With Raised Hands

Listen to me. We have the responsibility before God to be the men He called us to be. In the story of Moses is the story of Joshua. Had Joshua not been there to support Moses you would never have heard of a Joshua. How can I say that with certainty? Because there would never have been a story of Jesus had He not first serve the Father. Jesus himself told you he didn’t speak his own words but what the Father told him to say. The bible tells us over and over that God has no use for the proud. Men filled with themselves are unable to serve the requirements of another. And you really need to know that if you can not serve another in the name of the Lord, you will never fully be master of your own. I didn’t make the rules that’s the way God established this thing. We are running around thinking we have choices and we don’t. We are fooling around in the church like we fool around in our homes and nothing is getting done unless or until our wives, mothers and/or daughters make it their business and that is wrong in the sight of God. You are trying to work in the church the way you work at home, as little as possible. God is requiring us to be more than a family church.

But pastor we can count the fact that five to ten families make up the church so how can we be anything but a family church? The answer is simple. We must mature spiritually and follow the leading of God into what He will have us become. And God is saying to us in 2003 that we can no longer promote family values in the church. We must start to teach, preach and understand kingdom values. Some body is saying, “I have heard that before.” Yes, but do you understand?

I am almost finished and I am going to sit down but you need to really hear this. Kingdom means that every man is in his rightful place before the Lord and every women is in her rightful place. Kingdom means that when a brother or sister comes with loving correction you don’t deal with them like they are family and think it ok to swell up but allow the Spirit of God to work through you.

It means I can tell you that your spiritual slip is hanging without you getting angry and telling me that my fly is open. Kingdom values mean that I will do whatever I can to insure you win in this world. I will do it because I am your brother or sister in Christ. The question I have for you is can you grow spiritually to the point that you loose sight of your personal goals and objectives, wants, likes or dislikes, long enough to care more about other people?

God doesn’t often say to us, Write this down! But every now and then God will say, “ what I am about to tell you is so important that I don’t want you to forget, so write it down.” He is saying remember. He means for us to tell our children. He means long after you’re gone if you have been faithful to remember and tell your children I will cause something to happen that will continue to bless your off spring generation after generation.

Exo 17:13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.