August 11, 2025 • 42 mins
Pastor Lance continues in 1 Thessalonians, The Model Life. He moves on to the Model Life of Adoration this week with his message exhorting us to live a life that adores the Lord and helps us understand how to do so.
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Take your Bible, if you would, and turn with me to 1st
Thessalonians chapter 5 to make our way toward the end of this
wonderful epistle. We have been challenged, we've
been encouraged, we've been convicted as we look at what the
word of the Lord has to say and in order for us to be the model
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church that God wants us to be and be the model leaders that
God wants us to be. And the be the model followers
and model friends. We must live the model life.
And that's what chapter 4 and chapter 5 are all about.
So we told you that there were 6words that make up the model
life. The first word is abstinence.
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That's in verses 1 to 8 of chapter 4.
And that is that the model life abstains from sexual immorality.
That's number one. Number two, in verses 9 to 12 of
chapter 4, the next word is aspiration, and that is the
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model life aspires to a life of charity and sensitivity.
And then the next word followingthat is anticipation, verses 13
to 18 of First Thessalonians 4, which the model life anticipates
the return of deity. And then in chapter 5, verses 1
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to 11, the next word is alertness.
For the model life is alert to the world's destiny and then
their responsibility in light ofthat.
And then you come to the next set of verses and verses 12 and
following, and the model life is1 of adaptability.
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The model life adapts within God's wonderful family to the
membership, to the leadership. So there's sweet fellowship
within the body of Christ. Today we come to the last word
that describes the model life, and that is adoration.
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For the model life adores their God continually, unashamedly,
unreservedly. The model life adores the Lord,
adoration, reverence, respect, honor, and glory.
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That's what the model life is all about.
It's about the true worship of the King.
And it's very easily stated, notso easily applied for.
Most of us would say that we adore the king, we live in
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adoration of the Messiah. Most of us would say, yeah,
that's that's that's me. And yet when when Paul describes
it, he describes it this way, one verse 2 words rejoice
always. Then he gives the next verse
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verse 17, pray without ceasing, and then the next verse verse 18
and everything give thanks. For this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus concerning you. In other words, the will of God
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is summed up by saying you rejoice always, you pray without
ceasing, and you give thanks in everything.
That is the will of God for yourlife.
It's a life of adoration of the Messiah.
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We like to say we, we rejoice, we like to say we pray, we like
to say that we give thanks to God.
The problem is, it's the rejoicing always that's the
problem. It's a praying without ceasing
which is the problem, and it's the giving of thanks in every
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situation which is the problem. But Paul states it very clearly.
This is what you do. This is how you adore the King.
You rejoice always, You pray without ceasing and you give
thanks in everything because this is God's will for your
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life, a life of adoration of theking.
That's a requirement for you to understand this when it comes to
being a child of the king. Most of you know the story of
the rich young ruler who came toJesus.
He, he was the ultimate seeker in Israel.
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He comes to Jesus and he says a ruler questioned him saying,
good teacher, what shall I do toinherit eternal life?
This is the perfect opportunity for Jesus to say, wow, this is
what you do. Repeat after me.
Pray this prayer. That's not what Jesus said.
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That's not what Jesus said. The fact you'll find nowhere in
the Bible that becoming a Christian says you got to say a
prayer, but that's another topicfor another day.
But Jesus has his ultimate seeker come to him and say, what
must I do, good teacher, to inherit eternal life.
And the disciples are like, wow,he's coming right to us.
We don't have to go to him. He is seeking salvation.
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And instead of making it easy for the guy to believe in Jesus,
Jesus makes it absolutely impossible for him to believe.
And that's the way you ought to be with people who want to know
Christ. Make it impossible for them to
believe. Make it so hard for them.
Do not ever make it easy, because Jesus never made it
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easy. In fact, he made it so difficult
that people turned away in droves from him.
If he was to have a crusade at astadium in Southern California
and he preached, everybody wouldrun away.
They wouldn't come down by the thousands.
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They'd run away because he says to the man, this why do you call
me good? Only God is good.
So you must recognize that I'm God because you called me good
and you know that only God is good.
So you are assuming or believingthat I am good.
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So he says this, you know, the commandments do not commit
adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false
witness, honor your father and mother.
You want eternal life. Now he knows that eternal life
is all about God's life. Eternal life is not about
quantity. Eternal life is about quality,
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God's eternal right. So therefore, eternal life is
God's life. He's asking, how do I obtain
God's life, the quality of life.Here's a man who has everything.
He's the rich young ruler. He's got it all.
So he comes to Jesus because he he knows that there's something
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missing in his life. He can't define it.
He doesn't know what it is, but it must be eternal life, the
quality of life that he's missing, even though he's rich.
And so he says to Jesus, All these things I have kept from my
youth. I never slept with anybody else.
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Are you kidding me? Steal.
I don't have to steal. I'm rich.
Murdered. Nah, Honor my father and mother.
I bought him a condo in the Sea of Galilee.
They can live there forever. They're fine.
I've honored my mother and father.
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So Jesus says one thing you lackjust one.
There's only one thing you're missing one thing.
So he tells them, he says, sell all that you possess distributed
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to the poor, and you should havetreasure in heaven.
Come and follow me. You lack one thing.
See. He takes them to the latter half
of the 10 commandments, the the,the, the, the half that deals
with your relationship to people1st and then he takes him to the
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first part of the 10 commandments that deal with his
relationship with God. You should have know the gods
before me should I fall down andworship any other God.
But you see, he had another God.His riches were his God.
His riches is what he adored. And Jesus says you need to adore
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me. So go and sell all that you have
distribute to the poor. You'll have treasure in heaven
and follow me. The Bible says these words, but
when he had heard these things, he became very sad, for he was
extremely rich. He adored his riches.
