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June 27, 2019 8:00 am
Don't get in the judging and condemnation business. God's already sick of it. Be very careful when you stand up and start pointing fingers at everybody. Also, shortcomings follow gone solutions and gone solutions are unapologetic when it comes Dr. Don Wilton well on the badge with in his message.
What does God say is coming up in just a few minutes as we put the pieces together not only of understanding God, but understand how he is speaking to you. God has a word for you as we study the word know that we are available for you. We love to talk with you. Pray with you are connecting it 866-899-WORD. I know I say that to fast so take a minute. Start your cell jotted down 866-899-9673 will connect with someone 24 hours a day, talk, listen.
Pray and also connect with the right resources like the daily Encouraging Word Dr. Don Wilton all the details online@theencouragingword.org, Dr. Don Wilton number three cultural heritage we all one nation may is no question about it. That's what I love about the United States, but we are a nation of many cultures, so why don't we lean on our culture will this is the way we do things. Number four social convenience big issue in terms of trying to determine what's right and wrong, what is sin what is not is it socially convenient because social convenience leads to social acceptance. Nobody wants to be socially unacceptable. That is why sin usually gathered gathers itself in certain areas, you can determine pockets of sin. There are some places in America where it to live.
If you have a propensity toward any particular son move they will be socially convenient. You will be accepted as a big one.
Number five human feelings human feelings are a very big issue on all of us deal with human feelings.
All of us.
We are emotional people.
We all love her and so it's very understandable that we will site will how can you question if someone loves someone surely if somebody loves someone. Everybody's entitled to love. We use human feelings we use human human feelings, the judicial system human feelings govern the way we respond to one another human feelings become the litmus test and emotions human emotion is a very very big issue and loss but not least historical precedent on both sides of the olive of any issue. People can use historical precedent. While we've never done that before.
We don't do things like that.
All we do do things like that. It's always been that way.
Look at doesn't matter if you moved to this country of yet.
Historically that's the way they all as a Christian I choose God. I choose his word. I stand upon his word. This Bible, this book is not an ordinary book. I'm not just reading some novel here. This is God's word. I believe this word from Genesis to Revelation. It's God's infallible in your word of God.
These are the words of God, our heavenly father. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, every word written and recorded for us. Inspired by the Holy Spirit without mixture of error absolutely true and if I want to know what God says I have to go to his word, read to you three passages of Scripture and I'm going to try and not stop at any great length at any point in time because it's important for us to hear these words. First of all, turning your Bible to Romans chapter 1 where asking the question, what does God say I'm going to begin in Romans chapter 1 and verse 18. The Bible says that for the Roth of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness price.
The truth for what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them for his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world and the things that have been made, so they are without excuse for although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchange the glory of the immortal God for images represent resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping thing. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to this honoring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever.
For this reason God gave them up to this Hon. passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another man committed shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error and since they did not see fit to ask God what he says. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strive to seek maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderous haters of God, insulin haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, spiteful, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. Therefore you have no excuse man want you to turn quickly to John chapter 8, we gonna be in the New Testament right there in John's Gospel chapter 8 I'm going to begin reading at verse three. John's gospel chapter 8, the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who'd been caught in adultery. Adultery, by the way, according to God's word is any form of sexual activity outside of your marriage, scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and placed her in the midst of them and they said to him, teacher, this woman is being caught in the act of adult down the law of Moses, the Lord commanded us to stone such women. So what you say this, they said to testing that they might have some charge to bring against him. So Jesus bent down road with his finger in the ground and as they continue to ask him. He stood up and said to them, let him who is without sin among you, be the first to throw a stone at her. Just as a little aside either Moses is going to run your life for Jesus. I choose Jesus. There were two groups of people in the New Testament that Jesus dealt the Pharisees and the Sadducees, they were the legalists. Jesus called them snakes and Vipers and then they were the sinners. Jesus put his arm around them and he really loved the site and once more, he bent down and wrote in the ground, but when they heard that they went away one by one, beginning with the old ones and Jesus was left alone with the woman caught in adultery. Standing before him, and Jesus stood up and said to the woman where they has no one condemned. She said no one, Lord. And Jesus said now that you are condemned, you go and from now on sin no more. Very quickly.
