737 02222012Wed

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "He Rescued Me" Ephesians 1:4-5

Natural parents don’t get to choose, they get what they get.
God chose me! Before the world was formed, He had planned this adoption plan. According to the good pleasure of His will. The rights of my former father were terminated. Both the fellowship and the relationship were disrupted and my new relationship and fellowship began.
Sharon and Rick did nothing to deserve my love. There were no requirements made of either of them to warrant becoming my children. I chose them, I met the legal and moral requirements, I paid the price, the judge asked the children if they would accept me as their daddy. All they did want receive my offer to bring them into my family. Since that day they have had my name, I have been responsible for their care and actions. Discipline came with sonship. Sometimes fellowship has worn thin but relationship remained unchanged. So what if they fail to please me?
Unadopting a Child
Many states allow a parent to legally unadopt a child. If an adoption ends before it's legally finalized, it's called a disruption. If an adoption is overturned by a judge after it's been legally finalized, it's called a dissolution.
The reversing of an adoption is controlled by state law. Most states frown upon the unadoption of children. They may require parents to try every option available first. These options can include therapy, a change in medications and treatment programs.
Courts will usually require parents to prove that reversing the adoption is in the best interests of the child. They may even require parents to prove they're unfit or that the child is a danger before a reversal is given. Parents won't be granted a reversal simply because they don't feel like taking care of the child anymore.
They don’t have to care about pleasing me to stay in my family but they want to be pleasing because of the love that we share that was initiated by me.

736 02192012Eve

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "My Resignation" Galatians 2:20

The work is hard and long and the load is heavy. I know that many of you have experienced this and know what I’m talking about when I say, “I just feel like quitting.” So today I want to submit to you my letter of resignation.
The on-line Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines: Resignation
Surrender; Submissiveness; the quality or act of being resigned. To give oneself over without resistance; to give up deliberately; to renounce a right or position by formal act; to give up one’s office or position; to accept something as inevitable
Christ was resigned to teach the Father’s doctrine:
    Joh 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Christ was resigned to trust the Father’s will:
    Luk 22:42  Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Paul was resigned to live for Christ:
    Php 1:20  According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
    Php 1:21  For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Paul was resigned to die for Christ:
    2Ti 4:6  For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
    2Ti 4:7  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the faith:
    2Ti 4:8  Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

I am resigned to deliberately submit myself to preach and teach His doctrine only, regardless of what the consequences may be.
I am resigned to surrender my will without resistance and to trust God’s will in spite of the circumstances.
I am resigned to renounce my right to live my life as if it is mine to live.
I am resigned to accept that it is inevitable that by His grace I will leave this temporary world behind and go to be with my Savior.
I am resigned to hear Him say, “Well done.”

    Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
“Why don’t you tender your resignation, today?”

735 02192012Morn

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Who is Grace For?"

Mary Magdalene (Mark 16:9): Jesus cast seven devils out of her. She was at the tomb when Jesus resurrected. She had her personal demons.
Zacchaeus (Luke 19:8): An extortioner through inflating taxes. The Lord came to his house. He was greedy and self-centered. He needed grace.
Thief on the cross (Luke 23:41): Guilty of doing things worthy of death
Barabbas (John 18:40): Was a robber
Philippian Jailer (Acts 16:34): He put the ministers of God in stocks and chains
Saul of Tarsus (I Corinthians 15:10): He persecuted the Church of God
Nicodemus (John 19:39): He was a religious teacher of the Israelites.
Mary the mother of Jesus (Luke 1:47): She was favored by God to be the mother of the Christ
Samaritan Woman at the well (John 4:29): She had been married 5 times and was now shacked up with a man. Jesus walked up to her and started talking about living water. He loved her and wanted nothing from her. She needed love and grace and found it in Jesus.
Onesimus (Philemon 1:11): A runaway slave who was unprofitable.
Young Rich Ruler (Mark 10:19-22): the morally good rich man.

Who is Grace for??? Whosoever!
Whosoever means you…

734 02152012Wed

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Who's the Rebel?" Matthew 21:28-31

Some prove better than they promise.. Others promise better than they prove
One the worst things that a parent can do is to allow their child to lay by idly
but to cause them to invest themselves in meaningful labor.
The first son gave a bad answer but gave a good work.
The second son gave a good answer but a bad work.
Who’s the rebel???
There is room for repentance when children mess up.

