse rider is just as real tonight as he was in the night that Sister Dorothy’s mother and father got saved and as He was when my parents heard the message.

The white horse had a rider and all the promises of God.  For everyone that embraced the message and walked in the light of it, He is just the same today.

Isn’t it wonderful that if we follow faith and the white horse rider, even though we have challenges, we can go on and conquer?  He left the thought, “I am going to go right on conquering.”

Rev 6:2  And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

Rev 15:2  And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

The sea of glass is the Word of God and the fire is the Holy Spirit.  Not only do we need the promise and the scripture when we are in a battle, we need the Holy Spirit of God to draw near. 

The mark of the beast and the image is the religious system that is in the world today.  Isn’t it wonderful to know what it is to have victory over all the confusion of the religious system that is in the world today?  Aren’t you glad that we have beautiful music and a song to sing?

God had delivered the Children of Israel, there was a wall of water on both sides of them and they walked through on dry land.  God can make a wall, an instant wall.  He can form it and He can take it down.

Exo 15:1  Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Exo 15:2  The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

God had given them instant victory.  Pharaoh and his army were coming behind them.  There is a God in heaven that knows how to protect you from the battle that may be ahead, or from those that seem to be coming behind.

He has triumphed gloriously.  Isn’t it wonderful that we have a God that doesn’t almost give us the victory?  God doesn’t just almost give us the victory.  He gives us the victory.  It is Him that has triumphed gloriously. 

They had gotten through all the plagues, they had gotten through the night when the death angel appeared, and they had fled Egypt.  God had taken care of them.  They escaped Pharaoh, there were walls of water on both sides, they had rejoiced. 

They acknowledged, “The lord is my strength and my song.”  God can give a song.  He is become my salvation.  It is God that is going to deliver us and He is going to keep us safe.  You can always look up and see Him. 

There was a window in the top of the ark that Noah built.  Sister Klemstein sang the song, “Through the upper window you can see Him standing by.” 

He is our healer, our hope, and He is the health of our mind, our body, and our soul. 

I will prepare Him a habitation.  I want to be a good earthen vessel, I want to be on that wheel.  It is fine if I am only a plain earthen vessel, I want to prepare Him a habitation.

When the enemy moves in God stands up to say, “That one is mine.”

Rev 19:14  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

We didn’t enlist in the couch potato church of God.  We are an army.  May God help our minds to realize that this God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit of God: The armies that are in heaven followed Him upon white horses. 

They followed the white horse rider. 

Follow charity.

Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment.

Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Isn’t it wonderful that God has ordained that we follow charity?  “God I am serving you because I love you.”  We sing the song, “I love Him too much to fail Him now.”  I am not serving God just because I want to escape hell.  I love Him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Love thy neighbor as thyself.  Isn’t it wonderful to have the attitude, “I am not only doing my best for God but for His people?”

Isa 32:17  And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Follow righteousness and follow peace.  This is a cycle and peace brings you right back to righteousness again.