Matthew chapter 12 Matthew chapter 12. This is a powerful verse Matthew chapter 12. I'm just going to read to you two verses Matthew 12 verse 30 in verse 31 puts it into context because some are going to ask, is there any sin that God will not forgive. I just want to announce to you. There's not one, except one. This whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
Therefore I tell you every seven and blasphemy will be forgiven. People but blasphemy against the spirit will never be forgiven. Why, because God is spirit all of us are born innocent everyone of us. Not a single person born perfect because of the sin of Adam and in the sin of Adam all die, but in Christ we are made alive. So when you give your heart to Jesus the spirit of God convict you of that sin comes into your heart and life and will shoot the spirit of God convict you concerning righteousness, the spirit of God in Ables you to be an over, even in the struggle of your sin. Paul admitted that he said the good that I would that I do not let evil that I would not that I do called himself a wretched man. One John 19 is not an evangelistic text. If we confess our sin that believers when you give your life to Christ. You don't become exempt from strong immune from sin, you become exempt from sin, you become sensitized to set the spirit of God in Ables you to overcome so if if you got a propensity to lie and lying is the is one of the sins that you battle with most of all, you can allow yourself into jail unless the spirit of God enables you to conquer that God gives you the strength and the ability God by his spirit.
That's why we need to be filled and indwelt by the Spirit of God. I choose I choose God. I choose God number one because he created me.
That's why choosing.
I want to know what God sees number two because he loved me. I choose God because he forgave me without him through Jesus Christ. I would never be forgiven. To begin my sinfulness would be on a rampage.
I choose God because he completes me.
The message of the cross is the message of hope. Christ comes into our life. He gives us hope he does for us what we cannot do for them for ourselves.
So there are three things there are four things that God is is is a big clear about in his word. Number one that anything short of God's standard is sent. That's Romans chapter 3 in verse 23 all of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God. What God's word is clear about when we ask God what God says is that sin is punishable by death.
That's Romans 623. The wages of sin is there. All sin is punishable by eternal day all of it. Everyone there is none righteous, no not one. The third thing God's word is clear about is that Jesus Christ is God's gift of love for our forgiveness.
John 316 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not die, but will have eternal life because God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might believe in might be saved and number four rejecting Christ saying no to the spirit of God can never be forgiven, because unless you accept God the spirit you can never be saved. Which means you can never be forgiven of your sin and all about Simpson. So what is God safe we are. God what God says regardless of what sin it might be anything short of God standing person. All sin is punishable by death.
Jesus Christ is God's gift of love for our forgiveness because he died on the cross, taking upon himself the sin of the world, so that when we come to him by repenting of arson by confessing that sentiment, trusting him by faith he takes our sin and he costed as far as the east is from the waist and he remembers it no more.
And just because you have been forgiven under salvation does not mean to say you not necessarily going to spend the rest of your life struggling with your propensity to sin. So there really are three questions on number one. What does God say number two what is God to number three. What does God expect what God says is that all about Simpson. What is God who he demonstrates his love to us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us and what is God expect God expects us to come to him in an act of repentance and recognizing that we are sinners before God. What we dealing with in America today is sin. It's not it's not a matter of popular opinion and political correctness and cultural heritage in social convenience and human feelings and and and and historical precedent God has spoken number two what is God do I present to you the Lord Jesus and what is God expect he expects us to accept amenities word so here's what I want to cite today. This is how we should respond. Folks, this is very important. How should we respond to homosexuality.
How should we respond to adultery.
How should we respond to idolatry, pornography to lying, stealing, how should we respond to certain no one except God's word. I want to encourage you today just accept God guards would just take God at his word hard. It is so hard. Some of the most precious people on number or dealing with some of the deepest issues that we deal with folks to just say just I just I love you so much. Just accept God's word number two follow his solution's folly. His solution trust Jesus Christ by faith present the gospel stand on my hope which is in Christ, don't get in the judging and condemnation business. God's already sick.
Be very careful when you stand up and start pointing fingers at everybody else's shortcoming follow God's solution and God solutions are unapologetic when it comes to certain forgive the interruption.
