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Jason Music, Video, Wednesday Worship

It Is Well

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The audio

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This sermon starts out  with a skit. The skit has five high school and college students plus Dr. Cox (our pastor) as the narrator. The five students are aligned like this

2                       1

———- - 0

3                       4

The person at position 0 has a closed umbrella in her hand. From here, it would help to listen to the audio. … I will refer to each student as their corresponding number.

Dr. Cox starts out by talking about how when you become a Christian, you confess that Jesus is Lord.  Then 0 says, “Jesus is Lord.” … Dr. Cox continues and says you need to put your entire life under the Lordship of Christ, which means you do what Jesus asks you to do; it’s like a big umbrella. 0 opens the umbrella. It’s a big umbrella.

When you become a Christian, you begin a process of bringing every area of your life under Christ’s Lordship. Dr. Cox talks about putting your time under the Lordship of Christ as 1 fiddles with a planner book. When you become a Christian, you start coming to church every Sunday, which is a good way to show Christ is Lord of your time, but putting your time under Christ’s Lordship means more than just going to church every Sunday. It means that everyday, everything you have planned is submitted to Him. … 0 gestures for 1 to come under the umbrella and 1 gets under the umbrella.

Next, Dr. Cox talks about putting your relationships under the Lordship of Christ as 2 talks on the cellphone. All of your relationships-marriage, friendships, children, etc.-are submitted to Christ. … 0 gestures towards 2, inviting her to come under the umbrella too. 2 joins 0 and 1 under the umbrella.

Then Dr. Cox talks about putting your work/career/future plans/dreams under the Lordship of Christ as 3 works on a little netbook computer. 0 gestures for 3 to come under the umbrella. 3 doesn’t want to go under it right away. It’s hard to submit your career to Christ, but 3 finally goes under the umbrella.

Finally, Dr. Cox talks about one of the most difficult things to do: submit your money to Christ. As Dr. Cox talks, 4 is playing with money, counting it and throwing it around as he acts tough. 0 invites 4 to come under the umbrella, but 4 resists more than 3 did and continues playing with his money. Eventually, 4 goes under the umbrella.

Wherever you go, your entire life should go – they all scoot to the audience’s right. Whichever way you turn, your entire life should turn – they all rotate clockwise. All you of your life should confess (and they all yell,) “Jesus is Lord!”

So let’s look at how to submit your money to the Lordship of Christ.

Three areas of your relationship with money need to be brought under the umbrella of Christ’s Lordship:

1. How you think about money (Matthew 6:24; 1 Timothy 6:6-10). … You cannot serve God and money. One must come first, and the other goes under it. Your attitude towards money needs to change so that you submit all your money to Christ. Be content with what you have.  …. Is your attitude towards money under the Lordship of Christ?
2. How you acquire money (Ephesians 4:28; Proverbs 22:16,  and Proverbs 13:11 from the NLT). … You should honor Christ with how you acquire money. Work for your money; earn money. Don’t steal. Don’t cheat on taxes. Don’t cheat your customers out of their money. … The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that $40 billion is stolen from employers each year. That costs each of us about $400/year. $400 more over the year for everything we buy. That’s a lot of money for some people. Us college students can’t really afford to loose $400/year. That’s a lot to us. We’d like to have it back. Please don’t steal. … If we would follow the principles that are in the Bible, life would be much better. Insurance premiums would be lower without insurance fraud, taxes would be much lower, welfare costs would be much lower if people would work. Our lives would be much better if we followed God’s advice in the bible. … As a Christian, you can’t control everyone else’s life, but you can control yours. You stop yourself from stealing and cheating. You can be an honest person. It’s up to you to put your life under Christ’s Lordship. … Even stuff that is legal, but hurts other people is wrong. Don’t oppress the poor or take part in bribery. Don’t gamble either. In TN, there are 144,000 problem or pathological gamblers. 10,000 calls to the hotline and $126 million dollars for social services every year.
3. How you spend money … 3 Biblical priorities:
   1. Proverbs 3:9-10; Leviticus 27:30; Malachi 3:8-10 … Give ten percent to God off the top of your income. Give your first fruits to God. Acknowledge where it came from and submit it all to God. 6 motivations from lowest to highest: 6. Need. 5. Duty. 4. Blessing. 3. Investment. 2. Mission. 1. Worship.
   2. 1 Timothy 5:8 … Provide for your family and relatives. It’s the family’s job to care for their own first. And if someone has no family, then it falls on the church to take care of the person. … Imagine how much less our taxes might be if we all took care of our families instead of paying the government to do it for us.
   3. 1 Timothy 6:17-19 … Share with others. Most people in America could be considered rich in the present world. We should be generous and share with others. … Some will be called to give more than others, and it’s an individual calling.

