TODAY WAS OUR FIRST WORSHIP SERVICE IN A DIFFERENT WORSHIP FACILITY. IN OUR FOUR MONTHS EXISTENCE GOD HAS SHOWN FAVOR TO US AGAIN AND AGAIN. THE FACILITY WE WOSHIPPED IN TODAY IS REALLY A NICE PLACE. I WAS GLAD TO SEE SO MANY OUT IN WORSHIP. WE HAD SEVERAL VISITORS WITH US TODAY. I PREACHED FROM JOHN 13:2-17. WE WERE CHALLENGED AND EXHORTED BY THIS TEXT. THE SUBJECT WAS THE MINISTRY OF HUMILITY. ANDREW MURRAY IN HIS BOOK ON HUMILITY, HE SAYS HUMILITY IS OUR GREATEST NEED. HE SAYS HUMILITY IS THE SOIL OF ALL GRACES. JESUS GAVE A WONDERFUL DEMONSTRATION OF WHAT TRUE HUMILITY IS IN THE TEXT. HE WAS HUMBLE INSPITE OF HIS PROMINENT POSITION, INSPITE OF PROVIDENTIAL PROBLEMS AND INSPITE OF PITIFUL PEOPLE. AFTER GIVING THE DISCIPLES AN ILLUSTRATION OF HUMILITY, HE THEN EXHORTS THEM TO DO TO ONE ANOTHER WHAT HE HAD DONE FOR THEM. THIS IS NOT ABOUT A DIVINE PEDICURE. THE FEET WASHING IS CONNECTED TO THE CROSS. THIS WAS JUST A SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE HUMILIATION THAT WOULD COME AT CALVARY. IN THIS TEXT HE IS TEACHING HIS DISCIPLES AND US THAT WE ARE MORALLY OBLIGED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER REGARDLESS OF PERSONAL DIGNITY. WE WERE CHALLENGED TO BE ON GUARD OF PRIDE, FOR OFTEN THE DANGER IS THE ONE STRUCK BY IT DOESN'T KNOW HE'S BEEN HIT. DON'T ALLOW YOUR POSITION OR PROBLEMS TO HINDER YOU IN YOUR MORAL OBLIGATION TO LOVE AND MEET THE NEEDS OF YOUR BROTHER AND SISTER. WE PRAISE GOD FOR A WONDERFUL DAY OF WORSHIPPING OUR SOVERIEGN GOD.
FOR HIS GLORY ALONE!
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Thursday, November 16, 2006
TAKING TIME TO SAY THANKS
INGRATITUDE IS BORN IN THE WOMB OF AMNESIA. MY GRANDMOTHER WAS ONE THAT ALWAYS TAUGHT ME TO SAY THANKS. SHE WOULD SAY NO ONE OWES YOU ANYTHING. WHEN PEOPLE ARE KIND, WE SHOULD NOT TAKE IT FOR GRANTED.
THIS PAST SUNDAY WORD FELLOWSHIP HAD PASTOR APPRECIATION DAY, WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME IN THE LORD. THEN WE HAD A GREAT FELLOWSHIP OVER DINNER. WE WERE FED SPIRITUALLY AND PHYSICALLY.
MY GOOD FRIEND, PASTOR ROMEL WILLIAMS WAS OUR GUEST PREACHER, HE IS FROM CHICAGO AND IS THE PASTOR OF LILYDALE PROGRESSIVE BAPTIST CHURCH. IT WAS SO REFRESHING TO BE WITH HIM AND SHARE AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING. HE PREACHED FROM COLOSSIANS 1:24-29, HIS SUBJECT WAS A PASSION FOR CHRIST. HE DID A WONDERFUL JOB OF UNPACKING THE TEXT IN A WAY THAT EVEN THE CHILDREN WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SERMON. GOD USED HIM GREATLY.
I AM JUST WRITING TO SAY THANKS, TO GOD FIRST FOR WITHOUT HIM WE ARE NOTHING AND TO WORD FELLOWSHIP TAKING TIME TO SAY WE APPRECIATE YOU AND ROMEL FOR COMING AND TELLING THE TRUTH ON JESUS. IT IS MY PRAYER THE CHURCH NOT FORGET TO TAKE TIME TO SHOW LOVE AND APPRECIATION FOR THOSE WHO LABOR FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL. WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. SOMETIMES JUST A CARD OR A WARM SMILE CAN BE EXTREMELY ENCOURAGING. SO WHEN WE RECIEVE LOVE AND ENCOURAGEMENT, LET'S NOT FORGET TO SAY THANKS.
FOR THE SUMPREMACY OF CHRIST IN ALL THINGS
THIS PAST SUNDAY WORD FELLOWSHIP HAD PASTOR APPRECIATION DAY, WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME IN THE LORD. THEN WE HAD A GREAT FELLOWSHIP OVER DINNER. WE WERE FED SPIRITUALLY AND PHYSICALLY.
