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September 6, 2020 6:57 pm
Welcome to week. However, I can with Gary Atkins living Mrs. Christiansen to King North Carolina in a postmodern culture pastor Atkins preaches an old-fashioned message under a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit, pointing, meaning winning to the truth of Scripture and freedom found in Jesus Christ pastor Atkins police the body of Christ has a voice and when we declare Jesus is Lord and the voice of power is a recent message from the tabernacle of willing vessels Christian center number one, number eight, were just as we did last week in which we do God's word, forgive him and be written from English standard version if you will have better word just as well with the other one so you just would run longer concert with me.
All right, first off thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because your faith is proclaimed all for God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son, that without ceasing I met you always in my prayers asking that somehow barred God's will library now at last succeed in coming to you for I long to see that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen that is that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.
I want you to know brothers that I have often intended to come to you, but thus far have been prevented in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as the among the rest of the Gentiles. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the lives of the foolish, so I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are enrolled for. I have not shamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God under salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written, the righteous or the just shall live by the Lord is blessing to the word to be seated this morning as we discussed last Sunday Paul all go to roll Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire today. It's the capital of Italy, but it was the Mecca of Roman Empire in legislation and government and politics. That was the place to be with role. Now there was a church that started in Rome, but it wasn't because Paul planted a church there.
It was because someone we don't know who I came to Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost and don't say born again, transformed by the power of God and I went back to roll and plant a church there. So Paul heard about how God had moved in such a mighty way of the city of Rome.
He had all go there to see the Rowlands and he would eventually get a look at verse number eight again. First, he says, I think my God through Jesus Christ for all of you guys say today that I'm thankful for everyone here.
Spirit of Thanksgiving is something that you can choose to have right side. First Thessalonians 518 says for everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Now, may I give him thanks for tragedy and travesty now, but you can give him thanks in the middle of it. You can thank him because he's faithful even when things aren't going the way we think about our world are three of the way things are going and what's happening perhaps there's things happening in your life as a go illness, family issues, work issues, marital problems, whatever may be we can we can all stand here declare that we have problems and issues somewhere in our lives.
At the same time we can give thanks to God because he's faithful he's faithful and pauses. I think God for you because your faith is proclaimed in all the world when he's talking about the world. He's not talking about the world as we know he's talking about the mold world of the Mediterranean. He's talking about how that the gospel of Christianity out of the power of God that I went to Rome and change the lives of so many people enrolled and that the word spread throughout the known world. Isn't that something. I long for the day that willing vessels Christian center will be known throughout the world as it is our podcast goes all the way to Afghanistan to Canada to California all over the world people are tuning in to listen to the voice of power broadcast which is a ministry of willing vessels Christian center and that's a wonderful thing I tell people and preaching while I sleep ever thought that the gospel could go throughout the whole world while you're asleep you to be bridging the wonderful thing. But Paul was thankful of the ministry and reputation of Rome verse nine for God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son, that without ceasing I mentioned, you always in my prayer asking that somehow by God's will. I may now at last succeed in coming to you. Notice how he is talking here. He said I make mention of you in my prayers all the time versus always 517 says play without ceasing. Never stop playing. I don't like the doctrine where people say plants for good and be done with it and believe God absolutely not. I'm telling you that I'm going to play and ask him to go to him and ask and it shall be given seat yourself. I'm not that it shall be open on goes a step further. Jesus said he then asked received 65 inhibit knocks, the door is eventually why because you kept asking you Sinking you Believing Paul is believing the debtor all that it would eventually get there, but the way he got there was probably not how he thought he would because he went to Rome as a prisoner he went to roll what he was put in a sale where manure was running through that prison sale where rats were probably crawling on his shoulders when he was probably changed our where he wrote and pinned the book of Philippians and he said I've learned in whatever state I meant to be content sitting in a Roman jail so he got there, but he did not get there. The way he thought he would get there and a lot of times God's will will be played out in your life and it may not be exactly how you thought it would be.
I can tell you he never works the way you think he would, he always throws a curveball.
He will always surprise you that he will always let you know that he's working but it's after the counsel of his own will, purpose and plan, but we can take comfort in that because that means he's in control is not sovereign over all. He's not solving over anything and nothing makes sense, but aren't you glad that he's in control even your life that is I long to see you but I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you audibly. He's talking about the nine gifts of the spirit. Here we can impart anything to anybody we could fill a mat with a bad call. We need God's power and God's anointing upon our lives to do anything different. You have better spiritual is for the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with your talent or ability. It's all a gift from God. What's he saying here.
I long to see you so I can help you establish some organizations to put together a church that could bring forth more churches plant more churches so that the gospel can go throughout all of role and eventually the whole world that was his mission to impart something to them at verse 12 that is that we may be mutually encouraged underlined that the body everybody say everybody. Everybody needs encouragement.
