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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to simple man sermons, the preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the good
news of Jesus Christ. Let us not grow weary in
doing good, as often happens. You know, one scripture leads
(00:21):
to another and leads to another, and by God's gray
soon there's enough for a sermon. Let us not grow
weary in doing good. You'll find that in Galatians six.
If I'm being honest, I've been a bit weary lately,
working quite a bit long hours, a lot going on
just in life. And it's a wonderful thing that God
(00:44):
gives us the beauty of scripture. His word is a
lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.
This verse is a great comfort. Let us not grow
weary in doing good. That would not have been written
if it was not a temptation for us to grow
weary in doing good. Let me read the run of
(01:05):
the passage. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked.
For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
For he who sows in the flesh, will of the
flesh will reap corruption. But he who sows to the spirit,
(01:28):
will of the spirit reap everlasting life. Let us not
grow weary while doing good, for in due season we
shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore we
have opportunity. Let us do good to all, especially to
those who are of the household of faith. Now, there's
(01:52):
lots of times in life where we can grow weary,
lots of times where we can be disheartened in great tragedy,
great loss, and great tribulation. Sometimes we can grow weary
in an abundant season, though certainly is a temptation this here,
let us not grow weary while doing good in good things.
(02:16):
We can become too distracted, loose sight of what's really important.
From Deuteronomy six. When you have eaten and are full,
then beware least you forget the Lord who brought you
out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage.
This comes not long after a very famous word that
(02:37):
Jesus says again in the New Testament that he quotes
from Deuteronomy. Hero Israel, the Lord our God. The Lord
is one. You shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart, with all your soul, and with all
your strength. And these words which I command you today
shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently
to your children. You shall talk of them when you
sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,
(02:58):
when you lie down, and when you rise up. You
shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall
write them on the doorposts of your house and on
your gates. So it shall be when the Lord your
God brings you into the land of which he swore
to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give
you large and beautiful cities which you did not build,
(03:19):
houses full of good things which you did not fill.
You not wells which you did not dig, vineyards and
olive trees which you did not plant. When you have
eaten and are full, then beware, least you forget the
Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage. You shall fear the
Lord your God and serve him. Now, this is not
when the people were in a desolate land and a
(03:41):
barren land, thirsty, hungry, forty years wandering. They were empted
in many ways there too, and failed many times there too.
But this is talking about beware. When you are in
abundance be where when you have good things, when you're
round it by good things, then beware at least you
(04:02):
forget the Lord your God again, as often happens, one
passage makes me think of another from proverb twenty give
me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with the food
allotted to me. Least I be full and deny you
and say who is the Lord? Or at least I
be poor and steal and profane the name of my
God the main point of thinking today. Least I be
(04:26):
full and deny you and say who is the Lord?
That should be a scary thought to all of us.
There's a real temptation in this world to think I've
worked hard, I've done this, I've done that, and forget
about God because we think that we have somehow earned
(04:46):
these things by our own greatness, which is folly. For
the Bible says, what do you have that you did
not first receive? You are because God made you have
of only what God gives you. Period, you don't make
anything xnlio out of nothing. Just take a very basic, rudimentary,
(05:12):
fundamental job of mankind, an important one a farmer. The
farmer might put a seed in the soil and put
water on it. But it's by God's grace. The farmer
didn't make the soil out of nothing Exnelio. God made
the soil. Farmer didn't make the seed. God made the seed.
(05:34):
God designed the plant to grow in the way that
it does. The farmer didn't create water. He's using all
of those resources that were made by God. The strength
that he has to plant, the seed given by God.
The wisdom he has to hook up a plow given
by God. The ability to do those things given by God.
(05:57):
For any profession, the same to be made, the same
thought and wisdom, any understanding you have, any wisdom you
have given by God, any strength of your arm that
you have given by God. Anything that you do is
by God's leave, by God's grace, meaning he allows you
to do it, He gives you the ability to do it.
(06:21):
Like the parable of the talents to him who has
more shall be given and he will have an abundance.
But you can only use what God has given you.
