Looking Back

 

Psalm 78:9 "The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle."   Looking Back   This year marked the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. There has been some discussion in recent days about if we should remember the day's events anymore. Should we "put it to rest" as some liberal columnists have suggested? Should we forget 9/11 in lieu of a domestic agenda that negates the need to protect our land?   Did you know that we are not the only people who have faced such a decision? Dwelling on the past never helped anybody, but moving forward effectively requires a remembrance of where you have been. In other words, you can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been! Psalm 78 reminds us that those who never look back are bound to turn back.   The children of Israel repeatedly forgot what God had done. Verse 11 says, "And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them." Verse 42 tells us that "they remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy." Psalm 78 is full of forgetting! What came of their forgetting? They "turned back in the day of battle" and "turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers. . . ." (verses 9 & 57).   It is amazing how we, as a nation and as individuals, keep repeating the same mistakes. Human nature hasn't changed, and the answer to man's problems hasn't changed! The warning from God's Word this morning is clear: if you never look back and remember what God has done, you are destined to turn back.   Even the children of Israel, who saw the miracles of the Old Testament firsthand, turned back when they forget what God had done in their lives. Today, don't forget what God has done and where He is guiding you. When you fail to look back, you are bound to turn back. Don't do either-look back!     Prayer Requests: 1. Service tonight in Paducah, KY 2. Sign Language School in Asheville, NC 3. Service this weekend in St. Matthews, SC      Looking for more devotionals?  Visit the archives here

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Keeping the Law

Keeping the Law     "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." (James 2:10)   The law of God, centered in the Ten Commandments, is "holy, and just, and good" (Romans 7:12) and expresses perfectly the will of God for holy living. "The man that doeth them shall live in them" (Galatians 3:12).   The problem is that no man can possibly do them all. A man may keep most of the commandments most of the time, but he will inevitably fail in some of them some of the time. Since the law is a divine unit, breaking any commandment--as our text reminds us--breaks the whole law, bringing the guilty one under God's curse of death. "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them" (Galatians 3:10). "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight" (Romans 3:20).   All men, having sinned against God's law, are therefore lost and in urgent need of salvation. This is where God's wonderful grace comes in. "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, . . . Even the righteousness . . . which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" (Romans 3:21-22), "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us" (Galatians 3:13). He kept the law for us, and bore its curse for us: Thus we are saved through trusting Him.   "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid" (Romans 6:1-2). We now desire to keep His commandments, because we love Him. "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous" (1 John 5:3). We are now able to keep them, because His Spirit now lives in us, and we are "strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man" (Ephesians 3:16). HMM   Print this article | More Days of Praise articles     Institute for Creation Research | 1806 Royal Lane | Dallas | TX | 75229

Our Umpire in Heaven

Our Umpire in Heaven November 17, 2011   "For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both." (Job 9:32-33)   Job, in his sufferings, was mystified by the complete silence of God, whom he had loved and tried to serve faithfully all his life. He longed somehow to be able to come before the great Judge to plead his case, but this was not possible, for God was not a man like himself. He did not even have a "daysman" to mediate between himself and God.   Oh, yes, he did! And so do we. A "daysman" is an arbitrator or umpire, or mediator (as this word is usually rendered in modern versions). But how could there be an umpire to mediate disputes between God and man, unless such an umpire could somehow be both God and man, able to "lay his hand upon us both"?   There is one perfect umpire, of course. "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time" (1 Timothy 2:5-6). The ransom He paid was His own blood, with which "he entered in once |for all| into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us" (Hebrews 9:12).   Thus the God/man Christ Jesus is perfectly able to bridge the chasm between God and man. Perhaps an even better connotation of "daysman" is that of "advocate." Now, when Satan, "the accuser of our brethren" (Revelation 12:10), accuses us of sin before God, as he did against Job, our great Intercessor defends us. "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous" (1 John 2:1), and "he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them" (Hebrews 7:25). HMM   Print this article | More Days of Praise articles     Institute for Creation Research | 1806 Royal Lane | Dallas | TX | 75229

WHO KNOWS?

