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 |
|
I have seen 'live' examples of:
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!"
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!
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)
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
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!!!
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;
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.
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.