Sister Teri Sunday School 5/17/15

Sister Teri Sunday School 5/17/15

The burden of these Sunday school lessons is that we would live Coram Deo: in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and to the glory of God.

God has a purpose and is working everything that happens on this earth towards that purpose, whether it be a good thing or a bad thing.  When we question why a good God would allow bad things to happen we are looking for His remote purpose. 

Sometimes bad things happen as a result of going the wrong way.  There is a law of sowing and reaping.  Sometimes He will work things that seem bad to get us to turn from our own way to His. 

When a person is not right with God and has a religious profession, they must leave their false religious profession and own that they are lost.  They need to recognize that there is a spiritual need there. 

What appears bad in our mind, God uses to bring us to His ultimate purpose: union with Him and fellowship in every way.

Because God is good and has a good intent He is working good things in our life for His praise and His glory.  He is working it to bring us to Him.

Php 2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Php 2:14  Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Php 2:15  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Php 2:16  Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

The spirit of God will work in our heart to desire to do His will and His good pleasure.  When God is working things that don’t seem good, realize that God is working it for good and do things without murmuring and disputing.  Rather than struggling and resisting, we need to ask “What are you trying to work in me?” 

If we struggle and resist, we can handle things wrong and behave in the flesh which will not work to the glory of God and will not cause us to shine as His light, His grace shining through us in this present and evil world.

Hold forth the Word of life to others.

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Eph 1:8  Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

From before creation it was predetermined in God’s mind that He would have a holy people.  Every one of us was predestinated in God’s mind to be saved.  He gave us a choice and because of His choice we don’t always go the way that He predestined it to be.  The choice is ours.

It is by His grace and His power working in us that we have forgiveness of sin, redemption, and adoption.  It is all His grace.  Any wisdom and prudence we have is by His grace and His power.  He has made known to us.

His purpose is that we would all be gathered into one to Him, in complete fellowship with Him.  It is all for His glory and all by His strength and His working in us.  Everything about our salvation, working for God, and success in living Holy is by His glory and design.  All glory to Him.

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:

Rom 5:5  And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Tribulation that is not good, in our minds, is for our good.  It works patience, experience, hope, and makes not ashamed.  When love works in us, then it works through us, and then out to others. 

Psa 145:1  David's Psalm of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

Psa 145:2  Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

Psa 145:3  Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

Psa 145:4  One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

Psa 145:5  I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

Psa 145:6  And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

Psa 145:7  They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

Psa 145:8  The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Psa 145:9  The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Psa 145:10  All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.

Psa 145:11  They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;

Psa 145:12  To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

Psa 145:13  Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

Psa 145:14  The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

Psa 145:15  The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

Psa 145:16  Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

Psa 145:17  The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Psa 145:18  The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

Psa 145:19  He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Psa 145:20  The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

Psa 145:21  My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

We are His works.  The saved and the unsaved are His works.  His great mercy is toward His works. 

Php 1:12  But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

Php 1:13  So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

Php 1:14  And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

Paul realized that even though he had suffered all that he had suffered, God furthered the gospel and worked it in a greater way than He would have otherwise.  How otherwise could God have reached the Palace? 

This also encouraged others to proclaim the truth no matter what happened and to know that God was working.  It is an encouragement even today.

Looking through the mirror, we need to judge the current situations by the light of the remote purpose.  We don’t have all the information so may not know what the end is.  We are still looking in a dark mirror because we don’t know the full purpose.  We need just the light to know that God will work it for good. 

1Co 13:12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

The then face to face may be interpreted, “In heaven.”  But some of it is just when we get through the trial, have met face to face with God, and see His purpose.  When we get to the other end, we can look back and see, “Oh that is what God was working.” 

As we share our experiences of what God does for us that encourages us, we encourage one another.

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

God will work good through bad situations even for those that are not serving Him.  But we know that because we love God are the called to His purpose and have sought and submitted ourselves to His purpose that He will work everything for His good.

Psa 30:5  For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Joh 16:12  I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

Joh 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

Sometimes God doesn’t show us what is coming because we are not able to bear it.  We would be overwhelmed.  God gives us grace and light for the day and for the moment.  God reveals things by His spirit when we need it and in a way that we will understand.

