Sunday VT – 9/21/2014

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Speakers:

• Steve Atherton
• Charles Hocker

Scriptures used:

• Genesis 6:5
• 2 Timothy 2:1
• 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
• Jude 14-15

Subject:

• We have evil imaginations in our hearts.  The world is full of violence and hatred.
• To get out of that is to turn to He who can cleanse me.  I have to get to that point that when I am walking down the path of darkness, to turn back to the light.  Darkness always flees from light.
• The only way to get the dark thoughts out is to get to the light.
• Saul always sought to justify himself in pride.  David acknowledged there was no justification in himself, and he was wrong.
• You can put off pride and receive grace.
• It ultimately comes down to grace.
• Create in me a clean heart.  God is able to create in us a clean heart.  What difference does it make that we are evil by nature?
• When we justify our evil thoughts, we don’t have forgiveness.  That is Saul.
• When we justify ourselves, we deny ourselves the grace of God.
• Go forward in that new life separated from that evil in our flesh.  Not because we have changed in the natural man, but we are standing strong in the grace that Jesus has for us, having died for us.
• Were you the origin of the universe, your salvation?  Has the Lord rejected you, cast you off, thrown you out?
• Receive the fact that you have the grace.
• Paul wrote to the Corinthians and told them:  Be strong.  Be aware of what is going on.
• Grace and truth came by Christ Jesus to set you free of that evil nature.
• Jude speaks of the church and its horrific condition and is evil and calls it good.  It happened back then too.
• When the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints.  The antichrist is not a Muslim.  It is the leader of a false church that says it is Christian and it is not.
• Enoch prophesied of the battle of Armageddon.
• Put all your faith in Him, none of it in yourself.   In that place you are free from your evil carnal nature and every aspect of your evil nature now comes with a perspective that you are now able to minister in love to others.
• When you stand in that place, there is now a light in your world.
• Darkness is not visible, people don’t realize it’s darkness.  When you are strong in the Lord, now you can see, and the Lord will move.