An example: Luke 19:1-9 … Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector, which implies that he cheated people out of their money. … He wanted to see Jesus, but he was short, so he climbed a sycamore tree. Jesus looked up and called him down from the tree. Zacchaeus came down and called Jesus, “Lord.” Others in the crowd immediately criticized Jesus for socializing with a sinner. Then Zacchaeus committed half his possessions to the poor and vowed to payback four times what he had cheated out of everyone. He decided to put his life and money under the umbrella of the Lordship of Christ and his life was changed!

Here’s another good story about someone who decided to put his life under the umbrella of the Lordship of Christ: The story of Dr. Walt Larrimore and Bill Judge

Jason religion, Sunday Sermon

Reality Ministries Bible Study Notes;
Establishing the Kingdom of God in the heart of man.
October 21/2010.
Gospel Truth.

“Comfort, O comfort My people,” says your God. “Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her iniquity has been removed, That she has received of the LORD’S hand Double for all her sins.” Isaiah 40v1-2.

Kephal in the Hebrew is a very enlightening word, it means to fold over, i recently heard a teaching based on Isaiah 40, in the presentation of the preaching the minister made mention of the requirement of the believer to glean the understanding of the gospel from the perspective of illustrations that were common to the Jewish people.

In the Hebrew conception, if a person, or a family had accrued a debt in which they were unable to repay a list of their debt and a list of their creditors would be placed on the outside of their home.

If a person were to pass by and was able to pay or cancel the debt he would take the note of debt and write in his own handwriting – PAID IN FULL - and fold it over and replace it on the outside of the house , in the action of folding over, the debt and list of creditors would now be hid from view, and he would set off to find the creditors and cancel out the outstanding debt.

The person who would take it upon himself to cancel the debt would have to be without any debt of his own, this was the qualification needed for him to be able to lift the debt off the family. Once the note had been folded over, in the mind of the family their debt was paid, it was an accomplished work, a done deal.

For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth: and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; 1 Peter 2v21-23.

Here is a glorious picture of our redemption, everyone without exception had accrued a debt, we through the fall of the first Adam had fallen from the grace of God, all of humanity had failed to give the heart of God the joy and satisfaction that was His as being our God and creator, through the transgression of Adam all of humanity were guilty before Almighty God, in the spiritual realm on the soul of everyone born in this earth, born in sin, was a certificate of debt.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God; because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin. But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; Romans 3v19-24.

Handwriting of Ordinances.

In the Greek an ordinance was a hand written document, similar to a ledger, and on this ledger would be scribed a bill of payment due, a record of debt.
In Roman law, a certificate of debt, would be issued by a Judge against a convicted criminal , and this would be posted to the outside of a cell, or prison, on this notice would be stated for all to see, the list of crimes committed, and the punishment due.

Nailing it to His Cross.

One ancient mode of cancelling bonds was by striking a nail through the written note, and thus signifying that the one held in debt could hold up the paper for all to witness that the debt had been cancelled and he could go free , his debt had been deemed paid in full.
Historically, only two objects were nailed to the stake of crucifixion:
1) the condemned person.
2) an inscription naming the crimes for which he was being punished.

The Glorious message and the triumph of the cross of Jesus Christ is that on the cross Jesus took the punishment for our sins, and in doing so all our transgressions were nailed to His cross, and we can go free, free from sin’s condemnation.

