Bill Kauble 0:46
Wow,
it is so good to see some of you guys this morning.
Thank you. It’s so great for us to be back together so great. And to see the vast audience that’s out here. We are so grateful. We warmly welcome you guys, both here and also on the Internet and on your phones, that we are just absolutely overflowing with our blessing from God for today and to be able to come back and have as many as 60. Guys, here we had prayer room upstairs, we one of the things that we celebrate, that we didn’t know how much we missed, was gathering together and praying together. We believe so much that we are faith based, Christ centered and grace driven. We have five pillars that we believe in with all our heart. One is Jesus is not only our Savior, but Jesus is Lord of our lives. The Bible is the final authority. We are men of prayer, we link with like minded men, and we give it away. And everybody who is involved in this ministry has a sense of what’s going on right now. Evil is increasing. Evil is absolutely increasing. But creation is increasing all the more graces what I have my dear friend and I won’t mention Frank Daniels by name. He prays for the people in Washington DC, he prays for that woman, that woman, I won’t say Nancy Pelosi name. And I won’t see Kamala her name. And that prison Biden guy and Chuck Schumer, but Frank prays for them for their salvation, because the issue is not them. They are not the problem. They are not the issue. This is spiritual, spiritual warfare. And so what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna take an offering this morning, the first offering in a year, right now. And we want to just basically come together as men.
And thank you, Father, we are so grateful for all the gifts you’ve given us the forum. You’ve given us Ron Tovar to head up the forum, Father, and we are so grateful that men, every man and influencers, we’re praying Lord, would come together and for him. Father, I thank you for the angel of this ministry, Pete Mackenzie, the fact that you continue to give him a powerful message, which is your message. And this morning, he’s going to be talking about Second Timothy three, and equipping us for what lies ahead and the reality, what’s going on in this world. So Lord, we pray that you would bless this offering that we’re going to collect this morning, plus these men, Lord, we are so so very grateful of the pearl of great price that you’ve given us, which is our salvation. And so the name of Jesus Christ, the blood of Jesus Christ, we say Amen. And thank you in Jesus name, amen.
Pete McKenzie 4:16
It’s okay
well, good morning guys. It’s good to see you.
And it’s good to be seen that can tell
we’ve taken some licks but we keep on ticking
who shakiness but they’re not going to shake us off.
You know, I feel like
days that we’re living in, I was always saying, Lord, you know what’s on your heart, what’s on your heart that you can give to my heart that I can share with these men’s hearts.
And,
you know, what I found is I need to be reminded, I don’t know about you, but I need to be reminded over and over and over who I am and why I’m here and where I’m going and how I’m going to get there.
I need to keep perspective. It’s a hard thing to do to keep perspective and I’m talking about a biblical perspective. I’m talking about a Christ like,
Man of God perspective on what’s going on. Because we’re the guys that when the crisis comes in courage is required. God expects his men that’d be me and you
to have such confidence in him.
That will be the reliable ones with a crisis has come that we’ve talked about this for years. But it’s but it’s coming in ways that are, well, I just started thinking about words that would describe I want you to think a minute what words would describe what we’re experiencing now in the country in the world.
One of the first words that came to mind for me was surreal. surreal means marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream. You feel like you’re in a movie,
you know, apocalypse movie, a movie that we got everything but zombies, and we got a few of those I think
it’s means it’s unbelievable to improbable to believe and it’s inconceivable that we could be experiencing what the whole world is experiencing today.
Another word is uncertain. If there’s anything that’s certain it’s everything’s uncertain. Today, it means not knowing beyond any doubt, dubious, unsettled and opinions of doubtful promise or outcome, questionable or suspect as to the true nature of quality. disputable, dodgy fishy, strange shaky
every time you hear something that comes out and says, this is the way it is, this is what you need to do this, someone will come and refute it and say no, that’s not right. There’s two opinions, at least in May in usually more on everything where the where mask or not where they get a vaccine or not. Whether what’s transmission of disease? Is it real? Is it manmade? Is it going to be over? Are we going to be locked down, we’re going to be opened up.
It’s just so much going on this uncertain, that we just don’t know there too. So many opinions in that qualified expert. People with letters behind their names and their their disagreement disagreeing on all this stuff. So who you’re going to believe
another word is fearful.
That means you’re full of fear.