Joh 16:19  Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?

Joh 16:20  Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Joh 16:21  A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Joh 16:22  And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

When Jesus was crucified it seemed all their hopes and confidence in Him was destroyed.  Even though He had told them what was coming, they didn’t comprehend. 

Because He had told them, the Spirit of God was able to bring it back to their memory, “He told you He would die and rise again.”  That gave them confidence. 

He had given them some understanding before and then reminded them afterwards.  He was working all things for the good.

Psa 138:3  In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

Psa 138:7  Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

Psa 138:8  The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

Perfect means to bring to a completion and to an end.  It is not just bring it to an end and getting through it.  When we know that God is working it for His purpose then we know the perfecting is more than just getting through it.  It means that the intended goal is reached and the desired purpose is accomplished. 

When we go through difficulties then think, “What is the desired end for this?”  And let God work through it so that we get the good out of it.  If we don’t get the good out of it, then God will bring something else to us so that we come to the desired end.

Past: In the past when I cried unto you, you answered and strengthened me in my soul.

Present: in this present situation you will revive me and bring me through.

Future: the Lord will perfect… it is talking about God’s purpose in the whole thing. 

To trust in a good purpose of God is the very essence of godly faith.  Our world, its operation, and its goal is not an accident.  This is my Father’s world and everything that is happening is for His goal and His purpose.

God works for our perfecting. 

Heb 12:5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Heb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Heb 12:8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Heb 12:9  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Heb 12:10  For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Heb 12:11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Heb 12:12  Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

Heb 12:13  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Those that have submitted themselves to the correction, submitted their will to God, and allowed Him to work through it, whatever it is that God is correcting us for and working in us, make straight paths and let the work be done otherwise the lame will be turned out of the way.  Let it be healed.

It is ok to ask, “Why?”  When we desire to know the purpose of God in this and what He is working, it is ok to ask, “Why?” 

Job had no control of His situation.  He asked why.  He knew that God was good and he yielded his own will to God knowing that He had a good purpose for it all.  He patiently endured and saw the end of his confidence, “When He has tried me I shall come forth as gold.”

We have often, when we are going through deep distresses, gone to Job.  “When He has tried me I shall come forth as gold.”

2Co 1:3  Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

2Co 1:4  Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

We are able to receive much more comfort and help from a person that has gone through the situation that we are going through.  If someone has never been there, they can at most say, “We are praying for you.”  If they have never been there they may be as Job’s comforters and instead criticize.

When Jesus died on the cross, he didn’t deserve to die, but He suffered for our benefit.

Sometimes we suffer because we respond too hastily and emotionally.  We can suffer for a wrong decision that is made under those circumstances. 

Sometimes we suffer for the bad decision of others.  What our kids do will affect us.  Sometimes we suffer just because of life.

God will work to reveal the glory of God.

Isa 43:1  But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

Isa 43:2  When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Isa 43:3  For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

Isa 43:4  Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

Isa 43:5  Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

Isa 43:6  I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

Isa 43:7  Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

God created us for His glory.

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 5/13/15

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 5/13/15

Dan 11:32  And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

We want to be prepared to do exploits this summer of 2015.  We look up to God for a strong desire from God.  We all have this treasure in earthen vessels.  I don’t need to tell you how your flesh or mind will speak to you. 

There is a wonderful privilege that each one of us has and that is being still before God.  When we pray, “Thy will be done.”  It means, “All these other things, I put on the altar of submission.  What you have brings fullness of joy, draws me closer to heaven and further from the world.”

Spiritual adventures:  How children like an adventure!  With you and I spiritually, break the mold of everyday life and say, “We are going to drive a new road.  We are going to visit a brand new green-house.  We are going to go to a new place to hike.” 

Spiritually, as all of you that work with souls, you cannot have any contact without realizing, “I am dealing with souls that are very, very needy.” 

You and I know that the preparation of the heart is of the Lord.  He will not bully His way into your heart.  It will happen because you love God enough and have an identity with one soul enough that you recognize that:

Jer 10:23  O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Pro 14:12  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

We feel our desperate need for God to prepare our heart.  He prepares it in the stillness of worshipping God.  We have a pattern of tabernacle worship that brings an awesome stillness to our heart.