You can't use what God hasn't given you, because God
is a creator of all good things. This is from
Deuteronomy eight. Then you say in your heart, my power
and my might, of my hand have gained me this wealth.
(06:45):
And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it
is he who gives you power to get wealth, pretty
black and white right there. So when you have a
good things, beautiful things, these wonderful things in life, you
had better remember. I had better remember. And I'm preaching
(07:05):
this because this came to mind because it's about me.
Like this is me. Recently. I've been working two jobs,
have been very busy. I do not want to fall
into temptation to think that my whatever, awesomeness, greatness, any
of that is why I have these things. I have
(07:26):
these things by the grace of God. And I had
better remember that. And I had better remember that. It
is God who gives me strength. It is God who
gives me wisdom. It is God who gives me the
ability to get up every day. It's God who gives
me that self discipline to wake up at four am
and put my feet to the ground and get to work.
(07:47):
It's not because I'm so anything. It's because God is
so good to me. And whatever you're doing, whatever your
profession is, if you're any seeds season of abundance talking
about compared to the Joneses down the road, the next
white picket fence. I'm talking about Compared to most people
today and especially most people throughout history, we are a wealthy,
prosperous people and nation. And we had better remember that
(08:11):
it's God who gives all good things richly to enjoy.
It is God who gives us all things richly to enjoy,
not you, not the might of your hand. Now, God
makes the rainfall and the justiny unjust alike. But any
good thing that anybody has is a gift from God.
They may take it for granted. But you and I Christian,
you and I men of God, we had better not
take it for granted. And again I preach to myself,
(08:35):
had better be on guard in my heart and my soul.
At least I think that somehow I have this apart
from God. I have nothing apart from God. I could
not draw one breath apart from God, and either can you.
It is a great temptation to turn away from the
Lord in wealth and in abundance. We see a very
clear illustration of that in Matthew chapter nineteen. But when
(08:59):
the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful,
for he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to his
disciples assuredly, I say to you that it is hard
for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
And again I say to you, it is easier for
a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
(09:25):
This should shake us up a bit. It certainly shook
the disciples up a bit. I'll continue reading. When the
disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, who then
can be saved? But Jesus looked at them and said
to them, with men, it is impossible, But with God
all things are possible. With men it is impossible. But
(09:51):
with God all things are possible. Not just about today's teaching,
but talk about a lamp unto our feet, in a
light onto our path, a beautiful reassurance of the world
of God that comes in handy in so many places
in life. With men, it is impossible, but with God
all things are possible. We see here the rich man's abundance,
(10:13):
having him literally turn away from Jesus. Let us not
be that man. Let us be the camel going through
the eye of a needle. If we are in fact rich,
I mean rich compared to like Bill Gates. What do
you think this man had earthly possessions compared to what
most of us have today. I'm talking about a heart
condition thinking that stuff and things is more important than
(10:37):
Almighty God, who gives you to stuff and the things.
We think of a lot of times pagans and days
of your as ridiculous for worshiping things than they were.
It's a ridiculous thing to do, but we often do
that today. We worship tangible things. We worship and serve
things more than the giver of the things. Of today,
(11:02):
people worshiping the earth and nature, which is just a
neo paganism. It's what they did the back in the day.
They worship the sun. Now today people think that the
climate is going to save you, or recycling is going
to save you. All that stuff can be good. You
should be a good steward of the earth. We're called
to be a good steward. But don't worship it. It's
not going to save you. Christ is going to save you.
Let us not be a worshiper of things and stuff
(11:26):
or tangible assets. The earth and all that is in
it is just it's just a tiny, visible, touchable part
of God's magnitude, beauty, and creation. Let us worship him,
the creator of all good things, and the one who
gives us all good things. Man shall not live by
bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds
(11:47):
from the mouth of God. This is what Jesus says
when he is tempted by Satan in the wilderness. Well,
let us go back to Deuteronomy eight, where Jesus is quoting.
We read a piece of that earlier. Let us read
it in toto, the chapter of Deuteronomy eight. Every commandment
which I command you today, you must be careful to
(12:08):
observe that you may live and multiply, and go in
and possess the land which the Lord swore to your father's.