Everybody in the best way to get encouragement is to encourage somebody else a man so if you want to be built up and lifted up and and and you want that smile to come back to your face will put a smile on somebody else's face. Encourage somebody else in the Lord. Paul speaking from a pastor's point of view and more. If anybody needs encouragement of pastors because pastors didn't give their lives to congregations and a lot of times the congregation for lunch, has roast for pastor slices and ice a lot of times of always encourage your pastors and your leaders in the kingdom of God. And that's what Paul is saying here. I want to mutually encourage you and help you. I love that by each other's faith, both yours and mine. Verse 13 I want you to know brothers that I have often tended to come to you, but thus far I have been prevented in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. Paul was a man who was led by the spirit. In fact, if you read the book about you see a few times with the Holy Spirit stopped him from going to a certain place. He he proudly placed his life in the divine plan of God. He proudly said, Lord, I'm going to go where you want me to go. I'm going to do what you want me to do a lot of times the Holy Spirit said don't go here I want you to go here and that's the way we need to live with the spirits help with spirits direction and a lot of times things look good, but they're not of God. A lot of times a better job, better paying job. It may pull you away from God's house, but always a better paying job well.
It may look good but that doesn't mean it's God they bad that those lips hips and fingertips. It may look good but it may not be God like this because the Apple looks good, doesn't mean it's from God and we have to be a spirit led people. I know that the apostle Paul wanted to go to Rome so many times in fact, I believe that was his first choice something.
This is the Mediterranean world to go on a mission trip and never set foot in the world. Well, I believe it's because God did not want him to go through all and he quickly realized that he did not have to because he heard that the gospel had already been to roll that somebody had already taken God's word. Their church had been sparked onto glad that you can be part of the plan of God, but not the plan of God. I believe a lot of people need to learn that that they are not the plan. They're just part of the plan would concede to.
He does not need you people use whom you will believe the apostle learned very quickly with me. Verse 14.
I am under obligation both to Greeks and barbarians.
That's the uncultured people. Most of the wives and the foolish little Paul was one of these men. He was a cosmopolitan man. He was all things to all people that he may win some, that's who he was. He was in Athens. He became like the Corinthians, and got down to their level and he said look I straight up with them but he related to them the best he could.
When he was in Jerusalem he did the best he could to relate to the Jewish people. In fact, he was both a Jew had a role and use that to his advantage in order that the gospel that the gospel that the gospel may prevail because his life was about the gospel. A man that he said verse 15, so I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in the world.
Now he's talking to Christians here.
So why would you want to preach the gospel to Christians where we have a wrong idea what the gospel is because the same phrase that he gave you to become a Christian is the same faith that he will give you to live a Christian life which I grew up and said what you said by faith but to stay saved by good works and not going here in doing that doing this not partake. You know I will learn thank God that the same faith that brought me to the cross is the same faith that will help me live a holy sanctified 20 saying I long to bring the gospel to you so that I can disciple you and teach you how to live godly and it is by faith because in fact the gospel is the power of God for 60 and he said these powerful words, for I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is power of God for salvation to everyone who believes all hell and he said not ashamed.
Listen to make the apostle he was a smart man. He was well educated.
He had a liberal education he could relate to the Greeks who sought after knowledge and wisdom. He could relate to the Romans who were legislative and political he could relate to the Jews who were religious and he related to all, he was a smart cookie to heat loss so you can imagine that when he went to the Greeks when he talked to those folks on Mars Hill in acts 17 and they had this monument is different God and that he comes to the limits as to the unknown God. These were people who live by their ability to have knowledge, science heard that word a lot here lately have it because there's a people who build their whole lives on science. That's the truth that doesn't live medical science not to tell you how many times I've seen the divine hand God, medical science seen people who were given a diagnosis of cancer that says you will not plan anything over medical science with his will and purpose for your life. There's always a higher truth. Science doesn't give me anything but facts like the truth brother say you are sick so you may God God's truth said by his stripes on imagine how much flack he received when he went to these intellectual and he went to the politicians and he stood before governors and rulers went to the Hebrews he was one of them. So much so that he would commit murder and take the lives of Christians. So when he would talk to these different groups of people and he said barbarians.
Those were not culture. Those want us smart as others. You'll have to be smart to be a Christian and I'm thankful for that. God have learned that when people become Christians. That doesn't mean they become smarter so he said I will relate the gospel to everyone anything. I am not ashamed of that was. It doesn't matter what type of people I'm around the gospel shows work with the religious could not ashamed to declare that it is possible to salvation education, not religion, not politics, not status. Gospel is the power of God for salvation to all who believe. What is the gospel will we know it's good news. What is the good news.
The good news is that God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ. And here's what happened when he went to the cross. All sin was imputed upon his body.
