Brother Gyme Sunday Morning 4/26/15

Brother Gyme Sunday Morning 4/26/15

Psa 136:1  O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

God has everlasting mercy that endures forever.  Every good thing in our life comes from God.  All the good things, and every help we get, no matter from what source, it is only because they are from the principles of the Word of God. 

Rom 2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

The goodness of God brought us to repentance.  It is because of the merciful God, because He is good.

Mercy is kindness, goodness, favorableness, favor.  God wants to show favor to His people

Jas 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

God never changes.  He is always the same.  We don’t serve a God that is fickle: one day his emotions are up and the next day they are done.  People can be like this.  One day they treat you well because their emotions are up.  The next day you wonder, “What did I do to them?” 

We want to stay somewhere in the center, not too high or too low.  God never changes.  When we are feeling down God still hasn’t changed.  He is still the same and sees every situation exactly the same, His judgment never changes.  His mercy endures forever.  It is never going to change.

Psa 16:2  O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

We have no good beyond God.  Everything that we have that is good is from God.

Psa 136:2  O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 136:3  O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.

There is only one God that gives good gifts.  There are many gods that the world lusts after.  But there is only one God that is good.  All the others and the gifts that come from them lead to destruction.

Mar 12:29  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

We see God’s creation and how everything works together and how the Word of God all fits together.  There is no way that you could get this Word of God written through all that time to line up exactly unless God wrote it.  Men did not write the Bible.  God wrote it.

Aren’t we lucky that the God of creation is our God and He gives good gifts?

Psa 136:4  To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 136:5  To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 136:6  To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 136:7  To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psa 136:8  The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psa 136:9  The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 136:10  To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psa 136:11  And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psa 136:12  With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 136:13  To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psa 136:14  And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:

We see this picture of a God that created all things.  By His wisdom He set everything in order.  I think of the men and women that say the earth is dying and is going to go away.  There is a time it will all burn up but it will not happen until God says. 

The God that created it all is more than capable of holding it and keeping it.  If we are spending time worrying and fearing of these earthly things than we are wasting our time.  We want to be good stewards, we are taught to be.  This earth is not for eternity, but it won’t be destroyed until God says.

God has a plan.  We don’t need to fear running out of oil; if we do run out of oil, there will be something else.

God miraculously delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt.  He did it in such a way that He let everyone know that He is God.  He is still the God that delivers today.

Isa 51:1  Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Are we following after righteousness? 

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.

This is a personal thing.  Are we following after righteousness?  There are many other things: self-righteousness, religious righteousness, the only one that is right is godly righteousness.

Look to the pit from whence you are hewn.  Cisterns cut in stone without water were used for prisons.  Stop and think of what God delivered us from.  We were lost and without God.  It is a miracle to be delivered. 

There is only one way to have a changed life and that is through repentance.  That is the message of the Church of God.  Repentance changes lives.  If you don’t have a changed life that is a sign that you have not repented. 

Aren’t you glad that you know about repentance?  Aren’t you glad to confess and turn from what is wrong?  We are only required to obey the Word of God. 

When my coworkers ask me a question, I tell them, “Ask me anything.  I have nothing to hide.”  One of my coworkers has been burnt on religion.  I tell him, “You don’t have to come to my building to be saved.  The church of God is wherever someone is saved.  That is the message of the church of God.” 

I tell them, “You can be saved anywhere.  You just have to obey the word of God.  You just have to come the bible way.” 

Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.  It will not save you to show up at church.  Following the Word of God will save you.  Then God will lead you.  He may lead you to Paradise Montana, He may lead you somewhere else. 

The message gives liberty.  Wherever the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.  There are no boxes.  As long as you are following the Word of God you can relax because there is liberty. 

“I know that I am saved.  What God has shown me, I am following.”  God wants liberty for us.  Not to do whatever we want, there is bondage in that.  There is liberty to give us good things.  Everything from God is good.

