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Dr. Gene Scott Ph.D
Stanford University

 

 


anywhere!”  I like to make it simple, and I told you I’m gonna lead you by the hand today till we get to God’s part because His is the good part.  This is the work part.  In the New Testament the way you claim a promise and renew a commitment is very simple.  The book of Romans says “Don’t think you can go up to heaven, get Him, bring Him down.  Don’t think you can descend into the depths and bring Him up.”  There is a stage in your Christian Faith walk were God expects us to start acting on what He said because He has a record of having done it. 

As the children of Israel had a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night and manna falling from heaven every morning, there came a point—and He parted the Jordan River—there came a point on the other side where the manna stopped falling and the pillar dissolved

and the fire didn’t lead.  And they were expected, because of the performance already proven, to act a little more on the invisible reality of God and His consistency to keep His Word.  “Can I trust the Lord?”  You gotta settle that first.  “But I’ve got this problem I want to focus on!”  Forget, turn—you don’t forget—turn, displace it.  Turn from the problem for just a minute with me and ask yourself why are you here in the last week of the year.  Is the Lord trustworthy or not?  If He is, how do you trust Him?

            And the New Testament says “You don’t have to ascend and get Him.  You don’t have to descend and bring Him up.  The word’s already nigh you; it’s in your mouth, speak it forth.  For with the heart man believeth; and with the mouth”—proclamation is the literal Greek word—“proclamation or declaration is made unto salvation.”  And salvation is—soterion is the Greek word—it’s a whole process that involves every dimension of your life which means man realizing everything he ought to be in health, in vision, in capacity, in potential,

 

and in ultimate destination.  This salvation process is a constant renewing of what God has promised by believing it with the heart and declaring it with the mouth.  Simple as feeding a child.  You gotta settle it!

Instead of walking out when you get out of Church….  The way most people listen to a preacher, they tune their brain out and then when they get out first words to the one they go out with: “Boy, I sure have this problem.  I don’t know how I’m gonna get at it now till next Sunday.  I’ve done my little thing for God today but it almost cost me the time I could of used solving my problem.”  I want you to go out of here today—this is the work part—saying—don’t just think—saying—you gotta hang your body on it, “Wait a minute!  What am I in this business for, of Christianity?”

I mean, you—you’re looking at the world’s most natural sinner.  I will make a confession to this crowd—it’s going to demean me: I have never been drunk in my life.  Now to the Jerry Falwell’s crowd, they’d be: “Ah-h-h-h, Praise the Lord!” you know.  To my crowd, that’s one dimension of your life I don’t fully comprehend yet.  You just grab your mind is what I’m saying, and you have to ask yourself is your religion just going through the motions or is there a God you can trust.  I don’t necessarily have to put the shape on it for you.  You know the shape that I think it takes: God revealed Himself in Christ.  “Trust in the Lord”

           Number 2.  “Delight thyself.”  This is just so simple it makes me mad!  “Delight thyself in the Lord.”  I want to tell you something and you can just take it or leave it.  The theologians call it ‘prevenient grace.’  The Church is not in the world to save the world.  The Church represents those few being saved out of the world.  And it was Jesus who said “Few there be that go in thereat.”  God’s not some—you’ve

 
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