Praise God and Good Morning to each and every one of you Today.. It is a wonderful morning to celebrate JESUS amen.. So let me recap, we are teaching from 1Ti 1:10.. We established that Paul is sure of who he is in the lord, secondly he is aware of how and who put him where he is amen. I don't see it as a boast, He is a soldier in this army and he is sure of that amen.. nothing is more encouraging than to accept who and what you are about in this life. I always tell my people that EXAMPLE is THE GREATEST TEACHER in this world amen..
We have explored why JESUS Established the church. We are now aware, that it is not for those who understand the ways of righteousness but for those who do not, amen... JESUS told Peter that he has come to be a Dr to those who need one amen.. I have explained to you many times that life is not easy, even when you are under the covering and blessings of GOD almighty.. Praise GOD life in Jesus is 10 TIMES better though; don't you agree.. I have often said my worst day in CHRIST is better than my best day in the world any time amen..
So many of us have found that life can become hard and lost all on its own amen.. That is why I never waste time; trying to find out how things have gotten so screwed in any one person life. If you are a human being then you know and should realize that these things can happen even to people who have the best of intentions and life style .. That is why we must understand the importance that one bad decision can cause.. Praise GOD we must be careful to make right choices for the right reasons as a practice every day amen.. Praise GOD, knowing this that many times our best choices will still at times fail us. The answer to that is get up and try it again amen..
Praise The lord we find him in verse 11understanding fully the gift's and responsibilities that GOD has given to him..
1Ti 1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
1Ti 1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
1Ti 1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1Ti 1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
1Ti 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
1Ti 1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Amen Moving on he tells us that Christ enabled him amen,, When God calls you into his service there is nothing to worry about amen..In verse 13 Paul points out what he had against him, and tells us that it was out of ignorance that he did the things he did. Praise GOD as stated earlier GOD searches our hearts he new that Saul which was his first name was zealous but ignorant.. Praise GOD how m any people do you meet in life who are just like Paul was, Seriously a person who is well taught and learned and nothing is more Important to him than his work..
Listen this how he was raised, Paul was a Pharisee,well taught in the book of Phi-3:5 he runs down his pedigree. But Understand this; was not Paul bragging. He was making it plain that all that he had within himself as a Pharisee the same he gave as the elect of CHRIST amen..
hp 3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
Php 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Php 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Listen this is what we need to see many of us come to the body of CHRIST and we think once we find CHRIST now it is time to relax. Listen nothing can be or is further from the truth.. In fact our work has only just begun as believers amen and PRAISE GOD.
If in your everyday life you give all that you have then praise GOD why would you give any less to the body of the LORD.. These are the things that you will not learn in a prosperity message.. It is like we are unaware that the world in which we live is suffering.
I am not entertained by the programs that I watch on TV, but I watch some of them because I need to see where we are as a society amen.. There is a program called the first 48, and for the last 3 years it seems that the show is becoming more and more popular. Its about the most important time after a murder. I want to point out that the shows are about killings across the U.S.A. THE KILLINGS ARE COMMITTED BY CHILDREN..
This should be a wake up call to us as a country and a people.. Listen, we are sup[pose to be in the front lines. It is our Job to do all that we can as a church and a people. I am aware that many Christians feel once they find Jesus that they have no need to associate with people they consider beneath them..
This is not GODLY behavior or Standards, we must remember and never forget where we came from. amen
We must recall that this is our mandate, to help those who need help, top feed the hungry, to clothe the clothe less, and educate the illiterate we must teach folk how to fish, amen .. Which means how long can we do things for them, after we have helped folk to become stable it is our JOB to show them how to become self supporting amen.
So if and when you come down off of all that GOD has given to you you must then do what the gift calls for amen.. Paul says who after finding the true love of GOD could ever want or even try to keep it a secret. This is a glorious thing amen GO and TELL somebody amen...
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