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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

If We Do Heed Paul
Part II
Yield Unto God!

Review:
    Become aware that we are now alive unto God - and should live unto God instead of ourselves!
    Worship in spirit and truth - vs - false worship 'attraction' today!
    Know who the enemy is and the specific warnings in detail about them!
    Know in detail how to handle the enemy as well as the 'friendly fire!'
    How to live 'separated' unto His gospel and to further the gospel!
    How to be approved unto God!


Yield Unto God!

Romans 6:12-14 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.  Neither 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.  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Have we forgotten what it was like to be dead?

Are we unthankful?

Would we rather be back to our 'dead' days?
Remember Ephesians 2:12 - That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Remember Colossians 1:21 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

Are we still in bondage?
Great Commission mentality?  Still trying to do in 'your way?'  Confused?  Have not heeded Paul's warnings?

If things are not going well for you, is it God's fault?

Read all of Romans 6:11-23!

We Are Alive To Do What?


1)  Fruit Unto Holiness

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.

We will have eternal life when it is all over down here!

So until then... 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.

Remember, it is not just in 'what' you do as a Christian, it is what it is to 'be' a Christian!


2)  Allow God to Deliver Us

II Timothy 4:14-18 - And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Today, it is the KJB that delivers us!  I Corinthians 13:10
No 'pre-Book' pentecostal spirituality!
note:  I Thessalonians 2:13 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Hearing!
The Jews wouldn't!
Acts 28:26,27Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Do You?
Galatians 3:2 - This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?  Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?  Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Romans 10:17 - So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.


3)  Come to the knowledge of truth!

RD fixes your heart!
Luke 8:12 - Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Romans 10:11 - For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

All should - I Timothy 2:4 - Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
All won't - II Timothy 3:7 - Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Soon they can't! - II Timothy 2:10-12 - And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

or wrongly divide and try to apply Hebrews 10:26 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but that would only lead to more ungodliness - or doing right wrong!


Triumph in Christ!
Rightly Dividing the word of truth has brought us closer to God.  Now, if we would only yield more to His words - the King James Bible, as you read it and hear it preached, you would be able to better understand II Corinthians 2:14 - Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.