R401 The Believer’s Commission, Pt.3

God has an encouraging word for you and me today. The Bible-based preaching of Dr. Don Wilton as we head to the book of Ephesians you are finding us a little of a wonderful series on God's word about the believers commission value in our commission to serve together and as we do so we need to be prepared for spiritual warfare.

You haven't seen it on our website right now in TW online.org are two grand resources one from Dr. Don and one from friend Warren weird lost him a few years ago. All he's written a classic book called the strategy of Satan gives us grand inside the battle. The message for five Dr. Wilson, both of them available online right now in TW online.org call about getting your copy at 866-899-WORD 866-899-WORD 9673 beloved friends. Henry Ford said this, he said, before everything else getting ready is the secret of success.

I want to run led by Jim Henry Ford said and I quote, before everything else getting ready Tom kind is an interesting person and from client had some raw that remarkable and interesting things to say about goal concerning his pre-shot routine now want to just say do you clarify for people like Ray, Jared and Turpin others. This is before you hit the bull, Tom kind see your pre-shot routine is designed to produce and unwavering belief in the shop from client is absolutely convinced that what you do before you hit a bull is more important than when you hit the bull because he went on and he elaborated on this and I began to think of myself that all the things that Tom, the US Ryder Cup captain has to say about a game of golf, which actually in final analysis is not going to amount to much. We can apply the same principles to our lives as born-again believers.

These principles can be applied in the workplace. They can be applied in the home. They can be applied on the play fields of life. They all Michael and they all significant. He said concerning his pre-shot routine, he said. First of all I have to ask the question, am I evaluating correctly evaluating Sue is not just saying something. It's understanding something about himself.

Am I evaluating correctly number two MI lined up correctly, MI lined up correctly, MI facing in the right direction on my feet where they all look to be on my hands placed with a orc to be placed is my mind lined up with the things of God. Yesterday just for very brief moment I was in one of the shops here in our soul, one or two people standing over there and they were doing a couple of things and I thought to myself, you know what they doing is not necessarily bad or wicked, but they all they appeared to me as an outsider to be lined up incorrectly. Sometimes you can look at a person the way they talk in the places they go to and the things they do. The company they keep. You can say based upon an evaluation that they all lined up incorrectly. They haven't made a mistake yet because I haven't hit the ball but when they hit the ball and they all lined up incorrectly. The bull is not going to go where they intended to go they going to end up trouble they going to end up in the rough where I end up most of the time when I play golf and then there was 1/3 question am I visualizing correctly am I taking in my environment am I looking correctly at what I'm doing.

What was Tom kind say he was saying a number of things he was saying.

First of all, find the target identify your target where you are going some years ago I spoke to a major corporation in the United States in Detroit, Michigan and the executives of that big company said to me when you come and speak to these executives.

I want you to motivate them. We want a high level of productivity. We want the greatest sense of loyalty we want personal and professional involvement to be inculcated in the people who work for the company. Basically they said please help us to find the target second to assess the distance. How much time and effort is going to take me to get from here to where I'm going. Number three factor in the wind. If you're a golfer you know this wind is important and wind is important in our lives is not because the windows of life are blowing all the time, sickness and health playing. Enjoy and it's going to affect the trajectory if you hit a ball and you haven't taken in to account the women it's going to affect where the bull lands so assess the wind and then finally but not conclusively select the right club Tom Cox is you see your equipment.

This needs to be correct. If you going to be 250 yards from your target area is not going to help you to select the pitching way. Select the club that is appropriate in the commitment that is appropriate in order to enable you to do the draw. Now, beloved friends. These are the principles of discipleship that the apostle Paul endeavors to lay upon our hearts and lives full rallies the troops and he turns to all of us and to the church at Ephesus and he says I want to help you to produce and unwavering belief in the shocks of life. I want to help you to be able to face and do everything that God intends in your life and to do it with style and joy had to do it with strength and endured with sustenance.

So it is here in Ephesians chapter 6 and verse. Let's read it together. Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

Put on the whole arm of God so that you can take your stand is your target in this instance so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil, you may be able to stand your ground law. After you have done everything, to stand what is Paul saying at this juncture to us what is he saying to me as a father is a husband.

What is he saying to me as a businessman, what is he saying to me as a parent.

