September 29, 2010 Listening to God 3

My Dear Brothers (sisters), take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says!!

Salvation Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday! Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, it is Salvation Wednesday and the day that we who are truly "Born Again" work to get His Word out for Him and get folks to the feet of Jesus to be saved. We have work to do, folks, and sometimes it requires us to give up some things we might really like to do, to work for Jesus. Please keep praying for those on our prayer list. For young Allison who has been cleared of cancer but is still in treatment and needs prayer... For Kathleen who has cancer and her husband Tom and Ronald who has cancer and his wife Donna, both who refuse to stop working and speaking out for our Lord Jesus... For Dianne Ritchie who is in treatment for Pancreatic cancer. She lost her husband, Mike Ritchie of Ritchie Bus Lines not too long ago. We also need to pray for our leaders, those who lead our country and our states, and folks, first pray for their salvation, for as I look at it, and someone will give me heat on this, we have a lot of those in Washington who say they are Christian and who support abortion. And I don't think that can be done. To be a Christian is to be Christ-like and our Lord Jesus Christ did not kill unborn babies. And more heat from this one... You cannot be a Christian and hate others... now folks, these are not just my opinion; they are in the Bible, which my dear brothers and sisters, makes it a fact!!

REMINDER: On Line, Holy Communion, this Friday. This coming Sunday is worldwide communion. We are going to have supper with our Lord Jesus on Friday. So please bring your bread and juice to the computer with you on Friday.

Listening to God 3: James 1:19 - My Dear Brothers (sisters), take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry 20 For man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. 21 Therefore get rid of it all the moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. (NIV)

James 1:22 - Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says!! (NIV)

Let's take a look at our scriptures for today. First I must tell you this, I am still amazed that each morning day after day, year after year and find that our Lord God gives me a message to write. God might give me weekly subjects, but it is one day at a time with me. This is just another form of His Amazing Grace.

Have you ever gotten mad and "blew up" and then after thinking about it you wish you had it all to do over again? Please permit me to answer that one for you... Yes, you have, and yes, I have. Before we get all the facts, we lash out, before we talk to a person we put them down in anger. And who does it happen against most often? The ones we love dearly. And so often when we get angry and then we lash out we find out we might just be the one who is wrong, or most wrong. The word tells us that we should be quick to listen, and not just listen to God but to listen to other people, and God's people. Do you know, folks, and I just want to put this in - We learn more with our ears than we do with our mouths, so we could become much smarter if we just would keep our mouths closed and our ears open.

Our scripture for today tells us that God does not like us to become angry, it puts it like this... "For man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Then it tells us this, and this in my words please, we need to clean ourselves out and humbly accept the word planted in us. Sounds to me like God planted all the good stuff in us at birth, it is in there, and if we do not cover it with dirt and filth, and we look deep inside of us after getting God to clean us, we will find Him. You know Him, our Lord Jesus... Am I saying that our Lord Jesus is planted in us from birth? Yes... Listen to this scripture again and follow me on it one more time...

James 1:21 - Therefore get rid of it all the moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. (NIV)

We are to accept The Word planted in us... Now follow me on this from the book of John.

John 1:1 - In the beginning was The Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. (NIV)

Now we see this word, This Word, THIS WORD, that is planted in us is God... Now watch this.

John 1:14 - The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. (NIV)

Ok, and who was/is/and always will be The Word that became flesh? Jesus, of course... So there you have how I figured that Jesus is planted in us from birth. Amen.

And now our second scripture of the day... I will be quick.

James 1:22 - Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says!! (NIV)

What this is telling me is do not just listen to what The Word is, or reading your Bible and learning about Jesus, we need to follow The Word, we need to LISTEN TO JESUS, and we need to follow Him. So you claim to be a Christian, if the time comes when they arrest people for being a Christian, would you be arrested? Think about it, and brothers and sisters, start really living for Jesus and start building that case against you so no one needs to ask you if you love Jesus; they will see it on Your face.

Dear Lord, please help us to come nearer and nearer to You, and Lord, help us to bring others to You to be saved. Heal those please that are on our daily prayer lists. Help us to listen to You and not to anger. In the name of Jesus, I pray... Amen.

Now go forth and have a blessed day and along the way, please share those blessings.
Love ya, Pastor Dan.

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