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Permenant Message of Repentance: Darlene M. please contact me, I'd like to say I'm sorry. The
message below "Devouring the Judgment of God" was inspired in my heart with you in mind.
Today’s Sermon: "Devouring the Judgement of God"--Welcome
my beloved brothers and sisters to today’s message on the Goodness of God. "But I thought today’s message was
on the Judgement of God"? It is! His Goodness is found within His judgements. It’s seemingly a strange concept for us
to consider that God’s judgement is actually a good thing, but it is. Shall an earthly father or mother not guide, direct
and punish a child if that child goes awry or amiss and do wrong. Or if that said child is in danger due to his or her own
folly, is it not the responsibility of the parent to intercede and to watch out for this little one? But we all know that
no one likes the rod of correction, or to be told what to do. For it’s in our fallen nature (which resides in our fleshly
bodies) to resist the hand of (help) correction, especially from the One who won’t let us live after our baser nature,
as also saith the Scriptures. Romans 2:4 declares: "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering;
not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? So then repentance is a good thing also. And this repentance
that the Scripture is talking about is a turning from sin and a turning toward God’s Goodness which leads us, and causes
us to humble ourselves before His mighty hand, His loving kindness and grace. Let us consider our ways before Him. This brings
us to the next point. One tell tale sign to know if you are truly born again or not, resides in the area of receiving God’s
hand of Correction. Hebrews 12:6-11 is rather lengthy but it demonstrates rather succinctly, how it’s imperative that
we respond to God’s prompting to repent of sin. Hebrews 12:6-11 proclaims: "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he
whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not
sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather
be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure;
but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous,
but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby".
The last example for today’s lesson is found in the word of God also, and shows us the result of right repentance and
wrong repentance and the two kinds people who do it. In 2nd Corinthians 7:10 we read: "For godly sorrow worketh
repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death". The result therefore is death to
the heathen man who is only sorry for getting caught, and for such a man like Cain or Esau who even cried about getting God’s
chastisement, but found no place of sorrow or repentance for actually committing the deed. But the man of God will accept
the blame for his faults and sins, and will eat of God’s righteous judgement that is laid upon him. I can offer my own
life as an ensample to this point. As an unsaved young man, I had many, perhaps dozens of liaisons with girls, women and married
women, which resulted in a few pregnancies. These pregnancies were ended without the opportunity for me to see any of these
children or for me to become a daddy. And as a result of the sins that I sowed as an unsaved young man, I have gone without
the fulfillment of a family that I can call my own. As I sometimes reflect on this pain of my own actions, I think of the
sowing and reaping principals of God. The soothing balm and remedy that gives me the most comfort in my efforts to handle
this pain is just to confess it to God and to symbolically open my mouth to God and ask Him to let me EAT OF HIS RIGHTEOUS
JUDGEMENT. Just as a chick in the nest, opens it’s mouth to her mother waiting for the deposit of food into it’s
open mouth, so I do eat and delight in the fact that I’m experiencing a heavy long term sowing and reaping Judgement
from my loving God. In another equally painful area, which could have prevented me from the above aforementioned sins, I could
have married a virtuous girl who really loved me and would have been so good to me. God gave me this loving and beautiful
girlfriend in High School before I became promiscuous. I’m certain I would have married Darlene M if I would have had
my head on straight and been rooted and grounded in God’s word. It is a regret that is so painful, "the life that could
have been". I haven’t spoken to her since high school, and the only reason I left her is because she refused to enter
into sin with me. I left her with her despising my name, and she has probably forgotten that I ever existed. Oh how I wish
I would have been obedient to God’s Word back then. All of the fornication, adultery, gambling, abortions and sinful
deeds could have been avoided, IF, I had been a man who received of God’s correction. I feel certain that I would have
NOT been the fornicator, the adulterer, and the debaucher that I was until the age of 26. But when you truly become God’s
property and truly repent, then God can and will redeem such things. Case in point, God has given me a wonderful, and beautiful
and godly wife who has help take the pain away from my sorted past. She has also been a good life partner and a helper to
my ministry. But it’s hard to forget the 70’s and early 80’s, a tumultuous time, which was fraught with
great woe and immorality. Now the last major regret I have is in not getting a formal education. In the worldly system in
which we live, a college degree-a piece of paper, which states that you can learn, is the open door to success and great financial
opportunity. But I chose to serve my flesh and to get gain in sensual matters. I rebuffed the counsel of my father and mother
and fell headlong into riotous living. But to be sure, even after repentance and the new nature from God comes to a man, there
is the devil, who is the god of this world, who opposes the righteous. But again, God is a redeeming God and has given me
great understanding of His Word, and the affairs of this life, and the ability to educate myself. So to make this very long
story shorter, let me just say, that if you have no regrets in your life, then you are not being honest nor are you affected
by sin as you ought to be. But if you do have regrets, then you can find solace in the fact that God is a God of second chances
and will redeem any circumstance. So my friend, open your mouth wide unto God and receive of His loving correction. As a chick
opens it’s mouth to receive it’s much needed food, let us continue to open our mouths to God, and let us receive
of His Spirit, and hand of correcting Judgment.
