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Sunday VT – 3/02/2014


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TFM-Northfield-VermontSpeakers:

  • Steven Atherton
  • Robin Atherton

Scriptures used:

  • Ephesians 4:1–16
  • Hebrews 4
  • John 1
  • Matthew 6

Subject:

  • His grace is sufficient for me.  That grace is where we stand, because of what Jesus did.
  • There’s a quickening in God’s people to move forward in His will.
  • His preaching is not the call to the body but rather what we are to do to be built up in the fullness of the body of Christ.
  • Take heed to that which is spoken to us.
  • We all have the exact same salvation and hope.  There is one hope, one Lord, one baptism, one God.
  • God has given us Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers and He has given them to us for perfecting of saints, work of the ministry.  He has given us these so we can stand in the Body of Christ.
    • Apostles and Prophets for perfecting of saints.
    • Evangelists & Pastors for work of the ministry
    • Teachers are for Edifying of the body of Christ.
  • We have to give heed to what we are given to do by those in authority over us and to press on and do it.
  • Edification ministers the truth to a person so it can be established as something they walk in, not telling someone how wonderful they are.
  • We are partakers of the quickening, but we do not sit around and wait for it, we have to press on by faith.
  • We have to pray in knowledge, not just in hope.  Knowledge of God and everything He says is true and we can stand in Him.
  • When you believe God every promise becomes true for you and no fiery dart has any power against you.
  • Davy said “Mark my words” last week, we need to make it a point to digest this and walk in it.
  • Jehosophat took a word of someone who came to him to heart.
  • How many times have you heard a word and not taken action on it?
  • What good is it if you hear a word and take no action on it?  In fact, it testifies against you and the situation gets worse.
  • The amazing thing about the grace of God is that He can rectify some pretty awful situations.
  • God delivers a man from a heroin addiction instantaneously with no side-effects or withdrawl symptoms.
  • No matter how far you fall down on that road of failure, if you choose right now (regardless of how you have NOTHING, no energy, no will, no desire, no ability) and acknowledge your weakness and a desire to no longer stand in that defeat, but rather desire God’s victory no matter what you have to go through to get it, you cannot be stopped.  You will come through and be victorious.
  • Jehovah Jireh:  God is your provider if you are His.  When we say we are His, we acknowledge Him as our Lord, much like a slave acknowledged his master as his master.  Those who walk in that and are faithful and true, they are in a higher place in the house than others because of their faithfulness.  You don’t hear mention of the name of the field hands, but you do hear mention of the names of the slaves in the house.
  • If you are about your Lord’s business they have to take care of you because you are not taking care of yourself but of their business.  (Matthew 6)
  • God is our provider.  It’s easy for us to look at our clients to pay our bills, but God is our provider.
  • Human nature is evil.  All of us by nature are evil.
  • The God you have communication with created everything that was made and He knows how everything was made and what everything is capable of, so you can go to Him about anything and everything.
  • You take His ways and follow the Word and it’s standards instead of what you have always believed or what you think or what you know.
  • Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child… put 2 children in a sandbox and see what happens, it’s not all pleasant and well behaved, they fight, argue, want their own way etc.
  • You are born again in the spirit, your soul is cleansed by the blood of the lamb.  That new creature is to be edified, that new creature is not your flesh, it’s the new creature after you are born again.
  • Our flesh dies like the bad guy in a bad movie … you think you killed it but it gets back up.  You have to keep killing it.
  • You cannot concern yourself with the old creature.
  • The grace of truth comes by Christ Jesus.  The Bible testifies of God’s grace.
    • Moses – a murderer
    • Apostle Paul – a murderer
    • David – a murderer and adulterer
  • Above are 3 examples from the Bible where the grace of God is exalted.  Salvation by grace is lifted up.  You’d be hard pressed to find anyone in the Bible where anyone is exalted other than Jesus Christ and He is the only one who should be exalted.  This gives others hope, knowing that you are a sinner too.
  • He came to save the ungodly … YOU qualify!  If you are not ungodly, He did not die for you!
  • We are saved by grace and that is what gives others hope even though you are still a sinner because your testimony is not that you are better but that God is good and I am not.
  • We partake of His goodness by faith and you can partake of it too.
  • Seeing sin in someone else does not justify us and allow us to find fault in someone else.  It should help us to see that we are no better than anyone else.
  • The grace of Jesus Christ is sufficient for you.  Go forward by faith in Him.
  • You have to choose to love the truth because it so often testifies against us or something we thought or believed to be right and true and good.  One day you find out you aren’t what you thought, you haven’t done right even though you thought you did.  Choose to love the truth.
  • Until you know the truth that you are contrary to His truth, you cannot change and you can do as He did it.  In the knowledge of this truth you can move forward in Him.
Ministers Conference
2017 Ministers Conference will take place at Grace Ranch in TX from Monday, October 9th to Saturday, October 14th, 2017. Interested in attending? Contact Steve Atherton at (915) 988-2450 for more information.

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