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June 14, 2022 6:00 am
Pastoral author and Bible teacher Alan Wright is as beautiful as this wonderful Christian life is not so much about you start a forest of is about God put in a fire there, but she can't living under its warmth and its power that's Pastor Alan Wright welcome to another message of good view that will help you see your life in old I'm being excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series remain as presented with an old church in North Carolina. I will stay with us throughout the entire program today.
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Hell makes much of the in between time. The time between the promise and the fulfillment and that's where the mockery comes learned in verse nine. In our text that there was a whisper campaign against Jeremiah. The gossip began on. He was hurting.
In this role. Honesty is good for us to hear from him that he says I'd rather just not even mention it literally reads in Hebrew like I stopped mentioning him but then, just as I couldn't stop myself from mentioning I was thinking of Martin Luther you know who we think of this incredible reformer change the whole world.
I mean that's just one of those people that like we are not here today if not for Martin Luther and he just took these 95 theological statements the 95 theses. He posted on on door in Wittenberg, Germany, and is started this huge discussion because it was talking about justification by grace through faith alone, and it it was critical of the Roman church is legalism and what happened when Marla that he never intent to set out the bring about a Reformation or leave the church or something like that. He started this because it was his conviction, but eventually he is brought before a huge Roman convocation was called the deeds of arms 1521. That spring is brought before the Emperor and he's asked to recant his writings about grace and all of his books and this great moment comes where Martin Luther is there him against the Roman empire and the Roman church and he is he is been boldly for these years proclaiming this deep conviction that is discovered, that we are justified by grace alone through faith alone and and he's asked Martin Luther, will you recant from these writings and he said could I have 24 hours to think about it to burst your bubble, but that's what it was just struggling with it.
And so the Emperor grants them 24 hours to go home and think about it, whether he's going to go through with this. He comes back the next day and in the in the scene that happens is just is just a powerful moment. Inquisitor says I ask you to answer candidly, do you or do you not repudiate your books and the errors which they contain. And Luther replied since then, your Majesty and your lordships since you desire. A simple reply. I will do so unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason I do not accept the authority of popes and councils for they have contradicted each other.
My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me just say in this is what's happened to me as this has become a part of me and to recant a repudiate now would be to contradict what I have come to know is true about God and I know it down in my deepest essence is saying there is an authentic struggle.
On the one hand, I would love for my life to be comfortable and to recant so that you all would approve of me and my life would not be in jeopardy, but I can't. I got a fireside in my bones again think we want to see is this what God's he loves you with his infinite love has such beautiful and powerful purposes for your life.
The nose that were born in sin and way word and prone to run away from him.
So he allures us and he becomes intensely attractive and we taste and we see that God is good and you come to a place in your life if you know Jesus where it's like I can't help but know him because I fall in love with and I see what is done for me and you are drawn in and then in the real life struggles where you have doubts or fears or the things it might make you want to run in the other direction. God is more committed to you that you are to him and he stays with you and he pursues you relentlessly so that you grow and you walk with God and then you become somebody different than what you were before, and you can't deny who you are now made us like for Martin Luther to stand in front of them in denial that would be to just as surely deny who he was as a human being. He might as well say I'm not a human I'm a cat is this is who I am. This is real, what's happened and I was following them. In this in this the kind of thing in everyday life is falling, the story of Michaela Shifrin and the Olympics sees 26-year-old American Alpine skier. She came to Beijing as a two-time Olympic gold medalist three-time overall World Cup champion for time world champion and slalom youngest slalom champion in Olympic history.
She won she was 18 years old. She is the most decorated female Alpine skier in history 11 metal six of them gold in this Olympics is been a shock.
Her first event she crashed and did not finish shocking shock the world she never does that. She's consistent second event.
Her specialty where she was certainly going to win the gold she fell again and she did not finish her third event, a combined event. She was in good position after the downhill segment, but she skied right out of the gate on the 10th and did not finish again.
