Brother Gary Sunday Evening 5/22/16

Eph 4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.  We know that one of the most dangerous things that a sinner can do is resist the Holy Spirit of God.  When the Holy Spirit of God is grieved and He withdraws from us, the proper thing to do is to humble our heart: “God I grieved you.”

My mother had a very emphatic message that she preached on the dove being grieved.  She could make it so real that you literally had a vision of the Holy Spirit of God being grieved. 

Eph 4:31  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Life is not fair.  Everyone here has experienced that.  There are always things designed to cause a root of bitterness to spring up.  The bible says, “Looking diligently…”

Men, women, boys, girls… people are full of anger.  The school system has programs to work with unruly children.  So many of them are full of anger.  Life has not treated them fair; now they are full of anger.

A lot of religious people have their religious garb and yet are full of anger.  We are counseled to have all the wrath, anger, clamour and evil speaking be put away with all malice.  Malice is hatred mixed in with wrath and anger.

Be kind:

Eph 4:32  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

If we don’t go out into this world with a tender heart then we will not be profitable for God. 

2Pe 1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2Pe 1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

2Pe 1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

We want to remember that with God nothing is impossible.  We are all blessed that we were given a measure of faith.  The bible teaches this.  We have been given the Word of God; faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. 

Let us not despise the day of small things.  God is a God of miracles.  They are a result of us believing God and having faith in God.  God can take a heart that hardened and left Him… He has a way, it is a work of God and His Holy Spirit to tender hearts.  We don’t have to know how it works.  We know that it works.

Virtue: moral excellence, strength and courage.  To this, add knowledge.  It is wonderful how God teaches us through His Word and through each other.  Iron sharpens iron.  There are some things that only come by prayer and fasting.  Sister Peter fasted either one day a week or one meal a week for her son.

People get under a spirit of intemperance and just want more and more and more.  I believe that God is the same today as He was with Samuel.  I believe that God will come and speak to us just as He did with me, “Son you need to be tender-hearted and kind.”

If you plant a garden, you will not be able to go out and pick from it tomorrow morning.  It will take time.  We are challenged: deeper depths, higher heights; we want to be a soul winner.

To godliness add brotherly kindness.  Isn’t it wonderful to have brotherly kindness?  In the family of God there is brotherly and sisterly kindness.  To this add charity.

2Pe 1:8  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We must abound.  We cannot “barely get by”.  We must abound. 

They say that Psalms 126 was written in the captivity when there was a lot of lack.  They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.  There is nothing like a mother’s tears. 

Psa 126:5  They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Psa 126:6  He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Perhaps at this time there was not much seed to be sown.  There are many lives that are not hearing the Word of God.  There is a real famine in the land.  We have to hear the Word of God.  Not just to be received with ho-hum.  We have to have the attitude, “God we have to have your Word.  I must have your Word.”

The Word of God is the most wonderful tool to soften and comfort a heart.  It moves upon the soul.  The bible tells us, “He that goes forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing.”

Unless people get the Word of God and the truth of God…  The religious people pick up religious lingo.  Have you ever noticed that when people want to read the Psalms 23 or the Lord’s Prayer they use the King James Version?  This precious seed, when it is sown, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing. 

The preparation of the Heart is of the Lord.  That is at least two fold.  Your heart and burden and that one that you are going to’s heart and burden. 

Pro 29:1  He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Can you imagine a soul becoming hard?  I am asking for wisdom.  I am pleading with you to pray for me.  For every soul that God is dealing with, and we as a church are dealing with, to help us to have wisdom to help them to know, “Don’t procrastinate.” 

He that wins souls is wise.  I am the first to ask for instruction from God and from you.  There is something deep in my soul, “Rescue the perishing and care for the dying.”

In Deuteronomy 32, Moses was about ready to go home.  His last Psalm was recorded:

Deu 32:1  Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deu 32:2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

It is gardening time.  Soil that is hard and dry is hard to plant anything in.  You can scrape it if you have a sharp hoe but it is tough.  If that same soil has a gentle rain on it, it is a lot easier to cultivate. If that soil has been cultivated it is easy to take the soil and move it to put the seed in.  The Word of God knows how to cultivate and prepare the soil to receive the Word of God. 

Then when you and I come to that prepared heart.  The seed can be planted. 

Sin takes people to a difficult place. 

“My speech shall distill as the dew.”  I would like to talk to a soul this week.