REVELATION 2:1-7

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. THE LORD WHO KNOWS [2:1]

1. The Lord’s Authority [1:9-17a]

2. The Lord’s Position [1:17b-2:1]

3. The Lord’s Knowledge [2:2a]

II. THE LORD KNOWS OUR EFFORTS [v. 2-3]

1. Christ Knows the Deeds Done [v. 2]

2. Christ Knows the Energy Expended [v. 2]

3. Christ Knows the Attitude Exemplified [v. 2-3]

III. THE LORD KNOWS OUR SHORTCOMINGS [v. 4-7]

1. Motivation is Key [v. 4]

2. Correction is Essential [v. 5]

3. Response is Reasonable [v. 6-7]

Who Brought the Rain?

 

Psalm 65:2  "O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come."       Recently, the head cowboy on the Ranch asked us to pray for rain that we desperately needed.  The small pockets of grass that remained after a hot and dry summer had nearly withered away, and that is not good when you have dozens of hungry mouths to feed!  Well, wouldn't you know it?  Not only did we get some rain, we got constant rain for several days!  I smiled and thanked the Lord for the rain as I watched our cowboy look after the horses in a downpour!   The temptation is to look at this event and see a weather forecaster or an application on your phone.  It would have been easy to anticipate the rain since our local stations had been predicting it for several days.  Was my first thought to thank God for answering our prayer, or did I explain away God's working on our behalf as some force of nature?  In the day in which we live, it can be hard to attribute what happens to God's power.  God is the One who hears prayer and to Whom all flesh comes.   If you are like me, you check the weather every morning.  You can access the forecast on your phone, online, on television, and in the newspaper.  None of those things are wrong, but they can draw your attention away from the fact that God answers prayer.  We needed rain; a cowboy asked God for it; and God gave it!   It is easy to live a life disassociated from the power of God.  God didn't just create the universe and then step back.  No sir!  He is actively involved.  Psalm 65:9 says, "Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it."  God doesn't just send the rain; He brings the rain!  We see a hurricane system and Doppler radar; the psalmist saw a powerful God who cares and answers prayer.   We ought do what Psalm 29 encourages us to do: "Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness."  When you see the events of life-even rain showers-as coming from the hand of God, you will have no other choice but to give God the glory due his name.  Don't fail to see God's power, and don't fail to come to Him for what you need.           Looking for more devotionals?  Visit the archives here

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November 14 - The Marvel of Design

The Marvel of Design November 14, 2011   "And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another." (Genesis 43:33)   When creationists calculate the extremely low probability of the chance origin of life, many evolutionists scoff at the calculation, alleging that any one arrangement of the components of a simple, living molecule is just as likely as any other arrangement, so it is no great marvel that the components fell into this particular arrangement.   This is a puerile argument, of course, quite unworthy of the intelligent scientists who use it. There are at best only a few arrangements that will contain the organized information necessary for reproduction, compared to "zillions" of arrangements with no information at all.   This fact is beautifully illustrated in our text. Why should Joseph's brothers "marvel" when they were seated in chronological order of birth by a host who (presumably) was entirely unaware of that order?   The reason why they marveled was because there are almost 40 million different ways (calculated by multiplying all the numbers, one through eleven, together) in which the eleven brothers could have been seated! It seemingly couldn't happen by chance.   Maybe an evolutionist would not "marvel" that this unique seating arrangement happened by chance, since he somehow believes that far more intricately organized arrangements than this happened by chance to produce our universe and its array of complex systems. Anyone else, however, would immediately have realized this, and so the brothers of Joseph "marvelled one at another." So also, when we behold the wonders of design in the creation, we should "lift up |our| eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things" (Isaiah 40:26). HMM   Print this article | More Days of Praise articles     Institute for Creation Research | 1806 Royal Lane | Dallas | TX | 75229

REVIVAL KILLERS

PROVERBS 6:16-19

Pastor Rick Jackson

About a century ago God raised up Charles G. Finney to bring about many revivals Finney said, “A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.” He was right of course. Someone says, “Oh no. Revival is when lost people get saved.” It is true that God commands lost people to be saved [Acts 17:30] but when Christians obey God lost people are more likely to be saved. It is not an either/or proposition.

How can someone stop revival? There is always the opposite of what it takes to have a revival. Don’t pray. Don’t attend faithfully. Don’t witness. Don’t invite others to the revival meetings. Don’t listen. Try to distract others during the service.
Then again, if revival is obey God- doing what He wants us to do then to kill revival-emulate what God hates.

