Fellowship Only place others do not think you are crazy
My zeal has been gone, i operate on faith now
- we do not want to admit that fire has dwindled out
- What revives us
- Mark 4:2-6
- No depth of the earth, (focus on verses 5 and 6)
- This spirit is just going through the motions
- Mark 4:16-17
- Stop getting “Wowed” only meant to grow/endure to a certain point
- All these things done in parables (Mark 4:34)
- Many will know the brief overview of something
- Greater understanding only given to some
- God gives his doctrine in weight, not all understand it equally
- Christ gave the understanding to his disciples,
- Questions come about when there is growth, no questions = no growth
- bread of life cause us to be fed
- Itching ears make us search for answers in other places
- Mark 4:12
- People see miracles but not grasp it
- If they really understood, they would be converted
- But we don’t really want to know and grow
- No depth of the earth, (focus on verses 5 and 6)
- The learning never stops, we are always learning something new
- Mark 4:17
- Many abide for a time because of own personal affliction
- For the Word’s sake
- Some family in the truth with you are a friend for an occasion
- Sir 6:8-9 – Some men friend for their own occasion (for the benefits you are providing)
- Some are our own children (prepare for possibility of children going into the world)
- When times get rough, they will not be there
- Mark 4:18-19
- The deceitfulness of riches
- Business practices in Israel, which can pull people out of the truth
- Luke 16:14-15 – A lot of business practices built on covetousness
- Brothers will justify themselves (justify their covetousness)
- What is esteemed is covetousness
- 2 Chron 20:35-37 – King Jehosaphat business dealings
- prophesized against Jehosophat, all hell breaks
- Mark 4:20
- Overtime, the poeple will endure the same things
- All goes through affliction for the word, all go through the cares of the world, but those on good ground will endure
- When decline starts, what do we do
- Prayer and fasting
- Reinforce what we already know
- Mark 4:17 – What is everyone’s root
- Christ, the laws, bible
- If have no root, will not go to the Lord, will not put on a class,
- we must recognize what is happening in our spirit
- Counsel up
- Sir 18:6
- None of us can add to his wonderful works
- We are also unable to take away
- When a man is doing work, he is beginning a great thing
- Called the prophets from the beginning
- When stop doing the work, doubt begin to resonate in our spirit
- When teach also remind ourselves and reinforce our faith
- When hanging with godly men, the discourse is Godly
- Luke 9:26 – If afraid to correct a brother or sister, is the same as
being ashamed of the word
- If afraid to correct one another, still a Christian mindset
- Sir 5:2 – When leave the work, we begin to doubt and then follow our own
doubtful mind
- Don’t be scared to tell the leaders what is really going on
- Luke 18:9-14
- Those who trusted in themselves were the pharises
- Seek out council for the affirmities we are dealing with
- Trusted in themselves that they were righteous
- If trust in self is the spirit of Pharisees
- Despise others, (not seeking council)
- We must stay humbled
- When trust yourself, you already made up your mind
- Be glad that we are able to do the work is Christ’s vineyard
- The Lord can easily replace us
- A purge to trim the fat
- Before coming through the doors, we exhausted all of our options,
trusting in ourselves got us in trouble in the world
- When we come into the body, we must change
- 1 Cor 14:12
- We will have zeal about certain things, but not all things pertaining to God
- The zeal must be on the same level for all things
- We must let nothing be grievous to us
- Certain things must be set in order
- We must give ouselves wholly to the word
- Ezra 5:1-2
- Every single office have been done by another
- We must be happy in every work of the Lord
- A lot of things done before we got here
- The 70 2×2 were going before he went
- 2 Cor. 9:1-5
- Achaia ready a year ago (was going into giving)
- Paul always had a battle with the church of Corinth
- Trying to get them ready
- Achaia was in the spirit, should have affected the church of Corinth
- Blessing and generosity was because of wanting to push the truth
- The zeal that the leaders had fall upon those that come in the future
- 1 Cor.16:15 – They were addicted to the scriptures, gospel, and doing
the work
- When the zeal gets on the decline, must addict ourselves
- Scared to talk about our flaws
- Some mask demons by calling out other demons
- They can’t watch for your soul if don’t know whats going on in your soul
- Our provisions for the flesh will take us out
- Rom 10:2-3
- Zeal starts to fade, stop doing the work and begin to doubt
- We doubt to the point where heresies come in
- We begin to fool ourselves that we are greater than we really are
- Ignorant of the truth Christ called us into
- Establish own righteousness, God did not give the increase, Satan did
- Acts 14:15
- Zeal = passion, many of us lose the passion for the work we are called to do
- Israel sometimes have a zeal for another God
- Sir 33:27
- Idleness teaches much evil (laziness, state of inaction, inactivity, slothfulness, sluggishness)
- In the world (compulsive daters -no time alone) too much time alone forces you to examine yourself
- When around the Godly, the discourse is Godly
- More energy to hide our demons, but will eventually reveal itself
- Ecc 9:10-17
- Whatever we do, do with our full ability
- the Zeal is the swift portion, but slow down as the race continues
- The amount of time that goes into the swift, rich, and wise have time and opportunity
- A man of wisdom through opportunity of leisure
- Keep those brothers encouraged, will we still continue this in the future
- No one knows how much time we will endure in this truth or on this earth
- The poor is us, we may not have the money, but we have the wisdom
- But the wise is despised (council against us teaching or nationality, and laws)
- When we pray, pray for the evil to get out
- The words of the wise heard, in our secret chamber we are
communicating with the Most High
- Equipping ourselves with the level of wisdom (greatest weapon anyone of us have)
- Wisdom better than weapons of war
- To come back from loss of zeal
- Discipline, examining yourself
- Studying
- Faith has to kick in
- 1 Cor.9:24-25
- Paul never says how long the race is
- Some worked hardly to obtain worldly achievements than to obtain Godly achievements
- 2 Tim 4:7
- Paul kept the faith
- 2 Cor.11 (all that Paul went through, despite all, kept the faith)
- The troubles of the world will wear down our fleshly body, we must keep the faith
- Mark 4:17
- No root in themselves and endure for a time
- 2 Cor. 11:22-27
- Paul lost some of himself to gain the spirit of Christ
- Optimum goal is to endure to the end (death or til Christ’s return) any thing else is just for a time
- Someone has to be a false brethren, know something to hurt the person, paint a false narrative others may believe
- Leaders set up over us are going through trials just as we are
- 2 Tim 4:7
- All that Paul had to endure and still handle the affairs of the church
- When some of us go through affliction, we put the bible down
- His daily thought was the care of the churches
- Acts 27:10-14, 21-22 – Shipwreck of Paul
- Euroclydon = Hurricane
- Paul still did not lost the faith
- Our forefathers went through much
