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September 2, 2019 8:00 am
That would qualified means a number things means to make sufficient. It also means to empower, we can find God.
You know what it ultimately means it means we can thank him because he has authorized us a love that he has authorizes God qualifies us only through the finished work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and apart from God's grace through Jesus Christ. All people would only be qualified to receive his raw and his anger is an encouraging word for you and me today, Bible-based breaching of Dr. Don Wilton about the greatest prayer request ever today will be heading to the book of Colossians right there in chapter 1 is would begin with this wonderful message from Dr. Don but also remind you about a book from Dr. Don. It's available on our website.
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That's what I'm going to share with you this morning we thinking about young people. We've talked about our country we thanking God for so many different things.
One of the greatest prayer requests yet. Here's a question I'm going to Austin this congregation, how can we pray for our young people, when you pray for children of today's world wanting you praying I can tell you a lot of good things you can pray for for health and strength that they would become productive citizens that have good manners stand told that they would get educated lights study hard and be happy children. These are great things. We go to pray for those things all the time I I certainly do have my own grown children, grandchildren is a lot we can pray for rightful provision.
We can pray that they could be great athletes give them abilities and gifts all these kinds of things, but folks, there's a lot more to this in Colossians chapter 1 Paul is speaking to a great group of people comprised of people from every walk of life, men, women, boys, girls, people who are up and people who are down people on a mountaintop and people in the deep valley and beginning in verse three, but I'm going to start reading honey from verse nine of Colossians chapter 1 gives to us some golden nuggets and I believe that these are the greatest prayer requests that we can ever pray, let me read this to you from verse nine and so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be food with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. In fact, I pray without ceasing, that you verse 11 may be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all humans and patients with joy, giving thanks to the father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints of life he has delivered us from the domain of darkness, and false us to the kingdom of his beloved son in whom we have redemption, even the forgiveness of sins that a powerful classic. So there. All the greatest prayer requests ever parents I'm going to challenge you on this church. This is where we need to be not going to tell you I am going to continue to pray for everything you can possibly imagine. But I'm asking God to help me to understand that there are some things that I must pray for if we don't awesome God to do this for us and for our sons and daughters going to become as good ballplayers.
If you do not do not ask God to do something that is human understanding for our sons and daughters. I think we all missing the essential ingredient of the Christ life and interestingly enough, when we knew pray this God wants is the space limit given to is what they prayed, Paul prayed, he prayed number one that they would be food look at verse nine son from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray, asking that you may be food. We all know what it means to fill up a cup to fill up your gas tank folks listen to this. Some of us are running on an empty gas tank you still in engine useful. A motorcar you slab we use.
You still have the capability of getting to where you need to go running on empty lot of reasons for that weariness service love giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, taking care of your children, morning, noon, and not working on your marriage.
You running off empty launcher and he qualifies the scariest talking about the filling of the Holy Spirit. Every believer has the Holy Spirit in them, but the circumstance of life finishes the filling of the power and presence of the Holy Spirit and pray for our sons and daughters is that they should be food, because if you are not food. Paul tells us in this text, you are being robbed of two essential ingredients. The first of those is wisdom. That's what he talks about in that passage spiritual wisdom only a person with the spirit of God with the gas tank with God's power and presence and grace mean that person can operate in the context of spiritual wisdom and spiritual wisdom is the ability to commit accumulate and to organize principles from God's word. We just run that by again. Guess what spiritual wisdom is spiritual wisdom is the ability to accumulate and then all this property. All principles of God's word you don't have wisdom you going to live a life where yes you know Christ but you not going to be able to accumulate what is God is saying, and all is what God is saying in a manner that is going to allow you to live out God's life the way God wants you to live so that's the first essential ingredient of being the second is understanding yeah you might have spiritual wisdom but if you don't have spiritual understanding which he talks about in the latter part of verse nine. The understanding is the ability to apply those principles to daily living. Great.
So he says listen the greatest prayer request, you can all ask God for your son for your daughter for your friend for your neighbor for yourself is that you be food with us. If you not food with the spirit of your gas tank is not food by God, you are going to suffer a deficit you going to be robbed of two things. Wisdom and understanding the ability to accumulate and organize all the data that God gives to Q3's word understanding is the ability to actually apply those principles you not I can know something about God, but not have the ability to live it out. Only God can do that. So this prayer request number one, they would be food.
Number two that they would be pleasing to God want you to look at verse 10 and so walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and pleasing to him. What a prayer request to Paul is telling me to pray for them a that they would be food up with God's spirit and be sick and believe that they would walk worthy that they would be pleasing to God. I want you to be really honest here today folks.
How many times a you and I as we look back we say what I did was just not pleasing to you think we should be praying for our sons and daughters that they don't make those same mistakes that we do we do walk worthy number three that they would be fruit bearing and they good works that they would be fruit bearing and they good works. I want you look at the second part of Burstein bearing fruit in every good work. There's 1/3 major prayer request, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, friend, I'm going to pray for you that your good works would produce good fruit. Now watch me folks good works are essential. The things we do. Life is food with wonderful people.
I don't think there's any nation like the United States, most generous country in the world ever when you think of all the good deeds that go on the way people come to help one another. Incredible. It's not just about doing something for somebody for the sake of that good work which is good in and of itself, it's that that at that good deed would bear spiritual fruit.
I don't want to just preach, asking God to allow me not just to preach.
I love to preach but I want fruit. I'm asking God, not for me. I'm asking the Lord of the harvest. I'm praying the Lord speak of that your life would be changed, but you would give your life to Christ is forgive the eruption the doctor not insist we take a pause in the mood of the program to let you know we're here for you now.