And you shall remember that the Lord your God led
you all the way these forty years in the wilderness
to humble you and to test you to know what
was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments
or not. So he humbled you, allowed you to hunger,
and fed you with mannut, which you did not know,
(12:29):
nor did your fathers know, that he might make you
know that man shall not live by bread alone, but
man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth
of the Lord. Your garments did not wear out on you,
nor did your foot swell these forty years. You should
know in your heart that as a man chastens his son,
(12:51):
so the Lord your God chasens you. Therefore you shall
keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk
in his ways and to fear him. For the God
is bringing you into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of fountains and springs that flow out
of valleys and hills, A land of wheat and barley,
(13:14):
of vines and fig trees of pomegranates, a land of
olive oil and honey, A land in which you will
eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing,
a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose
hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and
are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God
(13:38):
for the good land which he has given you. Beware
and do not forget the Lord your God by not
keeping his commandments, his judgments, and his statutes, which I
command you today. Least when you have eaten and are full,
and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them, and
when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver
(13:59):
and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have
is multiplied. When your heart is lifted up and you
forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt from the house of Bondage, who
led you through that great and terrible wilderness in which
were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty land where there
(14:22):
was no water, who brought water for you out of
the flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with
manna which your fathers did not know, that he might
humble you, and that he might test you to do
good in the end. Then you say in your heart,
(14:42):
my power and my might have gained me this wealth.
And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it
is he who gives you power to get wealth, that
he might establish his covenant, which he swore to your father's.
As it is this day, then it shall be if you,
(15:03):
by any means forget the Lord your God and follow
other gods and serve them and worship them. I testify
against you this day that you shall surely perish, as
the nations which the Lord destroyed before you. So you
shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the
voice of the Lord your God. Whatever season, always remember God.
(15:27):
If you're going through a trial, go to God. But
also in our abundance and our wealth, and our prosperity,
and all the good things that God has given us,
let us not forget God. Let us not think it's
by our own anything that we have good things From
(15:48):
one Timothy command those who are rich in this present
age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches,
but in the Living God, who gives us richly all
things to enjoy.
Hello, and welcome to simple man sermons, the preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the good
news of Jesus Christ. Let us not grow weary in
doing good, as often happens. You know, one scripture leads
(00:21):
to another and leads to another, and by God's gray
soon there's enough for a sermon. Let us not grow
weary in doing good. You'll find that in Galatians six.
If I'm being honest, I've been a bit weary lately,
working quite a bit long hours, a lot going on
just in life. And it's a wonderful thing that God
(00:44):
gives us the beauty of scripture. His word is a
lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.
This verse is a great comfort. Let us not grow
weary in doing good. That would not have been written
if it was not a temptation for us to grow
weary in doing good. Let me read the run of
(01:05):
the passage. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked.
For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
For he who sows in the flesh, will of the
flesh will reap corruption. But he who sows to the spirit,
(01:28):
will of the spirit reap everlasting life. Let us not
grow weary while doing good, for in due season we
shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore we
have opportunity. Let us do good to all, especially to
those who are of the household of faith. Now, there's
(01:52):
lots of times in life where we can grow weary,
lots of times where we can be disheartened in great tragedy,
great loss, and great tribulation. Sometimes we can grow weary
in an abundant season, though certainly is a temptation this here,
let us not grow weary while doing good in good things.
(02:16):
We can become too distracted, loose sight of what's really important.
From Deuteronomy six. When you have eaten and are full,
then beware least you forget the Lord who brought you
out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage.
This comes not long after a very famous word that
(02:37):
Jesus says again in the New Testament that he quotes
from Deuteronomy. Hero Israel, the Lord our God. The Lord
is one. You shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart, with all your soul, and with all
your strength. And these words which I command you today
shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently
to your children. You shall talk of them when you
sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,
(02:58):
when you lie down, and when you rise up. You
shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall
write them on the doorposts of your house and on
your gates. So it shall be when the Lord your
God brings you into the land of which he swore
to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give
you large and beautiful cities which you did not build,
(03:19):
houses full of good things which you did not fill.
