Turning On the Lights for Thursday August 29, 2024 We are ON FIRE with the WORD today!
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I get a little excited today about preaching and teaching the Word – the good, the bad, and the ugly of how our churches are handling it – and why it is SO VERY IMPORTANT!
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Good morning. Good morning. My brothers and my sisters. Welcome to the Church Town Church of God. We are turning on the lights. Hey, look Friday, September six. God’s not dead too. 7 PM. No charge of course. Free popcorn and water. How about that? What are you doing Friday? The first Friday of September. There’s a big old table here. You know, why? Because we had to have council meeting in here last night. You know why? Because it was about 175 degrees in the fellowship hall. Here’s the old church. Oh my goodness. We love it. Look at this place. Fontastique. Fontastique. That’s French. Because I speak a little French. Fontastique. S’il vous plait, mademoiselle. Turn on the fan off so you can hear things. Oh my goodness. What a week it’s been. Hi, Sue. We’re gonna sit down right away. We’re gonna get started right away on this Thursday. Maybe it’ll rain today. I kinda hope it doesn’t. You know why? Because I have plans to mow the grass. I have plans to mow the grass. This afternoon when the storms are supposed to come. So we’ll see on the one hand. I want rain on the other hand. Gee willikers. I have to really mow the grass but Lord you are sovereign and we know that that’s why that’s what we’re in the word for to look at your sovereignty and the truth and the power of your word to us. Jesus name. We pray that you would guide us in your word this morning. Everything that we do and say. Amen. Amen. Indeed, my brothers and sisters, we have been talking about what it means. When we say there is power in the word power in the word of God, what does that mean? Well, if we turn to Ephesians six, we see that Paul teaches us by the power of God’s Holy Spirit that all of our battles are spiritual. So you may think whether you’re talking about economics or politics or society or family dynamics or whatever the case may be relationship issues. That’s not a spiritual thing. It is a spiritual thing. Animals don’t have relationship issues say well. There are animals that are hate each other. They fight. They don’t hate each other. That’s just their nature. They’re they’re they’re firing the way they are in some cases the way they’ve been taught in the way that they’ve been trained. They don’t hate they don’t have emotional connections say what your dog does well. Okay. I mean we’re not going to get off into the weeds with that the animals have emotions. I believe they have simple emotions. Of course, yes, but let’s reset this whole conversation. You are a very special and unique creation complete set of emotions complete intellect. All of those things that intertwine you with the world and intertwine you with one another. You are a spiritual being in this physical shell. You are the combination where heaven and earth meet you by the power of God’s Holy Spirit and your acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord are the temple of the spirit of God on earth. There we go. Maybe that would clarify things a bit more on this Thursday morning. So when we know that all of our battles and I use that term as a large umbrella term, can we say interactions? Because it always makes it sound so negative, but all of our interactions all of our relations all of our striving is spiritual in nature. Satan wants to take who we are and turn us away from God and use us for evil. That is a constant whether you are a believer or not. Now if you’re not a believer, you’re already there. But if you are a believer, you are engaged in the spiritual realm because you are a spiritual being. So now we say, how do we do this? Good morning, Dale. And our foundation is the word of God. The word of God today should come from the pulpits right Dale. When we say so sayeth the Lord and then we open our Bibles and we begin to read. Not oh I was I word gave the Lord gave me a word for you or I don’t know who needs to hear this. Stop it. So sayeth the Lord open your Bibles and read the Lord is never silent. He has given us his word of the law and the prophets and then the New Testament of Jesus Christ and salvation by the grace of God. So we look at what that means power the word of God we looked at. We’re going to look at this weekend first. The power the engagement that Christ has with Satan himself. Okay, we’ll check things out. But we’re going to look at the engagement of Jesus Christ with Satan himself and the temps what we call the temptation in the desert and what does he do to defeat Satan at that time to defeat temptation at that time we he uses the word of God. Satan as we see attempts to twist the word of God because he knows the power of the word. Jesus is the word. And he lays down the power to Satan and says you just you can’t touch this. You cannot corrupt this. First of all, you can’t corrupt the Christ because he’s fully human and fully divine. You can’t corrupt the word. So we know as