Omer Scripture: Psalm 119:57-64
We are walking in today: I AM Concerned For Their Faithfulness.
Good
morning thank you for joining us today. We have Pastor Wagner who will
be teaching us today on faithfulness. Let us have open ears to hear
what the Spirit of the Lord is speaking! Adonai, use Your daughter in a
mighty way this morning, amen!
REVELATION 10:1-11
SITUATION: A MIGHTY ANGEL APPEARED WITH AN OPEN BOOK AND ANNOUNCED THAT TIME WOULD END. THE ANGEL ANNOUNCED THAT FINAL UNIVERSAL JUDGMENT
OBSERVATION: ALTHOUGH GOD’S WORD BRINGS ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE BELIEVER, HIS WORD ALSO LAYS RESPONSIBILITY ON THE BELIEVER TO PROCLAIM GOD’S COMING JUDGEMENT
INSPIRATION: NEVER CHOOSE TO BE A WORKER FOR GOD, BUT ONCE GOD HAS PLACED HIS CALL ON YOU, WOE BE TO YOU, IF YOU “TURN ASIDE TO THE RIGHT HAND OR TO THE LEFT” (DEUT. 5:32). WE ARE NOT HERE TO WORK FOR GOD BECAUSE WE HAVE CHOSEN TO DO SO, BUT BECAUSE GOD HAS "LAID HOLD OF" US. AND ONCE HE HAS DONE SO, WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE THIS THOUGHT, "WELL I’M REALLY NOT SUITED FOR THIS." WHAT YOU ARE TO PREACH IS ALSO DETERMINED BY GOD, NOT BY YOUR OWN NATURAL LEANINGS OR DESIRES. KEEP YOUR SOUL STEADFASTLY RELATED TO GOD, AND REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE CALLED NOT SIMPLY TO CONVEY YOUR TESTIMONY BUT ALSO TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. EVERY CHRISTIAN MUST TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH OF GOD, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE CALL TO PREACH, THERE MUST BE THE AGONIZING GRIP OF GOD’S HAND ON YOU---- YOUR LIFE IS IN THE GRIP OF GOD FOR THAT VERY PURPOSE. HOW MANY OF US ARE HELD LIKE THAT?
GOD HAS SAID TO ME: WE SHOULD NEVER WATER DOWN MY WORD, BUT PREACH IN IT ITS UNDILUTED STERNNESS.
THERE MUST BE UNFLINCHING FAITHFULNESS TO MY WORD, BUT WHEN YOU COME TO PERSONAL DEALINGS WITH OTHERS, REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE- YOU ARE NOT SOME SPECIAL BEING CREATED IN HEAVEN, BUT A SINNER SAVED BY GRACE.
***2 CORINTHIANS 11:1-4 (PAUL IS MOCKING THE CORINTH CHURCH, BECAUSE HE STATES IN VERSE 1: PLEASE PUT UP WITH A LITTLE OF MY FOOLISHNESS
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PAUL AND THE FALSE APOSTLES
1 PLEASE PUT UP WITH A LITTLE OF MY FOOLISHNESS. 2 I AM AS CONCERNED ABOUT YOU AS GOD IS. YOU WERE LIKE A VIRGIN BRIDE I HAD CHOSEN ONLY FOR CHRIST. 3 BUT NOW I FEAR THAT YOU WILL BE TRICKED, JUST AS EVE WAS TRICKED BY THAT LYING SNAKE. I AM AFRAID THAT YOU MIGHT STOP THINKING ABOUT CHRIST IN AN HONEST AND SINCERE WAY. 4 WE TOLD YOU ABOUT JESUS, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD AND YOU RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT AND ACCEPTED OUR MESSAGE. BUT YOU LET SOME PEOPLE TELL YOU ABOUT ANOTHER JESUS. NOW YOU ARE READY TO RECEIVE ANOTHER SPIRIT AND ACCEPT A DIFFERENT MESSAGE? WHY?