MY GOOD FRIEND, PASTOR ROMEL WILLIAMS WAS OUR GUEST PREACHER, HE IS FROM CHICAGO AND IS THE PASTOR OF LILYDALE PROGRESSIVE BAPTIST CHURCH. IT WAS SO REFRESHING TO BE WITH HIM AND SHARE AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING. HE PREACHED FROM COLOSSIANS 1:24-29, HIS SUBJECT WAS A PASSION FOR CHRIST. HE DID A WONDERFUL JOB OF UNPACKING THE TEXT IN A WAY THAT EVEN THE CHILDREN WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SERMON. GOD USED HIM GREATLY.
I AM JUST WRITING TO SAY THANKS, TO GOD FIRST FOR WITHOUT HIM WE ARE NOTHING AND TO WORD FELLOWSHIP TAKING TIME TO SAY WE APPRECIATE YOU AND ROMEL FOR COMING AND TELLING THE TRUTH ON JESUS. IT IS MY PRAYER THE CHURCH NOT FORGET TO TAKE TIME TO SHOW LOVE AND APPRECIATION FOR THOSE WHO LABOR FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL. WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. SOMETIMES JUST A CARD OR A WARM SMILE CAN BE EXTREMELY ENCOURAGING. SO WHEN WE RECIEVE LOVE AND ENCOURAGEMENT, LET'S NOT FORGET TO SAY THANKS.
FOR THE SUMPREMACY OF CHRIST IN ALL THINGS
Thursday, November 02, 2006
WE KNOW NOT WHAT A DAY MAY BRING
I HAVE BEEN TEACHING ON THE LIFE OF JOSEPH IN BIBLE STUDY. IT HAS SERVED AS A GREAT SOURCE OF ENCOURAGEMENT, CHALLENGE AND CONVICTION. WE KNOW NOT WHAT A DAY MAY BRING, BUT AS A BELIEVER IN CHRIST WE KNOW WHO BRINGS THE DAY. GOD IS PROVIDENTIALLY WORKING IN THE AFFAIRS OF LIFE. WE REJECT THE VIEW OF THE DEIST, WHO BELIEVES GOD IS CREATOR BUT IS NOT OPERATIVE IN THE AFFAIRS OF LIFE.
JOSEPH HAD NO CLUE WHAT HE WOULD ENCOUNTER ON THAT DAY HIS FATHER SENT HIM TO CHECK ON HIS BROTHERS; HAD HE KNOWN WHAT HIS BROTHERS WERE GOING TO DO, MAYBE HE WOULD HAVE RETURNED WHEN HE DIDN'T FIND THEM IN SHECHEM.
LAST NIGHT, WE LOOKED GENESIS 37:28-36. JOSEPH WAS ACTING IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS FATHER AND FIND HIMSELF IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION. HOWEVER, THIS WAS ALL THE PLAN AND WILL OF GOD. GOD DID NOT CAUSE HIS BROTHERS TO ACT AS THEY DID, BUT GOD IS IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF JOSEPH'S LIFE. WE LOOKED FIRST AT:
1. THE ACTIONS OF HIS BROTHERS
A. DEVIOUS
B. DEADLY
C. DECEITFUL
REUBEN THE OLDEST BROTHER KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING WAS WRONG, BUT HE WAS NOT WILLING TO STAND FOR THE TRUTH HE KNEW. WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT YOU OUGHT TO DO RIGHT.
2. THE DECEPTION OF HIS BROTHERS
SIN MAY START AS A SMALL THING, BUT UNDEALT WITH IT WILL INCREASE. IN THEIR ACTIONS THERE WAS NO STAND FOR TRUTH, BUT IN THEIR DECEPTION THERE WAS THE SILENCE OF TRUTH, AS THEY STAND BEFORE THEIR FATHER. THEY PRESENTED HIM WITH FALSE EVIDENCE FOR HIM TO MAKE A FALSE CONCLUSION. JACOB CONCLUDES HIS SON IS DEAD. THEY CAME HOME DELIBERATELY TO DECEIVE THEIR FATHER.
IT IS INTERESTING TO LOOK AT THEIR DECEPTION TO JACOB AND JACOBS DECEPTION OF ISAAC IN GEN. 27. THE SAME INGREDIENTS
LIED TO FATHER
LIED ABOUT BROTHER
USE OF CLOTHING IN DECEPTION
USE OF A GOAT
LESSON: BE NOT DECEIVED GOD IS NOT MOCKED. OUR SIN HAS A WAY OF COMING BACK TO US AND ON US.
3. THE RESPONSE OF JACOB
JACOBS HEART IS BROKEN, HIS SON WHO HE LOVES GREATLY HE BELIEVES HE IS DEAD. THE BROTHERS STAND THERE. HOW CAN THEY COMFORT THEIR FATHER?
THROUGH THIS STUDY WE JOSEPH AS A TYPE OF CHRIST, NOT IN CHARACTER BUT IN CIRCUMSTANCES.