She was participating in a record six events and last night she was in her final event was a team event and her team was just edged out from winning the bronze so she's going home with no metals and she is the best skier in the history of the world. And as you can imagine social media and all kinds of things on both sides of this in a raw interview. She said two days ago.
Right now I feel like a joke and reflecting on coming back in trying it all again before she went into the team event yesterday. She posted on Instagram. She said get up because you can because you like what you do when it's not infested with the people have so much apparent hate for you just get up. It's not always easy, but it's also not into the world to fail fail twice till five times even at the Olympics.
Why do I keep coming back.
Gosh, I know it hurts more than it feels good lately but listen to this I come back because those first nine returns today were spectacular really haven't. She skied perfectly for the first nine flags until the 10th when she spun out and this is what she said that's where I'm meant to be. So let's go for the team event training in the final Alpine race. I do this because it's in me saying is that God will change your identity and identity will fuel your determination so parents if you have an academically gifted son help him see himself as a student, no study to make ice to is Alan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series. Many Christians in America today. Your standby have a nation's culture has turned away from God values in our country have changed. Suddenly, most people don't go to church or had a difficult one to make you feel like an alien in your own culture not to learn from Danielle when he was exiled to the patient through our special effort is not.
You can learn to live under the favor of guarding and carrying culture the way Daniel dad gave before the end of the month senior Pastor Alan's idea series favored for you may feel like a stranger in this world that is not shared favor to Daniel and his four man God's grace is upon you as well. Nation will not only help you through these troubling times.
It will also help someone else links for your partnership with our night ministry. We missed 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website Pastor Alan.org today's teaching now continues you once again is if you have an artistic daughter and you recognize her giftedness. Help her see that she is artistic and shall pay beautiful pictures. Beloved, why is it that you do what you do as a follower of Jesus. When you forgive people so much because you are forgiven. One what he loved people so much because you've been beloved.
Why do you keep your promises.
Discuss your promise keeper. Why do you encourage others because your encourager got strong in prevailed with his love upon your life. Said his purposes down deep into your bones. You can change it so you flow with it. You walk in it, and sometimes you're like Jeremiah and you just feel honestly, like I'm weary of this and it doesn't seem to be working today and then you remember God and his goodness.
Jeremiah knows that though he is being persecuted.
He down deep he loves every bit of what he does because in Jeremiah 1516 he says your words were found, that I hate them. And your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name oh Lord God of hosts, the deeper delight of knowing the word of God and fellow shipping with the God who reveals himself daily transcends and overtakes his flesh is desire to give up on all sometimes what happens is that God in your life fuels you in a direction that a big part of you doesn't want to go but he prevails upon you by the fire.
The Holy Spirit burning deep within the look back over my walk with God. That's the story and the big ways in the small and I thank God for what I'm saying beloved is, isn't this beautiful. And isn't this wonderful Christian life is not so much about you start a fire or stoking it is about God put in a fire there, and you acknowledge each living under its warmth and its power, and I really want to say thank you for praying for me and my family. Most you know, my sweet moms going to heaven here recently and I wanted to just tell you it's a real life story that illustrates this so mom had started experiencing some real abdominal pain that I was talking to her about you think when you go to the hospital that she had to know a number of times over the last four years you had to go the hospital and she won't go hospital.
That was the default position is mom you think we are go the hospital. No. And so the pain had to be very bad and so I was talking to her on the Saturday night before the big snow storm was coming in and that day she just was feeling.