Instead of full of faith,
it means causing are likely to cause fear or fright or alarm, especially because of the potential outcome or sunk consequences.
So one of the things that’s happened is we’ve been become a nation, not that we weren’t fearful about a lot of things anyway, but we become a nation of fear.
And in our fear, we
don’t know exactly where to turn, or what to do.
And so we do whatever seem it’s best under the
another’s confounding
to throw into confusion or perplexity.
Think that’s pretty accurate for describing our culture today to failed to discern differences between opposing forces or opposites.
So that’s a confounding situation. Do you get it? Or do you don’t get it? Do you wear it or you don’t? Where do you go or don’t go? Do you fly or not fly?
And so it’s it reminds me of a warfare. After the Civil War and renegades were raging through Missouri and Kansas and they were raping and pillaging and stealing everything they touch they destroy. We’re living in a world today where there’s good and evil right and wrong.
Right and wrong, as I said.
And so we got to get the on both sides, people that think right is wrong and those that think wrong is right good is the those are calling evil, good and good evil. And the one that Scripture says curse. It is a nation that cause good, evil and evil good. We’re living in that day today. We’re living in a day where good and evil and right and wrong and biblical concepts and commandments and laws are being trampled on and thrown aside for power and control.
And it seems like we’re helpless.
It seems like what do we do about that? Seems like they’re committing sin on camera and own in broad daylight. And there’s nothing you can do about it. Can’t Fix it, you can’t stop it. It’s a matter of fact, it’s called right and not wrong.
And it’s like you looking at something. When I was a principal of a Christian school, I had kids who could lie, and these kids can lie.
And I’d see a kid running down the hall and I’d say, hey, Johnny, no running in the hall. I wasn’t running.
I just saw you running down the hall. It wasn’t me.
He was so convincing. I was convinced by the time we were talking, he didn’t run down the hall.
If you tell it tell a lie long enough, it becomes a truth.
And,
and that’s the days we’re living in.
These are the days that trauma and souls as Bill said earlier, it’s kind of like a guy acts out and does something unbecoming. A man of God, or a man.
And you say, you just showed me what you’re really like? He says, No, I just showed you what you’re really like.
And that’s days we’re living in. And we can see what we’re really liked by the, the days that we’re living in and how we respond.
in Scripture has been really clear. And Jesus went out of his way, and so did Paul. They went out of their way to tell us how this is how you act when you’re under strain when you’re under oppression, when you’re under difficulty when you’re facing dire consequences. This is the way you live, this is your spirit, this is your heart This is your attitude call did that and Floridians. When the philippian church was having all these
rogue profits coming in, and teachers, false teachers, and he basically said, Look, you need to have the same attitude Jesus had,
who he existed in equality, equality with God, but didn’t regard that as something to be held on to but he emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and became obedient. have this attitude in you that he had think of others is more important than yourself? You slaves, Peter said, and two thirds of the world was slaves at the time. Now you submit to your masters, not only those who are good and gentle and reasonable, but all those also those who are unreasonable. Why? Why should I do that? Because this finds favor with God.
Anybody can bear up under reasonable masters. But when you bear up under unreasonable masters, this finds favor with God.
Because you’re shining a light
into their lies. I’ve called you to be a light in the world. And the darker on the darker the world a brighter the light of Christ, the more unreasonable the master, the greater is your witness to and when you’re obedient to Him. And when you serve Him, and you do it with a joyful attitude, and and do all things without grumbling and complaining.
Because the day will come when you’ll have more than you grumble about and you can handle. So decide in your heart that you’re not going to grumble, you’re not going to complain. What good does it do? Where does it take you? Then bring joy to your heart? It doesn’t bring lightness. It brings heaviness, worry, fear, anxiety, do not fear for I am with you do not anxiously look about you, I’m your God.
Surely I will help you surely our strength you surely I’ll uphold you with my righteous right hand. These are the days when we will lean on the promises of God more than ever, amen. These are the days when we say we really believe this stuff. And it’s true and we believe it or not.
Hebrews 12 and his voice shook the earth.
But now he has promised saying, yet once more, I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven. This expression yet once more denotes the removing of those things that can be shaken as of created things so that those things that cannot be shaken will remain.
Therefore since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, which we may offer to God and acceptable service was reverence and awe.
For our God is a consuming fire.