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Anything that you have that you can't give away, you don't own
it. It owns you.
Anything that you have that you cannot give away, you don't own
it. It owns you.
He was owned by his riches. He loved his riches.
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He adored his riches. He did not want to depart from
that which was preeminent in hislife.
That was his God. He did not want to adore the one
true God. He did not say, Lord, whatever
you ask I will do, for you are the King of kings and Lord of
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Lords. I will follow whatever you say.
It wasn't about selling his possessions, it was about him
having another God that ruled inhis heart that reigns supreme.
And so it says this. Jesus looked at him and said how
hard it is for those who are wealthy to enter the Kingdom of
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God, for it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle then for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
They heard it said then who can be saved?
But he said, the things that areimpossible with people are
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possible with God. It's impossible for men to save
himself. It's impossible for men to do
anything when it comes to salvation.
Man is dead and as trespasses his sin, he's doubly blinded by
Satan and by himself. He cannot resurrect himself from
the dead spiritually. God must resurrect him.
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God must give him light. God must give him faith.
God must give him repentance. God must give him every gift in
order for him to be saved. And the man went away, said
Mark's gospel tells us that the Lord felt love for him.
He came to the Lord because he had a felt need.
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He didn't come to the Lord because he had a fallen need.
Big difference. People come to church because
they they feel empty. They feel like they're missing
something. They they feel like their
marriage is is falling apart. They they feel like their life
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is in shambles. They they feel like there's no
hope. There's nothing this they have a
a felt need. But to be a Christian, you must
see yourself as fallen in sin, separated from the true and
living God that you might crowd.Oh, Lord, have mercy on my soul.
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Adoration is key when it comes to living the model life.
And it's summed up by saying you're one who rejoices always
that that's just a, a magnificent statement.
You know, Paul doesn't expound on it.
Doesn't have to. Why?
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Because First Thessalonians 213 says that when you heard the
word of God, you accepted it notas the word of men, but for what
it really is, the word of God. And you put out the welcome mat
and freely accepted it. So he doesn't have to say,
listen, this is how you rejoice always.
He just says rejoice always because he knows they put up the
welcome mat to the Word and they're going to receive that
word and obey that word. He knows that.
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So he just tells them, rejoice always.
This is a theme throughout the New Testament.
The Bible says these words in Philippians 31.
Finally, brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
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Philippians 4/4 Rejoice in the Lord always.
Romans 1417 The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy
in the Holy Spirit. Glaciers 522 The fruit of the
Spirit is joy. Philippians 33 The true
Christian rejoices in Christ Jesus in John 13 to 17 eight
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different times in the disciplesturmoil over the Lord dying the
next day. He tells them that their joy can
be made full in him. He wants him to understand that
true joy only comes through him.Paul would say in Second
Corinthians chapter 6 verse #10 I am sorrowful, yet I am always
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rejoicing. It can happen.
Acts 2024. Paul said, I have one goal,
that's to finish my course with joy.
In Colossus 124 Paul said, I rejoice in my sufferings.
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James said. Consider it all joy, my
brethren, when you fall into various trials.
In the late 1800's, the Scottishevangelist Henry Truman said
these words. How many prodigals are kept out
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of the Kingdom of God by the unlovely character of those who
profess to be on the inside of that Kingdom?
Think about that, you have unsaved friends, what is your
attitude like around them? He poses the question that how
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many people are kept out of the Kingdom because of the attitude
of those that are in the Kingdom.
It was AJ Mason, an English theologian and hymn writer who
said these words. The Christian who remains in
sadness and depression really breaks the commandment in some
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direction or another. He mistrust God, his power, his
Providence, and his forgiveness.That's true.
We live in depression. We live in sadness because we
don't really believe in the God we say we have faith in.
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Your faith works best in turmoil, in trials, in
affliction, in persecution than anywhere else.
If it doesn't work there, you never had to begin with because
that's where it shines the most.Apostle Paul is a classic
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example that I love. I love what the the hymn writer
said. William Thompson when he said
that Jesus is all the world to him.
Maybe you've heard this song. I'm not going to sing it for
you, but it goes like this. Jesus is all the world to me.
My life, my joy, my all. He is my strength from
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day-to-day. Without him I would fall.
When I am sad to Him I go. No other one can cheer me.
So when I am sad, He makes me glad.
He's my friend. Jesus is all the world to me.
My friend. And trials soar.
I go to him for blessings, and he gives them oar and oar.
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He sends the sunshine in the rain, He sends the harvests,
golden grain, sunshine and rain harvest of grain.
He's my friend. Jesus is all the world to me and
true to him I'll be. Oh how could I, this friend deny
when he's so true to me following him I know I'm right.
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He watches or me day and night, following him by day and night
He's my friend. Jesus is all the world to me.
I want no better friend. I trust him now.
I'll trust him when life's fleeting day shall end.
Beautiful life was such a friend.
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Beautiful life that has no end. Eternal life, eternal joy.
He's my friend. Isn't it interesting that Moses
in Exodus 3311 was called a friend of God?
That Abraham and James chapter 2was called a friend of God and
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Jesus said to his disciples on the eve of the crucifixion, I no
longer call you slaves. I call you friends.
And greater love hath no man than this that a manly down his
life for his friends. You're my friends.
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It means you have this extraordinary opportunity to
know God intimately because you're his friend.
It's no wonder the the the Christian rejoices always.
So let me help you put a little flesh on this.
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Let me help you work through this.
Because if the command is rejoice always, we have to ask
ourselves the question is that me?
Do I adore my God so much that Ilive a life that rejoices always
in my God? And some of you are going
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through extreme situations, someof you are going through
hardship, pain, your marriages, your families, affliction from
from those who have come againstyou, or persecution for those
who have come against you. Even even affliction, that's
personal affliction. And you have to deal with those
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things. And how do you rejoice always?