I. A Proud Look –

“God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” [James 4:6]
The original sin that caused Lucifer to fall

II. A Lying Tongue- the Devil is a liar and the father of it

Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Proverbs 13:5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

III. Hands that Shed Innocent Blood- murder, abortion

IV. A Heart that Deviseth Wicked Imaginations

Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

V. Feet that be Swift in Running to Mischief

VI. A False Witness that Speaketh Lies

Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

VII. He that Sowth Discord Among the Brethren

We must get our hearts right with God or we will kill any chance of personal revival and possibly church-wide revival.

ARE YOU PREPARED?

LUKE 16

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. ARE YOU PREPARED TO INVEST WISELY? [v. 1-13]

1. Invest in Your Future [v. 1-8]

2. Invest in Eternity [v. 9]

3. Invest in God’s Will [v. 10-13]

II. ARE YOU PREPARED TO BE REVEALED? [v. 14-18]

1. God Reveals your Heart [v. 14-15]

2. God Revealed His Word [v. 16-17]

3. God Reveals His Will [v. 18]

III. ARE YOU PREPARED TO BE DEAD? [v. 19-31]

1. Death Comes to All [v. 19-23]

2. The Destination is Final [v. 24-26]

3. Death Does Not Change Your Mind [v. 27-31]

Question of the Week: Wood from Noah's Ark?

 

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The Eleventh

1 Kings 11:11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

At this moment, the 11th second of the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year 2011 we are reminded from the 11th verse of the 11th chapter of the 11th book of the King James Version of the Bible that even kings must answer to the King of Kings.

Is this your 11th hour? Do you know for sure? Are you bound for glory? Are you living your life for His glory?

PRAYING FOR REVIVAL

II CHRONICLES 7:14

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. PRAY FOR SELF [II Chron. 7:14]

1. Be Sure

2. Be Clean

3. Be Open

II. PRAY FOR SAINTS [II Th. 1:11-12]

1. To Be Right [v. 11a]

2. To Be Yielded [v. 11b-11c]

3. To Be Working [v. 11c-12]

III. PRAY FOR OUR SPEAKER [II Th. 3:1]

1. God’s Man

2. God’s Work

3. God’s Way


IV. PRAY FOR SINNERS [I Tm. 2:1-8]

1. To Be Able to Hear the Message [v. 1-3]

2. To Be Able to Respond to the Message [v. 4-6]

3. To Be Able to Continue After the Message [v. 7-8]

Nuggets of Truth - Precious

Just reading in my devotions this morning in I Peter and came across this verse:

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Earthly gold, at the appearing of Jesus Christ, will be worthless. But the faith of His own dear child- that has been tried in the furnace of persecution, perniciousness, or penury- that will be worth something indeed. It will be of worth to the person who stood faithful and to the One for whom he stood. What are we doing with our faith?

But wait- the Holy Spirit had the Apostle Peter use this word two other times in his epistles.

1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Again, the use of gold, and now with silver added, as a counterpoint to something more precious. Infinitely more precious in this case as it it that which saved us from our sins- the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ! How foolish men are to think that giving a pittance to church or some noble cause could earn them a seat in glory! Heaven's view of gold is that the finest of it is good for paving! It cannot redeem. It cannot save. It cannot buy one soul from Hell or the non-existent purgatory. But that person who places his faith in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ will find himself with Christ one day!

Once more though, the Spirit has Peter use the term "precious":


2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

This time to describe the very promises we are looking at this morning- and thousands besides. Here Peter echoes the sentiments of the Psalmist from Psalm 19

7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

May we count as precious what God counts as precious.

Quotes of the Week

To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. To fight a bull when you are scared is really something. - Unknown bullfighter

When God is left out of our lives, enjoyment becomes enslavement. - Warren W. Wiersbe

We are saved by God's grace, and grace is love that pays a price. - Wiersbe

In the far country the prodigal learned the meaning of misery; but back home, he discovered the meaning of mercy. - Wiersbe

"I never forgive!" General Oglethorpe said to John Wesley, to which Wesley replied, "Then, sir, I hope you never sin!" - Wiersbe

Anybody can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. - Aristotle

Brother Vineyard, you have a good reputation for starting these junior churches. That's not the way to do it. The kids need to be in here with you. They need to hear their pastor. They need to hear you preach to them. That's the way to do it. - Lee Roberson

The Goodness of God

 