You not wells which you did not dig, vineyards and
olive trees which you did not plant. When you have
eaten and are full, then beware, least you forget the
Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage. You shall fear the
Lord your God and serve him. Now, this is not
when the people were in a desolate land and a
(03:41):
barren land, thirsty, hungry, forty years wandering. They were empted
in many ways there too, and failed many times there too.
But this is talking about beware. When you are in
abundance be where when you have good things, when you're
round it by good things, then beware at least you
(04:02):
forget the Lord your God again, as often happens, one
passage makes me think of another from proverb twenty give
me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with the food
allotted to me. Least I be full and deny you
and say who is the Lord? Or at least I
be poor and steal and profane the name of my
God the main point of thinking today. Least I be
(04:26):
full and deny you and say who is the Lord?
That should be a scary thought to all of us.
There's a real temptation in this world to think I've
worked hard, I've done this, I've done that, and forget
about God because we think that we have somehow earned
(04:46):
these things by our own greatness, which is folly. For
the Bible says, what do you have that you did
not first receive? You are because God made you have
of only what God gives you. Period, you don't make
anything xnlio out of nothing. Just take a very basic, rudimentary,
(05:12):
fundamental job of mankind, an important one a farmer. The
farmer might put a seed in the soil and put
water on it. But it's by God's grace. The farmer
didn't make the soil out of nothing Exnelio. God made
the soil. Farmer didn't make the seed. God made the seed.
(05:34):
God designed the plant to grow in the way that
it does. The farmer didn't create water. He's using all
of those resources that were made by God. The strength
that he has to plant, the seed given by God.
The wisdom he has to hook up a plow given
by God. The ability to do those things given by God.
(05:57):
For any profession, the same to be made, the same
thought and wisdom, any understanding you have, any wisdom you
have given by God, any strength of your arm that
you have given by God. Anything that you do is
by God's leave, by God's grace, meaning he allows you
to do it, He gives you the ability to do it.
(06:21):
Like the parable of the talents to him who has
more shall be given and he will have an abundance.
But you can only use what God has given you.
You can't use what God hasn't given you, because God
is a creator of all good things. This is from
Deuteronomy eight. Then you say in your heart, my power
and my might, of my hand have gained me this wealth.
(06:45):
And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it
is he who gives you power to get wealth, pretty
black and white right there. So when you have a
good things, beautiful things, these wonderful things in life, you
had better remember. I had better remember. And I'm preaching
(07:05):
this because this came to mind because it's about me.
Like this is me. Recently. I've been working two jobs,
have been very busy. I do not want to fall
into temptation to think that my whatever, awesomeness, greatness, any
of that is why I have these things. I have
(07:26):
these things by the grace of God. And I had
better remember that. And I had better remember that. It
is God who gives me strength. It is God who
gives me wisdom. It is God who gives me the
ability to get up every day. It's God who gives
me that self discipline to wake up at four am
and put my feet to the ground and get to work.
(07:47):
It's not because I'm so anything. It's because God is
so good to me. And whatever you're doing, whatever your
profession is, if you're any seeds season of abundance talking
about compared to the Joneses down the road, the next
white picket fence. I'm talking about Compared to most people
today and especially most people throughout history, we are a wealthy,
prosperous people and nation. And we had better remember that
(08:11):
it's God who gives all good things richly to enjoy.
It is God who gives us all things richly to enjoy,
not you, not the might of your hand. Now, God
makes the rainfall and the justiny unjust alike. But any
good thing that anybody has is a gift from God.
They may take it for granted. But you and I Christian,
you and I men of God, we had better not
take it for granted. And again I preach to myself,
(08:35):
had better be on guard in my heart and my soul.
At least I think that somehow I have this apart
from God. I have nothing apart from God. I could
not draw one breath apart from God, and either can you.