The preparation of the heart is of the Lord.  I am not going to try to tell you who to call, or who’s door to knock on.  This message is about you and I as the church of the living God; we claim the highest claim, we claim to love souls. 

In order to reach souls, we must know the exploits that God has for us.  We live in a world that will leave us calloused.  If you have any exposure to modern media, the goal is to keep your vision clear. 

The preparation of the heart is of the Lord.  Our lives will become so full, enriched, and convicted; we will feel the desperate need of having the love of God spread abroad in our heart.  If the love of God is not spread over our natural personality, the flesh will come over and we will be a beast.

Pro 18:1  Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

When Adam Clarke was a very young man, he was challenged on this scripture to go through the Bible and study the Bible so that he would have a grasp on God and truth. 

There has to be a strong desire for God.  We all have strong natural appetites.  We need a strong desire for more than what this flesh can give us.  Whether you have a lot, a piece of property, or just an apartment, you must have a desire past that. 

We must have a desire to have a lot of God in our services.  I believe we can have as much God that the posts of the door will be moved and the angels will cry out, “Holy, holy,” as they did in Isaiah. 

We must be willing to separate ourselves from some things.  Nothing matters in this world.  If God told me that I had to quit doing this or that, I would because we want God.  We want to do those exploits in 2015.

Instead God says, “Seek me first and all these things will be added unto you.”  Sister Phyllis Martin said, “I could never have had as full of life if I hadn’t obeyed God.”  If you want to be lonely, poor, and unhappy then leave God out of your life.

If you go through a season of no open doors, then go through the season.  Go right on serving God.  You don’t know where He is still working.  When it seems that He is not opening doors, He is still working.

Psa 27:4  One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

I have one desire of my soul:  He had one desire but there are three places to it.  He desired the presence of God.  He desired to see the beauty of the Lord.  As it is in the world today, as you see your family, as you see children that are lost, as you see relatives that are lost, as you see individuals where they are, other than seeing the beauty of the Lord, you will spiral way down.

When you get into the presence of God, you will feel that nothing is impossible with God.  One of the great adventures that I am on is to be changed into the same beautiful image of the Lord.  You say, your eyesight is poor, your hearing is bad, these skin cancers may get ugly… but I can still have beauty.  You and I will not have it unless we go into His presence and your and my life is changed.

I am told that it was a turning point in Brother Mullan from being a sweet man to becoming hard because he went to some of his family and they had apostatized and instead of turning to God it made him angry.

I remember going to camp-meeting and this brother that I don’t remember the name of preached the heavens open.  I ran into him the next year and he had turned into a glacier, cold, hard, and bitter.  It could happen to anyone of us, unless we turn to God. 

To enquire: God help me to know what you want me to do and help me to know how to do it.

It convicts me every time I follow the pattern of tabernacle worship.  There is the brazen altar.  I am humbled immediately when I think of the price that was paid for me.  The blood of the Lamb was shed.  Sin would have destroyed me. 

I don’t need to tell you, sin destroyed Kelly’s.  You drive around the country and see the crosses.  My brother died at 21 in an automobile accident; he left children.  You and I would not be able to watch a video of one of their lives.  Kelly’s have a bad record. 

Go to that laver where you can wash.  Wash me.  You say, “It is my personality.”  Get washed.  You can be washed and perfected.  You can measure.

The door:  I think of being able to get into God’s Church.  There is a door, it is Jesus.  I get in the door and there is the bread and there is the light.  You take the Word of God and He feeds you and gives you light on that path.

You go to the golden altar.  I realize that once the carnal man is gone he doesn’t come back unless you sin, but I also realize that you die daily; I set myself apart. 

We have to get past this thing, “I’m not sure they will accept me.”  We have to get into the Holiest of Holies.  Perfect love to God, to man, to one another, to those that have disappointed me. 

Don’t forget where you came from.  Don’t forget the longsuffering of God and of the saints. 

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 5/10/15

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 5/10/15

The questions of Bathsheba. 

This message is dedicated to the value of a Godly mother and the attributes of a Godly mother.