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Previous Message
Dearly beloved and longed for Christian Friends: Greetings in the name of Yahshua-Jesus Christ…….and Peace
from God the Father and His Son Jesus and the Holy Ghost…..In today’s sermon, it may have the outward or surface
appearance of my me stepping on a few toes, but let’s try to put raw emotion on the side for a minute and see if these
things which I say be so. In this message though, I’d like to direct most of my concerns to men, men of God, married
men, and men in leadership. Now according to 1st Corinthians 5, "It is reported commonly that there is fornication
among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. And
ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I
verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath
so done this deed, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our
Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the
day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore
the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore
let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators
of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now
I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater,
or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that
are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves
that wicked person". Now let’s take these sinful behaviors one by one. To the men of God and to married men, and
to men in leadership; Are you not the head of the household, are you not the priest of the home and head of the wife and children?
Then why do our hearts burn with grief over the sinful behaviors of our children? Yet we are supposed to love God more than
our own children, wives, or anyone else. We are to love God above all else or all others. So how are we to deal with our children
who go astray from God’s commandment? How are parents to cope with the grief of those who are living the above Corinthians
5 wicked behaviors? Does it, or should it go beyond the act of not sitting down to a meal with them? Do you love your child
more than God? I myself, have no living child on the earth that I know of, all my children are in Heaven. So why do I feel
qualified to speak on this topic? It’s because it’s Scripture! If you were to remove all emotion from this issue
and just teach it, as a Sunday school class, perhaps you would be able to see clear enough to know that no matter how much
you love your wayward son or daughter, you must obey the Scriptures over your heart. So if your son or daughter is an extortioner
or one who steals, or if your son or daughter is one who gets drunk on more than a rare occasion. Or if they are a critical
harsh accuser (railer) or even one who lives in fornication or adultery, are you as the man of the house not suppose to break
off fellowship with such an one? Or is it as in most cases just not break bread with them. If the men of God and men in leadership
or married men in general were to set the standards for the family and not waver, but obey the Commandments of the Lord, perhaps
we’d not see the chaos and disarray which our current world sees in it’s blatant drunkenness and open fornication.
Seemingly, women are the heads of the men in most houses and in most cases, running the moral direction of the children. The
fathers are the ones who are to set the spiritual and moral example of the family, even if that means to shun them or to break
off fellowship from them. Because shunning or disassociating from them sends a powerful message…….yes, a message
of hurt, but also a message of love. For it says I’m not going to let you go down into hell without telling you and
showing you. By this, I am telling you that I cannot have fellowship with darkness. Please read the following two Scriptures
that will give us a foundation of what I am saying. 1st Corinthians 5:11-13 declares: "But now I have written unto
you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or
a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without?
do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that
wicked person". And again in Ephesians 5:1-11 "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ
also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. But fornication,
and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish
talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean
person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive
you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore
partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the
fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them". The two main points that I’d like to focus
on are these: we are to have no fellowship with them, nor are we to be parktakers with them. But you would say, I love them,
and God commands me to love them. Yes, but He did not say to have fellowship with them or be a partaker with them. Your shunning,
should be the pain that they need to come back to God and repent. If they don’t, then perhaps they are in the grasp
of Satan, and need your intercessory prayers to rescue them. Now I’d like to know if this is too harsh or if this is
right on. Is not what we’re seeing in our wayward nation today a result of the fathers abdicating their responsibilities
of headship and godly leadership? The father is to be the moral fiber and backbone to the children, if he fails, then the
family fails. Christian men and fathers, I beg of you to consider these things and see if these Scriptures do not apply to
what the moral leader of the house should do or how he should be.
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