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Sunday VT – 01/25/2015


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TFM-Northfield-VermontSpeakers:

  • Steve Atherton
  • Carrie Cannon

Scriptures used:

  • Proverbs 3
  • Romans 3
  • Galatians 3

Subject:

  • You have to battle in the mind constantly.  Lean unto the Lord and He shall direct thy paths.
  • We have two things going on in the church out here. We have an apostate church, which is fallen from God.  It is a church that has fallen into the same thing that caused the church in Jesus’s day to reject Him.  There was no fear of God, they had their own righteousness.
  • Our own understanding gets us into trouble.  This is what causes the chaos in the church today.
  • Every man did that which is right in his own eyes.  Our understanding is a disaster.  The sooner you realize that, the better off you are.  Trust in the Lord with all thine heart.  Put all your eggs in one basket:  Jesus.  Be not wise in thine own eyes.  The Sadducees didn’t believe God, and took the word out of context.  The people thought they were just.  Then the others do believe in God, but also believed in their own righteousness.  They are the Pharisees.  The apostate church today has modern day Pharisees.
  • Fear the Lord.  Where is the fear of God today?  Do people believe that God will throw them into hell?
  • Most people think that because they go to church, join the military, etc. they are more righteous than others.  Then you are in danger of hell fire.  Because there is none righteous.
  • Steve believed back before he came to the Lord that Jesus Christ and Him crucified was the least likely thing in the world to be true.  That is also where Obama stands today.  There is not one thing where Obama stands in the Word at all.
  • It is an evil heart of unbelief that separates you from the Lord.  When you see unbelief rise up in you, realize that this flesh is unbelief incarnate.
  • We choose to put on that mind of Christ and put off that unbelief and dwell by faith in Him.
  • In the early church the members believed that nothing he had was his own, but the Lord’s.
  • You received Jesus as your Lord and Savior.  That doesn’t mean you are perfect and don’t ever falter.  It can be grim for you.  When you are called on it, it becomes sadder.  We are saved by grace, not of works, because of this.  That grace is not there to justify us in continuing to do wrong, it is there to cover us so we can learn to do right!
  • It is important to try to get it right and not despise the chastening of the Lord.
  • The testimony of Scott and Melanie and the birth of their healthy girl.  This was not a normal birth, it was a birth of promise of the Lord.  They received news from the doctor that there was something terribly wrong with the baby.  But Melanie chose not to accept the testimony of the doctor.  Not because what the doctor told her was wrong, but she held the trump card called Jesus, and decided to take this matter to Him.  She, her husband, and Brother Davy prayed and believed God.  There was a different report from the doctor the next time.
  • Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?  It is witchcraft which has bewitched the church.  It is out of the pits of hell and the church today believes it.  The church teachings give you just enough of the Gospel to inoculate you against it.  So then when you get the full Gospel to them they don’t believe it.  The truth is Jesus.  The only way I can be turned out of the way of hell is through Him.  The churches lobby for guys like Obama to become president.  They are bewitched.
  • Why?  By His stripes we are healed.  It is the power of God that confirms the truth of the Gospel.
  • If you were a Galatian, you were a filthy Gentile without hope in the world.  You didn’t know the Law.  They did not receive the Gospel because of their righteousness but by the power and the love of Jesus Christ.
  • We have a testimony of God in our lives.  We see the actual evidence of God here among us.  The evidence of God is manifest.
  • Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.  He gives those that are His all that they need.  He cares more for us than the birds.  Seek ye first the kingdom of God and HIS righteousness.  When you believe God you believe His righteousness.  When you don’t believe God you go about establishing your own righteousness.  What happened with the Galatians?  It wasn’t going to just be Israel, anyone who would believe as Abraham would be blessed.  They that are of faith will be blessed.  If you are under a curse is God with you?  Absolutely not!  When someone is under the curse, and you tell them, they hate you for it.  Then they get weary and don’t want to hear from you.  It’s the sad truth.
  • We are accepted by what Jesus did.  We don’t have to go about trying to make ourselves accepted, we already are.  Now we can walk forward free of that guilt of sin and do the works of God by faith.
  • We are only righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ, not by the law.
  • We have the promise of partaking of the same spirit of God that he did His works by.  The world will know that the Gospel, that Jesus died for your sins, and that his death was sufficient, will be believed.  Every false religion, including the apostate church, is all about having to do things to be saved.  It’s all about works.  True Christianity is not about works.  What does true Christianity have to boast of?  Nothing, but of Jesus Christ and what He did.
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