I want to give you some principles that will help you
walk through this that are very,very practical and very, very
instrumental and helping you live out one verse with two
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words that help you adore the truth and living God.
Number one, you need to learn torest in His Providence.
Rest in the Providence of God. Remember, the sovereignty of God
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is the overall plan of God, and the Providence deals with the
particulars of that overall plan.
God is working in every individual in every situation to
bring about His sovereign plan, and God's Providence is what
describes that. You can read the book of Esther
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and realize that even though God's name is never mentioned in
the book of Esther, the Providence of God screams all
throughout the story of Esther. And Esther and Mordecai both had
to learn to rest in the providential working of the
living God. That is just so incredibly
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important to understand. Paul was the master of this.
Listen to Acts chapter 20 and Acts chapter 20 verse 22 says,
Now behold, bound by the Spirit,I am on my way to Jerusalem, not
knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy
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Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds
and afflictions await me. But I do not consider my life of
any account as dear to myself. So I may finish my course with
joy and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to
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testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.
Paul says, I go bound to Jerusalem and I don't know what
awaits me there, but I know thatthe Spirit of God has told me
that there's going to be bonds and affliction that await me.
But you know what? It doesn't matter because my
life doesn't matter. What matters is the gospel.
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That's why in Philippians 1, he says being confident of this
very thing, that he began a goodwork and you will complete it
until the day of Christ. That's first number six.
And then in verse 12 he says, now I want you to know,
brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater
progress of the gospel. Now where's Paul in Philippians?
He's in prison. He's in prison.
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My circumstances have turned outfor the greater progress of the
gospel so that my imprisonment, he says in the cause of Christ
has become well known throughoutthe whole Praetorian Guard and
everyone else. And that most of the brethren
trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment have far more
courage to speak the word of Godwithout fear.
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So Paul and Philippians who who emphasizes rejoicing the Lord
always says, look, listen, what's happened to me.
My circumstances have turned outfor the progress of the gospel.
You see, we we get so, so enamored with our own personal
lives that we forget that what is happening to us is happening
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for a purpose that goes way beyond us, so others will know
and hear the truth of the gospel.
You know the story of Joseph. You've read the story of Joseph.
The end, the climax is unbelievable.
Israel dies, Jacob dies. The sons are fearful that Jacob
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now excuse me, that Joseph now is going to enact judgement upon
them, having brought them to Egypt, having protected them
through famine. Jacob dies, So it says in verse
15. When Joseph's brothers saw that
their father was dead, they said, what if Joseph bears a
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grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong
which he did, which we did to him?
What if, excuse me, what if he enacts judgement upon us?
So he sent a message to Joseph, seeing your father charged
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before he died, saying, thus youshall say to Joseph, Please
forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers
and their sin, for they did you wrong.
And now please forgive the transgression of the sermons of
the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke
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to him. Why did he weep?
First of all, their father neversaid that.
They just said their father saidit because they were afraid that
Joseph was going to act in judgement upon them, seek
revenge. And Joseph wept because he
thought of him as being that kind of person.
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And so it says his brothers alsocame and fell down before him
and said, behold, we are your servants.
They were begging for their lives, but Joseph said to them,
do not be afraid, for am I in God's place?
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Am I to repay evil for evil? You see, whenever you repay evil
for evil, you set yourself up tobe in God's place, because
vengeance is his. When you return evil for evil,
you're saying I am God, I can handle this.
And God says vengeance is mine, I will repay.
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And Joseph says he knows he's not God.
I'm not in God's place. That's not my responsibility to
do that. And so he says, As for you, you
meant an evil against me, but God meant it for good.
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Now you don't know that verse, right?
Genesis 50 verse #20 But you have forgotten the next phrase
in the verse which says this Godmeant it for good in order to
bring about this present result to preserve many people alive.
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You know, my God allowed you to do what you did because there
was a greater purpose than just me.
It was to preserve two nations, the nation of Israel and the
nation of Egypt. And without Joseph, it would not
have happened without all the negative circumstances and his
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imprisonment and the lion against him and being thrown
into a pit, being sold to the Israelites.
Without all that happening, nations would not have been
preserved and Joseph knew that the Providence of God was at
work to preserve many people alive.
That is just so important to understand this and we need to
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learn to to rest in the Providence of the living God.
The Bible says over in first Peter chapter one in this you
greatly rejoice, even though nowfor a little while, if
necessary, you have been distressed by various trials set
the proof of your faith being more precious than gold, which
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is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to
result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus
Christ. And though you have not seen
him, you love him, and though you do not see him now, but
believe in him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible
and full of glory. And then he says in chapter 4,
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beloved, do not be surprised at this fiery ordeal among you,
which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange
thing were happening to you. But to the degree that you share
the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at
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the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exaltation.
Rejoice always, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
concerning you. As a pastor, my ministry is to
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help you understand what the Bible says and to walk you
through how to handle difficult times, trials, severe as they
may be, hardship, loneliness, pain, turmoil, whatever it may
be, as a pastor, that's my job. And I was so grieved this past
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week when a pastor in Southern California of a very large
church who tends to be more political than pastoral told his
people that if AB495 simply Bill495 passes in Sacramento, he
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tells them, you need to flee California.
You need to run, pack your bags and go, he says.
And I'm like, that's not what pastors do.
No, no, pastors say, no matter what the bill is in the bill,
AB495 is about how a caregiver can come and sign an affidavit,
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fill it out, sign it, take it toa school and take your child out
of school without any identification, any approval
from the parents and take your child out of school.
And it goes into more detail than that.
But he says if this bill passes,you need to run, flee
California, pack your bags and go.
