On the Road to a Future Deeper Walk – Purity 1164
Purity 1164 10/05/2023 Purity 1164 Podcast
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Good morning,
Today’s photo of a winding stretch of New York State
Route 28 & 30 disappearing around the bend of some colorful fall foliage
comes to us from Tara Becker who shared this road photo from her trip to the Blue
Mountain Lake Region of the Adirondacks on social media back on October 2nd.
Well, It’s Thursday morning and my wife, TammyLyn and
I are traveling to the Deeper Walk International’s “35 Years of Break Through
Conference” in Hobart, Indiana (https://deeperwalkinternational.org/product/35th-anniversary-conference/)
so I have taken the liberty of preparing this message ahead of time – on Tuesday
Evening no less because Wednesdays are when the Celebrate Freedom Growth Group
meets – or met – and will meet again next week. Anyway, I am writing and
recording this message Tuesday evening because by the time I would have
normally sat don’t to do the podcast and blog on Thursday morning, I am scheduled to be on a Delta Flight to
Atlanta on the way to Chicago, before a rental car drive to Merrillville, Indiana
to check-in to our hotel before making our way to Deeper Walk’s Headquarters in
Hobart.
As you may know, I am currently enrolled in Deeper
Walk’s School of Prayer Ministry and beyond the benefits of Deeper Walk’s
Anniversary Celebration and a conference loaded with encouraging and
educational Christian messages, I am looking forward to finally meeting some of
the other students from my Thursday night classes, my client experience prayer
minister – Christy Edge, Nik Harrang,
our cohort instructor, and Dr. Marcus Warner, the president of Deeper Walk in person!
It’s amazing how I have come to know, admire, and
love these people whom I would have never met if it wasn’t for the Lord and whom
I now consider friends whom I never have met or even seen in person! The technology
available today gives us the ability to
not only boldly go where we never thought we could, it gives us an expanded
opportunity to form heart focused discipleship communities.
In fact, if you want to go to the conference with
me, you can’t – it sold out – but because of streaming technology – you could
still attend the conference online! I am including a link on the blog if you
want to join us: (https://deeperwalkinternational.org/product/35th-anniversary-conference/)
.
So, obviously, I am very excited to be on my way today – to
see a bit of America I haven’t seen before and to see my friends and to be
equipped and encouraged when I reach the end of the road! So in the spirit of going on this pilgrimage
to the Deeper Walk Breakthrough Conference, I thought I would share Psalm 121
which is known as a song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.
Psalm 121:1-8 (NLT2) says
1 I look up to the mountains—
does my help come from there?
2 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth!
3 He will not let you
stumble; the one who watches over you will not slumber.
4 Indeed, he who watches over
Israel never slumbers or sleeps.
5 The LORD himself watches over you! The LORD stands beside you as your protective shade.
6 The sun will not harm you
by day, nor the moon at night.
7 The LORD keeps you from all harm and watches over your life.
8 The LORD keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and
forever.
I don’t know if you would say I’m coming
or going today, but I know that the Lord is faithful to keep watch over all of
us who are His in Christ, no matter where we are, both now and forever.
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For
those who want more evidence for Christianity than my simple encouragements provide,
I offer apologist, Frank Turek’s website, https://crossexamined.org/ .
Today’s
Bible verse comes to us from “The Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling” By
John G. Kruis.
(
While Bible verses on various topics of Counseling can be found with a quick Google
search, we encourage you to purchase this resource to support the late author’s
work. (https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Scripture-Reference-Counseling-Kruis-ebook/dp/B00CIUJZT2?ref_=ast_author_dp )
This
morning’s meditation verses come from the section on Anger, Hot Temper.
Matthew 5:21-22 (ESV)
21 “You have heard that it
was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be
liable to judgment.’
22 But I say to you that
everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever
insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You
fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Today’s
verses fall under the thirteenth point of our counseling reference guide
resource’s section on Anger, Hot Temper
13. Jesus said that one who is angry with
his brother without a cause will be subject to judgment.
Today’s verses come from
Jesus’ Sermon on The Mount – where He really expanded the gathered crowds understanding
of what God’s holy standards were really like.
Jesus’ raises the bar on righteousness by equating anger with murder and
indicating that an angry attitude and insolent speech could result in eternal separation
from God is “the hell of fire”!