Our salvation, our redemption came not by the works of the flesh, our wholeness came not by religious ordinances, our standing righteous in the eyes of Almighty God is only through the accepted way of the cross of Christ, Isaiah’s declaration of deliverance from the penalty of sin, man’s freedom from the debt they owed to Almighty God came from the hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, He paid the price in full with His life giving blood , He took the debt we could not pay, He took it out of the way, never again to hold it to our account.

having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Colossians 2v12-14.

We owed a debt we could not pay, He paid the debt He did not owe.

Jesus Christ has come to set the prisoner free
My certificate of Debt
He has taken and nailed it to His tree
No longer held in sin’s domain
Thank God, I’m ransomed, healed and born again.

RealityMinistries Life of the WORD

This is an awesome song by Casting Crowns….

Jason Music, Video, Wednesday Worship

Four Days Late

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The Audio

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We consider broken things to be useless, and we usually throw something away if it breaks. … Not God, though. God uses broken things, He blesses broken things, and He manifests His glory best through broken things.

God used Gideon’s broken jars (Judges 7:19). … Gideon led the Israelites army against 135,000 Midianites. The army Gideon lead consisted of only 300 men. Each man had a trumpet in one hand and a torch inside a jar in the other hand. When Gideon gave the command, all of his men were to blow the trumpets and break the jars. … So Gideon split his company of 300 into three parts and surrounded the camp of the 135,000 Midianites in the valley. … So here are 300 men armed with a trumpet and jar with a torch surrounding 135,000 men armed with swords and shields and spears. … Gideon gave he signal and the men of Israel blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Th Midianites saw the 300 torches that looked like 300 columns of men and God made them turn on each other. And Israel gained a great victory that day.

God used Mary’s broken jar (Mark 14:3). … When Jesus was at a dinner being given in His honor with Lazarus, whom Jesus had raised from the dead, and Mary and Martha, who were grateful towards Jesus for raising their brother from the dead. … At this dinner, Mary came up to Jesus with a pint of pure perfume. She broke the bottle open and poured the the perfume over Jesus’ head. … The perfume cost a year’s wages. Expensive perfume. … The others criticized Mary for wasting the perfume, but Jesus thanked her for anointing Him for burial.

God used Jesus’ broken body (Mark 14:22). … Two days after Mary poured the perfume over Jesus’ head, Jesus was having Passover with His disciples. This is where he broke the bread and gave it to His disciples saying, “take it; this is My body.” … The next day, Jesus was beat by Roman guards, struck with leather whips and nailed to a cross where they stuck a spear through His side to make sure He was dead.

God will use your broken heart (Psalm 51:17; 34:18). … As long as you think you’ve got your lifer all together, you think you don’t need God. … You say stuff like, “I’m alright,” “I’m okay,” “I’m in control,” and even “I don’t need God.” A shell of pride grows around your heart and God will not penetrate it. He’ll let you go on your own way. … If you want to be saved, you must be broken hearted. He wants you to admit that you need Him.

• God wants you to be broken over your sin (Luke 18:9-14). … The Pharisee who openly and flagrantly thanks God that he is not like other men, including tax collectors, is not broken hearted. He is prideful. … The tax collector who simply prays, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner” is broken hearted and leaves the temple justified before God. … The man who humbles himself will be exalted..
• God wants you to be broken over our world (Luke 19:41-42; Psalm 125:5). … Jesus is broken hearted, but He hasn’t sinned, so it’s not over His sin, but rather, He is broken hearted over the sins of Jerusalem. He cares about the people of Jerusalem and His heart goes out to them. He is broken hearted over their lostness so much that He just stops and cries as He approaches the city. … Are you broken over your school? Your co-workers? Your city? Your nation? … We’re chasing things that won’t fill us and our priorities are skewed. Do you ever cry out for our nation? Pray that we will all be broken and realize our wrongs. … And the rest of the world? As Christians we should be broken for everybody who does not know Christ as Savior. … Maybe we’re powerless Christians because we’re tear-less Christians.

God doesn’t want you to be sad, but to live a joyful life. And the path to joy is brokeness.

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Broken and Spilled Out – on the audio

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The rest is the Lord’s Supper.

Jason religion, Sunday Sermon

RealityMinistries Life of the WORD

This is a great song and the live version is about 9 minutes long, but it’s awesome!