we carry the word within us that that is the part of us that is uncorruptible. So should we be engaged in the word every day? Yes. And that is why your soul, your spirit, your thinking, your ego, the things that you desire, the things that you want, all of that is corruptible. Your emotions will lie to you. Your intellect can be manipulated with statistics and fancy arguments. Do you know what is incorruptible is the truth of the word of God. And that is why we ingest it. Do you remember when we read Ezekiel as our first example, take this scroll and eat it. Now this is not the Old Testament, so to speak. It is they are the prophecies that God is giving to Ezekiel to share with the people. But he ingest the word of God. It is a part of him. It is who he is and you will see if you read Ezekiel. Oh my goodness. He’s incorruptible. He follows God’s word to the T and God literally says in one of the chapters I’ve chosen you because you are I think it’s chapter one actually chapter two when he calls him because you are as stubborn as the people you’re about to go preach to. They’re not going to listen to you and you are just gonna keep on preaching. That’s why I picked you now eat this word and go and that that is an image. Of a lot of things actually if you can see that, can you see the Lord’s Supper in there? Can you see John six in there? The word become flesh and Jesus Christ says this is my body given to you and we participate in that ordinance in remembrance of what he did and as we eat that cracker or that bread or whatever the case may be it breaks down into its molecular structure and moves all throughout our body. We eat that word and we are edified. We are strengthened. We are we have become less corruptible because we have committed to that. So I hope that that makes sense. We see several examples of that we see Ezekiel. We see the power of the word of God in the desert. We see the power of the word of God in the Lord’s Supper. We see the power of the word of God all throughout scripture, but we’re pulling these specific examples again in Revelation. John is told eat this scroll. Now Ezekiel says it was so sweet on my lips. John says it was sweet on my lips. But bitter in my stomach, he’s reading the scroll of judgment. He’s reading the scroll of the book of life. He’s reading the eating the scroll of scroll of names. He understands heaven and hell. He understands what’s happening. The word of God is always sweet, but boy that truth of the word of God that can be better to take. We talked a little bit of if you follow my social media feed, it’s either dogs or Christianity, sometimes grandkids and that’s it. But we came across a nice piece by Turek who talks about the truth of the word of God. And do you not want to be told the truth? And he says what when we look at the practical application of telling the truth, why have we strayed so far from telling the truth of scripture? If you actually have you have a child that you love, it’s you know the old hot stove tell them that it’s hot right. They may need to learn for themselves, but if you know they’re heading into danger and you don’t do anything if you know that what they’re doing is dangerous or unhealthy and you don’t say anything you don’t try to prevent them in any way you don’t try to teach them you don’t try to tell them the truth. What are you doing? And most people with other people that they care about will tell them the truth simple things like the car has a very weak battery. You may be left in town. If you borrow it, tell them the truth. I broke the lamp today. It’s my fault. You don’t need to investigate this any further tell them the truth. We have no problem with that, but when it comes to healthy human sexuality when it comes to abortion when it comes to the trans movement and men becoming women and women becoming men and when it comes to how people feel in these movements, we will not tell them the truth when it comes to anyone. I set those things aside anyone who is lost in the darkness with a hard heart. We say, okay, we don’t I don’t really care if you go to hell. I don’t know you not my worry whatever. Now do we go seeking all the billions of people we don’t necessarily go seeking all the billions of people, but we never stop living the life. We never stop living the gospel. We never stop preaching the gospel with our words. We never stop having those conversations. We never stop caring because we never stop loving loving is not just accepting loving is telling the truth. And how can you tell the truth if you do not have the word of God within you and how can it mean anything to anybody if the word of God is not power it is truth. It is objective truth. It is power. Why do you think the forces of darkness work so hard to shut it down and if they can’t shut it down the same equal work so hard to corrupt the word. You know how many how many pastors across the world this weekend are gonna teach about speaking things into existence and manifesting the presence of the Lord. Read Ezekiel as a matter of fact, read Jeremiah read the Psalms. That’s that is demonic in nature. When you’re trying to and this is part of what you talk about taking the Lord’s