There's so much more to come in Dr. Wilson's message: what does God say just a moment. Dr. Wilton insisted I interrupt because he wants to remind you that this is not just a presentation of the truth in the message, but it's also a conversation and were just as interested in listening to you. Praying for you with what God's got going on in your life as we are ensuring what God's doing in the Scriptures at Dr. Wilton's teaching about the snow would love to connect our phone number is 866899 word that's 866-899-9673 and I just want to say thank you to so many have become encouragers prayer supporters. The ministry and financial supporters of The Encouraging Word every single day someone give their heart to Jesus for the very first time to the outreach of The Encouraging Word. If you'd like to be a part of that prayerfully and financially. You can go to our website The Encouraging Word.org/encourage her to get more details with everything from a physical brochure or brochure is Dr. Don would say that we can put in your hands or you can discover all the information right there online@theencouragingword.org or floored Sturgeon to give call right now and make your gift, 866899673 or online@theencouragingword.org. Now back to today's message with Dr. Don Wilton number three act like Jesus love unconditionally. Parents if you dealing with issues with sons and daughters that you love so dearly. Thank you for loving them unconditionally what you do when your daughter has a baby out of wedlock. What you do when someone commits suicide.
What you do when your favorite uncle is convicted of armed robbery. What you do when your mother goes to jail. What you do when someone is found guilty of embezzlement, just like Jesus love unconditionally. Number two. Love the sinner, without accepting the sin goodness me if I hadn't been love despite my sin I don't know where I'll be today and you yes that all that's what Jesus did, you can. People can come to me all that's just whitewashing the gospel. Excuse me.
That's what Jesus did with the woman caught in adultery. He loved the sinner buddy. He condemned the sin. This is not a compromise. People you love unconditionally and who love the sinner, they not they not becoming more what you what are you wanting people to do get up and picture for kick people out to him acting like some of these maniacs out there is that the way Christ would want us to respond to one another how people going to come to know Christ. If that's the attitude that some adopt toward them. Moses not in control of our lives.
Jesus is and you'll find legalists in every corner of God's world love unconditionally love the sinner, while hating the seven number three has my counsel to you. Love those people that you love through their circumstance walk with them. Don't ever let them go and tell you, folks, people hurt need you and me more than anybody owns the most difficult thing people go through when it comes to sin is the is rejection. You don't even have to reject them, they will just feel rejected and so it becomes an active ingredient.
I really believe that Jesus walking through the streets of Jericho, and he stops and looks up. He doesn't even look up and there's this little man sitting up in a tree by the name of Zacchaeus, a similar tax collector. One of the scourges of society and Jesus stops and he says I anybody wanted to come and have a cup of tea with me. How should. How do we respond yes we we also what is God saying God is so clear on these things. How do how do we respond to this. Just accept God's word except believe it. Don't whitewash don't tiptoe. Don't try and find loopholes when it comes to God. God doesn't have Lupo he calls a spade a spade.
Number two follow his solutions repentance and confession change following him taking up the cross. Number three black Jesus number four.
Pray for others it's pray for our country folks pray for our people is pray for our sons and daughters when you just happen to know about somebody that's being affected by these real issues. Pray for them, love them and stand there and look at them and the onus is on you, not on them. When people hurt they not going to just run up to you makes people withdraw' church folks being imposter for a long time. I can't tell you the number of people I've seen in this one congregation.
The minute some sin comes into their lives over somebody's lives if I love the first casualty is the church, they immediately start withdrawing and it doesn't stop you, folks, people like that stop going out. They stopped going to restaurants.
They stop going the moles that they stop going where the crowds they become isolated insula. They pulled back they withdraw, they getting the whole it affects everything.
It's pray for others is hold their hand. Let's be real� Let's be real with our Christian faith. Jesus repeatedly. Just as when they honor the sidewalks in the streets who welcome in this place is a prostitute welcome as a person guilty of embezzling the public welcome in this place is a person whose gay homosexual are they welcome the person who lies welcome as someone who cheated on the test and what court are they welcome, as they someone who sinned against God and their family and committed adultery welcome here. Yes, this is God's house is not just about God's house and what's happening in America today is these meaner polarization. What what does God say Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so little ones to him belong. They are weak but he is strong yes Jesus loves me yes Jesus loves Jesus loves you too powerful?
Will to.
But there's more to come. As a matter fact, Dr. Wilton has perhaps the most important question of the entire day. Maybe afterlife 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 alongside 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.
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