Brother Gary Kelly Sunday Morning 2/24/13

Brother Gary Kelly Sunday Morning 2/24/13

Psa 112:1  Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

Psa 112:2  His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

This Psalm starts out with giving praise to God.  Any man that can praise God is a blessed man.  The Bible tells us that the dead cannot praise God.  Even those dead in sin cannot praise God.  The saved man can praise God.  Blessed is the man that fears God.

The generation of the upright shall be blessed.  My thought goes not only to our families but to His seed, God’s seed shall be mighty on the earth.  I want to bring thoughts concerning the seed of the Word of God sown in our hearts that brings the blessing of God.

Luk 8:11  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Having the proper respect toward the commandments and the Word of God allows the seed of the Word of God to be sown in our lives. 

The sower went forth to sow.  There was an evangelist and six or eight workers that came to plains in the fifties.  Her message was on the sower and she told the pastor, Brother Mullan, that in order for her to preach that night she needed a bag of rice.  She got up to preach and took her text and walked the aisles and began to sow the seed.  It was in that meeting that Sister Beryl’s dad was saved. 

I’ve never been brave enough to do this as I preached.  I don’t think it is one of those things that would make for peace with those that clean the church of God here in Paradise. 

The seed has had much effect in our personal lives.  Jesus went forward sowing the word of God.  Some of that seed fell on wayside soil.  They heard the Word of God.  Blessed is the man that hears the commandments of God and keeps them, that hears the Word of God.

The wayside soil there was robbed by the fowls of the air; Satan came along and robbed that seed.  The result is that they are lost. 

“Wealth and riches shall be in his house.”  How many times has God come to our rescue when the pain was past what we thought we could bear!  When you felt the heartache was heavier and more intense than you thought you could handle how many times he has come to your rescue.

Sinners have the same lot in life in the thought of they have heartache.  But who do they have to go to?  Sometimes the heartache we face is even more pronounced because it is not our heartache but someone else’s.  It hurts inside especially if the one that is hurting has heard the Word, it has departed, and they are lost.

Some of that seed is sown on rocky soil.  We live in a day when there are those that hear the word of God and receive it.  There are quite a few people in Montana and the neighboring states that realize that they need a new beginning but they are not starting on the new beginning.  It is a dangerous thing to hear, receive and go for God a little ways but be rootless. 

Sometimes people don’t have much character.  I know a God that will begin building character.  If an individual is wayside, rocky, or thorny and realize that they need a new beginning but don’t have all the tools they need.  If they will begin to seek God and confess that if God went on the past he’d never reach out to them.  They go to God and say, “If you will help me to gain character so that I keep my word, I pay my honest debts, and when I am corrected I receive it, then I can be saved.”

Those on stony soil, when difficult times come, give up.  When people get saved, God carries them a ways and then they come to the place of temptation and they either make the choice, “I would rather have the pleasures of sin then endure the hardship of persecution or difficulty” or “I would rather suffer with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.”

The seed was sown there.  God is no respecter of persons; that seed is sown on all ground.  It is certified seed.  It has been sown before and has produced before.  Some of it falls on thorny ground.  They hear, accept the word of God.  They confess and repent and begin to walk for God.  Then the good seed of the Word of God is choked by cares.

Life will have lots of cares.  The older that you get the larger the cares of life seem to be.  There are those in this audience that see the dirty windows as a small job, “We will wash the windows.”  When the ashes needed taken from the soil, when the garden seed needed planting, it is just a part of life.  As you age, cares seem to multiply. 

We want the seed of the Word and we must have it.  We want the wealth of faith and communion of God.  Cares choke the Word of God.  There is not one here that the enemy wouldn’t want to get to go back to being overcharged with cares. 

We want to take care of what needs to be done.  But we must put the cares into the lap of the Lord and not allow them to become so big that it takes our meditation, our worship, and our bible study. 