Check out I am Free by the Newsboys! (They disabled embedding)

Jason Fun, Music, Wednesday Worship

The Authority of The Believer in Christ.

Introduction.

On the commencement of this study I want us to go right back to the beginning of man’s introduction to this earth in which he dwells, from here we will have the starting point of understanding what Authority is and evaluate its origin.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. Genesis 1v26-28.

Understanding Dominion.

In the Hebrew the word for Dominion is – Radah.
Radah lays emphasis on spoken command, and the ability to rule or govern, it means to declare and execute a decree.

The first thing to understand that authority is derived from dominion, it is intricately connected with the ability to have rule or reign.

When God created man, God designed or purposed man to be the holders of dominion, from here we understand that in himself man is void of the ability to reign or rule, he can only function because God imparts into man the capability to execute Gods plans or purposes on this earth.

Man was created to execute dominion, and being in the image of God man was fully able to accomplish that which God desired, Adam was to be lord or under ruler in and on this earth, subject only to God who created and commissioned him.

Understanding To Subdue.

From this position and execution of dominion is the right or responsibility or authority to subdue, or to keep under control, to keep under the foot.
When Adam was given the position of authority, with that came the need for observance to act with force to keep controlling power.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. Genesis 1v26-28.

Adam was given the right and the responsibility to execute power or dominion in a threefold capacity.
He held sway or could govern with authority over everything that moved in the air, in the water or that which moved on the ground, if it moved from its original intention, Adam was given the power to act.

Each and every believer must understand from the scriptures what transpired in the garden, when Adam lost his original standing in God, and must understand the implications of his actions.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” .
The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”

The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. Genesis 3v1-6.

The devil’s six D’s in the garden.

As you examine the temptation and fall of Adam, there are six aspects that are revealed, sometime ago the Holy Spirit highlighted these elements to reveal and exploit the ploy of satan, in doing so, the Holy Spirit brought specific emphasis by declaring that satan has no new schemes or devices.

Deceive.

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.1 Timothy 2v14.

The whole work of satan coming against the woman, was one of deception, when you analyze this work, it involves the use of cunning with the aim or objective to mislead the mind of a person, to cause a person to reason incorrectly.

Doubt.

Peter said to Him, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” And He said, “Come!” And Peter got out of the boat, and walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” Matthew 14v28-31.

And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

When you examine this word Doubt its literal meaning is to waiver in one’s opinion or judgment, it means to deem uncertain, the emphasis of the action of doubt is to question or cause distrust in that which has been declared.

Deny.

The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!
“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The action or objective of denial is to declare that something said or stated is not true, satan caused the woman to question the truthfulness or veracity of God.

Destroy.

Satan used cunning to progressively bring about the destruction of the bond of Adam and Eve with Almighty God, the meaning of destroy is the action or intent to cause to come down, or the pulling down of something.

Dethroned.

When you examine closely the destructive intent and result of satans attack against Adam and Eve it was to dethrone Adam from his place of dominion, having used his cunning to cause doubt and uncertainty, he undermined Adams trust in God, and when Adam transgressed he lost his glory and power to act.

Dominated.

The sad picture that we see when Adam fell was that he who was created to have power and dominion now became dominated and powerless to offer any resistance.

It is of vital importance to gain an understanding of the scriptures to fully comprehend the need of the salvation and redemption of the whole race of humanity, the whole theme of the Word of God revealed and given to us in and through the bible is to understand how God wrought redemption for man in and through Jesus Christ and in Christ alone, and in the continuation of this study we will see the unfolding of how God brought Christ into this earth to regain mans place of authority and dominion in Christ.

To be continued……………………………………………………….. …..

RealityMinistries Life of the WORD

How You Live (Turn Up the Music)

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This is the last sermon in the One Month to Live series. The last four weeks wee looked at four principles from the last year of Jesus’ life:

1. Live Passionately
2. Love Completely
3. Learn Humbly
4. Leave Boldly

This week, we look at how to live with no regrets. Of course, the ubest way to have a no regrets life is to follow the principles that were exhibited in the life of Jesus, and we’re going to look at how Paul lived with no regrets too. … Here’s three snapshots from Paul’s life.

