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Sunday VT – 11/2/2014


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TFM-Northfield-VermontSpeakers:

  • Steve Atherton
  • Charles Hocker

Scriptures used:

  • Matthew 7:1-5
  • Luke 14:25-27

Subject:

  • The Lord taught something to Charles about grace and mercy.  He was judging a man harshly, saying he would never do that.
  • Matt 7:1, the story of the mote and the beam.
  • His grace is like an umbrella, and the closer he moved to the edge of that umbrella, he was still covered by grace, but He shrunk the grace back, and showed him that while he was in that position.
  • Judgment feels so good!  When you are judging someone you are in a high and lofty place.
  • When you minister a message you get the opportunity to stand in that message.  Be prepared to stand in that message.
  • Phelios love comes naturally, and agape comes anything but naturally.  The agape love of God seems completely unfeeling toward others.
  • I’m trading my way for yours, Lord – wait a minute!  I like my way better than God’s.
  • It’s easier to love and to not judge when we all contribute valuable things to the body.
  • When someone is ordained or licensed, people judge them and come apart rather than working together.  It’s easy to look at the mote in someone else’s eye, but looking at the beam in our own eye can be paralyzing.
  • Love comes with grace toward others.  We need to look at ourselves and what we have not done, rather than judging those others.
  • It is a miracle what has transpired at the Ranch.  We have something to build upon by the grace of the Lord.
  • When you’re standing in the grace of God you can see the love of God on others.
  • Then you can minister the correction that’s needed when you’re standing in the grace of God.
  • Phelios v agape:  reproof, rebuke and correction doesn’t feel very good if you are doing it and it feels worse if you receive it.  Pride and our feelings about one another get in the way.
  • If any man hate not his father, mother, wife, children and brethren, he CANNOT be my disciple.  That is a hard statement.  You see this come out in Jesus’s ministry.  He called his mother “woman” for example.  He said there is no one who is his brethren but those who do the will of my Father.  They are my mother, brother, sister.
  • He couldn’t do mighty works in his own country because they were offended, rejected the truth of the Word.
  • When we say “Yes Lord” we have to leave the other things behind, including our emotions.
  • What will people think of me?  Phelios is all about you.  It always comes back to what people are going to think of me?  Then we’re not free to do what the Lord would have us do.
  • The Syrophenecian woman who asked the Lord to heal her daughter.  The Father said for Jesus to say “it is not meet to take the food from the table and cast it unto the dogs.”  It is contrary to what we would say or think.  That is why we talk ourselves out of doing these things.
  • At the ministers convention we determined we need to stand in Christ Jesus and His truth, against sickness, against those who hate the truth, against those ministers in the pulpit today who do not preach the gospel.
  • Some of them will come to acknowledge the truth, but many will not.  If we love God and we love them, we will stand against every lie that passes for truth.
  • For us to make those final steps to “Yes Lord” has to be that we embrace this and no longer let our feelings of ourself and of other people get in the way.  We have to stop making it about us.
  • Tell people the truth and let it fall where it falls.  We have to tell the truth and stand in it and get out of that bondage of what people think of us.  Thank God He is big enough, because in ourselves, this is a task that is too big for us.  But it’s not too big for Him!  He understands fully the struggles we have.
  • God is not disappointed in us because He knows how we are.  But we can please Him.
  • He brought us to this place not to fail but to succeed.  It FEELS hard but that is where the problem lies.  Once you get past the feelings, it is really quite easy.
  • Let’s get into our closets and acknowledge Him and say “Yes Lord”.
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