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Sunday VT – 11/10/2013


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TFM-Northfield-VermontSpeakers:

  • Steven Atherton
  • Megan Atherton

Scriptures used:

  • Psalm 25
  • Psalm 32
  • Romans 4
  • Jeremiah 1
  • Jeremiah 17

Subject:

  • Today is holy unto the Lord – it is the truth about everyday.
  • Waiting means serving, ‘on thee do I wait all the day’, something we have to go back to frequently in a day.
  • When we screw up we often think God is a stern, awful father.  We expect condemnation which is something we receive and put on ourselves.  God is not like that. We need to want to go to him to receive forgiveness.
  • Acknowledge your sin unto him (pride and iniquity). I will confess, bring unto the light, and he forgives.  You then have to know he forgives you and receive his forgiveness and stand and take the next step in him.
  • Be bold and be strong because the Lord thy God is with you, not because you are something but because you recognize he is something.
  • Blessed is the man who the Lord will not impute sin.  Not that he is not a sinner.  We were made sinners because of Adam.
  • Adam lived in a perfect world and had one commandment.  The devil was able to cast doubt on God’s Word, first with Eve and then Adam through Eve.  We understand what caused Adam to fall.
  • Jesus came just like Adam (without sin) but into a corrupt world and kept God’s Word and became the perfect sacrifice.
  • The righteousness of God, which we are clothed in if we believe is that liberty wherewith we can then do everything else.
  • Wait on the Lord, know his ways and do them.
  • Knowing the world is corrupt means nothing.  People are satisfied to know a thing without doing a thing. Why? Because doing takes faith.
  • Jeremiah a priest of the Lord called to be a prophet. Jeremiah objected, ‘I am but a child’.
  • The Lord put his words in Jeremiah’s mouth.
  • Jeremiah was set over the nations, to destroy (kingdoms were going to be destroyed at his, one man’s, word), to build (nations were going to spring up at his, one man’s word).
  • God is not holding you back.  When he shed his blood for you and you believed sin is not imputed unto you.
  • How do you then walk in God? Take his word and walk in obedience to it.  Shew me thy ways – ask and when he shows you, do it.
  • Are you going to let your mistake you just made stop you from going forward right now? If so it is just pride (my sin is just too big for God).
  • God empowered you so you can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth you.
  • We don’t minister because we are cowards. We justify our cowardice.
  • Gideon was a coward.  One coward can do a whole lot.  My strength is made perfect in weakness.
  • When the USA was small in its own eyes they had to have great faith in God and he protected us. When we became great in our eyes we turned from God, we did not need his help anymore, we can do it ourselves.
  • Faith of Mordecai and the obedience of Esther, a mighty act of faith.
  • Middle East was talking about what God had done to Egypt 400-500 years later from the standpoint that this indeed did happen.
  • Horns of their altars – nothing sacred to them anymore.
  • Everything is going to be lost – a spoil unto their enemies.
  • All this came after much longsuffering of God ­– their response was not to serve him and be thankful but rather to do their own thing and take the things of the heathen and making them their own.  Isn’t that what we are doing in this country?
  • Serving my enemies – how many apologies do we make for the muslims?
  • Reference to the Texas Sunday service of 11/3/13 and the wheat and the tares.
  • Deceitfulness of riches – if I just had enough money I could serve you.
  • The lord will take care of you if you will serve him.  Wipe out any other thought.
  • Tares – those who trust in the old sinful flesh (Jeremiah 17: 5).
  • New man that is born again, not of the will of man but the will of God.  He is the man who will be blessed.  This man serves God even though he is still a sinner.  His sin shows! But it gives hope to others.
  • People of the church try to cover up their sin – part of the cares (fears) of this world.
  • That which you believe in motivates your actions.  The word tells us how to do it.
  • Gets around to us getting humbled and getting shed of the pride.  God gives grace to the humble but resists the proud.
  • When you go forth in humility the grace of God comes upon you.
  • We need a people who will humble themselves in the sight of Almighty God and show there is a way out.  As people take that way out God’s blessings come upon them and they go out and the body of Christ grows out.
  • If you trust in man, which can mean trusting in yourself, that is the voice of pride. Satan will honor those who will serve him.  He is the ruler of this world.  If God were the ruler the things that are happening would not be happening.
  • Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. Do you want to see them disarmed? You have got to stand and let the truth be manifest.
  • He who trusts in the flesh is like the heath in the desert – naked and destitute.  He won’t last long.
  • He who trusts in the Lord  – he is like the trees by the stock tank in the Texas desert.  It is parched all around the but they are not affected by heat or drought, they are fruitful.
  • I don’t care what the rest of society looks like, it doesn’t have to be me and it doesn’t have to be you.  We are to be as the tree – our trust wholly in the Lord.  It means we will have to do things that sometimes scare us.
  • People say, ’I’m following my heart’, never works out good.  The heart is desperately wicked and deceitful.  Got to have a change of heart.
  • You have to recognize that you are a dirty, rotten scoundrel. Don’t deceive yourselves, God knows. He says, ‘so what’.
  • You are not the first dirty, rotten scoundrel he has had to deal with – Moses, Paul, David, Samson – they all found a place of forgiveness in the Lord and did great exploits in his name.
  • That means there is room for me? Yes!
  • Got to get a handle on ‘Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity.
  • Unconcerned about our depraved nature but trusting in the goodness of God and follow after him.
  •  You won’t feel good about yourself, you will look worse as you go forth. It will give you compassion for others who think they are too far gone.  Are you kidding? I was a lot worse than you!
  • There is no depth that you can fall that the grace of God is not sufficient to cover.
  • Let’s show others there is a way out of the world today – by walking it.  We can show others the difference.
  • Let’s love them, those who aren’t yet God’s.  They often times don’t know because no one has told them.
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