SO IN OTHER WORDS, IF SOMEONE COMES TO YOU PREACHING ANOTHER JESUS OTHER THAN THE JESUS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, ARE YOU GONG TO BELIEVE IT? OR IF YOU RECEIVE A DIFFERENT SPIRIT FROM THE SPIRIT YOU RECEIVED (WHICH IS THE HOLY SPIRIT ) ARE YOU GOING TO RECEIVE THAT, OR IF SOMEONE COME TO YOU WITH A DIFFERENT GOSPEL FROM THE ONE YOU ACCEPTED, WILL YOU REALLY PUT UP WITH IT SO EASILY?! WHY?
IS THE MESSAGE OF JESUS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD SO SIMPLE THAT YOU CAN EASILY BY PERSUADED, BY OTHER CUNNING TACTICS OF OTHERS--FALSE TEACHERS?
ALSO WITH THIS SIMPLICITY OF HIM, HE DOESN’T WANT US SO SIMPLE THAT WE GET COMPLACENT IN OUR WALKING.
***PAUL IS SAYING THAT satan IS SO CUNNING THAT HE HAD SEDUCED THE PURE, CHASTE, WELL EDUCATED VIRGIN, FROM HER DUTY, AFFECTION, AND ALLEGIANCE TO HER ONE AND ONLY TRUE HUSBAND, THE HIGH PRIEST, AND JESUS CHRIST.
JESUS WAS A SIMPLISTIC MAN, YES, BUT HE ALSO MULTITASKED, HE TAUGHT, HE COUNSELED, HE HEALED, HE PROPHESIED, HE EVANGELIZED. HE WAS THE 5 FOLD-MINSTRY ALL IN ONE!! DON'T BE SO SIMPLE WHERE YOU MISS HIM ALTOGETHER!!!
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2 COR 11:5, 6
5 BUT I DON'T CONSIDER MYSELF INFERIOR IN ANY WAY TO THESE "SUPER APOSTLES" WHO TEACH SUCH THINGS.
6 THOUGH UNTRAINED IN PUBLIC SPEAKING, I AM CERTAINLY NOT UNTRAINED IN KNOWLEDGE. INDEED, WE HAVE ALWAYS MADE THAT CLEAR TO YOU IN EVERYTHING.
2 Corinthians 11:12-16
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12 AND I WILL KEEP ON DOING WHAT I AM DOING IN ORDER TO CUT THE GROUND FROM UNDER THOSE WHO WANT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE CONSIDERED EQUAL WITH US IN THE THINGS THEY BOAST ABOUT.
WHY? BECAUSE I HAVE CURRENCY IN MY FAITHFULNESS!!! SO WE HAVE RICHES IN HEAVEN BECAUSE OF IT. FAITH IS SUBSTANCE. FAITHFULNESS IS THE MIND OF THE SPIRIT, (WHICH IS HIM, THE HOLY SPIRIT) THAT’S WHY HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT OUR FAITHFULNESS.
13 FOR SUCH PEOPLE ARE FALSE APOSTLES, DECEITFUL WORKERS, MASQUERADING AS APOSTLES OF CHRIST. 14 AND NO WONDER, FOR SATAN HIMSELF MASQUERADES AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. 15 IT IS NOT SURPRISING, THEN, IF HIS SERVANTS ALSO MASQUERADE AS SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. THEIR END WILL BE WHAT THEIR ACTIONS DESERVE.
16 I REPEAT: LET NO ONE TAKE ME FOR A FOOL. BUT IF YOU DO, THEN TOLERATE ME JUST AS YOU WOULD A FOOL, SO THAT I MAY DO A LITTLE BOASTING. 17 IN THIS SELF-CONFIDENT BOASTING I AM NOT TALKING AS THE LORD WOULD, BUT AS A FOOL. 18 SINCE MANY ARE BOASTING IN THE WAY THE WORLD DOES, I TOO WILL BOAST.