Pro 31:1  The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

Pro 31:2  What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

Lemuel is another word for Solomon.  Here we see the thought, “What my son?”  Everyone in this audience was once a child.  We were once in the thought, “What will we do with our life?  What will be the important aspect of our life?  How will we plan our life?” 

It is not wrong to make plans.  The important thing is to seek God in the making of our plans. 

What my child your goals?  I’m sure Solomon’s mother had great convictions and desires.  She had a colorful past but she came to God and did her best to raise her son in the fear and admonition of the Lord. 

She had failed, but she got it right and wanted to keep it right.  She did not want her son to go into the sin that she had known.

“What are you going to seek in life?  What will be your goal?  How will you spend your life?”  These are vital questions.  Too many times people take off down the road of life and just see where it will lead them.  We have way too many examples of how dangerous that is.

We are blessed to have children and young married couples and everyone that is here this morning in this audience.

1Ti 4:12  Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

As you age, youth takes on the thought, “You are still young at 30, 40 and brother Herb was in the convictions that you were still young at 50.” 

Let no man despise thy youth.  Everyone that is 40 years or younger, I trust God will help you to realize what an awesome privilege that you have to have the Word of God speaking to you.  “What am I doing here?  Why am I wasting time here, doing this or that?”  Remember David said, “Don’t forget God, remember God thy creator.”

Now Paul is saying, “Let no man despise thy youth. But be a good example in word.”

It is so important that we are an example in how we talk and what we talk about.  There are many avenues of getting thoughts to your mind.  You can live in a world of all the evil that is going on.  It will captivate your mind and your thinking.

You can live in a world of entertainment.  I believe in knowing how to really enjoy life, but don’t try to fix your soul with entertainment.  It will not work.  Only Jesus will satisfy your soul.

It is vital that you learn how to talk.  Your heavenly father has a real concern that you learn how to talk and what to talk about.  A standard for a sister is that the law of kindness is in your mouth.  He doesn’t want you to have a razor sharp tongue but to have discretion of what you talk about and where you talk about it.

As the Word and Spirit of God have taught us over and over, charity never fails.  You may be in an extreme difficult situation in your life and struggling with many things.  For those that feel they have gotten older or old, be an example of the Love of God in action.

Bathsheba said to Solomon, “What my son?”  I wonder if he was going back memories lane and reminiscing, “My mother taught me and instructed me.”

What the son of my womb?  Us brothers know what it is like to father a child but we don’t know what it is like to be a mother carrying a child.  Every day you are giving life to that child.  I believe Bathsheba was very concerned about this child that was going to be named Solomon.  Very concerned with his life and if he would live.

Be an example in charity.  You cannot out give God.  You cannot out love the Lord.  You can become rigid, paranoid, hard, and cynical; the spirit of our world will make you that way.  The love of God will not make you that way. 

We realize how much love we have received from God.  He sent His Son, and over and over His love comes to us. 

He sent us His Spirit.  We must each bring our body under subjection, “I bring my body under…”  We all make a choice of what spirit we submit to.  Submit to the Holy Spirit of God in every avenue of your life, to have the Holy Spirit of God leading, guiding and dwelling in you. 

She said to Solomon, “Thou son of my womb.”  Oh sons and daughters this morning.  To think first of the love of a natural mother.  We face today sometimes a child saying, “I don’t know whether my mother loves me.”  But you can know that the spiritual mother, the church, loves you. 

We thank God for godly mothers.  The mother carried the child, and prayed for the child.  Our times are so shaky.  The enemy is working to destroy anything that is of eternal value.  Brother Davis said at the passing of his mother, “No one could pray for me like my mother.” 

In the world we live people say, “Everything is great.  My son is a doctor, the other a lawyer, and my daughter is a teacher.  Everything is great.”  Ok, but how is it spiritually?

In faith being an example.  I will believe God.  I am not just going to look at the visuals.  I will look to God and say, “I am going to believe God.  I will have faith in Him.”

Children believe God and know that He will always do what He has promised.  No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.

True friends are found among them that love God. The deep places that are found are in the hand of God.  There are reasons why there are deep places, it is so God can come and say, “I am still God.”

