"WHO IS YOUR MASTER?"

DO NOT OFFER THE PARTS OF YOUR BODY

TO SIN, AS INSTRUMENTS OF WICKEDNESS,

BUT RATHER OFFER YOURSELVES TO GOD,

AS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FROM DEATH

TO LIFE; AND OFFER THE PARTS OF YOUR BODY TO HIM

AS INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

FOR SIN SHALL NOT  BE YOUR MASTER,

BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT UNDER LAW,

BUT GRACE.

ROMANS 6:13-14

IN THIS LIFE YOU ARE SLAVE TO ONE OF TWO POWERFUL PRINCIPALS.

THE ONE MASTER IS "SELF," THE OTHER IS THE "THE HOLY SPIRIT," HIS WILL IN YOU BEING ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE GLORY OF GOD. SO HONORED IS HE,(HOLY SPIRIT), THAT JESUS HIMSELF SAID; "I MUST GO IN ORDER FOR HIM TO COME."

IF JESUS YIELDS TO HIM, WHAT ABOUT US ?

HOLY SPIRIT; MASTER THE SELF IN ME, SO THAT I MAY TRULY SAY; "JESUS IS MY MASTER AND LORD!!!!!

HOLY SPIRIT; "I" WILL GO, IN ORDER FOR YOU TO COME.....

AMEN!

"WAIT ?"

OUT OF THE DEPTHS

I CRY TO YOU, O LORD;

LET YOUR EARS BE ATTENTIVE

TO MY CRY FOR MERCY.

IF YOU, O LORD, KEPT A RECORD

OF SINS,

O LORD WHO COULD STAND?

BUT WITH YOU THERE IS FORGIVENESS,

THEREFORE YOU ARE FEARED.

I WAIT FOR THE LORD, MY SOUL WAITS,

AND IN HIS WORD I PUT MY HOPE.

MY SOUL WAITS FOR THE LORD,

MORE THAN A WATCHMAN WAIT FOR THE

MORNING,

MORE THAN WATCHMAN WAIT FOR THE

MORNING.

PUT YOUR HOPE IN THE LORD,

FOR WITH THE LORD IS

UNFAILING LOVE.

PS 130

DEAR  PRECIOUS BELIEVER; DO YOU SEE THE TREASURE THIS PSALMIST HAS FOUND?  FIRST HE CRIES, AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT GOD HAS EARS, THAT HE CAN FIND MERCY AND FORGIVENESS WITH HIM.  HE HEARS YOU!

THEN COMES THE KEY TO HIS CRY; "I WAIT," EVEN DEEPER DOES HE LAY HOLD OF THIS INNER TRUTH. HE SAIDS; MY SOUL WAITS, MY INNER MAN, MY THOUGHTS,MY PLANS, MY INTERPRETATION OF MATTERS BEFORE ME. HE SPEAKS TO THE INNER STORM!  BLESS THE LORD OH, MY SOUL! "I WILL WAIT!"

SO WHEN DID HE COME TO HIS SENSES ?

WHEN HE SETTLED IN THE PLACE OF SOUL REST,

WITH THE WORDS:

AND IN HIS WORD WILL I PUT MY HOPE!!!!!!

WHAT DID HE THAN RECEIVE IN THESE DEPTHS ?

UNFAILING LOVE!!!!!!!!

HOW ABOUT YOU ?           HE HEARS YOU!

"SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER"

THEN ONE OF THE  ELDERS ASKED ME

"THESE IN WHITE ROBES, WHO ARE THEY AND

WHERE ARE THEY FROM?"

"I ANSWERED I DO NOT KNOW ?"

AND HE SAID; "THESE ARE THOSE WHO COME

OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION;

THEY HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES AND

MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF

THE LAMB.

FOR THE LAMB AT THE CENTER OF THE

THRONE WILL BE THEIR SHEPARD;

HE WILL LEAD THEM TO SPRINGS OF

LIVING WATER.

AND GOD WILL WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR

FROM THEIR EYES.

REV7:13,14-VS17

"CHURH'S ANXIETY"


 "Ah!" says the church, "it is all very well their flying like a cloud; it is all right their going as doves to their windows; but who are they?" The church is anxious, and she anxiously desires to be sure that it is all gold that is put into her treasury; for she suspects that some of those lumps of bullion cannot be gold. She thinks, "surely that is not all genuine metal, or there would not be so much of it;" and she says, "Who are they?" That is the question! Now I address myself to an anxious church to answer it.
First, they are those that fly. Our text says, "Who are these that fly?" They are those who fly because they cannot stop where they were, and they are flying somewhere else for refuge. We trust that those who have joined our church are those who are persuaded that the land wherein they dwelt is to be consumed with fire, who feel a necessity to come out of the place where they once lived, and have a strong desire to seek "a city that has foundations, whose builder and maker is God." We hope, beloved, that those who have joined with us here are those who are escaping from hell and flying to heaven; such as once had no sins that they cared for, but now come out because they needs must come, for their house has got too hot for them, and they cannot abide any longer in their sins. Here we have the idea of conviction. They are those that fly. They are not content now to make their nest of their own good works, with here and there a little bit of down picked off Morality-common, and here apiece of yarn that they have picked up in Legality palace, and here a piece of good work that they have found in the barn-yard of Ceremonialism. No; they are poor souls that have no rest anywhere, but a re flying, and flying with rapid wing, until they can get to their windows. Are you such, my beloved, that have joined the church? or are you not? If you are not, you have deceived me, and you have deceived the church, for we thought you were; we want to have none united with us but those who are flying to us. We want no self-righteous ones; no self-sufficient ones, no good moral people; we want those who feel that they are ragged sinners, clothed by Jesus; poor dead sinners, made alive by Jesus. I ask God, when I ask him to give me any, to give me those who are flying with haste for a Saviour; and if any of you that have come to us making a profession of flying are not such, I beseech you by everything that is solemn, by that hell of hypocrites, which is the hell of hells, and by the heaven you would lose, to bethink yourselves how sinfully you are acting, in continuing members of a Christian church when you are hypocrites and have never fled.