2 COR 11:19-21
19 YOU GLADLY PUT UP WITH FOOLS SINCE YOU ARE SO WISE! 20 IN FACT, YOU EVEN PUT UP WITH ANYONE WHO ENSLAVES YOU OR EXPLOITS YOU OR TAKES ADVANTAGE OF YOU OR PUTS ON AIRS OR SLAPS YOU IN THE FACE. 21 TO MY SHAME I ADMIT THAT WE WERE TOO WEAK FOR THAT!
PUT ON THE AIRS--PUT ON THE COLORLESS, THE ODORLESS, TO PUT ON THE TASTELESS, PUT ON A FOUL MIXTURE, TO PUT ON A GIANT VOID; TO PUT ON THE NOTHINGNESS!!
WEAK: NOT ABLE TO WITHSTAND TEMPTATION OR PERSUASION
***NOT ABLE (BECAUSE GOD WOULD NOT ALLOW US TO BE PERSUADED OF TEMPTED TO DO THAT) TO WITHSTAND TEMPTATION OR PERSUASION
NOT FACTUALLY GROUNDED OR LOGICALLY PRESENTED
***NOT FACTUALLY GROUNDED (GOD SAYS, THAT THE THINGS BEING DONE ARE NOT FACTUALLY GROUNDED OR ROOTED, WHERE IS THIS BEHAVIOR COMING FROM? CERTAINLY NOT FROM ME! IT’S NOT EVEN LOGICALLY PRESENTED, BUT YOU STILL ALLOW SUCH THINGS TO GO ON CONCERNING YOU! BUT GOD, I AM BEING RESPECTFUL, I AM RESPECTING AUTHORITY? GOD, SAYS THIS IS AN THERE IS NOT EXCUSE FOR ALLOWING PEOPLE TO DO SUCH THINGS TO YOU, STATING THIS IN MY NAME!!
THE LORD WOULD NOT BE TEMPTED TO DO YOU LIKE THAT. WE WERE NOT LOGICALLY GROUNDED OR ROOTED TO DO YOU LIKE THAT! BECAUSE THE JESUS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, WOULD NOT ALLOW US TO PRESENT OURSELVES TO YOU LIKE THAT , JESUS, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, WOULD NOT PERSUADE US NOR TEMPT US TO DO YOU LIKE THAT!!
2 COR 11:22-28
WHATEVER ANYONE ELSE DARES TO BOAST ABOUT—I AM SPEAKING AS A FOOL—I ALSO DARE TO BOAST ABOUT. 22 ARE THEY HEBREWS? SO AM I. ARE THEY ISRAELITES? SO AM I. ARE THEY ABRAHAM’S DESCENDANTS? SO AM I. 23 ARE THEY SERVANTS OF CHRIST? (I AM OUT OF MY MIND TO TALK LIKE THIS.) I AM MORE. I HAVE WORKED MUCH HARDER, BEEN IN PRISON MORE FREQUENTLY, BEEN FLOGGED MORE SEVERELY, AND BEEN EXPOSED TO DEATH AGAIN AND AGAIN. 24 FIVE TIMES I RECEIVED FROM THE JEWS THE FORTY LASHES MINUS ONE. 25 THREE TIMES I WAS BEATEN WITH RODS, ONCE I WAS PELTED WITH STONES, THREE TIMES I WAS SHIPWRECKED, and I SPENT A NIGHT AND A DAY IN THE OPEN SEA, 26 I HAVE BEEN CONSTANTLY ON THE MOVE. I HAVE BEEN IN DANGER FROM RIVERS, IN DANGER FROM BANDITS, IN DANGER FROM MY FELLOW JEWS, IN DANGER FROM GENTILES; IN DANGER IN THE CITY, IN DANGER IN THE COUNTRY, IN DANGER AT SEA; AND IN DANGER FROM FALSE BELIEVERS. 27 I HAVE LABORED AND TOILED AND HAVE OFTEN GONE WITHOUT SLEEP; I HAVE KNOWN HUNGER AND THIRST AND HAVE OFTEN GONE WITHOUT FOOD; I HAVE BEEN COLD AND NAKED. 28 BESIDES EVERYTHING ELSE, I FACE DAILY THE PRESSURE OF MY CONCERN FOR ALL THE CHURCHES.