There are things that are being shaken and things that can’t be shaken. Everything we’ve done everything we do, personally and collectively for discipleship purposes for sanctification for growing in Christ. Every time we read the scriptures and spend time in a devotional book and journal and have a quiet time every time we memorize and listen to the word. Every time we fellowship together in the word. Every time we pray together, it’s all going to shape us into the image and conform us into
The image of Jesus Christ so that when we attacked we respond like he did when we were revived we revile not, when we suffer, we utter no threats. When we’re slapped on one sheet we turn the other. God’s called us to a higher lifestyle that cannot be lived in the flesh. It cannot be lived in your own wisdom, your own power, your own control.
Don’t be drunk with wine that’s dissipation be filled with a spirit. The Scripture says, Why be filled with the Spirit? By empty yourself so the Spirit can fill you?
Well, let’s look at his Bill said earlier we want to look at
before get into second Timothy three. I titled this saying the bullies are running amok.
You know, so how do you feel don’t think South Korea is failing right now.
Who’s going to protect them?
As Taiwan feeling right now?
Who’s going to protect them, all these countries that the United States has had the power and the will to protect and take care of and be their ally. All that’s going down the tubes for them.
We don’t have a
plan for that anymore.
It’s not uncertain.
It is certain.
I looked up bullies bully is one who is habitually cruel, insulting or threatening to others who are weaker, smaller, or in some way vulnerable. They’ve always been bullies.
I don’t know about you, but I had a bully in school. It was back in the days when they used to flunk kids.
And you either passed or failed. And if you fail the fifth grade, you had to go to fifth grade again.
Y’all remember those days?
Well, when I was in about the seventh grade, we had a guy that had flunked twice, and he should be in high school.
He was a big burly guy, he figured out up front that I was probably the leader of the class, as far as guys go. Not elected leader, but just the guy that seemed to be the guy that picked the teams on the playground.
So he picked me out. And every day we’d have to walk down a hill to the field where we played all our sports at the grammar school I was in. And every day he had made me carry him up the hill on my back.
And I would look in the mirror that night, say this is what I’m going to do tomorrow. I’d carry him up the hill on my back and they say he was a bully. And so that was my first experience with a bully. I had a few others along the way. Taking care taking advantage of the vulnerable to, to call someone to do something by means of force threat or coercion, or maybe executive order. But that’s what’s been let loose in our culture in our world. It’s been It’s not the first time it’s come up, it’s always come up. There’s always been wars and bullies and murder and people that are lying and calling it right. People are deceiving. And that’s the thing that sums up everything the devil does his deception making you try to believe something that’s not true, and you make and you believe it is true, or vice versa. And so they’re running amok, and a mug means an episode of certain certain sudden mass assault on people or objects, following a period of brooding that is viewed as psycho pathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures. So this is not a local thing. It’s not Orange County problem. It’s not a California problem. It’s not even a United States problem. It’s a world problem. And we’re just seeing amazing things happen and we ought to be excited about it. We ought to not be dropping our heads and say, Can you believe what we’re having to endure? who say can you believe the opportunities God’s opened up for us the people that are hungry? The people that need Christ, Bill and in Dennis in Ron met with these officers for Christ come up here, Ron. Where’s that microphone bill?
Right there. Grab that microphone, Ron. Yo,
Ron Tovar 19:42
yo, how scared I am.
Pete McKenzie 19:45
Now, this is something that needs to be shared, you know. Tell him what happened on Saturday. Keep it in five minutes.
Tell him about the condition of police officers today. And once you guys
Ron Tovar 20:07
okay?
We found
a vein of a culture that is very needy,
And, and 38 of them signed up 38 of them signed up to join for 4M meetings. So we’re putting this together. And there’s a few guys in here that are in law enforcement or first responders that we’ve called on if there’s any here we’d like to talk to you
of the Christians and an honor for me to be here because many of you are support or this or that ministries. And like I met dawn today, and he’s got that on fire thing going there. And there’s little fires all over the place. Before him is a little bit different. We’re trying to get it together, get us strong, and each other learn to depend on each other in prayer in groups of four, and then go out and win souls. winning souls is the whole deal. And just imagine what for m can do with that way of doing an intimate relationship with Jesus, and
and eventually going out and winning souls and touching the other
Bill Kauble 23:30
officers.