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He says, and I'm like, wait a minute, that's what did Peter
say when they went through persecution in Jerusalem?
Pack your bags and get out of Jerusalem.
That's not what Peter said. No, they went to prayer.
They trusted in God and they rested in His Providence.
See, this is very, very important because because
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pastors had the responsibility to lead people through hardship
and difficult times and show them how God in His Providence
is working and that you need to be able to stand strong on the
Bible and the truth of the word of God and to live out your
faith. Listen, the Bible says flee
immorality. So run away from immorality.
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Bible says flee idolatry. Run away from idolatry.
The Bible says flee the love of money.
So run from the love of money. The Bible never says leave your
state because things are bad. I can't tell you to do
something. The Bible doesn't say my job is
to help you through difficult times.
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That's what pastors do. Political pundits don't.
Pastors do. That's our responsibility.
That's how we live our lives, tohelp people do hardship.
So when you come to the book of Acts and you have what, the
threat to the apostles, no longer can you preach in his
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name. If you do, you will be punished.
What do they do? Well, let's leave Jerusalem and
go someplace else. Flee.
No, that's not what they did. They went back and told
everybody else, listen to this. When they've been released,
they, they went to their companions and reported all the
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chief priests and the elders that said to them.
And when they heard this, they, they lifted their voices to God
with 1 accord and said, Oh Lord,it is you who made the heavens
and the earth and the sea and all of this in them.
They begin to pray and, and they, they recognize God as
creator, originator, designer ofeverything that they begin to
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pray. And then it says this, who by
the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our Father David, your
servant said, Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples
divides feudal things? The kings of the earth took
their stand, and the rulers weregathered together against the
Lord and against this Christ. For truly in this city they were
gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you
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anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles
and the peoples of Israel, to dowhatever your hand and your
purpose predestined to occur. They are acknowledging that God
in his sovereignty and in his Providence, design Herod, pilot,
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the Gentiles, and even his own people, Israel, to crucify their
Messiah. They're acknowledging that and
they said, and now, Lord, take note of their threats and grant
that your bond servants may speak your word with all
confidence that that's how you deal with Sacramento.
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Lord, take note of Governor Newsom's threats here.
We pay evil for evil. God will do that.
Lord, take note of their threats, but Lord, give us a
confidence to preach the Word with confident, with boldness
and with courage. Give us a strength to do that.
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This pastor wants all of us people to make a statement in
Sacramento. I'm like, you don't make
statements. We preach the gospel.
That's what the church does. The church was never designed to
make a statement. Never in the early church.
Do you find them marching on theCapitol?
Never. Do you find them marching
against laws? You don't do that.
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That's what Christians do. Christians stand strong on the
principles of God's Word, and they preach the gospel with
confidence. As a pastor, my responsibility
is to help you understand not what's happened in Sacramento,
but how to deal with what takes place in Sacramento and how you
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deal with the difficulties that come down the Pike through laws
that are given. That's my responsibility as your
pastor. I want you to learn to rest in
the province of God. So, so important to learn to
trust that God is working through every individual, every
circumstance, every situation tobring about a greater purpose
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and that is the spread of the gospel in the glory of His
Kingdom. Be heavenly minded.
Hudson Taylor, great missionary China was influenced by a young
lady's hymn. Her name was Jean Sophia
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Piggott. Her brother was an associate of
Hudson Taylor in China and she died at the age of 37.
But she wrote a very familiar hymn that hopefully most of us
all know, and that hymn is Jesus.
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I am resting, Resting. It was said that Hudson Taylor
will be found at various times either whistling or humming or
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singing the hymn Jesus I Am Resting, Resting.
After his precious wife died, they would hear him in the night
singing the hymn Jesus I Am Resting, Resting during the dark
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and gruesome days of the box of rebellion.
The song was on his lips and oneday, after hearing the dreadful
news about missionaries being held hostage, he simply began to
whistle the tune to Jesus. I am Resting, Resting.
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He was angrily questioned about how he could whistle during such
terrible times. This is his response.
Would you have me anxious and troubled?
That would not help them and would certainly incapacitate me
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for my work. I have just to roll the burden
on the Lord. What a great response.
Let me read you the words that Him.
Jesus. I am resting, resting in the joy
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of what Thou art. I am finding out the greatness
of Thy loving heart. Thou hast bid me gaze upon Thee,
and Thy beauty fills my soul, for by Thy transforming power
Thou has made me whole. Simply trusting the Lord Jesus.
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I behold Thee as Thou art, and Thy love, so pure and
changeless, satisfies my heart, satisfies its deepest longings,
meets, supplies It's every need,compasses me round with
blessing. Vine is love indeed.
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Ever lift thy face upon me as I work and wait for thee resting
Neath thy smile, Lord Jesus. Earth's dark shadows flee
brightness of my Father's glory.Sunshine of my Father's face.
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Keep me ever trusting. Resting.
Fill me with Thy grace. A man who learned to rest in the
Providence of God through the capturing and murdering of many
missionaries, through the loss of his precious wife.
God was providentially working in and through his life.
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He was a man of great impact, used for the glory of God's
wonderful Kingdom. That's because he learned to
rest in the Providence of God. He could rejoice always.
My, my prayer for all of us is that we would learn to rest in
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His Providence so we could rejoice always.
But there's more to just restingin His Providence.
I have six more principles to give to you, so you'll have to
come back next week. But in the meantime, between now
and next Sunday, if the Lord tarries, this is the will of God
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concerning you, that you rejoicealways, you pray without
ceasing, and then everything give thanks.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you for today,
all that you do, for surely you are great and You are greatly to
be praised. May we be a people who rejoices
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always because we know that you're at work for a great and
better purpose than just our ownpersonal lives, for the sake of
your glorious Kingdom. And we see it from your
perspective and learn to give you all the praise and all the
glory and all the honor in Jesusname, Amen.