SONS OF JACOB
 

SONS OF JACOB; THE PERSONS TO WHOM THIS UNCHANGEABLE GOD IS A BENEFIT. "I am God, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." Now, who are "the sons of Jacob," who can rejoice in an immutable God  First, they are the sons of God's election; for it is written, "Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated, the children being not yet born neither having done good nor evil." It was written, "The elder shall serve the younger." "The sons of Jacob"—
"Are the sons of God's election,
Who through sovereign grace believe;
Be eternal destination
Grace and glory they receive."
God's elect are here meant by "the sons of Jacob,"—those whom he foreknew and fore-ordained to everlasting salvation.
 "the sons of Jacob" are meant, in the second place, persons who enjoy peculiar rights and titles. Jacob, you know, had no rights by birth; but he soon acquired them. He changed a mess of pottage with his brother Esau, and thus gained the birthright. I do not justify the means; but he did also obtain the blessing, and so acquired peculiar rights. By "the sons of Jacob" here, are meant persons who have peculiar rights and titles. Unto them that believe, he hath given the right and power to become sons of God. They have an interest in the blood of Christ; they have a right to "enter in through the gates into the city;" they have a title to eternal honors; they have a promise to everlasting glory; they have a right to call themselves sons of God. Oh! there are peculiar rights and privileges belonging to the "sons of Jacob."
3. But, then next, these "sons of Jacob" were men of peculiar manifestations. Jacob had peculiar manifestations from his God, and thus he was highly honored. Once at night-time he lay down and slept; he had the hedges for his curtains, the sky for his canopy, a stone for his pillow, and the earth for his bed. Oh! then he had a peculiar manifestation. There was a ladder, and he saw the angels of God ascending and descending. He thus had a manifestation of Christ Jesus, as the ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, up and down which angels came to bring us mercies. Then what a manifestation there was at Mahanaim, when the angels of God met him; and again at Peniel, when he wrestled with God, and saw him face to face. Those were peculiar manifestations; and this passage refers to those who, like Jacob, have had peculiar manifestations.
Now then, how many of you have had personal manifestations? "Oh!" you say "that is enthusiasm; that is fanaticism." Well, it is a blessed enthusiasm, too, for the sons of Jacob have had peculiar manifestations. They have talked with God as a man talketh with his friend; they have whispered in the ear of Jehovah; Christ hath been with them to sup with them, and they with Christ; and the Holy Spirit hath shone into their souls with such a mighty radiance, that they could not doubt about special manifestations. The "sons of Jacob" are the men, who enjoy these manifestations.
4. Then again, they are men of peculiar trials. Ah! poor Jacob! I should not choose Jacob's lot if I had not the prospect of Jacob's blessing; for a hard lot his was. He had to run away from his father's house to Laban's; and then that surly old Laban cheated him all the years he was there—cheated him of his wife, cheated him in his wages, cheated him in his flocks, and cheated him all through the story. By-and-bye he had to run away from Laban, who pursued him and overtook him. Next came Esau with four hundred men to cut him up root and branch. Then there was a season of prayer, and afterwards he wrestled, and had to go all his life with his thigh out of joint. But a little further on, Rachael, his dear beloved, died. Then his daughter Dinah is led astray, and the sons murder the Shechemites. Anon there is dear Joseph sold into Egypt, and a famine comes. Then Reuben goes up to his couch and pollutes it; Judah commits incest with his own daughter-in-law; and all his sons become a plague to him. At last Benjamin is taken away; and the old man, almost broken-hearted, cries, "Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away." Never was man more tried than Jacob, all through the one sin of cheating his brother. All through his life God chastised him. But I believe there are many who can sympathize with dear old Jacob. They have had to pass through trials very much like his. Well, cross-bearers! God says, "I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." Poor tried souls! ye are not consumed because of the unchanging nature of your God. Now do not get fretting, and say, with the self-conceit of misery, "I am the man who hath seen affliction." Why "the Man of Sorrows" was afflicted more than you; Jesus was indeed a mourner. You only see the skirts of the garments of affliction. You never have trials like his. You do not understand what troubles means; you have hardly sipped the cup of trouble; you have only had a drop or two, but Jesus drunk the dregs. Fear not saith God, "I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob," men of peculiar trials, "are not consumed."
5. Then one more thought about who are the "sons of Jacob," for I should like you to find out whether you are "sons of Jacob," yourselves. They are men of peculiar character; for though there were some things about Jacob's character which we cannot commend, there are one or two things which God commends. There was Jacob's faith, by which Jacob had his name written amongst the mighty worthies who obtained not the promises on earth, but shall obtain them in heaven. Are you men of faith, beloved? Do you know what it is to walk by faith, to live by faith, to get your temporary food by faith, to live on spiritual manna—all by faith? Is faith the rule of your life? if so, you are the "sons of Jacob."