What is he saying to me as an athlete, what is he saying to me as a college student what is he saying to me in all of the different arenas of life that I find myself exposed to two things here. This juncture number one spam for span for verse 10 finally, be strong, remarkable full says if you want to determine your pre-shot existence. And if you want to have an wavering belief in where you going, and if you want to have absolute confidence that when ever it is you get to where you going that you going to be able to handle and to do that which is well pleasing in God's side.

You need to be strong. That's an imperative.

It's not a suggestion on the part of the apostle Paul. It is the cardinal reality of the essential message to the church at Ephesus. Paul says we all one in Christ we are one with him. His life is our life, his power is our power. His truth is truth is what it is way and guess what, as a consequence, his rank is great, but an unbelievable promise from God what he says be strong stand for the sparse two weeks response week. As in most weeks. There are many sad things that happen in the apostle Paul says that as you go when you get sick when you going through your pre-sharp routine be strong. Well, the big question is how do we appropriate the strength. It's one thing to say to us, be strong, but how do you do first of all, of course, you gotta give your life to Jesus Christ because he is our strength. Having done that, the apostle Paul is going to spend some time talking about prayer. Prayer is the key to the appropriation of the strength of God.

It is a daily ritual walk with God. It is talking to him.

It is sharing with him the deepest, inner things that are going on within our hearts and lives in Paul is going to tell us that if you want to be strong when you want to know the strength of God talk to him number two accumulate and acquire knowledge fully saying something here. He said you want to be strong in the Lord study God's word. There is no shortcut folks. It's a discipline you never going to get to where you need to be and be strong going to where you need to be if you're not strong in the things of the Lord.

It is been said many times you have a weak theology you gonna have a weak life.

If your belief system is weak, the way in the manner with which you conduct yourself is going to be weak and if you don't have a strong foundation undergirding you when all these things, long guess what you going to struggle to be strong because there are so many things pulling at us something. There are so many things hacking away and slipping away and ankles and all of us have UNBELIEVABLE points of vulnerability we have. Sadness is when we have obstacles to overcome and pull says if you want to be strong pray and acquire knowledge and then there's 1/3 thing he says have faith in the promises of God not love this one. You know I love it so much because Paul assigned to us. Be strong in the Lord.

Based upon the promises of God.

How can we be strong based upon God's promises youngsters quite simple because God is in capable of breaking his promise. Did you know that the folks we are capable of breaking promises. Many of us do we do it often. We break promises all the time. God cannot break his promise. When God says something. He is absolute truth and he cannot and he will not break his promise.

Please forgive the eruption your listing to Dr. Don Wilton our teacher here on The Encouraging Word and he insists I remind you we are here for you. It's not just a presentation of great teaching. It's also a conversation God stirs your heart.

Even the teaching today. In the book of Ephesians. Perhaps the questions prayer request to come to your mind and you like to share that with us, please call us our number 66899 word the power of prayer is amplified as you know, there's another believer and a group of believers here The Encouraging Word praying with you and 489996 the keyboard for Jesus's email address that's Don DO and at site DEW online.a large dog back to today's great teaching job again. Awesome. What are some of the promises of God that we going to be strong by standing on the promises of God.

What are some of those promises. I wrote down for a bit. Would you mind if I share them with you this morning.

They will relate to the family and our personal lives has one listen to this found in Isaiah 54 in verse 13, all thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be their piece that's a promise that is the knowledge of God.

Now what is the profit saying based upon God's word, the prophet is saying that God's promise is that if your children are taught the knowledge of the word of God. They are going to experience a life of peace now. Do you want your children to have a life of peace.

I is one thing I would pray for my children's happiness and peace. I want my children to live a life of turmoil you want your children to be in turmoil have unhappiness all the junket I want my children. I don't want any of our children to have the but I'm so grateful for that. You know why because the Bible says thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and the result is they will know peace shows another one. Proverbs 2915 now this is a tough one.

Now folks, the ACLU won't blacklist the raw and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings his mother shine out the promise of God. What is that what God's word is just simply sign listen.

I bought a promise you if you bring up your children in the knowledge and admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ in a loving home with consistent Christian love, which to me are the three keys of Christian parenting consistent Christian love. What is the Bible say the Bible says that your children will not grow up to bring shame on you, but a child that is abandoned and left to himself is no discipline.

There's no curfews, no time limits, no parental supervision. If you don't know where your children were lost.

