Supply and Super-Abundance

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Points To Ponder

Surplus and Super Abundance Redeeming the time Brothers

by Gene Kissinger. 

 Romans chapter five, the last two verses, verse 20, and 21. Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more about that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might Grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ, our Lord. 

I Want to talk to you about supply and super abundance.  Right now there's a supply chain problem in the United States of America, off of the coast of California, there are hundreds of cargo container ships that are stacked up and they're not being received so they can't get in and get unloaded.  There's a problem getting them across the country, there's a shortage of truck drivers and it's hard to get stuff delivered to our stores and homes. There's a big fret over whether we're going to have enough stuff for Christmas, I got news for you. If Christmas is about stuff, you probably don't understand the real meaning of Christmas. Let's leave that to the side for now and talk about another supply problem.  It's a supply problem of a different sort.   There is a surplus of sin in our lives. We have too much sin as individuals, as groups, even as nations.  There's a massive amount of culpability to go around, and the guilt is on all of us, there's none of us that have any room to point fingers at anybody else. We're all a dressed up mess, we all desperately need help, because of the sin problem.

 The Bible says…

all have sinned and come short of the glory of God….

 There is none righteous, no not one….

 All of our feet are swift to shed blood….

 Our mouths are an open sepulchre…

Our heart is full of lust and adultery. Our emotions run to the hot end of anger and jealousy. Our mouths speak lies and wicked things. We are all in desperate need of help with this sin problem. It's a surplus of sin too much to go around, and trouble is, even a little bit, even one sin can send us to hell. So how do we deal with this over abundance of sin? Well, the verse says this, it says…." where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." That phrase "Much More Abound" means Grace super abounded. It was super abundant. There was more of it than you could possibly imagine. So while there was a surplus of sin, there was a super abundance of grace, so that greater than my sin need is God's sin cure, so that before there was ever a sin, there was a savior, because the Lamb of God was slain before the foundation of the world. Before I ever had a mess in my life, God manifested mercy to me, by sending His Son to live a sinless life and then die vicariously for me on the cross before I ever experienced the pangs of guilt. The presence of grace was available to me by the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. And so I want to encourage you if you feel trapped in your sin, know that there's a super abundance of grace to not only forgive that sin, but to help you move into victory over that sin. Because God has a process and that process is he forgives us of sin, then he breaks the power of sin in our life and then ultimately in heaven, He removes us from the very presence of sin where we'll live with him forevermore. And with him there is fullness of joy.

 Let's pray. Dear Lord God, I thank you for this night and I thank you for these dear ones, I pray that You would bless them. And I pray to you to encourage those that might be struggling with a sin issue in their life. Let them know that you have enough grace to forgive them. You've got enough grace to help them break the bondage of sin. You've got enough grace, to get them to heaven. What a good God you are. And I pray to you to encourage them in their sanctification.  Help them God to grow everyday moment by moment. Help them to stay connected to you through the word and help them to communicate with you through prayer. Help them to dig into a good vibrant local body of believers that they might be strengthened and encouraged by others within the body of Christ and that they might strengthen. Encourage others as well. Grant us a sense of your peace and presence tonight. Bless our time in Jesus name, amen. Hey, God bless you. I love you but Jesus loves you so much more.

Laugh Lines.

The doorbell

A pastor is walking down the street one day when he notices a small boy trying to use the doorbell on a house across the street. However, the boy is very small and the doorbell is too high for him to reach.

After watching the boys efforts for some time the pastor walks across the street up to the little fellow and rings the doorbell.

Kneeling down next to the child, the pastor smiles and asks, "And now what, my little man?" To which the boy replies, "Run!"

Classics Corner.

How to stay on top when the bottom falls out.

The Faith to Persevere

By Oswald Chambers

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Rev 3:10 KJV

Perseverance means more than endurance— more than simply holding on until the end. A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, but our Lord continues to stretch and strain, and every once in a while the saint says, “I can’t take any more.” Yet God pays no attention; He goes on stretching until His purpose is in sight, and then He lets the arrow fly. Entrust yourself to God’s hands. Is there something in your life for which you need perseverance right now? Maintain your intimate relationship with Jesus Christ through the perseverance of faith. Proclaim as Job did, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).

Faith is not some weak and pitiful emotion, but is strong and vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is holy love. And even though you cannot see Him right now and cannot understand what He is doing, you know Him. Disaster occurs in your life when you lack the mental composure that comes from establishing yourself on the eternal truth that God is holy love. Faith is the supreme effort of your life— throwing yourself with abandon and total confidence upon God.