2 Corinthians 11:22-31 (Amplified Bible)
29 WHO IS WEAK AND I DO NOT FEEL [HIS] WEAKNESS? WHO IS MADE TO STUMBLE AND FALL AND HAVE HIS FAITH HURT, AND I AM NOT ON FIRE [WITH SORROW OR INDIGNATION]?
30 IF I MUST BOAST, I WILL BOAST OF THE THINGS THAT [SHOW] MY INFIRMITY [OF THE THINGS BY WHICH I AM MADE WEAK AND CONTEMPTIBLE IN THE EYES OF MY OPPONENTS].
31 THE GOD AND FATHER OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST KNOWS, HE WHO IS BLESSED AND TO BE PRAISED FOREVERMORE, THAT I DO NOT LIE.
2 Corinthians 11:22-31 (Contemporary English Version)
28 BESIDES EVERYTHING ELSE, EACH DAY I AM BURDENED DOWN, WORRYING ABOUT ALL THE CHURCHES. 29 WHEN OTHERS ARE WEAK, I AM WEAK TOO. WHEN OTHERS ARE TRICKED INTO SIN, I GET ANGRY.
30 IF I HAVE TO BRAG, I WILL BRAG ABOUT HOW WEAK I AM. 31 GOD, THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS, KNOWS I AM NOT LYING. AND GOD IS TO BE PRAISED FOREVER!
HEBREWS 13:17-21
2 THESSALONIANS 3:1-5
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PRAY FOR US
1 FINALLY, OUR FRIENDS, PLEASE PRAY FOR US. THIS WILL HELP THE MESSAGE ABOUT THE LORD TO SPREAD QUICKLY, AND OTHERS WILL RESPECT IT, JUST AS YOU DO. 2 PRAY THAT WE MAY BE KEPT SAFE FROM WORTHLESS AND EVIL PEOPLE. AFTER ALL, NOT EVERYONE HAS FAITH.
***NOT EVERYONE HAS THE CORRECT CURRENCY, NOT EVERYONE HAS THE CORRECT SUBSTANCE.
3 BUT THE LORD CAN BE TRUSTED TO MAKE YOU STRONG AND PROTECT YOU FROM HARM. 4 HE HAS MADE US SURE THAT YOU ARE OBEYING WHAT WE TAUGHT YOU AND THAT YOU WILL KEEP ON OBEYING. 5 I PRAY THAT THE LORD WILL GUIDE YOU TO BE AS LOVING AS GOD AND AS PATIENT AS CHRIST.
HEBREWS 13:18
18 PRAY FOR US.
WE ARE SURE THAT WE HAVE A CLEAR CONSCIENCE AND DESIRE TO LIVE HONORABLY IN EVERY WAY. 19 I PARTICULARLY URGE YOU TO PRAY SO THAT I MAY BE RESTORED TO YOU SOON.
A GOOD CONSCIENCE HAS RESPECT TO ALL OF GOD'S COMMANDS, AND ALL OUR DUTY. THOSE WHO HAVE THIS GOOD CONSCIENCE, YET NEED THE PRAYERS OF OTHERS. WHEN MINISTERS COME TO A PEOPLE WHO PRAY FOR THEM, THEY COME WITH GREATER SATISFACTION TO THEMSELVES, AND SUCCESS TO THE PEOPLE. WE SHOULD SEEK ALL OUR MERCIES BY PRAYER
WE AS MINISTRY AND LAY MEMBERS, THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN, WE NEED PRAYER AS WELL. IT TAKES FROM US TO PRESENT GOD’S LESSON, OR GOD MESSAGE. THE STUDY TIME, THE RESEARCH TIME, TIME TO PREPARE, THEN THE EXECUTION TIME WHICH IS WHERE I STAND NOW IN THE PULPIT.
