777 05272012Evening

Direct Download--Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Band Of Brothers" II Samuel 21:15-22

2Sa 21:15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

2Sa 21:16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

2Sa 21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

2Sa 21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

2Sa 21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

2Sa 21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

2Sa 21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.

2Sa 21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

David lead by example. Too old to be still warring and yet not ready to hang up the sword, he finds himself in danger in a battle with another giant. When it seems that he will most certainly fall to the hand of the giant God sends a servant-brother (Abishai) to help (succour) him. It was once again, (2 Sam 18:3) determined by counsel (oath) that David would go out to battle no more fearing that he was now of far greater value as the light of Israel.

David’s strength was not only in his own ability to fight but in the close fellowship that he had in his relationships with his men. David’s career started with a giant and his career ended in the fall of four credited to him and his band of brothers. When we are too weak for the battle God will send reinforcements, just hold on. It may be through brothers (sisters) or angels or just supernatural strength or intervention but help will come.

776 05272012Morning

Direct Download--Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "No Greater Love" John 15:12-15

 

Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Joh 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Joh 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

We memorialize people that have not only died, but according to how they died and why they were willing to die. Even greater is the idea that we memorialize them not just for dying but for giving their lives or how they lived before they died (lay down his life).

We are grateful for the ones who died in conflicts in our nations history but we are even more thankful for how they lived their lives and then were willing to die to secure the values of those lives. No man sets out to just die.. but to live and he can be willing to die to secure the right for others to have the same freedoms. We bestow the greatest honor upon these heroes when we live to preserve the freedoms that they gave their lives for.

Jesus said there can be no greater love than for a man to lay down his life for his friends. This indicates not only dying but living. If you are willing to live your life for another .. then dying for them becomes a no-brainer.

I have always associated this verse with Jesus laying down his life for us. But in reality, Jesus is instructing his disciples to lay their lives down for one another (v12) then He demonstrates through His example of both His life and death.

As believers, we give the greatest honor to our Lord when we live our lives by the example that He left for us in His life. The overt driving factor evident in the life of Christ is His Love. Love for God and love for others. Jesus said that we show our love for God and others by how we lay down our lives for them.

Do you truly love God?? Others?? Does it show in how you live??

775 05232012Wed

Direct Download--Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "No Respect Of Persons" Romans 2:1-16
NO RESPECT OF PERSONS Romans 2:11 Rom 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. (No matter your status, you are also condemned) Rom 2:2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. (Yes they are sinning and it is wrong) Rom 2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? (But you are just as guilty as they) Rom 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? (By the grace of God I am what I am) Rom 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; (To keep overlooking your sin is accumulating a treasure of wrath (sin’s consequence) against yourself) Rom 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: (God is the Judge) Rom 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: Rom 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Rom 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Rom 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: Rom 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God. (Churchmembers of today are like the Jews of the past, believing that God favors them more because they are Christians) Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) Rom 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. (Legalistic people always have condemning spirits. Believing that they are not as other men are (the Pharisee & the Publican Lk 18:9-14) Paul is not suggesting that any should lower their standards… just their noses!!!!

774 05202012Eve

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Mystery Of Godliness" I Timothy 3:16

773 05202012Morn

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "But You Shall Go Over" Deuteronomy 4:22

Deuteronomy 4:22

How many never met my father?

How many met him but never really knew him?

How many knew him well?

(brief words from volunteers)

(brief lead-in from the pastor)

(Video approx. 20 minutes)

(Look at all God has blessed us with through the years and rehearse them to our children)

Deu 4:7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

Deu 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

(Dad knew he had finished his course, He encouraged me) (His fear of ministry was that there was no retirement)

Deu 4:22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

(We have and will face again challenges bigger than we are… but God)

Deu 4:38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

(His blessings are way out of proportion to our abilities)

Deu 6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

Deu 6:11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

(Fear and doubt will cause you to stumble at God’s promises)

Deu 7:17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

(Nothing is bigger than our God) (The battle is the Lord’s)

Deu 7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

Deu 7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

(The trials and lean times of the past were for our humility to honor our God) (Consider the end)

Deu 8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Deu 8:17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

Deu 8:18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

(Just as Joshua built upon the foundation that had been laid with Moses – we are building upon the foundation that laid with my dad) (I want to keep alive the vision of our God and pass it on to our children after us to carry it to their children…)

(Dad was not allowed to go in to this land with us but he (like Moses) saw it)

(CD: Soldier Won the Battle)

772 05162012Wednesday

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly " The Wrath Of God" Romans 1:18-32

Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

How does God express His wrath? (24,26,28)

- By "giving people up" to their own sinful passions

771 05132012Evening

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "No More Time" Revelation 10:1-6,Hebrews 10:36-37,2Peter 3:1-13

Rev 10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

Rev 10:2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

Rev 10:3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

Rev 10:4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

Rev 10:5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

Rev 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

No more delay

Heb 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Heb 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come, will come and will not tarry.

He is holding back or waiting for the time to come.

2Pe 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

2Pe 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

2Pe 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

2Pe 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

It is imminent; only God’s love delays the end of this age.