Brother Gary Sunday Morning 6/9/13

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 6/9/13

1Jn 2:20  But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

The longer you serve Him, the sweeter He grows.  The more that you serve Him the more He opens His Word.  He has a design to open things up at the right time for the situation that we find ourselves in. 

This message is good for all of us.  It is good for Karen and I and it is good for all that have had losses.  This message was written for little children. 

If there are any in our midst that would be proud and haughty and self sufficient, they will get nothing from this message. 

This message is for those that realize their need of God, what they have come from and what they have come to or are coming to.  This message is for every one of us. 

I need, I desire, I hunger for and have received to whatever degree the unction from the Holy Ghost. 

This scripture comes from a word that only appears one time in the New Testament, ‘unction.’  It means a special endowment of the Holy Spirit.  An unction: you will notice this scripture was written for a special need.

All of you even the children in this audience have read 1 John however many times.

1Jn 2:3  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

It has been this way that people have a tendency to take some of the gospel and not take other parts.  We need an unction, a special endowment of the Holy Spirit, upon us that we are going to be obedient to the Word of God at all times and all places.

Without an endowment of the Holy Spirit of God the enemy will come in and destruct us and move us away from the Holy Spirit of God.  There are many that have allowed him to destruct them from being the church of God.

I am too old to mess up, to ever allow some spirit to get a hold of me, to be laodicean, lethargic, or indifferent.  If you are ever seduced then you don’t know what might happen.  You may even have the idea that you really are someone.  I want to ever be as a little child.

1Jn 2:18  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

It is the last time today.  The thing that has boggled many individuals is that they are looking for some antichrist somewhere out there.  This scripture tells us that there are many antichrists. 

Denying Jesus is not having Him in His rightful place, first in our lives.  He must be first in our lives before He can be first in our homes and in the church. 

1Jn 2:19  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

We are in perilous times.  It is strength reducing.  The enemy has a design to reduce little children’s strength, the saints of God’s strength so that in the perilous times they are caught by seducing spirits.

They went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

We need an unction so that we stay rightly related first to Christ, the God head, and to one another.  If you ever begin to put the magnifying glass on me or someone else, remember it always belongs on us as an individual.  There is a strong spirit to try to find the weakness of an individual and magnify their weakness and then to draw followers after another individual. 

Why do we need an unction today?  There are many voices in the world today that are crying out everywhere.  Some are visible and others are invisible such as the thoughts that come to our mind:  “Is this really necessary? Why cannot we do this?” It will only lead you away from God.

1Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

This was written by an elderly man, he was an apostle, an evangelist, and was among the first called by Jesus.  He wrote this from a heart of care and concern, “beloved”, what a beautiful word. 

Without an unction of the Holy Spirit of God the enemy of our soul will disguise himself and present in such a way that will appeal to the personality, the flesh, and the individual.  This is not all about the flesh but about serving God in spirit and in truth.

The unction is a special endowment of the Holy Spirit.  We need that endowment this morning.  When this congregation was started the goal was that this would be a true work for God to the end.  This is a torch that is not passed on to one but to everyone that is saved.

Be true, be saved, be sanctified and receive that unction of the Holy Spirit of God.

It is such a time of confusion.  What adds to the confusion is that we live in a day of much communication.  Make sure that you have an unction of the Holy Spirit so that you don’t get confused by the communication.

I just got back from a place where ‘Faith and Victory’ has a strong hold.  What is going on in that church of God, camp of wars and rumors of wars, boggle your mind.  That is not the only place of confusion.  There are wars and rumors of wars everywhere. 

That could happen here if we don’t keep the unction of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  The need of unction is to keep a vision.  We must have a vision from God.  We must have a vision of the Word of God in action. 

Mat 5:13  Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

It is unknown the value of all the good things of salt.  Jesus said to His disciples, every one that is saved this morning is His disciple, that ‘Ye are the salt of the earth.” 

What God wants you to be is the salt of the earth.  Salt is a cleanser.  First it works to cleanse us and then where ever you are, it works to cleanse your life and standard, the way you dress and act, the way you behave yourself.  Then secondly, the communication that you have works to cleanse the atmosphere about you.

Salt is a balance.  Your life would be as a Ferris wheel, the testimony of, “I’m sometimes up and I’m sometimes down.”  We need a just balance in our lives, in our desires, in our work, in our play. 

I don’t think this is the case here but you need a balance in how often you go to your neighbors.  You go too much and they will get tired of you.  If you never come then they get lonely for you.

