Friendly Chapel Sermon Notes 6/5/16 Brother Paul Holderfield, Jr. (posted by Amanda Pride)

                       


                                                     You could've fooled me


1 Corinthians 4:8-10 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you! 9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

A man at McDonald's was telling another man how much Jesus loved him.  The man replied, "You could've fooled me."  

Be a fool for Christ's stake but don't be fooled by being wise in our own eyes.  Who is Jesus to you.  That's the only thing that matters.  No matter how inconvenient it is, we will have to die one day.  Jesus is the only Way.  Is He your personal Savior?  We can be sincerely wrong.  You can't be sincere and be sincerely wrong.  You can't be wrong about who Jesus is.

The Supreme court is not the Supreme Being, God is.
Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

It goes on to read in the same chapter about the same is true for adultery, fornication, envy, gossipers Romans 1:29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

67% of people in the U.S. believe there is a heaven.  47% believe there are many ways to get there.  We all have a mission and a mission field.  The ungodly lives that some believers are living turns some people away from the gospel.  We have to honor and forgive.  Bro. Paul recites poem:

Your name may not appear down here 

In this world’s Hall of Fame.
In fact, you may be so unknown 
That no one knows your name;
The headlines here may pass you by, 
The neon lights of blue,
But if you love and serve the Lord, 
Then I have news for you.

This Hall of Fame is only good
As long as time shall be;
But keep in mind, God’s Hall of Fame
Is for eternity. 
This crowd on earth they soon forget
The heroes of the past.
They cheer like mad until you fail
and that’s how long you last.
But in God’s Hall of Fame
By just believing on His Son
Inscribed you’ll find your name.

I tell you, friend, I wouldn’t trade
My name, however small,
That’s written there beyond the stars
In that Celestial Hall,
For any famous name on earth,
Or glory that it shares;
I’d rather be an unknown here

And have my name up there(God’s Hall of Fame by Walt Huntley)

Whose fool are you?  Are you a fool for Christ?  

Romans 1

Psalm 37:25 I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.

What we thought was our glory days now when we were young we realize now without Christ they were just good memories.  Now that we know Christ, everyday we have breath are our best days. Our young people are watching us and we need to do what we are supposed to do.  We have an obligation to our children, we are Called.  We have a mission field and we need to live what we preach, the way Jesus said to do it.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me

 John 3:16 “For God so loved the world,[i] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Give Him everything; family, job, etc.  No matter what happens, He is still God!  We don't have to know everything but we know Who He is!

Sermon Notes: Friendly Chapel Church of the Nazarene Brother Paul Holderfield Jr. 5/22/16 (posted by Amanda Pride)

Seeking & Setting

Colossians 3:1-4   If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your[a] life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Is our life giving the Lord Glory?  He is the Bread of Life. John 6:35

Is heaven your destination?  Have you made reservations?

Some people recognize Brother Paul from when he used to sell bread on his bread truck.  They ask him, didn't you use to sell bread?  He said yes but now I sell the Bread of Life.  One man responded, yes and it never goes stale.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in, Aim at earth and you will get neither.  Set your affections on heavenly things above.    

Whoever loses his life for Jesus shall find it.  Matthew 10:39.  Seeking and setting our minds on heaven will effect how we live on this earth.  We don't grieve as those who have no hope.  We know our loved ones who died in Christ are in heaven and we will see them again.  The more we realize the purpose why we are here the more we will live right.

People don't set out as kids to become adulterers, thieves, pedophiles but they touch the unclean thing.  The Lord says come out from among the world and the things of the world.  We can know the Word and it not have an effect in our lives if we don't let it.  We have to have a biblical understanding of heaven and it will effect everything we do.  It will directly impact how we live our lives.

We should not be entrapped with this world and things.  Trying to get things to impress people who don't like us anyway.  We need a critical heavenly mindset. Everyone won't be going there. "IF" then you have been raised with Christ. Some people think they are good people and that is the reason they will go to heaven.

Who is Jesus?  Either He was a nutcase or He is who He said He was:  The Son of God.  Jesus said, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life.  No man comes to the Father except through Me"  John 14:6

Position

Promise 

Practice 

Eye has not seen, ear has not heard the things He has prepared for those who love Him.

He wants us to know and do.  If we really believe there is a heaven, it will effect us.  We should always return evil with good.  What are our affections set on?

Matthew 6:8   Praying for you,  

Heavenly Father,  you who knew us before we were formed in our mothers' womb, because You are in heaven and You know everyone and everything, Holy is Your Name!