Psalm 52:1 "Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually."    Isn't it amazing how many prominent people brag about how wicked they are? A bad man who is famous because of an athletic skill he has will not only brag about how wonderful he is, but also about how bad he is. You can read interviews with celebrities and powerful people, and they almost gush when discussing wicked deeds they've done. Not only is there no shame in it, but there is also boasting about it!   Psalm 52 reminds us that the goodness of God is greater than the mischief of men. "Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually." That is good and comforting to know! No matter how bad people seem and how much they seem to be getting away with, the goodness of God is still greater. If a man speaks evil and "deviseth mischief," God's goodness is greater. If a man "loveth evil more than good," God's goodness is greater.   God's goodness transcends man's wickedness. If you are the wicked man mentioned in Psalm 52:1-7, be warned that God's goodness is greater than your mischief. God will win. If you are discouraged in doing right by people who are wicked, be encouraged that God's goodness is greater than man's mischief.   In our world, good news doesn't sell; bad news does. The very best news is that God's goodness is stronger and lives longer than man's wickedness. "The goodness of God endureth continually." The words endureth continually means "to be warm; to be hot." In other words, God's goodness is hot all day long! Tomorrow it will be the same. Next week it will be hot as well. His goodness "endureth continually."   Evil men impose on God's goodness and mercy; good men trust God's goodness. There is no reason for a man to brag about his wickedness because God's goodness endures continually. God will win. Be encouraged and trust in God's goodness if you are doing right, and be warned if you are full of mischief!     Prayer Requests: - Services tonight in Dublin, Ireland; Valparaiso, IN; West Horn Lake, MS; and Greer, SC      Looking for more devotionals?  Visit the archives here

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WE, US, & THEM

HEBREWS

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. HOW “WE” BECAME “US”

1. God Gave His Son [1:2]

2. God Gave His Word [2:3, 4:12]

3. God Gave His Promise [4:1-2]


II. WHAT “US” SHOULD DO

1. Let Us Labor [4:9-13]

2. Let Us Hold Fast [4:14]

3. Let Us Boldly Pray [4:15-16]


III. WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR “US”

1. God Has Given Us a Holy Goal [6:1]

2. God Has Given Us Hope [6:18-20]

3. God Has Given Us an High Priest [7:24-28]

THE ACCUSATION JESUS LOVES

LUKE 15:1-2

Pastor Rick Jackson

Luke 15 is one of the most well-known chapters in the Word of God. It contains three parables all told with the same end- to show the attitude of God toward lost sinners. It is true that God is angry with the wicked every day [Ps. 7:11] but it is equally true that God loves sinners [Rm. 5:8] and desires to reclaim them all from sin, self, and Satan. Note the two first verses of this incredible chapter.

I. THE PORTRAIT OF THE SHEPHERD [v. 3-7]

1. His Concern for the Lost [v. 3-4]

2. His Compassion for the Lost [v. 5]

3. His Comparison of the Lost [v. 6-7]

II. THE PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN [V. 8-10]

1. Her Diligence [v. 8]

2. Her Delight [v. 9]

3. Her Details [v. 10]

III. THE PORTRAIT OF THE FATHER [v. 11-32]

1. The Sinning Son [v. 11-21]

2. The Loving Father [v. 20-24]

3. The Self-Righteous Son [v. 25-30]

4. The Loving Father [v. 31-32]

True Confidence

 

Psalm 7:8 "The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me."       What if someone today knew everything about you that God knows about you? Would that be a good thing? The truth is, no one on this earth could know you the way that God knows you. That just demonstrates how critical it is what God knows about you! David said in Psalm 8, "Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me." What a bold prayer!   David's boldness was a result of his sincerity, honesty, and integrity. Integrity means that there is only one "you." Integrity is the opposite of duplicity and hypocrisy. Integrity means that your character is the same, whether you are at church or on vacation, in person or behind a computer. Other people may not know everything about you but God does! And God knows the real "you"!   The bottom line is that integrity brings confidence. There should be a level of consistency in your Christian life which will cultivate confidence. People may misrepresent and misinterpret what you do, but when you live a life of integrity, you can have confidence in knowing that "the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins."   No one can hurt your character but you. Friends may misunderstand you and enemies may persecute you, but a life of simplicity and integrity produces true confidence. How you live today will affect your capacity to live in confidence tomorrow. Can you say with David, "Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me"? May it be so today!     Prayer Requests: 1. Services tonight and this weekend in Marana, AZ, and Dublin, Ireland 2. Services this weekend in Valparaiso, IN; West Horn Lake, MS; and Greer, SC      Looking for more devotionals?  Visit the archives here

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