Jesus came to set the
record straight and to point out that God would not be mocked be a show of
righteousness and that hypocrisy and hidden unconfessed and unrepentant sins of
the heart would be judged. In John 4:24 Jesus told us about the Samaritan woman
at the well, that if we were to worship the Lord we would have to do so in
spirit and in truth – we have to be authentic in our faith and obedience.
Anything less than faith in Jesus Christ and a surrendered obedience to the
spirit of God’s word will be seen for what it is and attitudes and actions that
deviate from God’s way will be judged as something worthy of His wrath.
So seek to turn from anger
and the sin that it leads to. Follow Jesus’ way of love and forgiveness and rather
than reacting with malice and hate, respond with actions that would represent
the kingdom of God and cause others to think of our father who art in heaven
and of His son, Jesus, who walked in righteousness all the days of His life,
until He died for us, so we could live.
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As always, I invite all to go to mt4christ.org where I
always share insights from prominent Christian theologians and counselors to assist
my brothers and sisters in Christ with their walk.
Today we continue sharing from The Holy Spirit By A.W. Pink.
As always, I share this information for educational
purposes and encourage you all to purchase A.W. Pink’s books for your own
private study and to support his work. This resource is available online
for $0.99 (https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Spirit-Arthur-Pink-Collection-ebook/dp/B008CM5292/ref=sr_1_3?crid=AHKAQOM39CTN&keywords=a.w.+pink+the+holy+spirit&qid=1684376225&sprefix=a.w.+pink+the+holy+spirit+%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-3)
A.W. Pink’s The Holy Spirit
28 –The Spirit Preserving
During recent years much has been written upon the eternal
security of the saints, some of it helpful, but most of it superficial and
injurious. Many Scriptures have been quoted, but few of them explained. A great
deal has been said about the fact of
Divine preservation, but comparatively little on the method thereof. The preservation of the believer by the Father and
by the Son has been given considerable prominence, but the work of the Spirit
therein was largely ignored. The general impression conveyed to the thoughtful
reader has been that, the “final perseverance” of the Christian is a mechanical
thing rather than a spiritual process, that it is accomplished by physical
force rather than by moral persuasion, that it is performed by external might
rather than by internal means—something like an unconscious non-swimmer being
rescued from a watery grave, or a fireman carrying a swooning person out of a
burning building. Such illustrations are radically faulty, utterly misleading,
and pernicious in their tendency.
It may be objected
that the principal thing for us to be concerned with is the blessed fact
itself, and that there is no need for us to trouble ourselves about the modus
operandi: let us rejoice in the truth that God does preserve His people, and not wrack our brains over how He does so. As well might the
objector say the same about the redemptive work of Christ: let us be thankful
that He did make an atonement, and not worry ourselves over the philosophy of
it. But is it of no real importance, no value to the soul, to ascertain that
Christ’s atonement was a vicarious
one, that it was a definite one, and
not offered at random; that it is a triumphant
one, securing the actual justification of all for whom it was made? Why, my
reader, it is at this very point lies the dividing-line between vital truth and
fundamental error. God has done something more than record in the Gospels the
historical fact of Christ’s death: He has supplied in the Epistles an
explanation of its nature and design.
So, too, God has
given us far more than bald statements in His Word that none of His people
shall perish: He has also revealed how
He preserves them from destruction, and it is not only highly insulting to Him,
but to our own great loss, if we ignore or refuse to ponder carefully what He
has made known therein. Was it without reason Paul prayed, “That the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know … what is
the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the
working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him
from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand” (Eph. 1:17–20). Christians
are “kept by the power of God” (1 Pet. 1:5), and evidently we can only know
what that power is, and the greatness thereof, as we are spiritually
enlightened concerning the same.
When we read that we
are “kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (1 Pet. 1:5), or
“For it is God which worketh in you
both to will and to do of His good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13), in such passages the
immediate reference is always to the Holy
Spirit—the “immediate,” though not the exclusive. In the economy of
redemption all is from the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit. All proceeds
from the fore-ordination of the Father, all that comes to the believer is
through Christ, that is, on account of His infinite merits: all is actually
wrought by the Spirit, for He is the Executive of the Godhead, the active Agent
in all the works of redemption. The believer is as truly and directly preserved by the Spirit, as he was
quickened by Him; and only as this is duly recognized by us will we be inclined
to render Him that thanks and praise which is His distinctive due.[1]
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