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The Doctrine of the Pivot; Part 40.
Be prepared! Be on the alert! Be aware! Be on guard! Be Bold!
The Doctrine of the Pivot; Part 40.
Be prepared! Be on the alert! Be aware! Be on guard! Be Bold!
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from - Romans 8:38-39
Hymn #1
Hymn #2
Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word
Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is— you have trusted in Him for eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to take-in God’s Word so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge your sins privately directly to God the Father. This will assure that you are in fellowship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit’s convicting ministry, also called the convincing ministry will then be able to teach you as the Holy Spirit is the real teacher and the pastor’s message is the vehicle the Holy Spirit uses to convince you what you are learning is true or not.
1 John 1:9 says—“If we confess [simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins].” NKJV (New King James Version)
If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life and you will be saved the very second you believe in Him:
John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV
Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.
John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV
1 John 1:9 says—“If we confess [simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins].” NKJV (New King James Version)
If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life and you will be saved the very second you believe in Him:
John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV
Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.
John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV
Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:
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NOTES
Unlike the bible study, these notes are not just for reading without watching the video. These notes are more designed to follow along during the sermon and to bring up the “hover pop-up scripture references” (some websites may require to left click the link) when the Pastor asks everyone to turn to that passage in their bibles or as a memory jogger for review after you’ve viewed the video Sermon.
The Doctrine of the Pivot; Part 40.
Be prepared! Be on the alert! Be aware! Be on guard! Be Bold!
Be prepared! Be on the alert! Be aware! Be on guard! Be Bold!
1Ti 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Eph 6:10-11; Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
2Jo 1:8 Watch yourselves, that you might not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.”
Jas 4:7-8, Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded.
Heb 12:1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Phil 2:5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus.
In the four Gospels, we rarely have the same things repeated in all four of the Gospels.
Mt 16:25 “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it.
Mark 8:35 “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s shall save it.
Luk 9:24 “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.
Jn 12:25 “He who loves his life loses it; and he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.
Be prepared!
Be on the alert!
Be aware!
Be on guard!
Be Bold!
It is very important for us to understand the power that is behind our true enemy which is not human power but demonic power.
What are you doing to keep your life exciting and meaningful?
What are you waiting for?
For whom are you waiting?
What have you allowed to take away the fun out of life and the challenge?
“Choose your rut carefully, you’ll be in it for the next 200 miles.”
With all that is going on in the world today and with all that the Bible offers us — such as contentment and perfect happiness and finding our niche in life, how can anyone be bored?
Most of God’s people are in a rut.
They have fallen for and into the routine.
To live on the dull edge of life is really to become a slave to life.
Most likely he had died as he had lived, without ever learning who he really was.”
I get up each morning, dust off my wits,
Pick up the paper and read the O’bits.
If my name is missing, I know I’m not dead,
So I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed!
Be prepared!
Be on the alert!
Be aware!
Be on guard!
Be Bold!
As you get older, you hear people say, “Slow down, don’t exert yourself.”
Heb 12:1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
There’s another piece of human viewpoint you hear = “Don’t take a risk!”
On the contrary, risk many times is quite closely related to faith!
“Hold on to what you got, things are going to get worse……and people will rip you off.”
As a result, pessimism and fear, dog our steps as we get older?
Be prepared!
Be on the alert!
Be aware!
Be on guard!
Be Bold!
God’s people aren’t it’sy bit’sy people….the pivot type of believer has always been “cutting edge” people.
2Ti 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and discipline.
If you want to be a pivotal type believer learn to “Be Bold, Be Joyful, Be Godly.”
Ecc11:1-6, Give generously, for your gifts will return to you later. Divide your gifts among many, for in the days ahead you yourself may need much help. When the clouds are heavy, the rains come down; when a tree falls, whether south or north, the die is cast, for there it lies. If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done. God’s ways are as mysterious as the pathway of the wind and as the manner in which a human spirit is infused into the little body of a baby while it is yet in its mother’s womb. Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow perhaps it all will.
Instead of protecting yourself, release yourself.
Ecc 11:1 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, = That’s away from yourself.
Psa 37:25 I have been young, and now I am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Or his descendants begging bread.
Psa 37:26 All day long he is gracious and lends; And his descendants are a blessing.
When this verse says Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days, it refers to releasing yourself so that in return good would come.
Mt 16:25 “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it.
Mr 8:35 “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s shall save it.
When bread is cast upon waters or when a life is released to others, there is something remarkable about God’s faithfulness in bringing back to you benefits and blessings.
Months later, he came back home….she found it [the life and forgiveness she had sowed] after many days.
Pr 16:7 “When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”
Releasing yourself is God’s way and God honors that kind of release which includes vulnerability at times.
When He talks about us losing our lives, He only means abandon¬ing the carnal selfish self will that we have and then once we have done so, God really gives us back all of who He has made us to be.
When we are really His, we will be more ourselves than ever before.
While He is delighted to see us sacrificing ourselves to Him and our will to His, He hates to see us drifting away from our own nature for any other reason.
If the kingdom of darkness can get us away from our deepest likings and impulses which God has placed within, it is a point gained for them.
Rather than hoarding, give and invest.
Be bullish as you release yourself.
1Jo 3:16-17, “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” But whoever has the world’s goods, and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?”
Be prepared!
Be on the alert!
Be aware!
Be on guard!
Be Bold!
Hymn #3
The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life:
Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.
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