In Paradise on Sunday we don’t sing 4 to 6 congregation songs, the choir doesn’t sing until noon and then I rush through a message. 

We preach here and then we walk the life out there.  There has to be a balance.

Salt has taste.  There is something about the taste that we leave in people’s mouth, a feeling for what it is like to be saved and to be church of God. 

I’m here and God is here, God has ordained that we have an experience with Him so that anyone that is saved, no matter what camp they come from, they will sense the Spirit of God.  No matter what place I walk into if God is there then I sense that He is there.

We leave a testimony at home and as we go out to the world.  It needs to be a taste that we have something really good.  We have the assurance that God always comes through.  I understand financial difficulty, family difficulty, burdens, disappointments, but God will come through.

We have a God in heaven that wants us to be happy in our soul.  What makes us happy is the grace of God, the peace of God, and the joy of the Lord in our soul.

Salt is a marvelous preserver.  It has been used to preserve meats.  The world will do its best to get you to change but we serve a God that can cause us to have enough salt that we can be happy 365/24/7

We have a city that is set upon a hill.

God wants you and me to be that city.  He wants our light to shine and us be happy.  If you are heartbroken and disappointed God wants to heal your heart.  We want to have enough light in our life that we are a city set upon a hill and know where we came from and are going to and that we have a bible that is full of promises.

The source of an endowment of the Holy Spirit:

John was there at the day of Pentecost.  The Holy Spirit came and John saw an outpouring of the Hoy Spirit of God.  Acts wrote that this promise is still a promise to the church today.

Act 2:37  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

When God comes close and pricks your heart, you realize that you have some measuring up to do.  I hunger and thirst after righteousness, I have not arrived but am growing.  I want to keep growing and if I live to be as old as John I want to be one to come here and say, draw near to God and stay true to God.  Keep drawing close to God.

Act 2:38  Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

That is the way that it has to be.  If we lose the reality of salvation and repentance…, Babylon doesn’t teach repentance.  There is no salvation without repentance and confessing your sin and being made a new creature.

We went to the Blackfoot nation and the guy prayed, some things I did not understand, yet the natives need to know about Jesus.  Those that have never heard about God and have spent a whole lifetime need to know about Jesus.  Sometimes we need to get a new vision.

Act 2:39  For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Repent and be baptized.  That is the message.

Act 2:40  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

1Jn 1:4  And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

This elderly brother said, “I’m writing this so that your joy may be full.”  God give me a heart like that that as I look at these children and young people, I desire that their joy may be full.  I’ve seen what this world does to people.  They mark up their body and have fishing equipment hanging from their ears.

More than that, it is a heart condition.  There are some things that when you throw away and go against principals it may take a lifetime to ever get back.  I want the children and young people to know how to really have joy.  Disney World is just having a little fun.  Joy is a stage that we live in. 

God ordained that we have joy, peace, and grace.  He said, walk in the light so that we can have fellowship.

1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

John began to name all of us.  He named us, and listen to hear your name, “Little Children.” 

He named us fathers, young men, and then he put the fathers and the young men together.  AD 90 and oh the unction that is needed and an unction that is received!

The taxation of life in 2013 will leave you hoping that someway somehow you will make it through.  God has a better plan.  You can have an unction, a special endowment of the Holy Spirit.  You and God know your needs.  We have a public altar and pews to pray by and plenty of time to pray.  As much as I like to eat, I would rather pray with souls than eat and I mean that.

If God has spoken to you and you realize that you have needs, I encourage you to step out and say, “I am going to get those needs met.”  Not only is your soul at stake, but the soul of those that you have influence over.

Brother Gyme Sunday School 6/9/13

Brother Gyme Sunday School 6/9/13

Heb 12:1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

The besetting sin is anything that would cause you to stand around and not do what God would have you to do.  To run the course, there is a start and there is a finish.  We must all have a start. 

This race is not to the swift.  It is a race of endurance.  We don’t have to rush through it but we must be constant and endure to the end. 

While we are running the endurance race, we are running in perilous times.  It is a time that works to take our strength.  Paul said, “I die daily.”  The challenge is to die daily so that we can have strength. 

We don’t have to fail, but if we do fail then we have an advocate.  We can turn again and pray and be forgiven.

Ecc 9:11  I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

This scripture helps me to know that just because the day is not going the way that I planned it, It is not because I am not where I am supposed to be spiritually.  When things are not just going right, I tend to think, “What is wrong?”  We need patience and we need to be constant.

