AHAZIAH & ELIJAH

2 KINGS 1                           

 

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. THE APPLE FALLS NOT FAR FROM THE TREE [v. 1-4]

 

1. Ahaziah’s Fall [v. 1-2a]

 

2. Ahaziah’s Folly [v. 2b-4]

 

3. Ahaziah’s Failure [v. 5-8]

 

II. THE LACK OF WISDOM [v. 9-15]

 

1.  King’s Man meet God’s Man [v. 9-10]

 

2. The Definition of Stupidity [v. 11] – repeating the same behavior while expecting a different result

 

3.  What God Honors [v. 12-15]

 

III. WHAT GOD KEEPS [v. 16-18]

 

1. God Keeps His Righteousness [v. 16]

 

2. God Keeps His Word [v. 17, Romans 3:4 ]

 

3. God Keeps the Books [v. 18, Rev. 20:11-15]

WORK, WORK, WORK

LUKE 8:26-40                                                                       Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. THE DEVIL’S DIRTY WORK

 

1. The Hopeless Appearance of the Damned [v. 26-27]

 

2. The Hateful Attitude of the Damned [v. 28-29a]

 

3. The Harmful Activity of the Damned [v. 29, Mk. 5:5]

 

II. THE SAVIOUR’S SUFFICIENT WORK

 

1.  Destroy the Works of the Devil [v. 30-34,

1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

 

2. Deliver the Captives of the Devil [v. 35-36, 4:18]

 

3.  Commission the Children of God [v. 38-39]

 

III. THE CHRISTIAN’S CAREFUL WORK

 

1. Reflect the Saviour [v. 35, John 14:27, Romans 12:3, 2 Corinthians 5:13]

 

2. Reverence the Saviour [v. 35-38]

Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

 

3. Represent the Saviour [v. 38b-39, 36-37 cp.  Mk. 5:19-20, 7:31-37, 2 Corinthians 5:20]

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Should public schools critically teach evolution and creation?

 