Isa 51:2  Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Heb 11:8  By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Heb 11:9  By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Heb 11:10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

God had a city, not a literal city or a literal building.  It was a spiritual city, it has a foundation that is solid.  We have a foundation, it is Jesus Christ.  “Whose builder and maker is Christ.”

If you are discouraged and unbelief is working, then “Look to the old paths.”  Look back to the Word of God, the goodness and faithfulness of God.  He always came through.  No matter how big the challenge or impossible the path looked, God always came through.

A difficulty with me is that I like to see the end.  I not only want to see the path but the end of the path.  He says, “This is the path I want you to take, and by faith you can follow me.”  We may not know the end, but we can trust Him.

We can look back at our own lives and see how God has never failed us.  We looked at the difficulties and wondered, but God came through.

Jer 6:16  Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Today there is a spirit in the world that is progressive: “Somehow we are becoming more enlightened and we know more.”  That is from the pits of hell.  The Bible says, “Look to the old paths.”  These old paths are eternal paths.  There is no new way. 

These old paths are well trodden.  We can see back in our time, I think of my grandmother.  She is probably directly responsible for my being saved today.  She prayed for me.  I saw a different life.  She didn’t necessarily teach me anything, I just knew that there was something different about my grandmother.

We want to be different.  We don’t want to fit in.  Not in a bad way but there needs to be something different about us if we are saved, we have a God that is good.  The world needs to see someone different. 

Seek the old paths that are eternal.

Isa 51:3  For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

I have some dry places that I need God to help with.  I have ground to gain.  He will make your wilderness inhabitable.  He will take those placed in our lives that are not producing anything and will make them beautiful if we will let Him.

We serve a good God and should be a thankful people and should have a voice of melody.

Isa 51:4  Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

Isa 51:5  My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

Isa 51:6  Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

It is eternal.

Isa 51:7  Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

We live in a world today that would like you and me to not be able to say anything.  They will talk about anything, any subject, but they don’t want you to talk about the good things of God.  They don’t even like you to say, “Thank the Lord.”  But they can talk about anything.

We need to not fear the reproach of men.  Some of the worst offenders of this are religious people.  They don’t want to hear anything about living holy.  The Bible is true.  The spirit of the day is that we cannot say anything.  It is the same spirit that is working in other countries killing the Christians because of their beliefs. 

They are doing the same thing in our country.  They are trying to kill your influence.  Chaplains in the army are no longer supposed to bring out the gospel.  This world wants you to feel uncomfortable because of the standard that you have. 

They should feel uncomfortable when they show up with half their clothes off.  We should be comfortable.  Every standard in the Word of God is good.  We need to take a stand.  We don’t need to be rude, crude, and unacceptable.  We need to take a stand.

They will present anything to your children.  Today is the day to stand up and say, “I have had just about enough.  That is wrong.”  They will kill you with your silence. 

We need to be the church.  God is good and everything that God has is good.  The children here are not missing out on anything but death and destruction.  You will not be the exception.  I have seen it day after day in the people that I grew up around that I see in St Regis.  You would not sleep. 

What God has for you is good.  He has the very best.  The enemy is working to destroy it.  The enemy is working to destroy these children.  He is working.  He is not quiet.  It is a flood of garbage, and we are going to be silent?  We are not going to hold a standard?  We are going to be embarrassed because we dress modestly? 

No, we have an alternative.  It is good because God is good.  Everything that God has for us is good.

Isa 61:1  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

We are a blessed people.  The prisons are opened.  We don’t have to be in bondage.  We don’t have to be in bondage to other’s opinions.  It is true liberty to get to a point where we can say, “I don’t care what people think, I care what God thinks.”

There are many kinds of broken hearts.  These dear sisters that lost their mother have a broken heart.  The world will break your heart.  It will shatter your life.  When we come to God He says, I will put things together for you.  I will heal your heart.

Today is the day of salvation.  To all of our loved ones, our acquaintances, today is the day of salvation.

Isa 61:2  To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Isa 61:3  To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

God is good.  He has good things in store for young people, for us that are middle-aged, and He has good things in store for the aged, because God is good.