Sunday VT – 12/01/2013

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Speakers:

Steven Atherton
Charles Hocker

Scriptures used:

Hebrews 12:1-15
John 10:10

Subject:

It is true joy when we accept The Lord.
Chastisement from our elders is for our good.
God honors humility.
If you allow bitterness to take root in you when you are chastised, you allow the thief to kill, steal and destroy.
We are in a battle. We need to battle that bitterness or it will steal our joy.
It is a battle to hang onto that joy – The thief doesn’t want us to have it.
Don’t fall asleep at your post, it is a constant fight to go for the prize. If we are not diligently on guard it starts as a seed, watered by the flesh, it eventually pushes our joy away.
Joy comes from Him, and the world doesn’t understand it. They are looking for that joy.
The great cloud of witnesses are those mentioned in Hebrews 11, their testimonies are there for us.
They are examples of the liberty we can have in Christ Jesus.
Every weight – lay them aside. We are not to carry a single weight. Humble yourself.
It creates a love and appreciation for The Lord , we grow and move forward in Christ Jesus.
Sin easily besets us.
Unbelief is strengthened by pride.
We don’t have to be beholden to this flesh, our old life. He can give us all that we have need of to go out and carry out his work.
Jesus was wholly dedicated to serving his Father from his youth up.
That more abundant life is that of Christ, we partake of it by faith, humble yourself and cast off unbelief.
We think we deserve things and justify ourselves in that which is wrong.
The battle takes place in our minds. No matter what I cast out those thoughts of justification.
Run with patience. No matter how hard we run we can’t escape our flesh. Deal with one thing at a time.
As you do that, the joy can’t help but inhabit you.
When we walk in that others will see that we have a hope in that victory.
Hebrews 3 – the children of Israel came out of Egypt with Moses.
The people got what they wanted from God but didn’t want to give up their lives for Him.
Moses and Jesus didn’t look successful but they didn’t lack or fail in any way.
A whole generation had to die in the desert because of unbelief.
Pharaoh is a type and shadow of our old man -the flesh.
We are fruits of Moses’s faithfulness.
The only place we can have joy is because of what God has done for us and to stand in that.
Deceitfulness of sin: it lies to us and justifies us in not doing what Jesus has for us. It will rob us of joy in Christ Jesus.
Exhort one another of things they already know -because we need it. All of us have to struggle against Deceitfulness of sin and pride that wants to come in and drag us into the pit.
We have a choice of continuing to live by everything we have done in the past or live a new life divine in Christ Jesus.