Then Jacob was a man of prayer—a man who wrestled, and groaned, and prayed. There is a man up yonder who never prayed this morning, before coming up to the house of God. Ah! you poor heathen, don't you pray? No! he says, "I never thought of such a thing; for years I have not prayed." Well, I hope you may before you die. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. There is a woman: she did not pray this morning; she was so busy sending her children to the Sunday School, she had no time to pray. No time to pray? Had you time to dress? There is a time for every purpose under heaven, and if you had purposed to pray, you would have prayed. Sons of God cannot live without prayer. They are wrestling Jacobs. They are men in whom the Holy Ghost so works, they they can no more live without prayer than I can live without breathing. They must pray. Sirs, mark you, if you are living without prayer, you are living without Christ; and dying like that, your portion will be in the lake which burneth with fire. God redeem you, God rescue you from such a lot! But you who are "the sons of Jacob," take comfort, for God is immutable.
III. Thirdly, I can say only a word about the other point—THE BENEFIT WHICH THESE "SONS OF JACOB" RECEIVE FROM AN UNCHANGING GOD. "Therefore ye sons Jacob are not consumed." "Consumed?" How? how can man be consumed? Why, there are two ways. We might have been consumed in hell. If God had been a changing God, the "sons of Jacob" here this morning, might have been consumed in hell; but for God's unchanging love I should have been a faggot in the fire. But there is a way of being consumed in this world; there is such a things as being condemned before you die—"condemned already;" there is such a thing as being alive, and yet being absolutely dead. We might have been left to our own devices, and then where should we have been now? Revelling with the drunkard, blaspheming Almighty God. Oh? had he left you, dearly beloved, had he been a changing God, ye had been amongst the filthiest of the filthy, and the vilest of the vile. Cannot you remember in your life, seasons similar to those I have felt? I have gone right to the edge of sin; some strong temptation has taken hold of both my arms, so that I could not wrestle with it. I have been pushed alone, dragged as by an awful satanic power to the very edge of some horrid precipice. I have looked down, down, down, and seen my portion; I quivered on the brink of ruin. I have been horrified, as, with my hair upright, I have thought of the sin I was about to commit, the horrible pit into which I was about to fall. A strong arm hath saved me. I have started back and cried, O God! could I have gone so near sin, and yet come back again? Could I have walked right up to the furnace and not fallen down, like Nebuchadnezzar's strong men, devoured by the very heat? Oh! is it possible I should be here this morning, when I think of the sins I have committed, and the crimes which have crossed my wicked imagination? Yes, I am here, unconsumed, because the Lord changes not. Oh! if he had changed, we should have been consumed in a dozen ways; if the Lord had changed, you and I should have been consumed by ourselves; for after all, Mr. Self is the worst enemy a Christian has. We should have proved suicides to our own souls; we should have mixed the cup of poison for our own spirits, if the Lord had not been an unchanging God, and dashed the cup out of our hands when we were about to drink it. Then we should have been consumed by God himself if he had not been a changeless God. We call God a Father; but there is not a father in this world who would not have killed all his children long ago, so provoked would he have been with them, if he had been half as much troubled as God has been with his family. He has the most troublesome family in the whole world—unbelieving, ungrateful, disobedient, forgetful, rebellious, wandering, murmuring, and stiffnecked. Well it is that he is longsuffering, or else he would have taken not only the rod, but the sword to some of us long ago. But there was nothing in us to love at first, so, there cannot be less now. John Newton used to tell a whimsical story, and laugh at it too, of a good woman who said, in order to prove the doctrine of Election, "Ah! sir, the Lord must have loved me before I was born, or else he would not have seen anything in me to love afterwards." I am sure it is true in my case, and true in respect most of God's people; for there is little to love in them after they are born, that if he had not loved them before then, he would have seen no reason to choose them after; but since he loved them without works, he loves them without works still; since their good works did not win his affection, bad works cannot sever that affection; since their righteousness did not bind his love to them, so their wickedness cannot snap the golden links. He loved them out of pure sovereign grace, and he will love them still. But we should have been consumed by the devil, and by our enemies—consumed by the world, consumed by our sins, by our trials, and in a hundred other ways, if God had ever changed.
Well, now, time fails us, and I can say but little. I have only just cursorily touched on the text. I now hand it to you. May the Lord help you "sons of Jacob" to take home this portion of meat; digest it well, and feed upon it. May the Holy Ghost sweetly apply the glorious things that are written! And may you have "a feast of fat things, of wines on the lees well refined!" Remember God is the same, whatever is removed. Your friends may be disaffected, your ministers may be taken away, every thing may change, but God does not. Your brethren may change and cast out your name as vile: but God will love you still. Let your station in life change, and your property be gone; let your whole life be shaken, and you become weak and sickly; let everything flee away—there is one place where change cannot put his finger; there is one name on which mutability can never be written; there is one heart which never can alter; that heart is God's—that name Love.
"Trust him, he will ne'er deceive you.
Though you hardly of him deem;
He will never, never leave you,
Nor will let you quite leave him."