THE CONCLUSION/PRAYER REQUESTED
HEBREWS 13:17-21
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17 HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOUR LEADERS AND SUBMIT TO THEIR AUTHORITY, BECAUSE THEY KEEP WATCH OVER YOU AS THOSE WHO MUST GIVE AN ACCOUNT. DO THIS SO THAT THEIR WORK WILL BE A JOY, NOT A BURDEN, FOR THAT WOULD BE OF NO BENEFIT TO YOU.
VERSE 17 EXPLANATION--THE APOSTLE THEN STATES WHAT IS THEIR DUTY TO LIVING MINISTERS; TO OBEY AND SUBMIT TO THEM, SO FAR AS IS AGREEABLE TO THE MIND AND WILL OF GOD, MADE KNOWN IN HIS WORD. CHRISTIANS MUST NOT THINK THEMSELVES TOO WISE, TOO GOOD, OR TOO GREAT, TO LEARN. THE PEOPLE MUST SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, AND SO FAR AS THE MINISTERS TEACH ACCORDING TO THAT RULE, - TO SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.
THEY OUGHT TO RECEIVE THEIR INSTRUCTIONS AS THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH WORKS IN THOSE THAT BELIEVE. IT IS THE INTEREST OF HEARERS, THAT THE ACCOUNT THEIR MINISTERS GIVE OF THEM MAY BE WITH JOY, AND NOT WITH GRIEF. FAITHFUL MINISTERS DELIVER THEIR OWN SOULS, BUT THE RUIN OF A FRUITLESS AND FAITHLESS PEOPLE WILL BE UPON THEIR OWN HEADS. THE MORE EARNESTLY THE PEOPLE PRAY FOR THEIR MINISTERS, THE MORE BENEFIT THEY MAY EXPECT FROM THEIR MINISTRY.
WESLEY NOTES: VERSE 13:17 OBEY THEM THAT HAVE THE RULE OVER YOU - THE WORD IMPLIES ALSO, THAT LEAD OR GUIDE YOU; NAMELY, IN TRUTH AND HOLINESS. AND SUBMIT YOURSELVES - GIVE UP (NOT YOUR CONSCIENCE OR JUDGMENT, BUT) YOUR OWN WILL, IN ALL THINGS PURELY INDIFFERENT. FOR THEY WATCH OVER YOUR SOULS - WITH ALL ZEAL AND DILIGENCE, THEY GUARD AND CAUTION YOU AGAINST ALL DANGER. AS THEY THAT MUST GIVE ACCOUNT - TO THE GREAT SHEPHERD, FOR EVERY PART OF THEIR BEHAVIOR TOWARD YOU.
Benediction and Final Greetings
20 NOW MAY THE GOD OF PEACE, WHO THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE ETERNAL COVENANT BROUGHT BACK FROM THE DEAD OUR LORD JESUS, THAT GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, 21 EQUIP YOU WITH EVERYTHING GOOD FOR DOING HIS WILL, AND MAY HE WORK IN US WHAT IS PLEASING TO HIM, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.
Thank
You Lord God Almighty for using Pastor Wagner this morning! We pray
that You would pour back into her for how she has poured out on this
line. Thank You for her obedience and how she has yielded unto You and
the Holy Spirit. Continue to over, bless and keep her family, marriage,
all that is pertaining unto her. What an awesome word, that we can
examine what is going on and seek You and determine where the
corrections need to made! Thank You Adonai for opening our eyes, that
we must do our own study and seeking of You for our own selves! How can
we draw closer to You if we don't know more about You and Your word?!
Thank You Elohim for coming to get us prepared and re-focused on what is
really important--doing Your will and being obedient unto Your word!
Amen! Thank You Lord, praise His holy name! To hear this again click here.
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