Ron Tovar 23:32
God bless you all.
Pete McKenzie 23:33
God bless you. And thank you for that. We’re extremely excited about what God’s doing.
But the point of the matter is, it’s not just police officers that are committing suicide. We live in a day today was being shaken and those things that can be shaken are being shaken.
You know, I taught on this A number of years ago I’ve mentioned it in Scripture in teaching on various occasions, but I thought I’d share it with you and remind you of it again today in Second Timothy three. Paul was coaching Timothy up in first and second Timothy, Paul knew at the end of this this letter that he’s writing Timothy, he said, Look, I fought the good fight. I’ve run the race. I finished the course. I’m going out of here, Timothy, I’m leaving it in your hands. And so he’s coaching him up in these two letters. false teachers had come in and they were ravaging the church. And but he said, realize this in the last days difficult, hard to handle and hard to bear times will come. Why will that be for people will be lovers of self lovers of money. boastful, arrogant, revisers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, and this jumped out at me irreconcilable malicious gossips, without self control, brutal haters of good and those who do good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power. Stay away from these kind of guys. Their false teachers, they’re coming in and they have looked quiet on the outside. Like Jesus said, the Pharisees you are Why did separate, separate groups on the outside, but inside your dead men’s bones. And that’s what was going on. They did everything for appearance, these false teachers as they were coming in and ravaging the church, just as Janice and jambres opposed Moses, and we don’t know who these two guys were, they assume they’re gyptian magicians that pose Moses. Remember when Moses went to see Pharaoh when he threw his cane down, it turned into a snake. Pharaoh said, well look at this, and they threw their canes down these magicians turned into snakes. And what happened? Moses, like ate their snake. So don’t throw your snake down in front of Moses. That’s what that’s what they’re as a moral that story. So these men also oppose the truth. They’re, they’re depraved in their minds, they reject it in regard to their faith. But they will not make further progress with their folly will be obvious to everyone. And that’s what’s going on now. The folly that’s going on in the shenanigans that are being held, whether it be an elections or anything else. It’s everybody sees it. I mean, on both sides of the aisle, they see it, no matter what your stance is, they see it, they see the folly of what’s happening. They see the error of what’s happening. But some embrace that and think it’s right, not wrong. Anything that you did accomplish your objective is fair game is right. It’s not wrong. Where it’s deception, or lies or murder, or any other sin that helps him accomplish their objective than that. That’s considered right in there. They system and they have a seared conscience. They don’t only don’t believe it’s wrong, they feel good about doing it. Scripture warns about those kind of folks. Now then, after he’s coached Timothy, as he’s coaching him up, he says, Timothy, you followed my teaching, you followed my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, love and perseverance, my persecutions and sufferings. So it’s, it’s in Michael Lowe shared that his dad did his eulogy. His dad had said, you know, Michael, you teach what you know, but you reproduce who you are. That’s what Paul is saying to Timothy here. Timothy, you’ve, you’ve learned from my teaching, but not only my teaching, but my character. You’ve watched me you’ve watched my conduct you watch how I responded, you watch treated people. You watch when I got slapped on one cheek what I did. And if you watch Jesus Christ, you just go, how could a guy do that? How could a guy hang on the cross and say, Father, forgive the guys that just put the nails in my hands and my feet? My conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, and love and persecutions.