1. SENT BY HIS FATHER
2. TO FIND HIS BROTHERS
3. REJECTED AND HATED
4. SOLD FOR MONEY
SO JACOB THINKS JOSEPH IS DEAD. GEN. 37:35 SAYS HE WEPT FOR HIS SON. NOTICE EVEN THOUGH HE WEPT HE HAD HOPE OF SEEING HIM AGAIN. I THES. 4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
SO INSPITE OF THE ACTIONS OF THE BROTHERS AND THE DECEPTION OF THE BROTHERS AND THE RESPONSE OF JACOB, THE CHAPTER DOES NOT END WITH VERSE 35 IT ENDS WITH VERSE 36 THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD. JACOB RECKONED THAT JOSEPH WAS DEAD BUT HE WAS ALIVE. ALL THAT JOSEPH HAS EXPERIENCED HE IS YET ALIVE. AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST MANY TODAY RECKON THAT HE IS DEAD. THIS IS NOT SO HE WAS DEAD BUT HE IS ALIVE FOREVER MORE. HALLELUAH TO THE LAMB!
REGARDLESS OF WHAT A DAY MAY BRING, GOD WORKS IT ALL FOR THE GOOD OF THEM THAT LOVE THE LORD AND ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
Romans 8:28
JOSEPH HAD NO CLUE WHAT HE WOULD ENCOUNTER ON THAT DAY HIS FATHER SENT HIM TO CHECK ON HIS BROTHERS; HAD HE KNOWN WHAT HIS BROTHERS WERE GOING TO DO, MAYBE HE WOULD HAVE RETURNED WHEN HE DIDN'T FIND THEM IN SHECHEM.
LAST NIGHT, WE LOOKED GENESIS 37:28-36. JOSEPH WAS ACTING IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS FATHER AND FIND HIMSELF IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION. HOWEVER, THIS WAS ALL THE PLAN AND WILL OF GOD. GOD DID NOT CAUSE HIS BROTHERS TO ACT AS THEY DID, BUT GOD IS IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF JOSEPH'S LIFE. WE LOOKED FIRST AT:
1. THE ACTIONS OF HIS BROTHERS
A. DEVIOUS
B. DEADLY
C. DECEITFUL
REUBEN THE OLDEST BROTHER KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING WAS WRONG, BUT HE WAS NOT WILLING TO STAND FOR THE TRUTH HE KNEW. WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT YOU OUGHT TO DO RIGHT.
2. THE DECEPTION OF HIS BROTHERS
SIN MAY START AS A SMALL THING, BUT UNDEALT WITH IT WILL INCREASE. IN THEIR ACTIONS THERE WAS NO STAND FOR TRUTH, BUT IN THEIR DECEPTION THERE WAS THE SILENCE OF TRUTH, AS THEY STAND BEFORE THEIR FATHER. THEY PRESENTED HIM WITH FALSE EVIDENCE FOR HIM TO MAKE A FALSE CONCLUSION. JACOB CONCLUDES HIS SON IS DEAD. THEY CAME HOME DELIBERATELY TO DECEIVE THEIR FATHER.
IT IS INTERESTING TO LOOK AT THEIR DECEPTION TO JACOB AND JACOBS DECEPTION OF ISAAC IN GEN. 27. THE SAME INGREDIENTS
LIED TO FATHER
LIED ABOUT BROTHER
USE OF CLOTHING IN DECEPTION
USE OF A GOAT
LESSON: BE NOT DECEIVED GOD IS NOT MOCKED. OUR SIN HAS A WAY OF COMING BACK TO US AND ON US.
3. THE RESPONSE OF JACOB
JACOBS HEART IS BROKEN, HIS SON WHO HE LOVES GREATLY HE BELIEVES HE IS DEAD. THE BROTHERS STAND THERE. HOW CAN THEY COMFORT THEIR FATHER?
THROUGH THIS STUDY WE JOSEPH AS A TYPE OF CHRIST, NOT IN CHARACTER BUT IN CIRCUMSTANCES.
1. SENT BY HIS FATHER
2. TO FIND HIS BROTHERS
3. REJECTED AND HATED
4. SOLD FOR MONEY
SO JACOB THINKS JOSEPH IS DEAD. GEN. 37:35 SAYS HE WEPT FOR HIS SON. NOTICE EVEN THOUGH HE WEPT HE HAD HOPE OF SEEING HIM AGAIN. I THES. 4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
SO INSPITE OF THE ACTIONS OF THE BROTHERS AND THE DECEPTION OF THE BROTHERS AND THE RESPONSE OF JACOB, THE CHAPTER DOES NOT END WITH VERSE 35 IT ENDS WITH VERSE 36 THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD. JACOB RECKONED THAT JOSEPH WAS DEAD BUT HE WAS ALIVE. ALL THAT JOSEPH HAS EXPERIENCED HE IS YET ALIVE. AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST MANY TODAY RECKON THAT HE IS DEAD. THIS IS NOT SO HE WAS DEAD BUT HE IS ALIVE FOREVER MORE. HALLELUAH TO THE LAMB!
REGARDLESS OF WHAT A DAY MAY BRING, GOD WORKS IT ALL FOR THE GOOD OF THEM THAT LOVE THE LORD AND ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
Romans 8:28
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