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What Is Spiritual Slumber, And, ...What Stirs 'You'?

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Download... February 5, 2012. Sunday Morning Service. Bro. Dave Goble.

Many are seeking after “something,” ..not really knowing what.  Thank God we can know He, has the answers to all our needs!  The vanities of this life, are only of empty substance.  Ecclesiastes 1: 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.  And this in its great depths, is a description of the world’s condition, that we live in today! 

There is no “human” way to really understand and apprehend the meaning of life. There are so many perspectives of “what takes place” (in the substance of life) making life seemingly an absurdity. Making life essentially with no meaning, beyond what is visually here, a vanity of vanities.  Bro Goble shared some of a conversation he had with a man, who considered trying to apprehend the meaning of life’s values. He did not know how to apprehend God, so life to him, was in essence an absurdity. He considered suicide, in light of his thoughts. So in this conversation with Bro Goble, he asked, “What is the solution?” The scriptures define the needed answer.  Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.  The man then asked, “How do I know that it is God, I should fear and not another?”  Bro Goble shared that he understood his question, for he was once there himself. Then Bro Goble suggested he read through the 12 chapters of Ecclesiastes for a better understanding, or explanation of life’s true “lessons.”  Life, ‘without God,’ is truly an absurdity!  Yet, when you honor God, then life is truly meaningful! How can this happen?  Stay on your knees before God, until you are given a personal revelation, and apprehend the dynamics of life’s meaning! When you have fulfilled this, you will have fully awakened spiritually, and be no longer in “life’s spiritual slumber.”   

TEXT: ECCLESIASTES  12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

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ACTS 17:16-23

16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

17  Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

18  Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

19  And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

20  For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

21  (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

22  Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

23  For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

This period of time spoken of in the above text, was approximately 50 or 51 A.D. (Christ crucifixion was approximately 30 A. D.)  It sounds like Paul here had a personal revelation from God.  Verse 21  of Acts 17.  These people had too much time “on their hands” to consider “new” or vain ideas (and nothing else!)

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What Must I Do….To Take Up My Cross ?

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Download... January 29, 2012. Sunday Morning Service. Bro. Dave Goble.

TEXT: MARK 10:17-27 

17  And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

18  And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

19  Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

20  And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

21  Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

22  And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.

23  And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

24  And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

25  It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

26  And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?

27  And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

Jesus knew the real intent of this man’s heart and answered with a question, (verse 18).  Then Christ further exhorted with the obvious requirements (commandments) to follow Christ.  When the man claimed to have been obedient to all of these, was told by Christ that he still was lacking to do one thing.

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Staying Faithful

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Download... 2012 January revival. January 8, 2012 PM. Bro. Calvin McCranie.

1 Kings 13:1-26 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

2  And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

3  And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.

4  And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

5  The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

6  And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.

7  And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.

8  And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:

9  For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

10  So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.

11  Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

12  And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

13  And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,

14  And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

15  Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

16  And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

17  For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.

18  He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

19  So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

20  And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:

21  And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,

22  But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

23  And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

24  And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

25  And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

26  And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.

 

How Does God See Us

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Download... 2012 January revival. January 7, 2012 PM. Bro. Calvin McCranie.

Eze. 22: 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

 

Let's Take the Land

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Download... 2012 January revival. January 6, 2012 PM. Bro. Calvin McCranie.

Joshua 1:1-3 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

2  Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

3  Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

 

Don't Let Your Season Pass

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Download... 2012 January revival. January 5, 2012 PM. Bro. Calvin McCranie.

John 5:1-7 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

3  In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

4  For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

5  And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

6  When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

7  The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

 

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