But you know what, Timothy and all of them God rescued me. Timothy, be encouraged, you’re going to go through some hardship. You don’t have to go through a pandemic and all that were going on now in the world, to have hardship and difficulty and challenges. You’re going to have them just being in the church period. It’s about battleground that church is. And Satan’s always got his emissaries, you build a castle for God and the devil will build a chapel right next to it. Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. You live in a fallen world. We’re going to be persecuted. It’s going to go on until we go to heaven. People are not going to want to see you shine light into their darkness. See, the one thing that scripture does is it reveals our sin. We’ll see that clearer here in a minute. But here’s something that’s that we need to make peace with this reality. evil man and imposters will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. When you see evil man going from bad to worse, and so we looked at Psalm 73 about a month ago. Surely God is good. Is it Israel. But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling for I envied the wicked and there was no pains in their death. They had they take advantage of people and, and live off of other people. They’re parasites. They were their necklaces, their pride around their neck. And they’re covered with the violence of garments of violence. And so he was going on about how he just said, This is not right, this is wrong. How can they be getting away with this? This is no justice. This is not fair. And he then he got down to verse 15, and 16. And then 17. He says, If I’d have continued to think like this a little bit trade the honor of those who’ve gone before me, it bothered me, it disturbed me. I was upset until I came into the sanctuary of God and then I perceive their end. And then for the next several verses, he just talked about where they’re headed. The slippery slope of these evil men were on how quickly they will fall, how they’ll spend eternity separated from God and hail. And so instead of wishing that on them, we should pray that they would repent. We would pray that like Jesus prayed on the cross Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they’re doing. And I think that ought to be over the Supreme Court. That ought to be over the Congress. Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t understand the eternal consequences of what’s going on and what’s happening. But we do we’re men of God, we men of the word Jesus is Lord of our life. We’re men of prayer, we spend time in his presence we do we see, we know what the truth is. God has shown us how we should respond. But if you’re going to watch the news, and you’re going to look at the bad news, which is you’re going to walk away When’s the last time you walked away and said, Boy, that was a blessing that really edified me man that built me up. That encouraged my heart. You can’t do it, you walk away want to kick a hole in the TV sets, you want to go shoot something or somebody you pray fire down out of heaven. Like john and James were saying to Jesus, when they had these guys, and they were casting out demons and you want us to call a fire out of heaven on? Geez, remember Jesus said, you do not know what spirit you are off. Snow we do. That’s not who we are. You are a spirit, that’s a Holy Spirit. You be filled with the Spirit. Don’t be filled with one that’s dissipation be filled with the Spirit, the Spirit of love and joy and peace and goodness and kindness and gentleness and self control the spirit of hope, and joy. That’s what you draw. And if you’re not full of joy and hope, if you’re not full of patience, and goodness and kindness and gentleness and self control, it’s your fault. You’re not spending time in his presence. You’re forgetting who you are. You’re a man of God.
You love Jesus Christ, you find your identity in him. You want to spend the rest of your life learning to become just like him. Just like him means acting like camera responding like him thinking like him speaking like him. That’s what the world needs today. They need men speaking in terms of Jesus speaking in the attitude of Jesus they need looks like Jesus gave Peter when that rooster crow, look of grace and forgiveness that broke Peter. And that’s what it’ll do when you’re guilty and sin and shame and the God gives you that look, that look of forgiveness and compassion, that look of knowing our weakness and being gracious with us and merciful. God wants men like that. They fight his battles. We don’t fight them in the halls of Congress. We need Congress, we need government. Think today we wouldn’t but but we need that every country does. We need laws, we need boundaries. We need things to keep everything under control. But that’s not where the battles are fought and won. The battle the fog this morning up in that room, and those guys calling in on the phone and man are going to prayer. The battles fought in our hearts. It’s followed in our minds, it’s followed in ourselves. It’s followed in US conquering ourselves, submitting surrendering, giving ourselves to Christ, finding our confidence in him. putting our lives on the rock that can’t be shaken. Everything else is shaking out God shaking us to see what if we’re on the rock or not. And sometimes you feel like you’re sinking. And then you just pray that God would rescue you pray, God would lift you up, you save you and he says, Okay, I’m going to open up gorgeous. Let’s give voyagers a hand for letting us come back in here.
And we’re praying that Divi free let us back in on Wednesday sometime soon. You however continuing the things that you’ve learned and become convinced of knowing of whom you’ve learned them, you know what, Timothy, you lots of you, a lot of people have invested in your life. And I’m looking at a bunch of guys this morning and a bunch of guys listening on the streaming video. I’m talking to guys that have been in the word you’ve been taught. You’ve said under Chuck Smith, you’ve said under Chuck’s window, you said under great teachers. You’ve seen him on TV, you’ve heard him on podcasts. You’ve read their books. You come to men’s group. You’ve been taught, you’ve been rooted, you’ve been established in the word and built up in the faith. Now act like it live like it. Sacrifice like it. Humble yourself like it turned the other cheek like it. That’s what he’s saying here. Continuing the things you’ve learned and become convinced of what are you convinced? you’re convinced of Jesus Christ in the Gospel. Those are the two things that cannot be shaken, they’ll never change. You convinced that you’re a sinner, and you’re saved by grace through faith, and that’s not of yourselves, it’s a gift of God. You can this that you need to be crucified with Christ, so that you no longer live but Christ lives in you you convinced that you need to abide in Christ. And if you abide in Christ and His Word abides in you, you’re convinced that you’ll bear much fruit.
