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Straight From The Pulpit
Pastor Larry Gatlin, Sothern Oregon
FIVE KEY WORDS!
OBEDIENCE JUDGEMENT MERCY GRACE HOPE
I. OBEDIENCE:
2 John 6
And this is love: that we walk in obedience to
his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you
walk in love.
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Rom 6:16
Don't you know that when you offer yourselves
to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you
obey-whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience,
which leads to righteousness?
NIV
Rom 1:5
Through him and for his
name's sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all
the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
NIV
1 Sam
15:22-23
But Samuel
replied: "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
To obey is better than
sacrifice,
and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
23 For
rebellion is like the sin of divination,
and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have
rejected the word of the LORD,
he has rejected you as king."
NIV
A.
OBEDIANCE TO GODS WORD LEADS TO;
1.
BLESSING
2.
LIFE
B.
DISOBEDIANCE BRINGS;
1.
DIS-HONOR
2.
DIS-GRACE
3.
SIN
4.
SIN MAY BE FUN FOR A SEASON, BUT ALWAYS LEADS
TO DESTRUCTION.
5.
THE ULTIMATE RESULT IS JUDGMENT.
A.
JUDGE ---- WEBSTERS DICTIONARY TO DETERMINE
THE RELATIVE WORTH OF SOMETHING.
B.
JUDGMENT WEBSTERS DICTIONARY - THE ABILITY
TO COME TO A DECISION.
1.
HEBREW MEESH-PAT THE ACT OF
SETTING IN JUDGMENT OR SETTING THINGS IN PROPER ORDER.
2.
SHEE PA TEEM WHEN GOD BRINGS JUDGMENTS ON MANKIND LIKE HE DID
AGAINST EGYPT.
3.
GREEK KRISIS GODS JUDGMENTS AGAINST
SIN.
a.
KRIMA --- THE RESULT OF GODS JUDGMENT. (CONDEMNATION) JUDGMENT
TO HELL OR FINAL JUDGMENT.
b.
HEMERA --- MANS JUDGMENTS
1.
COULD BE JUST
2.
COULD BE UNWARENTED ---
3.
NOT TO BE USED BY ONE PERSON TO JUDGE ANOTHER
PERSON INTO CONDEMNATION OR TO THE FINAL JUDGMENT OF HELL.
Matt 7:1-2
7:1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be
judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
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c.
HOWEVER WE ARE ALL REQUIRED TO MAKE JUDGMENTS
EVERY DAY. THEY ARE ALWAYS IN THE FORM OF CHOICES.
1.
WILL I YEILD TO TEMPTATION
2.
WILL I CHOOSE MY FRIENDS WISELY
(3)
OBEDIANCE,
JUDGMENT, MERCY, GRACE, AND HOPE
FIVE KEY WORDS
3.
WILL I DO HARM TO MYSELF OR ANOTHER?
4.
WILL I FORGIVE?
5.
CHOICES THAT DETERMINE THE DIRECTION MY LIFE
WILL GO.
A.
HEBREW --- CHECED (KA-CAD) LOVINGKINDNESS
COMPASSION
B.
IS USED LARGELY IN THE PSALMS.
C.
DIRECTS US TO ELEOS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
D.
ALWAYS INTERACTS WITH STRENGTH, STEADFSTNESS
AND LOVE.
James
2:12-13
12 Speak and
act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, 13
because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been
merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
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E.
TO KNOW MERCY IS TO BE SET FREE FROM JUDGMENT
F.
TO KNOW MERCY IS TO BE FULL OF MERCY
G.
TO HAVE EXPERIENCED MERCY MUST ALWAYS LEAD ME
TO SHOWING MERCY.
H.
JUDGMENT COMES AS THE TRESULT OF
DISOBEDIANCE, TWO KEY ELEMENTS TO DIS-OBEDIANCE ARE;
1.
REBELLION WHICH WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT.
2.
FEAR IS THE SECOND.
a.
FEAR OF FAILURE
b.
FEAR OF WHAT PEOPLE MIGHT THINK/PEER
PREASURE.
c.
FEAR OF NEVER ACHIEVING GOALS WHICH LEADS TO
COMPROMISE.
I.