Take your Bible, if you would, and turn with me to 1st
Thessalonians chapter 5 to make our way toward the end of this
wonderful epistle. We have been challenged, we've
been encouraged, we've been convicted as we look at what the
word of the Lord has to say and in order for us to be the model
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church that God wants us to be and be the model leaders that
God wants us to be. And the be the model followers
and model friends. We must live the model life.
And that's what chapter 4 and chapter 5 are all about.
So we told you that there were 6words that make up the model
life. The first word is abstinence.
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That's in verses 1 to 8 of chapter 4.
And that is that the model life abstains from sexual immorality.
That's number one. Number two, in verses 9 to 12 of
chapter 4, the next word is aspiration, and that is the
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model life aspires to a life of charity and sensitivity.
And then the next word followingthat is anticipation, verses 13
to 18 of First Thessalonians 4, which the model life anticipates
the return of deity. And then in chapter 5, verses 1
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to 11, the next word is alertness.
For the model life is alert to the world's destiny and then
their responsibility in light ofthat.
And then you come to the next set of verses and verses 12 and
following, and the model life is1 of adaptability.
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The model life adapts within God's wonderful family to the
membership, to the leadership. So there's sweet fellowship
within the body of Christ. Today we come to the last word
that describes the model life, and that is adoration.
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For the model life adores their God continually, unashamedly,
unreservedly. The model life adores the Lord,
adoration, reverence, respect, honor, and glory.
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That's what the model life is all about.
It's about the true worship of the King.
And it's very easily stated, notso easily applied for.
Most of us would say that we adore the king, we live in
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adoration of the Messiah. Most of us would say, yeah,
that's that's that's me. And yet when when Paul describes
it, he describes it this way, one verse 2 words rejoice
always. Then he gives the next verse
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verse 17, pray without ceasing, and then the next verse verse 18
and everything give thanks. For this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus concerning you. In other words, the will of God
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is summed up by saying you rejoice always, you pray without
ceasing, and you give thanks in everything.
That is the will of God for yourlife.
It's a life of adoration of the Messiah.
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We like to say we, we rejoice, we like to say we pray, we like
to say that we give thanks to God.
The problem is, it's the rejoicing always that's the
problem. It's a praying without ceasing
which is the problem, and it's the giving of thanks in every
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situation which is the problem. But Paul states it very clearly.
This is what you do. This is how you adore the King.
You rejoice always, You pray without ceasing and you give
thanks in everything because this is God's will for your
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life, a life of adoration of theking.
That's a requirement for you to understand this when it comes to
being a child of the king. Most of you know the story of
the rich young ruler who came toJesus.
He, he was the ultimate seeker in Israel.
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He comes to Jesus and he says a ruler questioned him saying,
good teacher, what shall I do toinherit eternal life?
This is the perfect opportunity for Jesus to say, wow, this is
what you do. Repeat after me.
Pray this prayer. That's not what Jesus said.
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That's not what Jesus said. The fact you'll find nowhere in
the Bible that becoming a Christian says you got to say a
prayer, but that's another topicfor another day.
But Jesus has his ultimate seeker come to him and say, what
must I do, good teacher, to inherit eternal life.
And the disciples are like, wow,he's coming right to us.
We don't have to go to him. He is seeking salvation.
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And instead of making it easy for the guy to believe in Jesus,
Jesus makes it absolutely impossible for him to believe.
And that's the way you ought to be with people who want to know
Christ. Make it impossible for them to
believe. Make it so hard for them.
Do not ever make it easy, because Jesus never made it
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easy. In fact, he made it so difficult
that people turned away in droves from him.
If he was to have a crusade at astadium in Southern California
and he preached, everybody wouldrun away.
They wouldn't come down by the thousands.
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They'd run away because he says to the man, this why do you call
me good? Only God is good.
So you must recognize that I'm God because you called me good
and you know that only God is good.
So you are assuming or believingthat I am good.
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So he says this, you know, the commandments do not commit
adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false
witness, honor your father and mother.
You want eternal life. Now he knows that eternal life
is all about God's life. Eternal life is not about
quantity. Eternal life is about quality,
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God's eternal right. So therefore, eternal life is
God's life. He's asking, how do I obtain
God's life, the quality of life.Here's a man who has everything.
He's the rich young ruler. He's got it all.
So he comes to Jesus because he he knows that there's something
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missing in his life. He can't define it.
He doesn't know what it is, but it must be eternal life, the
quality of life that he's missing, even though he's rich.
And so he says to Jesus, All these things I have kept from my
youth. I never slept with anybody else.
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Are you kidding me? Steal.
I don't have to steal. I'm rich.
Murdered. Nah, Honor my father and mother.
I bought him a condo in the Sea of Galilee.
They can live there forever. They're fine.
I've honored my mother and father.
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So Jesus says one thing you lackjust one.
There's only one thing you're missing one thing.
So he tells them, he says, sell all that you possess distributed
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to the poor, and you should havetreasure in heaven.
Come and follow me. You lack one thing.
See. He takes them to the latter half
of the 10 commandments, the the,the, the, the half that deals
with your relationship to people1st and then he takes him to the
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first part of the 10 commandments that deal with his
relationship with God. You should have know the gods
before me should I fall down andworship any other God.
But you see, he had another God.His riches were his God.
His riches is what he adored. And Jesus says you need to adore
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me. So go and sell all that you have
distribute to the poor. You'll have treasure in heaven
and follow me. The Bible says these words, but
when he had heard these things, he became very sad, for he was
extremely rich. He adored his riches.
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Anything that you have that you can't give away, you don't own
it. It owns you.
