Sister Timberly Sunday School 1/31/16

Sister Timberly Sunday School 1/31/16

1Th 5:19  Quench not the Spirit.

September 3, My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers:

Nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. — 2 Samuel 23:16

What has been like water from the well of Bethlehem to you recently — love, friendship, spiritual blessing? Then at the peril of your soul, you take it to satisfy yourself. If you do, you cannot pour it out before the Lord. You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself. If you satisfy yourself with a blessing from God, it will corrupt you; you must sacrifice it, pour it out, do with it what common sense says is an absurd waste.

How am I to pour out unto the Lord natural love or spiritual blessing? In one way only — in the determination of my mind. There are certain acts of other people which one could never accept if one did not know God, because it is not within human power to repay them. But immediately I say — “This is too great and worthy for me, it is not meant for a human being at all, I must pour it out unto the Lord”; then these things pour out in rivers of living water all around. Until I do pour these things out before the Lord, they endanger those I love as well as myself because they will turn to lust. We can be lustful in things which are not sordid and vile. Love has to get to its transfiguration point of being poured out unto the Lord.

If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you clutched it for yourself; whereas if you had poured it out unto the Lord, you would have been the sweetest person out of heaven. If you are always taking blessings to yourself and never learn to pour out anything unto the Lord, other people do not get their horizon enlarged through you.

Wisdom From Oswald Chambers

This can be with the positive and the negative.  When people criticize you, don’t take it to yourself but pour it out before the Lord. 

Obey what God has laid upon your heart.

Jas 4:3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Imaginations can be consuming it on your own lust.

Rom 1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

‘Imaginations’ here means discussion: internal consideration and external debate.  When we are struggling with someone we can get into a mental argument with them.  What you think of is what you talk about.

2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

The word ‘imaginations’ here means computation – counting.  Gyme has been a good dad to teach our kids not to count or keep score, “You got more last time…”  Counting is a form of carnality.  We want to let God keep the score.

Sister Teri – think of the children of Israel when they sent the 12 spies.  Ten of them were counting the strength of the enemy instead of the strength of God.  They were counting.

Dr. Seuss told a story of a turtle that thought he was the king of the pond.  He had the turtles climb into a stack so he could climb on top of them and see more.  He could see a house and a tree and he was king of all he could see.  He kept calling more turtles to his stack so he could see more, and more.  Finally a young turtle at the bottom got tired of it.  He burped and the burp shook the throne of the king. The turtles all fell and now the king is king of the mud for that is all that he can see. 

We want to allow God to be God.  We don’t want to exalt our self.  Anytime we try to control too much we come too close to the line of God’s work.  We need to have faith that just as He works with us, He is working with others.

Anytime we allow anyone to lord over us then we are wrong too.  We need to keep our relationships on an even plane.  If we are subservient then we let fear work.  Fear will keep us out of heaven.

“God is enough” as Sister Beverly says.  We keep God all in all, then we don’t need any other relationships to keep us up or to keep us under.

Joh 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Joh 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Joh 14:17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Joh 14:19  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Brother Gyme - Brother Kale told of a brother that said, “Sometimes people get in trouble, even the ministry, by thinking they see something and then making that their point of exhortation.  It is important to just bring the Word of God.  God knows.  Let God do His work.  Keep your hands off of it.” 

It is human for us to think we see something.  We see a little piece of people’s lives.  We think we know a lot and in reality we know very little.  We don’t know the back story, God does.  We want to keep our hands off of it. 

The John 14 reading starts with love.  “If ye love me…”

Joh 14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Joh 14:24  He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

Joh 14:25  These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

Joh 14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.