See, without this, we’re nothing we’re not salt. We’re not light, we’re worthless. What good are we? If we can’t turn the other cheek? If we can’t pray for our enemies and bless those who persecute us, what good are we to Christ, what goes away to the world? there are too few like us out there. There are too few, even in the church that are living the life that life
we’re not living a life just to attend and show up and read our Bible here. And there we’re living the life to be immersed in the spirit in marinated in the word in memorizing and listening to it and studying it and meditating on it. So that it shapes us, it forms us It changes our hearts, our minds, our attitudes, our worldview. So we don’t see people the way they are, we see them as they will be and could be when they come to know Jesus Christ. When they come to embrace the gospel when they’re forgiven, and they love Christ, because they’ve been given such grace and mercy and he’s had compassion on them. He’s forgiven them, of a lot of tough stuff of a lot of evil stuff that they’ve been into a lot of laws and broken a lot of commandments, they’ve not obeyed. And then it comes down and says in verse 16, All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction for training and righteousness. teaching you guys have been taught, you’ve read the scriptures, you can probably quote versus some scriptures good for that. It’s good for teaching and doctrine is for reproof, that means you’re doing something evil and wrong or disobedient, and you’re reproved or that you’re brought to a place of repentance, you’re brought to restoration, as what it means in correction, you’re reproved in the scriptures good for correction. That means you’re going in one direction and you restore them, you bring them back, you put back in the healthy place, what became unhealthy. You put them into a restaurant, or it’s like a pastor that falls in the pulpit. Charles Spurgeon said that man should go and sit on the back row until his repentance becomes as well known as his sin. He doesn’t dictate the terms of his own restoration, but he is restored in the church restores him, they they correct him, they bring him back to where he was even better than he was. So that’s what’s in God’s heart. God’s at the heart is there’s no failures in God’s economy. God brings all men back to where they should be where He created him to be. He brings them back to health and spiritual health and vigor and forgiveness. He gives them joy of knowing that they’re forgiven, they’re going to heaven. He gives them grace, unmerited favor. He restores them, he reconciles them, He forgives him, he redeems him. That’s what he does. He doesn’t come into the town like the Renegades did and burn and rape and steal and destroy everything they touch. It’s going on it always has gone on it’s going on today. But that’s not what God has called us to be. And that’s not what God is. He’s called us for such a time as this is Esther said for such a time as this
reining in righteousness. You have to be trained to be good, to be right to be wholesome, to be holy. It takes training it takes failure and repentance and brought back and it takes stumbling around and someone stopping and correcting us and saying this is a way walked out in it. That’s what fellowship and brotherhood is all about. That’s reason we come together. We love each other. We correct each other. We were abused each other and recruit, reprove each other. That’s what Christian fellowship is all about. We speak the truth in love. We speak the truth and grace and truth. And that’s what we have to learn to do with each other. Not rebuke and leave them in a pile. But rebuke and restore, reprove and restore, reprove and give grace proof, reprove and forgive. And bring them back to forgiveness, and wholeness and health and joy, and peace and all the fruit of the Spirit. Why is why is he talking about scripture being profitable for all this? And then he finishes up he started saying in the end times, we’re going to have terrible men. They’re going to love themselves. They’re going to love money. They’re going to be boastful, arrogant, proud, unloving, unholy, unforgiving, irreconcilable, haters of those who do good. He started out this chapter with that, but here’s how he ends it up. So that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. Would that be you? Are you the man of God? He’s talking about? If I point at you today and go man of God, do you feel unworthy? Do you feel like Well, that’s not me? Well, if you followed me around last week or two, you wouldn’t say that good scene how to treat my wife, she treats me and how I respond to that view and say that, here’s what’s been coming out of my mouth, he wouldn’t call me a man of God. It’s time for men of God to take a stand, Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, act like man, be strong, do everything in love that set time that we’re in now. So time for men of God to be men of god, it’s time for men of God to be in the word be in fellowship, be in prayer, it’s time for us to be looking out and seeing what those divine appointments are. started going out with my buddy Lee, and golf and we decided we let’s go SCO us to some so they’ll put a twosome with us and we’ll get a chance to meet new guys and buy them the men’s group share the gospel with them. So that the man of God, that term is only used twice, once in First Timothy and the other right here in Second Timothy, by Paul, in the New Testament, it’s used a lot in the Old Testament, they would call it prophets, men, a god. preacher, teacher. So the man of God that would be us can be adequate. That means you’re up to the task has been given you adequate. And if there’s anything that’s been describing the leaders in churches, and you’ve heard me share this before, they’re insecure, they’re inadequate, they’re isolated, they’re lonely and fearful, sad that we’re doing great.
