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From Profession To Perfection

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1 John 2:6

6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Profession – “He that saith he abideth in him”

  • early stages of our Christian walk
  • zealous, unafraid, unashamed, excited to tell
  • giving testimony to our faith, sharing our story, being a witness

At this stage Satan comes to destroy your thoughts and words that you lose all good things to say about God. Your testimony, encouragement and exhortation will be every now and then if ever.

People in this stage are having to fight against obsession and possession and into growing their confidence in salvation.

Progression – “Ought himself also so to walk”

  • taking profession and getting on the move, taking action
  • when our walk begins to confirm our talk
  • this is the beginnings of true sincerity and sacrifice to God

At this stage Satan comes to take your time, energy and willingness so that you lose all desire to continue and obey or taking action for the glory of the kingdom of God.

People in this stage are are rebuking possible infestation and vexation and growing in their faith by their actions and profession.

Perfection – “Even as he walked”

  • starting to stop choosing life to go our way and submitting to God’s will
  • leaving childish things behind, growing up, moving on, maturing (or perfecting)
  • removing yourself from situations, actions and words that would destroy what you do
  • stepping into the pleasing favor of God and beginning to see miracles and wonders happen

At this stage Satan begins to attack all that is important to you: family, friends, jobs, possessions, and everything else important to us.

People in this stage are beginning to exorcise their flesh and starting to find balance in life, hope, happiness and devotion to God.

As we pass from Profession to Progression and from Progression to Perfection you can begin to identify where you are in God’s will based on the sorts of things you are enduring.

 

Finding Balance In God’s Promises

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Isaiah 41:10

10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee” – God wants to trade His fellowship for your Fears

Fear tries to overtake us all

  • fear of death
  • fear of failure
  • fear of losing security
  • fear of the future
  • fear of being alone

God answers these fears:

  • Death: “to die is gain” – Philippians 1:21
  • Failure: “I can do all things” – Philippians 4:13
  • Security: “My God shall supply all your need” – Philippians 4:19
  • Future: “Lo, I am with you always” – Matthew 28:20
  • Being alone: “I will never leave nor forsake thee” – Hebrews 13:5-6

“Be not dismayed, for I am thy God” – God wants to give His comfort for your confusion

Dismay = “Why did this happen to me”

Confusion = “I don’t understand why God let this happen”

No matter what happens we belong to Him – through good and bad God doesn’t change. We are his, even in difficult times!

“I will strengthen thee” – God wants to give His strength for your weakness

We have so many reasons for feeling week and weary:

  • sickness
  • regrets over our past mistakes
  • conflict with temptation

The great thing about God is that

  • God never becomes weary nor feels faint
  • Rather, he gives power to us whom faint
  • He imparts strength to those he loves

“I will help thee” – God wants to give His help for your helplessness

Sometimes all we can do is cry out for helplessness

Remember to reach for Jesus because he is reaching out to you

“I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness” God wants to give you salvation for your sins

  • Christ is the son of God’s right hand
  • Jesus has made righteousness through a life of salvation available through faith
  • He took the sins upon Himself so that we could give them away

Video: “Watch Out for Quicksand”

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What are you standing on? Are your Christian values easily compromised? Are you prone to sin easily and without much temptation? Are the people around you showing Godliness or are you just trying to fit in? Take a listen and be careful of the quicksand!

Enjoy the video!

Sermon Notes: https://www.heartofgraceministries.com/blog/after-the-fact/watch-quicksand/#.VfoZbtJVhHw

Watch Out For Quicksand

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Matthew 7:24-27

24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

What are you standing on?

  • are your Christian values easily compromised?
  • Are you prone to sin easily and without much temptation?
  • Are the people around you showing Godliness or are you just trying to fit in?

Quicksand (Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure)

  • choices that look like easy fixes that lead to hard drama
  • words you say that make you feel better in the short-term and leave you asking for forgiveness in the long-term
  • praising at church but caught in sin in a very quick amount of time

Psalm 69:1-8

69 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

The Rock (as support and defense of his people)

  • in the rock you have stability, a constant reminder of God’s faithfulness to you by how he blesses us continually
  • a firmly planted rock is unmovable. So is firm faith standing on the stability of God
  • God wants you to stand on your faith and be stable in His promise
  • balance in your life is by standing firm on the rock when the winds of life blow around you

1 Samuel 2:2

2 There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

2 Samuel 22:32

32 For who is God, save the Lord? and who is a rock, save our God?

Psalm 62:2

2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

1 Corinthians 16:13

13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Proverbs 10:25

25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Philippians 1:27

27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

 

 

 

The Fire of God

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1) God consumes what makes a person remain an unbeliever and makes them a believer by the things to which He purifies in our lives: free from sin, power over satan, and life eternal

Hebrews 12:29

29 For our God is a consuming fire.

2) God wants to speak to us through the fire.

Exodus 3:2

2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

3) God revealed that his fire is all about us even when our natural eyes cannot see it

2 Kings 6:17

17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

(To the servant there was need of a more manifest vision, and for this Elisha prays, and God vouchsafes to grant it, that the servant may become as confident as his master. It is not that the troops may be gathered that Elisha prays, they are there already, but that the servant may have a seeing eye bestowed upon him to discern how well he and his master are protected.)

4) God showed us to not be afraid of the fire when we take a stand by faith. For when the fire will destroy the enemy it will protect one whom serves God.

Daniel 3:25

25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

5) The fire of god will destroy every natural and carnal thing in us, like it or not.

1 Kings 18:38

38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

6) The fire of God will show you exactly what you are and where your passion is

1 Corinthians 3:13

13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

7) God not only wants you to outwardly declare your salvation and freedom from sin by water; God wants to declare inwardly to yourself and to Satan that you are free and with that power you rebuke his attempts to destroy you.

Matthew 3:11

11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

8) The fire of God came to consume what would have made our tongues unworthy to speak in the Heavenly language (or in tongues). Now as we walk in the spirit we are able to speak to God literally and spiritually.

Acts 2:3

3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

9) God wanted us to rejoice because we have the assurance that if we are put in the fire in His name then we will not burn: not on earth nor in hell! Embrace the protecting fire

1 Peter 1:6-8

6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

10) Without having Jesus Christ as your Savior you will fall victim to the consuming fire

Revelation 20:15

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Video: Singing “If It Had Not Been The Lord”

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Heart of Grace Singing “If It Had Not Been The Lord”

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Lyrics: If It Had Not Been The Lord

Who was your shelter through the wind and the rain
Who kept you safe at the enemy’s gate
Who was your shield on the firing line
Who gave you victory – who turned the tide

If it had not been the Lord
Who was on your side
When the world rose against you
When the tide rose high
When the battle was lost
And we drowned in the dark
We would be in despair
If it had not been the Lord

Who was your help when all your friends had gone
Who stood by your side – never left you alone
Who healed your body – who spoke to your storm
Who made a way out of a dead end road

If it had not been the Lord
Who was on your side
When the world rose against you
When the tide rose high
When the battle was lost
And we drowned in the dark
We would be in despair

If it had not been the Lord
If it had not been for mercy
If it had not been for grace
If it had not been for the One who took your place
If it had not been for power
If it had not been for love
If it had not been for Jesus and His precious blood