Sunday VT – 03/22/2015

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Speakers:

Steve Atherton
Megan Atherton

Scriptures used:

Job 1:1-8
1 Peter 2:13 to 1 Peter 3:11

Subject:

The songs that we sing say it all: This is the day that the Lord has made – no matter what we feel like in the morning, it is a day the Lord has made – for us to rejoice and be glad in. Jesus is the Rock of ages. Not a little rock. He is the Rock of Salvation that cannot be moved. Every praise is to our God – what else is there in the world? Nothing in the world satisfies like Jesus does. Megan met a woman who won a gold medal from skiing in the Olympics, and she asked, what did it feel like? She told Megan she asked herself after she received the medal, “Is that it?” Everything she had worked for all these years, and that was it? It didn’t satisfy. Only the Lord satisfies.
Job eschewed evil. What does it mean to eschew evil?
Job was the priest of his household. You have to have your eyes not on yourself to do this. You do this because you love others. When you recognize you are evil you can have compassion on others.
Job was the Lord’s servant, surprising, since he was rich. He was not a typical description of a servant.
The Lord testifies of Job as being a perfect and upright man who feared God and escheweth evil.
What is it to eschew evil? It is to put off pride.
Pride feels good; people endure all kinds of things for pride’s sake, such as diseases: poor, pitiful me. Those that do this walk in pride. Sicknesses and pain are the source of pride. The enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy.
Pride is very closely tied to unbelief. When you are walking in pride, you are justifying yourself. A word fast is done so that you can realize how many things you say to justify yourself. That is the whole purpose of the word fast.
You have to humble yourself to eschew evil. The flesh detests humility more than everything. The face of the Lord is against those that walk in pride. But to eschew it is to put it down, not obey it, period. Pride is what rules you, from the beginning of your life. It is through and through us. The carnal man is pride. The one being beaten and the one beating are both in pride. Both think they are justified, both are wrong.
Humility submits unto the king AS supreme. Honor all men. You can honor them as long as you don’t see yourself as better than them.
Love the brotherhood: one another. Even if they don’t love us back.
Humbling yourself is what you can do when you realize how you are. When you realize how the things you do affect others, you realize the mess you have made in others’ lives because of pride, and you are overwhelmed.
Servants, be subject to your master with all fear. You are spoken ill of because of it. They say you are trying to get in good with the boss, and put you down.
Likewise, wives, be subject unto your own husbands. You are only subject to your own husband, not others. You are to be subject to them even if they don’t obey the word. The wives are adorned with a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. Not the outward adorning of the flesh, as is done in the world.
Be pitiful, be courteous. Have compassion for one another. Not rendering evil for evil, but contrariwise blessing.
Let him eschew evil and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. This is how you eschew evil. Let us do so.