HIS PROMISES


 God is unchanging in his promises. Ah! we love to speak about the sweet promises of God; but if we could ever suppose that one of them could be changed, we would not talk anything more about them. If I thought that the notes of the bank of England could not be cashed next week, I should decline to take them; and if I thought that God's promises would never be fulfilled—if I thought that God would see it right to alter some word in his promises—farewell Scriptures! I want immutable things: and I find that I have immutable promises when I turn to the Bible: for, "by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie," he hath signed, confirmed, and sealed every promise of his. The gospel is not "yea and nay," it is not promising today, and denying tomorrow; but the gospel is "yea, yea," to the glory of God. Believer! there was a delightful promise which you had yesterday; and this morning when you turned to the Bible the promise was not sweet. Do you know why? Do you think the promise had changed? Ah, no! You changed; that is where the matter lies. You had been eating some of the grapes of Sodom, and your mouth was thereby put out of taste, and you could not detect the sweetness. But there was the same honey there, depend upon it, the same preciousness. "Oh!" says one child of God, "I had built my house firmly once upon some stable promises; there came a wind, and I said, O Lord, I am cast down and I shall be lost." Oh! the promises were not cast down; the foundations were not removed; it was your little "wood, hay, stubble" hut, that you had been building. It was that which fell down. You have been shaken on the rock, not the rock under you. But let me tell you what is the best way of living in the world. I have heard that a gentleman said to a Negro, "I can't think how it is you are always so happy in the Lord and I am often downcast." "Why Massa," said he, "I throw myself flat down on the promise—there I lie; you stand on the promise—you have a little to do with it, and down you go when the wind comes, and then you cry, 'Oh! I am down;' whereas I go flat on the promise at once, and that is why I fear no fall." Then let us always say, "Lord there is the promise; it is thy business to fulfill it." Down I go on the promise flat! no standing up for me. That is where you should go—prostrate on the promise; and remember, every promise is a rock, an unchanging thing. Therefore, at his feet cast yourself, and rest there forever.

HIS PLANS


 God changes not in his plans. That man began to build, but was not able to finish, and therefore he changed his plan, as every wise man would do in such a case; he built upon a smaller foundation and commenced again. But has it ever been said that God began to build but was not able to finish? Nay. When he hath boundless stores at his command, and when his own right hand would create worlds as numerous as drops of morning dew, shall he ever stay because he has not power? and reverse, or alter, or disarrange his plan, because he cannot carry it out? "But," say some, "perhaps God never had a plan." Do you think God is more foolish than yourself then, sir? Do you go to work without a plan? "No," say you, "I have always a scheme." So has God. Every man has his plan, and God has a plan too. God is a master-mind; he arranged everything in his gigantic intellect long before he did it; and once having settled it, mark you, he never alters it. "This shall be done," saith he, and the iron hand of destiny marks it down, and it is brought to pass. "This is my purpose," and it stands, nor can earth or hell alter it. "This is my decree," saith he, promulgate it angels; rend it down from the gate of heaven ye devils; but ye cannot alter the decree; it shall be done. God altereth not his plans; why should he? He is Almighty, and therefore can perform his pleasure. Why should he? He is the All-wise, and therefore cannot have planned wrongly. Why should he? He is the everlasting God, and therefore cannot die before his plan is accomplished. Why should he change? Ye worthless atoms of existence, ephemera of the day! Ye creeping insects upon this bayleaf of existence! ye may change your plans, but he shall never, never change his. Then has he told me that his plan is to save me? If so, I am safe.
"My name from the palms of his hands
Eternity will not erase;
Impress'd on his heart it remains,
In marks of indelible grace."

HIS ATTRIBUTES


. He changes not in his attributes. Whatever the attributes of God were of old, that they are now; and of each of them we may sing "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen." Was he powerful? Was he the mighty God when he spake the world out of the womb of nonexistence? Was he the Omnipotent when he piled the mountains and scooped out the hollow places for the rolling deep? Yes, he was powerful then, and his arm is unpalsied now, he is the same giant in his might; the sap of his nourishment is undried, and the strength of his soul stands the same for ever. Was he wise when he constituted this mighty globe, when he laid the foundations of the universe? Had he wisdom when he planned the way of our salvation, and when from all eternity he marked out his awful plans? Yes, and he is wise now; he is not less skillful, he has not less knowledge; his eye which seeth all things is undimmed; his ear which heareth all the cries, sighs, sobs, and groans of his people, is not rendered heavy by the years which he hath heard their prayers. He is unchanged in his wisdom, he knows as much now as ever, neither more nor less; he has the same consummate skill, and the same infinite forecastings. He is unchanged, blessed be his name, in his justice. just and holy was he in the past; just and holy is he now. He is unchanged in his truth; he has promised, and he brings it to pass; he hath saith it, and it shall be done. He varies not in the goodness, and generosity, and benevolence of his nature. He is not become an Almighty tyrant, whereas he was once an Almighty Father; but his strong love stands like a granite rock, unmoved by the hurricanes of our iniquity. And blessed be his dear name, he is unchanged in his love. When he first wrote the covenant, how full his heart was with affection to his people. He knew that his Son must die to ratify the articles of that agreement. He knew right well that he must rend his best beloved from his bowels, and send him down to earth to bleed and die. He did not hesitate to sign that mighty covenant; nor did he shun its fulfillment. He loves as much now as he did then, and when suns shall cease to shine, and moons to show their feeble light, he still shall love on for ever and for ever. Take any one attribute of God, and I will write semper idem on it (always the same). Take any one thing you can say of God now, and it may be said not only in the dark past, but in the bright future it shall always remain the same: "I am Jehovah, I change not."