So much so that darkness covered the whole world had he said my God, why have you for sick and well it was because the imputation of our sin was upon his body on the cross. In fact, the Bible says he became sin who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ.
That's the gospel. So not only was our sin imputed to his body but his righteousness in return is imputed to us because it goes on to say in verse 17 for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. What is he saying it's the gospel.
The imputation of our sin on his body had been in return would receive that finished work by faith grants us the righteousness of Christ and that is what puts us in right standing with God. Go with me but your finger there for seven to go with me to first review chapter 1 is he talking to the Corinthians. I want us to see something powerful. The graded church had an unhealthy regard for rhetorical display know that is a fancy speech, a fancy sermon. They like the Paulus because he could give a discourse preach an eloquent sermon and people would get excited and they would clap and they would run a dance and speak with tongues, and prophesied, so much so that Paul's people are calling you absolutely mad and I happened to Pentecostal churches all the time people follow a personality or style. I can remember some of the old-timers would say I like it fiery project fiery preacher to like him, if that's what you like our long time to quit catering to the needs of people and but they would build their whole Christianity and receiving the word of God on somebody that would put goose bumps on their neck and that's what was happening to the Corinthians Paul look what he says in verse 17 of chapter 1.
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the lot. The gospel had not with words of eloquent wisdom probably wasn't a great speaker last the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. That's why I challenge you to be careful who you listen to the character of the quotes that you share on your social media preachers. That's not gospel lowers it word but it's there to."
Because it may sound good and eloquent, but it may not be the gospel. It may not be the power of his word to say.
And this is what the Corinthians were doing.
Because what happens is we see quotes from men and that pulls our attention away from the simple gospel. So guess what you will need in the future you'll need another quote you'll need another sermon a lot of prophetic preachers they didn't they fall into this trap of finding new revelation new prophecies fact, it's so new and so fresh. Only the people who support me financially can come in here it I have a problem with that because of its award from God.
From the press of heaven. Why doesn't it go to.
I have an issue with, but they get caught in the trap of having to come up with something new all the time new book sermon something that's life. The people excited. So they will come to this camp meeting this conference that it's all about eloquence. It's all about what gets me riled up. It's all about the word give me a word I don't work for you� 66 books that will suffice.
If you just open it and read it. I can't tell you how may people, and prophesied, say like this prophesied over my life about dates and certain things that will happen by a certain age in a certain time that did not. People find themselves all the time looking for a word from God. Folks, he's not speaking anything new here it is here right here so he says I don't want the cross of Christ.
Verse 17 to be a bit of its power.
Verse 18 for the word of the cross for the message of the cross is folly is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the discernment of the discerning verse 22 for the Jews. They demand signs. They want somebody to slay him in the spirit they seek after an experience they want something to show them that God is working in their life. Well, if I go to church today and I preacher calls me up and give me a word I know your in my life. That's what the Jews were looking for and pulses they see Denver sign.
Notice what is it and the Greeks seek wisdom, knowledge, understanding. I know people are so smart they lost they know something about everything. In fact there are so smart they want to see what you know and if you don't know what makes them feel great because they know you don't that's someone who seeks after knowledge because the world has told us.
Knowledge is power. That's a world system. That's what the Greeks were looking for the know-how knowledge and I told her one time. I'm a millionaire a few times over and I could do it again tomorrow because I've learned how to do it. My response was, you could lose it all tomorrow as well. Understand that everything you have is granted by the divine hand of God. Thanksgiving is always always appropriate, and then he said, but verse 23 prescriptions.
One, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews had folly to the Gentiles as a stumbling block to the Jews because they're looking for the sock looking for the Messiah to ride in honesty take over the government in room T that's what they want.
The charismatic movement. Once the kingdom of God to cover the earth today are looking for signs and wonders, is exactly what the Jews were looking for Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God for the foolishness of God lives through the admin and the weakness of God is stronger than men. So he's chosen by the foolishness of preaching to save people have had people say Wolf is elected and predestined. Why even preach.
Why do missionary work. Why declare the gospel because that's the he's chosen for you to obey him to take us to the world. All right, let's close this out. Go back to Romans chapter 1 and I want to cover this last verse one more time because truly this is the heartbeat of the book of Romans fact, it's the heartbeat of the New Testament.
It's the heartbeat in my opinion all the word of God with verse 17 again, for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. It is written, the righteous or the just shall live by faith, the righteousness of God is received by faith and it's reproduced by faith and sanctification and separation unto God by faith. Good works doesn't produce faith. Faith produces good works from faith to faith. I'm so glad you decided to listen to the voice of power broadcast. We pray that it has been a blessing to you. If so we would encourage consider giving a financial help our stay on the air. Give three ways. The simplest way to give would be text message by simply texting a dollar amount 336-747-3336 and following the instructions.
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