|
2006 - Touchet Baptist Church, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike Paulson - 2006 Expounding the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26 - with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II Timothy 2:15 |
|
Part II Fruit Pickers |
Basic Premise tonight: We are called to be 'fruit pickers,' not 'soul winners!'
Let's slow down now and let the flowers bloom
(instead of being blooming idiots!)
Let's slow down now and let the fruit ripen!
(ready to be what it is to be...)
Let's really TRUST and instigate HIS FAITH into our day-to-day to choices!
This Book works in our lives
and our lives should reflect this Book!
Our choices should be made on wisdom from
this Book...
...not some religious teachings, emotions,
worldly education, etc., if even at that!
John 15:8 - bear fruit to be disciples!
Acts 2:41-47
- numbers!
Romans 1:13 - Now
I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to
come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among
you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Philippians 4:17 - Not
because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Romans 6:21 - What
fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end
of those things is death.
Romans 6:22 - But
now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your
fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Romans 7:4-6 - Wherefore,
my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ;
that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the
dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were
in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our
members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered
from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve
in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Philippians 1:9-11 - And
this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and
in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that
ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled
with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory
and praise of God.
II Timothy 2:6 -
be a partaker of the fruits - walk the walk! The
husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
Titus 3:14 - And
let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they
be not unfruitful.
Colossians 1:10 - That
ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every
good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
The lost will see the truth in your life
- then they too will want to trust in Christ - Ephesians
1:12!
Wrong always seems easier than right!
It is always easier to go after someone for salvation...
...than it is to go after yourself concerning
the 'new walk' after the Spirit of God!
It is always easier to accept all that Christ
has already done FOR and TO us...
...than to try to return an outward walk that
pleases Him still!
Yes, Christ made it all so easy!
He already WALKED IT!
And that is what will win our
children to Christ!
Not to the antichrist!