 HIS ESSENCE


But God is perpetually the same. He is not composed of any substance or material, but is spirit—pure, essential, and ethereal spirit—and therefore he is immutable. He remains everlastingly the same. There are no furrows on his eternal brow. No age hath palsied him; no years have marked him with the mementoes of their flight; he sees ages pass, but with him it is ever now. He is the great I AM—the Great Unchangeable. Mark you, his essence did not undergo a change when it became united with the manhood. When Christ in past years did gird himself with mortal clay, the essence of his divinity was not changed; flesh did not become God, nor did God become flesh by a real actual change of nature; the two were united in hypostatical union, but the Godhead was still the same. It was the same when he was a babe in the manger, as it was when he stretched the curtains of heaven; it was the same God that hung upon the cross, and whose blood flowed down in a purple river, the self-same God that holds the world upon his everlasting shoulders, and bears in his hands the keys of death and hell. He never has been changed in his essence, not even by his incarnation; he remains everlastingly, eternally, the one unchanging God, the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither the shadow of a change.

"THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD"

IN THE LAST DAYS

THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD'S TEMPLE

WILL BE ESTABLISHED

AS THE CHIEF AMONG  THE MOUNTAINS;

IT WILL BE RAISED ABOVE THE HILL,

AND PEOPLES WILL STREAM TO IT.

MANY NATIONS WILL COME AND SAY,

COME, LET US GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN OF

THE LORD, TO THE HOUSE OF JACOB.

HE WILL TEACH US HIS WAYS,

SO THAT WE MAY WALK IN HIS PATHS."

MICAH 4:1-2

''IT IS NOT YOUR BATTLE"

YOU SHALL NOT NEED TO FIGHT IN THIS BATTLE;

TAKE YOUR POSITION, STAND STILL, AND SEE THE DELIVERANCE

OF THE LORD, WHO IS WITH, YOU O JUDAH AND

JERUSALEM.

FEAR NOT OR BE DISMAYED.

TOMORROW GO OUT AGAINST THEM,

FOR THE LORD IS WITH YOU.

SO THEY SHALL FEAR THE NAME OF THE LORD

FROM THE WEST, AND HIS GLORY FROM THE RISING OF THE

SUN.

WHEN THE ENEMY SHALL COME IM LIKE A FLOOD,

THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL LIFT UP A STANDARD

AGAINST HIM, AND PUT HIM TO FLIGHT,

FOR HE WILL COME LIKE A RUSHING STREAM

WHICH THE BREATH OF THE LORD DRIVES.

2CHRON; 20:17

IS 59:19

"HE HOLDS THE KEYS!"

BELOVED, IF YOU AND I HAD AS MUCH FAITH TO BELIEVE

THAT THE ENEMY IS MASTERED AS WE HAVE TO BELIEVE

THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS OUR SAVIOR,

WE WOULD HAVE MIGHTY LITTLE TROUBLE WITH THE

DEVIL OR HIS POWER WHILE WE WALK THROUGH THIS

OLD WORLD.

JESUS SAID;  BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN UNTO YOU

POWER TO TREAD ON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS, AND

AND OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY:

AND NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU".

LUKE 10:19

I AM HE THAT LIVES, AND WAS DEAD;

AND, BEHOLD I AM ALIVE FOR EVERMORE,

AMEN;

AND HAVE THE KEYS OF HELL AND DEATH.

REV:1:18

  "WAS HE POWERFUL"


 Was he the mighty God when he spake the world out of the womb of nonexistence? Was he the Omnipotent when he piled the mountains and scooped out the hollow places for the rolling deep? Yes, he was powerful then, and his arm is unpalsied now, he is the same giant in his might; the sap of his nourishment is undried, and the strength of his soul stands the same for ever. Was he wise when he constituted this mighty globe, when he laid the foundations of the universe? Had he wisdom when he planned the way of our salvation, and when from all eternity he marked out his awful plans? Yes, and he is wise now; he is not less skillful, he has not less knowledge; his eye which seeth all things is undimmed; his ear which heareth all the cries, sighs, sobs, and groans of his people, is not rendered heavy by the years which he hath heard their prayers. He is unchanged in his wisdom, he knows as much now as ever, neither more nor less; he has the same consummate skill, and the same infinite forecastings. He is unchanged, blessed be his name, in his justice. just and holy was he in the past; just and holy is he now. He is unchanged in his truth; he has promised, and he brings it to pass; he hath saith it, and it shall be done. He varies not in the goodness, and generosity, and benevolence of his nature. He is not become an Almighty tyrant, whereas he was once an Almighty Father; but his strong love stands like a granite rock, unmoved by the hurricanes of our iniquity. And blessed be his dear name, he is unchanged in his love. When he first wrote the covenant, how full his heart was with affection to his people. He knew that his Son must die to ratify the articles of that agreement. He knew right well that he must rend his best beloved from his bowels, and send him down to earth to bleed and die. He did not hesitate to sign that mighty covenant; nor did he shun its fulfillment. He loves as much now as he did then, and when suns shall cease to shine, and moons to show their feeble light, he still shall love on for ever and for ever. Take any one attribute of God, and I will write semper idem on it (always the same). Take any one thing you can say of God now, and it may be said not only in the dark past, but in the bright future it shall always remain the same: "I am Jehovah, I change not."