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In this issue . . . Q&A: Should public schools critically teach evolution and creation? Get Equipped: The New Answers Book 4 News to Know Quick Look After Eden Answers . . . with Ken Ham radio program Answers Conversation podcast Video: The Ice Age: Only the Bible Explains It Blog Highlights Pray for AiG Q: Should public schools critically teach evolution and creation? A: Public school teachers know that they can critically discuss different theories in regard to just about every issue—but not evolution. There are the usual accusations of trying to get "religion" into schools. But when the public school system threw out prayer, Bible readings, creation, and the Ten Commandments, they didn't throw out religion. They replaced the Christian worldview influence with an atheistic humanism. Whenever permissible, evolutionary ideas should be taught—but warts and all. There are many inconsistencies within the evolutionary framework and many disagreements about how to interpret the evidence. When appropriate, point out that many scientists, both creationists and evolutionists, do not believe that Darwinian evolution is adequate for explaining the existence of life on earth. At the same time, it is not right that the tenets of secular humanism can be taught at the exclusion of Christian ideas. This type of exclusivity does not promote the critical thinking skills of students demanded by most science education standards. While we do not believe that creation should be mandated in public school science classrooms, teachers should be allowed, at the very least, the academic freedom to present various models of the history of life on earth and teach the strengths and weaknesses of those models. Read the whole article from The New Answers Book 3 to see how evolution is actually a cornerstone of the religion of humanism. Author Roger Patterson also provides helpful advice to Christian teachers and administrators. Get Equipped The New Answers Book 4 The New Answers Book 4 takes on hot-button topics like climate change, the intelligence of ancient man, the best creation evidences, and many more. For those who desire a deeper walk and a thriving faith in the face of growing cultural adversity, here are answers to relevant questions our world is asking! News to Know Quick Look Radiocarbon Dating Shortens the Timeline for Ancient Egypt: Radiocarbon dating adds to evidence that Egyptian antiquity was not quite so very ancient, though various assumptions can introduce bias and error into this method Sutter's Mill Meteorite Harbors a Wealth of Elusive Organics: With the recovery of fragments of a recent meteorite, the inventory of life's building blocks in space rocks rises. Do Genetic Similarities in Bats and Dolphins Echo Evolutionary Convergence? Bats fly and dolphins swim, but both mammals are equipped with a sort of biological sonar. Did these animals develop these features independently? After Eden Answers . . . with Ken Ham radio program The Fossil Record Part 5: A Testimony of the Flood Part 4: The Biblical View of the Fossil Record Part 3: Is There Order to the Fossil Record Part 2: The Same Evidence Part 1: Introduction Answers Conversation podcast This week Steve Ham talks with Dr. Stuart Scott (associate professor of biblical counseling at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky) to answer the question, "How Must We Use the Scripture to Counsel One Another?"	This Week . . . Evolution Survey Evaluates Public School Indoctrination (Sep 20) Radiocarbon Dating Shortens the Timeline for Ancient Egypt (Sep 19) Chimeras, Cybrids, and Hybrids (Sep 18) Should Christians Be Pushing to Have Creation Taught in Government Schools? (Sep 17) Sutter's Mill Meteorite Harbors a Wealth of Elusive Organics (Sep 16) Çatalhöyük—The First City After Babel? (Sep 15) Do Genetic Similarities in Bats and Dolphins Echo Evolutionary Convergence? (Sep 14) Video On Demand The Ice Age: Only the Bible Explains It, Part 1 Watch Video Blog Highlights Ken Ham: Never-ending List of Christians Who Compromise Ken Ham: How Can a Loving God? Ken Ham: So Who Is Defending Real Child Abuse? Ken Ham: More on Our Outreach to Spanish Speakers! Pray for AiG Please pray for our many speakers on various assignments across the world this fall—in places like Kentucky and Texas, British Columbia and Manitoba, England and Wales, Mexico and Bolivia. Resources Ken Ham Rhyming Books The Great Ice Age DVD Rescuing America and the Family Combo Connect with Us Answers in Genesis Creation Museum Answers in Genesis Creation Museum Answers in Genesis Creation Museum See all networks
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OUR LIFE FOR GOD'S WILL

 

September 20, 2013   Thank you for reading my Prophetic Daily Devotionals!   Please visit my website to learn more Bible prophecies being fulfilled in these last days.    Ezekiel 34:30   Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.   For further study - Ezekiel 34:11-31   As we read the extended portion of our devotional for today there is one thought that is very evident, the Lord God is going to do something as it relates to the restoration of Israel and the setting up of the Davidic Kingdom.   We know this because the Lord God tells us what He is going to do and He makes it very clear not only what He is going to do, but also that He is the One who is speaking.   Between verses 11-29 the Lord repeats one phrase 18 times. The prominent phrase is, "I will", "I will" search out my sheep, verse 11. "I will" seek out my sheep, verse 12. "I will" gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land, verse 13. And "I will" feed them in a good pasture, verse 14.   I have only given you four of the eighteen "I will's" of the Lord. These "I will's" are promises of restoring a Jewish people to a nation called Israel. I've often said, if God's Word says something one time, I believe it and that settles it for me. Once God's Word says something eighteen times we must pay attention.   From Ezekiel 1-32 God gave the Jewish prophet, Ezekiel, a "message of retribution". From Ezekiel 33-48 the prophet's message is "restoration", restoring the Kingdom people, the Jewish people; and restoring the Kingdom practices.   Speaking of the Kingdom, the Lord confirms the promise of the yet to come Kingdom, in verses 23-25. The Lord, through Ezekiel, tells the Jews that King David will be resurrected and will become a "shepherd" over the Jewish people.   The Lord tells the reader that the resurrected David will be a "prince", mainly because Jesus Christ is the "King" during the coming Kingdom Period.   The Lord says that there will be a "covenant of peace" made between God and King David. David returns to be a "prince", a co-regent with Christ in the Temple that Jesus builds, Zechariah 6:12.   A spiritual application of these promises, to the Jewish people, for us as Christians, is what God does in the last days with King David. David was a flesh and blood character, a man of like passion, and yet the Lord God returns David to an important place of service during the Kingdom.   God has a plan for each of us. We must be prepared to do His will in our life once we determine what "His will" is for each of us.     PRAYER THOT: Thank you Lord for the opportunity to serve You. Please help me to be the servant that You want me to be, for Your glory.     Visit our website at http:/www.prophecytoday.com