Anything that you have that you cannot give away, you don't own
it. It owns you.
He was owned by his riches. He loved his riches.
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He adored his riches. He did not want to depart from
that which was preeminent in hislife.
That was his God. He did not want to adore the one
true God. He did not say, Lord, whatever
you ask I will do, for you are the King of kings and Lord of
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Lords. I will follow whatever you say.
It wasn't about selling his possessions, it was about him
having another God that ruled inhis heart that reigns supreme.
And so it says this. Jesus looked at him and said how
hard it is for those who are wealthy to enter the Kingdom of
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God, for it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle then for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
They heard it said then who can be saved?
But he said, the things that areimpossible with people are
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possible with God. It's impossible for men to save
himself. It's impossible for men to do
anything when it comes to salvation.
Man is dead and as trespasses his sin, he's doubly blinded by
Satan and by himself. He cannot resurrect himself from
the dead spiritually. God must resurrect him.
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God must give him light. God must give him faith.
God must give him repentance. God must give him every gift in
order for him to be saved. And the man went away, said
Mark's gospel tells us that the Lord felt love for him.
He came to the Lord because he had a felt need.
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He didn't come to the Lord because he had a fallen need.
Big difference. People come to church because
they they feel empty. They feel like they're missing
something. They they feel like their
marriage is is falling apart. They they feel like their life
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is in shambles. They they feel like there's no
hope. There's nothing this they have a
a felt need. But to be a Christian, you must
see yourself as fallen in sin, separated from the true and
living God that you might crowd.Oh, Lord, have mercy on my soul.
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Adoration is key when it comes to living the model life.
And it's summed up by saying you're one who rejoices always
that that's just a, a magnificent statement.
You know, Paul doesn't expound on it.
Doesn't have to. Why?
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Because First Thessalonians 213 says that when you heard the
word of God, you accepted it notas the word of men, but for what
it really is, the word of God. And you put out the welcome mat
and freely accepted it. So he doesn't have to say,
listen, this is how you rejoice always.
He just says rejoice always because he knows they put up the
welcome mat to the Word and they're going to receive that
word and obey that word. He knows that.
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So he just tells them, rejoice always.
This is a theme throughout the New Testament.
The Bible says these words in Philippians 31.
Finally, brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
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Philippians 4/4 Rejoice in the Lord always.
Romans 1417 The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy
in the Holy Spirit. Glaciers 522 The fruit of the
Spirit is joy. Philippians 33 The true
Christian rejoices in Christ Jesus in John 13 to 17 eight
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different times in the disciplesturmoil over the Lord dying the
next day. He tells them that their joy can
be made full in him. He wants him to understand that
true joy only comes through him.Paul would say in Second
Corinthians chapter 6 verse #10 I am sorrowful, yet I am always
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rejoicing. It can happen.
Acts 2024. Paul said, I have one goal,
that's to finish my course with joy.
In Colossus 124 Paul said, I rejoice in my sufferings.
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James said. Consider it all joy, my
brethren, when you fall into various trials.
In the late 1800's, the Scottishevangelist Henry Truman said
these words. How many prodigals are kept out
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of the Kingdom of God by the unlovely character of those who
profess to be on the inside of that Kingdom?
Think about that, you have unsaved friends, what is your
attitude like around them? He poses the question that how
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many people are kept out of the Kingdom because of the attitude
of those that are in the Kingdom.
It was AJ Mason, an English theologian and hymn writer who
said these words. The Christian who remains in
sadness and depression really breaks the commandment in some
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direction or another. He mistrust God, his power, his
Providence, and his forgiveness.That's true.
We live in depression. We live in sadness because we
don't really believe in the God we say we have faith in.
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Your faith works best in turmoil, in trials, in
affliction, in persecution than anywhere else.
If it doesn't work there, you never had to begin with because
that's where it shines the most.Apostle Paul is a classic
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example that I love. I love what the the hymn writer
said. William Thompson when he said
that Jesus is all the world to him.
Maybe you've heard this song. I'm not going to sing it for
you, but it goes like this. Jesus is all the world to me.
My life, my joy, my all. He is my strength from
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day-to-day. Without him I would fall.
When I am sad to Him I go. No other one can cheer me.
So when I am sad, He makes me glad.
He's my friend. Jesus is all the world to me.
My friend. And trials soar.
I go to him for blessings, and he gives them oar and oar.
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He sends the sunshine in the rain, He sends the harvests,
golden grain, sunshine and rain harvest of grain.
He's my friend. Jesus is all the world to me and
true to him I'll be. Oh how could I, this friend deny
when he's so true to me following him I know I'm right.
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He watches or me day and night, following him by day and night
He's my friend. Jesus is all the world to me.
I want no better friend. I trust him now.
I'll trust him when life's fleeting day shall end.
Beautiful life was such a friend.
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Beautiful life that has no end. Eternal life, eternal joy.
He's my friend. Isn't it interesting that Moses
in Exodus 3311 was called a friend of God?
That Abraham and James chapter 2was called a friend of God and
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Jesus said to his disciples on the eve of the crucifixion, I no
longer call you slaves. I call you friends.
And greater love hath no man than this that a manly down his
life for his friends. You're my friends.
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It means you have this extraordinary opportunity to
know God intimately because you're his friend.
It's no wonder the the the Christian rejoices always.
So let me help you put a little flesh on this.
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Let me help you work through this.
Because if the command is rejoice always, we have to ask
ourselves the question is that me?
Do I adore my God so much that Ilive a life that rejoices always
in my God? And some of you are going
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through extreme situations, someof you are going through
hardship, pain, your marriages, your families, affliction from
from those who have come againstyou, or persecution for those
who have come against you. Even even affliction, that's
personal affliction. And you have to deal with those
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things. And how do you rejoice always?