There are a lot of things going on in the world today and things may not have worked out like you wanted, but remember the deepest places belong to God, and if you will be His child then He will be there.

In purity.  There is nothing like a pure mind.  Whether you are my age or the age of the youngest child, purity is wonderful.  You may say, “I have already messed up purity.”  It just depends if you want to stay messed up.  We serve a God that performs miracles.  One of the miracles that He performs is giving virtue.  His name is wonderful and that means a miracle.

All have sinned and come short of the glory of God and we would all say to these children, “Keep your mind pure.” 

You may have messed up your life and gotten involved in many things.  But we serve a living God whose name is wonderful.  He will change you from where you are to where He wants you to be.

Paul, the man that wrote this to Timothy, beat up the saints, but He got a hold of God.

“Till I come give attendance to reading.”

Read the bible.  Read things that edify and build up.

Do you know how to encourage someone?  You say, “I think that I am the one that needs encouragement.”  That is the problem, you are focused on yourself.  God has the strength of the mountains.  If you are sick and tired of the hole that you are in, then head to God.

“I almost feel that I am going to drown in this hole.”  Get your eye on the mountain where there is strength.  Get on that mountain and get an anointing until you can pray and encourage someone else.

Son of my vows:  Parents pray for your children, vow to teach them the Word of God.  I visited a 24 year old man that is religious.  He is married and has a child that is about 2 years old.  I said, “Mother’s Day is coming up and it is vital that you wish your wife a happy mother’s day.”  I asked him if he knew what it said in Proverbs 31:10-31?  He said, “I have never heard of Proverbs 31.”

It is vital that we get this word of God out. 

Psa 119:9  BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Young ladies how you can be perfected and have your life blessed is by taking heed to the Word of God.

1Ti 4:12  Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

1Ti 4:13  Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

1Ti 4:14  Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

To doctrine:  we need to know the Word of God.  By the truth is the only way that an individual will be free.

Neglect not the gift that is in thee:  To everyone that is saved, you need to know what you are called to do.  You need to then be very busy doing what you are called to do.  There are no inactive members of the body of Christ. 

When we come to Christ repenting and turning from our sin, we become a member of God’s church and of the Body of Christ.  God has a job for every member in His church.

Meditate, give thyself:  Take heed to thyself:  as Bathsheba said to her son, “What son of my womb, of my bowels?” 

Joh 8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Joh 7:16  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

Joh 7:17  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

The mother experience:  you mothers could exhort, I really couldn’t.  I know a little bit about Moses’ mother.  She lived in a day that babies were murdered.  She had a son and called him Moses.  She had a plan.

Mothers, be spiritual so that God can give you a plan for your son and your daughter.  Children need someone that has an identity with God to be an example to them and to pray for them.

Hannah wanted a baby.  How she longed for that child!  “This child have I given back to God.” 

My mother was saved after the death of her brother.  God taught her Bible sanctification and consecration.  She realized, “I need everything on the altar.”  Her husband was unsaved.  My father, prior to salvation, was not the easiest man to live with.  I know this because I know that his youngest son Gary is not.  My mother in her consecration told of putting my daddy on the altar. 

Her firstborn: my wife has a beautiful picture of my mother and her firstborn.  My mother told of consecrating her firstborn to God.  Moms give your sons and daughters back to God.  Vow to Him, “I am going to pray for this son and daughter.  I am going to love them and remind them of the vows that I made to God.”

I believe that the vows of Bathsheba echoed in the ears of Solomon.  He wrote this under the conviction that he had a godly mother. 

My mother put her second son on the altar, the son she loved and cared for.  She told of placing him there.  Give yourself some time for your consecration.  Don’t hurry.  Do it so you know they are there.  My mother prayed for a child after Joanne. 

Then came Gyme.  She told of getting him on the altar.  There were tears.  She had a prayer baby.  While she prayed for her children, she prayed for herself, “My vow to you is that I will do my best to train them.”

My mother was as strict with Jack as she was clear down to me.  In her tears, she visited my brother in jail.  Sin did not treat my brother well.

