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Light In The Darkness | Trim Your Lamps

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JESUS IS COMING!

EXAMINE OUR WAYS TO SEE IF ANYTHING WE ARE DOING IS GRIEVING THE HOLY SPIRIT
Ephesians 4:30: And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

IF HE IS THE BRIDEGROOM, WHO IS HIS BRIDE?
Matthew 25:1-13: 25 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Matthew 5:15-16 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
• Our light will not shine if we have no oil in our lamps
• We are responsible for our own oil. Not anyone else.
• You got to desire the Oil of God
o The things of the Spirit

Exodus 27:20: And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
• Is your anointing to live for Jesus fading
• Get back in the Word of God
• Fight your way back
• Get prayer

CHRISTIANS LIGHTS WILL NOT SHINE IF THEIR LIVES ARE FILLED WITH SIN:
1 Thess. 5.4-8: 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

MATTHEW 25: 3-4:
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps
FOOLISH VIRGINS WERE FALSE PROFESSORS NO OIL IN THEIR LAMPS
• THE LAMP OF PROFESSION WAS IN THEIR HANDS BUT IT WAS NOT IN THEIR HEARTS
• THEY PROFESSED BUT DIDN’T POSSESS
 
Eze 33:31-32: And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Vs 32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

MATTHEW 25: VS 4-7
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps
• Day by day, make sure there is oil in your lamp
o and the wick is trimmed
• MAKE SURE THAT WICK IS DRAWING OIL AND MAKING FIRE
• Make sure that wick doesn’t get the ways of the world on
o Carbon build-up on the wick makes smoke inside the lamp
o Makes the Light dull
o Sometimes that light will go out
Make sure YOUR OWN LAMP stays trimmed properly
• Get right with the Lord now; Don’t wait
• There will be no time to make it right when He comes
KEEP LAMPS TRIMMED AND BRIGHT BY STAYING AWAY FROM SIN
Titus 2:11-12 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB
Revelation 19:6-9:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

Give your heart to Jesus today by saying this prayer:
Dear Lord Jesus,
Thank you for dying on the cross for my sin. Please forgive me. Come into my life. I receive You as my Lord and Savior. Please, help me to live for you the rest of this life. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus, I pray.
Amen.

Hunger for Spiritual Food | Bread of Life

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Psalm 119:9: Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy Word.”  

Psalm 119:10: With my whole heart have I sought thee. O let me not wander from thy commandments

“WITH MY WHOLE HEART I HAVE SOUGHT THEE.”

  • How many of us can genuinely pray this back to the Lord?
  • We have not arrived yet
    • We are pressing forward to the mark:

Philippians 3:14: I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

THE PSALMIST SAID: “WITH MY WHOLE HEART I HAVE SOUGHT THEE”
GIVE OUR WHOLE HEART TO THE LORD
In Loving Him
Deut 6:5: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with thy soul, and with all thy might
In Obeying Him and His Word
Psalm 119:2: Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and that seek him with the whole heart

• Develop that Thirst and Hunger for His Word
In trusting the Lord
Pr 3:5: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
• We don’t know what is best for us
• Don’t trust in the Power of Self, self-confidence, self-esteem, etc
Give Him your whole heart in Prayer
Je 29:13: And ye shall seek me, and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
• Promise of God
• Lay down the time wasters
• Pick up a ministry of Prayer
In Repentance when you need too
Jl 2:12: Therefore, also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping and with mourning:

Psalm 119:11: Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
WHAT ARE WE PUTTING IN OUR INNERMOST BEING? THAT PART OF US THAT WE CANNOT SEE.
Hebrew 4:12: For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
• The Word of God is living
• The Word has power or creative energy
• The Word admonishes (warns and reprimands) us
• The Word of God only source that can divide the soul and spirit

Down in Psalm 119 vs. 15-16: I will meditate in thy precepts (instructions), and have respect unto thy ways. 16 I will delight myself in thy statures: I WILL NOT FORGET THY WORD.
Meditate on the Word- Meditate is to think deeply or carefully concerning the Word
• Spend some time.
• Let our time with the Word be rich – not scarce
• Get to know the ways and mind of the Lord

Give your heart to Jesus today by saying this prayer:
Dear Lord Jesus,
Thank you for dying on the cross for my sin. Please forgive me. Come into my life. I receive You as my Lord and Savior. Please, help me to live for you the rest of this life. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus, I pray.
Amen.

