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Another
Sermon for the Starving Bible Believing Christians All Over the World Wide
Web
2007
- KJV Bible Believers Church in Touchet, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike
Paulson - 2007
Expounding
the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26
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with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II
Timothy 2:15
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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.
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However,
God appears to be pulling back and away more and more!
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Proverbs
1:24-33
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Jeremiah
33:11 - The voice of joy, and the voice
of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the
voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is
good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the
sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause
to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah
25:10 - Moreover I will take from them
the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light
of the candle.
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See
Lamentations
5:20-22 - Wherefore dost thou forget us
for ever, and forsake us so long time? Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD,
and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. But thou hast utterly
rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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We
are not going to ever get to the place of rejection and being forsaken
anymore - the Tribulation is not our future destination!
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
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Sermon audio begins here -
Almost - not quite - basically, not there yet, thus something that is 'almost'
still 'isn't!'
Things are happening all over!
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World is more obviously perverted and anti-God!
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America is catching up to the world against God!
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Christianity is apostasizing faster and faster!
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Churches are dying and being rebuilt with a imitation Christianity!
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Homes are falling apart!
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Children are rebelling!
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Parents are showing an unnatural love towards their children!
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Children are taking on their parents 'old' nature worse than the parents
had!
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Wives are taking the headship role - or at least creating the negative
abusive atmosphere within the home.
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Husbands are letting it all happen - just so he can have his toys!
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Personal happiness and joy is fading!
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!
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The obvious is only obvious to those who know how
to live 'beyond Paul with their KJB Rightly Divided Bible!
Wesleyan Quadrilateral
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Tradition; Scriptures; Experiences; Reason
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John Wesley originated it - Albert Outler in the
1960's coined the title.
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Tradition - see Colossians
2:8
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Scriptures - rightly dividing solves the 'confusion
& contradiction' problem - no private interpretation needed!
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Experience - flesh / feeling / flash Ephesians
4:19
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Reason - Ephesians
4:17
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Seems to be the general wave of those who try to
be somewhat serious with their Christianity!
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Yet while we see three of the points gaining ground,
we see Scripture falling further and further away!
What a mess - so much to read and study, is it no
wonder fewer and fewer are even interested!
Trying to walk Jesus' life
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obituary example
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in lie of flowers, the family has requested that
everyone try to live as Jesus did.
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however... see Galatians
2:19-21 -
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I
am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of
the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate
the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is
dead in vain.
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accept His life - it is imputed to us - the walk
was fulfilled!
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Why do folks think they have to do it now that they
'have Him?'!
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They say they 'accept' Christ but don't know what
they are to 'accept.'
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...?)
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Understand
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music?
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I Corinthians 13:10?
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II Timothy 2:15,16?
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the latter times vs the last days?
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etc.
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have the right answers?
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can find the right verses when you need to?
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have the right explanation of...?
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spot a phony philosophy, teaching, etc.?
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have the right Bible?
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understand the purpose of 'church?'
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know Paul's teachings, etc.?
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follow Paul?
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a Christian?
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living like a Christian?
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delivered through Paul's ways to be taught in every church?
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a new creature?
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crucified the flesh? (Galatians
5:24)
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walk in the Spirit?
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true joy / peace / longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance? The fruit of the Spirit
can be 'understood,' received and working in our lives - only through Paul's
writings as we trust Christ and accept His walk imputed to us - then live
the life of the RISEN Christ as Paul teaches, etc.
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strength?
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II Timothy 2:1-7
- Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same
commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Thou
therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that
warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please
him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries,
yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The husbandman that laboureth
must be first partaker of the fruits. Consider what I say; and the Lord
give thee understanding in all things.
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etc. and on and 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!