Then she had Joanne.  She carried that baby and nourished that baby with her life’s strength.  If you have a mother, tell her that you love her.  Mom loved those children.  She loved Joanne.  I believe that she did her very best.  She got Joanne on the altar. 

I don’t know if I was hardly able to walk when she put me on the altar.  Knowing my mother, she didn’t leave any stone unturned.

The vow of a godly mother, the vows during pregnancy, the vows during birth.  Your parents love you very much and are going to draw good lines for you.  They will be as Bathsheba, “Don’t make the mistakes that I made.  I know what is out there that wants to ruin special lives.”  When your mom and dad say, “No.”  Then don’t say “Why?”  Say, “Thank you.”

They may say, “I want you to have friends, but I am uncomfortable with the spirit of that young person.”  Say, “Thank you. I don’t see it but I am young.”

When they say, have devotions, or have you sought counsel?  Say, “Thanks.”

In the early seasons when the little ones are so teachable, the little children say, “Daddy can I do it with you?”  You think, “It only takes three times longer when you do it with me,” but you tighten your lips and think, “Someday they will be the technician that I am not.”  You say, “Sure son.”

The tender seasons when you talk to that little boy or girl and they cry; you say, “You didn’t treat your brother right.”  And tears begin to fall.  You say, “You were wrong.” They pucker up and tears begin to fall.  That is a wonderful season.  Love them.

Then they come to another season.  Sometimes it is a troubling season.  The world will make a strong call for their life.  They will say, “I am not going to let the world mess up my life.”  I want to tell you it is a troubling season.  I feel that you are too young for the choices that you will have to make. 

During those troubling seasons, keep the door open.  Know how to communicate.

There are times when our children have special needs.  There is not any season in a child’s life that is not really important to them.  If you have a son or daughter that is struggling in school, that is faced with a bully, or that is angry way too young, take it serious.  When they have a need, it is a special need. Pray, seek God and let them know that you care.

Pro 31:10  Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Who can find a virtuous woman?  Who can find a man of valor?  It is a miracle, it is an individual with ability and strength, with meaning, with character. 

Have character.  Virtue is a miracle from God.  The Bible teaches us that a virtuous woman and a man of valor fears God.  What does it mean to fear God?  If there is anything in your life that is between you and God then the fear of God says, “Take care of it now.” 

It is not the fear that God will get a bat and beat you, not the fear that “Because of this I am going to go out and wreck.”  No, it is “Because you made me…”  I think it is a miracle that I can walk.  What a miracle!  I can read.  Every morning so far I have been able to get up and read.

The fear of God is this:  He made me.  We wouldn’t resent it if we had people come into this audience in wheel chairs.  But none of you younger and none of you older saints are in wheel chairs.  God has been really good.

This morning in this audience I would assume every husband and wife are one, but if you have let things come that has made a little difficulty in your marriage, fear God and get it worked out.

You parents and you children, do your best to work together.  The Bible says, “Children obey your parents.  Children love your parents.  Children serve God.”

The bible says, “Parents provoke not your children to wrath.”  Be a settled individual.  Have laws of the home that don’t change. 

If you feel you have failed your child, repent.  You can have virtue just like that.  Virtue means strength.  A virtuous woman and a man of valor fears God.

Who can find a virtuous woman?

Sister Teri Sunday School 5/10/15

Sister Teri Sunday School 5/10/15

Coram Deo is the big idea of the Christian life: to live in the presence of God, under the authority of God and for the glory of God.

We don’t want to have our life compartmentalized into “Religious” and “Temporal”.  But we want every aspect of our life to be spiritual.

When we look at God’s remote purpose it helps us to understand some things.  When we question 

why God allows some bad thing to happen, we are looking for His purpose. 

Because we know that God is all powerful we assume that He could have prevented it.  The enemy uses this to hinder people from seeking God and trusting Him. 

We know that He is good, always good, His pleasure and His will are always good, and His intentions are always good.

Psa 25:8  Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

Psa 34:1  A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Psa 34:2  My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

Psa 34:3  O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Psa 34:4  I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Psa 34:5  They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

Psa 34:6  This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psa 34:7  The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

Psa 34:8  O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

We know that God is good because of how He was so good to us.  When bad things happen we can look at the good things that God has done for us, it will help us.

