Waiting for What???

Kenneth Albert

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We have taken this summer to look at the battle of Faith.

Not that faith should be a battle, but our enemy sure makes it to be.

We said that satan wants to destroy our walk with the Lord.

He has no right to do so, but if we don’t have the faith in our God that we should, he can find it very easy to do so.

Without faith, it is impossible to please God - and the enemy has a foothold to rob from us, kill things in us and destroy the power that we should have in our walk with the Lord.

But God is faithful. He never turns his back on us.

He can restore everything and anything that the enemy has stolen, robbed and even destroyed

Not only is he powerful enough to do that, but he can take away the lingering effects of what Satan has done to you

In our lives, and in the future of our families

He is the God who wants to make us forget all of our troubles

And he is the God who can make us fruitful in the land of our sufferings.

Did you hear that? He is the God who can make things out of the junk that you are going through in life.

But we need to feed our faith and trust God to grow our faith in him

We need to continue to be students of His Word - To learn who he is

To know what he has promised

To mature to be able to take him at his word.

We need to allow God to tear our crumbling foundations out from under our feet and install his firm and steady (Foursquare) foundation under us

We need to trust God in where he has placed us - in our body, our church, our gathering of God believers - We need a kingdom mentallity

We need to put God first in our lives. - that he is the center of everything

everything we believe

Everything we live

Everything we experience

And then we will have faith in this mighty, restorative, Overcoming, trustworthy and powerful God.

And it will change our lives.

We need to have faith in the God who supersedes time - this is to trust that His timing is perfect, even if it means it operates when our time is up.

Last week, my brother David, shared about the battle in having this faith

How satan likes to use the situations and hurts of our lives to bring doubt and discouragement.

But how in the midst of that, God is still God and still able to do all that he said he could do.

Because the reality is God is at work, even in our chaos and hurts of life.

He is working out a greater praise

He is working in us a greater testimony

And he is wanting us to raise up a greater generation

Turn over with me to

1 Corinthians 6:9–11 NKJV

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Waiting For What?

This morning I want to ask you what you are waiting for. The message is entitled, Waiting for What?

I spoke a message, probably a long time ago that compared the two disciples of Peter and Judas

They both deny Christ - Yes Judas sells him out for a little silver and with a kiss, but Peter’s denial was just as bad

They both are running from their demons

They both are feeling pretty bad about what’s happened

But only one is affected by the Cross of Christ. Why?

Today in our churches, we have Christians going through the same mess

They have denied Christ with their lifestyles

Sin and compromise are knocking at the door

We are not all where we need to be (if we were honest)

And not all of us will be affected by the cross (all that Jesus died to give us in life)

Why?

I think it all depends on what we are waiting for.

Peter seems to give up, but he is still hanging with the old gang

I don’t think he is the same man

I think he is broken and probably putting himself down

But I believe that at the back of his mind was a thought that things could change

Judas evidently doesn’t sense that things can change and he goes and hangs himself.

Judas wasn’t going to wait for anything. Peter waits for the hope that is in his heart.

So what are you waiting for my brother and sister?

Has what we have been talking about for the last nine weeks affected your heart?

Is there faith arising in your heart

Is there a greater understanding of what God can do?

Can you see that He wants to do it for you?

Is the God whom you believe in more powerful than your enemy and your situation?

Than I want to tell you today, to wait on him, because the reward is worth it.

Wait for the Truth!

We know from previous weeks that the enemy is thief and killer.

But we also know that He is a liar.

This chapter in the book dealt with our moral standing with God.

I want you to know that there are two truths today

There is the truth about you without God

That we are sinners and broken

That mans heart is always wicked

That mans heart is always rebellious

That there is not good in us, no righteousness or holiness in us outside of God.

Verses 9-10 in our reading speak to this

1 Corinthians 6:9–10 NKJV

1 Cor 6:9-11

This is truth isn’t it?

And it’s not a very popular truth.

It doesn’t bring very much hope into our lives

And unfortunately as we see with Judas and many in our society today, if this is the truth that you are waiting on, a life becomes very easy to take.

But, as I’ve told you, there is also a second truth. That is the truth about you with God

That you are a child of God

That your sin has been washed away, buried in the deepest sea and removed as far from as the East is from the West

That is verse 11

1 Corinthians 6:11 NKJV

And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

So which truth are you waiting on?