Not you're asking for trouble. If you not drawing the line if you're not loving your children and if they don't know and mother and children will tell you they want their parents to know the Bible says has the promise of God, you bring up your child in the knowledge and admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when they grow up they will not bring shame to their mother. There's another one. James wonders to consider it all joy when you encounter various trials, what a promise. Consider it all joy. How can that happen. We got some people in our congregation today, suffering terribly physically.

We got people in hospital. What's the promise of God, the promise of God, my friend, is that no matter where you are and what circumstances that, in Christ you counter full joy because of the various trials and tribulations that you have to endure some hundred 19 verse six the Lord is on my side I will not fear what man can do to me that is the breakfast of champions right there. I remember some years ago be lost to speak at the two lane football game in the Superdome and you will Tulane University. There was one problem. They were playing against Florida State Seminoles did you catch that Tulane University Florida State, sublime and ridiculous. I mean it's two opposite ends of the and I lost me to come and speak.

So I chose David and Goliath is my text that's right. And I remember quoting this verse that the Lord is on my side and I will not fear what man can do to me. I thought God really wants is my prayer until about the middle of the third quarter when Florida State decided to add another 40 or 50 points just to make a point. But listen to that promise. Folks, the Lord is on my side I will not fear what man can do to me someone to say that a woman who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything. A man, a woman who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything but how do you do that.

What is he saying God's word says as you go and as you prepare to go stand firm stand for but then there's a second thing that Paul says he says get dressed properly. Verse 11 says put on the full armor of God, get dressed properly. All of us prepared to come this morning, we, God willing, got dressed properly. No matter what circumstances you trying out for football team, you get dressed properly. If you playing golf. You get dressed properly. Otherwise they won't allow you on the golf course. If you going shopping you get dressed properly. But you see Paul is taking this thing to the entire fabric of our existence. He's not talking just about the physical close he's talking about that which God gives to us to wear right through the very life's lifetime that we exist. In fact, he uses the word permanently which in the Greek text is the word and do low, which means full endurance for all time and for all eternity. You put on the whole God put it all and don't ever take it all, what is he say Paul is telling us about four things that the armor of God, our proper dressing will do for us. Number one, it will give to ask companionship.

We all need companionship. You see with your old or young. We want companionship. God's word says that if you want to make the right shots in life, you need to have the ultimate spiritual companionship. Then he takes it further. He says not only will the full armor of God give you companionship, but power through numerous he spoke about that in his letter to the church at Galatia and in Philippians chapter 4 Paul puts it like this. He says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Well, if you look at verse 10. Paul saying the same thing in verse 10 he says. Finally, be strong in the Lord. Philippians chapter 4, I can do all things in the Lord. I can be strong in the Lord. How can I be strong by getting dressed properly and when I get dressed properly.

I have a lifetime of companionship. I'm able to exercise the power of God, but certainly as a consequence I carry with me the right equipment that I want to tell you something, folks, that's probably one of the weakest points in my life, my lawnmower broke the other is amazing. The lack of equipment that I think that I have. It wouldn't matter if I had an entire true value hardware store with me. I still wouldn't be able to fix that silly thing and I discovered you cannot fix a broken lawnmower with a toothbrush it doesn't work and I know the spark plug you but I have things to screw the spark plug often then you got Mohammed to make the gap. The rock just banana one Japanese so I just break it then it really doesn't work because I have to bang it on the ground because I don't the right equipment we can carried on through life, Paul says, listen to me as a believer with you on the mission field with you at home.

Whatever you doing wherever you going God wants to give you the right equipment so that when those circumstances, you going to have at your disposal what God wants you to have in order to get the job done and finally he will give to you the right foundation. You see, getting dressed properly gives you a foundation like a wise man who built his house upon the rock. When the rains come in the floods rise the house upon the rock stood firm. That's what Paul is saying he's not using that analogy, he's not telling us about a wise man and the foolish man. He left after the Lord Jesus Christ, which is what God says to us today, Boone the house on a rock get prepared right so that when you journey through life.

You going to have the companionship and you going to have the power you going to have the right equipment, all based upon solid foundation, the right equipment and the right foundation and I pray that is is you been listening. Just as I have five walk with Christ for many years. Yet God destroyed my heart to make some adjustments that I know I need to change to empower his truth, and as we move through this journey together with you. If God stirs your heart know that we love to pray with you and for you at 8668 were that numbers of able 24 hours a day.

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