I want to give you some principles that will help you
walk through this that are very,very practical and very, very
instrumental and helping you live out one verse with two
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words that help you adore the truth and living God.
Number one, you need to learn torest in His Providence.
Rest in the Providence of God. Remember, the sovereignty of God
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is the overall plan of God, and the Providence deals with the
particulars of that overall plan.
God is working in every individual in every situation to
bring about His sovereign plan, and God's Providence is what
describes that. You can read the book of Esther
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and realize that even though God's name is never mentioned in
the book of Esther, the Providence of God screams all
throughout the story of Esther. And Esther and Mordecai both had
to learn to rest in the providential working of the
living God. That is just so incredibly
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important to understand. Paul was the master of this.
Listen to Acts chapter 20 and Acts chapter 20 verse 22 says,
Now behold, bound by the Spirit,I am on my way to Jerusalem, not
knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy
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Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds
and afflictions await me. But I do not consider my life of
any account as dear to myself. So I may finish my course with
joy and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to
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testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.
Paul says, I go bound to Jerusalem and I don't know what
awaits me there, but I know thatthe Spirit of God has told me
that there's going to be bonds and affliction that await me.
But you know what? It doesn't matter because my
life doesn't matter. What matters is the gospel.
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That's why in Philippians 1, he says being confident of this
very thing, that he began a goodwork and you will complete it
until the day of Christ. That's first number six.
And then in verse 12 he says, now I want you to know,
brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater
progress of the gospel. Now where's Paul in Philippians?
He's in prison. He's in prison.
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My circumstances have turned outfor the greater progress of the
gospel so that my imprisonment, he says in the cause of Christ
has become well known throughoutthe whole Praetorian Guard and
everyone else. And that most of the brethren
trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment have far more
courage to speak the word of Godwithout fear.
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So Paul and Philippians who who emphasizes rejoicing the Lord
always says, look, listen, what's happened to me.
My circumstances have turned outfor the progress of the gospel.
You see, we we get so, so enamored with our own personal
lives that we forget that what is happening to us is happening
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for a purpose that goes way beyond us, so others will know
and hear the truth of the gospel.
You know the story of Joseph. You've read the story of Joseph.
The end, the climax is unbelievable.
Israel dies, Jacob dies. The sons are fearful that Jacob
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now excuse me, that Joseph now is going to enact judgement upon
them, having brought them to Egypt, having protected them
through famine. Jacob dies, So it says in verse
15. When Joseph's brothers saw that
their father was dead, they said, what if Joseph bears a
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grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong
which he did, which we did to him?
What if, excuse me, what if he enacts judgement upon us?
So he sent a message to Joseph, seeing your father charged
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before he died, saying, thus youshall say to Joseph, Please
forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers
and their sin, for they did you wrong.
And now please forgive the transgression of the sermons of
the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke
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to him. Why did he weep?
First of all, their father neversaid that.
They just said their father saidit because they were afraid that
Joseph was going to act in judgement upon them, seek
revenge. And Joseph wept because he
thought of him as being that kind of person.
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And so it says his brothers alsocame and fell down before him
and said, behold, we are your servants.
They were begging for their lives, but Joseph said to them,
do not be afraid, for am I in God's place?
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Am I to repay evil for evil? You see, whenever you repay evil
for evil, you set yourself up tobe in God's place, because
vengeance is his. When you return evil for evil,
you're saying I am God, I can handle this.
And God says vengeance is mine, I will repay.
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And Joseph says he knows he's not God.
I'm not in God's place. That's not my responsibility to
do that. And so he says, As for you, you
meant an evil against me, but God meant it for good.
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Now you don't know that verse, right?
Genesis 50 verse #20 But you have forgotten the next phrase
in the verse which says this Godmeant it for good in order to
bring about this present result to preserve many people alive.
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You know, my God allowed you to do what you did because there
was a greater purpose than just me.
It was to preserve two nations, the nation of Israel and the
nation of Egypt. And without Joseph, it would not
have happened without all the negative circumstances and his
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imprisonment and the lion against him and being thrown
into a pit, being sold to the Israelites.
Without all that happening, nations would not have been
preserved and Joseph knew that the Providence of God was at
work to preserve many people alive.
That is just so important to understand this and we need to
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learn to to rest in the Providence of the living God.
The Bible says over in first Peter chapter one in this you
greatly rejoice, even though nowfor a little while, if
necessary, you have been distressed by various trials set
the proof of your faith being more precious than gold, which
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is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to
result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus
Christ. And though you have not seen
him, you love him, and though you do not see him now, but
believe in him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible
and full of glory. And then he says in chapter 4,
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beloved, do not be surprised at this fiery ordeal among you,
which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange
thing were happening to you. But to the degree that you share
the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at
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the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exaltation.
Rejoice always, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
concerning you. As a pastor, my ministry is to
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help you understand what the Bible says and to walk you
through how to handle difficult times, trials, severe as they
may be, hardship, loneliness, pain, turmoil, whatever it may
be, as a pastor, that's my job. And I was so grieved this past
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week when a pastor in Southern California of a very large
church who tends to be more political than pastoral told his
people that if AB495 simply Bill495 passes in Sacramento, he
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tells them, you need to flee California.
You need to run, pack your bags and go, he says.
And I'm like, that's not what pastors do.
No, no, pastors say, no matter what the bill is in the bill,
AB495 is about how a caregiver can come and sign an affidavit,
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fill it out, sign it, take it toa school and take your child out
of school without any identification, any approval
from the parents and take your child out of school.
And it goes into more detail than that.
But he says if this bill passes,you need to run, flee
California, pack your bags and go.
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He says, and I'm like, wait a minute, that's what did Peter
say when they went through persecution in Jerusalem?
