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My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Gal 4:19
As a pastor, I sometimes worry about the people of God long after the sermon is done.
What happens after the sermon
Faith comes through hearing…and hearing by the Word of God
But, is anybody really listening?
Pastor sure did preach
“Tell them Rev” As if to excuse oneself from the power and the poignancy of the Word of God before the word is even planted
Is it planted or quickly supplanted by some unsettling disappointment
Some unfortunate difficulty
Some untruthful doctrine
some unshakable doubt
As I wonder about that I realize that I’m in good company.
Jesus himself referenced this conundrum
Jesus said the work of God is like a farmer that went out to plant seeds...
said the work of God is like a farmer that went out to planc seeds...
And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
As they went from town to town, a lot of people joined in and traveled along. He addressed them, using this story: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. Some of it fell on the road; it was tramped down and the birds ate it. Other seed fell in the gravel; it sprouted, but withered because it didn’t have good roots. Other seed fell in the weeds; the weeds grew with it and strangled it. Other seed fell in rich earth and produced a bumper crop.
“Are you listening to this? Really listening?”
One group out of the 4!
I exort, beg you listen to the Word of God
Meditate in the Word of God
Stay in the Word of god
I don’t come to be entertained, titilated....
I’ve got real needs in my life and I need a real God to speak into my life!
Some people have thier religion on cruse control
They don’t seem to understand that there is a war going on
And if you want this faith you’ve got to fight for it!
Don’t let anybody steal what God is trying to do in you!
That’s what was happening to these Galations
Be careful who whispers in your ear, after service, after the sermon, after prayer....
Don’t let carnal folks
Don’t let cynical folks
Don’t let
Don’t let lukewarm Christians
Talk you out of your blessings
Don’t let the devil distract you
Don’t let the adversary steel your joy
Don’t let Gossip steal your Gospel!
Some folks are better evangelist for Gossip than the Gospel
You can’t get them to talk about the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
You can’t remember the last time that you told a sinner about the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living
But let somebody say that
Paul told them that the righteous live by faith!
Paul told them that the righteous live by faith!
There is nothing in your moral resume that would require God to bestow it. He just gave it to you.
There is nothing in the doc ea of your deeds that would demand it. God gave it to you
I don’t know why Jesus loved me, I don’t know why He cared.....
Human beings look on the outward appearance, God looks on the heart!
…but we are one
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Acts
Be careful who talks to you after the sermon
When Paul was absent others began to sow seeds of doubt and dissension among them.
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Gal 3:
Fal 4
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
- castrate
Gal
Switches the metaphor in midstream
again
Until Christ comes alive in teh creation and the formation of
Every now and then the whole church needs to be born again...
I’m going to keep on preaching
I’m gong to keep on praying
I refuse to throw in the towel
God didn’t
God is tring to do a new thing
I know your blessed by what God did last year...
We don’t have to rely on an ancient move of the Spirirt...
God...
Behold I do a new thing...
God is trng to save somebody right now...
Sometimes the church is to busy being an insstitution and He wants it to be a organism
There’s no New Life without labor
There is no growth without pain
There is no birth without birth pains
Sometimes the church is so busy being an institution that it fails to be an organizm
institutions are dead....
When God said he would build His church he wasn’t talking about an institution
Don’t you know God can make the church out of the people you stepped over on your way into the church
The God I know is still raising up drug addicts
The God I know is still taking liars and cheats...
The question is will we be with God when He does what He does
That thing pushing against the walls and the womb of your comfort zone is Christ being formed again in you.
Some folks don’t know when they missed their shout!
Mothers could stand up and testify
That thing you feel pushing against the walls is actually new life!
What feels like death is actually life
When the moment of deliverance comes, the water breaks it’s s messy situation
but you’ve got to push on through it
I dare you to push on through
I know your tired, but I dare you
I know folks are getting on your nerves, but I dare you....
Don’t give up! the devil wants you to give up because He knows your about to WIN!
the devil wants you to give up because He knows your about to WIN!
I dare you to push
P.U.S. H.
I dare you to keep on keeping on anyhow.
I dare you to be faithful anyhow
I dare you to pray anyhow
I dare you to worship anyhow!
Push
I think I know what’s wrong, some of you arent feeling this birth metaphor.
The word of the Lord came to a young preacher named Jeremiah
Said to the young man who was pushing against his assignment
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Before you were born...
I knew you even before I formed you
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Jer
God says to Jeremiah, I want you to go to the potters house
Your not going to hear a sermon
Your going to see a sermon
The vessel was spoiled in the potters hand
The potter puts it back on the wheel and
While the clay is spinning on the wheel He is forming and reforming it
Even the wheel is in His will
and your life is in His hands
And it feels like life is crushing you
but actually God is shaping you....
God is breaking you
God is stretching you
God is melting you
God is molding you
I don’t care what happens, Lord just keep me in your hands
Because if I’m in your hands that that would break will actually make me, because I’m in His hands.
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,