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

It has been said that in the modern home, the stereo and the TV set are better adjusted than the members of the family. People complain because children can't pray in school, but few parents encourage them to pray at home. - Warren W. Wiersbe

To ignore God-given opportunity is to waste the past, jeopardize the future, and frustrate the present. - Wiersbe

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!" - John Greenleaf Whittier

If you are in a church where the Word of God is preached and you are unhappy- YOU are the problem and YOU can't get away from YOU because wherever YOU go YOU are there! - Dr. Streeter

The world is looking for solutions but they are looking at the wrong things. They should be looking to the God of Heaven. - Evangelist Bobby Brindle

I divorced myself from popular opinion a long time ago. - Missionary Carl Evans

Fill your life with the Word of God and then draw from that fountain as you seek to serve the Lord all your days. - Unknown

You don't have to be perfect to give the Gospel- you just have to be God's. - Evangelist Tim Thompson

Some are more concerned about being right than about being right. - Thompson

Revival is when God's people turn to God, live God's way- and as a result God enables them to live. Revival is God's enabling as a result of God's people turning back to Him. - Thompson

A Christian has no business with entertainment that brings down the name of God, the Word of God, or the works of God. - Thompson

Hope does not remove burdens- hope bears burdens. - Thompson

DOES GOD LIKE YOU?

1 CHR. 28:4                                                                              Pastor Rick Jackson

 

Of course we know, according to the Bible, God loves you. God loved us poor sinners so much [Jn. 3:16]. And Romans 5 reminds us that if God loved us enough to die for us as sinners how much more will He do for us who are now His children. But the question is not one of “love”, the question here is one of “like”. We are to love lost sinners even as God does but do we have to like them? Nay nay, I say thee nay.

 

I. WHAT MADE GOD LIKE THE YOUNG DAVID?

 

1. I Believe God liked David because David had Faith in God [1 Sam. 17:37, Mk. 11:22, Heb. 11:6]

 

2. I Believe God liked David because David had Faith in God’s Guidance [1 Sam. 17:39-40, Ps. 147:10-11]

 

3. I Believe God liked David because David wanted Others to Know God [1 Sam. 17:46, Ps. 149:4]

 

II. WHAT MADE GOD LIKE THE MAN DAVID?

 

1.  I Believe God Liked David because God likes Uprightness [1 Chr. 28:4, 29:17]

 

2. I Believe God Liked David because God likes Willing Hearts [29:17, Rm. 12:1-2]

 

3.  I Believe God Liked David because God likes Joyful Worshippers [29:17, Jn. 4:23]

 

III. WHAT MADE GOD LIKE THE REPENTANT DAVID? [Ps. 51]

 

1. I Believe God Liked David because God likes Truth [v. 1-6]

 

2. I Believe God Liked David because God likes a Broken Spirit [v. 7-17a]

 

3. I Believe God Liked David because God likes Broken Heart [v. 17b-19]

Biblical ABC’s:U is for – yoU

Ladies' Bible Study

 

Mrs. Rick Jackson 

 

We have had some trying times since our last meeting.  It is with a great burden that I have been studying for this lesson, and it took me quite some time to know just what to share with you all this evening.  I know I often pray that we set aside our burdens and cares and focus on what the Lord has for us in the lesson of the evening, but tonight, it was with those cares and burdens in mind that I specifically felt the Lord would have us to go slightly “off-course” as we look at “U is for – yoU!”   