Pack your bags and get out of Jerusalem.
That's not what Peter said. No, they went to prayer.
They trusted in God and they rested in His Providence.
See, this is very, very important because because
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pastors had the responsibility to lead people through hardship
and difficult times and show them how God in His Providence
is working and that you need to be able to stand strong on the
Bible and the truth of the word of God and to live out your
faith. Listen, the Bible says flee
immorality. So run away from immorality.
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Bible says flee idolatry. Run away from idolatry.
The Bible says flee the love of money.
So run from the love of money. The Bible never says leave your
state because things are bad. I can't tell you to do
something. The Bible doesn't say my job is
to help you through difficult times.
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That's what pastors do. Political pundits don't.
Pastors do. That's our responsibility.
That's how we live our lives, tohelp people do hardship.
So when you come to the book of Acts and you have what, the
threat to the apostles, no longer can you preach in his
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name. If you do, you will be punished.
What do they do? Well, let's leave Jerusalem and
go someplace else. Flee.
No, that's not what they did. They went back and told
everybody else, listen to this. When they've been released,
they, they went to their companions and reported all the
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chief priests and the elders that said to them.
And when they heard this, they, they lifted their voices to God
with 1 accord and said, Oh Lord,it is you who made the heavens
and the earth and the sea and all of this in them.
They begin to pray and, and they, they recognize God as
creator, originator, designer ofeverything that they begin to
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pray. And then it says this, who by
the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our Father David, your
servant said, Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples
divides feudal things? The kings of the earth took
their stand, and the rulers weregathered together against the
Lord and against this Christ. For truly in this city they were
gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you
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anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles
and the peoples of Israel, to dowhatever your hand and your
purpose predestined to occur. They are acknowledging that God
in his sovereignty and in his Providence, design Herod, pilot,
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the Gentiles, and even his own people, Israel, to crucify their
Messiah. They're acknowledging that and
they said, and now, Lord, take note of their threats and grant
that your bond servants may speak your word with all
confidence that that's how you deal with Sacramento.
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Lord, take note of Governor Newsom's threats here.
We pay evil for evil. God will do that.
Lord, take note of their threats, but Lord, give us a
confidence to preach the Word with confident, with boldness
and with courage. Give us a strength to do that.
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This pastor wants all of us people to make a statement in
Sacramento. I'm like, you don't make
statements. We preach the gospel.
That's what the church does. The church was never designed to
make a statement. Never in the early church.
Do you find them marching on theCapitol?
Never. Do you find them marching
against laws? You don't do that.
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That's what Christians do. Christians stand strong on the
principles of God's Word, and they preach the gospel with
confidence. As a pastor, my responsibility
is to help you understand not what's happened in Sacramento,
but how to deal with what takes place in Sacramento and how you
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deal with the difficulties that come down the Pike through laws
that are given. That's my responsibility as your
pastor. I want you to learn to rest in
the province of God. So, so important to learn to
trust that God is working through every individual, every
circumstance, every situation tobring about a greater purpose
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and that is the spread of the gospel in the glory of His
Kingdom. Be heavenly minded.
Hudson Taylor, great missionary China was influenced by a young
lady's hymn. Her name was Jean Sophia
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Piggott. Her brother was an associate of
Hudson Taylor in China and she died at the age of 37.
But she wrote a very familiar hymn that hopefully most of us
all know, and that hymn is Jesus.
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I am resting, Resting. It was said that Hudson Taylor
will be found at various times either whistling or humming or
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singing the hymn Jesus I Am Resting, Resting.
After his precious wife died, they would hear him in the night
singing the hymn Jesus I Am Resting, Resting during the dark
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and gruesome days of the box of rebellion.
The song was on his lips and oneday, after hearing the dreadful
news about missionaries being held hostage, he simply began to
whistle the tune to Jesus. I am Resting, Resting.
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He was angrily questioned about how he could whistle during such
terrible times. This is his response.
Would you have me anxious and troubled?
That would not help them and would certainly incapacitate me
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for my work. I have just to roll the burden
on the Lord. What a great response.
Let me read you the words that Him.
Jesus. I am resting, resting in the joy
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of what Thou art. I am finding out the greatness
of Thy loving heart. Thou hast bid me gaze upon Thee,
and Thy beauty fills my soul, for by Thy transforming power
Thou has made me whole. Simply trusting the Lord Jesus.
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I behold Thee as Thou art, and Thy love, so pure and
changeless, satisfies my heart, satisfies its deepest longings,
meets, supplies It's every need,compasses me round with
blessing. Vine is love indeed.
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Ever lift thy face upon me as I work and wait for thee resting
Neath thy smile, Lord Jesus. Earth's dark shadows flee
brightness of my Father's glory.Sunshine of my Father's face.
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Keep me ever trusting. Resting.
Fill me with Thy grace. A man who learned to rest in the
Providence of God through the capturing and murdering of many
missionaries, through the loss of his precious wife.
God was providentially working in and through his life.
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He was a man of great impact, used for the glory of God's
wonderful Kingdom. That's because he learned to
rest in the Providence of God. He could rejoice always.
My, my prayer for all of us is that we would learn to rest in
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His Providence so we could rejoice always.
But there's more to just restingin His Providence.
I have six more principles to give to you, so you'll have to
come back next week. But in the meantime, between now
and next Sunday, if the Lord tarries, this is the will of God
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concerning you, that you rejoicealways, you pray without
ceasing, and then everything give thanks.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you for today,
all that you do, for surely you are great and You are greatly to
be praised. May we be a people who rejoices
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always because we know that you're at work for a great and
better purpose than just our ownpersonal lives, for the sake of
your glorious Kingdom. And we see it from your
perspective and learn to give you all the praise and all the
glory and all the honor in Jesusname, Amen.
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