She was a certain way more than usual and I said will will watch it but what we don't do get snowed in tomorrow and not be able to get to hospital or have an ambulance, so that Saturday night, convinced Russ… Let's go and joint emergency room. While the snow was big and thick and giant ice layer snow layer and our driveway is just, you know, real estate, and so is real hard to get out of our driveway and that Sunday as we didn't have church on Sunday. Also note in and I could I can get. I literally could not get out and so I didn't. I didn't get to see mom hospital that whole but whole day, you know, just called her some textures and on that Monday at my driver was no better than I just that afternoon, I just told my wife I just need to try to get this driveway clear. I guess I got it I got to get our graphics because he mom and but it was one is where you had to get like up that moral pickle show like this just bring it down 6" x 6" and break eyes open and then get the snow shovel and show and break eyes and it wouldn't help in it.
That morning I had just read an article about how many men my age have heart attacks while shoveling snow at this time year so I'm like this in a market that is just a big and so but an answer.
Don't worry about you know she's you know you can go see her tomorrow the sun come out and and I just like I need to do this I can't. I can't not do this and so all afternoon I worked on that one little section driveway and I was able to get up and I went over to visit mom on Monday night and prayed with her daughter left her and a 5 AM. The doctor called the next morning and said she's taken a turn for the worse.
Can you get here said, I'm not sure if you still be here when you get here said I'm coming and a little glaze again back over my driveway is an hour backing up and one start is Latin to start is Latin, restart a slide and we said Jesus and we got out and so that's how I got to hold my mom's hand while she went to heaven was because the Monday before. It was a fire shut up in my bones to get my driveway open it got good so don't resist the fire shut up in your bones. It's the gift from God to get you going where you need to be going and to keep you going. So you don't stop and I think I love Jeremiah most of all because he points me to the better. Jeremiah because Jesus didn't just proclaim the word. He was the learned the word more than we could imagine was shut up in his bones and he couldn't stop himself because his mission was to clear and he wanted more than anything else. This was the fire in his bones. He wanted more than anything else to save you, no matter how many people persecuted him mock him, beat him, stone him, threatening him. He felt the pain. He began his ministry with 40 days in the wilderness and he was hungry and the devil himself came to tempt him and said why don't you just give up on this whole mission. You don't need to be a human just be God turn the stones into bread did not hear humanity every opportune moment demons persecuted him until finally he hung on the cross and they looked at him and said he saved others, he can't save himself if your God come down from there called a legion of angels to Salai's persecutors, but instead he said, father forgive them and he breathed his last because he came to do something much more than anything his own flesh would want to do. He came to fulfill the fire shut up in his bones to save the gospel Alan Ryan duties good news message. The burning inside your bow from the series remade.
Pastor Alan is back with us in the studio shearing is parting good news thought for the day.
Just a moment. Many Christians in America today. You're starting a nation's culture has turned away from God values in our country have changed.
Suddenly, most people don't go to church or had a difficult one to make you feel like an alien in your own culture to learn from Danielle when he was exiled to the pagan man. Through our special office not you can learn to live under the favor of God in Aryan culture the way Daniel gave before the end in mind senior Pastor Alan's idea series favored for you may feel like a stranger in this world that is God shared favor to Daniel and his four man race is a timeless brown nation will not only help you navigate through these troubling times. It will also help someone else. Thanks for your partnership with how I might ministry we missed us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website. Pastor Alan.org Pastor Alan reporting good news thought for the day.
At the conclusion of this teaching, the burning inside was a wonderful little children's book read to her children so often the runaway bunny solicitors of that for you.
You familiar with his story of a little bunny uses on the runaway mother says will you runaway. I'm coming after you and the whole book is if the bunny draws this then the mother says well I'll do this and I'll catch up to you and all of our will all will all change and become what I need to order it. So finally about his book, but a civil shock, as well, just that your little bunny and I once was a to everybody listening today.
God loves you that much. He pursues you that much and he's going to continue to pursue. So the best thing to do is let your heart be molded by him, let him make you into everything he wants to make you into and just be surrender to that is always going to catch up to you is always try to pursue you these never stop loving you see my as well be his little bunny. Thanks for listening today. Visit us online@pastorallen.org or call 877-544-4860 877-544-4860 if you only caught part of today's teaching.
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