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| 05/04/2013 recording date. audio/video is 9 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. Vessel Unworthy or Worthy I am your host Christina Farris. Are you unworthy or worthy vessel to the Lord. Where are you in your life. Are you living for the Lord? Or are you like the Prodigal Son eating corn in the hog pen, before realizing there is a easier way and that through humility to God. Our calling from God can be either a life pleasing to God or a life of ill repute. God uses both life to demonstrate two different life styles. Let us read today’s passage. Romans 11:29-36 KJV (29) For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. (30) For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: (31) Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. (32) For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. (33) O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (34) For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? (35) Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? (36) For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. If you got a call on your life from God whether you are running or whether you are serving God, I can guarantee you are a preacher. See there two types of people in this world believers and non believers. Jews were believers and the Gentiles were unbelievers. Yet the Gentiles would gain mercy from God through the Messiah Jesus Christ. They would gain a hope of eternal life, based on belief. Yet the Jewish heart would be harden to Jesus, only for a time. Purpose was so the gentiles could gain the mercy of God. Yet the Jewish people were called by God to serve Him. And in all truth they served Him not always as they should. Yet God would use their disobedience and unbelief to bring the Gentiles to Him. Romans 9:11-33 KJV (11) (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) (12) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. (13) As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. (14) What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. (15) For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. (16) So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. (17) For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. (18) Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. (19) Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? (20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? (21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? (22) What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: (23) And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, (24) Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? (25) As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. (26) And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. (27) Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: (28) For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. (29) And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. (30) What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. (31) But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. (32) Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; (33) As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. The one that sins is not justified by sin, but justified through faith in Christ Jesus. Our righteousness comes through faith and by the law of Moses, not by our good deeds or evil deeds. Yet when standing before God almighty and He looks at you and says what have you been doing on earth. If you should say living life to fullest, partying, drinking, smoking weed and doing all sorts of things, God is not going to be pleased. Though you believed, you did not love God. In fact you chose to live by your own desires and not the ways of God. You chose your eternity. You choose your eternity not by your actions, but belief in God, who makes you righteous. Yet redemption only comes through forgiveness from sin which is through Christ Jesus. Salvation comes with repentance. Repentance meaning to turn away from sin. Many believe in God and have faith that God exist and does rule, yet not obey God. They even follow the traditions and rules of the church on Sunday and when the doors of God’s house are open, but they live the life outside of church pleasing to self and the world. You can perform all the customs of religious dogma, and not be saved. Until you come humbly before the Lord and receive His salvation plan through Christ Jesus and repent of your sins, you going to spend eternity in a pit called hell. Traditions have no value if the heart is in unbelief mode. God desires people of both the Jew and Gentile that have a heart for Him. We all sin and our sin often teaches us about repentance or it teaches us to keep sinning. Others watch us and choose faith and no faith based on our witness. Our goaled should be to strive to be a vessel pleasing to God. God gives a believer the ability through the Holy Spirit when we rely on Him to be a vessel of honor. God gives no power to be evil, except the freedom of choice. Without choice one does not have the willingness to serve God. It is dictatorship if forced to obey. When we choose to obey God, our desire is to do good. Our desire is to please God. It takes no conscious effort to continue in a life of sin, it takes conscious effort to believe and to live for God. To receive Christ as Savior is receiving God redemption plan. A plan to take away all our sin, because of Christ sacrifice for you and me. Is your life a testimony for Jesus or a testimony for the devil? |
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