733 02122012Eve

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "The Strength Of The Law" Romans 5:12-14, I Corinthians 15:56

Sin came by Adam. Righteousness comes by Jesus Christ. We are sinners because of Adam.
Everyone that came after Adam were imputed with sin. Adam was the representative of man kind.
The law became the measurement. Before the law, it was up to our own self judgement. The law became the standard.
We cannot live up to the law. The standard of God's righteousness is too far for us to me good enough.
Salvation isn't based on us. It's based on him.
Adam is a foreshadow of Jesus. Both were representatives for human kind. Jesus fulfilled the law.
Nothing we can do can make us righteous just like we didn't become sinners on our own.
The grace of God covered it.

732 02122012Morn

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "From Wrath To Favor" I John 4:10

Love comes from God. God loved us and gave his Son to be the propitiation.
Real love is unconditional. It does not ask for anything in return.
Our love today, our human kind of love, is conditional of what we can get in return.
Propitiation: to facilitate the way to pay for our sins. he stepped between us and judgement.
A just God must judge sins. We are enemies of God until we accept the sacrifice; because, of the propitiation we are turned from the wrath God and we are now under his blessings.
There is a price tag to love. Love requires giving.
God loved us so much that He gave His son to die for us. Jesus bore the sin of the whole world. Jesus was the only one who didn't sin, because Jesus became sin, he became separate from God.
The penalty of sin has been paid for because of his son. We have the right to reject his gift of love, but we can't turn away His love.
God is not willing that anyone should perish.
He will never turn his back on us.
This gift is absolutely free. It does not cost us anything.
Loving God will cost us.
Love always gives, it never takes.
We are to leave our old master and cling to God.
Because of the love he has given us, we willing start laying things down that separate us from the father.
We should want to lay down part of our lives willingly.

731 02082012Wed

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Submission" Ephesians 5:22-25, 28-29

3 Things About Submission.
    1. It is a command of God.
    -If the wife rebels against the husband she is in rebellion to God's word.
    -God intended man to be the head of the home.
    -The relationship with God must be intact before your relationship with your mate.
    -Failure to submit to the command of the Holy Spirit will result in unhappiness and lack of fellowship with God.
    -Being out of fellowship with God will cause a lot of heartache.
    -All disobedience is sin.
    2.Submission is God's tool for our happiness.
    3.Submission is not slavery.
    -Submission does not mean that women cannot voice ther opinion.
    -No woman should ever take a beating or abuse from a man.

Eve was created to be a help meet for Adam. God took a rib from Adam to create Eve; She was a part of him.
Live For GOD

730 02052012Eve

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Light of the World" John 3:19-21, 8:12, 9:5, Matthew 5:14-16

Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Joh 3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Joh 8:12  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Mat 5:14  Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Mat 5:15  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Mat 5:16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Joh 9:5  As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

729 02052012Morn

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Thank You For What You Took From Me" Isaiah 53:4-6

There are so many blessings that we receive from the hand of our Lord that there are not enough hours in the day to count them all. In fact the song says count you blessings name them one by one and see what God hath done. But we all know that even if we attempt to do that we still miss so many things that should be listed. And we are grateful for His blessings and always seek for more but what about the blessings of what He took away from us.
Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs (disease), and carried our sorrows (anguish): yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions (rebellion), he was bruised for our iniquities (perversity): the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (mended or made whole).
Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Because of sin we not only were missing the blessings of what God would give but we were absent of the things that He would take away from us. Through the substitutionary death of Christ on the cross we have all of our griefs and sorrows carried away. We have our just punishment redirected upon Him. And now the wrath of God toward sin is taken away from us who are truly the guilty ones.
Before the attribute of God’s blessings are free to flow in our lives we must receive the blessedness of what He takes away.
Can you even begin to imagine what He has borne just for you???
Today we are not here to ask for more … we are here to give thanks for the things that He has taken from us so that we may begin the relationship with Christ. 

728 02012012Wed

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "The Husband's Biblical Role In Marriage" Ephesians 5:21-33