MERCY COMES AS THE RESULT OF LOVE AND
FORGIVENESS.
J.
MERCY IS WHEN I GET WHAT
I DONT DESERVE.
IV. GRACE IS WHEN I
DONT GET WHAT I DO DESERVE.
A.
GRACE IS, HEBREW -
Ps 45:2
2 You are
the most excellent of men
(4)
OBEDIANCE,
JUDGMENT, MERCY, GRACE, AND HOPE
and your lips
have been anointed with grace,
since God has
blessed you forever.
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Rom 5:1-3
5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith
into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory
of God.
NIV
Eph 2:7-10
8 For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by
works, so that no one can boast.
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1.
HEBREW ---- LOVING, CARRING, MERCIFUL,
KINDNESS, AND FAITHFULNESS.
a.
HAS TO DO WITH THE SAME WORD ELEOS FOUND FOR
MERCY.
b.
VINES EXPOSITORY DICTIONARY OF O.T. WORDS
PUTS IT THIS WAY;
LOVING-KINDNESS
The word refers
primarily to mutual and reciprocal rights and obligations between the parties
of a relationship (especially Yahweh and Israel). But checed
is not only a matter of obligation; it is also of generosity. It is not only a
matter of loyalty, but also of mercy.
(from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words,
Copyright (c)1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers
2.
GREEK
CHARIS --- MEANS TO BE;
a.
FULL OF
LOVINGKINDNESS
b.
GRACIOUS
c.
FULL OF
GODLY LOVE
d.
BEAUTY, BOTH
INSIDE AND OUT. BUT IN THE WORD MOSTLY INWARD BEAUTY.
e.
IT HAS
TO DO WITH A RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND MAN OR MAN AND MAN.
(5)
OBEDIANCE, JUDGEMENT, MERCY, GRACE AND HOPE
f.
GOD HAS
BEEN GRACIOUS TO US, SO WE IN TURN ARE TO BE GRACIOUS TO OTHERS,
g.
GRACE
ALSO HAS TO DO WITH GODS ENABLINGS AND GIFTINGS.
h.
ALL GOOD
AND PERFECT GIFTS COME FROM THE FATHER.
James 1:17 Every good gift
and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of
lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. KJV
i.
THE
GIFTS THAT WE RECEIVE AT BIRTH ARE FROM HIM.
1.
THE
GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT ARE FROM HIM
2.
ANY
SPIRITUAL GIFTS WE RECEIVE OR WALK IN ARE FROM HIM.
B.
WE
DEFINE GRACE AS GODS UNMERITED FAVOR. BUT IT IS MUCH MORE. IT HAS TO DO WITH
ALL WE ARE IN CHRIST, ALL WE DO IN CHRIST, AND ALL THAT WE WILL EVER BE IN
CHRIST.
V. WHICH
LEADS US TO HOPE!
A.
HEBREW
--- GREEK IN BOTH HOPE HAS TO DO WITH EXPECTATION.
B.
WE HAVE
A GREAT EXPECTATION THAT WHEN WE WALK IN OBEDIANCE, GRACE /JUSTIFICATION (JUST AS IF I HAD NEVER SINNED) WE CAN HAVE A
CONFIDENCE THAT GOD IS WORKING IN OUR BEHALF AND FOR OUR GOOD.
C.
PAUL
SAYS THAT WE HAVE A BLESSED HOPE. WHAT IS IT? JEUSUS IS RETURNING FOR HIS
CHURCH AND THEN TO RULE AND REIGN FOR A 1,000 YEARS.
D.
IT ALSO
HAS THE CONOTATION OF TRUSTING GOD WITH ALL THAT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN AND FOR ALL
OF HIS PROVISION.
1 Tim 4:9-10
10(and for
this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the
Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.
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(6)
OBEDIANCE, JUDGMENT, MERCY, GRACE, AND HOPE
1 Tim 4:10
10 For therefore we both labour
and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of
those that believe.
KJV
Eph 4:4-7
4 There is one body, and one
Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and
through all, and in you all.
7 But unto every one of us is given grace according
to the measure of the gift of Christ.
KJV
Heb 11:1-2
11:1 Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
KJV
1 Peter 1:3
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
KJV
