Sunday, December 7, 2008

What is the Ultimate Need of Man?

By: Pastor David M. James

Depending on whom you speak with:
1. World/Global Peace, yes it is very important and impacts the world we live in, but it will not effect our personal eternity.
2. Global Warming, yes it also is very important and impacts the world we live in for generations to come, but it fails to impact our souls eternity.
3. HIV/AIDS, yes millions are dying each year with this debilitating disease, but once again it fails to impact out eternity.
4. Cure Cancer, yes it destroys lives and rips famlies apart, each and every day, but once again it will not impact our eternity.

I believe solving each of these crucial issues; howbeit important would be akin to placing a Band-Aid, even an Iron Man brand over a cancerous sore.

Main Text: Romans 1:18KJV
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold, (supress NIV) the truth in unrighteousness;

I believe God’s Word shows the Ultimate Need of Man:
1. Is for man to lay down his weapons, in the centuries long war against God and accept the Peace Treaty that Jesus the Christ signed in his own blood.

1. To take care of the problem of sinning against God.
A Personal Relationship w/God repairs/removes the barrier of sin in our lives.
Removing the sin barrier will stop the Wrath of God, instantly on mankind.

Lets break down V18:

Ungodliness: deals with our relationship to God. It is a sin against the person of God, we refuse to recogonize who God really is.
FOA believes in the Trinity: God/Father is a person, Jesus is a person, and the HS is a person.
Rom. 1:19-21NIV, (vision: Father overwhelmes our sensuality by things he made in nature, then deposits knowledge of Himself into us, conviction)

Unrighteousness: deals with our relationship to our fellow man. We each treat mankind in a manner that God does not want us to. This is a sin against the will of God.
Rom. 1:28-32NIV

Supress the Truth: If you have truth to know, you can supress it. You cannot supress what you do not know.
We all know the truth, “What man’s Ultimate need is”, but we do not want to admit it.
Rom. 1:19NIV

The rest of the chapter from V19-32 explains how man supresses the Truth of God’s Word to get around the problem of sin.

Let’s look at 2 assesments of Man:
God’s assesment of Man:
Gen. 6:5 AMP
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually.

Man’s Assesment of Man: basically good, (Job performance Review) given enough time we will fix everything.
(God says, given enough time, they will only get worse)
Sin= the thought in the heart
Transgression= the act of the body
Iniquity= the coverup/ blame game

Man left to himself is on a slipery slope, downward spiral and will destroy everything his hands touch. (new muscle car)
Example:
Teaching OSU, leave the room, chaos in grown men.
270/71/315 with no visable Police Officers, speed, reckless operation, collision, death
Bar: 25 men, 3 women and no bouncers working that night
Black Friday: without store personal visable

Prov. 22:28 KJV
Remove not the ancient landmark,(ancient boundry stoneNIV) which thy fathers have set. (explain) without landmarks total chaos.
Prov. 6:20-23AMP (read only)

Repentance/Salvation is an ancient landmark set up by God Himself that the Emergent Church/Liberal Church, Word Faith Movement is trying to remove.
Do not get caught up in this energetic demonic movement, for the penalty is Eternal Damnation.

We have tried to find the Ultimate Need of Man in:
1. Nature: Occult, White Witchcraft, WICCA, New Age, Save the Earth, Go Green!
2. Religion: Long lists of rules, regulations, fasts and feasts, Demonations of Men.

The Ultimate need of man was met when God gave the Ultimate sacrifice for man on the crossJohn 3:16NIV.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Why the Urgency to Preach the Gospel?

By: Pastor David M. James

Main Text: II Thess. 2:1-12 AMP

1. What is the rapture? 1594 (2nd Coming of Christ, not appearing) I Thess. 4:16-18NLT.
2. When will the rapture occur?
3. Who will be taken?
4. Who will be left behind?

V2 agitated as a ship at sea in a storm, This doctrine exists today. Cults (pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib), spirit of Anti-Christ exists today in the church, it undermines the Authority of the Scriptures. (the emergent church, Word Faith movement)

V3a When will the rapture occur? Great falling away first. The Church:
either a total abandonment of Christianity itself, or such a corruption of its doctrines that renders the whole system completely inefficient to salvation. (Grainger Community Church 56% lost) (pastor said 100% saved would be a horrible situation)
In order to be saved, you must:
Believe and understand by faith: you’re a sinner, helpless, hopless. Repent of your sins, believe by faith in the Virgin Birth, sinless life of Christ, death burial ressuerction, that Jesus is the Son of God.
You must live your life at the foot of the cross to be saved, and stay saved.

V3b Evil must come and overtake to make the way for the Anti-Christ.(beast)
Son of Perdition, same name attached to Judus Iscariot (John 17:12)

V4 The temple in Israel will be rebuilt in first 42 months. (see chart) what the Anti-Christ (beast) will do: He stands against and exalts himself above all divine authority, many believe the Pope will be this man because he has exaulted himself above the church (AD 540) and the Word(1070 No marriage of priests, vs I Tim. 4:3, 1870 infallable),
But Catholocism has not denied the Deity of Christ and is the Harlot church woman in Rev. 17 and is judged for the blood of the saints it has spilled and will continue to spill, around the globe. (Jesuit priest intiation rites and guide)

V6-7 what holds back the revelaing of the Anti-Christ? (Church or HS V7)
When the church is gone, the HS moves with us.(see chart)
The HS job is to convict men of sin, without HS here no conviction equals total lawlesness of man. Jer. 17:9-10AMP
No Holy Spirit equates to no conviction (move on V11-12 later)


2 schools or camps of thought in the Church today about evil:
1. Let evil prevail so the rapture will come, “I am tired Jesus, just take me home to see Momma”
2. “Fight the evil, use your authority that Jesus paid for with his life, that more will be saved!” (Matt. 28:18-19NIV Go! Preach! Baptize! No retirement!)


(Paul fast forwards in time to comfort the scared church V2) (Thessalonians)
V8 rapture is not his appearing or coming. (clouds vs heaven open) (see chart)
Rev. 19:11-21NIV Armegeddon (see chart)

V9-10 great power of Satan

Why such an urgency to preach the Gospel?
This is why!!!
This is what this message is all about folks!

V11-12 “Therefore” who will be left behind? (there is no hope)
Strong delusion, believe a lie. All whom reject the gospel now, before the rapture, will believe a lie. Your friends, family, co-workers will all suffer thru the trubulation, be judged by Jesus himself (Rom. 2:16) and cast alive into the lake of Fire, for rejecting the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Rom 2:16 TLB
The day will surely come when at God's command Jesus Christ will judge the secret lives of everyone, their inmost thoughts and motives; this is all part of God's great plan, which I proclaim.

Urgency to preach the Gospel. II Cor. 6:2 “today is the day of salvation”.

40.6 of the world’s population has never heard the Gospel (Joshua Project)
93,000 people die each day, without Jesus Christ
>3% of Europeans have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ (home of the reformation)
2,251 languages still do not have any of the Bible translated
Matt. 24:36NIV