Father let Your Royal Foundation of Power come into our lives and Rule with the Authority and Power of Jesus Christ

Let everything you want for us appear in our lives and in this earth today Father as it is where You live in heaven

Heavenly Father right now today I asked You to supply everything You know we need and I thank you Lord you've taken all punishment and judgment that was due to us and placed it upon your Son Jesus, our  Savior to pay for our sins, You are the Righteous Judge, and You are Just in all Your Ways,  By Your Grace I forgive and let go of all bad feelings toward others that have mistreated and disappointed me and I pray Father that those I have mistreated and disappointed forgive and let go of all bad feelings toward me.

Lord Jesus don't let evil come before us this day that we will have to choose,  but set before us life and good this day and Father God rescue us from harm and danger and wickedness For you Lord created the foundation and own all the force, all the strength, the might, dominion and power,  it all belongs to you forever in Jesus mighty name Amen

THE LORD SAYS "I SEE YOU"

   I SEE YOU, SAYS THE LORD.  YOU DON'T HAVE TO HANG YOUR PANTS LOW TO GET SOMEONE TO LOOK AT YOU AND NOTICE EVEN IF IT IS FOR AN INSULT. NO, PULL EM UP.

  I GAVE MY SON, JESUS-HEAVEN'S BEST FOR YOU.  DON'T BELIEVE THE LIE THAT YOU DON'T MATTER, AREN'T WORTH ANYTHING. MY SON'S PRECIOUS BLOOD BOUGHT YOU FOR ME, PULL EM UP.

  IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THEY SEE YOU, I SAW YOU BEFORE YOU WERE EVER BORN, STILL IN YOUR MOTHER'S WOMB. YOU ARE MY LITTLE PRINCE, PULL EM UP AND COME ON TO YOUR FATHER'S TABLE AND LET ME TELL YOU WHO YOU REALLY ARE...MY LITTLE PRINCE, YOU ARE ROYALTY!  LOVE,  YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jeremiah+1&version=MSG

What about the Righteous?

When the Lord is ready to stretch out His hand against a rebellious unrepentant land what will happen to the righteous who are in the land?  Ezekiel 14:13-14 reads:

¹³ Son of man, when a land sins against Me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out My hand against it and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it and cut off from it man and beast,

¹⁴ Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they would save but their own lives by their righteousness (their uprightness and right standing with Me), says the Lord God.

 

Our Lord Jesus Christ made us righteous by His finished work on the cross, all who believe and confess He is Lord are made righteous through faith by grace.  Romans 10:9-10:

⁹ Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

¹⁰ For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.

 

As children of God, it grieves our heart to know that the people who reject and rebel against God will suffer.  We are to pray for the lost that they may hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe and be saved and many will but there are those who will not.  God has given us a free will and every opportunity to choose to turn from evil and ask Him to save us from our sins.   2 Peter 3:9: ⁹ The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people’s conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance.

 

The Lord repeatedly tells us in Ezekiel these things will come to pass so that we will know that He is the Lord.

 

The Lord says we will have consolation Ezekiel 14:22-23:

²² And yet, behold, in it shall be left a remnant (an escaped portion), both sons and daughters. They shall be carried forth to you [in Babylon], and when you see their [ungodly] walk and their [wicked] doings, you will be consoled for the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.

²³ And they shall console you when you see their evil ways and their rebellious actions. Then you shall know (understand and realize) that I have not done without cause all that I have done in Jerusalem, says the Lord God.

 

 

 

Scripture reference:

Ezekiel 14:13-23

Romans 5:1-21

Romans 8:1-3

 

 

 

 

A New Day

This morning as I awakened to a beautiful new day, I was reminded that God has already gone before us and prepared this day.  Everything that will happen or not happen He already knows about and because He loves us I know He will be with us in the good times and the bad times.  Deuteronomy 31:8 - And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.  Everything that I see happening in the world, the government shutdown, murders, hatred, wars, rumors of wars, calamities, pestilences,  is all pointing to the return of Our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ.  Revelation 3:10 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Gods children know there has been a change, a shift in the Kingdom of our Heavenly Father and as members of the Body of Christ, we have an indescribable excitement of joy and expectancy.  You see, Heavenly Father, has been speaking to us through dreams, visions, prophetic word and His holy bible letting us know the Bridegroom, Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is on His way to get His Bride, us, His children and we are to watch and pray and let His light shine before men that our Father may be glorified in heaven. Like never before we need to pray for the lost, open our mouths and our hands and let them know Almighty God sent His Son, Jesus to take our punishment for sin and He has risen and lives forever and the door is still open, He is knocking and is still ready and willing to save.  By His grace through faith in Jesus Christ we are saved and the lost will be also.  One day we were lost and someone shared the glorious good news, the Gospel of Jesus Christ with us and we confessed we were sinners and asked Jesus to forgive us and become our Lord and Savior, we believed it in our heart and confessed it with our mouth and we became His to live with Him forever.  Our names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.