The Proverb writer said, “Let your words be few.”
It helps us to be easily entreated in our soul and in our
life.
2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of
Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through
the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
Like precious faith:
if thou canst believe all things are possible. God granted us each a measure of faith. God help me to obtain like precious faith!
2Pe 1:2
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and
of Jesus our Lord,
This is a marvelous thought tonight. “Grace and peace be multiplied.” Grace has ten meanings. It is the will of God that our grace be
multiplied. We live in a world where
everywhere you go you need grace. That
is how life is.
It is not as it was 100 years ago where they lived on a
homestead with no one else around. They
needed grace then. We live today, 2016;
we need grace.
1.
The unmerited favor of God has been multiplied
to us. When I think of how marvelous it
was that God convicted me when I was 18 or 19.
I had rejected conviction many times but the unmerited favor of God came
back with conviction.
The unmerited favor of God gives everyone the opportunity to
get it all right and have a testimony, even to those that are not teenagers,
and to those that have reached 100 years old.
2.
It is a marvelous thing when a thought comes to
our mind, “Why don’t you do this or that or have this attitude...” The divine influence on our heart is, “No I
am not going to do that. I am not going
to do anything that is outside the grace of God.
This congregation is going to prepare for revival
Sunday. We want to see souls saved, get
sanctified, baptized and in this 100%.
The divine influence upon the heart.
We have a real struggle in 2016. There is a struggle of getting past our
head. Our minds are bewildered. Karen told me, “I don’t know how you got
those raspberries done. When I looked at
them it was overwhelming. I told her
that they looked that way to me too, but I just decided that the thing to do
was to start.
It is the same way, we have to get past our mind. Our mind will make serving God and talking to
someone so hard. “What if I try to talk
to someone and they reject me?” So what
if they reject you. If your relatives no
longer want to talk to you, the bible says that unless we forsake houses and
lands, we cannot be His disciples.
The divine influence upon the heart and its refection out
into your life. Isn’t it wonderful when
God gives you a vision how to work with someone. Or says, “It is good to be washed.”
3.
Gratitude: grace makes us so thankful. Sister Alice was talking to us about being
thankful of having water. We have so
much to be thankful for. Our mind will
go to tangible things, we need to be thankful.
If you know truth then you are blessed.
If you know about bible salvation: deliverance, help, safety, victory,
and health; then you are blessed.
God wants to give you a sound mind. There are two things that I have come up with
from the Newspaper recently. Sunday they
told of taking buffalo from Canada to the Two Medicine area. The Canadians had bought some buffalo and were
now were selling them back. The chief
was saying, “I just hope this will help our people.”
Buffalo will not help them get right with God. It broke my heart. I have traveled through that area and it
would break your heart. The health
conditions on the reservation cannot even be spoken about.
Today way north in Canada some of the tribes are having an
epidemic of suicide. They are saying, “It
is the government’s fault. For we need
more of this or that.” No, they need
Jesus. When people leave God out of
their lives the enemy moves in to destroy.
The grace of God is the influence of God in the heart and
its reflection out into the life.
I was telling a religious man recently that among the seven
things that God hates is he that soweth discord among the brethren. He said, “I have never heard that
scripture.” Be peacemakers.
Don’t stand around waiting for someone to come to you; be
friendly. We were in a difficult
situation and a doctor of the community didn’t reach out to anyone he just
stood there waiting for someone to come to him.
What is wrong with people?
Do they think that they are so great that everyone needs to jump around
them? Know how to be a peacemaker. Know how to reach out to a boy or girl that
would come in. Jesus wants us to be a
friend and show ourselves friendly. The
divine influence.
Gratitude: Not
because I am here, my journey could end tonight. You need to be thankful that there is a
church here. There are a lot of places
where there is not. There were places
that loved God and loved truth and apostasy took them.
We need to do our very best in every service so that apostasy
doesn’t take us. It causes people to apostatize
and preachers to apostatize. Be thankful
that you have someone to call for prayer.
Be thankful that you have those that will invite you to dinner.
4.
Acceptable:
without the grace of God we would be rude, crude, and unacceptable; no
manners.
5.
Benefit:
grace is such a benefit. You dear
teachers and students, those that have anything to do with you are blessed
because of the grace of God it is a benefit to you and to them.
6.
Favor: it
causes us to have favor. It is wonderful
7.
Joy.
People are looking for joy and pleasure, it is found in the grace of God. You can have a wonderful time without being
of the world. The joy of God. Pick up this book and read the church of God
songs. It will bring a thrill to your
soul. Find the songs written by Fanny
Crosby.
“I was out on the broad way of sin and despair crushed ‘neath
my burden of sorrow and care… He lifted me out.” We are blessed to have the grace of God bring
this song back to us and for us to enjoy.
8.
Liberality.
I have no patience with those that are so afraid to give a
compliment. Grace gives us
liberality. “Thank you for being so
kind. Thank you for helping me.”
9.
Pleasure.
Grace brings such a pleasure, just a good time.
10.
Thank worthy
And peace:
2Pe 1:2
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and
of Jesus our Lord,
We will have more grace and more peace by knowing more about
God. Know about God and know how He is and desire to be conformed to His image.
2Pe 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Isn’t it wonderful that there is a divine power? How many people do you know that want to quit
sinning and cannot? Or that are
religious and don’t live right?
May God help us to catch a vision that it is His divine
power that gives us all things that pertain to life. This covers literal and spiritual life.
Pertain to life and godliness: Divine power to be godly.
2Pe 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust.
Exceeding great and precious promises: don’t let the enemy ever deceive you into
believing that God’s promise is not greater than what your needs are. You may be needy of health, wisdom, or material
things. These promises are exceeding
great and precious.
That by these you might be partakers: Isn’t it wonderful that you can be a partaker
of the Divine nature.
God is so good. He
made a way that we could be saved, sanctified, and have escaped the corruption
in the world.
Isn’t it wonderful the thought of escaping the corruption
that is in the world through lust?
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