God ventured His all in Jesus Christ to save us, and now He wants us to venture our all with total abandoned confidence in Him. There are areas in our lives where that faith has not worked in us as yet— places still untouched by the life of God. There were none of those places in Jesus Christ’s life, and there are to be none in ours. Jesus prayed, “This is eternal life, that they may know You…” (John 17:3). The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance— a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

Victory Train Isa. 6:1 #NewMorningGlory

Points To Ponder

Victory train by Gene Kissinger 

Isaiah chapter six and verse one. In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up in his train filled the temple.

 The imagery of this verse is taken from the ancient Near East, in Egypt and Assyria during that time kings, and potentates, had elaborate thrones, high above the people, they had long flowing robes. Behind those robes was a piece of cloth that was called a train, if you watch any of the Royals, and you'll sometimes see them walking with a piece of cloth that's dragging behind the robe, and that's called a train.  The bigger the train, the more victorious you are when the Assyrian kings and the Egyptian kings would take over another kingdom and they defeated another king, they would take  the defeated kings robes, cut the train off the robe and have it sewn onto their own. So the more victory that they had, the longer their train was, and here Isaiah is using that imagery about a high throne that is as high as the heavens and about a train that  fills up the temple. The idea is, is that God is an ever victorious, ever conquering, never defeated God!  He's the Almighty God, all powerful, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. He's the Omni everything God and that's what Isaiah points out so powerfully.  Another more beautiful thing is, that you as a born again, believer, are picturing the temple.

 According to Acts chapter seven and other passages The literal temple in the Old Testament, becomes you in the New Testament.  In Corinthians where Paul says, You are the temple of God, and you can live in victory over sin. So rather than sin filling you, know what His train of victory fills you. You can move and live in victory because of who God is. Not because of who you are.  Not because of how strong you are, you can move into victory because of how victorious God is, how great God is, how good God is. So I just want to encourage you to move out of the realm of defeated thinking into the realm of Victorious thinking and living because of the victory train, the train of victory that is in Old Testament book of Isaiah chapter six and verse one is in you because the Holy Spirit of God in dwells you and the train of victory runs right through the middle of your life. 

Let's pray Dear Lord, God, I thank you for this night. I thank you for my dear friends, I pray that You would bless them. Help them to rest tonight. Let them rest in the victory that they have in you, let them rest in the knowledge that you have already conquered death, you've defeated the devil. You know we're just waiting for the time to come into this mess down here and bring us home to heaven to be with you. Watch out over us. Grant us a good night in Jesus name, amen. Hey, God bless you. I love you but Jesus loves you so much more

Laugh Line. 

Community picnic

A church had a picnic and invited the entire community to come. The Pastor placed a basket full of apples on one end of a table with a sign saying, "Take only one apple please - Remember that God is watching."

On the other end of the table was a plate of cookies where one of the children had placed a sign saying, "Take all the cookies you want -- God is watching the apples."

Classics Corner.

#MorningGlory. RTTBROS 

3 conditions of discipleship 

Read and think through these wonderful thoughts by

F.B Meyer

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN Luke 14:33 “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.” THREE TIMES over in this chapter, our Lord says these solemn words: “he cannot be My disciple.” There are three conditions of discipleship. First, we must be prepared to put first things first; second,

we must be willing to suffer daily crucifixion; third, we must be detached from all things, because attached to Christ. The conditions seem severe,

but they must be fulfilled, if we would enter Christ’s School.

Disciple stands for learner. Our Lord is prepared to teach us the mysteries of the Kingdom of God; but it is useless to enter His class unless we have resolved to do as He says. Put first things first. When our Lord uses the word hate, He clearly means that the love we are to have for Him is to be so much greater, that comparatively our natural affection will be as if it were hate. No one could have loved His Mother more than our Lord did. In His dying agony His special thought and care was for her, but on three different occasions He put her aside. We are sometimes called to put aside those who are nearest and dearest, if their demands conflict with the claims of Christ.

The daily cross. In each of us there is the self-principle, and for each of us there is a perpetual necessity to deny self. Some talk about bearing the cross in a glib fashion, but its true meaning is shame, suffering, and sorrow, which no one realizes but God, and which perhaps strikes deeper down into the roots of our being as we grow older. There is an opportunity in your life, in respect to some person or circumstance, for an everdeepening appreciation of union with Christ in His death, and for which you must be dally prepared to surrender your own way and will.

Renunciation. It may be necessary to surrender all we have for Christ,

or it may be that He will ask us to hold all as a steward or trustee for Himself and others. No one can lay down the rule for another. The main point to decide is this: “Am I willing to do what Christ wants me to do; to yield my will for Him to mould it, and my life for Him to work through it?” If so, all else will adjust itself.

PRAYER--O Lord, save me in spite of myself. May I be Thine; wholly Thine, and, at all costs, Thine. In humiliation, in poverty, in self abnegation, Thine. Thine in the way Thou knowest to be most fitting, in order that Thou mightest be now and ever mine. AMEN.