"TEST THE SPIRIT"

WATCH OUT FOR FALSE TEACHERS.

THEY COME TO YOU IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING,

BUT INWARDLY THEY ARE FEROICOUS WOLVES.

BY THEIR FRUIT YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THEM.

DO PEOPLE PICK GRAPES FROM THORNBRUSHES,

OR FIGS FROM THISTLES?

LIKEWISE EVERY GOOD TREE BEARS GOOD FRUIT,

BUT A BAD TREE BEARS BAD FRUIT,

AND A BAD TREE CAN NOT BEAR GOOD FRUIT.

EVERY TREE THAT DOES NOT BEAR GOOD FRUIT IS CUT DOWN

AND THROWN INTO THE FIRE.

THUS BY THEIR FRUITS YOU WILL KNOW THEM.

MATT 7:21-23

DEAR PRECIOUS BELIEVER; THE PRAYER ROOM IS WHERE YOUR EYES WILL BE OPEN,TO YOUR COMPANY. YOU WILL KNOW WHEN YOU RISE FROM  YOUR KNEES, IF THESE FRIENDS ARE WOLVES,(THOSE WHO TAKE AND DEVOUR, FOR THEIR OWN APPETITE), OR BROTHERS WHO YOU WILL KNOW BECAUSE OF THEIR GOOD FRUIT.

CHOOSE NOTHING LESS FOR YOURSELF TODAY!

     GLORIOUS TRINITY


 The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity. And, whilst humbling and expanding, this subject is eminently consolatary. Oh, there is, in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound; in musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief; and in the influence of the Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every sore. Would you lose your sorrows? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead's deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated.

But God is perpetually the same. He is not composed of any substance or material, but is spirit—pure, essential, and ethereal spirit—and therefore he is immutable. He remains everlastingly the same. There are no furrows on his eternal brow. No age hath palsied him; no years have marked him with the mementoes of their flight; he sees ages pass, but with him it is ever now. He is the great I AM—the Great Unchangeable.

 He never has been changed in his essence, not even by his incarnation; he remains everlastingly, eternally, the one unchanging God, the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither the shadow of a change.

CHS

"TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND"

THEY ENCIRCLED THE THRONE AND THE LIVING

CREATURES AND THE ELDERS.

IN ONE LOUD VOICE THEY SANG:

"WORTHY IS THE LAMB, WHO WAS SLAIN,

TO RECEIVE POWER AND WEALTH AND

WISDOM AND STRENGTH

AND HONOR AND GLORY AND PRAISE!"

THEN I HEARD EVERY CREATURE IN HEAVEN

AND ON THE EARTH AND UNDER THE EARTH

AND ON THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM,

SINGING:

TO HIM WHO SITS ON THE THRONE AND TO

THE LAMB

BE PRAISE AND HONOR AND GLORY AND POWER,

FOR EVER AND EVER!"

THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES SAID, "AMEN"

AND THE ELDERS FELL DOWN AND WORSHIPED.

REV: 5:11-14

DEAR BELIEVER; IN YOUR PRAYER ROOM THIS MORNING, YOU JOIN ANGELS, NUMBERING THOUSANDS TIME TEN THOUSANDS. ONE MAJOR DIFERRENCE BETWEEN YOU AND THEM, "YOU CAN CALL THE ONE WHO SITS UPON THE THRONE, FATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"HONOR"

CHILDREN, OBEY YOUR PARENTS IN THE LORD,

FOR THIS IS RIGHT.

"HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER",

WHICH IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT

WITH A PROMISE,

"THAT IT MAY GO WELL WITH YOU AND THAT

YOU MAY ENJOY LIFE HERE ON

EARTH."

EPH 6:1

DEAR PRECIOUS BELIEVER; PAUL GOES ON TO SAY; BE CAREFUL, THEN HOW YOU LIVE, NOT AS UNWISE BUT AS WISE, MAKING THE MOST OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY, BECAUSE THE DAYS ARE EVIL. THEREFORE DO NOT BE FOOLISH, BUT UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LORD'S WILL IS.

LOOK DEEP PRECIOUS SAINT; THE CRY HERE IS SO THAT YOU DO NOT BECOME FOOLISH, AND LOSE THE PROMISE. "THAT IT MAY GO WELL WITH YOU AND THAT YOU MAY ENJOY LIFE!"  INFERENCE THEN, IS THAT THE DOOR WILL NOT BE OPEN FOR THE OPPOSITE TO HAPPEN. YOU WILL LOSE THE PROMISE.