Ephesians 5:21-33, “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see she reverence her husband.”
Maybe you have just about given up on your marriage. You do not understand why you cannot change your life or your spouse will not change theirs.
This is applicable to Christian’s lives and homes. God has the answer for you in His Word. Many times Christian husbands are told, “Be the leader God wants you to be!” A sincere man goes forward in a service and prays for God to make Him that leader, but nothing changes. The husband lives in defeat and discouragement and asks, “Where is God, why does He not help me?” Simple answer, God has already told you from His Word how to be the leader He wants you to be. Most Christians think that if they ask God to forgive them for a sin then that sin should go away. The reality is it won’t unless you use God’s Word to renew your mind and change your thinking to God’s thinking about the matter. True Biblical change comes when a person changes their thinking to God’s thinking from God’s Word. The Bible calls it “renewing your mind”, Eph 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Eph 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.. When you change your thinking to God’s thinking then your behavior changes. It does not change until then.
Most Christian men would like to be the leader God wants them to be, but they do not know how. They do not know how to Biblically change their life and therefore, their home suffers greatly because of it.
Let me give you three points that the Bible says is the “Husband’s Role in Marriage.” The Husband’s Biblical Role in Marriage is he is to be a: 1. Learner 2. Lover 3. Leader.
Did you know that being a learner of your wife is a command for the husband in the Bible? I Peter 3:7, “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them (wives) according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.” Did you notice “according to knowledge?” It means to learn about her, knowledge about her. The world says we cannot understand our wives and children. The Bible tells us we are commanded to know them.
Getting to know someone takes time. How much do you know about your wife? I mean really know. Learning someone means I need to study them.
Failing to learn her affects your spiritual life! Did you notice in I Peter 3:7, “That your prayers be not hindered.” A fundamental failure of the Christian home is the husband not learning his wife. It is a simple but deadly flaw.
2. Lover-Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Gentleman, you will never be a proper lover until you learn the needs of your wife. Love is not a feeling. In our culture we believe love is lust and sex. What is the Biblical view of love? John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son that whosever beleiveth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
God’s view of love is giving in order to meet the needs of another person. The Christian home and marriage today is filled with pride, arrogance, anger, self will, demanding, and the all about me philosophy. How am I to love my wife and to what degree am I to love her? 
1.I am to love her first. I John 4:19,
2.I am to love her the most. Ephesians 5:25,
3.I am to love her sacrificially. Ephesians 5:25,
4.I am to love her in ways that cannot be unmistakably interpreted. I John 3:18,
5.I am to love her in spite of her faults. Romans 5:8,
6.I am to love her as my own body. Ephesians 5:28-29,
7.I am to love her without bitterness. Colossians 3:19,
Husbands, I will never be the lover I should be unless I make an effort to learn her and nurture her. 
3. Leader-Matthew Chapter 20
The lack of Godly leadership and spirituality in the home is contributing greatly to the breakdown of the Christian home. Men sometimes think that leadership is being a dictator. Seek to apply the theme of servant hood to your leadership of your home. Someone has said, “The test of your servant hood is how you respond when you are treated like one.”
You will either be a selfish leader or a servant leader. The servant leader does the following:
· He focuses on her needs. Ephesians 5:25, Philippians 2:20-21, Ephesians 6:4.
· He seeks to help others in the home be Christ like oriented. Ephesians 5:26-28, 6;4
· He sets the example of self control in the home. Philippians 4:9, Jeremiah 35:5-6
· He likes to solve problems and solves them Biblically. Ephesians 4:29-32
· He wants to be and works at being a teacher. I Timothy 2:11-12, I Timothy 3:4, 5, 12
· He lives with his wife joyfully. Proverbs 5:18
· He provides spiritual leadership. Ephesians 5: 25-33
Men, have you ever given consideration as to how you could or should show love to your wife? Let me give you some thoughts on this. Make her first place in your life and show it. She should be second only to your relationship to Jesus Christ. If she is not first place, she will doubt your love and become insecure.
How do you find out your wife’s place in your life? Answer the following questions. What means more to you?
1. Your wife or your children?
2. Talking with your wife or having sex with her?
3. Your wants or her needs?
4. Praying with your wife or praying with others?
5. Helping other people or helping your wife?
6. Your work or your family?
7. Church activities or family needs?
She knows when she is not cherished, nor uppermost in your affections. She also knows what you delight in more than her. The husband must understand God wants him to express his love for his wife by meeting her needs, I Peter 3:7.
Guys acknowledge and recognize her attempts to please you. Her attention to immediate details and her desire to express love to you may often motivate her to do little things for you. She needs your admiration and praise. Do not disregard, laugh at, or belittle what she does for you. Be very careful to watch for her attempts to please and then express appreciation.
One of the things I find is that men unfavorably compare their wife with other women. Don’t unfavorably compare her with other women. Do not point out some ability she lacks or some appearance you prefer. In her eyes, that person pleases you more than she does.
Be the spiritual leader in your home. She longs for this. If you do not provide it or show disinterest in it, she is unable to place her full confidence in you. She may seek leadership from others. Make sure you have a personal time with the Lord. Make sure your wife and children are having a personal time with the Lord. Solve family problems Biblically. Find out from God’s Word what he says about the problem you are experiencing. Then change your thinking to God’s thinking on the matter. Work at sharing new spiritual insights with her that you learn from God’s Word.
Be consistent with her discipline of children. Don’t take sides against her. Don’t defend the children. This causes her to doubt your loyalty to her. She may think you are trying to turn the children against her. Learn to settle differences away from your children. If you differ with what she is doing with the children discuss it with her privately.
Speak to her in a gentle spirit. Be a gentleman and do not use harsh words. Ephesians 4:29-32. Always look for ways to communicate to her in gentleness with tact not in anger. Ungodly anger is the destroying sin of the Christian home. Be controlled by the Holy Spirit, Ephesians 5:18. There is never a place for ungodly anger in the Christian home. Ephesians 4: 31, “Let all….wrath, and anger….be put away from you.” There is no place in the Christian marriage for cussing, yelling, hitting, and screaming. Put away from you an angry spirit as well. Many men and woman speak to each other in impatient tones. This is an angry spirit. Praise her for more than her cooking and physical involvement. Praise her for qualities of character she possesses. This is not done simply, it requires thought and planning. Learn to praise your wife and work at finding things to praise.
Show creative affection to your wife. This would be outside the realm of sex. Affection without sex includes good manners, be courteous. Build security with her. Knowing she has a permanent place in your heart and affection is important to her. Be careful never to show attention to another woman in such a way as to disillusion her. Delight in fulfilling her wishes. She has little things for you to do. Little means no imposition of your time. This gives you a chance to reassure her of your love by enjoying and doing things for her and meeting her needs. Don’t give her the idea her suggestions and ideas are not good and yours are better. Do things in the idea that I am doing this for you. Or we are doing this together. Seek to be friends, work at it. Show respect and kindness to each other. Love is kind, I Corinthians 13:4.
I want to encourage you as a husband to learn your wife. This will take a little work, but will be a tremendous benefit to your marriage and home. Remember you are commanded to learn her, love her and lead her.

727 01292012Eve

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Unconditional Love pt 2" Romans 5:6-8, 8:38-39

The true test of being born-again is the love test. The agape love test. But our love cannot been seen until it is somehow demonstrated. And How does a man demonstrate his love for God. Is it church attendance , Bible reading, tithing, church work…. What???
First our love for God will be witnessed in our love for our brethren. Secondly, our agape for the brethren is not our work but a work of God in us.
Thirdly, Loving God and our fellow man is simply the keeping of His commandments to Love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves. These commandments are not grievous in Christ but are impossible apart from God.

726 01292012Morn

 

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Unconditional Love" 1 Corinthians 13, Romans 5:6-8

Storge – Affection; like in a family; you don’t necessarily like their characteristics but you love them because they are part of your life
Phileo – Friendship; a strong bond between people of like interest or common activities; brotherly love by choice
Eros – Romance; erotic; it is the case of “being in love”; couples develop this kind of love for each other
Agape – Unconditional Love; the God-kind of love; without conditions or boundaries; unselfish; seeks no return; is not emotionally based. I Cor 13
God is the only one who can truly agape. Our love is always rooted in our self interest. We often think that we love unconditionally but our conduct toward those we say we agape changes based on their response or reciprocation to our offer of love.
Rom 5:6  For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Rom 5:7  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Rom 5:8  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
God loves everyone, whether they accept His free gift of eternal life or reject it. Once we receive this precious gift with no strings, the powerful presence of God’s Spirit dwells within us and we began to see that through evidences of the God-kind of love that will start to manifest itself in us.
1Jn 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
This love always gives and never requires a return. We can only love Him because He first loved us. Then we serve because of that love and not for reward. Then He rewards because of that love not to receive more service.
Do you love Him? Jesus asked Peter twice if he agape Him and Peter responded that he phileo Him. Jesus asked the third time if he phileo Him and Peter was grieved and answered yes. Are you just an acquaintance or do you have His Spirit dwelling in you demonstrating His love.

725 01252012Wed

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Profitable" Philemon 1:4-21

724 01222012Eve

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Oh How He Loves Us" Romans 5:6-11

God loves us more than we deserve.
God's love is all inclusive. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
We are made part of the family by Christ's death and Jesus' life in us.
Love can make the pain of this world go away.
When we were weak, Christ died for us and helped us. God helps them that can't help themselves.
Atonement: at one ment with God.
We don't have to wait until the ship starts sinking to know God has a plan.
God not only carries us through the traumatic situations, but also through the minor events, and the good times. He's there in the mountains and the valleys.
He saves us in His time. We need to have patience with God because He is always at work in us.
The love of God can mend a broken heart.
We always have an audience with God.

