Five Things I Want

Evangelist Dave Young

Men’s Prayer Advance 2018

“Five Things I Want” – John 15:1-5

These are some notes from Dave’s message to us last week:

  1. To be Clean (v.3)

I want to be completely clean. As is says in Ephesians 5:3:  “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;” And also verse 5 of the same chapter: “For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” As believers, these verses should make us fear uncleanness.

Proverbs 5:15 says, “Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.” This verse teaches us to be faithful to our wives, as can be seen from verses 15-23 in Proverbs 5. We take drinking clean water for granted. But in most of the world, clean, drinkable water is valuable. Continue reading Five Things I Want

The Camel

We continue our study on Psalm 119, focusing on the Hebrew alphabet and what we can learn about the Word of God. Previous posts:

Introduction

Aleph

Bet

Gimel is the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It starts each word in the eight verses that make up the third portion of Psalm 119. Continue reading The Camel

The Pleasure We Have With God

Saturday morning Pastor Bob Alderman taught on the first four verses of Psalm 84 at the Men’s Prayer Advance.  Here are some notes on his teaching (Italics mine).

Introductory Story: There was a couple who moved to a new town and they started searching for a church to join. They visited many churches. Then they returned to the church of their choice. When they joined one of the church leaders asked them , “Of all the churches in town, why did you choose this one?” The answer was, “This church serves the best coffee.” Continue reading The Pleasure We Have With God

Chain Breaker

If you’ve been walking the same old road for miles and miles

If you’ve been hearing the same old voice tell the same old lies

If you’re trying to fill the same old holes inside

There’s a better life

There’s a better life

If you’ve got pain

He’s a pain taker

If you feel lost

He’s a way maker

If you need freedom or saving

He’s a prison-shaking Savior

If you’ve got chains

He’s a chain breaker

– Zach Williams

I had the privilege of hearing this song sung at the Men’s Prayer Advance in Roanoke, Va. yesterday.

Yeshua is able to deliver you from any difficulty you have, no matter how hopeless it seems.

Just a Few More Days…

I’m looking now, just across the river

To where my faith, shall end in sight

There’s just a few more days to labor.

Then I will take my heavenly flight.

Beulah Land I’m longing for you

And some day on thee I’ll stand

There my home shall be eternal

Beulah Land, sweet Beulah Land

Beulah Land, oh it’s Beulah Land

Oh Beulah Land, sweet Beulah Land

 

 I got to sing this tonight at the Prayer Advance in Roanoke Virginia!

via Sweet Beulah Land Lyrics

Bet the House

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The Hebrew Letter ‘Bet’

We are continuing our study of Psalm 119, focusing on the Hebrew alphabet and what it can tell us about the Word of God.

“Bet” is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It means ‘house’, ‘family,’ or ‘what is inside’. Verses 9-16 begin with this letter.

From the meaning of the letter Bet we ought to understand that the Word of God needs to get inside our heart, that is, to become the source of our desires, in order for us to receive the benefits of God’s Word. In this way we will become like God.

‘Bet’ represents the number 2, which represents the second person of the Trinity, Yeshua, the Son (Ben) of God, and the Word of God.

Verse 9 starts with the question, “How can a young man cleanse his way?” Continue reading Bet the House

What the Devil Does not Want you to Know

For the pure see God as pure, but the crooked — the devil and all who follow his deception — see God as tortuous (Psalm 18:26).

If we love God, we will see God as beautiful and worthy of love, devotion, and service. If we resist God’s love, we will see him as a hard taskmaster, full of drudgery.

via What the Devil Doesn’t Want You to Know Desiring God

Marry the Bible this year

Satan devotes himself 168 hours a week trying to deceive you and fill your mind with junk. He has seen to it that you are surrounded almost entirely by a Christless culture whose mood, and entertainment, and advertising, and recreation, and politics are shot through with lies about what you should feel and think and do.

Do you think that in this atmosphere you can maintain a vigorous, powerful, free, renewed mind with a ten-minute glance at God’s book once a day?

Marry the Bible This Year | Desiring God

“Under” Grace

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 6:14

We struggle with sin. But this verse tells us how we can end that struggle and have victory over sin.

In Romans Chapter 6 Paul is teaching us that we are “dead to sin” (v. 2). We are dead because we are in Christ, and therefore when Christ died, we died, in that our fleshly nature died. And therefore the life we now live is the resurrection-life of Christ.

When Paul writes “sin” here is is not talking about all sin (none of us are completely free from sin); he means the sin principle, which is habitual sin, those besetting sins and addictions that we cannot break free of.

The word ‘under’ in v. 14 comes from the Greek hypo, which means ‘under’ or ‘below’, but in context it means, ‘under subjection to’.  Therefore we are not under subjection to the law. What is the law?  The law is a reference to the Torah, the first 5 books of the Old Testament, and the 613 commandments it contains regarding do’s and don’t’s in the moral, ceremonial, and civil arenas. This means that in Christ, as believers, we are not under subjection to punishment as a result of disobeying these laws. Continue reading “Under” Grace