Acts 20:17-27 – Here, Paul is probably in his 50′s and feels called to go Jerusalem even though he’s sure he’ll be persecuted there. Before he leaves, he calls the leaders of the church of Ephesus to come meet with him so he can say goodbye because he thinks he’ll never see them again. … Paul is able to say that say that he has no regrets about his life and that he lived with passion. Then he says he has no regrets about his witness. Then we see in verse 24 that Paul is determined to finish strong, and this an amazing verse and I hope that we all may say it throughout our lives. It doesn’t matter as much how you start, but what does matter is how you finish in life. Finish strong. Finish the race and complete the task. … Paul thinks he won’t be coming back to Ephesus, but you don’t know for sure when you will die. We think Paul made it back to Ephesus. … Strive to make this declaration: “I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of all men.” … The wording in this probably comes from Ezekiel 33 where God says, “Since he heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning, his blood will be on his own head. If he had taken warning, he would have saved himself. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.”

… Then Paul goes to Jerusalem and is arrested and brought to trial before the Sanhedrin, the same group that condemned Jesus to the cross, and probably thought he was about to die. But God had other plans for Paul and told Paul that Paul would be His witness in Rome. After a couple years in prison in Caesarea, Paul got a trial and appealed to Rome. They started on a ship to Rome, and the ship wrecked. They finally made it to Rome where Paul was in prison for two more years. Only this time it was under house arrest. He could send and receive letters and have guests. This is when he probably wrote a few of his letters we have in our Bible, one of those being Philippians. …

Philippians 1:20-25 – Pray this prayer: “I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.” … Christ can either be shoved out or exalted in your body by the way you talk, the way you act. … Paul isn’t sure whether he should pray to get out of house arrest or to depart to be with Christ. He is torn between wanting to help the churches and wanting to go to Heaven. But no matter what, he desires for Christ to be exalted in his body. He feels that he is needed on Earth to help grow the church more, but he desires to be with Christ. He becomes determined he should pray to live and he does live.

… Paul gets released and makes a fourth missionary journey. He even goes back to Ephesus, the people he said goodbye to. At the end of the journey, Paul is arrested and imprisoned in Rome once again. Only this time is a little different. He’s not under house arrest. He’s in a cold dungeon and Nero is emperor. Rome is in trouble and Nero blames the Christians. Paul writes II Timothy. He knows he’s about to depart to Heaven. …

2 Timothy 4:6-8 – Paul alludes to his life like it is a sacrifice to God. He had poured his life out to God. … Make this promise: “I will fight the good fight, I will finish the race, I will keep the Faith.” There’s spiritual warfare going on everywhere. Fight the good fight. The Christian life is a marathon. Run through the tape. Stay faithful to God.

The key to living with regrets is to finish strong. … When Paul comes to the end of his life, he doesn’t look back on his accomplishments. He looks at his faithfulness. … It’s more important how you finish than how you start. Paul started out killing Christians. He could have lived a life of guilt and not done anything, but he didn’t. He had a rough start, but God forgave him. … Living with no regrets doesn’t mean you don’t make mistakes or nothing you would change. It means you come to the end of your life having done everything you could and asking forgiveness for your sins. … Here’s a little baseball story. On opening day in 1954, the Cincinnati Reds played the Milwaukee Braves. Two rookies started that game. One for Cincinnati, the other for Milwaukee. For Cincinnati, Jim Greengrass hit four doubles in his first game and Cincinnati won 9-8. Everyone got excited about this new player. You probably never heard of Jim Greengrass. But you may have heard of the left fielder who started for Milwaukee. Henry Aaron went 0-5 that day. Henry (Hank) Aaron went on to set the record for home-runs, surpassing Babe Ruth’s record. … You may have had a rough start, but you can finish strong.

Jason One Month to Live, religion, Series, Sunday Sermon

This is a day late, sorry about that.

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This is a really long song, but it’s awesome. Enjoy “From the Inside Out (Everlasting)” by Hillsong United

Jason Fun, Music, Video, Wednesday Worship