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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
Is Your Life "In the Pits?"

I have seen 'live' examples of:


We need a good war or depression to put us all off the Sister Sodom Syndrome!
(Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.)

Unfortunately, God is so far removed from this nation, we would have to rely on our own strength, and we couldn't do it!
(We can't / won't help Israel, Taiwan or South Korea let alone our own selves!)

We would whine to God and blame him anyway!
After all, "Why us?"  "We are God's little KJB children, anyway!"  You know, the government hates us and wants to arrest us types of folks ... etc. and "We believe in separation of church and state - so they should leave us alone!"  "We will fight for God's kingdom till our death!"



Caused by The Great Commission preachings!
This miserableness and depressions that I am seeing among the Bible Believers lately has been brought about by the preaching of the Great Commission over the years.  Wrongly dividing leads to an increase of ungodliness and that, I believe, is the crux to the failure of true Christianity in these last times.

Great Commissionaters are Kingdom Builders - the church - the programs - the buildings, etc. setting their mind on earthly things!  Philippians 3:19 - Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

The world AND Jews hat the 'true' gospel but will put up with the new religious gospel!  Romans 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

Remember - we WERE the heathen dogs in the OT - and today, we ARE still the heathen dogs but only in the flesh!  Now we are also Christians in the Spirit of God and our soul, etc.!  We can NOW learn to walk in this physical kingdom in a manner to please God!


People think "BETTER" only  means physical - while nobody wants or is even aware of anything being RIGHT!

Modern Christian folks are using the GC to try to change the flesh - the physical - to them, that is the only way to be happy and to please God!

They play Simon says (Acts 8:18,19) while they sing Peter James and John in a sailboat! (Acts 1-8; Hebrews through Jude)


Let's Learn About Life in the Pit
...according to the King James Bible

If your life is the pits, then your life is Hell!
Isaiah 14:15 - Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

The Pit is for the wicked!
Psalm 94:13 - That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

In the NT, the pit is the bottomless pit!
Revelation 9:1,2,11; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1,3


The Great Whine!
(Remember, this is OT with spiritual application today)
Psalm 88

Blame God?
Maybe not for digging your pit, but for you thinking he is not rescuing you out of your pit?

You ever heard of reaping what you sow?
His grace and mercy?  If we only knew... physically, but we CAN KNOW spiritually!
Folks, we HAVE been rescued - but we must reach for the Book - quit fighting!!!


So, How Can This Pit Come About?

We can dig our own - even while we are saved!
Ecclesiastes 10:8 - He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Psalm 7:14-16 - Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.  He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Proverbs 26:27 - Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Proverbs 28:10 (if you are evil) - Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

We can try to 'hide' in the world - but will get thrown into the pit, still!
Psalm 9:15,16 - The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16: The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands
Isaiah 24:16-18 - From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.  But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!  the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.  Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

Other people want you in the pit - and will get you there somehow!
Genesis 37:20 - Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Psalm 35:7 - For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalm 57:6 - They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves.
Jeremiah 18:18-20 - Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.  Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.  Shall evil be recompensed for good?  for they have digged a pit for my soul.  Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Philippians 1:28,29 - And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;


What Does This Pit Have?

1)  NOTHING - empty!  Genesis 37:23-24 - And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;  And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
2)  NO WATER!  Zechariah 9:11 - As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
3)  NO HOPE FOR THE TRUTH!  Isaiah 38:18 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.


How to Stay out of the Pit - OPEN YOUR BIBLE!
Psalm 28:1 - Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalm 143:7 - Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

CONCLUSION
Why keep decorating your walls of the pit?
Why add toys to it to try to keep you happy when you KNOW you are in the pit!
Calvin cartoon...

Job 33:12-20 - Admit your Pit!

Don't be satisfied with 'just' your soul's salvation!  Run for the prize - that crown of righteousness - loving his appearing because you love learning to walk to please him today!  Paul, etc.  Learn to walk as did Paul - II Timothy 3:10 - But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

Ephesians 4:17-24 - Put off the old man - put of the New!  quit thinking like a lost person.
Open your Bible - rightly divide the word of truth!  II Timothy 2:15,16

Get out of that pit yourself - nobody can do it for you! II Timothy 2:25,26 - In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;  And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.


Think on things above - Colossians 3:1-2 - 1: If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Not on earthly things!  -  Philippians 3:18-20 -  (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: