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2007 - KJV Bible Believers Church in Touchet, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike Paulson - 2007
Expounding the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26 - with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II Timothy 2:15
So, What DOES Paul Preach, Anyway?
Part XXIX
Time To Be Recharged?
Introduction - May 23, 2007 - Accept Paul's Charges
Part I - May 27, 2007 p.m. - War a Good Warfare
Interlude sermon - May 30, 2007 - "Almost" Still "Isn't"
Part II - June 3, 2007 a.m. - Conclusion

"Almost" Still "Isn't"


Review:
We just can't go back in time - 'the way things were' - we still know the Lord has NOT rejected us - or forsaken us, etc. nor do we have to worry about the Tribulation judgment.
But still - we need to be 'charged' everyday - or even more often!

The word is RENEW!

  • It is ok to need to be renewed, but it is not ok to not get renewed when it is so plainly available!
  • Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • II Corinthians 4:16 - For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
  • Ephesians 4:23 - And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
  • Colossians 3:10 - And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: the more we learn of Him through Paul, the more we are renewed!
  • Titus 3:5 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; - KJB - etc.

  • Paul puts some charges toward us - especially through Timothy.
    We are beyond Paul - on to Timothy, Titus, Philemon - but o course, as Paul has taught them towards us!

    Interlude Sermon to Mini-series on Time to Recharge
    - Sermon audio begins here -

    Almost - not quite - basically, not there yet, thus something that is 'almost' still 'isn't!'

    Things are happening all over!

    Wait a minute - doesn't that sound a lot like II Timothy 3:1-7; II Timothy 4:3,4; Jude 4,15b-16,18,19, Jeremiah 33:11; 25:10, etc.  Well, I don't believe we are in those times, but are certainly closer than ever before.

    "Obvious" but not to many!

    Wesleyan Quadrilateral What a mess - so much to read and study, is it no wonder fewer and fewer are even interested!

    Trying to walk Jesus' life

    It's a mess and it is getting messier in the country, in the workplace, in the home and in people's own personal lives!

    Acts 13:44 - just the opposite today!
    And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

    Acts 19:26,27 - just the opposite today!
    Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

    Acts 21:27-30  - Same reaction today as then to Paul...
    And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.  (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.


    Like ...Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian!
    Acts 26:28

    What Paul would have would be Acts 26:29 - be almost and altogether such as I am...


    But "Almost" still "Isn't!"

    But it is something, eh!

    It sure doesn't have to be that way!!!!!!!!
    Philippians 4:9 - Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
    I Thessalonians 4:1 - Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

    Do you ALMOST:
    (short on...?)

    Are you close but not there yet?

    Do you need to be recharged - or maybe even just charged in the first place!!
    Read Philippians chapter 3!

    Accept these charges from Paul!
    See this entire mini-sermon series to the end on being recharged!