name in vain using the Lord’s name to make oaths. One because you’re not him and you can’t speak for him too because you’re trying to manipulate him attach his name to something and then kind of thinking that you’re putting him on the hook to do it. You know how much garbage is going to be preached from the pulpits this weekend. As people seek to to inject their own meaning into the word of God seek to do what Satan does and manipulate the word of God for their own purposes seek to do what Satan does and pull out only partial scriptures that tell part of the truth. The part that they want to hear. So there you go. And as we learn in Revelation, as we learn from Paul as well as we learn from Jesus judgment will begin final judgment judgment will begin in the house of the Lord. So there’s that just saying. That’s why I like you Dale. That’s why my circle is small. We are garbage less people. We make our mistakes, but man we faithfully get into the word and faithfully try to rightly divide the word of God for the purposes of preaching and teaching edification strengthening the knowledge of those who are willing to hear and willing to investigate for themselves edifying them against the forces of evil, providing the tools for every follower of Christ to live the life that they’re called to live. You cannot. Employ in you cannot employ the armor of God if you do not know what the armor of God is if you do not understand that you’re covered by Christ’s righteousness. If you do not understand the power of the word of God, if you do not understand the power of the spirit of God and you do not understand how all of that is possible. Let’s go deeply into the word and learn together. That’s what we should be doing in our churches not talking about the seven prayers that will manifest abundance not talking about. You know that’s sort of garbage. I’m overwhelmed with the amount of knowledge not having prophetic services where we use. Oh, I received the word. I don’t know who needs to hear this. Oh my goodness. Oh not having impartation services where all we attach the name of the lord to this divine the command to make everybody start babbling in what we call tongues and all of this stuff and we’re gonna attach the name of the lord to it. The spirit of the lord to it. You know you’re not you’re bringing demons to that and you’re bringing demons into the body and you’re corrupting the word of God and you’re trying to manipulate the spirit of God. Holy spirit you are welcome here. Really. He needs us to welcome him. He needs us to allow him. Come on man. That’s why I can’t teach anymore because I’m an Orthodox Christian. The two entities for which I used to teach they don’t want the Orthodox Christians anymore. They want you’ve gotta be respectful with everybody’s belief. You gotta be tolerant now here and you’ve gotta use these particular types of pronouns and be sensitive toward this. No I don’t. Christ was not tolerant of evil in any way, shape or form. Christ loved the world so much that he gave his life for the salvation of individuals who are evil. So now I don’t. Tolerance is not a Christian virtue look at the fruit of the spirit. You see tolerance there and you will tolerate all religions and all faiths and you will tolerate all evil in your churches because hey at least they’re sitting in the pews. Unrepentant evil is a different story, but we digress not really we haven’t digressed because we’re talking about the power of the word of God. The the actual unadulterated rightly divided word of God and there’s good stuff out there for the lay person and the pastor alike for the lay person and the theologian alike that you can study the word of God. You must be discerning always investigate your sources. Is this person a new age or is this person a part of the homosexual agenda? Is this person Orthodox? Where do they come from? What is their history? You must always investigate the teachers who are teaching you. You must always be discerning because the enemy is like a prowling lion right in the tall grass. You can’t always see him, but he’s waiting to pounce and he will use anything anyone any way that he possibly can to corrupt you to corrupt the word of God to corrupt your spirit. Satan has no interest in an unrepentant soul. He’s already got that one. Satan has no interest in an unrepentant church. He’s already got that one. So we engage every day to bring light into darkness and that light is the word of God. It is the truth. Christians have been so culturally bound over these past couple of generations. That we feel as though we have no voice we and that that sort of feeling has lost we have lost backbone. It is time for the Orthodox Christian Church, which may be a remnant as far as we look at the global church today. Those who actually teach and preach the truth of the word of God. We may be a remnant, but it’s time for us to drop a pair and get out there and share the word. I said what I said. Enfuego today, baby. The power of the word fires you up. What do you and this is what we’re we’re fearful of this and we’re fearful of that and we don’t want to be cancelled and we don’t wanna be deplatformed and we don’t want people