Psa 119:65  TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

Psa 119:66  Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

Psa 119:67  Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Psa 119:68  Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

Afflicted means looking down or brow beating, to depress, humble, submit, chasten, or submit self, become low. 

Circumstances may humble us.  But to receive the good, we must humble ourselves before God.  When we just struggle under it then we will miss the good.  But if we will humble ourselves before God then we will get the good under it.

Luk 20:17  And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

Luk 20:18  Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Instead of humbling themselves before God they resist and resist and it grinds them to powder.  We don’t have to be ground to powder.  If we humble ourselves, bring ourselves to the state of Coram Deo in the bad situations that happen, we will receive the good. 

Sometimes bad things happen because of our bad choices or actions, but sometimes bad things happen even though we are going the right way. 

Even when we are not doing things right, God still works the bad things for our good.  If people will humble themselves in the bad things, they will get the good that God intends.

Nah 1:2  God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

Nah 1:3  The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Nah 1:4  He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

Nah 1:5  The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

Nah 1:6  Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

Nah 1:7  The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

Nah 1:8  But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

He is a good God but will not just let wickedness go because of His goodness.  There is nothing strong enough to stand against God when He chooses to move. 

There is a goodness and a severity of God.  Because of His goodness He looks for a repentance.

Rom 11:21  For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

Rom 11:22  Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Rom 11:23  And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

God did not spare the rebellious, disobedient Jews just because they were Jews.  He also opened a way that the Gentiles could be saved.

None of us gets to the place where we are grafted in and will be there no matter what we do.  We must continue in faith and obedience.  This is how we continue in the vine. 

God wants everyone to be saved.  Anyone that will turn can be grafted back in.  A Jew can be saved if they will accept Christ.  Circumstances in a life can cause a life to throw themselves on the rock rather than be crushed. 

This rabbi had turned from being Jewish to being an atheist.  It was a part of the path of coming to God.  I also had to come out of the religious traditions of men to come out to where God wanted me to be.  I went into a depths of sin and God used that route to get me here.

The prodigal had to leave the fathers house to pursue the world and waste his inheritance.  Sometimes people leave the church of God and are not right in their experience yet are still sitting in the pews.  They must come to the realization, “I am out; I am not in.  I need to repent.  I need to return to the father.  Not to the church pew, but to the father.”

These days, people want to come into our midst and just continue in their lost condition.  They want to think they are alright and live however they want.  We want to have enough love of God, “The goodness and severity of God,” to tell it like it is: “God has a better way than that.  Get to the rock.  Humble yourselves before God and He will help you have a better life.”

My son would get saved and endeavor to do right.  Things were wonderful when he was endeavoring to do right.  I needed wisdom from God to know where to draw the line when he started turning away from God.  There was always something open and clearly wrong.  I would think, “If I call him on this, then we will go back to where things were terrible again.”  I knew that I had to though, because I wanted him to be saved. 

We need wisdom to know how to exercise the goodness and severity of God.  We need His Spirit in all we say and do.  We ultimately want souls to be saved.

Deu 29:10  Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

Deu 29:11  Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

Deu 29:12  That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

Deu 29:13  That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Deu 29:14  Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

Deu 29:15  But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

Deu 29:16  (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

Deu 29:17  And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

Deu 29:18  Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

Deu 29:19  And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

Deu 29:20  The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Deu 29:21  And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

Deu 29:22  So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

Deu 29:23  And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Deu 29:24  Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Deu 29:25  Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

Deu 29:26  For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

Deu 29:27  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

Deu 29:28  And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

Deu 29:29  The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

God wants us to be Coram Deo; this is the covenant.  This is that we put ourselves in the presence of God.  Not just an awareness of His presence but dwelling before His face, “I am here, what do you want me to do.”  Actively in His presence, because He actively wants to be involved in our life.

The reason that the secret things belong to us is that we may do all the words of His Law.  There needs to be consequences of disobedience.  It is because of the mercy of God that He sets those boundaries.  He doesn’t want those that are saved to go astray, he wants future generations to be aware, he wants those that have gone astray to turn from their evil way. 

He sets before us life and good; He wants life for those that choose good.