It is a great temptation to turn away from the
Lord in wealth and in abundance. We see a very
clear illustration of that in Matthew chapter nineteen. But when
(08:59):
the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful,
for he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to his
disciples assuredly, I say to you that it is hard
for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
And again I say to you, it is easier for
a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
(09:25):
This should shake us up a bit. It certainly shook
the disciples up a bit. I'll continue reading. When the
disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, who then
can be saved? But Jesus looked at them and said
to them, with men, it is impossible, But with God
all things are possible. With men it is impossible. But
(09:51):
with God all things are possible. Not just about today's teaching,
but talk about a lamp unto our feet, in a
light onto our path, a beautiful reassurance of the world
of God that comes in handy in so many places
in life. With men, it is impossible, but with God
all things are possible. We see here the rich man's abundance,
(10:13):
having him literally turn away from Jesus. Let us not
be that man. Let us be the camel going through
the eye of a needle. If we are in fact rich,
I mean rich compared to like Bill Gates. What do
you think this man had earthly possessions compared to what
most of us have today. I'm talking about a heart
condition thinking that stuff and things is more important than
(10:37):
Almighty God, who gives you to stuff and the things.
We think of a lot of times pagans and days
of your as ridiculous for worshiping things than they were.
It's a ridiculous thing to do, but we often do
that today. We worship tangible things. We worship and serve
things more than the giver of the things. Of today,
(11:02):
people worshiping the earth and nature, which is just a
neo paganism. It's what they did the back in the day.
They worship the sun. Now today people think that the
climate is going to save you, or recycling is going
to save you. All that stuff can be good. You
should be a good steward of the earth. We're called
to be a good steward. But don't worship it. It's
not going to save you. Christ is going to save you.
Let us not be a worshiper of things and stuff
(11:26):
or tangible assets. The earth and all that is in
it is just it's just a tiny, visible, touchable part
of God's magnitude, beauty, and creation. Let us worship him,
the creator of all good things, and the one who
gives us all good things. Man shall not live by
bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds
(11:47):
from the mouth of God. This is what Jesus says
when he is tempted by Satan in the wilderness. Well,
let us go back to Deuteronomy eight, where Jesus is quoting.
We read a piece of that earlier. Let us read
it in toto, the chapter of Deuteronomy eight. Every commandment
which I command you today, you must be careful to
(12:08):
observe that you may live and multiply, and go in
and possess the land which the Lord swore to your father's.
And you shall remember that the Lord your God led
you all the way these forty years in the wilderness
to humble you and to test you to know what
was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments
or not. So he humbled you, allowed you to hunger,
and fed you with mannut, which you did not know,
(12:29):
nor did your fathers know, that he might make you
know that man shall not live by bread alone, but
man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth
of the Lord. Your garments did not wear out on you,
nor did your foot swell these forty years. You should
know in your heart that as a man chastens his son,
(12:51):
so the Lord your God chasens you. Therefore you shall
keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk
in his ways and to fear him. For the God
is bringing you into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of fountains and springs that flow out
of valleys and hills, A land of wheat and barley,
(13:14):
of vines and fig trees of pomegranates, a land of
olive oil and honey, A land in which you will
eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing,
a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose
hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and
are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God
(13:38):
for the good land which he has given you. Beware
and do not forget the Lord your God by not
keeping his commandments, his judgments, and his statutes, which I
command you today. Least when you have eaten and are full,
and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them, and
when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver
(13:59):
and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have
is multiplied. When your heart is lifted up and you
forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt from the house of Bondage, who
led you through that great and terrible wilderness in which
were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty land where there
(14:22):
was no water, who brought water for you out of
the flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with
manna which your fathers did not know, that he might
humble you, and that he might test you to do
good in the end. Then you say in your heart,
(14:42):
my power and my might have gained me this wealth.
And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it
is he who gives you power to get wealth, that
he might establish his covenant, which he swore to your father's.
As it is this day, then it shall be if you,
(15:03):
by any means forget the Lord your God and follow
other gods and serve them and worship them. I testify
against you this day that you shall surely perish, as
the nations which the Lord destroyed before you. So you
shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the
voice of the Lord your God. Whatever season, always remember God.
(15:27):
If you're going through a trial, go to God. But
also in our abundance and our wealth, and our prosperity,
and all the good things that God has given us,
let us not forget God. Let us not think it's
by our own anything that we have good things From
(15:48):
one Timothy command those who are rich in this present
age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches,
but in the Living God, who gives us richly all
things to enjoy.
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