IF THIS IS THE HEART OF THE LORD TO KEEP YOU IN GREEN PASTURES OF PROMISE WHY DO YOU CHOOSE THE MUCK AND MIRE OF DISOBEIENCE ?

GOD AND YOUR PARENTS HAVE ONE PURE MOTIVE, THAT YOU DON'T LOSE THE PROMISE. "OBEY," IS A WORD DEFINED BY THE WORLD AS CONFINEMENT, REBELLIOUS, BUT DEFINED BY THE WORD OF GOD BY HUMILITY AND HONOR.

BOW YOUR KNEE THIS MORNING BEFORE THE LOVER OF YOUR SOUL, AND PLACE BEFORE HIM YOUR HEART AND YOU WILL WALK IN HIS PROMISE.

AMEN.

"REST ON ME."

"MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU,

 FOR MY POWER IS MADE PERFECT

 IN YOUR WEAKNESS."

 THEREFORE I WILL BOAST ALL THE MORE

 GLADLY ABOUT MY WEAKNESSES,

 SO THAT CHRIST'S POWER MAY

 REST ON ME.

2 COR. 12:9

"WHAT IS IN YOUR MOUTH"

I WAITED PATIENTLY FOR THE LORD;

HE TURNED TO ME AND HEARD MY CRY

HE LIFTED ME OUT OF THE SLIMY PIT,

OUT OF THE MUD AND MIRE,

HE SET MY FEET ON A ROCK

AND GAVE ME A FIRM PLACE TO STAND.

HE PUT A NEW SONG IN MY MOUTH,

A HYMN OF PRAISE TO OUR GOD.

MANY WILL SEE AND FEAR, AND PUT THEIR

TRUST IN THE LORD.

PSALMS 40:1-3

DEAR BELIEVER; NOTICE THE WORDS, "HE TURNEDTO ME,". WHEN YOU CRY, HE TURNS, HIS HEART MOVED BY THE VOICE OF HIS CHILD. THEN HE LIFTS YOU UP,AND PLACES YOU ON THE ROCK, AND PUTS A NEW SONG IN YOUR MOUTH.

"A GOOD NAME"

FOR WHO KNOWS WHAT IS GOOD FOR A

MAN IN LIFE,

DURING THE FEW AND MEANINGLESS DAYS

HE PASSES THROUGH LIKE A SHADOW?

WHO CAN TELL HIM WHAT WILL HAPPEN UNDER

THE SUN AFTER HE IS GONE.

A GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN FINE PERFUME

AND THE DAY OF DEATH BETTER THAN THE DAY

OF BIRTH. IT IS BETTER TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING

THAN TO GO TO A HOUSE OF FEASTING,

FOR DEATH IS THE DESTINY OF EVERY MAN;

THE LIVING SHOULD TAKE THIS HIS TO HEART.

TODAY WE HAVE SENT GREAT GRANDMA TO JOIN JESUS, AND ALL THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE HER, INTO THE GLORY OF HIS KINGDOM. LIVE TODAY, AS IF IT IS YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY ON THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN TO SERVE HIM...AMEN

"WATCH WHO YOU WELCOME"

WATCHOUT THAT  YOU DO NOT LOSE,

WHAT YOU HAVE WORKED FOR,  BUT THAT YOU MAY

 BE REWARDED FULLY.

ANYONE WHO RUNS AHEAD AND DOES NOT CONTINUE

IN THE TEACHING OF CHRIST, DOES NOT HAVE GOD;

WHOEVER CONTINUES IN THE TEACHING OF CHRIST

HAS BOTH THE FATHER AND THE SON.

IF ANYONE COMES TO YOU AND DOES NOT BRING

THIS TEACHING, DO NOT TAKE HIM INTO YOUR

HOUSE,

OR WELCOME HIM.

ANYONE WHO WELCOMES HIM SHARES IN HIS

WICKED WORK.

2 JOHN 9-11

"KINGDOM AND PRIEST"

"YOU ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE SCROLL

  AND TO BREAK IT SEALS,

  BECAUSE YOU WERE SLAIN,

  AND WITH YOUR BLOOD YOU PURCHASED

  MEN FOR GOD

  FROM EVERY TRIBE AND LANGUAGE AND

  PEOPLE AND NATION.

  YOU HAVE MADE THEM TO BE A KINGDOM

   AND PRIEST TO SERVE OUR GOD,

   AND THEY WILL REIGH ON THE EARTH."

   REV5:9-10

  DEAR PRECIOUS BELIEVER: DID YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ROSE FROM SLEEP THIS MORNING, THAT YOU ARE HIS PRIEST? DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE A KINGDOM? WELL, YOU ARE,  BECAUSE HE PURCHASED YOU WITH HIS BLOOD! NOW HE CALLS YOU MEN OF GOD, TO SERVE THE ONE WHO SITS UPON THE THRONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

"I SAW A LAMB"

NO ONE WAS FOUND WHO WAS WORTHY TO OPEN

THE SCROLL OR TO LOOK INSIDE.

DO NOT WEEP!

SEE THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, THE ROOT OF DAVID

HAS TRIUMPHED.

HE IS ABLE TO OPEN THE SCROLL AND ITS SEVEN SEALS.