Choked by riches:  I don’t know how all of you feel this morning about money, but I’m glad that riches will not choke the Word of God in my life.  I see it as a passing vanity.  Don’t try to figure out how to get rich in this world.  From what I have seen of individuals that labored to be rich, it did not leave them where they wanted to be left nor did it take them to where they wanted to go.

We need to know how much pleasure and rest that we need to have so that we can be effective for Him.  When they brought word to Jesus that John the Baptist had been beheaded, it had an effect on Jesus.  Jesus went out by Himself for a season. 

When your work load is heavy, when your burdens are heavy, when your heart has been broken, sometimes you need renewed.  John the Baptist died for right principals.  It affected Jesus and He went out into a mountain. 

It may not have been recreation, but it was at the least restoration.  There are things that at times take time for us to work through.  Sometimes we need the help of one another to work through them.  Other times we are only going to work through things by being alone with God.

There are people that allow pleasures to choke God form their life.  You say, “How can I know the balance between having too much pleasure and allowing it to choke the seed of the Word of God from my life and taking time to be restored.” 

The answer is found when you allow pleasure to choke the Word of God than it is too much.  The outcome of restoration is feeling drawn close to God. 

The result of the thorny ground is that they brought forth no fruit to perfection.  Fruit is our goal.

The good soil was those that received the Word in an honest and a good heart.  The honest and the good heart is something that we get from God.  We may not all come as wayside soil, but we all come to Him as soil that needs worked, soil that needs to be broken up, and needs the rocks removed.  We all would have roots of thorns that would spring up our life to choke the Word of God.

We are right in praying for ourselves.  “God make me good ground.”  The good ground has three pronounced things:  they hear the word of God, they keep the word of God, and they bear fruit with patience.

I love to hear the word of God in the morning, hear it being taught, sung, preached, and exhorted upon.

Psa 112:1  Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

Psa 112:2  His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Psa 112:3  Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

The seed of the Word of God brings treasures to our house.

Psa 112:4  Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

As you journey for God there will be some dark places and there will be times when you don’t know which way to go or answers that you don’t have.  To that man, woman, boy, and girl that fears God, that light will shine.

The effects of the Word of God in our life will bring a graciousness to us, will bring compassion.  I’ve been praying that God will send godly sorrow.  In order for you and me to see godly sorrow upon souls, we need God to do a work in our lives so that we will have compassion on that individual. 

They will have a brokenness take place.  They will see where they failed and failed utterly.  You and I being as hard as nails will not position us to where we can help that one that has godly sorrow.

Psa 112:5  A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

We can have compassion.  God will help.  He will guide his affairs with discretion.  Discretion means with the thought of eternity in view.

Psa 112:6  Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

Psa 112:7  He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

It is wonderful to have it settled.  To have our heart fixed on Jesus trusting in the Lord

Psa 112:8  His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.

I’ve come to the conviction and conclusion that my prayer for my enemy is that “God move on them with godly sorrow because I don’t want to see any lost in hell.”

Psa 112:9  He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.

To some the only kindness that they will experience is that kindness that you give them.  God has a way of taking care of your horn being exalted.

1Pe 3:7  Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

1Pe 3:8  Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

1Pe 3:9  Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Brothers in the flesh should really love each other.  My brother Bill was as defensive of my brother Jack as if Jack was still alive, defensive, and standing there.  We need to love one another as brothers.  We need to have that intestinal fortitude that we love our brother. 

Be pitiful: really have compassion on one another.  Be courteous not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing but do just the opposite, put out a blessing.

You are called that you should inherit a blessing.  “Do right by them so that you don’t mess up your inheritance.”  What is the inheritance?  Our prayers can be answered.  I need my prayers answered.  More than feeling good, more than having my favorite food, more than a blessing of whatever, knowing that God will answer my prayer is what I want. 

Your mind will go to families that are hurting.  Our prayer would be that God would be there.  You know some of the requests that were called in last week and they are urgent.  More than God giving us river front property, we need our prayers answered. 

Pray for me that I will treat others right.  Be of one mind.