Mat 10:37  He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Mat 10:38  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

We need to have Christ in His rightful place and love God first.  It doesn’t mean that we cannot love our mother, father, or children.  We must keep it in order.  When things are not in order then it throws the whole thing out of order.

Luk 8:14  And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

That is something that we want to do: bring fruit to perfection.

Rom 13:12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Rom 13:13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Eph 4:22  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Eph 4:23  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

I feel that I need renewed in my mind a lot.  “God help me to get off of this thought pattern.  I need your help to get off of this track, I need a new track.”  When you get your mind on something that is not profitable then it will wear you out mentally.  It wears me out physically. 

“Help me to be renewed in my mind.”  God sees from above and we just see what is in front of us.  We think that we have it all figured out and we don’t.  I’ve been proven wrong this way.  I think I have it all figured out and maybe a year later God says, “You had nothing figured out.  It is this way.” 

Sometimes we see things that really aren’t there.

Eph 4:24  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Eph 4:25  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Eph 4:26  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Eph 4:27  Neither give place to the devil.

Eph 4:28  Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Eph 4:29  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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

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

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

These are things that are to be put off and to put on.  We don’t want to grieve the Holy Spirit of God.  Think of how easily God forgave us.  He forgave me of a lot and He did it easily.  When I came and repented and said that I was sorry, He cast it as far as the east is from the west never to be remembered again. 

We need to forgive even if they don’t ask.  The only one that suffers is you if you don’t forgive.  If someone doesn’t care enough to say, “I’m sorry.”  Then they are just going off and don’t care about you.  You are the one that is going to suffer if you don’t forgive.

2Ti 2:4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Lay aside:  When we ask the Lord to forgive us and we know He forgives us, many times the enemy will run it over and over in our mind.  I say, “Lord I’m sorry.”  We remember our sins but God doesn’t.  He says, “What sins are you talking about?”

Heb 10:35  Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Heb 10:36  For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Heb 10:37  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

Heb 10:38  Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Heb 10:39  But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

We don’t want to go back do we?

Psa 18:23  I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

We want to keep our self from sin.

Run with patience.

Heb 6:15  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Luk 8:15  But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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:

2Pe 1:2  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

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:

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.

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.

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.

God has provided all the tools.  He has given us the sixty-six books of the Bible and all the promises and then He says, “Act.”  He has provided all the tools for us to prosper and says that we are not going to do it alone but will have help. 

Bear forth fruit with patience.  Throughout the years you see people that come and are like a flash in the pan.  We all need God’s help and it is by patience that we endure.  God shows us something and we measure.  If you trip and fall over a rock you get up and brush yourself off and do what you need to do to take care of what needs to be taken care of.  The race is for those that endure.

We are going to have to exercise patience to have patience.  There is a part that God gives us but we don’t just magically get it all together.  We must exercise it and apply it to every day situations. 

That is the challenge.  It is easy to just hear it.  The other thing is to go out and you need that grace that you heard about.  We have to exercise the grace.  I’m not taking away from being saved and sanctified, but we must press. 

The word, ‘if’, is our guarantee.  If you do these things then you will never fall.

The kingdom of God suffers violence, you see it every day being pressed and pressed, pressed by thoughts in our mind.  The enemy is relentless with this, pressing with thoughts in our mind.  We must press back.

Consider Him that endured lest you be wearied.

We know that we are going to be pressed and suffer violence.  The enemy will come after us, we must press.

1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

1Pe 5:9  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Suffer means to experience.  We are going to experience some things in this race.  They will not always be pleasant.  But God has some good things for us.  We will experience, suffer, go through some things.  This is how we prove that we are fit for the kingdom.

Rom 5:1  Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Rom 5:2  By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Rom 5:3  And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Rom 5:4  And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

Patience is a characteristic of a man that is not swerved from His deliberate purpose of his loyalty to faith by great trials and sufferings. 

This means that we are not going to be swerved from the course because it gets tough.  Patience doesn’t come naturally.  Experience is a provenness, a tried character.

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

We know that we are going to suffer a little bit and have a bit of experience through suffering.  This is a part of exercising our faith and patience.

Faith is how we overcome natural weakness.  The grace of faith is how we recover and renew our strength from spiritual weakness.

True faith gives true courage and patience as it discerns the strength of God and the weakness of His enemies.

2Ch 7:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.