THEN I SAW A LAMB, LOOKING AS IF IT HAD BEEN SLAIN,

STANDING IN THE CENTER IN THE CENTER OF THE THRONE,

ENCIRCLED BY FOUR LIVING CREATURES AND THE ELDERS.

HE HAD SEVEN HORNS AND SEVEN EYES, WHICH ARE THE

SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD SENT OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH.

AND HE CAME AND TOOK THE SCROLL FROM THE HAND

OF HIM WHO SAT ON THE THRONE. AND WHEN HE HAD TAKEN IT,

THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES AND THE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS,

FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LAMB.

REV: 4:4-9

MY BROTHERS; EVEN AS I WRITE THESE VERSES, I WEEP. KNOWING IT IS TIME TO FULLY UNDERSTAND, WHAT JESUS HAS FINISHED FOR US. WHAT LOVE DIVINE, OH, JESUS IS MINE!

IT IS TIME TO FALL DOWN....JESUS,JESUS,JESUS!!!!!!!!!

"HE IS ABLE"

NOW TO HIM WHO IS ABLE TO DO EXCEEDING

ABUNDANTLY BEYOND ALL THAT WE ASK

OR THINK,

ACCORDINGING TO THE POWER  THAT WORKS

WITHIN US.

EPHESIANS 3:20

OUR FOCUS THIS MORNING IS NOT ON THE WORDS,"ASK OR THINK", BUT ON THE WORD, "BEYOND." 

WHAT STRUGGLE, WHAT TRIAL OR TEST IS FACING YOU? KNOW WITH STRONG ENCOURAGEMENT , THAT JESUS IS ALREADING PREPARING FOR YOU THE "BEYOND," ANSWER TO YOUR REQUEST...HE IS ABLE!

"NOW FAITH"

FAITH IS THE ASSURANCE OF THE THINGS HOPED FOR,

BEING THE PROOF, OF THINGS NOT YET SEEN
                                                                           
AND THE CONVICTION OF THER REALITY.

AND WHATEVER YOU ASK FOR IN PRAYER,

HAVING FAITH AND REALLY BELIEVING,

YOU WILL RECEIVE.

FOR THIS REASON I AM TELLING YOU,

WHATEVER YOU ASK FOR IN PRAYER,

BELIEVE THAT IT IS GRANTED YO YOU,

AND YOU WILL GET IT !

FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKS AND KEEPS ASKING

RECEIVES;

AND HE WHO SEEKS AND KEEPS SEEKING

FINDS;

AND TO HIM WHO KNOCKS AND KEEPS ON KNOCKING,

THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED.

AMEN.

HEB11:1
MATT:21:22
MARK11:24
LUKE11:10

"IF I PERISH, I PERISH"

I SHALL AIM TONIGHT, UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,

TO SAY SOMETHING TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR MONTHS,

BUT AS YET HAVE NOT RECEIVED IT; WHO HAVE GONE ON THEIR KNEES,

PERHAPS FOR MONTHS, WITH ONE EXCEEDING GREAT AND BITTER CRY, BUT AS YET

KNOW NOT THE WAY OF PEACE.

THEIR SIN STILL HANGS LIKE A MILLSTONE ABOUT THEIR NECK; THEY SIT IN

THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH; NO LIGHT HAS DAWN UPON THEM, AND

THEY ARE WRINGING THEIR HANDS IN MOANING, "HAS GOD FORGOTTEN TO BE

GRACIOUS?

HAS HE SHUT HIS EAR AGAINST THE PRAYERS OF SEEKING SOULS?

WILL HE BE MINDFUL OF SINNERS, PITEOUS CRIES NO MORE ?

SHALL PENITENTS' TEARS DROP UPON THE EARTH AND  NO LONGER MOVE

HIS COMPASSION ?

SATAN, TOO IS TELLING YOU, DEAR FRIENDS, WHO ARE NOW IN THIS STATE OF MIND,

THAT GOD WILL NEVER HEAR YOU, THAT HE WILL LET YOU CRY TO YOU DIE,

THAT YOU WILL PANT OUT YOUR LIFE IN SIGHS AND TEARS, AND THAT AT

THE END YOU SHALL BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

I LONG TONIGHT TO GIVE YOU SOME COMFORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT.

I WANT TO URGE YOU TO CRY MORE VEHEMENTLY;

TO COME TO THE CROSS AND LAY HOLD OF IT, AND VOW THAT YOU WILL

NEVER LEAVE ITS SHADOW TILL YOU FIND THE BOON WHICH YOUR SOUL COVETS.

I WANT TO MOVE YOU, IF GOD THE HOLY GHOST SHALL HELP ME,

SO THAT YOU WILL SAY WITHIN YOURSELVES, LIKE QUEEN ESTHER,

"I WILL GO UNTO THE KING, AND IF I PERISH, I PERISH", AND MAY YOU ADD

TO THAT THE VOW OF JACOB,

" I WILL NOT LET YOU GO, EXCEPT THOU BLESS ME!"

CHARLES H. SPURGEON, FROM THE BOOK; SURGEON'S SERMONS ON PRAYER. MAY THESE WORDS ENCOURAGE YOUR MOST INNER MAN THIS DAY.