Brother Gary Kelly Wednesday Evening 2/6/13

Brother Gary Kelly Wednesday Evening 2/6/13

Study to show thyself approved to God:  I was enjoying some of the lessons in the book by Brother Speck.  Probably the first book outside the Bible that I was exposed to was Eigermeyer’s bible story book. 

When Brother Mullan pastored at Plains he gave my parents a concordance.  I’m so happy that I learned how to use a concordance.  Through the years we collected the sounding of the Trumpets, the parallel lectures by Brother Emerson Wilson, then Brother Turnbow coming to preach the lessons on Revelations.  We have today a small library to help us in studying the Word of God. 

We wouldn’t need more than just the Bible, but I’ve been searching for a connection between Proverbs chapter 31 where it speaks of finding a virtuous woman and when Joshua spoke of finding men of valor.  I studied to the best of my ability.  Due to the privilege of having a concordance of the Hebrew, I know the word ‘valor’ comes from the same root as ‘virtuous’. 

It is wonderful to have the Word of God and to be able to study it.

1Ch 16:29  Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

David gave this to Asaph after the arc had been brought back and was sitting in a tent.  David knew the value of worship and the danger of not worshipping. 

When we think of the beauty of Holiness, Ps 48:1 speaks of the mountain of holiness; verse two says that it is beautiful for situation.  The beauty of holiness is a wonderful place for you and me to come into.  Whatever situation that we are in, in life, it is the right place to give praise, to receive a burden and to give a burden.

It is wonderful that in your life when there are things you can be rightfully troubled about, (We should be concerned and seek God about things.) you can bring all of those troubles to Him in the beauty of holiness.  It is beautiful for situation, the mountain of holiness.

Jer 2:1  Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Jer 2:2  Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Jer 2:3  Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

There are a couple seasons of expressed kindness.  It is wonderful to see children being kind to one another.  It is good that Isaac, Madison, Makaela, and Gyme go up to children that are here and take them to Sunday school with them.

After we got saved, we wanted to please God.  We wanted to leave behind the sharp tongue, the ugliness…  Remember the kindnesses of our youth.

All through time, God has looked for holiness.  Our lives are designed to be what you and I can give back to God to use however He wants to use us.

Zech 14:20, 21 Zechariah was prophesying, it is a prophecy of the gospel day, that there would be holiness unto the Lord, even unto the bells on the horses. 

According to what I found in my studies, in the olden days they put bells on horses so that they would hear the music tone and it would cause them to work harder.  The bells would also drive the snakes away.

We want holiness unto the Lord on our bells, we want to be hard workers.  We don’t feel that we have arrived or want to have reach a plateau, we are pressing on to higher heights and deeper depths.  We want to work with enthusiasm and knowledge, and press.

The enemy comes in like a flood and we walk among the ungodly, but Jesus said that, “I give you power over all the power of the enemy.”  Our testimony, our life, the atmosphere around us, when it is holy then there are a lot of things that don’t show up. 

We pack a spirit and all around us packs a spirit.  If you get around someone that is contentious you may feel that spirit left at your house after they leave and you say, “We don’t want any of that.”  Get out those bells and say, “Holiness unto the Lord.

Psa 110:3  Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

The power of God is an eternal power.  It is not mystic, it is a power of God that is self existing because God is self existing.  A trait of God is that He has the power of God.  We see it in creation and we feel it in our lives when we cry out to God.  It was the power of God that gave us ability to get saved.

To them that received Him gave He power to become the sons of God.

The Gospel Day is the day of His power.  He doesn’t give us a bunch of rules to live by, He puts His Spirit in our heart and we live according to the dictates of our heart.

Holiness is wonderful.  It is wonderful when we sing songs that came to the men and women who wrote them in holiness.  All that we sang tonight were such: “the Sea of Glass”, by Brother Warner, hymn 6 in the evening light.  We stand upon the sea of glass:  the Word of God is the most perfect looking glass that was ever designed.  It was designed before mirrors were ever thought of. 

A song written in holiness feeds the holiness that is in you and makes you desire more.

Holiness totally takes care of us fighting God and wanting our own way.  It is a cure all.  When we worship God in the beauty of holiness, there is nothing of the flesh or world that has nay value.  We see our king in His beauty.  We feel the wonderful atmosphere of being in the presence of God.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power:  even the children have things planned or planned for them for the rest of the week.  As you worship God tomorrow morning and as you are alone with god in the beauty of holiness, as you are alone with God as you go over the burdens and over your own unspoken requests that become spoken in the secret closed, as you are alone with Him and give Him all your thoughts and burdens, He come sand says, “Son or daughter.”

Whether it is a phone call that He lays on your heart or a opening of the door to witness to whomever, I don’t know who you will meet tomorrow or before Sunday night, but He does.  Whether God lays it on your heart, “reach out to the lost” or “reach to the household of faith.” We want to be obedient. 

We don’t want to be found waiting for someone to reach to us.  We need to pray, “God help me to in the beauty of holiness do your will and reach out.”  In the beauty of holiness is where faith takes hold.  “God, I am believing you.”

God’s attributes are such that you and I don’t need to question what God can do for a soul.  You may in your mind have an opportunity or a burden for someone that has all the opposite traits of valor, if they come to Jesus they can have: the beauty of holiness, faith in God, prayer, believing God, from the womb of the morning, the beginning of the Gospel day. 

When Jesus found the man that had for 38 years been by the pool of Siloam: Every once a while there would be a moving in the water, whoever arrived first would have their need supplied.  The man never made it to the water, he was crippled.  Jesus didn’t ask if he needed help to the water, he said, “Wilt thou be whole?’

We are bringing situations that with men are impossible.  Men cannot quit lusting, cheating, or killing.  It is terrible but it is a reality today, they have given themselves over to Satan so that their minds and spirits are messed up.  If they will get to Jesus they can be made whole.

That child with scarlet fever, if we can touch Jesus then that child can be made whole.

This God is from eternity and inhabits eternity.  He was in eternity before there was anything.  He is self existent and doesn’t depend on anything other than reality.  He is the one true God.

He is omnipresent.  He is where you are burdened for tonight.  God knows right where each one is.  If there is anyone physically or spiritually going around the cape of death, God knows right where they are.  God can deliver from the cape of death.

He is omniscient, He knows everything.  He is omnipotent, the power of God!

Valor means power, might, as does virtue.  They mean strength, substance, valor, empowered for holiness, righteousness, and judgment.