Better as a Christian

1.          Your life should be better because you are a Christian

2.   God’s desire for us is to be a hundredfold Christian.

3.      Example:  If you have a baseball batter at bat.  He expects to hit the ball not thirty out of a 100 times at bat, nor 30 times out of a 100 at bat, but a 100 out of a 100 times at bat. If he doesn’t I don’t want him on my team.

4.      God is no different He expects us every day to live without sin. He understands us being a work in progress but out ultimate goal is to live sinless.

5.      After a batter strikes out, when his turn comes up again, his thoughts are okay you got me with that pitch last time now I am ready for that, lets see what you got now.

6.    Some Christians before their feet ever hit the side of the bed, the devil already know you want be a problem at bat today. Why? You have already struck out in your mind.

1.    Mat 13:23   But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth [it]; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Use Your Words Wisely

Proverbs 10:19

¹⁹In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

NLT

Too much talk leads to sin.
Be sensible and keep your mouth shut.

1.  The more we talk, the greater is the probability of saying something wrong. Compulsive talkers should beware! The lust for incessant conversation often leads to exaggeration, breaking of confidences, and associated sins. Trying to top someone else’s joke often mushrooms into off-color stories.

The man who exercises self-control in his speech is wise. He saves himself from embarrassment, apologies, and outright sin.

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Silence brings healing. “Restrains his lips” (lit. “keeps a check on his tongue”) confirms the adage that “the less said the better.” Rabbinic sayings also address silence: “Silence is a healing for all ailments”; “Silence is good for the wise; how much more so for the foolish.”

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^[1]MacDonald, W., & Farstad, A. (1997, c1995). Believer's Bible Commentary : Old and New Testaments (Pr 10:19). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

^[2]Thomas Nelson, I. (1997, c1995). Woman's study Bible . (Pr 10:19). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

YOUR WILDERNESS STAY IS DETERMINE BY YOUR ATTITUDE PT 3

I.       When does your attitude matters the most

1.    When you are in the trial or when you are not in the trial

2.    We as Christians should live a life of self control all the time.

3.    Gal 5:22-23  ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

4.    When we allow the fruit of the Spirit to express himself in us we will always have a good attitude.

a.    When we allow ourselves to have a bad attitude. We have left the Spirit and started to walk in the flesh.

5.    A bad attitude can be from an unrenewed mind set.

a.    We have to realize that if God is for us who can be against us.

b.    An unrenewed mind doesn’t understand what 1Pe 5:7-8 means, Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

c.     Stay alert church because your enemy is always looking for an opportunity to steal, kill and destroy.

YOUR WILDERNESS STAY IS DETERMINE BY YOUR ATTITUDE PT 2

 

         a. Ex. 13:1-5 ¹And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

²Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

³And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

⁴This day came ye out in the month Abib.

⁵And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

         b. What could have been accomplished in a matter of days had they not refused to go in when God gave them the opportunity to do so the first time. The 40 years wandering was a deliberate delay:

         c. That makes me think, if I desert my post, before time it may take years before God can rise up someone to follow.

         d. Your purpose for being here is more important than you think.

         e.   That unexposed purpose that’s in you, is what God is going to use in these last days to free His people and take them into their promise land.

I.       Who is watching at my attitude?

1.    Some of us think when the boss, the wife, the father, the mother, the police is not watching, it’s okay to do whatever I desire.

2.    But there are another two sets of eyes watching over us.

3.    The eyes of the LORD watch over those who do right; his ears are open to their cries for help. Psa 34:15

4.    That’s right He saw that, God sees in the booth in the back where it is dark.

5.    wherever God looks darkness has to go.

6.    If the Lord is watching you what are you looking at?

a. He’s watching me and I should be watching Him.

b. My eyes are always looking to the LORD for help, for he    alone can rescue me from the traps of my enemies.  Psa 25:15

c.  He along can rescue me not that job, not the Doctor, not that education (thou its best to have one);

d. Pro 21:31  The horse [is] prepared against the day of battle: but safety [is] of the LORD.

YOUR WILDERNESS STAY IS DETERMING BY YOUR ATTITUDE PT 1

And this to shall come to pass. As you look back over your life you know now, that God was at work.  There are some things that happen in my life I don’t remember how they worked out at the moment, but I do know that it came to pass. 

Mat 24:35 says “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”

1.    Long as I stay in Christ everything that is not of Him will pass away.

2.    Long as I stay on the right path this to shall pass away.

3.    I will pass by this, in Jesus name.

4.    Someone may ask you, Have you seen Ce Ce, and you may say, she just passed by here.

a.    To pass means –go by, overtake, go beyond or leave behind.

5.    Did Pharaoh choose to let the Israelites leave?

6.    Why didn’t God just destroy Pharaoh and take His people.

         a. Josh. 2:8-11 ⁸And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

                     ⁹And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

                      ¹⁰For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the    Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

                ¹¹And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

b.    God’s desire for His children is to live victorious.

c.     His plan is to use us so His will can be done on this earth as it is in heaven.

d.    Psa 115:16  The heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

e.    The Lord, not the president, the major, but the Lord has given you the earth and all that is in it.

f.      Now he expects us to live in victory on this earth.

Jesus Bought Us Into The Grace Of God

Hbr 12:29

For our God [is] a consuming fire.