Why is there such a problem between these two truths today?

Because the enemy had used his deceitfulness to trick us into thinking that they are two different truths and against one another.

He uses the first truth to tell us that because of it and how sinful that we are that the second truth is not attainable.

He works on our hearts with his condemnation to make us believe that they are two truths, when in reality they are only part of one truth.

You see, if there is confusion in your truth today, then you are not getting the truth of God

God does not bring confusion, but through his love and patient grace for us, clears the confusion of the enemies lies.

Look at

Galatians 3:19-

Galatians 3:19–25 NKJV

What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

The enemies truth says that we are forever broken, without hope.

We are lost to sin and brokenness with no hope of ever being anything different

He says that because of how far we have gone in sin, that God cannot love us, will not love us and will not forgive us.

He says that we will always be under the power of the law and that we cannot know the power and forgiveness that a faith in the merciful God will give us.

And there are sadly many people living in our world today that are believing this.

And sadder yet, I believe are the number of people who call themselves christians that are still living according to this lie. Call it a half truth if you want, but a half truth is half of the truth and still a lie.

God’s truth is that yes, sin had marred us. Sin had separated us from him.

But through faith in what Jesus did as our savior and messiah, we can walk from that brokenness into healing and forgiveness, no matter how bad we were.

We are no longer under the law, because the law lead us to the promise. Under the law we did not have life, but it lead us to a place where life abounds.

God’s truth is th

So what are you waiting for this morning? Are you waiting for something that is hopeless and unfounded today?

Something that says, there is no reason to wait? Something that kills the reason to wait within us

Or are you waiting for and trusting in and having faith in He which sin and brokenness has lead us to so that you can know the life and forgiveness of the Father?

Wait for the Good News!

Isn’t the good news, the truth? - YES, but it is also, first and foremost the gospel

The news of what Jesus has done to give us his salvation

We learn in OSL very early - Level 1 - that you cannot truly understand the good news until you first have a full understanding of the bad news.

That is the point that I’ve already made. - bad news is that outside of Jesus, we are broken and messed up. We are separated from God

But the good news is that Jesus has come to give us salvation.

The good news is that God delights in mercy.

Satan would have us believe that he is standing over us, just waiting for us to mess up

Waiting to send lightning from his fingertips to consume us

But that is not the God that my faith is founded in.

Psalm 86:5 NKJV

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.

Psalm 145:9 NKJV

The Lord is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works.

Titus 3:4–7 NKJV

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

This is the God whom I believe in.

Do I always feel it? NO

Am I subject to the enemies deceit on this subject from time to time? Yes

Does it make it any different? NO

This is Who God is.

So in what news is your faith today church?

Is it in the bad news - that you are broken and affected by sin?

Or is in the good news of a God who sent His son so that the effect of sin could be broken in you?

You’ll live out what you believe

You’ll become where your faith is at.

You’ll only achieve the to the level in life of what you can believe God for.

What I am saying this morning is

Wait on the Grace of God!

His grace that is greater than all of your sin.

We started out this series by looking at what Satan does to us and how it effects us

We then went and looked at the God who can restore all of that and more back to us

This is that greatest and final restoration - giving us back eternal life

Adam and Eve were created to be eternal beings - they were not meant to know death

All of their offspring - Cain and Abel, you and me were meant to live in eternity - and we all will.

But where and how is determined by what we are waiting for - where our faith is at. And what kind of God we have faith in.

Listen to me, our faith doesn’t determine or change who God is. God has always been a gracious God

But what it does is determines what we can trust God for.

If I listen to the enemy today, I will only be able to trust God for discipline and chastisement

If I listen to the word of God today, my faith is expanded to trust the God who says, it doesn’t matter where you have been and what you have done, my grace and my love for you is greater than it all.

Isaiah 53:6 NKJV

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

but look one verse up

Isaiah 53:5 NKJV

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

This is what was at the base of Peter’s thinking - it had to be.

that yes, I’ve failed, but I remember what He taught

I remember how he loved

I remember how it effected me when I heard those words

And then we know the scene - Peter do you love me? Feed my sheep

Could Judas have had that same experience? YES - God is no respecter of persons

But Judas’ faith wasn’t there. He wasn’t waiting on God. He was waiting on guilt and shame and the penalties of his sin.