to not like us and we don’t wanna be called names. Okay. That’s a you problem. That’s not a God problem. That’s a you problem 366 times one for every day of the year plus a leap year cuz God is so good. He is so good. He tells us to not fear to not be afraid. But but but but but. It’s like I wrote on the on the post that I wrote when the guy said dude news flash God loves everyone. you need to find a better church. No, that’s what you want. God does love everyone. He loved he loves everyone so much that he gave his life so that they may turn from evil repent and turn from evil and be regenerated to become the son or daughter of the most high that he sees. He’s not loving them so much that he’s accepting their evil and escorting them into hell. He’s loving them so much that he has made grace available repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand. That’s his message. I love you so much turn to me. Lay your life at my feet know that I am savior and Lord of your life. Easy peasy no it’s not is the life after that no it’s not again you wanna turn to any of the prophets. This is what I talk about all of this modern garbage that we have in these schools of prophets and schools of prophecy and stuff. Do you have you read the prophets? Do you think they led a really wonderful good life? Have you have you read Jeremiah? Have you read Ezekiel? Have you read Zechariah? Have you read Hosea? Do you know the things that they were called to do in Isaiah’s ministry in Ezekiel’s ministry at the very beginning of their ministry, God says I need you to do this. I need you to preach this and you’re going to spend your entire life preaching this so that everyone will know the word of God, but they will not believe. And both of those men said I will go. How many prophets today are speaking about repentance or the or and turn back to the word of God turn to the way of the spirit of God or you will burn in hell. I don’t hear that kind of I hear. From these modern prophets, I don’t know who needs to hear this, but this 2024 is the year of your abundance. All the Lord has given me a word that there is going to be a giant shift. Just stop it. Stop it. Here’s your word. Here’s your prophecy. Here’s your truth. Here I am Lord send me and like I said the modern the Orthodox the remnant that is the Orthodox Christian Church. Better grow a backbone. Well, you know what’s what’s the saying you better memorize those old hymns you’re going to need them in prison. Okay. Thank you. I see we’re being spammed. It’s okay. He’s hearing the word of God or she or whoever it is. Maybe it’s a bot and they’re hearing the truth of the word of God and that’s what’s important cuz I’m not afraid. So there you go everybody. We didn’t get much past Ezekiel read Ezekiel one two and three. A lot of what I’m talking about will come into deep focus. Ezekiel’s called as a prophet. He said to me son of man stand on your feet and I will speak to you then the spirit entered me when he spoke to me and set me on my feet and I heard him who spoke to me. He said to me son of man. I am sending you to the children of Israel to rebellious nation that has rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day for they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them and you shall say to them. Thus says the Lord your God. As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that a prophet has been among them. They will hear the word of God whether they yield or whether they refuse. Your job is to share the word of God. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Our job as Christian leaders, your job as a disciple of Christ is to live and to share the word of God. Regardless, but but but stop it regardless. Be a Christian drop a pair and get out into the darkness and do what you’re called to do. There is your Christian advice of the day in Jesus name. We pray that your word will move forward and change the world one conversation at a time. Lord, we look forward to Sunday morning being together singing and praying being in your word, fellowshipping in the spirit. Oh Lord. Yes. That is where you are manifest. You are manifest in your submitted disciples in Jesus name. Lord. Thank you so much. Amen guys and gals. I don’t mean to be so sexist in 2024 guys and gals folks. Tol Chamley podcast listeners right go to Apple or go to Spotify and subscribe to the podcast. Like it review it. Share it. Do all those things go to the YouTube channel. Just go to it and like it like the video right. It’ll get out more. I’m not saying oh because I don’t get a dime off of any of this stuff, but the more interaction the actual more it goes out the algorithms and it’s tougher if it’s Christian material right. If this were drag queen story hour, we have a much much larger platform, but it’s not so we gotta do our work and let’s get this word out and bubble. I’m fired up. I’m fired up to that grass today. The grass today does not stand a chance against me. It does not stand a chance. There are millions of blades of grass that are currently growing with a false sense of security. I I love you guys and I’ll see you in church.
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