 

We are often weighed down with our cares and sometimes they can cloud our thinking.  I want to give you an arsenal of verses tonight to remind you of how you are viewed in the eyes of the Lord!  I have the verses listed on your sheets, but I want you to open your Bibles and look and see for yourself as we go along – this is for you and me to remember – to take out and review and remind ourselves when Satan wants to use us as whipping posts and try and isolate us from the Truth of God’s Word.  You are Christ’s child.  This is what He says! Are you ready? 

1.   yoU are begotten 

 

1 Corinthians 4:15 -- For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 

1 Peter 1:3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 

 

 

2.   yoU are blessed 

 

Psalm 118:26 – Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 

Acts 3:26 -- Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. 

 

You know, this verse, speaking of Jesus being raised from the dead and being sent to bless us reminds me of one of the professors at Tennessee Temple.  Rick has spoken about him in church.  When he prayed, he would quote 1 Peter 1:8:  “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:”  And in his prayer, he would always say, “Father, we are unspeakably blessed, unspeakably blessed!”  I really wanted to use unspeakable as my word this time, but I couldn’t seem to get much farther than that! 

 

 

3.   yoU are called 

 

Proverbs 8:4 -- Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. 

Galatians 1:6 -- I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 

1 Thessalonians 2:12 -- That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. 

1 Peter 2:9 -- But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 

 

 

4.   yoU are cared for 

 

1 Peter 5:7 -- Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 

 

 

 

5.   yoU are chosen 

 

John 15:19 -- If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 

2 Thessalonians 2:13, 14 -- But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

1 Peter 2:9 -- But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 

 

 

6.   yoU are comforted 

 

Isaiah 66:13 -- As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 

Ezekiel 14:23 -- And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD. 

1 Thessalonians 3:2 -- And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: 

2 Thessalonians 2:16,17 -- Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,     Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. 

 

 

7.   yoU are forgiven 

 

Ephesians 4:32 -- And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.   

Colossians 3:13 -- Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 

1 John 2:12 -- I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. 

 

 

8.   yoU are indwelt 

 

Romans 8:9-11 -- But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.     But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 

1 Corinthians 3:16 -- Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 

Ephesians 4:6 -- One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 

Colossians 1:27 -- To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 

 

Did you take note of Who is in you? 

 

 

9.   yoU are kept 

 

2 Thessalonians 3:3 -- But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.  

1 Peter 1:4,5 -- To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,     Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

Jude 1:24,25 -- Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. 

 

 

10.   yoU are loved 

 

John 15:9 -- As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 

John 16:27 -- For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 

 

 

11.   yoU are prayed for 

 

2 Corinthians 9:14,15 -- And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. 

 

And what is that UNSPEAKABLE gift?  

 

Ephesians 1:15-17 -- Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 

Philippians 1:4 -- Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, 

Colossians 1:3 -- We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 

Colossians 1:9 -- For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 

1 Thessalonians 1:2 -- We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; 

2 Thessalonians 1:11 -- Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: 

 

 

12.   yoU are reconciled 

 

2 Corinthians 5:20 -- Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 

Colossians 1:21,22 -- And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciledIn the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 

 

 

13.   yoU are remembered 

 

Philippians 1:3 -- I thank my God upon every remembrance of YOU, 

2 Timothy 1:3 -- I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; 

 

 

14.   yoU are sanctified 

 

Exodus 31:13 – Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and YOU throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify YOU. 

Leviticus 20:8 -- And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify YOU. 

1 Corinthians 6:11 -- And such were some of YOU: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 

1 Thessalonians 5:23 -- And the very God of peace sanctify YOU wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

 

 

 

 

 

15.   yoU are going to be changed! 

 

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 -- Behold, I shew YOU a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.       For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 

 

 

 

So when you become weighed down with the cares of this world, take out your worksheet and remind yourself of who “yoU are” in Christ!  I recently read a beautiful poem that one of my favorite preachers, Brother Clyde Box, put on his FB page that sums up these thoughts: 

 

Follow Me and I will make you… 

Make you speak My Words with power, 

Make you channels of My mercy 

Make you helpful every hour. 

 

Follow Me and I will make you… 

Make you what you cannot be. 

Make you loving, trustful, godly 

Make you even like to ME.