Brother Gary Sunday Morning 3/3/13

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 3/3/13

1Ch 28:9  And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

David had many new beginnings in his life.  Here he was coming to the end of his personal pilgrimage and God used Him to prepare his son and others for a new beginning.

Today, March 3, 2013, we feel strong conviction that God has a new beginning for us.

The thought of a new beginning doesn’t mean that you have backslid or are in trouble with God.  Through life God has a way of bringing some things to an end.  It doesn’t mean that it was a bad thing or that you were out of order, just that God has a plan and a purpose.

“Solomon, know the God of thy father.” 

As we read you will see where David called a very serious assembly.  There are times in our life when various assemblies are called.  March 17^th there will be a serious assembly in Miami.  Bro Figeroa will speak to his congregation for the last time as pastor.  He says that he has serious things to say. 

This father David was 70 years old.  He was indeed a champion.  He didn’t get to build the temple, but it was in his heart.  He was gifted in the thought that he knew quite a bit about worship.  He had the desire to build a marvelous temple for God.

God is calling his church to a solemn assembly throughout the world.  He wants us to build a tabernacle for Him to dwell in.  It is spiritual tabernacle; it cannot be touched with human hands.

David desired a place for the footstool of God, a place where God could rest.  God chose Solomon to build that house.  David was convicted to instruct the congregation to keep the commandments and the Word of God.  There is no greater instruction than this.  Keep the word of God! 

David then told them that the blessing would be that Solomon would possess great lands.  God wants us to fully possess and enjoy Beulah and Canaan. 

David instructed Solomon and the children of Israel that they must leave an inheritance for their children.  I’m not worried about leaving our children or grandchildren money this morning.  I want to leave, and I want to challenge you to leave, a testimony that you know God. 

We want to leave the testimony that we walked and lived for God.  God gave me a chorus on being a living sacrifice.  I am convinced that there are depths that I haven’t reached that I need to reach. 

Solomon my son, know the God of your father.  I studied on the word ‘know’.  I thought that I knew all about that word, but I was inspired to look up about knowing God. 

God is saying to Gary Kelly and I am saying to you, “Know God, acknowledge God, acquaint yourself with God.” 

We all could say that we have family that we really don’t know.  It may never work out that we know them, but it is vital that we acquaint ourselves with God our father.

You may feel that you are a long ways from where God wants you to be.  I’m really glad that you are here.  God wants us to be graced with the beautiful robes of righteousness, with the robes of truth.  He wants our life to be so beautiful that as He told us, “He would beautify the meek with salvation.”

He said, “Jerusalem, put on your beautiful garments.”  We have been taught to be clean and to look our best for the house of God.  This is good teaching and God has given us a good wife and even saints that help us to dress in a way that is appropriate. 

We want to go past this to how we can acquaint ourselves with God and to those things that make mothers, fathers, and those in the congregation beautiful.  We can only do this as we acquaint ourselves with God.

As we humble ourselves with God then he gives us that beautiful garment of humility and of praise.   Put on your beautiful garments. 

We feel so blessed, over and over again the saints say, “How did we ever find God and truth?  How did we find the place where iron sharpens iron?  How did we find the place where we could experience worship?” 

God, we want to get better acquainted with you.  We want to be at the place where David said, “Son, know God.”  I think I can hear some of you in my mind’s ear saying, “Son, know God.” 

There would be more than just moms and dads, there would be more than the pastor.  It would be the heart beat of everyone in this congregation this morning that every young person in this audience would know God and acquaint themselves with God so that their minds and hearts are not scarred. 

Valor for the masculine has the same meaning as the word virtue has for the feminine.  Acquaint yourself before God so that we as men will have valor, strength of character, and so that the women would have virtue, moral excellence.

As we work to the mark of seventy and as others have worked past that mark, acquaint yourselves with God.  May it become real in our heart, in our soul, in our spirit lest we fail to possess the land and leave that inheritance for our children. 

Comprehend is also what the word, ‘know’ God, means.  The three things that belong only to God: He is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. 

The omnipresent God, wherever your sons or daughters are, wherever that other little Hailey is this morning, God can be there. 

There are those in this audience that will be here every Sunday for however long and their hearts will not be healed yet.  For the saints, we will miss Brother Herb so much.  We knew that one day he would go.  We knew that He was here Jan 3 and Jan 11, I have a vivid memory of those days. 

There will be an emptiness without Him.  I set aside Tuesday nights to go visit him.  He will not be there this Tuesday night.  May we comprehend God, all present, all knowing, and all powerful.

To know God means to be diligent.  David was going to die and there was going to be a new king.  Solomon would no longer be the twenty year old without responsibility.  With knowing God there is the vital part of being diligent.

Knowing God means to be ‘endued with’.  To know God means to come to God.  Not just to go through the form, but to come to God.  It is so vital to come to God. 

Knowing God means to mark.  You know how you mark things so that you can be sure to find them.  There are some things about knowing God that you can mark.  You can mark the secret closet and mark, “I am going to come to God, when I am here the world is shut out, and my mind cannot speak so loudly.”  Your mind will talk loud sometimes.  You can mark, “This is where when God speaks, I’m going to take notice.” 

To know means to be a relative.  There is something about relatives; there are times when they are just relatives and there are others when they are relatives.  It wasn’t just anyone that was asked to read the 23^rd Psalm yesterday at Shirley’s funeral.  There were four young men that were relatives.  You are to know God in the thought that “I am His son or his daughter, and He is my father.”

To know means to regard, and to discover.  This sounds out of place until you think about it.  As there are new beginnings with God then there are new discoveries with God. 

1Ch 28:7  Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.

The commandments are emphasized. 

John 6:63 the flesh profits nothing. 