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Twisting the Word | Spirit of Error

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I John 4:6: We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Isa 26:3: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

WHAT OCCUPIES YOUR MIND THE MOST ?
Last week we talked about thirsting for God
We also talked about a thirst for knowledge
• As Christians should be careful of what we put in the mind
• Lead us down the wrong pathways
• A head-on collision with:
o Error and False doctrines, conspiracy theories,
o Conspiracies mixed with religion
o Can become and addiction
o And others
• Lead to Spiritual Contamination:
o Contamination is the action or state of making or being made impure by polluting or poisoning. (drinking water, atmosphere, food)
o Wrong information can contaminate your entire being (Body soul and spirit)
• Are we protecting our Body, soul, and spirit?

AS A CHRISTIAN SIN BEGINS IN OUR THOUGHT LIFE
GOD GOES THROUGH THE MIND TO GET TO OUR HEARTS
Jesus said, “Mark 7:20-23 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:23 All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”
• No one commits these outward sins without first having committed them
• in his mind.
• If we want to grow in godliness,
• we must win the battle
• over sin on the thought level.
WE SHOULD DEVELOP A CHRISTIAN THOUGHT LIFE
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

• This scripture is not talking about “Positive Thinking”
• written by the author of “THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING“
• This author was a universalist:
o and believed that everyone is going to heaven if they believe in a god, and have some redeeming value
o which is just about everyone.
• The Bible is but not all Positive: Talks about Heaven Hell, SIN (The wages but the Gift of God)
• The Truth is: We cannot overcome the evils of this world,
• or even the evil in our hearts, in our strength.

APART FROM CHRIST WE CAN DO NOTHING
John 15:5: I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

ALONGSIDE THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING  IS ANOTHER HERESY CALL THE POWER OF POSITIVE CONFESSION

A belief that words have a kind of spiritual, magical power that we can use to get what we want.

  • The practice borrows not from biblical truths
  • but from a new age concept called the “law of attraction.”
  • Which teaches that “like attracts like”— or a positive statement or thought will draw a positive reaction.
  • WE CANNOT FORCE GOD TO DO ANYTHING
  • GOD DOESN’T WORK FOR US
  • GOD’S PLAN FOR OUR LIVES MAY NOT MATCH UP WITH OUR OWN

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Romans 11:33-35  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

WE ARE TO DEVELOP A CHRISTIAN THOUGHT LIFE THAT INCLUDES JESUS CHRIST AS LORD

  • Easy to get caught up in ERROR in today’s time
    • Conspiracy theories etc
    • False doctrines
    • Doing “spiritual internet searches” for the latest in spiritual news. (BE CAREFUL AND PRAYERFUL)

2 Corinthians 2:11: Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

2 Corinthians 10:5: Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

  • Read the Bible everyday and stand clear of error
  • Pray about bouncing from teacher to teacher and website to website
  • Error in the Word of God can bring confusion
  • Can bring despair and hopelessness

Give your heart to Jesus today by saying this prayer:

Dear Lord Jesus,Thank you for dying on the cross for my sin. Please forgive me. Come into my life. I receive You as my Lord and Savior. Please, help me to live for you the rest of this life. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus, I pray.
Amen.

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Hole in the Heart

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There is a hole in the middle of our hearts until we find Jesus!

Only Jesus can quench our thirst and hunger!

Matt 5:6: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied

  • Righteousness is right standing with God.
  • In a right relationship with Him
  • Wanting to do it God’s way
  • Trusting in His Power and Strength

ITS NOT OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
THE BIBLE ALSO TELLS US THAT THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO TO EARN OUR WAY TO HEAVEN BECAUSE WE’VE ALL SINNED !

Romans 3:10: As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.

EVERYDAY YOU’LL WAKE UP HUNGRY AND THIRSTY,
• What do we chase after daily?
• Seek ye first the Kingdom of God – And all these things shall be added unto you
• Examine our own selves

HOW DO YOU TRY TO QUENCH YOUR SPIRITUAL THIRST?
Jesus told the woman at the well that those that drink that “physical water’ will thirst again.
John 4:14  But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
• Jesus, is the thirst quencher
• We may seek to fill the dry place
WITH:
• our thirst for knowledge, power, pleasure
• Or with other gods like relationships, eating, shopping, alcohol, drugs, sex, careers, or possessions.
o Along with these gods bring:
o Addictions, perversions, debt, stress
o Leave us parched and dry
• All these only satisfy temporarily
• Temporarily can turn into years  

JESUS CAN DO IT. JESUS CAN FIX IT 

2 Corinthians 5:21: For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of God

• He, and He alone, can fulfill that desire in our hearts for righteousness
2 Corinthians 5:15: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
2 Corinthians 5:21: For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Spiritual Desire

Psalm 73:25: Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
Isa 26:9: With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Give your heart to Jesus today by saying this prayer:

Dear Lord Jesus,
Thank you for dying on the cross for my sin. Please forgive me. Come into my life. I receive You as my Lord and Savior. Please, help me to live for you the rest of this life. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus, I pray.
Amen.

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