Matt. 24: ³⁵ Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

1.    You cannot do the word unless you first hear the word of God.

2.    Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

a.      this verse is really setting forth an ideal condition rather than something that is capable of human attainment

b.      We couldn’t keep the law ourselves, that’s why Jesus came.

c.      He fully met the requirements of the Law.

d.      Hebrews 10:8-10 ^(nlt)  First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses). ⁹ Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect. ¹⁰ For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.

e.      John 1:17  For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

f.       Matt. 5:17  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

g.      The fulfilling of the law by Jesus, bought us into the will of God’s grace.

h.      A man had to fulfill the law, since it was a man that got us into this situation, now it would take a man to led us out.

i.        Phi. 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

j.       Read Phi. 2:5-10

You cannot do the word unless you first hear the word of God.

1.    Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified .

           a.  this verse is really setting forth an ideal condition rather than something that is capable of human attainment

2.    Jam 1:22  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

a.      There is no virtue in possessing the Bible or even in reading it as literature

b.      There must be a deep desire to hear God speaking to us and an unquestioning willingness to do whatever He says.

1.    The person who only hears and knows the Word deceives himself. If a person thinks that he can hear and learn the Word of God and then go out and live like he wants, he deceives himself.

a.    Thought 1. There are many who sit under the Word of God week after week, and they learn and know as much of the Word as anyone. They think that their listening and learning makes them acceptable to God, that it makes them safe and secure. When they slip into sin, they feel that they can ask God for forgiveness and that He will forgive them. They just feel that God would never reject them. But note something, the most critical fact: God does not accept us because we hear and know the Word nor because we confess our sins. Each of these are necessary and very important, but they are not enough.

Þ  God accepts us because we confess and repent. Repentance means that we turn away from our sins and turn to God. God accepts us because we turn to Him and live for Him. When we believe God—really believe Him—then it is that we trust and follow Him and do exactly what He says.

2.    The person who only hears and knows the Word soon forgets what he has heard. If a person does not practice what he learns, it soon fades from memory. It is just forgotten, and it never becomes a part of the person's life. He is like the person who looks in a mirror to see if he needs to do anything to his appearance, then walks away and thinks of something else and forgets the pimple or rustled hair that needed to be cared for.

a.    Thought 1. How much like what happens so often. We hear the Word and are convicted of some defect, some shortcoming, some failure that we need to clean up. But as soon as we walk out from under the Word, we are distracted by the world and its affairs and we soon forget to do what the Word of God told us to do.

3.  The person who hears and does the Word of God is blessed. Note that the Word of God is called the perfect law of liberty. This means that the Word of God will set a person free from the bondages of sin and death. The Word of God will free a person from all the temptations of this life and give him the full and victorious life for which his soul longs—a life that will continue on and on eternally with God.

A person who does and lives the Word of God will find that he is freed from all that enslaves his soul upon earth. He will discover love, joy, and peace—a soul that just soars with a sense of...

·  freedom and liberty ·  purpose and meaning ·  security and safety ·  victory over temptation

·  joy and rejoicing ·  assurance and confidence ·  life over death ·  deliverance from sin

Declaring War on Lust

In the name of Jesus, I declare right now that I am free from lust and addiction to pornography. Lord, Your Word says that whom the Son sets free is free indeed. I am led by Your Spirit; therefore, I do not fulfill the evil desires of the flesh. I will never again be entangled in lustful thoughts or actions.

Your anointing-Your burden-removing, yoke-destroying power-has released me from this sin for good. I declare that no weapon formed against me will prosper or keep me from fulfilling my divine destiny. You began a good work in me and are faithful to complete it. As the redeemed of the Lord and as the righteousness of God, whatever I say in faith is so. Lord, be it unto me according to Your Word. Amen!

Scripture References:

• Romans 6:6-14

⁶Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

⁷For he that is dead is freed from sin.

⁸Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

⁹Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

¹⁰For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

¹¹Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹²Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

¹³Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

• John 8:31-32
• ³¹Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; ³²And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 

• Galatians 5:18
• ¹⁸But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

• Isaiah 10:27
• ²⁷And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
• Isaiah 54:17
• ¹⁷No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

• Philippians 1:6
• ⁶Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

• Psalm 107:2
• ²Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

• Luke 1:38
• ⁸And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

The Kingdom Within

Intro:

• Grace is the enabling power of God
• Grace and truth comes thru. Jesus
• Holiness is more than separting yourself from bad things
• To be holy is to have the mind of God.
• Now we imitate Jesus as our example

1.      I John 2:28 (amp) And now, little children, abide (live, remain permanently) in Him, so that when He is made visible, we may have and enjoy perfect confidence (boldness, assurance) and not be ashamed and shrink from Him at His coming.

2.      John 1:12 ^(amp) But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name—

3.      John 1:13  ^(amp) Who owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!]

• As sons of God we must live by the Word of God so the power that is within us can be manifested on the outside of us.

1.      Matt. 6:33 ^(amp) But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

2.      When you live by the Word of God it causes the kingdom of God to manifest in you life.

3.      So let’s be doers of the Word and not just hearers.

4.      Then and only then will you see the power of God in your life.

5.      So allow the grace which has saved your soul live big in you