I hope that I am humble enough and it is ok with me to tell me often that “Brother Kelly your flesh profits nothing.”  If I feel a rising up then I know that there is more to die in me.” 

The only way that you need to feel unkind is if you feel unkind on the inside.  The spirit quickens.  In a world that is so dead.  In a world that I personally think that God keeps the blinders on us a lot of times, because if we saw all the evil spirits that are out there then we could not handle it. 

There are times when God says, “I’m going to show you some things.”  He lifts the blinder and lets us see how deadly, evil, and corrupt the world is.  We need a quickening from God.  The words that He speaks are spirit and they are life.

My soul, my natural man and spiritual man need quickening.  The imaginations of my heart and every portion of me needs the living God.  His words are spirit and they are life.

David told Solomon to know God and to serve God.  In this audience this morning, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God has His hand on dear children, young people, and dear saints of God.  He wants them to build spiritually a beautiful temple, a beautiful life for God to dwell in.

I think of different places that this congregation will be this week.  I am challenged that my life and my spiritual man will be a temple of the living God, beautiful. 

I can walk into where ever that I walk with a critical eye and put on my white glove to test cleanliness.  I can have my attitude and character like any man in the world and you can too.  This is not being a temple of the living God.

Know God and serve Him with a perfect heart.  There are places that I walk in and feel a resistance.  You cannot help that.  We are a temple of God and a savor of life to some and a savor of death to others. 

To those that we are a savor of life, they are glad to see someone standing for truth.  Religion is everywhere.  There is one young lady that doesn’t let me have any open door; her thought is that they have already tried to save her and “You cannot save me.”

We are also a savor of death to some.  When people love darkness and they meet someone that is beautiful with holiness and the spirit and power of God walking with God and knowing God, if they love darkness, then you will be a savor of death.  They will not want to be around you.  They don’t have an appreciation for God and truth.

God searches the heart.  He understands the thoughts of the heart, the mind, and of the flesh.  This scripture covers all sorts of imaginations, of the mind, of the heart, and of the flesh.

If you seek God He will be found and if you forsake Him then you will be lost forever.

1Ch 28:9  And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

1Ch 28:10  Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.

Take heed now.  God has chosen us of the church in Paradise to be beautiful spiritually.  God told David to tell Solomon to be strong and do it. 

There are many in this audience that are tired, weary, and exhausted.  God would want you to get some rest.  Jesus had to go away and rest.  The disciples had to get rest.  God wanted David to instruct Solomon that God had chosen him.

God has chosen you to be a beautiful temple for Him.  God had David give Solomon the pattern of the Temple.  This is the pattern of what God in the Spirit had given to David: the pattern for the porch, for the house, and for the treasuries. 

David gave Solomon the pattern for the treasuries.  Are you an individual that God has chosen to be a treasury of wealth to help someone else?  I don’t have a million dollars, but we have a treasury of faith in God.  We have the treasury of the testimony of many that came broken to the gospel and now are whole. 

One young man told me that he had hit rock bottom.  If people will hit rock bottom and come to the end of themselves, there will be individuals that have been given the pattern of treasuries to help them. 

One gave me the testimony that they were so broke that they couldn’t get caught up and besides had to be in jail every weekend so could not be in church.  God helped that young man to work and get out of debt.  He served his time in jail and God turned his life around.

In California I was told the story of a young man that got saved that had blown his mind on drugs.  He needed a job so a brother that chose to be a treasury of wealth to the young man gave him a job.  The young man didn’t know how to pick up the tools at the end of the day so the brother would go around after him after he was done working and pick up his tools so they would be ready to work again tomorrow.  The young man was able to get his life together over time.

Many don’t know how to be a good mother or father.  May God help you and me to be individuals that are beautiful with the treasure.  There is a big price to pay for this.  We are Americans but that doesn’t make us church of God.  We believe the American story that life ought to be good for everyone but that isn’t how it is.

Do we have the pattern for the upper chamber?  Is there something in our life where we are always living below our privileges?  “How many times,” God says, “Do I have to tell you that I love you?”  My shoes don’t have holes in them.  The light bill is paid; there is gas in both rigs.  God has never failed us. 

What am I doing down in the little chamber saying, “How will God do this?”

Where are we living?  What chamber are we in?  Solomon built the inner chamber, the court of the house, the place for the treasuries of the dedicated things.  How are we with this?  How beautiful is our treasury of the dedicated things?  What all have you and I given to God?  Give everything to Him. 

Give Him your time.  The God I serve gives time back.  You will never have enough time for yourself.  How are your treasures?  What shape is the treasury of the dedicated things? 

Solomon was about 20 and David was 70.  How many here feel a conviction from God that you need a new beginning?  David isn’t here but God ordained that we be spoken to by His son Jesus Christ.

If you are here and you’ve grown lukewarm and have neglected your soul and feel that your house and life are not a beautiful temple.  If you feel that your spiritual life is in sad condition because of slothfulness and indifference, or because you did not take seriously what God has spoken to you about.

My aunt told me after my father was killed.  His only sister called and asked my mother to come.  My mother asked me to go.  My aunt told me that she was so embarrassed that she had allowed God to be crowded out of her life.  It happens.  God sends wake up calls.  If any part of God has been crowded out of your life or any part of bible truth, then I wouldn’t even wait for the song to come to the altar.

You want to really know God.  Whatever you need to do to get it right then settle it that you are going to know God.  “I want to know God in a greater way.  I am going to know God as He would have me to know Him.”

What pattern has God given you by His Holy Spirit?  What does God want you to do?  Jesus Christ is making intercession for us this morning.  He knows the pattern.  He knows what He wants you to know.  He knows and whatever He told Solomon, He is telling you, “Be strong and do it.”