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I hope you'll join us and invite a friend to Ned. Now back to today's message. The greatest prayer request ever Dr. Don Wilton and if you know the Lord Jesus your Christian business personal you going through a very difficult time physically you that that you would be strengthened as a result.
In other words, that what is taking place would produce fruit. They fruit right I want to be a fruit producer.
I don't want to just be a fruit tree number four that they would be growing. That's a powerful statement here in verse 10 he says here that I want to pray that you would not any bear fruit in every good work. But then the word here is an increasing in the knowledge of God, that word increasing speaks to spiritual growth that that's why we have Bible study groups. That's why we are so happy that you going to life group. You got great teachers that are teaching you.
It all has to do with this business in increasing it's not increasing in the knowledge in order that you might just become unknowable. It's that when you begin to grow in what you know to be true about God, the more you know about God.
You grow in Christ. The more you become like him, like marriage. I loved Karen from the day I first set my eyes on her when she was just 16 years old and then when God gave it to me as my bride. I love all those years ago, but I cannot describe to you the love that I have today often nearly 40 years of marriage. Young people sometimes would not understand it but I do I do it's a it's a burning in my heart and how has that come about its come about by being close with living with her knowing shipping with her all all these years, the more I'm around that's what he saying here.
Some people say why do I need to get overly involved in church. That's why, why do I need to go to life. That's why don't rob your children. Parents don't rob your children don't make every excuse you possibly can to remove those that you love from the environment in which they are able to increase in their knowledge of God put them there. You do that with education. Why do you make them go to school wanted you just say to them what you got to the sixth-grade men. That's cool with me. Give it up man the beach so why don't we do that to reasons not want. It's the law of the land and number two because you know better than that. So why do you bring your kids to church until I get to the age of 14 and then say we wanted to go out and play in the traffic. If you feel like how come so many parents are making so many excuses for their sons and daughters not to be engaged in a place where they can grow in the grace and knowledge and admonition. This is worth fighting for its worth a little bit assess number five that they would be strengthened.
Verse 11 that you might be strengthened by love that word.
What's wrong with wanting them to be spiritually strong.
Everything is right about folks I want our young people to be strong so I'm make an announcement to in this church first Baptist Church. It is our responsibility with great joy to do everything we can do to produce strong young people in the Lord and you don't do that by just offering the proverbial party and a pizza church is not a show folks.
The big attraction today is to go to the big show at church. If you can go to church and just simply get in the plane and go home and do whatever you want, but I'm that you will never grow strong in the Lord not going to a football game and I love going to football games and have a great time. The football game but I tell you that sometimes you gonna have to get back in your emoticon fight the traffic all the way home in the game is over.
Pray that they would be strengthened, pray number six they would be patient love that little word that he gives us there in this for all endurance and patience. What do I need patience. You know that spiritual commodity to have the ability to wait on the Lord is beautiful. How much do we not need patience folks to in today's generation it as an all that much different. But today we live in an instant coffee generation you want to watch how aggravated people get just go to foster food place just sit there and watch people going through the drive through with patient people we we've got all we got it now.
We will all out technology men we push buttons folks on the patient with that gizmo that's in my pocket and I push that button.
I want that person to get my message and if I don't whodunit something is wrong with this thing that's out hope so, yeah, Paul is saying is there anything more relevant for our young people today, we become so impatient we look like we got ants in our pants take the kids on vacation and see how quickly it takes for them to get bored even with the beach. I mean, what happened or sometimes I sit some things and other times I just sits on his the lost one ready for this. Number seven greatest prayer request number seven that they would be thankful.
I would be thankful.
Love what he says in verse 12 giving thanks. Let's not become a thankless people, and he qualifies.
He says you know why you need to be thankful because God has qualified us.
That's the reason to be thankful that the word qualified means a number things of means to make sufficient. It also means to empower. We can thank God you know that ultimately means it means we can thank him because he has authorized us a love that he has authorizes God qualifies us only through the finished work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and apart from God's grace through Jesus Christ.
All people would only be qualified to receive his raw and he's angry, but we've got calls to give thanks because he is qualified as his impound ass he has made us sufficient in Christ because of the sufficiency of Christ. He is authorized us to be France so his wonderful love and of his grace. Let's be thankful prayer requests, seven of them are given to you. God is so good. Disney I'm awesome you to respond to the Lord, just as you all without one plea I'm awesome you to say yes to him.
I'm asking you to give your life to Christ. I'm asking you to make a new resolve in your heart. Unit type God's word to heart. You going to go before him.
We can invite you to come this morning. We are here to receive you, you know you joining a bunch of imperfect people. Sinners saved by the grace of God. All of us will all moms and dads and grandparents and single adults in single moms and single dads and divorcees and where up the swine we down that way but we are family folks we mean business we mean business, but not to fund business normally spine out here because you can't just smile all the time. It's fun in here because Christ makes the difference. And I invite you today to say yes to him, would you say yes. Perhaps you have questions and you need to speak with some prey was someone get some details covered. Let us talk with you now at 86689. Again, that numbers 866-899-9673 to connect with one of us, not just now during the broadcast for 24 hours a day, 866-899-6730 and more from Dr. Don is coming up next. God has spoken to you hesitantly and you ready to give your heart to Jesus. I'd love to help you right now. Would you pray this prayer with me and accept Jesus into your heart and life.
Dear God, I know that Arneson I know that Jesus loves me and died for me on the cross right now, I repent of my sin and I confess my sin to the Lord Jesus Christ come into my heart and save me today and forgive me for my sin. In Jesus name I pray, amen. If you pray that pray we'd love to get along side of you and celebrate with you and send you some literature and help you as you begin to grow and I want you to know that I love you very very much. And by the way, don't leave, don't go away.
What ever you do is I'll be right back again.
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