It’s easy for a spiritual leader or a pastor or missionary to feel inadequate for the tasks that we have today. It’s easy to feel that way. But you’re only feeling that way. Because you’re looking at yourself, your gifts, your power, your patience, your abilities, instead of looking at Christ, and abiding in Christ, and letting the word about in you so you’ll bear much fruit. And that’s when we get off base, we get exhausted spiritually, because we’re not walking in the Spirit, because we’re not ministering in the spirit, because we can’t take a punch. We can’t be disappointed. We can’t be hurt, where we can be. And we get low and discouraged. And there’s a lot out there in the Christian life and a lot people, missionaries and pastors just like those policemen who are going through PTSD and suicide and drugs and alcohol and broken marriages, who’ve been spit on culture. And they’re not perfect. They don’t do everything right. I mean, if you were in some of the pressure situations they’re in and find themselves in every day, do you would you always make the right decision? Would you always do it right? Would you always stand up and do the right thing? No, you wouldn’t and I wouldn’t. And that’s what men are going through today equipped for every good work everything God has called you to do. Being a husband is a good work. Being a father grandfather. It’s a good work. Being in a forum group and encouraged Other guys, that’s a good work, serving and helping people giving to the median. Let your money account for that stuff that’s going to be good and eternal. Lift burdens, help out. And this in the poor, invest in churches and ministries that are sharing the gospel and seeing God’s blessing and blessing others so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. So that would be us today. Keep a right perspective. Stay in the spirit, stay in the word. If you want to stay in the spirit. You got to nurture that by being in the word and prayer. Do it personally do it collectively. God has given us everything we need. What is God not given us that we need to bear up under everything we’re going through today. He’s given us everything. There’s nothing you need, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically, financially, that God won’t provide that God won’t take care of the God won’t bless you with. He’s done it. We can’t say God if he had just given us a little few more Bibles on our phones. If you just given us a few more commentaries, for giving us some more churches in worship music, we’re going to stand before God and we’re going to stand there in the righteousness of Christ. And we will answer for what we’ve done the life we’ve lived the ministry that we’ve done and had. And it’s all for the gospel, but we all do it in different ways. But cause we have different gifts, different opportunities. But one day will stand and we want to hear him say Well done, good and faithful servant, amen. Enter into the joy of your master, there’s a joy in the master in heaven. It’s coming. But we’re not there yet. And I’m glad I’m not. Maybe some that I’m not today, I have opportunities today, I can still witness and pray and share and help and give and serve. When I die and go to heaven, I won’t be able to do what I can do today. So let’s redeem the time. And let’s be the man of God for such a time as this has to be the guys God’s called us to be. Let’s be adequate and equipped for every good work. Let’s encourage each other to love and good deeds and all the Moore’s we see that they appear. Can I get an amen from the congregation, you enter out here among the streaming video they’re saying in let’s go to prayer.
Father, we thank you for this time together, we thank you that we can gather again together and encourage each other. It’s just encouraging being together. It’s encouraging, knowing that you’ve opened the door again. But thank you for what you’ve done when we hadn’t been together. Thank you for the call and prayers. Thank you for the streaming video. Thank you for the forum groups that are functioning and growing. Thank you for all that you’ve done and all that you want to do in the days that he had helped us collectively to be the kind of men that attract other men to Christ. Help us personally and individually be the kind of men and kind of husbands and fathers kind of friends, neighbors. It would attract others to Christ and make them hungry. Thanks for the opportunities you’ve given us. Thanks for life. Thanks for our brothers that have gone on to be with you during the last year
because of COVID and other things. And so we want to worship and praise you and give you all the glory by the way that we serve you and honor you. In times such as this will give you the credit in Jesus name And all God’s men said amen, give give’em heaven guys
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