723 01222012Morn

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Reasons" Luke 14:16-24

It’s always easy to find a reason to reject. Reasons or excuses aren’t new and always fall into one of the three categories (Lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life). I heard excuses or reasons all the time why people cannot come.
God is the “certain man” v16. The Holy Spirit is His servant v17. Your reasons why you cannot come anger the Master v21. He commands that we move with urgency and bring in the outcast of this world, even whosoever will.
Notice the definite article statement of our Lord in v 24: none which were bidden shall taste of my supper! This confirms that rejection of the Holy Spirit is the “Unpardonable Sin”. Reasons or excuses not to go are easy to come by, do you know why? The Enemy, Satan, will be glad to offer you an unlimited supply of reasons. Maybe you will come later? No so according to the Master v24. Many reasons not to come, only one reason that you should; He has called you v17.

722 01182012Wed

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Hate Your Family" Luke 14:25-27

God doesn’t measure spirituality by numbers. A large crowd does not mean more spiritual and a smaller crowd doesn’t indicate less spiritual. Actually it is easier to pretend to be spiritual in the larger crowd. Anyone can get caught up by the masses and the enthusiasm that is generated by the multitudes and then find yourself just following along on the fringes of the crowd but not willing to surrender what is necessary to be a disciple (learner).
Hate vs love. This is a part of speech known as hyperbole (exaggeration to illustrate a point; like mile-high ice cream cone). Jesus certainly did not literally mean for us to hate our family in order to be His disciple for He tells us in Luke 6:27 to “love our enemies”. What He is referring to is what we love most! In Col 1:18 we are told “that in all things he might have the preeminence” (first place). In other words, the greater love that we have for Jesus will be of such priority that our love for our family will compare as if it were hatred although it be great love.
Then He even goes so far as to touch the sacred ground of our own lives (will). He says that we must hate our own life in comparison to the love that we have for Jesus. If this is not the case – you can not be His disciple.
Bear (carry) his cross is to take the walk of death. The only way to Life is through Death.

721 01152012Eve

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Altogether Lovely" Song of Solomon 5:8-16

The bride elicits all the daughters of Jerusalem to search for this lover of her soul for she is love sick for Him. The daughters marvel that one as fair as the bride would not just take another lover. “What is so special about this beloved of yours?” Mine is the fairest of ten thousand. Her continued description of Him entices the daughters to desire to seek after Him. For the bride gives an unparalleled description of her beloved. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Many of this world cannot comprehend the great beauty that we perceive in our beloved Savior until they see Him as their Beloved also.
His mouth is most sweet. Her description is of one who is flawless and yet she cherishes His mouth most of all. His lips are sweet for the words that He speaks to and of His beloved bride. Truly He is Altogether Lovely…(in every whit perfect, without flaw) and He is more than my lover … He is my friend.

720 01152012Morn

Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Grace" Romans 4:5

GRACE is God’s unmerited favor. Grace can not coexist with the working of the law. We are Justified (made righteous in God’s sight) by Grace not by works. To insist on the demonstration of works to deserve justification actually annuls justification.
FACT: God loves sinners. All are sinners. God loves all.
    You cannot deserve God’s love by good works nor can you lessen His love for you by the sin you commit. Rom 5:20  Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
God loves the saved and the lost alike. John 3:16 For God so loved the world…
Even after you are Born Again you do not merit Grace. You can’t start out in Grace and then continue in works of righteousness to sustain your right standing with God. When you sin … God does not turn away from you. In fact He does everything to lead you back into fellowship with Him. This is for our good, to spare us from the consequences of our sin - not because He don’t love us or can’t bless us.
Which of these sins are greater than our God’s love: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings Gal 5:19
He does not condone or ignore our sin… just the opposite… He took them upon Himself and the awful price for every single one of them. He knows better than self-righteous judges how awful our sin is.
When you consider the Grace of a Holy God. To adopt ungodly sinners into His family and pay in over-abundance our sin debt. You will desire more than ever to live a Godly life and not out of duress (law).

719 01122012Wed

Reverend Doug Tuberville "The Dangers of Leaving God Out of Your Life" Philemon 1:24

Robert Robinson "Come Thou Fount" wrote this great hymn but ended up dying a wayward Christian.
Demas served God

3 Principles
    1. A perfect start does not promis a perfect ending.
    How you finish is just as important as how you start
    2. Don't allow "things" "excuses" to come between you and God.
    3. Our direction will determine our destination